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Chiang's Bridal GOES DEEPER

Gift To

The Princess

Nauhing Sept. 7. Despatches [ Kating

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Rioting In Heart Of New Delhi

Central Committee

Plan Programme

Nanking, Supt. 7.

Political and economic reforms and a thorough purge of corrupt elements are two of the most important items contained in the agenda of the forthcoming fourth Plenary Session of the Kuomintang Central Executive Committee opening here on Tuesday.

Guneral Wu Te-chen, Secretary General of the Kuomintang Party, told Reuter in an inter- view today, however, that the. Kuomintang's rform plan was not the result of the farewell statement made by General Wedemeyer..

The Kuomintang reforms had more than 500,000 selivel wrre, esttemplater! y aven and, n.embra. would temporily be limiteer de A shakeup in Chinu's military

administras | High Command, which improving distret

would ed Milter of Nations) De.

tlon, he sadd

General

Ho Ying-chiu from the United States to become Minister of Defence was also pre. deted today in a milltary news agency dispatch from Peiping.

General Wa revealed that the fence Pal Chung-hxi to head the Goyermaient le firmly determin- President's Sinklong G.H.Q2. and New Delhi, Sept. 7. ed not to after its fundamental | ceter Rioters

randed w' poly of co-operating with the Delhi's

Democratie famous

Sociabat parties in carrying out naught Circus for more

matingal pestrilion and than two hours toray, economie rehabilitation. despite heavy nolier fr-

A mng.

mokers

At least four of the were killed by police bullein.

Most of the image was alone!

P

to Meden prgarty. At least three

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At the coming meeting of the Central Exvrative Committee, General We declared, the dels } gates would thoroughly discuss for the Tittel adopt measures erdization ng corruption ataque Komutang members

Thala 54 evirically arent 18

Purse-drawn carts, were stabbed, an assurance to the Youth Corps

or had their thriats erel."

leaders, who

This report said that Pol Chung. bat wais a logicnt choice to dres the Government's Sinklung detr.

alton berative "as a Maslen he better qualified to mediale in tribal dispute between Sukiang resident Moslems,"

{u are repostel

who

fre

Austerity

mostly

Gen Chen Cheng, new Nation. afist Commander-in-Chier of Man.

mlenty #təminat

A cartow was import on the strongly obiectel to mer-churia, hus introduced his own entre R. Associated Press,fer on the grounds of the Kuu United Peas and Reuter

M Man. mulang Party's corruption ameri inaugurating

tiree "degenerating spirit").

"don'ts" delve, the Hsin Mio Pau reported today. They are:

Don't give gifs.

Smuggled

Watches From H.K. Seized In Shanghai

wwwh

Bandr

Our Deannet thirty-four watches, walni a

Merger-

Don't gamble.

Don't dance.

trains.

Jo Java, the Austratlan and French representatives have returned to Batavia from their mediation talks in Jogjakarta. Here is one of the men who will have much to say on any ultimate settlement. He la Amir Sforklord- den. Indonesian Prime Minister-APhoto.

FRENCH ARRIVE TO JOIN BAO DAI TALKS

M. Cousseau, official representative of the French High Commissioner in Indo-China (M. Emile Bollaert) arrived in Hong Kong by air yester- day from Saigon to join in the conference of Viet Nam leaders scheduled to begin on Tues- day night.

Dollar Crisis Optimism Over

LORDS TO DEMAND

AN EXPLANATION

London, Sept. 7. Decisions of vital importance to Britain's strife- torn economy will confront harried Ministers when they hästen back from the country for a full Cabinet session summoned by, Prime' Minister Clement Attlee on Tuesday."

Og the same day, the House Meanwhile, in the Yarkshire of Lords will assemble for embung village of Grimethorpe, single mid-recession-kitting te | 132 men will_mect “tomorrow-17 call the Government to account į make A decision which will for the economie storm that affect the whole economic lite of bus dngulfed the nation sinc: (Mitain and her chances of Farinment adjourned nearly n wenthering the economie crisis. m:n bago.

