THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1947,
Indian Offer To Join
Commonwealth Reported
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London, Mar. 31. by the Cabinet. Viceroy Vis- In another dispatch, The Peo- The Sunday newspaper, The count Mountbatten is also un-plo said the United States was People, anid to-day that Indinn derstood to have been informed opening diplomatic relations Congress Party leaders have of the offer. offered to take Indid into the
with Nepal, the mountainous kingdom in northern India that British Commonwealth for n Nehru is said to have guaran produces the famous Gurkha trial period, if an independent [ teed that he can reach an agree-fighting men,
The People said President government is established imment with Mohamed Ali Jin- mediately with Pandit Jawahar-nah, head of the Moslem "Truman wants to make sure. Jal Nehru as its lendor.
Lengue.
when India is free, that The People said the offer was The India Office in London | Gurkhas' do not look too much submitted to Prime Minister said it had no knowledge of any towards the Kremlin."-United Attlee, and is being considered such offer being made.
Press,
the
GERMANS IN COLOGNE PLAN HUNGER MARCH
Norwegian Ship Hits Mine
Terschelling, Holland,
Mar. 30..
A Norwegian steamer, described as the Titanian (9,000 tons), struck a mine while sailing in ballast 40 miles west of the Dutch North Sea island of Texal to-day..
The crew of 30, who abandoned ship, were taken off by a Dutch fishing vessel, and as far as was known to-night all are safe.
Three tugs from Terschel- ling and Maassluis have -gone to help the Titanian,
which dropped anchor.
The only Titanian listed in Lloyds' current shipping register is a 4,880-ton vessel registered at Bergen, Nor- way.--Reuter.
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25 Years To Clean Up Berlin
Berlin, Mar. 30.
Berliners, digging at their mountains of Bomb and shell rubble, chiefly by hand, have received from engineers the gloomy forecast that unless they
25 years to clean up the city's debris..
BY ERIC BOURNE
(Reuter's Special Correspondent)
Dusseldorf. Mar. 30.
Prominent British and Gorman spokesmen said to-night that the Gormans themselves were partly to blame for the food crisis from which the Ruhr industrial bolt has not yet emerged, Doctor Kurt Schumacher, lead-
er of the German Social Demo- Two Dead In
cratic Party, told an Oberhausen election audience: "The British are not alone to blame-Ger- mans must accept some respon- sibility."
Palestine
Mr William Asbury, Regional Ambush
Commissioner for North Rhine- Westphalia, told Reuter that the worst effcot could have been
minimised if the Germans had applied "a little more intelli- gence" in the allocation of coal supplies.
The Ruhe was quiet to-day, and "favourable progress" was officially reported in the current programme to move 6,000 tons of grain a day from Hamburg to the Ruhr.
Senior British officials said there | had been na general breakdown but a temporary local failure of distri- bution.
There has been no rioting during the week's demonstrations in which more than 250,000 Germans have taken part, and the only disorderly Incidents, are nitributed by British and German courses to hooligans of
a type who attach themselves to any crowd.
not
but in-
The Left Wing parties did inspire the demonstrations exercised a wise moderating fluence, while the trade unions pro- vided "the safety valve," according to Doctor Rudolf Amelunek, Minister Resident in North Rhine-Westphalla. will be R
is expected, however, that there
big demonstration Cologne, the greut Rhineland city at suffered some of the Royal Air Force's heaviest wartime bombing.
Detalls of the demonstration were not known last night nor was
in
it
Jerusalem, Mar. 30: The British Army mnounced
to-day the death of a police inspector, shot in an ambush of horsemen near the Ramleh military camp yesterday.
An army officer was killed on the spot in the ambush, which a mili- tary report blumed on the Jews.
A third member of the party escaped without Injury,
HIMMLER'S DOCTOR REVEALS HITLER'S MEDICAL RECORD
London, Mar. 30.
Dr Felix Kiraton. Finnish pyschotherapist and Ilein- rich Himmler's wartime medical adviser, said to-day that Adolf Hitler's official medical history showed that the Fuchrer was sexually impotent but derived sexual satisfac tion from making speeches before big crowds.
