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VOL. II NO. 102
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 1947.
ARABS EXPECTED TO DEMAND
AZERINIZATIONS PIEPENTANEJOANTHAMOE I SERDARITIFILIS TEMSİNFİREC
Hongkong Tornado Hits
Factories Reopen
Knitting, Weaving
In Full Swing
- More than 500 knitting and
weaving factories have reopen. ed in Hongkong and are now manufacturing cotton textiles from Japanese yarn received under purchases made by S.T. and I. from SCAP.
This was disclosed by Mr John! Galvin yesterday, who added that about 70,000 people hadj been taken off the Hongkong unemployment market as a re-l
sult.
Shipments of rayon yarn are ex preted very shortly from Japan ail this too, will be manufactured into textilen by Hongkong knitting and wenving factories.
This week, employees of four (f) the largest weaving factories went on strike for higher rates of pay.
However, it is understònd that the Labour onleer, has pointed out that If these new rates were met Li workers would be receiving above the standardi level cepted by skilled worker. The workers have been told that demands can be conshiured reasonable.
nch
their
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America
New York. Jan. 30. Violent tornadic winds
killed at least five persons and injured 14 in a destruc- tive sweep yesterday through North Central Arkansas and Southern Missouri.
a
The state highway patrol reported that -lomado struck the outskirts of Montgomery, Alabama, on Thursday causing some dam- age and possible injuries to the inhabitants.
Police ordered all avail- able ambulances to be rush- ed to the scenc. The
tornado roared through a path a half mile long and 200 yards wide, demolishing buildings and injuring at least three persorts. It struck a short distance from
·the one
which killed 26 people on Feb. 12. 1945.- Associated Press.
Old City Hall
Site For Public
Auction
ACTION
CONFERENCE SHOWDOWN
London, Jan, 30. The Arab delegates to the Palestine Conference are be- lieved to be pressing for a abow-down this afternoon on the British Government's At- fitude.
Before going in to-day's ses- sion, one delegate commented: "We feel that it is high time the British Government made up their minds, If the con- ference is just being used as, a stalling device to gain time, we might as well pack up and go home."
It is expected that the Arab dele- Rations. especially those from Palestine, will ask for British com- ments on their proposals for Palestine constitution, submitted last October.
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These proposals envisage dependent Arab state, with the Jews recriving a guarantee of minority rights and all Jewish immigration to rease at once,
The Arab delegates are expected to demand a definite answer whe- ther or not Britain accepts these 1 proposals in principle, Faiting a reply or if it is no, the Arabs are expected to return home at once.
All Arab delegates are fully deter- The "Telegraph" is informed mined it to be drawn into is from a most reliable source federal plan for Palestine.
either of partition or
Yester- Government The Telegraph" learna that one of ¦ pronched
ha heen it day's talk between the British and the biggest problems
three
Or four News Agency Esecutive numbers Hongkong textile manufacturers is to parties interested in purchasin
Was inconclusive. get operating costs down to a level the old City Hall site, next to which will permit them one again the Hongkong
EXPORT PROBLEM
contromin
to export to overseas markets whet! Bank. al prezent, are virtually closed to į them because similar textiles manu- factured In Britain and America con be sold much cheaper.
. At the present tine, raw materials: are costing between twe and three times pre-war, white labour Cents have risen four or five hundred ver
rent.
The China market offers no hopes to Hongkong textile munufacturers, And they must look to places like the West Indies and South Africa for thefr principal export trade.
At the present time, cotion mer- chants and manufacturers in long- koug are busily engaged in dolly conferences with S.T. and I. working out details for the most satisfactory nilocation and use of the cotton and rayon yarns arriving from
Japan. 11 is all part of a long-term plan to get the textile industries in the colony once again on their feel and able to compete in the world mar-! kets.
by
and Shanghai
I understand Government is not senweliling to dispose of the site, and that in the near future will offer B for publie auction.
cussion,
polley to pursue, it as it seems almost The British dilemma about what rertain the conference itually breaks down, is authoritatively understood to be stl unresolved.-Reuter.
