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VOL. HI NO. 210
Dies In Fire
Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang,
"Christian General," the who is reported to have perished in a fire on the Soviet ship Pobeda, which broke out between Batum and Moscow Marshal Feng, who defied Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, was ex- pelled from the Kuomintang
early this year.
“HAMLET” WINS
AWARD
Rome, Sept. 5.-Sir Laurence Olivier's "Hamlet" won the Inter- national Grand Prize at Venice film; show, it was announced today,
Jean Simmons who played Ophelia in Hamlet, was proclaimed by the jury the best actress and received another Prix International.
Prizo for the best actor Wad awarded to Ernest Deutsch for his acting in the Austrian flm "Der Prozess" (The Trial).
The International prize for the best director was awarded to George
Austrian Wilhelm Pabst,
pleture. producer, for the came Associated Press.
EDITORIAL
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1948.
Four Americans Reported Missing
Soviet Zone
In
RUSSIANS PLEAD IGNORANCE
Berlin, Sept. 5.-Four Americans have been missing for more than 12 hours in Germany's Russian Zone, the U.S. Military Police announced early to- day. MP officials asked the Soviet authorities whether the Americans had been arrested.
The four missing persons left Berlin in two automobiles at noon yester- day, driving down the blockaded highway toward Western Germany. Al latest reports, neither car had reached Helmstedt, where the highway crosses into the British Zone. Helmstedt is about two hours' drive from Berlin.
New Volcano
Threat
The Aral car was driven by'a¦ German representatives before the
according Mr F. Erdoes.
to the talks on Germany. ure kicked back Military Police, and the second by to Morrow..
Mr Sutton. There were two un- nuned passengers in Mr Sulton's All four apparently were civi-
Hons.
Ruslari ofbelals said they had no Information about the four. who Jonnila, Sept. 5-A new crater on appeared to have been misled into MA bok-hibak volcano on Comi- trying to drive into Eastern Ger- in Island, in the Philippines, was many by rumours that the Soviet reported tuslay 10 be erupting
blockade of Berlin had been lifted. violently and threatening to engulf
The first report of the four missing Mambajan, the island's largest town, travellers came about 20 hours after with molten lava and burning ash, 190x "Joyriding" American soldiers wo villages, Esperanza and Abo, arrested late Saturday night in the hryn, nlready been
by Russian sector of Berlin were sur submerged thousands of tons of hot mud moving | rendered to the United Stutca
authorities. loviy towards the sea.
While the old crater continued to mit grey clouds, the new crater appeared two miles eastwards, ID- norted Mr Arturo Alcaraz, the first Government volcanologist to visit
the scene.
zone.
The northern part of the island, within a radius of five miles from the volcano, was declared a danger The Army and Constabulary advised the clearing of larger area. Only one causuolty was reported.
Meanwhile, mass evacuation is
a
much
Meanwhile, four-power negotia tions aimed at ending the blockude entered their seventh day after day in which technical commilters thrashed out details of the antici pated agreement. Informed quarters predicted that the Berlin talks were
nearing an end."--Unted Press,
WHAT A VOICE Anti-Communist city officials op. pealed again today for a voice in between the present negotiations Russia and the West.
Berlin's acting mayor, Ferdinand
being enried out in an orderly Friedensburg, and Ernst Reuter.
Fifty-thousand inhabi- fashion.
elected mayor whom the Russiart: innis have already been evacuated, did not let take office, asked Ger-
Manila authorities do not
occupiers to receive ex-many's four pect the eruptions to increase their severity.
The total damage nt present could not be estimated.
Damage Cameras Lose
to "coconut and other plantations is considerable and the final reckoning of_demago is thought be heavy.
Reuter.
Speed Plane
Cleveland, Sept. 5.-A fully orm- ÁRAB SABOTAGE
States Air Force jet ed United Rhodes, Sept. 5.-Count Bernadotte fighter, in which
Richard Major cabled the Security Council today Johnson was believed to have flown that the blowing up on August 12 of at 660 miles per hour failed to es- the Latrun water pumping station tablish a new world record because which supplied Jewish Jarusalem
cameras caught the official timing was "deliberate act" by Arabs. only three of the passes over
three-kilometre probably irregulars.
Force Division announced tonight.
The record that Major Johnson tried to smash was 650.700 miles an hour sel
a year ago by a United, up 'States Navy
He added that efforts are being made to repair the pumping station. -Reuter.
This Practice Must Stop
THE McDermott
European civilian
are
course,
the
the
After the fallen Major John-
son had been announced an ofDelal
explained that
because of the
failure to catch the upwind and downwind passes the film could not
The tome tequcet was made by city officials when the talks between the four Military Governors started Inst week.
British-licensed papers caid that Friedensburg's appeal was handled to the Russian and Western Military Government Liaison officers.
