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Exchange RESUMPTION OF JAPAN TRADE Tightened Major Export Production Still Held Up

Nanking, June 10. The Minister of Fin- ance, Mr. O, K. Yui, re- porting to the National Economic Council, said today that foreign ex- change control will be. tightened hereafter tol

Japanese Views On New Order

Tokyo, June 10.

conserve government's Japanese businessmen welcomed SCAP's

foreign exchange re- serves, the official Cen- tral Daily News said to- day.

The paper added that gov: ernment had decided to retrenchi government offces abrønd arit eat down the number of gov

ergent personnel rent abroad.

In Kuture all applications for foreign exchange must be sent to the Executive Yuan's foreign exchange nuditing committee for approval

Mr. Yui sutil the government had decides to readjust the rate

an-

nouncement of the reopening of private trade on August 15 as a long awaited initial step, but not a final solution of the quest for inter- national markets.

Neither SCAP nor Japanese officials expect pri- vate business to accomplish more at the out- set than a stimulation of the limited export trade which is now under way between the Governments.

Major export production was A United States mission stymied by shortages of raw which examined Japan's Econo-, materials, uncertainty over re- my, declined to set a new rate) parations And the domestic for an early resumption of; economic maladjustment. The commerce bremse it salt such great insustrial area of Osaka, for example, is operating at

of alt at commodity directs than 25 per cent capacity. taxe to increase the uational any military revenue. Île confirmed that gav

erontent was also planning to impose a capital levy, tax as sen as possible,

Cals

government of This was principally at tributed to business hesitancy over reparations and shortages of cout.

a rate would be "unrealistic."

Barter Basis

an barter basis with

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THEIR SECOND DIVORCE

London, June 0. Flight-Lieutenant Amherst Sratt of the Royal Air Foren divatord his wife curly in the why because of her adultery 14th Arthur Williams, fr 1943, he, forgave her and re- married her.

Today,

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court granted him a around divorce in the ground of her adultery with-Arthr Williama. United Press.

TANKS QUELL CROWD

crowds of

Milan, June 9,

Şinkiang Invasion

Reported

Nanking, June 10. Semi- official sources Outer said today that Mongolian forces of con- siderable strength: have penetrated 200 miles in- to northwestern China under cover of four war- Įplanes.

The informants identified the planes "ius of "Soviet nationali-

considerable cualtion.

Price: 20 Cents.

140 DROWNED IN YANGTSE

Shanghai, June 10. Ouly 100 of sumie 300 peru ROPH aboutd u'rTe rescued tolarn the Chinese 600-10x ship To. Fong wank at noon yesterday during violent storm off Wovaung, necording fo Chincte

reports thia morning.

on

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The remaining 140 are missing and feared to have been drowned. The ship was bound for Nantung Yangter.

about

GO milen northwest of Shanghai, the home of a preet majority of Shanghai's labourera-Reuter.

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CANTON FEARS COUP D'ETAT

Canton, June 9.

Canton, the traditional "Mother of Revolutions" In China, may shortly fulfill that role once again, in the opinion of experienced observers who are watching developments closely. These observers foresee eventual disintegration of the Central Government in the wake of con- tinued, economic crisis, student uprisings, civil war and growing discontent among the popu- lace as a whole.

for

Recession of

They look for China to bej minder of the Generalissimo's broken up into two or more Canton Headquarters, has found autonomoua - regions, run by it necessary to keep all the local warlords in the event they troops of his 89th Division fo are able to excupe Comniunist | close proximity to the provin- domination. An underground cial capital. movement

These are the only regulars in South China in sald' to be in Kwangtung, although there are progress, to come into effvel | a number of irregular Penca When and if the Central Gov- Preservation Coppement. This ernment collapses.

pancity of trops" *also contri- Chinese Nationalist Macao, June 10.

sources butes in the general apprehen- No

sion of a coup d'etat.-United martial law has believe the head of this move

ment is Marshal Li been declared here, des- formerly

Tsi-shen, Press, the most powerful

Canton Arrests in South China and pite rumours from Can- warlord

Tow politien refugee in Ton and elsewhere.

