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Ter the Frontaatne osj YONGKONG PELIGRAPH.! LOUPECHTEN MORÝING POST, L'TI
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Dina
At the
Hongkong Telegraph...
Immune To SUMATRA OIL
Scorpions
Tascon, July 27-Mrs Ella- beth Heddon, 73, thinks she has been stang 500 to 600 times by scorpions that "never did, ma any harm" although the scor- plan has killed almost twice as many Arizonians as all flie
rattlesnakes, black widow ila monsters
́spiders An
which frequent this state.
Arizona' Research
Morcover, Atrs Reddon has materially helped science seck A way to immunise the sting by catching and delivering more than 700 live scorpions
ta deadly variety
Animals Poisonous Laboratory. She just lays out Sacks or sheets of cardboard on the ground walls for the scor- piens to crawl under during the night and, in the morning, pleks them up with a fork and puts them into tin cans.Associated Fress.
Communal Rioting
Eight Killed
FIELDS AFIRE
Alleged Sabotage
Republicans
(BY M. R. APPLEGATE)
By
In a Dutch B-25 over the Sumatra front, July 27. The Pendopo oilfields of the Socony Vacuum Company, captured intact by the Dutch three days ago, are now sending a column of black smoko 4,500 feet high and` trailing down wind at least 50 miles.
Flying over burning field stations, I interviewed Tom Conger of New Orleans (Louisiana), Socony field superintendent, who took off enough time from firefighting to talk to me by radio while I circled overhead in this Mitchell bomber.
MONDAY, JULY 28, 1947.-
although, flames were licking along the sides.
While attempting to recontact Conger, the plot dircled northward over the remainder of the Pendopo, fields in an attempt to find other We noticed several stations fres. where there apparently had been Are-blackened fires recently and
Sald Conger: As you sco from up there, we have several fires on our hands. So far none of the wells has been fired, but a good many storage tanks are burning. The most dan gerous are the twisting little creeks which are flooded and are carrying oll all over the stations.“
Conger was not exaggerating. We a huge black column of
and banks, but no other fres. smoke 50 miles away and circled I was unable to ask Conger when over to see what was going on. It the fires started, but a high Dutch lopied like an entire area on fire air force officer was sure they had till we realised the wind was send started last night. ing billowing block greasy clouds
"Our along the ground,
Bombay, July 27.--Eight people were reported dead 10-had seen day in stray rioting in cont munal trouble spots of Calcutta and Lahore, capital of Punjab Province.
A dispatch from Calcutta, India's largest city, quoted a Government nanouncement that four people had been killed and 33 injured in a num ber of assaults, including firearm and bomb attacks in the city.
recks
but occasional showed-absolute}, ance
yesterday.
no oil fires in the serpentido flames said. "There were the hell going on.
small grass fires with blue, smoke, but no black oily stuff. The Repub- licans have Altered in during the night, setting off fires before escap- ing."-United Press.
DIFFICULT FIREFIGHTING
As the bomber circled at 200 mph, 1. could see flames licking down the From Lahore four deaths and one wooden bridges one by one until it case of injury by knife ailacka were seemed impossible that firelighters One case of arson was were able to move about the station reported,
at all. reported.
fortable from Trivandrum, copitals are served in convey truths Mediation
arrived ·
of Travancore State which is to be from Palembang late last night declared independent when the Bri- after moving along
SIKHS ARRESTED
108 Sikhs, The police arrested under the Punjab Public Safety Act, today as they came out of the Sikh while Golden Temple In Amritsar on their way to the banned Punjab Sikh conference at Nankana Sahib, 20 miles west of Lahore.
were injured when Five people troops opened fire twice
Ice to disperse crowds attempting to enter the tem- ple whom the conference was held, despite the Government ban.
the roada 21
over, I saw
i
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Giant Ivory HAIFA AT THE A Cure For
Tusk
Hongkong Is Centre Of
Far East Ivory Trade
This giant clephant's tusk, over six feet in length and weighing 50 catties, is one of a shipment of about 600 that arrived here recently from East Africa.
