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TRADE MISSION

Chinese Communists At

ARRIVES Very Gates Of Paoting

The trans- port plane from Singa- pore bringing eight members of the British Trade Mission to China arrived at Kal Tak at b. p.m. yesterday.

fides. Sir. Leslie

Loyce, chairman, consists of HEY.A. Busław, D. Max- Well Bulst, A.H. Carmichael, R. legworth, H. D.. Morgan, E. K. Scott and G.B. Blaker (Secre- tary).

At the airfield to meet the mission were the Hon. Mr. Rit. Todd, Act. Colonial Secretary,

Buried By Avalanche

Stephenville, Oct. 6. The charred reman- ants of the American Overseas airliner and

(By Tom Masterson)

· Felping, Oct. 6.

Resurgent Communists drove heGovernment Relief Ship

garrison inside the walls of Faoting, the Chin-

ese press claimed today, but the Communist Allowed

offensive against 90 miles of the Peining-Han-

kow railroad has slackened with the Govern- To Load

ment recapturing Hantan Station. Va Earlier, as the Communists closed on Paoting, General Chiang Kai-shek's chief of staff, Gen. Chen Cheng, flew here with a large staff direct -from the battle.

33 persons who died Lieut. Parkinson RN. Thursday when it presenting H.E. The Govern

against Lashed

the the Hon. Mr. G.D. Gillespie, į

side were representing the Hong Kong mountain General Chamber of Commer buried

Saturday on

He was called to two extra-

dingy conferences with Chiang Military leaders in North China and Manchuria are presumably here to chart Government offen sives against Knigan,

Red troops numbering 13,000 night under an avalan- have tightly encircled Paoting, the of rock touched off by 300 lb. of dynamite.

Mr. W. M. Thomson. Diret tor of the S.T.1. Department: Mr. S.A. Gray Government PRO; Mr. Leung Kang-yiu re-

Ground crews blasted the stone presenting Mr. T. W. Kubk, Chiese Special Commissioner base of the 1,200-foot peak, ob- ef Foreign Affairs; and Mr. Iterating the ugly scar burned

Sidky Pasha' Visit To England

Iceland

Ratifies

Agreement

"DOUBLE TENTH”

- preparation for Doudle" Tentà» belgbrations. Chinees, ceremonial arches are being erected at Nom Pok

Fiona, ist beyond the West. Market *** where · Hong

The

Two Tits For A Tat?

New York, Oct. 6 General Jacob Devers,

Kong's leading Chinese burtCommanding General of

are situated The beating of drums at different parts of the city yesterday also revealed that "Dragons" which many of the

will play a prominent part in the celebrations were brine put through their poses.

Parabola Into Pool

the US Army Ground Forces, declared that if a sudden blow were struck at the United States, we would instantly reply to such an attack with two rockets for each rocket and two bombs for each bomb."

adek Any futurs wer may well start with a shot fired around the world. Devers said in n talk at a conference sponsored ↑ by the Citizens' Committee for the military training of young

devastata

Alaska Steamship Company oftions having ale, agreements with in a 100-dollar gown That shot chicago.or

claly said that the vessel is sche- duled to sail for the far northern

Teeland

Tad Ziang-pei, Director of the there by the exploding-plane and have been pushed southward from leavé" about October 27. for. his ship."on the chance that what Kreasives voted for the ratifica- in the stage-play Cinuidia; the} war will wholly be a pushbutton"

He may be accompanied by such as beer, leadpipe, hardware/floral proposed amendments to House, luxury, night spot. to ground, thrusts his bayonet in- Nokrashy Fasha, the leader of Meanwhile, a dispatch from munist demand that a national which hundreds of the elite to the heart of our final remain. the Saadist, party and Helka sitke, Alaska, reported that the referendum be held on the rati flock from hundreds of miles lng Associated Press.

and furniture,

fication

around-

Reykjavik Oct. 6. The Icelandic Parlia ment by a vote of 23 to 19, has ratified an agree ment with the United States for American use of Keflank airport

The agreement calls for all Seattle Oct. Am on loading the relief ship United States military personnel

to leave Iceland withip "Cordova" will

supplies for freeze-threatened Nome, Alaska, months, but will pernit civilian was lifted by striking Seattle-un personnel to remain at the air] ions of the Congress of Industrial port and allow United States

New York, Oct. 6. for military planes to use the field as Organizations Committee

well as civilian aircraft of all na- A red-headed actress men Maritime Unity."