Conton, June 9. The spokesm of the Peave

The only notable activity tak. Hongkong. Marshall's Preservation headquarters rada. Ly and said they bombed and Censur's offer, which has sera- roflcials here a bait case of jitare still held in prison, compris ing place is on the part of the leged netivities are giving Jocul nounced today that 25 journalists Private traders dealing with Japanese manufacturers there-

strafed Chinese cities causing tinizeri newspapers nipro closely ters and nee causing them to ing 21 from the "Daily Telbune," fore will rely upon Gen. Mac-

than usual. Arthur to set a firm value on Army tanks, troops and police started on June 6,

This drive was said to have

see Communists behind every two, from the Chien Kuo Jih Although the Colony is out gatejk81.

Pan,"

One from the "a Kung the goals involved, a joint Warwent inte action in Cremona, 40° The sources said the Ministry flelals are aware

wardly quiet, Government of

Marsh Li's statement of Pao" and one from the Ying Ming He said the Finance Ministry

Annules southeast of Milan to quell of National Defence had sup- desires for retroressian Aud 'State Department

of the Chinese Kumklehi Nakajima, Preat-nouncement said. This arrange (who prevented

two months ago. In which he Agency. bad drawn up a set of new re-dent of the Japan

Left-wing supporters pressed

and are

criticised the Kuomintang and The spokesman failed! tu spret, Foreignment indicates that initial tran- gulations for the prevention of Trade Association, said in com-sactions will be largely

the opening files to local papers by news The milltary

stream of excitedl cawatching developments closely predicted a "people's revolt" fy the changes. ine Provincial Congress if the

defences,

He said a total of 105 persons smuggling in China. The re-menting on the

which against the regime of General- SCAP

men in Sinkiang province, re- Uomo outsiders tight-wing

Qualunque

were strengthened after the war, ulations would be sent to the nounement, that Japan needed

issimo Chiang Kai-shek within has been arrested since May 31, (Common Man) Party.

porting details of the "invasion." are believed by qualified obser. a year, caused consternation of whom 122 have been released Legislative Yuan shortly for consideratble raw material im-

"The Chief of the

A Ministry Cremona

spokesman de- vers to be strong enough to with among local officials and result. and 43 are still in custody, includ. legislation.-United Press. portations before she would be

the en was attacked manhandled cling to comment on

restond any incursion across the ed in

who a suppressive campaigning eight students able to increase available ex-

pital treatment for injuries. and abused. Many received hos.

border.

against newapapers, students be released provided the Sun Yat parts.

The smuggling traffle, which and anyone else who might be

Sen University guarantees their Hundreds of people, including give the exact location of the diuinished somewhat as a result considered a potential threat. behaviour.Ünited Press, the palace where the women, blocked all approaches to

reported invasion, 11 "Hain of persistent Government round.. Min Pao" dispatch from

Pei-p

Communist Elements has was to take, place. They set upon ing said Outer Mongolian in-smugglers, however, have had to bcen resumed. The

Chinese sourcen believe Li to: those believed to belong to the fantry, envalry and artillery make a general reduction in their Sinkiang rates as neither imports nor ex- movement, which is accused of had penetrated into

Province.--Associated Press. sheltering many Fascists.

ports are profitable at present. A group of

with the exception of wolfram. Congressmen who themselves

Shanghai

Students Strike

Shanghai, June 10.

Students of more than 60

shipping raw materiala in many cases for Japanese handicraft and silk cloth,

Raw silk cotton textiles and the 1947 ten crop will not be Other Japanese business men available to the Traders in opined the country will have general because of prior com Httle to export by August andmitments, most of them being hinted again at the necessity of made to the United States and

foreign loans.

into

nearby Pucifle areas.

Far Reaching

SCAP officials say the entry of private businessmen Japan should increase the pre-of goods to and from the Japan-barricaded

In order to hasten the flow sent export figures somewhat. For one thing, they expected the homeland the Japanese Gov-building was rescued to guide the Japanese producement Has been directd to set

aside accommodation for the

universities and high schools to. tion of fabrics and art works day staged a one-day strike in with suitable designs for Ameri-100 trade representatives want- protest against the continued i can taste instead of the out- detention of approximately 60 moded and unsulfable students arrested in recent dia. | which, now generally tarbanzes who are now being duved. ¿"re-cduented" at an undisclosed

segregation centre,

In

pamphlets

nga alice Japanese trade. products to get a substantial number of The Americans are expected are prothese places. Government alli- vials say they expect Russia to ask for permission to send a number of State trade repre- sentatives, The anly exports

Private businessmen expected also to encourage such fields as distributed ceramics, which has been little throughout the elty, the students touched in the government-o demanetancunditional and Im government Business dealing mediate release of their Assoclated-Press. colleagues,

Yen Rate

Washington, June 10.

congress

ports.

