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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 6, 1947.

GENEROUS LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL REFORM

GIFTS TO BRITAIN

Canberra, Ma". a.

The Labour Party in Park-a- ment today approved an Austra Jan Governnient proposal ; lo make a gift £10,000 ter

Britain of Australia's contribution to the Pacle War costs,

Ila bellever that New Zen. lural, following Australia's exams ple, will 'make' a similar gifl-- United Press.

Wellington, N.Z., Mar. 5. Mr. Frazer onncunced today that the Government has decided to make a gift of £10,000,000 to the British Government from the New Zealand London balances.

"The gift is a recognition of the mugnificent and unprecedented effort" by the United Kingdom and her people in nialistaining frcodent and making possible its expansion in the years to come," said the Premier. -United Press.

APPROVED IN LONDON

Important Constitutional Changes

TORPEDOED HERSELF

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The United States anbe marine "Tung” torpedoed herself in a Pacific battle in

· 1944.

The 24th and lust forpedo in her locker reversed its. Courne en route to the treget und blew her ag. Vices Admiral Charter Lockwood, United States Navy hepec- tor General, disclosed today.

Marshall Off Setenty-eight members of the

To Moscow

Washington, Már. 5.

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The Secretary of State, Gen. George C. Marshall, panied by a staff of only five experts, boarded a special Army plane this morning, and Wh scheduled to bup off at 9 am. EST for the Big Four meeting in Moscow.

Gen. Marshal belleves the first month of the talks will in

conference - dleate whether the

can cumplcic its work. If it appears to be headed for ad ditional' or weeks of squab bles, Gen. Marshall will suggest

ever lost their lives and only nine survived--Renter,

U.S. Policy Too Naive

Formal Statement In

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The weeklica-ure üdvertíned (8 "geographically correal" and are made from coloured Royal Air Force cacapa mazin. The collurs ure of papar and are edvertised as being "coupon free--as worn today by bankers, stockbrokers and members of parliament." Associated Preis.

House Of Commons Norwegian

| Approval of Legislative Council reform and of the creation of a Municipal Council in Hong Kong was formally announced in the House of Com- mons yesterday afternoon by Mr. Creech-Jones, the Secretary of State for the Colonies.

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The text of the statement was released in Hong Kung more or less simul- Disaster

taneously.

Legislative Council is to have eight Unofficial

members, and seven Official members, giving a nominal Unofficial majority of one. While the statement makes no reference to the polut,

It is inferred that His Excellency the Governor

retains the power of vėto on an issue of cruci-l Importance, by the exercise of a casting vot Fuller details are awaited; but it is understoo

EMBARGO ON RUSSIA?

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that the proposals for the Municipal Council do not vary in important particulars from H.E. Sir Mark Young's plan of August last. San Francisco, Mar. 5. Francisco physlelan recently re

Dr. Leu Elocuser, noted San Text of the statement follows;; "On May 1 my prydeetanor j turned from two years in Ching, announced in this House that today advocated the complete II.M. Government had had under removal of American troops consideration means by which from China; but said American in long Kong ng elecwhere Ja relief supplies and money must the Conial Empire the in- habitants of the territory could' continue to flow.

Speaking at the American be given a fuller and merc. the Big Four recess until Sep-Dr. Eloesser sald

Institute of Pacific Relations, responsible share in the manage-i tember and then try again.

American mal of their own affairs.. Hoj The Moscow agenda, as annily policy in China has been "to went un to say that it ngreed includes discussion of the nave."

I thought that one possible method | disarmament and demilitarisation "We, must, however, continue of achieving this end would be of Germany, future boundaries, to send relief to China unters by handing

certain reparations, form of the future we want to turn a calloused functions of internal adminis.) German state, policing of Ger shoulder." Dr. Elossor sald.tration to a Municipal Council mony for 25 to 40 years, merg-

"Ecur ing the four

millions Chinese die constituted on a full representa- present Zones into que economic unit and dis- every year who should not die." Live basis, but that the Governor tributlan of Germany's foreign United Press.

of Hong Kong: had been asked assets among the wartime Alles.

thoroughly to examine these -United Press,

NEW CHIEF IN INDO-CHINA

Paris, Mar. fi.

