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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1947.
SHIP STRIKES THEY FOUGHT FOR HONGKONG
REEF NEAR
IWOJIMA
San Francisco, Fob, 14. The American freighter Lake Sapor (9,389 tons) is fast on the road 50 miles south of Iwojima and the crow is abandoning ship, according to an 80S intercepted by Globe Wireless at 1330 GMT. The ship called in a mesynge te- layed by station KIIK, Honolulu, for ships in the vicinity to come to her ald..
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Globe Wireless said it heard guard mesange locating the stricken vessel as on the reef off Minama Iwo Slima which la south of Iwojma and on the line between Guum and Kyrenia.
One unidentified vessel was heard radioing it within 750 miles of the Lake Saper and stenming to its aid. The Lake Sapor in listed in the American Bureau of Shipping as out at Mobienia and belonging to the War Shipping Administration.— Associated Press.
· 60 Pamtengers Rescued
Seattle, Feb. 14. Eighty passengers were removed early to-day from the steamship forth Sea, which grounded during south-easterly gale on the middle reef of the Seaforth Channel, on the inside route to Alsake, of Bella, 45ritish Columbia.
An amateur radio operator heard a messge from the 3,133-ton vessel saying that fishing boats which rush- ed to answer the SOS were taking pawengers to the Canadian port.→→ Associated Press.
JAP SCHEME TO IMPROVE TRANSPORT
Tokyo, Feb. 14.
The Japanese, crippled by drastic transportation tie-ups, to-day asked 3CAP for permis. sion to mass-produce electromo- hiles and diesel-driven truck and trafler units.
Canadian-U.S. Defence Agreement Welcomed
London, Feb. 14.
Government and Canadian official quarters in London stress that the Canadian-United States joint defence arrangements will not affect the Anglo-Canadian defence training organisation arrangements, nor the long-term plan of Commonwealth defence co-operation.
The British Government was
Anglo-French kept fully informed throughout
Alliance
EXCHANGE OF DRAFTS
of the Canadian defence plan of collaboration with the United States.
The
Tines
the
describes Canadian-United States understand- ing as "more explicit in detall but more limited in scope than the In- struction to the Joint Defence Board on its
in August, establishment
London, Feb. 14. The French Ambassador, M. 1910."
The Civil Transportation Section is Rene Massigli, is to-day calling canaldering the merits of Japanese plocromolles, which could be at the Foreign Office to see Sir charged at hidro-electric plants. Oliver Harvey, Britain's repre- These would be manufactured, as sentative in the negotiation of growar, in Ovalor and Kobe, which the projected Lunned out passage buses carrying alliance.
and three- 13, four-passenger passenger cars.
To divel-run trucks3, 10 to 15 Lang, are designed for short hauls lolwoen cities and can hout two Iradiers equipped with air brakes. SCAP technicians reported they were Cavourably Impressed
their by manoeuvrability,
The manufacturing company, capable of turning out co truck- traithe units monthly, is equipped
with up to date American and foreign machinery---United Press.
Anglo-French
here
confirmed
"The
In an editorial welcoming the agreement, the Times says: security of North America and of
the Western Atlantic is of first im- portanco to the Commonwealth. Thus once again Canada proves link between the United States and the Commonwealth and, finds con- tinued collaboration with both,
I is reliably believed that the purpose is to receive the British draft of the alliance.
French officials
"The Canadian policy is also that the French draft will be dia- one more demonstration of the truth used at to-day's French Cabinet that the scale of modern war and
It will meeting. If approved
be the range of its weapons make it communicated to London im-impossible for security to be or mediately for transmission to the ganised on a national basis. To be Foreign Office,
effective It must transcend national Subject to to-day's French frontiers.
It must become interna- Cabinet meeting formal negotiations tlonal, and the first practical steps are expected to start almost
im- are necessarily regional United mediately.--Reuter,
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Li-Col Bailie pays homage to his fallen comrades after the wreath-laying.
Dump Explodes,
18 Killed
Manila, Feb. 15. Eighteen were reported killed, many missing and several injured when a pile of TNT exploded at a United States 13th Air Force ammunition depot at Barrio Rosario, a town in Batangas province,
A Manila Daily Bulletin correspondent said the blast wrecked many houses. Do- tonations were heard 30 miles around.-Associated Press.
MaryPickford Wants Shaw
In Hollywood
New York, Feb. 14. Mary Pickford said to-day she would like George Bernard Shaw to visit Hollywood and personally watch transition of his out- standing plays to the motion picture screen.
"I am anxious to travel to England before the end of this year and see Mr Shaw, and to assure him that his plays made into Hollywood firms will be returned to him in good condition" said the former star of the silent moyles. who is now a Hollywood producer.
"Perhaps I can lure him to Holly wood to watch the shooting of his pictures."
Miss Pickelord sald that Artists Alliance, in which she and producer Lester Cowan are partners, recently signed a contract with Gabriel Pascal, producer and director who represents Shaw in America, to bring Shaw plays to the American screen. -Ausoclated Press.
DUTCH SEARCH U.S. FREIGHTER
Batavia, Feb. 14. A Dutch Navy corvette inter- cepted and searched for contraband the 2,000 ton American freighter Mar- tin Lehrman off the North Java port of Cheribon on February 7, it was reported here to-day.