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COMMONS DEBATE
London, Jan. 30. Colonel Oliver Stanley will be the morrow's specially arranged House of téhler Opposition speaker C:02.
In to- Commons debate on publie order in
they so desire, dispose of crown land
Although the authorities y private sale, this is seldom done: site is involved. particularly when such a valuable
The usual procedure is to offer the property by nobilc Auction, ducted by the P.W.D.
Palestine,
It
unlikely that Mr Winston Churchill wEl take part.
The Colonial Secretary, Air Creech en-Jones, is expected
reply for the Government.
Although it is not the intention of the Conservative Opposition to raise matters of general policy now that the Palestine conference is in session here, they mean to make a full scale attuck on the Government for the way in which they have discharged their responsibility for law and order In lesine..
PREPARING TO EVACUATE
Peiping, Jan. 31. American members of the execu tive headquarters completed a series
the
It is the Opposition's contention that after every So far as Hongkong requirements of alternative plans
new outrage are concerned, officials and
for evacua-Government's attitude grows weaker manuing nearly 2.000 Amertenns here, instead of stronger.-Reuter,
facturers say they are being, ond
Lt-Gen Alvan G. Gillem,
Jr.,
can be fully met. There will be no United States commissioner declined shortage of locally-made textiles in the future, and as output increases. to.estimate the time necessary for the retail prices continue to desčend.
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Washington, Jan. 30.
evacuation.
Cen Gillem said "it will depend on ships ant air lifts made available.
Ile. Is sill waiting explicit orders from Washington to depart,
The commissioner said he did not believe the Communists would
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Collins Tells
Story Of Captivity
Jerusalem, Jan. 30. Major II. A. I. Collins told the police in hospital to-day that when the effects of the chlore. form given him wore Sunday night, he found himself off on
bound, gagged and blindfolded inside a sack. He was being marched over rough ground.
Twice seemed as if his captors were disturbed. They stopped and seemed to be trying to conceal him
on the ground.
After a distance
was
which Major
Collins estimated an over a mile, he found himself in a cave which he described as having an iron dour, a mud floor, and a s'one shelf on which there was a mattress for him to rest. MEDICAL TREATMENT He said be
without the spectacles which he usually wears
lit by a small candle. On Tuesday and consequently could not see much In the cave, which was only dimly morning, a doctor tame
to attend him. He was told the doclor been delayed due to the curfew ot the previous night.
had
OF FOOD
Grim Picture For The Coming Months
Washington, Jan. 31.
Mr D. Fitzgerald, secretary-general of the International Emergency Food Council, on Thurs- day forecast a continued severe food shortage for the next few months, with the supply of cereals definitely worse.
In a report to the council. Mr Fitzgerald said; "It is abundantly clear that until the next harvest our work will be carried on continuously in the presence of a crisis or a threat of crisis". He added that the sugar outlook, alone was as good as a few months ago.
Why Germany Lost War, Disclosures.
Couldn't Face Naval Clash With Britain
London, Jan. 30.
In one sense Germany lost the war before it was be- gun because Germany was never prepared for a naval war against Britain.
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The possibility of having Britain an an antagonist was not envisaged until 1938, because the Hitler govern- ment was ill advised politically,
Mr Fitzgerald said, however, that even world sugar supplies would fill considerably short of meeting requlje- ments in 1947, when 30,100,000 short tons of the commodity would be avali nhle,
The commitier to allocate food up- plies will be ampered by lock of co-operation by the nations who afe taking an increasingly national view of the food
Although had been
39.0.
0,000 tons of cereals een requested by needy nations, available supplies total only 24,000- 000, Mr Fitzgerald nali.
