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Changing PAKISTAN APPEALS TO EMPIRE Victims Staff Clean-Up

The Guard

A soldier of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders ruinen the ring Jurk at a Baikeru sontpart of the Morgan, Line. On the right in the American Armg Guard being relieved. Refore Malang took over.- ¿Plato,

Chinese Index Figures Attacked

Shanghai, Sept. 28.

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Gandhi Backs Down On "War" Warning

London, Sept. 28.

The Pakistan Government has officially appealed to Britain and the other Dominions, including Indla, for help in solving the present commun- al problem, it was authoritatively learned tonight.

There was, however, no confirmation of the sug- gestions reaching London to the effect that Pakistan has asked her sister nations for mili- tary aid in dealing with the situation,

The position, according to violence at all time and could official quarters, in that the never advocate war." Government of Pakistan re-

State run by him there cently asked the Landon Gov- would be no police,

no mii- ernment to communicate to the tary. Governmenta of Canada," Aun- tralia, New Zealand and South Africa, as well as Indin. the Paklatan Government's cern as to ways Ind merus

the 1 resolving

present settle srlos difficulties.

The United Kingdom ernment Informed the inton Governmenta to effect.

ut he is not running the Government of the Indian Union, He merely pointed out the various possiblities,

India and Pakistan should their difl'enencea by inutua consultations and fail- Ing that fall back on arbitra- Govtin. But if one party persiste Domla wrong-doing and would ac- this cent neither way, the only way

left open was that of war."

The Chinese National Government's cost of living index for September-figures on which wages and salaries are determined each month-was today branded as "flctitious." Employées nerused the Gny, Jing up with corruption ernment of intentionally bold- cently uncovered among ing down the index. irrespec- CNRRA officials. tive of the artund conditions. ..

Soong Cited The September Index for!

Informed sources said today salaried employees was raised that the Control Yuan will only 16.3 per cent, and forhold an informal meeting t inbourers only 100 per cent. morrow to hear complaints of An exchange of views is ment of Hindus and Sikhs. over the previous month in the its members over, the appoint-proceeding among all the Gove face of an increase of neurly i ment of TV Soong Bernment involved. 60 per cent in the actual cost Kwangtung's Governor before

that rice (China's first caren- tial) jumper 22 per cent dur Ing the month, despite the fact that September is harvrat month.

The price of rice is usually the barometer for prices of other Chinese commodities.

ities at the beginning of the Associated Press. month Rold Tor

"ge'd

Gandhi's talk on Friday was It has now been received and

also publicized through the the to cmmunicated

other

authorised version of his re Governments concerned the ernment of India on the war" if Pakistan failed to Ber considered views of the Gov-mark, which said he believed India might "have to go to

its "proven error in the treat-

tion.

Gandhi

situa

Assurances

Of Nazism

UNSER KAMPF GEHT WEITER!

Germans from. Berlin, maring their old concentration camp uniform, march towards a memorial to those who died at the hands of the Nazis. Their banner bears the words: "Our fight pove cn."-APhoto.

CHURCHILL MAKES FIERY

ATTACK ON SOVIET

of living during September. the impeachment brought by

Beyond the broad fidication Government assurances that sin The employers pointed out the Control Yuan in connection outlined, British official quar-censorship of foreign nruss men-

with the Shanghai

Financini ters at this stage were unable sages has been in force ur was given today Trading Co., several months to comment upon the develop- contemplated were

ment or to indicate either the when Lord Mountbatten, over age has been settled,

Some members said the Gov cactions of the Dominion of "se General of India, Jack th' Communism backed by

standing committee of the For. appointment, with India, the other Deminions, or eign Correspondents Association ernment's out first clearing the

of the United Kingdom Govern- at Government House.

Prime rush" case with the

Pandit Nehru, India's Contrul munt. Yuan, "A

Minister, and Sardar Vallabhai most improper,”—

Patel, Minister for Home Affairs, Information and Broudeanting were present with the Governor General.

Press communique Government House sald: "In res ponse to representations that the work of correspondents ani photographers had been hampered in some cases, due to the public belief that general criticism of was stated on behalf of the Gov- them had been cificially made. It ernment that this was a misappre-***

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CN$610,000

picul retail, which is

equivalent to 133 pounds.

Today's price is CN8000.000 Free-For-All

per picul

Dollar "Leap"

The Government's offleint "open" rate on American do lors leaped 21 per cent and the blackmarket money este Jump

during per cent

the

At Kowloon

In New Delhi, Gandhi said In a meeting last night thut his talk of war between Hindustan und Pakistan was only of a remote possibility and that he personally would. never ad

vocate war.

