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CHINESE DOLLAR SLUMP

Shanghai, Feb. 5. Chinese currency, weakening steadily over the past few weeks, sag- ged to a new record low value today, with one .dollar United States fetching

as

much as 9,200 Chinese dollars.

rose

. Prices in most cases Correspondingly and possessors

of United States currency en-

joyed practically no advantage

from the slump.

It takes about half an hour to count the equivalent of $100 US. which makes the work of shroffs onerous:

Despite

particularly

Ban many

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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 6, 1947.

THE JERUSALEM EXODUS Arctic

Weather

Sudden 'Notice To Quit' Order In Security Zone Returns

Evacuees Flown Out To Cairo

Jerusalem, Feb. 5.

Mayor. Israel Tokah yesterday appealed to the British Government "in the name of truth.and justice to save its good name and traditions” by reopening the frontiers to Palestine. Speaking at a meeting of the Municipal Council, Mr. Rokah said: "Oppression will not save the country from the grave position it has reached.

Only by justice, reopening of the frontiers and abrogation of the 'Black Paper' will it be pos- sible to return the country to life and pro- gress.

official 521 against the practice,

The Chief Justice, Sir Wil-night transferring furniture front firms quote prices in United Hjem Fitzgerald, has rejected a

houses in affected areas to tem- in stores and States currency. Prices have tition to the Supreme Court porary marters

basements elsewhere in the appreciated steadily, even in

for leave to appeal against re-

enpital. terms of greenlucks and thejection of the request for average "key money now for postponement of the hanging

second rate three-roomed of Dov Gruner, apartment in Shanghai today Meanwhile, the sun shone on evncuees at Sarfond and Hailu

#

iR around $2,000US.— A3ru ciated Press,

SAI ON DISASTER

1T WAS DISCLOSED YES- *TERDAY

COMMANDER

BY

JOLLY, THE HARBOUR MAS TER, THAT FOLLOWING THE

DESPATCH OF THE REPORT BY

MASTER OF THE

THE "SAI ON" AS WELL AS HIS

OWN RECOMMENDATIONS, TO GOVERNMENT, IT WAS DECID- ED THAT AN INQUIRY INTO THE DISASTER WILL BE HELD SHORTLY..

PROLIFIC PAPPA ́·

Copenhagen, Feb. 4.

A 17-year-old German boy left Denmark for Germany yesterday an board a refugee ship. He left behind in the refugee camp 43 hebies of whom he became the father during his stay there

His fellow refugeta nick- toth edi Mim "Father Fier. mania"—United Press.

Prewar Tickets Still Good

Return passage tickets În. Tel-Aviv the British troops evicted 250 ocenpants from five issued by the P. & O. buildings near Citrus House. British Army Headquarters. By company before the war dusk, the area was surrounded by building sandbagged

Hanoi Hostages

Set Free

Price: 20 Cents.

We Buy and Sell

TYPEWRITERS.

CALCULATING MACHINES aish Anything and Everything for OFFICE MACHINES

Excellent Service.

Hongkong Typewriter Exchange

9, D'Aguilar St.

Tel. 21433

BLIZZARD HITS

MIDLANDS

London, Feb. 4.

Four railway workers collapsed near Manchester today from the severe cold and one of them was reported seriously, Ill.

At Whitby, Yorkshire, a young, real estate agent

· from London and his wife were feared lost in a snowstorm in which they disappeared late yesterday. Snowdrifts 15 to 20 feet deep

Lost CNAC

Plane Located

London, Feb. 5. Arctic weather return- ed to England today and again extensive power cuts left thousands of people without power outside Sheffield paralyzed ell and rail and heat at breakfast food distribution time:

traffic. Coal supplies in many Hanoi, Feb. 5.

Blizzards over most of the homes had become critically. Twenty-three men, country sent temperatures plum- short.

Sub-freezing weather forced women and children meting after yesterday's thaw. held as hostages by Viet Roads were treacherously slip the abandonment of al open pery, trains were running late, cast mining in South Yorkshire.

While some areas. are Namese in a camp at buses were, behind schedule and Hoabinh, near Hadong, some rural villages were snowperiencing the worst blizzards. Shanghai, Feb. 5.

in a generation. the sun was, An official have arrived here to re-bound.

of the join their families.

blazing down upon Penzance in China National Aviation They had had to walk two days

the southwest, where primroses

Corporation disclosed through rice fields and along bar-

and snowdrops are in bloomi

that a Dozens of coal trucks bej today.

ground dcaded roads, and were exhaust

tween Yorkshire and the indus- team was being organis- ta but otherwise well when they Arrived in the city.

trial Midlands are buried deeped in an attempt to reach the snow while their drivers the mountain fastness have sought refuge-in neigh-

100 miles southeast of bouring villages.

