1946-10-23 — Page 1

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AN UGLY CHAPTER IS TO BE RE-OPENED Long-Secret Story Of Mutiny

TRAIL BLAZING

San Francisco, Oct. 22, Carrying

tremendous

a

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petrol load and "capacity pas- senger list, the Pan-American World Airways Clipper "Westward 11g" became air- borne last night, departing from San Francisco on 24,000 miles. trail-blazing Light between San Francisco and the cities of the Orient. · The Clinner is on a survey trip to study contemplated commercial routes, embracing

Takyo, Midway-Island, Guam, Shanghai, Rangoon, Bangkok. Saigon, Singapore, Balavîn and India. The trip will last far 35 days and the Clipper 1- will return here in Manila. -Reuter.

Students Flying To U.K.

British Troops

Murdered

(By Stan Swinton)

tradition have remained LN-

action.

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Batavia, Oct. 22.

White Flag

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS

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Manila, Oct, 22. Sixty-one Chinese, caught illegally entering the Pallip- pines on the northern Luzon # coast, have been deported. This is the second batch caught and deported, the last numbering 41. It is reliably learned that the Government: has made representations to "the Chinese authorities, ask- ing for assistance for the cap- Lure of the "master-mind” ( who is organising Chinese illegal entry into the Philip- pines. The Chinese authori- ties are stated to have ez- pressed willingness to cooper-` ate.-Reuter,

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Irrawaddy Flotilla "Burmanised"

Glasgow, Oct. 21..

A former lieutenant-colonel in the Indian Army, Mr. J. T. Gillieson of Hanwell Road, London, alleged at the Glasgow Reinstatement Com- mission today that when he applied for his civilian job back as commander of a river steamer on the Irrawaddy he was told that he could not have it because of the Burma Gov- ernment's policy of "Burma for the Burmese.”

Mr. Gillieson's application was refused on the "grounds that it had not been submitted within the period specified in law.

Stern Gang

Issues A

He alleged that the Irrawad- dy Flotilla Company of Both- well Street, Glasgow, were sub stituting European labour with Indian labour for "cheapness" it

The Manager, Mr. Charles H. Brown, denied this and stated that it was in accordance with the Burma Government's policy of "Burmanising."

joined the company when he

Warning"

Jerusalem, Oct. 22. Agents of the Stern Jewish under- organisation, leaflets

A British Army court-martial soon will reopen

one of the ugliest chapters in the Pacific war- the long-secret story of Indian troops who, in 1942, mutinied and murdered their British offi- cer and non-coms on lonely Christmas Island. Eight of the alleged muti-marine captain also were on neers have been recaptured by the island.

Mr. Gillieson, who told the British occupation forces in the

Tribunal that he was still un-gang, Netherlands Indies. Others are Against that tiny garrison

employed although he had tried known to be at large in the the Japanese struck on March

In a running gun duel for posts, said that his job en have

several London shipping firms ground Republican-held interior.

posted Re-7, 1942. Japanese ships shelled | peated requests for their ex- the island and bombing planes in the Central District the Irrawaddy had "no counter throughout. Tel - Aviv followed up. The Commander last night between two part." He said that he had threatening death to answered but British authori- | 'Cupt. L.W.T. Williams, ordered ties now are hopeful, the Indo- a white flag run up. Instead separate parties of de- was 23 and in 1942 found him "every soldier carrying nesian authorities will take af occupying Christmas Island,tectives and two small self stranded in India after or wearing a uniform in Christmas Island, a tiny dof the Japanese fleet moved on. bodies of armed men, taking one of the company's Palestine." The posters

Williams promptly hoisted the two passers-by were in- tugs there. Union Jack once more en any jured (one, a

When" he told the company

also warned of other

passing ship would know the

woman, that he could not get back to measures "to combat our island remained in Allied hands seriously) and two of Burma because the Japanese British enemies."

but he kept a man on duty the gunmen arrested. had taken over, he alleged that

The warnings were posted by the flag pole, night and day. Prob. Sub-Inspector Ho and they told him to join the army several hours after the 300-ton ready to rehoist the white flag several detectives were on picket The firm denied this. should superior Japanese forces duty at the junction of Morrison. For the company, Mr. Brown schooner "Fenice," carrying 800 return.

and Connaught Roads shortly said that they now had only Jewish immigrants lacking per- Palestine, was On March 10, attack came after 10 p.m. They challenged three commanders and one off-mits to enter from another source-the Indian four men who seemed to be walk-

cer in Burras compared with intercepted outside Haifa har- soldiers. In a night of terroring in a suspicious manner and

21 commanders and four officers bour and received a boarding the detectives' "hunch" was con-

party frum. the British mine- they mutinied. British personnel frined when one of the men open-

in 1942.

"Moon" Associated aweener were killed and their bodies ed fire.

Press. thrown into the sea. The Ameri- can and Australian were im prisoned and turned over to the Japanese when they later began a brief occupation the island.

on the map far south of the Indies, was armed with a single coastal gun at the time of the Japanese strike through South east Asia. To man that gun. the Allied command had a de tachment of the 7th Coast Re- giment of the Hong Kong and Singapore Royal Artillery British captain; two British non-coms, two British gunnera. a Viceroy commissioned officer of the Indian army and 20 Indian soldiers.

