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CHINA MAIL

No. 33818.

ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS.

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1947,

SONGGRAM'S SIAM COUP

Ex-Premier Expected To Stay In Background

was fired at from shore Too Much

near Shayuch.ng, the "China Mail learned

last night.

fred

About 2 rounds were mud several hits were scored on the lunch. Portiumtely none of the oceants wier hit,

With It speetor R. Olivier in command. No. 1 Police Jaanek was between doo atul 700 yanıls offshore when it was attarkeil. The sheds were fired from the ruins of the old Shayuchung Chinese Customs Mtation (not functioning at present),

Refore the Ari turted; evolirs

shore NORTH CE „Jischarging drums fres mall

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craft. Several grined men were] also observed

It de fe loved that the armed inen were part of un escort

working for smugglers opera- ting in the ava

London Fire Drama

For Him

Washington, Nav, 10. Lester S. Kellogg, ellet of the Peters and Cost-of- Living branch of the US, Bureau of Labour Statistics. resigned today.

Reason: The cost-of-iv- Ing is too high for him to continue on his Government salary.—United Press,

Murder Of

German

P.O.W.

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Declared War On Racecourse

The Allies

Bangkok, Nov. 10.

The Army clique which yesterday seized control.

of Siam's Government was busily engaged to- day in forming a new Cabinet and promulgat- ing a new constitution which its leaders said would place more power in the hands of the 19-year-old King, Phumiphon Aduldet. Field-Marshal Phibun Songgram, who led yester dlay's bloodless coup d'etat, emerged as the Supreme. Commander of the Siamese armed Iorces. But there were indications that he would choose to remain outside the Cabinet.

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After being sentenced

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Tokyo, Nov. 10. Kissing in public places by "lovers" may constitute an offence punishable by imprisonment for not more than six months, or by finer 'not excreding SOD

(US$10), according to the newspaper, "Sekai Nippo",

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The newspaper said this might be a possible interpre- tation of the revised criminal code, effective from Novem. ber 3, of which one article "bene perform.

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aneca,”—Uvited Press.

London

Fascists

European at the pari-utwitted

mutucl counter at the

sel.

Inspector

London, Nov. 10,

by

A fire which took more than three hours to quell, occurred yesterday in the holds of the 5.5. “Hai Yang" which was being overhauled in the IL.K. & Whampoa No. 1 dry-dock-the biggest dry-. dock in the Colony.

Belloved to have been enunod n red-hot rivet droppel accidentally by a workman, the fire spread to the tunnel of the propellor shaft. There the heat penetrated the ship's plates, slightly Duckling one two.

or

and burned the paint on the out- Aide,

Shortly before noon yesterday a trickle of amoke from the No. hold of the "Hai Yang" was acen by men working on the yes- Soon afterwards, while the were on the way

Kel;

Ambassador

To Direct

Marshall

Plan?

rage course on Saturday. British Communists pulled a fire engines defendant

last one on Britain's Fascists from the Star Ferry Fire Station, Tsui Fook

London, Nov. 10. and as a result there were no columns of black and white The selection of n Cabinet to

called out that he was riots for a change in London's smoke started billowing from Ambasador Lewis Douglas may Washington reports that US. replace that nt Prtinier Repr

East End on Sunday night.

both No. 3 and 4 holds. innocent and requested Admiral Luang Thomrong Ma.

be named to administer the For three months the British | who has Red washwnt.

trom

permission to get

Marshall Plan were received coun- League of Ex-Servicemen have) Bangkok, is being worked out by

Concentrating their hoses on enthusiastically in Whitehall to- A group of Army and ex.

Formed at Sunday night crowds the two holds, the firemen had day and the British presa took a Army offlers and naval and air

"Too late for that." remarked from shiny allver mobile the outbreak nader contol with generally Wooler. Nov. 9,

favourable attiinde force representatives. who met

Mr. J. G. Conklin and advised truck mounted with six am in an hour and then turned their towards in the Defence Ministry Building

him to consult the prison off-plifiers,

the repart of the Eugene Mergenpahler,

efforts The propellor-shaft Harriman ne at the first places taken

cials.

