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Vol. II, No. 114. Thursday, January 24th, 1946. MACÃO BOAT PIRATED Passengers Looted And Stripped Heavily Armed Gang Of Twelve

THE STEAM LAUNCH "KIEN CHUNG" ARRIVED

FROM

THREE HOURS. MACAO YESTERDAY OVERDUE, BRINGING A STORY OF A WELL PLANNED AND PREMEDITATED PIRACY COM- MITTED BY A GANG OF 12 MEN WHO HADE BOARDED THE VESSEL AS PASSENGERS.

THE "KIEN CHUNG"" LEFT MAÇÃO AT 8.30 AM AUTH T 9.50 120 PASSENGERS IND A CREIF OF 23. 4AL, SIX MILES OUT" OF ALICÃO, THE PIRITES ALIDE THEIR PRESENCE KNOWN, COFERING THE PASSENGERS BITH REFOLIERS.

The subsequent looting strip- ped the majority of the passen- gers not only of their money. jewellery, and valuable hugggiats. hat extended to overcoats and

shoes,

mure, taking clothes and shoes that the original gaing had teft

BRISK BUSINESS IN SHOES

600 FEARED DEAD IN DISASTER

Shanghai, Jan. 23. The Japanese repatriation "Enoshima Maru", carrying 4,307 homeward bound Japan= car, struck a mine thirty miles of the Yangton on Tuesday afternoon.

Sho sank within two koura and about six hundred peravna. are reported to be mimming. feared drowned.--Reuter.

FOUR BRITISH

Price 10 cts.

TOKYO CITIZENS TAKE MATTERS IN OWN HANDS

The Weather

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Ta-lay's forecast:-Light'vari- able winds, fine, carly haze, warm das.temperatures

Yesterday's temperature Maximum: 60 degrees at 1.30 pm, Minimum: 57 degrees at 8 a.m.

JAP. MATA HARI TO FACE TRIAL

CHUNGKING, JAN. 23.

IT IS REPORTED THAT MISS YOSHIKO KAWASHIMA, CONSIDERED ONE OF THE MOST NOTORIOUS SPIES IN THE ORIENT, HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO CHUNGKING FOR TRIAL FROM PEIPING WHERE SHE WAS ARRESTED.

ía

Gen. Marshall

Accepts Key Post

MISS KAWASHIMA IS A MANCHU PRINCESS BY BIRTH. SHE WAS THE DAUGHTER OF PRINCE CHIN OF THE IMPERIAL MANCHU DYNASTY. WHEN SHE PJS TEN YEARS OF AGE HER FATHER COMMITTED SUICIDE AT DAIREN BY SWALLOWING A PIECE OF GOLD. She was adopted by a Mr. Kawashima, a friend of her fa- ther, was

Elven his name and educated by him in Japan where she learned to speak Jupanese fluently.

are the stories connected Many with Miss Kawashime. She allowed to have been one of the platters behind the Japanese occu- pation of Jehad and is said at one time to have been an intimate of the notorious Japanese Gone.

Chungking. Jan. 23. ral Dothara, often described us

General George C. Marshall the "Inwrence of Manchurin."

Kuomintang agents suphus accepted the post of Adviser: posed bo have made several at- to the Chinese Military Com- tenants in a-sassinate Miss Kawn- mittee of three which ia A number of these, who hutt WERE SLIGHTLY WOUNDED shima who, necorting to one story. handling the recrganisation of| was swimming) statements to nuke, were lat... WHEN A PATROL RAN INTO had a double who was taken for the Chinese Army,

talcen aver by launch to the STIFF RESISTANCE AT KEM-eg and slain.

PRENG AND DODOKAN NEAR| THE EAST JAVA PORT OF SOURABAYA,

There were twe ensuulties, on being a passenger named Tuny.

The "Kien Chung" was meet SOLDIERS

at the wharf by a police party. under Sub-Inspectors J. P.

Waldron and R. Mackenzie, whol WOUNDED

Kennedy A thoreach search was made of crew and

were assisted by a

of the Ming Kee Hong si Macus. | Force contingent. naid to have been carrying a considerable sum of money 1 passengers, who were queation- his person, who leaped nyered. board, evid nily in an attempt. to escape.

away when last seen.

loon.

