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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1947.

HONG KONG'S NEXT GOVERNOR

Sir Alexander Grantham's Appointment Announced

One Of Youngest In Recent History

The name of Hong Kong's next Goyernor, to suc- ceed II.E. Sir Mark Young, was officially announced by the Colonial Office last night. The appointment goes to Sir Alexander Grant- ham, who has been Governor of Fiji since 1944, Sir Alexander is only 48 years of age and is, there- fore, one of the youngest Governors in the Colony's recent history.

Nanking 'Hands Off' Parade

Shanghai, Mar. 19.

He becomes the third ex- endet officer who, having com. meneed bin Colonial Office eurer in Hong Kong, has suti sequently nehieved promotion to the Governorship of Colony, his predecessors being Sir Henry May (who was also

the

PAGING EDGAR WALLACE

Lowton, Mar. 19. Scotland Yond's list of the le post wonted burglara made interesting reading to-.

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They were:

Oliver Twist. the Thin Man, the Silent · Thief, Slip- pera Sam, „Skylight Robbers flour slipperj characters) and the Humán Pip...---Ouited Press,

Labour Schism On

for a time Governor of Fij Conscription

and Sir Cecil Clementi.

Sir Alexander Granthum, who

A new crop of anti-is well remenshered for, among

other things his plurality of |-

1922 unit!

He

came

London, Mar. 18. More than 50 Labour Soviet and anti-Foreign lule, A.W.GH served M.Ps. tonight signed a intervention posters ap- Hong Kong from

must promotion calling for rejec- peared in

Shanghai 1982.

minently before the public eye tion of the National Ser- streets this morning fea-

when acting as Second Magis vice (conscription) Bill. turing a huge sheet of inte ut the Central Police yellow paper plastered Court. He went later to the in front of the Soviet- Colonial Secretariat.

son."

Official Statement

The official announcement of

the appointment issued last night stated:

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owned Russian Daily News" with a red-inked Taoist symbol which is

"It. ngunced by, the → considered to be a charm

Colonial Office that His Majesty to drive off evils.

has been pleased to approve the Additionally, smaller porters

appointment of Sir Alexander were sayhig "flands off, Ye William George Herder Grant

Others

soid, ham, KCMG. Governor and Imperiallats." "Return UA Dairen" and Commander in Chief of Fiji "Molotov Does Not Talk Ren and Higle Commissioner for the Western Pacific-to-be Governor and Commander in Chief, Hong

in succession Kong.

Aitchison Young, Mark GCM.G.. who will shortly be from thint appoint retiring ment."

No Surprise A United Press dispatch from Nanking sald

-1,000 middle The announcement comes na

demonstrated | no aurprise. Sir

has Bame against Grantham's Molotov's ""insulting" proposal, frequently University students were

the

Meanwhile,

Chinese press continued to play up re- porta of demonstrations in prin- China cipal cities throughout opposing Moscow discussion on * China.

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students

school yesterday afternoon

The motion was in the form an amendment demanding that the ill be "read agalu this day pix months," the equivalent of a rejection of the measure,

"New Deal" For China Now Planned

Nanking, Mar. 19.

An unimpeachable source told the United Press today that the most important proposals in- troduced by the third plenary session of the Kuomintang's CEC are designed to give China

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·he expected by the end of the week.

The appointee will be industrialist without elive ufillations-United Prean..

Red Light Flare-Up

a "new deal" in the political, economic, inan-In Rome

cial and social as well as party fields. The major provisions in these, permitting however, unlimited proposals are:

import of tools, machinery, raw material and quotas for rice wheat and entton.

new cur-

1. Issuance of a rency when the opportune time arrives and economic condi. tiens are stabilize,

6. Increased commodity tax es and customs duties and the 2. Abolition of _the_joint | deubling of the salt tax. ofice of the four Government

6. Welcome foreign enpital bunks or its reorganization and technical cooperation on the into a policy-making and plan-hasis of equality and reciproei- uing agency.

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CHIANG ARMY

ENTERS YENAN

Nanking, Mar, 19.

.The Ministry of Information announces that Gov- ernment troops entered the Communist capi- United tal of Yenan at 10 a.m. this morning. - Press.

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It is considered likely the Gov- Jective Indientre that Bitle was ernment tro:ps at the end of the wanted in the fighting. nearly 200 mile trip from Slan Under the Communist evacua. found only a handful of peasantstion programme even nwalling them on Yenan's desert and stoves ware removed from od streets.

Yenan's caves and buildings.

Into

fumiture

The Communist High Com-Small port:hr were packed far mand already had put inte opera-transport' dispersal areas. tin a dispersal scheme which while the remainder wore surren United States observers describ-dured to the central headquarters ed us amazingly complete.

for burial "until we, return" the The effective

Abld. scheme which Communists

Associated neaticred Communists over hun. Press.