Kirsten wrote in the Sunday Express that Himmler showed him Hitler's 26-page medical history during the War; Kirsten said categorically that Hitler was not homo-
• sexual,
He said Himmler told him? Hitler's friendship with Eva Braun was "aimply_platonic."
"Eva Braun, said Himmler, was a pathetic creature, sexual- ly starved," Kirsten wrote.
"Himinler, also disclosed ter had an unreasoning hatred of horses. He wanted to have every horse he suw shot,”
Kirsten said the showed that Her WOR
medical report early in 1942 was diagnosed no suffering from pro- gresive paralysis.
U.S. Munich
Broadcasts Sabotaged
Ernie Bevin Pays De Gaulle
Price Of Fame
London, Mar. 30.
The Sunday Chronicle re- ported from Moscow to-day that the tolephone rang at 3 a.m. the other moming In the British Embassy,
The operator said the White House in Washing- ton wished to speak to, the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, MA Bevin
was awakened and wont to the telephone.
"Is that Mr Bevin?" ask- ed the caller.
"Yes," came the reply. "Are you sure that is Mr Bevin in person?"--"Yes."
"Thank you.
I am sorry
to have troubled you, but. I have just won a US$4,000 bet would be able to phone you in Moscow."—— United Press.
Returning To Politics
London, Mar. 31.
General Charles de Gaulle emerged from six months of solf-imposed political retire- ment to-day to tell a cheering crowd of 15,000 on an English Channel cliffside that only rigid internal unity could raise France to first rank among the nationa..
Wearing the
of yalform brigadier general in which he be- came France's liberation Idol,, de Gaulle suid:
"The day is coming when France, rejecting quarrels and sterile in- ternecino tights, will rise again.”
Comparing present political divi- sions to the resistance unity. the general sald:
Washington, Mnr. 30. Somebody "sabotaged" the American short wave transmit- ters. in Munich with the result that the "Voice of America" broadcasts designed for Russin
national which he were beamed to South America |
instead of Moscow.
For months Hitler had been able 1p work, thanks to hypodermie in jections given him daily; injections apparently of almost everything and anything save morphia, held
In horror." Kirsten sald Himmior, in Rome in 1042.
told him of plans to erect a temb to hold Hitler's body after he died.
Quoting Himmler.
Kirsten sald
will cost millions and will stand on the Koenigsplatz in Berlin, 400. yards by 1,000 yards, in a vaulted cellar will be the tomb, larger and more splendid
than anything the Pharaohs ever conceived.
"Hitler's body will rest in a gold coffin set with precious stones. There be great halls which will house 200,000 to 300,000 people. There will be a liall of Fame containing the busts of nil Hitler's faithful cott- borntors."-United Press.
will
In disclosing this mishop, Al- Benton to-day sold the sabotage has alstant Secretary of State William
been corrected and quoted an Asso- clated Press dispatch from Moscow on March 26 saying that the "Voice
into Moscow to-night as loud as Moscow Radio, clear with no inter- ferenton said a switching gear on
SCARIATURA ERASENIANEESARITUŢIONA
FIGHT WITH GUERILLAS
of America" broadensts "sounded NEAR ATHENS
one of the Munich station's antennae had been sabotaged by someone who broke open the doors of the switch house and reversed the switch of the antennae: The damage was rected on March 25, he said.Asso-
ciated Press.
cof-
Those members of the resistance who
tried to twist their underground activities to their own ends when they should have been in behalf of defence will not be lolerated."
Although de Gaulle made no men- lion of his own political ambitions, many observers considered to-day's speech as the opening, gun in a cam- paign to return to political activity. A few shouts of "de
Gaulle in power" were heard teom the crowds which greeted him.
The Britisi Ambassador, Mr Alfred Duff Cooper, Canadian Am- General George Vanier, and.
at the cere
Arst rak on French
Athens, Mar 30. One hundred and guerillas were killed in the past two days in the Mont Vardous soil on February 27, 1942-United sia area, north-west of Delphi Press. and about 80 miles from Athens, the Greek news agency said to- night.
sandoives of the American Em-··
present were twenty bassy
British commando monics commemorating the
NEW ATTACK FR. FLANAGAN na ben going on for
a
ON FLIGHT RECORD
New York, Mar. 80:
It was announced to-day that Military nuthorities announced converted Douglas attack that British destroyers just outside bomber will attempt to break territorini waters of Haifa Howard Hughes round the | shadowing a ship bolleved to be
carrying 1,000 Jews without permits world speed record of 91 hours to enter Palestine. The report says and eight minutes next week. the ship is drifting, the engines seem to be out of order and she is listing "rather badly," but expresses a belief she is not in distress. The ship
was not boarded-Associated Press,
Mao Tse-Tung
Said Wounded
Nanking, Mar. 31..
