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No. 33392.

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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1946.

EISENHOWER REPORTS

Ralph Ingersoll's Book Refuted

High Praise For Montgomery

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POLICE OPEN FIRE

Madura, June 23.

The Police opened fire today dimperso crowde Fairing purt in the third day of the demonstration ir. Madron againnt

lant serek's arrest in Kashmir of Pandit Nehru, President designate of the Congress Party. their de-

China Light Power Company this morning by their power-plant and office employees setting the deadline at 10 a.m. tomorrow for final ac- ceptance of mands.

This decision was reached at in meeting of the committee of work- ers' representatives helt! vester- city, when it was revealed that negotiations with the mangement had fallen through.

On Friday last,, representativos of the workers were in conference with the Compisy maremen! for four hours, and it is under- stood the Company agreed to one of the men's demands for a 45- hour week with 48 hours pay,

The Company would mot agree to a nollateral payment of a 25 per cent. increase in wages or a rehabilitation allowance as high

1 $84 month. Pay of the affien atait, they anid, could not be slas

Hong Kong Electric Fo

A walk-out

of

the power-plant

off the arike is expected to De made before the deadline.

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Demanatrators, attempting to throw burning oil, ked in raps, ny to konser

mers

disperaed. Railway trafic

Near the city was dislocaird for four honey breunge sleep- ers have been removed from the tracks-Router.

U.S. Queries Pressmen Ban

(By MacFee Kerr, Routers Correspondent with United States First and Third Armies.)

London, June 23. The British Government today published General Dwight Eisenhower's official report to the Combined Chiefs-of-Staff on the Allied Ex- peditionary Forces operations in Europe, in which the Allied Supreme Commander gave the first authentic overall picture of the whole campaign against the Germans in the West from D-Day to VE-Day.

In it, General Eisenhower gave a detailed analy- sis of the brilliant planning, hard work, cour- age, bluff and luck that went into an "Allied experiment unprecedented in the history of the world, which has been carried out with de cisive results."

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No Date Yet For Peace Conference

Paris, June 23.

After failing to reach an agreement on the date for the general European peace conference today, the "Big Four" foreign ministers agreed to the proposal by the British, Foreign Mini- ster, Mr. Ernest Bevin, to speed up their work · and complete it by next Friday.

Today's session was the shortest to date and lasted a little more than one hour. It was confined to a discussion on procedure. The burning question of Trieste was not discussed.

Mr. Bevin proposed that the ministration of these territories, examination of pence treaties the radio added.-Router.

with Italy and ex-enemy Balkan Countries should be completed by Friday and that the Minis- ter's deputies should draw up the final agendu during the weekend, and that the ministers should then meet twice daily to complete the work on time. All ministers agreed to this.

The ministers will therefore take tomorrow off and meet in

U.S. MPs. SHOT BY

RUSSIAN

was

were

London, June 23.. The British Govern- the plenary gesalon at 11.30 a.m. on Monday. Another ment acknowledged to- plenary session will be held in

Vienna, June 23. By implication, the Supreme Advance On Berlin day that there have been the afternoon.

Two American Mili- tommander replied to allega- Later in his report, General some precautionary troop and Austrin, and the disposal

Italy's frontier with France tary Policemen tions made by the American edi- Eisenhower explained why nei movements in the area of or the Italian Navy will be dig. Shot by a Russian soldier Washington, June 23.tor. Ralph Ingersoll, of mis-ther the British nor American Trieste but said Yugo- caned Acting Secretary of takes on the part of British

in the morning. The last night when they at- armies advanced to Berlin. ed on the same basis as that of the State Acheson says that Fickt-Marshal Viscount Ber-Berlin, I was now certain, no slav

that reports

the time of the afternoon meeting tempted to stop a stolen the United States is ask-pard Montgomery and of dis- longer represented a military zonal demarcation line are not yet known.

and the subjects to be discussed jeep in which the Rus- between agreements

the two objective of major importance, would be shifted east- leaders,

sian and out-door staff and office working why four American

Peace Talks Hays General Eisenhower.

riding with ers would involve over 700 m, correspondents had been The Supreme Commander's

"The Russing advance and Ward were "sheer non- Mr. James and a last minute attempt to head barred by Russia. from report, afthora u lished Allied bombing had targely des- sense."

