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Hold-Up NEW ECONOMIC POLICE "Here Is Bitter Battle Reported

In Paris

This is what Paris looks like when a transport strike In on.

When recently a token strike was held preliminary to the present sub-way trouble, Paris police left traffic to mart itself out,

Here is just a glimpse of the scene of confusion in the Place de l'Opera.

Threat Of General Strike In France

Paris, Oct. 19.

A Communist-inspired general strike threat was hurled at France last night on the eve of na- tion-wide general elections to decide if France is to go Communist this winter.

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IN CHINA

Special Guards To Be Put On Railways

Nanking, Oct. 19.

The formation of a special economic police force with wide powers to inspect merchants, stores, business premises and arrest, an offender guilty of hoarding is one of the principal clauses of a new Government plan to curb rising prices.

The plan will be discussed by the Executive Yuan and will probably be approved on Tuesday evening, a reliable source told Reuter-AAP this afternoon.

TREET

This decision follows the Arong some financial meeting of Generalissimo in Shanghai there began -- to- Chiang Kai-shek with the applar criticism of the low in Shanghai Police Commissioner, terest loans currently being ́chobern Yu, and the Premier, issued, according to the Eng- General Chang-Chun, when it} lish language China Press, vas decided to establish a price from Government controlled control commission,

China

them full

The new plan consists of e*

police ablishing an economic force in all the big cities in

and giving sowers of inspecting merchanta. Gremises and stores, and severe ly punishing the offenders.

As the Paris bus and subway teer drivers may vote in the! trike ground through its fifth municipal election. the Minis- The plan also provides fot speelt railway guards on the day complete deadlock De- try of Transport announced. tween the Communist-led unionsi Other trafle incidents

Shanghai-Nanking railway and and the Government, Eugene also reported here today.

later extended to other main Herat, Communist

Transport strikers clashed Uses to Improve the transpor secretary- general of the union of Paris with the police

Porte of food and materials syndientes, lung down the gen d'Orleans, in the south of North China. erni strike thrent in a fiery Paris, tonight. when demons speech to 15.000 stiking trans- trators held up bus taking! port workers at the vast Velód-passengers rome d'Hiver.

Hena declared: "Parla workers and all workers will struggle to obtain satisfaction for the strikers.

to o Bo

"We have means and we shall use them."

Signal

The signal for # Kelleral strike, if the Communists de- elde to call it, probably would be given at a meeting of the general committee of the union

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to the Gare de l'Est railway.... tormínus,......Throo

Inquiry Into Po To Sinking

Canton, Oct. 19.

From

Dinner Ban Austerity dinners.at Juxury prices will be enforced in the main cities in China as from today.

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The paper reported business quaitern as saying that there absolutely Do monetary tncory which advocates low in- tuesi loan policy at a time

commodity pricza when rising "frantically."

As China's economic plight continued to grow fuck, the Government's Ministry Finance look an unusual step to combat illegal coalings in gold And foreign

currencies, creasing the reward offered to informants from CN$300,000.-† 000 to 30 percent of the total value of the confiscated goods which sometimes run thousands of United Stats. dollars.

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Black market dealinga sp peared to show

of Bizen abatement with CN020.000 buying US$1. — Reuter-AA? und Associated Press.

Piper Pilots In Tokyo

The Bride"

Westminster Abbey announced yesterday, that: Princess Ellenbeth has decided that her wedding service, contrary to custom, will end Instead of begin with "Itere Bride."

In Manchuria

REDS POISED TO ASSAULT CHANGCHUN

Shanghai, Oct. 19. Severe fighting in all the main centres of Man- churia was reported In official and indepen- dent Chinese reports reaching here today. A Communist onslaught against Changchun, the

capital of Manchuria, is said to be imminent. Sizeable Red units are stated churia could not be a

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to be entrenched near Kirin, Government base." important Government strong-i General Chang Chun hold 60 miles Cast of Chang-mated the Communist forces in botworn 400,000 chun. threatening that city and Manchuria Ihsien, on a branch of the and 600,000, including 190,000

and Mongola Peiping Mukden railway on the Korces, Jehol-Manchurian border.

sprinkling of Japanese,

the Government's Twenty-thousand Communists reiterated

the are desperately battering away determination, to recover "in the hater Bector in order to whole of the North East and

the

Chlau North reduce the city and push mouth stabiilan ward to meet General Fu Two- altuation. yi's Sulyuunose troops which

Bitter Battles have reached Tsingchow, after Reuter-AAP reports f:m driving across south-cast Johol, | Nanking thig ovening said that Tsingchow is situated 30 severe fighting in in progress niles south of Thalen, where at Kutientazo and Chłutiestza, the branch of the

Kirin- Peiping two points along the Mukden railway runs to the Changchun railway.

