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VOL. III NO. 67
Communist Offensive
In Inner Mongolia
The
Peiping, Mar, 21. Chinese government command tonight announced that the *Communists had begun an "All out" campaign in Inner Mongo- lin, northwest of Peiping.
The announcement from General Fu Tro-y headquarters and four Communist elumas 021 Saturday night attacked the Sulyun railway and took four pukis between Kalgió and Talung.
Katan, the gateway to Inner Mongolia, is 100 miles by air and 110 by rall from Pelping, Talung. North important rnil junction in
Shensi province, is 150 miles by air west of Peiplug but is 230 miles by rail via Kalgan.
The government communique said Ihren- both
citles were "seriously tened."
The communique sald General Fu had anticipate the attacks and had been moving troops up to meet it for the past several days.
Inner Mongolia borders the so- called Outer Mongolia People's Re- pubile, a Soviet satellite.
SHANTUNG REPORTS
Nanking Reports clrculated in that the Cominunats had captured Chefoo and Welhslen, important eitles in Shantung province, North- east China.
but
pressure
(Government sources denied it acknowledged "very heavy" and against Welhsien general fighting along the railway between Tsingtao and Tainan, Shan- tung provincial capital.
(The Communist radio, heard in Associated San Francisco by the Press, called the Shantung opera- tions a spring offensive" and sald 10 large towns had fallen northeast and southeast of Tainan In the past eight days."
REDS' PREDICTION (Silent on. Inner Mongolia, the Communist broadcast review of the Manchurian campaign. It said recent capture of Szepingkai had cut off hope of refrent for the gov ernment gorrison in Changchun. declared 130,000
war.
meeting on Press,
It
Killed In Indo-China
MONDAY, MARCH 22, 1948.
HAIFA DOCKSIDE
Miss Ruth Lydin James (left) and Mrs Jeanne R. Skewes (right), American women employed at the US Con- sulate-General in Indo-China, were shot to death near Salgon recently. The bodies were found in a dry river bed into which the women had driven a Jeep-AP Wirephoto.
End Of Four-Power
Allied Control?
Berlin, Mar. 21- The Russian intent to break.. finally and completely the four-power functioning of the Allied Control Council for Germány appeared in no doubt today.
Taegliche Rundschau, the official! nowspaper of the Soviet military administration-in Germany, told its German readers in a black headline: "The Western Powers Destroy the Control Council".
The banner headlines given the stars in the Taegliche Rundschau, however, clearly imply that the Soviet Command considered
EXPLOSION
Six Jews Killed
CARS & BUILDINGS WRECKED
Haifa, Mar. 21.-The lives of at least 50 Jews were saved by a three-minute warning today when Arabs steered a lorry packed with explosives into the Jewish dockside district of Haifa. Six Jews were killed and 14 seriously injured by the explosion that followed.
·
The blast set on fire and destroyed 16 parked cars and lorries, wrecked a 100-metre stretch of road, fired two warehouses and damaged a dozen
buildings.
Two Arabs dressed in European clothes, drove the bomb-lorry towards a Haganah roadblock at the strect corner and then jumped out. Some eyewitnesses said the lorry then careered down the street towards the roadblock and crashed into a Jewish lorry in a car park among the warehouses.
The Haganah guards, on seeing Reports coming in from Northern the men jump out, yelled a warning Palestine caid that 10 Arabs and and hundreds of Jews thronging the Ave Jews were killed in a clash In district, the busiest In Halfa, fled the Rosh Pina
afler Safad pren into
side-streets and
alleys
Arabs attacked Jewish-motor traffic. Three minutes after the warning,
SNIPERS SILENCED the lorry exploded with a shattering rour, creating an inferno in the car pack, where petrol tanks exploded and two buildings were left in flames.
It was estimated. that about a score of people were injured by the the blast and flying debris.
Council to have ceased functioning, Parts of the lorry were blown to
British
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British
Neues Deutschland, newspaper of the top of the Socialist Unity Party, published and debris fell on ships in Haifa a four-storey buildings, the some Soviet news agency account Harbour. of the meeting under the headlines:
and paratroops the Western Powers want to wreek police immediately cordoned off the
Control Council"
began while the British Army fire blasted dock prea and rescue work brigade fought the flames,
British and Jewish ambulances rushed the casualties to tiospital.
The two men who leaped out of the bomb-lorry escaped.
Other Soviet eensed newspapers carry only very brief accounts under "neutral" headlines.-Reuter.
