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THE CHINA MÁIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 1947.

SPRING OFFENSIVE IN GREECE

Attempt To

Fantastic Story

Many fascinating. novel, unique, and even fantastic stories have

been wold to the local Police and Magistrates by offenders of all sorts, sizes and ages, but the ane told to a Kowloon Magistrate yesterday by.

End Threat Of Civil War Huge Encircling

Drive Opens

Athens, Apr. 9.

Sixty thousand Greek troops, supported by tanks, artillery and planes, opened the spring offen- sive in Northern Thessaly and western Mace- donia early today, to wipe out guerrilla bands and end the threat of a full-scale civil war.

Greek destroyers, motor torpedo boats and land-

ing craft are standing by to assist with possi- ble naval bombardments and amphibious landings.

a 14-year-old Chinese Prisoner's

boy has them ail licked to a frizzle.

} This little Juddle, standing about 52 inches in his bare feet, ebarged with the possession of five the of raw apium, claimed that he came to Kowton by mistake and that had not

Dramatic

Escape

11 is the government's biggest attempt yet to clear Greece, of the guervillas who have terroriz,

r the ecuntryside with raids and believe the efensive wit, take the form of buge encirclement drive against The Pintura, Olympus, Pilion and Desa muntains.

fenanler-raids.

Military observers

The Government

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the apening the offensive in the foggiest idea how the splur A 26-year-old Chineses of pamphlets dropped Freza low lying planes over the Prime info his passession.

prisoner, wanted by-the area of operations. According to his story, he

An Army corps dummunique went to Cheung Muk Tau frontPortuguese authorities in

this afternom Canton by train a mere matter | Macao for six alleged sued in Laress of 45 miles) to buy a chicken, armed robberies, escaped Operations developed safisartorily throughout the day When he arrived there he found from Police custody at arreding to plong" that no chodern was to be had,

(the Central Magistracy and so delet 1 return to Canton.

yesterday morning.

At the railway station. his desponden y lave place to un- speakable jy when, out of the bluma na it were, he was offered a chicken in a rate. Berarding to his story, After the dent Had been consummated his de- light was so great that he got an to the first train that pulled into the station.

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First Contract

Press reports from Larissa say government troops masle the hest contact with the guerrillas in Escutent from the Victoria, the region of Mount Agrata. -- Remanet Prison with night United Press. other prisoners by a Chlaeg Sub-Inspector and two formed, men of the Emergency Unit shortly after 3 m. ve! terday, Lam Sang Cal Chan Lam-sau) suddenly

slasher down away and

steps leading Infa street from the compound sile Mr. Sheldon's Court,

stone

Calin

broke

Athens, Apr. 9.

An noticial report says that the first clash with-guerillas oe- the curved at Agrin centra! Greece, chota torty "mites south of Trikkala.

the

eit

He made stond his escape. » Allegedly responsible for six armed robberies in Macao, Lam by a series of separate simultane.

arrested by the jou drives from the north routine was recently

Unfortunately, the trah was band for Realoon and not for Canton.- Further misfortune awaited him on 104 arrival at the K.C.R. at about noon on

April 9. Pering search the drug was found in

JINNAH FOR PRESIDENT?

New Delhi, Apr. 9. Mohandas K. Gandhi, apiri- -tual tënder of India's Hindum, today suggested that Mohany- Died Ali Jinnah, frader of the Moslems, should be the first President at the Indian Re- public-United Press.

Court To Rule On Albania Dispute

Lake Success, N.Y. Apr. 9. The United Nations Security Council has asked the International Court of Justice to rule on the British charges Albania secretly laid mines in the Corfu Channel. It is the first case to go up to the 15-member Court set up by the United Nations. The decision come by vote jof eight to zero, with Russla and Poland abstaining. M. Gromyko. Soviet Russin, who on March 25 Jured the veto to block the Security Council decision 10 ac Letiam Albania of at-faunt hndwleg lout the secret mluefield in the Channel, thus passed up the up. portunity further to protect Com. munist-influenced Albania fram The Tons of R rolls of British prosecution, woollen material. one dinner Although the Council décision Jacket and one suit grey woollen merely recommends that the dis clothing. valued

about pute be taken to court, both coin.