The army mouthpiece. Pence
Daily, reported to-day that Mao Tse-tung, Communist leader.
get more power tools it will take known if it was to be accompanied was wounded in the upper left|
by strikes as in the other British chest while directing the unsuc- zone citics. Informed German cessful defence of Yenan. How- sources, however, said It was
Ex-ever, the report is viewed here pected to be
peaceful. The Dortmund, miners, who struck work with scepticism... almultaneously
with the hunger demonstration in the city on Satur- day, were back at work yesterday non-productive and the whole Ruhr area was re-
ported quiet..
At the present rate, the
experts say, it will cost the city. US$270,000,- 000 (at the present low military rate- of oxchange). In addition, it re- quires the efforts of many thousands
of hands in this work.
No Action To Be Taken
Dusseldorf, Mar. 30.
י ;
Berlin, according to an estimate obtained by the newspaper Neue Zeit. contains about one-tenth of all the war. debris in Germany. The A senior British official said last newspaper estimated this at more night that no action would be talten than 70,000,000 cuble yards-enough against peaceful German demon- to build a dam 116 feet broad and strations because protest meetings 10 feet high that would stretch bewere considered a good safety valve 200 milles).
tween Berlin und Dortmund (about to allow the Germans to let of
steam."
The metal said that attitude
To haul the rubble away would would not prevail if violence broke require 7,000,000 railway cars enough. figures the Neue Zel!,
out, but none was expected.-United chrry three times the entire Ger- many freight volume of 1929.
to Press.
Berlin atill employs 10,062 diggers, Including 6,600 wumen, who
with
No. 1 Ration
work
the
-
Collapse Feared In Bavaria
London, Mar. 30. Doctor Joseph Brumgartner, the
Observers say it in most unlikely that the Communist Party chairman would be engaged in supervising troops.,
A dispatch published in the Inde- pendent Hsin Min Pap sald the Shans! Provincial Government has reported that Mao is now at Hain being wounded.-Associated Press. Hsien, but made no mention of his
PAULINE BETZ IN CANNES FINALS
Cannes, Mar. 30. Pauline Betz of Los Angeles nd- vanced to the final round of the Beaulieu Sur Mer Tennis Tournu- ment with a 6-0, 6-2 victory over Alice Weimers of Luxembourg.
The American champlon's oppon- ent In the finals to-day is Miss
Milton Reynolds, Chicago business- man, is sponsoring the attempt which is scheduled to begin at LaGuardia Field, New York, at
noon on Saturday.
TO ADVISE
JAPANESE
Boys' Town, Nebraska, Mar. 30. Fr. Edward J. Flanagan, founder-director of Boys' Town, will leave for Japan next week to give professional advice to the Japanese Government on the child welfare programme.
presentative of the War Department The famous priest will go as a re- at the invitation of Secretary of War Robert Patterson. General MacArthur requested Fr Flanegasi's "The dash is estimated to cover services to, net as consultant in child 10,000 miles. The pilot, Captain welfare Institutional care and train- William Odom, expects an average ing
He will spend 60 'day's in flight speed of close to 350 miles per Japan. hour, which would cut Hughes' r cord by at least one-third/United Press.
Britain To Buy From Russia
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London, Mar. 30. - Jumes Harold Wilson, Secretary for Overseas Trade, will leave soon. for Moscow in on cЛort to buy timber, cotton, tutq, foodstuffs and oil cako to bolster the nations food re- construction supples, it was an- nounced 'to-day,
41 am happy to co-operate with the War Department in this
pro- gramme, and consider it an honour and privilege to work with and under the direction of General Mac- Arthur and his wife in a far-sighted of rehabilitation of a de- canfestly hope my Japan may contribute In some mensure towards rebuilding a nation which, through proper train- ing and welfare of youth, will take its place among the peaceful, demo- cratic peoples of the world," saki Fr Flanagan-United Press.
programme of feated nation. visit to
TOURING JAPAN
Tokyo, Mar. 30. The New Zealand Defence Minis- ter Frederick Jones, and Chief of the General Staff, Major-General N, W.
