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Shanghai Business Firms' Anxiety
Matriachy In Old Korea
Seoul, Korea, Mar. 20, Korean scientists who return. ed. to-day" from an anthropologi cal expedition, to Cheju Do i hand, of the southern tip of Koren, reported finding the re- mains of a social system in which the female was considered in to the male and superior which woman di most of the work.
Cheju Do people are essential ly Koreans, the secintists
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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27, 1040...
SHANGHAI, MARCH 26. THE REPORTED REFUSAL OF THE CHINESE GOVERN- MENT; IN THE FACE OF PERSISTENT REQUESTS,:
REVISED TO MODIFY THE PROVISION OF THE
REQUIRING FOREIGN CHINESE COMPANY LAW FIRMS WITHOUT A PARENT COMPANY TO BE CONVERTED INTO CHINESE CONCERNS, WITH A CHINESE CITIZEN AS CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD CONSIDERABLE OF
AROUSED DIRECTORS, HAS ANXIETY AND CRITICISM AMONG A LARGE CIR- CLE OF FOREIGN BUSINESSMEN HERE,
OF UNLESS THERE IS AN ELEVENTH-HOUR CHANGE
ATTITUDE ON THE PART OF THE CHINESE AU- AMERICAN BRITISH AND THORITIES, MANY FIRMS WILL BE CONFRONTED, WITH-ONLY ONE OTHER COURSE IN, ADDITION TO COMPLIANCE- DISSOLUTION -WHEN THE NEW LAW COMES INTO EFFECT ON APRIL 1.
Japanese Who Think The War Is. Still On
Tokyo, March -20.` Because of the refusal of largo In numbers of Japanese internees in India to believe that the war is Government ovor, the Japancso to-night handed the Swedish Le gation here a message for trans- mission to the Swedish Consulate- General at Bombay,
containing definite ansurance of Japan's sur render and lengthy extracts from the Emperor's Rescript of August 10 terminating hostilities.
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Aims Of The British Council In China
Shanghai, March 26.
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Gate-Crashers Use Guns
Two people were killed and another severely * wounded in Tsingyuen - (northern Kwang- March 16 when Chineis toldiers who had been ojected from: a' theatro 're- turned and machine-gunned- the promises, according to a report which_roached____the_ "China Mail" yesterday..
its efforts to strengthen Sino-British relations, the Briting), on
tish Council in China is making the best of British thought, and experience available, and is seeking to obtain a better understanding of British culture and Institutions among the Chinese people.
TOJO LOSING HIS MEMORY ?
presentative of the Council daring questioning by Ameri
The occasion was a 3-day theatrical performance given by the town to raise funds for the A local Fong Bin Hospital. certain number of seats had been reserved for troops from the local garrison, but on the third night a further 20 turned up. and tried to gain admittance.
The Council offers each year a number of scholarships for post-graduate study by Chinese at British universities, and has Invited other Chinese to visit The Savedish Legation, through Britain for shorter perfoda for
O Mar, 20. General MacArthur's Headquar
Tolvo, tera, asked for a message, follow the study of special subjects. in Deel such as municipal government
Wartime Promier, Hideki Toje, ing a lot at a camp
dis and social service administra-who is now convinced he will when Japanese interneca.
nover leave prison alive, has "be believing Japan's Aurrender, at-tion.
gun to lose his memory author tempted to escape. The guards
Professor.P. M. Roxby, retative Japanese sources said to Internoce opened are, killed 15
They were ejected with some and wounded 10" others.
apealed for closer and friend- restrictions on Joint With a view to avoiding any er relations between the two can prosecutors the former dieta- dificulty and the audience set- dates tled down again to enjoy the Japa countries in an address to the tor "no longer remembers the further disturbances the
and other important details" of play: Sino-foreign firms on
Ten minutes later, the informed Sino-British Cultural Associa-
momentous events of his relea, soldiers returned with some proportion of capitalisation nese Government were
that it was highly desirable that tion In Shanghai. undertaken.
those sources said. confirma-
The Japanese said the Ameri-machine-guns and after calling who had insulted" (4) Foreign capitalised firms they should telegraph
tion of Japan'e surrender im- must. in principle, be gov-mediately to Bombay.
were "very dis-on those
Tojo's loss of them to come out opened fire. erned in the same manner
Two men were killed, another as Chinese firing,
feigning." memory which they believe he is
and badly wounded and others suf- Tojo is In good health "quite, calm" at present in con- fered minor injuries. trast tohte former. "depressed matter has been referred to Can- attitude" these sources said. Ile ton for disciplinary action to be is convinced he will not get out taken. of prison alive."Associated | Preas.
