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MYSTERY OF THE "FLYING SAUCERS" DEEPENS

Reports Of Strange Aerial Objects Seen

All Over The United States

H.K. CURRENCY

PETITION

A petition has been sub- mitted to Government by the Chinese Chamber of Commerce at Koulum is withdraw the

ten-cent

wold five-

1363.3.47

rent notes from circulation* and to replace them with either new Hofer or sailis,

The reasons given for the petition is that same of these brates are no dilapidated that prople (experially hadkers) till not

Jet-Planes Ready To

Go In Pursuit

Portland, Oregon, July 6.

The nation's perplexity over discs reported spip- ning through the skies deepened in the wake -of July 4 reports from virtually all parts ‘of

the country.

There was no seientific explanation offered to fit the observations, which spanned the nation from the Pacific to the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.

A mass of evidence piled up by on Army Air Force officer swiftly as the holiday throngs to the Navy ucrept them, thum

observatory an giving rise to arguments. #1 is further argard that they üre disease meriera,

Blackmail Letters Received

Several shopkeepers, boarding houses and teahouses in Kowloon have received threaten- ing letters from a new blackmailing gang styl- ing itself the "Hong Kong Ex-Military Offi-

Association," "China Mail" learned from usually reliable sources yesterday,

cers

the

und, in one case crewmen of anouncement simply that none of commercial airline plane, joined its staff had seen the objects. ----- in reporting they bad seen Associated Press. bright pancake-like objects

skimming through the air at

varying estimates and speeds.

The Brst published reports of

seving the "flying

saucerж"

Saucer Hysteria

Chicago, July 5. Hundreds of persons stared in- to the sky hoping to sight one of

came from a private plane pilot the flying saucers" which have on June 25 who Kald he had been reported

ween

nine uyer' State's Cascade Mountains.

In Washington D.C., Govern. ment scientists and military officials took a "bring one in and let's ace It" view concerning the reports,

shooting through

the

weru

Washington the air at rocket speed over near-

ly every section of the country.

ся reports of the saucer flights poured in, debate was rife

whether

discs over careening through people's minds or really were splaning objects in the sky. Dr. John G. Lyng, of Valhalla, N.Y. an

expert on human behaviour, said it "just a wave of saucer hysteria." He blamed it on recent predictions

Statements there ranged al the way from "we are mystified"

Nanking Worried

Over Soviet

Warships

In all these letters--the- re- cipients

"Bub- are asked to scribe" to the funds of the As- sociation. Failure to do so, or; reporting the receipt of a letter to the Pollee, would result in "eruel mensure" being meted

out. they are warned,

The

Nanking, July 6.

Chinese Naval authorities are reported- ly voicing grave con-

the

over

move-

The following is a transla-] cern tion of one of these letters re-ments of Soviet ships ceived by one company which along was asked to pay $6,000:-

the Shangtung "The Manager,...We beg to coast, especially around request your firm to subscribe Chefoo, à. the sum of $5,000 for our Asso-held port. eintion's expenses. We have de-

wend

a

min

waste the

was

United

FORGIVE AND. -FORGET?

some

London, July 0. The life sentence parsed ** Field Marshal Albert Keseriring and two Gerinan

BOUR, in generale Tespects, "equally as terrible" na the original death senten- ces, the Right Reverend C. H. Goldingbird, assistant Guild. of Anglicun Dishop ford, asid today.

"stand by what I have auid previously, that now is not the time for imposing the extreme penalty

thoma

whoan crimes are long post," he told the British Preez Az- sociation commenting on the

commutation of the douth aentences announced from

Rome.

The bishopi served

chaplain in both the

位置

a

Boer

War and the First World

War--Associated Press.

Gen. Wei In Berlin

MOUSE

Price: 20 Cents.

General Wei Li-huang, former Commander-in-Chief of the Chinese Expeditionary Corps on Burma front, leaves with his escort after laying a wreath, at the Russian monument for their war-dead. in the Charlottenburger Chavance, Berlin, on June 13. Left to right: Capt. Han of the General's staff; the General; and Colonel Teu of the Chinese Military Mission in Berlin.- Associated Press Photo.