The

Kowloon Hotel at 9.30 p.m. and A free-for-all took place at the insted until 10.30 pm. yesterday his remarks at a prayer meet

authorised version of as the result of a brawf betweer ing said: "The newspaper dla

Russian Anti-Piracy Guard # month.

the sa Wa Sang and the head. played his remarks about war The "open" rate stood at waiter of the hotel,

in such a way that there was CN$38,500 to US$100 on Sep- It was alleged that the guard inquiry from Ca'cutta as to lember 1. Today's rate is and friend were having

"Foot around" the CN$46,500 to US$1.00.

"Ile dining room when they were asked to allow was the headwaiter, carrying a around CN$46,000 to US$1.00 of drinks, to pass.

Apparently cbjecting to being

The

blockmarket rate

at the beginning of the month,

tray

nt the

now it hit the 63,000 to 1 mark, addressed, the guard upset the

Meanwhile, CNRRA confrio-tray and swung a blow ed today the realgnation of (walter, it was reported. Director General P.H. Ho.

A general meicę ensued and Informed Rourees

suld Prewas not quelled until the arrival

not

whether he advocated war.

wedded to non-

Police Raid On Stand-Over

of the Military Police and Police Gangsters

frum Tsim Sho Tsuí Land

mier Chang Chun was likely to necept the resignation. Division. despite the fact that He said

Damage to the value of $100

Iness prevented him from cop-I was reported.

PEIPING POLICE RAID PRIVATE DANCES

Pelping, Sept. 28.

Armed police, in a debatable interpretation of Nanking's austerity decrees, last night stopped dancing at the wedding of a Chinese general fresh from the battlefront. They

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from

been

"Ofela criticism has directed only against certain re ports and not against foreign correspondents as a whole.

"An agreement was reached for the maintenance of proper alon between the Government and the foreign correspondents and fer the handling of any specific com- plaint that might arise."

"Cholera"

Associated Press reports that Cholera has broken out in some refugee camps. alikough it has reported brought foMelally been

Police raided a house in Hen-under control. nenney Road in the Wanchat. Camp offlelal, pointing to the District on Thursday and ar- conditions of filth and malnutri- rested 15 men and four women, tion in which tens of thousands all described as "unemployed."

The raid was the outcome of gang fights in the same district.

that

Ilva while making their murches, Ry it is a miracle there has been the danger of such an outbreak in no frightful pestilence and The 19 persons are belleved itil aente. to be ringleaders of gangs who Official ligures say that

1,700 extorted money from hawkers, 000 refugees already have moved prostitutes, dance hostesses and from Pakistan to India, from stall-holders.

which an equal number aro, moy-'

They are also believed to being in the opposite direction.

While the vast moyemont con. responsible for the organisation tinues, official reports confirm of "protection" rackets,

daily mob attacks on the refugees They were taken to the Central | with shocking losses,—Router, Police Station and are awaiting | United. Press & Associated Press. déportation.

later. interrupted, buffet dinner dance in hon." dancing at a private all-foreign our of a Hong Kong English- party at which half the guests woman. were Americans, British and An Indian woman,mlstoken Frenchmen with diplomatic for a Chinese, was summarliy atatus.

ordered to leave. She did' so Both incidents occurred at the without argument. British-owned Wagonslits Hotel. Later responsible. Municipal “After breaking up the wed-officials permitted the dancing, ding party, police, armeil with but polles came again into thintelfing and a ridge of, hiat“ priessner matgers, intervened at a private room at 11 p.m. the deadline for tends Br from it to Formose.

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Key General, ¦ Arröstad,

Page Three,

Attlee, Speech, * -

Page Four

Suspicions on Palestine,

Page Seven

Gromyko Attack.

Page Nins

Wild New. Fishing Jünk, Poge Ten

a. Foutball Heatiitä,

Siamese

The Weather Wed Jap

The blah premore, osar M. China. fi

low prownew centred over Chungking le the closure of public amusément plowis, Alling up and. (ha" deprovalon over places, and gave the signal for Korek is moving NE into the Bau of the orchestra. to stop playing. Jupani - A. shallow vidas of high pressure

The host sald he had notifed or the Philippines.

Today's ForecasLight NW

the police earlier in the day that winda, fair or find

THA

Mr. Churchill and that

London, Sept. 28.

"Disaster”

"1

In Hopei

WARLORDS TO GO?

Peiping, Sept. 28. Central Government authorities today contin- ued tearing into the staff structure of General Sun Lien- chung, military commander and Gover- nor of Hopel Province, in what is interpreted as part of the "Nanking

policy to replace the old- styled warlord Governors with "strong men" of its

own.

