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H.K. Names In List Of Honours

The following is a list of Hong Kong recipients af awards in the King's Birthday Hondurs:-

CM,GS:-

Roland Arthur Charles Secretory

former

Affairs.

C.B.B.

for

North, Chinese

Thomas

Inzierigs. Maynard O.B.E., M.C. Special Adviser to the Hong Kong Government,

John Pennefather, Pennefather. Evans. Former Commissioner of Police, Hong Kong.

Dr. Douglas James Valentine. M.C. Former Hepaty Director Medical Services. O.B.E.:-

Dr.

George Harold Themas,

M.D.E. Medical Department. -

Dr. (Miss Lai Po-chuen). Me-

dical Department.

CHINA MAIL

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No. 33383.

HONG KONG, THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1946.

BIRTHDAY HONOURS Lord Mountbatten A Viscount

G.B.E. For Mrs. Churchill

London, June 12. Recognition of the part played by the British Labour Party and trade union leaders in the advancement of the Socialist cause during the last 20 years is one of the principal features of the Birthday Honours list published today. The list also includes a vast number of awards for

war service to both civilian and service person- nel from all parts of the British Common- wealth and from all walks of life.

Heading the list is one of the most colourful of Britain's war- time lenders, 46-year-old Ad-

Dr. Tse-jen Hua. Medien De-miral Lord Louin Mountbatten. partment.

Miss Helen Ho. Auxiliary Nur

sing Service

Brian Charles Keith Hawking,

Cadet Officer.

John Barrow,

M.B.ER-

Cadet Officer.

Miss Dorothy Philli. Geen. Ma. from, Medical Department.

Miss Chu Shui Ling. Overseer. King's Park Orphanage,

John James Cameron. Late Area Medical Transport Officer.

who becomes a Viscount. Su- preme Allied Commander in South-east Asin since 1943. Lord Mountbatten.

cuusin of King George, holds the substan-

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MOLOTOV COCKTAILS IN NAPLES RIOT

in

(By Walter Green)

Naples, June 12. Monarchists are trying to burn the six-storey building, Communist headquarters, here to- night, after two hours fighting against the police in which two or more men are known to be dead.

The crowd is using Molotov cocktails-bottles of petrol with flaming wicks-against the build-

of

1

ing.

he This fight is the most serious, the law's provision before June 12,

week of monarchist- will comment to transfer his The Prime Minister, republican tension in this city. powers.

In intermittent fire from The Vice-Premier, Pietro Mr. C. R. Attlee, pro-police and army reinforcements, Nenni, at the end of the Cabinet claimed Britain's free-most of which is directed over meeting today said that unleas dom to work out its own the heada

the stubborn a solution was reached quickly destiny and defined Bri- crowl, I have seen 15 or 20 per- he intends to demand the call- sou hit and carried off. There Ing together of the Constituent tish policy today as a are trails of blood in the street. Assembly on Saturday, ---- Ren- search for cooperation

The figure of two persons | ter. and not "an attempt to killed comes from the pellee in- terpreter here. There are, how- force a dull uniformity

that there are

on the world.”

ever, reports

TERAUCHI

DEAD

Singapore, June 12. Field-Marshal Count

Nanking, June 12.

more dead, perhaps four. Chinese Communist He told the Labour Party's There were probably 10,000 tive rank of an Rear-Admiral, and Government leaders annual conference: "We ask for people in the crowd when the Miss A. Agnes Chue Chung Che youngest in the Admirals held their

others the freedom which we fighting started. It is smaller first direct daim for ourselves. We pro- now. The women and children Luen. Matron. Kwong Wah Hos-list since Earl Beatty and Lord pital.

Nelson.

peace meeting for many claim this freedom. We seek have gone home, But the en He is a personal Naval Aide-Weeks yesterday as bat-to put it into effect. Witness refuse to quit. They are going

India"

to burn the building. Every de-camp to the King. Suggest-tles violating the 15-day ed in some quarters as the next truce broke out afresh in in the British

ile added that if India slaye wice in a while, the pet Terauchi, Japanese Com-

Commonwealth, down. Then somebody blows a Governor-General of Australia,

in South-east "we shall welcome them. If bugle. Then they get to and mander Lord Mountbatten says that he east and central China.

