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HONGAUNO STENOMENA For and on behalf of an NTA MA BOUTH CHINA MORNING ROST, LTD,
Printre and PybusDer
Hongkong Telegraph.
THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1947.
Lord Woolton's MINE DISASTER
Warning
London, Kay 8: Lord Woolton, Britain's war- timo Minister of food sald on Wednesday that Croat Britain was in danger of a food crisis as serious as Jani winter's coal crisis.
"I consider that the nailon's food is inadequate to maintain the nation's health". Lord Woolton, chairman of the Con- servative party told the House of Lords.
He spoke 24 hours after
Dr. Frankl British dietician Bicknell said रा a magazine article that "England is dying of starvation."
Lord Henderson, replying for the government said that cur- rent stocks of wheat and flour might cause Rome alarm but predicled that the level of food stocks in general would increase In future-Associated Press.
Chinese Telecoms In Hongkong
To Be Requested. To Close Down, Report
The Telegraph learns from unofficial, but wholly reliable sources that the Chinese Government Telecommunications
Administration which has been operating a public radio service between Hongkong and Canton 'under an original agreement with the former British Military Administration, is to be re- quested to close its Hongkong. office.
Explosion
& Fire In
In Barnsley Pit Kills Nine, Injures 25.
Barnsley, Yorkshire, May 7.
Nine miners, several only 15 years old, were killed and 25 were injured when Britain's first major pit catastrophe since the Govern- ment took over the mines last January struck at noon today and an explosion 720 feet underground sent a sheet of flame roaring through- out the tunnels.
The flames hampered rescue work, and it was not until four hours after the shattering blast that the last body was brought to the surface and laid on the ground in front of the grim faced waiting people.
The horror of the disaster was described by George Hewitt, who was working in the adjoining coal face. He said that he and his mate opened the connecting door and, "we saw, two or three lads in a bad state. They were burned about the hands and face and were holding their hands up to their eyes."
In the inky blackness of the earth's bowels, the injured men and boys, whose lamps were blown out by the suction crawled prinfully over the rubble and sharp- edged chunks of coal to meet a rescue team.
A joint statement issued by Lieutenant-General Sir Noel Holmes, Chairman of the Northwestern Division of the National Coal Board, and Mr Joseph Hall, President of the Yorkshire Miners' Union, said that full attendance at work in the unaffected portions of the colliery was expected tomorrow, and that there was no reason to believe the affected district would be long delayed in production-Reuter.
UNO'S FACE SAVING No-One To
COMPROMISE
Lake Success, May 8.
Bury
Dead
Britain Not To Interfere
London, May 7,
Mr Ernest Bevin, Foreign Minister, rejected the sug- gestion in the House of Commons today that the British Government should take steps to promote a settlement In the Chinese civil war.
The Labour Member, Mr Elwyn Jones, had asked if, in view of the importance of reopening Britain's trading, political and cultural rela- tions with China, the British Government was taking steps to promote a settle- ment between the parties to the civil war in China.
Mr Bevin replied: "No. Much as we deplore con. tinuance of the Chinese civil war, we regard it as entirely a Chinese domestic affair, in which the British Govern- ment cannot properly inter- fere."-Reuter.
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Bevin's Disclosures On
Japanese Industrial. Reparations
London, May 7.
Mr Ernest Bevin, Foreign Secretary, answering a question in the House of Commons today about Japanese industrial equipment, said that within the framework of policy decisions of the Far Eastern Commission, General MacArthur, Supreme Com- mander for the Allied Powers, was now designating Japanese industrial facilities for removal as repara- tions. No removals, however, had yet been made. General MacArthur had invited all tion, to present claims for looted the governments represented on the goods, to request that searches be Far Eastern Commission to send made for missing items believed to oficial missions to Tokyo to deal be in Japan, to accept title to goods with him on problems of repara- on behalf of their governments and tions, restitution and restoration, to arrange for the transportation of Mr. Bevin added.
such property from Japan.