THE UNO IS STILL A

GREAT

ASSET

New York, July 6.

that atomic warfare, would break Should the western world, unable to find any com- mon ground with the Soviet Union, tear up

off- write the

charter, United Nations the hope of cooperation and settle down to an unqualified campaign of power politics?

out, laying States.

An astronomer said he ballevod some persons were seeing spots before their eyes.”

In San Diego, the editor of Occult Magazine sald the objects were "space ships from Mars."

Circled And Dived

But individuals from coast to const insisted they had seen the яBucers. The dines

ranged in colour from gold to allver, ac-

"AMERICA'S REPLY"

London, July 0. The "Sunday Dispatch" to- day described the flying Fancers as "America's reply to the Loch Ness monster."- United Press.

Communist- cording to "eyewitness" descrip-

tions, and their sprod was es timated at 1,000 miles an hour.

widely two

SIW

werd

Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan has told UNO that they might as well pack up if they cannot act to stop aggression along Greece's Com- munist-girt borders.

congrasaiona! from joining together again for

we any necessary purpose.

An American sub-committee asks: "Do write off Russian co-operation as every previous Russian ac- tion has indicated that we must --and proceed with building up Europe and the re- western habilitation of the Far East?" As for the UNO it has many agencies tesides the Security Council which perform valuable functions. As for the Council itself it was able to halt the of more overt manifestations

Russian aggression In Iran without actually taking a stand. The Greek case could works the same way. If it aids peace the Council does the job even

directly

According to reports reach- The latest saucer reports came though it cannot always move elded that at 11 p.m. on June Ing Nanking, the Nationalist from

separated 30 or July 1. 1017. you should magistrate of the city of Peny- localities. Sixty picknickers at

with the

Waiting For A Knock lai in northern Shantung said Twin Fails, Id., said they amount of money to....The

several Soviet ships carried three groups of dises flying over money should be handed over to landing parties surveying

Continued Russian intranai. mark. Some saucers the described as a military oflicer in full

V-forma- geance in the UNO does not tle flying in group of islands in the Gulf of tion while others circled and up form. If this man is not there. Chini.

all of its machinery for dived in lacae formation.

closer co-operation, the money should be placed

Later, the ships steamed into At Somerside, Calif, two amongst a harp af sienes on Chefoo.

As a matter of fact the time farmers claimed they saw a fly for individual or collective op- tthe left side.)

It was feared that the Sovieline saucer

uni-

"The man with money must be dressed in a white jacket and wear a white hat. Hoping you will comply with this, we

Dasure you that we will not ask you to subscribe again.

tion.

might include these islands it out sur lust night travelling der Soviet-held Dairen jurisdic- vapour. Amateur weather students at Someraldo suggested that Chinese circles believed that under certain conditions swift fly- Russia's reply to the Chinessing birds could create an optical note protesting against "de illusion-United Press,

"If you do not pay the money liberate blocking" of taking over in due time or if you make a report to the Police, our Asso-Dairen and Port Arthur can be

cintion will adopt a cruel mea- sure against you.

"Signed: Special Movement Troop, Hong Kong Ex-Military Officers Association.-Lee."

The Police refused last night either to deny or confirm that reports of auch Aetters have been received.

July 4th Death Toll

Chicago, July 6:

with Rus- sian Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov's return to Moscow.**** United Press.

expected presently

Japanese

Warships Still Here

Planes Readled

Portland, July 6. Equipped military planes in at least two sections of the In States were held United readiness to chine mysterious spinning discs in an attempt to and the nation-wida puzzle over the speeding objects, which had been reported in the sky over 33 atatca.