Coming en the heels of Dr. T.V. Soong's surprisoap- pointment to the Kwantune governorship, the arrest of two key figures at General Sun Lien-chung's military head- quarters widened into a hunt for another of General Sun's alden.

Tiformed sources said Gen- eral Wang, Number Two man on General Bun's Political Planning Board, eluded arrest and went into hiding.

Tho Chinese presa carried no hint of yesterday's arrest of General Yu Hain-ching, chief of the Politicni Planning Board and General Hsich Sze- yen, head of the military per- sonnel section, but some quar- tors said they might be charged with "corruption.

Meanwhile, Half Shàngün!

Strike

remained, without trams' and BLACK today as BOME ·3,000

of the

tram

Mr. Winston Churchill, wartime Prime Minister of Britain, last night endors

ed the United States stand against piltant Communism backed by Soviet military power, in a speech to 5,000 cheering Conservatives at an open air Conservative Party rally in his constituency of Woodford. "This great confrontation by Euripe and A sand foot tolle at home and abroad I can the United States of militant distressed and distracted coun-hardly believe it possible that motormen, conductors and em-

Soviet tries."

such a decline and fall in our ployees of the French Tram

Company, despite no world status and in cur home threats of "drastic action," re- military power has been brought

official about almost entirely by aggres. country in the world has ever standard of living of economy fused to return to work unlear sions and intriguen of the Soviel had done anything before ap and finance should have taken their demands for wage in- Government, in all countries on proaching American contribu- place.no quickly.

crease their borders and by their attion to the relief of Europe.

and CN$500,000, Joan tempts to paralyze the working He said, "The dollars repre-

were granted, of the United Nations Organiza-sent toil and skill and self-de-

The leaders "When two years ago I said tion, on which all our hopes har of millions of American the general election of 1945 workers union, one of the moat were founded, by the brutal use wage earners, which they are was a national disaster I did powerful in Shanghai, kept an the veto.

contributing of their own free not think thle would be proved all-night vigil at their head- will in meat cases without the true in such a short time. quarters last night when they hope of repayment to help There is not a single aspect or heard of the intention of the their fellow men in misfortune sphere of British national life city authorities to arrest then across the ocean.'

that has not undergone mark as Communist agents.

deterioration.

A union spokesman has an- "We are living worse than nounced that all members of offer to be we did under the full stress of, the union would war. Moreover the longer arrested If any one of their this continues the worse things men should be apprehended.

Mayor K.C. Wu told a press will get and the harder will be "Murder"

the work of national revival. conference that the strike wan All the world is staggered at Instigated by *Insurgent

clemonta" "This crime is a measure of the sudden fall of Britain from thorities wore prepared to take and that the au- the ruthless cruelty with the high position which she

"drastic measures" which Communist minorities, had won at the summit of free-

with the trouble. the dom-loving nations in what! once they have captured government machinery, treat may be deemed the finest hour Frees and Reuter. their political opponents," ho of her history." said. "Thera can, be doubt that the prime responsibility for this measure lies with the Soviet Government.

"I am very glad to be able to give our full support to the United States in the great of forts she is making to preserve freedom and democracy in

Five Chinese Soldiers Shot For Rape

Nanking, Sept. 28. Five Chinese soldiers, who were convleted by military court martial of raping, and killing a Chinese school teacher at Wuklang, a Jew miler south of Soochow were executed by shooting today.

Officials said President Chiang Kai-shek personally ordered the death penalty for ali fiue after a court martial had sentenced three to death and the other two to life imprisonment. Testimony

that

disclosed the five soldierz ·· attacked the woman teacher, bound her mouth in cloth, and then violated her repeatedly. She died from aùffocation.— Associated Presst

Mr. Churchill, blamed Rus- in for the "ehameful murder" nf Nikcia Petkov, Bulgarian Socialist leader who was ceuted in Sofia earlier this

week.

ex-

(Continued an Page 5)

to dea! - United

Key Generals in Hopel

Arrested-See Page 2

thehet KNITTING WOOL

"There is no doubt that it was intended to give a lesson to countries of Eastern Europe which have fallen Into the So vict grasp. show them what will be the | fatë of any public figures, honour- however popular or able they are, who venture" to oppose by constitutional means puppet governments which the Boviota. have created overy- where."

"Decline And Fall” /

Mr. Churchill also Excoriat- ed the Labour Government for, ******** | Britain's "decline, and fall" as

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■ world power. Adde "What Gorman U-boats could over do to us has been achiev ed by the mismanagement of our misguided fellow country- men-now, our rulers-through

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Tokyo, Sept. 28, 20

cials, through thousands and tons of thousands of forma and through their ross miles conduct of our affaire, large and email, Mr. Churchill aald.

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