Yenon dreds of miles between

The peneftation of the moun- and the Yellow River omitted tain fortress by mobile units of only those lowly peasants who Gen. Dų Taung-nan's army fois, are natives of the Yenan area lowed virtual encirclement from without opposition or position in the cast, south and west after the

Little Fighting

Rome, Mar. 19. Two girls and the pro-the civil conflict. prietress were slightly wounded when a bomb exploded in a house of assignation in downtown Rome last night.

The bomb, which was placed on the doorstep, plunged the 3. Imposition of land value 7. Broaden the Government district into darkness, smash- and land increment taxes.

hanin ns the Kyomiutanır's toning windows and seriously priortly before convocation of the next Assembly,

4. Restrictiort of imports,

Cardinal Sees Red

Birmingham, Mar, 19. Cardinal Grin, Roman Catho- le Archbishop of Westminster, sperking today at a luncheon which followed the consecration of onnelenor Joseph Masterson as Archbishop of Birmingham, said: In many parts of Eastern Europe, e to xpress himself or to prac- man has no freedom either to ac tice his religion.

Its supporter's included those who nhjort to conscription

Left conscient s xrounds: wingers; and those who believe that the Government should not ap manpower in military tie remmliments in the midst of an eet nomic crisis.

"Latvia, Lithuania and E.. thonla have all been absorbed by Many of the igners were re- Bigla and consequently the AL ported to be determined to force inntic Charter has becoms meela the issue to a division and to think it is time that we call

"I vote agalist the Government.

aa halt to compromise and ex- The Labour Party in the past pediency. I think it is time that

call-we asserted the principles traditionally has opposed

international relations scription

conscientious which

inust be based. In this respect grounds-United Press.

we applaud the recent statement

Alexander JAP. TREATY ·

mentioned in con-

connection with the Hong, Kong MUST WAIT.

carrying con- siderable loen upproval, and

spicuously absent from the de- Governorship. monstration.

The middle school students, rumour has been persistent in meat of them below 16, march recent weeks predicting ed for two hours through Nan-appointment. king's main streets, ending with a masa demonstration in front of the Foreign Ministry und chalking slogans demanding strong polley.-United Presa,

: Tanker In Distress

the

Sunderland, Mar. 16. Two men were drowned today when

two feboats of "Dilona" (8,146 tons) British tanker on passage from Haifa, amustied against the ship's alde after she had struck a submerg ed wreck off Sunderland.

The seamen in the boats

thrown into the

were

rough

Washington, Mar. 19.

on

made by President Truman about Greece and Turkey and the ar-

on he pr: posca to take.

damaging the house.

Scantily clad girls fled the house screaming, with „Kuo- | and took refuge in à neurby

8. Brenking all clique or ganizations within the

mintang.

has to conclude its

Iestaurant.

Four

years

terror

taken

Into

ago

today

Observers anid that the pro The police said they believed pusale on party reforms and the bomb was planted by the the party's policies at the pre- proprietor of a nearby house

Ная becn sent stage are equivalent to the who

self-indictment. į custodý, Kuomintang's They point out that the Kuo- niintang

political bomb exploded in al- political tutelage becaitse Its most the same spot killing 32 Intelige has falled to achieve German soldiers which resulted Lue rims of nationa cconstruc- in the Nazi Ardentine Caves maskere of 335 Italians and tion.

for which Field Marshal Albert Kesselring is now on trial in VeniceUnited Press.

The proposals also call for the establishment of a healthy civil service--United Presa,

Reds made a major defence of the capital 25 to 40 miles south and the Commun- The city's fall virtunity with cast of Yenan while the put opposition followed the 10: is carried out wholesale went my sufiening period in which the

tion of the city of women, chili-

supplies The Govörument troops storis:- Yenun Radio claimed the Nation. Ten and

list air force made daylong raide

werk ed into Yoann after a the Venan region. The speed with which the Gov-steady bombing at the mountain rnment troops reached their ob.tronghold white Gen, Iia's fores

drove un from the south.

No New Currency

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Communist leaders thou En-lai and Chu Teh last week intimated to the United Press that Yenut would not be Hefended but that the Communists would by coa- **rving their strength to strike the flanks and rear. Nanking, Mar. 19.