They are the miners who went i

Australian Chinese Trade

Nanking, Sept. 7. Optimism over the future of Sina-Australian trade 10 expressed here by Mr. Roger Star and Mr, A. R. Wood, re- presentatives of the Commen wealth Bank of Australia then interviewed by Chiucas reporters.

The two bankers, who are hers in a "Goodwill Mimiliu," maid that they intend to mak in comprehtentive studa of the

Pou in Close to prillitate în Coronaedi trud, intween the two

estries.

During their four werks stay in China, the ten bunkern žutend to visit all important. trade centres, including Tien. tain, Amen, Hankow, Peiping and Canton,Bruter.

While members of the Housut un strike a month ago in protrat of Commons-denfeil this pri. Į against being usked to increake vilage by the action of theheir daily task at the coal face; Government majority in v ting and brought 70,000 other York- 104- the House into recess until Oc-hire miners out in sympathy,, - The strike Ins cost Britnin tober 20-bask in the mild late

kons summer sunshine, the Cabinet | 259,000

of coal already, will consider, as a first priori. with a rate of loss equal to one: ty, the BonTil of Trade Pre-eighth of the target output for rident's new plan,

the entire country.

One half of the men

In the

The p'an, it was indicated te- day, will seek to

Yorkshire flelds, Britain's biggest, i stimulate foreign trade by reorganisaare out. tion, and administrative

ol, with private enterprise WİN called un to take a major share of the burden.'

Targets

con-

At tomorrow's meeting the 132 men will be addressed by their secretary, Mr. Ernest

Junes.

He will ask them to accept a Kaporal by Mr. Chinwell that a

New Strike Talks To Be Held Today

'Talks

between

dock-

Bigger targets will be note-man fact Binding committee, yard- employers and offi- for the key industries-except hich he will be a menibercials of the Chinese En-

investigating cos'muning. which is unlikely

of

their

a

settlement of the mechanics strike.

start to reach even its existing figure grievances the moment they re- gineer's Institute will be

turn to 200,000,000 tons fuel.

work. The other two resumed this afternoon rolver and materials will be members will themselves be coal in an endeavour to seck face workers--Reuter and United re-allocated and labour forces

Press. e-distributed by Imited une). if the controverslai · "Labour Direction powers adopted by cite"-"powerful Trades, Uni011 Congress of its annual mestion just ended at Southport.

SPÄNISH POWDER BLAST KILLS 9

Alcala de Henares, Sept. 7. Inevitably. Britain faces the Nine persotis were killed and 16 pect of further cut in wounded on Saturday night In goods available for home comthe explosion of two #umption as the nation's in magazine al the nearby Cuen dustry is thus re-geared to an Zulema arsenul, it war announced allent bid to slash the ruinous officially today. import-export gap.

powder

The conference will carry on from where I left off on Thurs day last when the dockyard cniplayers raised their offer to a46 percent increase in basių pay to the strikera?

de creasca drawn up by the 'com. mittee set up on August 21 to

The Central Daily News said;

Sau Min (bui day the the

The next maye is expecte: 10 Youth Corps Central Comáittee j

Gen Chen also ordered that no

come from the atrikers today. sent a

telugram to President |

military or administrative oficiais

Employees of the China Mnior Chiang Kai-shek areeptinge

in Manchuria, except the Director

Bus Company, at muss meetings merger with the Sughed, depl. 7.

Kuomintangor the Generali simo's Hend. Delegates from all parts of in Indo-China, also arrived lo Party and pledging to support, garters, simaid travel by speelal Melo-China are expected to take Hong Kong, yesterday by air

The blust destroyed an adjacent of delegates held on Saturday As part of the pulley to give brick factory and a bridge overed the schedule of wage in- and yesterday evening, approv- the Generalissiño as tender.

part in the conference citfled by „froni Salgón. CN$20 billion, www In and

Members of the Excentive

private enterprise its head dur- the main highway to Madrid, In Nanking, delegates In the ex-Emperor Bao Dai.

Mr. Luh Dug Trung, accrediting the crials it was generally broker windows in Alonla seized by Cast me prevvative | Committee told Associated Press, UNESCO regional study C.