Chungking where a C-47. believed y be the

Market

A

becomes

more

Great Blizzard

cx-

A great blizzard sweeping

as they prepared to leave for burbed wire. Pioneer tramps werk are still not out of date / the left. Treatment was satis-to 100 per cent power black- across parts of the Midlands / CNAC Cantonịto Chung-

England

and bitter

machineMackinnon, winter

weather. Three hundred sur

on inoftops.

Mackenzie!

Huge drifts blocked highways and near

Rasen only the tops of telegraph poles could be shen. Isolated farms and Air were without food Ministry officials contemplated The Belgian wife of a French dropping food by parachute if barrister in Saigon, Madame the situation facquemart. who was earlier acute. released, said that there were Heavy electricity cuts in al` 20 hostages in the camp when Britain were imposed leading

factory except for a shortage outs in many cases. qf medicine and clothing and Temperatures dropped to 20 un poste at street corners and & Co., local agents, ad- milk for babies.

degrees from 39 yesterday but Danish the cold was aggravated by a vicemen's

vised the "China Mail".Madame Louzier. wives at a protest

vite of a French industrialist bitter easterly wind. Operation Polly "one good meeting demanded

R.A.F. Halifax bombers in- yesterday afternoon.

in Hanoi was among the re rcuson to justify our evacua

be- The anused paljon of return rned hostages and

Frozen To Death brought augurated a shuttle service licn."

before September

Berlin, Egypt tickets issued Some evacuees who inquired tweey Palestin and

British women and children and land were told they would "stay "en-edential" "men, who are with relatives." Wives, who to took over a soldiers hut, where

Briti-h saldiers, trom red- the walls were plastered with Labbet brigadiers to privatos, photographs, read a scribbled went nat of their way to make called sign:

removal-officially Please leave HN our th

"Operation Poliyas cheerful as possible. pin-upg"

Saigon, Feb. 4. Eviction Orders

Moving pictures ran almost

event of a refund of Mr. Tal

Kouci-chen. Vice- Eviction orders were served continuously in two centres, mill-passage money being required, the Minister for Overseas Affairs in

and tex tonight 700 Arubs

tard; and bagpipes took amount of the refund will be, the the Chinese, Central Governmentitions in the South and U.P. Corres- Jews including

To ras in provirting music and difference between the single and has arrived in Saigon from Singa dwellings tommies in automobiles were sent return fares at the time of issue, pore-Reuter. por:dent-occupying within the British security to buy flowers for the dining room

jand bed tables.

temperatures

Sheffield and

and North Isolated whole dis-king airliner missing tricts, blocked roads and rail- since January 25 with 18 ways cut Manchester off from

Chinese passengers, her enveloped 78 women and children in three crew and pilot Jack M. buses on the Yorkshire coast. Blackmore, of Los An- Frantic efforts to reach geles, aboard was

about accommodation in Eng-spend the evacuation of the 2,000 3, 1939, is again extended-unth children with her but showed around 22 degrees, and them throughout the morning sighted from the air by a

Ancther badly charred borty was recovered from the burnt -out steamer yesterday meming' zone.

and removed to the Mortuary,

Mr. Wong Boon Yeuk of the

China

Arts Association has re- ported that 15 old Chinese books, four pieces of Jade and one seroil, valued at $2,000, were lest in the "Sai On" disaster.

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They were instructed to leave by neon on Thursday to make way for the security troops, to be hell available for any emergency and for "essential" British officers and civilians.

Moving vans were Трику

New Import Tax To Subsidise Exports

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all

be having a good time but summe Mait of the civilians appeared women were indignant at being forced to save their husbands,

Jewish and Aral women alike stood on the kerbs of Jerusalem. crying, as ofle 12-bus convoy loaded with women and children went by to the collection centres. Some new flowers at the buses and some ran after then a little

were

way.

Pamphlets

distributer through the crowd by the "Anti- Terros

"anti- Lengue", urging errorist navchological warfare".

thorities were responsible for the Bampots. heep Üse ጸብ

Buch i Longue is known.-Unliad Press. Shuttle Service

June 30, 1947-but no further ex- tension will be made.tragte

A further print is that the face value of such coupons (in other words, half the original fare paid) may be credited to- wards the single fare required by Civillan or Tring transport.

In the

return

ber husband behind in the camp

International Red Cross dele. gates hope to visit the French women and children still held

the camp on 'February S.- Reuter.

Italians Deserting City Of Pola

Pola, Feb. 5.

More than 27,000 of Pola's 30,000 inhabitants were registered for evacuation tonight as Italians continued to withdraw from territory to be ceded to Yugoslavia under terms of the peace treaty to be signed on February 10.

to

it was announced that seven persons had been frozen death. More snow was fore: cast.

However, Southeastern and | Central Germany generally were warmer with a high of 34 de-

grces..

Warmer weather and heavy rains in Italy flooded many seg areas, as numerous rivers over

flowed.