Durr the week, the Com-tunnel where the fire appeared European ald proposals

Committee 41-year-old German) over when the coup was made at

According to Brownrigg. Tsui was of

seen by its bought the trek for a

to have got a firm grip. prisoner war, was two y

The Foreign Office apokerman Two former

the man Mr. Leung Ka Wing, supervisor reported £900 from premiers, Luung; murdered, the Police at Aphaiwengse and Sent Pramot,

Bald the Lotulum. Nov, 10.

of ticket sellers, to aliemiņi" 12} who rented it weekly

Harriman report la to the Smoke from the fire in the under the closest study" and Fourteen Bremen and salvage Wooler, Northumberland, but Demreratic, were snid

Shanghai, Nov. 10. pick the pocket of a European Fascists.

tunnel completely filler the at a counter.

added that the workers escaped from a born-announced today.

proposed have agreed to Join the new An import

So League speakers last night interlor of the ship except the company! It was further Ing five storey

alleged that shouted themselves hearer, to a engine rocan drug

guarantee against interference xlore ira

and considerably with European Socialist regimer Arrangements are being maded id off that an Any re. with offices in Shanghai Leung raised the arm and thin crowd that grew thinner as handicapped the fire-fighters. Clerkenwel Road, London, last

fendant Thamrong and Hong Kong rucs the Complainant hart Text

moving away.

is "warmly welcomed here." night water part of the

German prisoners at the Wooler and key intimbers of his govern-day that it routed a ship-cross a pulice constable whe

under spectators found themselves Before 4 p.m., however, `thei floor

Whitehall sources said Govern- Jobservation untli he cameonable to hear the speeches. outbreak was completely extin- ment officials here generally felt ramp from which Mergenpaller picnt escaped, His hiding place and been reported missing, then still not been diseiontd. ment of medical cabinets be reparted the matter and deihere were no arrests-United Dockyard officials

For the first time in weeks utahed, No one was injured the selection of Lewis Douglas Press Associattion added.

1: WBS abnounced that an into China via Shanghai, fendant was arrested

were unable

to administer the programme Friss. His body was found beside en the epilers of the revolt instead of via British-that complainant said was un- Defendant stated that all

to estimate the damage.

would be a "aplendid move in St. Bartholemew Hospital streami by a farmer who was the Defenes Minister. A controlled Hong Kong.

view of the confidence he has shooting on Saturday. Mortebatuk, to avaid hoodshed.

inspired during hle ambassador- genpahler's faher wns „badly bat- | Adul Detchart was one

ship."-United Press. Some Grepen escaped through tered and a belt similar to these those who fled. pavement lights, nthers seram-op by prisquers, af, war bled To safety through

Tying near the body. The dend the wreckage. Een pumps and, beton's belt was sill on his lady. tween 50 and 60 firemen tackled which was clad in a P.O.W. bat the fire. Renster.

Fir

d collaret.

first

fell from the fir to the

wound floor, but all except, who was taken to:

with injuries to his face, were. able to estimu ilares.

fighting the

Big Explosion In Formosa

Cabinet

interrogate some of the 400 volt was impending.

Elections To

WHA

ameement had been reached be.

No Casualties

There were shooting incident but no casualties have been re ported.

The

ity

true and that he was amongst the crowd buying tickets, It was possible that he might have touched the European acciden- sally:

obtained company own foreign exchange to pay, for the cargo which came from Defendant clalmed that the Miami Florida manufae European did not complain that turer. It also obtained an fro

blk pocket had been picked.

Mr Conklin and he was satis port license from the Chinesfied with the evidence and sen Government.

tenced defendant

three months' imprisonment,

IN-

ledress,

The home of Prid! Bonomyong, The dead man weighed only farmer

premiler and leader of 17 pounds and was five feet the warline resistance move.

But when the medical cab- four inches-Assoclated Press. ment in Siam, was sprayed with,

machinegun bullets but no ane inets arrived, Chinese Customs was wounded. Pridi, who was officers refused to clear them. known to American flect under the code name of "Ruth" during the war, escaped, but bis wife and children were in the burse at the time of the shoot. ing.

Thamrong sneaked away from 'cretions

in Hong dancing party a few minute and Kong for delegates to the Chi berin a group-came for him. shells store in a steel factory nese National Assembly and the A communique Issued by th in the outskirts of Taipeh Legislative Council have been revolt group stated that Parlia

oMelally suspended

an instruement would be dissolved and th tions from the Chinese Govern. present bicameral system woul one-House ment, the "China Mail's learned he replaced by last night.

"ystrin. The bicamerali 'system

Shanghai, Nov. 10. Five persoIN We're seriously!

infired ruml 10

others les Be Suspended

seriously when 10 truckloads oft tommer Japanese bomba

Formosa said.

an from

Chinese

Judicial Reform Plan For China

Bangkok Calni

The present constitution

"But. here' the import license," walled the Importer.

Still the Customs would-not clear the shipnient. The con. Because the glass on th cabinets was too thick. violated, the Customs propli said, the ban on import of plat

which is rated as glass

Was im luxury. The cargo

& Customs ware pounded in house-Associated Press.