Treuliche · Rundschau said that rince the British and Americans had
HANGING IN BALANCE refused to report on the London Conferences, Marshal Sokolovsky,
Berlin, Mar. 21-The future of the "who saw there was no more pur- Allied Control. Council-the highest meeting, declared yr organ of the four-power Government pore in the terday's meeting at on
the Soviet
Only report said a British police
tried to board the lorry attempt to hult, it but felinda
Reuter.
• British two pounder guns silenced a Jewish snipers' post on the Jaffa Tel-Aviv border. An official report said the post attacked a patrolling police armoured car.
Soldiers shot and killed an Arab looting military stores at the Tel- Litvinsky camp.
Yarmouk Army demolition squads, blasted two more bridges on the Afullch Jemin road.
vehicles were completely destroyed It was omelatly announced that 31
bour Street and six damaged in the Halfa Har
explosion.--Associated
Press.
CONSTABLES ON TRIAL Jerusalem, Mar. 21.-Three Bri- tish constables will appear before a military court on board a ship in Haifa counts, including discharging fire
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arms, absenteeism and theft of an armoured car.
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Expecting 22nd Child
Mrs Maud Ethel Pope, 38 year-old. Atlanta mother who says she is mighty tickled to be expecting her 22nd “young 'Un" is shown (left to right) with Betty Jean (11), Mary - Louise (1), and Philip Odel (2), three of her, nine living children. A bride at 11, Mrs Pope has recorded the names of 17 boys and four girls in the worn family Bible. -AP Wirephoto
Saving Water
Now, Means More Water
Later
ELECTION OF
DR YEN
CHALLENGED
Trieste Flies Italian Flags
+1.
Communists Silent
Trieste, Mar. 21. Trieste flew thousands of Italian fings on Sunday to hail the western powers' declaration that the city must be returned to Italy..
Thousands of residents crowded into public squares after Palm Sub- day Services, eagerly discussing the
news.
Shanghal, Mar. 22-Dr W. W. Yen, Chino's Internationally But there were no public demon- known veteran diplomat, will astrallon or disorders. pear before the High Court here
Communists here were allent, this morning when hearings be apparently awaiting their cue from sin on charges made by two com higher up as to the line they should plainants that Dr_Yen's election
take on this issue that France,
the
States Britain
United and them on Saturday.
to the Legislative Yuan should be Invalidated owing to Irregularities.
In a subsidiary headline, it added: composing eight | "The Control Council for all practical government divisions has been des- purposes exists no longer as troyed in the Manchurian winter organ of the highest power in Ger-
many". (The broadenst predicted early capture of all Manchuria, which it said
the strategie would "become general base for supporting the war throughout the country.")
The government ordered special precautions against Communist in Altration and sabotage in Nanking,
of Germany--was It Was Marukudi Sokolovsky's den er tony--was banging in the which it feared might be tied to coincide with the National Assemblyclaration that "this meeting" was of Marshal Sokolovsky,
BRITISH OFFICER KILLED March 20-Associated adjourned which led Allied quarters Commander, in abruptly adjourning
Jerusalem, Mar. 21—A British yesterday to take the line that the and quitting a meeting of the Counci "MILITARY AID ISSUE
officer and five Arabs were killed Soviet walkout had applied only to last night.
Tuesday, when the Council's when the military engaged Arabs near Liberation Army," Washington, Mar. 21.-The ques- a single session and not to the con-
Co-ordinating Commitice, consisting Belt Nabala in the Lydda District tion of military aid for China comes tinuing functioning of the Counell.
coastal plain
It was-learned authoritatively to- on Sunday night that two British constables are to vital testing point on Monday.
Whether significantly or not, the of the Military Governors' deputies, of the The Senate Foreign Relations | oMeial
text of Marshal is due to meet, should bring the first official sources stated. The Arabs Russian
had the indication whether or not the Russian makes
attacked a Jewish convoy in the now under elose arrest here facing Committee tackles the problem of Sokolovsky's statement
area carlier on Sunday, the police charges of attempting to sell arms how China can best be helped at this same specific reference to the Mar-walkout is final.
A British spokesman said to announced.
to the Arabs.Reuter. time.
declared yesterday's shul having
night: "All we can do is to wait Five saloon cars had been stolen ARAB LEAGUE DECISION (Continued on Page 4)
meeting at an end."
and see. If the Soviet representa- from the Iraq Petroleum Company Heyrouth. Mar. 21.-The Arab tive appears at Tuesday's meeting, † omces in Vine street, Hallo by League's Political Committee of headed the list of successful candi for 11 band concert by the Venezia it will show the Russians have not Armed Arabs.