In restitution matters, the Mis- Elon's functions were to inspect property for purposes of identifica-
New Canyons Discovered
The representative who would get on behalf of the United Kingdom, Burma and the colonies were now expected to arrive in Japan before de- the end of May, Mr. Bevin clared.
One of their main tasks would be, of course, to secure the restitution of British property looted by the Japanese and to ensure that it was not made available for reparations. he said. If cases arose, where for in any reason idenillable lost found Japan could not be returned; claims London, May 7.
tion would be made. tor compensation The discovery of two great under-
Mr Devin was answering a ques- water canyons off the South Auston by Mr Walter Fletcher
wanted tralian coast almost as deep as the servative), who record submarine
off the what proportion of Japan's industrial South Chilean coast were reported today by the Australian Information equipment and material removed, or to be removed us reparations, had
been
obtained by seizure originally
from other countries;
Bureau.
canyons
(Con-
to
know
upon
Local scientists thought they or looling marked the original course of the what action the Minister proposed to take to see that such pro returned River Murray, Australia's longest
equivalent value, was stream. They were similar in nature its to the undersea canyon of the Hud- and if he would impress
General MacArthur the need for son River extending to the continent-admitting to Japan those who had London, May 8.
al shelf cast of New York.
such claims in order to pursue their The dead went unburied in
Oklahoma City, May 7.
The new canyons aro 120 miles legitimate inquiries-Reuter. the city of London on Wednes
Pistol carrying legislators south of the present mouth of the day. The "City" is the mile square storic section of Lon- from Holdenville toted a home Murray. One canyon is two miles don that contains the big banks. town feud into the State Senate wide. The other is six miles wide. soundings the law courts, the newspapers Chamber and when the shooting The depth of the water at the rim is showed the depth of the greatest: The vote was 39 to 1.
"localities in which outrages and magazines, Billingsgate fish was over, one man was wounded about 400 feet while
canyon was at least 4,350 feet. Guatemala east the only negative are perpetrated."
market and at the moment-a and another held by officers. Russia and ten others Creech-Jones evnded
Slate Senator Tom, Anglin, 64, abstained.
reply but said, "It is, for the High strike by employees of the city
oldest member of the Upper House in the Commissioner to consider in con- corporation.
in point of service, was shot through The Assultation with
Repre- the left hip and abdomen.
In an unprecedented extraordirary session, the United Nations Assembly on Palestine approved today a face saving compromise giving the Arab Higher Committee equal status with the Jewish Agency before the United Nations..
Approached by the Telegraph for a statement, the Hongkong manager of Cable and Wireless said he hadle, while
no comment to make on the report. The meeting was held
Normally the Hongkong office for receiving and despatching of crowded committee room.
into
a direct
the military
au-
FOUND BY FRIGATE
sembly usually convenes nt Flush-thorities and in the light of events Street cleaners, bridge operators, public telegrams between the colony ing Mendows but the delegates con- whether the situation calls for the rave diggers and all sorts of other santative Jimmie Scott, 34, was ar- and Canton is Cable and Wireless. Gldered the Arab question su urgent introduction of military administra- public servants are involved in the rested a few minutes after the ex-South Australian coastline for the
Under #special
and temporary they gathered here for the first time agreement this work has been done in a 35-minute emergency session. by the Chinese Government Tele-
The Arab states expressed satisfac- communications Administration since tion when the Assembly acceded to the reoccupation.
their demand to hear the Arab states and the Arab Higher Committee on an equal footing with the Jewish Agency for Palestine.
tion in any particular arca.
strike which is against the promo The authorities are tackling this lon of a fish market policeman to Especially the grave dig. terrorism with of problem
the sergeant, greatest resolution and with
the gers are involved. most appropriate methods within the capacity of available resources, buried" said a puliceman on duty at "The corpses are collecting to get The Telegraph is informed that
Collective fines have not so far been the city's one cemetery manor park. this office in Hongkong is now con
levied on any groups deemed col-
"The dead are lyin
lying unburled" sidered by-Government-as redundant. and it is proposed that its function fee Assouri's Poll Colectively responsible for terrorism."confirmed an outraged member of
mittee adjourned until Thursday United Press. be restored to Cable and Wireless.