Pelplio cual mining Enst Jehal.

area in

Walakai, north of Kirin, was .. niso attacked by the Com In the Kirin area. three Red | munists yesterday morning, the

converge reports said.

columns. continue to Comes the

Princess Elizabeth and her father will enter the Abbey and move slowly to the sanctuary while the hymn, Praise My Soul The King of Heaven" is sung.

Substitution of the hymn for Mendelssohn's mere famous "Wedding March" was insisted upon by Princess Elizabeth after she learned that it also was: sufig at the wedding of her parents.-United Press.

KING OPENS

OPENS AUSTERITY PARLIAMENT TOMORROW

London, Oct. 19.

With centuries' old pomp, the King will open on Tuesday a new session of Parliament that has the unpleasant task of imposing tighter aus- terity on Britain this winter to combat the economic crisis.

A Chinese feast for 10 por. sons will cost. CN$1.200,000 for Class A, CN$1,000,000 for B. down to CN$600,000 for Class D. An inquiry was opened here

foreign-style The prices of today into the

consisting sinking of the meals,

of three AA. Po To near Hong Kong a courses, Including agup, was wit fortnight ago,

at CN$120,000 Class A. of Paris syndicates, set for It was decided to send repre.

Cheap meals which must le Monday morning, immediately sentatives to Hong Kong to served on demand by all restau: Piper Cabbers Cifford Evans state scension will be is sharp con- Lalourites and Conservatives are after the bulk of Sunday's continue_investigations in election results are known. British Colony.-K.P.M.

The French Cabinet met in emergency session yesterday to try to end the strike.

the inta

police officers were atruck with

and had to go

aff

The police last night arrested batons, two strikers alleged to have led duty. demonstrators who seized two .emergency buses run to aka out the expital's transport ser- vices.

Tokyo. Oct. 19.

Truman landed

Blooming gun saluten, the colourful, export drive may lecide the fate of royal pinecurīna and all the pay | Britain's first, -full-fledged babout trappings that mark the traditional | Government,

at and George have been priced

trast 10 1 "speech frein

the alike waiting to see if the King's CN$20,000 for Class whil: their tiny yellow and red air-throne," outlining the Labour Gov-speech will deal with the nation the Class C meal will cost about planes at 1505 (TT) today.

They said during their stay here's prograisine-almost certa nination of the steel and Iron indus-

call for higher taxes, harder wark two days) they would ask for per and a lower standard of living. one-half of the Class A meal.

Steel production "under private mission to make emergency landings Not To Relent

rlicens "Eizabeth, having reachent pwnership, for, the period ended it necessary in the Kurite islands, age of 21, will make her October 4 reached its highest peace. Juring the longest

of their. leg

appearance before Purliament, riding time rate of 14,200,000 tons a year Meanwhile, Associated Preasound-the-world Bight.

Westminster in a coach by her Conservative Party unposition that from Shanghai

The the plots sold they intended self.

promised to finish the fight against and By to Nemuro, at the easierament tip though Chinese financial excited economie quarters Ace a ray of of Hakk vido, and take of tran

leaders kald privare. hope in General Wedemeyer's there an the approximately 1,500- recent hints of United States inile hop to Shemys in the Aleutianis.

Another bus filled with pas sengers was kidnapped near the reports Gare de l'Est.

-Associated Press.

A crowd of fifty The Ministry of Justice, has strikers jumped from a lorry, 1lled a plaint against a un halted the bus and forced the Bamed offender who truck driver and three policemen to aid, offlelal Nanking quarters and wounded police agents and get out. One of the strikers decided

direct not to relent committed outrages and acts then took the drivers sent and notice action in an attempt to of rebellion."

took the bus to дп unknown stem what, for a time, looked Emergency buses will not be destination. United Press, like runaway inflation. run tomorrow, so that volun. Associated Press and Reuter.

Commissi Shanghai's Police sioner Schobern Yu returned}

VIOLENCE USHERS IN FRENCH ELECTIONS

Paris, Oct. 19.

Several people have been injured in clashes be- tween Communists and supporters of General de Gaulle in different parts of France at meet- ings supporting candidates for today's muni- cipal elections throughout the country, re- ports reaching here said.

from conference with

Gener-

alissimo Chiang Kai-shek carrying insturctions to show

Seamen In Taxi-Cab Upset

Programme

1y, that they will play their last re remaining card against the Labour

Government--the Conservatives, dn minate the House of Lords to delay and, perhaps, prevent taking over

the industry.

leading the Government's gramme for the parliamentary sion-the third since the Labourites were voted into power in 1945-3 *xpected to be

for the propostils nationalisation of the gas inditstry. dependence for Burma (sarced to eats signed on Friday by the Rich and Burmese Prime Minis ter revision of the penal

(with the posible abolition of the

death sentence), and a new

anti- Treasury

carry

The Home of Lords constitution

on the city of Kirin with the heaviest pressure being exerted from the north and along the Changchun-Kirin railway.

