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Vol. 1, No. 20.

CHINA MAIL

ESTABLISHED FOR OVER 100 YEARS Wednesday, October 3rd, 1945.

1941 WAGE TO BE STANDARD 1. Fluctuating H.C.L. Allowances To Be Paid

Decision Follows DOES ANYBODY-

FIVE-YEAR-PLAN

FOR CEYLON

Colombo, Det. 2.

A Five-Year Recon-

struction Plan has

been

announced by the Ceylon Government. It provides

among other things for ex- tensive port development

re-

the

to cost nearly two million

and large pounds. housing schemes for native population.--Reuter.

Sparks Gets

Pat On The

*

Back

WITHIN A WEEK OF OC CUPYING STONECUTTERS ISLAND, THE ROYAL NAVY HAD RESTORED THE NAVAL WIRELESS TELEGRAPH STA TION AND THIS WEEK IT WILL GO INTO FULL SER VICE.

Thousands of pounds (sterling) of the most up-to-date radio trana

from mitting plant, brought out England, has been installed in place of the Japanese equipment which was out of date and inferior.

The old plant on the Island was

1041, just before th occupation.

destroyed in Japancaste

Yesterday, Excellency, th Admira Commander-in-Chief,

farcourt, inspected the wireless Harcourt, station and complimented Lt. E. G. N. Bremner, R.N., of Ewell, Sur- England, who is in charge of the station, upon the speed restoration.

ray,

of

Mr. W. R. Swan, wireless tele

of Rainham, Kont on H.M.S. Venerable, when it was commanded by Ad miral Harcourt, accompanied the Commander-in-Chief round th station. Some years ago Mr. Swan who has been in the Navy for 2" years, was here, serving on a sub marine.

COLONY'S BLACK-OUT

Conference

AN IMPORTANT DECISION ON WAGE AND SALAKY, SCALES. TO MEET THE SITUAT.ON ARISING FROM THE PERSISTING HIGH COST OF LIVING, WAS AN- NOUNCED YESTERDAY FOLLOWING A CONFER- ENCE OF OFFICIALS.

EXCEPT FOR UNSKILLED LABOUR, THE RATES PRE- VAILING IN 1941 ARE TO BE PAID, PLUS ÎN ALL

ALLOWANCE CASES, A SPECIAL TEMPORARY $1 A DAY.

The official statement reads: In view of the cost of essentin foodstuffs, it has been decided tha, some addition to the normal rute.

of

pay should be given in respec

Lh

of dollar salaries. After discussion between representatives of Civil Administration, the Service: and local firme, it has been agree that:--

The basic rates of pay for anskilled male inbour will be $

for per day. The rates of pay female labour will be 80 per cent if thou paid to male labour.

2. The basic rates of pay fo semi-skilled inbour will bo th rates paid in 1941 including th 1941 high cost of living allowance of between $1 and $2 per day.

3. The basic rate of pay for

skilled inbour will be tho 1941

rates including the 1941 high cost of living allowance with a mini- mum of $2 per day.

CLERICAL STAFF

4. Wages for clerical staff and other monthly paid employees wil be those paid in 1841 fociuiding the 1841 high cost of lying allowance In addition every employe

be granted a temporary reba

th

bilitation allowance to meet Tres Treatly increased cost of essentia' foodstuffs. This allowance. .will determined by the Labour Officer on comparison between the curren market pric

prices of rice, peanut oil "resh fish, pork and firewood, and he prices obtaining for thone commodities in November 1941.

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The amount in the Brst Instanc will be $1 per day, This allow ance will be paid to every employe irrespective of basic wage salary sex or age, and in the case of monthly paid employees will b "ntrospective from September 1 1945.

IT MUST BE EMPHASISET THAT THIS ALLOWANCE IS NOT A SALARY AND WILL BE REVIEWED AT SHORT PERIOD.

In view of the foregoing, th presont arrangements for ration ing and feeding are being re-con

THE CENTRAL DISTRICT or [sidered and a further announce HONG KONG WAS WITHOUTment will be made shortly. LIGHT LAST NIGHT UP T

there

a

the

SHORTLY AFTER 11.30 PM.

