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Death Of SINKIANG

Old H.K. Resident

His many European and Chinese friends will be shocked to learn of the sudden death of Mr.

Samuel Green which oc-

curred at 7 a.m. yester-

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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JUNE 16, 1947.

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INCIDENT ENDS? Another

Frontier War Over, Militarily

No Replies Yet Το

China's Protests

Nanking, June 15.

day at his home, 12 Ob-After four days and four nights of fighting in servatory Road.

The Jute Mr. Green was born ist uni!

in Swatow 65 years

WAN educated at, the Th Hanbury School, Shanghai, Ar- ter working for some yours in the Cónëse Post Office, Mr

Green enme to Bank Kong In

1906 to join his brother-in-law, the late Mr. George Banker, in The West River shipping bekk. mss, later transferring to Bank- er & Co.

Sinkiang, the Outer Mongolian cavalry forces attacking Peitashan withdrew on June 8, ac- cording to a Central News dispatch received here today. This indicates that the North- West frontier Incident has come to an end militarily.

LISBON PURGE

Lisbon, June 15.

The Portuguese unnounced Anday that secret Alen hud bren found dinetuning o re- Polutionary

and conspiracy shat 13 army and mury officers und 14 university profcanora senda, he purged as a rbanit, The communique, inmidd after a Cabinet meeting, gaid filea diarinaed

the sectet

307

of persons connected with the conspirang and the Government muid it in deter- mmed to eliminate "prufen. revolutonaries" from

vionul reached

The Central News report that after the initial bombing of Peitashan, radio - communication with the town was impossible. The full report, received from the military officers who were despatched to the scene of conflict

From 1926 to 1941. he was

Tihwa, the provinciai epaitul, ortly vexterday. Connected with the Hong Kong

According to this report, one (after receiving The Field spirit), & Shanghai Hote's. Ltd., first Outer Mongolian, battalion beord red that the company which with the Toneist Department, an attacking Pritushan nt defended Portar-han sharab) be then the Catering the was for noon, June 5. Air cover was rewarded with CN$5,00,000 in

time

meriter. the supplied by five planes bearing magnition of Beir mmunster of Peninsula Hotel Storps).

the Soviet insignia, instead of jians servi p

originally re. then with the Hong Kong Hotel four planes na

portel. Garage of Stubbs Houd,

Romu

On his return from leave aft

ter his release from internment, Mr. Green joined the Union Trading Co. Ltd., and was with that firm -initi} his dea[21,

A very keen

Government resistaver W219 directed by General Mu Steben, rommander of a company of the Seventh Cavalry Brigade.

Mennwhile, ing Walking, the { gemi-official Vendoak Daily News I reported th the trip of the

erat Pai Clapp bs), to Sin-| Minister of Sakurad Defenes, I

any has been canelled.

He military and civil servicen.

Associated Press.

Congress Adopts June 3

The Mongolians were said to On-The-Spot Settlement Plan

tenis player,utnumber the Chinese garrison he was for many years Kowloon be thrry to atir. Cricket Club champion. He won

During the next four Hay the Colony Championship in and nights of fighting, Peitas 1915, 1916 and 1917, He was also a "Life Member" of the Kowion Cricket Club and m energètic supporter of St. Ag drew's Church.

The very large attendance at his funeral at the Colony Ceme- tery yesterday afternoon (con- ducted by the Rev, J.I. Ogil- vie, OBE., MA., and the nu meius floral tributes sent at- tested to the popularity of the decenned,

Mr. Green is survived by his widow, his son and daughter- in-law Mr. and Mrs. D. Green), and three grand children,

Artist Jailed On Perversion Charges

Atlanté, June 15. French artist Pan Refnule

was today jailed on perversion charges. Lle-detection expert C.J. Golitz and he believed Refoule Hed when quizzed about his wife's murder.

Refoule was booked on a soil- my charge after allegedly con- fessing to participation in sexual orgies, giving a month old murder mystery is lurid turn that shocked Atlanta's fashion- able set.

FORCES OF REACTION

Prague, June 15,

The General Coured of the World Federation of Trade Unions recorded a belief in its closing session here, thật "forces of renetión are on the offensive Throughout The world",

It named Grecer, Chun, Brazil and Perala an tries where there hof beer

"reactionary advances”. Renter,

18ce at Page 33

shan changed hands Roverni times, but the Mongolians were fureed to withdraw on June 8.

Peitashan Held

attacks.

what is now indisputably held Central News says that Peita-

by Government troops, who are keeping themselves in readiness to meet any further Though the report from Tihwa in not definite on the point, it indicates that from the military Point of view the Peitashan in- cident has come to an end, at i least temporarily.

