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Riots A Serious Warning

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Shanghai, Dec. 1.. Yesterday's sudden. widespread rioting is a serious warning of the steadily deteriorating economic conditions in China.

The outbreak, which the a thorities say resembled organ- |

ised moh violence,

did indeed

-show-signs-of-having been sti

remains that in recent mantha unrest and discontent have been growing, especially among the poorer classes, owing to the dieult living conditions which must provide a fertile fickt for such agitation.

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INJURED DURING Quai D'Orsay Sees Ruthless

SHANGHAI RIOTS

Sequel To Mass Arrests Of Unlicenced

Hawkers: Shops Looted, Cars Wrecked

May

Martial Law

Be Enforced

Shanghai, Dec. 1.

red up by agitators but the fact Shanghai's teeming hawkers rioted at will yester- day in protest against police efforts to curb their business. The toll was at least 100 injur- ed, 100 automobiles wrecked and numerous shops looted or damaged. Mayor K. C. Wu. denied reports that seven were killed. The police tried vainly to end the disturbances with teargas, fire hoses and shots, and Mayor Wu, failing in attempts to bargain with the -rioters, threatened to invoke stiff enforcement of martial law which has been in effect techni- cally since the Japanese surrender.

It is an ominous sign that the ordinary people with whom I spoke were all inclined to syn- pathise with the rioters, saying "How can those pe ple live?" and "The Government is na good!"

**Furthermore, from the re- ports of people returning from the interior of China. if can ditions are bad in Shanghal they are still worse in other towns and even the agricultural

areas.

He blamed the Communists | At nightfall they began to

storm the axion. for fomenting the trouble,

The police replied with fire- The ricters, who confiscated a

and shots which tlie theatre for their "field head- hoses quarters," threatened in turn to Mayer said were blanks."

ther With clubs swinging wreek any store which opened.

The first rumblings began on then charged the crowd!

Two Chinese reporters were Friday during the day when

and other Police arrested' scores. of haw-injured seriously

Many responsible Chinerekers whose unlicensed opera Chinese reporters said they aw criticising the Government, says have become generally ad- police bent several rioters and

it has paid too much attentionmitted public nuisances.

to political questions to the neglect of an economic situation

Station Attacked

which, unless it is promptly and Others gathered around the honestly tackled, must lead to Whangpoo police station in the and further

Concession serious disturbances old French everywhere From Our Cordemanded the release of the respondient.

prischers

Drugs Resolution Adopted At U.N.O.

Lake Success, Nov. 30. The unanimous adoption today by the United Nations Commission on narcotic drugs of a United States resolution recommending im- mediate curb on the manufacture, internal traffic and use of opium for smoking in coun- tries which have not legally banned it hither- to has intensified the U.S. Government's deter- mination to stamp out the illicit traffic at its last two major sources.

Greece Complains To UNO

drag them into the station.

4 policeman with a bayonet! prevented an Associated Press Photographer from taking a picture of two men, who lay apparently dead in the street.

The crowd upset, a polce van, freed its prisoners and spend

through the central district,

smashing windows and looting a dozen stores.

department stores on

Road.

United States Army and Navy

SACSEA DEFUNCT

'Shinapore, Nov 30.

From midnight tonight, "hevaquarters of the Supreme Allied Command, Southeast Axio, crasca to czist, a small headquarters office staff in expected to be re-formed into winter-Services secretariat for the Commander-in-Chief's Committer

which To co- ordinate British forees in the Far East.

Sir Edward Gent, Aeling Governor-General of the Malayan Union and Sinen- pure, Indo

sent messuge

to Admiral Viscount Mount- hatten, on the winding un of his command, suuing "Under your lenderskin, the forces of The Allied Nationa

gained most notable victories in this theatre.”Renter,

Catcalls, Delegate Threatened

Nanking, Nov. 30 Catcalls, scuffling and

Nanking And Cession Of Hong Kong

Cause For Alarm

Paris, Nov. 30.

