1946-01-28 — Page 1

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Vol. II, No. 117.

Monday, January 28th, 1946.

MOB SCENE AS

Chinese

SOCCER SEQUEL Resolution

UGLY SCENE FOLLOWED THE FOOTBALL MATCH AT CAUSEWAY BAY YESTERDAY BETWEEN EASTERN AND CIVILIANS "A" WHEN A CROWD GATHERED ROUND THE DRESSING ROOM AND STARTED TO THROW STONES AT THE CIVILIAN PLAYERS AND THE OFFICIALS OF THE GAME. FORTUNATELY NO ONE WAS SERIOUSLY INJURED, THOUGH TWO NAVAL PICKETS AND TWO PLAYERS RECEIVED INJURIES TO THE PAGE AND HEAD.

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Shanghai, Jan. 27.

A Chinese shipping organ- iration to-day passed a reaclu- tion asking the Central Gov. ernment to "debar ships flying forelo®" flage from the privi. lege of plying in Chincae waters.i

The Secretary-General of the Chamber of Shipping, Y. 1. Leo, urged the Government to safeguard China's naviga. tion rights.-Associated Press.

Price 10 cts.

MYSTERY MAN ENTERS INTO KOREAN POLITIOS

SEOUL, JAN. 27.

A NEWLY ARRIVED CHARACTER, COLOURFUL AND CONTROVERSIAL AS EVER FIGURED IN'A MYSTERY DRAMA, HAS MOVED INTO THE WINGS AND MAY AT ANY MOMENT STRIDE TO. THE CENTRE OF THE STAGE-IN-KOREA. THIS SHADOWY FIGURE,-KNOWN-AS-GENERAL-NEM-

IL SUNG, IS REPUTED TO BE A, COMMUNIST HERO IN FACT OR FANCY TO. THOUSANDS OF KOREANS WHO CREDIT HIM WITH LEADING GUERRILLA WARFARI AGAINST THE JAPANESE IN MANCHURIA FOR NEARLY 15 YEARS,

GOVT. LIFTS. BAN ON WIVES

IT HAS BEEN DECIDED TO MODIFY THE PRESENT RESTRICTIONS ON THE ENTRY OF CIVILIANS INTO HONG KONG TO THE EXTENT OF AL- LOWING THE ENTRY AFTER MARCH 1ST OF WIVES AND CHILDREN OF PERSONS ALREADY RESIDENT IN HONG KONG OR OF PERSONS WHO MAY SUBSEQUENTLY BE PERMITTED TO EN- TER HONG KONG.

to

This docision in no way affects the necessity of obtaining an entry permit, but authorities rea- ponsible for granting permits or visas have been authorised. lasuo permita without reference to the Administration, in respect of →wiven-and-children-where-the

husband is

is known to be already in Hong Kong.

R.A.F. STRIKE

AT SELETAR

DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE GO ON STRIKE

THE

CHUNGKING, JAN. 27.

WITHDRAWAL OF THE DEMOCRATIC LEAGUE Everything about him is at FROM THE POLITICAL CON- present sent in a sort of legen- SULTATIVE dary half-light. Reports con- CAUSED

CONFERENCE THE CANCELLA- cerning him are difficult to con-TION OF THE MEETINGS firm but it is indisputable that SCHEDULED

FOR TO-DAY

he has appealed to the imagina- OF THE SUB-COMMMITTEES tion of many Koreans.

Little boys playing soldiers try TIONAL

DEALING WITH THE NA- ASSEMBLY AND to impersonate him.. It Was RE-ORGANISATION OF THE said the Japanese spent nearly GOVERNMENT. $1,000,000 trying to capture

hiro. It was also said that he a protest against alleged unt- The League went on strike as was twice decorated by the warranted police visits to the Soviet Union for bravery in homes of several of its membera leadership of guerrillas begin-and Generalissimo Chiang Kai- ning with the 1931 Manchurian shek's fallure to implement his incident.

four pledges on January 10, to It was recently reported that grant the people a bill of rights, Kim returned from Yenna to to legalise all political parties, Keijo, the largest city of Rus- promote local self-government Blan-occupied northern Korea.

