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Nationalists Claim 11 Ships Hit
Taipei, Jan. 12. --
ainese Nationalists
The
Bounced tonight a heavy air
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BRITISH SUBMARINE SUNK Tragic Kloon Churchill
Cominform Spy To
Die
Yugoslav Court's
Verdicts
ניה
Belgrade. Jan. 12. A raid on Red Shanghai bad! Yugoslav court today hit eleven shipe nint left fenced 1 man named Call waterfront warehouse in Lisi to death for spying on Hames.
behalf of the Cominform
The Au Fure comique and carrying out subversive
satd Noterlist
13 25 bembers
word P-31 fighter bombers were
used in today's assaulte
activities.
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Arvid entertainments. Chaper
wear Il
The femme caporal
Nun
Air Yaux
of Kinngsi
kaing admu were raneet without announced results
WUHSIEN ATTACKED Wallstend (Sonchow)
Tastiest beauty spot weat of Shanghai, also was attacked.
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"SERVILE OBEDIENCE"
In his foul speech the Podber Prosecutor had saved that Puller
whind abdal showed
Northeast of Hongkist, WIAN reporte!
Agor with two ships at any atall craft hard hit.
The Nationalist Defence Min istry reported there WILN smet malo dehung with Red guerling You Haluun, island the South,
ourt.
Generalizime
Ka
k's staff tally denied, how ch, a report farbliche ab over
the atmunists had beguní thavasion of Hestar
"Branding the report
adammarat
1.. General Maid, “the invaders Fan 1
ghosts or othe, BE
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Won't Imoke Law
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EDITORIAL
THE
methods are being used a our country to force 30 intra set vule obedience to the USSR
it pred niso that the AI ban overanent had beemur mere puppet" of the Comis –
and was com form earpaigh genruting more on hostile acti- Usar vines against Yugoslavia
improvist. Lha lot of az own
people
trial
He sail ht the shown up the subversive cata
of the Alluno Legation That Altomin 1-12 de
of the Legalion Seetptors Ha Hamizz had taken the trative ta utgalvisitat
bal colles te Cal Roj nud
materal comproitakin prople with lack prests like
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TML
Wake
TREND
begit
Half the defendants were Al
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Reuter Yugoslave
IN COLLISION
15 Sailors
Entombed In Thames Estuary
FIVE SURVIVORS RESCUED
The Hague, Jan. 12.—At least 15 British sailors were entombed below the waters of the Thames Estuary tonight after their submarine Truculent had been rammed in the torpedo Five survivors, said to have been in the conning tower, have been picked up.
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days after given's divorce from the brade z mother beenine Bal
"Ravena a divorce when
The fight for the lives of the men waiting helplessly in the Truculent-a fight which depends on their air supplies-began immediately British naval vessels steamed to the disaster spot.
The sea is flat and visibility is between two and three miles.
The Truculent, equipped with the "Schnorkel" breathing device, sank in collision with the Swedish vessel Divina which then went out of control and rai nground on the ominous "Shivering Snads."
Lifeboats and other craft are searching for more
survivors.
The submarine's hatches were closed
15 men still on board, according picked up at The Hague.
with about
[ radio messages
The collision Look place north-west of Redsand
he told me that he was I love! Tower, according to a message received here tonight.
The Duter
with a
younger woman," Mr4
"End, Bishop fold the court Tot how the other woman was
own daughter my
The court decided to take no ship, Dwina. Caution.
One on patrol in the Pacific
more than
DO CONVEY
30 capturea
¦
Au
of
the
Fire
which
on
Wednesday the tragedy
blaze destroyed the squaller colony at Kowloon Cily is summed up In this picture which shows a young Chinese woman and her baby, grief-stricken, as the woman watches over the few per- sonal belongings she was able to renese before the fir borned down her home. See Editorial this page.
Of
Tsiang Surrenders
Presidency Security Council
Lake Success, Jan. 12.-The Chinese Nation-
Returns For Election Battle
London. Jan. 12. The Conservative leader. Mr Winston Churchill, returned here tonight to lond his election troops into battle after a fog had threatened his air journey from Madeira.