Criticism

The official reception in London of the German Of Salazar

Social-Democrat leader, Dr. Kurt Schumacher, has alarmed French public opinion as much as any other development of British and Ameri- can polley towards Germany since the war ended.

In official circles, fears are openly expressed that the visit will widen the gulf caused by differ- ences of opinion about how Germany should be treated between France on one hand and Britain and the United States on the other. The French Government was nct advised of the British in-. tention to allow Dr. Schumacher to go to London for talks with members of the British Gov- ement.

"Dr. Schumacher in London pleads for Germán heavy Indus try," #

Communist evening paper exclaimed in big head- lines tonight: But it is not only the Communist Party and Com- munist press who are appre- hensive about the significance Dr. Schumacher's London visit.

Considered opinion in the

French Foreign Office towards the vielt expressed it as "an alarming symptom."

:

Most Painful.

that

ご

OUT-WINSTONNING WINSTON

Montréal, Dec.---1----- Mr. Winston Churchill's son Randolph, told an audi- i ence here that the only hope i of world peace was as anti- Russian blos composed of the United Staice, Britain and the United States of Western Europe.

denounced Communista outside Rutaria as "elimu, rep- tilian creatures" declared the New York United Nations

a "farce"

and lashed out at Henry

Wallace (former U.S. Secretary of Commerce) as a

"silly booby

miserling

who wants us to understand the Russians."United Prass.

Lisbon, Dec. 1. Free elections in Portugal were demandet at a meeting last night organised by the movement for Democratic unity-the illegal opposition organisation-when an audien- co estimated at nearly 3,000. people heard the most ruthless and Gutspoken condemnaticn..or Salazar'a regime made in public since the Portuguese elections laet year when the ban on po- litical meetings was temporarily lifted.

This is the first public, op- position meeting of this natura cfficially authorised this year, General Norten de Matos, War Minister during the first Worki War and former Ambassador to London, presided. The crowd frequently interrupted speakers with shouts of "Long Live Liberty, Long Live the Re- public" and chanted, "We want free clecticns as they listened to atlucks on the conduct of the regime during the 20 years.

Ramos da Costa, the Portu- guèse economist; claimed the country's internal economy was chaotic and, declared. "The cost of living has scared, and expon®. diture on the maintenance of

(By "Paul Pry") Sources close to Chin- ese Government circles informed me last night demonstrations, that protests and resolutions by public bodies and as- A Foreign Office spokesman sociations both in Hong declared tonight: "Dr. Schu- Kong and Canton over macher's visit to London has caused a chill over French pub- either the Yaumati haw-lic opinion. We realise ker incident or the ques- French and British views about aver unsuspecting Anglo-Saxon economic controls under the tion of the retrocession future German danger are not eyes-Reuter.

identical but public opinion of this Colony are being simply cannot comprehend that or less officially before the Allies and victors

London, Dec. 1.

Other aponkers... eritcized Dr. Kurt Schumacher, ignored in Nanking and, have, even started discussing D

chair unofficially, frowned on.

Germany's future status, the man of the German Social De Various aspects of the regime's leading German spokesman is mocrat Party Executive, and the Boller including censorship Word to this effect has been allowed to go to London and Party delegates visiting Britain which and stifled true expres. sent by Mr. T. V. Soong to Mr. plead the cause of German in on the invitation of the Labour sic of thought and culture and TI Kwok, the Chinese Govdustrialism. The

visit has Party left the capital yesterday to only permitted newspapers to ernment's Special Commissioner caused the most painful impres visit prisoner of war camps publish what the regime, wished for Foreign Affairs in Kwang sicu here."

Associated Press. · tung and Kwangsi, and I un derstand that he has been in Patructed not only to advise the more hot-headed elements to

more

ment is remanded here as with The British Labour Govern

ing to play the Social Democrat

card in Germany, represented by Dr. Schumacher, . against Russian efforts to play the unified: Socialist Communist

Party card.

a threat to "beat up" that if any such question should "lay of" but also to point out delegate, marked today's crop up, it will be handled at Store Windows Smashed fifth plenary session of a high diplomatic level-Le. be

Windows were broken in the the Chinese National As- In connection with the boy responsible quarters in Paris

tween Nanking and London.

