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Hongkong Telegraph
VOL. IV NO, 147
EXPLOSIVE IN
FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1949,
BAGGAGE MAY AIR
Blizzards HAVE CAUSED
Hit Australia
Worst In History
Sydney, Juno 23.-Five| towns in Australia's South- ern Alpa near Canberra were snowbound today after one of the worst blizzarda; in Australian records. A train with 20 people on board was located after being "lost" for 24 hours.
It is the coldest spell of Juno weather since 1935 and it comes at a time when heating
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houses, offices and shops by gas or electricity has been forbidden because, of a threatened coal atrike,
Sydney's temperature today. ranged from 43 degrees this
Third Attack
On Anchises
Sinnghial, June 23-Na- tionalist planes again bombed 10. Filialı. ahip Anchises today—their third raid and the second today, The continued attacks are regarded here as de- finite efforts
to sink the vessel to block the Whang-
POO.
In the latest attack a ALIERE Nationalist plano narrowly missed the An- chines with เหย bombs, then circled low, and then strafed her. There were no casualties in this attack,
One bomb exploded in the river about 250 yarıs short and the other hit the river bank beyond her. Associated Press.
SHANGHAI
morning to 55 In the Carly SHIPPING
afternoon. This is cold for this
big constal city.
Heating is forbidden. Indus- CONTINUES
try is shut down, and lighting, cooking and transport restricted save coal because of the threat of a general coal strike next week.
to
Shanghat, June 24-Shipping
DISASTER
Death Toll 32:
5
Children
London, June 23. It is suspected that some explosive in a passenger's baggage was responsible for the "spontaneous disintegra- tion" of the Royal Air Lines Constellation Roermund which crashed into the sea in flames off the port of Bari, killing 32 people, including five children.
A London spokesman for Lockheeds. maker of the Constellation aircraft, advanced this theory tonight. He said, "Just before the explosion the pilot made a routine radio call over Bari and reported everything in perfect order,
"This theory of some explosive in a passen. ger's baggage is reasonable in view of the fact that the pilot had sufficient altitude (15,000 cause for the feet) to have reported any other disaster."
hurriedly
in and out of 'Shanghai continu- In a Haque announcement the vantage of the extra flight back eil normal daring the past 26 KLM reported tonight that threo | to come home on leave. hour with tha Star Of Sues en toutes, cach consistin Twenty relatives and friends, informed of the THE STRIKE THREAT Bailing yesterday for New York of a man, wife and child, were
with 2,000 tons of general carro, lost on the plane. Auch journey, had gathered at the Moves to avert the strike aro and Butterfield & Swire's. Foo-n viher and her two children Airport to welcome them.
Mr J. C. Flasmah, wife of being made at union meetings chow bully unloading 4,000 were also lost.
A Hague message said that the Captain of the ill-fated Con- today, Some unions are urging tons of various goods which she
Dr A. Plesman, President of stellation, also walted at the the miners to call off the airike has brought from Hongkong.
the Royal Dutch Air Lines Airport to welcome her husband, because of the number of mars and women in Industry
A Reuter's report from Bar who
The Foochow is scheduled to (XLM), today learned that his
s-n, J. C. Plesman, Captain (1) sald that would be put out of their jobs, leave for Japan tomorrow.
thirty-two burned the airilner, had in his lying and mangled bodies, three of In New South Wales; alone! There is no definite news seconds headed the blazing them those of babies.
were lying about one quarter of a 'million about the Texas Oil Company's unchine into the sed, to avoid there tonight in the dimly lif men and women are out of work tanker Rum River but the 1s on even greater disaster. because of power cuts. The believed to be still standing by Another Hagus message said mortuary.
Fathetic personal belongings. figure may climb to half a mile at the mouth of Bie Yangthe that a welcome had been ar lon in New South Walds and with. 10,000 tons of gasoline ranged
at Schiphol Airport clothes, luggage, jewellery-sod- ather states next week If the aboard.
this afternoon for the Constel- don and charred, were atrike starts. Two blast
furnaces and al Meanwhile, it is learned that lation to celebrate the end of sorted in an attempt to identify .open hearth furnaces at the morale
remains high among the 100th might on the KLM's the dead.
route by way of Mauri- new Broken Hill Company's steel
tius, which began in February works in Newcastle here have
after India and Pakistan had been allowed to go cold. It is
banned Dutch aircraft flying the first time in 30 years that some of these units have been
over their territory. allowed to cool off-Associated Press
learned-Reuter.
the crew of the beached Blue Funnel liner Anchises.