He added, however, that "in a few instances stated requirements were patently greatly exaggerated, pre- sumably on the entirely mistaken thesis that such procedure would secure favourable result: This point stands out
for the in three sunk by British submarines.
applicant country. lengthy German documents
"When made it was announced on the Norwegian because subsequent statements, eve public by the British Admiralty here wireless that ship-wrecked Germani aceurale, may continue
"Actually the reverse may result on Thursday. They are:
soldlers from 1. "Aspects of the German naval reached the
these chips had viewed with a considerable degree of to be land, the whole ex- war" by two unnamed Germanpedition seemed in danger." Docnitz naval staff officers attached to wrote. "No further elective unter
stepticism," be continued. the historical section of the incasures were taken by the Engilah
THE CEREAL SITUATION German naval headquarters. but the Norwegian "Esany
Mr Fitzgerald indleated that it may by Grand Admiral countered
resistance en- Docnitz
In several
br.impossible to maintain existing (commander-in-chief have been due
places may rations in needy countries and toh- this of the German Navy from alarm."
advance eluded his summary of the ecrept January 1943) on the war at sea."
Racder regarded the Norwegian operation "as the first climax of our naval campaign,” and sald:
to
3. "Documents related
the resignation of the German commander-in-chief, Grand, Admiral Raeder and to navy the decommissioning of the German high seas feet." The documents make clear
the
"I believe that the war as a whole out the occupation of Norway." could not have been carried on with-
The
situation.
"We may all hope fer came.re- Hef from the extreme dimenities of
the last two years, bel there la. nothing to suggest that all or even a major part of our current problems will disappear in the immediate fatore," he said, The report presented the following
question of Norwegian neutrality figured prominently in the friction between the German navy The fact that on this depended the list of alleations tentatively, recém- story of the two naval staff officers. and the army and the luftwaffe.
They state that with the
Major Collins was unable to des- cribe his guards,
of whom there
safe right shipment of Swedish ore to Germeaded by the cereal commitice com- the same doctor came to sec were three each day. Yesterday personalities in power, the inevitable many vin Narvik led to the postpone-pared with each nation's stated re- again and advised him the best thing but with Raeder, an
him friction could have been overcome,ment of the invasion. "But Non-quirements: he could do would be to go as fast leader of sound judgment, on the demonstrated by her reception of the first group is the amount asked for
pro-British experienced way's
sympathies, In the following list of figures the as possible to another doctor.
one hand, and Goering
Altmark 3 narrow-
incident, influenced the and the second group is the amount leased, his captors blindfolded- and co-operation was impossible.--- After being told he would be re-minded dillettante on the
Germans to embark on their invn- that may be received: other, gagged him again and put a cover on his head. He was then led out failed through lack
Even the system of arbitration and walked with about an hour
the guards
of specialised for knowledge on the part of the mili- over a rough road, tary commander-in-chief. him-United Press. after which his Jewish guards left
cion.
American Liner partly by the restriction of the Ver- London, Jan. 30.
Jewish
For Hongkong
for
nir
War star
Britain
Egypt
Inally
France
Netherlands Norway
Denmark Finland
Switzerland
Italy
Greece
toni
$1,724,000
3.001,000
100,000
100.000
od,oad 2,300
17.000
1,012,000
450,000
300,000
+303,000
11.000
775,000
485,000 1,731,000
344,000
1,444,000
363,000 23,000 350,000 130,000
$30,000 *410,000
The Anglo-American and French -
of Germany 3,000,000 and
IC-
HASTY ARMISTICE The two naval officers blamed the undue kaste with which the atmis- lice with Franen was drawn up, and as a result of which the occupsilon POLITICIANS WRONG of Tunis and Dakar was not insisted The unnamed German historians upon, us being largely responsible consider that the composition of the
for the position
in
which the Axis German fleet in 1930 was influenced found itself in the Mediterranean. Agency
Seven members of the
The naval sailles Treaty, but chiefly by the urged Executive told Foreign
zonca the closest collaborateatedly attitude of the political leaders, who France, even at the cost of
with Secretary Ernest Bevin and Coloninl Secretary Arthur Creech Jones that
2,242,000. political regarded a war with Britain us out sacrifices Including recognition of
WORLD SUPPLIES they would oppose any British move
of the question,
France is a sovereign power and the The report presented detalled in- to place the Palestine problem be-
Docnitz clalined that preparations Colonial army so that it could resist quirements of commodities, showing Washington, Jan. 31.
