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ITREATY WITH ITALY Widespread Riots Follow Signing

Paris, Feb. 10.

Italy today signed the peace treaty formally end- ing the state of war between her and the 20 Allied nations. Yugoslavia sprang a last-min- ute surprise by signing the treaty. It was earlier generally supposed she would not sign. The treaty, which strips Italy of most of her armed forces and colonies and imposes on her terri- torial losses and a $350,000,000 reparations burden, was signed for Italy by Ambassador "Meli Lupi di Soragna.

Death Is No Curse

San Francisco, Feb. 10. chitect who believes "a

Frank Lloyd Wright-an ar. place where you go to see the last of your earthly companions should be a happy place," has de- aigued a $500,000 mortuary that looks more like a world's fair pavilion than a sombre, quiet funeral parlour. It has The signing occurred six years himself gned. The other de blue, white, rose and yellow mushroom shaped ani tive months after Bentu

followed quickly al-

coitured, Mussolini declared war, on Great legations

phabetically.

chapels and on the roof there France air three

is a helicopter landing site. There was an atmosphere of five months after anci

Lension as Yugoslavia's turn ap-

Wright's idea is that a mor tely's capitulatio

audible gasp [proached and an firmite Italian anger and disse fram th

other delegates tuary should leave you may at the heavy treaty turns, when white-harred Foreign Minis- a feeling that death is no curse. di Soragna was not able to ter Stanojo Snitch, accompanied that all is not lost because of gister a protest to the victors due by Bosnian Prime Minister it." Architecture can render a to a d-minute Big Four de-Teh-latovitch, rose without mak-service better than anything vision not to permit any of thing my statement and went in to else, if death is to be locked Conquered countries representa-sign like the other delegates.

upon as a. friend." Two. Protests. Last to sign were the Italians The fagal signg lasted only

at 11.31 Immediately they Sharply at 11 am, the delegates had concluded Bidauli announced ended. The entire,

Britain and

Yents

to make statements, al the

ceremony.

35 minutes

31

all the 20 Allied nations en-the session tered the richly ornate Salon de ceremony tuck 34 minules.

Teluge of the Quaia d'Orsay

and took then wats at the 3

A long table' covered

Alter cloth,

L

Uneasy Silence M. Georges Bidault, Frch Foreign Minister, entered in and also

mediately afterwards took his seat with two nutr- phones before him. Directly op- posite Bidault two seats remain-

The Polish delegation, headed

by Foreign Minister Gydmund

with

At the mortuary, he says, "people will weep; certainly, but | give them a lift with beauty. Put living things flowers that grow, not bouquets that smell."

«HONG KONG, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1947.

Customs Dismissal Of Foreigners

Shanghai, Feb. 10.

The Chinese Government's policy of progressively

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eliminating foreign elements in the Chinese Water

Maritime Customs to make it eventually an all-Chinese organisation has advanced in- other step with the compulsory retirement of some 50 foreign officials of seven nationalities. This leaves only a handful of foreigners, headed by Mr. L. K, Little, the first American to hold the post of Inspector-General, left in an official Chinese organisation which has always had the greatest number of foreigners on its pay- roll.

Speed Record

Hopes

Kendal, Feb. 10. The Chinese Government is against Customs revenue ever estinated to have issued loans since the service was establish Sir Malcolm Campbell; £100,000,000 | cl-largely with British ald-who is to attack his own totalling and

about 100 years ago.

world's water speed re-

McNutt To

Resign

In

after Mr.

this

Mr. Little's appointment dur- ing the war to succeed SirLord of 141.74 mph on Frederick Maze broke the pre-Coniston Water redent of always allocating the summer is expected to Inspector-Generalships to faise the record by at

Briton.

ment

came

All the 50 foreigners just least 2 mph in his jet- retired have been told that as propelled stream-lined

funds are available speedboat Bluebird II. soon as from the Government each will

Sir Malcolm, who is 61, told be paid the pension due him a reporter: "Work on Bluebird from the time he first, entered is going on speedily and we are the service te Deember 31, 1946 hoping that she will be com- the date set for his retire-pleted some time during March,