Under the supervision of the 18 Government, Military Korrans from the Museum of
In an outspoken editorial on; (3) No Anthropology stayed at Cheju the subject, of the American-1
Evening Do isinad for two weeks taking
"Shanghai owned pictures, recording geographical Post" charges the Chinese Gov- features and collecting anthro-ernment with adopting "discri-
without! pological data:
minatory legislation parallel in other countries."
It states that the provision American directly at "aims ported, although individuals are Rech frequently whose facial companies incorporated under characteristics suggested the in- the China Trade Act, since the fluence of southern Japan or pos-only other Important category is sibly Malaya. The scientists British companies incorporated safd it was too early to deter under the Hong Kong Ordin-
and these can mine the origin of these pro-ances
satisfy requirements through ple-Associate Press,
operations in the British Crownvestments. Colony."
WOMEN IN COAL MINES
home country,
Chinose Chairman
At least one
tora must have residence. China.
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The Council, which commenc- ed work in China late in 1942
can
officials
The information contained in the message has been certified with the arrival of two distin-satisfied the Swedish diplomatic mission.guished British scholars,, Pro- fessor G, R. Doods of Oxford, and Professor Joseph Needham of Cambridge, has established contact
with universities and the academic world throughout the country.
MANILA HOTEL OPEN AGAIN
gome
ing.
to China. The field indicated ferring
objects. It is intended to func tica as a medium of cultural in- ter-change.-Reuter.
with
The
Chungking, March 20.
The political council, which
Associated Press..
BUCK-TOOTH “BUNNY” A COPPER NOW
Tokyo, March 26,
And
The previous regulation res- tricting the capital holding of one company in another to one- readily fourth is now altered to one half as a measure to encourage in-
"The specific aims of the Bri- Simultaneously, of-
Chungking, Mar. 26. tish Council in China, as I un-
Twenty top-ranking war ficials one company are free
derstand
two-fold," them are to hold offers in another.
Manila, Mar. 26.
"to crimes suspects will be indictad Professer Roxby stated, If left in its original form.
Only five founders and three the paper adds, the law means
The famous Manila Hotel, make British culture and in- probably within a week 10 in session in Chungking, proposed directors are necessary to es-
to the United Nations Relief the end for American firms in-
the scene of some of the bloodiest stitutions better understood, and days, the trials to follow asoon to-day that a cable bo dlepatched possible. Chief Prosecutor Rehabilitation agency (U.N.R tablish a firm, as against the China
floor-to-floor fighting of the war, to make the best thought and as Trade det, which was desigried seven and five respectively Preis back in action, a year after experience of Britain availabie Joseph Keenan said after con- R.A.) asking a greater allotment corporated under
with Generalissimo of food for China, Indochina and The Burma to remedy famine condi- Tokyo, Mar, 20, specifically to exempt American viously required.
in The doors of the hotel were by this last phrase should not Chiang Kai-shek here.
for tions which are reported. to bo They like the new emancipa- firms from United States taxa-half of the funders and direc- the city's liberation.
reopened to the public while he narrowly interpreted. Coun-Keenan party will leave then of labouring women but re-tion and which therefore atipu-
workmen were still busy erasing irlea which really wish to under-Shanghai to-day. Associated growing steadily more oute. Unnamed shares presentatives of the coal mines lates that they must operate
to half its
of the more prominent stand one another must obtain a Press. pany may amount in northern Kyushu are afraid only in China and not in their
capital instead of the previous-care of the fight for the build-balanced view of each other's it will cost them their jobs.
life and background, and of the So they told the Welfare
ty decreed one-third.. 128 New Articles
During the Battle of Manila, forces which animate their res Regarding foreign firms, the Ministry in a formal petition asking for a guarantee of liveli-{
"Conceivably all this is real regulations stipulate that they the Japanese turned the hotel pective national activities and hood in case the new regulations ised in Chungking." says the are subject to Chinese legisla- into a fortress and defended it character," he declared.