Government The legally elected aslead for a voice in their city's fate and the Communists warned through the Itusslan-licensed press thint
#workers" Berlin
arc still on the murch.
This was regarded as a threat to anti-Communists who are reported to have recruited strong arm squada to repel the Communists' expected march on the City Hall tumorrow when the City Assembly will at- tempt to meet-United Press,
They're Only Practising
These French troops are firing morfar bombs during
a practice session in the vicinity of a proposed new air- field in the French secter of Berlin. Most of men are new recruits serving compulsory year with the French Army-Acme Picture..
British Troops May Be Sent To Burma, Says Report
Singapore, Sept. 5.-A battalion of British troops may be sent to Rangoon to protect British nationals and interests if the situation in Burma deteriorates further, it was unofficially reported in Singapore today.
Plans for the evacuation of 2,200 Britons from Burma have already been completed. The cruiser London, the flagship of the British Pacific Fleet, which arrived in Singapore from Hongkong yesterday, was transferred here ahead of schedule "because of the trouble in Malaya and Burma," it was announced.
Reports reaching Singapore from Burma said that no less than four almost Burmese separate insurrections were under way there, and it was doubted if the Premier, Thakin Nu, would find sufficient popular support to regain control of the country.
FIVE PWD
EMPLOYEES
RELEASED
Five of the eight PWD em-
be submitted to the International ployees originally charged with Aeronautical Federation for rati-
Acation.
set up by a Douglas Skystreak.
larceny of electrical materials]
Anti-Communist Karen tribesmen Burma's second hold Moulmein, port, and the rail town of Thaton, east of Rangoon.
Staunchly pro-British during the dc- have been war, the Karens
State since a separaic manding Burma gained her Independence in January this year.
Their revolt has overshadowed the Government's offensive on Prome, of Rangoon, northwest 200 miles held by leftwing insurgenis.
THREE POSSIBILITIES The possibilities view of the
in
Burma, uprisings by Com-
affair calis offered no strictures. Wo for. the strongest possible unaware of any statutory rights protest According to un-
for MPa
to accost and
The plane in today's unsuccessful were set free by the magistrate, munists, Army deserters, dissident crots- challenged court evidence,
examine civilians A
in the streets, bid was a North American F-86 Jet Mr Wicks, at Kowloon Court members of the People's Volunteer and the Karens were of
it And I by any chance
fighter. The existing record was this morning when the prosecu Organisation the local authorities have tacitly conceded
withdrew the charges believed to be: them this
period of in- privilege,
Two the pubilo
now British Jet fighters, tion
I-A prolonged will demand that it be
Hawker Arm, made by the withe
decisive were against them.
aghting leading to chaus drawn at once. We should have
stated this month to have speeds of
and Leung King, as-
my amicny throughout the country. The five are
com- of u formation thought the
000 miles "well MP
Bn hour." over
2- had
and Ngan Pul.
Government-in effect suflicient to do to
They are the Hawker N7/46 and the sistant wireman, look after
Lea promise Tong Chuen, Kam Wing and C38/48. Reuter.
Riving the Communists control of Cho, electricians.
Burina.
by name McDermott, was not only stopped RAF pitral prove als civilian. he refused, he was badly beaten
A
in the street by an and requested
to Identity, but when,
up.
worse
As a
example of authority being grossly exceeded could hardly be conceived, and it is time Services policemen had made clear to them the limite
dulles. The their
A MeDermott incident is the first known chưa where MF have ased strongarm methods against innocent civilians, but it is by no
Bret the
time
accosted have been strvicemen by military police, and demanded
Dicans
bona-fides.
non-
In
Briiin
to prove their fact it has been brought to our attention that Iwo schoolboys of senior age went through this experience recently and had quite
quilo
their own without trespassing on
are
مانا
ما
the in
the duties of the civil police who are given legal powers
AL
to ap- prehend civilian suspect.. Ml's feel the publie need pro- tection from a recalcitrant person their duty starts and stops at calling a civil police officer. They not entitled to naunt limited authotlir
invested them and to behave Like the Mr Himmler's boy-friends. They are expecled, of Course, to render assistance
a clyti police officer If called upon do so. but they cannot, and must not be allowed to assume this The fact that the challenging of McDermott in Kowloon street is not an isolated incident indicates that the MP
bricted have not been properly elther concerning their dulles or the limit of their fegal powers. bo боло without further delay, and where it can be shown that an
authority. a difficult time convincing the overbearing MIPS that they were not army deser- ters. What has to be made clear to MPs is that in the first place they have 210 right to challenge civilians; that here in Hongkong
This should to possess civilians do not have identity cards; and that a civi Ilan is fully within his rights to refuse to answer questions put to him by any but a Government The authoritarianı palice officer. behaviour of the MPa Sz McDermott affole was alsameful and we are astonished that the
the magistrate who tried
the
0120
in
to
future.
