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MACAO AS CHINA SEES IT

Nanking, Apr 20 Commenting on the stofna of Mari, tuple diffic official, ipated tedap by the Chinese Atup Grund, "Peace Daily, errganed fant plates pointa ko sagement of the enve tohy the Portugurka rolney shoubi retten to Churae exte tral

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Civil War Starts

In Java

Batavia, Apr. 29. Than young "United States of Indonesia" was threatened today with an interual split which may lead to actual warfare.

I interview, Baden Ivarsipanu. Stervincy of The Sundanese Party, clallenge to aepresent the eastern artion af Java comprising 12,000,000 Sum ilanosa budewical enemy of the Javancer saal kas sea lion. portare it dependence the Interesan Republic Bundene on May 4.

CHINA

No. 33652.

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For THE NEWSPAPER ENTER, RIST, LTD.

ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS Weat

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 30, 1947.

SECOND CRISIS IN CHINA

New And Graver Threat To Economy

Speculators Again Running Wild

Nanking, Apr. 29.

For the second time in the last four months China is caught in the throes of what appears to be a grave economic crisis.

Business and economie quarters agree the crisis this time is harked by violent fluctuations and confusion much greater and graver than last February.

Mess

CTNES

itsemally agreed that Yin, the Chinese currency

is further will tibjret Linna's jdevaluate newly reorganized government to Shanghai'; clandestine U.S. dul

rug rtedly com rigid lend of strength : desling are Many quarter: ne ropy need that levied it is rate of CN$24,000 16 18

the test will se

tex$30,000 USSI more than made whether China ca uvert double e uffical rule_set_enj ļoti ne paar endlapen, whuet: fine [February 17 auf 56 per cent high. growing Jer than the point reached at He Thrësit einer the end of The Tacile [top" <l list Fotuary's runaway”.

flats.

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With reports of violent Meeti

are with at-

empigenny

Market aperators said that one

Shangha. Apr. 29.

POLICE OPEN FIRE

IN MALAYA

Prun Apr. 29. The pulire today opened fire mate of 300 Chinese and Temat okra resisting talire efforts to break up a meeting on Dably Batute

The Entate hum beca that Frene of elaahen nitter the fur Bery struck two #ZEN ngo for higher wugen und het. ter working conditions.

One Chinese was killed and fee othyn in the nuuh injured. The puber matered Accent injured.- United Press,

H.E. Going

To Canton

Canton. Apr. 29.

Was

Horse Trading In Reparations

Washington, Apr. 29. The Far East Commis- sion Reparations Com mission considered pro-| cedural matters today and a spokesman said done on "nothing was reparations.

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TWO SHIPS AGROUND

Price: 20 Cents.

Aquterdam, Apr. 29. The British steamer Mer- ganser (1,024 reus), and the American Besarl Norwalk Virtory both went around last night in the Schelt and unconfirmed reports said two the are missing from Afcroonser.

Location of the ships wHER un Ared exactly and it is believed the had pone and aground between Doct Loskenshock an Belgian ter. ritory-United Press.

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TO BE DUMPED

(By Margaret Bradbury)

Shortly before noon today (Wednesday), nearly.

two and a half million dollars worth of raw...... oplum and dross will be dumped in deep water outside the Harbour by officials of the Imports and Exports Department who will be carrying out one of the largest drug destruction jobs within the last ten years.

the

1st May

This huge quantity of drugs, weighing over 2,000 lbs or 24,000 taels, is mainly made up of seizures made from the Japanese by the Mili- tary Government following the reoccupation, At 10 o'clock this morning; 1939, while between the oplum will be taken under Inst year and the beginning of

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guard from strong root of the Department where it has lain for the last one and a half years, to a bant walling at the Velleular Ferry. Members of the Hong Kung Govern- Prens,, as well as the mant auditor, will be on leard

dumning watch the

10 Flowe

take

He added that it is becoming Increasingly evident that thu

During nevernl interviews yes. -committee decision_ou_what

--A---nine-year-old.............boy.........wan lerday with various Govern. percentage of Japan's internal today committed for trial by ment officials I was toh: # angets the allies will receive will ine Juvenile Court on a clinige has been shown that the Japan-

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The male sources

Churchill Plot In India!