At Changchun Meanwhile,

Outside of Manchuria, civil warfare of varying intensity was reported to be raging . Hepel, Shantung, Honut, and Aninei provinces.

In West Hopei, "a florca bat- pro-Government] tle" is said to be programing dispatches report that strong around Shichischwang. an im- Communist forces are massing| portant Pelping-Hankov, záuje on the outskirts of Changchun way centre.

Police Raid On Chinese Freemasons?

A meeting, Inaugurating a chapter of the Chinese Freemasons · · Party at Un Long In the New Territories was broken up on Wednes- day, according to a verna- `cular press report flaşt

night. A

no tolerance to strike agitators o'clock tast night near the Stor sources 35 probably will not be in

In a traffic accident about 11 Inflaton" badges, which The Police Commissioner Hotel, Nathan Road, Kowloon, troduced by Dr. Hugh Dalton, Chas- said the Generalissimo showed taxleab No. 4057 of the Yellow cellor of the Exchequer, until No- lively interest in' police force Taxicab Company was overturn.vember, discipline and standard of liv-jed, but none of its five occupants The leet is expected to

budget ing.

was 'seriously Injured, and

increases in purchas take do Chiang appeared sceptical Eyewitnesses said the occup. the distributed profits 192.

Same form of compulsory, savings, when told there were very few ants were European seamen who,

after engaging the taxi, pushed to be deducted from the weekly pay cases of "rregularities."

the driver out of the car and envelopes also may he enacted, then Asked about the general started to drive it themselves. informaties said. strike situation in Shanghai,Į Before It had got a hundred

For days Prime Minister Aulee the Commissioner recounted the yards it came to grief when it has been in secret session with his arrests of 96 "agitators" in the collided with two alber- cars

advisers, A number of persons were

making final decisions As the result of an altercation recent French tramway strike. succession, and was overturned.

to, increase industrial Injured at a meeting of Do with

Upon the arrival of the Police,on the French Communist After Yu hod. revealed that Gaulle's Rally of the French leader, Maurice Thorez, at a most of them had been balled three of the men had left but production and cut. home consump

·itun to balance Britain'... › impare- who two were still on the scene People, in the Paris suburb of meeting in the Paris suburb of out by the company and union were taken to the Police Station export trade, Argenteuil.

Arcueli Cachan, on Thursday and others discharged, or sent for questioning, ****

Government Trailers, as well as A graver report came from night, a Socialist official named to trial, the Generaliselmoob- The driver received only, slight Conservative Party critics, acknow-

Kerensky announced today that served that labour." agitators, injury.

ledge that success or failure of thely, can delay passage of a blit. for

two years or longer but the "Can servative majority to far has avoid ed a showdown, kno

French Martinique, in the West

Indica, where a Communist nup-

porter was killed during a moot ing held. by the Communists.

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Kowloon Church Re-dedicated.

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Home, Firer Reduction,

Page Fier

Mosquito Pleurs for Chieri

Fage Seven

Fascist Lender. Bound Over,

Pugi High'

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1.5, Export Control

All the Sporti

he is bringing netion for damages should not be allowed to remain

for physical violence from which to Shanghai, he said,"

he claims to have suffered.

Kerensky alleges that Thorez

struck him when he referred to

speeches. made by Thoroz in AMMON SILENT ON

1040.

The main battle, partly on the

International Communist or anti.

40 Million Dollars

H.K. POSITION For Bund Extension

The report, which could. ́. not, be confirmed said that between 20 and 20 police- men gate-crashed the meat, ing and ordered the pre- aiding chairman" to dissolve the assembly,

and predict a major clash for) United Press adds that the this strategic city., is likely, loj Communists org, not likely to tùre up at any moment.

sustain any offenalan because ''Nationalist quarters here are their ammunition supply lines extremely confident of the out-¡ depend mostly on, alow moving rome of any' struggle 'for the ox-carts. Bianchurian capital, whose gur- They

cannot gather too

rison includes American-train- many supplies at forward buses ed and American-equipped New Lecaro it is difficult-howkver Pirat Army veterans of the ingenious the Roda areto Burma campaign and reputed hide a really big ammunition to be one of the beat fighting dump from the ever-present unita in the whole of the Na- Nationalist planes. tionalist army.

trucks The Reds have some As Nanking awaits news of but not enough gasoline when further developments in Man- long distances are involved. Chang Chut, told the Resident not enough, observers raid, and churiu, the Promler. General! The rallwaya, however, are Committee of the Peoples Poli- the Communists would have to tical Council in the capital last come nearer matching the Na- night that, while "no Immediato | tibnalisi strength heavy langur" existed in the North weapons. Reuter-A.A.2. East at the present time, Man- United Press,

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Arabs Announce C-In-C Appointed

Jerusalem, Oct. 19: The appointment of an Arab "Commander-in-

Chief" was announced in Jerusalem yesterday, by the Palestine Arab newspaper, Al Wihda," while the United Nations Palestine Con1mit- tec awaited the Arab" reply to yesterday's Jewish case at Lake Success.

