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CHINA MAIL

No. 33588,

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Gold Gamblers Dump Holdings

Shanghai, Feb. 12.

Spurred by rumours that Government is planning drastic action to curb the inflation, speculators 'dumped their holdings today in a spectacular profit-taking session which toppled gold bar quotations from CN$920,000 per ounce at the close yesterday to CN$700,000 at the close of today's half-day market.

The United States dollar toppled from CNS17.500 to CN$14,500. The question remained whether a reversal in the week-long collapse of the value of the Chinese currency could be held. Commodity prices which shot-wis credited largely to Gen- Some in eralismo "Chiang Kai-shek's up as fast, and in

intervention in the atances.much faster than the persuna! exchange Tiations. showed situation, could be maintained little inclinate to follow the du, to a general loss of cofil- goal and U.S. dolar downward ence of the Chinese people in

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Kuala Lumpur, Feb. 11. Twenty-three. Dunes have

urrived in Solana

placements for men of the West Yorkshire Regiment dur demobilisation and re- for

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serving render the achine whmabi Danish wenty recruite receive Their murty training and fear modery methods of warfare in the British arty--enter,

ITALIAN HINT ON TREATY

on.

WILD

WEATHER: NO FUEL CRISIS RELIEF

London, Feb. 12. As two-thirds of England lost its power except for

its most essential industries for the third con-. secutive morning at 9 a.m, today, coal piles were dwindling to disappearing point and Government was to decide whether to extend a compulsory current cut to the entire United Kingdom, possibly excepting the "extreme north of Scotland.

In parts of the Midlands, the most heavily concen-

trated industrial centre in the world, some in dustries classified as essential were closing down voluntarily because they lacked fuel. The Admiralty today issued, no longer feel confidence in the orders for the Royal Navy to Government's arrangements for assist the blizzard-bound coal fuel and power supplies."

The Leicester fleet waiting at Newcastle-on- Tyne. Radar-equipped warships sent fo escort colliers through the fog and the moun tainous seas lashing Britain's east coast.

were

Ten, colliers carrying ap-

America Britain's Plight

And

Volunteer OF 25 PER CENT Decorated

A tax on business profits at the rate of 25 per cent. Is among other predictions by well-informed quarters in connection with the Government's pending Income Tax proposals,

annun for the first

no

ed States Consul Gener-with lesser

child, and perhaps for the second, An Old China Hand said that

of the Distinguished Service Medal in the British Army.

for heroin in

7

Hotel Life

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Nanking

housing Government

For heroism in action near Kaitik, Burma, in November, 1944, a Hong Other features of the Income Tax scheme, as it Kong boy, Corporal affects individuals, are, the "China "Mail" Ricardo G. Laurel, of the learns reliably an upper limit of non-taxable Hong Kong Volunteer income for bachelors of $3,000 per annum. Company, was presented Family allowances, it is under sonable price, which is by at a ceremony yesterday stood, are likely to be on the scale means the case here."

"I Shudder" in the office of the Unit-$1,000 per.

lesser allowances for further once again, the medium-salaried al with the Bronze Star children.

Indications are, in fact, that the class would be the hardest hit. Medal for Valour.

senie

adopted in the War Taxation The Ecorer classes would not be affected while the richer classes The award is the equivalent Ordinance le define taxable in-su

come has been re-employed, with who were nongis teves erhops minor deviations, in the riche were flording the Col The presentation was made preparation of the new proposals ony-would be able to meet it in stride. especially as in the that their Yesterday's disclosure of what

cases it would be by Lieut. Col. J. J. O'Connor, of

Government apparently has in majority of

difficult to And cut what Incomie comment they really had. caused much mind the United States Military At-

'think teche's Staff at Nanking, in the thrtughout the Colony yesterday.

every time shudder Said one woman: A thousand of " said another businessman. presence of the United States Chamber of Consul-General, Mr. G. D. Hop dollars hardly covers the cost of It's a bit much, dammit, when Commerce urged Government, per, the Officer Commanding my child's milk."

