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PICKED KING'S Kuomintang To Start

BODYGUARD

DOCKS STRIKE OVER:

WORKERS GOI BACK TO-DAY

1 TALKS ON VIỆT NAM CONTINUING

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The

l'fr! Nuri delegatCR who, mr. W'rdue-Jay unani monały requested 12-Emperor Hoo Dai to apofiate with France for the achievement of prace in Viet Nam, sattunut vnity unl, independèrec, ena- finned discansiona throughout yesterday.

No statement was insued inst night.

Employers Federation For H.K.

Settlement was reached yesterday afternoon in the mechanics strike, after a four-hour parley between dockyard employers and officials of the Chinese Engineers Institute in the Labour Office. The conference. was presided over by the Commissioner of Labour, Mr. B.C.K. Haw- kins, who had brought the parties together again after Monday's rupture.

The Institute officials accepted the offer of a 50 per .cent basic wage increase for all time basis workers, after the dockyard employers made it clear that this was the maximum they could pay. The foremen and overseers would be

separately considered.

A nek to work order wha

from - Institute red

head

With the return of the Ral'- way workers today,' trains, both) through to Canton and locall service, are expected to be re- samt tomorrow...

An Employers' Federa- tion is being formed inters last night to all mer to return to work this mernlag Hong Kong by local for- it it not expected that all eign and Chinese firms the strikers will he reporting the "China' Mail" learn- Jack Jo today as some have Met

Permanent

of the | Waterworks: eft the Clony. The duckyard also are expected to return en ed authoritatively yester- employers. It is understood.bloc this morning, relieving the day.

have agreed to re-admil anyone Service personnel who had been Provisional Execmire who may be reporting back late crying on during the interim Committee has hers set up of any resonable enuse.

period. draw up a constitution and to At the Chinese Engineers

settlement

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Yesterday's

carry out asental preparatory Institute last, night, some-500| brought to a e'cae one of the functions for the extablishment strike delegates and strikers biggest labour walk-outs since of 1710 Federation,

heard officials report on the out-the A

renceupation, discussing the comme of the afternoon's nego-

involving meeting

11.000 dd skilled workers, andi prospects of organising a federa- tiation, and of the settlement lasting 27 days. tion of employers was held on arrived at up their behalf. September 3 with Mr. Lawrence Kudoorie in the chair.

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This photo, taken in Athens on the day fighting broke out on the Albanian-Greek border, shows Greck Byzanes (hand picked special quard for King) passing along Boulevard, next to Comeilbutiin Ranare, Athens, in the vegane Sunday`visit to the grave of the Greek Unknown Soldier'APhoto).

Grimethorpe Decides To Go Back To Work

London, Sept. 11.

A and disgruntled element walk-out, guined a 50 percent The strikers have, by their at the meeting heckled the off- increase The "China Mall” understandini rints whom, they said, had no against their original demand

ia basic

pay that the Federation is to be returners to come to an- agree of 150 percent. The men und The handful of Grimethorpe Pit (Yorkshire) coal mine strikers who kept gistered in Hong Kong under the

meat with the employers, when asked for a siding scale in-

50,000 idle for nearly two weeks today agreed to return to work. Their proposed Trade Unions and increase offered was so far Trade Disputes Ordinance which off the men's origina' demand.

to title them over the action is expected to eliminate quickly the major threat to Britain's vital la now being drafted. -、、 until the offer had

present period ef high cost of been ap-living, the increase to be varied

coal production. It will consist of a series of proved at a full meeting of the

The Grimethorpe workers voted the production of coal, which is 1000 groups of employers euch re- strikers.

as living costs come down. The to go back and work their usual the basis of our industrini Hife, presenting a particular type of

settlement arrived at yesterday stint of coal face of 21 feet long the indeed all se lost.” Shouted Down industry.

was for a permanent hicrease instead of 23 as they were order- Meanwhile, as a result of the The oficina retorten

of 50 percent, which la not to edit the drive to stop up produc-strike, 120 big frms In Shemold, they had full power entrusted be affected by any economiction to meet Britain's crisis. the centre of the steel and cutlery to them by representatives of

This was demanded by their industries, have been asked all the labour organisations!

Tinion

ion and management of the eloso down at once all coal-fired The strikers will not receive State-owned mines as a condition furnaces because of lack of cool. involved, to strive for a settle- any pay for the period of the to investigation of their complain: They have been working for ment un best terms possible and strike, and it is estimated that that the extra work is more than work with only a 50 per cent sup- they felt they had acted in the the less of pay and allowance they can do.

