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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1946.

FRENCH REFERENDUM

In Venice New Constitution Approved

(By John Talbot)

Rome, Oct. 14. Italians, bitter at the conditions of the peace treaty, are beginning to show personal animosity towards British troops stationed in their coun try.

Since the time, three and ́a half months ago, when a Royal Marine band from the British howled cruiser Superb was down by a crowd of young men at a concert in Venice, the at- mosphere has grown steadily

worse.

who

were

British troops stoned in anti-British demon- strations in Trieste met the sume hostile treatment in Venice,

Civilians, and even in some cases police and. Carabinieri, openly show their dislike of Allied personnel.

TRAINS COLLIDE

Udine, Oct. 14.

Four British soldiers were killed and five were injured,. one seriously, when a troop! train collided with a goods

train at Gemona, near here, early Saturday morning, do- loved reporta” reaching here said.

The soldiers were en route for leave or discharge from the service.--Associated Press.

Secret Sale To Soviets

New York, Oct. 13.

One-Third Did Not Vote

Paris, Oct. 14.

France yesterday more or less accepted the new Constitution backed by the three main parties -the Popular Republicans, the Socialists and the Communists.” “More or less,” because the figure for abstentions from the referendum was almost as high as those for or against the Constitution and almost as many as those vot- ing against it.

With the figures for only one metropolitan depart- ment-Corsica-outstanding the voting was:- For: 9,200,467; Against: 7,790,676. Abstentions reached the remarkable total of 7,776,893. In the referendum last May, the Constitution, then proposed was rejected by 10,488,059 votes to 9,327,073, with 5,490,205 abstentions.

Paris had one of the calinest election nights in history, and) despite the clear weather aome

The old excitement, in full The Hearst newspaper polling centres reported that

FESTING's SUCCESSOR

London, Oct. 13. The War Office today an-

·nounced. the appointment, with effect from November of Major-General G.WEJ. Ers kine, as General Officer Com- manding Land Forces, Hong Kong, in succession to Major- General Festing.

General Erskine is at pre- sent Acting Chiof-of-Staff of the Office of Deputy Military Governor of the Control Com mission for Germany.

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Other appointments wounded include that of Brigadier W. H. Stratton: to' be Chief-of-Staff of the Bri. tish Army of the Rhine. Reuter.

NO HUNGER

STRIKE IN

DARTMOOR

Asthma Black made today of

swing in June and July 1945, "New York Journal Am-voted as compared with

only half as many people had Market

throughout Italy, of stripping erican" said today that May girls seen in the company of Allied soldiers, has broken out 500 pounds of again in Venice,

black

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last

Only outside a few newspaper Foffices, where the results were

Paris, Oct. 13.

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Happy Scenes As Otranto" Docks

(By Margaret Bradbury)" Just thirty days after leaving Tilbury docks, in London, the “Otranto” docked in Kowloon yesterday morning bringing 1,845 passengers among them many of the anxiously expect- ed wives and families of the Colony's officials - and businessment as well as a number of mis- sionaries and Chinese repatriates with their families.

At 10.45 yesterday morning a large crowd of men. had gathered at the closed entrance gate to the docks, waiting until the Customs and Revenue flag was lowered from the ship's mast and they were allowed to pass through the gates " to the wharf where the "Otranto" had docked. Alongside the ship members of an Indian pipe regiment played to the excited passengers who lined the three decks and waved and cheered as the familiar faces of relatives and their husbands, friends -- began to appear below. them,

Police

and shipping oficials guarded the entry up to the gang: plank and as the crowd began to urge toward, it all Basses and

¡ identities were checked.

WOMAN IN

THE CHAIR Bellefonts. Pean, Oct. 14. Corrine Syles, 22-year-old' negress Roussmaid died in the electric chair carly today_for -killing her employer with a butcher's knife. She was the sscond woman ever to be executed in the State of Pennsylvania

She walked calmly to tho chair from her paill, quietly watching the final prepara- tions and listening to the Chaplain's prayers-Reuter.

Dartmoor, Oct. 14. An official denial was the

On board the ship was a con- report that a number of fused scene of happy and tearful military prisoners serv-greetings, and above it all rose the loud babel of childrens' voices, ing terms of penal ser- as they were reunited with their vitude at Dartmoor have parents.