A member of the compradore' Water Police Station in Kow. staff, Chung Wai, was hit over] the head with a revulver-butt.

The vessel was atvered by the to Ki 0. which pirates

they reached about 11 o'clock, There} they were roet by a motorised junk to which the hot gathered was transferrel,

The pirates then beached the "Kien Chung" and made good their escape on the junk. About half an hour later hero was Bullicient water for the unch to take off and she ntinued or her journ to Hour Kons arriving at the old O.S.K, Wharf about 3.15 p.m.

NOT FAIR TO OTHERS!

One of the passengers. Mr.

was

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BATAVIA, JAN. 23. TOUR BRITISH SOLDIERS

OFFICIAL SOUROES STATED TO-DAY,

a-

under

are

The announcement was, made MANY ADMIRERS

to-day by the Minister of In- formation, K. C.. Wu, who said After her nrgest in Peiping he also thought censorship in Miss Kawashima cinimed she had the recovered areas would be all along been loyal to China and lifted soon.

TOKYO, JAN. 23,

RESIDENTS OF TWO TOKYO DISTRICTS IN AN OR- DERLY DEMONSTRATION:TOOK CONTROL OF "THE FOODSTUFFS AND OTHER COMMODITIES

STORED IN A FORMER ARSENAL. AND DISTRI BUTED THEM, AMONG THEMSELVES · YESTER- -DAY AS THE MOVEMENT FOR PUBLIO CON-

TROL OF NECESSITIES SPREAD,

4 HOME MINISTRY OFFICIAL, CONFIRMING THE TOKYO INCIDENT, SAID THERE WAS NO 'PIO- LENCE WHEN LEADERS OF SOME 3.500 CITIZENS, ENDED TIFO DAYS OF NEGOTIATIONS BY' HANDING COMMODITIES TO THE MEN AND W'O- MEN ASSEMBLE IN FRONT OF THE ARSENAL Officials, however, expressed the opinion that the leaders might be subject to criminal action.

Simultaneously, Kyode repart-: ed that representatives of farn-' ern in the Saitama Prefecture, about 60 miles north of Tokyo, warned that there might be "bloody clashes" between the police and formtors unless the government changed its plan for compulsory purchase of rice.

Seventy representatives. oľ farmers of 24 villages met um- der Communist aponsorship.

They organised a council to cam- paign for public control of foodstuffs.

“Living alliance""

Tokyo newspapers splashed stories of the Tokyo incident which in the first of its kind in

Chungking Talk

Chungking, Jan. 23. General George C. Marshall westerday conferred for a

Generalisehno

hour

with

Chiang Kai-shrk.

on taya

The topic of their discussion is believed to have contred to terminate the violations of the truce agree- mnt---Åranciated Prena,

IF RUSSIANS DO NOT MIND!

BATAVIA, JAN. 21 PREMIER SUTANSJAHRIR INDONESIAN GOVERNMENT learned two EXPRESSED INDONESIAN OC WORLD

the capital. They said the re- OF THE SELF-PROCLAIMED

sidents of the Takinogawa and Itabashi districts days ago of quantities of sup APPRECIATION piles stored in underground INTEREST IN JAVA AND shelters at the former Itabashi SAID THAT IF THE RUB- arsenal.

SLANS DO NOT MIND, THEY PREFER THE BRITISH ΤΟ REMAIN IN THE ISLAND UN- TIL THE JAPANESE HAVE

REMOVED.

The citizens formed a "living protection alliance" to demand a destribution.-Associate! Press.

TIME TO SAY NO TO SOVIET

Lanark, Jan. 23.

It was time for Britain to say

her own mer

BEEN

"If the British withdrew now," the Nationalist loader declared. "the Jape might refuse to luy down rekist

their arns ani might

Sjabrir hopes the British will be aelently convinced that donesian administrative abi My would enable the British to quit Java promptly, once the Allied powers' assignment is corrsleted.

The premier nded that hie

Many of the passengers were without shoes and there were shouts of "I have lost every

British artillery was used and and pretended to work for the Wu said that Chinesa ad- thing" from passengers to their

Japanese only so she could seerat-ministration had been establish- no to Russia's demands, which overment had not appealed to friends awaiting them outside the opposition was dispersed.

ly conspire against them. Neither the wharf gule.