21 shall probably transportį "The action of the Government her to Coniston me time dur.

as no surprise, as all ing April, with a view to try foreign members of the Cusing her out at moderate speed toms had held, and still hold, the and to me that everything is opinion that sooner or late all right their service would be termina- "It will be a few weeks later! the actual ted, as they were reinstated when I will make the understanding, after V attempt" Day, that while they were given the substantive rank that they held prior to December 8, 1911, their status would be on tenporary basis.

According to the regulations governing employment in the Customs, those who joined be- fore 1920 did so with

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Washington, Feb. 9. Diplomatic quarters today predicted that

Mr. Paut V McNutt, Ambassador to the Philippines, would resign March or SUOR McNutt was said to be awaiting around conclusion of the United States- Philippines treaty, now being negotiated, before submitting The architect's work was un-his resignatio with Monzoleski, failed to reach Paris dertaken at the request of u State Department officials in time for this morning's cerc-commission which wanted to said the treaty was progressing mony because the Orient Express build a mortuary on a rocky satisfactorily and an agreement

they

were travelling knoll here. Before he pan might be concluded soon. on which was delayed.

Bidault announced they would his plans, he visited other mor-

Officials expec.ed Mr. McNuit tuaries to study the styles. His would quit in the middle sign this afternoon.

of Simultaneously with the sign plans and ideas were the result. March as he plans to return to ing Yugoslav Foreign Minister Among other features they the United States about that Simitch isued a statement pro- include rest rooms for the testing the treaty terms and mourners, a kiosk with time. Thus far there has been

Yugoslavia's failure

little speculation particularly

to who The entire your was blinding is obtain Venezia Giulia, Gorizia, ng flowers and a'tunnel catf ly illuminated by the klieglight Monfalcone, and Trieste ond part to the rock of the subsurface might succeed him.

Mr. McNutt reportedly, has of newsreel cameras. T

At one minute after 11 Bidault Another protest was delivered

"It is about time," he said, made it clear to friends that he his address of welcome what was mediately translated by the chief of the Greek deiega "something was done to take does not wish to hold another

to English And Russian. At tion who handed a note to the the curse off this death racket," post when he returns. United vision that their pension would

And conclusion of

int his address i d'Orsay this morning de-Associated Press. Midautt said "Please invite the failing Greece's objections to the

delegates to enter.” Italian

A pache

of several minutes followed during which the des legates in uneasy 'sllence, At 11 the chet Halian de

Manches

Antonio Meli ickale, Lupt entered the wom from an ante-chunber on the right, and took his seat immediately posite Hainult. He was accom- panied ly by Antonio Telesin, chief of the treaty section of the Italian Foreign Offer.

ed cpty for the two Italian de

lexares.

chade

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of Northeast Istria.

Italian and other treaties under which Greece had failed to ob- Jain her full regards.United Dress.

and

Riots In Italy

Rome, Feb. 10. Bloody fighting with stones and large clubs broke out today b

students Dtween about 100

Leftista in Piazza Venezia where an estimated 25,000

persons had rathered to protest the signing of the Italian pence, tresty, Br a quirk of the seating ar United Press correspondents on Fangrients

Italians were the seene counted--least the

dozen placed next to the Yugoslavs.

wounds while fighting was still going on. Both the Yugoslavs and, ulios son bleeding from

Cries of "Fasrials" by the Left- the students who against ally nervously wetting his lips were shouting nationalistic or using his hand over his loca can set off the rioting

Tense Atmosphere The Leftats had come armed First to sign the treaty were with large

clalis

and the studenta, the Russians, headed by Ambos. La defend themselves, tore sticks sador Alexander Bogomolzy at from the flower wreaths for the

Unknown Soldic 1.17. Following the conclusion Tomb of the

ignored cachi other and di Scroga sal stern-Laced, occasioni

4

ists

I the opening ceremony Bdant rnd also utilized the standards of invited the delegates to accom- the city flags of Trieste, Pola and

him to

neighbouring Zara which had been used for the in the

where the demonstration.