and release purely political pri- Some unconfirmed widespread Boners. reports said that thousands of

Lo Lung-chi, the Democratic his guerrillas have followed him. League's spokesman, said the When it was rumoured Kim League would call off the strike would visit Seoul, welcoming immediately it received satisfac committees were formed from tory assurances against unwar- the Leftist ranks but he is not ranted police visits to the homes known to have

the come to

of its members and Chiang Kai- American occupied zone. SINGAPORE, JẠN. 27.

slick sets a date to explain his The above modifications of

AN IMPOSTER? FOUR THOUSAND R.A.F. existing policy have been decided MEN SHOUTED "SHIPS FOR On the other side of the pic-position on the four pledges,

He declared the League was upon with a view to mitigating BLIGHTY NOT FOR JAVA" ture the Rightist elements open-awaiting a reply to the written the hardships of enforced separa- AND OTHER SLOGANS WHEN ly scoff him. One spokesman protest it sent last night to London, Jan. 27, tion during the war years. The AIR MARSHAL SIR KEITH of the Kim Koo unrecognis- Chiang Kai-shek. The Kurilo Island chain be- Administration does not consider

Ho snid PARK ADDRESSED R.A.Fed Korean Provisional Gov- tween Japan and Kamchatka that, conditions. particularly

with MDN AT SELDTAR, MAJOR ernment declared the present leading Government delegates to General Chung Chun, one of the Peninsula in Siberia were pro- regard to accommodation and R.AF. BASE NINE MILES Col. Thomann. Messrs. W. Emised to Russia by the Yaltu supplies, yet justify the opening FROM SINGAPORE AFTER A Kim Sung was an into the P.C.C., called at the Head- Hollands,

thase LF. Souza, Leung Agreement signed in February of the Colony to all

CREW Wing-chul and F. A. Barretto Inst year by Stalin, Churchill The effect, therefore, of the pre- MOMING STOPPED ALL SE-ly young, his age being given to induce it to halt the strike

residents who wish to

PERSONNEL YESTERDAY The Kim at Keijo is admitted quarters of the League stayed to the end.

morning presumably to attempt the Roosevelt, After the crowd had left, it was

announcement is

is to place LETAR FLYING OPERA- from 33 to 87. Skeptics say but found nobody in. found that someone had damaged Radio said last night.

The game had not been played, lorry had to stop, and the mob' in good.sporting spirit. There again began stone throwing.

When the lorry stopped, several incidenta

and two players

the occupants were being Bolted,į $1174 ordered off. On two occasions Col. Thomson ordered the police

to get on

* lorry to go to their the crowd rushed the field and

assistance. This larry was ako were only cleared with difficulty held up by the barrier and the by pickets.

uccupants were assaulted, tually both lorries got through.

It was learned Inter that the pickets had summoned an ambu-| lancu for the injured, but It was not found necessary for the injur- ed to be taken to hospital.

After the rame, a large crowd. compos il mostly in the first place of Young urchins, followed Leck to the dressing room. Nothing happened at this stage though there was much shouting. A large crowd gathered round the dres ing room and then a few of the older irresponsibles started agitat Ing the

were crowd and several stones

Officials requemet the crowd to and dispe but the ap- desist pearance of the Civilinna' players and the officials was a signal for A further barrage of stones.

Things began to took serious. Eastern officials and players tried to appease the erowa but in spite

hove and stana throwing con- tinud.

|

Every

The injurod included two Naval pickets.

OAR DAMAGED

cerned. Prior to this, in spite of

RUSSIAN CLAIM TO KURILES

andi

Broadcasting

Mosconynt

STRIKE BY GROUND

and that the reni Kim was dend.

this alone proves he is too young to have launched such a career

tively scheduled

Associated Press.

this

to closo on

upon the head of the family the TIONS. ne of the tyres of Col. Thomson's one

Unless the strike is quickly શ statement onus of deciding whether or not car..

a wife or family should return. When the South-East Asia Air in 1931 as claimed for him. His settled further extension to the This incident may spell the the Radio said: "On January 22,

from the Soviet News Agency The view of the Administration/ Commander, tok them ho had no admirers say the very youth ofte of the Conference, tenta- doom of competitive football

the United States Acting Secre- is that where urgent considera- authority to promise anything. their efforts, the mob refused for as the Chinese terms are con-tary of Allen Ace- tions do not apply, return should volees shouted quicker domobill. their ery hero is part of his January 20, is considered likely.

still be deferred for sovoral sation-bring down the tour." original appeal to difficulty in dealing with crowds, son, said that under Yalta Agree-

months.

