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Vol. 11, No. 96.

Thursday, January 3rd, 1946,

TERRIFIC EXPLOSION ROCKS HOMUNTIN Casualties Happily Light

TERRIFIC EXPLOSION, HAPPILY SMOTHERED TO SOME EXTENT BY THE DEPTH OF THE TUNNEL IN WHICH TE OXYTRRIE ROCKED THE WHOLE OF THE BOMUNTIN AND BRAGA ESTATE AREAS LAST NIGHT, BURIED THE ROADS FOR TWO HUNDRED YARDS AROUND IN EARTH, WRECKED THREE HOUSES, AND CAUSED THE DEATH OF AN ELPER- LY CHINESE LOFF 1. THE BLAST OFCURRED JUST OFF ARGYLE STREET AT 10 PM AND WAS OF SUVET APPROXIMATELY

ATTENTION VIENT VIOLENCE TO ATTRACT

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THE ISLAND IT WAS DISTINCTLY PRET IN TSEM SHATSUL AND HUNDREDS OF WINDOWPS WERE YARDS OF THE SHATTERED WITHIN 280 TO Zou SCENE.

All three were badly wrecked. At midnight. RAF en d Comminace, under the diretion; No $14 taking the heaviest weight it was 117 explosion of RAP police, were all day of the

that Mr. and Mrs. Tu were kried the The wreckage of

mera, Two fire appitaneus were three boot meant to the tim

but a small fire that started was nol for fatos, tant ther was

Put the control early in the pre evodines reason to beltes that all seen jonta bud Jaren need for with the exreplyn of a four- year old boy. Wong Hei mal.

The two dead had beses ntensi fied as Me To Wal san, 6.5, and his wife, aged 61, and of eight permopes taken to hospital Buffering 114.7 injare shuck, several of them children, two were reported les Eve an Betis condition. Yan Sui kui, And You Stu leung

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Java Outrage

Ratavio, Jan. 2.4

Egon #leoNG (1 Danish evangelist, and five JapanNERO travelling with him na u pra reeting racort, have beeR BRY dered by Indonesian extrem jala.

The Indonesian authorities reprimile, immediate creating about 40 of those tavlerd. Kruter,

KOREANS DEMONSTRATE

SEOUL, KOREA. JAN. 2. BETWEEN 20,000 AND 30,000 AN OR. KOREANS JOINED DERLY PARADE YESTERDAY A MASS PROTEST IN AGAINST THE HIGHLY TESTED FOUR-POWER TRUS LIBE TEESHIP FOR THEIR RATED

COUNTRY. They demanded immediate in- demonstration dependence.

by the was skillfully engineered provisional povernment organist- tion recently returned from exile

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Price 10 cts.

Offers Germany To British Empire

RIBBENTROP ON HITLER'S LAST WISH

NUERNBERG, JAN. 2.

OF

BEATEN AND BITTER, ADOLF HITLER TALKED

WORLD POLITICS FOR THE LAST TIME WITH JOA- CHIM VON RIBBENTROP A WEEK BEFORE HIS RE- PORTED DEATH IN FLAMING BERLIN AND PRO. PHESIED:

"MY SPIRIT WILL arise from my gráve and ONE

The Mikado Disclaims Divinity

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Still Upset

London, Jan. 2. Furuter Prime Minister Winston Churchill fold the Britisk people in a New Year's

WILL SEE THAT I HAVE BEEN RIGHT."

manage that "in their moment of triumph they were The nervous Fuehrer

beguiled by false promiers trusted to his Foreign Minis-

and now stand the dangere ter delivery of an appeal to Bri-

of losing some fruite of the tish statesmen for a virtual

victory.

Churchill union of their Empire with Ger-

referred to the many, Hitler admitted he

Labour Party's election vic- "re the gretted"

vati

tory leat Suramer. he

A sucial- ed 'yan. United States.

He could not help expressing that he marvelled at the powe er of the Soviet Union and he called Stalin's creation of the Red Army "a grandiose dend."

But he displayed "deep dis appointment and embitterment" about the failure of his own po- litical dreams.