Ave
group, members
in
days against a "big" guerilla of which on Wednesday night raided the hamlet of Delphi near the ruins of the temple where the Oracle was heard
the days of ancient Greece. The
Greek air force has been used to break up the guerilla ranks, the Greek agency said.
Prisoners were brought in to Lamia, the nearest town of any size in the district,
Slav Organisation
Jn the Janitsa region of Macedonia, a mixed force of military and gendarmes attacked guerilla pogi- tions In the village of Ambelles, throwing out the guerillas, who left behind a body identified as that of Captain Morava, described as the leader of NOF bands in the moun- tainous Paikon reglon.,
Sinv
NOF in stated to be an autonomous organization, Two wounded guerillas taken prisoner revealed details, and plans of this body, the Greek agency- sold.
Meanwhile, it is learned here to night that the Greek Vice-Premier and Minister of Foreign Affairs. Me Costantinos Tealdaris, is to visit Salonika.
the
chlef city of Macedonia, where he will deliver a speech next Sunday dealing with foreign affairs-Reuter.
CARD FROM 'DEAD' SON
TO MOTHER An unsigned Christmas card,
"We hope especially to get timber" a Foreign Offee spokesman said, although Russia's vast programme of reconstruction means that we shall Weir, will lunch with General Mac-postmarked Elizabeth, New probably not get nearly as much as Arthur when they arrive here to- Jersey, and delivered to a Not we require."
morrow for a five-day stay, An informed source said at the
After completing their tour of Foreign Minister, Mir Ernest Bevin, Japan they will leave for New Zen- discussed trade possibilities with land on or about April 10-Reuter,
talks in Moscow.Associated Press.
Generalissime Josef Stalin in recent
'FREDDIE MILLS.
LEAVES
Amazing Grafting Operation
Birmingham, Mar. 30,
A young factory worker who had
tingham mother, has revived hope that her son, officially stat- ed to have died in 1942 while a Japanese prisoner, is alive but suffering from loss of memory.
BIKINI AREA MAY REMAIN DEPOPULATED
New York, Mar. 30. The Bikini Ingoon and its 20- islands may have to remain de- populated for decades until atom bomb radioactivity drops to safe limits.
This prediction was made in the -periodical, Air Affairs, by Colonel Stafford Warren MD., who was chief of the medical and radiological safe- ty, of "Operation-Crossroads" Inst
summer,
Warren says if rnif that fell from the under-water bomb had dropped on a city, that city might havació remain deserted of Inhabitants" for
years.
These are the first authoritative estimates of the long continued dangerous nature of radioactivity coming mainly from the under- water bomb.
Warren said: "If Bikini had been a vitally important harbour and the down wind area an important elly. It would have had to be evacuated After the under-water tests and only safeguarding personnel trained in themselves from both external and internal hazards of radioactive con- tamination could have been per-
mitted access, to carry on the vital Juncons
of n conflict.
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a considerable lime (years) only trained personnel will be able occupy it, and the population cannot remain until it is certain that been all insidious hazards, have
to
+
ted bomb, test authorlie
have hever told just how many square miles were dangerously-con- taminated by radioactive, rainy Associated Press.
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OUTWARD 'MAILS
close
Unlen otherwise stated-
Farcel Posts Articles and of Seaton ininutes earlier than the time
the
below..
son,
Mrs M. Sharpe, crescent, Aspley is convinced card is from her youngest Leonard, of the Leicestershire Re- giment. He always wrote "England? four fingers of its right hand cut in two places on his envelopes-and off in a guillotine, has had a whole the card was written in the same finger from his left hand grafted | Way on to the right, making the hand
again.
