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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, MAY 24, 1916.

HANGMAN KEPT BUSY Executions Commonplace In Poland

Crime Wave At Its Peak

(By LARRY ALLEN)

WARSAW, MAY 23. FIRING SQUADS AND THE HANGMAN CONTINUE TO BE BUSY IN POLAND. DAILY, THE GOVENMENT SAYS, THEY HAVE PLENTY OF WORK AS LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES BATTLE A CONTINUING WAVE OF MURDERS, ' HOLDUPS, RODDERIES' OF STATE INSTITUTIONS AND TRAINS, SPORADIC

• NIGHTTIME SHOOTINGS AND ASSAULTS-ALONG WITH A CLEANUP OF WARTIME NAZI COLLABOR- ATORS.

SWASTIKA

London, May 23.

Garman priaznura working

on Thureo beach, Caithness, . Sentland, made in awaatiku three feet square with colour- ed_atonca.

Lady Sinclair, wife of the former Air Minister, Sir Archibald Sinclair, Raw thr snstika from her bedrooms window in Thuraz, Castle and phaned the army authorities. They obliterated the swoolika and took action against the Germans.--Reuter, «

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES OF THE ARMY, SECRET POLICE 80 persons in this category, in-

AND MILITIA'S COUNTER-ATTACK ON CRIME. executed since Jan. 1.

cluding six women, have been THE GOVERNMENT SAYS, ARE BANDS OF THE

Poles In Germany NSZ. NATIONAL ARMED FORCES, WHICH THE

Herford, May 23. COVERNMENT CLAIMS ARE SUPPORTED FROM Polish displaced persons are ABROAD. (THE NSZ IS BELIEVED TO CONSIST, responsible for more than 90 per

of

Red Army Calls Off A March

com~

Prague, May 23. Marshal Ivan Kanley, mander of the Soviet troops.in Austria, temporarily called off the Red Army's 20-day south to north movement aerosa Cze choslovakia, at the request of i the Czechoslovak government,

NOTICE

Re-RICE RATION

Page

NOTICE

THE AMERICAN CLUB'

Registration of applications for Rice Ration Tickets ls Meeting of the members of the An Extraordinary General

suspended for a period of three | Améritan Club will be held in (3) weeks commencing Monday, May 27th, at 6.80 p.m. for the the Club, premises on Monday,

20th: May, 1946.

purposes, of decting officer for the current year and to receive the report from the Working Committee on the rehabilitation of the Club.

R. C. LEE, Rice Controller,

SALE OF OLD STORES.

Tenders are invited for the

The office of Dr. Zdenck Fier-purchase of the following stores, linger, the Czech Premier, stat-

ed that the government had taken this step, "in view of the „falso interprelations" placed on

these movements.

Scrap Trou and Steel. Firewood.

46 Galls, and 25 Galls. Drums. Towing Wire, old Paper Rolls, and Scrap-Air Craft over- load Tanks.

(Munich radio reported laat night that some Czechs had pro- tested that the Red Army's march, plannel from May 20-to Tenders forms can be obtain-

W. T. STANTON,

Chairman.

F. R. PIDCOCK.

Secretary, Hong Kong, May 13th, 1946.

NOTICE

RICE FOR CREWS

sub-

LARGELY OF REMNANTS OF THE POLISH UNDER-mitted in the British zone

cent. of the serious crimes com- GROUND WHICH FOUGHT THE GERMANS BEFORE Germany, senior officer of the fluence on voting" in the Czech Department, H.M. Naval Yard, 1946, rice will only be issued to May 30, "might have some in-ed at Section VI of Naval Store From Monday, 27th May, THE RUSSIANS OCCUPIED POLAND IN 1944-45)

public safety branch sald today. Polish newspapers have pub | work for

between 9.30-11.30 am, 23rd articled crews and to a reason- ́ Serious crimes Including mur elections on May 26). the executioner-a

der, rape and robbery with vib.

Marshal Koniey, from whose to 26th May, 1946 and shouldable number of the Compradore lished officially the names of sort of backlog.

lence are committed mainly by Danube command area, the Rus- be returned in a sealed cover Staff. A list of names signed 120 alleged members of the

The backlog consists of for- gangs of Pales numbering between sian troops on Monday began addressed to the Suptdg. Naval by the Captain must be NSZ executed by firing squads

mer Nazi SS officers, concentra-five and 20 who roam the German moving across CzechoslovakiaStore Officer, HLM. Naval Yard mitted by the Company when or hanged since Jan. 1. Many tion camp officials and of those executed were youths collaborators tried as war e isolated farms, the officer said.oslovakin for

Polish countryside terrorising the civi- towards the Soviet zone in Geron or before noon on Friday Applying for such-rations. Suff

Jian population-and-plundering-

many, is at present in Czech-431st May, 196.”“” of 14 to 18 years old, Scores

cient rations will be given for minals. Newspapers report that Associated Press.