While the informants

failori

in the police and escorted to the railway--United Press. by armed station.-Reuter.

Baseless Fear Led To Tragedy

London, June 10.

from Japan to the USSR dur- Honest, hard-working Brindey Davies saw the ing the year 1946, they said. were silkworm eggs.

shadow of tuberculosis hanging over his happy little home in suburban Purfleet.

He trembled at the thought, while 12-months.ald Yvonne Is that the dread disease would still alive in an oxygen tent take him from his adoring wife Davies' family doctor told an and four young daughters whom inquest today neighbours called the "prettiest youngsters in town,"

In anouncing the decision to Meanwhile, Mayor K. C. Wo,i

reopen private trade, the War for the first time, admitted to-;

An American drive to get on

and State Departments termed day that the authorities have official exchange rate for the

the move uf "far-reaching" abandoned the idea of transport- yen appears a likely follow up signficance for the Far East. ing suspec Communist agents to the decaian, permitting the

The resumption of trade even to the Communist areas, stating resumption of limited private, a imited boats should make that all students will be allowed trade in Japan, on Aug. 15.

it possible to build up "very

Last Thursday, Dayles. 37, to return to their homes after a Government economic experts rapidly" an orderly supply and who works as a machinist at the period of re-education, which said they hope the renewal of demand relationship for the nearby Ford plant, fell ill and is rumoured, will last through-the once out the summer months.

lucrative Japanese betterment of Japan and her asked his wife to fetch a neigh- Before she left he placed Addreasing Kuomintang lea- tablishment of an official in-

commerce will lead to the ea- neighbours, the statement said, bour.

It added this should help his arms around her and said ders in Nanking last night.ternational currency rate with- Japan to assume the financial tenderly "Take care of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in six months.

burden for her own economic self." warned that "the damage to our In pre-war days,

Associated when thehabilitation." country

Preas.

and race will be value of the yen was 23 cents. grievously incalculable should the export-import value of the present strikes in schools | Japanese trade continue and should there be a

amounted to further deterioration

around US$300,000,000 yearly. Mission Unable To Land

In our The occupation yen has been

nation's educational behaviour", pegged at two cents by General -Reuter.

Douglas MacArthur.

Lend-Lease Bases

Agreement

Washington, June 9.

An Anglo-American agreement that will permit third nations to use the 99-year leased bases in Newfoundland, Bermuda and the Caribbean

area will be announced here shortly, it was learned authoritatively today.

Shanghai, June 10.

Unable to land in Shanghai

owing

to strong cross-winds

your-

She smiled and told him not to worry.

Then she left.

He crept upstairs so as not to awaken his four children and Blood by their bedsides for n Ding time. Then he shot cach of them in the heart and turned the revolver on himself.

The three oldest girls,. aged ten, eight and four, died instant ly. Davies died two days later

prevailing, the airplane bringing Appeasement

the United Kingdom delegation

to the United Nations Economic Wanted In

Commission for Asia and the

Far East from Hong Kong -was

diverted to Nanking today. Greece

over

The machine arrived Shanghai's Lunghua airdrome

THE WEATHER

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Finoraine showers.

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Gullets

Artificial

"A Success"

Moscow, June 9.

Soviet surgeons are now creating artificial gullets to save the lives of those whose vital passage from throat to stomach has been blocked by accident or disease, according to a report to the Pirogov Surgical Society in Leningrad. Pfensor Sergel 5. Yudin, "Sevenly have led to the crea÷ who developed

difficult tion of an irreproachable and technique several years ago, refully functioning artificial ported triumphantly to his col-oesophagus which replaces the

that lenguca

260 artificial normal one," the Vesophagus operations have been Pravda" gald in performed and that he now has Yudin's Surgical. Society so perfected the complex pro-pearance.

the

"Leningrad reporting

Ap-

ves it can be completed in two "The results obtained on many other patients were also Auf- technique, ficiently

weeka.

