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Citing statistica, the "Post"|4. declared that nearly 1000 illegi timate babies are born ench

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No. 33583.

ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS

JEWS REJECT Clear Prelude To Irgun Defiance Of Martial Law

Jerusalem, Feb. 6.

The Jewish National Council today rejected the

British ultimatum giving official Jewry until

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1947.

ULTIMATUM Action By Britain

President Of Poland Elected

Tuesday to join in stamping out the Holy Land. terrorism, and the Irgun Zvai Leúmi, under- ground group, asserted that it would. "fight to the last breath" against British authority. a formal resolution, the National Council told its 14-member executive to draft a full answer "in accord with the sentiments" of speeches at Wednesday night's Council session which un- animously expressed opposition to the ultimatum. Members of the Jewish, Blood, pain-and-sweat but you in are beund agency, and navors of Jewish | free

attended the Council berour to assist this bleeding towns meetings?

nation in its unparalelled strug; Describing the ultimatum byge for freedom. We will not General Sir Alan Cunningham, surrender," Palestine High Commissioner? as a "clear prelude to action" by the British army. Jewish sources said it was an effort to justify

Mercedes-despite in advance military erations which "have already teen planned.”

The "Pust" said brokers In operate by promising unmarri. ed mothers complete -secrecy with expenses paid in exchange for their babies, The brokers then sell the babies

to thou- sands of childless couples.

The illicit babies traffic is now so serious that a bill is to be introduced in the New York State Legislature making it illegal to accept money for a child's placement and sending State Welfare investigators in- to every home receiving a child for adoption from private sources.----Central News.

QUEEN MOTHER RECOVERS

Loudan, Feb. 6.) Queen Mary reportedly was recovering rapidly today from the alight cold and chill she suf- fered earlier this week.

Pr

nations

Statement Today?

"INDECENT" FILMS

BOYCOTT

Hollywood, Feb. 4. Catholic student the Southern California Arch- diocese announced today" one-month "hoventt of pl movies and said they hoped ro culiar 0,000,000 other students throughout the country in a campaign

against Inderent

• Flms.

The bayratt was prominter? by Chefflin “Doel in the Su which Archbishon Jahut Cantwell said Catholics "mu not with free conscience at tend."Unlird Press,>

British Patrol Shot Up

Warsaw, Feb. 5. Boleslaw Bierut, whol headed the Polish Provi- sional Government, was today elected President of the Polish Republic by 408 votes against 25 blank and invalid papers. No other candi-、 date was put forward.

Mikolajczyk and Mis small fopposition). group of peasant supporters at motion lets whil the other deputies rose and cheeref the new President, but they rose to their feet and joined in thei Irgun's position was

singing

of the National Anthem. strengthened by the Jewish Bierut later drove 'to Parlia National Council's unanimous ment in an open cara husc

dicetion of the Government: German whinesem demanding active blinding snowstorm. He was ro

Trieste, Feb. 5.' of Polish support from all Palestine Jews sorted by a company

A British officer and a soldier are cavalry. in the military efforts to wipe He took the presidential: oath Line" gunfire

reported missing after a "Morgan out the underground. The ini- modified at yesterday's session of village of Cobidilis between Bri-

incident near ths. thative, thus is passed back to Parliament, when, the

tish and Yugoslav patrols, early High Commissioner, Sir motion of the independent Cathayesterday morning. Alan

He had lle members, it was agreed, with military spokesman Cunningham. given the Jewish Agency until Communist support, to include the night. Monday to make a public appeal words "with God's help.” for Jewish support in the anti- underground drive but did not define what steps would teurs, | taken if the Jewish leaders re

fuzed.

The Jewish underground de- fied the threat of British mar- tal law today and appealed for world supoort in its battle egoinst British rule.

tion.

The 80-year-old Queen Mother

A broadcast by the Irgun was "up and about" attending to

gung. paraphrasing Mr. Wins her normal business at her Marl- Churchill's Wartime de borough House residence, a memTY-

fiance of Germany, said: "We ber of her stass vaid.—United I know the road to freedom and Press.

place

leads through

U.S., Russia Accept Compromise

(By Francis Carpenter)

An important British policy statement is believed forthcom- ing. possibly today or to- !morrow. British personnel at

tion shortly.

upon

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Vietnam TAX ON IMPORTS Approach BRINGS SLUMP

Nanking, Feb. 5.

To France Premier T. V. Soong announced here today, that

Paris, Feb. 6.

Frices. quoted, were generally 20 to 30 per cent higher than yesterday's top prices but many

from tomorrow at least forty per cent of all goods Imported into China will be subject to The President of the

the new surcharge of fifty per cent. permanent Viet Namese

Capital goods including price tags on imported com- agricultural and electrical modities, dampening the buy. delegation in Paris to- machinery, and "necessaries" ing rush by refusing to sell day issued a communi- such as rice, wheat, coal, coké large quantities. que in which the Viet and raw cotton are, however, Nam Republican Gov-exempted from the surcharge.

