1947-08-04 — Page 2

THE CHINA MAIL

SUNDAY, AUGUST 4, 1847.

Coming Events NANKING

NANKING GETTING READY

August -Rotary Club lunch,

12.30 p.m. Speaker: Sir Henry Bluckull, C.J., on "The Jury and other "Judiclal System."

August 7-IIK & Kowloon Wharf

& Godown Co. Ltd. Doual meeting, nuon.

August Inaugural meeting of

R. Council of Women, YWCA.

Duddell St., 5.15 p.m.

DATA

FOR

Shanghai, Aug. 3,

August 7-Royal Marines Assn. Pending the return of General Wedemeyer from a

Inaugural meeting, 5.30 p.m. August 12-IIK & S'hui Hotels

annust meeting, stoor,

Readers' Letters

Speed

Sir. This Sunday) afternoon

a Chinese xen-zing steamer swept (there

is no other word for i into the Harbour, creating one of bave the biggest how unve ever seen in a wretch of Ren su vluttered up with nail bonte në our barbour ja

The wash was enough to swamp any Stall craft unfortunate enigh ny to get too nent, and I

7 estimated the steamer's spec¿l ni

12 knots. Is there ni regulation

week's "down to earth” survey of conditions in North China and Manchuria, Chinese official quarters in Nanking are busily getting ready final data for presentation to the general to bolster their case that the United States should extend immediate aid to pull the nation out of a morass of political, military and economic difficulties.

While the principal arguments of Chinese Govern

ment quarters in support of their stand that the United States has a vital political stake in Asia-particularly in China, have already been placed before Gen. Wedemeyer during conferences in Nanking and Shanghai, there are indications that Government quarters still have some "ace cards" to play in their efforts to obtain an out-and-out commitment of Unit- ed States help at an early date.

The nature of these clinch- and reshuffling the Nanking. overning the speed of large shiping propositions, which are ex- Government, prior to aid being

in burdener Th

LANDLUBBER.

Yea-10 kuo'a.---Editor.

.H.C.L.

pected to be laid in front of } granted. Wedemyer before he takes off

As Soon As Possible.

for Seoul en route to the United States to lay the truth about (3), Government officials will China on President Truman's try to convince Wedemeyer that table, is obviously undisclosed. the Gulted States should act nå Well-informed quarters in close) noon as possible, instead of touch with the long-term poilt fellowing a "wait and see po cal situation in this countrylicy indefinitely. If the latter are wondering if they, will take is the case, China's condition is the following form:

very likely to slide from bad to

Bir Your correspondent J. B. ald some serible things about 1.6.1. in the profteurs parndies that is Hong Kong in this year of Krnée 1947.

But he left at one angle-the Jack of contr.is

a jot articles, the shameless profiteer- in by restaurnois and hotels (a bollin of Scotch ensta

$is ment

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has not yet

Three Arguments (1) If the Chinese Govern

convinced Gen. Wedemeyer in the 16 days of discussions in Nanking and I drinks unt of this at $2.25 a

the Shanghai that it can offer safe timea they don't pay denler $15 a buttle; the Kross guards for the proper use of overcharging an even such small any Joans items as a cup of tea or coffee etc.

from the deal, a hotel serves

Sur, -

etc.

rent

the

wurke.

Wedemeyer, now in Pelping, in due back in Nanking in about a week, by which time it is ex- ceted his staff will have cor- related data that has already been acquired In Nanking and Shanghai prior to ending the Investign- China phase of the

WEDEMEYER

WANTED

DYNAMIC TYPE Air Of

Urgency

Birmingham, Aug. 2..

The city's, Labour weekly "Town Crier", which told the Government. two weeks ago "to pavern or get out", today new "dynamic called for a teadership" of the Parly to gear the nation up to the preutest effort during the nezt two years,

Declaring that the people needed vigoroun leadership, the paper said that persons. lacking photogenie and colour. ful personalities might maka excellent sub-committee chair- men, but were not Alted for. that "dynamic, decisive and clear-cut tradership as cranks tial for national inspiration in these days of stress."-Reuter,,

Civil Servants' Pay Scales

In India

fighting,

Now Delhi, Aug. 3. Still plagued by the problem of cut-throat communal Indin in dying swiftly past the milestones which will lead to her days of freedom-August 14 and 15-and the division of this wat sub.continent Into two new nations.