TOKYO, JAN. 2. EMPEROR HROHITO, IN AN UNPRECEDENTED MES- SAGE TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE, YESTERDAY BRANDED AS FALSE THE TWIN LEGENDS OF HIS TO OWN DIVINITY AND HIS PEOPLE'S DESTINY RULE THE WORLD.

THE EMPEROR'S SURPRISING RESCRIPT, DISAVOWING THE CREED TAUGHT HIS SUBJECTS SINCE IN- FANCY, BLUNTLY TOLD THE PEOPLE THE DEPTH OF THEIR DESTITUTION AND CALLED UPON THEM "TO STRIVE COURAGEOUSLY FOR CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW AND PEACEFUL JAPAN..

He said: "I aland by my pet-

le and wish always to share with!

them in there moments of joy and in their mIUTOWA.

General MacArthur salt after War:

Emperor's **The

now year's statement plenses me very much. undertakes being By it he

A

part in demor ralisation of his peu- ple. He surely takes his stand for the future along liberal lines.

action reflects the irresistible ! Influence of

idea. Bound sound idea cannot be stopped."

Hirohito's surprise renunciation of "divinity" indicated that he was bold starting New Year with Kanible

to hold his position before internationul fresh anticipated attacks.

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There were Indications thut all The rand to the D.S

and the demonstrators were not volun- Aloe kod. Completely

with Bary or enthusiastic. Parade mar - Argyle Street was covered

audred earth wed and from the railwayi shale armed with aleks

Mansions, laveing marches back inte tocating the Emperor's overthrow, brolge in SC. George's Peare Aveng

top in earth and recruited new strength from dewalk onlookers as they P1 ዋኔ over its entire Perth.

C'eekery stars broken.

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11 year. imuntin and in Ka

There still is no report of any

in the Russian

chore Avenue, and the last was! Korean reaction

felt as far alieb) as the Kowloon, oerned murthern half

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Buring the iny, some the

ronic had been moved? from the tunnel, but experts Brid indicated that the expitove was in A dangerous ruuhition md it har ben del to midlate part of

the tank and berry it.

Nearest bulgings were No. 117. Bad 121. Arie Street, about thirty yards away.

MacArthur Alarm". Scouted

Chiang's New Gesture

Associated Press.

Year

CHUNGKING, JAN, I.

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IN A NEW YEAR'S MESSAGE TO THE CHINESE PRO PER, CHIANG KALSHEK DECLARED HE WOULD GO TO ANY LENGTHS TO PRESERVE INTERNAL PEACE AND PROMOTE CONSTITUTIONAL DEMOCRACY. "WE WILL USE EVERY POSSIBLE PEACEFUL

MEANS

The unprecedented New Year's regerint ala frowned upon "rudi. - cal tendencies" in an evident play for pennie": sunport against Jap anese Coinmunists who are advo

The document further stung the government lightly but definitely for dilaturmess in solving liveli- hood problems, in that it indicated. the Equeror's continued interest in political affairs

MEIJI PRINCIPLES

The document devoted consider. able attention to pleas for a second restoration of Mel's principles wha were essentially laudable but suberiuently ververted.

This timing lelles ni least that the occupation authorities know in advance the genera, outlines of the rescript and were ready with! an unusually swift ramment. How- ever, it is understood that court oficinis undertook the discussion divinity" without. Allied

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Brompt fus.

The rescript said the ties be tween the Emperor and the people are not predicated a false com- TO SOLVE THE INTERNAL CONFLICTS," HE SAID

ception that the Emperor is divine IN A RAPIO ADDRESS.

Le mini-by more than eight years of and that the Jamarese people are "Internally I wish

to rule the world." tain natural unity sirinally bloodshed and sacrifice was better races and fated

jespordised

by

recent

eth and success or fallure.lity, be declared:

These are not only reeder

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No ruler.

ment of

New York

Cuts Loose

For New Year

Thus, the fugitive Von Rih- bentrop, writing to the former British Prime Minister, Mr. Winston Churchill and the For.