A business man asked: " it ne can't even live properly on what one is earning these days work the Hong Kong Volunteer Deukely to be retrospective?" to establish a four-day Rome, Feb. 11

week until the crisis is over. fence Corps. Lieut.-Cal. E. J. R.

Informed that the taxt year is and it will certainly mean, at the very best, a definite lowering in Wind at High Wycombe, furni-Mitchell, and members of Cor understood to be in with April my own standard of living, and Count Storza, Italian As the rush to convert money Official Statements

ist. 1946, and end with March imagine, of a good many others Minister, has

and clothing factories 'poral Laurel's family. ture continued, an emer- While the Minister of In-Foreign

brought old hard operated The La Ronds

citation accompanying 31st, 1947, he said: "Then I shall

have to finish up in Stanley! Pue in the same category." conference called gency

byformation Peng Usuch-pei, in asent a note to the Allied

proximately 40,000 tons of coal machines out of museums and the award reads: the Mayur K. C. Wu, who advanced firess conference in Nanking Governments

left Newcastle last night for put them to work again. "Corporal Ricardo G. Laurel just about managed to keep ge I certainly haven't the money a possibility of rigid rationing assured that the "governmen:

18001470, Hong Kong Volunto meet income tax on anything Criticism Of and distribution of daily neresis confident it is able to cope signing of the Italian don their hardy coast-wise United Press.

teer Company, 77th Indian In like that scale." sities to curb hoarding. The with the financial crisis" and peace treaty yesterday, cu braving the worst weather

fantry Brigade, British Army. action near proposed plan would ratlon rice, while other guvernment spokes- saying that the Italian in half a century. Another 100

cal ships lay in the flour, cooking oil, salt, sugar, men quoted the Generalissime people had, in the past, awaiting naval assistance.

Kaitik, Burma, on 17 November

A junicr white-collar worker 1944. coal, tea, cigarettes and piece as assuring that economie col

Winter paralysed rail centres

said: "Owing to the apse could be weathered with acted "under pressure"

"During Hoods.

attack on anshortage. I have to live with my it was unofficially

NEW YORK, FEB. 14. Many observers doubt thin three months, competent - from a regime which "sb in the north and in Wales and

chemy position by a company of wife and child in one room in n

THE NEW YORK HERALD Kachin that upwards of 1,000,000 tons today's improved session, which servers doubt whether the situa- many people abroad sus-,

Rangers, Corporal hotel. We are just keeping our tion will wait that long. tained by lavishing their of coal lay piled above ground

because the TRIBUNE" COMMENTED TO- Washington, Feb. 11. Laurel was in charge of a lightheads above water

raised my salary and DAY IN AN EDITORIAL THAT awaiting movement. The Minis praises upon it."

President Truman is machine gus. In the ensuring firm has try of Fuel and Power and the

action, two Kachin platoons given me a high-cost-of-living al- THE "PROGRESSIVE INFLA

lowance to cover it.

Now Gov TION IN CHINA WHICH BE Bri-

were trapped in a small valley ernment proposes a deduct part GAN WHEN- National Coal Board were unwatching closely

THE GOVERN 1 able to give an official estimate tain's fuel crisis deve-and were being subjected to of that money for income tax. MENT WAS FORCED BY THE

Freezing-Up

which means that once again WAR TO RESORT TO THE the White enemy machine gun fire. af lopments,

PRINTING PRESS FOR numbers

his shall be in the regard for

'red

MONEY, SEEMS

MS TO BE AP House states today.

"The President is following lown safety. Corporal Laurel "The high wages and allow-

THE ances am getting now are enly PROACHING placed his machine gun on a

the cost of living medation OMITTED TO BE WORTH- equipment. ...