Sir Keith said the Air Mindstry Yesterday a Korean newsman all games had passed without any ment, the Kurilca were to be oc-

THE LIMITATIONS

had agreed to establish, when related a trip he had made to unpleasantness.

cupied by the Soviet Union but

nossible, his recommendation that Keijo and said he had four in- Hong Kong will still be subject the duty tour for single men be terviews with Kim. He sold to

the following

reduced from three years and six Kim was secretary of the nox- entry will normally be, approved months to three years. The as- thern Korean Branch of the ployed in public utilitics and with prateating shouts.-Associate was planning political activity essential services or in such es el Presi

Mr. W. E. Hollands was for tunate as a fairly large missle just missed his face and several othera wero BLONES.

hit with smaller Van Mook

D.C.C.A.O. PRESENT

Col. W. M. Thomson, D.CAO. Back In Java

who was at the match was about

Batavia, Jane, 27.

as far as he understood this did

not provide for the final trans-

fer of the islands to the Soviet

Union.

Mr. Acheson added that this

might be mistaken.

Entry of male civilians into

limitations

Adm. Fraser

only in respect of persona am-mbly greeted this statement Communist Party and reported Sees Off The

AT INDIA

in Korea. He described Kim as

a handsome and taller than average Korean of 35.

The Russians are reported to

Vanguard

to leave when he saw the Doctor Hubertus was his own opinion though he

professions and commer- Lurbance, He returned and in-

cial Mock, acting Governor-General

concerns which can usefully structed the police and pickets to

Calcutta, Jan. 27, attempt to disperse the crowd. but of tire Netherlands East Indies The Soulet News Agency is contribute towards the cohabilita

Df the Colony and the Twelve hundred R.A.F. person- this was not successful.

arrived in Batavia to-day after authorised to make it clear that on of

is indeed mis- restoration of normal conditions.

nal struck in the fifth demonstra- have disarmed Kim's followers ADMIRAL LORD BRUCE He was lucky not to be hit as a visit home and conference Mr. Acheson

Owing to the shortage of tion on demobligation this week. on their arrival at Keljo but it FRASER, COMMANDER-IN- stones were whizzing past him with Dutch and British lenders, taken. In the Yalta Agree shipping, passages are controlled Similar work stoppage entered its was said Kim could collect a CHIF OF THE BRITISH from all directions.

He is reported to have brought ment, it is definitely stated that and priorities allocated by the third day at Colombe despite the force of 200,000,

PACIFIC FLEET, YESTER Under the battery of stones, the new proposals from his Cavern- after the vicory over Japan, the authorities in UK. and the Do- F.A.F. announcement that such One thing certain in northern AND MEN OF H.M.S. "GLEN- DAY INSPECTED OFFICERS for settling the dispute Kuriles would be turned over to minions in accordance with the demonstrations would not be to-Korea is that the Leftists are Civilian players and others were ment forcep to tako refuge in the over the Indonesian demand for the Soviet Union with the south-

ternis

of the preceding para lerated under circumstances. dressing room, while the mob got independence from the Dutchern part of Sakhalin Island." graph. It may

not. therefore,

Seven hundred men stationed in solidly behind Kim and, real or EARN AND NAVAL PARTY baller. nad bricks and sinba of

Reuter.

be possible for wives

to nocom Palestice and a similar number in; imposter, general or politician, These mon of the Royal Navy concrete were thrown at the dress-Associated Press.

pany their husbands if this is Cairo have reported to their jobs Kim may some day become a left Hong Kong today for Japan, likely to prejudice the allocation and the three-star strike at Kara-' powerful figure in Koren-As-where they will form the initial of passages to, persons with chi has ended. Associated Press. socinted Press. higher priority.

ing room. Windows were smash-

ed and the panel of a door was broken.