The Mayor of Birminghom said tonight that the grafting operation was performed He plans to return soon afterwards. by a skilful surgeon at Birmingham for a proposed match with Lloyd accident hospital and rehabilitation Marshull of America In London centre, which carries out pioneer Associated Press,
research work-Reuter.
scant tools or machinery Food and Agriculture Minister, fold Once there were 30,000, buf
London, Mar. 30. "rubble army" has declined rapidly German officials in Nuremberg to-
Freddie Mills, British. light-heavy since fast August.
day
that the food shotokea Galera Buracis of Romanin to-day by plane for Johannesburg. useful
Gullbrandson of Sweden, who de- weight boxing champion, left London Bavaria was so cute he feared a collapse of the mtioning system, the | 7-5, 0-6,
where he will fight Johnny Ralph on Amercian Forces Network radio cald
Miss Betz and Philip Washer, April 14. Belgian. Davis Cup star, teamed in the mixed doubles and defeated Miss Weimors and L. Tanasesco of Romania 6-3, 6-3-Associated Press.
This work was done once chiefly to-night. by Nazis but, because it rates for the No. 1 food ration card for hard Jabbur, others have volunteered.
Ho doubled, whether the brend ration could be maintained inless grain imports arrived soon and he
The meat supply was uncertain.
gitimachines soan to help us And hunger."-Reuler,
it is not only the money-we would
like to put our hands to productive
PILFERAGE OF ARMY SURPLUS
GOODS IS BIG MANILA RACKET.
per week.
She thinks. It probable that he can.
only remember his address.
The envelope and a photograph of Leonard were, sent to the Mayor of Elizabeth, and reports from America teld of the polleo.making a comb- out of the city, and they aro checking hotels, boarding houses and homes with his photograph.
A soldier who had served with Leonard thinks he may have, seen
Blated
Monday, March 31
Calcutta,
Delhi. Saigon, Rangoon, Johannesburg, Cairo, (Alt), 3.30 p.m...
Canlon, Amoy, Fouchow, Kwelih,!(Air), 3.30
Shanghal, Nanking. Umkow, Tsingtao, Peiping. Chungking, (Alt), 330 p.m. Swatow, Foochaw, (Ses), 2 pin.. Kongmoon, (Ben), ♣ p.m. Macau, Tainshan, Shekki. (Stay, 4 pan. Canton, (Train), 4 p.m.
Tuesday, April 1 Monia. (Air), 10 am. A
Shankhat, Feiping. (Alt), 330 pm. Stralis, (Rea), 10 0.m.
Swatow, Saigon, (Sea), noon. Taamkong. (Bea), à p.m.
Amoy Bwatow, (Bea), 3 p.m. Kongmoon. Macao, Tsinahan, Shekki. (Ben), p.m.
Canton, (Train), 4 pm. Shanghat, (Boa), noun. Stralis, (dea), 3 pan.. -Kongmoon, (Bea), Macao. Tinshan,
p.m
him alive in 1944. He la Mr Richard Canton. (Train) Blickki, (Bea), 4 b.m.
Brown, of Saville-street, Nottingham, who said: "At first I was certain had seen Sharpe alive, offer he was supposed to have died, but now I am not so certain.
p.m.
Balgan, Singapore, Colombo, Bydney, Auckland and London, (Air) 1.30 p.m. Fonchow, Shanghai. (A31), 2.30 pm. Canton, Lluchow, (Air), 3 pm.
TO-DAY'S BROADCAST
"In those days, working for the Jppa on the Burma-Siam railway from four in the morning till 10 nt night, it was difficult to remember anything clearly.
Captured when: Singapore fell, ZBW Hongkong, brandžasting Leonard was officially stated to have frequency of 343 kilogysles from 1750-ta 2 p.m4 and 0.30 to 21. p., and also on the Leicestershires: 10 years from 12.30 to 1.16, 830 to 130 and when he was 18.
H.KIT.
The reduced rubble force, Neue predicted u further cut in fats. Zelt, reports, has equalled the capa- city of the original 30,000, with the ***"ridiculously small” equipment of 58
diesel motore, 20 small locomotives, that though the German health sin
Bavarian health officials reported' 20 conveyors, 175 cable wire winders, tion was not crificul the inadequate 3232, motor trucks, 112 inlles of diet had, reduced the working capa narrow gauge railway and six dredge city of Bavarian to 40 percent of Ing machines.
