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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MAY 14, 1947.

CLAMOUR FOR PEACE IN CHINA

"Unanimous Desire" Of Chinese And Foreigners

Government Should Make Move

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Shanghai, May 13. The clamour for resumption of peace negotiations between Nationalists and Communists, first raised by a few Chinese public organisations here when the economic crisis reached an acute stage, found echo today in leading news- papers here.

Among, dailies carrying editorials supporting what they described as the almost unanimous desire

C.G.R.A. WORKERS

BACK

Shanghai, May 13. Employees of the Chinese Government radio administra. tion returned to work after a four de strike at 4.00 p today when authorities grant. ed an all around increase in basic salaries. Associated

Press.

for peace among foreign and Chinese busi. British

nessmen and civic leaders were the Ta Kung Pao, one of China's most influential indepen-

dent journals, Wen Wei-Pao, outspoken Liber-Commercial

al organ, reputed to be sponsored by the mocratic League-China's third largest poli- tical party which boycotted the coalition gov- ment-and the American-owned Shanghai Evening Post.

Pact With China

British Pressure On Siam

London, May 12.

The British Government was "putting very strong pressure" on the Siamese Government to ex- port more rice than hitherto, declared Mr.

WINDIOR_13CDE Price: 20 Cents.

DE GASPERI RESIGNS

Rome, May 13. Premier Aleida. de Gasperi, leader of the Christian Demo- cratic Party, who has headed Italy's coalition · Government since December 1948, resign. cd today.

His resignation, marked the final stage of ten days of crisle talk during which de Gasperi's own Christian De. mocrata askalled his weakness and fallure to break with the Communists-United Press.

Speed-Up

John Strachey, British Food Minister, in the Of London's

House of Commons today,

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LABOUR UNREST CONTINUES

Shanghai, May 13.

Labour unrest continued in Shanghai today de- spite the fact that the workers had been assur- ed that wages will be unfrozen. Three thousand department store employees de

monstrated in protest against what they term- ed a "conditional" revival of the cost of living index.

The Shanghal Labour Union de. this week. The system has been manded revision of the index approved by the Central Govern- system.

ment. The dumping of 9,000 Rice shops, elcsed for nearly a plculs of rice daily on the mar week during the rioting by rice ket, will be haltedAsavslated hungry Chinese, reopened and the Press. black market price for the staple declined slightly.

Students Strike

The turnover

Nanking, -May 13, was smali with anast buyers reluctant or unable dered a pay increase for govern. The Executive Yuan today cr. to pay $280.000 in Chinese aur inent employees and, the armed rency for a picul.

Commissioner Wu

forces as 4,000 students of the LONDON, MAY 12.

Kal-islen National, Central University went announced that the Bureau UP LONDON Social Weftare wil begin enfere. Icwances.

Replying to a question, Mr. rice in Singapore is said to be Strachey said that about 20,500 one shilling and four pence per tons of rice were exported from; pound and on the Kedah-Siam; Siam In February, 31,800 tons and Kelantan-Slam borders, aix in March and about

TO SPEED 45,000 pence farthing per pound, and tous between April 1 and eight pence three farthings per

pound respectively.-Reuter.

April 25.

The price was £26 per ton (free on board), he added.

Declaring that this total for below three months was well the contract signed last year, Mr. Walter Fletcher (Cunkerya- tive), asked what the Minister was deing to see that this vital food for Malaya and other)

of the East was In-

He asked if cwners and pro-

"We feel that if a gallup poll | erenard with the rupture of a could be taken in China, the large amount of new equipment bellote in favour of the reopen from the Kuomintang,

LONDON, MAY, 12. Ing of peace talks vrukslt! Reviewing the present fight-

REGRET THAT THE NEGO. overwhelming." said the Evening in Shaus und

TIATIONS Shantung

FOR A COMMER parts Ing Post today.

provinces, the "Shanghai News CIAL AGREEMENT BETWEEN creased. The general tenor of the Letter" ovelared that the Com-

THE BRITISH AND CHINESE editorials is that the Govern munists have successfully with-GOVERNMENTS HAD NOT YET ernment should make the first drawn the bulk of the forces BEEN COMPLETED move towards agather attempt to from Sheusi province in which! PRESSED IN THE HOUSE OF Bolve their dispute with the Yenan is situated-without try-

COMMONS TODAY BY THE Communists by political meaning to fight a battle HECTOR MCNEIL, WHEN RE

MINISTER OF STATE, neighbouring

so as to avoki a total economic have now made collapse.

Shamsithear rain base.

Should the Communists Hue-

WAS EX.

MR.

