British Widow Sues US Vice-Consul For Breach Of Promise
London, Apr. 26.—A pretty Englishwoman suing US Vice-Consul Ernest Griffin for breach of promise, denied in court today that she offered him premarital relations.
Grifin told the jury she did so in such bold terms that "I could not think what it was all about or what to do."
Mrs Imckin Price, 40-year-old widow of an RAF bomber pilot, con- tends Grimin ended their betrothal by mail last September 19, only day after telling her he was looking for a bridal apartment.
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Grin's lawyer asked her whether it was true that she went to the with him Vice-Consul's apartment last September 14, undressed,, got into bed naked and asked him to Join her.
that she only re- Price replied moved her dress and went to sleep "for
of hours" while couple t
Wrote lettera,"
shoetted me so I could not do any thing but remember them. It also struck me as being odd."
"She mentioned that it was not
quite time for tea and said to me.
'you know I have often thought I would not mind having an affair with you. but I never dreamed of marrying you'.
"She commented that life was odd And then rald, I am getting into bed-you are coming along with me.' I said to her, meida, don't be so
You can't be serious,"" absurd.
Grin sald that Price undressed Griffin "at down at his leg and and got into bed anyway "feeling unnoyed with me" and that he went into the sitting room and wrote some He said the renewed the letters. offer to spend the night with him on September 17,
"Did you also say that all Ameri-
with sleep
their eans liked to women before marrying them and did GrlMn reply Well, here is one who does not." the lawyer asked. Price denied it.
MAN'S VERSION
Grin, aged 39, followed her to this The
He gave wine box, secount of the September incident.
"We arrived t about 3 pter.
1 remember her exact words brentice! they
so deeply and struck C
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He was still in the witness box hen the court adjourned for the
GAY.
she Price testifled
spent 121 2000 on a trousseau In belief that Griffin would marry her he and became seriously ill when broke off the engagemetit.
more the
Grin told the Jury they had an agreement to call it off if we did
sulled to mal appear to be other."--Associated Press.
ench
1800 KOREANS
GAOLED
Kobe, Apr. 25.-The United States Military Police, tadiny. gooled 800 during the aftermath of Hoting by nearly 8,000 Koreans,
ADOPTION OF NEW ARTICLES | POISONS
OF ASSOCIATION
مر
American negro roldiers stepped Notice is hereby given that an in swiftly to quell the outbreaks in Extraordinary General Meeting of Kolm and Oraka over on eduration ue. This is the first time troops the Members of this Company will be held at the Office ofhave been called out in the two and
half year old occupation, Messrs. Jurine, Matheson & Co.,
The US. 8th Ariny headquarters
Ltd., Peddler Street, Hong Kong, saki that seven known Japanese on Wednesday, 28th April, 1948, Communists are among those or- at 12.15 p., or at ruch time a Frested.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1948.
PRESIDENT QUIRINO
QUIRINO
UN To Take Action To Protect
Jerusalem
Lake Success. Apr. 26.-The United Nations Assembly voted 46 to 0 today to take immediate action to protect Jerusalem. The ballot was taken in an emergency sitting of the Assembly.
The Assembly acted shortly after the Political Committee accepted the plan by 44 votes to 3.
In that committee Russia, the Ukraine and White Russia voled against the plan on the grounds that the Assembly itself should instituto the measures..
Russia abstained in the Assembly vote.
Concern for Jerusalem's people and relles deepened at Lake Success on the basis of despatches from Palestine reporting a posolbie major battle for the Holy Land
TACKLES BIG Political Committee
TASK
Manila, Apr. 26.-President Quirino will today begin to tackle in earnest the enormous and difficult problems facing him as Chief Executive of the Republic.
These Included:
(1) The maintenance of peacej.
trouble areas, and order in several notably in Central Luzon.
of the brondening (2) The Gaverisment base by cutting across party lies so that the best talent of the country may be utilised to help him plot the ship of State on un even keel"
(3) The appointment of a nical committee to govern the lative programme.
tech- legls-
not to
Disagreement developed in the over which United Nations organ should handle tice problem).
Brutal Nazi
Woman To
Hang
Hamburg, Apr. 26.—A Ger- man SS wardress, 28-year-old Ruth Closius was sentenced to death here today for sending over 3,000 Allied women to their death in a gas chamber at Ravensbrueck 'women's con-
M. Andrel Gromyko, Russia, op-centration camp.
The Issue to posed passing the
One of her assistants Margarethe Trusteeship Council saying that he Robe, 25, received a life sentence sembly sub-committee.
