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FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO

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Library, Supreme Court

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No. 33459.

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1946.

MORE JEWISH TERRORISM

Hong Kong War Memorial Committee

the

His Excellency Governor has appointed; a Committee to examine the question of the es- tablishment of a general, Hong Kong War Memor-) ial and to make recom- mendations on the form which such a memorial should take and on the manner in which its cost should be defrayed.

The Committe" has been in- formed that it is considered that the Memorial should be such as to benefit the community an a whole and so sorve to CORI-

Saboteurs Cut Railway Lines

TYPHOON

Guam, Sept. 9.

The typhoon which narrow- tu minned Guam on Saturday is heading atraight, for the Philippines and should hit the Zelende about noon tomorrow, the Navy derologists said to- day.

With 10 mice on hour reinda, in the centre, the typhoon rents reported to br shoving west at 22 miles an hour-Associated Press.

Cheques Stolen

COUNTRYWIDE

ATTACKS

Jerusalem, Sept. 9.

The Palestine Government announced today that saboteurs employing land mines and bombs had cut railway lines in 30 or 40 places during the night. The violence was apparently timed to coincide with the opening of the Anglo- Arab talks in London.

Most of the destruction was between Haifa and

PÁLESTINE CONFERENCE

London, Sept. 9.

A busy day of last minute discussions is preceding to- morrow's formal opening of the Palestine Conference in Lancaster House, London.

Attempts are still being made to broaden the repre- sentations at the talks to in- ciude Jewish delegates and Arabs from Palestine, but there is now only the re- motest chance that the open- ing session will be attended by anyone except the deta- gates of the Arab states and of the British Government.~~ Reuter.

Lydda, but rail traffic throughout the country Yugoslavs

was interrupted today to permit an inspection of the tracks.

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Violence continued during the daylight hours as trolley carrying a party of labourers making repairs to the tracks, was blown up by a mine. Several of the workers were injured.

One fatality, with reported in the overnight disasters. Arab boy was killed in an ex- plosion that wrecked

Six bomba

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rail were

As a result of the suc- memorate the dead, both Civilian cessful picking of a bank and Service, of all the races of the community who died either runner's pocket at the through enemy action or as a Kowloon railway station result of the hardships imposed yesterday, a long list of signal box.

cheque numbers has exploded in northern Palestine been circulated by the and a military patrol fired on Police. Four of the che-in the Jerusalem west suburb. ques have already been | cashed.

by the occupation.

Associated Press.

Train Attacked

Jerusalem, Sept. 9. British military Hgs. toung began to sift the reports of

terrorists on right by Jewish the Palestine railway system in an Stempt to assess the damage caused by this terrorism.

now wave of

explosions rocked Kalkillah, where the line was also cut.

A Palestine railway.official said that as a result of the destruction of the Hajfa-Cairo line.

traine would not run tomorrow.

Six bombs bloated the Acre-

Interfere With British

Trieste, Sept. 8.

The headquarters of the British 13th Corps

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Water Supply

Be Restricted

As from Thursday this week the water supply on the island and mainland will be shut off night- ly between 10 p.m. and 6 am.

While the public may be surprised at the imposi- tion of restrictions at this time of the year, it is the considered opinion of the Water Au- thority that no other course is open to him.. The average rainfall over the next eight months in very low and of little value as regarde Alling the reservoirs, so that the amount of water now stored in the reservoirs will have to sup- ply a large and increasing

population over that period, This it cannot do, even allowing for the reduction in consumption which will take place during the cold weather, without restrict ing the hotira of supply.

It is therefore considered better to

re- impose mild strictions now rather than to wait and almost certainly have to impose severe restrictions in the hot months of Spring and carly Summer of 1947.

Tarabiha the in northern Fales- today -issued a statement tine.

complaining of

It is perhaps worth drawing Yugo- Twenty-five gunmen attacked a slav

attention to the fact that, with interference with all reservoirs overflowing at the freight train at Battir. five kilo-

tonating a mine in front of

tray and catting the Jerusalem- Lydda line.

Anti-terrorist sprens wailed in

Jerusalem this mine went of and

F. stine police headquarters flashed a general alarm.

at

Stooge Papers Attack Byrnes

Berlin, Sept. 8 Several Russian - controlled

newspapers in Berlin today at tacked the speech made last Friday in Stuttgart by Mr. James F. Byrnes, the United- States Secretary of State, in which he referred to the pos- sibility of the future Germany being a federation of states.

