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VOL III NO. 176
WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1948.
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TIDAL WAVE STRIKES CHEUNG CHAU
50 Sampans Reported To Be Missing
KOWLOON-CANTON RAILWAY
BERLIN CRISIS
LINE
NEW ALLIED
MOVE
London, July 27-The three Western Allies were believed here tonight to have decided on a. new move to solve the Berlin crisis-a move involving direct approach to Gencralis- simo Stalin.
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Diplomatic observers in London thought the first step would be a joint request for an interview, to Foreign be made to the Russian Minister, M. Vyacheslav Molotov, through their ambassadors.
The British and American envoya to Moscow were both present at to-day's London meeting at which the next move was discussed.
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The island of Cheung Chau, about five miles south of the Colony, was yesterday struck by a tidal wave during the typhoon and first reports indicate that 50 sampans are missing, but the number of lives lost is as yet undetermined..
The Water Police this morning endeavoured to contact Cheung Chau, but up to the time of going to press, had received no details of the disaster.
It is reported, however, that the typhoon attacked Hong- Cheung Chau much more severely than it did
has been considerable kong and it is feared there damage caused as well as substantial loss of life.``.
Up to 10 o'clock this morning Latest reports from Cheung Chauf
year was 50.1 state that 58 craft of various types the total for the sampans and junks-were sunk, in- inches-well above normal,
the police motor launch This morning the Royal Observa- cluding which has broken up on the beach. tory reported that the typhoon had
Police state, however, that so far definitely passed the Colony. they have received no reports of loss centre of the storm was closest to and 6 p.m. Hongkong between of, life.
yesterday, when it was about 25
At Stanley Bay a junk was sunk.
The
Elght of the crew are missing, butj miles cast of the Colony showed
13 were saved, f
A junk also went on the rocks at Shekko, and two men are missing| from it.
The chart at that the centre of the typhoon was situated 36
wing a NNE of Hongkong,
at 8 knots, and at 3 a.m. Its force was about 50 mph. From midnight to 7 a.m. today The request to M. Molatov would Heavy rains accompanied yester be accompanied by n
written day's wind storm with the result the average wind velocity in Hong “agenda" for the meeting with that 00 feet of the Kowloon-Canton kong was 27 mph, and since then it Stalin, presumably
the railway line was washed out at the has fallen to between 15 and 20, along general lines of the note the British five mile point, and two landslides raph.
the line near Tripo
TRAINS STOPPED Foreign Minister, Mr Ernest Bevin, blacked Market. has been proposing should be sent. If the direct approach fails, the note itself might then be sent.
The idea of taking the dispute direct to the Soviet leader, already discussed in Washington, was je vived at the meeting between Mr. Bevin and United States diplomats in London yesterday.
the service resumed.
Between midnight Monday and 10 o'clock this morning-35 hours-no Less than 10.5 inches of rain fell, in
cluding 4.1 inches during 10 hours from midnight last night.
The.alm would be, to find a way, The heaviest downpour was be- out of the Berlin deadlock and then tween 8 and this morning when to widen the field of discussion to nearly on inch was registered. embrace all other German problems, Up to midnight Tuesday the total
Waves breaking over the harbour wall at the Vehicular Ferry wharf
day afternoon during the typhoon blow-Staff Photographer.
yester
AUSTRALIA'S AMAZING
TEST VICTORY
Leeds, July 27--Australia beat England by seven wickets in the fourth Test match of the season here today by their astonishing feat of scoring 404 runs for the loss of three wickets. They were set to do this in 345 minutes but actually had about 15 minutes to spare.
“As a result of this success, which gave them, their third win of the tories and with one match drawn, the final Test next month_will not be played to a finish.
It was difficult to decide whether the most striking feature was. Australia's per- formance or England's poor display. While England's best hope.may have been lost before the match started with the leaving out of their slow left-arm bowler Young, they might have won had they taken their chances today.
of the Aus-while two
European's Fight With Guerillas
ONE AGAINST 100
Singapore, July 27. — One hundred Chinese guerillas, armed with Sten and tommy guns, hand grenades and re- volvers, today seized and set fire to the Goery Building in the Temiang Renchong rubber estate, near Muar, in Johore. ....The....
European manager
BIX fought back, hurling grenades at the attackers, and" then slipped out the back way to call for help.
