War Crimes Suspects Break Gaol
Batavia, Apr. 1.
A large-scale manhunt is under way for eight Japanese war crimes suspects who es- caped last week from the Tipinang prison near here after a gun battle with the guards.
Six persons, were killed and two wounded in the battle.
The break, it was reported, was planned by 30 Japanese prisonera, but only 13 were imown to have participated. The guards Killed four. Another was found dead Inter In n native compound.
a
An Ambonese soldier who had been imprisoned in the same gasi on military charge was killed by the fugitives when he attempted to ansist the guards. One guard was slightly
arki wounded,
another seriously hurt,
The escaped prisoners are belloyed to be members of the Kempeitai.- Associated Press.
U.S. Challenge To Soviets
Make Concessions, Or—
Moscow, Apr. i,
The United States to-day challeng ed the Soviet to begin making con- cessions on Germany or postpone indefinitely negotiation on the Ger mun peace treaty.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 2, 1947.
THE PARKERS
THUS DOOR IS DRAGGING ON THE CARPET 150 WISH YOUD po 5one- -"THING ABOU
REPORT ON
WAR'S
RAVAGES IN ASIA
BY CHARLES A. GRUMICH
(Associated Press Staff Correspondent)
Now York, Apr. 1.
The ravages of the Orient, caused by the prewar Japaneso expansion and japanese wartime attack, plundering, disloca- tions, scorched earth tactics and mass destruction, must. be takon into account as reconstruction is planned, according to long-range views of exports, which have been presented to the United Nations Economic Commission for the Far East and Asia,
HE FINDS A NEW FLOCK
OF SINNERS
A report of the working group for Asin and the Far East made public, recites a long story of physical destruction in war.
China, the longest sufferer under Japanese expansion, provides a car- dinal example of postwar internal recon- conflict, and encompasses a
that cannot be struction problem uppraised finally until the current strife between the Nationalist Government forces und Chinese Reds is endo
ended.
Hastings, Apr. 1. The Vicar of Christ Church, who contended recently with The
report does not over-emphaske Soviet Foreign Minister Vyaches ghouls and vandals, found today the fighting which broke out on new lav Molotov will have an opportunity he had a whole
new flock of lines after the Japanese surrender, to reveal an answer Iste to-day
He found that his ally in China, Indonesia and Indo-
China wlien the Ministers, for the first time, sinners,
were "messing: In one section on the Indo-China here meet in a small infernal session, parishioners
advisers around with the Ten Command-federation, the report cites looting accompanied only by two and one interpreter each.
It will be recalled Int November, be surprised if they would be Tonkin in September 1940 and the ments." and said he would not by the Japanese from the time of pre-Pearl Harbour entrance at after 14 months of fruitless negolia. tion
satellite visited with divine displeasure."destruction resulting from the hos the Italian and
tilities caused by the enemy, by re- treaties, former U.S. Secretary of
by The Rev R. B. Flynh said the peo-
Allied and French troops, gular State Jomes
resistance troops inside the country, Associated Press.
on
adjournment
George Cross For Padre
London, Apr. 1.
by HODGES
Salazar Denies He
The award is announceds Dictator
to-day of the George to a South African-born chaplain in the Royal Air Force, the Rev Mr Herbert Cecil Pugh, who, in the, words of the official cita- certain to tion, "went death" to injured airmen on a sinking ship.
The troopship Anselm was torpedoed while on the way from Britain to West Africa on July 5, 1941. The Rev Mr Pugh insisted on being lowered to the in- jured men in a flooded hold. He was last seen kneeling in Prayer with water up to his shoulders the moment bo. fore the ship sank.-Reuter.
New Factors
In Asian Relations
F. Byrnes proposed ple of fastings went too far when with an sanouncement the Soviets began compromising.
"There was a case in Martinique Gen where the people also went too far," simiflcant reaction George C. Marshall's speech was the he said. "They held a mock religious
or by continued internal strife." the next day they voted for Sunday movies. whereupon
of failure
A
to
Viet Namh Problem
Royal Family Arrives In Johannesburg
Johannesburg, Apr. 1.
A crowd estimated at 1,000,000 witnessed the Royal Family's triumphal arrival into Johannesburg today,
From mine, factory and office in Johannesburg they came, and from towns and villages within 100 miles radius. They congregated from Monday afternoon outside the City Hall; with blankets, rugs and pillows they stubbornly per- sisted in their all-night vigil despite a heavy rain storm. Tho Johannesburg population
was overnight increased by at
least 250,000, and for most of HAIFA DOCK
these only improvised accom- modation was available. Hotels, boarding houses and lodgings were out of the question for the majority of the visitors..
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AREA STILL BURNING
Jerusalem. Apr. 1. Smoke from bomb-lit fires continued to rise from the ruins of part of the far-flung Haifa oll dock area 36 hours after the underground attack that laid waste to an estimated £1,000,000 worth of oil products and equip
ment.
