KING
HAVE
MAY BUERGER'S
DISEASE
Talk Of Abdication
Discounted -
London, Nov. 24. King George may be suffering from Buerger's disease, involving serious inflammation deep in the arteries, British press reports said today.
The Daily Mail published a long technical article in which it suggested that the King was suffering from Buerger's disease or thrombo-angitis obliterans, discovered in 1908 by Dr Leo Buerger..
In Buerger's disease, inflammation develops which affects the large arteries of one or both legs and the blood channels are gradually blocked so that nourish- ment does not reach the extremities.
Master Of
Motor Boat Fined $2,500
Convicted On Five. Chargos
WILN
Court
of
Buerger's disease, ค form
occurs in the gangrene, usually large veins and arteries of the legs King of men reaching middle age. George is 53.
Some physicians aitributo the disease to undue strain. A Bucking- ham Palace source pointed out that the King. never very robust, has been ouder a great strain ever since the abdication of his brother, then King Edward VIII, in 1936.
American physicians
wide of repute, although they have only the bare Buckingham Palaco statements available, express considerable doubt that the King has either Buerger's
ог the allied Reynaud's
to
Chan Tai, master of the
Sir John Weir, personal physician 10 the King, visited him today. motor bont Shun Foong,
NO TO QUIT THRONE fined a total of $2,500 by Mr
While reports began Cairns at the Marine
circulate that King George VI would this morning on five charges of abdicule the throne in favour of his failing to obtain a clearance. daughter Princess Elizabeth because failing to report arrival, using of his 1-health, an unimpenchable today that the an unlicensed and unsurveyed source disclosed bont, being in charge of the monarch had no intention whatso-
over of quitting the throne. vessel whilst under way without a master's certificate of com- petency, and being under way without a certificated engineer on board..
Sub-Inspector Nippard
"There is no reason why the King should abdicate and it has not been and will not be contemplated," it was stated..
If the King's health worsened, there would be no need to consider that course, sources said. reported
that the vessel was an ex-American MTB: powered with three engines using aviation spirit, with a spect of 25 knots. On August 16 the vessel had entered Hongkong from Murao, and applied for a clearance At the on November 3 for Macao. time defendant was warned that the was not allowed in British vessel waters and an endorsement made on the clearance. The vessel cleared from the Harbour limits on November 3. presumably
was
for
for
Macno. "but it was later gald
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948.
To Safety By Bos'uns Chair
This dramatic picture shows the rescue of Chinese The soldiers aboard the Ling Yung by HMS Cossack. bos'uns chair can be seen in operation.-Photo by Li-Cdr. Dennis.
HMS Cossack's Rescue
Of Trapped Men
On Chinese Troopship
The first eyewitness story of the daring rescue by HMS Cossack of men trapped aboard the helpless Chinese troopship, Ling Yung, in Masu Bay on October 30 was told this morning to the Telegraph by Lt-Commander W, W. Dennis, RN, commander of the British destroyer.
wards her.
Evatt Wants Stalin And Truman
To Meet
Paris, Nov. 24.-It was under- stood today that Dr Herbert Evatt, president of the Unite Nations Assembly, had received replics to some secret cable- grams which he went to the chiefs of state of the Big Four powors in an attempt to solve the Berlin crisis.
It was believed Dr Evatt may have suggested a personal meeting with President Truman, General- issimo Stalin and other leaders of the Big Four. A reliable informant sald Stalin was one of those who had replied and there had been indications here and in Moscow that Russia might welcome such a conference.
Dr Evatt was known to have hoped that President Truman ulso might be ready after his election
to
victory 'mnke some dramatic
gesture to settle not only the Berlin dispute but the East-West difference generally.
The Western Allies have said they will not negotiate with Russin under pressure. menning so long as the Berlin blockade lasted.
ON A BATTLESHIP?
However, it was suggested: "Well, the Big Four could meet in an American battleship. That would not be negotiation under pressure, would it?""