Galus lushed the western cons forcing the temporary closure of the port of Naples.-United Press.

Trinidad Strike Violence

Port of Spain, Trinidad,

Feb. 5. " The curfew imposed in the nilfields on January 18 during a wave of strike violence there, was lifted last night

It was believed the Jewish au- A total of 9,383 families were registered. Military Government authorities said they figured an

During the strike, -oilwells average of three persons' to a family but esti-

were set on fire and a state mated that probably no more than 20,000 will

of emergency was proclaimed have withdrawn by the time the treaty is by Sir Bede Clifford, the signed.

Governor. ·Four hundred Almost all of Pola's shops

strikers were arrested. have closed. No. vegetable

Uriah Butler, regarded stands were open. Only one the Trinidad oil-fields strike dentist said he would remain leader, has not been located and of the other merchants queried only one owner

Nanking, Feb. 5. Premier T. V. Soong today announced the creation of a board for the development of China's ex- port trade, and the grant of a subsidy to ex-

Jerusalem, Feb. . porters by the method of doubling the Govern-

More than 150 British civilians ment price for foreign exchange surrendered left Palestine today, taking of from Air airdrome in itayal to the Government by exporters-CN$6,700 to

Air Force planes for Egypt.. US$1, instead of the official rate of CN$3,350.

A dispatch from Cairo eald the Today's highest black market planes tanded, there shortly before priec, however, was CN$9,500 hoog ald

the occupants were to U.S.$1.

taken to British homes in suburbs

Trade Obstruction In China

the

Dr. Scong said the govern. A shuttle plane service is ex- ment subsidies, to be paid pected to evqenate at least 690 according to the FOB value of British women and children from

the Holy Land trouble spot by

ail exports from China except nightfall. More than 1,000 athers Manchuria ahd Formosa where special currencies were said to are awaiting their turn at the Sarafand and huita holding cen-

into

Regulations, Einstein's

Kowloon

Electricity Agitation

private

•

As

since he escaped from his head-. of a quarters at Port-of-Spain after

coffee shop and one operating a police raid during the strike.

a perfume store said they would |--Reuter stay in Pola.

There has been extensive agitation here during the past. few

Clipper Fire

Gibraltar, Feb. 5.

were made and when they were

reached soon after mid-day the search plane yesterday... women and children were taken! to Newbauld, on the coast, for, hot drinks.

The buses'

passengers were

without food for over 12 hours after leaving Leeds from a pantomine for their Hull homes.

Many areas, including Derby- shir Peak villages experienced the worst weather for many years and drifts were plling up to 15 feet.

Watson, positively identified the The searcher pilot, Julem H.

wreck as a C-47. but was un- able to tell definitely if it was a CNAC plane,

While another flight was ' being made to identify the plane. CNAC officials believe that towering mountains may prevent close range inspection, hence they were organising a Kmund team.

It is understood that the

were

Nonstop Storm condition of the wreck in- All goods and many passen-dicates that all aboard ger trains in Derbyshire were killed and, therefore, the long cancelled and

ground nowploughs time required for a which went to clear the lines team to reach the scene doen were themselves stuck in dee not make much difference.- drifts Mail trains and Londen United Press. expresses were delayed up to four hours.

The Buxton, Chinley, Peak York has been snow blocked in Forest, Millers' Dale and Edale i beth - directions since curly districta have had a nan-stop morning between Stamford and 24 hours blizzard.The Great Grantham United Press and North

Road from London tr Reuter.

HENNESSY

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burned

no

HENNESSY

V.O. X.0. EXTRA

days by pro-Yugoslav workers protesting against the be favourable to export, will tres, where the Army has turned That leading Chinese factories, removal of machinery from

A Boeing Clipper caught fire Shanghai, Feb. 5.

dis-restaurants and business con plants which are closing down in the harbour and be obtained from a fund to be military cantonments The English language

per persal hints for civilians to les-cers in Kowloon are sericus ia but no violence occurred.

yesterday but there were Chinese-owned "China Press" created by a special 50

Government's security regard to their bid to instal A month ago, a violent fatalities. today editorially called for in- cent ad valorem surcharge on sen the

electric generating sets demonstration against removal All the crew escaped injury vestigation by the

Chinese 1 imports except capital goods commitments-Associated Press.

in consequence of the refusal of of industrial equipment resulted except First Fight Engineer Government of complaints of under Schedule One of the tem

the China Light and Power Coin the deaths of three persons. Eliot David, who was burned American business interesta to parary Import

Lid to reduce present charges, Sow but systematic removal of on the hands and face and tvas apperent from the en. the US State Department that such as machinery and prime

thusiasm displayed by the large transportable equipment had Radio Operator Vincent Yocus, out since last burned on the face, feet and number of representatives who been carried Jerusalem, Feb. 5.

attended a meeting of the Kow. July when the fate of Pola was left hand. Both are in hospital Dr. Albert Einstein, renowned loon Chamber of Commerce last finally sealed by the Big Four. but are not seriously injured.-:

a friend night.