The "Neues Deutschland," organ of the Socialist party said: "Such a breaking up of Germany's anti-Fascist forces would only benefit the reac- tionarice.”

It was division of Germany into a mass only the

hindered the development of democracy and gave Prussin the chance to dominate the rost, the paper added.

metres from Jerusalem, after de Allied vehicles and the end of September 1945, and of small states in the past which [confiscation of Allied with a population of probably less than half what it is now, on property the road running through the Yu-trictions, became necessary in April 1946. Due to the low goslav

zone rainfull in August reservoirs are occupied

not full at the beginning of "B" of Venezia Giulia.

September. The road is that which, by nn agrement with Yugoslavia, Bri- tish and Americans may use as a

Anglo-American enclaye within Zone

The matter has been reported to the commander of the 4th. Yugoslav army with a request tant confiscated Allied property be in baths, avoiding washing un- restored and steps taken to en der running taps in hand basins, sure that the terms of the agree-dealing promptly with leakage ment are complied with," the and reporting known cases of statement added.—Reuter,

waste to the Water Authority.

The Arab supernumerary police

fre the attackers E-1r and eventually drove them

was found in the water tank of an enginReuter.

An curlier report appeary on Page 3.

"ימיי

Though the Prussian domina- tion was finished the danger still existed that a new federn- The co-operation of the public some other German province to lising of Germany would allow is earnestly requested in assist-play a similar role. order to avoid further reatric individual can do much to savo tions becoming necessary. Each water by using a limited amount

Members

The Chairman of the Com- mittee is His Honour Mr. Justice Williams and the Members are na follows: The Hon. Mr. M. The bank runner, 51-year-olil K. Lo, C.B.E., The Hon. Mr. Ho Kwal-ting, of the Man Y T. N. Chau, C.B.E. The Hon. Hong, Canton, arrived yesterday

Leo d'Almada e Castro, The leave the station when he found countrywide attacks made last Later. inexploded bomb Jink between Trieste and Pola, the ing to reduce consumption in: Mr. S. N. Chau, The Hon. Mr. morning and was just about to Hon. Mr. R. R. Gillespie, Com-that a special inside pocket had modore D. H. Everett, C.B.C.. | been slashed and the content D.S.O. (representing the Royal taken.

Colonel J. W. Gordon, Navy), Royal Signals (representing the Army), Wing Commander A. G. Paruail (representing the Royal Air Force), Lt, Cdr. B. J. B. Morahan, (representing the H.K.R.N.V.R.), Lieut. Colonel E. J. R. Mitchell. O.B.B. (re- presenting the HKVDC), The Rt. Rev. Bishop R. O. Hall, Mr. Joha Pau, B.E.M., Mr. J. H. Ruttonjce, Mr. E.. C. Fincher, Mr. G. A. Pentreath, Mr. D.] H. Blake and Mr. H. J. Tebbutt.

The Committee invites Bug- gestions from the public on the subject of the proposed Memor- ial. Communications should be addressed to the Secretary, War) Memorial Committee, Colonial Secretariat.

In the

pocket were a large number of cheques, to the total Value of H.K.$11,040 and N.Z.£265. Four chequer, to a total value of $5,000, were crashed yesterday.

Money-exchangers, hotels, res taurants and other institutions accepting cheques on bearer are naked to detain the tenderer and immediately notify the Police on presentation of the following cheques:

Nos. A3847, 84332, 84019, 84145, 1032, 64631, 84783, 84800, 84401, R(120, 84817, 1006, 12793, 15742---- Drawn on Canadian Banks,

en

No. 80974-Drawn on an Ameri

bank.

Nos, 6918. 69117, 69130, 69142; 63135, 09169, 69186, 74126, 73/986, ra/878, 68/1106-Drawn National Bank of New Zealand.

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British Harvest Threatened

This

One farmer estimated that three-quarters of Buckingham- shire's harvest was being ruin- ed in the rain-drenched fields.

London, Sept. 8.

The main Incidents were: Th Haifu-Cairo mairline, sabotaged between Rehovoth and Beer Yavoc and between Kafr Jinnis and Pas El Ain in the, Lydda district, while to the north of Lydda, seven

UNO MEETING

POSTPONEMENT?

