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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MARCH 11, 1947.

CHINESE INCOME TAX OBJECTIONS

Strongly Worded Petition From Chamber Of Commerce

Appeal To Members

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Of Councils

(By Margaret Bradbury)

Strongly worded letters, urging Government to postpone the introduction of income tax to the Colony will reach all Chinese representatives on the Executive and Legislative Councils this morning from the Chinese Chamber of Com- merce which held a special meeting yesterday to discuss the subject.

The letter, which takes the form of a petition, is signed by Mr. Tung Chung Wai, Chairman of the Chamber, which has a total membership of 8,000,

"At that time," said Mr. "the Coliny was proa. the question tee was set up to deal with any ought not to arise now, when matters which might arise in the Colony is far from being

proposeif proper nus. connection with the taxation,

After the meeting yesterday.

when members deliberated for Kwok,

over four hours, a subeommit-perous. Surely

ATTACKED BY "GHOSTS"

Manto, Mar. 10.

The Manila Bulletine" re-

pote thei a eyazed 19-year-

bid Filipino whipped aut

蒙

to

tun kaife while, vieling u taren in defead himself against "ghost" attempting, afeangle lam-and hacked his fellow perampers, killing mix and wounding ten.

Amory thune he killed were an expertint mother_and_her'

The tra tutungo err-aled mun. nedu, accurred in the ma was entering San Sebastian in Boros Sur province-Waited

Press.

Old Love Letter Jailed Him

H.K. Man's Search

For Japanese

Girl

Tokyo, Mar., 10.

A Hong Kong resident has written to one of

THE NEWSPAPER EXTERF(IST,

Mee

Frice: 20 Cents,

AMERICANS IN HAIFA COURT

-Jerusalem,~Mar...-0... Twenty of the crew- cluding 18 Americnym-of the Jewish illegal immigrant

Abril, sekich reacheit Haifa last night with GOU men, women and children on hmrd, will appear before the Haifa umpistrates' court fo morrow chargid ja ih "ziding and getting legal immi gration.

All but three of the immi- grants were tolay tranship- ped ithout incident to two ships which have loft for Cyprus-Reuter,

Tokyo's leading newspapers to find his Japan- Police

ese girl whom he met in Hong Kong in 1943.

| weltlong - in a Kobe newspaper. you know."--United Press.

He wrote "my request in

urgent—almost desperate."

A representative of the news.

| paper sald "This man apparent-

ly does not know it coats nearly

800 yen for a single advertise-

Insertion ment

in Japancae newspapers today under present inflation-hit Japan. However,

suppose we will Carry

General Strike In

Chief Arrested

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ATTLEE CABINET RESHUFFLE?

London, Mar. 10′′ Prime Minister Attlee, on the eve of the toughest test his Government has had to meet in the House of Commons, went before his Parila- mentary Labour Party today in an outspoken meeting which observers expected to produce a Cabinet reshuffle soon,

Mr. Attice went before the Sir Stafford will he preson' Party to coordinate his forces for the first time to complete for the three-day debate in the the budget of Benin's econɔ. Commons on Government's mile assets and abilities for the economic White Paper. Labour the year when he opens Föld 394 of the 640 seats in debate, the House and Mr. Mittee is expected to tell his Punty not to abstain from voting in the debate for an verran,

Reporte leaking from today's Labour Party meeting anida back bencher levelled criticism against several members of the Cabinet.

The Minister of Labour. Mr. George Isanes, is expected to wind up the first day of the debate for Government after Mr. Oliver Lyttelton had open- ed for the Conservatives.

