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HONG KONG, MONDAY, MARCH 17, 1947.

Mangled U.S. "LEND-LEASE AID" TO

Bodies Found

Peshawar, Mar. 16.

A Government relief

party

GREECE, TURKEY

Penty made its way yes Bill To Be Submitted To Congress Today

terday to the isolated

village of Chajian, 100 miles from Peshawar, to find the mangled bodies

of 47 Hindus and. Sikhs

Truman's "World

slain in communal dis-Monroe Doctrine"

turbances.

This brought

to 150 the

Washington, Mar. 15.

number of Indus and Sikhs The final draft of the legislation to grant Presi- killed in recent rioting in the North-West Frontier Province. Rioting spread to this bleak," strategic northern gangway ko' India, where Moslems are in the majority, from the Punjab from which Musiem followers It were fareed out in February by the coalition ministry. This action resulted in thousands of clashes between the two far: tlons.

dent Truman broad discretion over the man- ner in which the United States will provide $400,000,000 aid to Greece and Turkey was to- day reported to be completed and ready for submission to Congress on Monday,

Reports are bring

received

1 of Moslem attacks em the Hindu

- and Sikh rities

in

the

North-West Frontier razid

"forced terrifying

1 of

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people of India.

conversion”—as death To the Reliable in-

i formalion indicates many con

versions to Islam resulted, from

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a desire of terrified Hindi and Sikhs to save their lives. familles and property.

the

Peshawar, capital of North-West Province, resem bles frontline buse as the Ministry seeks to head off-r

sif threatened slaughter Hindu-Sikh minority.

the

Indian troops, a battalion ot) the King's Own Scottish Border troops, armed police and militia are partrolling the streets. United Press.

Under Control

is learned authoritatively--in-Congressional quarters that the bill, which is expected to be introduced into the House of Representatives by Chairman Charles Easton of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, will not specify with any firmness whether the aid is to take the form of a grant or loan or a combination

of both,

Shanghai Stork Derby

It is expected that it will gen terally follow the pattern ɗ war- #d. [Unvas Tenu irasw and will be

mbretered at instalments.

The meartare, according an diese Lomoters, will definitely authorise [the dispute of both erononde} and military pissens and the transfer f Surplus war supplies

in Greere and Turkey. The pas ribihty remains that the transfer Luf regulor military and

storrs may be authorised.

Craftern

missions to

various!

South American countries and Chinn but would in no way volve the use of American fight

Shanghai, Mar. 16. Attention bookies: an- nouncing the Stork Der-ing troops. by!

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FEELING THE HEAT?

Los Angeles, Mar. 15.

Dr. Richard W. Parker, Director of the General Elec- tric Corporation's rocket wen.

on project, sold today that American concerns are "work. produce Ing feverishly" to guided missiles,

Parker came here to confer eith local aeronautical com- - panies - working on such wea.. pons for the Army and Navy. -United Prean,

Franco Crushes

A Plot

Tel-Aviv Cordon Tightened

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BOMB FOUND IN Menace To London

SUN SUN CAFE

An attempt, to blow up the Sun Bun Cafe, Nathan Read, was foiled when a bomb con- ceuled in one of the booths on the mezzanine floor was discovered by a coolie shortly before o'clock last night. The bomb

removed by

the Police and rendered safe. It is believed the bomb UHN planted by three met wita Jud, been seated in the bouth voliter in the evening.

Godowns Gutted In S'hai Fire

Water Supply Contaminated By Thames Flood

London, Mar. 16,

The Metropolitan Water Board flashed an SOS today to surrounding provinces for all avail- able water-carrying trucks to be rushed here to serve millions of East Londoners whose water h been cut off or contaminated by the rising fl. d waters from the Thames. The call wa. immediately answered from as far north as Yorkshire, near the Scottish border, and an appreciable number of the 700 tankers needed is reported already to be travelling to- ward London in convoys,

missing.

Anowfall

The Thames Conservancy The new storms and floods Jerusalem, Mar. 16.

Board renorts: "The Thames brought this report from the The cordon of troops

is out of control." The death Royal Automobile Club:-"Road toll attributed to the flood so conditions in the South (Eng- around Tel-Aviv's mar- Shanghai, Mar, 16.

within are the worst tlál law -zone~was ̄rem--| Three firemen were for is six, with two persons and)

·living:

the memory," and . Thames Valicy Overnight heavy

authorities forced today and reports seriously injured today in from there indicated that combatting the city's caused the Thames Conservancy the British army

was fourth major conflagra- authorities at Reading. 36 mile

southwest of London, to reverse preparing to meet antion to break out within their predictions of a drop in underground Jewish the past six days as A the flow from the upper reaches unconnected of the river, and National Fire threat to break through. series of

and inexplicable blazes Service men in the London area

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manned pumps and rescue sweep launches on fulltime basis.