Emperor's spokesmen any the oil spokesman !” Hno uffler un bonds Shear Bt the "San Min Cherence on fundamental education gathering will be almost a Viet yesterday received several tele-posals for early nationalisation cal system. Associated Press.

Dat believed today that the pro- Henares and damaged ity electri king aut ÷ ነ ANAC pants both Youth Corps will be abolished today moved to cindeate "natlon. † Nam National Assembly. grams from Viet Nam advising of the steel Industry have been an Arviving heres

Hong Kong before the end of the month. al und racial blus and preludices Among the Viet Nats repre- Bao Dal of the dates on which abandoned. during the ma

w?

In eompliance with a directive in choos textbooks and reading | Kentatives who uprived hereĮ ka expert other Viet Nam ind- Jutul

from the Kuomintang Political materials in the cause of promot- yesterday were the political eras Hong Kong for the consaifon next year at the Trades | Counell and a request by the ing international pence through feaders, two of whom were ference non. September 9, 1917. -

Generallssino, nearly 400,909] better understanding

former Viet Nam Ministera. Corps members will be absorbed world's peoples.”

Atrast 10 ntore delegates by the parent Kuomintany?.

scheduled to arrive here on Tuesday morning,

A

watch were die vored inalle

oundling beton sing fo

pa -muger aboard the vessel,

Amthing 393 watches were weiz

rá from another women was.engur

šho merived ab and e vetuft Central New<

Among the

The motion was submitted by

At its peak period after Us| Mr. J.B. Nelson (Singapore),. establishment the Youth Corps

"RED TERROR IN JISHCHAO AREA"

Tsingtao, Sept. 7.

Refugees brought from Jishchao, 50 miles south-

west of here, described a Communist reign of· terror in Jishchao in which they said thou- sands were killed and tortured on August 27 when the Reds fled the city following the Na- tionalist amphibious landing on the Shantung coast a few miles away. Confirmation Tryou other fankow raliwny north of Puoting

(capitol of Hopei).

sources were unavailable.

were brought

aboard

素性

the Chinese

transport, “Hsiaun,"

A Dinjority of hem suffered miles. some bodily injuries.

Korea

The demands for "uationall-

Union Congress were sucCCBA- At least 10 Viet Nam dele ly headed off by Government gates are scheduled to arrive in Hong Kong on Tuesday morti. Ing.

night.

feaders.

ON THE SOCIAL REGISTER

I corsider the question..

The increases to be aske} is about 100 portent of oxisting -a wages, and it is expected that a formulaicsrporating thong la- crenses will be presented to the Bus Company, today.

Employees of the Royal Bridgeport. Connecticut. Navn Dockyard, at a meating Sept. 7. held on Saturday evening, alev Miss Joan Parsons, beautiful deested on oaking their employ- Dalton, Chancellor of the Ex-Social Registerite, was married era for an overall wage increase chequer, is to have with, Mr. today to Kung Wang, member of approximately 100 percent on Join Snyder, U.S. Secretary

of a noted Chinese family and | existing, basle pay, nephew of the former Ambas- No deelɛion has been reached of the Treasury, who is due in-rador to the United States C. T. as to when a formal demand is tendon tomorrow.

Wang.-United Press.

Other mutters before Tues- day's Cabinet meeting will in-

A release by Mr. Lun Dur The conference which the exclude the talks that Mr. Hugh A Mosew despatch- says the Tring. aceretiided

spokesman Emperor of Viet Nam, Has Dai, Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Motofer Rao Dai said:

is called will start on Tuesday tov, in a trate pubilaled today r lected the United States proposals Fur four-power conference the independenes of Kore forward on

August 20 by

M...

R:bert Lovell, Acting Secretary

of State.

i

Among the Viet Nam dele-

arrived in states who

Hong Rong yesterday by air from

Salgon in auster o ex-Emperor They'll Pay Up

Ban Dai's request bened to all

Viet Nam leaders uit Septen

4, were the following:

Nayen Tuong Tam, form Foreign Minister of Viet Nam; Niyuyen Thore. Jonk, forma Minister of Economies of Vict Nams;

To Sell Out

Shanghai, Sept. 1.

