THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, APRIL 26, 1948.
Big South China Development
Scheme Forecast
Nationalisation A Success
London, Apr. 25-Mr Emanuel Shinwall Secretary for War and former Minister of Fuel, told a meeting in the Easington mining area of Durham today that the na- tionalised coal Industry was "work- ing very well having regard to the unfavourable circumstances."
Mr Shinwall referred to a report— already published that the Govern ment was to authorise on Inquiry National of the into the working Coal Board,
nccepted "Parliament tionalisation and we are determined there will be no monkeying about with the administration of matjonali- sation by busybodies who would be far better employed
has
210-
suld.
ciency in private induoting effi
He had no doubt that there will be a House of Commons debate on the Coni National of activities
the
expect to Board,
cannot
figures
achieve
-
"We
the production
everybody desires unl there is qu efficient moneblnery established in the pits."-Reuter.
N-OTICE
THE HONGKONG AND
AND KOWLOON WHARF GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED
Notice To Shareholders
ADOPTION OF NEW ARTICLES
OF ASSOCIATION
TIED TO US. AID
PROGRAMME
Shanghai, Apr. 25.-The recent visit to South China of United States officials who joined with Chinese authorities in inspecting agricultural, electric power and harbour facilities, today was linked to reports that the Chinese government is- preparing a South China development programme of considerable magnitude.
Both military and economic, considerations are said to be involved, with the use of some of the funds appropriated by the United States Congress playing a major role. The Chinese and American governments will be joint administrators in setting -up the programme.
Hotel Guests To Be
Screened
who have
Japanese technicians remained in South China since VJ Day ns advisers in technical develop- ments, particularly on Hainan island, also will be employed, it is said.
A source close to the government here said the progamme will cover Kwangtung Kangs}, Fukien, Klangs and Huns provinces, as well as Hainan and Taiwan Island,
Organliations representing China Shanghai, Apr. 26.—Hotel
were listed as the Kwongtung pro- guests who have no regular vincial Government, the National employment and who cannot Resources Commissioner, the Nation- give good reasons for staying ai Economic Council, the Ministry of Water Conservation, the Ministry in hotels will be closely ques" of Agriculture and Forestry and the tioned and investigated by the Ministry of Economic Affairs. police in future, it is learned Coday.
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United
Students May Strike
Shanghat. Apr. 20-Fralstası Universliy students have threatened to stage a
Koperal strike today if the school's ad- ministration refuses to approve the convocation of a "school ro presentative ‹ meeting"”—an or- sonisation similar to the already banned self-governing student body, 11 was learned thi morning.
tlot this
At this proposed meeting, the students of various schools In the university would be ado- quately represented. Indica-
morning were that the Duiverally authorities would permit fic requested meeting. In order not to allow the situa tion to grow. Worse,
Meanwhile, boil the police and university chiefs are con- linuing Lo probe inla the students allegation that three mysterious men invaded and searched the
*chool premiacs Jast week-a cause of the pre- sent trouble in the Institution. Reuter.
PROKOFIEFF
IGNORES
China's Vice- Presidency Dilemma
National Assembly To Moot Today
Nanking, Apr. 26.—The Na- tional Assembly, which broke up in an uproar yesterday, will reminin in recess today while a delegation of the Assembly's Presidium attempts to persuade the three Vice-Presidential can- didates General Li Tsung-jen, Dr Sun Fo and General Cheng Chlch-to recall their with- drawals.
If the delegation's mission ends in success, a third ballot for the Vice-President
to- will be held morrow morning.
the
The delegation consists of following Ave persons-Dr Hu Shih,
MI63 Bishop Paul Yu-pin,
Tsenc Pao-tseng, Mr Chen Chi-tien
(Minister of Economic Affairs) and Mr Sun Ya-fu, of the Socialist Party.
Democrat
HIS CRITICS Commitee of the Kuomintang de-
Refuses To Renounce
Compositions
.to
Earlier, the Central Executive
cided at an emergency meeting name a six-man deputation to per- suade the three delegates to change their minds about not running.
News of General Li's sudden withdrawal
from tho Vice- Presidential elections resulted in Moscow, Apr. 25.-Prokofieff, much surprise and different inter- one of the leading Soviet com- pretations among various elements. posers, had still failed to reply
CLIQUE BLAMED THE PROGRAMME
to the Soviet Communist Party|
Observers who are familiar with This step is said to be in connec-
Funds for the projects ostensibly charges of "formalism" in his fion with the tightening up of the
would be provided through the sale music when the Soviet Com- Chinese polities blamed the trouble on a certain clique within the "rebel suppression movement" and
of commodities to be sent to China posers Congress, at which many Kuomintang. ferretting cul of undesirable ele-
under the commodity
funds pro composers have admitted tho Notice is hereby given that-onents in Shanghai.