complete equipment of the French torination on the, supplies and fore the General Assembly
the Invasion of Britain were Government officials disclosed yestock Peiping or Tientsin before the United Nations an Agency spokes-which was once queen of the Chesa then "it became also apparent that that Italian naval operations had so in 1947 as in 1010.
of the The
Hiner Fresklent Warfield, complete terday that the United States Is American depart,
in September 1940. but possible British landing.
that world supplier of dairy products, man disclosed yesterday, prepared to walve repayinent for
peake Bay de luxe excursion trade, complete defeat of the English
The unnamed authors considered were expected to bo about the same Headquarters personnel in Pelping Agency view about $500,000,000
He said in an Interview that the is en roule to Hongkong and even-force had by no means been achieved. little success because of a feeling of worth of food includes 581 Army personnel, 78 Anglo-Jewish and relief supplies given Italy by WACS; 134 civilian employees andnesday was that reference of the
expressed during antual service in the China coastal or Thus one of the most important pre-inferiority on the part of the Itallan above 1940 but 25 percent below pre- Fats and oil-About five percent American military
conference on Wed- Yangize trade. forces.-Asso- 1,000 wives and children.-Assoclated | Palestine problem
requisites for invasion was lacking." elated Press.
The Chinese American Industrial
noval war staff. In the Press,
German wor In allied Interrogations subsequent view this was without justification Nations would create a void in
to the United Company of New York saved the, 1o his
Fertilizers-Though postwar pro- essay. President Warfield from the scrap although the war was lost in one fleet, with 16 wo new battleships, metric tons to a total of 24,123,000,
Doenitz said that, since the strength of the
increased Kallan duction policy for the Holy Land for
by 3,500,000 six plie and spent $25,000 making her sense before it was begun, in an- months,
senworthy He added, "this prospect is unten-voyage.
shortages constitute a really difficult was considered to compare not un oceanic other sense it might still have been favourably with that of the British problem with the worst shortage in able because it is essential that im-
won. It was expected that the new.navy.
nitrates. mediately steps be taken to relieve nese owners as yet unannounced.
She may be resold to other Chi- type U-boats would radically alter
the course of the war. They would a certain measure of Italian control expected to reach or pass the pre- But It soon became apparent that with Britain, Denmark and Belgium Fish industry-Ropidly recovering, the present situation"-Associated Presa.
The President Warfield is making have been ready by the Autumn of in the Central Mediterranean was ali her last trip flying the Hondura 1044 but for the delay in production that could be achieved. Aug. She is
going via the Atlantic extent the bombing offensive,
caused by Lite bombing. To
war production, but salted this and Mediterranean.
Docnitz wrote in his essay that canned dah continue short, She is skippered by Captain Wii-Deniz's opinion can be said to have Mediterranean took an unexpectedly duction in 1947 should be about 95 in when the situation at sea in the meet requirements, but world pro- Meat supplies-Not expected to liam Schlagel of Baltimore and will won the war for the allies. carry no passengers but some cargo oficers,
Raeder, in his farewell
favourable turn for us, the Itallon per cent of prewar production. The Warfield was operated for 18 taken from the very outset to ex-
said that "the
(Continued on Page 41 years by the Old Bay Line of Ball-pand the submarino force were cor-
(Continued or Page 4). more and salled mainly in and out of Chesapeake Bay.
rect, for sighted and For three years she was in was Holland and our connections with
fruitful. Thanks to our last year to Baltimore to be scrapped: were able to create service for Great Britali, returning the Spanish and Finnish navies we
associated Press..
EDITORIAL
Commendable Action
Hongkong
Tuting or restrictions on the export of textiles from
appears to have disturbed some well meaning people in the colony. One newspaper correspondent has compla ned that it places the government in the position of violating the conditions under which India allocated piece Kools to Hongkong. In this he errs through lack of knowledge.
When Hongkong originally applied to India for textiles, an allocation of 500 ions was promised. Later India Indicated that she would only make texillen available to areas which coull repay in foodstuffs This Hong- kong was in no position to do When India subsequently relented, Ilongkong was allocated 15 tons of textiles, only twelve of which have come forward. Up to the time of this rescinder of the export restrictions, all of the textiles received from alle had been put into the local rations, and none of i was re-exported.