LESS Bring from this exposed posi1 tan. And in the Colony,“ -

continued All railway

editorial companies are

tlen, the Japanese zerood mor-

Told the tax would probably be The giving top priority to the move ties cannot be carried out unlessment of coal. The London, Mid. Tribune, in an editorial contar fire on him.

retrospective, he said: "In that morale of Chinese Government ..there "In spite of the mortar fire,case I shall be glad to join the officialy never was lower. a United Press they are upheld by the moral con land and Scottish Railway can ment. said that the real cause Meanwhile,

would be no proft in an all-out dispatch From Canten. quoting scene of the people who sign celled a number of express and of the crisis was Eritain's he kept his gun in action until ranks of those living at Govern-

the trapped Kachin platoons ment's expense in Slanicy. I can-American effort to prop Press, sail that

passenger trains to move basic economic weakness." the Chinese

the Freight The Labour Ministry Stating that Britain might were able to withdraw. The not affort to pay income tax in government which is unwilling t

steps necessary to obtain the of the has announced that members of have to cut her armed forces heroism of Corporal Laurel un- the near future, let alone for the reform completely and take

backing An ex-Serviceman said: "The

of a majority the former Polish Army will to solve her manpower shortage,doubtedly saved the lives of

American dallara-or even be given work in the mines at the paper added: "If British many men and reflects great whole of my gratuity has gone 450,000,000 Chinese.

military out of credit upon himself and the down the drain merely helps American dollars plus frocps have to move the rate of 300 a week.

Allies."to meet current living expenses. Labour exchanges struggled certain areas what will happen Armed Forces of the

Government apparently wishes to supplies could not keep zuch with those thrown out of work in the vacuum thus created?"

speed me on towards getting real- government in powes Indefinitely. and their number soared well All shades of American poli-

The real salvation of China mst

phove 4,000,000.

tical opinion, express inercasing

"I didn't mind paying income cume from the Chinese, Amertem sympathy for Britain's plight.

Freezing temperatures still pre-ax at Home because, thanks to help could be aportant but much but there are widely divergent vailed over most of Europe today. centrols, it was possible to get the views how it came about.

In Berlin the temperature was necessities of life-housing, fuel needed The Conservative press uses ten degrees and was expected to and power, and food-at a rea

German the crisia

argument slump further tonight. Socialism, bat the hospitals reported Bve deaths dur. against Liberals view the situationing the night because of the cold,

Austria's temperatures were sympathetically and praise the few degrees below freezing and valiant efforts of the Labour Vienna had a low of 21 degrees. Party--Reuter,

United Press».

One-Shoe Murder Arrest

Manchester, Feb. 12. Two detectives waded through waist - deep snowdrifts to a farm- house near Derby last night and arrested a 16- year-old youth charged

with

the murder

Sheila Gowrie..

of

ان

Observers feel that the Gen- eralissimo's expectations

In sening the treaty, the Ita- help in the form of the arrival fan Government wants to prove of United States surplus goods. that in faces squarely those pain- as the only way to Japanese reparations, Nation- fat forts

and pos- seeding the advent of construc alist military gains sible new United States assist five peace in the world, Count

Sforza stated. ance, are all to uncertain to

But he first duty of my Gov- restore confidence,

avaly loyalty towards

Increasing

estimated

anners are stopping work be cause of lack of space and roll-

"Without

TIME

and stressenmont is in act with absolutej ing stock to pul more coal and the situation with interest-forward slope and fired on the /on paper, for it all goes to meet WHEN THE CHINESE DOL-

that positive effective measures must be taken at ce.

Canton Collapse

business, activities in Canton. were virtually at a standstill as a result of the sensational drop

of the Chinese dollar.

Financial, commercial and in- dustrial undertakings were said!

The body of the ten-year-old to be on the "verge of total col-j

governments and their peoples, In the spirit of this loyalty it is

remember that peace well

Crea-

them," he added.-Reuter.

NIGHT CLUB

girl was found on January 22 lapse" while coth, rice and TOLL

on the back step of her Man-banking were expected to halt chester home after she had been operations today. miesing two days.