Dr Evatt and Mr Trygve Lie, Secretary General of the UN, sent a Joint
appen on November 13 to the Four powers, urging immediate conversations to end the Berlin
Big
crisis. The Western powers
Dr Evatt wanted Jected the idea. Mr Lie to join him in sending the secret cablegrams to Mr Truman, Stalin and other Big Four leaders. Mr Lie feit that, as a purely inter-
not national oficial, he could that far.
20
Hence Dr Evatt sent the cable- grams, saying in them some things hib could not got Mr Lie to say with him in formal messages. Dr Evatt is now belleved to be studying the possibility of further moves, some of them based on his cablegrams.
Interest in
in his secret messages
that at-
increased as it appearlin crisis.
the
tempts to solve through mediation in the Security Council were headed for fallure. It was disclosed a split existed in the views of the three Western Allies on Berlin currency question and
the
29 and proceeded to Air Search For though the split was slight it ap-
Lost Ship
There were about 1,270 Chinese troops on board, few of whom were trained; the remainder were coll- scripts, mostly young fellows of In New York, Nov. 24. The Const
that the years or so. In addition, there were Guard today reported
few civilian passengers,
British freighter, Hope Star, with its crew of 37, was believed to have spnk with no survivers
£.
peared to be all that was needed to prevent early solutionUnited Press.
Rio De Janeiro
Demonstration
Reports published in the Paris
He said the Cossack picked up the newspaper L'Aurore spoke of the Ling Yung's SOS round midnight "pessibility" of action similar to on October that taken in Holland by Queen Wilhelmina,
Who
abilicated In favour of her daughter Juliana..
INDIGNANT DENIALS This and similar speculation in dicating that the King might find It convenient to give up his dulleaa met with indignant denials in cir clea close to tho Palace. These
The troops were bound for circles expressed complete surprise Military training school near Takan, The 5,207-ion vessel was heard at the suggestions for which, they
"At 2 am the Harbour Master, from last on the night of Novein- there was "not the slightert the chief pilot at Keelung, a Major ber 14 when it reported that it had that it entered Cheung Chau
from the focal garrison, two of the suffered heavy damage in a North (a part of the Colony) after leaving foundation whatever,"
No matter how sertous the King's Cossack's signalmen and myself Atlantic storm. It was approxi- Hongkong. The vessel was searched by the Omeer in Charge, Cheung condition might be, the ide of his arrived at the scene, from the shore.mately 909 miles east of New York. that naval and milliary forces
be
"I considered it unwise that the
The Coast Guard sald, "While Chau police station, together with leaving the throne would not
an aerial search is still, being car- It
then contemplated and his two detectives, and.
ried on we feel there is little pos- Blated
contemplated, sources said. Another Cossack should approach too the people on by
comment was that the King had to a lee shore as the troopship was
sibility that there will be any that the
ht broken engines
survivors."United Press. down.
Defendant made no attempt far too high a sense of duly and nu hamediate danger; also
throughout his view of the fact that the only large to-report- that the vessel had had shown that
In any case, the sources towing wire-we-had-was-not-strong entered Cheung Chau, and when the
career.
warrant for enough to haul her off. vetsel left on November 3, no notice added, there was no of departure was given. Si Nippard such a course as the King is perfect- boat ly capable of carrying on his duties sak he understood that the had stayed there during the whole of state-United Press. perlod.
was
board
ASKED FOR LENIENCY On November 23, SI Blackhurst,
o/c No. 4 Launch, was on
patrol
in the vicinity, and defendant way zeen under way, presumably coming
not been
THOUGHT DEAD, BUT WAS ALIVE
New York, Nov. 24.-Mary Grey,
close
121
"A! 0.30 we tried to establish contact with the Ling Yung by rubber dinghy and carley float, but owing to the fierce tide between the ship and the shore, this proved im- possible.
LIFEBUOY FLOATED
L
and by a hospital attendant with the line 25. was pronounced dead yesterday buoy He was or from Cheung Chau.
was ainbulance which responded to an It was dered to stop, and obeyed.
at emergency call. Today she is re- found that defendant, who was at covering from an overdose of sleep-
of certificate the wheel, had no
D because ing pliis
policeman, issued by the Marine Richard Petrocine, detected heads competency
her brow engineer of perspiration on Omice, and also that the had no certificate. The vessel was found mist gathering on a mirror he operating under a Chinese licence placed before her mouth. and had no Hongkong licence at all Defendant had nothing to say in answer to the charges, but asked for leniency.