Paris, Sept. 9.

Break Bid

Fails

Nicosia, Sept. e. More than 2,000 unauthorized Jewish immigrants to Palestinu, detained at the Caralace detention camp here, made their second at- fempt in four weeks to rush the carip gates but were halted by specially built barbed wire bar-

riers.

The Council of Foreign Ministers voted today to Four weeks after. British guards

with bayonets forced back the

MAJOR. BOON TRIAL

Japanese Interest In W/T Operators

London, Sept. 9.

ask the United Nations first group of demonstrators, the When the court-martial of Major Cecil Boon, to consider postponing camp inmates Sunday made 11 its next scheduled meet-second attempt.

The demonstration began while ing at New York for one

camp offelala were escorting month, to October 23.newsmen on an inspection tour. The United States did not associate itself with the proposal.

Informed sources here said the Foreign

Britain provisionally associated

Earlier at a news conference, a

Jewish youth had expressed the de-

More itself with the request for post-

ponement, but deferred final ac- tion pending word from Foreign Minister Bevin, who has returned

for o to London

conference on Palestine.

Trouble

In Bombay

carried

campa."

R.A.S.C. on charges of aiding Japanese while a prisoner at Shamsulpo camp in Hong Kong was resumed today James Tyson, civil servant at the Admiralty, told the court that in camp Boon asked him what work he was doing and when told that he was a wireless operator, Boon pressed him for further details, asking: "You will have to tell me everything or else I shall have to tell the Japanese that you will not talk."

termined resistance to all open The paper appealed for "de- or disguised federalisation plans by all who are honestly striving to make Germany a peaceful and democratic land."Router. Poland's Answer

Warsaw, Sept. 9. Poland, on Sunday, gave her answer to the recent speech by Mr. Jamos F. Byrnes, United Slates Secretary of State, at Stuttgart, with

Gemnika, Deputy Prime

saying that the territories he had absorbed from Eastern Germany

always shall

Arg, and

remain

Polish.

Before a crowd of 5,000

tho in Roma auditorium in Warsaw, .

Gomulka asserted, in a fiery apeech; "We shall not enter into any discussions on these lands. They are ours and stay ours."

M. Gomulka bitterly attacked what he termed British

and American interference in Polish nffairs.

He expressed astonishment that Mr. Byrnes had had the "audacity" even to give Germany a hope of a revision of Poland's western border while the stench of death, of the Nazi victims of the war, ati hovered over Paland.”—--As- scelated Press.

Challenge To Christians

Philadelphia, Sopl, 9

termination of his fellow inmates to "stop at nothing In order to |reach Palestine."

The parading Jews Ministers have already banners rending "again the Ger- Britain's harvest is threatened by floods and peo-decided to meet in New York in

ple prayed in churches today for the weather October to present to the Gener-referring to German prisoners of

mans build us prizon to change to save the urgently needed crops. al Assembly the peace treaties

Colonel R. C. Halse, prosecut-how when he wanted to protest to war employed in constructing ing: "Was your job more im- the Japanese, about prisoners be- avening reports from of London's western outskirts now being drafted by the 21-na-

Caralaos Camp.

portant than direction-finding?" ing employed on assembling air various parts of the country were covered by up to ope foot on Peace Conference with five

The attempts to rush the gates Tyson: "Yes.". "Was it most fleld grounds that it was against tell the story of the disastrous of water.

enemy states, and to begin draft-

were folled by wired extensions secret?-Yes." and Railway services in the westing treaties for Germany effects of rains on erops

The Hague agreement signed by to the barbed wire enclosure pro- and

Replying to Mr. Noville the Japanese to employ prisoners Mr. John Foster Dulles, Amert- transport. Farmers have suffer- of England were disorganised Austria.

viding areas in which the demon- Faulks, (defending), ed most.