Gas stations that hang out Puck out" signs while their tanks are faion not empty. will be ausguided from maj ness for a period of and month as penalty.

“The municipol potriemens anthorities are sending out innpereturn to see that gas att tions meet fully the demands of gas couponholders,

An Asia Pétroleum Com. |pany, vaà station wua panigh- rit for hanging out 'fulne "ould out" eign-United Preau.

•

Changes?

The possibility of Govern. nichtal changes is being dis- eised, in political circles to- day. though whether these would amount to a re-construc- tlum involving major posts, as those of MDalton himself could not be learned.

to be presented.

JEWS SAID TO PLAN AIR RAID ON LONDON

Parls, Sept. 7.

In the Parliamentary Labour Party. there is a strong feeling that such changes are overdue, but the only "hard" tip. Is that the Minister of Supply,. Mr. John Wilmet, may be, promoted to the House of Lords, replac

•ing the Dominions Secretary planed to drop leaflets

The police aul the rabbi and Olga had chartered a plino Lord Addison, now in

to drop the bombs in Londo:1," London and the Sternists or The bombs were paid to have pareil

to bomb the British been made from fire extinguish-

retaliation for er casingit

A New York rabbi and two members of the Stern underground gang were arrested today in con- pection with scheduled daring air ralds on London

Aus tralia, as the Government. leader there.

on

Mr. Molotoy's reply, which wa sent fest Thursday to Mr. George Marshall, declared: "It the Ameri can delegation had displayed de Jesire to render assistance in th

a truly democratie forming f

overnment in Korea the work of the Joint Commission would have

Nguyen Bao Tom, Secretary been effective, the task with which it had been charged could have neil of the Viet Nam Sa

tionalist United Front; been accomplished and there would have been no stagnation in the

Nguyen Tuong Tuma work of the Joint Commisslut." Nguyen Thong dong are cadre More than 1,000 refugers. Nationalist reports

Nam "The Scylet plan for a provi of the V.N.Q.D.D. (Viet admitted mesty women wh} children. the Chinese Communists hud in bly of representatives of de Bao Toun in a leader.

donal All-Korean Peoples Asem Nationalist Party). Nguyen of the Tsinglao |flicted still further damage

and public organisa Viet Nam Socialist Party, nergie anstirs und Army railing and uprooted telegraph tions-rejected by the United

M. Cousseau, official erpre- a streich of seven Slatex delegation was sibir sentative: of M.. Emile Bollaert, donte along

only "on the basin of the free and

the French High Commissioner One report carried by the inde cratic parties and organisationa unlindered activity of the demis pendent su Min Puo" said the mid-Renter, United Press. The refugees "t: lel Asso-the main Red forere were moving Associated Press, cluted Prest emrespondent | northward along the railline with that the Reds put up lililo re- the intention of attacking the afelance akainst the attacking Peiping.Tientsin, artos. Government troops who par Tbls account, however, was sued them into the hills, leav-dirmissed as alarmlot by military ing caly a emu't. Nationalist | quarters, who said that the Rob

Tokyo, Sept. 7.. garrison behind.

'did not possess enough strengin

The Kyodo News Agency reported. that the pro- Prmare is high over N China, Nīžupani Then complete anarchy for such a project.

fessor, who predicted the disastrous western the Chin Bra n the Dutch, buddies. A reigiati," one refugee stated,

"The people

A press report from Mykori traali extends from Hurme as

Japan earthquake and tidal wave last DecemW.R. Inge, the "Gloomy Dean," were entirely sald General Tsu Chi-chur, de- which has formed on this thun

Central China wind Japan, A. deprečilos at the merey of the Communist fonder of the northern Shanal, NE Berus the Bea if Japan. A

ber now predicts a "big" quake in east central of the country economie state lenficts which Rabbi Korff plan. The bombs were said to have

na stating that the only solution filled with suitcases containing

underground workers who rerat elty of Talung against a longtropical depression, is slowly developlo The quake, he says, will occur one

