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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 27, 1946.
No Case ANGLO-EGYPT PACT REJECTED
For China Delegation
London, Nov. 25. The British Govern-
ment is not considering
sending a British Par- liamentary delegation to China to report on the political and economic situation.
Heavy Rioting In Cairo And Alexandria
Bomb Thrown At British G.H.Q.
Cairo, Nov. 26.
The Linder-Secretary for The Egyptian delegation in the Anglo-Egyptian
Foreign Affairs. Mr. Chris- "topher Mayhew, said this in the House of Cymmons today in reply to a question,
Conservative and Labour Members had usked Mr. Mayhew if he was aware · of the increasing difficulties of British raders in China and
of the pressure which is being put upon the Chinese by The Americans la teep the Fri- fish-out."
treaty revision negotiations has been dissolv- ed by a Royal decree. Seven of the 12 mem-
·bers of the delegation last night issued a state- ment formally rejecting the draft agreement reached by Mr. Bevin, British Foreign Minis- ter, and Sidky Pasha, Egyptian Prime Minis- ter.
They declared that they could not accept article
One Meniber sugestad Lint; in view of what appeared be the "complete eclipse" of| British influence in China. thed decision not to send a delegato
two of the proposals, stipulating that "in caseTM of a threat of war to any adjacent,country, the "Two parties agree to discuss the situation in order to take necessary measures until the Security Council takes steps to restore peace."
declared, meant that Egyrt out of bands for British troops This stipulation, the manifes Like Caira, Alexandria wär
would become a military base! today.
to British occupation Police and students fired atļ
each other at Abbasia, the "It is imposible to agree to northeastern suburbs of the the inclusion of such an article | city. One student was killed which may jeopardise friendly and 300 students arrested, relations between Egypt and
tion should be reviewed. *
Mr. Mayhew replied that a
liable British
mission was trade already making inquiries in again. Chim. On the political Wide there might be a case for Parliamentary delegation, and he was not in the east narrear minded in that, provided always it was welcome to the Chinese.
a
At the moment, however, he
other nations", the .statement Blazing Torches
said.
FABRICATION
London, Nov. 25.
The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Christo- Mayhew, described as "obviously a fabricated pro- paganda story"
report mentioned in the House of Commans today by the Con- servative camber. Professor Sunary, that 800,000 Poles
La
Lo
deported from Polani
the interior of Russia, including practically the whole of the Polish · In- telligensia.
Professor Savory had ask- ed for information about this report-Reuter.
Remains Of Cortes Found
Mexico City, Nov. 20.
believe, contains Cortes,
Dealing with the evacuation At least two were killed and the authorities
of British troops from Egypt one woman wounded in rioting in, the remains of Herman
Police
On The Alert
3
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Some stations reinforced their guards.
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DRAFT AGREEMENT THROTTLING OF
CHINA EXPORTS
ON INDONESIA
The Hague, Nov. 25. The Dutch Cabinet will.on Wednesday meet the Dutch Commission General which concluded the Dutch-In- demesia draft agreement an Indonesia's future and will later decide the Government's attitude towards the agree. ment, it was learned here to- day.
The draft agreement sign- ed in Java on November 15 provides for a United States of Indonesia to be linked with Holland in a Union under the Dutch Crown-Reuter,
Cabinet Crisis In
Holland?
Washington, Nov. 26.
Mr. J. Lossing Buck, American agricultural ex- pert known throughout China, the result of many years' association with the Nanking/ University, said "an over-valued Chinese dol- lar is throttling China's export-trade.” Just home from China as a member of the China- United States agricultural mission, which sought to outline China's agricultural pro- blems and the solution therefore Buck said, "China's dollar is over-valued three times." The present official rate is [3.350 to US$1 but there can be [no marketing of China's products
abroad, until China's
currency exchange is readjusted to parity between price levels in China and other countries.
meals.