The conference would prefer to go back to his

between the they desire to re outside we start again, Somebody in comAsia and former. War Communist naval career, His wishes to be-

Jender,

General shall stretch out the hand of munist headquarters just threw Minister, died at Johore

two bombs down into the crowd, Chon En Lai and the minister friendship to them." First Sea Lord, come the David Davies. Former Chiefsition held

for communications, Yui Ta In a voice frequently charged aml all hell broke loose. I am this morning from cere- by his father. Clerk, Colonial Secretariat.

Wei, reported Prince Louis of Battenberg, in

the bal hamorrhage. He was, progress, al with emotion, Mr. Attlee re- telephoning this lying on Colonial Police and Fire Services 1912.

though results were not dis- ported on his stewardship since floor. We are under heavy fire. 166. Medal:--

the Labour Party took control I am now in the room with Count Terauchi's ill-health. The noted Trade Union lead-closed. For fire

Chou En Lai asserted that last July.

the American Military Police saved him from being tried as Citrine. Prest- er. Sir Walter

had launched

He said: "I reaffirm my faith who have their headquarters in a war criminal for his part in ent of the World Federation of the Government

north west of in Democratic Socialism-Social the basement of police head-the responsibility for the cons- Trade Unions, becomes a Baron, heavy attacks

support de-quarters. The M.P' Other service chiefs in addi-Nanking "at the very moment Demceracy-we

retruction of the Siamese "death" and freedom ovary-heavily armed, but they have railway during which tion to Lo.d Mountbatten to be the truce in Manchuria became incracy

18,000, where.Associated Press,

orders not to fire unless this British, Australian and Dutch. honoured include Field-Marshal effective."-Associated Press. Viscount

building is attacked.

prisoners-of-war died. Full War Kit

Miss Margaret Scott Watson Almoner, Medical Department. LS.0.-

Denis Henry Blake.

fighting services.

REM.:-

Chang Tak Kwong... For ser. vices during occupation.

Glan Singh. Sergt. Major Polie: Force.

Iman Din. For services during the Japanese occupation,

Lau Chik Kee. Sub-Inspector Police Reserve.

John Pau. For services in the Corps, of Communications during hostilities.

Tong Wo. Assistant Steward Infectious Diseases Hospital.

a

Alanbrooke, former

New

Chief of the Imperial General Staff an maater strategist of Viscount Cunningham and Mar the second World War; Admiral hal of the R.A.F., Sir Cyril Newall, Governor-General and Commander-in-Chief of Wong Ngai Him, Sub-Inspec- | Zealand from 1941 to 1946, tor. Hong Kong Police,

Lord Alanbrooke and Vis. Wone Sik Kuen. For services count Cunningham received ns Deputy Divisional Warder the Order of Merit. Sir Cyril A.R.P.

Woo Chiu. Hong Kong Police Newall is created a Baron.

Among other trade

union lenders included in the Hon- are George Gibson, ours list

Reserve.

Compromise On Spain

New York, June 12.

the last Chairman of the T.U.C.. who becomes a Companion of Honour, and Joseph Hallsworth, General Secretary of National Union of Distributive and Al- Hed Workers, who is awarded a knighthood.

Lord Halifax, O.M. The former British Ambas- The British and Unit-ador to the United States, Via- count Halifax, is awarded the

which

ty Council on Thursday, it was reliably learned

here today,

Sir Alexander Cadogan, Bri-

on the Security Council of the

William Shawcross, Attorney-

Their plan is to refer the mat- ter to the General Assembly of the U.N.O. without the Coun- cil's sub-committee recommen- trials.

with Cripps, wife of Sir Stafford

|

British Request To America

Washington, June 12. Mr. James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State, said today that the United States is preparing to discuss with Britain what military forces America might make available to maintain' order in Palestine during the increased Jewish immi- gration.

Unseaworthy Cargo Of Capitalism

The streets are fairly empty now. But they are firing from all the buildings around us.