With stocks of fresh meat going bad because of lack of frigeration the men are said to bo-cating as much beci-steak as iley can..
boredom."---Reuter.
familles who had taken
being
was named as One of them F. Bikkers, former Honorary
G. British Consul in the Nether- lands East Indies, after the dis- covery of his suitcase floating
on the sea.
wero watching
the
The flood Bashed
Bghts
on again in Trafalgar Square re- cently but only for an hour while a test was being made. When this. photograph was taken "the water from the western fountain was gushing 132 feet into the night nir-London Express Service.
S'hai Loses
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STRIKERS TOLD
Britain Not Seeking
American Aid For Defence
Of H.K.
London, June-23-Britain is not seeking United States help in the defence of Hong- kong, which is a British responsibility, a Foreign Office spokesman said tonight. He denied any suggestion that Britain had asked for aid from the United States and that the. United States had refused it. ·
He added that considerable British reinforcements had been ordered to Hong- kong.
SPECIAL FLIGHT
RESIGNS
The defence of Hongkong and the adjacent The Roermund had made ,༣. RUDDER_FALLS OFF
Portuguese island colony of Macao, off-the-South special fight to take 15. Ameri-
An eye-witness of the dis- can journalists and broadcasters aster the worst
June
China const, were believed in usually well in- in Mediter- "We have plenty of fccd, to Batavia to see conditions in
formed quarters in London to have been discussed In recent Shanghai faced the future nir history rancan Karachi, June 23-Pakistan cigarettes and now even water," Java for themselves at the in-years-said, "It was all over in today with only one remain- at the Foreign Office today when the Portuguese : today signed a bilateral air one of the crew-men said yes- vitation of the Dutch Govern- a few seconds. One moment we ing English language news- Ambassador to Britain, the Duke of Palmella, transport agreement with Nor-terday evening. "Nothing will mest.
plane
called on Mr Ernest Bovin, the Foreign Secretary. way, It was authoritatively get us down, I think, except It was returning with Dutch serenely across the sky, timing paper the North China ad-in the sunshine. Suddenly it ap- Daily News--with the offi.
Both Britain and Portugal, opinion concerning the Fai peared to be in trouble-the cial announcement by Mr rudder fell off the huge plane Randal! Gould this afternoon have recently decided to send Fast at present can be summed somersaulted twice and dropped that the Post & Mercury
reinforcements to the area. up as follows: Into the sen."
"It Malaya survives the Com- Holiday
A decision to strengthen the munist bandits' attacks, Hong- thronging Company which published crowds
defences of Bart's
Hongkong was kong will be safe." watched the American-owned Evon taken by the Defence Minister, waterfront aghast as above them the piloting Post will cease opera Mr A. V. Alexander, during
disintegrating
the end of this bls recent visit to the island, aircraft low over the harbour tion from and house-tops towards the sea, month.."
An announcement from Lis With his machine blazing and
In two letters, one
to the bon this week stated that the The. wings crumpling,
staff and the other to the Portuguese Government managed to avoid
ilary Control, Commission, sand, two battalions of native dock-side, which would have Mr Goffd made it clear that infantry to Macao from
scores more casualties, a continuance. of, the. Post under African colony of Angola, cost scores other eye-witness said.
EDITORIAL
F
More Muddled Thinking
le not, perhaps, surprising that we should get muddled thinking on the part of Chinese Nationalist officials about Hongkong's commercial relations with the Communists in Shanghal. The one- time Nanking regime has long shown itself to be befuddled over matters economic, financial and military, and in making the unsupportable statement that the Colony has become a direct supply base for the Communists, the Nationalists are running true to form. The cargoes which British merchant ships are carrying to northern ports are not needed by the Communists as a political organisation, but by the people who live in central and north China. Moreover, the trade is being carried out on a 'harter basis and as such la wholly legitimate. Itsla, however, gratifying to know that the Nationalist. Government appreciates that Britain's attitude to the Chinese Communists is realistic. As jp whether it is short- alighted is a matter of opinion. The accusa-" tion Impiles a threat--that if the Nationalista should eventually regain fost power in Chinn, It wit go hard. for British interests; The "if" is a big one, and zin... any event under previous Nationalist | rulo there were very few
recognised rights, let alone privileges for
British commercial Interests, so there is >>not=m=great deal to be lost, come what may. In trying to trade with the Com munist regime now established In Shang- hal and the northern ports, British business houses are merely Implementing the publicly expressed policy of the British Government--to be on friendly relations with whatever political power is In con The Nationalist Government
in Canton yesterday, 3.