Batavia was generally quiet this story nor

ed In the Manchurian towns of went far beyond anything which the United Nations, holding such the teary

could reasonably be necessary for action in reserve if other attempte with

Mukden, Changchun,

Harbin,

a cottlement failed. The incident produced one excopt for louters. one hundred of

which she accompanied it moved!

Hc

Ocurity, asserted the for- to reach a

He continued: "If any nation businessman

not who were reported to be

Under-Secretary,| who

Foreign her captors.

Chinhsten and Stepingkai.

is to Chinese were no

Lord Dunglass,

up the subiect Miss Kawashim employed all snid there

here today

to bring

of the caught napping. As passengers prouching the dock aren

must British presence, it is appropriate finally streamed out of the gate arms and fled to hideouts near a the hackneyed devices of the spy ferces in Dairen or Port Arthur.The Russian Governmcat Russia should

line when a patrol

the plainest lang

do eo, since she is in theinstockingeband bars feproached to investigate.

A and was particularly fond of dis-i The Chinese Army Reorgan- be tole

told now in the includes egungo that the independence of direct interest in the Indonesian, the matar power with the least guising herself as a

isation man.

Committee they were met by a vendor of

Indonesians working at a stone Her admirers are said to have Generals

and Persla in vital to British Chinese cloth shens

who pra

quercy at Padjak, a hill station of been many. She is said to have Chang Chi-chung, of the Central terests, that we intend to honour and this better ahlo to present reeded to do a brisk lusin SA.

Bandgen, told a party of British quarrelled with one of them. Genex Chic, ungeneral Chou our side of the treaty and that pho-case-as-n moral breue," troops and engineers who visited writer by name of Wu Chu-ch. En-jai, of the Communist Party, we expect and request them to do sociated Prepa the quarry that they were willing] and to have falsely denounced to work for the British and under him

railway

British protection and organise to to the Japanese as a spy

him executed-Associated Press.

The "Kien Chung" is owned by the Kien Hing Shipping Co. and is of 150 tons, She is driven 100 1.9. Marine Diesel er- A. K. Perry, told the "hina gine. Formerly a Japanese sub,tion. Mail" that

Her sister ship is armed with revolvers and hundurine chaser she has a speed

of 18 knots. proveded the "Kien Hwa. with the looting. Mrs. Perry

the pirat

Krénades. They

said in a businesslike way and

Start of the passenFromA

なない

successful in pleas that they he

not completely stripped.

Au argument developed b

tween two of the pirates with regard to 14 passenger who

claimed that he had nothing: meru in the world than what was on his person. One of them

The British also found a hydro-, electric plant run by Indonesians) and in good order-Reuter.

CHARGES

RUSSIAN

AGAINST BRITAIN.

„LONDON, JAN. 23.

was for letting him keep what PRIME MINISTER CLEMENT ATTLEE PROTESTED

he had, but the other insisted!

on stripping him. The argu ment was that letting one pas- senger escape looting would not be fair to the other passengers, of the junk that The crew

came alongside to take off Ca pirates was a ruder and mure unceaith lot than the gang that AS had boarded at Macun, Mrs. They Parry told our reporter,

went over the passengers one

SHANGHAI INCIDENT

MAJOR BOXER NOW SEEKS OBSCURITY

TOKYO, JAN. 23. THE RECENT MARRIAGE OF MAJOR CHARLES BOXER MEANS HIS RETIREMENT INTO "RESPECTABLE OB- SCURITY" HE TOLD AN IN- TERVIEWER HERE FROM THE ARMY NEWSPAPER "STARS AND STRIPES.”

Boxer is a member of the Far Eastern Commission and the much

of publicised husband

writer Emily Hahn. He turned aside a request for news of his activities with this remark: "My new life" began the day I married.'

Не married Miss Hahn shortly before Christmas after being freed from Japanese captivity in Ilong Kong.

Boxer is planning to return to the United States with the Far

Eastern Commission leaving

Chang Chun

in-

connive any longer at this BANK ROBBER

SHOT DEAD

The Vice-Minister of Foreign likewise, Affairs, Lin Chien, in a state-To cor ment said that transportation breach of the treaty would strike #1 blow at the rule of law, and of difficulties might delay for days

we should lose the respect the withdrawal of Russian

tbe natione who look to Great Manchuria and Britain above all, to be its cham- forces from Jehol. The withdrawal is sche- nion. We must not be afraid w on stand up for and protect British duled for completion February 1.-Associated Press. interests," he declared.-Reuter.