{ply.—United Press. best interests of the rikers. for this period, computed on

Miners

iners throughout South York. After seme heated exchanges the basis of 11,000 men, comes shire who walked out in sympathy the dissatisfed element was to the enormous figure of near-are expected to return, quickly. abouted down and left the neuty one and halt million Nearly half a million tons of coal

have been lost in the strike.

THE WEATHER Pressure in high in a belt extensive from N. Chlan to the Kuelles nad oter . Plines and Beguest, A low pres more ren rovers R. Chan, Theo-Chins and the China Sen. The typhoon or depression In now what Do miles E. of N Lan. probably moving W.

Today's Forecast:-Moderate' winds frum an E. quarter, weather cloudy with per staral showers, mume fair periods.

Yesterday's Weatherr Maximum: 847 der. Pali Muminium: 77.1 deg, Fal.

Bahl 3.6 mts. Nainfall: 13 mins.

72 inch. Tutal sin-e Jan. 2451,6 mm P1.87 Inch annat an average of 1797,3 mm. 70,70 pchen,

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29,75 Inches.

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The officia's told the meeting that the back-to-werk' from the Institute was official, and all members were expected to comply with it.

Strikers of the Kowloon Rail- way "paid on a monthly basis were, at their own request. changed over to time basis so

as to benefit at once from the

wage increase embodied in the Hettlement.

Nationalist Drive

In Shantung

Peiping, Sept. 11.

Nationalists inflicted 1,000 casualties in further fighting against the Reds, who on Sunday cap-

change.

dollars,

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De Lesseps Statue Destroyed

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Cairo, Sept. 11.

WANT MINERS BACK

ter

The Grimethorpe miners wilt go back on Monday. Eight hundred,

London, Sept. 10. Including the original 140 who walked out, voted unanimously tource today and the Polish Por- An official Polish diplomatic

return.

eign Minister, Zygmunst Mod-z zelewski, called on tlic British Foreign Secretary, Ernest Bevin, ¦ ♥♥ and urged the British Government to authorize 100,000 Polish miners

Furnaces Close Meanwhile in Lention, opening a mine exhibit, Prime Minister Attlee said he believed the major- Jity of minors are working hard to to leave Germany for Poland.

|help the country's plight and add-ji

These miners emirates là tìn ed "We want to work up our pro-German province of, Westphalia, duction until again we can get the either before the First World War export trade to say for some of or between the two ware, for our raw materiais."

The Minister of Fuel, Mr. Em- A well-informed. diplomatic manuel Shinwell, speaking after source said Mr. Bavin' would not question

economic reasons.

Egyptian crowds tried the Prime Minister, said "Indeed.commit himself on the

to set fire to the British the national mining industry munthut promised to look into It.-- Consulate and destroyed be a success. If it should fail in United Pres.

the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, French en- gineer who built the Suez Canal, in violent;

against

tured the Pelping-Hankow rail town of Sung-demonstrations

* Ungtien, 41 miles south-west of Pelping, a

Provincial Government despatch claimed.

It was admitted, however, that Red, activities south of Sunglingtien had forced rail workers from four small towns to withdraw to avoid capture..

situation." Supplies ΟΙ coal tera.-Associated Press.

Evere not delivered to the alty with the result that at present there is no light or power. In addition, prices of foodatuffe have skyrocketed to record -love's.

the UNO Security Coun- cil's failure to order Bri- tish troops out Egypt.

The demonstrations

occurred

to hospitals.---Associated

His Girl Friend Was

Proud Of Him

London, Sept. 11.

DALTON TAX WON HIM A FORTUNE

Ipswich, Sept. 10. When the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dalton, put another shilling on the cigarette tax last April, a 47- year-old stoker,... George Smythe, gave up smoking and invested the money in football pools.

He learned today that he had won $23,690,--Reuter.

"Horrible

J

Killing"

In Java

Batavia, Sept. 11.

Forced Levies

Registration Of Members' Wealth

*

Nanking, Sept. 11. China's Kuomintang Party will adopt a program- me of financing its activities through "forced contributions" from its 4,000,000 members, a Party spokesman said today.

Provision for the registration of the wealth of all members and, Party levies on wealth to defray expenses formerly met by the National Gov- ernment is contained in the draft_platforms submitted to the Central Executive Committee session by both Kuomintang and Youth Corps. organisations.

