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FERRY WORKERS' DEMANDS
Workers of another public utility company
the Hong Kong & Yaumati Ferry Com- pany-presented demands for an increase in wages, etc., on Thursday, it was learned yes- terday. There was no change during the day at the Hong Kong Electric Company's North Point power house, the workmen of which completed their first week of being out on strike at 4 p.m.
The Ferry Company's work- ers have presented 11 demands," calling for an Increase in wages, a ration of 14 entties of rice per bend a day and im- proved working conditions. The men expect their demands to be
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RUSSIA WANTS A LOAN
Wankington, May 24. Ruasia has made renzweit. overtures for a loan from the United States of $1,000,000.- 000, which immediately, atured Congressional dentand that Moscow feat guarantee Sovier cooperation in world economic affairs.
Chairman Spence, of the Hover Bauking Committee, agid: "Wo nhould certainly in- niet von Kerensia joinhip the Bretton Woods World Bank and Fund." At the Study Degurimen, meanwhile, the apparen tendency waa la re- gard any Soviet hun an a re- moto proposition--Associated Press
German War
Memorials
London, May 24. Lord Natban, Under-Secret-i accepted and implemented by Jary for War, promised Saturday, June 1.
House of Lords to call
Meanwhile, representatives of the Hong Kong Electric Co. strikers called at the Labour No Office yesterday morning. information was forthcoming as to the result.
tho the
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1946.
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DEBATE ON EGYPT Mr. Eden Tells Mr. Bevin What
He Himself Would Do
"Ernie" Criticises
the
war
to
ed.
DETER
Churchill
LONDON, MAY 24, THE BIG DEBATE IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TODAY ON THE BRITISH_GOVERNMENT'S DECISION TO WITHDRAW BRITISH FORCES FROM EGYPT WAS BEGUN BY THE OPPOSITION SPEAKER, MR. AN- THONY EDEN, CONSERVATIVE AND FORMER FOR- EIGN SECRETARY. GENERAL SMUTS, SOUTH AFRI- CAN PRIME MINISTER, WAS IN THE DOMINIONS. GALLERY
WING LUNG BANK
DOCTORS STRIKE
Paris, May 24.
and Weddings
funerals were held up in Calais today when doctors went an atrika in protest against the allegedl failure of the Government to provide them with transport. Death certificaten And health certificates for mar. unobtainable,— rimpia c Kenter.
Clash Near Tel Aviv
Jerusalem, May 24, A clash between, members
MR. EDEN BEGAN BY SAYING THAT THE OPPOSITION |
CONCEIVED IT THEIR DUTY TO KEEP FOREIGN POLITICS OUT OF DOMESTIC POLITICS AND POLI- TICAL CONTROVERSY. "IT 15 IN THAT SPIRIT of a British airborne unit and THAT I TURN TO THE EGYPTIAN SITUATION DE. | Jewith soldiers from another CLARED MR. EDEN,
He would ensure that the new) agreement provide for the
cun- tinuntion of the Anglo-Eyptian alliance.
should
The Government
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regiment took place at Beit Nabala near the Jewish city of Telaviv.
Preliminary, inquiries show that the disturbance arose through re- marks which were regarded as insulting and directed at the air- borne soldiers. Five of them were slightly injured and seven Jewish soldiers received minor treatment. The incident which occurred on Sunday evening is being officially investigated. Reuter,
Roosevelt Considered Attack On Japan
The demands apparently came as a complete surprise to the Government's attention to the
It was hu conviction t..at if Company, which had received protests against the proposed
Foreign Secretary could no prior intimation that such destruction of German
speak in the counneis, of nation action was contemplated. The memorials.
with the knowledge that he had on making en- "Chim Mail,"
Lord Saltoun said that the support of all principal par- quiries at the Company's office, destroy these memorials would ties in the state, his hand would everything in its power to get this discussion back into its true per- was informed that the matter only make them more lear to correspondingly be strengthen-spective. It is not an issue of the has been referred to Govern- the Germans and stain our re-
British Empire against Egypt nor ment as the Company is operat-putation. Ha said he was sure Mr. Eden said that what he is it an issue of rival national in ing the present service on the that every soldier in the British would be inclined to do if he trrasts. It is a question of how order, and under the direction. Army would agree with his pro-were in Mr. Bevin's place would (Continued on Page 91 of Government and cannot make test.
be to advire the Government to a decision itself.
The Bishop of Chichester said | complete the withdrawal from that it was sacrilege to mutilate the great cities to the Canal or maim memorials to the Zone. fallen.
He said he could not believe Lord Nathan, in his reply, that the anxiety of the average said that the directive was the Egyptian was about troops and decision of the four occupying establishments he did not see in powers and referred only to the Canal Zone. it was about warlike memorials which would troops and staff cars he saw help to perpetuate Nazi and driving about the capital cities. militaristic principles. He He would also convey, to named us examples the statues of Wilhelm II. Ludendorf and Hitler, Swastikas and engles on barracks and street names, of bot
There was
no intention, fo said, to Interfere with memor- Electricity Supply The attention of all con-ials of those who died in war. sumers of The Hong Kong Village memorials would
main unaffected and harmless Electric Co., is directed to the memorials of a religious nature offorts now being made by would be respected. Reuter. the non-Chinese staff of this firm to maintain and supply
Labour Board Meets in the afternoon there was a meeting of the Labour Advisory Board, which sat until a late hour yesterday evening, but once again there was no inform-) ntion as to the result or any official statement inqued on its deliberations,
as much electric power as is possible under the present difficult circumstances.