New York, Detroit splashed in a moon Pittsburgh- and it would not Following a bitter debate speur drenched pool while two angle shot. War would "Social Wel- the newspapET

port, which will doon be cut off headed by the 10 Communist male stalwarts blacken- come upon us all over the United which chimed Government

by freezing of the Bering Sea. members who opposed the arrec- officers had joined civilians in

A Union spokesman said that men roll-call-vote was takened each other's eyes on States and all over the world in

a single moment". Cairo, - Oct. 6. and erecting digging trenches

the CMU was critical of the type All 20 Conservative members, the bank.

He told the conference, how- Jemail Sidky Paaha, Prime of cargo consigned to the Cor- including Premier Olafur Thors, The moonlight bather was ever, not to be deceived by barriers,

Government reinforcements Minister of Eygpt, hopes to dove," but decided to clear the six Social Democrats and six Pro- actress Martha Hodge, 23; star those who say that any future Chiusien northward from Chieh proposed discussions in London uttle food and clothing there is tion. 10 Communists, two Social brawlers Richard Newton, rewar Foreign Trade --Office of the the fire that followed."

chinchuang.

with Mr. Ernest Beyin the aboard will help the people of Democrats and seven Progressives tired British Army major, actor National Resources Commissione Little, remained of "the" glani

There was

speculation here Foreign Secretary, on the re Nome."

opposed it,~*~. four-engined transport after it whether the Pooting attack division of the Anglo-Egyptian

and Martha's escort, and 300 may start with a push on

a button, but it will end as a South China-Branch

It claimed that most of the

Giney, stage manager. The Parliament rejected all ad-

wars end, when the infantry- The other member of the had rammed the rock wall, ex runting the vital Peiping-Hankow treaty.

cargo consisted non-relief items!

The scene Riley's Lakeman, with his two feet on the mission, Mr. F. S. Winter-ploded and burned in a fire fed railroad had disrupted the Gov- bottom and the two lady-secre- by 900 gallons of high octane ernment schedule for the capture

the agreement, including a Com- taries, Mrs. Elizabeth K. Lown-petrol. Two bodies were thrown of Kalgan. Associated Press. des and Miss Isabella Morrison, clear of the infere. The others

Gains Held landed in Canton in the York were cremated.

were brought to plane and

Officials of the airline, ot. thei

Peiping. Oct. 6. Hong Kong by a BAF Dakota Newfoundland Government, the f

The Communists stormed the The mission will remain in U.S.. Army's Air Transport Cam- the Colony till Tuesday morn-mand and the Civil Aeronautics outskirts of Paoting. capital of Hapei province, stopped cold the lng, when it will proceed by Board concluded their informal Nationalist push against the key plane to Shanghai..

enquiry without being an un-Communist city of Kalgan, and Sidky-Pasha's position, har launched an offensive in Liaoning been strengthened by the with- province. Manchuria, pro-Govern drawal of his resignation by ment reports acknowledged later.

As the civil war suddenly swung in favour of the Red forces, the Government's top ranking mill- tary leaders quickly gathered in Peiping for an extraordinary con- The Eighth Boute Army forces attacking Pacting penetrated to within nearly two miles of the city's walls at several points. The Lake Success, Oct. 6.

Police leave has been can- The United Nations charter Reds captured Fang Shun-chiao, The choice of a permanent home for the United Nations is merely a human document and 15 miles southwest of Proting, celled and extra police looms as one of the major issues consequently is deficient, said and attacked Yu Cida-chuang. 20 been brought, on duty.

Arch-miles to the southwest. Cardinal Griffin, the

The Communists held on to al assembly, the alt on Chesa bishop of Westminster and the most all their gains in the initial versition including de har "A Cairo and Alexandria, uni- when it convenes on October 23.

spiritual head of the Roman assault of September 30 along a the leading, Moslem university moves ate Catholics in England, in his 90-mile stretch of the north at Cairo which were dae to Behind the scenes, moves the sermon at Westminster Cathe-section of the Peiping-Hankow begin their termyceterday, already under way

railroad. headquarters out of the New York dral today.