Foreign Ministers ended their meet- dates in the local elections for the Ciulla civil police band given. in abandoned the four-power control An official report from Haifa Ings here today and decided to con- | Iegislature Just month. recolving minchinery"
stated that
a sack containing tentinue to oppose any attempts to more than 140,000 out of a total of Piazza Unita in front of the man- sion reserved for the unchosen Berlin newspapers today quoted pounds of ammonal and a pull Impose partition of Palestine. The 1.250,000 votes cast in the whole
six months old General Lucius D. Ciny, the Unlied igniter had been found by the police meeting also decided to recognise city,,
"free territory." States Military Governor, as saying: outside an Arab owned Hotel. The Iman Ahmed as the ruler of the IMPOSSIBLE PHENOMENON" They gathered in the shadow of "If Marshal Sokolovsky does
Yemen. not military detonated the explosives.
Ono Arab o meeting of the Allied
was killed and one A Communique issued by the summon
The two complainants in the suit, the U.S. Cruiser Dayton, visiting here Control Council on March 30; as he
wounded when Jews blew up two League said, "Arabs oppose parti-Mr Kung Ho and Miss Hu Chun-feng, for the last few days.
ONLY ONE INCIDENT - would normally do, then I'
part tion although they are ready to co-claim that the total of 1,250,000 votes shall unoccupied houses in another
cast represented '00 percent of the Meanwhile up the main thorough- of Haifa.
(Continued on Page 4) call a meeting on April 10,"
electorate in elty, a phenomenon fare Corso Lega Nazionale hundreds BERLIN EXCITEMENT
Impossible
country where of small Italian tri-colour cards Under the scheme by which the
popular elections are an innovation. were scattered. They bore the single chairmanship of the Council is hold
They also claim that the great word "Istria," Istria is the peninsula General Clay In monthly rotation,
number of votes received by Dr Yen lying zoutheast of Trieste which the will take over the chairmanship
reflected "false representation Italian peace treaty gave to Yugo- from Marshall Sokolovsky in April.
pointing out that the veteran slovin. Excitement was rising in Berlin
statesman never launched any elec
Up to mid afternoon police had the Germans, already in a state
onc Incident. A reported only of tension from the sporadle war
newspaper vendor selling an extra of nerves which has been carried on
edition announcing the tri-power In Beriln for months, speculated the
declaration. was beaten on Saturday. meaning of the Intest Soviet move.
night by four unidentified, men and None of
the Western licensed
had to be sent to the hospital. No commented on yester- newspapers
arrests were made. day's events.
EDITORIAL
Budget Reflections
WHILE It comes as no surprise,
the
ALE
the $30,000,000 surplus for the 1917-48 financial year, announced by the Financial Secretary Inst week, is no less welcome, and can be taken to represent the reward for unremitting effort by whole Colony to effect the econo mio rehabilitation of Hongkong. Mr Follows in inclined to describe the year's financial working "fortuitous." yet there were algris lacking 12 months ago of a potential boom year, Impossible trading conditions in Shanghai Inevitably had to bring Hongkong Into world more prominently focus
the only practical In the Far East; entrepot port
hungry local market moreover exlated which had to be satisfied. Oficially the 1947-48 revenue of
$150,000,000 approximately reckoned to be peak figure based on the present scale
the Financial taxation, providing the
with another opportund- Secretary ty for typically conservative esti- mates for the current financial
year,
of
plas broad hint that in 1949-50 wo can expect higher rates of taxation, possibly allled
with expenditure culs. That
prospect, naturally is not paril- cularly palatable, but, as bolts His Excellency
Mr and.
Follows
pointed out, unless there can be a wider margin between revenue and recurrent expenditure, permit
ting the building up of substantia!
龉 reserves, wit be
be impossible to
carry out many of the necessary developments to which the Colony directs Its eyes. To most tax. payers the most pertinent feature of the Estimates is the expend!=
ture
now
and
rehabilitatian on proposed
The and development schemes. plan calls for additional schools, a bigger and better fishing fleet, modernised police reclamation stations. Important works, new markets and road fm- provements. All of these, DI pf will contribute
the the general welfare of
course.
only
nity
of the even though Nevertheless, the public may feel that much of this expenditure is adding to the cost of Govern- ment and that is benefits will be somewhat intangible. It is diff cult to avoid disappointment that neliber the immediate development plans, nor any stated long-term polley provide
any under- for the taking designed
For
'benent of the cc and S
now
eyeing the estimated expenditure of $148,000,000 the public may quite fairly be critical of the fact that it makes no allowance for an amenity. such as
pabile gardens, nor la any specifle men- tlon made of developing adequate and properly appointed children's The Importance of playgroundy, the pubile works which it is pro- the current posed to undertake in Year 惠 fully appreciated, bat there might have been a keener degree of satisfaction near future plans had Included a civio development
expressly designed for the exclužive benefit of the community-something whose as- sets could have been shared by all. Apart from this, Mr Follows" budget speech and the Governor's review of the past year and polley for the future disarms criticism.