Ever since then the motor- United Press, scientiat, has informed here by letter that he believes Mr. Robert Der, Chairman of ship "Pola" had been sailing to that the Holy Land's Jews and the Association, presided. After Trieste twice weekly with a Arabs must get together to solve reading a report on his negotia full load of automobiles, bakery Palestine's future.

ticns with the China Light 2 equipment wine presses, sew Einstein, long a staunch, sup- Power Co., Ltd., Mr. Der mening machines, flour mill porter of the Zionist cause, retioned that- in consequence of the machines and practically every. Navy. DC3 plane en route from jeeted partition as solution of the China Mall" article on the sub.

China's now import regulations fertilsatire, and coal. This star, New Theory

were used discriminatorily and fertilisers

that applications for exchange charge will be cffective

morrow.

10:

for equipment Borely needed by China were not grinted favour.

The Board will be assisted by able treatment.

an advisory panel on which are The paper also called for in-five foreign members and 10 quiry into charges: that Chinese

members, all. were apperienced merchants.

favoured families"

ex.

PLANE OVERDUE

New York, Feb. 5.

The Coastguard reports a

aures, and urged all Interested The Board will appoint re- troubles on the ground that it was ject he was yesterday vizited bything else that could be dis. Baston to Norfolk, Virginia, is:

The number of passengers overdue and presumably down. aboard is undetermined. Associated Press.

THE WEATHER

plying political and other pres

parties-Chinese and Americans gional representatives in Shang-areasonable and cannot creat?

be asked to participate.

hai, Tientsin, Tsingtao, Canton, stable conditions. He contended Mr. R E. Osborne, a Director or mantled. On each trip it took [sbout 100 refugees, some of "This entire matter, as we Chungking and Mukden where that the British policy toward the the Electrical Engineering Cen

whom made several trips with eret, in just becoming they will be assisted by local Jews was "reacherous and not istruction Co., Ltd, of Devor their property. an international problem and advisory" panels,

conforming to obligatione,A-England, who submitted plans and Sociated Press,

illustrations of electric generating Smad sailing vessels have therefore, it Hea in the Dr. Soong" defined. the

seis manufactrued by his Com been doing the same, but they interests of all parties con- functions of the Board as (1)

pany which would be mist suit carried equipment and refugees able for many of Hour Kong's to Venice and Ancona. Larger factories. Mr. Der also Some refugees took

of the Bonina.“. Présouro - Is alar low toʻ mentioned that Westimates, had property to Trieste by train.

the 8 of the, Marjanan,; AN been received from the Interna... | Each day from 10: tỏ 15 ́rail-; Today's Forcaali-Moderale,or tresn tional Electrical Co., of Seattle,way cars have been engaged NE winds; partly cloudy: continuing USA;

iransporting their household rather cold Mr. Len Fen, B. Ph. M.Sc of furniture and personal belong-axinum: 61.1 deg. Tah. Gilmar & Co., who was introducinge to Trieste United Press, Malm: 503 Go Fah ed to the gathering, spoke at

cerned, the Chinese and to remove obstacles to the ex ON OTHER PAGES

American Governments and import trade; (2) to encourage porters of the two nations to the production and export of get to the bottom of the matter, goods and to facilitate plants

Wo repeatedly have been on handling and processing same;j record against unfair practices (3) to improve production, the and procrastination from atty grading and preparation of querter, and now, exhort that export goods; (4) to co. no time should be lost in ordinate current schemes to clarifying the atmosphere.ald export; (5) to promote the ***Enough preciosia time ul expanding demand for Chinese

ready has been wasted to the products abroad." detriment of honent business The Board also is to set up: and the public alike. United recognised standards for ex

ports-United Frosa.

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Playboy Sent to Geol Page

Four Jet Motorboat Bid. Poge Five

The Debt To India.. Page Six and

Plan For Ruhr Silver Price Cut Page Seven Page Bight

England Toit Collapse,

their

A moderate antiryclone in stationary Luver· Mangalia, China and the neighbour

inst sens.. A trough of - ków - premore-

tends from of the Kariles to the B2

¦ Yosterday's. Wellbury-

Bunshine BT hbarn.

length on the method of operating A test was then made of a Rainfalls Nil. Total algor un, 107.9 min. private electric generators and private electric generating retinat po aver of 89.5 cm.

Rending t quoted figures to prove that the with a "Homelite Generator," and [99] Installation of such generaters was regarded as highly success. Hara, at mal was definitely a money-saving | fulgen 199 proposition, having regard to the A further meeting will be held wind Direction

present high cast of electricity. shortly,

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