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LONDON'S BIGGEST MANHUNT OF THE YEAR

Armed Gangsters In

Two Shoot-Ups

London, Apr. 29. The Metropolitan Police mobilised their resources today for London's biggest manhunt of the year after three gunmen liad shot and killed al motorcyclist when he attempted to impede their escape from a jeweller's shop in Totlen- ham Court Road.

The three men entered the jeweller's shop after driving up in a stolen car and threatened the He was struck on the] manager with guns. head after the men had jumped over the coun-

..

'METEORS" FOR THE ARGENTINE

London, Apr. 20.

today "The Times" wid that the Argentine Govern- mrat has placed a prelimin- Gloster ary order with the aircraft company for nis "Metcor Wet-propelled fightern, and it is expected a larger urder weill be placed after the four, have teated.

"The Times" muid the Minte- try of Supply has given per- mission for the fightern to be delivered straight from the Gloster production line-

United Pres.

Communal Rioting

In India

in night

Food Minister's Warning

the

London, Apr. 29. Two warnings were given tonight of the grave effects a prolonged strike of dock workers would have on Britain's food supplies. The Minister of Food, Mr. John Strachey, told a press conference that a prolonged strike in London - where the dockers have ceased work in sympathy with the Glasgow men who have been on strike nearly five weeks over the dismissal of 500 redundant workers - would Peshawar, Apr. 29. Firing and bomb have a serious effect on food distribution.

The reduction will not apply occurred

The second, warning came | throwing been

Mr. Stra- Farmers to general butchera, the National Peshawar last

WOR from Union, the spokesman of which chey said the reduction while the Viceroy, Rear-stated that the holdup of 1.500 largely caused by winter losses.

Lord Mount-tons of seed potatoes at

More than 100,000 tons of home Admiral

menn u meat were lost through animal batten and Lady Mount- London docks would

ter.

batten were staying here further setback in the farmers' deaths, attributed to the severe

Set-i coll. fight for food production. on their visit to the backs had already been ex- When the gunmen came out was injured in the latter shoot-

inj. of the shop. the car would not

Northwest Frontier Pro-perienced from the disastrous Detectives tonight were ink- they started to run start, Mo

mator-ing sintemente from many peo.

menvince to study the trou-shows and floods. which down the street. The

In the Bouse of Commons to

Minister of Labour, They may have supporting their | cyclist tried to stop them, but ple in an attempt to reconstruct

The home of the area commandy, the

Mr. George Innes, said that the was shot in the head and later the criar and assemble a com- motorcylat fell to the ground."bled political situation.

Point-Blank two plete deveription of the jewel-

der of Peshawar was Ared at by hospital, where

The police The proprietor of a tubaceo unknown persons, who also hurl. Position was serious, but he de- other persons were also taken, kry store gunmen.

casualties claved that the Government in have so far established the fact store came into the street sed three tombs. No Auffering from slight lujuries.

were aged the three men ran out of the were caused but the building was tended taking every step possi- bir to prevent a holdup and An eye-witness said that the that the gummen immits dashed out of the shop about 23. 27 and 85 yours. All jewellers. He saw one gunman slightly damaged.

aim point-blank at the motor- South of Peshawar, capital of safeguard food supplies,

No Justification with their hot and were trying were wearing raincoats.

manager who “cylist.

the Northwest Frontier Province, A theatrint

Whatever raided the town

the facts of the vally to start their car when

thel was posing the store at

*They were all young

mentrilesinen

Glasgow, he said,) the motorcylist later identified as Alex de Antiquis, 34-year-old time gave this version of what and wore handkerchiefs across Kulachi, killing two Hindus and lapute at

setting a temple and seven houses there could be no justification their faces," he anld.

of the raiders for the stoppage in London. Three tather of six childred aged be- | happened:

"The one who did the shoot-on fire.

armed when civil

further The prospects of tween two and thirteen years

negotiation a motorcylist was coming slow-ing was about 22 or 21 years of were killed

nettle the who was the owner of a motor.

forces intervened.

Disturbances-and-killings were strikes.depend.on.replica by the eyete spares unil ̄éepair"ship in-by-theatrout. He seemed age and of slim build. Every

To hesitate as then drew his one was petrified and there was

also reported from neighbouring strikers to the question: "Are a tandon suburb pntled ever

nnehme towards the side of some screaming."-Reuter.

districts. in the curl

for dealing with dis- chinery

prepared to allow the ma putes to operate in a constitu- ilonal manner?"

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Although flying, squad cars were on the seene in Charlotte Court St.. hear Tottenham Roal, within a few minutes of Kal alarm, the fandits the away. Tonight, all sections of the Metropolitan Policy were mobilised for the manhunt.