Two hundred police copy of the treaty, cover-

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Pa

Colony's Dentists Working Overtime

(By Margaret Bradbury)

there

An inspection of the engage turning to private practices at sur- home. ment registers in dental geries showed yesterday that appointments have been booked with dentists from early morn ing till late evening over the postwar period up till now.

.

(By Archie Quick)

London, Feb. 10. When England's football selectors sit down to choose an International team the first name. they decide upon is little Billy Wright, fair- headed wing half of Wolverhampton Wander- ers, and the only soldier in the present nation“ al XI.

The calls on Wright's services are tremendous, the military, his club and country all wanting him, and yet he is only just past his twenty-first birthday.

English Grand Prix Triumph

event

Stockholm, Feb. 9. French and Swiss drivers hal to withdraw from the racer class Grand Prix meeting at Romueled at the Swedish motoring today because the ship carrying their cars from Antwerp is ice- Gothenburg.

The winner of the "A" class was an Englishman, Reg Parnell, driving a ERA car, whose time for 20 laps of the 5,166 metres course was 59 minutes and 2.2 seconds. Parnell's average speed

was 103.5 kilometres an hour.

Leslie Brooke, Engand, driving an ERA inished second in 59 Experts have pradicted that, minutes and 2.8 seconds 量 an with the terrific power avail-average speed of 1034 kilometres aisle from Bluebird's revolu- an hour. ationary engines, coupled with! Two other competitors, Nobe

se new stream-lined hull, the lug of Sweden, driving a Bugatti. and George Abecass England, Fastest man on water, given driving an ERA, dropped out, favourable conditions, will have

Raymond Sjoeqvist of Sweden, the driving a Citroen, won the Sports no difficulty in going over bro-160 mph figure.

Car Class over the same course in one hour, minutes and 59.4 seconds.--Reuter.

be accumulated entirely by the Curtoms and paid out in Ster- ling. Those who joined after 1920 did so with a provision that the Customs accumulate half of their pension and the other half came from their twa

pay.

In the past few years thei Clunese national doilar has be

Any value.

retired

"Unethical"

Warders

Sentenced

Firls at No. 41

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the

Chinese

result of

Texas Open

PONY GLASS CHANGES

The Hong Kong Jockey Club announces the folowing changes in classification:

Midnight Express to "B" Class. Cooper to "B" Class, and Arabian Moon to "B" Class.

I travelled back from an inter Command match at Colchester with hi and Wally Barnes, CAMI at the Camberley Staff

Arsenal College and an Well international,

1:09

shock of a

(or me when I said Wh

and

to

Billy, "Did you play in the Porta mouth-Wolves Cup Final in 19397** and he replied "I was) not 14 then.

Wright plays at Aldershot for the School of P.T., HQ, In Com- mand matches for the Southern Command, captains the full Army sides, travels to and from Wolves in his spare time playing for matches every Saturday and fi England.

Recently, for instance, he play- ed at Colchester for Southern Command v. Eastern Command on a Thursday, played for Wolves at Chelsea on the Saturday, was due at Sunderland for another match and back in Wolverhamp- ton the next day, and then to Highbury the following Saturday.

Cricket Hopes

He has 14 more weeks in tho Army and in that time, apart from Wolves matches, there are to be played Azmy matches against the R.A.F. at Liverpool and the French Army in Pa

France has to be met at bury, he is sure to be chosen Great Britain against the Rest of Europe at Glasgow, and finally there are fixtures at the season's end at Zurich and Lisbon, against Switzerland, and Portugal.