The Chinese forces claim 30 Golftz said the indicator Outer Mongolians killed, includ needle on the lic detection ing one officer. Equipment cap. machine trembled noticeably tured included one prtillery when Refoule was asked about piece, three light machineguns, wife Peggy's strangulation dur- more than 10 rifles, one radio ing a lengthy grilling. He said and Reveral documents the needle should stand still maps,

and

the

when questions are answered General Sung: Hai-lien, truthfully.—United Press, Sinkiang garrison commander,

The General Has The

Right Viewpoint

Pasadena, Cal., June 14.

sonte spoeds will be studied.

The Catal

aliord Generd"

Thie

independence of India.

and for

Speaking

MARITIME

STRIKE IN

OFFING

New York, June 15. The negotiations be- tween the CIO National Maritime Union and re-

of presentatives

East Coast and Gulf ship- owners broke down to day, increasing the POS sibility of a nationwide shipping tie up.

U.S. Air Disaster

Springfield,

#

were

United

Vermont, June 15. Eight persons killed when States, Army "Superfor- tress" crashed into the side of Hawks Mountains near here in a driving rainstorm early today.

It is believed that this was The total number in the aircraft, which was on a training flight.

Itenter,

50 Dead

Lersburg. June 15, Weary searcherà renched the

be Keera representative that method 12|

authority of those powers."

"The question of atomle cup- Lal enforcement could then considered an A more

Britain's plane. procedure in the Security Counell had advocated and the Atomic Energy Commis

Attice added. At least 12 countries have-now when the plane rammed into Government-sponsored the side of the 1,689-foot Blue grammes of atomic research and

wreckage of the four-engine today and established that all 5 persons hird were killed

Pennsylvania Central Airliner

Kion." Mr.

ced a breakdown in negotiations. | United States history. Bodies of pondence showed.

y and Sell

WRITERS

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and Everything'

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pewriter. Exchange

Tel. 21488

COMMENTS CONTROL

London, June 14. Clement Attlee, today nal Control of Atomic port last March as an

Attlee and the Com- statement showed no rinciple.

Widows-

-Be" Picket President

Washington, June 15. The White House pro- which has been picketed

The meeting between operators Ridge Mountains peak during a development. Further, the min by almost every kind of and NMU recessed at 3 pms, for 9 driving radustorm on Friday Ing of uranium and thorium picket, was picketed by p.m. Ten minutes after il resumed, night.

fuser In the production f something new--14 New Joseph Curran President of the This is the second worst atomic energy) is pengeeding in Union, stormed out and anniúin. [

York college girls who commercial

at least 17 countries, the curress air disaster In

called themselves "the Curran charged that ship.opera-

the victims and the wreckage of tors were "eecky brause of the the explosion-shattered plane

Big Three Meeting

widows-to-be" of world current status of the Tatt-Hartley Jabour bill and have decided to were scattered over a wide area. the mines", the Committee state--

"Effective contral suust begun at War three. The wreckage was sighted from ment said.

"The mining, dis the air at dawn but the search tribution and processing of the

lock out NMU.”

The Nations) · Maritime Uulan,

rently begun.

out

The girls, who picketed for two

said they came frum

He hedged when asked whe parties reached It only after vital ores by individual nations Teachers College, Hunter College, ther there would he a diesel striking bours of slogging through and states will make it increas-Columbia University, Lable stand call, but said: "As matters stand rain and mud and tangled an. mgly difficult to effect intern.- University and Brooklyn College. now, us of June 15 there is 210 derbrush up the rugged hillside, tonni control. If and when suele contract."

Airline officials said that a control in agreed- on,--

They carried signs asking for "We suggest the only by mile and a half of road must be

n│congressional investigation of cut up to the mountain before meeting at the highest level em American industrial tie-ups with the bodies can be brought out. Is necessary for the solnijon

new, approach be made which the 1. G. Farben German indus. The work of cutting through this problema

trialists soon to be tried in Ger. within the iim. the thick underbrush has al- limity available

many for wor erimuAL. "We suggest that the Pra They, objected particularly to The search parties tried half Minister should take the, initia-the appointment-of-hodge Charles a dozen different, approaches up tive in suggesting an early meet Sears, formerly

York the mountainside in their seven-

ing between President Truman hour hunt

Marshal Stalin and himself, **

State Supreme Court. for the wrecked

that the present uncertainties vaa Betty Horowitz, who said she plane.

A fox rolled down the moun sinement added.--keuter.,

bo authoritatively resolved," th went to Now York Unifllly and

was "port of the Prahlent" of fain, enveloping them. maintained contact by yells and They

the organization, objected lu shouts. Finally one group of

Sears' age and the fact that he PCA and Red Cross

had retired. who had ridden part of the way miles back, was led to the scene in a jeep but abandoned it two Paze Two by a Piper Cub plane.

officials ON OTHER PAGES

Government

New Delhi, June 15. Commander of the

The All-India Congress | Genealiseispa's Northwestern

Headquarters to make mu on-!

