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HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 13, 1947.

LABOUR CONFUSION IN SHANGHAI Thousands Parade Through Streets: More Strikes

Mayor's Warning To Workers

Shanghai, May 12.

Confusion reigned in the labour world here today as thousands of workers paraded in the streets, demanding "unconditional" return of the cost- of-living index, other thousands struck for in- creased wages and two authoritative sources repudiated the Federation of Industrial and Utility Workers, which presented an ultima- tum to the Government on Saturday for mea- sures to improve economic conditions. Although the ultimatum expired at noon today

without any of the demands being met, the Federation up till tonight had failed to carry out any of its threats, including the calling of a general strike.

depended

prou-

of

IRODY

The Social Affairs Commis- that their existence. slower, Mr. Wa Kal-haien, just upon the well-being and back from an emergency reung-purity of industrial and com- i mic conference in Nunking, to-mercial firms, Acceptane of the day donoaned the ultimation na | workers' demand world serloun- "attempt to disturb pence hit employers and would and order in Shanghai by din force the closure torting facts and ridiculing efforts to find a government solution to the economic crlsin,” He said that the Federation Was not Eureau and therefore had no over 20 months ago upon thei legal

claim

plants and firms,

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Miss Epun Carlyle, liecunce of a hotel here, swas charged? today with enticing two wives away from their husbands,

Hugh Cowell Kinred, as anteopath, demanded damagen and an injunction to restrain Miss Carlyle from persuading his wife, Mrs. Marjorie May Kinred, to leave him again. Mrs. Kinred was a well known auteur golfer before the war.'

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London, May: 11: Britain reexamines its foreign policy this week in the light of the Moscow conference déadlock, American ald to Greece and Turkey and the critical economic situation in Western Ger- many.

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BIG LYNCHING LONDON EN FETE

TRIAL

Greenville, &C., May 12.

In the lapost trial for lynching a negro "over hèld, 31 man including taris. drivers, go on trial today for the lynching on Feb. 17 of Willie Barle who had been ac cused of stabbing and robbing a Greenville faxi.driver.

The charges against the 31, range from murder to

Со иссся zoru to murder in which Earle teas riddled with shotgun bul- lets after a mob had carried hin from the local jail.

Many defendants have at- rendy signed confessions of complicity in the Jyněhing— United Press.

£25,000

The foreign policy debate in the House of Com Fine For

mons, beginning on Thursday, is expected to bring from the Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, the entire British position along the lines of Secretary of State Marshall's report to the United States.

Smuggler

London, May 12, A Polish-born London-

33-year-old would Goldberg,

million

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FOR KING

London, May 12. The Royal Family returned home to the capital of the Empire today after three months in South Africa and rode in gaudy State carriages drawn by matched grey horses through hùn- dreds of thousands of cheering subjects from Waterloo Station to Buckingham Palace. Many offices had closed for the Au recort of brilliantly uni- afternoon so that workers could | formed Household Cavalry Join the great demonstration clattered ahead of the carriages und crowds stood packed from along streets from which all curb to building along the traffic had been warned.

since three-mile route. Streamers and this morning. As the procession flags fluttered from many `win- passed the Houses of Parlin. dows and thousands of people ment, Peers of the realm and waved amal Union Jacks while members of the House of Com- uttering the traditional mens stood grouped on the "hooraya" with which the Royal pavement to offer their homage, Familly is hailed,

For the first time in three the Royal Standard

It was a mighty gathering of months

Chuer after cheer of welcome echoed under the station shed 05 the Prime Minister, Mr. Clément Attice, the

peer and commoner auch na fluttered over Buckingham only the most popilous city in Prince and a dèinchment of the the world can offer, and the Palace Guard drawn up in the ceremony began when the King, forecourt presented arms as the in the uniform of Admiral of earringes rolled through the big the Fleet, stepped from the pull-iron gates. Well-informed diplomàtic The Sunday Times end iter,

Israel man car "Rosemary" on to the Inside the Palace there was quarters predicted that Mr., understood Mr. Revin

red-carpeted square between a happy family reunion. Among Bevin would give the Commons deyote much of is Thursday

was today two specially erected atands. those awaiting the end of the a straight-from-the-shoulder es report to Anglo-American plans fined £25,000 for smug-

memorable journey wero Queen timate of prenent Four-Power for improved administration of gling 4,200 atches into

Mother Mary, the Princess relationships and will probably the western zones of Germany Britain.

