1947-03-31 — Page 2

REPATRIATION

Coming Events OF CHINESE

March 31-China Entertainment

& Investment Co., Ltd., annual meeting, noon.

March 31-British Legion meet-

Ing. Vol. gs., 5.30 p.m.

DESTITUTES

THE CHINA-MAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 31, 1947.

New "Star" Exodus of Chinese Calchas

Ferry

The Government-spon Schedule

April Rotary Club luncheon; Sored scheme of repatria- The latest time-table Speaker: Compton Mackenzie.tion of Chinese des issued by the "Star"

April 6-K.C.C. Dance,

April and 7-Enster Race titutes, which started on

Meeting.

April 1-Watsonian Clab dinner

(tentative date), April 11 and 12-K.C.C. Play: "A

Worm's Eye View." April 12--Chin Light & Power Co., Ltd., annual meeting, noon,

April 21-K. Land Investment

& Agency Ltd, shareholders' anveliny, B001.

Death Sentence Petition

Ferry shows the reintro- Jan. 10, will not be conduction of a five-minute A tinued after April 10.

This announcement was made service during the "rush

Re- hours.' nt the a niceting of the patriation Committee at the Tung Wah Hospital on Satur- day afternoon by its chairman, Mr. Yung Sni-fong, who said a letter had been received from Secretary for Chinese Affairs conveying Government's decision,

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Mr. Yung announced that since the Inauguration of the scheme on Jan. 10 n-tatni 5,030 destitutes had been patriated and G30 more on the register awaiting patriation. Altogether 628 ap- plicants had been turned down or bad being ineligible. put off their departure and had their registration cancelled.

The total amount expended In grants and ex- repatriation penses was $137,434.27.

Registration of applications will cease on April 6, and after

the affairs of and April 10

Committee will be wound up.

nu- becn

nis fearned on relluble thority that petition has forwarded to ills Excellency the Governor in Council by the Chiu Chew District Association appeal- fe repeal of the death sen- lence on Chu Loung-fun for the murder of Yeang Wing-yee on Nov. 3, 1946.

Chin was found guilty, sentenced to death by Mr. Jurtles Williams on March 4. His appen) to the Full Court was dismissed by the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Gold on March 24.

Chief ground of Die petition is that Chao was brought up in his! nnfive district of Chiu Chow,{ where it was the low for a man to kill his wife and the adulterer. for the preservation of the family bonour.

Volunteer

Gunners'

The scheme originally visaged the repatriation 20,000 destitutes at an penditure of $750,000.

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COPPERS BACK

Readers' Letter ON BEAT

Delousing

Patna, Mar. 29.

The Indian policemen who have been on strike here since Tuesday returned to duty to-

From

who

Hong Kong

general exodus of Chinese from Hong Kong Is under way and additional steamers and trains are being put into service in order to cope with the large crowds leaving the Colony. Street photographers specialize in taking photographs for inoculation certificates are doing a roaring trade, while the staff at the Government In- oculation Centre in Fire Bri- gude Building, is being worked almost to a standstill attending to the thousands of impatient folk clumouring to be ingen- inted.

Secret

Army Trial

Arabs Take Dim View Of U.S.

Sets New Standard

(By "Pani Pry”)

The Blue Funnel mo- for cargo liner "Calchas," due from Liverpool on her maiden voyage to- morrow, is the herald of a new era in the life of the merchant. seamen of| Cairo, Mar. 30, The Arab League Council Britain. Her crew said that United States "inter-housed in cabins which ference In Talestine affairs)

arc

and recent statements by Freal for comfort and appoint- dent Harry Truman "have had ments

conipare.

very

an extremely bad reaction lo- favourably with many a wards Arabs and Moslems First-Class cabin of the throughout the worlil."

The cause of thin suniden axodus is not the result

Helaiaki, Mar. 28. of

The trial of 22 Finnish staff Government's decision to im-

In a memorandum sent to the pre-war years. pose Income Tax, but the ap- officers accused of forming United States the Counell sai!

A verse of 8.000 tons, she is Russia that of the Ching Ming secret army to fight

the American nilitude the forerunner of several vea- prouch

(Tomb worshipping) Festival, "If war broke out between her would "affect the good relations cals to be constructed on these which falla on Saturday, Apr. 5.} and the Western powers" open-between America and the Arab lines. Her crew have reason to

The people who are leaving ed here today. the Colony are those whose an- į cestors are buried in far-off villages in China.

