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CURFEW ENDS

The

Shanghai, June 10, curfew imposed Shanghai's 4,000,000 Dhabi. tants since the outbreak of the Sino-Japaneso War in 1937, ous lifted at. midnight on Saturday, but the order re. quiring all plogen of amulac- ment to close at 11 pmL, BUMB maintained-Aunnciated Press,

Shipment Of Ruhr Coal

(By John Talbot)

Rome, June 16, The first shipment of Ruhr coal to arrive in Italy since the end of the war has been discharged at Genoa.

This was a cargo of 6,800 tons, part of the allocation of 39,000 tons of cooking coal and anthracite procured by UNRRA for delivery in Italy during the second quarter of this year.

Since it to virtually certain that there will be no cal fead- ings for Italy from the United States during May, UNRRA has been endeavouring to secure additional 134,000 tons of coal from the Ruhr for ship-| ment

to Italy Bring next month.

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Besides this cont from the Stuhr it is hoped to obtain some 20.000 tons of anthracite duff from Britain, 18,000 tons of si-i milar anthracite from South

THE CHINA' MAIL, MONDAY, JUNE 17, 1946,

H.M.S. "Thracian" To Be Sold

To Local Scrapyard

Strangest Court-Room

(By Harold Fair)

New York, June 16. America's strangest court, with rooms finish- ed like a furnished flat, has been opened in New York to handle marital troubles.

(By Paul Pry)

Tenders were called for yesterday for the pur- chase of H.M.S. "Thracian," destroyer, "as she lies" and "to break her up within two months" a sad though possibly inevitable ending to the life of a gallant little vessel which fought the Japanese during the attack on Hong Kong in 1941.

"Thracian" was one of three December that year. Of the dentroyers in the Colony in other two. "Thanet" was sunk month later off the East Coast of Malaya in action with a Ja-

a

panese cruiser and several des- troyers, while "Secut," now the the Navy, oldest destroyer in came through the war unscath- ed and when last heard of was homeward bound,

Married couples who take their difficulties to what is known as the new Home Term Court will and themselves in an atmosphere no devoid of court-successful dash room austerity that they may forget their squabbles.

Five high-ceilinged rooms on the first floor of an old police headquarters building, erected

"Scout" and "Thanet" made a from Hong

Kong with a number of impur- tant passengers soon after Ja- pan entered the war. "Tra- cian" WAR ordered to remain behind. She cooperated close- in 1852, have been fitted out as with the 2nd M.T.B. Flotilia reception and conference rooms, and the auxiliary patrol vessels

chintziraped, complete with a

of the Hong Kong R.N.V.R, toy-filled nursery for children. A red-and-white kitchenette provides facilities where mo- thers may heat milk and pre- pare anneks for their chikiren if the court preceedings run past mealtime.

While the children play games

or listen to nursery stories on 4

H.K: "Dunkirk”

She fought off. most success- fully. innumerable air attacks and took part in the Colony's miniature Dunkirk when, a week after the attack on the Island

ARMS DUMP

Paris, Juno 10. The French police arc faced with clandestine inter- national traffic in arms und ammunition through French territory, states a communi- que issued tonight by the Afinistry of the Interior. The communique in bused on

the investigations into

#!- stery of the arms dump found pesterday in Chateau do Cam- be in the village of Villeneuve Sur Lot, neur Bordeaux,

"Devonshire" Mystery

(Continued from Page 1)

The paper added: "It is like- ly that other ships honding for the Middle East will bo similar- ly treated.".

Meanwhile,

SEYMOUR

Nonking, June 10. Sir Horace Seymour, who has boon British Ambassador to China since February 10, 1042, left laat night aboard a destroyer en route to Englund via Hong Kong. His successor, Sir Ralph Stevenson, is ex pected, to arrive hora by the end of July.---Associated Press.

650 MPH MAY

from Damascus BE JET LIMIT

came a despatch stating that the sole clue in the continuing mys-. tery of the whereabouts of the Malti was a telegram from his nephew in Paris received by a close friend of the Mufti in Damascus, reading: "All in good health and safe."