Tragedy

are

in-

In a letter which SCAP cen-, scriptions of her except she is sors in Tokyo cleared before pretty, 25 years old and aboutį delivery by regular post office five feet three inches in height." channels to the newspaper, the He said the girl was repatriated}

The debate will be elimaxed Hong Kong man wrote on Feb. to Japan after he returned to

on Wednesday when Mr. Wins- 2. 1917, asking the newspaper Macno in November, 1944.

ton Churchill, Leader of the to make every endeavour" to In a letter which he enclosed

Paris, Mar. 9.

that These reports and Food Opposition. will mova find the girl, Masuko Matsuda for the girl be Raid "Today, Armand Fournet, Paris Minister John Strachey and this House has no confidence of Kobe "whom I call _Mabel" after so long a separation 1 a Police Commissioner Minister of Trade Sir Stafford in Government whose actions He even enclosed US$6.00 so convinced you are the only girl who raised the French Cripps came under fire. One hitherto have served only to the paper could carry "severat" for me, Say you want me and

back bencher · referred to aggravate the national difficul- in-I'll be at your side somer than Bag over the Police Pre-Strachey, who recently conclud- tics and whose proposals for insertions and also some

feature in the fighting an agreement in Washington the future either for the liberation of to purchase United States Bur- adequate or dangerous," "At present. Hong Kong;

Mr. Arthur "Turkey

Greendwood,. Paris, was arrested to- plus of turkeys, ns After making an unfavour-trade has declined tremendous-

geting Lendor of the House. able statement on the introduc-ly. An increased burden in the

day on a charge of hav- Strachey."

Sir Stafford, not over-popu- will wind up for Government. tion of income tax to the form of taxation would surely

ing disclosed confiden- lar with his Party and definite-United Press; Mr. the italian," me: worsen Colony Mr. Tung told

tial information to ty unpopular with the Oppost- "Following the liberation of Kwok added that he was afraid, I income tax were levied, that

Bristol, Mar. 9.

Joseph Joanowici, there- tion and large sections of "the the Colony, the merchants at

A year-old love letter

by allowing him to es- British press, was criticised for least, had to see their way to it would mean the removal of

bis administration of the Board recovering great wartime loss certain amount of capital landed Jack A. Bryan,

cape from justice. the

of Trade. It is erstood in ea. So far they are not get back [From the Colony.

because it is for u

Branowict, is a Rusalan by was suggested tha he be re on their feet, and it is plain "Towards the end of the meet19-year-old American Insertions

birth who served during the moved as President of the from Brighton, Romeone find his girl friend.*** thni

vate was taken on the sailor the resumption of the

(Under the official military

Wat Singapore, Már. 9.

In the police resistance Board of Trade and made Lord Colony's trade is not yet in full subject of forwarding a letter Alabama, back in gaol conversion rate of 18

yen to Forecast of a general strike group known as "Honneur at President of the Council and -swingThe mujority of the tench Chinese member on the

lender of the Honse in place of today.

US$1.00...... five dollars would of Malayan labour unless the Polee", led by Fournet. merchants here have had to re- Councils with a view entrig

Saturday amount.to only 75 yen.) Bryan escaped on

jailed Kedah Indians are

The police declined to dis- Mr. Herbert Morison, at-pre- build their homes, re-establish for their support in the post-

why they are now Rent ill with thromnals. The lat- The man told the newspaper, leased was made yesterday by close their business, and generally ponement of the Tax. This vote marning from the naval deten

made One European and two ter, in turn, would be tion barracks In Grosvenor "I am sorry

there are no de Mr. A.N. Samy, leader of the searching for Joanowicl. The was carried by a majority. start everything

of the London. and made good cause in trying to help 26,000

Jabourers and

doard of Chinese members of the estate

In announcing the arrest of President cost of living is very high' al Meanwhile, the Hong Kong Square,

Vice-President for his girl-friend's

.. Police the Kedah Fournet, police officials recalled Trade If and when his health Water present and the people have General Chamber of Commerce straight

Federation of Trade Unions. that he was one of the outstand. permits his return to politics, drowned as result of a not got a sound personal bud is to hold a committee meeting home, 120 miles away, in Bris-