Government report that the bafe been granted a holiday The City area, where some of "We must acknowledge this.

the

farted one-eyed Communist com Reuter. countries have found the condi-fact and seek to explain the mander, Liu, Fo-cheng, was mor tions unsatisfactory.

amendments", he said: "There tally wounded while directing the San Francisco, which lost out are many nations at present ex operations of his troops, could not to New York by a vote of 17 ut cluded from the organisation be confirmed here. Associated -the London United Nations ment-whose presence should-and-could-Premi

ing-appeared the strongest con- contribute in no small measure tender, Geneva, apparently up-towards ita success. ported by Russia, is another pos- sibilityAssociated Press.

Sir, Leslie Boyce will meet nouncement on the cause of the members of the Press at 10a.m. disaster. The formel heating will this morning at the PRO's begin in New York on Friday.

· office.

UNO Still Homeless

U.S. Army To Be Airborne ?

Associated Press.

UNO [Charter "Deficient":

London, Oct. 6.

"What have wo bad? A meet-

Ing of the nations, which have been anything but united.”— Reuter.

ference.

P.W.'s CLAIMS

Pasha, the leader of the Liberal food situation there soon will be- party, but he is prepared to go come critical due to the maritime alone in a personal capacity if strike-Associated Press, they are unable to make the journey...

Manila Hotel

Saba, the Minister of Commer Shoot-Up

ce. A

It is considered likely that the Communists would carry out their threat to leave the Cabinet If the agreement were, atided-Asso ciatd Press.

Radio-Paging Very Soon

The Government has taken

Manila,, De 6. security measures to ensure a of Chennault's "Flying Tigers in Mr. Prescott, formez, member calai atmosphere during the

China was killed by a stray bul coming critical stages of the let and two Flipinos were wound-

New York, Oct. 6. interrupted treaty, negoțiations ed as a gunfight, raged in the Subscribers to a radio poging with Great Britain:

lobby of the fashionable Manila

service will soon be able to re- Hotel.

Prescott was sitting in the cove messages by carrying a re- have lobby chatting when a jeep drew ceiver the size of a packet of

cigarettes. up in front of the hotel and men began firing at Luis Obispo, of the United States Army, who special counterintelligence agent was inside the hotel. Obispo was

..

"DEMENTIA

AMERICANA"

wounded.

The party had come along after the show.

The unrehearsed performance No "New

recorded by an eye witness was:

Scene 1-About 3 AM Models" Yet

Now gentlemen

London, Oct. 6,

Olney: Take that. bang! Newton: Take that.bing! Though the "back room hpya"". Enter Dean Alfange, former of Britain's motor Industry are candidate for Governor and his secretly working on new models friend Murray Watts.

which will stand comparison Alfange:

with the world's best, these Bing! Bang!.

won't make their debut until Alfange drops to one knee the London Motor Show of 1947 rushes to bis aid: contestants with an amazed look; Watts

surge on pla

Scene III-At The Fountain

not represented at the fra

British manufacturers were

great international postwar motor show, which opened in Paris on October /3.

Martha (eyes flashing): You worth of business was done

At this show.' #1,000,000,, telephone messages even after idiata! Stop it! Stop 1tl

They will be able to receive

by foreign agents, ordering then have left bone to attend Che backs away, mesauze French, Italian, and American theatre or a football match them up then rushes with the cars, said the “Daily Mail's" the lobby, which Caded Commission will erect a high the pool.

The Federal Communications intention of pushing them into motoring correspondent. cleared

She misses, crashes into Polis, British manufacturers “Unlike many" of their, coms

Contestants cease fighting, were too busy turning out Ser Subscribers will be allotted a grab white table cloth and wrap vice roquirements during the code number

it tenderly about her an she war to develop

with the am Straming spest, which, calls to subscribers will in a grateful parabola.

set gathering for frequency transmitter overf

parties. Screar

sought cayer. A hater policemani

Only wounded!

Prescot

killed instantly

be broadcast.

Turner Aero. Enbered the They will carry a tiny radio emerges

by bullet bridge of his

He arrived

yesterday from Shanghai and receiver to which they can listen reportedly was in Mania to puroasionally fest a message be

broadcast. chase surplus planes for the Fly int Tive

Timers airlines, operated from San Francisco by his brother, Bok Prescott.Associated Press.