The telegram had been sent from Paris by Isahan Darwich Husseini who had been living with his uncle near Paris.

London, June 16.

The Impetas given by the war to the development of jet propulsion for aircraft is maintaining a mo- mentum that bids fair to keep British designs well in the fore-

front.

is now possible to build a twin- Latest results are startling. It unit high-speed aircraft which has. effectively, 20,000 horse-power.

Expressed differently, the thrust developed by the Jet units at full bore and full aircraft speed- 8,000 lb. each. This is twice the something over, 600 m.p.bis /

output given by the units used on the 600 m.p.h. record-breaking Gloster Meteor.

A high Syrian official stated today that any official who had knowledge of the Mufti's move ments and who disclosed the |secret would be discharged.

It is, however, generally-be- lieved in Damascus. that the

Indeed, the focus of attention by Mufti did land in Syria and that the

scientists nowadays is

not on his presence is being concealed power output so much as on dura- until his beard has grown again tion and the strength of the air- and until the British govern- frame structure. ment's views are clearer.

One arrest has been made, Investigation continues to determine the origin and destination of the arms and to determine responsibility, comminique stuted--Router.

sun by now was pouring bright- ly out of a cloudless sky, but the convoy--"Thrzcian” in

the mile the MTB.a spread out

British quarters in Damascus Compared with a fuel consump- consider that If the Mufti tion by the conventional super- chooses to take refuge in Syria, charged engine of about half the British government would pint of petrol per hour for every request the Syrian government horse-power, a fet unit burns

part in political activities cal-) culated to stir up trouble in Palestine,

Africa, and, later, possibly an- gramophone or crawl in playpen began, she and the M.T.R.s more than 8 knots, for though to ensure that he did not take) This makes tankage a problem of

ther

35,000 tons from the tinited Kingdom,

This total of 207,000 'tous, it

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evacuated the rear-guard Pun jabis from Devil's Peak.

The M.T.B., with their shai-

is stated, represents the abs in the tastefully decorated confer- low draught, went in at dawn

"Thracian"

and he moved at little

was over-crowded } with resoedd treops, she had one more cut to perform. Just be- fore dawa, one of the MTBs

to a tiny pier where the Punud had the misfortune to pass jabis were drawn up, silently over pinnacle of rock which did no damage to her light wooden hull but knocked off all three of her propellors.

nearly one pint of its heavier fuel.

some magnitude.

Shock Waves time government

It is recalled that the D'ales- the Mufti's arrest dated Oct. 1, wing design, the threshold of an warrant for On the question of airframe and 1937, is still valid, but only in exclling and dangerous region has Palestine. Reuter,

provided for the infants, neriniuri- dus parents will discuss their pro- blems with trained social workers

ence rooms. If the case is not hute minimum Haly should re- settled then, they will go to the ceive during June from Euro-second floor.

waiting. As the morning sun penn and South African sources There, they will find not the unless her whole economic trac- customary bench but more confer struggled up through the mists ture is to suffer neverely. ener reoms. Only the most persi the M.T.B. went alongside the

one. favourable tent disputants will see the one pier, one by

The stocky Under the nost

Indian troops poured aboard un- expected small formal courtroom in a re- conditions it. is not

til each boat had as many as it that any further shipments can

could carry, There was HOW arrive from the United

jostling. As soon as an M.T.B. States before the second week

had its full quota, a brief word other M.T.B.s were unable to Council during its recent secret: in July.

next two months.

male spot on the third floor.