Byrnes, United three other Soviet Army States Secretary of State, urged soldiers. Both Americans the Best time day, entering Bulgaria.

was troyed its usefulness and even

that a general were shot in the head, A spokesman for the Foreign this afternoon tually written before Ingersoll's governmental departinents wer: Office said he was authorized European Under the Potsitlam agree-Top Secret" but

peace conference ment, he said American news-

monton's understel to be in process of to deny that there was in should be called not later than but are expected to live. enlls Montgomery's evacuation men are supposed to have the

One Russian soldier was shot moreover the tention of moving the line nine, July right of neerss to that country handling of the criticised Caen Russians were practically on its kilometers toward Yugoslavia. would give the ministers time this morning as the Military

battle "masterly." The State Department has been

outskirts, 30 Ingersoll had also suggested it was a matter of serious con- press agency, Tanjur.

miles away, and as reported by theYugolav to examine all remaining items Folie combed the informed, Acheson said, that

un the agendin addng: Seven if district in Vienna in a search for the man who fired the shot. He said Britain els denied un agreement is not reached on The wounded Ruggian's condi cern to avoid entangling forces the four were barred from Rul that the two A shut-down of cine-in a few days ago and, the rever whether three or in areas where, due to difficul- categorically that any Chetniks all points,

we are already 40tion has not been disclosed by mas in the Colony yes- Department is trying to find out ve divisions should take part ties in communication and dif- ar slashi were among the near an agreement on

assault wave on terday was averted by a why;

Giculties in language, unfortun- Angio - American units Eisenhowerate incidents might occur." But

in points that there is no harm in the Russian hospital.

The two M.P.A had receive: last-minute

They are representatives of Europe. agreement the

American uniform-Associated submiiting outstanding "New York Times, Wrote:

(Continued on Page 8)

Press.

tions to the peace conference." Word to be on the look-out for between the projection-Christian Science Monitor Komary was in emphatic agree-

Mr. Molotov, Soviet. Foreign the stolen jeep, ao when they room staff and their em-Newsweek" Magazine and the ment with me on this matter ns

Minister, said that he could not uw it approaching they flagged were also Admiral Ramsay and!

discuss ployers for an extension Overseas News Agency.

the date of the con-it down, reporters were inform- The Russian immediately Achesen did not say to whom Air Chief Marshal Leigh Mal-

ference until the ministers had ed. to the the inquiries are being direct-lars"

completed their examination of opened the door, fired and raced -close of the last perform-ed, but presumably they are to Throughout Eisenhower's re-

the five peace treaties.

Road blocks were thrown up

CINEMA STRIKE AVERTED

of the deadline

ance.

Earlier, the men had decided to walk out after the 2.30 p.m. por- formance.

An urgent call from the Theatre-Owners Association to the Chinese Engineers Institute, seek ing its mediation, resulted in the men agreeing to carry on for the rest of the day.

hower

in the initial

commanders dia-

"Field-Marshal Mont-

ran repeated in- the Soviet military authorities port there in Sofia a

Allied unity. In well as Moscow, sistence on

phrases like "as one nation," Associated Press.

mands by noon today, the men at

theatres those

will carry on. leaving only those

theatres at which do not agree, to walk out.

The theatre-owners complain of dmculty in securing unanimity A compromiso was also reached | anion their members, and the _on_the_lines that if the theatre coraidalle arrangement was_ar-

owners gel twenty out of their rived at so that those who agrze. Die nier; to agree to the men's de- will not clese down,

Says Husband Bit

Her

Legs

Jews Release Two British Officers

Jerusalem, June 23.

emphatic agreement," "smooth Two of the five British officers kidnapped by the

and

effective relations," he showed that on this accorti de- Banded much that meant ulti- mate victory.

Liaison With Moscow

Irgun Zvai Leum (Jewish military organisa- tion) were released tonight according to un- confirmed reports from Telaviv,

15. He

said that this

EVERY

qnea-

Away.

American

Mr. Bevin suggested that the) decision on calling the confer and patrols combed the city all Several Russians were

ence, should be postponed fur night. one week but added that other questioned and one was held as Allied countries could not be an recupant of the stolen jeep.- kept out of the peace talks in Associated Press. definitely.

