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P.I. Tax On I.K. Shoes
Manila, Jan. 28. - Rubber shoes manu- factured in Hongkong taxed 25 are to he
centavos (aurusimatė- ly 50 cents Hongkong). according to the Secre tary of Finance, Mr Miguel Cuaderno.
The next tax is half that of the previous special customs duties of 50 centavos and it is understood that the
new rate is subject to revision.---Reuter.
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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1948.
British Note To
China On Kowloon City Dispute
Wants Jurisdiction & Eviction Issues Treated Separately
London, Jan. 27.—Britain has told Chína she wishes to treat the jurisdiction of the Walled Cy of Kowloon, as a separate issue from the recent eviction of squatters, and the British Government deplored the fact that the riots over the eviction of the squatters had occurred while talks were going on in Nanking about the future of Kowloon.
Britain regranted these discussions as still in progress, the note said, and the Government hoped shortly to submit its views to the Chinese Government. The nute declared that it would have been "quite wrong" for the Hong- kong Government to have failed to take administrative action for the welfare of Kowloon just because the jurisdiction issue was under discussion. Reviewing the facts of the evacion ten of the nets of violence, which ; In Hongkong," arul,
comatters from 54 buts on the site hunk place yesterday werk in Canton" there was no "Chinese censorship," the old wall and the subsequent De Hollogton Tonig. Director of the and that the Chinese press was as reptance when the Hongkong puller, Chines Government Information | free of control as the British.
Natel in ousted the squatters for a second tier. Nunking,
letter a
is deeply regrettable the on Jancy 5, the British note printed in the Times today.
newspapers overplayed the news, press, which
De Tong discussed a leading article thereby inducing the blamed the Chinese
that led for weeks past har heen sedulously of the Times on the situation
thr Cantou
he said. evictions spark of month-British Kowloon whyre
from "But if this is true. Li famming the Over 100 of the tribesmen were
enrictemned dwellings led to prison
how we could have avoided it, short Killed
in turn by Kurram militia, Hafton,”
which in of ante ntentioned particularly Parntences on the Chinese, a win welched,
anti-British serinusly weakened our demneratie Mahatma Gandhu spraking inday the Chinese National Times, which their then gave rise to to be sub-disturbances at Canton
*else-
processes of government. at the Moslem fair at Mehrauli, il said was understood
Kuomintang, art where. reported to live referred to the sided by the
He said the Times attributed the which had printed exaggerated and misleading reports
Parachinar Outrage New Delhi, Jan. 27.—About 130 non-Moslem refugees were i killed and 50 wounded and 50% kidnapped when tribesmen al-of tacked the Parachinar refugee camp in the Kurram agency, Northwest Province, according to an Indian Government report tonight.
Parnchiunr, "shocking news" from saying his news was that Mangal tribesmen from Afghaniston had slaughtered a large number of non- Moslems
MAGISTRATE BLAMED
It also blamed for the riots the of the Magic- “proveestive action" trate of Po On, who had addressed EVACUATION DELAYED
the Chinese The Indian Goverment statement; the squatters under issued by the Ministry of Relief and far after the first eviction. Rehabilitats, mud that following. This trove, the note said, was In- the attacks by neighbouring Tribes lerreted in the Chinese press as a Jant Ont
representating.
Pelaber,
were twifirmation of Chinese sovereignty. The Earthed Clovernment declared made for the innerhale evacuation |
that al
bebeved the Homent Gove of non-Moslems from Parachina.
untitled www fully Pedig ermpletion
where they
ments for the evacuation, the non-peleerling to view the ares of expands i Moslema moved into a canvas camper, and cester jolesport, Bat
It the souderation food at how u every hd to buy prohibitive prices and word geprate
Tate to of all armag
Britius recently setid and anuntion
broltenita demanding compensation for the British property destroyed m The Goverumet of lunt,
The Cantone and--Bulbol riots. the Statement added, muite three
de which followert marr Sur-Chine including one no mention of the British request. ther representations
while their hottes
to and loteri.“
Wefe
The
10 Liaquat Ali Khan, the Prine but retom desmatoes compensas Minister of Pakistan, to get non-
the Kowlonti im for
Moslems out of the snowbotina Reuter. Parachinar camp to a place of safety, !