China's Foreign

and

to

Hotel Boys Hold Mass Meeting

Grim Battle For Shihchiachwang

Shanghai, Nov. 10. interest in China's civil war shifted today from Manchuria, where nothing of moment has oc- curred in the past 24 hours, to western Hoxei, where a column of Communist besiegers are battling their way into the railway hub of

Summoned Home

Washington, Nov. 10. Lowls Douglas, US Ambassador Lo Britain, arrived by plane on

Sunday from London.

Tired after the long overs F trip, he went straight to bed. Bo. fore leaving London he told re- porters he had been summoned home unexpectedly for consulta. tions with President Harry Tru- man on the

European ald pro- gramine-Assoclateż · Press.

Shihchlachwang through the northwestern H.M.S. LONDON

gate of the city.

Str. fighting..., described as).

Pro-government reports today ARRIVES

Lentely cavare, la now samsal the Nationalists were usbur officially reported to be in pre- the entire North China ni: fores

to

Was

harr

Exchange Rules from other labour organisations since the start of the civil war and most dangerous concentra in practices for the next few

was told

personal

Taking the place of IIMS Service employees of the re

Flanshin of Colony's foreign-managed hotel wery inch of grund, the

As the garrison hotly discutes the battle for Shihehlschwanr. "Belfast" former (Formosa blew up.

14% sky These arts admitted that the the British Pacific Fes and catering establishments, is warning with Nationalist Communists broke through the D50) arrived in the

"London" (Captain C. V. Addis. The explosion occurred November

owned by the Hong Kong & warplanes. reports

north-west rity gate and that yesterday

the morning from Shanghai Hotels, Hong Kong Chinese press reports tonight confused fighing was going on. United Kingdom vin. Singspire. The explosion Through the Chinese Overstases established in the constitu shook the entire city,

Land Investment & Agency Co. estimated that at least 150 Gov- Affairs Commission, the Chinese in signed on May 9, 1948, by

An emergency nirstrip

"London" saluted the Corb- Lane Crawford Ltd. Dairy ernment bombers and fighters constructed inside the city, remander-in-Chief's Vice-Adinir- The entire plant was wrecker | Government has ordered plec. the late King Anoda Mahidol- together wills 20 dwelling houses, tone

Farm &e. held a masa meeting have Joined in the attempt placing the captured airfell out al Sir Denis Boyd) flag with 15 foreign territories one month before his mysterious

the invaders. This 1 at the Luk Kwok Hotel More or less serious damage was (where such elections is against-[death."

last expel

easily the largest number of side and 250 planes continued to uns, the salute being retu also caused to gloss factorles,ed until a new system" of vot

with seven guns. night, at which representatives aircraft thrown into one battle attack the Communists' largest the law of the land) be suspendl

As "London" will be engaged the broadensling station, a penciling for Chinese citizens abroad, the unsolved death of the forme company and a paper mill neut can be worked out by the Na King were sold by some obstr

were present by invitation. and is in accordance with the tion. Reports said three columns weeks, HMS "Adamant," tem-

The meeting

of Generalissimo's final by-United Press.

Nanking, Nov. 10.

of Reds, estlmuteri fional Assembly.

order to the garrison comman-

continue The Central Bank of China month-old negotiations with the der, General Liu Xing, that "the men had completely encircled the Chief's flag until it is transfer-

nt 40,000 porary Flagship, will ers to be linked with thd. un

to wear the Commander-in- settled cundilian of the countr

today, went to the Legislative managements ivithout success, Government's combined air and city-United Press, which led to yesterday's revolt. Yuan for study and approval a and the hope was

red to "London" in due course. expressed, land forces must exert full pres The capital was calm, Crowds set of revised foreign exchange with a mild warning, that sure to crush the Communista -For curious people gathered in regulations, it is learned.

front of the Defence Ministry These are reported to provide. terms would soon be reached, and hold this important rail Building to hear news of the interalia, for the establishment otherwise the men would be Junction,'

In Manchuria, heavy fighting take steps to en- ron broadcast on the public ad- of a foreign exchange equaliza compelled

Is continuing in the Kirin and dress system but they were ortion committee for the purpose force their demands. derly.

of readjusting the open market

Changchun sectora The men want an increase of

The Government-controlled The military group announced rate of exchange with current their basic wage to $35 a Central News Agency claimed that the old government had fluctuations, for the right

month, their present pay being that the been overthrown to relieve the banks to

fixed buy at

Communist grip country of widespread corrun. firstly, foreign exchange obtain said to be under $20, an annual around Kirin has loosened as a counter-attacks tion" and to remedy economie ed for exports, secondly, remit- increment of $2 a month, and result of the

thirdly, tances,

foreign

Government ex- other improvements in working by two reinforced

columns, change brought into China by conditions.

spearheaded by travellers, and for a five-years'

armoured. car units. Up to the present, said the Imprisonment term and confis men's delegates, the employers of Kirin simultaneously,