Italian Colonies

"The Times" Calls. For Long View

No-

Officers of the Palestine criminal investigation

Georges Bidault, French For- department were today conducting an inten- eign Minister, said that the General Eisenhower describ

sive manhunt for tough, bespectacled Mena- ministers had already settled ed the creation of military colla. nem Bedin, “Commander-in-Chief” of the

"several – previously unsolved t boration with the Red Army in

questions and seeniod to be on Irgun Zvai Leumi. A price of £2,000 has been

London, June 28. these words: "Our first liaison

the paint of solving several "The Times" yealerday urging placed on his head by the Palestine Govern- with Moscow had been effected

others, including that of Italy's editorially acceptance by Congress Inte in 1944 when air opera-

ment.

colonies.

of the Viceroy's invitation to join The latent theory, tions necessitated the establish-

is that Jewish terrorists on Tuesday, The Rome radio said tonight roalition. government and" de- ment of a co-ordinated bomb Bedin, whose organisation is was reported today to be "very that the Italian Ambassador plored the absence. Lrom Delhi of line, but little further had been believed to be responsible for satisfactory.

in Paris has made an official Jawaharlal Nehru. accomplished. .:.

kidnapping the five British of- Bombs containing pamphlets demarche to the "Big Fouraking of his "quixotic in- te anlion on behalf of a Muslim The only link between, myficers, may have undergone a from the trgun Zvai Leumi ex- foreign ministers conference leader, The Time" said that be- New York, June 23. headquarters and that of Mar- facial operation to disguise ploded in various parts of Jeru today to emphasize that Italy's rause of this embroilment Kay Williams, once named as the most beautiful shal Stalin was through the himself permanently.

saleta tonight. The pamphlets nitituds on the postponement of hru's constructive influence had model in the world, has accused her former

There have been no clues to were a reprint of the declara- the colonial question “must not been lacking at the preclue ino- medium of the Allied Military his whereabouts since he es- tions made before the military be interpreted as renunciation ment when it would have been of Mission in Moscow and it ap- husband, Latin-American beef baron Martin

peared most difficult to learn of caped with 19 other terrorists court by the two Jews who are of Italian territories in Africa." the greatest aorvice. de Alzaga Unzue, of-having bitten her legs. Soviet intentions.

breakout 1198

Referring to a division of coun- from now lying under sentence of The Italian Up to the in

view is that if camp near death end of 1944, I had received no Latrum detention

in Jerusalem's central the decision Senor Unzue, known from the

is postponed for el in the Congress Working Com- The list brought caustic com- information on matters affect-Jerusalem over three years ago. prison. One of these declara-one year it will nevertheless bemittee and the stiffoning attitude Pampas to Park-avenue as ment in court from Kaye,

ing the Russian grand strategy The British military intel- tions is: "We demand treatment necessary for Italian officials of those who favour refusal of "Macoco," indignantly refuted į He was nothing but a bargain- although I had expressed my ligence have clamped down a

prisoners-of-war."--Kenter, lito participate in the interim ad- the charge.

basement lover with a penclion: for gifts of second-hand washing willingness to afford any such accurity blackout on the move- machines and frons, she declared. information concerning my own ments of Major H. P. Chad- gifts were a diamond brouch-plu might desire,

She admitted that among the overall plans as the Red Armywick, the British officer who ca- caped from terrorist captivity on Thursday night.

"I have been on a strictly vegetarian diet," he declared.

It is undoubtedly true that

legs, but not as victuals."

i

Ban Boomerang

was He

Го

TEAM SPIRIT STILL NECESSARY

St. Helen's, Lancs., June 23. identifled the house in Jeru-! The belief that "there never was a time when it

reported to have!

Buchanim

I have a great admiration for and elins, which she said were At Christmas, however, fol labelled "Cartiers" but were not lowing upon the message which Kaye also told a Californian. purchased there.

I sent to the Combined Chiefs. Court that, apart from the bit-35,000 dollars will open in

"Macoco's suit to recover the of-Staff, explaining the difficulty ing, there were other

Les with which I was faced in at reasons Angeles

Superior Court this tempting to evolve plans while anlem's

still ignorant of Russian inton-where he was held captive and tions, President Roosevelt scis now believed to have loft jcured from Marshal Staiin his Palestine. Whether ho HILA

why she considered it dangerous month.

to live with "Macoco."

He used to beat himself, she said, and scratch, his face and

bash his hend against the walls. To this "Macoco" repiles.

quarter

Blonde Gets Life agreement to receive represent been "transferred" or repatriat-

when told of 'the' charges! "It For Murder

la not of the truth that she epoke. But why

should she

in order to to Britain has not been dis- tion of our respective efforts inclosed.

on

the invitation, The Times" com-

mented:

HIL

may still be hoped.

how- ever, that the longer and more responsible views will prevail. It the Party now refuses

to act, Indian political life will again he relegates to thes aloughs of Communalism from which the Viceroy and his Cabinet colleagues re still tirelessly endeavouring to raint the way of cecape."--Asso- cited ProsES.

