Nationalists Rushing Troops To Chengchow Area
Shanghai, Apr. 9-Two Nationalist armies-- the New Fifth and Eighteenth-are rushing to the Chengchow area in the opening phases of a planned new Nationalist offensive to halt the Red onrush to Central China.
Kal-ahek Generalissimo Chiang Confirming an earlier announcement, Bald Urat Central China would be given top priority. in the summer's The Generalissimo battle plans. Get July as the date for the offen- nive to reach top strength but the Reds were reported to have already offensive of opened a smashing their own on the Loyang aren after capturing that city.
"The Communists were said to be westward and moving eastward,
and Gouthward to Honan, Jehol Chaber provinces. The Ileds were to be driving eastward reported
Loyang
along the Lunghat
from
railroad.
The seriousness of the Welhalen situation was revealed by a Pacifica- tion Headquarters spokesman, who that fighting f now on the sold outskirts despite the advancing Na- sold: Uonalist reinforcement, He the Red control of the northern tip would facilitate the establishment of
Communist basca in Central Shan- lung, permitting the consolidation of! scattered units, which are in the mountains north of Taingino.
The Communist Ninth, New Fifth and Thirteenth columns were sald to be engaging with the Nationalists in band-to-hand fighting in a cherry are four miles east of Weihsien, Changlo was said to be, encircled sides and the Harrison maintained their positions Are.-United
westward on three Taits moving
into Jehol from southern Manchuria oops were said to be advancing on Pint-despite heavy enemy chuan, railroad centre 35 alles enst Press.
capital provincial
of the
Chengteh,
RED PRESSURE INCREASES
of
A Peiping dispatch said that nine
Communist divisions were pushing SIAM RICE
south from Manchuria
Pelping-Mukden rallway.
long the
The Red pressure in the northern FOR CHINA
tip of Shantung: peninsula increased the serlousness of the government position h Weihsien and Changlo. The Communists there were seeking
against push westward government 'post city of Chefoo.
to
NÓTICE
the
TITE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, APRIL
mutan
Ford's Food For Workers
Detroit, Michigan, Apr. 8. -Henry Ford II announced today a plan to provide addi-
1948,
PLIGHT OF SHANGHAI
CIVIL SERVANTS
tional food for nearly 24,000 67.8% Unable To Meet Their
Ford Motor Company em- ployees In Britain and Europa.
Ford, who recently re- turned from a tour of com.. pany properties abroad, sald he would send a food parcel to each of the 16,000 em- ployees of the Badenham England plant and 4,400 at Poissy France.
An undisclosed sum of money also will be set aside to purchase more food for 3,378 Ford employees in Cologne.-Associated Press.
Czech Plane Hijacked
Escape From Prague
Minimum Living Expenses
Shanghai, Apr. 8-According to statistics com- piled by the Shanghai City Government, 67.8 percent of Shanghai's 1,942 municipal employees do not earn enough money to meet current minimum living ex- penses. Of the group, the statistics show that 18.5 percent have been forced into debt to cope with their daily needs.
The figures were broken down into four financial classes of civil servants: the well-to-do class, the "can pass" class, the "income falls short of expenditure class" and the
.
NEW TOKYO
"those involved hi debt" class, Only TO BE LIKE
1.3 percent were among "well-to- do" group and only 30.7 percent of The nunicipal employees earned enough to get along.
At the same time these figures were published
NEW
YORK
in the Kuomintang Tokyo, Apr. 8.-The Metropo. supervised newspaper Shun Puolan City planning section in The Indepneden! Ta Kung Pao Tokyo is planning to establish probably the most respected news- paper in China-published a letter State of Tokyo on the lines of from a Slunghai inunicipal worker. New York State.
The letter pointed out that the employee earned $3,100,000 Chinese and dollars a month.
18 about US$5 at the present binckmarket
Munich, Apr. 8.-Charges of premeditated theft of a Czech airline transport planc illegal escape from Communist- dominated Czechoslovakia was rate levied today by one of the 25 of the plane that passengers landed in Munich two days ago, instead of Bratislava where it hended.
That
SUPPORTS PARENTS
age.
The area within a radius of 30 miles from the centre of Tokyo will be lia satelite city sphere, including a number of nearby towns.
The purpose of the satellite city idea is to keep the metropolitan population at its present level of about four million.
The plan also envisages the con- of tro! of random construction factories, in order to promote the development of industry outside the elty.. Cities within the sphere of
Bangkok, Apr. 8.-Purchase
lie said that he had no family of 30,000 tons of Siamese rice!
advanced -bath of them by the United States for China
but supported his mother and father The three of them, he wrote, live relief has been completed, it was announced by Quinton C.
Mrg Chidkovn Bozina, wife of in a straw hut on the outskirts of Although they cannot 10ld Trousdale, local representative Prague florist. the United Shanghal.
cultural elles benefitting the na- of the US Commodity Credit Press tonight that she had arrived afford it, he said, he buys one pound Tokyo State will be made "healthy,
of pork cach week as a concession tion's capital." Germany, against her Corporation, which purchases in Lamone,
of as a result will and
to the age of his parents. The rest and ships the rice.
designed plan of 19 of her fellow of the time they eat rice with a few passengers, including the crew, to vegetables. excape from Czechoslovakia into Germany and thence to England.