Count Turauchi suffered from a stroke after the Japanese capi- tulation and was unable to at- tend the Singapore ceremony The firing began when the at which Admiral Lord Louis crowl, demonstrating for the Mountbatten was to have ac- House of Savoy it loved, at-cepted his personal surrender. tempted to storm the communist The surrender ceremony even-" headquarters, situated next door tually took place in November. to police headquarters,

Count Terauchi was generally

Against the crowd, the police credited with the planning gf and troops, in full war kit and the lightning South Pacific virtually every man armed with campaign of 1941 to 1942. ---- automatic weapons, used four Reuter.

armoured

cars mounting 75- calibre guns. But the stubborn be awed,

crowd, refusing to Trawlermen

King's Claim

On Strike

London, June 11. Pence moves were being made .today in the trawlermen's. strikes at Hull, Grimsby andi North Shields, where the fisher-

Atomic Energy Control

Mr. Byrnes at a news conference refrained from giving any impression that he favoured having

overpowered these and chocked the United States make troops available, but

their wheels to slop them. said Britain had raised various questions and It was with difficulty that the United States would discuss them.

reinforcements of troops, ar- Mr. Byrnes cantioned against riving. in vehicles with sirong regarding the forthcoming wailing, recaptured the armour- Paris Foreign Minister's cou- | ed cara, ference as a game in which one country or another might score Meanwhile, in Rome, an ex-men have refused to put to sea ed States delegates to Order of Merit, an honour per-

a diplomatic victory.

timated 100,000 Republicans as a protest against the landing He said: "All of us must have marched to the Viminale Palace of fish by foreign ships-main- the UNO are today work-sonally bestowed by the King

one hope, that is, making somewhere Premier Alcide de ly Norwegian and Danish. ing hard to produce a and one of the most coveted distinctions in the British pub-

progress toward a just, endur- Gasperi's Cabinet, in its fourth] The strikers are asking that: compromise on the Span-lic life.

ing peace."

meeting of the day, struggledį restrictions should be imposed ish question,

Mr. Byrnes said W. Averill with the impasse-to cheer on the landing of catches by- Harriman, American Ambas- wildly when the Republican flag these "outsiders," comes before the Securi- tain's permanent representative Bournemouth, June 12.

sador to London, was taking up was hedsted over the building. The Minister of Fuel with the British Government a U.N.O., becomes a Privy Coun-and Power, Mr. Emman- plan for an

Over 60 per cent of fish land- Late this evening, Royalist; ed in Grimsby today came from. cillor along with Sir Hartley uel Shinwell, addressing committee of experts to study as having, told De Gasper

Anglo-American spokesmen quoted King Umberto foreign sources.

The trawlermen's strike General in the present British the Labour Party confer what he called the practical and with whom he conferred twice worsened today when Lowestoft. Government and chief British ence this afternoon, said creasing Jewish immigration in thing for the pacification of the pathy with the Hull, Grimsby physical factors involved in in- today, that he would "do any faliermen stopped work in sym-. prosecutor at the Nuremberg that their future depend-Palestine.

people" but must "make his own and North Shields strikers.---- He said he know of no assur- | decisions about yielding the Reuter. dation, supported by Dr. Her- Mrs. Clementine Churchill, fed on whether or not the bert Evatt, Australia's Minister wife of former premier. Wins-nationalising of the min-Britain that it intended to go

ance which America had given throne.-Associated Press. for External Affairs, for a col- ton Churchill, and Lady Isobel ing industry was success-through, with placing 100,000

O.K. From London lective diplomatic break

London, June 12. Spain if General Franco is still Cripps, President of the Boardful. "If it should fail, we Jews in Palestine but pointed in power in September. They of Trade and a member of the cannot hope to promote Mr. Attles had handled the cor- to Signor Alcide de Gaspari, Mr. Ernest Bevin, Foreign out that President Truman and Secretary, has sent a message hope to get the support of other Cabinet Mission to India, are to schemes of nationalisa- delegates for this scheme. become Dames Grand Cross of

respondence on the Palestine Italian Prime Minlater, noting tion.

Washington, June 12. situation directly. .... Associnted that the referendum and elec Sir Alexander Cadogan, Bri-

The United States has com- tains' delegate to the Council,

"Thin experiment. must auc-Press. Order of Merit

tions in Itály were carried pleted a definite plan for inter- was still waiting for the British (O.M.) is one of Britain's most coed and I believe it will," What-

through in an orderly manner] national control of atomic energy Foreign Secretary's decision on interesting decorations.