ALERT
Troops Await Immigrants
Haifa, July 27.---A squadron of armoured cars of the British | Airborne Division rode, through the streets of Haifa tonight as a Jewish illegal immigrant ship named Shavei Zion neared port with 400 visaless passengers aboard.
Rejected SHAKEUP OF attracted a number of ivory
27-The DIPLOMATS who are once again looking to
The
The Jewish quarter of Haifa' on Mount Carmel was under. curfew, and red-bereted Airborne troops sur- it were learned to be alert rounding for "trouble"
Whe
Another ship, with an estimated 700 Jews on board, and reported. to be named "The Victims”,. nteaming through the Mediterrancan behind the first, according to Jewish sources here,'
It was officially stated that both shiploads of Immigrants would.
DR
sent to Cyprus, where, according ta the present immigration quote, they will have to walt two years or more In a detention camp before being al- lowed to enter Palestine.
SECURITY BLACKOUT
Migraine
Moscow. July 27-A simple and permanent cure for migraine was reported in a publication of Critical Medicine today by professor N. L Bokanov,
fils cure, which he sold he kad tested. on hundreds of patients over the last 20 years, is a cheap, 10 percent solution of Calcium Chloride,
A tablespoonful, taken three times daily after meals until a six to eight ounce bottle is con- sumed, does the job, he mail. Sometimes in extremely
• sistent cases another four or five bottles can be prescribed, but in only one case in all his
DEX-
experience have headaches continued AS Long FLA Ave months after the treatment began. Xu A few Casca be has had to represertho for patients whose headaches rottomed "after
several years of migraine. I cannot give any clear final explanation of these favourable facts." United Press.
Jardine Wants Cricket
Laws Changed
SMALLER BALL
A strict security "blackout" cover- ed the news of the Royal Navy's Interception. of the immigrant ships. had stated that two Jewish llicgal born England cricketer, Douglas,
Earlier reports from Jerusalem
London, July 27-The Indian- Immigrant ships, reportedly carrying together about 1,000 passengers with Jardine, the most famous of all out visas, were approaching the English cricket captains of the Palestine coast, and that one
present generation, wants the to arrive here by early, to-laws of cricket changed. That
morrow at the latest.
The
will
14:
Awas
reliable is news with a very big "N," he reports quoted source as saying that the refugees and must have caused the ghosts
not be
deported to their country in the hallowed pavilion at Lords af embarkation, but will be trans-to shake their old bones. shipped to
to Cyprush military nu- There will always be those who Meanwhile, British. I thorities Hied the order placing consider that eport can be vasily whe Nathanyn, the rich diamond town, proved if only its rules were altered, under martial law and isolating it but the majority of these people are from rest Palestine.
concerned.
GRENADE EXPLOSIONS
In
to
This shipment, the largest since the end of the war, has tish withdraw from India-sald that day," Conger said. "It was a tough. terribly busy
Two British ensualties in anothers and not the pillars of the three leaders of the State Congress trip. We are now
merchants from Canton and one had been arrested. They include trying to get these ares out."
terrorist mine
mine attempt on a Pales- Governing bodies are used to get-. the organisation's president, Mr Pat- Poor radio connections prevented
Batavia, July
or two other places in China,
tine eins
was officially reported ting these suggestions which they ton Thenu,
the getting of further details from
British casualties invariably glance at and discard as Conger.
Netherlands Government has
chuckle Hongkong as the chief distri- here since July 18 to 10 dead, 78 revolutionary. with a The river of fire had already taken | rejected the Chinese offer of
The two casualties were their colleagues: "Look at what old out seven small bridges. We could mediation in Indonesia, which Marshall Chooses
buling point for tusks in the injured.