Everyone seemed agreed that the uranium oxide a pro- displayed, was there any livell-Georges Duguet, a 43-year-old in an attempt to obtain a journey from England had been

The police today. arrested gone on a hunger strike What began with a Cara duct used to make the ness.

doctor of chemistry, after the revision of their cases, as Stops were made at Naples, Port a comfortable and pleasant one. binieri trying to interfere with a British soldier trying to atomic bomb and the

De Gaullists were extremely discovery of an alleged "Black the paratroopers in Ma- Said, Colombo and Singapore, "pick up an Italian girl, be-most closely guarded vocal outside the offices of Market in the French prepara-

Conservative the

I was told that shortly after the came almost immediately

newspaper tion for the treatment of asth-Laya did. aand precious metal in Figaro." Young supporters of ma, which for the last five large scale incident ultimately the world-was sold by the General kept up a rhythmic years has been almost unobtain War Office decision in the Malaya tainment committee was set up by

The report was that news of the "Otranto" left England an enter involving Bome 150 British troops and more than three the New Deal to Soviet chant of Thorez to the scaffold! able in Paris,

case spread among the 200 SerMr. R. Rutherford, ex-prisoner at vicemen in Dartmoor and a hun-Shamshulpo camp during the oc- times that number of Italian Russia in 1943 in a secret De Gaulle into power!"

ger strike movement was joined cupation, who was returning transaction."

by 25 of them.

from England after a twelve "The Times" stated that the months visit. With the help of men were aald to be claiming that Miss June Moss, daughter of Mr. they were serving sentences for A. J. Moss, Director of Air Ser- that military offences similar to those vices, who the discovery that 3,000 phials alleged against the paratroops her mother and brother Patrick, was returning with the offices of the Popular Re- of the drug had been smuggled and their cases should be review they organised dances, concerts, publician newspaper L'Aube," tuta Belgium was made after ed in the same wayaman sa deck sports, parties and childrens in the Place de l'Opera.

joint investigations by the A War Ofies spokesman said were arrested and spent the rest Freach police and American that information from the prison sports almost every day. of the night in gaol.

military police,

was that there was no foundation

Death At Sea A number of arrests have that Dartmoor is not a military enjoyment of the ship's passen-

for the report. He pointed out. Only one incident marred the turn to India this week- inter- been made in Brussels by the detention barracks and therefore gers. Just as the "Otranto" was end, was today found"

French and United States comes under the jurisdiction police-Reuter.

the Home Office-Reuter. of nearing Colombo a wireless mes- shot dead in the Ex-

civilians.

-"Browned off” British troops stationed in Venice's dismal suburb of Mestre are "browned off" with

their surroundings where op- portunities of entertainment do net abound.

To be made the object of of fensive behaviour in a country

lu which they do not want to live is to them adding insult to injury.

For the Italians in Venice it must be said that the proposal for the division of their fleet, for which they held Britain res- ponsible, was a bitter blow to their pride.. They consider, also, that their part as co-belligerents in the war has not been suf- -ficiently-ncticed.-Reuter.

The War and State Depart- mente in Washington had no immediate comment.→

The newspaper said that the sale was made with the appro val of the Government over the protests of men involved in the production of the atomic bomb at a time when less than 100

persons knew of the "Manhat- tan Project," which had charge of atomic bomb production in the United States.

"The sale was made to Stal- lin's Government through the Russian Purchasing Comaris→ sion here, which had requested the refined product for use in Soviet medical and non-military scientific research'," the paper addgd.-Reuter.

Horrible Mess In British Zone

Derby, Oct. 13.

Lord Beveridge, Liberal leader and author of Bri- tain's cradle to the grave social security plan, declared yesterday that Democracy cannot be taught in Germany through "repression and prescription.".

The Potsdam agreement, he complained in a speech prepared for a Liberal rally, nullified the Atlantic Charter and "we are going back in victory on what we said in war.'

..

He said that conditions in the "In the Atlantic Charter a British rone of Germany were in magnificent liberal document — a "horrible mess" and "it is cost- we proposed as aims for all na- ing us much in reputation for De- tions improved labour standards mocracy, tolerance, justice and and economic advancement; for all states, great or small, victor or "Severe suffering in Germany vanquished, access on equal terms

honour..