Parliament Sir Jocelyn Lucas. morning when will continue the
"There are 25 to 30 bodies waiting Although no official statement task of making up and instructing a
to be interred" a cemetery official could be obtained today on the sub-committee which will inquire into all
ald. We are advising undertakers
them
their to keep ject, the Telegraph learns that the phases of the Palestine situation.
enbalmed in mortuaries until the strike is over. Chinese Government Telecommuni-
-Associated Press. cations Administration has not kept strictly to the terms of its agree ment. These provided that the Ad- ministration thould handle a public cablegram service only between Hongkong and Canton.
However, the Hongkong office has been accepting and despatching mes- sages to other parts of China,
The political committee will report to the regular Assembly session next |September.-Associated Press.
CREECH-JONES' HINT
London, May 7.
The Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech Jones, today hinted in the Commons that the Palestine Govern- ment was considering the possibility of imposing collective fines widespread martial law to counter Jewish extremists.
and
.
Big Loan For
France
Washington, May 7.
KING HAS A COLD A high official of the International Bank for Reconstruction disclosed to
Londen, May 8. Reuter today a definite agreement on
King George has a slight cold and the granting of a $250,000,000 World Bank loan to France. "This will be is temporarily confined to the Royal a day or so-certainly quarters aboard the British battle- ship Vanguard, the Exchange Tele-
made wit
General Sir George Jeffreys, Con-premcial sald that a meeting of graph agency reported on Wednesday
A Telegraph representative has had accepted by the Chinese Telecom- munications Administration a mes-servutive, demanded not only mor- sage addressed to Nanking. He was in law in all Jewish settlements and collective fines but removal of pro- given the usual oficial receipt for
minent Jewish citizens as hostages
It.
EDITORIAL
Expensive Eating
HITTING the white collar
worker as hard as anything
In these, days of high living costs is the price he has to pay for meals In restaurants and hotels. finds it practically impossible to. obtain a decent timn for less than $4.50 which takes $100 a month out of his pocket, The food price Index has slowly, but fairly con-
hown
a downward yet charges for public meals arc, in
If anything, Inciled to In- ercase. The worker feels he is being unfairly treated when he compares hotel and "restaurant rates to the coal Tere ho finds a family of three or four can get a substantial meal of soup, fish, vegetables, frult and coffee costing about 81.25 per head. For
in Hongkong has to have one meal a day in town, his only allerne, tives being to take sandwiches to the office or to go hungry. The official cost of living index includes food, but not the food that thou- sands of people have to pay for daily outside of their homes, For 18 months eating in public has been
a necessary Tacet of the daily lives of large numbers of
workers: It represents a vital portion of living
but no allowanco. Is costs, made for this,
re Communal taurants might provide a part mluiion, These have, in fact, been started, but they cater for certain Bection, and are not
only of home food.
*
meal approaching the same Bild quantity in a pubile house he has to pay up to five dollars. The hotels and re- staurants plead increased over- heada as an excuse for high charges, but the householder too has the same problem. His cook boy or amah costs $100 a month compared to the pre-war $20 to 830; refall prices of all types of tlines food are three and four above 1011 The average worker
for the - while
collar worker. Communal
restaurants such as those so successfully operated in England during`. the war (and [silli carrying on) would find a happy response · from ' thousands of oily workers in Hongkong. Bui there are many practical dimeul: fles connected - with establishing them, not the feast being to find sultable premises in the right areas. The principal restaurants and hotels could perform a fine public service, which would be widely appreciated, by offering certain meals for workers at concession rates.