British soldiers who were wounded So-and-So is now proposing." Oc- Far East. plainly see the firefightera moving
when automatic fire was opened on casionally,
ideas are workers it does not consider desirable
sensi- below us. At
one spot
Young Men
Before the war, Hongkong was a military convoy entering Jerusalem ble and taken due note
ate of repairing a bridge which at the moment, Dutch-control- were
Washington, July 27. The the centre of the trade in this part tonight. ̧ evidently had blown up. A hundred led Batavia Radio reported to
very rare circumstances they of the world. The tusks were sent. of State, General from East Africa to India, and were Secretary
are adopted, but mostly they come yards from there a thatch-roofed
night. clean. cottage looked peaceful and
George Marshall, is quietly de imported here by Indian merchants. Replying to the Chinese
As sirens walled in Jerusalem toto nought, because officials in sport request
ara conservative at heart and Bay About the tenth circle
ploying some of his youngest Ivory dealers from all parts of the roof muddenly burst into flames for profection of the Chinese popu-
Iation in Indonesia, the Dutch and most able career diplomats China, Formosa and Japan-bought warn the decurity force that what was good enough for their hand grenade exploded it was befathers, and their fathers before and the entire house consumed in n
Foreign Office said that the "policing to key trouble spots in prepara- the loss of the Japan trade, post-where the show had come-a Home/them, is good enough for the present
supplies here.
lieved prematurely-acor the spot matter of minutes.
action" was an internal question, tion for the diplomatic battle
generation. "Why spoll this good old the Radio added.
tourist traffic have considerably re The windows of the Home were game," they say, Det Rangoon report stated that Dr for peace with the Soviet Union. war upheavals in China and loss of for the Aged.
"GIVING BOWLERS: CHANCE Octoyo, "the Indonesian Secretary
Without fanfaro, General Mareduced the demand for Anished ivory blown in, but nobody was arrested. General for Foreign Affairs, declared
Rid shall is eliminating the deadwood. articles
ornaments, Con- A Marsellies dispatch stated that When a man Hice Jardine writes. on his arrival there today that the Political appointments have been sequently the trade in tusks is not the three British ships, returning to a letter to one of Britain's national.. Dutch military authorities here have held to the lowest level in history as brisk as prewar.
France the
500
Jewish illegal im- Institutions like the Times, augges- taken more than 800 Republican and assignments given to men who
Elephant tusks come in varying migrants intercepted by the Royal ting that an old traditional game like officials, including three Cabinet made a career of diplomacy, to the lengths, from about two feet to ten Navy when trying to reach Paica cricket could be improved by making Ministers,
into
world's "protective custody".
most important listening feet or, mor. A really hig tusk tine, were cruising tonight off Fort the ball smaller, lovers of the game Dr. Octoyo intends to go to Now | post.
would weigh well, over 100 catlies. du Bouc, 30
of Marsailles, and officials
help taking no- awaiting
cannot Delhi to join Dr Sutan Sjahrir, the
tice, but whether they
will act is former Indonesian Premier, who is
imewalling
tomorrow-to make for the harbour. quite another matter. appealing for aid for the Indoño-
It is now old news that derdine stans. He is accompanied by Dr
day hastily mustered launches and wants to give the poor bowlers a Sjahrir's two children.
bouts from Port du Bouc and chance by suggesting play with a neighbouring ports to speed the dis-smaller ball as used by schoolboys. embarkation of the refugees if they This would enable the bowler to get decide to land.
mora swerve and spin into his deli- One person on board was report- veries and thus give bowlers a bet-. ed to have died. Reuter.
(Continued on Page 4)
Master Tara Singh, veteran Sikh leader, said here that the conference was being attended by about 130,000 people.
The Sikhs, whom the division of the Punjab between the two new dominions threatens to split, have arnoticed that they will march in relays to Nankana Sahib until the Government ban on their conference is lifted-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
BURNING OIL TANKS
It seemed incredible that the Re- publicans could have fired this so close to the repairmen, but equally incredible that sparks could have travelled cross-wind from the main Are.
"I noticed at least seven oil stor age tanks burned out or burning. One burned at the base for the whole hour we circled, without exploding,
Bungalows Or Flats?