Due to the typhoon threat submarines had to put to sea and

only a 100 kilowat WAS plant moving in the Naval Yard Had light been permitted befor 11.80 p.m. there would have been breakdown to overloading.

due to Current was allowed at 11.80 p.m. primarily for essential work

Holectric Compan engineers an encouraging day on their repair work yesterday and there is a fair possibility_o_ current being awitched on on

Fri day;

Yesterday morning the carron! was awitched off at 7 a.m.. befor the "China Mail" had finished 'printing and as a rosult it wa

difficult to scours a paper after ' 3.1. Last night work had to b done--with the aid of acetylen lamps...

ARCHBISHOP MURDERED IN EGYPT

airo, Oct. 2The Coptic Arch bishon of Jerusalem, M. Theophi lous, was found dead yesterday i a ditch in a fleld around the bush manastry", between Benisuef and Fayoum, Inliner Eyn Murder is suspected and several arrosta have been made.

The Archbishop was reported to have been in-nggollation for twe lorrios carrying the wheat eror from the Wahliand, controlled b the monastry. This was resante by the Fellahin transport workers previously employed, because the thought it would endanger thei livelihood-Reuter

OF

WANT A SOUVENIR?

"London, Oct 2. Hundreds of landing craft now no longer need- ed by the Service Depart- ments are now being offer- cd for sale to the public. Graft of all kinds are be- ing shown at London, Yar- mouth, Glasgow and Porta- mouth-Reuter.

Doctor Experiments To Guarantee Twins

LONDON, OCT. 2. MACFEE KERR, REUTER'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT AT LUENEBURG, REPORTING ON THE BELSEN TRIAL, SAYS: "THE BELSEN COURT, SITTING FOR THE THIRTEENTH DAY, HEARD THE STORY OF 5. S. DOCTORS' EXPERIMENTS TO FIND A FORM- ULA GUARANTEEING THAT MOTHERS WOULD

GIVE BIRTH TO TWINS.

DOCTOR CHARLES BENDEL, A FRENCH DOCTOR, WHO WAS INTERNED AT THE ÓSWICCIM (AUSCHWITZ) CONCENTRATION CAMP, TOLD THE COURT THAT HE HAD ASSISTED THE CHIEF CAMP DOCTOR, DR. MENGELE, WHO SPECIALISED IN MAKING INJEC- TIONS THAT PRODUCE 'INSTANT DEATH.

Japanese Pilots Accused!

Chungking. Oct. 2. Thro Japanese pilots who were captured noon after the outbreak DI WH. have been charged with espionag activities on orders of the general issimo's headquartors with ap proval of the national militars council, Central News Agency ro ported.

The charges involve the period while they were interned and thei activities after they escaped fron. a Chengtu prisoner-of-war camp in

1942.

Price 10 cts.

WHAT HIROHITO TOLD MACARTHUR

TOKYO, OCT. 2. JACK SMYTH, REUTER'S SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT IN TOKYO, SAYS: "GENERAL DOUGLAS MACAR- THUR, ALLIED SUPREME COMMANDER, MAY SHORTLY CALL ON EMPEROR HIROHITO AT THE IMPERIAL PALACE, A JAPANESE HOME OFFICE SPOKESMAN TOLD ME YESTERDAY. "GIVING ME THE TEXT OF THE RECENT INTERVIEW BETWEEN THE SUPREME. ALLIED COMMANDER AND THE EMPEROR AT THE UNITED STATES EM- BASSY, THE SPOKESMAN SAID. THAT GENERAL MACARTHUR MADE A "TREMENDOUS IMPRES-

SION ON THE EMPEROR, WHO WAS PARTICULAR- LY IMPRESSED THAT GENERAL MACARTHUR DID NOT MAKE ANY REFERENCE AS TO WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THE WAR" SAID THE SPOKES-

MAN.

"Although the Emperor express.

ed as his personal opinion that, the aku judgment would have to bu left to future historians, Genera. MacArthur made no comment.

"The Emperor personalty thank ed General MacArthur for the way in which he had carried ou the occupation, 'without a single incident the spokesman declared

"General MacArthur, in turn, expressed the

that opinion

th smooth occupation was really due to the Emperor's leuaerenip.