Yenun 13 the 4piritual as well The Minister of Information, as the military centre of Com- the en such-pel, told a press munlam and He capture conference today: "As we have strongest prost that Generatic- repeatedly stressed no new curso Chiang Kai-shek deter reney will be created, and de mined to wipe dut the Communist 2 bond a thie as the terra ai spite the fact that some peuple on solution to China's internal advocate the gold standard. it, strife. is obviously premature to con- template such a reform,"

rumours

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Big Claims The capture coincided with Dr. Peng denied

majar that the exchange rate will be Government reports of a

victory In -- Changchun, growing revised, and announced that the currency in

Formiga andength in Shantung and stents tirogress in opening up the ręïl- Manchuria eventually will be ways, Blogh standardized-United-PreK-1 Yenama datualist dazurbed yk weeker The Communists

force promised the Government would find nothing when they ar tive-rrealling that when the Young

Marshal. captured it a de-

Windsor Shops Knee Deep In Water

London, Mar. 19. Heavy and prolonged rains were predicted today throughout most of Britain's flooded areas and while the Thames gradually subsided the Fens were swamped in the worst disaster of their history.

I think it is time that this rountry, denounced the horrors that are being perpetrated in the rane of democracy and freedom

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parts of eastern In Europe. where millions of men

in

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the flat country stretching inland from Eng- land's East Coast to the north of London every elevation however slight was regarded as haven by inhabitants of the Fens. Three quarters of the Cam, further rises of the streams fcrbridgeshire Fens under are feared.

the United States Acting Secretaro still in concentration camps, tary of State Dean Achesou, where millions are put to forced Sir Alexander was 18 years told a press conference today labour and where old Christian further progress would traditions are being uprooted and of age on March 16, less than thnt a week ago. He was created have to be made on European men are being persecuted

their faith and religion."-Reuter. C.M.G. in 1941 and K.C.M.G.. pence treaties before the Japan-) in 1945, shortly after VJ Day. ese treaty could be taken up

He was only 36 when he was Replying to a question on appointed Conoiial Secretary, General Doughs MacArthur's Bermuda, in 1985. He served declaration that a Japanese in thre capacity unti

ATTLEE

1938, treaty be prepared as quickly CONFIDENT

when he was appointed Chief as possible, and the occupation Secretary in Jamaien, holding of Japan ended. he said that.. that

After the State Department had been post until 1941. apecial war service, he was working for some, time on the appointed Governor of Fiji | preparatory stages of the towards the end of 1944. Japanese treaty. Reuter.

Russian Shot Dead

In Korean Dispute

Seoul, Mar, 19.

sens over which it from the One Russian was killed and another seriously in-

silp was spreading Tonight the

"Dionn"

IR

drifting towards the shore in n

.

jured last night in a gun battle with Korean police in the American occupation zone, mill- tary sources said today.

London, Mar. 19, The Prime Minister, Mr. C.. R. Attlee. is now convinced that the economnle crisis has not materially dimnged the ptaltion of the Bri- tish Labour Government.

water

are

and flcoda from the Rivers are so high that bar- Great Ouse basin--from Bed-ges carrying materials for ford and beyond-are reaching strengthening of banks could the overburdened Fen rivera. not sail beneath low bridger High spring tiden at the and more streams are expected slulces prevented a really re- to burst into the flat lands. lease of the high waters and Upwards of 1,000, troops.

struggled to save the sandbag

Fears For India

A spokesman said that reports that Mr. Attlee will call a gen- eral election for next year are completely without foundation."

Canberra, Mar. 19. The Inferniant indicated that Mrs, Menzies Australian opposi- Labour leaders have firm control tion leader, during the debate on over the Left Wing of the Party internali:nal affairs in the House which recently has been increas of Representatives, said that he ingly crilica of Mr. Attlee's for- eign polley and manpower pro- ther by education, training and had grave doubts if India, whe- rendly for self-

gramme.

5 confident is Government of

outlook, was government.

banks of the Ouse near Ely where the swollen torrent bad torn a 100-foot hole in it

lykes.

Hundreds of civilians' worked throughout last night with the troons using Bailey Bridges of

and wartime famo

folding bosta to go to the aid o stranded householders. Floo waters rolled to within five miles of historie Cambridge.

Thames Falling

The Loudon area apparentl·

to fall.

It's position, that the spokesman' The British Government's desafe na the Thames bega

predicted disciplinary action

"There definitely Is a sligh' uzainst rebels" in Parliament If are intention to quit India they attempted to force a divi- he added. might turn out to pre- son of the House of Commons on cipitate the gravest civil disor fall and that goes for Readin ‚heavy mist and may blow up uni

Maidenhead as well," r ders, "I have the gravest fears and The sources fixed the scene north.. A dispute followed the subject of conscription. -

of what may lappen, when the spokesman at the Thames Can beaching. She was within one of the fighting at Sanjik Teng,, whether the village was in So- Unlied Press.

common factor cf British in- servancy Board Bald. Hour of her destination, Jar-

fluence is withdrawn, row, when she struck the wreck which is a village 10 miles cast viet or American territory.