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fire

deseriled the damage to homes and crons as "diantroas."

Million Sheep Dead The "Sunday Express" said today that 1,000,000 sheep have Hed from cold or atervation In the last eight weeks in Eng

'and. The front page article also said more than 1,000 entfle and 200 swine are know a to have been killed by the most severe winter in more than

....

The snow, blizzarde and gales which swept most of the coun- try during the night gave way today to higher temperatures half a century.. In the mid thirties accompanied

The "Sunday Express" says the 1,000,000 sheep lost repre- by light to heavy rains.

sented Bursting Banks

one-twentieth of Eng- and land's sheep population however, These conditions,

that it is the worst disaster of aggravated an already its kind in living history. only

The carcases of innumerabic serious condition with. more

ivera boreting banks, cover piga and hundreds of rabbits dis and wild game were being found upting transport and isolating in areas, where the thaw has additional thousands of families Het United Press. in the upper floors of their

(Earlier reports on Page 6) homes.

were distributed

to continue Zvai Leumi, Jewish` sistance organization, declaring Shanghai. "we will break through the

Three warehouses were com- | Ghetto."

News correspondents living in. pletely guttered as fire enginea the martial law tune were called throughout the city were called

out to help, bn'tlo the inferno. a conference by Zaragoza, Mar. 16.

spokesman; who asked if they had. The fire broke out al 3 a.m. The Spanish author- received any inissages from un. when two engines from Centra navalities

derground Fourers.. He notified Station rushed to the announced today them that they would not be per.

After eight minutes, the fire fforts way that the mill they have exposed and mitted lo VISIE Citrus House lary missions would follow

crushed an Anarchist- Military headquarters in Tel-Avis, brigade received an 80S for assistance and another machine but did not explain why. Socialist "revolutionary Meanwhile the sound of ritie was dispatched to the spot.

Three minutes later, the Sin. ing huge areas of lun. curfewe was heard in plot" to cripple 'Catalon- turs

Jerusalem mid the Jewish

sent Another za station ian industry by dyna aldential district of Rehavia.

The engine and a turntable. Irgun and the Stern Cang disfire authorities also requested miting the power plant

tributed "press releases" of the

Waterworks to neighbouring One of Shanghai's greatest

Jerusalern In which the Stern the Shanghai sporting-events in recent times

Reports that the administrator. Utrilla coal mines.

lang claimed responsibility increase the pressure.. Then an- New Delhi, Mar. 16.

in the birth of culminuted

is already contemplating expand

dla for the three recent attacks on other turntable va rushed te In Madrid, the police

the Reone of the fire. Falestine trains and Irgun denie:l Reports reaching New Delhi

to Mr. and ing this limited programme to closed the arrest of 122 mem-reports that 12 of its Ronald Boynton

Still unable to cope with the today said the communal plots, Floyd R. James,

Jother Middle Eastern countries

hiera of an alleged terrorist were

78 know uring among the

holocaust with the ing situation in Multan, Amrit.

Even-such as Syria, Irun, Lebanon und The American-owned

organisation and the killing of terrorists" announced arrested machines on hahd. the fire described were Rawalpindi is Bar and

Well

two of their leaders, while the by the British. ing Post and Mercury reported Palestine

being 218

purc

sala officers called for another two under control.

The Stern Gang release Barcelona police arrested three- speculation at present.

from the ongkyw "Intensified" campaign had engines that a private sweepstakes wus įthoritatively

Home months organized

Meanwhile some estimertes mul men suspected of hurting a hand an

been planned against trains carry-station. and 32 chances were sold on the here of the total expenditure in

store. grenade into President Trumah's ounces--regardless volved in number of

At the same time it was lia-jang British trorps and supplies,

Associated Press.. of pounds--and the probable programme to live financial at clos that saboteurs blew up economie aid to certain countries a bridge on the Bilbao.Bar- Sixteen chances were sold on have reached the figure of Scelona railway but the damage sex of the expected baby..