It is impossible for technical reasons to generate as inuch elce- tricity as was done prior to May 17 and it naturally follows that j certain areas of the Colony must necessity be switched off. It is desired to point out, that thie curtailment of supply, is being carried out under a definite policy.
of
Paper
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Egyptian Government that if n revision of the treaty was to he agreed upon, it was in the interest
both countries that it should b negotiated and signed as was the 1980 treaty by all parties in Egypt. Otherwise they would be In danger of making some` ar- rangements which Ead no finality That was not in criticism of the authority of the present Egyptian Government.
"The Times" Comments On State Treaties
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London, May 24.
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London, May 24.
Government was de-.
in feated by 65 votes to.13 tho House of Lords today, where the Conservative Op- position has an overwhelming majority. It was the first
| division in tha 'House of Lords |during this parliament..
The ipaue was control of invest- ments. The Earl of Murster (Con- servative) thought it unnecessary for the Chancellor of the Ex- chèquer to have nower to control. investments permanently, and he moved an amendinant limiting the period during which the bill-- Borrowing (Control and Guaren: tees) B-could operate
to five years.
Lord Pakenham for the Govern- ment said full employment over n period was impossible without a degree of atability of private in vestments.
of immediate
The Government defeat is nut significance. The bill will return to the House of Commons, where the Government can accept or reject the Lords' amendments.
Ifand it is unlikely-an agree- ment is not reacbed with the House of Lords, the Government can drop the bill and reintroduc? it next session.
Under the. Parliament Act, a bill may, within a certain pre- scribed beriod bo presented for Royal Assent and become an et without being sent to the House of Lords-Reuter.
Trouble Ahead? Whether-the-action-of-the-Gon-- servative peers provokes the big- gest parliamentary dispute für years depends on the Conservative Member of Parliament, Colonel Douglas Clifton Brown, Speaker in the House of Commons, says
the bill
If the Speaker decides to call Borrowing concerned the (Control and Guarantee) Bill which gives the Government power to control investments, the House of Lords can only hold up its passage through Parliament for a month.
The Congressional Pearl Harbour investigation ended yes-Reuters-Political Correspondent.
terday with a statement by former Secretary, of War Honry Stimson that the late President Roosevelt "was undoubtedly considering" an attack on the Japanese forces which were threatening south Asia lato in 1941. But to his recollection, Stimson advised the Senate- House Inquiry Committee in written responses to a series of questions submitted by Senator Ferguson, Républican of Michi gan, the late President never formally announced any do cision of this kind to his thlet military advisers nor would he have acted without consent of Congress.
Stimson's answers went into the Committee's record along] with the replies
by
The Five
Freedoms Not
Popular
But if the House decide that the bill shall remain what it is now, then the House of Lords can hold It
up for two years. If they are enabled to do that, the Labour majority in the House of Com monsi likely to make trouble for it is at the moment in no mood to ve trifled with.
Broadly speaking, “money bills” are those which raise or spend public. it down that the House of Lords The British law lays money.
Montreal, May 24. The proposal for a general former exchange of aviation's. "five
cannot interfere with money bills Secretary of State Cordell Hull | freedoms" was made public except to hold them up for a "The Timer" today welcomed the memorandum on states to 169 additional quutions, at the first assembly of the month. But public bills are in a mostly about reputed agree-
different category. treaties presented by the British Cabinet Mission in ments with Britain for parallel Provisional International Air If the Lords insist on retaining India to the Chancellor of the Chamber of Princes. action before the Japanese at-Transport Organisation their amendment to the bli, limit- Stating that the memoran- tlah Intention to promote the tack, Hull denied knowledge of (Picao) yesterday amid indica-ing its duration to five years fand in order to cause as little incon- dum would relleve much of the early achievement of India's any such agreements).
tions that strong opposition cation that they will), the Govern
there is at the moment every indi- venience as is possible to the anxiety. Intterly manifested independence," 'and "it is cs- Also included in the record public at large.
"The Times" said the real ques-sential that the process by which before it was cloned to further an early adoption would be ment will ask the Speaker to tion was that of the freedom of the smaller states are grouped evidence, was u copy of the encountered.
to find fire stations, and as far as possible the states
their own together for
of common services memoirs Prince Konoye, The plan, known officially ns.) in the future policy of should be used to newspapers, cinemas, places of place
as rapidly
a multilateral as Japanese Premier whose Co-
agreement on not hold it up for more than
month. rubile entertainment, the business their country.
possible."Associated Press. binet fell in October 1941. By commercial rights in civil air If a deadlock la reached the but centre of the city, hotels and res- Many sections of opinion in
the Konoya account, he pressed transport, was prepared by a will have to be dropped and the British India cannot rid their
the peace negotiations with the special committee which began | Government will be faced with the
The supply is being maintained
to all hospitals, police stations and
taurants. It is regretted Ghat
declare the bill a mondy Bill and is make certain that the Lorda do
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not all of the latter can be sup- minds of the old belief that the General 'Slim's United State
States in good faith work last fall. The Committee, alternative of reintroducing it to
plied.
be found u
Consumers whose supply is ON outlook and will
states are reactionary in their
are warned not to allow up- authorised connections to the main every critical juncture alignine- wires and fuse boxes in their their lives with the interests vicinity. When this is found the real or imaginary, of Britain.: With the complete dis- appearance of paramouncy, it
supply of electricity to that arer will be discontinued,
Three Rules.