Peshawar, Apr. 29

W are Indin

and

Winston Churchill "And

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Buid

Mr. his

A the Vermy and Larly Mountbatten tuday began the reunire considerable time.. of murder of a four-seuraki jese when they occupied a lerrond day of their visit to the Northwest Frontier Province, "It is to be expected that the playmate. His name was with-tory immediately arranged sto

Abdul Ghaffar Khan, Provin Sir Alhrk Young, fiovernor of various allies will be cautionsjjadd in accordance with Juvenile allow as much dope through ng A CHANDEL for the dižen slump Ẽ

in stating the percentages of Court procedure but that of his possible with the object of clal Congress leader, known as in the parent nice steum Chinese dollar value was the Hong Kong, I expected here on

reparations playmate was given as Glyndur lowering the morale of the the "Frontier Gandhi," K into Nanking. irvensates reception given

the Chinese May 2 to bring a C.B.E. de this category of concern is shown in all larwhes, Government's

for Gen Chang Fathey want until the US$400,003,00 euration

Bumerous Owen Charles Parfitt of Nanty people and as a result, making that an attempt was being made considered." bar, Glamorgan,

their minds sluggish. The onium to make the province a strong od the cover arment. It is feared hund issue despite various sterkur, director of the President's preliminaries are [relably that a price control run. Tents and "comprakasty" pur-Canton Headquarters, in co the spokesman said declining to

The boy is the youngest to traffic in connection with Honghold of the British Government ference will be held in Nankut jehuses hy banks --United Press, nection with his assistance to claborate on "preliminari:9,"4 face a murder trial at the An Kong, was very small after the by making it a buffer state be-

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There is bound to be consizes for many years

redvroumtlon. and is

bro tween India and Russia. The British Army Aid Group In} too to with

Appeal To Workers

Kweilin,

siderable horse trading in this city ist above-the-fge-eight bably due to several conditions

He added: "In spite of the communica. Gen. Chang.reatect hui we expect

inuna, but an #C At that time,

Under which chlidren Chang Kustiger bew head of

and the The Social Affairs Commission popularly known as the Chinese cisim will be acheived eventual considered incapable of crime tious improved there has been our intention of the British

ernimander-lo-ly, he concludert. The Commit in the eyes of the law.

tendency tw Comhal Pink St China, sextjer. Mr. Wa Kochsten, today insides.

for quiam iraffe Labour Government

Viceroy to hand over power, to Shanghin's gym, K. Wa, arpented & Shanghai workers and chief of the 1th War Area in ee's next session in scheduled

Delence counsel submitted to- to increase. Live in Manking conkay to resort salaried engiloyees to bear the

Associated next week, He rendered much for

day that he had no case to an- of sappily coming to long India by June next year. 1duchow. Millies, te the savernment in conditi presem

swer since the court had to be Kong in Shanghon, where the situation which be termed as nationwide assistance to the B.A.A.G. and

satisfied by clear and Rave facilities for its evacuation

strong is not critival, and to attend the with patience,

BEVIN BACK emergency entereneK.

The appeal was made as work. of Kweilla on the approach of

London, Apr. 20. PRIC e ncerns pre-the Japanese forers in 1914.

Ser Mark will come here itsu

Efeign Secretary Ernest Bevin wages, folle wing an unprecedent to say good-bye to Gen. Chang, landed at a London airport from by civil ar led rise in emily prices, it is Governor 14 Cho-ying. Mayer Berlin today an his return from

estimated that Auyau Chy and other friends Moscow. : casservatively of Tsum University, as well

Commenting on the Mose le rajú t would also Ask

fintitations in Peiping and Tien- 'qvho are receiving wages appro- that his `stay-here will be-vary conference, he said: I am yet what he had done?

workers and salaried employees and officials. It is understood for protectiuft of the Dutchsin. were in with demands tor

Hóptímistle nk the British po... Army

RepubBean pay hikes. ninat

sinately eight thousand times brief, as he ia due to returi tol ple in have potiones. We shall froups.

The Government appears to be battling er mmodity prices which caled Press.

higher than in 1937 are today England og retirement.— Asso- i feconelle

diferentes." 41 Bandlung is Dutch controlled, Freed with a dilemma; to grant

have been brosted 20.000 Umes Dr. Roestonn said his group increwsey in pay. Frozen at the "will prodati e right to Free January cost of living index (wduring the same period.

The Chinese Government was stoferm.bution" under terms of jedmittedly more than 100 per

to be calling an the revent Ligailinti njerer cent below reality and free the reported today

conference within Best Between the Dutch and fobability of speeded up finemergency Indonesians. He said ils party, tron o reject the demands and sguld seek peareful rosuper face the consequences of a wide- tion with the Republican leaders prend wave, strikes. but were prepared to light, t An fiel Central News survey

jot payscales i relation to THE CURTAPY.

International world prer situation said the salaries of

kalny rej must not think this is reaction Chinese Ministers to the government of the Jokquivalent only to 50 prewar doi cedented chaotic state of affairs

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Market factution brought in will

merus demands for reajust- froment of pay-scales

variis, and university instructors

At

Jakarta republies, but we have

hes monthly.

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the

Cis in sented

increased demands for

il

few days in Nanking to discuss

thensures tu avert the threatened economie collapse.