the last man. American
The British Council, he said, prohibiting women from work "Evening Rast." "but the desire tion and fax collecting, and that to ing in pits will be applied to all ts to forec Chipa Trade Act the chairman of the board of troops, armed with tommy guns has no political or commercial
Chinese directors of a to become
limited liability and grenades, routed: the Ja female mine employees.
companies
out room by That brings
be Chinese.panese defenders The representatives told the
a company must companies.
to whether Reuter.
room, floor by floor.-Reuter. Ministry that the employers square. issue might discharge women surface American capital desires to ad- workers in addition to actual
in China In Chinese miners in order to comply fully companies. Our clear impres- where Americans with the regulations which are sion is that effective on April 1. The law desire to operate their own com- made at the insistence of Allied panica they want them to bo Headquarters, prohibits employ frankly American, not Chinese, ment of women or miners below
and not headed by Chinese such com- surface as one step towards the
no stake in with emancipation of women workers,
panies." An estimated 9,000
The new Chinese Company now employed in pits.-Asso-Law is said to contain 128 ar- cinted Press.
ticles more than the old Com- pany Law,
The recent revisions by the Washington, Mar. 26. National Defence Council" are Lieut-General Edmund Gre- said to have been made off four gory to-day promised a sub-general principles:- stantial part of the Government's (1) Government encouragement vast war surplus would be of joint Investments by it- liquidated within a year's time, self and the people and be- LI The former Quartermaster- tween Chinese and foreign- General estimated that about $35,000,000,000 worth of Gor ernment property will have to be declared as surplus by the middle of this year.-Associat- ed Press.
women are
venture
..ers.
(2) Enjoyment of the same rights and privileges as pri- vately capitalised firms by or semi-Gov- Government ernment owned companies.
FAMINE THREAT TO S.E. ASIA
Canberra, March 26.
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, Supreme Commander of the SEAC, who is visiting. Australia, said to-day: "Tho overshadowed by tho whole of South-east Asia is threat of famine.
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"There is a serious shortage of food, particularly rice, which is the staple diet of the Chinese part, of the inhabit- rely on imports from ants. Many districts used to surplus producing countries, Burma, Indo-China and Slam.
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"The Japanese, in their occu- call..to return to the British pation, wrecked the agricultural lines.
and economic systems of these
countries by requisitioning rice
communications."
Atom Bomb
LI. CHAO-LING MURDER
SUSPECT ARRESTED
CHUNGKING, MARCH 26.
YOKOHAMA WAR TRIAL
The girl with the buck tooth who has been missing from the foreign correspondents club dining room for the last few mornings turned up to-day, but she is no longer, a waitress she is a Tokyo lady.
Because she looks like a rab-Takahashi has whipped together bit ready to gnaw a raw carrot, a course of sorts and on April the heartless press laddies have 25 the girls will graduate in fittingly dubbed her "Bunny." slacks, shorts and jackets.
"We are pretty much ama- Now Bunny is one of the 63 tours in training women of
A DESPATCH FROM HARBIN SAID THAT A MAN HAS beating and clubbing to death girls. selected from among 1,200 ficers" Takahashi said. "We will
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BEEN CHARGED WITH THE MURDER OF LICHAO.
Yokohama, Mar. 26. A former Japanese prisoner of war camp guard, accused of
candidates as a policewoman. instruct them briefly the basic Pvt. Everett L. Tyler, testified
is the laws of vice, regulations and: A very worried guy before the 8th army tribunal
even director, of the Tokyo police how to make reports. At first to-day that he did not know the reason for the beating. training school. The whole deal they will direct small traffic and Yoshinari Minemoto, who is has been dumped into the lap give information but, of course, Superintendent Waichi they will have powers to arrest. on trial with four other Japan- esc, contends the others beat Takahashi and he admits sole-I hope Commissioner Lewis Va COMMANDED SOME OF THE Tyler but that he only slapped fully he does not have any idealentine will give us some advice."
what a lady cop' is like-But Associated Press. MANCHURIA, WAS him. • COMMUNIST FORCES IN
SINO-SOVIET FRIEND THE DESPATCH ONLY HAD BEEN ARRESTED AND IDENTITY WAS NOT DIS
LING, PRESIDENT OF THE SHIP ASSOCIATION THERE. STATED THE MAN CHARGED AND HIS CLOSED.