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to the trade and raw materials of

was inevitable after defeat," Lord the world needed for their econo- Beveridge declared, "but we are doing many things not inevitable. mic prosperity...

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Nuernberg Secrets Revealed.

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His Men Swore, By Stilwell, Page Five

Convicted Jay Treated

Hostile Witness.

Pans Sle

Some Arrests Another group of some two dezen opponents to the Constitution demonstrated noise- ly around 1.80 1.711, outside

new

They

Early editions of дол

Government newspapers

DOING A

"DIDO".

Paris, Oct. 14. The British Government is sending the cruiser "Dido" to Le Havre to take M. Molotov. Soviet Foreign Minister, on the first stope from France to the United States for the meeting of the United Nations General Assembly on October 23. The cruiser will pick M. Molotov un at. Le Havra to- marrow afternoon and take him to-Southampton; whence he is due to anil in the “Queen Elizabeth" for New York on Wednesday Reuter,

Dr. Duguet is head of the laboratories in Paris-which are the main producers of the pre paration.

The authorities state

Last Services In Condemned Cells

Nuernberg, Oct. 14.

The 18 Nazis convicted by the Nuernberg War Crimes Tribunal, including the 11 condemried to death, were told officially yesterday that their appeals had been rejected by the Allied Control Council in Berlin.

sage vas received from the

Punjab Police Chief Shot

Liverpool, Oct. 13.

43-year-old Superinten- Robert Kyle Mauger

dent of the Punjab (In- dia) Police, due to re-

Dutch ship "Van Kinsbergen change Hotel here.

surgeon

at sea,

but the

Sydney's Greatest Traffic Jam

the

she said, "but Mauger was die day, about the time the tragedy was discovered.

"We embarked on Saturday, satisfied with

persond travel arrangements. We can celled our passage and returned to the hotel with our baggage, deciding to make fresh plans in the morning."

Mauger served in the Pubjab Police for 24 years and awarded the

FCT AN

Police.

Indian Medal for distinguished service. -Reuter.

on its way from Batavia to Aden. The discovery was made by asking for medical assistance, his wife. He had a head wound. A member of its crew, Leading and a pistol was found by his Seaman J. R, Berana, was trans-side.. ferred to the "Otranto" by motor

Mauger had been on leave for launch and an appendicitis opera- the past six months, recupera tion was carried out by the ship'sting from a nervous

break- seaman died down brought on by nine years while under the anaesthetic. He of continuous service in India. was buried the following morning

Mrs. Mauger,stated that they The "Otranto's last trip to the liner "Georgie," which sail...

were due to return to India in Hong Kong was made about three ed from here for Bombay to months ago when the ship advised each man in turn and Germany's refusal to the British the "Otranto" will leave for Security officers said they had the right thing when he handed brought several Hong Kong tami

les from England. In a few days completed the grim task short-ultimatum of

September. 1839, Singapore and the United King- ly after noon.

presented by Sir Neville Hender- dom. All of them took the news son, British Ambassador. stoically, Colonel Richard Mc-

"I would do it again," he said, preted the result as showing Connell, public relations officer, Ribbentroy added, however, that that the majority of Popular said. This probably was he was convinced. that Germany Republican voters abstained or cause all of them had heard the was wrong in leaving the League followed De Gaulle by voting news of their fate from those of Nations. "I tried to influence "No," The Communist, So-who had wives, during the last the Fuehrer against quilting the cialist and other Left-Wing visits in the past few days. League but he would not listen

Frank, sentenced to death, to me." newspapers were enthusiastic.

In distant Indo-China, in the Hess, sentenced to life imprison

As the hour of execution drew province of Laos, copies of the ment, and Doenitz, who will go proposed new basic laws for to fall for 10 years, commented nearer, the condemned men seem- the Fourth Republic of France that they had made no requested to be more composed. Cap- were dropped by. parachute to for clemency and that apparent-lain Samuel N, Binder, American outlying districts, because of ly their lawyers did so without prison official, said: "Goering and

their consent.

Ribbentropare sleeping falfly transport difficulties.