This policy is considered by famous Sincere and Wing On sembly debating China's cott of this Colony by Canton, being mistaken for two rea-

Nanking draft constitution.

as proposed by a number of as-sons: 1 Because it can result sociations and public bodiea Archbishop Paul Yu Pin, the there as a protest over the death only in pressing the cause of trucks, corralled all American Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicar of a peanut vendor in Yaumati German nationalism, 2. Because servicemen and their dependents of Nasking, who presided over sume weeks back, I am inform-it-is regarded here as being who were restricted to quarters the 1,180 delegates, had to usred that the Governor of Kwang based on a false premise of i

"Russlân danger.” indefinitely to keep them out of considerable tact to restore or tung has been endeavouring to harm's way.

der.

get the whole thing called off, Victims Of Propaganda? though no far he has not threatened to take any drastic

The moderate evening paper action to enforce his views in "Le. Monde." which usually, re- the matter.

flects official French Foreign Office views, underlines what it considers the dangers of furt- ing with Dr. Schumacher,

The rioters burst into Q

theatre overlooking the Race The threat to "beat up" a Course in the heart of the city delete was made after he had and established a command pest repeatedly heckled and inter- there.

rupted a Mongolian representa- The general impression in tive who was demanding that loent Chinese circles is that the

cial

minorities questions excitable people of Canton may should be referred to the com- find any auch boycott proving hittee-Reuter.

anost unfortunate boomerang.

Police reserves with machine- guns threw a ring around the endangered police station,

In the opinion of the American delegation the last two "dark

They said the riuters were spots" in the world aplam picture ere Iran and India. Both the U.S. firing on them from nearby buildings. Dozens of trams and British Governments, have sent numerous notes urging the were attacked near the station, Iranian Government to curb the their occupants fleeing amid growing, sale and

of shattered glass.

the

export

but

Throughout the night and opian, but no concrete action has been reported.

early morning tension was in. Hitherto, the British Govern-creased by random shots and the ment always has refused to ban crash of broken windows.

open apothecary sale of opium The Mayor said he rcdered] in India and Burma on. the Kround that it is "self-medication the police to remain cand Athens, Dec. 1.

people who

who know how to act only in self defence

he would enforce martial Greece officially gave use it judiciously.

disturbances con-1 notice she would take to for opium that gets into the illicit tinued.

India remains the major source last if the the United Nations traffle, and it is anticipated the security council her United States will put pressure complaint against for

eign interference in her civil strife.

Premier Tsaldaris' formally

to those

on the Indian interim government'

sign to

source.

Portuguese

Out Of Hand

Fingers Crossed On India Talk

London, Dec. 1. British officials, after another day of off-again-on- again decisions by Indian Party leaders, cross- ed their fingers last night and hoped that all would arrive for a conference here next week aimed at averting civil war in India and re- solving the deadlock over the Constituent Assembly.

almilar disturbances.

to visit London if there were, to

Criticism of the British Labour Government in allowing Dr. Schumacher to go to Len- don and advocate the cause of Germany comes from practical- ly all parties in France except the Socialist Parts, which Auctezsive elections indicate as baing a declining force in French politics.

The British are regarded in France as, becoming the victing of an immense German prepa- ganda campaign of wilch it -IN feared here that France will be the first victim again,

It is important in this con rection to recall that Frencti policy towards Germany is based on two assumptions:

Visit To Camps

· France Refuses Përmission

corporative system is affecting prices and hindering, normal trade."...

and consequently at times de- berately misinformed the publiekedjenerated prim

The meeting carried a motion Paris, Det i.to be fianded, to the President A Foreign Office spokesman of the Republie asking for confirmed that France had refus free elections, the restitution ed permission for a delegation of of liberties and the rights of the German Socialist Democratic individuals and amnesty for vitation of the British Labouring of Farrafal, ccacentration Party to go to London at the in political prisoners and the clos- Parly.

dump in Cape Verde Islanda

Dr. Kurt Schumacher, chairman Reuter.. of the Party, declared in London that the Party' delegate from the French zone had been denied approval to leave Germany. proper at this time for Germans A-Qual d'Orsay, "`s fokesman. to be allowed to go abroad to aaid that this was true, because | sigue Germany's case when the France considers the Party "the "victoriops Allies have not yet. most nationalistic of all the Ger- niade any declaton on Germany's man parties" and doesn't think it'fytare-Associated Press.