A 80 was awling at the MFOC Army Air Field In Cali, fornia to pursue any discs res ported in that area. Six P-518) were in readiness here, whore scores of the mysterious disce

was

war al-

position as envisioned, in the charter may be approaching.

originally The UNO

fight the formed to though it also had an eye on the coming peace. Nothing in the charter or voto power pre- vents a majority of members

London Wild Cat

Transport Strike

in-

London, July 6. The eight Japanese warships have been reported in the past Transportation was paralysed. which arrived here over the two weeks.

in London today by an

·week-ond·· fór rafuelling · pur-| This development followed a official sirike of has and tram poses wi't be leaving for Singa-day in which new reports of the drivers, proteating against a pore tomorrow/

diaca. in from coast to union agreement providing

The UNO, even should Russia withdraw, which is not likely, or if a majority finally has to ignore her, still has many valua- ble usex. As for writing off Russian co-operation the an- awer probably is yes, although we should always be standing eagerly by the door ready to open it if by any chance Rus- sin kuocks again."

has

INDIAN ARMY TRANSFERS

New Delhi, July

The transferragulat

Brilish officera in the Indian army to the British army is proceeding according to plan, it was announced officially today.

Up to July 1, 249 officers hud accepted transfer to the and 54 had British army nlready left India for United Kingdom, the

said. nouncement PTOGE

30,000

Killed In

the

---

United

One Week

Hamburg, July 5.

Depends On Russia For practical purposes, in the minds of men who make Ameri- can policies, this a'ready been done. The United States is proceeding to do what it can The remains of 30,000 for other nations, to organise Hamburg people killed them against totalitarian ex- pansion and to provide for during the "catastrophe economic stability which leads week" in June, 1943-a pence. America will not week of day and night unnecessarily. air raids-are still buri- arouse Rusala But if Russia moves America

mass of ed under the will counter-move.

Does this acceptance of in- rubble in the city, ac- friends mean eventual war? duced at the inter-zonal ability of cast and west to be cording to statistics pro-

to

The answer depends on Soviet Union,

the

exhibition of new Too Risky?

methods of rubble clear- AB the world organises ing and utilisation in against Communist expansion Hamburg today. Russia might decide that it is more profitable to try to keep and develop-what she has than to rielt additional grabs."

Barring explosions among her captives, which would bring outside intervention, that might considerably postpone any open conflict.

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JAPS TOND PAST CAN'T BE FORGOTTEN

Shimoda, July 6.

With a warning that the past cannot be forgotten, Ambassador George Atcheson Jr., in a message to the people of Shimoda, said, "It is the future which now virtually concerns Allied powers having homelands or other interests in the area of the Far East. It is the fateful future more than the past which concerns all the world."

v

United

Atcheson's message was read extinguished and that the dark- by Glen Bruner; second secro- ness of totalitarinoisin either öf· tary of the Embassy, on the oc- right or left shall never again, casion of the revival of the fall upon the land." Black Ship festival which com- PreaS,. memorates the landing of Com- 14 modore Perry at Shimoda years ago and the arrival of Townsend Harria, Arat Ameri- can Consul in Japan, a year later.

Shanghai As Hot As You

Know Where

The message said in partiļ “Perry and Harris came to urgo Japan to enter into commerce with foreign nations. Today there are new steps to reopen Japan, taken with the primary purpose of assisting the Japan- ese people to rehabilitate their economy to pencotime needs.

No Phenomenon

"Within two generations man after the coming of Perry and

Shanghai, July 6. Sweltering Shanghai, warned by the weather- that the present

Harris, Isolationist and pacific Summer is to be a record Japan adopted western industry one, is apprehensively and the tools of modern war. awaiting the arrival of It will be a. no more amazing "small heat" which be- phenomenon for the Japanese,

in the bitter knowledge of their gins on July 8. betrayal by militarism, to fash ton a democracy auited to their needs, at home and to their ob- ligation to the family of na-

Elona.

To the newcomer here it seems hardly possible for the weather to get hotter but the Chinese calendar foretells würse things. It records that the Bon-

"I may safely say the United sou of "big heat" will start on States will proceed in connecJuly 24.

tion with plans for the future along lined which will suntain.