Abin

"You'll be glad of your cum- mer's rest and demol leave," says I. "Oh no," says the indefatig

Billy, "I hope to be playing.

all summer for Worces ericket áll tershire. I am

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trial there in April, together with my clubmate Hancrete."

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a good positional sense, shoots

The Army should' chilly win the Inter-Services Championship

this season.

San Antonio, Texas, Feb. 19. Rotund El (Porky) Olives blistered the Brackenbridge "Both defendants were fully Park's tough course for eight

The Command game, at Col rume so inflated that their own cognisant of the ages of the girls strokes under par on the final 36

the $10,000 chester, although it was played savings no longer represented and their action must have been holes to capture

X. said deliberate,"

Mr. "F.

Texas Open Golf Tourney with a ол 4 snow-covered frozen-hard Central yesterday total of 266-just one over the ground, revealed how rich the More than ninety per cent of the population of On January 1, 1947, the Cus- d'Almade at

when he sentenced Antonio

Ben Army are for inside forwards.. Hong Kong is in need of dental treatment of toms were instructed henceforth Ritchie and Jose Dominios Suva. Hord set last year by

both, aged 18, and warders at

Oliver, hitting a comeback trial

Army Should Win some description, according to a well known to pay the entire pension out of

army,

There edged 'Jimmy Demaret by

are

forwards centre One practitioner who said yesterday that dentists their own funds and in Ster. Stanley Frison, to one year's im-

· Lowrie - (Welsh international af ling. But since the foreigners prisenment when they were found after five years in the are working overtime in an attempt to cope compulsorily

Main stroke,~~Associated Press. were guilty of harbouring two

Coventry), Trevor Ford (Welsh with a spate of patients far in excess of the scratched off the permanent pay Shaukiwan, between Dee, 3 and

international of Swansea), Wain- qualified personnel in the Colony.

sheet as from December 31.Dec. 0. In addition Ritchie was

wright (Everton) and Barlow (West Bromwich), and at Col- they no longer fall into the new given 12 strokes and Silva cight. category.

Mr. R. S. Smith, for the Crown,

chester there was a tall inside right who plays for - Blackpool In Hong Kong now,

said that the two girls were un der 21 years of age, and be

Reserves. Sergt/Instr. Slater, who are 246 dentists on the regis

Iween Dec. 3 and Dec. 9 were cockleft at No. 41

and dribbles, well and has a body ler but caly nine of thers are

living qualified and made up of six While acknowledging the Main Street; Shaukiwan. They

swerve reminiscent of Jack, and Buchan. Chinese, one Indian and two right the Chinese Customs were found there by a In the main three reasons Europeans. In 1940 anyone who to hire or dismiss their em-detective and Roza, of the Hong ore responsible for the in had been practising dentistry ployees, the foreigners who now Kong Police, et in thick red seals and red rib- ments arrived in trucks 35 A

the shopling mass of nationalistically creased number of applicants as a main work for six months find themselves without juba vossip tied up with a report at

Police Station bon, lay in the middle.

that L desk of Louis XV, On the label balans, following th for teeth attention-the fact was admitted to the register as i stress that the procedure adopt the younger girl, had table which had been the wark inflamed

ed in their retirement is not either absconded or was missing. of students and that during the cecupation no an unqualified member. fighting group

On Information only unethical, but contrary to

received the seven pens each with a Leftists, moved from in front of dentistry was done at all; the magnificent orgax holder. the national shrine to the Allied population has increased by at

regulations still governing ein-house was visited and the girls Next after the Russians cume Rome Arés Command building on least a quarter of a million over

ployment in the Customs. and twe accused found. Evidence Britain, represented by Ambassa- the mouth side of Piazza Venezia. prewar figures, the registered