NEW YORK, JAN. 2. CAFE SOCIETY WELCOMED Minister, Mr. Anthony eign Erlen, in Hamburg, in the upari-IN THE NEW YEAR IN THE a 36-year-old blond CELEBRATION IN HISTORY, BIGGEST, MOST EXPENSIVE last summer, described his final EVEN SURPASSING THE GAY DAYS OF

This is the first dispatch to For the first tine since the war's parties turned "formal", quote textually from Ribben- start.

required with evening dress trop'n handwritten message to the British leaders, which the many smart clubs. army intelligence heretofore has $40 a couple didn't discourage the crowds which packed in in record kept on its secret st.

numbers.

King To Giveting with the man he ful- FREE SPENDING

PROHIBITION.

Banquet

London, Jan. 2. Newspapers here to-day re- ported that

a great Court Banquet in planned for Jun, 0 un the eve of the convening of the United Nations Genarai Assembly.

The per auid the Queen wad the fro Princesser wordd attend with the King and oc! as hosts to more than 1,000 tara! Les 18.---- delegates from fil Aanociated Prese.

Japanese Drenched

With Sorrow

In

Charges

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One club had as patrons one Vanderbilt,

ene Whitney, three countessen, about two dozen mill- Bonaires and assorted movie and stage stars.

NO RESEMBLANCE Ribbentrop's version of what he claimed to be "Hitler's laet political will," made to him oral- ly, bore practically no resem

An estimated inillion frenzied blance to the hysterically word- ed document released publicly celebrants jammed Himes Square, by Allied officers last week-end, and cut loose with deafening coc which named a Cabinet ander phony and shouting as the old year Admiral Duenitz to carry on the

Maid One hotel manager

the war, charged Hermann Goering demand for champagne exceeded with anything he had seen in his 33 and Heinrich Himler

Associated treason and blamed Germany's vears in the business. downfall unl "international Press.

Jewry."

Ribbentrop wrote: "S often Jately, the Fuehrer's deep dis appointment and

erbittermenti

conversation

about the fallure of his political conception was evident."

Не Washington, Jan. 2.

the sald American intelligence officers "culminated in a kind of last complimented a captured skip- appeal and message to the lead- per of a Japanese two-man sub-ers of the British Empire and marine at Pearl Harbour of the represented the last political a great success of the Japanese attack, will of a man who as but be responded with an ex- idealist loved his people above pression

of bitter disappoint | all. ment at bis failure to sink an American warship.

FAITHFUL TO LAST "I have been a close colla The story about Sub-Lieut.horster of the Fuhrer in for Kazuo Sakamaki, the first Ja-eign pelities for many years.

of the

war. I have been a faithful follower of panese prisoner came out in the Pearl Harbour his up to the last minute," Rib- investigation records.

bentrop wrote.

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Solomon Wants Advice!

WASHINGTON, JAN 2.

A BARGAIN-DRIVING UNIT. ED STATES SOLDIER ON A LONELY PACIFIC ISLE TUSS- ED IS HEADACHE INTO THE LAP OF THE VETERANS AD- MINISTRATION WHAT TO DO ABOUT HIS WIVES.

He wrote: "I sat three or four wiver

by trading for fishhooks and things. I believe I could get a dozen or so more."

He wanted to know if he could being some of the wives with him and take them to college. Ho said the dark skinned women were guod natured.

Trading was legal, he said. "It the way they do business in this tribe. The chief wanted fehhooks,

for many

fabhooks. He women. I didn't.

Lon hud

So we

New York, Jan. 2. The United States holiday violent death roll totalled 318 on Tuesday.

More than half the total was due to traffic accidents.--Assu-

I wish to achieve wort pence. Fr I have devuled everything I events. Stresaltug that the first 21 return to have to my country and I have pre-requisites to banished all thoughts of life or normalcy were pence and stabi-

Considerations of personal glory. nuki gain

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my by the Chinese as a nation; they TOKYO, JAN. 2.

Arc also the main conditions BRIGADIER-GENERAL E. R. thoughts."