1

Kowloon's

Big Ben Off Again

"The Supreme Commander an the Emperor were in complete agreement that had an invasion been found neccasury, it woulu in the loss of thou- nave resulted in sands of lives on both sides and

Hirohito and Generd MacArthur then diactiased various occupational measurest It was set right through be taken by the Alles and the Etechnical assietnice odned by

THE KOWLOON RAILWAY' STATION TOWER CLOCK, THE ONLY PUBLIC CLOCK ON THE PENINSULA, TELL THE STARTED TO TIME AGAIN ON MONDAY AFTER A LAPSE OF NEAR- LY. FOUR YEARS.

he

Empery destruction of Japan

the

"Mongelo," "ho_added, "spent epror declared himself well satis the Captain Commander and officera of H.M.C.S. Ontario.

the progress alread

great deal of time in a campo made when you see every chia salThis assistance had earlier been---

elevan thousand gypsies, experi menting in gynaecology. He want ed to discover a formula for gun-

TANKER conception of twins.

11,000

what became of the

July Bendel said that by

Japan dressed as either a so dier or a sailor, you realise tha.. it will take a long time to cure Japan' of the ways of wan" h said.

told

over 4,000 of them had bean

SUGGESTIONS WELCOME in the crematorium

General MacArthur then another 1,500 selected for workin;

and the rest died through the Emperor that he would "wel come any suggestions His Majesty "Bendel said that the

might make crema torium Auschwitz,

Ynatural or other causсă.'

They are accused of spying or military objectives while they weret prisoners and taking noves 01

nt

wher

Kramer was commandant, was 90 over-tared that trenches were bull:

to spin the the burning of bodies

middle of the

the trenche canals were constructed throug! which the liquid residue drained

of burn ing corpses could be away. Over a thousand peop

were dealt with in an hour in

He way, he declared. On his first day at

at the crema- lum, 8,000 Jews

requested by the Controller of Railways, Lt. Col. . B. Trevor.

By the afternoon of Sept. 80, the clock handa had had a pre liminary, canter, but the move- menta were sluggish after so long a period of inactivity. On Monday the clock was in full working order.

The and promised, straction of Japaning the recon if they were in accordance with Allied policy, ho would see that they were carried out as soon as possible, the spokesman added.

The spokesman emphasised that ill-feeling toward General Mac "nobody in Japan had the slightes Arthur and they were confidently looking forward to the Suprem Commander returning the courtesy. of the Japanese Emperor by call

essential parts were found to be intact, although a great deal of cleaning was ne cessary, and it speaks well for the quality of the electrical equipment made by "Gents" of Leicester, England, that It should have rosisted the clima-

tic conditions without attention over this period,

areas that might be valuable to ghetto were burned" the Lod fing on him at the Imperial Palace, to be entertained thera 'since the

the Japanese air force. They wer recaptured soon after their escape. -Associated Press.

FUNDAMENTAL IN BIG-FIVE

CONFLICT PARLEY

LONDON, OCT. 2.

THERE IS NO PROSPECT OF A FINAL AGREEMENT AT THE PRESENT SESSION OF THE COUNCIL OF FOR- EIGN MINISTERS UNLESS ONE SIDE OR THE OTHER IS READY TO COMPROMISE. ON_THE QUES- TION OF PRINCIPLE. UP TO NOW, THIS HAS PROVED AN INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLE.

WHETHER IT WAS REMOVED AT THE MEETING HELD LAST NIGHT MAY NOT BE DISCLOSED TILL THE WORLD SEES THE LONG COMMUNIQUE, WHICH IS EXPECTED TO BE ISSUED SHORTLY BEFORE THE FOREIGN MINISTERS DEPART.

The dißculties, which have hold, stage when a solution could only up the drafting of the lingi docu bu reached on the highest level.- ment of tho confernco A DI Đ

han forty-eight hours, are

по.

thought to be exclusively matter.

of wording or proceduto. Furs

seir stand-point that the dele

intes

ot

boliler,

CHINA'S ROLL OF

of France and China ough HONDUR

to be a

a party the discussion. on the Balkan ponce terms,

th...

· · Chungking. Oct. 2-1 centra. Soviet représentatives are baliovac news agency dispatch from Han

kow quotes a Chinese authority ag saying" eight years of war coat th Chinoso moro than 1,400,000 soldiota and, officers killed an Associated Press... 1,700,900 wounded or missing.