Committee today adopted thepast ettlement of certain by a vote of 153 to 29 a with 90,000 men bers, is the internal seno,

resolution The papay stated That the

approvingest of the five CIO maritime un Sinking incident was a Viceroy Lord Mountbat- who contracts with

owners expire at midnight Mapon ka the powersations at a ten's June 3 plan for the

Sunday. Although fwo unions dinner given by Premier Chang

have renched #greements with Chum last night in farewe'f to

Before the voting, Mrs, Aruna operators to extend their con. Soviel Ambassation, Asif Ali, wife of the Indian Ami- tracts, they stipulated the age Petrov, whare scheduled to rä-bassador to the United States, ments would be cancelled "If any | turns Moscow soon.

made fervent appeal opptalng other unions faxed to reach terms: 11 was also discussed át a

the division of Indin. Mrs, Asaf, with shipowners. flinter

which

President All blamed the Congress Party! Thus the deadlock in the nego Chiang Kai-shek entertained high copsmand for giving uft lations between NMU and Fast top-Government and political the revolutionary mentality and and Gulf coast operators fore- leaders, incħuling the Vice methods after the 1942 move shadows a strike of 200,001 CTC President. Dr. Son Ft. Generalment Pai Chun-hel. Foreign Minis. with the British, with the result paralyse shipping in every port compromising maritime workers which would Įtee Wane Shihschick, and Gru- that the county, would be di- of the nation. One of the union Feral Con Cheng. The Chief vided.

Involved is Harry Bridge's West Coast ifer speech brough Congressmen's Union.Heuter.

International Longshore- Ministry of Party leader Pandit Nehru to the floor, and for one hour he traced the history of develop ments, emphasising that the and orthodox members of the Juneplan was evolved from Congreas Party, who feel ennzulinti,TEH

with the com- strongly about the division of mittee.

.Sardar Patel followed Nehru. The resolution will be for and be urged Socialists and warded to the Viceroy. It is of the plane was on the Vir- Communists not to worry about learned that Lord Mosmatten ginia side of the mountain and the division of the country but has already récnived from the fuselage on the West Vir to keep united within Hindustan Mohammed Ali Jinnah notifica- ginis side, Bits of the wreckage and to contribute to making tion of the Moslem League's were wedged into the mountain Indin strong and great and acceptance of the plan, as aú-} site, -United Press. the people prosperous.

thorised by the Moslem Lengue The Opposition vote included Council, on June 9.-United Socialists, Forward Bloc-ista Press.

(of Stuff.

far,

Foreign Affairs has received reply to duroleats lodged with Russia and Onter Mongolia:

Renter,

Big Three Confab

Wanted

London, June 15. The "New Common- (wealth Society," which is headed by Mr. Chur- chill, has asked the Pre-

mier to arrange an early!

India

Palestine Committee Now In Lydda

Jerusalem, June 14,

meeting with President Justice Emil Sandstroem, Chairman of the United

Truman, Marshal Stalin fund himself to work out İ

made

Paid

Nations Palestine Committee, and three other delegates arrived at Lydda this afternoon by air.

-

cape.

"

....

The Weather

The rescuers carried stretch- ers and first all equipment. They laid them aside

as thei first grim view of the disaster Fold them thut no first aid would be needed.

All 50 bodies were found af- ter a short search. The whole ares was charred; indicating a terrife explosion. The tall section

12 Bodies

Leesburg, June 15. Rescue workers searching for: "bodies of the 50 persons killed in yesterday's Skymaster crash in the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia, had brought in only 12 bodies by midnight.

Work was impeded by bar! weather and the heavy ground. Iitter bearers had to carry bodles for two milea on foot, and many gave up from exhaus-. tion. Bodies were found strewn Lover an area of 100 yards on

the mountain side-Reuter,

Ал

Grounding?

source

Washington, June 14. sad today that the Government

administration "considering" grounding all former C-54's that have been converted to commercial air- iines use. United Press.

Senator's Charge

ja plan for atomic control. The Scriety, of which My. Clement Atthe sa member The other delegates ware get a background of the pitun- himself and leader, is a non- Entezamn Nazrollah (Persit on." His fast visit to Palestine partisan organisation set up Justice van Rand (Canada) and was as a lourist, 23 years ago, In a dry river bed north of here, California Insti--everal years so for the pur-Professor Fabregat (Uruguay). During the 130 alle road

"We are going to tute of Technology scientists are erecting a pose of studying wars and came country before starting our sit salem, Sir Henry Gurney pointed

four the Journey from Lydila

to Jeru laboratory that may be the cradle of dreaded palaing to prevent them. Ita

mujor goal has been the crea at the airport,

tings," said Justice Sandstroem out to him features of the land- "push-button," faster-than-sound, guided mis-

tion ot ai International Police | sile warfare.