HEAD (312 THE The Generalissimo's concilia-upon which world security de- THORPE,

But

and above COUNTER. INTELLIGENCE tory statement came just prior penda. SERVICES HERE, TO-DAY to his Government's counter-everything else we must arrive SAID THAT NO THREATS

The Communists at a common understanding on HAVE BEEN MADE AGAINST Proposals to GENERAL MACARTHUR AND for ending hostilities and his national problems."-Associated NOT setting of Jan. 10 for the meet-Press. THAT GUARDS HAVE

Ing of the political consultative BEEN INCREASED.

council. Government-Commun- "I don't have

uny immediat

ist conferences for settlement of worry about Allied Headquarters.

difficultles are not likely to -Bald Thorpe, attributing reports of

start before the second week in extra precautions to a "mistake"

Allied

Headquarters guards! January.

special have been sugmented versions such as during visita of Allied dignitaries or particular Japanese anniversaries when fans tics might be active.

Ho wrote

poam entitled

He said that during the rapid "On the Unfortunate Day ! Be-

Russian advance on Berlin he came a Prismer," which read. was cut off and could not re- "When cheery blossoms fall. turn to the city because of its

Drenchet

hn‹ are encirclement. He said he asked i brunches and teaves with sorrow the Fuehrer's permission let them fall." NEVER CLAIMED

of to-day."

him and his men to join a Ger- made a deal."--Associated Press. The Emperors never elainen The report said that when he man army in the battle for the

HOLIDAY DEATH ROLL was complimented on the rere-opening of the encirclement divinity but it was done in their names by officials who cleverly sults of the Japanese attack, he ring or for the relief of Berlin, utilisest this concept to bind their responded that it had been should it appear possible, but said Hitler said he didn't the much less successful than they he heretofore, would dare deny people to the throne.

anticipated. He told his cap want him in; that he should re- mythology surrounding him.

main outalde the fighting zone Ordinarily, such harsh repudiators he wanted only to die. tion over

He said: "My greatest mis- "and keep myself ready for far- of

uld teachings: centuries' would mean immediate cabinet retake was being captured. This ther instructions." Associated ignation and probably numerous in the first time I have failed. Press.

last Please do not advise Japan face thereby. This rescript doubt about this, Please kill me. suicides among officials who

shock to devout Japan- less was

At another time, he said: "Or ese despite considerable priur pre- London, Jan. 2. Land's End shipping radio sta-paration through Allied atatements course, whether there is a re and notably the abolition of state cord of the incident or not, I will commit suicide upon my re- tion has picked up a message atat- ing that the 7,000-ton United Shinto-Associated Press.

turn to my native land." States steamer "John B. Hood"

Rio de Janeiro, Jan. 2. carrying 560 troops, is wallowing NO POSTPONEMENT

off the Azores minus a propellor

Government workers receiv- Chiang Kai-shek said the pa- and in need of assistance. tional assembly, now scheduled

Later another vessel was reported a general 60 per cent. pay to meet on May 6, mual never ed to be standing by.-Associated increase to-day under Brazil's

Ho said Press. be postponed again.

on

U.K) TRAIN SMASHI

Thorno characterised such pro that to enable an expression of cautions as routine and tempurary,

post-war Thorpe said that in the event of popular will in the General Yamashita being hanged period, the Government is pre- it might be necessary to increase pared to increase the number of the General's guards for a week delegates to the assembly " or two" for the same renson-As- leading personages of society of other nociated Press,

and representatives political parties may also take; part in its deliberations."

The only condition to this ar Lichfeld, Jan. 2. rangement, Chiang said, was Fifteen persons were killed that representatives of partien to-day when a freight trau who are going to take part in "must act Government telescoped a four-coach passe the gor train standing at the rail-maintain autonomous arinles to way atation. Associated Press. serve as instruments for forel-

London, Jan. 2., ble seizure of power." Two more persons have died from the railway collision at Lich- field. Staffordshire.

This brings the total deaths to Afteen and many injured are stil:

boing rescued.-Router.

PRISCILLA'S BABY

Ho declared that if two armies are allowed to exist under one Government it is tantamount q

POSITION OF HONOUR

new wage scule.

Moscow Diplomacy Indications

WASHINGTON, JAN. 2. DIPLOMATIC OFFICIALS TO-DAY EXPRESSED THE BE- LIEF THAT THE UNITED STATES AND BRITAIN DURING 1940 WILL OFFICIALLY CONCEDE LITHUA- NIA, LATVIA AND ESTONIA AS PART OF THE SO- VIET UNION.