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Lo be protesting against their sigi. ag the overall protocol, covering he records of these discussions. UNABLE TO SHELVE Thus, the conference has beer unable to avoid a fundamenta conflict on this point principly b shelving the matter as they

arsier in the sassion.

that the matter: The possibility that

London, Ost. 2. may now

Favo to bo referred to eat. In the Smethwick bye-elec- meeting of the heads of state ition, the result of which wa. boing canvassed in London. H Jeciárod last night, the Labour

armad quarters here do not be

candidate retained the seat by a10,000 majority over his Conservative opponent. -- Reu- tor.

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iovo that a decision on this ques

It is the

ion has yet buen takon. owover, thought that Agreement has now sonched

an hour

-Reater.

A Polish witness named Roman Sempolinaki said Ladislaw Gore one of the accused had killed in- tornees in

in Belson at the rate of 20

a. rifle butt. with a Kramer's counsel, Major Win wood, yesterday denied that Frau Kramer had been stabbed whe she want to Belsen on Saturday. to see some witness. She was r cognised by some Polish interveer and some "derogatory remarice" were made but there was no attaci ho said-Router.

Express

Disaster Heroism

LONDON, OCT. 2.

"If he does so, he will be th❘ present Emperor resolved Marahal first foreign military commander Philippe Petain in 1925.”—Router.

COLONEL

RUFFLES THE

OLD SCHOOL TIE

LONDON, OCT, 2

THE TORIES ARE IN A SHOCKING TEMPER. NOT ALL THEIR PUBLIC SCHOOL TRAINING HAS ENABLED- THEM TO TAKE THEIR LICKING WITH A STIFË UPPER LIP.

INSTRAD DE A HAPPY BAND OF BROTHERS. who

MADE SUCH A MESS OF IT ON ST": "CRISPIN'S DAY- THEY ARE AT EACH OTHER'S THROATS LIKE KIL- KENNY CATS.

They are engaged somewhat an incredible height, waves rusheik belatedly in the pastime known at jupon the houses; everything was

recriminations about the past.” threatened with destruction. In

the midst of the terrible storm. me, Fartington, who lived upon the beach, was seen at the door of

* They ought to get Mr. Gollanc to publish a book abouttered for

once they have

th laws of libel.

house with soap and a patent mop There will be no lacle of authorraqueazing out вед water and The trouble begins with a cer vigorously pushing. away the

RIES TWO

IT IS NOW CERTAIN THAT THE DEATH-ROLL IN THE SCOTTISH EXPRESS DIS ASTER WILL NOT EXCEELtain Lieutenant-Colonel Sinclair Atlantic Ocean," Router. 39..

former candidate for East Edir. burgh. Lieutenant Colonel

Sin It ranks as the worst diena clair

the election under th ter since that of 1916 when misaon that the c

vatives were a party bent on r 224 were killed.

Now having discovered An-official Inquiry is to com-

the assistance of th electora of Best Edinburth-h menco, on Thursday.

he been. voice his

When service was regumed on this main line from Londo to the North, passengers

enouch t: public.

anota or nota or

the services of the Lior

NOBODY WANTS HIM

London, Oct. 2-After follow-

threatened that they would "get moved

Either the leopard changes hirners had demonstrated and passing trains could see thwithout 40 party must carry or him. William Joyce, was LABOUR HOLDS SEAT The Dishes

bren quick to pounce, led by the Scrubbe to Wandsworth pending hearing of his appeal against the irrepressible anachronism, Mr

Mr Icath sentence passed on him last. Bevorley Daxter.

Imonth for high treason.2 Sinclair's traitor! If he About 300 young prisoners, aged wants reform why docan't hn haw between 10 and 28, are at Worm- the deceber to keep the Ides twood Scrubbs, and whenever Joyed himself. Poor Me Raster's fehle appeared at exercise he was greet- Fine a tough battle. He's the new ed with entealin and shouts of Damo Partington; In 1824. in: th | “Hail Hitler””, abuse and threats.. town of Bidmouth, the tide rose to--Rentor

through the night in the sigh of Harga A

Privato Dorby Fossey R.A.0.G., of Winkwell, was stil working on the wreck where h remained for 30 hours in spit of appeals by police officers to leave the scene. His leave "ex pirod at midnight-Reuter.

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