Prior to Yudin's

those whose oesophagus was Presa.

blocked, or destroyed by burns from accidental poisoning by

satisfactory-United

Zurich, June 0. this afternoon and after clreling Conference ended today

The International the airfield several times was

after or other tumors and inflamma. informed of the position and re-

the conference had unanimously tory processes, were fed through

Socialar acids or alkalies, or by cancer King's New

pro-

directed to Nanking. The dele. approved the delegations' gallon la expected to fly here posal that the conference send from Nanking tomorrow.

an appeal to the United Nations The United Nations delegation asking that the polley of

peasement and democratic

The bases concerned aro Most important in the big among those granted to the United States army base at United States under the famous Kindley Field, Bermuda, which "destroyer banca” agreement Canadian, Chilean and several

between Mr. Churchill and other South American airlines consists of Sir Andrew Clow,

at present.

tubes inserted directly in Title

*the

stomach. They usually were bed-ridden for the duration of

London, June. D. their lives. При

King George VI of England According to his report, will lose his "style and title" Yudin's operation enables them of Emperor of India when the to. cat normally within a week. Indian Empire splits up inte

Tunnel Drilled

Hindustan and Pakistan. The Yudin creates an artificial British Government, it is re-

President Roosevelt, in 1940. wish to use but cannot do so MF. P. J. I. Stent, Mr. F. C. pacification be applied in

United States and British officials are working out details of settlement, the principles of 'which have already been agreed

op..

The way will soon be open for Canadian and South-Arg- *rican airlines to uno airfelde which, under the terms of the

The Canadians were ready to open a West Indian air service last month, but were unable as Kindley Field was not available for them.-Reuter.

C. Benham, economic adviser to

Greece,

the Governor-General of Malaya, The conference also demand- Lieutenant-Colonel H. C. Kerred that the Greek Government

of the Office of the Special Com- should declare 4 generat, nesophagus by, first, removing venled tonight, is consulting mission for Southeast Asia, Mr. amnesty.

Interim agreement, have bit ON OTHER PAGES for UNRRA affairs-Reuter.

herto only been open to the United States, and on; Nelv- Toundland (not including Gund- ct, which is already in poporal: uko) the details of which are *being worked out jointly with the Newfoundland Government. It also 'concerns seven other arneds in places such a Bbr chida, Triniden, und Autjuun.

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Financial Storm Browing.

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Test Sensations.

the end of the small intestine. the Dominion Government an

and

Wm. Thomson, Director of the The conference decided to Then he "drills" a tunnel from to the new title.

hold its next meeting Department of Supplies in Hong Belgium, (probably Antwerp) the help of special instruments be incorporated in the India in the abdomen to the neck with Provision for the change will Kong, and Miss Elenor M. next December, to last four he has developed. To the upper Bill. now Hinder, British Embassy attachedaya, The agenda for the next end of this tunnel

being drafted he attaches which, it is proposed, will be conference will include problems the small intestine, joining It passed into law, by Parliament of economic reconstruction, re- through a small Incision in the before the end of August. FARES UP constitution_of_International, and neck,-with-tha-patient's throat. It is expected that the British

Shanghai, June 10, problema of peace,

He calls this the "creation of a monarch will become King of Shipping fares for constal The conference heard a co-orifice,"

the two Dominiong-Hindustan and inland routes will be liked speech from a member of the 60 to 100 per cent from Thura Jewlah Agency, who attacked school has performed,

Of the 260 operations Yudin's | and Pakistan-until it is decid

140 et finally whether both staten

day. The hike was granted by the methods of the Palestine have taken place in the last few or either will remain within the the Ministry of Communications, authorities, in dealing with Im-years since perfection of the British Commonwealth of Na -Associated - Proga.

technique,

|tions.—RouterIPA

|migrants--Reuter,

in constant touch with Cam

munist elements in and

the East

arena

West River Kwangtung Province. guerrillas originally evacuated to Shantung

These were

KIDNAPPED BRITONS

miy

Jerusalom, Juno- 10. last The governmont nnnounced Hummer by a pence team from today that the two British Executive Headquarters, but officers kidnapped yesterday by more recently were reported to Jewish extremists were found be slowly drifting back, inclu- today by a military patrol at Ing the commander, Gen. Tseng Kiriat Shaul. | Seng.

The brief statement did not These sources also believe biany whether the two men had to be involved in the present | been injured. Uprising in the Kwangchowwan Kirint Shaul is near the at area, where Communist-led Jewish .efty of Tel-Aviv. bandits are reported to be in Mitary patrols hud control of five haien (districts). scouring the aren siner the two Despite continued abti-Gov-officers were seized at a swim- crument successes in thai re- ming pool at Ramat Gan. gion Gen. Chang Fa-kwei, com- Associated Presa.

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