One estate special, constable was nearly burned allvo in a blazing building, two others' were seriously
left injured and the lerrorists trail of blood, showing that the
either side wers reported.
manager's grenades had found mark However, no
deaths
their on
Mal
Gene.C. 31. Bouchier, General Officer Commanding in Malays, reported a "lightly bettor situation in the peninsula when he spoke in a debate in the Legislative Assembly in Kuala Lumpur today.
"We are beginning to get results now, "he said, though he warned that until formidable tasks of organising and training the police Were com plete in the next few months, there would be a critical time..
Tha Communist Liberation Army," he declared, expected com- ploto mobilisation by September 1, but already its/betivity had do- efensed, particularly in the south **General Boucher
the assured Council it was impossible for the in- surgents to hold, "liberated arena" for more than a voty few days." Reuter.
GOVT. HOUSE ATTACKED Singaporo, July 27-The Straits intruders Times reported that two were fired on early today by guards at the home of Sir Alexander New-
the boult, Offeer Administering Government of Malaya.
The report said a police corporal
and finally perhaps all of the out- | rainfall for the year was 54 inches, not leave yesterday, and no train hohe Yardley and Laker drevnet (ought into the minds of down the pitch;-and-again-missed saw, two figúres attempting to scale
The 4.35 p.m. train to. Canton did
standing differences between East exceeding the average for the period ather local or to Canton are operal- and West.-Reuter.
by 3.1 inches.
EDITORIAL
Time For Conciliation
THE fruce accepted by both
stdes in Palestine on order of the United Nations' Securlly Council in as yet no more than a full in the fighting. It is uneasy and unstable. Both parties insist that I cannot last Indefinitely: that if there is no settlement there must be renewed war until the issue is decided, Tho Arab Government accepted under latense pressure and because ther would flout the Council's authority. Alie Jews of violation of its conditions--brought in munitions the truce, And certainly
They
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having - In
and
earlier
fighting men during
only
not
Incaclito forces, when Oghtlag
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resumed,
larger bonibers and heavier arillery
had
restlessness and
than before. There
will pressure both sides for denunciation
the new
bo
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of
truce. There may well be violations of it. The Israelite authorities have to or по control over Irgun
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or over the Slemn rangi there absolute illscipline in Arab ranks, The position is unstable. And yet the obances nettlement by consent (though not by agreement) are better than they have been. For enforcement of the truce upon the reluctant Arab States Impiles that the Council (or a
suicient majority of 16)). 3 Xxx
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prepared
to
solution upon ... 1 kem.
enforce
Д
and that
this, solution. “will include the establishment of a Jewish "Stato
In
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Palestinte...," "The Araba
was The
and
SHIPS AGROUND
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Bradman had a tremendous re- ception as he went to the wicket for probably his last appearance on a the mark and within a few minutes Yorkshire wicket. He was soon off runs wero flowing from his bat.
of
from the
Helicopter Hits Electric Cables
All railway traffic has been sus- As a result of a 00-foot washout pended and it may be two days of the line at the five mile point, and before the line can be cleared and two landslides at Taipo Market and
Gill's Cutting, north of Taipo Market, But the bowling, wicket-keeping biggest by the winning team was, of which sent up the 50 and then it is unlikely that there will be any and fielding was unworthy of un 203 for 9 by England in 1902. a chance was missed in Compton's
English team and Evans, behind the By batting for a few minutes, second over.. away truffle for two days.
The last train from Canton arrived stumps, had a particularly unhappy Yardley could call for the heavy at 5.15 yesterday afternoon, and be day as he missed two fairly easy roller which might have helped the
Morris missed with a gigantic hit cause the ferries had already stopped, stumping chances and one more dim-pitch to crumble or at least put and the bull went over the stumps balls later he jumped several hundred passengers had to cult one. spend the night squatting in the "rail-"|"
tralians.
a fence. The guarda-opened are, way compound.
and others might have been This was believed to be tactics in but Evans failed to gather cleanly but the intruders escaped.—United
for and Morris was back in his crcase Press. the minds of those responslolo Bradman and Morris virtually won the decision and it was known that by the time. Evans had removed a
REINFORCEMENTS the game during their second wicket Yardley had talked on tactics with ball.