Previous discursions on the re- Ristration of wealth of KMT m ters led to the belief that the pur. pore was to make these available to the Government for economie reconstruction.

TORRADA

A spokesman said that since the Government has discontinued Au- ancial contributions to the Ku- mintang at the end of the one- party government the Party now depends upon contributions and dues to support its activities.

The source ald wealthy Kuto- mtang members, including thone with fortunes abroad. the heaviest levy for Party support.

Proposals both from th Corps and the Party itself-from which new regulations Will drafted-provide substantiui fine for failure of the members to du. elare their holdings as well as fallure to make "proper contribu 1lons."

A Snag

the

be

The spokesman wall the Party planners already have-hit snag in their efforts to learn the veh of the members with unsets abroad- since. both United States and Bri-; Lish oficials have advised Nanking that Inws of their countries do not permit banks to release Informa=- tion on depositors.

nat

the

He said the present Central Executive Committee would take formal neon to merge its 1,000,000

menibers with 1,000,000 members of the "San Min Chu I" Youth Corps since the standing committees groups already have approved the Generalissimo's suggestion for the

of

both

BOILS MADE THE COLONEL .WAVER

Slough, Sept. 11. Colonel Viulan Stanley Williama was

ፐሮ today

summoned

for careless

driving. The police enid be "wavered."

But the

magistrate wax feuirit and fined him on'u 30 shillings when he heard the defence couneet's e... planation:

"My client is sufferin from bolls,” he said. "From time to time he wriggled on his cushion for more comfort. He admits wavering when doing so."-Reuter.

Colossal

Bill For Rice

Bangkok, Sept. 10. Britain has paid Siam £8,610,109 for rice re- ceived since the end of The spokesman said the Kuo- the Japanese war, the mintage leaders were discussing a

merger.

plan to hold the next Party ConBritish "Information Ser- gress on May & next year.-Asa-vice said here today. ciated Press.

Murder Plot Foiled

Prague, Sept. 11. The Ministry of the Interior an- nounced today that an attempt to assassinate three Czech Ministers with mailed explosive packets dis- guised as perfume had been felled yesterday.

United Staten purebusca, through different organisa- tions, totalled '£2,558,484 while Indin spent £391,838 and Chiru £1,088,000.

Rice delivered by Siam amounted to 813,870 tona, in- cluding 191,780 tons delivered free between October, 1916, and April, 1948.

This also included 4,518 tons of rice for Calcutta, which was lost in the Aro disaster at the Kohaichang Anchorage nt

stated-Reuter

esper, called the assas Bangkok in June. India bore Bloody stories of two bination attempts Political plot the cont of the loss, · It wan savage outbursts in the

ced no specific blame. Intended victims were Vice- Indonesian-Chinese strife Premier Peter Zenki, General Secretary of the National Social- were reported today by 1st Party; Foreign Minister Jan a plece of string hanging from the Dutch Army.

Mazaryk: and Prokop Drina, Mia package. dincovoros explosives Simultaneously, the Dutch Inter of Justice.

which were sufflelent to blow up announced that 280 Chinese A postal employee, suspicious of | whole room-Assoclated Proz,

kidnapped by Indonesians had been rescued by a Dutch relief unit In north Sumatra.

The Dutch : announcement said that 37 Chinese women and children llborated in central Java dise'osed that a massacre of hundreds of Chinese took place on Aug. 31 at Boemlajos in central Java. The survivore said the Dutch town was aèized by guerilla forces of the Hiz) bullah, an Irregular. fighting

Dalton Asks Loan For Britain

:

· London, Sept. II.

on

The Daily Express said today in an interview with.

Reginald Gilbert, -whurifas been under police ut Fort Suld, in the British oc- protection since revealing the Jewish plot to cupled canal zone.

bomb London with pamphlets, that the pilot Highway communications be-, Representatives from Hopel,|

Demonstrators marching through

had asked his girl friend, Jean Tanner, in New tween Peiping and Pasting are Chohar, Suiyuan and Jehol are the port shouted "Down With

York to listen to his broadcast last night in or- atil! intact, but dangerous and gathering in Pelping for a con- the Security Council," "Down

The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr. Hugh Dal- Nationallata trying to provent scriptien conference today un-With Britain," "Long Live Rus-

der “to know what my exact position in the

ton, today called on the International Bank ita 'elisruption.

der the chairmanship of Linia," "Long Live Egypt and Islam, business was."