According to the the "ounces handicap" and 16 750,000,000,

discovered "Army and Navy Journal". The

Any on the baby's sex.

trains crossed the span, 13. rnil, whose editor in a close Robertson and Song,

friend

State of Secretary

The authorities refused to and surveyors, George Marshall, says: " Some

disclose how many persons were mcasarera

that assistance might arrested in the so-called "re- solemnly undertook to certify estimate

the staggering intal the event.

volutionary plot" to strike at Yesterday a baby boy of $5.750004.pdo and will be eight pounds nine and one half tributed as follows: Greece and

the coal mines. Когел ounces was born. Gordon Buil Turkey $400.08,000.

$200,000, and Fred Munsey, friends of $500,000,000.

100% und Austrin $155,000,000. the parents, both guessed

Other Balitan states will re would be a boy but neither got cove $200,000,000, Germany

$475,000,000 and

And the correct weight.

other Pacine usena $200,000,"

Bre

The reports said, however, rioting, arson, stabbings and the burning of buildings still occurring in rural areas.

Pundit Jownllariul Nehru left Lahore for Mullay today to visit

the riot-torn

United Press.

areas,

607 Arrests

Benares, Mar. 16. Altogether 607 people have been arrested in the Hindu Holy City of Benares. United Provinces, since the Hindu Moslem disturbances broke out on March 13, and 16 people

have lost their lives,

There were no incidents I the city last night, although a number of people were arrest. ed for breaking the curfew it Reuter.

Technically No Conviction

Lonilon, Mar. 16. Mrs. Mildred Osborne,, 20, af- Icklinghnm-road, Cobham, Sur- rey. witness in charges of affenees with intent to insult against Heutenant-colonel,

told the magistrates at Kinge.

ago

sworn

it

The derby pot will be split.

learned Was

the prizes totalled U.S. $320, or $160 each. Mr. and Mrs. James already have a 7-year-old daughter, - Unitel Ргена.

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THE WEATHER

A moderate antiopelose extending over china in extenflug southward nuit ensh ward. Depressione are tinted as the of the onlus, to the B of Tokyo wal over the northern Bùm, 12 Jauna, all mini ing eastward.

Anu NK

The new. snow hit, especially hard in the north country, fur- ther seuling off Seolland from the south by road and putting ns as much train schedules three days behind.

At Reading, floods reached 11 ft. 8 in.above normal-eight inches short of the 1804 record. Several villages in the Lea Valley, only about

of northwest

under torrents of inundated

Today's Forecastro-Fresh E winds, Cloudy, suiker vold, Yenierday's Weather:- Maximum 40.0 zing, Pal. Minimum. 2. Fah, six miles Bunshine: NIL London, were | Ral¬fd)i Trace.

A total of 12 fire enginee were employed in the hopeless fight against the raging flames

As the doors of the ware- hotiser were locked and the win-water pouring down the main

streets when the Lea dows closed, the fire-fighters

the topped its banks, were forced to pry open iron-sheet-covered roafa so ar to spray water from the top,

warehouse The four-storied

Jerusalem, Mkr. 16. A group of persons identified officially as Jewish terrorists blew up a NAAF1 Canteen near Hadera early today,

A police source said he be where the fire started WON

no built of

with brick walls, all Catalonian industry through lieved that there were China

casualties but added that the wooden floors, which went of Ometala Haid clandestine building is still ablaze, an in flames like dry tinder.. elements of Anarchist and So-hour after the blast.

has The cause of the fire cialist organisations planned to The installation is on the not yet been ascertained- blow up the electric plant of main Tel-Aviv highway, a short United Press. the Utrilla mines, which supply distance from Hadera Army coal for the Catalonian Indus-† Camp which had been attacked try, employing thousanda repeatedly in recent weeks. workers, as the first step in Meanwhile

of the cordon the uprising.

troops around Tel-Aviv's mar- reinforced tial law zone was and reports from that all-

Help Everywhere The Jurnal says that Presi. dent Truman reached his

ion en aid after receiving "facts'

deci-

ef

Meanwhile, political sources said leaders in the movement

of his Army, Navy and Air Force to restore the musicly to

Avisers, and Secretary of State George Marshall, with his mili- tary Judgment and experience.

was et course among them.

"What he prop: sessome de. scribe it as a world Monror | Dartine and others os.D леж

Shanghal, Mar. 16. Jend-lease-contemplates Inter for freedom every. After a week of serious riot-vention ton-on-Thames: "I was so upset ing by demonstrators protesting where." by it all. I did not want the against bad economic conditiona

man to get into

The foregoing figures given by trouble: 1 on the island of Formosa, the the "Army and Navy Journal" de

Chinese

wanted him to stop it."