"TIGER FORCE"

Los Angeles, Oct. 8. Washington, Oct. 6. Veterans of the Foreign Wara Convicted of murdering his proposed today that the enemy wife and believed to have buried assets held by the afien property her aliye, wealthy nurseryman London, Oct. 8, custodian be earmarked to pay Frederick Hill, 2, pleaded = not Prince Nakkhara, the Siamese damage claims by varting prison- guilty dug to "Dementia Ameri Ambassador hard who flew to Bii-ers of the Japanese and German Demenila Americana wat

Clin tain two months ago to take un or

the described in the bill which

curt 25 mental A definite start-Lanyards mak- their

by

The Princess brought ing the entire United States daughters Sirmiti and Buchba. soners of war mixed claims pls confessed that he etranto Okinawa when Japan aurren

Andula, and their

their before Congress, a three-min at involving temporary loss of con-

fral of the mental fanctions." RAF unit which was on its way Army. capable of movement by Their eldest son is already here. mission would pass on the cliems,

Washington, Oct. 6.

Large supplies of

his appointment has been join.W. announced it wil back disorder peculiar to Americans plies, which werely.

B

The commission will broad- cast continually a list of code numbers of people required.

The subscriber, when he heare his code number announced, will go to the nearest telephone and receive the message.

Wheat Crop

Prospects

peacetime models, the correspondent odds. "At the end of the war, they faced the chalce of holding up. output: unfil new models" couldn be altered or resuming produes. tica of 1989 types.

They chose the second

course.

"Britain will go on supplying: every corner of the globe, but Oct. 6. will stay out of exhibitions un..

wheat til next year"

Washington, The commission will then der The world's Singapore, Oct G the subscriber's code number]

sup-from the list being announced, crop this year will be Delivery services will be able the biggest since 1940 Mothers will be able to ac-partment of Agricul making deliveries. als-is reported tures Ofice of Aciu Went To Gaol

Miley, com- supply of rice—which is unoblain-Į any United States prisoner mising a quarrel and burled, or in civil-hospitals: throughout Malays grounds, knowing they will not AgricultureTM

General William munder of the Army's air- abló bere-to oller Legation treated while in energy and borne school.

He says: "Ordnance equip-| ment is being redesigned to fit aircraft loading requirements and giant air transports are. being designed to conform more closely with ordnance specifica- Hons.".

The big brother of the C-47 transport would a 25-ton pak load. Another plane with a 60-ton capacity would succeed the C-54, he said-Associated Prygs.

Peiping Food Prices Soar

Peiping, Oct

guests. Reuter.

Associated Fress.

U.S. Adding To Its Merchant Fleet

Washington, Oct. 6.

Paced by the "America," the nation's largest luxury liner, a.score of passenger-cargo VES- sels will be added to the U.S. merchant fleet within the next few months, the Maritime Commission announced.

The "America" is in the last"Uruguay" and the "Bratilare Fitages of reconversion from a, expected to be ready for service

war time: troopship and is ache by March 1947. The "Argentina”;

tended for "Tiges Forces Che

dis to in touch with employees

quash patch in the backyard by special bermalasien of the Air

Minisje of their home.

miss telephone calls, Her body was exhumed on Jane The applies were stored at the

The commission expects to 21 and Judge Waller Gates said RAF. prola, Singapore-Beu- have the service operating with- thas evidence indicated that she | tër.

in siz manth was still lire when Hills threw her in the crude fr

grave

added that "other The Judre persona ascmed to have known something about the killing.***

Hilla owns than £80,000

worth

of

Property,

be had

*

The quarrel was whether their

should bur motor car.

· 1305

The tills had mes children.

Bills will be retzied on the Insanity vies, before sentence is passed:

duled to make her maiden past probably will return to serve CORRESPONDENCE

war vayage to Europe on Octoberáter,

117%

on the West

C

Two, Maritime Commission de..

On the West Coast, the "Prest- sign liners, the "Preddent Cleve.

dent Monroe" is also in the final land" and the "Président - Wilson,"

Housing

'Secrets" Of The Queen Elizabeth

Dog-Gone

Relations forecast today..

