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INDEX

U.S. Stand On Burma

Washington, Dec. 31.

OF WHOLESALE PRICES IN H.K. Indian

The following index of wholesale prices has been

A statement issued by the State Department today says | that the United States welcomes...

constructed on the basis of declared quantities Community

and cit values of commodities imported into

Maharajah

the Colony: the index numbers are not Entertains "weighted": the year 1938 has been selected as the base period as representing a normal year. 1st year

Sid Cer. Get. Nov. 1938 1941 1946 .1946 1046 -1946-

100 155.4.

768,0 894,1 630.3 627.7 610.1 *046.8. 622.8 $170.0 325.9 497.8 478.0

Prime Minister Attlee's invita-Foodstuffs tion to the Burmese to deb- Textiles tiate on the question of Bur-Metals & Minerals... mese independence.

The statement says that it hopes that the talles "will re- sult in further progress to wards agreement on the goal of full self-government"

The statement adds: "The United States has many good friends in Burma, including those who gave valuable assist- aace to our troops in the Burma campaign against the Japan

ese-

The State Department wel- comes Mr. Attlee's invitation to Burmese political leaders to go to London to discuss Burma's political future," a State De- partment spokesman declared during a press conference.

Recalling that the British gave to the Burmese leaders "Important and responsible posts" in the Burma Govern ment last October, the spokes. man added: "It is our confident hope that the London talks will result in further progress to- wards the agreed goal of fall self-government for that portant Asiatic country."--Reu-

ter.

Restaurants Dispute

Miscellaneous

100110.0

100 100.5 100 1400 140.0 100 192.6 100. 162.7 100 165.9 100 120,3

169 7

Nov.

(By Margaret Bradbury)

More than 400 civilian and Military guests met in the Glou cester Hotel yesterday evening at

cocktail party given by the In. dian community in honour of His Highness the Maharajah of Jodh pur..who arrived here on Tues. duy

The Maharajah, who is paying

100 188.3. 8188 100 180.2

308.2

208.1

100 108.9 718.9

480.1

Foodstuffs

lat year 3rd Qtr.

Óet.

1938,1941 1940

1946

1046

.1946

100 168.8

1,056.9

925.3

G26.6

616,0

100. 128.1

*562.5 *5625

15.5

618.6

865,2

914.0

828.4

41.20

384.1

Nil

NI

340,7 903,9

373.9

302.0

554.2 593.7

414.5

310.5

802.7

$64.5

592,5

609.8

2013

184.9 204.1

211

*268.9

168.3 *243.0 *2.48.0

100 132.8

€69.7

078.6 758.4

100 145.2 100 150.0

1,043.6

929:0

705:5 855.9

600.0

*500,0 *600.0 *500,0

192,9 GA9.0 694.8

100 208.3

751,2

737.7

491.0 486.9

100 197.0

NII

541.3

682.0

100 173.4

882.5 1,094:4

881.3

863.9

100 128.3 1.582.6 1,3649

1,362.9 1.320.1

614.1 717A

by

908.8 $25.8 $39.3

effort

627.7 year," 3rd

878,6

Beans Beef Flour (wheat) Exxз Saltash Fruits (fresh) Lord Milk (conden Mution Onions Peanut Oil Potatoos Pork Poultry Rice (broken} Rice (white) Sugar (raw) Vegetables (dried, etc.) 100 1485 621.6 752.5 Vermicelli

700 150.0 1,780.0 1,285,5 Average... 100 156.4 768.6 694.1 *Index number for Australian meat only (1st Quarter, October and November, 1946).

Cotton Yarn

100 150.0 100 163.7

042,2

Textiles

1st year 3rd Qtr. Oct. Nov, 1938 1941 1346 1946 1946 1946 Cotton (dyed, plain).. 100 131.8

100 119.8 1,524.6 1,203.1 1,204.6 1,227.7 Italians (dyed, fig., pl.) 100 119.4

1,500.0 1,686.4 1,022.7 1,000.0 688.9 1,275,0 472.2 Ni im-Shirtings White

2,307.1 381.3

163.2* Nil Nit 489.3 451.2 433.6 446.72,400.0 406.7 593.6 806.4

The owners of cafes and es iablishments serving European style meals and light refresh- ment will bring their dispute: with their employees before the Labour Officer today, according to a decision reached by the owners on Saturday.