Kaesong and three-quarters Both the Koreans and

Two steam tugs which had been of Karsan auth the the 18th put Weapons aside and argued Air Disaster

sent to the tanker's help could

_danger of fire.

Parallel.

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heatedly for 20 minutes until not reach her because of the The fighting occurred when the Soviet soldiers struck

The lifeboat rescued the crow, the line, broke up a

Red Army troops, who crossed Korean policeman...

jurisdle. The Sovieta opened fire. Smany of whom were

Á South Chinesotional argument during, rice wounding

Korean

Eight scamen were taken Shonpĺtal-Reuter," --

In Ceylon

An RA.F.

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stats.

THE WEATHER

Alosin

Mr. Attice's mrnt. (that

Britain planned to quit India by June, 1940) in

the abandonment - of. volves Dominion status for India, it will be a tragedy for the British Em- Colombo, Mar, 19.

pire and equally for India and York transport.

A grave of the Indian people. Reuter. to distribution by opening fire pollecman. The Korean, armed plane crashed into

with machine-guna. The Run with a carbine, theroupon fatally coconut trees four miles north of one Soviet soldier and eleven persons. The plane was en Negombo early today killing sian troops then retreated back shot across the border, taking the wounded, another." * 4*

route from the United Kingdom The Koreans' handed over 10 to Bingapore. bodies of their casualties with them beforg United States--the Amorleans arriving from

Two of the nine passengers and troops arrived from Racsong. Kaesong shortly afterwards two of the six crew burvived the

Korean troops who had re- two Soviet sub-machine-gunn | crash which occurred shortly after. sisted the Russians retained with 23 and 09 rounds, res- the take-off, The Chinese police announced Two Russian machine-guns, pectively, aut of a normalt is believed engine failure

caused the crack-up. Fire fol today they will protest to the which they claimed to have charge of 100 rounds each, American authorities over Mohghtained from the

lowed the crash-Folted Press, 'attacking No American troops · Word dor's killing of a Chinese by a Red Army forces,

Involved-United Press,

Paris, Mar. 10. MP guarding the American, in

Pierre Investigation shows that 100

Caalót stallations.

70-year-old GETTING OUT former Vichy Minister of Food Sunahinat a hurry

way today found guilty by a Var-

3ination

PEIPING INCIDENT

Peiping, Mar 19

The protest demands punish rounds had been fired from the ment of the "culprita, corpore guns,

sation and a guarantee agairat o One Korean was wounded:

valmilas: incident in future, cats de Prülminary investigation

The palled said the victim was disclosed that four South A high Government »

b. primary school student, Wabr Korean pollca, were distributing today confirmed that

Feng ahl, who was playing mate

blow on the outskirts by die Hand the rice ration le 8an ik Tong has int

tintos buy Fartovarskok Mars at 4 pm when, twore Rashtan 48 100 Focd Barronit beratus fall #oldlord dating, (rum an outpost

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off civil rights and confiscation:

„A moderate unileyelobę statianaty over Japan and the mean 'ter the

ward, with a ridge of high preenite exlanding acth-westward by Chin Pressure" in "Yelatively low over- Nand W Chan A depression le,ʻmorina E anus the Karlles

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Today's - ForecastiModerats Emoet H winderbartir ofnady, probably, witte [mérning mit frather (warm)

Marligumi TL5" den! Thhol Minimum 60,0° dér. Fat.c

However, In Windsor house- wives did their morning shop. ping knee deep in water,

Brend and milk are short In the Windsor area and hundreda of homes are without gas or electricity. There are?: supplies but, most of theso Homes havo coin, meters and the meters áró deep in their flooded cellars.,

Thirty-four of England's 40 counties, reported foods and th the entire realm there is only one without weather woes, Of the alx flood-free counties baly Kent la not bogged down with snow-United Pressi"

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EARL'S DIVORCE

PLEADINGS

London, Mar. 19..

esde ago the troops were forcal

The Earl of Carlisle ' today¦ to retreat, because of lacle by fool named Sir Malcolm Monckton, water. former director-general of the than the Yellow River though the

The Japanese were never cloka Ministry of Information, as ancient walled city was utterly correspondent in divorce prodestroyed.

ceedings against the Countess | With the fall of Yanan and the The Countess, formerly the recent capture of Kalgan, the Hos Helen Hure-Ruthven, yas Communist ate without a head- * And militarlly their chief commander of the Arg quarters" In the Southeast Command loves are expected to suffer inco

the Government forces nce ux

during the war,

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No date has been set for the Fected to swing northward in a

drive, hearing.-United Press.

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