Jersey City, NJ., Oct. B... < A dog appeared in ■ Jersey, They stressed however, that City Court for engagİDE in t tha, with the world harvest of 5,000 me to stan th 000,000 bushels, the production

this papu Police trying wii stil he slightly below pre-war las form of flest lottery became 1986 to 1999 averages and many suspicious when they, as the dog countries import neada

high, fods are still raping in and out of businées. They also stressed that the establishments, day after days mast

his harness, too. outstanding gain is bout something unusual European crops, which are estim. He was arrested and polles- ated

to total 1,300,000,000 bushels found 187 numbers from custom an increase of 330,000,000ers in his harnica. The dog had bushels over the 1948 total:

been trained by lottery overstor The bizwent increzees are in the collect numbers from cliente. ship, was launched in 1988, her dimensions Reis. Spain and the Ballans were

Both the dor and his and other details have only just been released while the United Kingdom is the days (a! The PIE COL SO.

London, Oct. 4.

Although the Queen Elizabeth, the world's largest Mediterranean countries, Frenes

She has a gross tonnage of Electrical energy sufficient exception to Europe's neneral imed to 10 days detention by the 85,000, length 1080 ft. beam for 200,000 people will be genprovement...

3.P.CA to be le

118 ft. 14% decks, depth of rated on board and 4000 miles general improvement is less form 120 ft, to the top of the lounge or cabs will distribute the being reflected in better animelody of the structure, and will carry 2300 energy through the ship and foodstuffs zoppice, but him, wil passengers and 1200 crew provide current for the 30,000 not result in increased? pig.:

and Most striking difference be lights. the 1947 Beuter.

animal slaughter until at least tween the Queen Mary? (81235

There is a gymnasium, squash || St. The letter, by a "corres, tons) and Quem Elizabet

i your columns the other that the Elizabeth has twa

ruets court, swimming pool. ding wastage of water neis in which all guys stays,

Godowns serves to steam pipes and other i the fact that reach are

concealed

is sisa being WA

Theve: Godowns,

Food prices in Peiping have stages of reconditioning and is ex-are now on the ways in Collformie uziped 50 per cent

pected to be ready for the Paci- and are due to be compl-ted in August 1, public officinis reas, service within a fortnight. Moril and July.

MatAnother(early comer tow trade. In operation, though- scheduled The cost of clothing sad will be the combination paasen for reconversion, or the "Mon fuel has increased 50 per center cargo ship Delnorte expect terey and Matsania, of Ale' Mai+ In the same periode, ed to be delivered to the Mississon Navigation Company The The price of a sack of flour, sippt Shipping Company on Ocio "Mariposa" is undergoing recan- rose by CN312,000 between ber 31 Her two sister ships, verhion October 1 and October 8; bring. Delsur" and "Delmar will be Two United Fruit liners are used for stor Ing the cost up to CN$43,000. completed In November, and De nearing the end of their reconver-days apparently been dealine

Flour merchants, however, recember Each will accommodate sion and are due out in Decem fused to sell, saying that they 150 passengers

ber, Two others probably will stre had none-Associated Press. Three abins "Alcoa Cavalier not be ready until February and

APPOINTED

United

As the premises are not being third anchor is ins

storage purposes and Centro

"Alcos. Clipper" and "Alpes Cor March-Associated Press, Pastille

by datelonow on the ways, are sche-l

|duled for delivery to the Alcos Steamship Company in-December and January, Tach will carry 100 pasiengers

Ey Santa

Tokyo, Oct. 6. Col. N. DJ Read Colllus of Greenford, London, has been named chief of the British minor war' crimes div sion of the legal section,

of the

Cal B

and Santa

and ready

DIVORCE, COURT RECORD

Mr Justice

hist

them for the

on of Officers 22038 OCCU mach needed premises in residen HIPST

downs would urore to be

the largest

electrical ray Soviet Purge

frst-class passengers, i

commanium, and swimming Continues

pool for cabin class travellers;

sum for those in

tourist section.

dismissal of

Not Sister Ships collective form ondinis in district There is Avast sports deck thousands of milee apart was for all classes and the terraced announced here yesterday In decks aft are also available as ran a fortnight sao to clean un playing areas, a

Irregularities

Externally and in interior adminlarations

design there is no resemblance All the districts mentioned In between the two "Queen" and the announcement they are not alaber

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