of delach the con-
or even
сол
cism of the Braga scheme at to- TONIGHT's Dublle meeting to
night's meeting, A second im- discuss the Brage home-
portant consideration is whether, is expected to bullding scheme
in view of the urgent necessity produce notions and criticisms
of accommodating the maximum that should be extremely helpful
of people within the number both to the sponsors and to
ahortest time atrucilari Government, searching as they are for a practical and quick semi-detached bungalows offers
Ideal facilities for meetipr method of solving the housing problem. The general outlines of
demand. It is conceivable that the Brags nian
are now well
some adherents to the basic known. They envisage A
ception of the Branch
scheme.. operative society through which co-operative home-building society will be constrained to suggest would purchase homes members by initial deposits and subsequent
that it could achieve better results monthly rentals. These contribu-
thin construction of flats. There .by. flons would have to be sufficient
appears to be no feasible reason (plus
flat why no should not own a to repay a capitalising loan
да well as meet man-
# bungalow much Interest) as
house, Five agement and other charges. The
accom- plan at his
moment provides for
storey buildings,. bungalows to
madaling as many or more fami- lles, are from the viewpoint of making alien, preferab bungalows.
to
be
Kowloon Tsai, or
either at Poins,
or both. When the idea was first advanced it was halled with al most flattering enthusiasm which has since been modified in con- sequences of additional informa Hon. Undoubtedly the plan's chief attraction is the prospect of own
home by -hire-purchaNO nonpront-making Bolely. This longer novel. It has
is no put: proyed
into practice in many parts of
virides
theana, ils vi
to
To
the
ora
raises the
experta
to
or
the best use of
to
four-room proposition
of relative the
the questiundoubtedly ends casts,
witch, Could supply. a ready answer. It is certain that many other points of interest will be brought forward at the meeting. not the least important being whether the sponsors, given the support needed both" from, the HIC *pommunity and Government, are
A position to make. mediate start
building: whether they have at their dia- posal the requisife materials and fabour for "d"farge-scale build- Big operallon. It is worse thara useleka' in approve blueprints un- Jess they can quickly be put into effect
Vin The sung here is that
land today is so expensive and building costs prohibitive; where- fore, to their dismay, dozens of people who first gave a ready, re- sponse to the suggestion, find that the cont likely to be beyond thele means. It can be expected that this will provide first 'crfil-
On
A
"The Dutch have to fight bitter for every inch of land they occupy", Dr Cetoyo sald.
Iy
Moloya was "responding splendid
to Indonesia's pleas for help. he added. After visiting New Delhi, he intends to return to Singapore to organise a Malayan relief cam- poiga for the Indonesian Republican cause.
COMMUNIQUE
By the end of summer, the United States will have in the Balkans," Central Europe and Sweden the strongest diplomatic representation in history. The Middle East area, has been strengthened and major changes in China and France appear to be coming
STOP PRESS
S'HAI CINEMA
GUN BATTLE
last
At
west of
34 ma-expected early
Port authorities in Marseilles
fishing
to-
SURPRISE DEFEAT FOR
SING TAO
land.
General Marshall approached the problem with old Army tactics, seck- ing the most able "feld common- ders" available to be the US', eyes aud cars in strategic areas which ring the Soviet Union.
The job is not completed but well Shanghai, July 20-Two police The Dutch are using full strength unlucided with two similar ones at
under
way. The project abroad men were killed and at least seven ground forces, supported by war- ships, tanka and aircraft at Somar- home: firstly, the selection of the police and civilians wounded
night during a battle-royal between ang to halt the Indonesian drive on
Department high command is about milliary gendarmes and poller Penang, July 27. In the surned to take turnia swimming beside the
to be port, tonight's Republican com-
completed, with a prepon the Golden Castle cinema in Avenueprise of the day, Penang's State her on the long way back to Eng- munique on the fighting between derance of career diplomats; second- Foch. Indonesian
trounced Hongkong's Republic and Dutch ly streamlining the Department by The Incident arose over a dis- cleven
If she succeeds. Miss Andersen forces reported.
amalgamation of various secretariats, pute about cinema seats between a Sing Tao team, 3-0, in their will the first swimmer to negotiate Republican forces have repulsed a centralisation- Di allntelligence
a gendarme, where scheduled second and last match the channel ainco Sweden's policeman and Dutch attack from Modjokerto in work and creation of a long-runge after both sides called reinforce at the International Club Bauer made it on August 27, 1039. East Central Java on Dwawrblandong planning staff,
ents and storied the battle. Panic-stricken in all directions while a big crowd cinema WOR marooned inside the The career. men that General Marshall is elevating are not what until long after midnight,
Order was restored with the ar- the public is inclined to describe as "striped pants" diplomats. They are rival of high milltary officers. The anaren has now been.cordoned off scholarly, hardworking experts various parts of the world, who have while an investigation is being con-jer defeat by Penang's failure to devoted their lives, working long ducted into the cause of the Dray
Reuter. pay patiently hours for small climbing the ladder to the top.
and were advancing on Modjokerto, the communique added,
Dutch
warships yesterday shellca Port Grisse, west of Sourabaya an Java's north-east coast, destroying many buildings, it added.
two.