It over terms of compensation

and pointing out that there will for submission to the United the sub-committeo's report. confers no precedence and was might be, he was convinced that are to pay their way they can be no change in feelings, as far Nations Atomic Commission, the

American commentators sug-instituted in 1902 as a special would pay ifinancially and that port. That it will be embodied Italy as a result of the referon-By, announced.

the nationalisation of mines | not be divorced from road trans-

James: as British is concerned, for Secretary of State. Mr.

a press gested that Mr. Bovin wished distinction for eminent" men

conference today. firat to test the attitude of the and women, The Order is limit would attain its primary ob- in legislation and become an dum.

MDyrnes declined to say Labour Party on Spain at to ed in numbers to 24, with the jectives-model conditions of actual fact is beyond doubt;

It is probable that a formal whether the plan would be out- morrow's session of the Party addition of foreign honorary wages for those employed, cheap ame applies to Iron and steel in Italy will be awaited before presentative, Mr. Bornard Baruch, labour, highest standard of That will come very soon. The proclamation of the new regime lined by the United States re- conference in Bournemouth be- | members, The latest "Whil "Toro making up his¬wind," taker"—lists 19, including Get-

-enough coal and_modern_utili-¡ That the rotten and unge British-official-recognition-is immediately at the Commission's

sation of its product.

worthy cargo of capitalism will given to the The British delegation tako erat Eisenhower.

now republc. - opening session on Friday, the view that severance of rela-

Nationalisation schemes, tak-be thrown overboard is beyond Router..

Indications are that both Bri-

tions would not upsent General

tain and Canada have been con- ing them by and large, must not question." bo subaldised from tho Ex-

Setbacks

aulted on the. American plan. Franco. The explicit injunétion

Rome, June 12. recommended by Dr. Evatt

The British and Canadian Am-' establishment would therefore be quite

of an bassadors, Lord Inverchapel and

real, they belloved.---Reutor.

Italian republie is meeting with Mr. Lester B. Pearson, personally setbacks. The Italian Prime discussed the matter with

Alcide do Gasperi Byrnes last weekend-Router. Minister, visited the King or, "ox-King”; seven times in 80' hours to try THE WEATHER and wrest from him what the Government regards as the re-Today's forecast:-Light to demption of his pledge to ro- moderate southerly wind; fair to nounce his powers, following cloudy with some brief showers,. the popular verdict against the chiefly in the morning.

"Yesterday's weather:---- monarchy.

The Cabinet Council spent Minimum:80 dog at 0 a.m.

Maximum: 89.9 deg. at 8 pro.. many hours considering the for Rainfall:-0.09 inchoa mulse to meet the King's de Sunshine: 0 hours. mand for the exact axecution of Mar. Hel Humidify: 92% at:? Muk

Un-

the British Empire-Reuter,

• The

NORWEGIAN LINER DOCKS

bankruptcy.

Continuing he said that it was their intention to nation aliae electricity and ho was now engaged on preparing the bill. The gas industry would come later, within the present parla- ment.

The Chairman of the Traden chequer. That was the way to Union Congress, Mr. Charles The

Dukes, as fraternal delegate, said that nationalised Industry, in its transitional stages could be compromised in its futuro de "clopment by the untimely or c cesalvo demands made upon It by, those to whom it gave em- ployment.

We must exercisó restraint in the claims we make," he said. "We must even be prepared for soms sacrifices for the sake of future development of the in- dustries wo nationalise,"

The conference #fjourned un- till tomorrow. Reuter.

New York, June 12. .The Norwegian linor, Stavanger Fjord, arrived at Bludan, Syria, June 12. New York on Tuesday, the first Arab-British_friendship will Norwegian, passenger Vessel bullapse anise Ezgut's demands under operation to enter the for a union of the Nile Valley and harbour since the war evacuation of British troops from Passengers Included Miss In all those nationalisation the valley ste realized, the Arab Beth Dulin of Oslo, daughter measures there must be a large Loarvodeolu̸rod. In

solution of the Norwegian underground measure of autonomy. Neither tonight: The league

скргенной concern at the halt in Anglo-leador Sverre Dulin. She said the cool or gas industries could Egyptian treaty revision negotia she had to the United¡ be organised entirely from a tions and said it completely sup-States to marry Captain Wallace centro. ported Egypt in the conversations, Knutsen, U.S. Army. AssociatWe propose to deal with tho, *-*-*-* Associated Press.

ed Pross,

transport Industry, If railways

Como

to

Mr.