(40/43 yds.) Hemp (Manila).. Gurury Bags

Avera

Brass Sheets"

397.4 252.0

Hessian Cloth

100 104.6 100 127.8 100 214.3 100--180:0

487.1

Nil

Nil 039.3

Nil

Silk Ficce Gooty

100 115.6

498.9

566.8

Silk Yara (artificial) 100.

172.4

222,5 410.2

Nil

Ni

Blankets (wool& union) 100 Flannels

167.8

323.0

100.6 109.9

345.G

100 93.5

186.G 917.3 367.3

326.0

Sultings & Tweeds

100 128.5 473.1 485.9 390.2 100 138.3 818.8. Metals And Minerals

390.2

813.1 546.9

622.8

1st 1938 1941 100 187.0

year 1946

3rd Qtr.

Oct.

Nov.

1946

1946

1944

Ni

206.3

254.1 NII

-609-7

225.9

100 138.4

302: 21

327.0 372.6

243.8 238.5 241.5 491.5 428.4 784.1 197.4. 212.9 183.6

190.4

405.8

100

146.0

459.3

300.5

Nil

100 185.7

394.3

173.3

191.4

100

140.5 100 145.7

Nil

148.6

100 98,7

100 168.1

100 160.2 308.2

270.6

325,0

Miscellaneous

1st 14 year 3rd Qtr. 1958, 1941 1940 - 1946. 1940

Oct.

Nov.

1946

100 234.5 420.6

378.6 454.5

100

737.9 127.7 2,453.8 100 95.1 303.1 100 139.7 100 106,5 100 118.0 -100 128.2

100 256.4 638.2 100 120.0 336.9 100 223.2

787.1

724.9

893.0 263.6 443.4 388.4

502.5 477.5

1,086.8

620.9

730.8 567.0

100, 201,4

915.0

715.1

100 188.7

400.3

333.0

329.7 167.8 259.8 368.0

338.5

€42.4

295.4 1,938.2

Ni 428.4 NI 203.8 268.7 258.Q 240.7 206,6 167.5 176.3 296.8 245.7 202.7 100.2 256.7

268.1

Yellow Metal Sheathing 100 174.8 Coal

100 250.4 Iron & Steel Barr

100 135.1 231.2 The dispute arose from the

Iron & Steel Nails

100 .144.9 men's recent demand for the

Iron & Stee! Plates payment of five percent of the Kerosene

•Lead (pig) jan daily takings to them to supple- Oil, Fuel ment their pay. This practice Lubricating Oil already exists with the Chinese Petrol restaurants and tea-houses. The Tin cafe

owners, however, insist that they could not afford to do Likewise as their business had dropped 60 percent in recent months. They offered the mon instead a wage increase of 10 percent but this was flatly re- jected.

K

Average

Cement Feather (ducks) Charcoal Firewood Hardwoods Hides (cow). Hides (buffalo)

LINER HELD UP. (c)

(Chinese)

Southampton, Dec. 21. The French Liner Ile de Softwoods

Saltpetre France, which

reached Sputh Soda Ash ampton from New

100 230,4 York this

Sulphuric Aeld. morning was unable to leave for Sulphate of Ammonia 100 213.0 100 142.5 Cherbourg tonight because of fog

Beuter.

Average

100 108.9

Atomic Control Plan Running Into Snags

Lake Success, Dec. 21. Members of the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission today appeared to be nearing a new dispute over the principles underlying the United States plan for atomic control. The argument-based on Canada maintains that the differences between the United principles upon which the Unit States and Canada is expected ed States plan was based do to break out when the 12-nation not mean the same things Atomic Energy Commission the principles of the United, meets on Dec. 27 as a commit- States plan... tee of, the whole.

365.9

643.1. 267.0 303.7 279.4 853.7 802.5

$44.2. 707.2 1,553.1 780.3 277.0 279.0321.3 336.0 477.8 474.8 269.6 208.1 385.