Another Jerusalem
Bomb Scare
Jerusalem, Nov.-25;
The agricultural mission, which Mr. P. W. Thbu, widely known Chinese agricultural expert was the Chinese chairman, surveyed China's farm-problems-from-vire- ¡tually all angles and now is sub- Air raid sirens wailed here mitting reports both to the tonight stopping all traffic, The measures were taken as a
American and Chinese Govern-after explosives were reported result of the two explosion's early
The Hague, Nov. 26.
to have been discovered outside yesterday morning inside
Hints of a Cabinet crisis and the
Mr. Buck said that before the the Government hospital. Farage of Mongkok Police Station reports that Commanders-in-Chief mission left Nanking, it handed
The police are now cardoning of the Aziny and Navy might re and near the west gate of. Cen sign were circulated amid," in- Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek | the area off. A motor-car
creasing signa vr
ja copy for the, Nanking Govern- | stated to have driven up to the political tension arising from the recently initiatment which is expected to be buildings of the Palestine Goy- ed agreement designed to give the published simultaneously with its erament's Criminal Investiga- East Indies independence.
release in Washington, 5. tion Department and deposited Buck said that both the China suspicious looking object in Lieut-General H.J.M. Kruls, ese and the Americans agreed on front of them. Army Commander-in-Chief, was the conclusions. "China assumed the second time within a few days. received by Queen Wilhelmina for
the responsibility of executing Neither he nor Admiral O.E.L. them." Helfrich, Navy Commander-in- Buck said he thought the pro-
tral Police Station.
for sending such a delegati and unity of Egypt with the Shubra, the working class area has been found in the chapel of hotels, cinema' houses and gold- | Chief, would discuss the rumours spects of "earrying out our con- salem.
did not feel there was
A case
--Reuter.
Hint By Belgrade?
"Belgrade, Not-25-
by
ន
**
the sallied from thondary schools was burled in the family vault,
1562.
is
Shots were exchanged as the car drove off, apparently head. ing north towards Kamallah on the coast road outside. '; Jeru- "
that they would resign.
clusions" were very good despite The traffic paralysie lasted the present uncertainties in China. for almost an hour until an- There was no official report on He asserted that China's principal other "suspicious looking ub- the subject of General' Kruls' talks with the Queen, but a source oil, silk, carpet wool down were containing nothing incrimin
exports-tea, tung ject" was found to be a parcel close to the Army 12
Command said that the talks wore a reflection of More Meat'
one-third below about
"We Want
agricultural
prewar ting. The men who placed it
the sharp discontent among Army production hat anticipated an up-jumped from a taxi outside the Paris, Nov. 25. and Navy officers in both Holland Turn shortly, the "Union, of Workers Syndi-strenuously to the plan for In Several thousand members of and the East Indies who offers
cates"-branch of the powerful donesian independensati French Confederation Generals
Improvements Needed
Up to a late hour last night, Police were still investigating the explosions and have not yet inade any arrest.
Police ameiis last night un- A crystal and gold casket, which animously dismissed the theory that the explosions were engineer, ed by gangs who have recently been threatening restaurants, Sudan
Egyptian of northern Cairo, according to Hospital De Jesus. under the
The main street of Cortes, who won crown, the manifestu said that
Mexico for smith shops. it was an exaggeration that the and broken glass and flooded with rulers in campaigns from 1519 to Hittered with alones Spain by subduing the native Bryptian delegation had pwater from fre mains for dis.
1521, died at Seville in 1547 and viously agreed unanimously to a tance of 700 yards. three year evacuation period. Students of considered necessary
His son took the body to a achonis carry- British deligation.
ing blazing furches, broke down monastery in Mexico City Evacuati could be tom-street lamps, fired
After being moved twice it was escala 75). threw torches pleted in a shorter time,"
and stones at the hidden by his decendants during police, overturned trams and anti-Spanish riots in. 1823. smashed shop windows. Riots Spread Yugoslav official Communlat
A homemade bomb was thrown he had found ecclesiastical record du Travail-paraded outside the meet tomorrow with the Commis- improvements in handling the ex-
Antiquarian Fernando reported
The Cabinet Is scheduled to He said that China faces sharp newspaper Borba today has fed On the Sudan, statement said: into the British, general-head- of the approximate hiding place. Iron fence diplomatic observers to speculate | "Sídky Pasha, in his new pro midnight. It exploded in a car three friends searched the unused Paris, lodoy, carrying banners Pendence agreement In Jaya. quarters in Cairo shortly before with affelal permission he
of La Villelle. the whether it foreshadows an posals has given the Sudan anark, splintering the gate
and largest wholesale mest market insion which concluded the inde-port trade of these products "If she wishes to retain the world nctual break in diplomatic re- opportunity to separate itself otherwise, it did little damage.