Manila, Mar. 30. week $50,000 to $100,000 worth of conservatively catimated at more, prewar In 8,120,000 work days until the
For the first time since war's heavy construction equipment and than $1,000,000 by the operations of German doctors in Frankfurt end more than 18 months ago,engineering sub-base depot on the critically needed supplies from an end of October, 1,750,000 cubic yards Health Department said that most of the United States Army and the outskirts of Manila.
one ring alone, of debris were
The Pacific air material area with temoved 700,000
air force supplies has lost $10,000,000 cubic yards of that entirely out of the percent more than their legal rations.ing forceful co-ordinated action quartermaster depot at Quezon City |
the city's German population die 40 Philippine Government are tak
In the same month the huge army in materials.
Army security officers and investi- will over see light unless we bleke macket food to avold severs to halt the hurà, losses at the suffered losses patimated at $360,000 | gators who made these facts known died on March 23, 1942. He joined | 5.57.megacycles in the 21 metru " band
that rale," imburns Neue Zeit, They added. The German needs
describe the situation as "a sicken- When an order was issued holding depot. commanders responsible for
Ing_mess"
In the frank opinion of one high losses, 27. Filipinos were killed by ranking colonel who refused to be
0.30, Variety: 7, London Belay: World!! their hom our women back into GOLD BARS SEIZURE of pilferers and black mar-ryurde in a single weale, identiled, "this should, and would
News: 7.10, London Relay Homer Nows 14 of them in a single night of come out
from Britain; 7.10, Donald Poems savaller. blazing guns.
of Song:7.30, Studio: Like What Milan, Mar. 30. The stuggering losses, which high
14ka" Presented by Dorfald i Midten. Last December, the quartermaster Italian customs officials at the ranking officers themselves describe dopot at the mouth of the Pasig hard-pressed Philippine Republic
Charlie Kuns." at the Piano; 8.13, London The American
Transcription Service; fave "You Bead" Italo-Swiss frontier post nf Isells p "unbellevable,” have bean River on Manila's waterfront, lost are taking these losses on the chin.
? Treasure Island" by Robert Loute Svenson; #320, #Muste Time".,5..ondon confiscated 38 kilogrammes of gold sustained with the connivance and between 200,000 and 350,000 pounds
Haky: News: 9.10. Studio 1:"Təm" TYJALKOT As one indication of what the Moscow. Mar 30,
ingats front a car driven by a man sometimes under active direction of of prime beef for army mess tables Philippine Government has suffered,
Oakland, Mar: 30. Lizzie Bordieri, Donald Henderson's Radio The Soviet Ministry of Merchant bolding a Swiss passport who tried American officers and enllated men which were disposed of on the black with knowledge if not direct in awam the 220-yard freestyle over a
“Ann Curtis... of San Francisco | re-construction of "World" Jumala Mare
́der Trial -prevented “by the ZESTA * Shipping has approved a plan to de- Winter Gallan Merritory on Friday and former servicemen, workings os maritet at fancy prices,
volvement of some civilians, inside, the bikes. velop Russian merchant shipping sp
Stero › Club,: Pradused, by: Babe night, it was reported here today
high func-20-yard course in 2 mins., 20.0 sec., 101, "Something for: Everybod tionaries, is the downward revision bettering trucks driven by Filipinos this year.
de for the
the | for All Tastes; 11; Gloss Dawn, black Sea and Holtle Boris some of the gold bars were all hoses by
Some of the gold bars were lill-have ploly presed in and out of The
number of important snips and others with any was believed in goaltions fos, materials as their as high as one-third of indir Inegm-ho, property, with book gliemcdishares to hears per
which, the United States is turning with
Port security reparted that over Republi Words trot be restored; and doe boy that Books of spend mask. They open; stating of stay to ar <veloped and larger height tonnnge wars under the upholstery For the In the month of February of this The Army installation on Engineer now estimated to be worth $100,000,
Ing shipments are stolen. Befor 2023,000,000 18 months ago Is - would be stibmlited to the Amateur Bont Car Reuter
yast, looters were, carryhts of each along has been looted of property 000,-Arocihilâd Prass..
homesAssociated Press.
*Russian Shipping
L
United States Army supply de- pots in the Philippines at the hands of well-organise gangs
keteers.
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Oakland Swimming Championships.
Athletle Union is at
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