4

There is discussion about Berlin, Feb. 11.

ending industrial payments for Canton newspapers reportį Eighty-six persons were s

4 guaranteed work week, es- She was fully clothed except

that eight to in banks will dore missing following the fire which for her right shce and Scotland while transportation in, the city gutted Berlin night club on i timated to be costing industry Yard detectives believed she

and workers are still anywhere up to £15,000,000 k was strangled by a phyeopathic is hulted because if gasoline fa Saturday

ifting through the debris hunt- week. Stoppage of these pay being sold.

ments would throw an adde bur- ing for bodies,

Polee Headquarters earlier hadden on Government in the pay hands" and inter carried to the

were sted 10 missing but later it went to retaiers. yard. several days later in a neigh-rocketing in commodity prices. had turned up. Some who failed bour's yard.

manine "with very strong In Canton, 18 elsewhere, the

+

Jowest laried classes

The missing shoe was found suffering mast due to the sky-nounced that 18 of the numbe Britain's harassed people

Merchants, facing a "ren on to others had been receivreras Limited, Britain's

The youth, whose name was not revealed, was brought to Manchester is an express train that made a special trip.

The police are expected to question him in another case which silwed striking smilari- Ules-the murder of four-year- old Norma Dale at York last September. The Dale girl's right shoe also was missing and Arither child had been defiled In any way..

The police were unable to i determine a motive in either case. They said, however, that the arrcated youth was neighbour of Sheila and was Working on a farm as a labourer. Laboratory tests showed smears of meat and potato pie an the sleeve of Sheila's dress, leading, Investigatars to believe she trusted her assailant enough to eat with him-and possibly that she knew him. United Press.

THE WEATHER

The Biberian anticyclone extends over Que Sea of Japan, North China and the E China Sea whilst there is ridance for a. wedre of high, fresture over the China B., A sucecasion of fertile, wave depressions sppers to be murlig trom W to E aloox the China costal area and malwarš. Pressure, is low in the squatòria!· regloss with a market try of low pressure E of the Philippines:,

Today's Forecast-Fresh E winda, moderating 1 wasther cloudy with pain and, ́ériante: "Improving 'later.: Yesterday's Wouther

Maximum: 68.0 deg, Tall

: 365 dɛɛ. Fik.

Banshine: NILLA

Rainfall

Trace. Tolal since Jan... I--

had been suffering from took another blow wher

Car-

third their goods," either closed their shock shops or bought in other goods ing treatment of private houses, largest tobacconists, announced The bodies were so badly char- that no more cigarettes can be immediately because "goods at

in pieces that the "irst sent to retaiers. present are the only things ¦ counts of 91 bodies recovered ap- which have any value."-United peared to be an error-United

Press,

red und

Press,

.Bombs Thrown In

Tel-Aviv Battle

Jerusalem, Feb. 12,

Jews fought Jews in the Palestine coastal city of Tel-Aviv in a battle during which home-made bombs were thrown and at least a dozen per- sons were injured, private sources reported. Fighting began, the informanta said, when youths "presumed to be adherents of the Irgus Zvai Leumi" attempted to storm club- rooms of the Hashomir Hazair

political

Hurlin

ITALIAN BOMB PROTESTS

outspokenly anti-terrorist

Tricale, Feb. 12, The Allied Military Govern "Molotov cocktails" ment headquarters was attacked bombs made by filing bottles with on Monday morning by several xasoline into the clubrooms the persons with machine guns and attackers caused dres, later ex- hand-grenades, it was learned to; Linguished.

day.

was killed' Seven occupants in the club- A civil policeman rooms and at least five of the at- and another wounded. The attack Comeno about 15 tackers were wounded, the in-occurred at formants zaid.

kilometers north of Trieste,

Most of Palestine was fittery. It was the second AMG head Police and military forces stond quarters attacked. Previously a thrown into at alert daylong in expectation of hand-grenade was

terrorism the AMG headquarters at Morra new outbreaks of

between here and Gorizia-URL Associated Press.

ed Press.

