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Haganah 'Against' Sabotage

Jerusalem, "Oct. 21; An official of Haganah, most powerful of the three. Jewish under- ground movements in Palestine, said that his organisation was restrict- ing current activities to political manoeuvring and was opposed to as- sassinations and acts of sabotage.

The Ducial quashed rumors that Haganah might move to stamp out "extremist elements" in the other two underground organisations the Stern gang and the Irgun Zvai Leumi.

He told interviewers: "Ve will take no action against them now, because we cannot afford to fight our own 'people while we are facing a stronger! enemy outside the mandatory power of Britain."

An informant who called himself an "adjutant of the Haganah general policy staff," said that "the last Haganah activity of a direct nature was the blowing up of bridges on June 16 which, we felt, was necessary to

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ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1946. Price: 20 Cents.

REPATRIATES'

SIR THOMAS JACKSON

Sir Thomas Jackson is back on hia pedestal-or at least the statue of the founder and chirf manager

for

years of the Hong Kong & Shanghai Bank is. The lions," who accompanied -kim, and Queen" Victoria on a trip stu Japan during the war, reaum- ed their pre-war scats fast Thursday and late yesterday evening Sir Thomas took up his old position on the op- posite side of the road.

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China On

Trust?

Shanghai, Oct. 2)...

recent

PETITION

TO NANKING

CALCULATING MACHINE

also Anything and Everything for OFFICE MACHINES Excellent Servies

HONGKONG TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE

9. D'Aguilar St.

Request For Case To Be Taken

Up On A Higher Level

Claim Against

Dutch Reduced

(By Margaret Bradbury)

A petition addressed to the Nanking Government requesting that their case be taken up imme- diately with the Dutch authorities was de- livered to Mr. T. W. Kwok, China's Special Commissioner for Foreign Affairs in Kwang- tung and Kwangsi, yesterday by the 1,700 Chinese workers repatriated here from Java. This action on the part of the Chinese workers follows a week of stormy negotiations with welfare, police and Chinese Secretariat offi- cials, who have failed to persuade them to dis- perse and return to their places of origin in other parts of China.

The "Shanghai Evening Post," American-owned publication, to- day commenting on Lord Mac- Gowan's

speech at the Anglo-Chinese Chamber of Com- merce luncheon, says "The speech

At the Aberdeen camp and, At their Aberdeen and To Ishowed unusual andl engaging demonstrate to blends of realism and benevol- To Yuen hostel they are still Yuen billets they are still being holding out for payment from issued with food allowances by The United States needs the Dutch mining both the British and the Arabsence.

firms who the Chinese agents of the Dutch. that Jewish forces existed in a few Lord MacGowans.

"It is hard to say why Ameri-contracted them to work in mining firms. this country.”

Java just before the occupation, but their earlier claim for 519 H.K.$700 has now dropped to

Jerusalem was quiet, al-can leaders take China so com

though soldiers manned Bren pletely on trust, ignoring a good Dutch guilders or about deal of the readily available and

guns at barbed wire barricades adjacent to the Jewish sections, realistic Information, except that $200, one suit of clothing and

there is no substitute for first- hand knowledge.

on which a dawn to dusk cur- few has been imposed. Several

"Few countrica have been more curfew-voilators were arrested glowingly depicted by

the half- on Saturday night.

informed and few countries need (In London, Exchange Tele-not necessarily debunking but the graph reported from Jerusalem shrewd study which the Chinese that the steamer "Fenice," themselves give to every problem, which brought 447 illegal im- including the gullibility of the migrants from La Spezia, Italy, American public. last May, had been intercepted off the Palestine coast with 600 persons aboard)-Associated Prese.

P.A.W.A. Survey Flight

Admonition

one blanket each.

This was again refused them on Saturday-by-Hong Kong authorities who repeated their offer of free transportation and food from the Colony.

Unofficial Offer

At the same meeting an un- official offer was made by a small group of Chinese to raise the purpose of distributing $50 subscriptions in Hong Kong for to each repatriates, plus one suit time administering a little salt-of clothes and one blanket, tary admonition to, China's pre- sent unsatisfactory courses and

"Lord MacGowan said nothing untruc or inaccurate. He plugged the British case while at the same

condition.

"He thus sieved the cause for everyone, Americans and Chinese included, who have the interest of seeing China progress along constructive. lines."

Concluding, the newspaper comments that it would be a good San Francisco, Oct. 21. thing if a few American business Pah American World Air-men of comparable eminence ways is scheduled to begin a spoke as wisely from the Amer: zan viewpoint regarding China.-- 24,000 mile operational survey

Reuter. flight to 10 principal cities of the Orient.