Girl Claims To Be Hitler's Daughter

BERLIN, JAN. 33.

BRITISH AUTHORITIES ARE HOLDING AN ATTRAC- TIVE 18-YEAR OLD GIRL WHO GIVES THE NAME OF GETELIND TORTENSEN AND CLAIMS HITLER WAS HER FATHER.

•

DURING NUMEROUS INTERROGATIONS. SINCE HER ARREST IN THE MAGDEBURG AREA SHE HAS SHE INSISTED THAT HER MOTHER - WHOM SAID WAS A SWEDISH ACTRESS-WAS INTLER'S

Manila, Jan. 23. One-armed Antonio Sen. Juan, 38, at liberty on ball after plead ing guilty to the armed robbery charge in the $210,000 daylight robbery, a few weekno, of the Philippines Bank of Communica tions mesenger, was shot and killed to-day in a crowded niarket district.

The Provest Marshal blamed an underworld feud for the killing. The killem escaped.

San Juan was rcherluled to enter priann next week after receiving a sontorce. The bank robbery was the largest in Phillouine history.

San Juan and three accommollees were arrested seven hours after the hold-up while dividing the loot.

Associated Press:

A Ragbag Of

MISTRESS IN THE LATER 20'S AND THEY MET Ingredients

IN FIENNA. FREQUENTLY MOTHER WAS NOW DEAD.

The girl said she was employ-

IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS IN ANSWER TO RUSSIAN CHARGES THAT GREAT BRITAIN IM- PERILLED WORLD PEACE. BY HER POLICIES IN GREECE AND INDONESIA, THAT THE BRITISH WISHED ONLY FOR AN "AMICABLE SETTLE- MEN BETWEEN THE DUTCH GOVERNMENT AND THE NATIONALISTS IN JAVA. INFORMED LONDON SOURCES SAID BRITJIN IN- TENDED TO DEFEND HER POLICIES IN GREECE AND THE NETHERLANDS INDIES TO THE LIMIT, THE LABOUR CABINET DISCUSSED THE SOVIET CHARGES. AND IT WAS REPORTED THAT NO ATTEMPT WOULD, BE MADE TO SIDETRACK THE UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUNCIL FROM AN OPEN INVESTIGATION,

Juman on Jan. 31. After under-ed in the Relch Chancellory as immediate response to quee if

going treatment of his four-year- a secretary and that Hiller sow Speaking in

old wound, which caused partial her every day and treated her, tiona in the House. Mr. Attleo said settling the problems appears.

Mr. Atlee, said that the situa- Shanghai, Jan. 23.

that if any fuller malement wore With regard to the lucident required it would have to come tion in Java appeared to be "im- he said he plane from Foreign Minister Bovin proved" adding that be hoped con- England to request on Tuesday in which U.S. sailors Meanwhile, British officials said vergations between Dr. H. J. van back to the Far East were attacked by Chinese dur-

a reply Mook, Lieut-Governor-General of Boxer will accompany Mr. Bovin might make ing a demonstration against the within the next few days.

Netherlands East Indles,

and the

Nationalists. Shanghai Municipal Govern-

headed by Sutan The Russians asked for an in-

shortly. Mook 19 route to Java officially declared that four en- and Greece in two notes presented

with listed men and one. Chinese civi- to the

Nations accretariat now proposals for a settle- night.

mont from the Dutch government, lian, an employee of the Navy, on Mond

dispatched ita were injured in an "unprovoked The Soviet said the continued and Britain bas attack" by Chinese who were presence of British forces in Ambassador from Moscow, Sir Greece alded "reactionary forces."

s." Archibald Clark-Kerr, as a special parading down the Bund.

None of the victims are be. The Russian note on Indonesia se envoy to the. troubled faland. Iloved to have been injured seri-

oused British forces of suppresssociated Prear. ously Associated Press.

tho

no

manner

of

SHE SAID HER

Moscow Group

paralysis of his arm and hand. affectionately as his daughter. On Greece

sociated PreZE.

ment, the U.S. Navy authorities vestigation of affaire in Indonesia Siphrir, could be resumed Palestine

FRANCE'S NEXT PRESIDENT

Paris, Jan. 21. Clearing the way for his election

in the local population of the

Netherlands Indies.

on

Both situations were described FRENCH CLOSING

as threats to world nence.........