Koneye quoted Foreign Minis- headell, by Sir Frederick Bow- the peers to pass the bill. ter Matsuoka, however, as ex- hill, was charged with finding Reuter preasing the conviction In May answers to problema not settled
1941 that Roosevelt "was ap- at the Chicago world air meet Britain Reduces
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Food Claims
London, May 24.
parently determined to enter" ing in 1944.
The freedoms" are-right to the European war, Secrets bohind the greyChairman Barkley, Kentucky fly over a foreign country with- Owing to the enforced stop. will be impossible to suspect the walls of the Imperial Defence Democrat, called the Committes out stopping; to make пол- page of the tram service, the states of possible connivance Collage in Belgrave Square, together to receive these docu- traffic stops in a foreign coun-
London, May 24, Tramway Company are now re- with Britain in pursuance of London, wore
Canada and the United States disclosed by ments formally and act on the try to carry homeless traffic placing defective overhead imagined designs wires during the day, Previous freedom..
on India's General Sir William Slim, who an additional 30 days to com- pick up traffic in one foreign shipments of wheat to Germany suggestion of the request for outbound, and inbound; and to have guaranteed, pubstantial"
ly the work, had to bo carried The paper
declared that commanded the 14th Army in plete its report. The current country and carry it to another, and exports to Indiin "at a very out after the trams had ceased there could scarcely be a more Burma and is now the Com- deadline has been set by Con- This last is the controversial much higher rate than in any
running for the night, -dramatic confirmation of Bri-mandant of the College, whore gross for June 1 for the in- "Afth freedom
previous years" Herbert Mor which began last The Committee proposed the rison. Lord President of the Combined Operations in its vestigation
November 15.·
establishment of a body to be Council, told the House of Com- widest forms are taught."'
known. (Continued on Page 4)
as the International motis yesterday, Civil Air Transport Board He refused to disclose any ADMIRAL IN THE
which would interpret and ad-specific figures; however, saying minister the proposed agree that "it might be embarrassing BAG
ment and be empowered to or to our interests.” S Frankfurt, May 24:
der corrective action by Britain's only sacrifice, he ex The United States Army Intolli- State, in settlement of disputes. plained in his report on food gence Division announced "loday. unorirani, reportA=== AFE" Liit, constitütiojs, in “Washington Jose Giral, premier of the Spanish republic Government in
General Silm's students com- that Admiral Trunkwalter, Con- the United States is not cager and Ottawa, was to reduce by prise high-ranking officera of mander of the Hungarian naval to have the multilateral plan a 200,000 tons Ita claim for ozilo, declared today that the Franco regime has told the three services and civil ser remnants on the Danubo, was copted at this, meeting, prefer future supplies which have not overy Spaniard he could aim himself to defend. Spain vants from all parts of the Em- arrested during Sunday's opora- ring to wait until world con- been "Acquired or entmarked” against attack by Ruseld,
pire, who are lectured five tion, in which, United States Lacditions have become more for Britain
troops/ralded stabilized, Associated Presdeclaration that our present. timos a week by Cabinet Minis-
of the Dangbe. scientists. UNA ARME
Giral Says Whole Of Spain Under Arms
New York, May 24,
He told a United Nations | 840,000.
In the College, where "brass "hats" wear civilian clothes, General. Slim has only three rules. They are: "No women. no uniform and no age limit" for those taking a twelve-,] "müñllis” tõuŸÃO, ...,
a45-mliu
several – thousand par.
sub-committea Investigating Giral replied that the figureters, Ambassadors and loading 30 were detained and
But the Commons choored his
thepenuh he and past sucrifices have hurt but they have given us a re- markable degree of moral leadership in this matter." sociated Press/
Spain that two months ago the included colonial troops. Franco regine decreed every He said that Spain is import Films help to give them tha another 16 are being held for REPORT ON FASCISM citizen could arm himwolf to do | ing arms from other countries, broadest outlook, on fend the fatherland against an but he did. not: nama tham: ks Hons for da: Generale attach by Russia. S
Deduring that Frango shad kelt in: noise, train sto contrall said. Louter.
ques Interrogation by coun field: gente biljours, the annua
Berne, May 24.9
Germany:"lovær serlaud; the
Answering committen que 250,000 troops along the French tipné “ concerning the Varmed; border, - Girál; mita herrical red; mind a forces Giral said, “It In AirHoult aus Fable johanhu
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