A third SS woman, Friede Moh- favoured turning it over to an As- on the same charges.
Faris El Khoury, lending Arabnare. 20, who is pregnant, fainted that on hearing her sentence of ton delegate, told the Committee
She had been he would necept the Jerusalero plan years imprisonment. only if it was not linked to parti- found guilty of fil-treating women internees but innocent of selecting tion.
victims for the gas chamber.-A3- rociated Press.
ASSEMBLY'S INSTRUCTIONS
It had been an all women trial. The live defendants (two were
quilted) were women. on
The Assembly after meeting for five minutes approved a French- Swedish request calling The Trusteeship Counell to prepare plans inmediately to safeguard the Holy Land and is inhabitants.
Women
Closius und Rabe, selected **
3.000
die estimated naked, crushed shoulder to shoulder with Inen In a gas chamber. The Assembly instructed the The scene of what the prosecution Trusteeship Council to prepare sult-called the bestial crucity of the able protective measures for Jerusa- three accused was the largest and lem in consultation with the British, most inhunen women's prison Jews and Arabs.
history.
It asked that the Council proposals be submitted to the Assembly "with (4) Slowing down the pace of the shortest possible time." the projected industrial-programme- of the Republic in order
Mr Francis Sayre, United States, wrench the country away from its President of the Trusteeship Council, bazle agricultural economy,--Reuter. ] said the Counell
Tuesday morning.
After a brief plenary session the debate on Palestine was resumed in the Political Committee,--As- soclated Press.
MURDER CONVICTION
UPHELD
conviction
of
would meet on
FRANCE ACTS
proposal is
Jews and Arabs as well as a nun ship ber of delegates.
in
All the witnesses, except one, at the trial were women, some of the few who survived. Associated Press.
No Law To Ban
Colour Bár
London, Apr. 20. Sir Frank. Soskice, who, as Solicitor General, is one of the Government's legal experts, told
A questioner in the House of Commons today that legislation was "not necessarlly the with discrimination
enses
Lake Success, Apr. 26.-France is reported sponsoring the creation of n heavily armed volunteer United Hintlons elite police copre to safe most effective way" to deal
The
alleged of against coloured people,
A Labour Member of Parliament. asked Sorensen, Reginald whether; in view of the many in- stances of coloured-people being of fints and refused the tenoncy houses in London, he would make on the basis of colour or refusals race illegal.
the Ordinary Annual Meeting of
Intelligence officers sald the dis- London, Apr. 26-A high guard Jerusalem. Members to be held at the same turbances were Communist-inspired court of appeal today upheld the sad to have tentative approval of place at Noon shall terminate, and a guoled Korean leader to the murder for the purpose of considering | Associated Press that Japanese Cum-steward James Camb for the and, if thought fit, panding the munists took part in the riots, following Special Resolution:---
"That the New Article uf Lo the Association produced Meeting, and for the purpose of; identification subscribed by David Fortune Landale, Chair- man of the Company and of the Meeling, he adopted
只
the i
At least 38 Korúan and Japanese were injured-Associated Press.
FREEDOM FÖR SABOTEURS
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Articles of Association of the Company in substitution for
Washington, Apr. 20.-Two con and to the exclusion of victal-Nazi-saboteurs who landed existing Articles of Association from submarines on the East Const of the Company."
of the United States in June, 1942, have been freed from prison and allowed to return to Germany.
A copy of the Proposed New Articles can be inspected by any Shareholder at the. Oflees of the Company during the usual office
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
Notice To Shareholders
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 Offea of Messrs. Jardine, Mathe- son & Co., Ltd., Poddar Street,
Mr
high sens death of London The 500 to 800 man force_ns suggested by France might Include actress Elleen Gay Gibson.
at least 100 New York police volun- Lord Goddard, Lord Chief Justice, teers, but no Russians if the Western snid that the unexplained dis-powers could exclude them.
of the girl's black appearance
Others could be drawn from Lan-
Soying he strongly deprecated pyjamas weighed heavily "against don bobbles, British Palestine forces, such racial discrimination, Sir Frank the defence.
French mobile guards, and trained added: "I will gladly consider your Camb-claimed-that-the-21-year police_from_other countries_around
suggestion. But I fear that there difficulty in may be considerable old giri died of natural causes after the globe. a willing love tryst with him in her
policemen have achieving by legislation the pre- Fifty Palestine cabin. He said she was clad only notifed the United Nations they vention of this very deplorable be- her body through n port hole of the in a dressing gown when he pushed would join such a force.