This had pro- voked considerable anxiety. The 75-year-old leader dis- embarked from a dying boot at Southumpion, in a fine fighting
feille. rently for An early "Counell of War" with his chief Heutenants the members of the Conservative "Sindow" Cabinet, Although Mr Churchill's chier
colleagues stoo
stood by ns pre-
caution
against a quick summons thele
leader, the general impression was that develop- ments were unlikely tonight.
Other main election news of the day was a summons to the 300
Socialist Members of Farliament to a secret briefing by their lead rs on campaign policy and tactics in London în January 24.
This will be the "winding up" meeting of the Parliamentary There will be morale- Parly. bracing speeches by the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, the Deputy Prime Minister, Mr Herbert Morrison, the La- bour campaign "boss."
andi
split developed today among Britain's 8,000,000 trade unionisis-most of them tradi- lional backers of Labour-over the Socialist Government's wage freezing policy.
CLOSE VOTE
The nation's 187 leading trade
af conference here, approved. the Government policy on wages by the
majority
600,000.
narrow
of
Begin in December, 1941, by stemmer Almdijk |
Vickers Austront, they com- reported "Have picked up Ave
Insectaber 31, alist delegate to the Security Council, Dr T. F.unions, represented by delegates her on SOVIA DES
submarine ploteri Believe
Tsiang, whose expulsion is demanded by the Soviet was in collusion with Swedish
Union tonight agreed to step down from the Pre- Please keep tik 1942 out for further survivors. The with
WHA
Japanees on hard, the Truculent sideney of the Council. sighed "Master."
whore sets! The ship which reported the afterlod
Allijk. ་་ subchasers forced the Truetlend America fresghter to crash
She bit Tu bottoms at 58 fast but survived
depth charges
chupand
whalet FINIL Truculent is reported suUTH about 45 miles straight Bast
this metrimonial message Mintellig Mangle was mother dierland t Cleveland,
whe
bound from New Rotterdam
(2. yesterday., sinking. Theoklasty Hallurut 33 year ol! Borkowski won an mrontested vence after testly out that y minary his son wife wanted After inatiaxe
Chrleans
J
The Truculent, 265 feet long, around her
described Heutes, is oftrinity
Explosion Kills 4
Visit
were
113 20
"patrol type" submarine equites
; þrd for a 42-day patrol
eqprunt The Selinurke Fenalsten ntr to be taken in when
submerged the subnorine is
later messa
byhana Jan feast Hour people Killerd In an explosions
here pengred Fotoral bone mak Today the police vejarted
Self-Help For Squatters
in the old
по
THE New Year has started with
disastrofas fire
Kowloon City aren, similar in destruction to the
1949 which two
destroyed binzes in thousands of squatters' huts in Taikoktruž, Significantly enough, it always seems to be impossible to determine the origin of these fires which so quickly and dramatically and leave homes precious demolish
young, thousands of people-old and
Hyjing
The Jatest quarters, without disaster, which furtunately entailed loss of life, draws renewed alfention to the both in problęza of squatters areas,
If not obvious general and particular, before, it became painfully apparent on Wednestiny afternoon that insufficient attention, had been paid by the Authorities to the ma of spacing when the squat- ters villant old Kowloon City was Only permitted come into existence. narrow alleyways separated the rows of dwellings, making it difficult not only for the inhabitants to escape from the fire with their few
alno belongings, hut proving a handleap to the fire-fighters, whose required, freedom of mobility was gravely restricted. Because squatters' huts are inevitable in this shockingly over- crowded Colony, li can be expected that new shacks will in due course arise from the ashes of old Kowloon City. In which case the Authorities must step in and ser that they are constructed and laid out in such a way that should there be another outbreak of fire, there will be a reason- áble chance of containing the blaze and restricting the loss of property. blame is to be attached to the fire brigade and other workers for the heavy losses sustained at Kowloon City on Wednesday. The firemen and others worked magnif- cently under virtually impossible con. ditions; but they were not given even a fair chance, largely because the inflammable futments had been allowed to be erected
No
cheek by jowl, presenting to the flames a target which they could not fail to con- sume. The very least which is demanded of future squatters' areas is that they are na to permit developed in such a way unhindered access to fire engines in the Moreover, proper event
blaze.