In a bitter outburst today, the i Kung Pao, one of the leading Papers of China, edit rially said: he nation is theting an unpre.

Everything is abnormal; officials)

never In Nanking Ave silk she ps have turn corrupt, merchants our own history sa culture.losed down and half of the city's up

maulpulating the market, History shows continud wars 300 small weaving factories have while relati in between Indivi between Sundanese unel Java.

suspended business Golfsmiths duals or groupas are interwoven mese and we are nuble to live.

silversmiths today decided with matters of face and uukir such enditions,...I am to go into vluntary Hlquiladi-n.,

fishness. fraid this will tend to warfare,

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Reter.

Second Incident

Indo-China

In

Nanking, Apr. 29.

Another ten Chinese nationals have been killed and wounded in Indo-China, as a result of bombing by French warplanes, of Thanghing in Mytho Province, about 50 kilometres south- west of Saigon, on April 20, Foreign Office sources here declared today.

ir.

agents are trying to creat an un the imsphere in India evidence that the boy under. Largest Seizure

basis of which Mr. Churchill stond the gravity of what he The oficial added that India¦ might be helped to power and hue always been a "favourite" | the British might be, requested had done.

The reply the boy made when somer of production of drugs by the Indians themagives lo

the an siny in India. charged with murder won't for Hong Kong, but

sufficient do it again"—was proof that he did not realise

thorities coffeerned are now in- terested In reports that the recent poppy cop in Yunan has been a bumper ‘one.

betterment of our nation. Set- Ung: fire to the country-cannot- help the Moslem Lengue or Pakistan."

The present disturbances in the country naturally fend, me to suspect that there is a big plot and conspiracy behind It-all. Prosecuting counsel said that

There have been twó Cases Parfitt went to play with other

We are passing through the boy# in an emply house on of people growing pium pop-most eritical times-times when Easter Monday and after aples recently in the Colony one we should have unity and con- while went with the accused in the New Territories and one fer among ouracives for the boy to the river bank. Parfitt on Cheong Chau Island. In both was never seen alive again but Instances It was discovered that was later found den in the the people reaprosible had ar- water, his hands tied with one rived here during the occupa bootlace and his ankles

Dr. Khan Sahin, Premier of with tion, and one of them had been ungther,

producing eplum ppples for the Province, whip. In the

the When seen by the police, ac- the Japanese In Lamma "Frontier Gandhi's". · brother, fold a press conference todiny cused said: "I tled Glyndur up Islands during the occupation:

Comparative with his shoe laces and threw

figures for that if anybody who could 'de- him into the river and he was oplum seizures in 1939 and 1946 liver the goods to the Indians It

Was Rear-Admiral drowned. I went home. I was shope that 10,107 tagls of raw

Viscount the Viceroy afraid to tell anybody."-Reu- oplum and 10.230 tacs of pres Mountbatten,

pared oplum were confisented in Reuter,

ter.

THE WEATHER

This is the second incident in propaganda often put cut by

week

Chinese renetionary' elements in the i which

A weak anticyclone ever ́the Eastern killed were

and French National Assembly had

Bras muring Entward. The drop S wounded within Chinese dis-to a certain extent an effect our now contred % of Hokkaido som

Chinese the твявасто

Chinese us to mure madly NE

Speculators and hoarders are) "There is nothing like law, and

FE

paper urged the Covern.tricts, 'The

it cannot be helped."again operating widely und opensociety has practically lost its nationals United Press,

ly in gold and US dollars in a centre of gravhy." scramble convert Chinete eur-

Heavy Fighting

Batavia, Apr. 20,

►

An Pudoneslag source said to Tight that most Western Java has risen in armed revolutian against President Soekarno's In- .donesian

Republir.

over

which

of

A trough

[rency_inte durable goods, foreign ment to act before it is too late.national flags were prominently nations in Indo-China. Reu-xtends and from it pain threach

currencies and hard metal before -Reuter.

DRASTIC PROPOSAL

Tals suuree said 200,000 armed inen are in action against the An

Republic and that heavy fighting is going on.

Later it was learned that armed | revolt had spread from Cheribus, on the const near the Ranublican capital of Jokjakarti, and back

the const city of Bantam. Accard- ⚫ing to this source the Sundanese bad Jost two divisions come 12,000 men-in casualties by pre- 7.mature action in Central Java last This source, who refused to al- w the use of his name, said that abrious fighting raged for four hours yesterday with communten tions between Jokjakarta and Ba- tavin cut but that Republic army froops quelted the Sundanere forces in heavy fighting-United Press

Ban On Lady Chatterley

Milan, Apr. 20.