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UNRRA APPROVES Important, istucs in consultation

CHINA REQUEST

Washington, Mar. 6. The UNRRA Central Com- mittee today approved a $5,000.

Emere Bollaert, former Pre-000 Chinese "open market" cot, fect of Lyons, was named to-

ton sale programme. day by Premier Paul Ramader!

The allocation was made sub.

as High Commissioner to Indo-Ject to a requirement that the

Ching replacing Admiral Thier!

Chinese Government give 10

of

with representatives sections of the communities in Bong Kong.

Municipal Council The Governor and his ad- Visers held these consultations and after Consulering other {alternatives he came to the con- elusion, with which I agree, that should be set up he long-Kong G Municipal Council

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ry d'Argenliu.

The nomination of a civilian! per cent of the cloth and five the widest representative

was considered here as a con- per cent of the cotton directly cillatory gesture to the Anto the poor for use as padding namite prple.

In winter clothing United

The Cabinet coomonique did! Press, -

not say d'Argenlia bad resign-|

ed. It statel "The Gonnell of

members will be elected and the basis possible. The majority of igneit will gradually

assume

as many of the présent functions of the Central Government as Shanghai, Mar. 5. can appropriately be assigned to Ministers believes it would hel The American President Lines Fil The Munkelpality will in- better if the task of carrying Marine Lynx was quarantined, clude Kowloon, but not that out its policy in

Indo-Chink outside Shanghal this morning area of the Now Territories out were confided to a Parliamen- due to a case of smallpox aboard.side Kowloon which, by reason! tary personality." United The ship is carrying 946 of its rural character, is Press.

passergers-United Press.

entirely suitable for immediate Inclusion in the area to be ad. ministered by the Municipal Council.

Full House Signs At Police Cells

Legislative Council

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Washington, Mor. 5. Bépielation to embarge all 'exports to Russia until Mor- cow makes satisfactory settlement" for the 95 Lend Lease merchant ships fronte the United States was intra- duced in tho House bu Re-

Bradicy. incsentative

of Michigan.

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O who to chairman

of the Merchant Marine Committee, told reporters that it would apply to:

private as well as Government,” “skip=" mente, Bradley said Rewrite

declined discuss with the United States hor inten- tion with respget to these ships which the obtained dur- ing

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Canada To Speak For Herself

Ottawa, Mar, 5. The Secretary of External they Canada would have her own Affairs told Parlament yester foreign polley and not speak through Britain, even though she might fail to get all she wanis in foreign councils.

Loula St. Laurent made statement during the all-day debate centered around Canada's failure to obtain, full role in shaping the German-Austrian peace treaties, principally ba. Cause of Soviet objections.

th that the eenstitution of the Legislative Council should difficulty.

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As a possible way out of the Veteran'

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be modified with the object of Green proposed "We should secaring on, that, body a more take advantage of our member- direct and a propertionately in-ship in the British Empire.... ercased representation of the we fought as an empire and we Under should, make treaties in the HIN recommendation, which I kame" way.” have accepted, the officla! mem. Louis St. Laurent said he bers will be reduced i soven, was "in very sharp disagree-

i quoficial community.

China's financial plight gave the Water Police their worst headache in months yesterday as frantic telephone calls over the evening on the question of lock-up accommodation at various police-stations followed the discovery that 112 men, women and minors arrested for illegally boarding the ss." "Hiram" did not have enough Hong Kong currency to ball themselves.out. The crowd who boarded

ene each by the Hong Kong the had the Emergency Unit, #Hiram" in the hope of obtaining Waterfront Searching Unit

th: General Chamber of Commerce passage to Swatow Bad no Host all available staff at the Water and the Unofficial Justices of Kong notes, not having foreseen Police Station en route to th the Peace. The remainder, wifl a charge of legal burding

ship.

continue to be nominated by the Uncertain whether Hong Kong The polles vanguard, clamber-Governor. currency would not be called in at ing aboard, discovered the "Inn- Swatow

H.M. Government are satisfied as foreign currency, they tiny" in more than hundred that there measures constitute had Invested

all in purchases mell, women and children, lying the best means their of all sorts and In purchases of down' on deck, clinging to every tinned cigarettes particularly, Immovable object and hiding in their genuine desire and inten- They had barge enough to every concelvab'e nook rather tion to give the pesule of Heng obstruct all passageways on the shor, by urged off the ship as un-Kong a practical and effective

and of eight unofficial members ment" with Green's two will be directly nominated Assecinted Press. by the Municipal Council, and

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Wild Weather's

Final Flourish?