Mr Caims said he took a serious view of the case and imposed a fine of $500 or six months charge.
On
and
Petrocine applied artifical respira
Mary was tion and called a doctor. sent to hospital, where her candi- tion was described as falr.
New York City public ambulances formerly enrried doctors, but during
d
CONVICT CAUGHT
Plymouth, Nev 24.-Reginald Maskell, the Dartmoor convict who escaped from hospital at Plymouth, was caught near the Plymouth rallway station today.
When he escaped he was clad only in pyjamas and slippers. To- Finally the ship floated a life-
day he was dressed in a finnnel suit, the end of
lead brown shibes and blus overcoat. I swam out
for it Reuter. With " Ine ashore, things beenme easier, and I was hauled but to the shiu on o carley float to sce thi Captain, Russian,
Tie wae party askere made a triangle and got a jackstay across to the ship and we soon managed
bos'uns to get
chair rigged, suspended from a block secured on the ship, And the frat sol- dier was ashore at 10 am,
"A second Jackstay was rigged at
flow 11.30 am. and then the
Increased considerably. tried
|
Rio de Janeiro, Nov. 24. A Brazilian Army spokesman declined
in
to confirm or deny today rumoura
Rio de Janeiro had been on the alert. vallors since last night when 200 demonstrated in front of the Senate.
Nearly 100
alleged Communists, .including four Navy sergeants, were arrested after the incident, in which Marine shock troops dis persed tallers who were demanding pay increase. A police chief here said the demonstration was Com- munist-inspired.
J
Authoritative source: said all armed forces in the capital were on the alert against further demon- strations in the ranks of the Navy. A thousand sallors were said to have falled to report for duty today in "sympathy" with their comrades Involved in last night's Incident- Reuter.
Reds Penetrate Deeply Along Pukow Rly...
(Continued from Page 1)
A high Chinese Army officer said new divisions which will be equipped
the Communists lobbed more than with Ameriçon arms--Reuter,
Geri.
the wartime shortage they were re-roops to get the men to jump 10,000 shells into each placed by hospital attendants.-
United Press.
off the end of the gangway and to forces in Nenchuang.
waist claimed they wado nshore in water only deen, holding on to a line secured United Press. to the end of the gangway. but .the men
and became terrified stopped halfway, jamming the line, and their fingers had to be prised open to get them to move.
Visit By Macao Students
Terézaro some of the senior boys of the Yual Wah Collège, Macro, with the Rev. Fr. J. Buchita, who arrived yesterday In Hongkong on an educational and cultural tour. Altogether 400 pupils of the College came by 'the Cheung Huuk for the three-day visit Photo by Staff, Photographer.
"A senior Chinese Army present said that it was not a pari of the men's training to get into the water.
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Mediator For Coast Strike
***
Huang's Shanghai, Nov. 25-Two Nation- Both sides ullst Army Groups, after rescuing held Nienchuong-government troops .encircled in Nierchunng. 33 miles east of Heu- TO DEFEND NANKING ehow, are at present hotly pursuing
fleeing
Lisbon, Nov. 24-At least twenty- Nanking, Nov, 24. The question Chen's Communists
north-
killed, must three people were claimed of whether the Government would ward,
them women, and 44 Injured todas attempt to defend Nanking rather today. than evacupte it the Communists The reports said that warplanes, In a big explosion at a gun-powder
New York, Nov. 24.-—The nation's the battle of Hsuchow and braving unfavourable weather, officer won
factory at Amora, on the southern
top mediator, on direct- orders from raised by the arrival in the capital more than 200 trucks and carts on
Tagus, opponite advanced to the Yangtse has been strafed Red transports and blasted bank of the river
the White House, today" stepped into the stalemated 15-day-old strike of of General Tang Sheng-shih from the Lunghial railway between Nien- About 100 labourers were working
East Coast teek workers. retirement in his native Hunan.
at the factory, which is a private
Mr Cyrus Ching, drector of the Tang wes the Garrison Commian-chuang, and Yunho, talltown..
the Sociedade Portuguesa
Federal Mediation Sporadie Aghting was said to be concern,
and Conciliation der of Nanking against the Japanese continuing around Nlenchuang where
de Explosivos.