יווי

daughters of bad parents and an

Bombing Target

"Thracian" took her in tow When it was found that

Mufti's Post

but of control and aerofoil struc-

now been reached. When the opce i of sound is approached, air builds up a shockwave, which cannot be ensity simuinted in a test tunnel. such Few pilots have survived Jerusalem, June 16.

shockwaves, which alter the effect Chief Magistrate Edgar Brom-

The leadership of the new of controls. Those that have, say berger said married couples suf-

Arab the

Higher Executive, ap-aircraft completely disintegrate. fering from post-war tension dif

pointed by the Arab League ficulties" would be interviewed in from her Commanding Officer so, owing to their high-speed

These factors may set the limit The coal shortage in Italy - The consulting rooms. The enard's

engines which would not throttle session at Bludan, in Syria, is to sheer speed. It is calculated a country almost completely dea-furisdiction extends to all family and the flow of men stopped.

Out to "Thracian," which was down sufliciently to enable them being kept for

the Mufti of hood of 060 m.p.b. is approaching that something in the neighbour- titute of natural supply will, troubles other than actual crimes.

to tow their wounded sister for Jerusalem, Haj Amin el Hus- the maximum allowable by pre- therefore. continue to be ex- The type of girl now being denying some 100 yards off and to tremely severe for at least the with is chielly the real habitual, which the Indians were trans- more than a few yards without sci, according to well inform-cent lenown factors not of power,

ed Arab circles here tonight. ferred. Anxious eyes allont and the tow-rope purting. the many of whom are orphan Until

on the Island kept straining up They all reached

The composition of the new ture. Aberdeen whule position has been clarified alarming percentage of whom are into the air. Would the Japan-safely, without firing a shot, Arab Executive gives the deputy regarding future supplies

to the former Meantime, as a practical appli- of sub-normal anteiligenes-De-ese-send-their-aircraft over to though as they left Devil's Peak chairmanship coal from the United States, no serted wives of American and Bri-bomb a perfect target? One or the first Japanese scouts had Chairman of the Arab Higher cation of fot-propelled comuneretai indication can be given as to tsh servicemen, cynical and can

two of the Colony's pitifully few came into sight in the foothills The Secretary is Dr. Hussein that will carry mail at 6500 m.p.h. Committee, Jamal Husseini. aircraft, designers дге setting

themselves when normal allocations will be bittered, peel that mobile Bofors were standing by less than a mile away

problem, Expert opinion many girl Went astray during the war beenuse they were bored wit monetous work in factories, which they took up in the nation! i terest when they would have pre- became hairdressers, dressmakers or florists etc. They A significant step towards

are now getting an opportunity to this restoration was the E. C. O. use their natural talents, and, as (Eurojiet Coal Organisation i

result, we

straight". reing were Oficial records disclose that the Conference, which met in Paris last week to study the probable number of juvenile females urg-

throughout Eu-ed with moral delinquencies a enal position rope during. the coming 12300 per eat, during the vas, bet months.

has now returned to almost pre- war figures.-Reuter.

resumed.

One incidental effect of the stoppage of coal shipments from the United States has been to emphasise the need of restoring

a time as possibleferred in as short Europe's coni economy.

The Paris coal conference was entirely exploratory and had no executive authority, although its recommendations are likely to serve as a guide for future allocations. Henter.

ROBERTSON TAKES OVER

Karo, June 16. Lieutenant-General H. C. Ro- bertson today assumed cóm- mand of the British Common- wealth occupation forces and left for an inspection troop of his command with the retiring commander, Lieutenant-General John Northcott.

In a farewell statement to his men, General Northcott praised the work of the Commonwealth forces and said "our association with the United States forces in the Pacific Jas been a happy one" which has built up lasting individual friendships. Asso- ciated Press.

"MONTY" IN TRANS-JORDAN

Jerusalem, June 15. Floid Marshal Lord Montgu- mery, who arrived here yesterday during his tour of the Middle East. is understood to have left today for Amman, the mountain capital. of Trans-Jordan, bụt his move monts are being kept "top secret".

He was expected to Juneh Amman with King Abdullah and Mr. John A. Glubb Pasha, the Commander of the Arab Legion but military hondquarters here ro- fused to lacloss Field Marshal Montgomery' out

official programme.