London, Mar. 6. Red-faced weathermen having predicted that warm"rain from the south today would bring on the thaw they forecast for yesterday--and South England was struck by the worst bliz- zard of the winter.

Road and rail traffic was in chaos today. Most highways and railroads were closed to traffic. Hundreds of thousands of Londoners were de- layed hours in getting to and from work. One train took 15 hours for, and sent flying by near-hurris ʼn normally three-hour run from cane gales, London Brighton where the storm was accompauled by a 60-mile-an-hour ynie. Traina that started for the capital yes- terday were just drawing, in at noon today.

The outlook officially 'was for a little more snow, a great deal .of rain and' the long-awaited | thaw to end England's woral winter in 50 years.

Telephone and telegraph wires were mapped in many places under the weight of ice from sleet and ley rain.

Novelist Beatrice Chase re ported by telephone from Dart- moor that "a Siberian easterly gale is blowing, I have never bufore seen such a thing. Far- thers are cutting ivy from their houses to feed their sheep)."— United Press.

U.S. Plane

An Air Ministry weather ex- A Lloyds shipping in-pert explained. "The thaw was telligence telegram from late in arriving, we guess," the Seaforth radio today icy railroad coaches all night. Many people were stranded In reports that the follow- The diner served coffee as long ing-has-been-received as it Fired On from the Norwegian mo- | 1eported all over London. One bus skidded und crashed and lor vessel Bolivar: "Ship held up 60 trolley buses be breaking in two. Crew hind it for hours. now leaving."

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The thaw, meanwhile, reached

where tipe Scilly Isles

tem perature rose to 49 degrees Fahrenheit, in London at noon it was above freezing.

Palping, Mar. 5. transport plane was fired at

A United States Army C47

Monday afternoon by unident!- fled elements five miles north of Polping while making a routine test, flight.

London, Mar. 4. A Bill which, accord-

The "Bolivar" had previously ing to the Lord Chancel- lor, prevents "the little ported that it was grounded In the vicinity of the Nish man from being crushed Light, outside Dublin, and was

The plane was hit four Umea and one tire was punctured· but “ by the juggernaut of requiring the Immediate assis

Heavy Seas

there were no casualties, accord- State" in legal matters, tance of tugs. The tug "Bustler"

official statement - Goalproduction hold-ups ing to an was agreed to in princi- Bolivar's assistance.

now-proceeding- -to--the

were reported from many open which said it planded safely. enst "pits and heavy snow" in- House of Lifebeats from Kingstown and terfered with rail

The pllat observed what a$1- ple by the

shipments peared to be a village on fre Lords today when the Howth also went out tonight while heavy seas hampered and out of curiosity descended Crown Proceedings Bill to the "Bollvar" (6,230 tons), coastel ships. Underground an an altitude of 2,000 feet. which was on a voyage from miners continued to work.

The plane received small arma was given a second read-

Rosario to Oslo and carries London airport was closed fire. No fighting or trou ing

after. Blush and snow had movements were apen-Associa- The Lord Chancellor (Lord twelve passengers and 39 crew.

It la believed that the pas frozen hard to runways butted Press. *** Jowitt) suld that the Bul puts sengers include Lord Mout airplanes

and were lauding the Crown (in this case Got evens (Evans of the Broke). taking off from Croydon's THE WEATHER ernment Departments)

In the who commanded the "Broke" in gruas runways normally. All

1. An antleychutík, zentral da Jumu same position as the subject, so the attack on Zeebrugge in the early merging services excopt. and pressure ring beer NW China. that a anbject who wanted to first World War.

one to Lisbon, however, were Regular deelong in the Yellow Ba | Eastern Bex and the Gulf of Tunklow an bring action against the Crown

It had been feared that the delayed owing to fog. could proceed as though against "Relvar", lashed by the heavy

Today, with strecta anding eastward

Today's Fareehat-1.ht seas, might break her back, and Park" covered with up to a winds, weather dull and foggy with another subject...