In many respects it is one of the best budgets ever presented to the Colony.
£3
Some German political observers here belleve that the events of the
to use
Another Important Atomic
Nuclear Discovery
London, Mar. 21.-British atomic scientists, examin- ing rival claims here and in the United States, today pressed the view that British scientists had discovered the "meson particle", the "glue" which holds together the atomic nucleus whose disruption produces the atom bomb's violent relense of energy.
The retired diplomat, who is 71. The of Testing turned out
tucts
In
he
tioneering campaign, made no stat ments, nor solicited voles publicly in
any manner.
The High Court is asked to declare Dr Yen's election null and vold.
Dr Yen la understood to have re- futed the charges on all points. He is expected to submit a written reply to the Court this morning-Reuter.
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Rice
Shanghai Crisis Worsens
governor
men:
the
The man in the street saw in the
an assurance of big, They described the discovery as Dr Rochester, one of the British
declaration he and Dr
-power backing to keep Trieste from. past week, with the setting up of "the greatest thing in atomic energy claimants, said that
Butler had made a 12-months In-
falling into the Soviet orbit. The the Communist sponsored People's since the discovery of uranium"
proprietor of one bar expressed the are vestigation into the distinction Contenders for
nature of the Council, and Marshal Sokolovsky's
sentiments of many other business and Dr C. C. penetrating particles occurring in
i brusque dismissal of the Control Dr. G. D. Rochester
physics Butler, lecturers .fn
nt cosmic ray showers. Council, mark the beginning of an Manchester University, and 23-year
"We would like to see the status intensifed Soviet compaign
"The discovery of the meson
quo maintained, he said. old Dr Cesaro M. D. Lattes, a Brazi- German Nationalist feeling to linn scientist.
<BIG RELIEF SUPPLIES particle came about as the result furthet Soviet policies.
The British pair stated in a lecture of taking photographs of commle roye
He and others said they felt the The reaction
Shanghal, Mar, 22-The rico crisis the average of
assistance the territory In Shanghai has been aggravated in economic Berliner to the news of the Council on January 15 that they had dis-in a cloud chamber", he said:
.covered the meson particle, Dr
Professor PM. B. Blackelt,, une the past 24 hours when the price was getting from Britain and tho clash was to shrug his shoulders a Lattes claims to have made his dls of Britain's best-known physicists of the best grade rice touched a United States was probably greater little more nervously than usual and covery on February 21. It was an- commented: "These young men cer- new, record of CN54,800,000 per picul than Italy could afford to give. 10 say: "It look bad-but, we
made a very important dis of 170 lbs...
Zone "A" of the free territory Germans cannot do anything about nounced by the United States Atomie tainly It."--Reuter.
Energy Commission last week and is covery, which was undoubtedly the
Nice merchants blamed the rise on which includes the city proper, recognised in the United States.
the greatly increased quotations at administered Jointly by Groat FRONTIER CONTROL
Whichever
A for claimant is eventually.
the Atomic the producing districts and on the Britain and the United States and Berlin, Mar. 21. The Soviet accrediting, with the discovery.: it is Scientists Association sald today: "It greater outlay involved in trans- the annual bill for the relief suppiles military authorities in Germany indisputable that the basle research is too early to say just what purportation and "social entertainment." it alone pours into the area is $20,- have given instructions to tighten was done in Britain. for De Laites pose the meson will serve. Ong They asserted that farmers, al pre- 600,000. the frontier control along the border did most of his work at the Wills Dung is certain. The particle will sent, refuse to sell their stocks duo The food programme gives each 1,430 „catories of ra- Did scientists in securing a greater to prize fluctuations and that it re- Tricating about of the Zone, the French licenser Laboratory at With Professor C. F. understanding of atomic energy. It quired a lot of talk and entertain- tioned food daily for about and Berlin newspaper.
Kurler, collaboration with reported today,
f invaluable for research work. ment before they can be persuaded equivalent of seven shillings Detachments manning the frontier
The "rest of:: His photographs of the mezon "It has been suggested that it will to release some of their stocks.
pence per month. posts from the Baltic to the Fichelgo-particle were secured by techniques make possible. the release of for Government circles, as usual, at- the food needed can be bought in much higher brige, on the borders of Bavaria and developed by Professor Powell, It was greater atomic energy, but this - tributed the rise to manipulations by the free market at
(Continued on Pare 4)
stated in London:
mains to be seen"-Reuter.
interupulous merchants.-Reuter. prices-Associated Press.
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meson
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