U.N. MISSIONS?

Several United Nations officiale said the security coincil may meat on Thursday to consider the Ros stan charges and also the anon!

CONSULAR COURTS

to head for his transfer

him.-AD-

She said she was schooled in the Adolf Hitler School in Ber Min's Teppichof and when she was 14 she was told by Hitler in the presence of Goering and Himmice that Hitler was het father,

Military Activity

HELD AS SUSPECT

Now York, Jan: 23. Tho Now York "Herald Tribune" to lay called President Traman's 25,000-word combined report "on the State of the Union" and the

budget programine rag-bag of expediente good, bad and indifferent.”

The puber mid that, the Presid cat's message was

"thrown out by an adetration without Capacity to anale ite problem or COURUTO TO adopt a songident policy towards it."

stales:

Moscow, Jan. 28. The E.A.M. (Greek Left, Wing Party) delegation in Moscow to night called for the withdrawal of

The "New York Times"" British troops from Greedo The President put so many re- soon as possible, expressed alum commendations in his message over deterioration of the political without clear ompharts botween and economic altuation there and major and minor matters that voiced the hope that the great the result is a failure to achiere "Hitler," she onid, "was powers would ensure free eles firm and compelling leadershi

of ConsTCER."Heuter. Haifa, Jan. 23.

wounded in 1915 and following tions.

The delegation" said that the Largo military operations, in-an.cporation for the wound in work of U.N.R.R.A. in Greece volving several thousand troops 1029 lost his procreative pov was being sabotaged by the Far and extending for some 35 miles ere." She claimed the associacist commission, responsible for along the mala' road in the coastal tion between Hitler and her the distribution of relief lies. aren between Haifa and Jaffs, mother was well-known to high- but the Greeks were most thank are going on to-day.

• Chungking: Jan. 20. The Vice-Minister of Foreign Affaire, Lin Chich, to-day said the

Courts in China as an aftermath tapedia:

TEAR BOMBS USED IN BOMBAY

ful to U.N.R.R.A the delega *All traffic was diverted inland er-up Germane.

tion said at press conference: as light armoured cars and Bren- The girl. is being held in an They announced that EA.M. sup- gun carriers were posted at van interament camp near Fader- morted A number of torritorial tage points, roadside cages had British army phychiatrine

born as a security suspect. claims for Gresca. Along Cho interim Fresident of France, of Iran for an investigation of French are closing their Conbulay been built for the detention of said her general intelligence ap- party did not think cheeryors Chandra Bose, former head of 13

pears to be about the average, Gouln, to-day roalgued' as "Prie|-| National movement in the 'self"] of the' dlaputo arising from the Dt. bellaved that the....opera-1 but in his opinion," her claim to fares they knew, the Baviorated · Su- hospital foritoar pad, dent of the Constituent Assembly.

Another Bocalist, Vincent Azerbaijan. nerous provios of French as collestorationist, and tomb on the search of being Hitler's daughter may be Auriol, has bean. pamed the can- The same source said that taking him aboard szwarship to Monday, nichsfatal bomb exobhysterical phenomena with didate to succted Goula ad Amams United Nations missione. Conny be, baleon for trial. Associated man ska pollo post at Close little or no-truth-or-reality in

the Socialist Party leader. Fellxfered Rumian protection of the

autordinous

BUT PICKLINGAIKAssociated. Pream

vent to Iran, Groggy and Zulomasia.

Shanghat of tion is part of

Fit Associated : Prisă,

Bombay, Jan. 26. The Police and tear me and bamboo stavom to disperen a DID- conelon in Bombay to-day in colp The dologation said that their bration of the birthday of Subs would help the course of the Japanese anonsored "Tollan, Na-

As tional Government forthcoming reneral elections, AK

had you have the va io on the prudpusty publicly effects and twokwo were injured in

red-coposition to sendingathi (bamboo stave) chasser.

FJ Renter.. lodeervers.--Better.

"About thirty persone WOZE