Asked whether he and the Ing figures of the French Re- get for their expenses. If the on Friday next, when the sub- fol. But he forgot about an old

collision in the harbour, Strong Man Trade Unions Fistance, and was credited with further burden of taxation is jret of income tax will be dis-envelupb with a half-erased nd-

were influential enough to call having attacked, and destroyed

Mr. Morrison's malady is early yesterday morn- imposed upon them they will cussed. find Hving increasingly dif- } ...

a general strike, Mr. Samy said: a German Tiger tank single-consideres a hnd break for himing

were Sub-Inspector "Time" will show,”

****handed during the battle of Insiders said Mr. Morrison had They Several trade union investiga- Paris.-Reuter.

AlexanderPatil Zaremba, 35. Hong (Chinese en- are at present visiting i

Treung Kedah. Among them in the

glucer No. 17) and Ngai Fo of the Chairman

Federation,

Lum (Chineno. Stoker No 741.

ficult."

Mr. Tung particularly

cm-

phasised the following three

g

Ex-Emperor

points-1. If the "White collar In H.K.

elaas cannot see flui, way to a

steady economic

way of life

the efficiency of their work will i

accordingly he interrupted; 2.

dress on the hack of it.

·

Malaya?

Round-Up Of Pan-kalayan

The address was of the girl Terrorists

**The ai là love with whon his ship was nt Avonmouth Docks, Bristol, a year ago. American naval police, however, remember. ed the old envelopfe taken from Bryan when he was first arrest ed and they telephoned the Britul police.

New York, Mar. 10. Dispatches from Paris report

Government sent

If employers have to give sub-from Viet Namese sources that aldy to their workers owing to the French present high living costs, they emissaries to former Emperor

Would heavier burden than now;

have to support

of Annum. Bao Dai, al

Hong

Jerusalem, Mar. 10.

tors

of

- Brtish troops and police in 20 suspect in their search for a swift clean-up today neized the Jewish underground mem-Mr. S.A. Ganapathy. He will be hers who attacked the British leaving soon for the Inter-Asian When sailor Bryan knocked day killing one soldier and ser and three Indian women were!

Army camp at Hedera on Sun- Conference at New Delhi.

Fifty-nine Indian labourers his girl friend's door in Bris-iously wounding six.

other It was the second Jew terrorist sent to prison and two

were fined at

to a few hours later, Detec

Kong 10 days age to sound out tive-Constable Phillip Warner raid on the camp, located south India women

was waiting for him with hand-of Haifa near the coast, as the Sungei -Patani, in - centrali to, eufts-United, Press,

underground carried its offen- Kedah on March for unlaw- sive against the British Army. ful assembly at Bukit Sembilan, into the second week.

where pepper and boiling water

return

3. If the employers cannot whether he would see their way to giving this power in Viet Nam to liquidate subsidy then they would have the civil war.

to reduce the number of staffs, The Viet Namese sources salil thereby causing the question ofthe former emperor, who was, unemployment to arise,

educated In France, tald

and

the

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BOLIVIAN ELECTIONS

.One hundred other Jews

were detained in Tel-Aviv on Sunday following an under ground raid on the British mili 。lary headquarters there in

Empire Trade Talks

London, Mar. 10.

In The Harbour

were

honed when the inevitable at *ack on Governnent le launched by the Conservatives to emerge as the undisputed strong man

The tragedy sedurred when of his Party. They said he had hoped to establish himself as the police launch in which they Palme

Mr. were travelling on harbour Minister should Attlee, who incidentally enjoys patrol duty was involved in a the overwhelming confidence of collision' with the as Talposhan, Labour's rank and file at pre- which was entering harbour

from Foochow at 5 am. nent, step down,

There were three survivors→→→

Now with Mr. Morrison sick and Mr. Ernest Bovin in Mos-all Chinese members of the

cow, the Labour Party fell back! crew. Lon its "second turret" of big!