An air of urgency was clearly apparent op Saturday as leaders

the struggled with

complex problems inherent in the creation of Moslem Pakistan and Hindu India and freedom from two ċen. turies of British rulo.

RUMOURS CONDEMNED

Shanghai, Aug; 3.

a

!

now

Mayor K. C. Wu today. strongly condemned specula- tors who has, børn, spreading rumours in the past few days regarding the Ukelihood of China adopting "managed"

shortly, currency In a statement, to the Chinees press, Afavor. Wu najd that he had ascertained from the Governor of the Central Bank of China that the re ports were absolutely without. foundation. He threatened to uso all his powers

truck down the source the

of rantonra which have caused another upward Burge, in prices of rice and other com-. modities, and have stimulated black market transactions in gold bars, and United States currency-Reuter.

to

Nanking

Deaths

Enquiry

au.

Infant Steps In Av New Field

Oakridge, Tennessee, Aug. 2 "Developments in the application of atomic energy to civilian uses in the last year were only 'th- fant steps in an entirely new field of en- deavour,” a report issued by the United States Atomic Energy Commission declared.

"We can expect to see not only great advances in medica! “science and the alleviation, of |

suffering and disease, but also more comfortable and abundant ilfe," the report nuid.

Keviewing progress on the anniversary of the first sale of a beneficial radioactive product from the uranium pile of the Clator Laboratorios hare the Atomic Commission said that the most important contribution

Yen Note Issue 'High'

Tokyo, Aug. 3.. The Bank of Japan

that atomic science had made to said today that Infinted mankind was the creation of ayen continue to Bour in new research tool, at least equal to circulation at a rate la importance to the introduc-

of, roughly 10,000,000 per tloon of the microscope.

This tool was the radioactive hour, and the note

note issue' isotope-variation of a common over the weekend stood element which had all the pro at an all-time high of, perties of the element but was

143,977,000,000 yen. radioactive. Its radioactivity

enabled it to be traced and watched

through whatover The Bank said July recorded.

#

7,426,000,000 yon Increase

changes it might undergo. so Nanking, Aug. 3. The United States, army

that every reaction could be over the previous month-the So far, they have been unable to quell the bloody communal thorities have completed their studied, oven, in the minutest biggest monthly gain during the

past four months. to quantities. preliminary Investigations strife which has cost so many

Study. Of Cancer

Prices meanwhile continued Nanking, Aug. 3.- lives. But they all are trying. night on the drowning of two

'to skyrocket; The 311 News Chinese by American soldiera The Clinton Laboratorics The Executive. Yuan budget-

Agency, in an Osaka - report, Daquat Ali Khan, General- now held on a charge of made 1,092 shipments of

there ad- kald rétáli přicen reviewing committee today ap-Secretary of the Moslem League, manslaughter,

radioactive isotopes in the year Vanced 148.6 times since July, proved, in principle a readjust issued a statement calling for wi Since the incident occurred, and were now producing more 1937, when the first shots were ment of civil servants' pay scale, end to the bloodshed and cau- United States sources here told than 100 different salopes fired in the China Warg beginning this month.

The committee recommended cloning that all Indians Moslems Reuter, the American Advisory Many of these went to medical

marshal have research and Hindus alike-would lose face Group provost

institutions, where reported that due to in-

Nation one pound of dried nood-'“. that only the living allowance before the world if, haying won been working without a break, on among other things they were

·les recently sold at 91 yon These sources sald used in the study of cancer.. (which is now CNB840,000) bel

that the investigation is being increased. The basle pay should liberty, they were unable to dwell the case.

The smallest quantities of "streamlined" to bring a speedy substances could be trused in continue to be multiplied 800 together in pesed. timed:

Sergeant

their progress through the body, even when they became a chemi-

Kyodo News Agency said the cn! part of it.

Diet'e currency stabilisation A great deal of new informa-headquarters had decided to sat by violence to away. political. The first court-marital hearing tenders to some eleventh hour is tapected before the end of ion had been learned about a 33,000,000,000 yen national heart discasce by the use saving goal for the second quar advantage for their commuha) | this week. political facilon Associateà The drowning of the Chinese of these isotopes and a radioacter of 1947-United Press.

soldier (a 10-year-old sergeant in tive form of penicillin had dia- the Chinese air force, medlent closed many new facts. brunch) and a civilian (22-year how and why that drug com- old son of a mechanic in the batted diseases. Chinese alt forca) occurred after"] Experiments were well ad-

The Executiva Yuan will de elde on the rate of fercase, of the living allowance, probably at the next 'meeting, United Prena.