Royal and the Earl of flare-· place the blame for inck of more and negotiations for revision of

Duke wood, the Duchess of Glouceя- The prosecuting counsel told progress at Moscow squarely the Russo-British treaty of

of Wellington, as Lord Lieuten ter, the Duchess of Kent, Prin- the Thames Police Court that ant of the County of London, ceas Alice and the Duchess of ou the Russians.

alliónce. It was believed Mr. Revin's

Mr. Bevin was understood to Goldberg was liable to more the Home Secretary, Mr. Chuter Athlone Mayor Wo reminded labour

London, May 12.

thra a. quarter of a

and the Earl of report would not preclude specu- be concerned particularly with

Ede, the ligh Commissioner Athlone-United Press, that martin law was still in

Grants and loans un-lation that some agreement with improving the production and sterling in fines. force in the city tit has never der the Colonial De- the Soviets mirht be reached distribution systems in western watched concealed in four bales Brazilian Ambassador, as dean

Cuetoms officers found the for South Africa and

Philip Absent Lieut. registered with his been lifted since it was imposed velopment and Welfare on the complicated German and Germany, in, view of the desof raw rabbit skins consigned to of the 'Diplomatic Corpa, form-former Prince Philip of Greece, Pp Mountbatten, states and no right to entry of National troops into Act approved for March Austrian peace problems, but Lef perate German food altuation | Goldberg from Belgium, Gold.ed the oficial reception

is expected to emphasize that we produced an outbreak of barg denied any knowledge of

com whose impending engagement every effort must be made to strikes and

demonstrations. them but a notebook found in the lead greys and he pranced despite official denials, was not The chqera frightened one of for granted by most Britons, to Princess Elizabeth, is taken make the economie

United Presa, fugior cf

his pussession showed that he striking his hoof against then the welcoming throng. the British and merican zones

had been dealing in watches, the train platform edge but the red- In Germany a financial success to ease the load on the already

prosecntion sald.—Reutor.. averburdened British taxpayer. While Mr. Devin prepared his report-bis_flrat since his re- torn from Moscow-usually re- able diplomatie quarters and sections of the British pross predicted:

representation of any Shanghai after the Japanese labour group. Mr. Wir Kal-renders and violators of law haien's xtatement followed an and order are liable to be tried official

repudiation of the under military law. Federation by the Shanghai | General Labour Union, which said that it was the supreme labour organisation in this city ais sole directing body if any Kynern) strike was to be called.

include additional scho- larships for Hong Kong

for students,

which £10,000 has been set aside.

.£2,000,000

A total of

WHA

for

on their Nerinary, sérvleeg-areta..la

Rothschild Gift Lost

Situation Worse Despite the mayor's warning, the strike situation worsened sanctioned for the month and of today. While employees of the this amount a major proportion Chinese Government Radio Ad-nearly £1.700,000 was Mayor's Warning nistration are still holding schemes to be undertakon in Meanwhile, Mayor K.C. Wu out for antisfaction

Paris, May 12, wartted the workers that Thúy wage and rice demands 8,000 Veter

The French-pelice todayyin would be cutting their department store workers walks- extended and forestry work in

vestigated the mysterious dizap. throats if they persisted

ed out this morning and later health have been allocated nearly creased. Agriculture, inedielne and

pearance of a 44 carat diamond their demand for unconditional paracted with big banners. £100,000, Education, too, will re-

valued at 30,000,000 franes which 1. Joint Anglo-American ad- was (without the sliding scale con- posters and cartoons demand-ceive stimulus from the proposal ministration of the

given to the celebrated templated by the Government) better working conditions to establish a university college Germany zones will be central-Chenal, by Henri de Rothschild.

Western World War I songstress, Marthe unfreezing of the cost-of-living and unconditional restoration at Ibadan for which an interimized, with administrative head-

of the cost-of-living index.

Chenal becume grant of more than £60,000 has quarters in Frankfurt, which is she, wrapped herself in a

famo when At the same time, it was been made."

owing at present the American zonal French tricefour and that all doctora and Other grants in the March total

occupation headquarters,

Marseillaise from the steps of the

index.

own

in

Ruling out any such possibili- ty, the mayor told the workers

New China Flotation?

Icarried

nursea Health

cient pay.

Public threaten-

ing 1

there.

to

Loan Approach?

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mittce,

tho

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Most London newspapers re vorted each step in the core- monies.

couted potillion managed to was scheduled to give a naval soothe the animal. Then the Runnery lecture.. GOUDY DEAD

Klay, the Queen and the Prin Malborough, N.Y., May 12. Cease look reata in one of the Frederick Goudy, 82, world carriages while their entourage famous designer of the print-filled three others and the Ing type, died, today-Asso- triumphal ride to the Palace elated Press,"

1

started.