.to

London, June 16 The American News Service in Germany reports that the Ameri- Can Military Government has Issued an order, disbanding with mmediate effect. the so-called "Union of War Disabled" in Ham- burg, and the formation.

of any

in Shankiwan, but they would

have had no more than a slight nuisance value had the Japanese decided to come over in force.

With a calmness

in full-

a target,of, a plane

miles

DAKOTAS AS GLIDERS

between

Manila, June 10. The use of C-47 planes minus

carry

403rd

"Thracian" continued to carry / Khalibi, the leader of the Pales-and cover 2,500 out day and night patrols in the tine Reform Party and two of landings. waters south of the Colony un- the members are Ahmed Hilmi til shortly before the end.

Pasha and Emile Ghoury. One

The Arab Higher Executive pitch-bluck night, rounding Un

equivalent of the Kok, gauth of Lamma Island, will be the Left Mules

she damaged her bows badly. Arab Agency the formation of Fortunately, not a single Ja- Attempts were made to repair which was urged in the report panese plane was in the sky. her in one of the dry-docks at of the Anglo-American Commis-

Aberdeen, but by now the Jasion of enquiry on Palestine. that made it

It will have an annual budget seem almost a penec-time man-panese were engaged

vre, the entire Punjab regi-scale air attacks on the Island, of 1,000,000 with an additional their engines, as gliders to be tow-

£1,000,000 for the current year, ed by C-45s, designed to met was transferred via the and "Thracian" was a perfect Syria has, already contributed double cargo. is scheduled for a

the test on Monday" by M.T.B.8 to "Thracian." Their target. mules had to be left behind, and

Eventually, a formation of 27 £150,000 and Iraq £400,000,

The new body will establish inary non-step haul of the sky- Troop Carrier Group in a prelim- many amuleteer came aboard bombers came over at about snilling and with eyes red. Each 16,000 feet and dropped a full speelal departments to deal with train to Tokyo later in the week. carried his rifle or Lewis gun, stick of bomba all round her. Itail phases of Arab life in Pales

The removal of the engines from from which he would not part, was obvious that this bombing tine. It is understood that the

Arab Office-the prepaganda the C-478 wit increase the 6,000 even to matelet who offered to would cause damage faster than organisation with branches in round cargo to 13,000 pounds. If pass it up after he had scram- it could be repaired and reluct Cairo, London, and Washington successful, the sky-train tests are bled on board.

antly the order

was given for will come under the jurisdiction civil aviation applications.

expected to have wide military and her to be abandoned.

of the Arab Higher Executive. C-47 type of ahip is the largest The formation of the new ever to be used as a gilder but it Taken To Japan

body is regarded here as a most was found to reduce the speed of important step towards ending the towing plane by only 20 miles towed round

inter-clan rivalries.-Reutor. an bour-Associated Press. Nganchau Island, Repulse Bay, and beached there. Everything of value was taken off her and the Japanese Air Force proceed. ed to put in some target prac- tice on her, no doubt claiming "One battleship sunk" every time a bomb got within a couple of hundred feet of her.

All but three of the regiment were evacuated, and these swam the harbour the next aeroag similar organisation of war veter- night. Then "Thracian" and The reason giyen being that the small brood of M.T.B.8 pro- such organisations are undesir ceeded right round the Island able-Reuter,

via Lyemun to Aberdeen, The

nns.

Dead End Kids In Germany Today

(By Hubert Harrison)

.

without tobacco.

She

to

Some time after Hong Kong fell.. the Japanese salvaged "Thracian" and took her off to Japan, where

she was found

affer the Surrender and brought back to Hong Kong.

camber which, been lying off the Kowloon boat i

incidentally,

Pirates,

Tommy-Guns,

For The Use Of

(By Stan Swinton)

Singapore, June 16.