These requests had was alleged.-Reuter,
EDITORIAL
inculent
VIOLENCE DETESTED Lanka. Jan.
Chan "dures
and
at
to
events in Canton to the "freedom given by the Chinese censorship to & prep campolen against the British
etaimed
that
if the
measures which wetalel have
"I am certain that the Tines would be the last to suggest we per- uit these events to stampede us into Lac backward step of peacetime censorship." --Reuter,
Opposition To Franc
Devaluation Bill
PREMIER FACES NEW CRISIS
Paris, Jan. 27--The Premior, M. Roberi Sehunan. is holding an extraordinary meeting tonight to discuss a theatened crisis after a decision, by the Socialist Party group in the National Assembly to vote against the Government's bill re-establishing a free market in gold and hard currencies,
Some quarters thought a Cabinet' the "double
effect, aw the Both people her detestas crisis was possible
Food Parcels Campaign
WITH
5+
reluctance member of the Parril
driftes Britain committee has that the local campaign has re
So far 40 ! a seces Aifts have beru despatched f England and another 1,080 parcels are to be shipped this week, These are figures which we levi merit some satisfaction: they cer- tainly retieel great cred on the who have hard working women develed
considerable #1
mount lime
inv 2621 Perry
of task
us
10 collecthig subseclpilnos and preparing the food parcela for despatch to Bungry Britons. But, It is claimed. Hongkong could have done much more, meaning
presumably, a
that the Colony could
have shown
more generosity fu
donating money and food. This nay be Nu, but the organisers should
not allow themselves to became too disheartened by the response to their appeals. It must be remembered that the cause which the appeal has been made.. though highly worthy. of neces alty possessed limited appeal in
While
This part of the work.
for
Is resterally known that the people
of Britain are going short of many essential foodstuffs, It is also
actually Tool that they are starving, or anything like . One of the mast Important tasks car. ried out by the Ministry of Food and Health during the early days of World War II was to prepare a balanced national diel hi order to afford the people the maximum nutriment from the restricted rallons. This has been continued In the post-war years and has without question, been the means of arresting any dancer of general debility among the masses. Know- ledge of thla somewhat robs an
for Tonet parcels of its appeal
dramaile and emoluia! content, especially for non-Eurograms wit have no direct family ties with this fiume country. There is, 100, which may have another factor Faused a limited pubile response to The parcels appeal. Alust Brons in Hongkong have rela- tions and intimate friends in Ear- land and have
been, and still are,
** sending them foud parcels. Parcels and poslane are not cheap and sent regularly are a real drain ott the financial resources of the donors.
Moreover, it is natural given to preference to he
the rather than the personal. imper
ersonal, forin
gift, The drive for foutl reels has been, a commendable effort, but
for
if
the organisers feel a trifle dis
appointed with the result, the
nay Bud consulation in the know. ledge that a substantial Humber of similar parcels are being sent Home every week by Individual members of the community, and that hungry relatives and friends In Britain are by no means forg Kotlen in Hongkong. The rnost the state. disconcerting part of ment made by commitee mein- her to the Press was the allegation that foodstuffs are rotting in our storage houses and are being des. troyert
every month by the Health Authorities. This calls for official Investigation, and suitable action by the authorities to en- sure that surplus foot stocks be made available for consumption. Rather than pernilt the food rot, Government should purchase It on behalf of the community and have it sent tà Britain where It is so badly needed. Deliberats food wasinge in there times af settle shortages is deplorable and should not be tolerated.
to
of
It's Getting
Warmer
It is becoming warmer in Hongkong and will continue to do so, said a Royal Obser- vatory official this morning.