Battle Rages For Shansi Capital

Nanking, May 12.

Communists have been girding strength, be- gan in real earnest on Sunday, according to Nationalist despatches admitting that the Reds had penetrated the suburbs of the Shansi pro- vince capital today.

in the city's

include money. for measurak Bureau are

2 Efforts will be stepped up i Paris Opera House on the night The battle for Taiyuan, for which the Chinese combat malaria in Mauritius ing to quit work due to inauf well as for building and furnish by the Americans and British of Nov. 11, 1018.

teacher Training college | to include the French zone-f Henri, young selon of the lo

with certain. reservations-intematicnal Adding to the economic con

banking house of Medical students in the Went the western zones fusion. fusion in the city foreign and Indies are also to be provided with

Rothschild, reportedly installed 3. Britnin soon will approach her in a invish mansion on Rue Chinese shares declined sharp- further opportunities to quality the United States Government de Courvelles and gave her the ly for the third time in four for financial asktonce durine,

another American diamond and other jewels. days while the black market!

trainingLondon Press Carding Service.

Mademoiselle Chenal died In for the United States dollar re-

her Rue de Courvelles mansion The National Government is mained steady around 26,000.

attended only by her aged gov- Considering the lasue of now All quotations on the Chinese |

erness and nurse. She left no short-term Treasury notes fur. Stock Exchange today hit the

will. Since her only known rela- tives were two illegitimate sons of her. brether a search for heirs was. Instituted.

Nanking, May 12.

ther to absorb idle capital. dinlly bottom trading mit which is blamed for much of shortly after the

the present economic havoc, ag. cording to business circles here today.

Well-informed sources stated

that Finance Minister O.K. Yul,

and the Governor of the Con-

Reuter.

opening.-

Civil Service Salarles

Nanking, May 12,

their

dollar loan.

Burma Taking

Second Think?

Rangoon, May 12.

Premier General Chang Chun The first hint that the Burmese Constituent As-

tral Bank of China, Mr. Chiang teday submitted for Generalis. Kan-ngau, are investigating the simo Chiang Kai-shek's approval practicability of a new flotation dratt measures for the repdjust- more attractive than thement of civil service solarles, ac UB$300,000,00 loan flouted on ccrding to the Catholic dally YI April 1.

The plan reported to be under consideration calls for the leaue of Treasury notes maturing within the brief period of one

Shih Pao.

(Continued on Page 10.)

to three months and bearing Bad State

high interest, which would be

fixed by the Central Bank of

China, and vary according to Of Affairs

market conditions.,

.

These notes would be pur-! choseable at 15 to 20 per cent discount on the face value while Interest would be paid accord ing to the face value.-Reuter.

Shanghai

In Ruhr.

London, May 12.

was most unsatisfactory.

Train Held Up Sprating at question time.

sembly prefers a modified form of dominion status to complete independence as the basis of Burma's future constitution was contained in a leading article today in the "Burmese Re- view," influential weekly which is regarded. widely as reflecting the views of U Tin Tat, a member of the Interim Government and High

Commissioner designate to London. The

Independence is fortunately paper declared that

such Burma Would do well to remain] not. Incompatible with within the British Common Inks in political thought and already thinking wealth which, it said, might be Britain is enlarged and modified to ahead to see if the conception of the British Commonwealth can- "Britannic alliance".

A cousin was found and pro bate proceedings begun. Then It was discovered the diamond had disappeared, No one knew how or when. The authorities have sealed the Rus de Courvelles house and are combing it inch by inch.

It was only after sworn state. ments were taken from the nurse

| claimants were

and the governess, sole witnesses to the singer's burial, that hair dlesuaded from having her body disinterred on the theory that the 'diamond may have been burled with her. United Press.

The Weather

Yesterday's Weathersom

Minimam: 79,9,818. Fab. Bunshine: Om hoor.:'

The Nationalist troops at Tsinan, and sald that Central Yutzu, 12 miles east of Tal-Shantung had been rectvered ex yuan, however, were reported cept for four other cities-United to have started "counter-offen- Press. - alve" resulting in the recapture of several villages.

Further appcala for grounid reinforcements and air support reached. Nanking from Talyuan today.

Meanwhile, the centre of the battle in Shantung Province

Was

reported to be shifting gradually to the middle section of the Tainan-Tsingtao railway.