Only a few decades ago, this city of proud tall buildings and golden opulence, with its many-sided com- Lisbon. Apr. 1. mercial and industrial life was Premier Dr Antonio de Oli-Jamall mining comp.
Salazar, in a statement veirn
Johannesburg's crowds, tueting Issued on the installation of the to their Majesties anki to the now executive committee of the Princessca was like that of Cape
Durban, Pretoria, official party, Unino Nacional, Town,
Port affirmed that Portugal in ruled Elizabeth and other cities but more
amplified. by a constitutional government, The Transvaal metropolis, and denied charges of dictator-mined not to be outdone by ether ship.
cities, was bedecked with nule upon He said that the country's con- mile of bunting and flugs, arú many stitution was affirmed by the behe Snack vendors, balloon hawkers and spectators wore colourful costumes through a plebiscite, the head of the
peddlers of souvenirs were unable state was elected by direct vote, an
to keep up with the demand.. assembly
legislative handled the
hundred Two
thousand function, and the judicial part of the Europeans lined sections of the route called a second conference to-day to government was independent and not appointed by the president as In the American republien,
Dr. Salazar criticised foreign press comment and speculation on impending change in the Lisbon
government.
an
"We do not Intend to leave the "On the con- government," he suld. trary we intend to remain."
He said tiny country needs
to rebuild its strong government economic life and its material cxis-
out that 100 tence. He pointed
great emphasis on polliical parties had weakened.mmy states, particu- larly In Latin America.
failure of Moscow papers to men- ceremony on Good Friday and crucisumably on the busia of French re- Asiatic unity of thought. and obviously we do not want to de-
into trouble-and
tasks."
The National
which
deter-
non-
kept away from the scene by the The investigators are still being terrific heat and by burning all in two tanks.
the blazo, which followed the ex- Fourteen tanks were destroyed in plosions carly on Monday morning.
Palestine Government
discuss
Press..
ómcials
the blasts Associated
to hail the "father of the nations."
The Royal Family's day here will be one of the most crowded of their tour, there being on the programme COMMUNAL STRIFE
Presentations, Inspections, unveilings. opening of an agricultural slow,
п
a civic luncheon, children's shows, horse racing, a banquet, a young; people's ball and reworks in the evening-Associated Press,
Immigrants Reach Cyprus
Here Again!
CONTINUES
Calcutta, Apr. 3. Calcutta's Communist trouble continued to-day with six new fres and stringent measures by the police and military trying to stop the half-scattered fighting and looting..
There were 00 arrested and one rioter was shot dead. Two athers: died in baltics and 11 cases of
Arson were reported. Thirty-two buildings were destroyed in fres yesterday.
Unofficial reports said eight were killed yesterday in Calcutta and 20 others died in fighting in the Howrah industrial suburb.-United Press.
The World's FamONS
SIMMONS
Will Fight Opposition
Ikyrenia, Cyprus, April 1. The British ferry boats, Ocean "After 20 years of the new doctrine
National Vigour and Empire Rival, which ar- and our example of State, existing for the benefit of all rived at Famagusta to-day from Portuguese," he said, "we see per- Halfa, disembarked without incident New York, Apr. 1.
attitudes 1,574 illegal Jewish immigrants, who The New York Herald-sisting the same mental
the some were sent to Carnotos--Reuter, opposition, Tribune, in an editorial today, among the The opposition has
party feeling. Thus by roundabout means pre-commented on the growing changed nothing and wants to bring
the old Hfe. fed a pig. The next day a volcano ports, the internal strife in Indo- tion either it or M. Molotov's rep
reply. Instead, they carried one paragraph.
crupted and killed every one
one in town Chin is reported to the UNO as a warned nations with Far East
destruction interests to take the new factors Revolution, begun 20 years ago, can-
liver power to them. Observers considered
medium of economic significant except a man in a dungeon.
anything so which must be repaired if the French into consideration.
not be limited to an administrative that Mr John Foster Dulles-Gen do not prophesy
Hastings. Far
be Is 10 adviser who dreadful will ha
Eastern will happen in
outpost
The editorial said: Marshall's Repubilean
"Members of reorganisation. It must be capped with the Ten has been the particular
target of Bul
for the Viet Namh delegation from Indo- But messing around
woven into a peactime pattern
by a political reformation, Soviet press attacks at his own Commandments only gets the people Asia.
attending today's intu
Sunday movies Paradoxically, the Viet Namh re- China received an enthusiastle wel- has thus far nwaited the completion request is not Informal conference, it was inter break the Fourth Commandment."