out. chapel of the hospital built by reading: "We want more fresh The Hague correspondent markets," He added: lations with Greece.
from Egypt and obliged us from Political Bodies Guilty
the "Algemeen Handeldblad" in "China must produce a quan- The article, which is regard.now on to accept such a possible
Cairo was out of bounds
The demonstrators were noisy Amsterdam, organ of the oppositity to meet foreign orders, She lette was the scene of battle when possibility of a Cabinet crisis: He modern basis. Her products must dealers, with clubs, chased Gov- said that there was no unanimity be graded and standardized. More representatives out of in the Cabinet which could result important, she must establish a the market. Officials had intend-in smoothing the tension result- ed to requisition meat at ceiling ing from the Indies agreement system to insure that these needs prices. Reuter.
Associated Press.
are carried out and constantly complied with."
Mr. Buck, who taught China's budding farmers at the Nanking University from 1920 to 1934, is husband of the American nove. list, Pearl Buck.
A Beathing attack on the Greek Government by the
of the Yugoslav Government's truction of the unity of the Nile views in the present crisis, de- | Valley”,
tu
Cortes in 1530 and now a Gov- erminent clinic for the blind. To-
meat.
ed here as an officia: «tatement | separatico-this means the des- British troops lodzy except those day they discovered the casket, but orderly. Last week La Vil- tion Liberty Party. hinted at the must organize her production an
on essentin: duty. Sicci heimeted covered with lead foil, in a lead pelice were guarding strategic encrusted wooden box and wrap-ernment points. Otherwise, life in the cityped in red cloth. Associated was proceeding normally, but Press. Cairo though calm was nervous,
There was much speculation about the identity of those who, according to the Premier, in last
clared: "The Greck Government Meanwhile reinforcements of and its foreign inspirers are police and Egyptian troops ecely responsible that the were called out today in Alexan- situation has today been dria after widespread distur brought about which forces bunces by students who at one Yugoslavia to consider such point threw stones at the police, the ecmplete Slogans against Sidky Pusha rupture of dipląmatic relations and Mr. Bevin were shouted in with Greece."--Reuter.
measures
university grounds.
Anglo-U.S. Plans
For
Germany
London, Nov. 25.
Plans for the £250,000,000 reorganisation of the British and American zones of Germany after their fusion, are understood to have been dis- cussed by the British Cabinet today..
Molotov To See Byrnes
Soviet's
night's Government communique, Secret
have been supplying the
with
money and AZZIA.
ricters
Agreement
London, Nov. 25. y
Mr. Ernest Graham Little, an Independent Member, naked the
H.K. Waaf's To Be Sent Away
(By Margaret Bradbury)
"I has been proved to the Government that certain political bodies had a hand in these demon- strations and supplied the demon- strators with money and fire- arms, the communique said.
The exter
extent of the rioting and Foreign Secretary in the House All W.A.A.F. personnel now in Hong Kong are to damage disclosed by the cam- of Commons today whether, to munique came as a surprise to remove widespread uncertainty many people, who owing to the regarding the terms ban on the publication
of the newa, had been unaware of what 1989 between the Third German of riot secret supplementary treaty of was happening.
Shepheard's Stoned Yesterday a mob stoned Cairo's famous Shepheard's Hotel, and
the
#
and American
He said the formation of farm-
fers' cooperatives in China, "would bring quick results towards the needed improvements."
Chinese cotton producers are at present unable to compete with
British Section of the Govern- Hospital. They werO challenged by a police constable who fired two shots.
The men drove off at a high speed-Reuter
Something Of A Crowd
Haifa, Nov. 26.
An illegal Jewish immigrant ship, reported to be carrying over 4,000 passengers, has been sighted on the horizon from Halfa.
Lochita.
It is believed to be named
The transhipment of the im- migrants to three "Empire" class vessels-which the mili- tary authorities are calling ed to take place at midday. "Operation London's expect-
Since dawn, the port of Haifä has been cccupied by British
be returned to England or reposted to Singa imported cotton because of the tops and placed under curfew. pore by the end of December according to latest instructions received here from the Air Ministry in London.
March Arrival
In March, 102 Wants arrived
in Hong Kong since then three,
There is no information yet over-valued Chinese dollar.
whether or not the Lochita has "Such over-valuation is favour-been boarded by the Royal Risle to China's imports but ruin- ous to her export trade."
