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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 4, 1947,

"PETTICOAT" STRIKE ON Brighter

Protest By 300,000 Miners In

Situation Described Explosions

As Serious

Dusseldorf, Apr. 3.

Over a quarter million Ruhr coalminers. walked out on a one-day strike protesting against their food rations today and 10,000 Krupps workers at Essen struck th sympathy with them. One thousand five hundred of the Krupps workers marched with:10,000 miners at Essen in a de- monstration. There were no incidents.

The walkout was quiet and orderly and in Essen, Hagen and other towns miners stood in drizzling rain to hent Union sponkers at demonstratione.

At 11 am no trouble had been reported from any point British military forces had no eztra patrols out

Miners at Hamborn and Duias herg flatly refused to abide by the call out ordered by Union delegates at Bochum yesterday and went back to work shortly ulter Hin-up.

However, Union Jenders said at least 95 per cent of the Bri- tish, Zone's 300,000 miners are off the job.

Although steel, transport and other - werkers were asked to rame out pesterday they turned down the request and late re. ports indie fed there are no local sympathy strikes.

Officials of the British Coal

Commission expected a loss of hút a million tons from fields on which Europe leans heavily for all her needs. The miners will not resume regular work until Tuesday because Easter holiday over the week

United Press.

300,000 Out

Essen, Apr. 3.

of with us it would make our job in Germany as a whole much more difficult. We cannot win coal with buyamets."

and

Shake Peshawar

Bombay, Apr. 2.

As explosions shook Peshawar, capital of the Northwest Frontier Pro- vince, today, 12 members of the Moslem League stormed the compound of Government House.

They shouted slogans out, There was no suggestion that coal for German domestic con-side the building until the po sumers would be cut off to Hee drove them out of the com. make up the deficiency. As pommi and arrested them. No things stood at the moment, the damage was reported from the output loses would be met by two explosions.

The cuts in exports

renewal of communal proportionate

WIN allocations for

German rioting

reported from domestic and industrial uses.-

seven areas, including Calcutta jurul Bombay, today and precau- tionary curfew was imposed on the town of Kuria, ten miles north of Bombay, for 33 hours. | In Calcutta, scene of a week-i old Hindu-Moslem conflict. thei police fired nine rounds and ar- rested ten people. Rioters twlee threw bombs.

Renter.

THREAT TO TEA RATION

London, Apr. 3.

Mr. The Minister of Food, John Strachey, announced in the House of Commons today

In Bombay there were ståb. that the present level of dis-bings in a workers' quarters. tribution of tea in Britain, might In Bangalore, (Mysore); a not be matutalued during the

summer months, The difficulties were mainly due to delay in shipments from Calcutta owing,

Ruhr

SALVATION ARMY AND SOVIET

London, Apr. 2. Further inquiries into the Soviet request to the Ailled

Control Commission to con- aider prohibiting the Salva- tion Army throughout, Ger many are to be made by Gen- eral Albert Oraborn, the in- ternational head of the Salva, tion Army, it wong stated in London tonight,

General Oreborn, who has are arrived on an. Enster tour, will attempt to ascer tain the exact nature of the Runaton objretions. At the conclusion of his visit to Gere many, the General will travel to Holland, and on Monday will broadcast at Hilversum.

Reuter

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King Should Live In The

Dominions

London, Apr. 3. A suggestion that the King should live in each 48-hour curfew followed aghts of the Dominions in turn and that a Governor- In Gurgaon, border aren of General be appointed to Eastern Punjab, "heavy dis-act for him in the United

between Hindus and Moslems.

to the strike there, he added. turbances" ocenrred and

the

Financial Picture

London, Apr. 2, 'Britain's financial year fended with a deficit of |£569,000,000 - £162,000,-; 1000 less than the figure estimated in last year's budget.

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Paria, Apr. 3. While standing at the altar saying man, a French priest in the village church of Ville- franche

Rouergute

southern France,, was struck by lightning, which, passed through the church spire and through the priest's body.

He was taken to hriapital in a serious condition.Renter.

Warning To Turkey

CONFIRMED

Shangtial, Apr. 3. Foreigners from Taiwan who requested anony- mity told the Associated Press today that the reports of the reign of terror on the "islaud after the riots which began on February 28 were not exaggerated.

One said: "When the Chinese troops reached Tai- pei on March 8 they shot at anything and everything in sight. It is my conviction that the breach between the Chinese and Taiwan- ese will never be healed."