Civic leaders, who refused to visions of the $483,000,000 An investigation of Buddhist and Extraordinary General Meeting of
were quoted by Shanghai's China operational methods and adminis- tinued its session today. trative procedures for
"Formalis!" composers were TC- Press as expressing fear that if will be held at the Office of temporary abode
currency, were outlined in the letter Committee of the Communist Party the capital as a result of his dis-
"influenced being
by the satisfaction of intent submitted to the Chinese
with the obstructing modernistic bourgeois Inusic government at Washington.
pressure alleged to have been Dritain and America.”
brought to bear upon his supporters, The main points of the proi
Dmitri Shostakovitch, another the whole Chinese politient situation gramme Include:
well-known composer, admitted that will go from bad to the 1. Building_up
worse. ht ports
he had followed the wrong road and
A Chinese newspaper editor was Whampoa In Kwongtung, Tsaoying declared that Soviet
musicians in Taiwan, and Holhow in Hainan,"must fight with
quoted by the China Press as laking all our strength delight in repeating the words at- as top-flight naval bases and train against the influence of Police information indicated dating centres for the Navy, Army and
modern tributed. to the veteran outspoken' foreign music." most of the hotel guests use Actitious | Air forces. The American Ad- Dames for registration and that visory Group. In China would play
no election, it their true identification has been difficult to azertain.
a major role in this development,
nothing. I say let's all go home." It is also
working with the Generalissimo's nileged that many of these hotel
feld headquarters at Canton, and Bre engaged jn
Force illegal high Novy, Anny and Air firsts activities.
personnel. The police also intimated that a census will
carried out
the Members of this Company Taoist monks, who usually take up States aid programme. Some, of the truth of party criticism, con-authorise publication of their names, Messra, Jardine, Matheson & Co. Monasteries while passing through expending the proceeds In Chinese cently denounced by the Central General Li Tsung-Jen walks out of
Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong. on Wednesday, 28th April, 1918, at 12.15 p.m., or at such time as the Ordinary Annual Meeting of Mumbers to be held at the same place at Noon shall terminate, for the purpose of considering and, if thought fit, passing the following Special Resolution:----
That the New Articles of Association produced to the Meeting, and for the purpose of Identification subscribed by David Fortune Landale, Chair- man of the Company and of the the Meeting, be adopted as Articles of Association of the for substitution Company In and to the exclusion of all
į
In temples and
the city will also be instituted.
POLICE REGISTRATION
is understood that hotel guests will be requested to register with will be police booths, which established at various street corners throughout the city, if they intend to stay in a hotel for more than month.
One
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existing Articles of Association The Future Of
of the Company."
and
M
raising and
of
re-
for
He promised to seek the way to Kun leader, Mr Wu Tsu-hul:
a realistic, popular art.
workers v. Seont, Governor Kwanging Province, is believed to given by the Central Committee.
or
A Government official, who re- "Guiding CRITICISM"
turned to Shanghal from Nanking Shostakovitch, who was one of during the week-end, asserted that the composers accused of displaying since the elimination of Mr Yu Yu- "bourgeois and formalist influences Jen, President of the Control Yuun, 2. The tapping of mineral at Shanghai's 100 temples and sources, the establishment of small in lis rousie by the Central Com- front the second ballot, there ins the been some uncasiness among certain plants for national defence. de-mittee, admitted the justice of the monks will be issued resident cer- lineates A'S ordinary residents.velopment of Ashery and agricul- criticism. The divorce from their Kuomintang members.
The official, however, did not be- ture, Increase in sugar production national traditions could have led Reuter.
of our composers-the | lleve that General Li'a Budden exlt the establishment
∙tool to certain
formalists-Into a blind alley had it from the election was the result of not been for the timely warning friction between tre Kwangtung and Kwangsi groups. He attributed have devised the original aspects of
he said.
it to a group of narrow-minded and the plan, having presented them to
"Having now studied it thorough- self-seeking elements of the Party, Generalissimo
13. I may say that I am really grate- Kai-shek
He added that these same people Chiang when he visited the Generalissimo guiding criticism."
fui to the Communist Party for this have been responsible to a large
extent at Kuling this past winter, Sydney, Apr: 25-Commenting on The South China-and-Hainan tour General of the Organising Com
for the present trouble in Mikhon Khrennikov, Secretory- China-Reuter-AAP.. nationalisation of banks in by United States Ambassador
Omittee, reviewing the Australia,
Conference Mr Reginald Pollard, Leighton Stuart, Maj-General
speeches, said the silence of Pro- Minister Ot Commerce, said at a David G. Barr, chief of the AAG, BUS
kofler and Nikolai Myagkovsky Labour Day dinner at Baliara! last { in company with
Mr Soong and testified "that they continue to re- night: "We will go on and on unt!! others, is seen as closely connected move themselves from the collective eventually in Australia you will to the overall programme.-United and follow the Individuallstic have a great co-operative Common-Press.
charter of their conduct during the wealth.
past few years.”