An American-naval officer

Seventeen Chinese students took off not long after dawn this, morning in a Cathay and an Australian merchant Pacific 'plane, bound for England. Unlike an earlier party of students

from Stevedore

Hong Kong who

went by sea and were

held up in Singapore, Threat To

these students should be' in England by Sunday, for the 'plane has been

specially chartered for Down Tools

them by the

British

Hong Kong importers Council through the Roy and exporters will be in Farrell Export-Import for a real headache if the Company.

A fellow passenger on the threat of local stevedores Dakota' will be Mr. Neil to "down-tools" on Nov. Buchanan, one of the directors 1, materialises., of Roy Farrell's and manager.

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of the Hong Kong branch of the On Oct. 4, the stevedores-sub- company, who is proceeding to mitted to their employers a set of England in the aircraft on what, demands for more pay and better in air force terminology, might working conditions.

The parties have not been able be called an "operational survey flight."

to come to any arrangement and Ray Farrell's which is chiefly the stevedores, through their As- made up of men who served in sociation, yesterday presented em- the RAAF and RAF, has adopt-ployers with an ultimatum to the that all stevedores will ed as its slogan "the first inter-effect national air merchandise service cease work on Nov. 1 unless their in the world," and this morn- terms are accepted by the end of ing's flight to England marks this month.

Stevedores are engaged prin- the next step in the company's

cipally in the loading and rapidly expanding service. Formed in February

this loading of cargo from ocean going year, with one aircraft engaged ships in harbour and the threat. will involve some on the Sydney to Shanghai ened strike run, the company made its first 4,000 individuals, trip north of Hong Kong with "essential relief supplies on Feb.

of

No less than 30 shote were ex- changed between the robbers and police in the poorly-lit road. Meanwhile, in a neighbouring res taurant, Sub-Insp. Lam Yüng-hon and several more detectives were having supper,

The mystery of the Christ-

They heard the sound of shots, mas Island garrison's disap- rushed out in a body and. were pearance remained complete un promptly fired upon by two more til British. forces recovered men. The whole gun-duel lasted some Indian soldiers at Soera some 15 to 20 minutes, at the end baia, last December. Now, 54cf which two men were in cus- months after their offence, the tody-one armed with a revolver, Indians are to go on trial char- the other with a 25 automatic.

None of the police were injured, ged with mutiny.

Victime of the mutineers were but two of the proverbial Inno- cent Bystanders were a man and Capt. Williams; Sgt. W. Giles;

a woman-the latter was serious- Gnr. J. Tate; L-Sgt. G. H. Cross

Iv wounded by a bullet which

Mr. Gillieson alleged that the company was expanding and building many new vessels en the Clyde.-Reuter.

Went Down

With His

Ship

Scarborough, Oct. 22.

Making sure that his

"Immigrants"

Haifa, Oct. 22. British Two

ships today sailed for Cyprus with 814 Jewa stopped just short of their effort to enter goal in an Palestine without permits. The "Ocean Vigour" and "Empire Heywood," one-time troop ships, left here before dawn to take the immigrants to the filand.

Two hundred soldiers with little show of force had guided the group off the "Fenice", and down the Haifa quay to the transporte.

In Jerusalem, an official an-

anti Gnr. G. S. Thurgood-Asso- penetrated the lower part of her wife's lifebelt was ad-nouncement said that two rail-

ciated Press.

I body.

Bengal Riots Caused safe, Captain Brie Baker, dynamite charge four miles out-

By Hooligans

The locomotives

justed and that every way locomotives and a guard car en route from Jerusalem to member his crew by a

Eric commanding the London side of Jerusalem early today. were badly vessel Glamorganbrook, damaged and a considerable 805 tons, was drowned amount of track was turned up, London, Oct. 22.

off the Yorkshire coast, but there were no casualties.

The Haifa police reported Arthur Henderson, Parliamentary Under-Secre today after giving the that a bomb was thrown at a

tary to the India Office, reported to the House order to abandon ship.

jeep last night but those in the of Commons yesterday that rioting in Bengal Mrs. Violet Baker and 13 mem-vehicle were unhurt.-Associated has been "caused by a body of hooligans.' bers of the crew..were saved by Press.

the Scarborough lifeboat after an "There has been no general, the Speaker denied his motion s.o.S. had been sent that the rioting of Moslems against on the ground that they were Whitby lifeboat was racing to the Hindus," Mr. Henderson said. "caly one episode of stabbings scene of the sinking ship. Quoting from a report he said which have been going on in

The Glamorganbrook was form- Worthtown, erly the Empire was received Sunday night from Bumbay and Calcutta." the Bengal Governor, Sir Reporting that "five com-which was captured by the Ger- of the Virgin, the early seven- Frederick Burrows, Mr. Hender-panies of troops and some 300 mans at Dunkirks. After she had teenth century Hungarian master- son said that the "estimates of armed police" are now_combat-