The source said the Talwan- to stay on the island until ar This striking Improvement on the estimate lies mainly in

ese were in virtual control of ingements could be made to Talpel from March 4 until the return them to Korea. Three revenue returns. While a fall of

troops arrived.

of the 18 who stayed. at Kee- €129.2 millions was expected on

They were the 1945-1G level of £3,284.5

deceived by the hung went to Taipei to see what Istanbul, April, 3. idea that Governor

had been made but Famillions, revenue actually rose

Chen Yi progress Newspapers hore today genuinely accepted their by £60.8 millions. Expenditure quoted Premier Recep Peker mands for virtual self rule-an Chinuae soldiers.

were hunted like animals by the Effectined on-the 19-16-46 figurstelling

group of impression he gave them while

One escaped but the other of 26,474.8 millions.by 1504.5 merchants at Izmir that "it is he waited for soldiers from the two were caught, their creden millions compared to the c8-quite possible we might wake mainland. timated decline of £1.587.9

up one morning and find our. millions.

selves at war."

de-

The source said that during

a "truce" which the Taiwanese

tiala burned and then they wore coldbloodedly shot.

Another foreigner said that on March 3 Chinese troops ur- rived at Taichu in Central Formosa and fred without

warning at a crowd of Taiwan-

If compared, however, with The reviseil figure, renched after

The Premier's warning, press taking account of the supple-dispatches said, came in reply mentary estimates, national last night to a request

that expenditure, fell by as much as merchants be permitted to ex

· 1917 milliofa.

nort whent an Item which Substantial surpluses in Turkey kept largely for home irect taxation are one of the consumpifon, since the begin- easons for improved revenue.ning of the fast war. * For éxample income inx pro-

Peker won quoted as saying lucop1,150.2 millions against Turkey had plenty bf wheat with the Estimated 1.111 millions, this your but still must hold shot down people in doorways mainland Chinese they could

while excess profits tax and horseit profita tax combined £357.5 gencies. millions Igainst an expected (€325,000,000. Approximately half the exccer is, however,

more

explained by receipts largely of the non-recurring type. produced £50.8 millions

Thus, misioneous receipt than was expected and sundry cans a surplus of 11.8 mil on. Again, the sale of sur

'plus

produced

the

war Alores

more than £6,000,000

150,000.000 estimated,

In addition to the 4569,000,-

He also announced that cen- "police and military were ac-Kingdom was made to thetracts with tea-growers in India tive," as members of rival com.day at the conference of

and Ceylon still in the miles attacked each others' British University Asso-000 deficit, £511,000,000 have course of negotiation--Reuter.

The Ruhr's ginnt vont Indus- fry came to an almost complete slamistil in most of its aroun. when 300,000 miners ignored British appeals to remain on their job and walkert out today In demand for more food for their families,

were

villages-Reuter,

Is It Right? Is It Justice?

London, Apr. 2.

normal man should be able to father 20,000 children annually through artifical Insemina- tion, but he would be legally responsible for the maintenance of every one of them, In the opinion of Dr. Henry Willink, former British Health Minister.

The action, whether with the consent of the wo-

Workmen at mines in Dort-A mund and Hamborn, who struck earlier in the week, catered the pits as usual, apparently satis fed with the part they already had taken in the demonstration. Miners in the Cologno area, which technically is not a part of the Ruhr, remained on the Job but reports from the Rubr proper indicated most of the 170 mines are idle which means loks of production of about 500,000 tons of coal, which us badly needed at present..

man or of her husband or both, constitutes adultery, Dr. Willink said in an article in the British Medical journal "The Practitioner." He warned that grave risks of incest, black- mail and bastardy were inherent in the prac- tice. Sonte oficiala termed it "Can

scheme which spring, no matter how numer- "petticoat strike" incited by would preclude confusion and ous-and they might be very He 'quoted protesting wives who have been fraud be devised?" he asked. "I numcrons indeed." propagandised by Union leaders cannot think that anything on to prod the minera into a one- the lines of a register as for day strike, Associated Press. Indoption could meet the case.

I cannot Cologne Stoppage

think it would be tlous honestly used,"

any

Essen, Apr. 2. Twenty-one thousanit German Dr. Willink studied the quess- minera stopped work today in on under three categories: the Gelsenkirchen nits in the impregnation of the wife by British Zone of Germany and her husband, impregnation of 8,000 marched through the married women; and impreg streets of the town as protest nation of the wife by a "donor" He said that in the first against the fcoil shortages. Other demonstrations took place case o question of legality the mar- should arise unless at Bochum, Buor, Herre and riage was not otherwise con Neuse

summated, when it could be Twenty thousand, workers nullified regardless of whether alaged a one-day shrike At or not there were children. The Rentscheid, on the other! edge of the Ruhr, and control other situations

serious. Commission official statement!

were more

said that a general popper Ostensibly Legitimate' all workers, except

technicians, tock

Cologne..

ciations.

been spent out of borrowed money on such items as excess More than one

hundred profits tax refunds, postwar students from seventeen un- credits, war damage and tem- iversities endorsed a resolution porary housing. The net excess. | advocating vigorous measures of expenditure over income to further the organie unity of | during the past financial year the British Commonwealth. was, therefore, £1,080,000,000.