with will provide spacing
every hat additional fresh air and sunlight, which is in the interests of the health of the Another important considera. squatters,
of
#1
tion is the provision of easily accessible fire extinguishers. The suggestion is not that these should be provided by Guvern- ment free.of charge, and, therefore, linble to loss through theft. But squatters could be encouraged to form themselves inlu self-preservation communities, who would, among other things, contribute towards the east of fire extinguishers, A committee would huld elected
among themselves Itself responsible for the safety of these extinguishers, and members of the com- munity would be trained in handling them. Placed at strateglen! points in a squatters' village they may well prove the meane of preventing a disastrous fire. The iden of the squatter community could also be developed along the lines of public health by encouraging the and anultation inhabitants of these areas to take some interest in their own welfare. A large pro portion of our squatters today are people who carry out skilled and semi-skilled work, and they are, therefore, sufficiently intelligent to appreciate the advantages of self-help if these are demonstrated to become a them. Physically, squatters communty because their homes are con- tained within a restricted area and they cannot avoid becoming neighbours. They should, in consequence, be encouraged to develop and share confmunity spirit, appreciating that the safety and welfare of one family is the safety and welfare of them all..
th Almudujk Kave Dutch sie
11 Swedish the Vessed as Bie Divina
of
The Divina is a muter-janker She left the Port of 643 tons of Landosi loday
COMMANDER SAFE According to shipping careles here in lach with the Akadijk, the five survivors picked up by the Aldijk's lebont were the
Lieutenonil Commander, three
and one rating
It is understood that the men were in the ronning lower of the submarine
at the time of thus rollision and were
the snl.
Th
Z
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Mr Jacob Malik, the Soviet delegate, who walked out on the Security Council meeting on Tuesday de- Landing Dr Tsiang's expulsion, took his sent at the Security Council ngals tonight when it met to discuss his demand for the expulsion of Dr Tsinng.
11
Dr Tslang willing to Cubon 11ano.
Wan Suurt hand ever
Dr delegate,
To bu to the
Carlos
RACING EDITION.
TOMORROW
The annual Hongkong Jockey Club racing carnival openy tomorrow, and in addition to the usual Saturday edition (f the Hongkong Telegraph, which will be on the strecia shortly after 11 a.m.,
special racing edition
will
be abished tomorrow
After- noon.
This will contain results
of the first seven races, lo- Kether with winning cash sweep numbers.
The racing edition will be uti sale atxout 4.45 p.m.
shound the Couned approve the Soviet motion
Paing further said that the "puppet regime of Peking is the result of Sovddet aggres- tate 1 wetend al 1 serve Soviet interests.
The delegates, using biou the polley by votes, approved 4,203,000 to 3,800,000.
wage.
The conference opened with an attempt to get the decision postponed until after the general election, but this was defeated. Speaker after sp:aker in the do bate-among them many who cast their votes for the Trades Union Congress policy-com- stained thint
restraint could only be practised if thero were stricter measures to con- Te profits. "Not angle member of that The
general opinton observers Puppet regime has been elected petition Gy the iner prople. 1 re-trle ilonists would not allow Iabour's erent Government based on their split to affect
Constitution, which was 'tances of success in the general He cited as a precedent the
on February 23. action of the United States de- drafted and passed by the re-i
ives of the Chinese It is expected that there will Irgate, Mr. Warren Austin, who, i presentativ
mel In the Narbe a truce until after Britain
Dr Tang ngested the mmetuag by stating that he had deerderh to exers (50 Ius discretiotun y power of stepping down from the Providency of the Council in favour of Dr Blaw,
the
as an interested party, vaented people who the Presidency of the Council tonal Assembly.
discussed the Berlin "The Soviet when it
Berking to question in Paris in 1948
Dr Ting then took his mor- mai niphabetical place at the Tables and Dr Blanco moved to:
the centre seal.