and the International Monetary Fund for a Red activities around Pho-Tsung-jen, director of the Gen-"Long Live Poland and Syrla," Gilbert was lown to Englund He also told the Express that

$45,000,000 credit to Britain to tide the country ting have caused a. soricus eralissimo's Pelping headquar The statue of the French en-from Paris en Monday and Rabbl Korff had a fanatic con- foree of the Indonesian Islamic.

over the current economic crisis. gineer was destroyed by the mob asked for po'ice protection befidence that the bombing raid Party, with shouts of "Down with cause he feared terrotista | would be a success and once

The wor'd economic situation, und “social, diasolution. Even They sald 1,500 Chinese were he said. had changed radically those fortunate": nations Imperiolistle. France."

might try to retallate.

told him,. Nothing is impossthe'd prisoners while their At Alexandria a number of po The Exprons quoted "Gilbert ble--tɔ me."

homes were burned, "Horrible since the founding of the Bank whose country no bombs fell tleemen and demonstrators were

and through which no onemy as saying, "I was reported all The Express correspondent killing" of Chinese men before and Fund at Bretton Wends.

fércos marched are indissolu takeh

over America as having been in New York relayed Jean. Tan- tho eyes of the womenfolk

"Events have overrun all our kly bound by common Interest arrested as one of the gang. Iner's message to Gi bort after wore carried cut, the refugees calculations and these present to the battered loads of Europe. Press.

want Jean to know what my the broadcast. She said: rotated, exact position in the business Congratulations. I'm proud They anlu, the victims were meetings, are being held under the shadow of an international. of what you've done. Take mulllated.

"Even while we are meeting "The Jewish terrorists do care of yourself. Love.? The Dutch roported 40 more economie emergency which now in London, representatives of

preval's not know her. If they want | United - Press.

survivors of this massacre later A rogarde Europe the first Paris to prepare a plan in rep•'

many nations, oro, meeting. in revenge, they know my home

rescued at Birampok. address"

necessity in a great Increase notas to the bold, and Associated Fruko

in production and in interna Initiative of Mr. Marshal. tional trade. This is within the

This urgent effort to avert Vatican City, Sept. 11. tween Governments. Each as an economic catastrophie which.. The Sacred Congregation of the tion cans and must go a great if it is once allowed to begin Council of the Roman Cathoile way along the rond to recovery would soon engulf, un all, calls Church announced today the ex-through its own efforts. But for many contributory ap Father Milo. Bulellel, who communication of the attackers of unaided most cannot go all the pronches.

Waway. Such aid can come in parti: "One. Such appro killed, and.......... Mohsenior Jakob Ukmar, who wounded, in dis- from the Fand and the Bank, through the disch orders on Aug, 24 at Lanischt, in "In this critical interval there| Paris. Antiher it th the by ugonlaw ingress of Venenia are. Krave dangers, in many discussions thurst: Fatulias Associated Press,

countries of economie collapsel United Pros

encountered Cominunist resistance,

weak

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Ilamborg, Bopt: 11. Mordecal Rosman, stated to have organised and led the battles in the hold of the thin Exodus

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Advance On Chefoo

Shanghai, Sept. 11. The Nationalists are advanc- Ing on Chofoo, Important Com- Meanwhile, the Nationalista miinist port in North Shan. are trying to disperse the feds tung, from Pingtu, according JEW RINGLEADER from areas around tho raff to pro-government reports to- junction city of Shinichinchuang day. The reports said that un- to prevent them from scising dor cover of warplanes the Na- the autumn crops which are tofalists due for harvesting abcn.

*Nationalists

A Central News report from ship, the Runnymede, Park in are striking from Shihchlachuang in three Changchun quoted the Nation Hamburg docks, was removed directions, south-east and west.alists as announcing that 274,- from gaol today with

In an attempt to improve the 046. Commuulat officers and were form a reprender leather by

The Express reporter found Page Twe situation in the triangular surrendered to the Nationalsts "Hime of the ringlesilers a still Gilbert in London, where te European's Death: Inquest "area hounded, by Tlensin, Pei- ls Manchuria during the nine showed signs of fight when they had come to make a special Sen.Verdict.Na

ping and Paoting, the Nation months between July 1940 and were removed, but there are broadcast

Serius Tickste slurder Telal Contaminated Food Offence allet military authorities are March 1947. It said those fa-ly felsted on to the left without

trouble:

Gilbert told the Express- be going to ama'gamate the seven cluded 18 general ofkin as Thuy will be

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