Tailor's Huge Loss

At

$17,550, by a tailor in Nathan tries agreed in advance to abide Boad on March 18 was recalled by any decision reached by the before Mr. Latimer yesterday Council,

refraining

Heavy Fines

in Radio

Case

on

Wong Hung and Chan Leung appeared before Mr. Sheldon, K.C., at Central yesterday when Pang Chi ullás Pang Gromyką, although

Ilis from a veto, emphasized just be charges of possession of Cheung appeared before Worship charged with aiding fore the vote was taken that he radio transmitting ap- and abetting, and receiving. still believed that Britain failed paratus and of operating. As reported at that time.to prove her charges and that a radio station without some person or persotis broke there was "no basis for dragging | license on April 8 at 265 Into the Lampsan Tailors, 30 (Albanin before the International Nathan Road, ground floor, at Court."

The British about 130 am on the morning of March 18 and stole the arti. vies which were then valued at $17,650.

Investigations made by the Police resulted in the arrest on Tuesday night of Pang and his being charged with akling and abetting-one Lau Chuen and Wong Kal-ming, and of receiving $380, part of the proceels, on March 26.

On the application of Police Prosecutor Askew, accused was remanded to April 14.

HEARD PHONE TALK

The general plun of operations apps are tonight to be to drive the

Before Mr. Sainsbury at Cen- guerilias Into a number of pocketsal yesterday, Li Kau, 25, ser.

vant of the Tune Wah Hospital, was sentenced to 10 days", hard Inbear for obtaining 10 singlets and 10 luxes of sewing thread by false dueaments from the Hung Sheung Shop. No. 174. Queen's Road, Central.

Police in Hong Kong: He was the south and force them lwing taken from the Remund battle. his possession by n Revenue Prison to the Magistrary by Offer who later bratight him the Police for the bearing of to the Police Stafi 10 he an application for his extradi- hooked on the charge of unlaw- fol possession of raw nplun.

After his story had been -heard by the Magistrate he was Ardered to be expelled from the Calony. When he leaves, the chicken and the crate will go with him but not the opium,

On the application of Police Prosecuter 7. J. Askew, Li "Mik-rbuen. 39, boatswain of

the "Stockrington,”

was

tion to Murao,

He is still at large.

R.AS.C. PRIVATE COMMITTED

Clov..

Private Hird, 21, 387 RASC, was committed for trial at next month's Sessions by Mr. W. A. Hair-Kerr nt Kow

remanded for 48 hours by Mr. loon yesterday on the charge Latimer yesterday. Li is being of roobing with

and

into

A non, quafire was reported to have been heard at Larissa.

The bulk of the newly-equipped Greek Air Force, recently moved! lo Larissa, alsu joined in as Spit Luces new over the battle arens Can a feet of transport planes stood ready to parachute, supplies to the forward trops when they have penetrated the mountain fastnesses-Reuter.

Trump Card

--A Baby

violence the ham mun ne

charged with steiking, with on sum of $4 from Cheung Ming- iron luar. Captain Frederick leung, Patou cat board the ship on April 8

B・O・A・C

rickshaw coolie. #t Argyle Strect, at about 11 p.m. | on Match. 15.

Munich, Apr. 9. After two years in prison and within 48 hours of her irint at

A staff-member of the Has pitai telephoned the shop ол April 4, asking for the goods on the telephone conversation, went credit. Defendant, who overheard to the shop with a false document! and obtained the goods.

Tung Oil U.S.

Queen's Road, West, charges stemmed Pleading guilty to both from the deaths of 44 British sea-lures, Wong was fined $6000

men who were the victims

of twer months hard labour, mine explosions in the Channel, while Chan, who pleaded not

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ruilty to both counts but who, was convicted on the serond

Radio Set Case charger, was fined $5,000 or one

month. Radio Iuspector Die. kistan withdrew the first elurge against him.

After he callest bis two fokis as witnesses to say that they saw Mr. Dickinson said at 3.15 a man come to the shop with a p.m. on Tucaday he raided the radio and ask him to buy it. premises and found Chan sit- Leung Yuk-tak, of the

Lounging at a desk with a telephone Hung Kee. Shop, 368, Hennessy by his side, than produced the Road, was convicted and finel $600 or one month's hard labour desk; a number of four-worded keys to the drawers of the by Mr. Sainsbury at Central yes- terday for receiving a radio get, knowing the same to have been

tolen.

Chinese code messages and a radin receiving conce were found. The Heence was issued The 6-tube Murphy radio wa to the first floor of the pre- stolen, from Mr. E. 0. Woodward, mixes. 20, The Peak, on March 6.