In the meantime, a message had been sent to No. 2 Police Station and reinforcements arrived: Un- fortunately, or fortunately, these were not armel not even with truh beons,

TACT AND PATIENCE

FIRST

U.N.O. TO FACE

TEST TO-DAY

BIG TEST

LONDON, JAN. 27.

With extreme patience, tact and[THE UNITED NATIONS ORGANISATION FACES ITS

tolerance, the police managed to clone the crowd from the dressing room to near Moreton Terrace and

to the open fields adjoinin

Dath

A full in the mob's activity then, followed, and it was now thought safo to got the pickets and play- era away. Both viled into a lorry but the driver found his practically blocked by barbed wire, slabs of granite and bricks, etc., just outside the entrance to the playing fields. As a result the

Madame Butterfly--1946 Version

OKASAKI, JAN. 27.

A MODERN VERSION OF MADAME BUTTERFLY TURN DD UP IN THE DEMOBILISA- TION RUSH HERE.

Applications to enter Hong Keng should in futuro be made

in writing to the Passport Office, Polico Branch,

Atomic Bomb

FIRST BIG TEST ON MONDAY AND A SUBDUED (Horror

LOT OF DELEGATES SPENT AN ANXIOUS WEEK- END QUERYING: "WILL THE BRAND NEW MA- CHINERY OF THE NEW ORGANISATION PROVE STRONG ENOUGH TO STAND THE STRAIN SUD- DENLY IMPOSED UPON IT?”

THE SECURITY COUNCIL YESTERDAY DECIDED TO PUT ON ITS AGENDA FOR DEBATE AT ITS MEETING ON MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY, THREE COMPLAINTS BY DELEGATION & ON SITUATIONS THEY AI LEGE ARE LIKELY TO EN- DANGER WORLD SECURITY —IRAN AGAINST RUSSIAN IN INTERFERENCE IN AZERBAIJAN, THE SOVIET UNION AGAINST BRITISH INTER- VENTION IN GREECE, AND THE UKRAINE AGAINST BRITISH MAINTENANCE OF TROOPS IN INDONESIA.

SAN FRANCISCO, JAN. 27. CHARLES E. MOORE, IN- DUSTRIALIST AND MEMBER THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB, TOLD THE GROUP

GENERAL MAC!

OF

DIZED HAD TOLD HIM IN]

Traders British China

More Hopeful

Shanghai, Jan. 27.

Although no practical results ar as yet visible, the recent action

of the British Government in' lifting the wartime trading and financial restrictions affecting China has improved the posi tion of British firms here · ́us far 25 competing with American companies is concerned, writes the Financial Editor of the "China Press, Chinese-owned daily.

TOKYO RECENTLY THAT And it can be forecast, he adds, that in several lines, the position AMERICA WAS, EQUIPPED WITH ATOMIC BOMES A

of American firms "will not be unshakable.”

It is a question of civilisation forced to increase her

wo до

.

CITY MOTOR CAR ACCIDENT

2504.

units of the British Occupational Force.

A

After being piped aboard, the Commander-in-Chief was met by Captain J. Grindio, R.N., who is in command of the ship. guard was formed by the ship's unit

at Royal Marines, During the course of his in- spection, Admiral Lont Fraser spoke to several members of the ship's company and men bolong- ing to the Naval Party. In a ahont address after the inspection, Admiral Fraser told the men that were going to Japan to carry out an important task, which is n part of the Allied plans for keeping pence in the work.