Buck expects to return to China next March to resume part time association with the Nan- king University. -Associated Press.
Two-Way
opinion of W.A.A.F. person or four have received local re Trade A
Navy-Reuter.
ARMY OFFICER SHOT
Jerusalem, Nov. 26,
An official source said that a British Army officer was shot and seriously wounded last night while travelling friza jeep. from Sarafand to Haifa.
Automatic weapons fire. also directed against un truck in the same area casualties were reported ciated Press.
was
Army but no ABSO-
Empire and the USSR which. When the ship "Arundel Castle" scheduled to be said, contained proposals for a partition of Poland, he would arrive here on the 7th of next month-makes arrange for a full official trans-: its return trip to England there will be fifty lation to be supplied to
disappointed air force women on board. A The latest proposals being dis- Continental Hotel, and then public, which would have cussed by the British and Ameri-swept through the main shop-guarantee of authenticity.
For, although most of them are W.A.A.F. regulations allow for can negotiators at Washington, ping streets in the centre of the
due either for demobilisation or a period of two years' overeens Mr. Christopher Mayhew, the repatriation, the general feeling service with occasional prolonged are understood to be to the effect city and smashed windows of Under Secretary for Foreign is regret at having to leave the stays on application. that Britain and Americs should ench pay an additional £125,000,- hops and restaurants indis- Alfairs, replied: "Consultations Colony
Hong Kong is the most popular. criminately. 000 spread over three years.
are taking place between com nosting" spot in the Far East in I The plan will involve
British troops, were ordered petent British the Socialisation of the British clinck to their billets by loud authorities with regard to the nel who are billeted here. New York, Nov. 25.
Ruhr-the British zone is speaker vans, the city having publication of the protocol re I was told yesterday: "No res cupied It is understood that the more heavily, industrialised than been placed out of son has for the Air Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr. V. the American zone.
There have bean casauitles and other captured German Molotov, asked to see the The original American pre-anteng the police, the rioters documents. Pending the out-
in
the here are now trying to obtain Honey
Kong and it is gathered, were that j Secretary of State, Mr. James gals,
to go."uit
local release pending the new
DEMANDS Eyres, privately this after per cent and nice should Day 4 not yet known. ure is would be improper to atvers it majority, are very sorry
Hong Kong give offi
of them have spent war There
15 Birmingham, Nov, 25. noon before meeting of the the British
Attendants at the Paramonas cent for the rehabilitation of the Later in the day lorry-logds. cial publication to this document service in India and other parts Council of Fureign Ministers.
the East but they had never Kong.
officers and of steel helmeted police ou as the originals. are held joint exnerienced the same amount of
Britain, now, a debtor nation Majestle and China Ballrooms aged between 20 and 36. In unable to draw her food sup are among the Colony's latest If this fifty-fifty plan is agreed verged en a crowd, estimated to by by the British and American social life and safety which exists charro of W.A.A.F. bersonnel plies from overeeds as payment dissatisfied workers and have The Counci} Foreign it will involve Britain in a total be about a hundred, of the authorities."-Reuter... Ministers will continue discus annual expenditure of over £120,- rioters.
tho Colony is
24-intercat on who were carrying Bion of the Italian treaty, of '000,000 for three years as she is Egypt's green flag and shout-
Flight Officer Miss Mary who will return to England for which 36 points are still not already contributing £80,000,000 agreed although some of these annually
have been agreed verbally at]
* prévious sessions and only
two zones.
British
...ney
upkeep the
zone.
of the
annuai
It is thought that
new
for them here."!
The area was immediately STOP PRESS Yugoslavian
Blockade?
ing anti-Government slogandi
thrown into” confusion dwait formal approval Reuter, outlay of £80,000,000 may.show a pedestrians seeking shelter and await formal approval
elt was noted that Molotow becomes produerese as the Ruhr shop-keepers rolling down their
progressive
and is able to steel shutters. more coal. Under
the right to make their
move came at a time when th. Britain and Americs police rushed at the deffonstra
Big Four peace-making has
this Six gunshots rang out as the.
oters, and one policeman dropped
more or less bogged down in arrangements for, reorganisation to the kerb with a bullet wound details of the Trieste settle The Americans have been inform in his leg-Reuter, ment, when the great powers ed of the Labour Government's Fare split sharply ever the limité | proposal to nationalise
ink of the veto and when the tube' industries and
whold troop Inventory You
they
certain
now being discussed ON OTHER PAGES
talsed no plans
“zòng:
"! Could involve a split between
Russia and the western powers for an integrated
British Ameri
In the forenoon, Byrnes ratione enverge the joint ap Pune Two
supplies by Britain Lady Cripps Arrival.
