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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 13, 1947.

HONG KONG'S $100,000,000 BUDGET Estimate Of Expenditure For Coming Twelve Months

First Reading This Afternoon

The first reading of the Appropriation Bill for 1947-48 covering a sum not exceeding $109,- 488,433 will be moved by the Financial Secre- tary at this afternoon's session of the Legisla- tive Council.

A schedule attached to the Bill sets out the pro- posed expenditure of this sum as follows:-

$185,498

$470,048

$147,434

$190,869

$953,022

$161,558

$122,608

LE The Governor

Colonial Secretariat and Legislature.

Audit Department

Charitable Services

Development Secretariat

Directorate of Air Services

District Office North

District Ofee, South

$104,467

Education Department

$7,376,585

Fire Brigade

$630,436

Harbour Departmenį.

$3,639,033

Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force

Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps

Imports and Exports Department

$072,967

Judiciary

$396.704

Kowloos Canton Railway

$5,021,762

Labour Offer

Legal Departments.

Miscellaneous Services.

Medient Benetmen!

Pensions

„Police Force

Post Office

Press Relations Office

Pelsoms Department

Public Debt

Public Works Department.

Publle Works Recurrent

Public Works Extraordinary

Royal Observatory

Sanitary Department

Sceretoriat for Chinese Affairs

Stores Department

Treasury

Supplies, Trade and Industry Department

Custodian of Property

Inland Revenue Department.

$2,729 $75,151

BATTLE OF THE PEACE

Lamion, Mar, 12. ROPOT cluse fo Cubinarid today Phat the Governorat intend to ie- TEA177

wurtime

powers to empe its battle for industrial FERNORTH during

the next two or three peura.

Anmarinsted Press,

Thaw

Floods

England

London, Mar, 12. The Thames, within; half a foot of the "dan- ger mark." steadily rose an inch an hour today and in some places was three feet over the high water mark as melting snowfields poured into $4369000-already-swollen-streams-

$166,457 $925,403 $12,113,010

$20,317,828

$5,966,943 $3.145,506 $17,840 $2,200,468

$7,838,148

$2,707,482

7,984,000 $102,000 --$208,822 $1,953,681 $258,770

$7,008,241

$613.628 $643,754

$92,998 $341,008

Total $109,488,433

Britain's Master

Planner: Early

Decision Likely

London, Mar. 12.

The Cabinet is planning an unprecedented adver- tising campaign to rally the British people in a drive for the nation's economic recovery, a high Government source revealed today. Plans were developed after the Labour Party Parliamentary" meeting in which Govern- ment's public relations were severely cri- ticised.

America Comes Out

In The Open

The programme will be divid. cd into three main sections:

1. A general appeal on "pa- Irlatic lines" urging the people to help Government "fight our way through."

Spectacular Raid By Terrorists

Jerusalem, Mar. 12.

Jewish terrorists staged one of their most sensa-

tional operations against the British Army be fore dawn this morning when underground forces kifled three British soldiers and injured eight in an attack on the British military head- quarters, inside, the martial law area of Jeru- salem, with mortars.

The terrorista attacked the military headquarters from the roofs of nearby buiklings, blasting a six fool lyde in the stone

wall surrounding the hearlquarters compound in the

buildings of requisitioned Syrian orphanage,

Kround

through the hole and placed ex- plosive against the walls of the buildings in which troops were sleeping. Four explosións ful lowed.

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RADIO PHONE TO MANILA

Hong Kong Tests Within A Few Days

(By Margaret Bradbury)

The first postwar telephone communication ex- periments between Hong Kong and Manila will be made within the next few days, Several thousand pounds worth of telephonic equipment which recently arrived here: from England has now been installed and techni- cians in the Colony will shortly carry out in- tensive tests with other parts of the world, be- ginning primarily with Manila,

I

Mr. F.S. Coote, Hong Kong, and difficulties to be overcome. Manager of Cable and Wireless. Public Demand',

told me yesterday: "It is hoped "It is our polley, however, that a proper service between to keep step with public do Hong Kong and Manila can be mand," said Mr. Coote. "A8 $1 established in the near future. public utility

overseas be ex-

the

Paris, Mar. 11. The French State Po- Now that we have the equip- telephone service will

ment we intend to expand as panded according to the re- lice announced today much 1LM possible and our quirements. If, for instance, calls that two of Paris's best-eventual aim is a hook-up the number of business

chiefs with the world network.

were sufficient to open an extra known · police

Transmitters have already channel this would be attempt- were among the 15 per been set up at Cape D'Agullar et. Also the amount of time sons detained. for ques and receivers have been install required for a caller to be con tioning while they in-ed on the Peake, Various equipe nected with various parts

'ment is also Axed up in our the world will depend on publie soldier and wounding three.vestigated accusations of offices, The biggest drawback demand. We are hoping event.

a big post-war graft is the lack of space for erect-ally for a 24-hour service,

The terrorist attack started aat 4.20 a.m. from outside the barbed wire barrler enclosing. Shock troops of the under the military zone. The first she

rushed fell near the guard post pritish

army then

MOSCOW'S

SURPRISE

RECALL

in Southern England.