PLYING TO APARLIAMEN. TARY QUESTION,

-of

TRAFFIC, WHICH IS NOTORI-ing the rice rationing programme OUS. FOR ITS CONGESTION OF VEHICLES, PARKING ABOUT 10 MILES OF THE PRINCIPAL THOROUGHFARES OF CEN- TRAL LONDON IS TO BE-PRO. HIBITED DURING CERTAIN

Wallace Wants Loan HOURS

To Russia

to

Announcing this in the House

H.K.-Bound Ship Held Up

Singapore, May 13. of Commons today, the Minister The Master Attendant today

Mr.

| Press,

on strike for Increased living al

Under the pay increase de. cision guvernment employees will receive an average boost of 85 percent in cost of living allow- ance, entalling an additional ex- penditure of approximately CN. | $175,000,000.000 monthly. A sum of CNC-$175,000,000,000 month. ly has been earmarked for the armed forces pay hike.

The Ministry of Education was

of Transport, Mr. Albert Barnes, refused permission for the

ald that the prohibited hours Transocean Trading Company's left to work out details of the would be 11.30 am to 8.00 pan. China-bound, steamer Minneapolis, May 13.

"Trans-student problem. The students on Monday to Friday inclusive, ocean" to sail because it carried threatened to stay away from, ducers of Flee got the benefited tonight that in the into force on May 27.

Henry Wallace declarand that the order would eema 1,000

passengera and

their classes until their demands was not unly the Government. of the foreign exchange, and United States "the time allowed to stop only to set down

Passenger

are met-Asstelated Press. vehicles would be ilcensed to carry only 300.

All the passengers but thres Appeal To Workers

satisfactory but said they were some type of coal au-ng, and in any case for not more standing regarding the capacity the payroll boosted on an aver

that has come to nationalise and pick up passengers. Mr. Strachey agreed

Goods were Chinese.

Shanghai, May 13, those totals were not fully the coal industry under vehicles

would be allowed

The City Government's Burcou to The agents said the overload-of Svetel affairs today estimated walt only for loading and unload. Ing Was due to a misunder that Shunghul factories will and Such action, they contend,

rising. He would not like to thority,' would not be a sign of weakness cert in 、 ver-vening the entire This, he said, was partly be offer any complacent words

than 20 minutes. Street trading of the 2,000 ton veasel oud that age of 40 percent as a result of but would demonstrate instead province--which they are thren-elle British and Chinese interests

entise of the necessity to recon. about the situation.

The former Vice-President would be prohibited in that the newly installed couli- tening to do at the present and because many of the British cently been in

His Director of Rice had re-ald "the world needs for coal strents, except under licence.

these the excess passengers would be the untraczing of the living cost tion Government had

removed. enough the is sumintang will find that,

Slam and the are so great that neither the

index for workers below CN$30 backbone to embark on actions per cent of their forces will Departments of State were con Government were putting very the stubborn will of John L would be shortly restrictions also in a few days for Hong Kong for workers above CN530 basic

obduracy of the operators nor

Barnes said that thero The ship is expected to all basle pay, and graduated Increases for the general welfare of the be separated by the two ralland alt had to be given an op- Government

cerned with the proposed treaty strong pressure on the Siamese Lewis nation's suffering and

should be allowed

in certain main, thoroughfares of and ways the Potping-Hankow and War

Shanghai, Ausociated pay, weary millions.

Tientsin Nanking

in view of the cause the infinitude of suffering the City of London.-Reuter. portunity of studying and co-immense

Addressing a railways)

importance of the and paralysis which would re-

Bcasion of 362. inbour unten representatives .af. which they are trying to smashmenting on the Chinese plans.

qucation," and would continus gult from a coal strike," When Mr. John Paten (Labour to, de, so-Reuter,

filiated with the Kuomintang- Member) said that the negotia- In Shantung, a stalemate con- tions had been going on for over

On foreign affairs; Wallace: The Shanghai Evening Post fronts the Nationalist

diminated General Labour Union, ald the "unda of the Inter-

the Commissionor of Social, At- today appealed to the Commun-aftempting to drive out Reds foreca

a year and stressed the need for

London, May 12. national Bank should

tairs, Wu Kal.hslen, appealed, to ists to discard some of their

urgency for settlement, Mr. Mc. from the province,

Anawering parliamentary trebled"

workers to increase efficiency and to reconstruct former

adds the Nell replied: Intransigeance and News Letter, which incidentally

question today about the price world through

help the management partially to meet the Government half way is the only

"I do essure him. that I am

of rice in Malaya. Mr. John Nations. Jan-Kuomintang aware of to make pence possible,

meet increased expenditures over. The source today reporting on thegency of this question, but I hope plied: "The controlled retall Strachey, Minister of Food, re-

head. paper added: "The Communists civil war following the expul- he will appreciate that almost price of rice in Singapore and in China have alway claimed on of the Communist Haison every that they are working for the officials from Nationalist China. has been affected by the proposed farthing per pound.