DEMONSTRATION

Two

was more true that the country depends on team work and that the future depends on youth," was voiced by Britain's Attorney-

Teheran, Juno 23. General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, addressing a

thousand unemployed, North-western Region National Council of the demanding jobs, gathered today Youth Conference here today,

outside the Municipal Head- the forthcoming spring. Ac- Jewish cinemas, restaurants

quarters in Teheran. which beer gardens, cordingly, in January; my de- and

Warning against the post-war greater happiness and

pro- The Director of the Muni- that the sperity for the common puty, Alr Chief Marshal Ted-flourished under the patronage tendency to think

nan cipality told the demonstre- complain? It was my head, not

Nuernberg, June 23. dor, accompanied by Major- of British soldiers have suffer- "team spirit" was no longer than ever before.

tore that he would inform "We really do depend on the Prime Minister, hers."

Erika Krebs, 21-year-old General Bull and Brigadiered a big loss in trade as a result hecessary, Sir Hartley said: "It

Chavam the is a terrible temptation to alt youth now to get us out of the Sultaneh, who would take action Kaye, the beef-baron's fourth camély blonde, who once belong-Butts, journeyed to Moscow for of the ban imposed by

military authorities

nil back a bit and take it easy-or mess into which the world has towards meeting their demands. wife was divorced from "Med to the Hitler Youth, was sen-this purpose, coco in September, 1944..

owned catablishments to leave it to others--because been led. T. old people the Reuter. tenced to life imprisonmont fu "The conference proved con Jewish But the 44-year-old playboy day by the United States Mi-spicuously successful. Marshal until the five kidnapped British there is no armed enemy at the have got to carry on a bit lon-

gates whom we have got to keep ger," Sir Hartley declared, Was atill in love with her and tary Court for the murder of Stalin was acquainted with the officers are returned.-

The ban has also had a away.

He added that one of the Im- continued to shower her with an American soldier who, she nature of our plans, including

"But there never was a timo mediate troubles was that, too (sald, spurned her love. giftu.

timing. Ho in turn responded "boomerang" effect on the Bri. Ho was in the midst of pronos. The Tribunal deliberated for with a full explanation of the itish military authorities, whose war or no war-when more | many of the older people were south-east of Japan and is low Ing ro-marriage last September are depended on the

top floors of the of the country-young and old jobs and retiring from the when she suddenly wed Adolph hor guilty

of shooting volving 160 divisions which the on the two Sprecklek, Jun., sugar klag.

Army was preparing to fashionable Klag wavid Hotel, pulling their weight in the fray" and urged everyone who Red M/Berjeant Robert Flanigan, "Macoco" filled a sult of Peoria, Illinois, on June 12.

launch. Angered,

could remain in employment which is nearly 100 por cent team, Jewish owned. against hur for recovery of 35,000 The prosecution demanded the

"Theno naxt few years ure not young and old-to do so. dollars he said ho had spont dy

going to bo casy. It we at "But in the end. If the old her in anticipation that she would

death penalty.

Pamphlet Bombs

tempt to take them easily, wo people will help to pulius bo his wife again.

The condition of Major M. A shall racet dieaster but if we through the next year or two Flanigan led her to believe that disease, but Flanigan's Tacord Crossthwaite and Major A. put our backs into our jobs the future is in the hands of he was being divorced and then showed that he had never been; Lows, both of the Royal Engin, whatever they and we shall pull the young," he dogsluded. (rified with her affections. infected-Associated Press. corn, who were wounded by the country through: and up to Router.

Its listed scantios, furs, fowels,

gifts,

and a washing birdhine among the

Erika's attorney asserted that had been treated for venereal Doctors testified that the girl

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THE WEATHER higheat over the Pacife. to the Inference:-Pressure remaing

China The typhoon is filling up in the region of Foochow

Today's forecast) Moderato westerly Windt" pering later to south-wort Fair at first, with lowers developing in the morning. Maxim 24 deg, at 8p.ni Yesterday's weather :---- Minimum 80.3 as Am Hax Rate Humidity -980-at 9•a[mm] Bunshine PoW-Koura.