Another Jerusalem

Outrage

Jerusalem, Dec. L

A second attack was made last night on a police station in the Mahaneh Yehudah quarter in one of the most intense outbursts of violence in the Holy Land in recent weeks, The second an earlier one had been repulsed-

occurred when machinegun fire was directed at the station from several nearby housetops and police fired back.

First

Jap

"A new series of explosions Troops and Bren gun carriers. shortly afterward possibly was moved through streets cleared of caused

by the detonation of raad- to subscribe to the world cam A spokesman of the Municipal

1. That a restored, unified mines definitely stamp out Government said that matters

Prime Minister Clement Attlee, doned and that the conferees

and uncontrolled Gormany will

to Police appeared.

be pursuing sident of Jerusalem the shooting opium smoking by destroying the were still out of hand, because in an exchange of correspondence could return to India by Dec. 9 evitably again become a the attackers toward the rocky seemed the most intense in years.

had the full made public, persuaded Pandit when the Constituent Assembly menace to the peace of the ravines North and West of Jeru

The fareup came a day after fon stressed the rioting new The US.

resolution stressed

anlem where red and white tracer the deportation to Cyprus of 4,000 notified the Soviet charge that, the British as well as the backing of the Communist un-Nehru, leader of the interim gave convenes.

world. derground. d'affaires that Grecce intended Governments have adopted

French, Dutch- and

Mohammed All Jinnah, Moslem ernment, to change his mind and

2: That the assumption of a bullets could be seen in the dark- unauthorized Jewish immigrants All shops and restaurants from leave for London by assuring him leader, was reported to have in Russian danger against which

and while Field Marshal Viscount ness reports

the troops Berrard, L Montgomery silll was said the troops to lodge a complaint with the policy of completo prohibition of the Bund into the distant for that Britain's plan for Indian In-formed Viceroy Lord Wavel in Germany must be built up into had been fired on in the western believed to

to be in Palestine security council charging "for- eign sources" "with" inspiring Plum smoking in all the terrimer French Concession were dependence would not be aban-New Delhi that he would refuse a barrier is at least exagger" part of Jerusalem where several Jewish underground, organiza

tories under their control in the closed and shuttered. Bus and

ated,

roadmines were found,, * bhi tong have claimed, responsibility and directing disorders and Far East, but inasmuch as India, street car traffic was largely

be no broad basis for talks with

Unconfirmed reports said a few for previous fatens of violence. violence in Northern Greece. DOW has an interim self-govern dislocated.

the British Cabinet and if they Alliance With Russia British policemanero-Associated Press Taaldaris stressed that Greece ment the British contend their Police wearing bullet-proof been instructed to fire on Any per- would be restricted to the British

The confidence that working

wounded. fa cager, to maintain friendly pledge does not apply to India. vests search suspicious looking on lending or participating in Cabinet Ministers' plan for India's relations with Russia for the Tab first attack on the polios, THE WEATHER is relations with all powers and in }; Th

The Portuguese agreement is

persons for armanda

Independence. Later in Karachi, maintenance of peaceful reln-station, in which only smalletiza

Anticyclones are centred over lodging the complaint the hoped expected to dry as the lucrative

Associated Press photographer The local Kuomintang head his spokesman said that he wouldtions in the world can be estab-and grenades were used, was re-

lished is felt in France to a latively brief,

NW China and to the Brof no power would regard her sis source of the Portuguese Don Carlos Dacosta Roque made quarters have appointed a special come in metion other than as protection colonial and of Macao off Hong pictures for 20 hours frem committes to investigate the in-

much greater extent than in

gular, low pressure Kong United Press.