Tyson on work directly connected with can delegate to the United Offcial quarters said the Unit- In Buckinghamshire and the doable-track line near

ather the Exeter, Devon, was completely ed States had inued a statement strators could rush without osenp- said that there was a threat the progress of the war, doon at and Protestant layman, declared a great effort to

|ing-Associated Press. oppose the In one station in the saying It would not crops had been arranged for blocked.

over our heads" when questions frat demurred, saying that pro- Sunday: The Savlat Communist were being asked. Tyson agreed cate were not allowed. Ile per party challenges the supremacy this week-end but rain fell with- Exeter area the water reached Ministers' decision.

that Boon might have said:sisted, however, and a protest was of the so-called Christian world. out stop today and the harvest the platform, Many houses at

The Japanese will not be satis subsequently made in the form of "In every part of the world, may prove to be one of the Honiton stood in four feet of

fled with it".

a letter written by Field.

there are influential groups which worst in living memory. water when the Glen burst its

Henry Jones, employed as a aneso Adjutant at which

At an interview with the Jap-accept loadership from Moscow," banks. Furniture and houso-

Boon he asserted. civil servant in Hongkong, was present, the Adjutant asked articles hold

floated along

Mr. Dulles said that Communist: where he was captured, Bald Field if he were an expert in in leaders had always professed the streets.

that he was closely questioned ternational low and if he wanted belief that capitallam used wars: The area of last night's ralus

Bombay, Sopt. B. Dr. Spaak relayed the action to In Salisbury, Wiltshire, a 30- extended as far as River Mer- Secretary-General Trygve Lie's

about his work as The Bombay Government today

a wireless to learn any more about it, and in order to keep itself going, and. minute deluge with thunder and sey and Humber, but this even-headquarters at Lake

Announced extension for one week operator but he would not give then began to beat him up. He added: “On the other hand, the lightning coming after a nighting reports say that skies were New York.

Success, from today of a ban on prooca- full details. Boon came into the was knocked down four times and Soviet leaders themselves have of steady

In his communica- sions and public meetings in this office when forms were being struck on the head with a sword, never befloved in tolerant methods. rain turned streets clearing in the west and north-lon, Spaak sald:

riot-disturbed city,

Alled in for the Japanese and The witness agreed with Faulka They have, at home, regularly em... into canala.

west of England-Router.

"Taking note of the difficulties

The police opened fire in north "seemed very interested". that if Beon had tried to inter-ployed coercion, purge and pr London had 0.37 inches of

in which certain Governments

Bombay this afternoon to disperse Asked by the Judge-Advocate, vene he would himself have been paganda unrelated to objectivo rain between 10.00

p.m, laat

would be placed if they have to ed in the Deligle Road area. Isolat. nett, why he entered the words tant turned on Boon and gave

a hestilo crowd which had clash-Wing-Commander Oliver Bar-beaten up. Afterwards the Adju- truth, carry out the work of the Peace ed cases of stabbing and assault "direction Conference

Anding"

him "a pep talk" on how to con- and of the

his on General were reported from various parts form, Jones replied that Boon trol his officers-Reuter. Assembly at the same time, and of the city. anxious to give the latter all the

bad threatened to go to the An official statement sald four Japanese San Francisco, Sept. 9, support it deserves, the Council died and three injured in clashes. words were subsequently chang

commandant. The · LONG-DISTANCE Invites the Secretary-General to Two of the The leader of America's strik-consult with Government mem-earlier in the week and 10 of the

daad were injured ed to "wireless operator"."

THE WEATHER. ing seamen-speaking shortly bers of the General Assembly as Injured were involved in the

Pressure is high over China,.. after the collapse of Govern to the advisability of a post-

T. Clarke Dellgle Road incident.

Early tontorrow Lincoln to the E of Japan and over the ment truce

Official casualty Aures for the Another Admiralty civil servant, aircraft of the RAF Bomber NEI A trough of low pres but on

when the now Hong Kong and put in the same week round trip through Pales I the Philippines to the Facific: Rusais, China, France and Bel-Interim Government took office in camp' as the pracading witnesses, tine, India Singapore, Aus 1 eastward of the Marianas. The glum supported the movosso New Delhi, recorded 232 kilied said, that he Nosived forms relat traila and New Zealand. typhoon la altuated about Washington" approve the wage ciated Press. Increase.

and 716 injured.

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TEST London, Sept, By.

"They employ the same methods in aid of their foreign policy. They seem to think that the onda they nook Justify any means."--- Associated Press...

afforta-declared ponement of the General Assem-wook's disturbances, which booke Theodore, Clarke, captured in · Command will leave on a five-dure extenda from Slam across

that the walkout paralyzingly until September 29." (United States' ports would con-

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