At 9 o'clock the tempera- ture was 47, while during the night the mean tem- perature registered 44.
The official said that it
would gradually become
warmer because the winds off Formosa which reached gale force were reducing in intensity.
.He said the skies may re- main overcast for some days to come, but the atmos. phere would definitely tend to become warmer.
Iraq Govt. Resigns
Disorders Continuc
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First Round In Lords Fight Over Reform Bill
HOUSE FILLED TO CAPACITY
London, Jan. 27.—Every inch of floor space was taken today when the House of Lords met to consider the Attlee Government's bill to curb the power of the Peers to delay the legislation passed by the House of Commons.
In almost unprecedented scenes some Peers unable to find seats or benches, squatted on the floor while others stood in lobbies and lined the sides of the Chamber. Some even shared the Lord Chan- cellor's seat with him.
Normally only about 50 Peers attend the House of Commons debates. Today possibly 300 were pre- sent for the Chamber was crammed to capacity. It there is unlikely that so many Peers have assembled
at one time for years even for State ceremonial occasions.
Peeressen, on whose behalf the Asking what advantago there was campalto is being waged to obtain in rejecting this bill, Lord Addison the right to all and vote in the ski the Goverment intended to go Upper Chamber, filled the Peeresses" or with it even if it was rejected. "There is no attack in this bill on Gallery, Baghdad, Jan. 27.—The Iraq
At the entrance, Members of the the Second Chamber. Regent, Emir Abdut Mah. an-House of Commons packed the small nounced tonight the resignation squee available and stood shoulder fairer chinue to other parties in the of the Government of Saleh to shoukler to watch the proceed-Second Chamber besides the Con- Jabir who last week signed a Ings The public gallery was also new treaty of alliance with Britain.
was
"It is only designed
servatives,
ft is enleukted conflict."
of space ingh Full; not an avatable anywhere.
The bill which has already pageri House of Commons through Further violent demonstrations
reduces zach controversy, against the treaty
place infer
Two years to one the period Baghdad this morning when several that the predominantly Conservative persons were killed and a number use of Lords can hold up a Gov-fore
injured.
look
Abdul Azzis Algassab,
President
of the Lower House and 30 members of Parliament, then announced their resignations.
from
rument measure.
beram by moving Lord Addison the second reading of the bill, bas other words he was asking for the Peers'
agreement in principle. The resinations of four Caminet
At present, he said, the Labour Ministers Inilower. Tiwy were! majorly in the House of Commons Jamal Baban, the Minister fmight find its work largely sterilised Justice; Tuwa Almah, the Minister by the House of Lords with a Con- of the Interior; Jam Aldut Wahz.servative majority. This was never
Yousif Ganfnun, the Mindster Finance.
to give a
to avoid future
"DISHONEST MEASURE" Moving the rejection, Lord Salis- hury described the bill as the most dishonest mensure ever brought be- the British Parlament con- skering the circumstances in which it had been introduced,
"The only conceivable object of the bill was to enable the Govern- ment two years hence to pasa an- other bill to nationalise Iran and steel, he declarer, and the Cabinet was divided even on that,
the Minister' of Socal Affairs and su with a Conservative Government.upted to deny this, Lord Sallshuty
Salih Jabar then handled in an town resignation to the Regen'.
TENSE SITUATION
"untair
After Lord Addison had inter-
maintained that the bill was offered to "some of the more irresponsible members of the Government to try keep them quiet for some months main- more." (The Conservatives tain that Mr Ancurin Bevan, the Minister of Health, led the section the Cabinet which wanted the and steel bill to nationalise iron introduced this session, and that he could only agree to its postponement only if the House of Lords bill was introduced to make sure of nu- tionalisation within the Ife of the present Parliament).
"UNFAIR CONDITIONS" The bill was a precaution, against
of repetition
these thr conditions."