The Talposhan is

coastal-

The future of Imperial Pre- Runя to answer the boominig steamer of some 2,000 tons and were used in a fierce clash beference will figure. largely in fire expected from the Tory in owned by the Shun Cheong tween police and labourers the talks beginning in London to- front bench. previous day.

morrow between delegations Several clashes have been re from Britain, the Dominions, ported from Kedah recently, furja, Burma. Ceylon and other

Mr. Tung pointed out that the emissarles he would not return people were not certain of

La Paz, Bolivia, Mar. D. to power on a wave of French) their livelihood to-day

Doctor Enrique quest of Dr. Ho Chi-minh after proclaimed

Hertzog President and Doctor a plebiscite.

Other French sources, accord-Mamerto Urriója Goitia, Vice-

might be driven to all sorts of bayonets," but only at the re- The Bolivian Congress today which five were killed.United | Zollowing the taking over

mindemeanoura in order

live.

Effect On Trade

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"I do not doubt," he said.ing to Paris dispatches, said the President for 1947 to 1931. "that this new taxation would French Minister of Colonies, M.

Press.

by

parts of the Empire.

of

bar the opportunity of revival/Mariona Moulet, has established; seguire an absolute majority In was murdered by an unknown month's hard labour and the tion.

now

Had

al Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek. to deride between them-Reu throughout the Colony. though it is a good iden, i-United Press.

Z

ter.

green-uniformed labourera

They will give a clearer and. Woman Murdered

some rabber estates..

more up-to-date reaction to the Tel Aviv, Mar. 9. Fifty-nine labourers

were strong moves, principally from A 40-year-old Jewish police sentenced to six months' hard the. United States, for a con- As Doctor Hertzeg failed to woman named Khadla Mizrahi, labour,, three women to one siderable reduction or elimina-

of these preferentia Viet the presidential election in Jan- gunman in Rehovoth, near Tel other contact with a fugitive

two women were finedį tariffs as part of the world of Hong Kong trade. With re-

Nam group

staying ary, over his opponent Doctor Aviv, last night.

$60, or une month's simple im-| trade plan. gard to the new system of

Her body was riddled with prisonment.

The talka will be explora. bookkeeping to be enforced Nanking under the protection af Luis Guachaila, Congress

eight bullets.

Seventeen of the men plended I tory; leaving each country free An 18-year-old Jewess, Esther guilty, the rest claiming trial, to net as it sees fit at Geneva Tawasheh, was-shot at and Reuter.

where the second scasion of seriously wounded by a military

the Un'ed Nations conference guard In. Tel Ávly today. She

on trade and employment opene falled to turn back when chat-

in April 10. Parks, Mar. 9. lenged at the barbed wire bar.

An attempt to produce # A French rier

military plane common policy there will only Carmel Street, the crashed this afternoon during be made, Ira Public Information Office said.n training flight at Kourloga, tomorrow's talks show virtual It is suggested, if

--Reuter,

near Casablanca, killing, the unanimity. If divergencies are pilot and co-pilot," "according to shown. the delegations will

would cause, a lot of trouble among the Chinese firms be- cause of their age-long habits. I suggest that instead of nsk- ing firms to change their book- keeping system, it might be practicable for the Government to employ assessment officera who know both the old and the new systems of book-keeping: This would lessen the difficulty on the part of the merchanta

"If income tax must

be

levied, sald Mr. Tung "the

Government must take Info consideration the incrassed

Sun Returns To

Britain

London, Mar. 9.

A day of brilliant spring-like sunshine. In southern England and the highest temperature for two months gave hope today that the end of the snow spell, which has brought the country's Industrial life to a near standstill, is now in sight......

H

the Air Ministry today cost of living which has risen In London, the day was theter. five or six times its prewar warmest since Jan. 18 and at were cautious about expressing standard, Accordingly the amount of income on which 3.00 p.m. (GMT) the tempera-a' forecast of "cutlook".

The most they would say was Star is levied should be raised ture was 50 degrees Fahrenheit..