MP has exceeded his ouilmrity should receive diclplinary punishment. Il to insisted that of MP's the growing praction Interfering with the accepted liberilen of the olvillan bo stopped forthwith.
Unionists To. Form
Labour Party ·
Singapore, Sept. 5-Delegates re- presenting 40,000 trade unionists in the Federation of Malayn (lecided
at a four-hour session today
Kuala Lumpur that a Labour Parly should be formed in Malaya.
In
No action, however, will be taken till after their December meeting.— Associated Press,
Date for commencement of the 3. Conquest of the country by hearing against the remaining de- the Karens.
The fendanta was fixed for October 4.
pro-Government New Times Insp. McPherson of
of Burma said in Rangoon today the Special Branch Indicated that the heating that If the situation worsened, the was likely to last a week.
country might have, to consider teriously "a concentration of powers a constily- Two of the remaining defendants, in one person-perhaps
and
Arthur Austin Spary
May, tional dictatorship of the kind M were remanded on bail, while the Churchill enjoyed in Britain during third man, Kwok Kong, was re- the war.": manded in police custody.
It added that the occupation by
FRENCH WORKERS TO RECEIVE BONUS
a demand by all; country. Today, 30,000 texule Paris, Sept. 5-After its first son followed meeting tonight, M. Robert French trade unions last week for workers at Roubaix and 10,000 a bonus of 3,000 francs retrospective miners in southern France were stil Schuman's now French Govern- from August 1 and payable each out. ment issued a communique con-month until the wages question was La Seine, the only Puris evening paper to appear on Sundays, com- firming the payment of a 2,500 settled by the Government.
The commuuique said that the new mented: "The new Government is francs bonus to all wago earn- Council of Ministers, as its first task, strangely similar to its predecessors. ers, excluding the Civil Service, had reviewed the nation's economic It is composed of the at an unspecified date this week, and financial attilation. The Council with only a few exceptions and will under seek its majority in the same par- will meet again tomorrow
ties as yesterday. Let hopo thin The fact that the bonus, was to be President Auriol.
majority will not be broken up too pald once only was taken by ob- Tho Government was formed rapidly, to give the country, im- servers to indicate that the Gover- against a background of "pin-prick patient to get out of its economic ment intended to tackle the problem strikestoppages varying from 15 and financial insecurity, the laws it of salaries without delay. The decl- minutes to 24 hours all over the is asking for."-leuter..
some mon
Dino
At the
For
P.G.
Reservations
Karen tribesmen. of Moulmein had "sinister possibilities.”
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TRAINS STAND BY FOR BERLIN
Ready For "End Of Soviet Blockado
Berlin. Sept. 5.-Two coat trains, with steam up, were standing by tonight at Helm- stedt, the little British Zone frontier station on the main line to Berlin.
Railwaymen were all at their posts. They awaited the greon light from the German capital, where negotiations to end tho 11-weeks' Sovlet blockado ap- peared on the verge of success.
con-
Helmstedt railway officials Frmed late this evening, after 4 day of contheting reports, that they ex- peeled the order for rail traffic to be resumed between Berlin and the Ebstera Zone at any time.".
Bizonal railway headquarters in Frankfurt hud carller denied Hap over-reports that orders had actually been given to prepare for the open- traffic "almost ing of inter-zonal
mediately, possibly today or to morrow."
The Savict-licensed Berlin paper, National Zehung, said today how over that the tour Military Gover nors who met yesterday for the fifth consecutive day-had "already" Lines to decided to reopen traffic the West.
NO SUNDAY MEETING The Military Governors had no meeting today, but a British spokes. men in Berlin said that they would center pain tomorrow. The four- power transport commitice met, but there were no sessions of the finance und trode committees.
The Governors' meeting, which was 10 have been held this after- neon, was postponed because thesa committees
to camo
no definita to well in- decisions, according formed circles quoted by DENA the German news agency.
British and American aircraft on the Berlin airlift made 503 flights to the capital during the 24 hours ending at midday yesterday.
Hanover railway authorities said official todny that the Helmstedt had been ordered to take, necessary slups to enable, the resumption of inter-zonul traffic to be brought into effect almost immediately.
Berlin's City Assembly will meet in the City Hall in the Soviet sector that has tomorrow for the session been postponed more than a week.
almost daily for
The last session was broken up by who demonstrators Communist NO FIRE CRACKERS
stored through the back door.
It was stated afterwards that the On Malaya, the latest precaution!
take place agamist the Communists was a next session would not
Alexander General Major ban
the Singapore
Chinese until crackers on the Kotikov, the Soviet Commandant, practice of tiring
assurance that the could be had given an grounds that the noise
Assembly would bo -protected......... Rouler. uses "as a cover for armed attacks," (Continued on Pare 5)
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