Japan, centering on Tokyo,

is the reductiod př. the population ned to drop on London. mained behind."

the mass erigration. Red, slego last year, has been about to miles, Flof Manila. They claimed that thousands appointed as deputy director of fair or the

Today's Purecasti-Light värinkle wind of persons who did notˇnetive=| theTMTM President's' Manchurton Yesterday's Wonder zull

Flight

KN

The Weather

ly resist the Government | G.H.Q. under General Chen | Momuni – 88,3, sten. F trcops, refused to flee with the ] Cheng, Reds or were simply "dis!lked

|Minirsins 70.5"des. Fabi

Bchchines. 20.6 hours.

The pro-Government "Polping Rainfall: Ni Total sindu Jan. 1-20 by the Red workers were ac-Dally" published a report from mo: Inches aʻagainst an average cused of baing' Kubinintang Mukden saying life present

special police and weto tor-sifength of the Nationalists now

tured to death.

....

VEGAN), KESS='WIN S'EBLT 194

Pekdings st

in Manchuria was 520,000 turo, as mady-100.4-1908.9 m.b The Fighting ⠀ ***

It said the Government troops

29.09.20 the from now held, only 8.9 per cent of Kandily as 19%

Moanwhile, despatches

Polping report a fresh outbreak Manchurian territory--Associated Wind Dirth... Bbyn W by of fightlug on the Peiping. Prem

Weit, Fores

Professor Predicts

Big Jap

Jap Quake

gauge, located in

the latter part of this year or Kanagawa Prefecture, showed early next year "unless present readlogs similar to those which Indications change,"

preceded last year's big western The Japanese nowa hgency Japan dispater.

"Extreme declines in the tides Bald Dr. Selchi Yamaguchi ar- rived at his prediction by read always precedo quakes," the Ings on.tide measuring gauges, sald, llating: tide declines before situated on the Northern end of unch of the big quakes in recent Hokkaido, the southern end of history,fany Kyushu and the osat- and weat}

prosent Indications consta of Lonehira

change, I think there will be a Tt quoted Dr. Yamaguchi sa bly worthquake: in the coming saying that tides new closely rd | December, or "Jañuaty,”---As80-

·Taped; to garthquakes and", that Clatki: Press.

The "News the Worlg returning of Exodus 1947 the

Also arrested with Robbi Korff was Reginald G.M. GP': gossip columnist reported today fugees to flamburg.

Tho, rabbi' was. Identified as | bant, doneribed ju a former That Field Marshal Montgomery Burchel Korff. co-Chairman United States air force ofleer, was being mentioned a leader of of the Political Action Commit- and an unidentified young wo a government of politically un tee for Palestine. affliated business menf

mati. He was arrested, as he was The polled refused to reveal Socialists do not survive the preparing to enter a plane at whether they had filed

crisis.

the

any

| a private airport ngar Versnit-i spečiño, chargis Against Korff it appears," "the" columnist said.

and; enforced a news blackōut. He quoted 07-year-old Dean

The Idea is not as remote lo

tea is tot sis

Suitcases The police said the plane was

It was learned, however, that.

they

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also raided the rabbi's nulie in a large Paris hotel.

bechfashioned from fire ex

The leaflets, signed by the tinguishers furnished with de-, "Fightera for Freedom of tenators, fits and loaded with Israel," said: "We are prepared explosivo bellaved to be to fight, a war of liberation gulegnite must how to avoid a war of enslaved In Hamburg : ment tomorrow.", "

Meanwhile, in Hamburg, The two alleged Sternists, heavy fog today: forced the identified only as "Jacques" and British authorities to postpono "Olga," were seized in a Paris until Bionday the unloading of apartment about the same time the first, transport ship bring. that, agents swoɛp down-oit the Ing Jewish tofugees from tho Vonilles airport,

**Exodus 1047" back to "dor-" The pollee said they found many from thair, futi'o attempt six homemado bomba in the to reach Palestine. -- United apartment and that ⠀ "Jacques Press and Associated Preas.