More Detained

Six persons were detained to- day out of 123 screened at Po Aviv during police search hotels, cafes and cinemas. Outside

"We shut down like every- body else on Monday and our cigarette production has stop- red," an official of Carreras said, "We have been eking out supplies from accumulated stack."

All Country Freezing

Virtually all of Britain was freezing. At 10 am. Air Minis- try, roof temperature in London was 27 degrees. An east wind brought damp and bitter cold from the North Sea and the weather forecast WIE more Frigid temperatures and snow In the next four days.

材

Aa the Goverment great

switch-off found the country "barely holding its own' in the these fuel crisis, there were

aded developmenta:

Food Minister John Strachey announced that bakers use electricity to take but not pies and tarts, biscuits and other pastries.

secretary, Mr. Charles stid".

The New York

Ross.

Herald-

EUROPE FREEZES

London, Feb. 12.

Convicted Murderer

Divorced

London, Feb. 12. Walter Graham Rowland, 38-year-old convicted murderer, heard yesterday that his appeal against the second death sentence passed on him had been dismissed.

With the dismissal came the revelation that his wife had been granted a divorce in December which had been kept secret so that the murder trial jury might not be prejudiced.

Rowland was sent to Borstal killing and on Monday when in 1927 for the attempted mur- he heard the Lord Chief-Jus- der by strangling of a 16-year- tice dismles his appeal, Row- land shouted, as he had done so cld girl. Ann Schofield.

to

On his release he married often before, "I am an innocent | and after his wife's deathí re-mun" it is now considered like- ank married. His second wife was ly that his solicitor will

to the the girl he had once tried to for leave. to appeal kill, Ann Schofield.

House of Lords. In 1934 Rowland strangled David John, Ware,

& clerk might his 2-year-old baby daughter who is serving a sentence for bread und was sentenced to death. theft, may not be callid on to though he consistently pleaded give the "confession" which his innocence. This sentence the authorities are stated Mr. Strachey classified the was cominuted to one of life believe Is false,-Associated

but he served Press. sugar and chocolate industries imprisonment

only six years before being. as non-essential.

The London Transport Board, released to join the army in whose vehicles, carried a quar- 1940. ter million lees passengers than Rowland was schlenced usual yesterday, met to con- death again in January for the sider further cuts in their ser murder of a 40-year-old woman on a bombed site in Manches Newspapers reverted to their ter. Again he protested

Finnocence, wartime four-page forms.

vice.

Candles Short.

to

his

SALE OF RAILWAYS

IN ARGENTNE

London, Feb. 12. After 12 weeks of protracted negotiations which, several It was while this trial was times threatened to end in d

ON OTHER PAGES stockades in price pending that his wife claimed deadlock the British and Argen

of progressive restrictions an 1rte and cominunications Page Tro Palestine A no new

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Final Stager In Trial

Tokunaga.

the past 24 hours. Officials deny Page Three that the military judges who Noma And H.K. Surrender. sentenced the three Irgunials to Page: Four

.. death are being heavily guarded Meinst possible retaliatory action.

finited Press.

9:29 kuzute,

Income Tax. Fans Five

Soviet Change Dr Mind,

f which were increased yes and was granted a divorce on tine missions reached in agres terday, were running low and the grounds of cruelty: -businessmen asked their, wives

In queue for them at corner.

"Confession"

man.

ment in Buenos Aires yester day on the purchase by Argen- tina of British owned railways had in the countryga

Mr. Sydney Gampell, Reuters made Financial Editar, forecast that is the agreed price would be the £136,500,000,- Reuter

Fere so their offices, might The condemned. have light in the cut-off periods: based his appeal, in a confes

The National Union of Manu- ginn" said to have been facturers, representing 4,00d by a fellow prisoner who firms, notified Government we stated to have admitted

post year.

into debt.

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Press

in Nanking."United

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