A copy of the Proposed New! Articles can be inspected by any --Shareholder at the Ofices of the
Company during the usual office the hours.
By Order of the Board of
Directors,
C. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary, Hongkong. 5th April, 1948,
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED)
Nolice To Shareholders
Ordinary Annual Meetkig Notice is hereby given that the Annual Fifty-seventh Ordinary Meeting of the Members of the Company will be held at the
Australia
"Its wealth will be owned by the people and will be operated in socialistic manner for our people as
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CHRISTIANS URGE
Photo
Australian banks became nation- WESTERN UNION
alised under an Act which received
ter Royal assent last November, but
in February trading banks and the
London, Apr. 25.-Over 0,000
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The letter of Vissarion Sheballs to the Congress and the statements |
by Muradell and Khatchaturian had
failed to satisfy the audience, -he
Bald
The Congress will continue tumor. row.--Reuter,
States of Victoria, South Australia Christians from various parts of the and Western Australia began a law world, including India, Africa and suit in the Australian High Court China, tonight launched a campaign
OUR NEW GOC under Western Union
the restrain The | to
Commonwealth for Government from proclaiming
д Christianity at the principles Ael,
meeting here.
London, Apr. 23-Major General Cornman- Sir Stafford Cripps, the Chancellor F. R. G. Matthews, now
After a 30-day hearing, judgment war reserved on April 15.-Reuter
Soviets Release
Barges
Berlin, Apr. 25.-Barges held up Elbo
since last Tuesday began to enter the British Zone today, it was announced. The barge officially skippers had been told by the Soviet
Office of Mesars. Jardine, Mathe-nt a Soviet checkpoint on the river Bon & Co., Ltd., Pedder Street, Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 28th -April, 1948, at Noon, to receive and consider the Report of the Board of Directors and State- mont of Accounts for the year ended 31st December, 1947, to elect Directors and to appoint Auditors:
authorities not to re-enter the Soviet Zone without first oblain- ing now documents, the announce- [ment said.
Reuter
of
of them was to mobilise a Christian, Sandhurst, England,
Exchequer, sald that the dant of the Royal Military Academy,
has been com-
meeting was social and economie drive to turn appointed General Officer in our future to the ways of peace, mand of Land Forces, Hongkong. harmony and happiness."
He succeeds Major General W.E.J. The meeting was organised by the Erskine, who has
appointed Inter-denominational Christian Ac-Director of the Territorial Army and
endels at the War Office.-Reuter, tion Movement-Reuter.
been
Plan To Drive Illiteracy
Out Of China
Shanghai. Apr. 25.-The Ministry of Education today Illiteracy is engaged in a long-range programme to drivą | out of China..
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Eight primary centres aro traffic into, or through, the Soviet Adults
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The French Military Government | Ministry's Research Commission Kunming. Schools are being Register of Members and Trans- today instituted a motor bus service which is charged with the organisa- ducted by the government for over for Books of the Company will be between Berlin and Brunswick after
districts, 60 per Alon of experimentation cancellation by closed from 15th April, 1948, to Thursday's
the co-ordinating their activities and children in 10 provinces and muni- couches, which also serves as a Haison agency calities, the report states.
Plans for supplementary adult 28th April, 1948, bolh days in Russians of two express
with the United Nations Educa
education have been submitted by clusive.
tional, Sci
Selentifle and Cultural or-
the Ministry to the Executive Yuan ganisation.
up to 40 years of age. The urban CN$800.000.000.000, equivalent
attention first, Birmingham, Apr. 20-Residents about US$1,100,000 for the first half areas will recolve of a Warwickshire nudist colony of 1948, to subsidise this educational with the work gradually spreading
to the rural areas. coriplained to the RAF that low work. The first cxperimental cen- flylig pilots were stealing a peck.
Accent will be placed on short- 111 being tres are
set up at Nanking,
term-courses. Elementary toxt
books They
the flyers were Chungking, Wasih and Feiping. swooping down on the camp swim- Reading and writing will be containing some basic words will be Printed and published by FREDERICK ming pool leaning niat and making accented in the major phases of the distributed throughout the country. PERCY FRANKLIN for and on behalf of gestures at the people below.
programme, with, some higher Some audio-visual equipment is South China Morning: Post Limited A senior RAF officer announced education to those qualified, but not being made available. The training at 1-3 Wyndham Street, Clly of that it will not happen again able to pay regular tuition in middle of personnel to conduct the classes Lafayette Nat'l Bank, 69 Lafayette Ave., Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong. Associated Press.
schools and colleges.
also is provided.-United Press.
Directors,
C. E TERRY, Manager and Secretary. Hongkong, 6th April, 1948.
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