Almost 20,000 tons of rice acquired ns rellet supplies have already been shipped to China, Of the amount, 4.000 tons were
10 consigned Shanghai and the remainder to Canton.
The rice purchases are part of America's post-UNRRA rellef pro-
for
in which China,
medical supplles are moving Into China to give urgently needed re-
ef.
ADOPTION OF NEW ARTICLES | STAnime
OF ASSOCIATION
Notice is hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting of the. Members of this Company will be held at the Ofllee of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 28th April, 1918, at 12.16 p.m. or at such time na the Ordinary Annual Meeting of Members to be held at the same place at Noon shall terminate,
a pre-
he sald gives The government, him a ration of 85 pounds of rice a She said, "The plan was en-
month, 51 pounds of which he must hut. the straw rent for gineered from the very beginning. pay us
from Figuring that the average Individual Shortly after our departure Prague, the navigator pf the plane daily consumption of rice in China the was brought back out of the cock-is two and one half pounds-the basic figure on walch the Chinese and forced to sit in the rear at gun point. As far as I know Army figures its rations-a family of three should normally consume the original pilot of the plane con- tinued on navigating for himself to 225 pounds of rice a month.
$27.700.000 worth of food and pit
Rice purchases are under alloca- tion made for China by the Inter- national Emergency Food Council.
Meanwhile, it was announced that Stam's rice shipments for February. 1948-totalling
04,000 tons repre- sented the highest monthly shipment Trom the kingdom since December. 1940-United Press.
for the purpose of considering WAR CRIMINALS
and, if thought fit, passing the following Special Resolution:-
by
EXECUTED
Shanghai, Apr. 9-Two convicted
"That the New Articles of Association produced to the Japanese war criminals, known as the "Demons of Tsungming," were Meeting, and for the purpose of executed by firing sound yesterday. identificationsubscribed They were H. Oba, former chief of David Fortune Landale, Chair-te Janayese Gendarmes on Tsung
ming Island in the Yangise Delta. man of the Company and of the and K. Nakano, Special Service thechief. Meeting, be adopted as Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for and to the exclusion of all existing Articles of Associating of the Company."
A copy of the Proposed New Articles can be inspected by any Shareholder at the Omees of the Company during the usual office hours.
By Order of the Board of
Directork,
+
C. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary. Hongkong, 6th April, 1948.
NOTICE
to the text of the
Munich.
"We
boarded
the
plane for Bratislava at 4 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon on our way to Bratislava. I was on my way to purchase flowers and plants for my husband's shop in Prague.
later been
One hour and 45 minutes Just when we should have
at Bratislava Wo down curning landed and discovered that we were in Munich."United Press.
Vote On Death
Penalty
London, Apr. 6-The Government will vote hi Parliament -next week. five-year experimentul against n abolition of the death penalty in permit a fred Britain, but it will vote
can
act
ас-
According
Alo supporters ludgment, the two are said to have and of the House so that its rank
large number of
cording to the dictates of their con- massacred Chinese guerliins on the Island
sciences. during the war.-Reuter,
NOTICE
HONGKONG ANTI-TUBER-
CULOSIS ASSOCIATION
About 150 Members, most of them Labour, have put their names to un amendment to the Criminal Justice urging that during a period of Bill, Ave years, no person be sentenced to death for murder. Sentences Imprisonment for life would be sub- stituted. The
The
not
un
of
is Government alterably opposed to the abolition of the death penalty in Britain, but is understood to feel that, so soon after the war, when lawlessness is at a higher peak than normal,
it
Applications are invited for the would be an injudicious step, even
Preferonco if only experimental-Reuter. post of Secretary. wil be given to applicants with zocretarial and organizing experi ence. A knowledge of both Eng-
Motoring For
tish and Chinese is cangatial: Pleasure Again
Living
frugal existence, he pointed out, his salary still doesn't begin to pay for food, charcoal for heating and cooking, clothing or, even, postage stamps.United Press.
S'hai Magazines
Closed Down
and
im-
The lake
swamp zone
the metropolitan mediately outside area will be made a fish breeding centre and sightseeing district The Tone River-which overflowed after great damage in suburban Tokyo- typhoon last September cousing will become the centre of a leather Industry zone,
between To preserve a balance agrarian and urban development, the foot hills of Tokyo State, it is planned, will be turned into pastures, where sheep and goats and cattle for milk will be raised.-Reuter- AAP.
US$90 Million
For New Ships
8.-President Washington, Apr.' Truman will shortly ask Congress to double the appropriation for mer- chant shipping, raising it to $100 million, Mr John Sullivan, Secretary of the Navy, told the House of Re- Merchant Marine presentatives Committee today,
City 9.-The Shanghai. Apr. Government yesterday closed down three magazines-Kuo Hsin Weekly World Knowledge and Time and the Ta Literature-according to Kung Pao.