At Windsor,

Castle the grounds were inundated, and the Windsor Hotel proprietor organised volunteers to save bundreds of cases of precious beer in his flooded cellar.

At Salisbury, householders stacked anndhags in doorways

Washington, Mar. 12,

and moved furniture upstairs who has been as floodwaters of the River recalled

to

Moscow,

pal gate, killing une

Three other shells fell in the courtyard.

scandal, Machine-gunners covered the

They are Armand Fournet, attack of the raiding party na

the Divisional Commissioner of it charged through the hole in the wall. The defenders fired the Paris Police force and his star shells to luminate theanaistant. Lucien Piednoir, who scene and refused the Jews were--held-after-the-dlaap- of the 41-year old; with machineguna. Urited pearance

Rumanian multi-millionaire, Press,

Joseph Jounovici.

hoist the Tricolour over

Big Round-Up

We will ing suitable nerials. need to put up a number of them before we will be able to meet the full demands of over seas telephony." .

cum-

"Hong Kong in may oplula will be one of the best provided places in the world for munication, having numerous oumarine cable links powerful radio stations, and finally radio telephony.

The actual cost of private telephone calls between Houg Kong and Manila has not yet been fixed but I understand that

Experts Needed- Mr. Coote explained that ex

to handle perts are necessary Fournet was the first man to the new machinery. There are Jerusalem, Mar. 12.

the now four or five European The Soviet Ambassa-

The British army today round- French Police Prefecture dur-radio technicians in the Colony it will be above the pre-war figure which was set at £2.10:0 work. They dor to the United States, ed un 500 illegal Jewish immi-ing the fighting for the bera- engaged on this

for three minuter conversation. grants near Isdud, 20 miles south

engaged on Mr. Nikolai Novikov, of Tel-Aviv, after their ship, the tion of Parls. A warrant for were previously

telephone services In The rise in price will be due to Susannah, had rua Joanovlel's arrest was issued on radio'

tht grounds that he had work- other parts of the world and the increased operating costs. abruptly 400-ton

ashore.

Two hundred more inmigranteed for the French Gestapo und were on the staffs of big radio Zvon crept into the town and leaves New York by are at large and an equal number Fournet is accused of having stations during the war

still in the ship. Reuter.

WI be equipment now in wandered through the streets. Scandinavian plane for

warned him, thus enabling him

Hong Kong a word.scram to escape. The Avon was the highest in

Tel-Aviv Raid

enables 20 years and police awakened Copenhagen tomorrow.

be Joanovic joined the police re. bling machine which

conversations to householders before daylight to The surprine Soviet move A large detachment of police warn them of the danger, came at a low ebb in Soviet- and troops carried out a surprise sistance group shortly before

and alraid, on house in Tel-Aviv's; the Liberation. Thousands of serca of for- American

Both Fournet and Plednulr tile farmland was flooded, though diplomatic quarters Gordon Street today,

Several persons whose identity belonged to this several villages were marooned said he presumably is return-

group which the and from Soinerent to Kenting to the Kremlin for "con-was not disclosed were detained.

Correspondents accompanied worked through the sultations.", the formal Russlan the raiders and gathered the im-upplied with arma ri ht trying to build dykes to Government, note to the State pression the action was an effort munition originally

discover old lack the water.

Department gave no indication

underground for Rommel's "Afrika whether his recall will be tem- clandestino radio.-United Press. Reuter. porury or permanent.

"armers

At Tonbridge, rafts. were operated during the night and Long enterpris movie house picked up customers by bont.

Factories and schools.

were clored in many areas. Motorists were trapped on the Maidstone read when the Medway washed ever the highway. Trains were cancelled when flooda washed out part of the track in Kent.

Blizzards continued in the ! North

concluded

relations

The brief note, delivered yes.. today, simply and Novikov vas returning to Moscow and turning the Embassy over to the Charge d'Affaires,

The Soviet Embassy declined to discuss, replying: "No com rent" to all Inquiries--United Press.

Meanwhile the Air Ministry Bevin Reply To Molotov

weather bureau frankly!

Futura

developments are too uncertain to warrant the | issue of further outlook."--

United Press,

ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT SEQUEL Manila, Mar. 12. ..Charges of murder and mul- tipie frustrated murder were filed against Julio Galilen, 60.

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Moscow, Mar. 12,

Mr. Ernest Bevin is expected give a detailed reply at this atternoon's session of the Foreign Ministers' Council to M. Molotov's attack yesterday on the alleged British and United States failure ful the demilitarisation clauses of the Poladam agreement. A written British statement is also being prepared and may be tabled tomorrow, if it can translated in time.

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to

the

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carried on.

Cable and Wiroiena offlèlate Dre working, in conjunction with the Hong Kong Telephone Company on the paw, telephone project, and a special awitch- board has already been set anide to deal with the oversens

This garbies any speech callers.

telephora made through the resistance

instruments and unscrambles t millioner the personal benefit of th

and aing switchboard and the intended carer. Korps."-

China Not On The Moscow Agenda

Moscow, Mar. 12.