Mr.

Mr. Dickinson then went up Woodward bought the

found Wong sitting at a desk et from to the first floor where ነው

on which there were radio re- ecivera and 1 transmitter. Chan was wearing earphones. When the drawers of the desk were searched, several mes- suges, identical with those on the ground floor, were found.

the sole agents for Murphy radios in Hong Kong and Soul China.

DB! Soutar located

the radio on shop in Des Voeux

Road, Central. Defendant claimed that he bought the set for $450 on March 16 from a friend, Wong to Canton. Kam-chuen, who had since gone

Mr. Sainsbury ordered the radio be returned to Mr. Woodward.

Now Robust Industry

Gulfport, Miss., Apr. 10. America's China-born agricultural baby, the tung oil industry, profiting by strife and inflation in its homeland, has developed into a robust $10,000,000 youngster-and is still growing.

Dachau in charges of participat. All through this country's wide tung belt stretch-

ing in Buchenwald concentration ean atrocitles, Frau se Koch. wife of the camp coomandant, has furtred úp what she kopes will be a trumping card.

Fran Koch is going to have t baby-a feal said to be "no less than ingenious" by prison of.

ing along the Gulf Coast from. Florida to Texas, some 5,000 growers have harvested record crop of an estimated 47,300 tons of the round, oil-filled tung nuts.

more than

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Char told the Magistrate that he was a godown keeper on the ground floor and had nothing to do with the radio station on the Arst floor.

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166 Wellington Street, Meyers Recently China has shipped Kam Chuo, 41 Des Voeux Road 20,000,000 pounds about 5,000 tons of oil to this Central.

The authornzed prices for un- all the tremendous demands of are considerably hampered by mounted copies of photographs Hongkong-Manila the paint industry and, same lack of shipping 'containera, † 2" x 3" are not to exceed the lines using the fast-drying oll. 400 different manufacturing lack of ships and inflation of following:-

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Tung oll is one of the fast. ! growers this year is a sharpest, drying of all drying oils. I Meanwhile, inspectors are try-heavy demands.

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able supply in consumed by the the baby's jather.-United Press.

of servitude?

Three months pregnancy is not likely to save Frou Koch Fror her trial on Friday. But if she is found guilty. It may result 011 some prstpanement of her ven. lence.

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John Watts, editor and pub-paint and varnish industry. It Fran Koch is being fried on publication here, suys the top agent for linoleum, transform. isher of the official tung traile also, is used as a waterproofing chuurges of collecting lamp. shades wade from the skins of in effect last milling already Inka-Associated Press.

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The department estimated Britain and the United States the 1946-47 tonnage by states, ladny opposed a proposal by as follow#:→→ the Dutch delegate, Miss N.S.C. Georgin 1,500; Florida 10,- Tendeloo, to put the Inter-Par. 500; Alabama 1,300; Miastoaip. Hamentary Conference on record p 20,000; and Lousiana and in favour of heavy reparations, Texas: 14,000.

J. Although tung trees from Germany.

Miss Tendchoo's resolution! been planted in this country for proposed "full payment from almost 40 years, American pro- Germany for all damages," but duction of tung bil has been United States Senator, Owen only in the past eight or nine established on a profitable busla Brewster said, "we will get no years.

Smuggled Brewster said

The first tung nuts Britain ner, the United States smuggled into was willing to put up money to from China in

this country but he hul disregarded that take off my hat to Stalin?," Dr. SAN FRANCISCO keep Germany allee, Heavy re- originally were planted in Call- had been correct in its

1006 and warning, The Nationalist Party Malan said, parations payments would. 80

fornia. Some seedlings wore inge. The world today had lost to help Greece meant that the 10% Round Trip Reduction

President Truman's, promigo strip Germany that both coun-shipped to trics would find

Tallahassee, Fla. Interest in The United Nationer United States had drawn. themselves two years later and set out in which was not regarded serious line and called upon Russia to cbliged to aid hor.

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cemetary there.

ly. spoke against the proposal China for thousands of yearly warned General Smuts of the United Nations or alongside It The Opposition had repeated- It also meant that behind the which will be voted on tomor- with most of the production dangers of veto right. After his another power was slowly but row. United Press,

centered in provinces border latest experience at ing the Yangtze river, an area Success, General Smuts Inn power of armed force."

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