Ancestral worship plays a very important part in the life: of the average Chinese and it in for this reason that the Chinese, as a whole, desire sons in preference to daughters,

It is commonly believed by the Chinese that apirits in the nether world need the same It is comforts as the living. thus the duty of the male heirs. of the departed to arrange for the despatch of comforts out the day set upart for the purpose each year.

On the

Offerings

E

Ching

includo The accused

states."

two

be content with their accom- It added "the League alsoj modation-for it corporates former Chiefs of Staff, Gener demands that the American most of their own suggestiour. nls Anke! Airo and Einar

Government should stup Makinen.

support of the emigration General Airo was arrested in Jews in Germany into

1945 June

by the Finnish Ministry of Interior after the discovery of sceret armus dumps

tine."

The Counell

fall-scale her They fanpected two

of model cabina bullt at Birken- Pales heal awl the "Culchas" is the first vessel to put to sea incor- recommented; ponating their idens, that all the Arab states "take

In each

is a cabin, there The official statement nik

a cheat of Palestine," double wardrobe, that the dumps were planted in steps ter support

Aral drawers, a folding table with a case Finland were occupied or and asked the 'Palestine

plastle top, and a small settec armed conflict broke out among executive committee to prepare with a hinged seat and вол-

the Holy Land the Allies;

Lainer for dungarees. Each A 78-page indictment states "technically."

and Emile Ghoury, a member of berth has draw curtains that the leaders of the secret army were officers of the Opera- the Executive Committee said letric reading lamps.

The cabin is panelled with tons Section of the High Com this meant that the Palestine Canadian silkwood. The furni mand. The army was started Arabs would prepare "to fighture is of light oak. Fittings on Sept. 16, 1944, four days and defend themselves against include hat and coat hooks, before Finland signed the Zionlam

circumstances shelf, bookcase, mirror and res

when

question

The strike started when dik. Bling Festival, therefore, the armistice, the indictment said. | permit."-Associated Press,

Sir In recent editions of the press of Hong Kong, letters have appeared on the subject of people delousing themselves on the Ceno- day. taph; obstruction of scavaging

aquatters and alicy by habits of defaecation and mictura There was a very good attention when removed to the roof

tops". dance at the Brst reulan dinner As cleanliness is next to Godli-

artd Nature must

Reunion

of members and ex-members of: 2nd Battery, B.K.V.D.C., which,

on Saturday night.

The Chairman, M. D. J. S. Crozier. proponed the toast The King, which was followed

of

taken

their clplinary action wa

against two policemen at Palma and one at Gaya.

Joby

"

day of the

After the armistice, the army ancestral- tombs are visited and j

commanders worshipped. The customary grow and local offerings of rice, pork, chicken, were told that war between the Russin cakes and fruit are made. In Western powerk and addition, paper clothing, money and other articles are burnt at the grave-side in the beltof that by this process, the articles burnt will reach the departed announced, Bouis, troops are being

Oil Firms' Was to be expected. Russia Deliberate

Fraud"

The strike spread to other towns and troops disarmed the entire Patna police furcce

Wednesday. Necessity. can hardly blama

On

The Bihar Province Inspector

Worshipping of spirits of

would occupy Finland and it would be the duty of local com manders to rise with their men against the Soviet Army.

Mr. James Moffett, oil specialist and former Federal Housing

cess for ash trays. Heating la provided by un elertric radintor and there is a system of con- trolled ventilation. The crew also have hot and cold running water, shower butha and a smoke-roomt.

Washington, Mur. 28. Beam Went Senate War Investigating Cam- Wrong Way

Govern- the departed is also performed custody and will be tried later. Director, t:day alleged before the į

was held at the Hong Kong Hotel these unfortunate people if provi- slon has not been made for them

General of Police in the Colony,

However! The tuberculosis rate, today that for Hong Kong is exceptionally withdrawn from the high; the sanitoria accommoda-

Yet! ment armoury which will now tion totally inadequate.