Secretary of State George Marshall won his first diplomatic triumph in the Foreign Ministers' council when the United States, Britain and France joined in a solid front and blocked the Russian proposal to place the complex China question on the agenda.

A

conference official said that the three Western Powers insisted that China must be present if Chinese affairs are to be discussed in the coun- cil. Soviet Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov finally withdrew the Soviet proposal.

The four Foreign Ministers then split wide open when they

German

2. Widespread use of ad- vertising technique to bring the factors of the economic crisis home to the people "in every-stocky little barber. who on Mr. Bevin, it is believed, has tackled. the first and the least day language;"

Monday night attempted to as elaborated some of the points he of the controversial sassinate President Manuel made yesterday-especially his problems-the question of de- ΠΟΧΗ,

desire to include German war militarization, Simeon Varela, one of the prisoners outside Germany in the . Molotov hurled broad accuka- seven injured when the grenade overall picture of German de-tions that, the Western Powers thrown by Guillen exploded militarisation. died last night. Associatedtherto declined to disclose the occupation

The Soviet authorities have had failed to demilitarize their. zones ant were number of prisoners Press.

held by keeping German. troops in miil- them. Three million are believet tary formationg. contrary to to be held in the Soviet Union. the Potsdam agreement. |--Reuter.

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New York, Mar. 12. The United States can 3. A general appest to the no longer "lead a shel- people to help meet the man- tered existence" under power crisis in such key in- the protection of the Bri-dustries as coal mining

textile manufacture. tish Empire and must

The campaign will get under face world responsibili-

way simultaneously with Gov. ties," the New Yorkernment's new planning machin-

Prague, Mac.12. The blue Danube went 07 Times said in its con- cry.

rampage today. Its swollen melt- ment today on President

Government's new. "mastering ice flooded Bratislava, as mannen of ice swept down the Truman's address to planner" would be appointed Congress.

next week. "He has not yet been ver from Upper Austrii plled un against the bridge. United selected but he will be a pro- ¡ Press. · duction manager rather than an economic planner. He will be an industrialet with pro duction experience and with active political affilations," he sald.

Repeating many of the ac cusations which have appeared In the Russian pross during the

SEAFIRE MISHAP last few months. Molotov as-

ceived of, the Seafire which was

Belgian Communists Resign

Brussels, Mar. 11. The four Communist.

No further news has been re-sorted that "except in obvious members of the Social- cases the elimination of the ist-Liberal Communist "From the day it broke away

reported missing on a routine war potential in the west has Coalition of M. Camille from the British Empire, the

THE WEATHER fight on Tuesday afternoon, Bri hardly started.” '!

Huyman handed their Mr. Bevin answered Molotov United States has been living in

Amati and pilly woskantokenttish Pacific Fleet Headquarters

"China bluntly, saying that his charges resignations to a large measure under the pio-

lone is over, the Sea of Japan with a last night Informed the

Minister were unjustified" and Bald Prime tection of that Empire and in

feeble wedge at high pressure gatending Mail. from it across the Fastern Sex and long The aircraft must now be con- that they reminded him of "an morning. particular of the British feet",

(the B. China mast. A deepening depresjsidored lost since it had lost con- the article stated.

The appointee wil be a "man Viton har moved Into N Cenital China tact with Koi Tük for more than old lady watching a parade in "Though proclaimed by the of the type of Sir Robert Another deprecatun 14 intensifying NE 36 hours up to 10 p.m. last night. Which one man was out of step

States, the

The destroyer, H.M.B. Cockade, and then observing that they Monroe Sinclair doputy chairman of Hokkaidor. United Doctrine was really made the limperial Tobacco Company

and wartime 'chief of the Pro-wasterly winds: "Weather fair but with fkas not yet returned and is stilifaro, all out of step, except Liberal-members of the Coalition effective by the British fipot.

thick have: warm: unity! for patches searching in the vicinity.cf the Johrink." duction Mulatry,

Mira-Bay. ¡dovaloping lates Now, the magle and

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Minimum: 58,7 sien. Fah.

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Today's Forecastí-Lluht: Variable

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in history, the United States is cided--will be fulfilment of the Bainfall: NII. Total since January forced to contemplate & world fargots set by the Cabinet 135.4 mm. as animal an aversas, ut in which the British Empire no economists,ze longer functions as the univ@t-

Government will attempt aal stabiliser

through** Ita _{nformation" ser- Bark at mel L*NOWZour haltered existence vices, to “correct the erroneous:

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BUILDING COLLAPSE

Cincinbati, Mar. 11.

front A six-storey river building collapsed here today,

two

It likely to be some time tuforu a. hundred per cent world telephone Marvien is trapping at least five men, available in Hong Kong, if three of whom are believed un- only because of the llurs invol-conscious or dead, while vel in training of personnel 10 have been redclied. The build- bean had apparently stat the machinery parts "inding ndit.st the instruments rom weakened by a water main, Icak time to time. There are also which filled the many

other factors involved United Press

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