Prison chaplains conducted well Keltel seems to be in rea- "Moral Victory" special services for the consonable good spirits. This morn-hour tram and bus stop striking for recognition of their General De Gaulle's spokes- their cells yesterday, the last letters from his wife.

from midnight, Hyde Park today. It was stated demned Nazi war criminals in lag he was showing the doctor, page

trade demands demonstrated in

this morning described the re-will spend on earth.

alle. He keeps saying that the Ced one of the greatest affected by the strikers and at the ferendum result ae "amoral Prayers

were read to the things he did were right. victory for De Gaulle." De condemned men during most of

motor traffic jams in its strikers, headquarters, that the

situation was unchanged-Ben Gaulle had asked the people of the day by the Catholic chan-terest in how the other condema- transport tried to get the

"Streicher takes a morbid in history as emergency ter France to reject the charter 'as lain, the Reverend Sixtus ed Nazis are approaching, death. failing to provide a

workable O'Connor, and

THE WEATHER * Lutheran He says that they should not let people to their work. form of Government

Ex-Premier Paul Reynaud clergyman, the Reverend H. F. themselves become depressed but

Gerecke.

... be brave and strong, like good

Thousands of overloaded cars General situation:Presstme → Rosenberg and boil condemned to hang, spurn

Streicher, Germans, -e

remains high over the land and caused a record congestion on "The most resigned is Frick, the harbour bridge and at many comparatively low over the ses ed the attentions of the clergy who is just waiting for the noose" other bottleneck points, but (GMT) was centred about 100 areas. A typhoon at 0600 hours “men, however, 'and preferred to -Reuter.

notwithstanding travel disabillmiles south of Amoy moving read books.

ties, retail and industrial firms north-east at 10 to 15 knots and report an almost. 100 per cent accelerating. It continues to attendance of employees, though lose intensity rapidly. A depres many were late.

sion centred about 600 miles and As motor transport was un-of Saigon may Intensify able to handle all traffe Today's forecast: — Variable). wearily to work in a blistering ing later weather improving and thousands plodded many, miles winds, cast direction predominat hot windsterday temperature

fairs The city is like a huge car Maximum::

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Sydney, Oct. 14.

HYDE PARK MEETING

London, Oct. 18.

As a result of a 24- Catering trade workers who are

man, Gaston Palewski, early Sunday some of the Germans "Sauckel bas composed himself Sydney today experien- both at the West End Hotel

Cut Off "That is what we said in 1941," Lord Beveridge added. "By the Potsdam Agreement of July 1945, we set out instead on a policy of forcibly lowering the standard of Life in Germany; we have been called it “a considerable moral engaged under that agreement defeat for the three big parties in blowing up, shipyards and dis- and for the Government." mantling factories, we have cut Router and Associated Press. off business, communication be-

tween Germany and the world."

As

He said the de-nazification policy. of the Potsdam Agreement * Fis equally inconsistent with "Libera-

LISBON ENQUIRY fessions from the

Lisbon, Oct. 13.

Queen Elizabeth to Attemptism or Democracy. It requires the

New Record.

removal from any post of respon- A senior Portuguese army Page Seven

sibility, public or private, of any officer has been appointed to Weekly Review of U.S. Business man who has been more than a direct an enquiry and to pre-

Activity

nominal Nazi. This policy only | para charges against the officers makes sense in a totalitarian state implicated in last week's revolt Fierce Battles Rage 8.E., of in which no one has influence un-li the 6th Cavalry Regiment at VW Kalgaz) JANU

less he is an official”—Associate Oporto, directed against the Sports News, etc.

ed Press

Jalazar Government, Reuter

Pago Fight

Father O'Connor heard con- Catholic prisoners, while the Reverend Gerecke left each Protestant a prayer in German, based on A verse of St. John Associated Press.

Luton, Oct, 14. A former naval rescue launch, the "Ivanston, which left Jersey been heard of since Captain S.J. 91 October for England has not Langles, is the owner, pilot and navigator of the vessel, which was carrying 28, people who intended toamigrate to South Africa, park Streets are lined on each minimum: 67.5 tage Nuernberg, Oct, 13 Unable to obtain suficient fuel to side with trucks and cars await. Sunshine MILF Ribbentrop declared today reach Gibraltar," the vessel prasing their homeward fourney to Rainfall: 0225 inches, that he was convinced that he'did I swiarning, to Rochester -- Reuter,, | night.--Beuter,

Hex Bol Humidity: 94 per esal

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