THE SAME OFFICIALS SAID "THERE IS GOOD SPECU- LATION" THAT THE BIG THREE IN EUROPE WILL BE FOLLOWING A COMMON POLICY ON DIPLOMA- TIC RECOGNITION.

Sakamaki said that in navi- gating through choppy scas he He had to leave his hatch open and drifted onto & reef and swam

water swamped the motor,

ashore.--Associated Press.

GUN BATTLE IN N.T.

An armed robbor was shot in

ciated Press.

Gen. De Gaulle Faces Another Crisis

PARIS, JAN. 2. PRESIDENT DE GAULLE TO-DAY THREATENED TO RE- SIGN WITH HIS CABINET IN PROTEST AGAINST THE SOCIALIST AND COMMUNIST ATTEMPT IN THE CONSULTATIVE ASSEMBLY TO SLASH NATIONAL DEFENCE CREDITS.

The action

hos

plungeri!

The socialists led a move for

For the period between now France into another serious gov- and Feb. 15 the sum of 1,200,- 000,000 francs is granted in ernment crisis.

The government had asked military credita---that lù, a re- for a national defence credit of duction of about five per cent in

those originally proposed. the right shoulder last night fol- 125,000,000,000 francs.

TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT

do Associated lowing an battle between armed

Press quotes robbers and the Police at Shek Kip

a cut by 20 per cent in last Gaulle as saying the government Mee village.

Shortly after 0 p.m., four men, night's session with the govern- would agree to a five per cent cut. two armed with revolvers, entered ment refusing to accept, upon with further reductions submitted a house in the Shek Kip Mee vil- which the Assembly was sun within three months.

Do Gaulle had bluntly told the lago in the New Territories.

pended while a compromise was assembly that it if voted the One of the tenants, a woman, tried.

Socialist proposal "the government who managed to get away, ran to the Polico post at Taipo. Police,

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When, the Deputies returned will resign. You have now to under S. 1. Byrne, surrounded the to-day a National Defence Com-rant me your, confidence or tell

to go."Associated Press. If this is true it will mean, want to remove other possible house but the robbers, when called mission spokcaman said nothing creation of ancher government that the United States and Brl-; causes of Allled disunity by dis on to submit, started fring. In was agreed upon. Associated

shot.

wore! Throo of the robbers Chiang added that with a vic-tain will break with the France posing of the Baltic and France the fight which touted, one was Press. torious end to the war, Chinese Government in Spain which the problems.

Either through diplomatie.chan-

fermal conference, the caught, one with a revolver, but should celebrate the New Year's Soviets have never recognised. arrival with justified pride. The way was paved at the ra- United States, Britain and France another armed man managed to

cent Moscow Conforanco Hollywood. Jan. 2..

for will discuss their relations with toward Motherhood came to screen ae- "but as a matter of fact our tres Prizella Lano-in-the-closing-country still is facing a rather American and British recogni- Franco and their attitudes hours of 1945, Avon-pound difficult situation, Though for- tion of the governments of tu- the Spanish Government in exile

carly this your A Having completed plans for Bomo United States officials be boy was born to her only a few sign aggression has been repoll-mania and Bulgaria, days after her husband, Major ed, Internal trouble in becoming Bi-Nation Peace Conference and lieve that a almaltaneous three peace treation with live fomier power break with the Franco re- Joseph Howard, returned from Guam. The last was named ever more serious."

Ho said the position of hon- anemies, It is believed that the game this year is probable, Asso our which the nation attained United States and Britain will ciated Press.

Josoph Leverendo, Associated

Press

escape.

THE WEATHER Ecuter adds that the con- Today's forecast:-Overcast Light to moderate south stituent assembly Inter voted unwith occasional rain. the Socialfat amendment... easterly winde, mild. animously for compromise on

Outlook, no immediato. Im- The 20 per cent reduction in London, Jan. 2,

credits demanded by the Social-provement.

Yesterday's temperature:- British Farliamentaryists will como automatically into

force on Feb. 28 If by Fob. 17 “Maximum:64 ́ degrees-at- delegation, which le flying en goodwill mission to India, left the Government has not submit

60 degrees at London for Poole, Dorsot on the ted to the assembly a bill for first stage of the Journey to day reorganisation of the army.

The

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