Shanghai, Apr. 29.

appeal for at least a temporary abolition of the Shanghai Stock Exchange and other markets in Shanghai, was made to the Shanghai City Council today by Chen Kung-ta, prominent member, who said that unless speculation and manipulation are crushed there can be no hope. of stabilising prices.

these

Chen churged that numerous fortunes, while others had been

reduced to penury in "hotbeds of speculation."

Almost every Employer is to- day confronted with demands for wage increases to cope with

Nunking, Apr. 29. the spiralling, costs of living.

A Ministry of Communica- Despite orders freezing wagestiona spokesman today denied

persons had amassed enormous Sino-British

Air Talks

displayed, the Kame sourcester. asserted.

ON OTHER PAGES

A high Foreign Office official. when queried by Reuter, 33- nomineed that the Chinese Government may have to "re consider present Sino-French Page Two velations, if such incidents are ant finally and scon put to an end".

Income Tax Petition. Skeleton in the Well, Paos Five

China's New Banking Laws.

Taai-chum Interview. If the two incidents are not Page Nine soon settled to the satisfaction Page Te c the Chinese Government, Local and World Spurt. the settlement to include the punishment of those responsible and proper reparations for the less of Chinese property and Ires, this official warned that the "French Government should be held responsible for all con- Requent actions, diplomatically or otherwise to be taken by the Chinese Government".

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Wallace Forecasts A Depression

Washington, Apr. 29.

Former Secretary of Commerce Henry Wallace left the door wide open for a "peace party" draft of the Wallace movement in the 1948 presidential campaign."

at the January levels, some eme that there was a deadlock" in ployers have granted pay boosts the negotiations for a Sino-] The official expressed doubt but others take the stand that British air transport agreement, that the incidents were purely no matter how much they sym- as Sir John Baldwin, head of accidents caused by the low pathize with employees, condi- the British Air Mission to efficiency of the French tions do not permit boosts.

He China. has postponed his de-Force or similar reasons, In many instances, employees parture for Britain until May charged that the anti-Chinese ference today since his return in tolle uut who in the past have taken 10. wages in Chinese dollars on the

basis of the official rate

of

The spokesman said that the Ministry CN$12,000 to US$1.00 are ask Chinese side awaited

AIR TRAGEDY

FEARED

Alr

In his first formal news con-1 "until our surpluses ranily be. foreign

.

and

from Europe, he defended the countries run of dollars." right to speak out against (3) Russia fears the United The Italian Government today ordered suppression of the Italian

President Truman's foreign po- States will have a big economic licion ranslation of D. H. Lawrence's

so long as the United setback and, perhaps, that is

one reason why she States is not, at war. Lady Chatterley's Lover", put that the clandestine market of Defence approval on one islied by Italy's greatest publisher, ing for American currency now tolnt in the draft agreement

He said the way to maintain reluctant to participate in other Arnoldo Mondador of Milan. yields around 20,000 to UŠ1.00. while the British Air Mission

Seattle, Apr. 29. world peace was to send plows international economic activities; The book was listed among

(4) It le much-easter in this Employees are willing to take had not yet received London's

ATrans-Canada Air Lines and tractors, not munitions, ¿those considored indecent and im-

country plane, with 15 persons aboard, la abrend, ** pa

to appropriata higa moral and its confiscation was the risk of up to five years in approval on two points.

to send missing and bullaved down on During an hour-long .conferums for munitions ordered in spite of the fact that prison and confiscation of such

reclamation Mr. Wallace covered a abroad than for many other Italian trauslations. American currency

Sir John, who was originally Vancouver Leland, where the 11.5 ence, have already been published and get the better rate for their scheduled to leave Nanking to Coast Guard reported a fire had wide range of subjects, both and other projects at home. sold in the past.

Mr... Wallace said he has no morrow to catch à flyingboat at

domestic and foreign. They In- Endy Chatterley's Lover was

minutes before the plane cluded these views: Three The demands have created Hong Kong on May 3, now

plans for another trip abroad, written by Lawrence while he was difficulties, and embarrassment plans to take the fringboat was scheduled to land at Vancou (1) The United States will but he had been invited to visit in Italy and its first publication

between employers and om leaving that colony a week later. Ter, British Columbia, it reported have a business depression in Holland, Belgium, Czechoslo In the English edition. was at

its altitude was 7,000 feet. That Florence in 1928. The unabridged ployes not only in offices but in Meanwhile, he is expected to al 0706 GMT. Five hours 1948 but not a serious one." | vakio, Chile and Argentina. Ho verilen has been banned in Tri- privato lotes, Associated hold one more mealing with the later it still had not arrived (2) The United States will said he had not been invited to tain for many yoare Router. - Prema.

Chinese negotiatorna-Reuter, s Associated Prose,

not fato a serious depression Russia-United Press.

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