China Must Choose

from the United States, then further assuranceations before leaving for Korea, ele, etc.), all to the greater glory to this effect must be made, as the other hot, spot in the Far of our big firms, with their share this is a paramount, point in East.-United Press, holders.. And the lifting of

surely nothitis

overcoming more

American public ceilings ernel than this has been done by and official opposition to throw- big-business Legislative ing more money down Connell). And--but why go on?

China sewers. Admittedly sume firms shockingly bad anlaries to thos not in the tainan elas, capecially the local-born, but it seems to me that something should be done at the other end-bringing prices rlatyn, Just a tiny pinch of Sochilian would do some guod.

MOTHER.

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ANSWER: TO CORRESPONDENT PRED S. LIAO CH.--We suggest you contact Mr. A. A. Gill, Viec Tresident of the Hong Kong Philatelic Society, at 174 Nathan

Rood-Ed.

(2) It is believed likely that the officials will stress the pos- sible future development of China if the Communist terri-t tory is enlarged to a degree where the present questionable behind-the-sccncs. Søvlet in- fuguce might become a serious menace. Relying on the United States' desire to curtall the spread of Communism hull areas of the world, official quarters believe this possible danger of on increasing Russian hand in Chinese Communist ter- ritories should outweigh consideration for liberalising

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Pelplug, Aug. 3.

"China has reached a point where she must choose between Democracy or Communism,” Mayor Ho Sze-yuan said in a statement Issued in connection with the, visit of the Wedemeyer fact-finding mission today.

He said that "the intellectuals would certainly be in favour of American democracy,” adding that Communism is not suitable to China.

The Mayor sold that when China asks help from the Unit ed States, China does not neces- sarily mean direct help in sup- pressing the Communista.

Corregidor Being Given Back To P.I.

Manila, Aug. 2.

The American Army la turn ing Corregidor. Island-scene of the last stand in the Philippines in 1942-back to the Philip pine Republic.

President Roxna has asked that it be given back now and an American quicial has gone to

to the

which is expected in a short "One plan cals for the "Rock"

time.

to be turned into a national park, and it may also be used

ammunition for the Philippine Army in its under-

ground tunnels and cavernis.

"But we think; for the good! of our people, Communism with Its International complications

Vet

Joseph

for Saturday's newspapers trini published fresh accounts of neti. Cervonne of New York and vitles of the ruthless killers in Corporal several sections sull' attempting Indiana.

Press

BIT HER NOSE

Brighton, Aug. 9.

mascot Timmy, don board HMS "St. James,"

plywood - ins Tespect for Brighton's 18-year old beauty queen, - Jill Knowles, today. He bit her on the nose just as she climbed on board.

The destroyer "St. James which is visiting Brighton, has been thrown open to the large

crowdi holiday

United Press,

must be got rid of. Before the MAJOR war we tried to do away with it. OFFENSIVE

Now we are compelled to do so.“ i

Ho stressed there was no real PENDING anti-American spirit in China. ful for UNRRA supplies, which He said the people were grate

Shanghai, Aug. 3.

they knew came from the United munlat elements from the Tien- A major offensive to clear Com- States which is, footing the big-in-Pukow railway south of gest share of this wor'd relief. Tientsin, is believed to be immin

Frank

. Aldrich

of

-about

(barely U.S.32 at the military in. Omake. This was 866 times conversion rate of 50 to one) higher than a decade ago,

Sikhs Kill

a pre-wedding party for Aldrich vanced to "tag", disse.causing 16 Moslems

Some hours ofter his arrest, by bacteria with radioactive phos special permission of the driny phorus so that they could ba authorities, Aldrich was married In a 30-minute ceremony to a U.S. WAC and then returned to confinement.

American sources that the incl Berit still not yet clear and that more witnesses are being sought. Meanwhile, the bodies of both Chinese have been recovered,

No U.S.$ Curtain In Europe

traced from the time they en

Labore, Aug 3 tered the body right through A number of armed Sikhs, * the course of the disease and carrying bombs Hailhand recovery

..., ["grenades," killed 16 - Moslems: and

Helping Industry Injured 14' more in a raid on Jand, *.- Redioactive cobalt was being a village in the Jullunder dia- used to trace plant material trict of the Punjab. "inj raten by: Insects; which might Two Moslems were killed fa lead to information that would rald on Masant, another Punjab

village help control the pests.