The new tax is to provide ernment proposed the funds for the export bonus, of immediate cessation of 100 per cent of the value of hostilities in Indo-China. gonda sent out of China. This

will be paid to exporters to Reuter. encourage the export trade.

Mr. Soong also announced the establishment of a "Board for the development of trade." Three British subjects-- Mr. J. R. Keswick. Mr. J. H. Liddell and Mr. C. Rogers-are among the five non-Chinese who will serve on the panel to

It was the French Government to enter into

negotiations with the Viet Nam Government for a settlement of the dispute along the lines of the Franco-Viet Nam pereement of March 8, 1946.

The communique said:

de.

rat the Board's Executive Committee.

י

commodity trading guilds enll. - ed meetings this afternoon to determine new price quotations.

Silly Tale Denied

Shanghai, Feb., 6. The influential Ta Kung Pap"

today

Viet Nam people are firmly the cided to carry to an end the fight to safeguard their most sacred rights of political ́ ́Independence and territorial

orial unity within the framework of the French Union.

"But conscious of the higher Market Depressed charged that the CNAČ arterests of the two nations, Viet

The local financial markets airliner which crashed Nam is convinced that with a new France her double objective can

this morning opened depressed, near Hankow, killing an be obtained peacefully on the following last night's announce.

American of

ment of the new export agreements already een-

pilot, Capt motion scheme.

John Papajik, and some Gold-bara opened at 463,000 Canadian -missionaries Chinese dollars and descended

basis cluded.

"A just and democratic peace is more than ever indispensable," the communique added-Reuter

Miss Ellen Wilkinson Dead

London, Feb. 6. Miss Ellen Wilkinson, Minis-

pro-

to as low as 450,000 but by on January 28, carried noon, buyers were back and 200 gold bars weighing brisk demand shot the rate up 70 kilograms. to close at 482,000 after hitting 494,000 for the highest of the

day.

The Central Bank sold 6,000 oices at 480,000 per ounce. United States dollars opened at 8,500, sank to 8,200 and then after touching 3,600. rose steadily to close at 9,200

trade

It claimed that the gold was surreptitiously loaded near the gas tank under the wing and this erused a "less.of balance." denied A Company official knowledge of such, smuggling and pointed out, that the plane's inkeoffs and landings on the trip had been normal until the crash indicating that if the plane carried gold it would not have affected the balance.

Saturday, when the new Gavern man said, the British and 120-ter of Education died today at bement will formally be announced.slav patrols mes near the town, the age of 56 at a hospital of

China's new foreign where the boundary is not clear- a heart disease.

scheme is summed up by the ty demarcated. ELIZABETH A

She had been suffering from leading Chinese, paper here, the BAD SHOT

Some rounds were fired her bronchitis and was under treat. Shun Pao, as another revision

Meanwhile, n search plane is Yugoslav patrol

She of the foreign excange rate. and a British mint when death came.

making a third flight seeking. London. Feb. 0. alicer and one

The paper said that Princess Elizabeth flated missing the spokesman said. He Miss Wilkinson was the first United States dolar

other rank are entered hospital on Wednesday.

each visitive Identification of the the Government printing plant out on the rolling deck of HMS added, however, that it was be woman Minister of Education.

is now C-47 sighted wrecked in the equal to 8,700 Cdrese dollars mountains 100 miles southeast worked all day yesterday on a Vanguard, took careful aim, lieved they were safe and affhurt top secret document for publica fized and missed. She kept in Yugoslav hands-United Press Ellen, as she

Tiny and red haired. "Red" for exports and only 5,025 for of Chungking which was Be

was called in about 40 per cent of all imports lieved to be the Chungking air. Sources close to the Jewish missing for 30 rounds of rifle

coming to China, Labour's "fighting days years

Baer missing since January 25- practice. reported the Exchange i

ayo, was the Agency today predicted that Telegrahph

second Woman Open Question with 19 on board, including the the Agency leaders may refuse Louis Nickolls, aboard the war rifle for the first time in her history, the first being Margaret national currency has depre- 'Augeles

.* correspondent, her sister's place and held a Cabinet Minister in. British "This means that the Chinese pilot Jack M. Blackmore of Los The United States and Soviet Russia were report-

In continue

discussions on ship en route to. South Africa life. With her first shot she Bondfled in the earlier Labour cinted fifty to one hundred per ed today to have yielded on stubbornly fought

Palestine arith the British with the Royal Family.