The clipper "Westward Ho" is due to take off from San Francisco at 0600 GMT on Nov. 21 for Honolulu, the first sched- uled stop on the trip, which is expected to take about 35 days, and touch Midway, Wake, Guam, Tokyo, Shanghai, Canton, Cal- cutta, Rangoon, Bangkok, Sai- gon, Singapore, Batavia, Manila and thence return to San Francisco,

Mediate, Says Gen. Carlson

(By James D. White)

"QUEEN ELIZABETH"

New York, Oct. 21. The giant 85,000-ton liner "Queen Elizabeth" reached New York harbour' at sunrise today. There was no sign of labour trouble likely to inter- fere with her docking as the neared the Cunard up-town dock-Reuter.

Archbishop

Victor Petition

Tel. 21438

Housing Shortage Everywhere

Washington, Oct. 21.

The U.S. Army report- ed that its efforts to re- unite families with sol- diers overseas are bog- ging down in a morass of difficulties over housing and transportation,

The War Department said that The outlook is "generally dark." The statement blamed "a drab overseas housing picture" and "an economy-dictated

shortage of vessels suitable for movements of dependents."

It added that "in spite of the efforts of theatre commanders te make available existing housing and

improvising other quarters for use by family groups, there is every indication that the situa- tion will become considerably worse in the months abcad."

Surveys have shown that there is not enough housing in

any theatre in the world where United States troops are stationed to pro- vide quarters for all dépendents of Army personnel and civilian employees.

In Jepan most dwellings are- deemed below the miniman standards of sanitation and plumbing must be installed. The situation is the same in Germany.

Shanghai, Oct. 21. In six months ending September Hundreds of Russian residents 30, the War Department reported, here today signed a petition urg-approximately 18,000 were sent ing the Soviet Consul-General overseas to join husbands aźd to intervene and seek-the release father-Associated Press, of Archbishop Victor, who was arrested by the Chinese police on Saturday on unspecified charges. Special prayers also were offer- ed by many for the Archbishop; who heads the Russian orthodox mission in China, and is repre-1 sentative of Patriarch "Alexis of Moscow and all Russia,·

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The Archbishop in his cell

San Francisco," Oct, 20, President Truman should in- meanwhile, refused to take food the United States in mediating termed his arrest the result of vite Soviet Russia to join with offered by the Chinese police.

The "Russian Daily News the Chinese civil war, Brigadier- "sad misunderstanding," adding, General Evans Carlson, retired we categorically protest against This was also refused although United States Marine Corps it and demand the release of the the repatriates were advised by officer, suggested in a message Archbishop, who is not guilty of Assistant Commissioner Mr. C.-read to the national conference any crime." Y. Leung, to accept because, as on China and the Far East.

out means

Copy To London

London, Oct. 21: Britain has received a copy of the lastest Turkish wole to the Soviet Union, handed last

Minister, Hasan Saka, to the Friday by the Turkish Foreign Soviet Charge

d'Affaires in Ankara, a Foreign Office spoken- man said today.

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Govern-

The note, It is understood, rejected, the latest, Soviet pro- Earlier, he had been involved pesal for the basis of a re- he pointed out, negotiations Carlson was scheduled to pre-in o might take from two to six side over the meeting but

controversy with Bishop vision of the 1936 Montreux, months, during which time the heart ailment kept him at his Russian Orthodox Church here, the Black Sea Straits, but ex-

John, who is head of the White Convention on the control of · Chinese workers would be with- Portland home. Carlson thus and who had refused to turn pressed the Turkish Colony.

of support in the advanced one of the first con- over to him the cathedral and ment's willingness to attend a Mr. Leung suggested crete proposals in the confer other former Czarist church pro- conference to discuss the mat that the repatriates should re- turn to their homes and leave exce which during the past perty-Associated Press.

three days has concentrated on criticising American policy in the Orient and demanding with- drawal of American troops there.

behind them a small number of representatives.

Soviet-Supported Party's Poor Third

Berlin, Oct. 21.

Final returns from 70 per cent of Berlin's 2,284 precinets indicate that the Soviet-supported Socialist Unity Party ran a poor third in Sun- day's municipal elections, which were the first free elections held here in 14 years.

Experts of Pan American's Pocitic-Alaska Division and re- presentatives of the United States Government were to be

Well out in front were the An American civilian employee on board the clipper. They will

Social Democrats, while the of the U.S. Army was shot and survey routes to Japan, Chinu, Christian

were killed in the Russian ecctor of Democrats Indcchina, Thailand, Malaya, second.

Berlin on Sunday by a Kussian Burma, Java and India recently

policeman or sentinel, an Army certified to Pan American by Official reports from 1,355

comunique today said. precincts gave the

Social.

The communique asserted that

Party Russian sector accompanied

by

De, two American women, when he

was ordered to folow a Russian (

the Civil Aeronautics Board.

The Airine said that the re- Democrats 698,275 votes, the the American was taking photo. gular service over these routes Christian Democrats 296,510 graphs of election activities in the will be inaugurated when land-the Socialist Unity fing rights are obtained by the 281,583 and the Liberal United States Government. mocrats 120,884. Captain G. F. Maxwell, opera

The élection was regarded tions manager of Pan Ameri-a test of whether Berliners cur can Pacific-Alaska. Division rently leaned to the east or will be in command of the sur- west.