PERFECTLY JUSTIFIED
Dr Ales
Bebler (Yugoslavia) supported the Soviet proposal as "perfectly justified."
He said that
there was no
Immediately under the co-LANTENCIONANTES TENNI NABIICTION 10155JUSTESTINAZ ning tower, the Dutch skipping | Landon. It
Is alinest In the other middle of there are sources say,
the channel
of the members of the crew who could Outer Thames
Estuary #Huz be saved if the submarine could right
nites North-north-west convincing reason for any fur- to the matter and a busy ship-ther delay
called for an immediate decision in favour of the new Chinese Government.
Kave
the starboned STOP PRESS
and
be lifted in time before the air for Whitstable In
ve out. supply
Png lane, According to further messages pleked up here the submarine was rummed on side in the torpado ruom
almost "sonk
Immediately." The about 15 men still on board.
The five survivors picked up
have Dutch freighter by the been put ashore at Gravesend, on the south side of the Thunes Estuary.
(France) delegate
M. Jean Chauvel 100 | criticised the Soviel
for us walk-out on Tuesday,
hatches were closed with SOLDIER SENT
TO PRISON
Rau
win recognition for
Union is now
was
among
that
turs gone to the polls.
full The
force of the dis- internatio..al content of 3,500,000 workers 1s the fruits of then kely to explode on the
That is the teresadon
new Government if it persista reening of the Soviet resolu-
A wage-pegging policy.- tinti"---Reuter.
her
"This manner of seting is not Tikely to bolster the prestige of the Council or of the United Nations," M. Chauvel said. Andrew Mline, 23, of the He added that the French R.AS.C., was suntenced to four delegation would not contest the year's and
months' | validity of the Chinese Nution- ninc RESCUE OPERATIONS Imprisonment by Mr Jusalist delegation. According to a London mes- tice Williams at the Criminal
Sir Benegal Narsing sage there were more than 80 Sessions this morning. The sc (India) repeated his confention:
found guilty by a men aboard the Truculent at the cused was time of the disaster. She was Jury yesterday of having raped that the Council's rules of pro-
cedure were "defective," travelling on the surface.
the 30-year-old wife She carried enough under-Job coolie in disused cell of
apparatus
CaPeak Police for the old escape member of the crew. Station on September 1 last.
Dr Tsinng declared that when very
distributed The apparatus is
Milne was defended by Mr A. he took his seat on the Council
by the throughout various water-tight. Clifford, instructed
more than two years ago his compartments of the submarine. Council, while Mr Acredentials were duly certified
At the res
request of the Navy, Hooton Crown Counsel, pro-jas adequate. That being so his Royal Air Force planes with secuted. flares and parachute-borne
water
Bar
of an odd-
rubber bonts joined ships in the A New Queen's
for survivors.
rescue operation
The Truculent
and searched
College This Yoar
Is thought to have been carrying out diving
POLITICAL QUESTION
standing was "as regular as that of any other member"
He said that although the Soviet resolution "speaks of my credentials, what it calls into Mr T. R. Rowell, Director of question is not my credentials
announced this but the right of my Govern tests yesterday and shipping had Education,
Queen's ment betri warned by radio of navat morning that the now
sald Dr Tstang. exercises in
it is, therefore, not a ques- the
September of this year. presence of a submarine. Later tonight fog closed in, It will be situated on the pre-tion of mero procedure but is
of College playing politlent question cutting out visibility to less than sent Queen's half mile-Router.
fields at Causeway Bay, and utmost importance. I treat
as such." Associated Press adds that the would accommodate between This declaration was inter
preted by observers Truculent was built during the 100 and 1,000 students. war and operated against the See Page 5 for Queen's Col-int Dr Talang would uphold Japanese in the Pacific.
lego headmaster's reportsgra this right to veto his : removal
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