·
has
presumed to speak for the Chinese, conveniently forgets that Britain unny close commercial relations with But Russia, the home of Communism. theso do not make Britain a political satellite of the Soviet, nor do they presi vent Britain from remaining a steadfast partner in the anti-Communist bloc. There is no apology to be made for Hongkong's trade dealings with the Chinese Communists; nor need the Colony fear the long-term consequences of this' commercial liaison. Whatever apologies. are called for at this moment, should come from the Chinese Nationalists, who have. twice deliberately attacked an unarmed British merchant ship in the Whangpoo.
·Instead, we are presented with a specious" statement from the Chinese Air Force Headquarters suggesting that... the Anchises was bombed and machine-gunned because she did not fly the Union Jack. British merchant" ships do not fly the Union Jack, but they do carry other caally recognisable flags betokening their nationality. The principal emblem is the Red Ensign, which, incidentally, embodies the Union Jack in the top left-hand corner, and which, under no cir«,
cumstances, could be confused with
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flag of another, nation.* "In addition, theso British ships fly house flogs which are easily Identiflable. – Tho Chinese Air Force Headquarters "explanation" of the attacks on the Anchises can be dismissed as chimera, and a full apology, promise of compen sation, and assurances that there will be no repetition of such disgraceful conduct in demanded, and awaited. We cannot permit the Nationalist Ale Força to Insult either our flag or our intelligence
inanoeuvred his
ha
crash on the a
This proposition has regard to
ΤΟ
WORK
Authorities' Ultimatum
London, June 23.-The Port of London authorities tonight flung an ultimatum to the striking stevedores that it would allow no ship entering London to be un- loaded until work began on two strike-bound Canadian. vessels.
Feeling rose during the day as gang after gang refused to handle the Canadian ships, the Argomont and Beaverbrae, in support of the Canadian Seu- men's Union and alleged that other work was being withheld from them.
The Fort of London authori- ties' statement on behalf of the Deck Labour Board conflimed "The the "lockout", by staling: Port: employers consider that these ships must be manned arrived vessels, -before newly
and are accordingly refraining from engaging stevedore labour for newly arrived ships until the two a
two Canadian *ships are manned."
Mr Norman Robertson, the Canadian High Commissioner, today tummoned to his office. Mr Bl! Arland, the leader of the striking Canadian seamen, in an effort to and a solution to the deadlock.
* VERY HOPEFUL * Announcing the High Com missioner's action at a dock meeting, a Canadian women's spokesman declared: "We do not know what it means, but we pro very hopeful."
Mr. George Isanes, Minister of Labour and National Service, fo- night issued a statement remind- Ing the dockers that the dispute involving the Canadian seamen "is no concern of people in this country."
"They should not allow them- selves to be misled into an ac- tion that can only bring loss and hardship to themselves and to the rest of the commimity," he said.
"On Tuesday night, the Exccutive of the Stevedores Union, with a full knowledge of the facts, advised their mem- bers to work all ships in the Port. The men should back up their union Executive and ro
um to normal working with out delay," Mr Isaacs added.- Reuter.
the to
New Death Test Paris, June 23. - Dr Victor the all-important question of Balthazard, well-known Frencti paper presie, which is regarded as physician, claimed in a.
*French more vital than military arith-submitted
have reinforcement Academy of Medicine to metic. Hurried will of
Hongkong
test for new from Malaya established would-according to this view death.
He sald the be weakening dangerously. an
that a small and attacked strongpoint for ́à de- harmless injection of other 'will monstration of strength at a remain in the living body, but spontaneously after death,Associated Press.