Lard Addison said it should not be su for the House of Lords by Machinegunaing continued the rejecting the Government bill of
decide what should be the issues of eils throughout the day.
Politicians met the Regent tonight-a-general election.
Amid Labour cheers, he declared discuss the fense and critical
decided "We challenge that implication from situation and the Regent
very start." immediately to accept the resigna- |
would not The Labour Party tion of the full Cabinei.
10
the
Franch devaluation. Sayid Sileli Jabur, Prime Minis- the next 24 sehen, A. Alayer told a joint meet-ter of Iraq, appealing today for an against bouen, but most lobby observers be- ty of the Finance
zel Foreign end of the deraonstrations Heved that in the und some bargain | Affairs Comunisatons the As the Anglo-Iraq treaty he signed at would be made to avoid the Govern-sembly today..
Portsmouth 12. days ago with ment's resignation.
British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Yesterday's devaluation of, the Bevin. ait his Government night frame from 480 to 84 to the pound a force to maintain order. neovided for a free market rate in
He asked that the Government be delition to the official rate. It was left to deal with such matters.--
possible effect of the free Heuter. market rate on the pound which and Communists, gave vent in British objections. voted against the Bill and the popu
The Government's bill was rejected today by the Finanre ontwittee of the National Assembly by 17 votes to 15 with seven abstentions,
Th
Steinfists
the
the
meeting thes
•
the
Defending; the present powers of the Upper Chamber, Lord Salisbury declared: "We believe that the power of the Second Chamber to refer back to the electorate (by rejecting tie the Government bill). doublful measures on jasues of greatest im- vital to the portance is absolutely survival of Democracy."
He likened the Second Chamber to that of the automatic pilot of an aeroplane which prevented the machinery from swinging too far either, to the right or the left.
The
The Regent broadens the Cabinet's accept that the non-elective House resignation to the nation tonight and of Lords-membership is hereditary at the same time appealed to the cr is nominated by the Government people to en-operate in keeping good should be the final arbiter of the order to save the country frompion of the people
Lord Addison destroyed the initial bloodshed.
hupes of a compromise over prezent controversy by rejecting the Com Prvative suggestion that today's bill should be dropped in favour of une reforming the Upper Chamber.
Referring to the possibility of the House of Lords using its powers to assert itself. Lord Aldison criticised belei the enenex during the summer Parliamentary
against the advice of UNPRECEDENTED ACTION On thist occasion they met to review any mesures passed by Government
deal
the with lenst 187 department: Hamburg. Jan. 27-At
the House of people, including children. were in-enomic crisis while jured and 850 houses damaged when Commons was not sitting, a heavy bomb exploded while being This, he said, was unprecedented dismantled for scrap iron in the and the Government had not failed Soviet Zone city of Erfurt yesterday, to notice it. the German now! service in the Atore than 2,000,000 people were British Zone reported today.
out of work in 1932 when the Con- Ninely hous
badlyrervative Government was in power damaged that the occupants had but the House of Lords called no
special meeting then, he declared. to be evacuated.-Reuter. the
tar Republicans and some radicals) M. Georges Bidault, the Forelyn
for it
Minister, toke
the mating: "Co- sammudian between the British and The Assembly itself tot this after- French Governments is being fully noon and adjourned Jater tonight I maintained."---Reuter. as the Finance Commission had not yet completed its study of the bill.
MODIFICATION SOUGHT
BANK OF FRANCE RATES
Paris, Jan. 27-T Bank of France issued this evering the fol- The Socialists, on whose votes the lowing communique: Government depends for a maiority, decided at their meeting today to Bank of France buys gold from the
send a party delegation to the Prime Minister to try and get the Govern- ment to modify its policy and matists Sucinlist aprehensions.
The main objections to the bill toived at the Socialist meeting were:
As from January 20.
1948,
publie at the following prices:
Bullion-Per kilogramme of line Cold 237,400 francs,
United States $20 plece:7,100 francs.