2005 323,9

295.9

252.6 1,720.4 250.0 237.0

400.8 718.9 486.1 497.3 478,0

-B.O.A.C.-PLANE

DELAYED

London, Dec. 22. The Hongkong-bound BOAC aireraft, was among those held up until tomorrow at Poole, Dorset, today. Other services affected

were the London to Calcutta, Gaito and New York-Reuter,

first visit to Hong Kong at the invitation of the Indian Govern ment, will, lunch today ch board the aircraft carrier "Glory". His programme over Cure dance at private supper nt the Peninsula Hotel where he is, staying

The Maharajah's Personal As sistant told me last night:

"His Highness thinks Hong Kong

is one of the loveliest places. ho

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$2.80. per lb.

2.30 per lbs

2.25 per lb.

1.18 per lb.

$1.80 per 1-lb. tin

.50 per pkt. 360 per 1-lb. tin

50

*1

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Tel. No. 57925

las visited and is most impressed THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE

Colony's rehabilitation

Since he arrived here, the Ma- harajah stayed for three nights.

Government House and on

in'

Honight he stayed at

Ai:

as guest of the A.0.C. Amongst those present at the cocktail party last night were members of the Legislative Coun- cil, Mr. and Mrs. Ruttonico, Mr. and: Miss Gillespie and represen tatives of Indian military contin- gents in the Colony..

CHINESE HOLIDAY

prewar

year, in

An atmosphere of gaiety and lavishness returned to the Colony yesterday as the Chinese populace celebrated the. Winter Solstice, one of the four big festivals of the traditional style.

Every household was a bustle of activity a3 housewives in pursuance of age old custom made traditional offerings of food, wine and fresh fruits to. the gods and to the family an- cestors. Prices of meat, poultry and fruit in consequence shot. up overnight. In the evening every household, held its reunion dinner, where the offerings to the gods and ancestors heartily devsured.

were

For business.houses and shops the day was not all galety be cause it was debt settlement day; and more than one taipan or shopkeeper must have scratched his head in anxiety to find means of tiding over the settlement.

Superstition has it that the day must be bitterly cold if the ensuing twelve months are to be months of plenty and pros perity. The alp in the air yes- terday was therefore a good emen, and it undoubtedly add- ed zest to the celebration.

PRESS TO BE INVESTIGATED

cover what the Government or The committee hoped to dis-

Congress would do to keep the small independently owned news- paper alive and independent, he said-Renter,

Washington, Dec. 21. Senator Jaines Murray, 50- nounced today that the Senate's Small Business Committee, of which he is the chairman, will be gin investigation on Jan. 7. of Athe

growth and concen- tration of newspaper ownership ward will address the Rotary

The Right Rev. N. V. Hal-by chains and individuals." Club of Hong Kong on "Christ mas Cheer" at tomorrow's meet. Another stumbling block ing at the Gloucester Hotel at At that time the Commission the path of the United States

12.30 p.m. on orders it wrote for itself] plan is the insistence that veto --will: 1. consider how to write power in the Security Council into the forthcoming repirt be eliminated when the Council principles on which the United takes up cases involving pus- States plan. was based; 2. tälishing a nation guilty of viola- the United Nations Security ting the atomic treatý. Council that Its forthcoming Rusia has given no sign that negotiations on atomic control it will modify its unqualified machinery must be ruled by opposition to lessening the veto those principles.

power-United Press

United States-spokeninen, re- portedly supported by the majority of the 12 delegates, made clear that they interpret this to mean the Commission has accepted the United States plan.

entire

Canada has served notice that it will fight the United States interpretation of the "Commission's decision.

Feto Snag

It may be recalled that the Canadian compromise resola tion was adopted 10-0-with Russia refasing to vote and Poland staining.

NAZI OFFICIALS TO DIE

Frankfurt, Dec. 21. Two former cucials af Dres-. den Prison, Neinhardt Schaefer and Will Roch, have been sen- tenced to death by a Dresden court for ill treating and tor- turing inmates, causing the death of several

d

The former prison director, Edward Reinicke, the prison doctor and a warder were sen terced to hard labour for life.

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