The

"Commander-in-Chief" in the formation of national canmil- Tako Hashimi Pasha, former" "Teagl tens to prepare for the British withe Chief of Staff and Premier.. drawal.

· Figures at last week's meeting of The panifests, drawn up at a 24- Council in the hour Executive meeting, and back- the Arab League Labanan revealed that the combined ed, by and estimated 5,000 Party Arab, forets, ready for military remembers, declared that Britain's in- tion" totalled about 230,000 men, {tention 'to withdraw. from the Holy

Units of the British Trained Trans; Land unless the United Nations find jordan from ler force were today a solution, acceptable to both the pairalling. Palestine's northern front Jews and the Arabs, was insincere, ier adjoining Syria, where man and "mainly intended to tw dir. dedyren by Arab forces were fe- trust ported after the Arah League cision to oppose the partition of Palestine by force.

de propte

Among tha The Zionisis,

manifesto said, "now holl the matchs which will Banner Bombslight the flame of wat-racial in ap

Reuter

The

The Weather

tropical depression le centred one 400 miles GW Iwalims, and appears to be moving NE

In Jérusalem last night, two pearance, but capitalist in essence," "banner bombs" exploded, alerting fall police and troops in the city.

They consisted of Jannere 'strung across the streets with explosives

-extensive fitbérlan antierzlóné attached to either end.

In Zion Square, one of the bombs persists ever Motupla, N Japan, and shattered shop windows. It sure to Bornan and the Caleber h Chtaa, and extends in rifze of high pres Legislation where that tre passers-by were

'in- Other legislation expected to be jured by flying splinters. Introduced in "tha, how session In- TaTel Aviv Väuclier

ewelier werday, cludent

similar: banners were

Sa Today's : Forecast (mLight, or moderata (1) Criminal Justice reform bill, their explosive attachments were winds, inshore lifrish offshorn; fine,

Yesterday's Weatherin which includes proposals for the detonated by the police, Communist issue, will: bo fought At a press conference hero Among Hong Kong Town Planning schemes is a $40, abolition of the death penalty and The newest propaganding of Minimumis 64 Fah

Last dogging

This device Maximum: 10.8 deg? Fal today in towns of over 9,000 today, Lord Ammon leader of 000.000-reclamation project, the "China" Mall" learned

who

10.8 hoursa- inhabitants, where the elections the visiting British Parliamen-night from, reliable sourceness

and partition campaign of the Reintalla Nil. Total since Jan, inflationary Legun Zvai Leumi, the 6,000 trong 1567.m.15118 Ijo, ma dizainet an will bo by proportional-repro- to comment on the question of the project involves a mile-that since most of the leans of get, including: sentation. There are about 400 retroceding Hong Kong to long stretch of the waterfront the wharfs and jetties along the checks Increases (in the purchase illegal. Icwlah terrorist force average of 1028, fors-79.36 tox

budget Lord Ammbn told the news from the Vehicular Forry Whare part of the waterfront ins and other indirectation and manifesto, issued fast night hy di

Beat the Executive Commiliter of the Lendronto, mil pum." April.

gus, of National Liberation, the Arab Bars 710114 20184 m3 the Rally of the French anything on the question. The where it is proposed to extend will not be started this year even ment's set Colonial Development demned the Russian and United Dew Point and People -- has, entered actively fisher authorities Contrai the bund outwards by, 100 feet. if, Government gives the ko Corporations with borrowing powers States support of the scheme for the Wind Directional,a) Bly Mizan into the electoral arena. Reuter. Newe

"China Mall” understands atend?" "signal."

to £100,000,000 Välted. Fress.. Ipartition of Palestine "sad" called for Wiad Yorney

of these places.

This will be the first time.

Tiental., 19.

tary Mission to China, declined e

China,

General de Gaulle's new party men: "I am not prepared to any to the Wing Lok Whartim qucation wül not expire until the

and of 1948, reclamation work. (1) Bill to set up the Govert Communist Party in Palestine, corn. Humidity con

matter: "must abe. referred to

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