As if that in not enough a

the fundamental principles of Inte known as "Chu Lão lu" American policy...We support which can best be described as the of United "ger heat" wil release, Nations. It is our purpose to rock in August 24ta fer

More than 10 per cent of all bomb rubble in Germany is con- centrated in Hamburg, and at the present rate of progress; It' will be 10 years before it is cleared from tlia streets, in the . opinion of a stato architect, I Herr Grundt, who is President i of the Associatio Yor Scientific- Even further Russian expan- Utilisation of Rubble. sion in Mongolia, Manchuria, The Association urged the Finland and Czechoslovakia employment of specially design- might not produce immediate ed rubble clearing machines as .war...

well as machines for scientific In general America conversion of rubble into bricks might as well recognise that if for building purposes. Rusela insista on forever press*|*- Under the present manual ing outward. we are in for real clearance, -about 82,000,000 trouble-Associated Press.

bricks had been obtained from rubble in Hamburg, but any norious rebuilding would re-

But

These ships, which comprise coast and scientists and military ume-and-a-stortor pay forum ON OTHER PAGES quire at least ten times that

China's Share

"Man-Made”.

*

amount, the Association sald.

Cearance work in Hamburg Ons uncovered 1,000 unexplod- ed bomba, more than 14,000 ahella and more than 60,000 as- sorted explosives-Router,

Holiday deaths over the the first allotment drawn by the men said they were baffled by day work. American celebration of the United Kingdom representative the phenomenon. The Army

The strikers are demanding Page Two

Why Bo Suckers? Insist Fourth of July" today stood at at Tokyo, attracted considerable and Navy said the discs warg time-and-a-half.

Controlled Prices. 440 as millions jammed the no- attention throughout yesterday not any of their experimental The agreement, made on June Page Three tion's highways and resorta. an they lay at anchor off North'anes.

20 between the London Passen-K Death Udd Marriage. Auto accidente have taken 151 Point,

ger Transport Board and the Paps Five Bingo Thurday; 137 have drown-

David Lilienthal, Chairman Transport General Workers One-Man Rule" in Japa Shanghai, July;6. of the US Atomic Energy Com- Union, leo provided for a 44- Page Seven

Ang Parts Conference. and Eight Japanese "reparations" mission, and atomic cnurgy hour week and other Improve Page Nine In contrast to the traditiona) | warshipa:: which arrived toro Ecientists asserted that their ments In working conditions::;

Indonesia Accepts Interim cause of deaths (until city and from Sasebo on Thurday wore experiments, had no connection It is estimated that 80 per

kerrument Proponat. state lawn, Interfered), only forma'ly taken over by the with the discs,

cent of the surface transport in page Ten "Dhanush seven" died in fireworks ac-| Chinese daval Authorition today, pok

tied up by the __ptrike:^u8o| Local and World Porta Nowi, eldento-United Press.

-Associated Press,

(Continued on Page 10 Col. 0) Lelated Prosp,

ext, and 105 have died from min ecilancõus necidents.

THE WEATHER

Fissure remalne, high trin, ridem Coving from the Loothoos, and letë Chlos generally," with a depressions entred to the BW of Tsingtad." ¦ Pressure in niso low to the l ́of the Philippines.

·Todus'e • Formhast sulitght, "southeriy wine, tale and hot,

Implement these principles in The temperature today hovers our future relationship with the around 100 degrees in the shade Japancae...I have no doubt even though "small host" hasn't that the American people will started. wish to continue to assist in the

Shirts get soaked with sweat' rehabilitation 'of Japan's beace- within five minutes.

to the

ful economy and the develop. The city at-present la under- ment of mutually beneficial | going a phase known trade between Japan and other Chinese AN "yellow

mould" nations.

which at least has one benofi "We shall expect the Japan-It keeps the price of cigaretten esc for their part to further down.

Holders of cigarette stocks to the fullest the principles on- unclated in their new constitu- are unloading them as fast as-- tion.

We shall expect them to they can because the hent and: insure that the fires of freedom,humidity would make, them which now burn in the hum- mouldy before the cooler wea- *biest Japanese home, are never ther sets in-Associated Press.

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