"Marie Petsch," which 5,000 dead quoted in the Cal- ting the troubles, Sir Frederick sprung a leak in circumstances piece

yet unknown, she sank.

formerly hung over the main cutta press" are "a great ex- Burrows said that "the actual Her end came suddenly, and altar in St. Stephan's Cathedral, aggeration."

dieturbances are now confined the Second Mate, Thomas Hardy was stolen last night from its 28th., becoming a limited com- in the company's plans for its The Governor thinks the to the extreme northwest corner of South Shields, and Seaman temporary position in the Church pany in August. Owing to the future a direct air link be- number certainly is not in the of the Noakhali district and the George Cart of Liverpool, who "Am Hot" rapid expansion of its business, tween England, Hong Kong and four figure category and ex- three southwestern police sta-managed to launch a boat, pulled The picture, which was reput- it was decided to form the Australia.

pects it to be low in the three tion areas of the Tipparah sub- Mrs. Baker and the, other mem-ed to work miracles, was stored Cathay Pacific Co. in order to The plane will be piloted by lagure category," Mr. Hender divisions cope with the increased demand Captain Neville Hemsworth, son said.

services.

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the

for air transport and charter assisted by First Officer Robert Conservative Godfrey Nichol-

Donovan and Radio Officer. вст sought to adjourn Unusual cargoes flown north Alek Stewart.

House for a full scale debate "ward from Australia recently

Accompanying Mr. Buchanan en the Bengal disturbances, but have included oysters, chic-will be his wife, who arrived kens and a dog. This in ad- in Australia last June following dition to a wide range of goods her demobilisation from the all the way from radio sets, to WAAF and who has since been woollen goods.

employed in the Hong Kong office. Mr. and Mr. Buchanan to are to visit her father in Page Two

H.K. Registered

Of particular interest Hong Kong is the fact that Glenfield. Leicester, and hope to Roy Farrell's Dakotas were, the be in England by Sunday next.. first to be registered in Hong

Kong since the war and are! Chief Officer W. J. Jones, of now bringing the Colony's air the C. N. 58. "Anhut," is the many poorer by $2,700 because he registration marks to airfields to which Hong followed a Chinese up a stair- Keng has, perhaps, never been cast at 29 Thomson Road-yes- more than just a pin-point.onterday at 2:48 pm. Jones left a small-scale map

a rickshaw to accompany the The shuttle service between man, who turned on Hong Kong, Manila and Austra the stairs, took the money from lla has been in operation for an inside coat pocket and fled, several months and today's trip after pushing the marks the next step forward I Navy. öffeer down stairs,

him on

Merchant

Panic

bers of the crew to safety.

Captain Baker was the last to leave, and being unable to swim "Panie caused by the roving was swept away, and lost-cu- bands spread far beyond the ter areas affected and there are at

least 30,000 refugees in the IMPROPER

Government relief centre,

ON OTHER PAGES large population of them hav

ing come from places where there has been no disturbance," the report continued...

Answering a questioner, Mr.

MARIE PETSCH STOLEN

Vienna, Oct. 22, Vienna's most famous picture

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in the cellar during the war and was installed in the "Am Hot" Church only last Sunday."

To enter the church the thieves sawed through...+ an ironbarred window-Reuter,

THE WEATHER

London, Oct. 21 The anticyclone over China has The Foreign Secretary, Mr. lost Intensity bat a strong anti- Ernest Bevin, today adhered cyclone, remains to the NE of to his views, expressed to the Japan. Pressure, is low over the

'southern region generally and im

Henderson said that 'n previous Archbishop of Westminister, a weak trough over the Eastern:

New Status of Trade Unions in

Management, Page Three

Trusteeship Proposals, Page Four

clared that "no direct evidence United Nations Week in Bong hud been received" of allega-

Kong.

ticns that girls were being ph- ducted.-Associated Press... Paos Five

Mr. Harrison Forman Wants-to-

Know Why. Page Sis

New Weapons Give Warning. Page Seven

Dercquisition

Merchant Bhips. Pads, Eight

Sporta News, etc.

.of

the

it be improper

to

British Government typhoon was centred between 500 lodge a protest with the Yugo-sad 700 miles NE by E of Manila, slay Government concerning moving NNE at 10 to 15 knots.

sentence of. the arrest and

Forecast: Moderate - NE or Archbishop Stepinac, since the ENE winds, becoming light and question was one of Yugoslav variable in the afternoon, fine WI

firat, cloud Increasing later. Internal politics.

Yesterday's weather: Maximum: 81.8 deg. Fah.

A considerable amount of Jewellery, and $15,000 in cold Cash was stolen from the scend floor of 98 Connaught Road Central, by two armed robbers at about 145 pm. yesterday, Reuter."

Minimum: 69.2 deg. Fabr Max. Rel. Humidity: 75%.

This fact was given to the House of Commone today by Mr. Hector McNeil, Minister of State, in reply to a question Rainfall: Nil

Sunshine:-10.8 ́hours.;