Another Shoot-Up

The object of their search is ur also for another runn gunmen who only a few hours i Noture is hereby given that the earlier fired four shots when a

disturbed a palmu Thirty-eighth Ordinary General

parent attempt to roli a dress Meeting of the Company, will store off Oxford Street. No one be held at the Offices of Messrs Dodwell & fo., Ltd., 3rd for, Hongkong Bank Building,

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ROYAL HONGKONG GOLF CLUB

Owing to the very considerable"

the crease in the cost of hiring a

***w some men running and

the

#treet, where the were. I heard a shot and the

One Conference That Brought Results

Lake Success, N.X. Apr. 29.

Samoan natives.

Betrayed Comrades --Hanged

A Fine Coffeetion of Valuable Transfer Ronks af the Company vehicle to transport Golfers to Gerik. Czech parachutists who Germans, who protested against

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3: of this nature portation both days inclusive.

available in future. Suttable trains now leave Kow-1 Joon at 8.40, 9.10, and 10.25. Sheung Shui Returning from 15.55, 17.28, 18.27.

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It is hoped that a lat Class couch will be available as from the 16th May.

D. W. MUNTON, Secretary, R.H.K.G.C.

enemy

of

Lord Mountbatten left Peshawar today for Rawalpindi, hlil station in Northern Punjab-Reuter.

Calcutta Riots

Calcutta, Apr. 29. Three people were killed and

to

The workers' side of the Joint Industrial Council, which net in London this afteranon,

дл

Polish Eggs Mr. Strachey naid the Food

had concluded Ministry agreement with Poland to pur- chase 30,000,000 to 50,000,- 000 eggs, to be shipped here be- fore September 30. The first shipment is expected this week.

He said substantial wheat shipments from Canada are ex- pected soon. Soap production is lagging because of the winter fuel crisis.

Distribution of the 1947-48 ration book for 47,000,000 Bri- tota will start in June. It Use on July 20.--- comes into United Press.

Value Of Experience

ched decisions which make tion to it clear that the strikers must be prepared to resume work before Hottlement can negotinted. Reuter.

British "Ultimatum

Brings Results

Herford, Apr. 29.

be!

of

*1

ment, the Labour Minister, Mr. Intacs, told the House of Com- mons today.

Answering a question, Mr. Haid that employment Igants could only be found for these men if employers would refrain from imposing unduly the law uge limits on the vacancies they advertise.

Mr. Isauce added that be knew of no Government depart- ment which imposed auch an nge limit. Reuter.

URANIUM FOR BRITAIN

Bombay, Apr. 30. The Russian zone authoritles in Gerniany have

The Times of India' said undertaken to return missing railway wagons yesterday it was "understegd" estimated at 12,600-to the British zone of that the State of Travancore Germany.

under which Travancore will export 9,000 tona, of uranium. the bearing monazite sand to United Kingdom in the next three years.

hus entered into an agreement This follows an "ultimatum" from the British zone with the Ministry of Supply

authorities that unless the missing goods trucks are returned by the end of next month all shipments of goods by rail from the British zone to the Soviet zone will be stopped.

Russians carry their undertaking to return the goods trucks, the ban on traffic between the two zones will not

If the

out!

The Times of India" Bald that Britain in return has agreed to help. Travancore establish a factory for the pro cessing of monazite sand and the manufacture of thorium altrate.

London, Apr. 29. Advertisements calling atten- the value of the ex- older perience possessed by pollee six injured when the

men have been published by the and opened fire during serious riot-

in weekly Government daily newspapers in an effort The Trusteeship Council completed its five weeks ing in central Calcutta today.

A bomb was thrown at some

Meat Cuts

lo combat a situation in which session with some practical results to show, in

lorries and the rioters used fire-

Londos. Apr. 29. ex-Servicemen over 45 are hav- spite of the depression caused by Russia's boy-arma biore the pollee opened

Mr. Strachey fold the pressing difficulty in finding employ. cott. Its main achievements were careful disore to restore order. The police

conference that meat alloca tions Lo cussion and adopting of rules of procedure; also fired in another area where

manufacturera at a police sausages and other meat pro- consideration of petitions from Itallan and acid was thrown

ducts will be reduced tempor German residents in Tanganyika; and a peti-picket

Altogether five people were arily, effective next Sunday. tion asking for self-government from Western killed and 25 Injured today. A Most manufacturers will re- One rule of procedure, which 36-hour curfew was Imposed in ceive only 40 instead of 50 per

cent of their prewar supplies. led to the longest discussion, the affected areas.--Reuter. was the method by which na- tives of trust territories could petition the United Nations. It was finally agreed that peti- either tions could be sent through the administering au thority, or through the United Nations' Secretary-General, who would then inform the ad- ministering authority and give. Prague, Apr. 29. it time to draft explanations.

from Tanganyika Petitions Vilium Karel Curda and

own comrades being sent back to Germany by betrayed their

authorities, were and helped the Gestapo to cap the British ture and kill the patriot txecu- briskly dealt with, especially tloners of Reinhard Heydrich. after the French delegate walk- were hanged at 11.30 a.m. to-ed out of the Council because day in the courtyard of the he refused to listen to pleas from people he regarded as Pankrac penitentiary.

nationala. The They Jumped into Czecho- still slovakia from a British plane Council decided to ignore the on March 27, 1942, having competitions and leave the British to deuj with the pleted training in England with authorities

matter as they saw fit. other Czech paratroopers.