Health be guarded by police as before. Nothing is done by the

Reports from other towns af- Authorities, or Police, to atop the

trade pernicious

elgarettes fected showed the situation is made in the gutter from cigarette growing gradually more normal, about renewing old friendships. stubs found in the gutter.

-Reuter. The Committee which organis-

Surely, every person Ko Infected ed the function

consisted of: with

offers a

by sent toast to the memory of those who lost their lives in nction and during imprisonment. Informality was the keynote of the evening, and in the inter- VAIR between stories or

com- munity songs, guests moved

Mr. H. H. Rose, Mr. A. Andrews,

in

tuberculosis from this soures arent menace to all other

Mr. P. Peresypkin, Mr. Justice Tresidents in the Colony, and 1

J. Gould, Mr. D. 1. S. Crozier, Mr. T. W. Carr and Mr. J. Quie.

Fruit For Hong Kong

the

The .. Bald Eagle, of Pacifle Far East Linë,'is due in Hong Kong on April 3 and will discharge 550 tons of fruit. She will sail for San Francisco about April 4,

Due in Hong Kong on April 7 is the s.. Midnight, of the same line, with 1,000 tons of general cargo for the Colony. The vessel' will sail for San Francisca on or about April.0.

To celebrate the first anniver-; sary of its re-cpening, the Inter- national English Evening School held a dinner party at the Cafe de Luxe inst night.

EMIR LEAVES

London, Mur. 20. would suggest that even an ele

Emir Seif el Islam Abdulla, mentary idea of preventative

left London nedicine or tuberculosis prophy-ruler of Yemen, Inxs would, move the Powers airport today in a speclully chartered "Silver City" Lan- castrian.

that Be" to action.

T. B. PHOBIA.

12h

in the belief that should it be neglected, the spirits will, in their wrath, inflict punishment upon the living. By performing the prescribed riten und mak- ing the customary offerings to ensure the eternal pance of the spirits, the latter, so it is said, will ire tura bestow good fortune and happiness on the living. :

TITO DEATH SENTENCES

It is stated that only 22 men are on trial, but others are in Men arrested since the armis the total over five thousand, mittee that the ell companies "de-

Washington, Mar. 29. released after a period of pro-liberately defrauded the United

Slates Government," in charging Assistant Secretary of State the Navy US$1.05 per barrel for William Benton said today that Arablan produced petroleum.,

stan

tective custody.

today.

BIG PUSH IN GREECE

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ресть

been

He said the British Admiralty the Amorient radio relay

nt Munich had had been buying oil in the Per- tion ala Gulfaren for less than 40 sabotaged, with the result that centy per barrel. He suld the American broadcasts designed United States Navy should have

for Russia were being beameil

to South America instead.

Benton said the sabotage wna reported to him on Thursday by E, J. Kerrigan, special State Department consultant Munich. Kerrigan assured

nt

the

The sabotage was committed Din one of the Munich transmit- ters sending the department's Russian-language broadcasts to Moscow-Leningrad area.

Asked if he thought the companies were "culpable" in not offering the contract at the 1941 price, Mr. Moffett testified: say they deliberately defrauded the the United States Government in The broadcasts / originatd New York and are relayed my ipinion."--Reuter.

Muntel

in

at

been able to mukė purchases at Athens, Mur, 29. a similar price. A "general offensive" against He declared that a 1041 offer Greek guerillas throughout of Arabion ell to the Navy for Greece will start tomorrow a few a lower price had been "over hours after the expiration of the looked by the Government au Government's offer of amnesty to thorities" when the contracts He arrived in England at the

Skopje, Mar. 29.

the guerillas 'who surrendered were signed in 1945. DAKOTA FOUND beginning of the year for the Seven persons were sentenced with their arms within a fort

Under the contracts the Amert department that he had taken. Palestine conference. "All the to death at the trial of thirteen night, it was reliably learned here can, Arabian and Californian all possible precautions against Brisbane, Mar. 20. Royal Australian Air Force Arab states are united and de- members of the Macedonian

Texap. Oil Companies deilvered this and other such acts in the Special security measures have more than $50,000,000 worth of have found thetermined to stand by

future. search planes

our autonomist terrorist association already been taken in Macedonia all to the American Navy. Dakota, Dutch Naval

missing brothers in Palestine," he said.] "YMRŐ" on charges of war. and will road trame hou ainen last Tuesday, in open coun- Commenting on the plan for a time collaboration with thef banned.—-Reuter, try near Pine-creek. about

union of Greater Syrin with Nazia and post-war organiza- miles southeast of Darwin on

Syrla, the Lebanon, Iraq and tion of terrorist activities. Australia's northern coast.