Tho

For some time now, she has Maurauding modern pirate bands are continuing to raid tonkangs (junks) and fishing craft along Malaya's northern coast despite unre- lenting efforts of Malayan police and the Bri- tish military to end these reminders of the era when Malayan waters were a pirates' par- adise.

used to be the "home" of the M.T.Ba with which she was so closely connected. She looks old and tired; her decks are clear of any armament. But one thing

Armed with Sten gung, Tommy guns and, police bellave, strike in the Bay of Bengal off oven machine guns, tho, pirates Penang, Kedah and Perlis.

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their leader, an important Siam- ese political prisoner, was ar rested. Now remnants of the old gang apparently havo re- organised.

Night Patrols

Berlin, June 16. Young Nazis who went into the German army at the age of 12 or 13 and became saturated with Hitler's poisonous doctrines, are at present one of the big problems' of the authorities here. One large gang of those Dead it, and stole 5,000 cigarettes. He End Kids meets every evening in had previously robbed several bombings, sinkings and all the other tobacco atures. He explain-reat have not been able to take Charlottenburg, in the British sec- tor of Berlin. All are armed with ed that while serving in the ranks from har--the slim, fast-look- pistols and they have cars and of Altler's army he became ing, beautiful lines of one of the forries at their disposal. heavy smoker and now cannot do Navy's most fascinating ships-

At the first sign of the ap- proach of British or German uni-

Wolf Sign

the Destroyer.

Sometimes they swoop, down formed police, a warning la given Another case, is that of a 17- at and they flee at great speed. Ger-year-old boy who WES

upon small coastal vessels, rob- man plain clothes men who have caught by the police on the Black recently

bing them of their entire cargo. been shadowing them for some Market In the Brannonstrasse in

To meet the pirate threat, au- Other times they raid fishermen, time aro powerless against them Berlin.

thorities nightly patrol waters. because they have ze motor trans- carrying a considerable number of

nuizing fish, nets and boats and was found to be

leaving their, victims beside

between the Langkawi Islands port, are not allowed to carry Engllah cigarettes and had a list

and the mainland in radio- their fishing pens at the mercy arm and are

numerous on him 'showing that he had dob-

of the elements, unless another equipped speedboats operating enough to deal with such a gang tors wing him 15,000

from Penang.. Some pirates. unarmed...

marka (876 at official rates).

Negotiations which have been passing boat chances to rescue

have been captured, Two, both The boys are all skilled in the He was found to be a member of the ferry employees and their

going on between representatives them

former Siamese policemen, ro ure of firearms, They all smoke of a well organised Black Market employers will be coming to a London, June 16.

Pirate headquarters is known cently were sentenced to three Ration cards for roughly Gretion, to do it; and they are well vel permits and a document entitl most at the Chinese Seamen's land of Pulau Terutau, north

and seem to have plonty of clan Gang. He was carrying two tra- head today when the former will to be the Siamesö "Dovil's Is- year prison terme.” tons of food and 1,100 emergonex fod and woll dressed." They ing him to receive

Worker's

Less fortunate than Penang of the Langkawi Talands, to headquarters. "on" kla It was learned that the men which several hundred despera authorities are thong of Perlin, In Germany. The

HELENEKIG MO SA in ments of Kangar, and Kusla Wolf”----mark of the Hitler Youth'i a month last; Saturday with a*.NET tiloved planned to circulate the laced to 10 years imprison- he belongs to one of the dany The man coulder this to be in British tank Soren prucks there, I HANS FROM

One boy boon months ago a special Perlis are equipped with motor Fifty ration

mant In Berlin court for murder. Suth organliations in which to adequate, and the meeting goday in a co-operation with Foard fargon) have also been af. He broke into Herlin tobacpo

Geyime

-Reuter

not

of a gang of thieves, arrested in secret political activitiost

Ho

Ferry Workers Not Satisfied

Ulion

cards were found in the possession opg★go in Black Market deals and ration candy and atitolio of the ware giyen a wage increase of $29: don were exiled in years paste whoso two lone polics: detach-

Bonn,

*Nowarding, to the Brijjish as in robberies and hold-upa."

was the sign

to decide their next, sourse of authorities. At this