Generally, London has been that "mild, conditions aro about fivo ar six times."

to spread across all Pointing out that during the five degrees warmer than yes-pected occupation

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THE WEATHER

The antlerclone over Ubine, Japan and Lhe neighbouring sexa is' weakening; - previ wure being highest over the Lower Yang, Ize. A trough of low pressure extends from the Karlles to the Bonias. Pressurd to falling over Manchuria med a small.

depression is developing, to the N. of Pel ring.

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Today's Forecast-Presh Ti and we winds, mainly cloudy, rather milder,

Yesterday's Weather Maximum 1, 64,0 ́day.' Fab

Minimum 1.1 deg. Fab. Bunshine 10 hour.

· goods. In' the go-terday and the thermometer hus i southern districts, preceded by | Rainfall: Nii. Total zinen Jan. 126,4 mm.||

downs which were taken away never ink below 36 degreca,

a period of snow, sleet or ralu.”

In spite of the sun, roads

- Naudinga at.

-no qualmatinci average of 101.5 mm6:

10 km 14 9:09: ....1077.0: 1031.6 mb. equal" to 30,38 · 90.17 Inches.

'Dew Polat

Wind Direction

44925, #ng

Ka

1 ko

The Great North Road-main wind Fores trunk route between | London

NEW TELEGRAM RATES

à dispatch received hore from agree to diTer. The talks will Casablanca.--Reuter,

lig strictly private--Reutev.

Sabotage Of Plane In Mid-Air?

Rome, Mar, 9.

The English language Rome daily, "American," reported today that a member of Egypt's Royal Family who came to Italy to investigate the crash of the Italian military plane at Terracina on Feb. 15 is convinced it was exploded in midair by a bomb."

by by the Japanese arounted At the university town of

dangerous today Baro, al me to about 40 million dollars. MF. Cambridge, 48 miles from Lon: were still

Quoting informed Rources,, aources "quoted Fazhii- as -any- Wai sald he thought that the don, the thermometer went up over wide areas of the country,

the" "American" said Prince ing one of the plane's" _passon- Government might consult the to 64 degrees. However, more snow giving way to equally Ret. Humidity

Ibrahim Fazhil, relative pf King gers had been sent to Italy on" owners and ask them to con- now was reported from the dangerous slush.

Farouk, had "Indicated that a special mission" for ex-King tributo núm for the reconnorth of England and a vicious

'certain persons, hoped to pro-Victer Emmanuel, who is now struction work of the Colóny. blizzard swept, Yorkshire-

vent the plane from reaching In Alexandria. The newspaper by slag Government bonds. After last weekend's predict and Scotland-which was, eut

Ita true destination" and said Identified the passenger as Mre. The Government would account od thaw had turned out to be in many places by snow last now open again dot, the bonds...-by,taking, re-

the Prince stated flatly the Gilda Almagis Ambron and the worst blizzard of the wine week, In

throughout its length Reuter.

Shanghai, Mar. 10. Waration, from Japan. Arg

The Chinese Government Radiot, was unauthorized and said she came to Italy to check secret” the disposal of several million TANI TO DIE Administration today?/announce

Bald Jiro Joft hors by the" ex-King new rates for radiograms ad 11. The newssper - also classes to places outside of China," "Frmer Fazil; allegedly came to for use by fallen charities. -Nonking: Mar, 100% Tupanego stiloutenant Cleneral 1800, per embigu come tax 10, the Colony but Story: of: Battle or(Hong Kong: Tani-charged?

* Flight Of Capital?

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Chan Vice-Chairman ON OTHER PAGES

luidMhat in 1941 Government

Sonäldered the Introduction of

Paya Tibo

to the universal bypost.inpoet

the people the aubject, pare

PARTAIW

[tionih this

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iiineresse of about Italy on King Farouk's personal newspaper AS

ful order, Princian - Amina · Anem

Faronte, also a relative of Ambron had in her. DOI ***| Egyp}" King, was killed in the complete report on the iri orash with 18 other ton of fundi canta de salariolislernahed:—— Unit

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