John Lowe, of Cambridge, This big increase on the the proposer, declared that the deficit.of almost 60 per cent "gross diaequilibrium of popula- can, however, be regarded as a

and resources over

since the temporary phenomenon Commonwealth should be re- it is due to the effects of the medied by the removal of

ab-war and the immediate postwar stacles to emigration,

by period.. cultural and educational changes and by reconsideration

tion

cx-

cf the Sovereign's position." The Cost To

The King, he said, should live in each of the Dominions .in turn. The United Kingdom by | the appointment of a Governer- General, should be placed in ex- actly the same position as Dominion-Reuter,

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ON OTHER PAGES

At estimate that n "fecund Page Twa donor submitting two specimens weekly could with ideal condi- children produce 400 "weekly."--United Press, ·

Stanley Gaol Hospital Trial, Pane Four

Housing Failure; Editorini. Page Eight

Easter Race Meeting Tips.

Londoners Queue For Holiday

London, Apr. 3

The Farmer

London, Apr. 3.

The Minister of Agriculture in a statement on agricultural losses due snow, frost and foods, said

Kent.

committee had arranged with Chen Yi, everything was quiet "but then the Chinese troops arrived and brought terror with them.

ese holding a public meeting.

Still another disclosed how "They came in like wild men determined on revenge for the the rebelling Taiwanese seized deaths of the mainland Chinese control of Takao, formerly an whom the Taiwanese had kill-important Japanese naval insa, ed. They mowed down crowds raided a police station, burned machineguns, wantonly all records and chased all the prepared for emer. nnd lorded it over the Taiwan- find out of the town.

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Thay maintained control ot "Under conditions of today

Takao He said it was n

- until the Chitfese sol- common gur bi uelghbours should not sight to see Taiwanese on their diera, "wild-eyed and excited," absolutely so, but logic is noted in fear and subjection with the lowit declare war," he said. "It is knees with their hands uprals- arrived, and seized control of enough. We cannot judge every the Chinese "thrintening to kill

Looting thing according to our own them and sometimes' doing so." logic."

Koreans Killed · on agriculture, the Premier said, the people the Chinese killed The sources said that among "it is first necessary that we were two Koreana, part of should think it over well and group of 18 shipwrecked on lake into account the needs of Formosa last October. the army."Asociated Press.

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Campaign Against Rickshaws

(By Margaret Bradbury)

Traffle police in the Colony yesterday started a drive to clear the roads of unlicenced: rick- shaws. It is estimated that there are several hundred of these in Hong Kong, apart from the 853 rickshaws which are authorised by the authorities and which each have two pullers.

As

At Talnan the arrival of Chi- nese troopa was followed by loaded with household effects footing in which trucks

were

stolen from Taiwanese home...

Numerous Taiwaneau - ware thrown. In jall, ospecially visi. tors from other towns who were suspected of subversive nctivities,

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At Pingtung, near Takao, the drcival of Chinese troops preceded by m; false Chineno re- part anying Chen Yi accepted all the Taiwaneso domanda, As the mass meeting of Taiwanese jubilatly clapped their hands, the troops renchel. town and began fring

During the four days the Taiwanese were. În control they released prisoners from jail and distributed posters asking the Taiwanese with The Japanese military to rally.

said he twice heard a Taiwan- A foreigner from Plugtung

ene band playing the "Star

Press.

Assoclated

from yesterday, when a good job of work in the Colony trafle police task force was plactin hauling rond offenders to jus ed on the roads, all unlicenced tice. This is shown by the fact rickshaws will bo collected and that 330 people were prosecuted Spangled Banner," the American remoyed by torties.

last month alone for traffic mis-national nathem This new campaign to clear the demeaners. Colony's streets af unnecessary vehicles is linked with the notices which have recently appeared in the Press in relation to the mu! titudinous number of band-trucks,

in the House of Commons today All hand-trucks which are un that it was only possible to give a licenced will also be removed from rough interim estimate of the the roads in the near future. losses in stocks. and crops.