bellion, can intrude into UNO circles come at the Asian Relations Con- of other task
Dr Salazar promised to turn the preted as part of an allost effort The Vicar took time off for his only as it affects the economic pro-ference in New Delhi. It seems ap-
government's attention henceforth at parent that political leaders at the to eliminate any possible stumbling warning from directing the filling blems of Asin and the world
antal problem of the conference support the Viel Namhese fowards such a political rejuvenation "without abandoning power which blocks to Soviet concessions, It they in of 14th century graves in the large. As a
cannot be presented as an their conflict with the French. are willing to make any.
church cemetery which were opened French,
"This emphasises once again that has brought the country 20 years of Gen Marshall meanwhile
new factors must be taken into ac peace and social and material de- ‚an- by ghouls, and the scraping of red matter for the attention of the UNO nounced his advisers. at the paint brushed on pews last week by Security Council, ference will be Ambassador Dedell- vandals, who also ripped the altar
scorched
earth damage to oil, tin, ests in the Orient, and that one of Smith and State Department couri- hangings and broke candlesticks shipping and harbour installations is these is the reaction of Asiaties gen- sellor Ben Cohen-United Press.
United Press
contrasted by the more optimistic crally to events in any particulat picture
Netherlands East | Asiatic country. Indies
Some
years hence, it may be The report says: "The Islands' necessary for any country attempting recovery has been enormously rea major line of policy in Asia to take opinion, tarded by internal conflict and social into consideration Indian
opinion and Indonesian unrest since VJ-Day, but the recent Chinese agreement between the NEI Govern- opinion, regardless of whether the ment and the Indonesian Republle policy directly affects India or China should pave the way to a comprehen-or Indonesia, sive rehabilitation programme:/
Economic Effects.
Foreign Office Won't Let Down Romance
London,” Apr.-1.-
The British Foreign Oflec promised to-day to join issue with Generalissimo Josef Stalin in the cause of international romance.
Stalin had refused exit visus for the Russian wives of 15 Britons who married while on Government service in Moscow, most of them during the war.
In the report, the description of count by nations which have inter-velocster colarging the Uniao
the of
Pacific.
The Possibilities:
VIET NAMH Clement Attlee last night, say: recently for any possible mention in mate as they may seem at the mo-
WORKMEN
IN RIOTS
Agen, SW France, Apr. 1. Loudspeaker appeals and tear gas bombs were used by the French authorities here today to get several hundred Namh workmen, who rioted yes- terday, to quit their barracks,
Viet
their lives.
A Foreign Office spokesman, Jaked for comment, said Britain had no in- tention of letting the matter drop, and had asked Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, now in Moscow, for sugges- tions as to what to do now.
Associated
now
soon
be gained in the next
-United Press.
few years
and
Nacional to include all Portuguese, He said the government would retak its unti-parly convictions and pro- mised a new, vigorous fight against those who opposed the present re- gime-United Press.
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wage efforts
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Gandhi advocated a one-world lusi
principle by well as Asian unily, authorities described as a nega
saying: " would not want to live tive answer." A British source. In
this
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·Moslem, follower in non-violence, Al Slott: 940 "Stars Parade-Stade and Moscow sources were unable to say
the six-feet-seven Pathan, Abdul Berren Stars of To-day and Yesterday: whether the United States Secretary While Mr Attlee drinks bakt
Ghaffer Khan, called the "Frontier 10.15 Lendan Transcription Soryles: "VA Marshall, would † dozen · toasts in port, the wartime | Gandhi'—United Press.
·Case for Paul. Témnie" of State, General
Episode 7 "In which The Net Tightens": 10.45 "Twilight raise the issue with Soviet Foreign Premier insisted on real vodka and
Melodies"; 31. Close Down. Minister Molotov during the Foreign elinked his glass time and time Minister's meeting,
or when and it again, speaiting in Russian "Za vasha zdorović" (your health). He, sald Stalin taught him this.
Indo-
labour camp between Viet Nam Moscow said that things "did not workers and pro-French
look any too good" for the wives in Two Annamites were killed and the light of the Bevin-Stalin
Ierencs, --
Chinese workers.
several others were wounded. The bodies of those killed were to-day reported to be badly mutilated.
The Viet Namh rioters-described to-day as "mutineers"--barricaded themselves in one section of the Russian brides barracks.
con-
Wives of Americans Gilmore reported that a number of of Americans are awaiting visas to join their husbands in the United States. It was not clear After tear gas bombs were thrown whether the "no visn" policy also ap- bemen came out rubbing their eyes: Government indicated a hardening behind the barricades to-day about plied to them, although the Soviet Later, a second attack was made attitude towards such marriages last with gas bombs, causing a few more week by forbidding future interna to surrender-Reuter,
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One of the British husbands, Alfred Charles Hall, hos a Ave The Russians crowded up to shuke months old son in Russia whom he his hand.
has never seen. Formerly a British Mr Attlee, who wore di red flower
left just Embassy cipher officer, he met his in his buttonhole.
$1.75 each bride, a language, student, when they Churchill arrived. - United Press.
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Soulli Korea/-Reuter.
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