Violent Quake Shocks

THOUSAND TIMES AS The writers says that with from Britsin to improve the post- POWERFUL AS THE ONE wholesale rates of various British tion of local trade, which is vir- DROTFIED ON HIROSHIMA. goods now being regarded as tually dead at present. off

Moore

said the general told him very reasonable, and England China's total imports before the "warfare is no longer

exports, war about 20 per cent came from local importers will probably find the British Empire, mostly from

Berne, Jan. 27. He quoted MacArthur as hav that a large variety of goods can Brittain and India, and about 16

Sovero earthquakes which oc ing described the Hiroshima bé, bought in Endand at more per cent from the United States. curred on Friday night and Babur. bomb as equal to 20,000 tone of favourable rates than oloowhere. Router.

day morning, causing landslides Furthermore the editor con- The day was cleared for thesar Andrel Vyshinsky and Bri- TNT and saying: "It Is al-

and widespread damage through ready abeolete: "trial" of these three causes in tish Foreign Secretary Ernest ready with one equal to 20,000,000 turers have always largely do

Chinese manufke- are tinues, some

south-western Switzerland. were a debate charged with tension Bevin.

expected to continue to-day c But a crisis was averted. Be-tos of T.N.T."-Associated Press. pended on kaports of certain raw and marked by a clash between

|cording to Swiss Government soia- the two vigorous personalities fore the meeting of the Securi- TIENTSIN STUDENT

materials especially heavy che

malogriate. nical-which Russian Foreign Vice-Commls- ty Council the secretariat issued

they used to: abSwerving to avoid a ricksha tein directly from British

co-in Dea Voeux Road near the canton of Valais, and, in the One person died of shoek in the a note from the Soviet Union PROTEST

Lontoo

Bank of East Asla, late last some canton houson cracked and protesting. that Iran's complaint

According to all accounts, the night, the driver, of Car 222 chimneys toppled in the lage article says, competition between but for settlement between Iran A banner demanding that American and British exporter added violently on the grenay of Blare, and Russla by negotiation. If United States Marines be with- on the Far Eastern markets will road and hit three rickshas near. The canton of Vand reported avalanches carrying hugo boul- refar less to commodities which the pavement. Russia porsisted in this attitude drawn from China was amoE have usually besp, imported from One coole was injured and dors, while other, sootions report- how she told an officer that she

the role of the Council as arbi- those carried by approximately either of the two countries than inter taken to Queen Mary Hood that rail trafic has been halt- trator in international disputes 2,000 high school college atud- to such goods which before the pital.

was led by landslides. had como 126 inilos from. Ogika

The Federal meteorological to visit an American sorgeant

Vyshinsky raised this mattered today,WANDA S named Carlos When told that yesterday on the island road. at the Council but it transpired

Ice Housa Street and was going

worn taylood by the being of he had already returned to the Two Naval ratings were killed ho was concerned with a point celebrating the "cease pe or In thronot, both Amerios vold a ricksha the driver turn-asted 80 conde

The students ostensibly were ANGLO-AMERICAN ST

westwards. Attempting A to land masaqs. The Igngest tremor United States she was unwilllog when a jeep ran over... an ent of procedure. to bellove the story and pro-bankment on Tytant Road and

der to end China's civil strife and Britain, have not the red right and then in order to w The shocks, were falt with viol duced a letter in which he and landed in the reservoir.

Australia's Navy Minister, All Marines were in barracks on adobe prewar nollers, miss the tram standard turned enos in the surrounding countries www.comink back to marry

including France, which non left again, but the car sklided of Austria, Italy, Germany Bund

and ran into the side of the] France.ssociated. Fond.

SUBE

A Japanese girl who was sure ber G-1 Sergeant. was coming back to marry her was found out aldo tho mesa hull of the 11th Replacement Depnic

Festerday. The "Stary and Stripes" relates

NAVAL JEEP

TRAGEDY

was not matter for the Couneli

Tientalo, Jan. 27...

A tragic accident occurróa/might be threatened, it was felt, [ents fa a parade, It was disclos- WESTOFO ESKAZBod as German. The car had emerged:: from cation at Zurich said the quakes

N. J. O. Makin, Chairming of the to prevent any Incidents. As

APPEAL

and take her to Honolulu to The Jeep completely overturn- Council, assured the Russian de sociated Press, 199 live after her was discharged ed and landed in the reservoir legate that he would be entitled Bho wanted to stay at the depot up alde-down. Divers had to when the matter came up for

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