London, July 27 The Earl stand of 301 in three hours and 35 a Test selector before the play was ing today.
Thila
disappointment was changed Listowell, speaking for the govern- In the New Territories the heavy minutes. Morris, missed when at 32 resumed,
to joy, however, which Compton tried ment, told the House of Commons rains caused widespread flooding and and again at 120 batted four hours
Yardley did call for the heavy his goodly and Hasselt caught in two today that the military forces in eight trees blew down between Meipo and: 50 minutes and hit all but 50 roller, but after an over each from minds played a half-hearted shot Malaya will bo strengthened by and Un Long, blocking the road of his runs by boundaries.
Brodman, who stayed four and Lindwall and Miller, during which forward. Compton, following up battalions from Hongkong. and
regiment However the Forestry Department
clearing them latera quarter hours, made 173 not out Laker scored a single and two leg-from his delivery, stretched full divisional succeeded in
declaration ongth on the ground and hold the Armoured Corps. He said that re-. yesterday.
when Nell Harvey made the win-byes were obtained a
catch with his left hand. The first Inforcements from Singapore have A tree was also blown down out-ning hit with a boundary. But he was made.
already arrived-United Press, side the Kowloon-Canton raliway should have been out three times, Bradman's reply to Yardley was wicket had fallen for 57.
Was removed this at 30, 50 and 100.
not to have the pitch rolled again. There were over 20,000 peoplo pre- MATCH OF RECORDS
sent when Hassett and Morris open- The match will go down in the for Austraila and the boundary record books for several reasons. Harbour reports show that there The aggregate of 1,723 runs was the bad to be shortened by a yard owing to the crowds' encroachment · yes-
Dartmouth, England, July 27-An damage. highest for any match in England, terday. comparatively little
The turf was taking the spin but Admiralty hellcopter crashed after steamer Haldis
blown beating the 1,001 at Lords for the was
tension SLOW START
some high England did not seem to possess the tangling to broadside on to the Yaumati break- | 1930 test; Australia's second innings
of cables here today, killing the pilot, bowlers to take full advantage There could be no question water and a small Panamanian
was the highest fourth innings in
this. Hutton went on with leg-seriously injuring the second naval Vessel រថ now hard aground on Cust any Test between England and Aus- Australia forcing the pace
breaks but three successive boun- omeer and disupting all electricity Rock in Hunghom Bay:
darics by Morris raised his score to over an hour. The British-India ship Sangola tralla in this country; Bradman's stort, their alm no doubt being to proceed carefully, until ' Onding broke away from buoy All, but she is record in four appearances at themselves safe from defeat, when 51 in 85 minutes. Bradman clouted Hutton for two more fours so that is reported to be undamaged.
could press on. they
Ten runs came from the first Ave Ave successive deliveries from Hut innings, including a century in all our Tests he has played there.
and Pollard and ton had yielded overs by Bedner
(Continued on Page 6) Bradman brought his first class as 16 minutes had then passed, the hundreds to 113 (29 in Tesis of which pace was obviously not yet 19 have beca against England); enough to give Australia a victory. Morris made his highest Test score The first crisis of the game
attendance against England; the
when Laker took over from. Bedser record for
any match
at ien, for on Laker's ability gures were a In England, while Neil Harvey, who turn the ball depended, most mado the winning hit after Brst England's hopea. innings maiden Test century, was Hia At 7.30 last' night a wooden and
one year old when Bradman scored stone building collapsed in Ngau Chi 334 on the same ground 18 years ago. cidents, first ball being a full 1059, Wan village, burying two women, Within five minutes of the gates which Hassett on-drove whose cless bodica were later being closed for the last day of thee took a single from the second extricated by fire brigade workers. fourth Test, a new record for Test and Morris hit the thied for four.
kept low and ce The fourth At midnight, part of the first floor matches in England had been
been Morris
to make of 90 Hollywood Road collapsed and established. The previous heat wajab, the afth turned sharply from a hasty defensive morning the wooden structure 133,740 who attended the third Test
good length and beat the bat House at Morque at Manchester a fortnight ago, while the sixth went through the demolished of a Junction fell away. No casualties | lo" last night 133,325 people had were reported in either case. " watched the first four days of this covers for four by Morris.