There were, be yard, old the Lloyds intelligence confirm Bexley chose to announce a 100

foot of snow tha suburb, afperlaxis of rain. rules that the King could not beet the worst fears.

Yesterday's Temperaturú impleaded in - his own courts. It was not known inte tonight swimming pool rates for this Sunshine: N.

per cent increase in outdoor Maximum: G4 dex, F. Minimum 54.4 dr. Y und that the King could do no whether any of the passengera sumnier. A village in Lincoln-Rimfells 12.3 mm. Total since Jan. 1 - wrong, but this was all being or crew had been, Injured, but shire, Normanby-le-Wold, cut swept away now that

the ambulances were standing by off by deep snow for a month, Crown, the State itself,

was pending the return of the life was freed yesterday, engaging in such activities as boats-Reuter.

just. in je pa! time to get snowed in again. Bara i mal, trading.

Rel. Humidity Near-Hurricane, The Bill abolishes Petitions

Dow Pulst At Brighton, roof slates and wind Direction chimney bricks were ripped off Wind Fores

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Tokyo, Mar. 5.

of Right and other ancient Mr. Glen A Gilbert, chief of forms of civil proceedings by technical missions of the Civil

and against the Crown.

Aeronautics Administration, re- aero- Opposition speakers warmly vealed today he expects welcomed the Bill which, they dromes in Japan to be handled by United States civil officials kid, nbclished Injustice-Rettifter occupation ends.--United

Press.

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BABY REVELATION IN MURDER TRIAL

Bristol, Mar. 4. Bristol wife's passion for another man was al- leged by the prosecution at the Bristol trial today to have been the motive for the killing of Cecil George Cornock at his home, Welling- ton Hill, West Henleaze, Bristol, on Decem- ber 7.

Cornock was found dead in the bath tub and his wife, Mrs. Rosina Cornock, (34) is on trial on a charge of murdering him. She pleaded not

· guilty. remarka-urales that Mr. Commock,

The prosecuting counsel ro- ca violent passion for each who other and' that";b:th looked for- ward with the utmost eagerness for to whien-"cach could, belong "ex-

elusively, to the other."

Communal Riots In of Achloving. Lahore

Hud said" kho had had no normal relations with her husband. many years, was found in Cardiff jail to be expecting a baby fact of paramount importance in the case, he said.

Mr Roberts sold that accord- ing to the prisoner her husband was a sexual pervert who indulg. Mr. G.D Roberts, KC, prosecuted in practices which a normal Ing told the jury: "The case for person would regard with disgust the prosecution is that the motive and revulsion. He got his wife for the murder: was the passion to tie him up by the wrists and this women tatertalhed for an- junkles and then various practices other man one. Ullbert Kenneth were executed upon Bedford, à cripple who lived at wore women's clothing, är Bath, "According to Mrs, Cognock On the night before Cornock's Now Daiki, Mar. 4. she met Bedford in August 1946, | death, Bedford had, witnessed a Communal riots flating up"With the comment of the dead scene from a cupboard under the shore in the mannerment of through Lahore's walled city man Bedford began to come to stairs in which the wife had brought 30 deaths and injuries. Corncek home for weekends caned her husband while his

While searching the house after wrists and ankles were fled," to 47 students and policemen the dead man had boon found Ah-Impression of what hap today, and

the police discovered a piloaf pened to both the lovers can be STATIONS

An 11-hour curfew was Im correspondence between Mras|"imagined!!! Me: Hubert zaldi The {mediately Imposed ; and troops Coracek and Bedford." selger paxtonight Confucie, inaleted on The Canadian Government situation from getting out

Violent Passion andher disgusting and in- Ottawa, Mar were called allt to prevent the

dible thing he added—Reu- thway the prosecution mission that? ihèze two' announced today that with the hand,

spacious front verandah of the wanted, excess Passenger'ha' their own w{{knies," Walor Police Station at Talingha Parties of pollas-

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Tigh ball could be accepted it ing pigs' on sen voyager, Pa

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lity were sent to Centful to pass tutes, a now Water Polles records the night. Attempts were being. (mado" to find room for some stat

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