Nothing dutiable was found but been the captolo is said to have warned that if he loaded rubber, sugar, or quinine his cargo would be confiscated,
The British ship Empire Mayrover was recently intercepted by a Dutch naval vessel in the same waters on suspicion that she had loaded rubber at Cherbon from estates which tha Dutch claim are not Indonesian prop- erty.---Reuter.
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ADM. BYRD SAYS:
Store Food In Antarctica Against Lean Years
BY HAROLD QUIGG
Little America, Feb. 14.
Admiral Byrd envisions the eternally ice-capped wastes of the Antarctic as a great rofrigerator in which the world could store bumper crops against lean years, possibly saving future generations from famine.
The head of the United States "We could bury ourselves in shel- Navy's South, Folar expedition ters under the snow and stay out lio said:
"Nations of the world the winter there. may some day use this great re- frigerator, When countries have crops in Abundance they could put surplus supplies here to be used in. famine years.
-One hundred and thirty-seven Canadian servicemen who died In Japan during their intern- ment as prisoners of war, fol- lowing their capture in the battle of Hongkong, now buried in a quiet wooded glade nt Hodogaya, on the eastern fringe of Yokohama.
is the Their last resting place Canadian section of the lovely British Commonwealth War Cemetery Japan, a few hundred yards off the main highway out of Yokohama and closely bordering the New Zealand and Australian sections. They a burled between flowered pathways and beneath simple, gleaming white the crosses. Most of them died in prison camp at Niigata, one of the worst in ali Japan,
in
The Canadian section of the ceme- tery was dediented recently when a commemoration service was attended by some 40 Canadians comprising almost the entire Canadian commu» nity in Japan, together with repre- sentatives of both British Common- Army wealth and United States Forces. Both Protestant and Catho 31 zervices were conducted, followed by the laying of wreaths, the fring of a salute by an honour guard Royal Welsh Fusiliers, the Last Post and Revelllc.
Wreath-LayiBE LA-Col John A. Baille, ED, of the
Grenadiers, himself Winnipeg prisoner of the Japanese and now in Japan in connection with the work arranged on Canadian war graves,
"
the service und also placed a wreath on behalf of the officers and other. ranks of "C" Force, the Canadian Hongkong contingent.
Other wreaths were placed by Mrs Norman, wife of the head of the Canadian Liaison Section in Japan, Dr E. H. Norman, on behalf of the next-of-kin of the deceased service men, and by Brig H. G. Nolan, CBE, MC, Canadian prosecutor before the International Military Tribunal for the Far East.
All wreaths were placed on a tem- the erected in porary monument centre of the cemetery, suitably draped with a large dog and topped with a white cross bearing the Inscription "Canadian Section."
NAAFI SUPPLIES TO BE CUT
Paris, Feb. 14. The British War Ofee has or- dered immediate cuts in supplies for NAAFI and other supplies held up by Army commanders overseas, "owing to severe Interruption in public services and industrial con- cerns in the United Kingdom," ac cording to a circular received by the British Embassy here Inst night... Reuter.
Swoop On Munich AWOL Troops
Munich, Feb. 15. Eighty-six soldiers and 200 Ger- men civilians were seized to-day in a raid by 900 American troops and German police on Munich's major trouble zone, where AWOL soldier- black market operators were sought, Many German girls with the soldiers were taken.-Associated Press.
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Volunteer Staffe "It would pay off in meterological, geological and geodetic observations, which would be taken."
thousands He believed that
of persons would volunteer to staff the
"The world's supply of food thus bases and the University scientists
would be particularly interested. would be evened out,"
muistake Admiral Byrd pointed out
He added i would be foodstuffs he purchased 20 years ago not to do this "for the sake of future before his first Antarctic expedition Generations."-Associated Press, were found perfectly preserved snow tunnels in his original Little Americu base.
Indicated the He said evidence Antarctic continent.
once was in tropical climes and predicted: "The time will come when we will find fossil remains there."
He suggested the atomic bomb could be put to excellent use blow- ing off the top of the ice cap,
More Basen
GermanOrphans For Paraguay
Berlin, Feb. 14.
The British military authorities announced to-day that 00 German orphans, including one family of seven children, have been selected for new homes to Paroguny.
The children were chosen by two
Admiral Byrd asserted he believed the United States should establish at least eight permanent bases in An-members of the Society of Brothers, tarctica or scientiae experiments, in a lay religious body with head- duding the study of how`to conquer quarters at Bridgnorth, Shropshire,
elements and constant weather England, observations for bath long-range forecasts,
polar
and local
In South America tho children will live in one of the Society's
He added that bases should be bomes until they are 21-United established at Marguerite Bay; in Press. the vicinity of Mount Ruth Siple, on the western arm of the Roosevelt Sea, the vicinity of Commonwealth Day: American Highland: somewher between American Highland and Wedell Sea and "right at the South Pole, at least for a while."
"In connection with the proposed South Pole base, Admiral Byrd said the temperature would dip to 100 degrees below 0 degree Farenbelt, but it could be done.
JUNGY TRUE
SIAMESE GENERAL DIES OF STROKE
Bangkok, Feb. 14. General Phya Phanon Phoaphayu- mp, aged 59, former Premier and leader in the 1932 revolution, died to-day, < an apoplectie stroke.. Associated Press.
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