CHAO-LING, WHO
FOUND DEAD IN A DESERTED HOUSE IN HARBIN ON MARCH 10, AFTER HAVING DISAPPEARED THE DAY BEFORE. HIS FUNERAL HAD BEEN SCHEDUL- ED FOR MARCH 24.
Minemato stated that no order had. been given at the Osaka P.O.W. camp to beat Tyler. He made. the statement in response to a question by the tribunal
Associated Press,-----
The despatch, appearing in the forces," the rall town of Liao-president, Colonel L. B. Wyant. "Central Daily News," organ of yang, 85.miles south of Muk- The National- the Kuomintang in Chungking, den, it added. said that forces formerly under ist attack, it said, was project-
Li Chao-ling's command were ed from Liaochung, 30 miles
ready to march into Harbin at north-west of Liaoyang-Asso-
ciated Press.. nny time.
Chinese Reds Protest
other
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Chienping in south-cast alphez-Associated Press. launched..
From subsequent truce teams there had been fol-and Admiral Mountbatten Bald examination of Japanese dis- lowed by further unfoldings Jehef are pushing north-east- that through tolerance and sym-positions and defences there was of the Kuomintang, offensive ward. Provious press reports
© FILIPÍNO POLICE pathy on the part of Sir Archi-no doubt that the operation against the popular local forces stated that large Communist
forces have been massed int bald Clark Kerr, British-special would have succeeded. It was in the North-East.
prisoners-of-war envoy, to the Netherlands East lucky for our
The Communist-led "demo- Johol
The "Citizen's Dally" also A ittle over a year after
Manila.. March, 20. Indies, there was new great and Interncea that the Japanese cratle joint army" it asserted, hope of an early successful solu surrendered then. Decreasing had so far "frustrated all major said that the taking-over work General Douglas MacArthur re tion of the Indonesian problem, ratione and increasing filth were Kuomintang attacks around in Mukden was simply, a free turned the Philippines to cell Airmail for London, Calcuts,)
for-allaght, first for factory administration, the amry
Durban, Rangoon, Singapore) By Air & Bydney, After preliminary meetings causing increasing deathroll. Mukden."**
Alsmall for Canton & Holbew between the principals; negotin cannot believe that the Japanese The agency further claimed equipment and machinery, then the Masil Police Department
the Filipinos, tions were now progressing in would have moved the prisoners that Nationalist troops pushing for buildings and now for fural over to
the coal turo.The predatory activities Colonel I. P. Holland, who has ZUGT INT
ร committee stage, Ninety-five whose compa would have became eastward toward
Wing Sing per cent of the Japanese. In battloflelds." wako mimining town of Fushan were are molting to the local popu- been Provost Marshal and police ahenghal
chief in the idlippine capital Susite, Carlad, India, Kan1) Java were now under Allied con-Discussing the atom bomb, "repolled with heavy losser" on lace--Reuter
sinde te beration, handed over & Bouth Africs, Aden, Egypt) Strathmore trol. "The balance who handed Lord Mountbatten said: "In fu March 21,20
the Job to Colonel Tuazon, retired & Furopa via Liverpoolaja)
PUIS,AN Canada, Central_ &); over their arms to the Indone ture, atomic bombs will certain Nationalist troops
bungkang, March 24. siang before we could reach ly not be dropped by alterait south-westward from Mukden
With the department wont the South America yin Sap Sovaral them are still at large, the The possibilty of radio control the same day, once
transportation fhost & crime laboratory in the FriNGLICON ASUNTOAN NYAGO resistance Admiral added.
must be considered. Without strong
cer Nationalist troops to Far East Chica Colonel Holland India vid Madras KEY Lord Louls "Mountbatten said the atorale, bomb, the Paclie; forces.
to take over the city bad Geveloped with the latest Bwałów, Amoy & Birulta leallifes" kzy nowe winder - American, selemtina, crime a detec- Shanghai that he was hopeful that the war would have lasted aix Nationalist troops on March Japanese would respond to the months longas --Res
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