Of this sum, he plans to spend S00 mililon on new ships.
the United Asked how
the current Navy under
States tanker
These publications were ordered to be suspended in a directive ro-shortage justined recent transfers of ceived by the City Government from American tankers to foreign coun-
tries, Mr Sullivan said: "The trans the Minister of the interior.
fers were made on certain specifled The
reasons stated in the order terms and to countries from whom war." are that these publications recently we felt reasonably certain we could
which are re-get the tankers back in case of published orileles
He disclosed that of an American garded as "disadvantageous" to the Government and being pure pro- group of seven tankers still held by paganda for the Communists.
In the cases of the World Know ledge and Time and Literature, the that the order also pointed out former frequently r/blished articles attacking the United States in
friendly re- attempt to disturb lations between China and America, and the latter often criticised re- gional govemments-Reuter,
PENSIONS FOR EX-MP8
BILI
of
an
Russia on March 1, the four biggest had been returned and three others were now on their way-Reuter,
STASSEN WINS
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Apr. 8. Harold Stassen, Governor of Min- candidate nesota and Republican for the US. Presidency, was today sured of support from 19 of Wis- consin's 27
National Republican convention delegates.
returns from
Virtually complete
Wisconsin's primary elections
of
candidates for the presidential con- London, Apr. B.-The
to vention, held, on Tuesday, showed amend the
of Commons that General House
Douglas MacArthur Fund Members
Act
eight dolegates 1939, won the remaining published today, raises by £100 the to the convention and Thomas De- maximum annual amount which awey none.-Associated Press. past Member of the House may receive.
It provides that periodical pay- stating London, Apr. 8-British motorists
may not may again uso their cars for ment to a past Member pleasure driving after June 1-but exceed £260 yearly, or such sum bla income up to only for 30 miles a month, the Fuel as will bring Minister, Mr Hugh Gattskell, an-£323, whichever is the less. bounced in Parliament this after- The Bill brings the widowers of To-day !!! To-day!!!
2.30. 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m.
THE HONGKONG - AND
AND
Quarters will be provided if KOWLOON - WHARF GODOWN COMPANY, "LIMED | necessary. Applications
qualifications, experience and salary required, should be for- warded to the undersigned not later than 22nd April, 1948, ·
Notice To Shareholder
Ordinary Annual Meeting Notice is hereby given that the Fifty-seventh Ordinary Annual Meeting of the Members of the Company: will be held at the Ofice of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- Bon & Co. Ltd., Podder Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 28th April, 1948, at Noon, to receive and consider the Report of the Board of Directors and State- 'ment of Accounts for the year ended 31st December. 1947, to elect Directora and to appoint Auditors.
noon.
G011.
Parliament former Members of
of the Act, but: This decision,
an within the scope following
that no pay- Intensive campaign by motorists there is a provision
widower S. N. CHAU, since petrol for pleasure motoring ment shall be made to a
of Parliament withdrawn last autumn, will at an ex-Member Chairman. mean that tens of thousands of unless he is and was, before his curs will again take the wife's death, incapable, by reason of age or infirmity, of earning his renda this summer.
Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis
Association, China Building, 1st Floor, Hongkong.
NOTICE
HONGKONG & NHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LTD. Closing of Transfer Books
The Directors of the Hongkong Notice is also given that the & Whampoa Dock Company Ltd. Register of Members and Trans- yesterday declared a dividend for for Books of the Company will be the year ended 31st December, closed from 15th April, 1948, to 1947 of 70 cents per share loss 28th April, 1948, both daya In- clusive.
By Order of the Board of
Directors,
C. E. TERRY, -Manager-and Secretary Hongkong, 6th April, 1048,
tax.
PREMISES. WANTED
ENGLISITMAN; single, 34, quiet habite; }
was
lald-up
widower
All the petrol needed to restore living. the "basic" ration for pleasure The annual payment to motoring-it will be only one-third shall not exceed £150, or such sum of that issued before last Septem- an shall bring his income to £225, ber when motorists could drive whichever is the less their cars 270 miles
como
month-must Payments to widows
Mr.
of former
from that saved by the sup-Members will be from £150 to pression of the blackmarket, Gaitskeli sald.
The Government, he disclosed, has decided accept the main ro- commendations of the commission of Inquiry which last night proposed legislation to ban trom the roads for one year motorists caught using blackmarket petrol-Reuter.
Counter-Espionage
Stockholm, Apr. 8-The Swedish Minister of the Interior today asked the Swedish Parliament to double the funds for counter-espionage in view of recent events," a
The money involved, amounting in business, requires bed and breakfast to 3,000,000, kroners will be used Blate full particulare Box 115, Hongkong for strengthening the secret police,
it was learned-Reuter.
Telegraph. do
£225-Reuter,
ATTACK ON AIR RECORD
London, Apr. 8-The Do Hovll- Ind Aircraft and Engine Com panies announced today they pro- pose to bttack the 100-kilometres closed Chee
record, using à D circuit H-108 experimental aircraft with a Do Havilland Goblin jet engine, to be flown by Mr John Perry.
The entry
is made jointly with the Ministry of Supply for whom carch work with this aircraft la The attempt is being conducted. Likely to take place next week over a course in North Hertfordshire Reuter.
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