Buited
francs
A
States $10 pierg-3,550
1. The Government had failed to i
20 frane piece of Phe 1914 Latin take into account the objections of Talon:-1,308 francs, the British Government.
2. It had gnored the views of the International Monetary Fund.
3. I was opening: the door to hi out of date economie liberalism.
A 10 frane plece of Pac-1014 Latin' Union:-004 franes.
A British sovereign:-1,720 francs, A British half-sovereign: - 663 fvanes-Reuter.
Hamburg Explosion
were
50
recess Government.
UNFREL
to
Russia Reduces Demands
On
German Assets In Austria
Vienna, Jan. 27.-Russian claims on German assets in Austrin, though now substantially reduced, demand, off rights estimated to be worth $135,000,000; shipping estimated at about $17,000,000 and a lump sum of $200,000,000 for the remainder of German assets, well- informed sources in Vienna said today.
the
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Shooting To Stop In Old Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Jan. 27-The Arabs and Jews had agreed to a "cenze fre" in the Old City of Jerusalem, site of the holy
place of the Christian, Moslem and Jewish re- glans, according to reports cir- culating here tonight.
tho
Only a few shots disturbed city today, the quietest since the Paica- United Nations decided on tine's partition 50 days ago.
Political activity took the place of ahooling as Arah city and district' leaders and chieftains from sur- rounding villages gathered to appoint committee of 20 members to re- Arabs in the present over 100,000 Jerusalem aren,
STERLING UNSTABLE
This total of $352,000,000 bad been;
A British army corporal and a The Austrian press cold the dernand It was not clear what the Social-
#eated down from the Russians' for $200,000,000 in two years was Jewish forry driver were shot dead Singapore, Jon. 27-Sterling it ot ists proposed in place of the Govern
In the plan when an armed band of Arabs at- Agure former clalm of assets worth $800,- dioutile Colonel present "most unstable,"
Halfa-Jatin pepviously
General lacked traffic, on the by suprested 000,000, ment's bill, and it was thought It W.. Hodgson, Australian Minister the lobbies that the Socialists might
Russia's revised proposals on Cherriere, the French representative Rond today. well Gonly
to France and Australian repre-
British police, rushing to the scene decide to continue to
German assets in Austria were "aen the Austrian commission-namely Nations. support the Government
forward," that $100,000,000 be paid over ten of the attack, came under heavy provide tentative to the United
fire
from
Arabs when passing L. Rene Mayer, the Finance Minis-
sald when he arrived at Singapore great and decisive step
political years. in Austrian all partles
through
a valley and engaged the ter, or at least his Under Secretary today on a flylu: boat on his way to
circles agreed today. for Economic Affairs, M. Feliz Australia for consultations.
Austrian political circles anki the;
counter proposals attackers who were firing from the most dificult obstacle to the agree-were promised after the breakdown hills. ment on the Austrian trenty negotia of the Foreign Minister's conference
had been removed by the on December 15. Russians agreeing to accept a lump
Gaillard, resigned.
BRITISH OFFER
nt
"I could not change sterling Cair
Dofireli, Calcutta or Rangoon" he said.
"The present Australian rate of
Chancellor of the Exchequer, offered buy more with the Australian pound to increase the deliveries of British than with the pound sterling." cont to France from 8,000 to 25.000
about Ong sterling is worth tons à month if France abundanes | Australian shillings.—Reuter.
ilons
The Russian
The railway connection to Lydda, Palestine's International airport, wan cut during the night, it was officially In Inifa, an Arab police super- intendent and a pollen inspector were nhat and wounded by two Jews--- Kleuter.
Sir Stafford Cripps, the British exchange seems stupid. You can sum of $200.000,000 for German Allied circles here regarded the reported this morning.
assets other than ell and shipping new claims on the first most impor- Instead of trying to find a theoretical that concession tite Russians have definition of wint was a German made throughout the negotiations on nssel.
the Australian treaty.-Reuter,