Replying to a question, the The first bomb-shattered" bufld- Forec. 3,000 miles per Actually the laboratory is aduce

hour

Chairman of the Commissionings. he saw in Jerusalem were Noting that the UNO Atomic sald: "There is more reason for the gaping ruins of the Offleyrs new $3,000,000 supersonic, wind speeds, three times the speed of

*** | Commission' discussiona have the Arabs to appear before the Club, where a terrorist explosion. (tunnel at the jet propulsion la- - sound.

| developed ... major: differences Commission. If they are right in killed ten people. Reuter. boratory in Arroyo Seco. There "Due to the great expansion the effects of airflow around of air within the tunnel," sald over the principles of atomic their criticism."

The Palestine Arab. Highe objecta. "travelling". at super. Puckett, "the temperature will control, the Society, in a letter Committee Ная informed Dr. public on Saturday, Trygve Lie, Becretary-General: of

Washington, June 14. drop to minus 350 degrees

The suggestion of a "structural Fahrenheit, and the prosHUTU

the United Nations, that it will

Ridges

of moderately high failure" In DC-4 Skymaster planes Dr. Lee A. Du Bridge, pre- atulent of California Tech, Buld will be only minus 14 pounds meeting at the highest level can Lie has communicated the tele across Kuren and N China to

"We suggest that only by a boycott the Palestine inquiry. Dr. pressure extend from Hokkaido was made today, by Bepublican per square inch..

Senator the new approach be

Owen Brewster, Chair. The new project is moroly "ex-

made gram sent by Jamal Husseini, Tibet, and from the Mariannas of tending basic research into the "At this low temperature, the which

the Senate Commerce is necessary for the Vice-Chairman of the Committee, to Borneo. A vigorous trough of Hupersonic realm".

speed of sound la only 300-400 solution of this problem within to Justice Sandstroom.

Sub.commitice on Aviation. low pressure extends from Tong- miles an hour,” he added.

the time available,"

Justice Sandstroem and Dr.kin across 8 China and the Log-

In three recent Skymaster Dr. Louis Dunn, acting, direc- Mr. Attlee's attitude toward Victor Hoo, personal representa choos to a depression which le crashes, 133 persons have been head of the US Army Ord-tor of the Arroyo Seco labora- the proposal for a Big Threeve of Dr. Trygve Lie, called on mooving to the 3 of Japan. killed. Hanco Bureau, went farther, tory, explained that the expert meeting could not be

Sir Alan Cunningham," Palestinu Today's Forecast:- Moderate Commenting on today's crash, saying that the..army intends toments in the huge wind tunnel Immediately.

learned High Commissioner, at Govern- | 8W winds, freshening In squnila; Senator Brewster sold that his study results in a new wind would not be confined to guided

ment House a few hours aftor fair periods after scattered non-committee would look into? the Since the Security Council their arrival by air at Lydda air inhowers; very warm. tynnel before planning "pro-missiles, but would include col. and the Foreign Ministers' port today.

matter. He did not believe that gramme of guided-missile war: lection of data on superconte air-Council replaced the

the cause was engine fallure In wartime At the airport the delegates Buenos Aires, Juno 14. craft

any of the three accidents in thei Nig Three, meetings as media were welcomed by Ble: Henry | Allen Puckett, 27-year-old de-.

The Argentine Government United Stater. "It should enable, someone to for big power negotiations, Gurney, Palestine Government today announced its acceptance Mignor of the new supersonic get some place in a hell of a however, the Government han Chief Secretary, Major James of Mr. James Bruce as United pared to recommend that all DC. He said that he was not pre- tunnel, estimated that 100,000 hurry. Gen. Hughes comment been cool toward suggestions Cunningham, and other senior States Ambassador in place of is be grounded, but he assumed

Blowit, representing / Bir・ Alan cuble feel of nir par minute ed, "but why anybody wants to for new conferencen among the Government officials.

Mr. George Messermith; who is that the civil eronautics agertates would be pumped through a'get Tokyo in half an hour. I heade of the big nations.--A4- Unarrow ventari passage to pro- don't know,"-United Press. Bociated Press.

Justice Sandstroem, will stars ■ leaving for Washington-next | would consider, hich aptlon »Neu. tour of Palestine on Monday to Friday.—Router,

Major Gen. Everett "Hughes,

Tore."

1.

tor,

of New

She also said she didn't lite the way he handle the trial, of a Grow-communist several years.ugo.

Civil War in Manelsuria ing in Intensity. Page Three

Resurgence of World Fasete Page Four Page Five

Turkey To Be U.S. Bastion. Britain Taking The Lead. Pages Nine & Ten

Local and World Sport, News,

eir.

The girls--one of them said shu brought her boy friend along and be brought a friend-came here from New York by bus.

Before they went on the plckel lipe the girls advised Washington news agencles that "newn and

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appreciated"- United Press.

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