Government department the Malayan Union is five penca welfare of the people. If this is Reuter. truely their objective, they can.

| plan."--Reuter. not escape the responsibility of making known within the short- est period their basic minimum demands for ending the war,

Appeal To Reds

"Such a clearent and specific programme should be forth- coming at this time to demon- strate the sincerity of their eft-

A repeated desire for pence."

Lapen,

Commons Question

living standards in the the comparative ur.

SEASON'S FIRST Germans

TYPHOON

Manila, May 13.

The. Navy fleet weather rentre said at 6800 GMT that a tropical disturbance was de reloping 750 miles East of Manila which "shows signs of a strong storia" and predicted the centro would Hove northeast and m135, Lit2015 but

might hit the China coast.

Meanwhile the latest "Shang- Slut News Letter," minegraph Pa ed review of military and poll- tical developments regularly malled

being to correspondents by ⚫some unknown source, but be

lieved to be the Democratic League, claimed that the Com- munista, contrary to Govern- ment expectations, have become stronger and more active since the fall of Yenan,

t.

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War Picture

It said the winds were gra dually shifting to the south- west this week heralding the advent of the southwest mon Kon.-Associated Press.

The Weather

A weak high cell remain UTCT

Japan, and in trough extending Trom

Schacht

The black market price of

Sentence To To Jail

Stuttgart, May 13.

Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Hitler's financial direc- tor, was convicted as a major Nazi by a Ger- man court today and sentenced to eight years imprisonment in a labour camp.

Schacht was pronounced gull- ¡for any individual enterprise for ty of having actively supported excessive individual profit, and Nazi aggression and redrma (6) may not own an automo- ment. He will serve the aon- | bile,~~~United Press. tence in a labour camp.

Acquitted by the

Interna-

tional Tribunal at Nuremberg Big

the

while

Kwangtung Project

Canton, May 13.

he the

up of

Near

the United

Urging the building East, he said the modernisation of this region "enn be made a blessing to Russia, Britain, the United States and the whole world."

He raid a large loan should be made available to Russia to prevent her from making a

Suffolk Girl Wed To

German P.W.

London, May 12. Senior officers of the War Office's Special Investi- gation Branch left London today for Needham Market, a tiny Suffolk town of 1,300 people, to question a 58-year-old parish priest about secret marriage he performed between a local girl and a former member of the German Wehrmacht. Marriages between, British The number of

а

The union voted in support of the Government policy but numed nina delegates to go to Nanking to request rovialon cf the sliding scale applicable to workers above CN$80 basic pay, It was sold the Government decision provides 10 percent discount in each CN810 of baale pay, above the CN$30 German level up to CN$100 while the

cancerous plague spot out of women and prisoners of war prisoners in Britain at the Unions want only five percent Germany"

aro strictly forbidden, but the moment is 118,000.--Reuter. discount United. Press.

He added that * Russla priest the Rev. Hargreave thinks she will benefit from a Thomas revealing the cete- post-war depression in themony he performed, said yes- United

States, she is wrong. terday that he knew of others Inevitable political repercuss-which had been solemnised in slons all over the world of de-English country churches. pression in the United States

Saying that he had under- could only cause the people of talcen not to dlvalge details of Eastern Europe to become very the wedding to the authorities, much disillusioned with their the priest added: "Love knows! Communist regimes," Ass no barrier of nationality," ciated Press.

Plan For India

LONDON, MAY 12.

TO NEW

prigoners."

"The marflage he has per- formed. Is strictly legal," a Wor Office spokesman told Reuter today, "but the bridegroom can get into serious troublò, . last year on charges of being

"Under civil law it is legal It gives the following overall 1 picture of the military situation

u major war criminal, Schacht

for a German prisoner of war loecs all civil rights and will

to marry an English girl, but mas obtaining today: The Kug-

AN INDIA OFFICE SPOKES. he can be punished for doing imintang has about 210 brigades

have all his property. except

MAN TODAY SAID THAT LORD 80. 10,000 reichemarks, confiscated, totalling about 2,000,000 men In

We have no control over ISMAY, SENIOR MEMBER OF cltil law but merely over the but because of hia two its frst-line army. Of those. 212

yeara

THE STAFF OF THE VICEROY,havicur during the Imprisonment brigades or 90 per cent of the Eastern Son 'ressure is low to the of Nuremberg trial and

VISCOUNT

of and activity MOUNTBATTEN, total have already been actively across the China Sea to the Cawaiting denazification hearing Kwangtung was partially solved DELHI ON WEDNESDAY WITH Under the new regulations

The critical food situation in WOULD RETURN deployed on the fighting fronts. Hates. The China Sea depression le cess he will have to serve The remaining 28 brigades or tred about 6 miles to the 8 of Halas, six years.

only here yesterday when Governor THE CABINET'S VIEWS ON AL governing repatriation "of Ger- about ten per cent are doing moving slowly. Noe NE. The depression

Lo Cho-ying officially opened TERNATIVE PLANS FOR THE mån prisoners of war those who garrison duty at strategic con. to the N of Palsuse almost stallonary.