Yesterday's weather prevent- points and accepted a French compromise de-Government leaders because of

knocked over Princess Maraget -then took United Press.

the Larget. administration United Press cent," the Shun Pao sald, added lower flying search.--United signed to break the United Nations "Security

and Reuter,

ing that with the black-market Press. Council jam on arms limitation,

rate of over 9,000 it is an open question whether the new rate: Rio de Janeiro, Feb. 5. will prove satisfactory to ex- porters, nor is it certain that it will attract large amount of remittances from Chinese abroad.

New York, Feb. 6.

An informal committee of six council delegates with the United States and Russian represen- 'tatives holding the spotlight were said to have agreed upon a French resolution as a working solution of the difficulty.

The main points of the French so that it may instruct the atomic compromise provide for the crea- | commission on its next phase. Lion of an arms limitation com- The atomic commission is now -mission to 'draw up proposals for] marking time,

the Security Council and for the council to take quick action on the atomic energy commission report

Suspect Blacked Out

Fort Dix, N.J., Feb. 6.

wearing bloodstained

Tho it, wits, reported from a closed meeting that delegate Aus-

the

the British ultimatum.

New Proposals The sources said, Foreign Sceretary Ernest Bevin said he would outline Britain's new plan for Palestine at the next meeting, but Jewish circles" was not prepared yet to sponsor were convinced that Mr. Bevin the establishment of an inde- pendent Jewish state.

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Blizzards & Snow In Britain

Four persons were killed and five injured the crash of a Brazilian OMTA airliner near Araguaro in Minas Geraes State. All the victims were re- Meanwhile, shop-keepers were sidents of the area.-United He busy today changing their Press.

Max Gardner

Washington, Feb. 6. Max Gardner, new United States Ambassador to Britain died today. Gardner, who was fl, was scheduled to sall today in the "America" for London to take over his new post. died in a New York hotel this morning from coronary throm- bosia, Reuter.

THE WEATHER

The anticyclone aver Cuina finalny intensity Pressure a very low E and NE of Japan. A trangh stretches «Fro this erra arross the Banina std. along the

5 Chins coast. Procurare ati ve ever the equatorial, regiona

London, Feb. 6. · Sub-freezing temperatures continued in the Bri- Meanwhile Foreign Office yources said the British

tish Isles today and the dreary cycle of electri- in apparently had dropped the Cabinet would approve fresh

city cuts and gas reductions began all over United States demand for the and more specifie proposals for

again. Blizzards Faged in some areas. It was committes tɔ write the rules of Palestine.

presumably at

snow in others. Still others got sleet and rain. limitation commission. arms

London looked like dusk at 10 it was ineffectual for the timi Austin frequently left the com- meeting tomorrow. Mr. Bevin mittee rooms for telephone calls, was expected to ask for Cabinet aan. Lights where there were being because most trains wor: che an urgent call from Washing approval of a modified plan any-were turned on giving the anable to run.

city a garish, yellow tinge. Thres The Electric Supply Depart- for federalisation, providing a inches of snow fell during the ment urged plants still operating en variable for a time? wrathon Russian delegate Gromyke was greater measure of autonomy night which quickly turned into to stagger their closing days to reported to have accepted the for certain cantons and some re-mush and caused traffic fams even minimise power cuts French compromise generally.

on other laxation of immigration into worse than usual.

days. objecting gnly to a suggestion thu

Practically no cantons with Jewish majorities.

transport the councu arder the military

running on time.

Laundries also were feeling the Minimam 47.6 deg. Falz. siaf committer to submit a report Associated Press and United

pinch and were closing, ci Brad-Busines 37 hours within three months,

¡Press.

dlesbrough ford, Stoke-on-Trent am MM- | Rainfall: Nii. Total' since Jah, 1 67.0 mm.

Lon.

The French then dropped this]

point,

of

Be

A nows- picture

Agency Worried-

over

A 29-year-old military police- man, trousers and carrying

One informant, who would not paper clipping and

London. Feb. 6. identified, said the main point! The Jewish Agency leaders in Elizabeth Shor, was held today remaining to be settled was the London are described as "deeply as a suspect in the "Black Dahlia"

U.S. demand that the resulations apprehensive"

the Bevin torture-murder,

slate specifically that the com- plan for Palestine, discussed at Agents of the Army's Criminal mission's work would nel in the Cabinet meeting today. They Invest Corporal Joseph Dumais,

Department said the fringe on the work of the atomic have been given the hint, it is suspect,

understand. that the plan may in father energy commission. he had a date with Short on the Russia is said to be objecting fact be a "cantonal version, of to this as unneccaat ry. Associat- the still-born Morrison Federal ed Press,

(Continued on Page B Col. 4)

night of Jan. 9. six days befors

her mutilated body was found in vacant lot in Los Angeles. Dumais is. being held at the| EL MERC psychiatric ward of the hospita! at Fort Dix

Army officials quoted Dumais caying he was "blacked out"

after spending the

evening of

Jan. 8 with her and remembered

nothing until he recovered

senses

station.