According to a cirentur issue would be given that the rent of dor Alfred Duff Cooper, the The police halted the rioting number of dentists United States, represented by but the Leftists made an exhibi- Colony was higher prewar than tal treatment 400 qualified den- employee can be dismissed un-

accused, Ambassador Jefferson Caffery tion of ripping to shreds their

Lo Kam-ying the younger ship here today. ill-health. and Fance for which Bidault wreating in front of the Allied now, many of them having re- tiete would be necessary allow less suffering from

girls, and -15, said that she lived Kristiansen building

sign of protest turned to England or left for iaz one dentist to every 5000 without three months' notice. with her parents at No, 122 Caine second and Maggi Kreatod against the terms of the treaty. other parts of China. -

of the population-

This circular has never been Road. At the end of November Norway was third.---Beuter. Lost Cities

I was told yesterday by a

The present Government den- superseded by any order and, or carly December she met first A hage crowd gathered at Le- practicing dehtist: In tal scheme in Hong Kong is therefore, is considered to be accused at a skating vente for ten minutes' silence to main, patients are suffering also totally inadequate in the still in force. Taking this into became good friends. The other protest the treaty signing, Simi- from advanced caries of the opinion of various interested corsideration, the compulsory girl was a schoolmate and she

on a frequency" of 845 kilocyder defendant. Onj retired

consider knew the cther foreignere

Havant, Feb. 10, Italy.

of the teeth, due to absorption ed yesterday..

Geraldo Gonzales, crack fighter and from 12.30 to 1.15 p.m., 6.30 ́Oliver Crowds gathered in other of the bone as one of the main; The Government dental out three months notice but all slept on the floor. The ac- New York, Ful), 9. Important houses of the capital results of malnutrition.

ed out a decisive ten-round deci-al on 0.52 megacycles. staff is made up of one Euro-back dated, is contrary to cused stayed the night three ersion over Jose Garcia Alvares, 12.30. p.m.-Delly Programma Summary. Mrs. Helen Friedmann, sister for "national mourning" but by

welterweight champion of Spain. 1237 mm.Bervico biule Box." of Dov Gruner, the Jewish ter- far the largest demonstration ne

-Associated Press. Turist now under sentence of urred in Piazza Venezia where death in Jerusalem Central Mussolini declare war

were

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Overworked Staff: The present number of dental experts is insufficient for Hong Reng's needs. For everyone in

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SPEED SKATING

Oslo, Feb. 0, Verne Lesche won the Women'

Blae Maria

of Norway waA

of

A woman and a child were Wah admitted to the Tung Hospital yesterday morning. suffering from burna received in the fire on the is "Sai ̈On": The woman. Had apparently

the Colony to have proper den-¡ in 1870 by Sir Robert Hart no.the place was paid by the two World Speed Skating Champion- ten treating herself at home,

rink

and

Dec. 3 she went to live at the

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lar protests were held throughout teeth and progressive loosening) Government officials I question their dismissal not chlywith-mince. There were no beds but known as the Gavilan Kid, punch-t 7.30 p.m., and V to 11 pim.

to persuade Grüner to appeal to 2 tiles of Trieste, Pola

the British Trivy Council for ble life.

the

Supplies Short pean dentist and five Chinese Customs regulations. Reuler. four times during that period.

"I think a large number of and bus to provide dental ser-

Big Switch-Off Starts

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.an the the gingivitis and generni vice for all employees, wives, Allies almost seven years ago. disintegration. cases is the families and schoolchildren at Prison, was due to leave here The main theme of the crowds' aftermath of the food situa-tending Goverment schools. As toolght in a Trans-World banners, fags and chanting intion during the last few years. there arc altogether abort. Skymaster airgraft "Acropolis" cadence was centred around Its effect on teeth and gums 20,000 children・ in atton- (Continued from Page 1) legal sense;

and for Palestine, where she hopes lost

2. The movement of coal Sweden baat Switzerland nine taken from Italy under does not show up at the time dance at these schools, who should Mr. Churchill's Conser

but we

are getting the real qualify for, the treatment the vatives demand a debate" on should be given top priority to six in an international Ice- terms of the peace treaty. Italian youths marching the results of it now."