Committecenter.
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Hong Kong's Underpaid.veni Poor Live ecoleman
Lewis Committed
eived the Australian Ambas and America to the International Roge righting in Haiphong ador, Mr. Makin, There is Food Council. These applications Heavy.
eculation that the Australian would be treated as one by the Page Four wanted to discuss the current Exporting atate of the vato fight. A
Australia is a leadingMANY vocate of restriéting, the; big halons voting power in the
Verk Counella-Akkocisted!
Britain's Pact with Paitugal “ Page Blac
New York, Nov, 20, Broadway's famous lights 3 WATH immed last night as fuel
caution, following i Pacific Coast Ship Tangla, ez
of 100 000 ft Page Eight
Nanking, Nov: 26. According to reliable in- formation the Communist Party has decided to convene their own National 'Assombly, Iri Yenan on Dec. 12 and to formally set up
“Democra United Gove
the present
Under
Was added, the Communiste will amalgamate the Eighth Route
Army and the North- east Democratic United Army
the
Into
United
Trieste, Nov, 25.
others
married and were discharged. I lease and a number of understand that several Wasts
in
are now nine and 41 ranks
Hong
Necessity
Investments,
CABARET WORKERS'
must realise that reciprocity. In sent in a demand to their em demobilisation on the Arundel the matter of trade and purchas- pluyera for higher pay und Strange arrived power will be essential to better treatment.
at the her commerce and employment They complain that fellow in towns, the General Secretary receiving batter pay, in workera at other ballrooms
Calicom
here
end of
Miss
ice in
// tn of the National Farmers' Union, addition to free, food.
„Áíř live." In" Bt. Paula' | Mr. J. K. Knowles said today, School building which was re- when referring to the recent quisitioned for them as a hostel, Anglo-Danish hgreement for the can be sala. of butter and bacon to
The Yugoalay Military Occu- and the lying Britain,
daythey are
on M
pation authorities have ordered
t-Anglo-American occupied termed extremely Lown and naval base at the tip normal eight and a half hour of the Istrian Peningule-to be shifts their jobs Tanga
from
THE WEATHER
The anti-cyclóna Cover N. China and Mopholla interalied and extended SM Pressure, is Mr. Knowles, who was ad- ning high over N. Japan, A
Government night did in England during war.
cut off from all supplies of ment, clerical and signals work to medi- dressing the Birmingham treagh of low pressure extends dental nursing and Chamber of Commerce sald the from N China to a small de butter, milk and vegetables equipment work
cal and
net result of the "Anglo-Danish | pression - which is moving E. from the surrounding Yugoslav Basler Conditions-
agreement was that the Danish across the Eastern Sen. Pres occupied countryside, Major-1
According to Willy, ro- tax payer hail to subsidise the sure remains low 8 of 15 de General Kenneth Cooper, of the presentative yesterday they do price paid by Britain to the grees N Allled Military Government Economic Division, stated to the work in Hour Long that they sending to Britain, variable winds, partly cloudy only about a quarter or tenth of Danish farmer for food he is Today's forecasts Light "If the towns and cities of with coastal fog Winds pro this country thought they had bably freshening later from N. Lime W.AAFDCTRON
struck a good bargain: let them to N, with drizzle, cocler, with the Yugoslav authorities, nel were employed a night tele refer to the recent decision Yesterday's weather who fald they had stopped up phonist duty, but this has now of the Danish Government to Maximum 78.4 degs, fah plits because they wanted teen lopped and after, working reduce import licences for Bri- Minimum 69,6 dege faha
hopra heir time the evening In check Ullegal trufe of UNERA all thelf to do with a fish rayon fabrick on the Max Rel. Humidity --- 97 goods from Yugoslande Into the en
can tank do not round that, the prices are too Sunshine; -- Okapur
Contacted by
tonight, a qualified" military observer," stated that should.
the Communists Talcant thie course, the National Govern ment would be compelled to launch an attack against the Communlat
The Allled Military Govern years ment had raised the matter At one 1
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