"Travesty Of Empire'

In Trinidad

was

in Germany, Increasing cloudi ness and cold was forecast. Snow fell intermittently and Frankfurt

-is blanketed with three in now thes.

"Even in Switzerland, Mecca of winter sports, a blizzard stopped most air traffic and reduced the arrival of tourists.

Coal Crisis

Snow-covered coal plles levelled rapidly today in British cities but the Ministry of. Fuel promised at all costs to keep the people worm in their homes even

means

❤ #1 closing down industry.

As shortages grew acute domestic sup days

supplies rauged from two in Exeter to two weeks in London-24 ships loaded with coal salled from Newcastle In a raging North Sea blizzard on ..a "mercy voyage" to Southern Eng- land which had been cut cft from all coal producing regions by its worst weather in 50 years.

The convoy, carrying 60,000 tons of cool, had been

storm claimed the bound itself for days.

London, Feb. 5

uses in New York Pennsylvania The "Daily Mirror," in a front page editorial, de clared today that British conduct in Trinidad was a "travesty of Empire""

Durnals told officers

first

that

hiu

wife died under mysterious

He recently

circumstance from the paper's correspondent) account of the editorial page,

Inspired by John Walters (the' Wallers' dispatch, carried on

European theatre and is at pre- sent married to a Czech girl whom he met while serving over- seas in 1945-United Pres

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Falane Judge's Criticlem,

Thức Thiế

Colonel in

Poor Four

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Diamonda Scandal.

Britain Told "Work or Starro."

Marriage Welfare Service,

Pans Eight

Test Match Records,

Today's Forecast: Moderate E winds

cloudy with scattered developin

dricale

Yaturday's Weathergim Maximum: 02.6 deg. Fai.

rain

an urinat n average of 115 mm.

Rending a 10 ... p.m.

.DELT 1010.0 mb.

But one Supniy official in Lon don refused to be discouraged. Be at m.), "It is better than this time as fumidity year when there was only ten days supply of coal on hand," he Wind Direction

Dew i'oint said.-United Press.

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British Assurance

To America

Washington, Feb. 5.

Mr. Hugh Dalton, Chancellor of the Exchequer, has assured the U.S. Secretary to the Treasury, Mr. John Snyder, that Britain will refrain from including in any future bilateral agree- ments clauses limiting a country's right freely. to dispose sterling balances.

This Snyder today.

was disclosed by Mr. with respect to the sterling area; when he made the United States Government public, letters exchanged, with Mr. would expect Britain to make ap- Dalton on, the recent police raid was by Angus

the claus in thepropriate adjustments with the Anglo-Argentine Agreement which Argentine Government, so that stamist, the trade salon halt at Miller British Colonner Transport Hold-Ups Park of Souin in which the union's the island's police, against 500

limits. Argentine's ability to dis no discrimination at variance with

financial Reports from, all parts of Bri- pose of her sterling balances in the Anglo-American printing press, was smashed and several unionists alot, the paper were resting in the hall from transportation hold-ups because weed us unfavourable to Argen-" can readily assure you that

unarmed

men and women who tain sald coal was en route but any year when the balance of agreement would in fact arise."?!

with the alerting area * No Discrimination Britishi

violates the their march to the capital to pro- of heavy snows, floods and rains would conduct whole

spirit of enlightened rov- test against oilfield conditions to were the principal buttienseks. emmeat in which we take pride."the Governor, De

it would always be our desire to The Ministry of Fael said. most

One of the principal heads of avoid such discrimination, thoughs The paper anid it, pd aske Walters eald Muller, waving of what is left will be silsested agreement which was signed in 1 feel bound to say once more Walters to dig up the facts after two guns, cried windy, Uriah Wheel

electricity

and

car plants upon September last included the free that I think that this theore Trinidad, delled to the Colonial Butler, who escaped

British homes depend disposition of Argentina's blocited tim but

not practical con- allucation sterline in Britain,

tingency

· been smashed,

Ironically.

an earlier letter to Mr. The "Mirror", nid destruction wounding several and arresting mines wat stopped because

Mr. Snyder assuranc

Mr: Dalton declared that of the press was important be others

ng, the future use of auch" | "the": pitheads were clogged with canla sinuse," Mr. Daiton added, "Argentina and the stering ares Cause it represented the workers. Sir Bede Clifford is reported-which. had not been moved, note that if and when there during the four years of the only access to freedom of thej be on his way to London,UnitedAll railroads have given to reasonable probability that Argen- desment was "hypothetical, printed word.",\

priority to movement of corl fitting, would insure a current aron,

Reuter.

:

Bir Bede Cugar 1,5 Gayering, off oilfald workers' leader, Ur heat and fireplace 140,000,000, amounting Glice that he printing press had Hawald the police shot into the also had Productionet RE

crowd of unarmed men and women

Press,

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