-
SCHOLARLY, EXPERTS.
i'
cinemagoers fled Grounds this evening.
Both bider
put up an equal battle In the first half and it was not until the second half that Penang, began banging in the goals.
Sing Tao was saved from a heav-| take advantage of three penalty
chances.
Sing Tao are expected to visit ipoh for a match there on July 31 United Press.
Ally.
The sea was calm as her party net out, but a southeasterly breeza was freshening-Associated Press.
4
WIN
MEYVE AFRICANS WI
Paris, July 27South Africa won two doubles titles in the French lawn tennis championships here, today,
Eric Sturgess and, Eustace. Fannin won the men's doubles trial, beating Tom Brown, United States, and Bill Sidwell, Australlo, 6-4, 4-0, 6-4; 0-3, while Sturgess, partnered by Mrs.
Shella Summers, of South Africa, "won ́the mixed doubles final, beat- bug ing Christian Caralulla, óf Rumania, Elna and Miss J. Jedrezajowska, of Po-
land, by 0-0, 0-0,
The Republican news agency, An- tora, reported continuous nighting raged for 10 hours on both sides of Brantas, River, west of Modjokerto
and in
Java, In East
arid admitted that the Dutch
using 11 tanks, had dispersed
A United Press survey shows that Hon Khong Inquiry Indonesian positions at Gempolkerep, not only for more than half of the Few people were present this five kilometres west of Modjokerto. 0 United States top diplomats are
Indonesian report stated that
men who have devoted 20 to 30 morning at the opening of the Court.
TO TACKLE CHANNEL Republican cannon
but of Inqulty to the wreck of the years to the foreign service. rainated battalions of Dutch
more than half aro relatively young. Hong Kheng
Dover,. July 20-Mar "four tanks and a
Mr. Hugh Jones is counsel for Forty-nine of them are under 60 south-ycern of age and 38 under 50, One Captain Bannerman, and the chief Andersen, 55-year old Danish swimmer who failed in a chan-
The South Africans deserved their attempt. last summer,
Jext of the three septuagenarians is Dr officer of the vessel, which went net
Leighton Stuart, Ambassador to shore of Chilang Point-on. July 10. Dover by motorboat on Sunday victory in the men's doubles for they up. reinforcements, including tank China
'much.' stendier game and the few political Mr C. Y. Kwan is holding a watch afternoon for the French coast for played and airplanes, and had bombed from
another try. la Emmet O'Neal Aming brief on behalf of the owners.
their lobbing was brilliant. Brown the air Kedunjati, 32 kilometres Unssador to the Philippines. Indien
appointee of
Was Members of the Court are Mr J.
most erratic in his mailing, southeast of Semarang..
tive of the strengthening.. bf the Jolly, Marine Magistrate, Lt. E the. Water from the dunes around service.
Miss Anderson planned to. enter while Sidwell
dropped frequently DUTCH CLAIM
Europe team is the assignment of Neville-Towle, RN; and Capt..
Far Smith. Meanwhile, the Dutch claimed Jolin Carter Vincent, long
Gap Gels Noz on Sunday evening, Sturgess and Mrs Summers had The Master, the capture of the strategie north Eastern affairs chlet for the State
Bannermann, She was accompanied by several practically no opposition in the mixed west Java port of Tegal, one week Department, to Switzerland.-United was the first person called to testify, members of the Dover Swimming doubles final, their opponents falling
(Confinued on Pago 4)
Pross
merlimirumomncas | Club, including two girls, who plan to win a single game.--Reuter,
troops, 40 moured cars":
number of west nt Semarang.
It stated that the Dutch had rushed
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Capt.
E.