In agriculture, new fertilisers Troops have been posted in the ware being developed as a ro area and the situation was today.

and stribed as "well" in hand." Reuter:

suit of the use of "tagged"

minerals.

-In Industry, raŭfoactive, iso- topes were providing new Tucta on auch different problems as friction in machinery, and the hyeing of metals

Women Die

Now Delhi, Augi; 3; Thirteen persons, including The Clinton Laboratories pro- three women and two children. duced for. US$50 ́ ́. rndidactive] were killed and another 15 in substances that cost US$1,000,- jured when they were attacked 000. when produced Ju. limited by persons armed with rifles, Foars of European economie quantities in cyclotrons--the guns and awords in a village on

Berlin, Aug. 2.

He pointed out the need for ont us Government troops in Cen-experts that the United States on'y method before the atomic the outskirts of Amritsar Carly "healthy and competent administral Hopei boxin massing at Military Government polley tim. Bile was atarted-Reuter. . I today --Reuter. tration" in China and admitted Hokien, 40 miles southeast of the dat drasting a "dollar cur-da

the same blunders had been opet provincial capital of Facal cross Europe, were des-

made in nation

lofted it with the hit to

toward the ideal of reat de

mocracy.

Chronicle" points out-obvious An editorial in the "Pelpling

as "baseless" today by

According to Chinese proes re: Mr. Jack Bennett, the Financial

this is preparatory to co- Advisor to General Lucius Clay, ordinating witi, ether units south the United States Military of Tientsin for a drive

#gainat town secupled by the Communists Tsanglisten, the main tallway Governor of Germany,

park

ly for Lt.-Gen Albert C. Wedo- Steanwhile additional repair meyer's benefit that some gangs have been put to At the present time only a well-meaning Americans fall along the railway between Chang- caretaker group of American to grasp the full significance of chan and Mukden, in Manchorls. personnel is on the island, which China's present situation. It which was badly, damaged, in the has become almost overgrown said they consider the civil recent week's heavy with jungle that is narrowing wor the Government's de: According to Dr. Wahee

wen, Deputy Director all but the widest roads.

gof-thr

A

of the financial agreement be

The algnature three days ago tween the British and Amerlenn zones and Czechoslovakia, Mi Bennett said, was the first stage In a long-range plan for financ ing foreign trade.

The aim was to nssiaf the, rẻ. storation of monetary trading In

The termination to wipe out an op Changchun rallway, through trams Europe to repläibe: Hitleritë har-{! caretaker group has been re-position party, when it really is between the two important Matter deals and clearing bräctiken moving a considerable number 4 Government effort to wipe out churinis citles will be resulted in of pro-wit yeará, zināt of dud shells since the end of internationally backed Com- two achths If no further later Pacts find already been made the war in order to protect tour-minists."United Press.

Iste who are conducted aboufi

the island by the soldiers.

Almost every square inch,or | the falindi battle-scarred, with pieces of sharpnel, wrecked guns and bómh fragments lying: about. --United Press,

SENTENCED

TO LIFE.

Shanghal

↑ „Nanbaku Tosaki, former; chlef]

of the Japanese 'gendar eria in

Hangchow, and?" King sentenced cio life: "by the military:chigði:

yesterday, for the slayi dergroundworkers - 'mrid--bnybmatting. Stojaki hildi „once "at-Haïrthow.

here by the Chinese felbunal ---United: Prv

Teppilona"occur.-Reuter,

Strong Attack On Soviet Attitude

- Lake Success, Aug. 2.

“. Kwith Beizlum, Holland, Fräich, -Italy; Alaltia Bhd, Switzerland, -and negotiations were well under way, for pacta with Finland and Sweden.

Talks with Yugoslavs, Greaks, Danes and the Hungarians were expeeled, Mr. Bennett gald.--

These pacta aimed at provid lig trade, and service through Becolirits In local currencies and Wld not cover just the specifie:

Router.

The United States, delegate on the United Nations Hems of exchange of goods for

Atomic Energy Commission charged today goods, he explained. that the Russians are obstructing all phases of the negotiations for world atomid control and

acting as if they "do not recognize the new and Aussies Asked

dreadful nature of the atomic weapod..

Frederick it. Osbom sald the trying to understand what is To Go All Out

had reached gofum on fr

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tack The Soviet

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