The Social Democrats held a

as

ten-Reuter.

M. Molotov Mum

(By Paul Scott Rankine)

Carlson said that Russia "by virtue of a.continuous border cannot but have a profound in-

Aboard the Queen Elizabeth, Oct. 29. terest in a friendly China." He

M. Molotov today refused to comment on Friday's said that both Russia and the United States should guarantee

broadcast on foreign policy by Mr James "that neither nation will "seck Byrnes the United States Secretary of State. or accept military bases in the The newspapermen had sub | German questions before the republic of China nor provide mitted questions to the Soviet Council of Foreign Ministers. material and other support to Minister asking him for hit The reporters expressed re- any political, military or other views on the Byrnes speech- gret at a joint meeting today group in China, until a peace the United States Secretary of of British and United States agreement has been reached and State broadcasting from correspondents that M. Molotov duly implemented.".

Washington described himself | had not seen them earlier "when Carleen said he thought Rusas disturbed over the continued, in touch with world affairs at sin would accept such a propo- if not increasing tension be the beginning of the voyage. sal and that it would remove a tween the United States and

"Absurd!" serious potential for war in the the Soviet Union, and on the Far East.-Associated Press-

India To

motor patrol to the Office of the Have China

Allied Kommandantura. He was- shot, the communique said, when he failed to folow the Russian vehicle as it crossed the inter-

section.

Ambassador

COURT MARTIAL STOPPED

M. Pavlov, the spokesman for "M. Molotov, described to Reu- .ter as "an absurdity" that Marshal Stálin would visit the United States in November in the liner Aquitania, as report- ed in a Halifax, Nova Scotia Singapore, Oct, 21..

newspaper quoting a "highly The court-martial of Captain G placed source,

E. Wardsworth, R.A.M.C, whicThe paper stated that al- began on October 14 on charges though the report was uncon- of using insubordinate language

Reuter

to a superior officer, assaulting firmed, its informent states a.. vey. Commander of the clipper big lead from the start over the

military policeman and assaulting suite was being, prepared for a number of Indian of other ranks Marshal Stalin in the 40,000 ton will be Captain W. M. Pryce,

While, the communique did not

Nanking. Oct. 21. who has flown about 1,200,00. Social Unity Party, which was

identify the slain American. a The Chindar Foreign Office" an-n-board: the hospital ship. "Mel-Cunard White Star Aquitania. ilea-Associated Press. formed last spring by a merge United States Military Govern- pounced today that the Govern- chior," anchored in Singapore on

of the Communists and some

Was ments of China and India have September 2. has been stopped by sections of the Social Democrament source said that he

Harry D. Flory, Jnr., a Reports decided to elevate the status of order of Lieutenant-General Sir min-Montague Stopford, Commander- in-Chief of the Allied Land Forces in Southeast Asia.

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THE WEATHER

Ad Intense anticyclone covers China and Japan, pressure being highest near Pekin and over Hokkaido. A trough of low prea- sure extends from Malaya across The typhoon appears to be situat the Philippines to the Carolines. ed about 800 miles, E of North Luzon moving slowly N or NNE. Today's forecast: Moderato NE wind, continuing Bins,

Yesterday's Weather:- Maximum: 82-1 dek. Fali. Max. Rel. Humidity: 81%. Sunshine: 11,3 hours. Rainfall: NIL

sions to the rank of Embassies. Democrats might win a clear

An upolicial version of the The Indian Charge D'Affaires,

It is understood that the court majority in the election. Pre shooting obtained by an America Captain 18. Hassan, confirmed

the newa but said that the name martia! has been stopped because dictions generally had favoured cfficial who was working with th the Social Democrats because Russians on the municipal election of the first Indian ambassador- portion of the evidence taken this Party was strongly, entren results was that the alala man designate will not be disclosed for has proved inadmissible-Reuter,

some time, although as from to-

Athens, Oct. 20. Agency- ched in Berlin in the pre-Nazi was taking photographs in the

Unter den Linden, accompanied morrow, the Indian

General's office in Nanking will The Greek Minister of Jus- The city was quiet as the by two American women, How Japan Prepared for the voters"

The Russian military police ac assume the status of an embassy tice Mr. Janos Hatzipanos has balloted freely and

Foreign Minister Wang Shih-drafted a law providing life im cused him of photogaphing mill- secretly on city and borough tary installations and asked him chich commented: "This is a pilsonment for those feaind in councilmen to supplant the municipal government which to accompany them to the Bus- | portant development. We are look possession of British military. Minimum: 68,4 deg, Fab,

sian Headquarters. Then one of ins forward with great pleasure the Russians set up with their the women pushed Russian to the exchange of full-fledged equipment and for these buy capture of Berlin 18 months litary policeman who shot hor Chinese and Indian ambassadors irg, selling or accepting such

equipment-Router. Reuter," | ago,

companion--Associated Press,

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