The heavy rain did much damage Test and the 416.required for the re-
and to electrical Installations, an cord were quickly passed through the the gates were electrical junction box on a wall inurnstiles when
opened. George Street was fused......
are
A motor barge, the Kwong Fat, was beached at Laichikok, without loss of life, and two junks sunk in the Yaumati typhoon shelter, but no lost. The junks were lives were holed by floating wood.
The Central fre brigade was called. cut four times during the TWO WOMEN KILLED
and tuspleion between the two communities, rive little hope
station for the future. There is no real solution without some
morning. measure of reconciliation. To think of such a possibility before even a truce is fully practised may seem absurd. Yet it is fundamental. And it is from this moment that all effort should be directed to reconciliation. Other than the bitterness of defeat, the chlef source of Arab bitterness at the moment to the fate of the .250,000 Arabs who have been driven or have fled through fear from Israelilo territory. Their suffer- ings have been neute, though they have had small publicity. Lilke all "displaced
регвова" they
economia heavy liability. A
swift And genuine offer to arrange for their return and reinstatement in homes and farmu and jobs would have good effect
as any gestion that their exile will make room for more Jowish 3m- disastrous. migrants would be Immigration, indeed, is still the crux of all the question, the real basis of Arab fears. They have first Jewish settlements, then a "National
Home,"
now m Jewish Slate in a land which only
30 years' BEO WAS (though under Turkish rule) unquestion-
It ably Arab.
they could be askured that this Betilement (whatever it may be) will really sct Anal Hits to the Jewish Would
acon
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Effect been told that they will not only a bridretends that Juleh
to
of
be allowed even to attempt
rothe soverthrow
"Republlo Istack" by force. 'That friatifation has to all intents and purposes 'been taken under the protection, of the Counell, Not merely. Is existance but even-ila - Immunity 'froni' any, threat ́ ́of attack - are stently guaranteed. That Beslice the old, only to rake a now, Palestine problem. An imposed./pešce, “Improvised 'frontiers, a disrupled " roGNDMY, displaced populations and bitter-
Invasion, then. the Arabs gradually accept: It, and become fear is il. What they' used to that the "Republic of Irael" fo olaims to all Palestino, to Trans- even beyond, Jordan, perhaps.
and will will be only dormant bo rav
ravived when an increzalur population in Israel wants now: 'febensraum. The root of it all: Is that the -Arübs aro afraid. And it is only "Uis wirest and most Imaginative statesmanship on the part of Israelite leader that can allay that"; fear, "They are coming to that supreme feat which' always, cotnes victors.
night.
this
Leeds in 803 runs in Ave.completed
a
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first ever was full
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Pollard had opened with maidens and the first half hour brought only 30 runs: Laker had no slip while a gap was left for the An hour before starting time against off-spin bowling, in the Australian favourite full-drives **'ELECTRICITY CUT OFF about 10,000 were In the ground
as hope that a mishit would produce a The New Territories plso suffered walling for Yardley's decision
batsman was but neither from the heavy blow. The fields to declaring or continuing England's were flooded although the highways accond innings. The weather, were clear for traffic.
Pollard gave way to Bedser after yesterday,
was ideal, A landslide occurred along the
overs, England declared at 305 for pight, six
four of which New Taipo Road, a now cutting leaving Australia to get 404 runs to maidens, while at the other cad, along the road to eliminate the many win in 343 minutes:: (Evans not Laker continued and once beat Mor dangerous curves and bends, but this, out, 47 and Laker not out. 15), ris with a ball which rose awk- does not affect the round-the-Terri Yardley torics motor trip as the old section and decided to continus Engwardly and went away! An appeal [by Laker for leg before was turned BIGGEST SCORE EVER down and after one hour's bailing, Inliabitants In Talpo suffered some History reveals that no side as Australia had scored only 49.
EVANS MISSES supplies wero.cut off for a period of Foyer obtained as many runs in the
Then Compton had a turn with several hours from about 10.30 p.n last things of an England Australia yesterday, while in Fanling the Teat in this country as Australia the ball and spin tactics were supplies were cut off since late yes needed. The highest was 935% by operating with the ball beginning to telday and has not been resumed Australia at Notingham 18 years spin occasionally. Morris hit the till now.
ago when England won, while the new bowler for two fours, the first
is still open. to motor traffic.
inconvenience when the electric
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