The police also intend to tak! He continued: "My present in-action shortly against the owners formation is that losses of sheep of vehicles with particularly loud and lambs total over 2,000,000, horns. If this, is done, I will no Some counties have lost half their doubt be looked upon as a great sheep and about 30,000 cattle. boon to those who live above

Hon Floods in 31 counties have inun- near the main roads in dated 600,000 acres of agricul- Kong, where the noise of vefileu tural land, an area the size of far trame at moat times of the day can be described appall- "About 70,000 acres of winter The number of cars in Hang corn, almost all wheat, have been

and destroyed by foods

about Kong and Kowloon Increases 200,000 by frost. Ahout: 50.000 month by month as new vehicles tons of potatoes have been des- enter tho Colony and old ones aro troyed by floods and 30,000 by re-licenced and put back on the

roads. frost,"

These losses, coming at the pre- sent time of food shortage, as well

.A truffle census, retently ear as dollar shortage, brought Dri-ried out with the object of diy tain faco lo face with a situation covering the present volume which would require all its energy trame revealed that at one par and resolution to meet and over- ticular point by Garden Road ove come, he added.-Reuter.

10,000; cars meised. In 12′ hours?

It is interos nie to note that the police traße department is doing

Athens Lying

for adn-acckers In State

Traffic Census

Madagascar Rebellion

of

Thousands of Londoners bundled into their warm- est clothes today in the vanguard of an estim- ated 10,000,000 Britons seeking the sun during the five-day Easter holiday despite reports that the Thames River has risen to flood con- ditions again and that cold and snow were It is obvious the doctor who on route. acceded to such a request by an Holiday makora were warned, Folkestone, Margate and other

lay away unmarried... patient might

from the Thamen at popular spots Other small strikes were himself open to fraud and Windsor, and told there would | niready hung up their..."wild. organised in the Rhineland city blackmail....and the child is be no bonting there this season, out" algns. They were booked

Athens, Apr. 3. of Wesel and at Bielfeld, the ostensibly legitimate but in They were told the stream was up weeks in advance-United Wrapped in the Royal fing} fextile centre In pontra! fact, a bastard.":

and with a gold crown.set on Westphalia,

With ; regard to the

crimcn cushion, the coffin

Tananarive, Apr. 3. Reports from Brunswick, category, Dr. Willink, a Con

THE WEATHER containing the body of King| Airborne reinfórterienta, from Where the military took over for servative who, was Health The people seemed to be on an hour-yesterday after gangs Minister from 1943 to 1946, holiday move in cheer frustra. A ridge of moderately, high pressure George of the Hellenes was to Reunion Island have arrived in sttends from 8. Caulks acrom the Ryu day taken from the Hoyal Madagascar, the French" Bland or Youths had overturned said there was no doubt that, tion, adepting the attitude of teen suikerulong to the Edit the Bonins Palace to the Cathedral of where fighting with: rebellious British cars and smashed i the regardless of the knowledge and nd malide where we go it Another anticyclone to developing over Athens, where it will lie in state natives was reported on: Tuci: windows of the British Military | consent of both parties, arli. can't be worse, than at home-- Mongolia ind, gorduding 62 across N Administration offices, said clot insemination not by her and the reat will be change, Kore and the Karline, both morick CHE-

day, according to a French re China Destrelons are Alunted for three days...A

The gun carriages procession pert here That tho, city was now, quiet."3 husband constituted adultory, At London mainline stations, grounya" foretast (Lieke (TAKIANNO IT

BERRANEAN whore the mercury, flood ni aasterly, winds1 partly glosdri, yarmi

was led by the former Regent, A. state of, slaga, hạn, bemi Serious Treat Ho shid:

"I would stress the adulter, only dve degreen khove froozing, ⠀ Tosterday's, Weatheriments

Archblahop Damaskinos, accom declared in ten districts and 28 Asantor British Offer of our character of the act cannot the longest queues for trains

panied by the higher, clergy, civillâng arid: 20 #oldiers, who'

King; Paul, first brother of participate 10rs neizure

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too swift, and, during the past Press, third | 24 hours the river rose three

Inches from now rainfalls,

of the North Gorman Coal Con- be removed by the consent of wore for those Into the North mainer Tour

the The other spouse... there can | Country and Scotland," Choor,

us, throat yet levelled to no doubt the action would lens, reports from there told ot

rikikli: pocupation constitute adultery on the part blizzards lusty inlable accop

married @defior, as well proted by three and 160

the late King, marched behind the

the coffin whlie Quech Frederika Have E And member of the Royal arresta

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