only attention they are getting grounds of urgent public im- even to the extent of suspend hockey match played here today Tunes of Net-Bo-Lions-Ag to protest the signing of streets

-Among difficulties facing at the moment is for the ex-portance" Government would ing certain passenger rail-Reuter, the Italian peace

the traction of bad teeth.

not object. Labby correspan- services..> Her plane is on the Bombay broke into they, today Hong Kong dentists is

housing shortage of supplies. Dental On the supposition that one dents thought it likely that the 3 The latest reports could ther in 60 years did not Im- run and will stop at Gander, the Yugoslav military mission equipment and materials of full time dental officer might debate would be held this even "scuredly be called encourag-prove, Newfoundland, Shannon, Paris, and raised the Italian flag from every description are unobtain sec 40 children a day it would ing.

ing" and the power rute Im Although electricity was pro- Rome, Athens, Cairo, and one of the balcon houting slogans of plaster of Paris from Eng-while the, total number of work- Attlee would speak to the Com- continued more than a week.

able! For instance, the export take 500 days to achieve this, i The announcement that Mr. posed today might have to be hibited to industry for any but The students,

rast essential uses home Lydda airport where she will

battered down the gate of the disembark

The fight time building and broke down several land is still prohibited. As this ing days in a year totals only mons this afternoon and to the * Further Cutș? owners were ordered to shut off doors to get out on to the balcony is the essential quantity for 312 Of the six Government nation this evening followed an 4. That dog racing a their power only for these fivo. to raise the Italian fing The the making of dentures, it has dental staff employees, one urgent Cabinet meeting at No. major industry" of pastime hours and there was no restric- Yugoslav flag, flying from an- totally upset their manufacture works full time, four are doing 10 Downing Street this morn- probably must be entirely pro tion on the use of cur- other part of the building which All types of instruments are in two hours a week and, another is located near the American Em- very short supply and much of does six mornings every week

ing.

hibited although it was likely rent for radios at the unusual The meeting was attended by that evening performances in hour before the nine o'clock bassy, was not touched.

As the shouting and booing the oquipment needed by den.

Fuel Minister Emanuel Shin- threatres and cinemas would news instead of following it Paris, Ecb. 9. crowd outside Liu Yugoslav Mis Liets every day, will be unob

when Mr. Attlee speaks tonight: Lahore, Feb. 9,

elan building reached several tainable for months to come. A new Spanish Republican well, Supply Minister Jolin continue...

The first morning, shut-off One hundred and twenty hundred persons someone fired American dental material, if Government-in-Exile has been Wilmot and Food Minister John 6. That the cute now dar.

Rudolfo Strachey who are not full mem-kening a belt of England from period caused some confusion Moslems were arrested here harmless revolver shots from the arriving here at all, is coming formed by Senar.

the at first but gradually a "brown- today for organising a process windows over the beada of the In In very small quantities. Lippis, Secretary-General of bers of the Cabinet. They de the Scottish border le

Pokud cliffs of Dover between 9 a.m. out" resembling wartime light alon in defiance of the Punjab people, o

Reason for this shortage of sup the Sociallat Workers Party. clded Safety Ordinance. The proces Mobile police arrived in leapt plies is because a

Newspaper great deal Senor Llopis began his task of Mr. Attlee should giver and noon and between 2 p.m. Ing tiqveloped in the mist Printed and published for the

proprietors,, The son was headed by a member and dispersed most of the crewof essential; goods are being forming a new Republican Goỳ- the facts to the people emphasis and 4 p.m. dally under pain of shrouded. business areas of Enterprise, Limited, by WALTER

which began shooting "To the

United used by the Services, and by crnment last Thursday Reuing the country was in a state prosecution might be extended snow-blanketed London United JS KEATES, Windsor Hons

of emergency in all but the further If Britain's worst wen-Press.

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from New Yorld to Lydda is about 8 hours plus

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