A month's rest, were sentenced to long prison

the duration of the ship'a stay taking the waters at the spa terms for terroristic acts rang-

in part, and to the first port of at Karlsbad, ing from murder to assault and

call.. robbery,

in

Some of the defendants the first mass trial of NSZ members held recently in War- saw-nine out of 23 were ken- tenced to death--admitted, court officials said, that they, were paid "20,000 zlotys par hend" for killing Polish poli- ticians, (A złoty is worth about que U.S. cont.) They didn't say who paid the bill.

The government repeatedly has charged that the NSZ is aided and financed by agents of Polish Ger, Wladislaw An ders, commander of the Polish second army corps in Italy-an accusation he has denied),

Within the last few the government #said:

weeks. """scores"

of members of the Communist-

•

Sultans Snub Mr. MacDonald

Singapore, May 23.

The nine Sultans of Malaya were not invited to the care- ́monial installation today of Mr. Malcolm MacDonald'

Today's Prague announcement added that the movements would j be resumed after the elections,

Reuter,

EMPIRE TALKS IN BERMUDA

London, May 23. Eight British Members of

as Governor-General, of the Malayan Union and Singa-day conference i

Parliament will attend a ten-

Bermuda

called by the Bermuda branch of the Empire Parliamentary Association, beginning June 10, M.P.8 from Australia, New

tatives of the American Con-

NOTICE

Mr. S. Grove, A.C.A. has been appointed Secretary of the Hong Kong Telephone Co., Ltd., from 22nd May, 1946.

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By order of the Board of

Directors.

pore and neither they nor their representatives attended. The sultans are openly opposed to the British Government's plans for grouping their states into a Malayan Union which they are said to regard as "cumbersome and un- wanted," and are sailing to England as soon as possible with a petition to the King containing alternate progress and possibly a represent-8-gament, French Hank Bldg.. posals.

hacked Polish workern party!He Almost

and its close ally, the Polish Socialist Party, haze been slain near the winter resert of Zako- pane on the Polish-Czech fron- tier. A conservative estimate now is that 3,000

Wrecked Family politicians Plans

have been killed since July 1946, with each of the six political parties having a sizeable repre- sentation.

Russians Killed.

Zealand, South Africa, represen-

tive of the Indian Central To emphasise their views gislature will also be present. they boycotted the installation The Supply Minister, Mr.

of Sir Edward Gent, as Govers | John Wilmot is Chairman of nor of the Malayan Union on the British delegation which April 1. When sounded about¦ consists of five Labour and three today's ceremony they reiterat | Conservativa members, includ- ed their standpoint ́and aa-aling the former Foreign Secret- result were not issued with in-ary, Mr. Anthony Eden-Reu- vitations.

ter,

Mr. MacDonald, who was in- London, May 23,

stalled in the Municipal Coun- A youth of 16 years almost cil Chamber where the Japanese wrecked, his family's plans for representatives signed the sur- emigration to Canada today render terms eight months ago, when

-ho appeared in the read a messige from the King all peoples of Russian officers and soldiers. Juvenile Court and admitted to and Queen to

Southeast Asia. too, have been attacked. Rea theft of £200,

"We look forward with you cently a group alleged by the government to be NSZ members

into the future of new hope and boarded a passenger train in the

achievement," it said. Lodz_aren, took off nine Soviet military officials and shot them

to death.

Determined

*honest to be about the whole affair, the lad asked the chairman to take into acccunt eight other offences he said he had committed in the

past.

"The Queen and I share to the full in-your-confidence and. pride,"

The influential English news- The Russian

Meanwhile, his family, who ambassador,

wrote Wiktor 2. Lebiedley, is under- had sold their business in Eng-paper "Straits Times" stood to have made strong re-

land and were

today that the installation of waiting for a presentations to the Polish for sailing notice, were faced with Mr. MacDonard may not incon- ceivably be an important step eign ministry against what he the knowledge that if a

of termed a

luck of security in Viction was registered against towards the amalgamation

the bay they would be forced to

Poland.

Warsaw had its biggest day light holdup the first week in April when alleged members of the NSZ held up two messen-

remain in England.