Situation Better

The Rod fighting strength in Shantung is still far from being crushed-despite yesterday's ro ports thut their Gghting power was "crumbling"--and the Red forces which lost Latwu, and other points must have escaped more or less intact despite, al- leged heavy casualties,

All indications showed that the military situation in Shan- tung has improved for the Nu- tionalists, though not to the extent pletared.

Ald For Yen

Gen. Fu Tao-yi's crack fofantry and cavalry units, which defeat winded the Communists at Kalgou last a year, were sweeping southwards Into Shanal: to reinforce Gén. Yen Shin-chan's hard-pressed Bhansi army;

The Burmeso Roylov de not be enlarged and modified to

Pressures aro konurally low but a des clared: "Complete independencea Britannic alliance, ander high call persists over F China unit the The Minister of State, Mr. has been the political war-ery which countries like India and Faren Bes. A depression centred E of Hector MeNell, told the House in Burma for many years and Burma can be fully sovereign Tokyo sostinus is more ENF: The tro Independent with no pleal depresion le stationary over Annam, "Another depression exists, to the F at the of Commons, today that the though any political leader who and

for allegiance to the British Crown Philippines maura is low generally fcod altun on in the American.

• preferenco proclaimed

status would be but with the solid advantage of over Manchuria, and over Western China and British Zones of Germany dominion.

banks

Today's Forecast:--Moderate E off down as a tool of membership on the shouted

predcroinetism E elowty of a political abowels overnight.

with British imperialism, there are complete equality Mr. McNell attributed

the many Intelligent and patriotic union, which has stood the tesż

· Nanking, May 12.

Burmans who see in retention of of practical utility in two world simms 18.8 deg. Fah Eight arried men in army unl. shortages to difficultica form early this morning held up collecting and distributing home the British connection by a fully warn..

The Burmese Constituent alby train bound for Nanking grown food and to lower than self-governing Burn a way to Asserably might well seek con

safety and strength from Shanghai ofter It had pass anticipated grain Importa.

"The common factor, fa tinuance of the British con ed. Changchow station, 150 Hp "The bi-zonal authorities are) metres from Nonking..

considering what stops can be Burmese political opinion today noction with Burma on The men untered the second taken to improve collection and is that whatever, the form of such lines which would meet Bam et mal....1611. 1007. jm.6.

· Equala * 39.31 29.80 inches freight car which was loaded everything possible is being done the future constitution, firm urnene santiment in regard to Humidi

71 dog. Fi With cotton pleco geols of the Lo speed up existing import link of friendship with Britain Independence but preserve for paw Polas

the friendship and Wind Direction, Eby NEMN Chin Textile Corporation, and programmen and maintain and the Dominiona hotel bo Burma pushed cne of the two unarmed sufficient flow of supplies," he

ancistance of a great and power. Wind Fores 19" 14 koôts, forged.

fuf political organisation." — guards of the car. The guard said.

Router. ceived serious injuries,

The Minister said in reply to

tell. Tras, Total Fine Fa

Meanwhile ether reports sald 111.9 mm Ariest an arrepew of the Communists had opened an offensive against Talyuhn, capital of Bhans

10%. min.

some alter

On being informed, the rullway a questloh that coal production ON OTHER PAGES PETERSON SAFE

authorities immediately the British Zone,

ted the next station where the Rubri had fallen from a Fags Two

straits was stopped and searched

ikut the" "brmed men had made Peak of 287,000 tops daily in A.F2 Officers: Fined.

wood tielky escape. Ons suspect March to 221,000 tons, The Pager Five

hcwever pizcailed and des average, menshift output drop

Capetown, May 12,

A monango from Solisbury. Rhodesia #ald today," that

Colonel Pet

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EXPLOSIONS IN AMRITSAR

holy city,

were en..

Gen, Fuz circling Fuping, ble Tort baso 110 miles north-east of Talyuan, and | were ; pushing, toward - Lalytian, Communist bara 150 milos nörtti. east of Taiyuan estem

The Centrst News Agency, sald the Communiste might havO 50- fuced the pressure on Taiyuan to meet the new threstiera

The Hain Mini Pao reported the Communiita Alad, staring wide

The Communist Daily Work- er. which has criticised several uspects of the South Afrian Lou, however, issued a-home- coming with a three-inch story under a small headline..

The Times said it was "A happy coincidence" that the Royal Family returned on the 10th anniversary of the Cor- onation. The paper added: "The King crowned his decade, of unremitting public. service by carrying through with flawless Access a misalon which he alone was qualified to under- take."

The other papers similarly commented on the success of the Royal tour. Some said, it checked sontiment in South Africa favouring separation- from the British Common- wealth-Associated

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