Service, The rescued were taken
How In from Washington and In
Rescue in 1937. Reporting General Tan's remnants of the Communista
squadá
were tonight
announced that he would offer to- lorries to a nearby camp."
arrival. the Govarniment Informa-
searching for more bodies in the. being Lieutenant-Commander Dennis tion Burenú bulletin tonight said he
Up
night a plan to end the costly strike. debris, The factory was partly said that although he was a strang had come at the invitation of Pre-
On the d
southern front the govern destroyed. Of the 23 victims so far
If settlement was not. In sight by swimmer: Lie entered the water sident Chiang Kai-shek. The bul-meat forces were reported to be counted, 10
that time.... were women. Two- abreast of the bows, and when he letin added: "It has been reported advancing northward from Suhalen, had reached the shore he was over that he will be given an important 35 miles, south of Hauchow, and to thirds of the 100 workers at the
factory were women. have
captured more Utan 10 villages. fifty yards astern of the ship, where military post.".
Liu Po-chen's Communists were re-out Lisbon, causing great alarm.-- The explosion was heard through- he had been swept by the llde.
At Christmas 1940, HMS Cossack
portedly fleeing to the
Dank weatern
Reyter. came to the rescue of the Tai Tung
the Tientsin-Pukow rallway. In Nanking, the government an- off the South coast of Formosa, ond 1.000
"ounced “new deal" by increasing in May 1047, the towed the
also fona former Japanese tanker named the Tol Tung when she was in difeulties off Hainan.
of
General Tong, who is 03, is member of the Military Strateny Advisory Committee but has been living in Hunan for the past few years-Reuter.
arc
Day to all military personnel as Death Of Star
well as civil servants by 50 percent
D
Mr Ching · made his announcd- ment atter meeting; with'//'Mr Joseph Ryan, President of the AFL International Longshoremen's' 'Asso- ciation, and. Mr John
chairman
of. the New York Shifter
The foodAAL SA woted a tolnt
́ ́. OFF TO TAIWAN
meeting with both Eldes, and
and said Canton, Nov. 25-General Yu
he would put forth his settlement Han-mott, -
Commander-in-Chief of making the minimum basic pay to Music Hall. Artiste
plan att time. He would not Chinese ground forces, is leaving 800 Gold Yusn in addition
reveal his plan, but said it would here by plane for Taiwan.
"In Canton according to the local cost of living Wallace, the famous British music offered to the Union and the ship-
allowances, which are fixed monthly
London, Nov 24-Miss Nellie be made public: ns soon as it wor General Yu arrived with other Nanking army officials Index. The payscale will give back hall artiste, died today only three. ownerz Into last week' in the course of a privates in the frontlines more than weeks after she appeared at the
$100 Gold Yuan monthly--US$5 at Toyal Command performance at the to military tour of Chian. Th
the omelal rate-plus rice or flour, London Palladium which was round-table session at It is believed that high pay as well tended by the King and Queen.
University this afternoon on the Sho then collapsed in the wings Government's role in labour rela as the new government measure of moving the war, wounded to base on leaving the stage and later watons, but he cancelled the speech hospitals in Nanking and Shanghal taken seriously with bronchitis will greatly improve the morala, and heart trouble. She was 70 because of the urgency of tho
| years old,--Neutor,
situation."United Press. United: Press. 6)
RICE FOR CHINA Rangoon, Nov. 24-Burma will
It is reported that General Yu's begin shipping rice to China today,
thán aweelt earlier
originally opinion is that? Kwangtung will planned.
make an ideal training bars in this A shipment of 4.000 tons the time of emergency, first of a 43,000-ion allotment-will It further reported that he fonded aboard a Chinese ship-merdy high-efficiency course is to Associated Press,
be applied to the training of nine
$
;
labour
ma
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