The
the Bank's board was being held later today, when the final decision might be expected.
in a radio dispatch from the ship.
The King's indisposition was it tributed to the Vanguard's passage The $250,000,000 loan would be from the tropics to cool weather us the first instalment on the request fit enrried the Royal family home for $500,000,000 application that from their visit to South Africa.- France made many months ago. The Associated Press, loan would be the first one grunted) by the Bank since its inception.
The final discussions between the Bank and the French authorities here have been conducted by Mr Christin Valens, Financial Counsellor at the French Embassy,
Wilfred and Mr Baumgartner, lend of the Credit National.
on
South
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BRITISH FLOOD RELIEF FUND
The canyons were discovered by the frigate Lachlan in charting the establishment of a deepwater barbour change of shots
Behind the snap shooting, according at Robe. The ship's officers sold the undersea gulch would be like the to James C. Nance, President pru lem of the Senate, was the fact that Colorado River in the sea. Anglin's Holdenville law firm handled
Dr Fenner, authority on divorced wife. the property settlement for Scott's Australia's geography, sald the can-
Donations Received Witnesses sald Anglin was walking yon might have been carved out at
an earlier glacial period.
Already acknowledged cross the middle of the well-filled Senate Chamber when Scott ap-Most-geologists believed that such per "H.K. Telegraph") $206,170,30 prouched from the rear of the Cham- underseas canyons were carved when 1. R. Sturt ber. They heard Anglin say "Don't the continental shelf was dry land Imperial Chemical In- dustries (China) Ltd. shoot," then "Oh" as the first shot either because the land was higher
They Ricci Hull; Staff and felled him. They said Anglin pulled or the sea level was lower.
as he and fired a wild
Students said the sopping up of seawater to gun as shot while Scott
was
firing the form great continental glaciers of the Water Police Canteen second blast, which missed.
Ice Ages would lower the sea levels Hongkong Civil Service Scott is an ex-Marine who saw up to 3,000 or 4,000 feet. United
the South-west Pacific. Press. officers suid charges ugainst him filed tomorrow.United would be Press
action
in
tell
Rebols Attack Train Antananarivo, May 7. Seven rebels, armed with machine- guns, attacked a rail car travelling between Antananarivo and Tamatave in Madagascar, killing the driver, according to reports reaching here tonight.
In view of the lack of safety on the line, all traffic between the two towns is now being carried by air.-
Reuter.
Up-To-The-Minute International Sports News
H.K. COMMANDOS
AT MALTA
100.00
1,000.00
403.00
470.00
Chinese Association ..
100.00
Palmer
Per Wah Kiu Yat Po
Wah Yan College, Hong-
kong
Mr and Mrs D. C. Davis
Turner .......
500.00
100.00
200.00
Chinese Baptist
Church
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Church of Christ.
71.60
Malta, May 7. In China, Wan-" An advanced party of more than chal Church
com- Church of Christ one hundred Royal Marine
Ching, hero
In on board the mandos arrived
Causeway Bay transport Alcantara from Hongkong
Church to replace the Infantry battalions for
Amoy Church.. garrison duties.
Teung
The main body is expected carly In June-Reuter.
S. AFRICANS OUTPLAY CAMBRIDGE
The offcial declined to speculate
Cambridge, May 8. the possible effect of the loan de The South African cricketers, cision of any new and drastic poll- with a warm sun on their backs, tical developments inside France. 14 is considered possible in well in outplayed Cambridge University formed quarters, however, that such on the first day of their three- a development might force further day game at Cambridge.. postponement in the Bank's already long delayed.decision. Reuter.
Aerial Search For
Kidnappers
orm
At Portsmouth-Hampshire best defeated Pierre Pelizza of France, Royal Navy by innings and 10 runs. 0-1, 3-6. 7-5, 6-3. Hampshire 310 (Holt 02, Corkell 75). Royal Navy 100 (Lieutenant Boys 89) and 132 (1feath five for 27).