To-day, Hongkong's textile position, thanks very largely to the initiative, drivo and tenacily of the Director of Supplies, Trade and Industry, has been made thoroughly stabilised for some time to come. In fact, India's exports of textiles to Hongkong could not be sufficient to affect the market, either one way the other. Indian textiles will depend almost wholly on the willingness of Indian Fulure movement of merchants here and in India to trade with each other.
Not only are manufactured exilles coming to Hongkong in satis- factory quantities from England, but cotton and rayon yarns are begia- ning to flow from Japan, already setting in motion 500 knitting and Weaving factories In the Colony. Their output will be much as is required to satisfy the Hongkong, market. This has provided four mess an additional encouragement for the withdrawal of export restrictions. Further, through this action, it is no longer necessary for permits to be issued, thus wiping out another potential avenue for "squeesó" and
corruption. The overall ploture suggests that flfling of the export ban at Ule tlate is a commendable action;-
STOP PRESS
TEST MATCH
The fourth test match opened at the Adelaide oval this morning, when Hammond again won the toss and decided to bat on what appeared to be a
ca run-scoring wicket,
Hutton and Washbrook opened the) Innings and treated the bowling carefully. After ten minutes Hut- ton had scored two and Washbrook -one.--United Press.
for her
lant
Prince's Remains
Reach Sweden
Stockholm, Jan.. 30.,
to his measures
therefore office in
certain basis for building up a submarine
orm even under the Versailles BYA- tem, utilising the experience gained in World War 1.
DUTCH PILOT TO MAKE
PERILOUS
TEST
anil
Copenhagen, Jan. 30. Danish Airlines disclosed to-day that its crack trans-. THE NORWAY INVASION
port pilot, Captain Emil Damm, would take off soon in an The German navy's atitude to-
empty Dakota and lock his elevation rudder in midair to ward Norway "was based on the Reuter reports there were several
Conviction that Norway's neutrality
Bee if it would cause his plane to stall and crash. would be the happiest solution but appeals for LBW, against both bats- The remains of Prince Gustav only if Norwegian territorial waters the experiment, when flying condi- rudder was allegedly locked.
Captain Damm volunteered to make same manner as the doomed plane's' men in the first half hour of play.
Adolf of Sweden, who was killed in were also respected by the enemy.” Later, a Dakota air crash outside. Copen- Doenitz wrote.
tlons permit, in order to aid the group, Scoring was so slow that the just hagen last Sunday, arrived
If he is unable to check the plane Investigating the fatal Dakota crash and a crash appenre imminent, he will 40 minutes produced only 18 runs. Malmoe aboard the Swedish warship means would have to be employed Grace Moore and the Swedish Prince a rope and will attempt to right, the
.at On the other hand, all possible Inst Sunday, in which the opera singer then release the Hutton scored 12, Washbrook 4, with Oscar II to-day, and are being taken to prevent Norway becoming an Gustav Adolf and 20 other persons plans as fast us pocaible. rocker
by cuiting two extras-Reuter,"
to Stockholm by apècial train.
English sphere of influence ns, this Later.
Crown Prince Gustav Adolf, father would also lead to the blocking of
wero killed. After 45 minutes the score was 24 of the dead Frince, and Prince Carl. the North Sea and, constitute a with years of experience.
Danim in a
a 40-year-old married man off with the radder Block in tho Captain Dam wald he would take for no wicket. Hution 10, Wash-brother of King Gustav of Sweden, threat to the entrance to the Baluc. brook 6euter.
who have been suffering from In-
Τη the
piaco When the invasion of Norway, was lock
it allegedly was when the Dutch experiment, fluenza, are now better, it is officially actually launched sottie of the Ger- through special mechanism.
he will Dakota took off last Sunday. If the the rudder while com stated-Reuter.
man transports were attacked and rudder will be locked in exactly the Press.
in aight plane becomes unmanageable, he will The cut the block off immediately.---United