JOʻBURG RIOT by Trans-Jordan, ruled over

Other defendants were sen- King Abdullah, he remarked tenced to penal servitude rang-

Johannesburg, Mar, 20. that any such decision could being from eight to twenty years. taken only by the Countrica Accused were said

The fire brigade quelled one concerned.-Reuter.

tried to set up "an Independent of the worst riots for months

beamed to the Soviet Macedonia

Union London, Mar. 29. "nder Angh at the municipal Natival Hostel

Lloyds shipping intelligence re- | failed to 'work entirely during American pat ange" and to in Johannesburg today. Natives Rangoon, Mar. 29.

"eliminate" demberatic authori- set fire to the compound offices Paris from Bergen that the Ner the week of March 17-26, "p and tried to prevent the Tire wegian moter vessel Cllo, boundparently because of sabotage.” Troops of the Mainpur Re- ties in Macedonia.-Router.

for Bergen was in collision off brigade from putting out giment, supported by armed

the Ryvarden at 5 a.m., today with It was put Burmese police, fought a pitching, aged 23 Jeurs, living at and bottles. The firemen turned the Sevilla, brund for the Med-on

A Chinese Jinan, Lee Yak- blaze by throwing stones. sticks another Norwegian motor vessel, Tuesday. Benton said the doors tire switch house of the ed battle against the notorious

subotaged antenna had been Golden Dagger dacolt gang on 280 Lockhart Road, 1st floor. their hoses on the riotera and lerranean.

Sevilla was hit abaft the broken and the awiteli reversed, The the banks

fell from the roof to the street forced their entry. of the Irrawaddy below at about nine o'clock last

bridge and. sank within A fire engine was damaged minutes. Ten of the crew were at South America rather than tws that the antenna was aimed near Mandalay two days ago, night. She was rushed to the and ane fireman injured-Reu- missing. The Cllo ntrived it was reported in Burmese hospital in a critical condition. papers here today.

Bergen later in the day-Reuter. Moscow-Reuter, "JANE”

People, belleved to be survivors. were seen walking near the plane which appeared to have made a succesful crash landing.

The plane, which was flying

Reach, botween Long. Queensland, and Darwin, carrying seven Dutchmen-Roy- ter,

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BURMA BATTLE

Eight members of the bandit gang were killed and several others, including the leader, captured.-Reuter.

LEWIS AGAIN

Washington, Mar, 20. The United States miners' leader, John L. Lewis, has called 400,000 soft coal miners to quit work from Tuceday, April 1 to Sunday April 6 in memory of the 111 victims of the Centralla mina disaster.

Mr. Lowls said that his Goy- ernmont contract authorised such a period of mourning. Kavnoted that next week is Holy Week in Christian churches and told his miuers that the memorial period

is appropriate Raster.

DEPARTURES

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The following passengers left BOOTS AND HER BUDDIES

by BOAC flying boat, for Singa pore yesterdays. Lim :: Tion-XL Mrs Smith Wing-Cdr... A... C Howell, Wing.Cdr. F. E. L. dil- bert, Als Commodoré. Hesketh, Capt. T. H. Wast, W. F. Johnston Dell Tong-Ue, Yip Tack-ise, Jung Kong chin For Bangkok: Pin-kl, Lleuf; W.-H. Hunter and Kwok Shik-chlu.

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EGYPT AND SUEZ

Cairo, Mar. 20. Under no pretext "will the Suez Canal Concessions be re- viewed at its expiry date," *declared_the_Egyptian Minis. *

ter of Kingųce today, an nouncing that Epvet has al- ready begun arrangements to take over 'ownership of the Suez Canali

The Minister said that he hud called on Enuntian capi- tulinta to invent in Suez Cunal shares with a view to effenting smoothly the trans fer of the canal concession when it expírce in 1068. Ho warned Egitimu, however, not to undertake. maar për.. chunce of these shares on the stock exchange in order tut avoid un artificial boom.-- Reuter.

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