The court,

con-

however, sym- pathetic to the situation, let the boy' go on condition that ke ap- pear again in three months if

gers of the state tobacco mono- still in the country-Reuter, poly, robbed them of 1,500,000 Zlotys and escaped on motor. cycles,

Klan Banned By Court

Some Poles simply label the NSZ as trigger happy "national bandits" still suffering from al war psychosis, President Boles- law Bierut and other high gov-| mim ernment officials, however, Bay

the NSZ bands could not exist

Los Angeles, May 28 Superior Judge Alfred

E.

terri- several widely scattered tories into one loosely knit whole under some such title as "British East India.”

"If that were not, the inton- tion, it is doubtful whether a man of Mr. MacDonald's calibre would have been sent hore.”

Mr. MacDonald told Reutor today that his task is Governor- General of the Malayan Union will be concerned with the co- ordination of territories in this area but executive authority. would remain with the, various governors.

These, although keeping him informed, would have direct ac- CEB6 to London, on matters

without outside financial aid and Paonesso today issued a cour put the organization in the cate-order forbidding the Ku Klux Klan gory of a subversive movement. from continuing in California,

How many NSZ's are operat- He ordered the Klan's Corporate affecting their territories.- ing in Poland no one

offer the Reuter.

can say

privileges

because they are said to live in State attorney-general aid thai |

the

Klan had not adhered to villages. benevolent" purposts.

forests and Isolated Sometimes, their enemies say, they attack in strength of 30 to 40, at other times a band might consist of. 400 to 2,000 persons.

organisation carried out a pro- The attornay-general aid, the gramme of "force and violence, terrorism and hate, to stir up racial and religious prejudicas".

The Klan filed fis charter with in 1924. the California Secretary of State

Villages Burned Law enforcement agencies du not to all their worrying about A courtroom spectator shouted the NSZ. In southeastern. Por "The mission of the Klan ir sacred. land, around Przemysl bands "I. shall resist thie anti-Klan

of. Ukrainian nationalista, who action"-Associated Press, apparently haven't liked being|*

repatriated to Russian territory, aro daily and nightly. raiding

their former villages, how occu-

pied by Polés.

Informed sourcca estimate that 800 villages have boon burn-

ed within tho, last year. Thou-

BRIEF HOUR IN PARADISE

Liverpool, May 23.

Municipal Protest

Singapore, May 28. missioners today presented an The Singapore Municipal Com address of welcome to Mr. Malcolm MacDonald, in which they regret. ted the separation of the colony of Singapore from the colonien of Malacca and Penang

They felt it was "backward and undemocratie to bring about thin Beverance without first consulting the populations concerned."- Reuter.

Sultan's, Snub

Singapore, May 2014 In his firat press conference In Singapore last night, Mi. Malcolm MacDonald, the new Governor, "Genéral of Malaya, declined to say Anything at present about the

Britons flocking to Ireland: In G”” Unionate

sands of peasants have been starch of a pre-war dinner with

contro

hoped that he and

made homeless.- Hundreds have all the trimmings, will have Sir Edward Gont, the Malayan i been killed and wounded, "All things made easier for them Union Governor, would soon 1800 | thair lycatack and valuable with the opening tonight of the the Bultant, whose; absence (from personal property has been car-i Liverpool-Dublin: passenger ner- the installation Ceremony sarll riod off

Claviers, èlósed “since Decemboru, the day had been interpre

1941

a anuß for

Soveral Visions':

ares oper

The Coast ford:

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R. C. LEE,

Rice: Controller.

HALF A MILLION

MEN'S SECOND-HAND JACKETS and TROUSERS suitable for Hongkong trade at FOUR SHILLINGS each.

Thousands shipped to Middle Jast.

Quick shipment of pressed bales of one thousand assorted.

garments.

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credita

in payment of any quantity on an English Bank.

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*HONG KONG SERVICES RACE CLUB

Special Cash

Sweep

STEWARDS' CUP 2nd JUNE, 1946

SALES UNLIMITED-TICKETS AT H.K. $2.00 EACH.

Tickets for the above will be on sale at the Cash Sweep Counter, the Race Course, Happy Valley, during Race days, at the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Offices, 1st floor, Exchange Building, and at the China Emporium, ground floor, Queen's Road Central, every day from dafe during

usual office hours.

After deducting Government Betting Tax and the usual Club's commission, 10 per cent, will be deducted for prizes to drawers of Unplaced Entered Ponies.

After providing for the above, the balance will be divided as follows:

1st Prize:

70 per cent

The above Swee Jockey Club & Rules for

2nd Prize: 20 per cent

3rd Prize:

10 per cent

I be subject to the Hong Kong- umbers Cash

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