115.35
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111.00
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St Mary's Church' 71.00
5.00
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Instalment $1,483.00
3.00
.1,489.00
100.00
20.00.
of No. 3 M.G. who fell In Action Dec. 1941
(1900, 2504)
Hongkong
20.00%
500.00 1,000,00
25.00
The upset of the day came when Rumanlars Constantin Tancesco turned back Geoff Brown of Aus- NIDA'S GOOD START tralia 6-3, 0-0, 0-4, 6-0, Brown suddenly become shaky and,nervos Southport, England; May 7.
111 the third set. In the other Anon Jack Plimsoll, a fast left
Norman von Nida, wiry little Aus quarter-final Christian Boussus of dig M, M. Eardley bowler tied up the varsity batsmen tralian golfer who arrived in Eng-France defeated Bernard Destremeau In memory of Members to such an extent that he conceded land last month and promptly grab of France, 8-2, 7-5, 0-0. only 30 runs in 30 overs. He took bed off the first big honey, prite of
In the mixed doubles Patty teamed four wickets. The South Africans the season, posted 70 in the first with Nelly Landry of France to de- slow bowlers, too, kept Cambridge round of the £2,000 Dunlop tourney fent Elsel Lanzenberg and Raymond M. T. Company RAS.C gulet Freshman jumped out and hit them prize.
£500 by winning in a brief but merry innings. Singapore: A Royal Air Force When the tourists batted Datia the Royal Mid-Surrey tourney in plane and a company of Gurkha bowled Alan Melville their skipper April-United Press,
he and troops are helping the Malayan for 35 at a time when patice in the hunt for the daring Dudley Nourse were threatening to kidnappers of the Chinese mullion collar the Varsity bowling
South Africa, in reply to the aire, Mr Kee Hup Hon.
The search covers 60 square mics Cambridge total of 110, made 122 for
the in area:
1095 of
four wickets before Six armed men had entered the stumps
'drawn/-Associated werd millionaire's home in the town of Press.
Bakap in North Malaya on Reuter also gives the following 20 to carry out the audacious cricket scores: crime. The police have "arrealed
Although P., Datta the Indian today in his bid for the £358 Arg Collette Boegner, of France do-China Ficet Club
At Oxford-Yorkshire 820 for six three
men and have offered a re- (Hutton 103, Wilson B, Yardley 6, ward of $5,000 (Malayan) for In-Coxon 50). formation about the kidnapping/--- At Lords: Surrey 200 (Fishlock
BD). M.C.C. 03 for ibres.
Reuter,
Von Nida won
Rodel of France, 0-0, 0-4. Brown and fented Andree Varin and Robert Anon Blaudot of France, 6-4, 0-0-- United Press.
INTERNATIONAL TENNIS
BIG RACE ENTRY
London, May 3. Paris, May 7.
three-year- Thirty-seven French Budge Fatty of the United States advanced to the semi-finals of the pids have been entered for Ascot's international tennis tournament to-big International race, the two miles King George VI stakes to be run day by defeating Rumanian Rurak, 0-1, 3-0, 4-8, 0-4.
on Saturday, October 11. Tha total, Rural is the husband of Magda entry is 80, Rurak, who defeated Pauline Betz
Souverain, the grand prix and In Miss. Detz' fast competition as French St. Leger winner won the amateur at Monte Carlo his event in 1948 from the Irish Derby. winner Bright Nows. Airborne, win- In the semi-finals Patty will meet ner of the English Derby and St | Robert Abdessalam of France, who Loger was third.—Associated Press. ~
spring.
£40-0-0 and..
$212,200.30 Donations should be addressed. to the General, Manager, South China, Morning Post, Morning! Post Building. Hongkong, Cheques should be made out to "British Flood Relief Fund." For the purpose of acknow- ledgment will donors kindly Indicate their namos In Block Letters.