Question-Mark

mang thai, Yangtse of her internal and interna

precarious positions-once-draw cident pla

Mr. Atiles will lead the British Britain or the United States. Honhl security and above all th

New York, Dec. 1. ing automatie weapon fire from The Garrison

Valley and extends Headquarters" preserve peace". In the Bald

Former New York City police a policeman before being arrest statement today disclosed that a conferees at the five-day meet This opinion is by no means

overManchuria Another. Lewis

under the assurances made tonist Party or Taldaris talked with the who has been alling since his ring to the Mayor are by the violent minted at Nehru remained the big pre-con-Marcet: Lachin, told the Assem Full List of Local Price Controle. tion trem Indo-Chins to be-

When the Communist Deputy, Paceboo

trough runs in AD ENE direc American, French and British turn last June from Japan, where Roque said that the police that bad elements" had engineerference question mark

| youd the Rrokyus; Pressure re- Ambassadors Friday. So far he sunervised reorganization of fired into a crowd at 10 a.m. ed the uprising among the haw-

alliance with Russia was the not seen the Yugoslave poee, is critically ill in the today and he saw one bay and kers who could not entirely be The London press, however, bly two days ago that France's Page three

Chinese Being Trained For mains, low over the equatorial was, optimistic.

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| regions sirds, and there was from an inflammatory condition two men hittades blamed for the disturbances, "There should be real hope that keystone of the French foreign Brith Army,

Today's Forecasti... Light or stion such a meeting of the liver-Associated Press,

"They all looked dead," but Central News.

the London talks will break the policy and insisted on solving Page four Associated Press

no deaths have been reported Hangchow Clash

present deadlock," said the "Star" the German problem in terms British Brains Pep Up 1848 moderate Ewindefreshening |and - backing later.. Fair, as Investigation of her northern borders to as officially-Associated Press, betan Shanghel, Dec. 1- "Some way must be found to re of French security, he was not Home

first,, but becoming cloudy. Serious clashes between police move Moslem fears of Hindu do- merely voicing, the official Page fine aldaria. – bafora ence in Greek guerilla activi-

morni by ties

Hangchow, famous scente spot the ideal of a united India undoubtedly reflecting the Fags ir ork, tonight aw M. Taaldaris streased

Soviet Union Greece was seeking a settlement As a result of yesterday's rols 1 miles west of Shanghai, In Whitehall, officials have devole of the majority of the JB. Priestley's Call.

Garrison Headquarters this mon- caused seven-hour delay in scribed, the situation in which the French people who regard Dr. Page seven ang Ires. He explained of the differences with her in sternly wayned inst the local all trade yesterday holding up Moslems 7 have refused to take Schumacher's visit to London Government To Impose Tines that Greece was, apps neighbour by peaceful means, police and garrison forces have many weekend tourists part in the Constituent Assembly as the beginning of a new Ger- Oo Strikers.

202 | Spushine:) 3 hour the Becurit Council for according to the United Nations

Ser & Detalls of the tiets were not as Lantamount to elvil war. ---A-- man nationalist propaganda Rage eight ENSUR

1sociated Press, lon on both sides Charter Reuter,

campaign, intended to pull wool Home & Local Sport News, etc. Rainal: NIE (Continued at foot of vest Col) revealed. United Press.

"Commissioner.

Valentine, down, arrest-statement ing. What the British had to offer confined to the Frenck Commu- ON OTHER PAGES ends cross

Athens, Nov. 30. certain alleged foreign interfer Rioters Will Be Shot, and military in downtown imination, while preserving intact opinion of his party but war Another East-West Split.

Shanghai, Dec, 1

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Cooler temperatures,

Yesterday's weathers

Maximum 75.8 deg Fah Minimum:: 651- der), Fabf. Max Hel Handfille 83 per

scent