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Once over the sea the stricken / Present circumstances," when bis under the ferns of the Atlan- secure outpost.Our Own Cor- is ejected Constellation became completely; Authority is denied" by Labour tic Pact, signed by both Britain respondent.
is impossible.
out ous of
Twice control.
Mr Gould told Reuters that and Portugal but not yoi railfied somersaulted in crazy pattern and the wings and rudder broke the question of labour faded by Portugal, the parties under Into the background when take to consult together when Seconds later it hit the sea, flames and smoke pouring from workers refused
to ever their territorial integrity to accede its engines and fuselage.
his demand for the acceptance is threatened. of his "sole and unquestioned WTSINKS IMMEDIATELY.
authority."
So for as mutual military The tremendous Impact sent q
Mr Gould said, "The situation is concerned, the scope of the bid in the event of an atjack fountain of water and sizzling has changed so dramatically impact is limited to the steam, skywards. It sank im- the past few days that I feel it of members hi the North Atlan's mediately Into about 22 feet of would be impossible to
main
possessions
water."
ag boats and police and tain the paper's standard of cares, but there is no limita- Fishing
and police and unhindered operation.
tion on the undertaking of rescuo craft rushed to the scene,
members to consult in the event of a threat to their territorial Integrity-Reuter,
NEW VIEWPOINT
#
U.S. Government's New
Mechanical 'Brain
for each subject There are enough :??
Washington, June 23 The Government has come up with a new device for cutting expenses- a mechanical "brain" that can whip up within At first there were barely any added, "I have, according ly stepped asido from.. the
minutes all available Information on 1,000,000 sub- signs on the surface of the editorship of the paper
jects. Its sponsors said that, the brain, now on The Post & Mercury organisa plane's Impact
But as the hours went by flon will be liquidated by the
display at the Agricultural. Department, ma} bodles and luggage began to American low Gem-Mesars
eventually help cut down the cost of running the float to the surface It W Franklin & Byzan-Reuter.
London, June 23-Mr A. V. Alexander's statement concern
government, or at least the cost of keeping Ils clear that many had died be- fate the plane, hit the water.
ng the defence of Hongkong
great masses of records and files. Thoir, bodies were burned in SHIPS TO BYPASS has not been universally well
Known as the rapid elector, symbols, one some cases seemingly beyond-
SHANGHAI received, although his assurance recognition
that remains the Gover the 72-fube electronic machine covered. recovered far Of those so
New York, June 23-Four ment's object to maintain the can "read" thousanda of books, code patterns to cover 1,000,000 SANDMA were
15 men, five women and American shipping companies, friendliest relations, with "what "remember" what is in them subjects. To obtain a quick ro
We have decided in future to by ever may be three babies
the Government and "tell" anything it remom-print of all information on any
subject Solemn bareheaded crowds pass Shanghai because of the of China," was reassuring bers at a moment's notice, necessary merely to put the xilently, watched the bodies, bombing of the Erilish freighter
"Apprehension has been caused on Improvised Anchises there, the New
The brala was developed by, master shrouded
codo, kay into the hers by the hint that some the Agriculture and Commerco
mechanism fend stretchers unloaded on the Times said today.
pull the switch. dock-side in the soft light of They are the American Frezi- forces are proceeding from Departments at the cost of The stoerd up Alm races past
$75,000. Its developers claim the brain's electric. the evening? They were taken dent Lines, the United States Malaya to Hongkong.
Loye wat, the comotory by ambulance to the
that, besitos cutting down, the rate of 00,000 pages per minuto. Lines, the States Marino Lines
Mr Leonard Gommans obfun cost of keeping records, the Whenever a page with the pros mortuary/
And the A Waterman Steamshiped a reply from the Minister for device should Be a great boon par code symbol fashion by the *The scorched, sodden blue of Corporation, a k a once trim uniformalngded The United States Linos and that was far from 16 science in organisingaid highspeed camera Cakes G
denying that the garrison storing knowledge VIDE out the air hostess Dripping the. A. Waterman Line are al-Mirinya was bang thinned
picture of it Within a matter overalls Identified themight ready diverding ships on thoir Mr Alexander, cortinly atitud
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negatives of all Engineer way to Shanghat, the newspaper the purpoes of Lies Goverit and Government officiel had
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