Italians were given more be enforced. Ten weeks later, they shared

The British order, if enforc- 10,000.000-korunn reward for lenient treatment and the Bri- giving information which led tish delegate, Mr. Ivor Thomas, ed, would mean the virtual end to the discovery of eight of summed up the feeling when he of inter-zonal trade and would their comrades hidden in the said that he hoped that Italy deprive industries in the Soviet crypt of the Russian Orthodox would be a member of the Unit-zone of sorely-needed cont and chances also

the next steel supplies from the Ruhr. Soviet exports Boromejsky Church in Prague. ed Nations before

The Russian zone is holding Britain an informed Two of the men in the crypt General Assembly,

12,600 British zone wagons Aource said on Tuesday. -Jan Kubis and Josef Gabelk

Conversations nearly even per cent of the Brl-

taking Wilson, British Secretary had ambushed Heydrich, De-

On the Western Samoan peti- tish zone's wagon fleet, with a place on trade possibilities be. Overseas facilities offered by the puty Reichsprotector of Bohe-

potential carrying capacity of tween the Russians and James Press. o'clock above Club will become avall. mia' and Moravia, on a lonely tion for self-government, Entries close at 12

May 27

esenped

month. äfter land, refused to commit his Thursday, 1st May:

their familles from 10th May. throwing a grenade into his

Repeated requests for the re Government to approval or dis..

turn of the wagons have ear. The other six had helped approval, but proposed that the mained unanswered, and it is in the plan of assassination. Council Bend a commission Applications for Subscriber United Press.

examine conditions on the spot. now felt that although the pro- drastle, they Membership should be forward- Secretary.

The Counell adopted the sug-posed stops are ed to the Honorary Secretary

gestion, but unmediately found are the only way to deal with a Forms

serious altuation. itself in difficulty regarding the are available at the Club House.

choloo of members of the com- mission. Nobody seemed anxi ous to spend the summer in

At the same time, the Bri. tish and American authoritics- Finally, the chairman, Mr. the Military Governments- London, Apr. 30. Francis Sayre, of the United

have warned Austria, Czechó- Ryck- Provided that sufficient sup-

A British scientist has ro- States, and M. Pierre

slovakia and certain other coun- port is forthcoming, it is provented some of the secrets of mans, of Belgium, agreed to go: tries, which between them have posed to repair two of the Peak

third member proved a model neroplano enthusiast's but a

matter now re- Lear-Club Tennis Courts and form a dream an 11-foot rocket-pro- elusive. The

beon Mixed Tennis Clubalt to hoped pelled flying model that may mains for the committee to try the that the entrance fee will not solve one of aviation's most im- and solve in plivate consulta-

exceed $50-and the monthly portant questions: subscription $5 Will any per What happens to ari aero- and aona interested please send their plano, when it reaches name and address to P.S.M. pasacs the speed of sound?

This step, if taken, would be Dew, Hongkong & Shanghai, Sir Ben Lockspelser, chief British frontier patrols 10

scientist to the Ministry of the Radkersburg area (south a great blow to such countries Bank, by May 15th.

Supply and coordinator of aero- east corner of Austria almost as Czechoslovakia, which pos nautical research, told a 'nows surrounded by Yugoslav torpuses no coastline and depends a great extent on transit conference that the 887-pound ritory) have been increased fol- to model will be tested over the lowing Yugoslav demonstrations across Germany for trade- Scilly Islands, in about five in favour of territorial revision, | Router: 'weeks.

Yugoslav partisan troops sure "From these and later tests," reported to have lined the bank

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Vienna, Apr. 20

to

Another Warning

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16,000 British wagons, that un- as they are returned the two Western zones will bring to an end the arrangement whereby [ their transit traffic across Ger- many is operated by British end American wagone

Paris, Apr. 29. ho said "we hope to learn of the frontier river Mur, Compulsory labour for, avery enough to build a full-sized shouting "Radkersburg will Frenchman between the ages 55-and confinement radio controlled aircraft that Boon beoure"Tito will of IB and

will fly at speeds faster than celebrata May Day la Radkers in concentration camper of Bound.".

Sir Ben said the torpedo burs" and similar slogans. apoculators was proposed today shaped stub winged model will Router.

be launched from the bally of

a Mosquito bomber flying, 400

miles an hour at 86,000 feet radar will trace

"An autopilot will guide it and soclated: Press,

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Moscow, Apr. 30. If Russia has a good harvest she may be able to send some wheat to Britain this year and said

look good

The "Times of India" also that thorium-beariTMg for minerals have been found in the of timber to provinces of Bihar, Madras and

Bysore. Associated Press. British

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