After a hearing lasting stand

how.

not total $5,750.000,000 and the Government of

the Journal does not explain the din

alt. today abolished

crepancy, It is presumed eight hours, Lieutenant-Colonel restrictions on imports and ex-ever that the Journal does !

include all the Richard W. M. Hartland-Ma-ports, "it was reported here.

stimators have in hbn, of Mathan Manor, Mathan-

road, East Molesey, charged now comparative calm

on: the

there was The repert sald

with the offences. on two dates Island...

Last Friday the capital of

A

in Decembar, was told by the chairman, Mr. C. W. Speirs: Taipeh was described an

the

countries

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Spam are rathering to Lisbon -

Sub-Antarctic Flight

Canberra, Mar. 16.

River

Total lore Jan. -- 156.4 mm. as against an average af $16,1 mm..

Readings hi

10- 8.m. 14 P front mal.2020.0 1010,5 m..

Equals 20,1 (",30,10 frelsen.

At many places water pul- verised walls and hundreds of Rel. Itumidity cottages are reported. to be wind Dlection In danger of being demolished. Wind Force

THESE

CIGARETTES

ARE MANUFACTURED

FROM A BLEND OF

Jewish city indicated that the Á Royal Australian Air THE FINEST. TOBAC- British army are preparing to [ Force: "Lincoln" bomber too'

für the most important meet- meet the underground Juwish off today for a record-breaking COS OBTAINABLE~-- ing there in more than a year. threat to crack the city's fight into the sub-Antarctic for

United Press.

defence. Associated Press,

Fact-Finders Fail

To Agree

Lake Success, Mar. 15,

The three-man fact-finding committee set up by the Security Council to investigate the British charges against Albania in connection with

· the mining of the Corfu Channel, has failed to reach any conclusion after ́ten meetings; · It was disclosed tonight.

יי

brand

Hediso referred to the ex

n reconnalsance flight In the current Australian Antarctle survey programme.

The "Lincoln's" destination is Macquarie. Island, over 1,200 miles southeast of Melbourne. The faland, which is to be surveyed, will serve as a half- way base.

"Liberator"

On Friday a completed a 2,200-mile round- trip flight to the vicinity of Macquarie island to gather ‚wenther' Information for to- day's flight. It mat winds up to 72 miles an hour and a tem- perature of minus five degrees Centigrade. The sen offered a high swoll.

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Teats were made of nirera"! at high southern latitudes and and equipment under Polar conditions-United Press.

"Love" London, Mar, 18. The Moscow radlo Engilsh The magistrates do not think "ghost city", with inhabitants commentator "Analyser" today It is a criminal offence, but afraid to leave their homes and describeil President Truman's suffering from a shortage of speech calling for U., ald to entirely medical."

Greece and Turkey as q love Hartland-Mahon, who pled-rice.

on. Nov. 13 were The Polish member of the Com- | found Sed not guilty, agreed to be Members of the 13-man "com declaration to the "undemocratic mitice (M. Katzzuchy) attempt new and could have been in the also of the reactions of cre

and water dess than two months" bound over under the Probn fort mission" from Shanghai countries" and algns of ed to exonerate, Albania tion Act for a year, subject to declared on Friday that "the hostility to the other countries throw the blame on the Britis

No Legal Right for the Incilent which occurryl the right of appeal,

reign of terror" was impused on of South Eastern Europe, * on OL 22 last year when two The clerk (Bir. R. Bell): the island after the arrival of Grecce and Turkey, the com- British drogels were damaged etence of German minefield in Technically there is no con- Chinees Government reinforcementator, and, had "reactionary by mines and officers and ra. the vicinity of the explosions and |repeated "the Albanian' pilegations viction."

ments and accused General governments who are lolently tinga were killed.

British ships had int Chen Y, the Governor, of re-suppressing the very forces that The Caminitiee also comprised that the

representatives of Australis and laht to be in the channel with Page Two {'sorting, to force and failing to fought against the Germana."

Reach Scene Alpinista out notifying Albania. 'Colombia; te dank

"Dakota" Grash. Introduce the promised reforms. American dollars word 'haed

In an eddendum the Pollah re Replying to questions, Sir

(Britain) Page Three Router.

to give these governments presentative disagreed, with the Alexander Cadogan

Committee that the Far Eastern Pooples Are: No "more weapons of war, both to substance of the committee's retold the. suppress the opposition at home port and declared there was "no Albanian Government, had no "Longer: Pawn- The Cambridge Union Debating Brooklyn Univeralty and other and to prepare for foreign add avidance avaliable as to the ex-legal right to the claim that they Page Four

venture, Istence of a minefield on Not, should have been notified In Why Amerion Used The Atom Society leaves for the United schools

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