Observers speculated that any 1mes Durban Castle into shark in Russian volunteers might be kept last off the proposed force through a fested waters off West Africa
screening process that would weed October 18.
out undesirables on-a-basis of in- The United dividual qualifications, States and other nations have been reported anxious to keep Russian troops out of any International force Bent to Palestine.
Goddard said that if the pyjamas when it were on the girls body The men, Ernest Burger and went overboard it was an Indigation were among eight that Camb's story of the love scene George Dasch, then rounded up as saboteurs after was not true. being put nahore with instructions to eripple war industries. Six were executed.
President Roosevelt cut the death sentences on Berger and Dasch to imprisonment because they gave 011 detalls of the information conspiracy, Reuter, -
URGES RATIFICATION OF CHINA TREATY
The 31-year old Glasgow sailor was convicted and sentenced to hang on March 22.-Associated Press,
Wheat Agreement May Be Rejected
the
PROBABLE EQUIPMENT, The UN police would be equipped with tanks, armoured cars and the Inbost small ams for their task under the French plan,
The proposal was said to be ready for action by the UN Trusteeship Council on Tuesday morning.
The cond Special UN Assembly Washington, Apr. 20.-The United on Palestine formally directed the
Trusteeship Council today to consi ¡States may reject
five-year wheat agreement concluded by the der promptly what can be done to 30 nations here last month, safeguard the Holy Place of Jerusn-
Iem. observers here cald today.
The
to
Washington, Apr. 28.--The State
As the Assembly stepped up its the Palestine problem, Department today urged Senate
The agreement will EO
the pace on ratification of the commercial treaty
appeared to battle for Jerusalem With China negotinted in 1946 and Senate Foreign Relations Commilico reports from Palestine sald a major
this week for ratification. approved by China.
agreement fixed the be shaping up,
Delegate nfier delegate warned maximum and minimum prices for
Uniled that the Assembly must act to save all wheat exported by the
Jerusalem at lea
least. States, Canada and Australia.
noted with Assembly delegates interest reports from London that consider helping police Palestine for the UN until and Arabs agree to stop fighting-Associated Press,
The treaty deals with commerce andl
It navigation.
contains no tariff schedules. It would supersede a number of treaties but it would not infringe on the 1943 agreement for the relinquishment of territorial rights In China-Reuter,
Critics here contend that The agreement is unrealistic because of the fluctuating condition of wheat Britain will not extra-
and because neither Argentina nor Russia, two major exporters, are Jews parties to it.-Reuter.
LANA MARRIES A
MILLIONAIRE ·
Hong Kong, on Wednesday, 28th Hollywood, Apr. 20.-Blonde nim April, 1948, at Noon, to recolva actress Lana Turner was married to and consider, the Report of the millionaire Henry J. (Bob) Topping Board of Directors and State-today as crowds milled about the house where the sumptous screen ment of Accounts for the year colony wedding took place-Asso- ended 31st December, 1947, to ciated Press. elect Directors and to appoint Auditors..
Closing of Transfer Books Notice is also given that the Register of Members and Trana for Books of the Company will be closed. from 15th April, 1948, to 28th April, 1948, both days in- clusive.
By Order of the Board of
Directors, C. E. TERRY, Manager and Secretary.. Hongkong, 6th April, 1948.
Thought Ashes Were
Coffee Powder
haviour,"Reuter.
OBITUARY
Carlow, Eire. Apr. 26, The Right. Reverend Monsignor Henry Beachamp, principal Catholle, chap- lain and vicar-general of the Royal
died Air Force.
nt at his home Carlow today after a brief illness.
He was and had been a chap- lain to the forces for 32 years.— Associated Press,
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Chiang Makes An Appeal RIPLEY'S COMING
To Li Tsung-Jen
Nanking, Apr. 26,-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to. night personally urged the disgruntled General Li Tsung- ion to get back into the muddled race for China's Vice Presidency, and Li's supporters later said he might comply. The two conferred at length shortly after Li had told a dinner meeting of his supporters, "I am through and heart- broken."
Amid mutual recriminations and Berlin, Apr. 20.-A Berlin house-charges of political sharpshooting, other two candidates, wife teled to make coffee with the Li and the powder she found in an unlabelled Sun Fo und General Cheng Chien,
withdrew their candidacica tip in a food parcel from America.
Sunday.
It was not n success. Today, she received a letter from her sister, telling her the tin contained hor grandmother's nahes.
"Sho always wanted to be buried on German soll," the letter added- Reuter.
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Chiang Immediately put pressure on. many National Assemblymen а
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