The court ordered, photo- the Min An Wel irrigation pro- TRANSFER OF POWER IN IN. have worked on British farms graphers who attempted to takeject at Walchow, 60 miles cast DIA IN. JUNE 1946. Today's Forreal:-Fresh or airqng UE pictures of Schacht to be forci- of Canton,

can apply for permission to stay The spokesman said the Cabinet as-crdinary citizens after their bly evicted and the police drag- Approximately 900.000 picule all believed its own plan for repatriation date providing“ ac- 60 brigades. Of these 23 have txirom 71.3 deg, Fah.

ged several movie cameramen of additional rice will be avail-du and Moslem provinces with commodation can be found for from the court. been reformed with recruits Minimum: 16.9 det. Fab.

able in that district in the next in a Federal Indian Government them and that they are not dis But these are of very

ACME photographer Heinrich 12 months during which consi-the best and fairest ene, but was placing British farm werkers.. quality and have lowered the f 1 mm. 12. Total since Lange was beaten by policemen derable

farm lands will be batten its comments on the Mw

also sending along to Lord Mount

Immediately the permission but his pictures were not con- adequately irrigated at a cost fiscated.

Iem demands for Pakistan und LA granted they can marry of CN$13,000,000,00 (US1,- Schacht did not show any 083,000.)

other proposals stili undisclcked.

British

girls without being The spokesman added that no punished, Many German prl- emotion and appeared to baj UNRRA contributed work renal decision had been reached on soners have withheld marriage expecting the sentence which lef valued at CN$100,000,000 Pakistan-United Press," was previously rumoured.

applications for this reason, for the project. The court estimated. Schacht's

It is expected that each crop wealth at 1,192,000 raichs- in the

LORD CITRINE area will yield' about. merke, or £29,800. This will be 450,000 plculs of paddy, which. RESIGNS subject, according to the court's is valued at CN$70,000 a picul.) ruling, to certain reparations" | Ench hárvest therefore is ex- which Schacht will have to pay pected to bring CN801,500,000, na a fine in addition to his jail | 000, sentence.

In the pust nine months of fighting, the Kuomintang Ibsti

winds, cloudy with rain. For.

Yesterday's Weather:

poor Sunshine: 0.3 hour.

fighting spirit of the army con- aidertibly."

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On the other hand, the Com. munists are one and, half times stronger numerically now than a year ago and their fight- ing officiency is said to havo in

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KOREAN WAR?

London, May 13.

The position of British wri who have contracted, secret though legal marriages with German prisoners of war la a perfous one: They can be-de- Mr. Emanuel Shinwall, Minis, husbands are repatriated. When ported to Germany when their The project is one of the big-in the House of Commons this foreigner on Automatically ter of Power and Fuct, announced a British woman matriosa In depriving Schacht of civil gest in China and was initiated afternoon that Lord Citrine has takes his nationally, and there. New York, May 12. A dispatch from Seoul by Schacht (1) may not affiliate Cho-ying, was commissions of Board to become chairman of the Alles

rights, the court: specided that and planned when Governor Lo resigned from the National Coal for thene German brides dro William H. Newton, Scripps himself with any political or reconstruction. Howard correspondent, sald to economie organisation, (2) may Despite the rice flats in timalisation, of electric

Morganlain committee. Zert

the na day that "unless the United not join a labour union (6) Shanghat and sidewhore, prices tinkluge States and Russia' can agree on may not engage in the legal heru bave dropped alightly dur

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Lord Clirine's resignation from chalemanship of

A workable programme for profcasion, (4) may hot re-ug the past two days. The best the Coal Beard, where he anty broatien suchý Korre, sivil war avgmą likely, celve a government, penalón grade was sold at UN$180,000 a portedly claubed with other mening complitea"; In the opinion of, many obser (0) may not operate for 10 plaul of 110 bounda...... Almosía», bary-had long been forecast but satión" in "trade" ver here te-United Prvan, years, his own" business riot act 'ted'Freak.",

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