These columng, pushing out cation of foreign exchange for have refused to consider any said to be Įpeople_infringing the regula-

_sweeping ^^ over the tions-Reuter-AAP.

intercase in basle pay.

right and left banks of the

In cara and horse-drawn restricted by the lack of petrol, Bungari River and to have cap- tongas, on bicycles and on foot. ; told Router: There aro .stil! tured Chaipeng. about four over 1,300 of the raiders, the some of the raidera left in miles to the northwest of Kirin. bulk of the remnants of the little penny packets about the

Meanwhile, in north Shens, force originally estimated at countrysido. ?

fleeing towards "Five truckloads of them the besieged city of Yulin to Kohala, 100 miles away, where came dashing up the road with meet the Government reinforce a bridge linkà Pakistan with lights blazing the other night. ments which are rushing to the Kashmir.

We shot them, up. rescue of the. Nationalist de- fenders.

Over a dozen villages aro "I think the invaders are now

Nanking, Nov. 10.

The national conference for the review of judicial

administration

proposes to revolutionise

China's century-old judicial system with a re- solution stripping the nation's magistrates of the functions of Prosecutor-Judge.

difficulties.-United Press.

New Premier

ernment following the bloodless Soup or Sunday directed by Phi bun Songgram.

Apholwenges served us Premier' In 1914-45-Associated Press.....

No Proviso

Bangkok, Nov. 10, Luang Aphalwongse Was 'ED The resolution calls for the entah- | remote or backward reginen of the pointed Premier of Slam today lishment within three years of i-country, where difficult communien- and a five-member Privy Chun- trict Law Courts to replace the tious nake it Imposible for the cil was bomed to hrad the Gov. judicial bareAUS pf the present people to appeal to Lie proper district county governments, which judicial authorities for justice. function as couris of law with These mobile courts, when estab. magistrates serving both as Preseru-ished, will visit out-of-the-way areas tor and Judge,

in Sinkiang, Chinghai and other.ze The system of dispensing Justice ių Įmate provinces. The conference voted rural regions by magistrates is an against twn proposals for the adop laberitance from monarchial times. tion of the jury system in pubile when magistrates appointed by the trials on the ground that Chloa's Emperor administered what justice they cared to give the people, profitable' enforcement of the y

little educational standards are too low for Their authority to

give file stem. death to the little people was seldom The conference decided to appoint tion, who declared war on the challenged, if ever..

aconimittee of experts 10 dy Alites in 1942, NAN

I

London, Nov. 10: The Foreign Office today was studying developments in 8lam

rates.

Political Fights In Italy

Rome, Nov. 9,

after yesterday's coup d'etat by Widespread political violence is developing in Northern Italy with charges and counter

Marshal

during the

Songgram, Premier

Japanese decupa

•

are

Kashmir Raiders Sent Reeling

Back

Baramula, Kashmir, Nov. 10.`.

The Northwest Frontier tribesmen who raided Kashmir were today reeling back after being decisively defeated by Government... of India troops.

· reg}uenta'

5.000, were

eight Communist have been deployed noria of

The majority of the reinforce- battered and amouldering as all on the way out —Reuter. ments are reported to be from vultures tear at corpac in

the army of General Fu Tso-yi, Kashmir's the commander-in-chief

Bulyuan Province-Reuter.

of

tumbledown charges today between Leftists and Rightists, The conference, also renlved that China's juvenile delinquency problem. Diplomatic quarters consider Communists carried out majand machinegung fired bursta of Itinerant courts be established to tour preparatory to the establishment of ed. it would be difficult for Bri-chinegun and grenade natacks on bullets at the heme of an in-

Juvenile Delinquency Counts In the tain to oppose Marthal Phil the homes of individuals fost dustinlist, ame bigger cities Associated Press. return to power because, unlike'

European peace treaties, the night, The Leftista said that Slamese peace pact, makes no Funciats will move more openly orgylso for the surrender for if the police de noting to stop trial of people accused of war the crimes as Phibul was, VA MAH

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ACID ATTACK

Chinese Fighter Pilot Killed

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The Weather

"Happy Valley".| ending at Baramulaan eropty town gutted by the raidera in a 13-dny, orgy of stationary and Bling d. A trough of The typhoon tay tha? E of "Prišla. Icoting murder and destruction love presuri ankandev from, 16 to the

Although Barimula 30 mile Eastern Caries. A moderato west of Srinagar, the capital crelons euvers. China, and a depression is Another attack occurred

of the State, has been a the moving into thee to the Nef

Japan Nerviano where huge bombs ex-

hands of Indian troops for over: Today's · Fürst-Fish N winds, ploded in the courtyard of the

'24 hours, legs than 1,000, of the cloudy and cool, clean poring day. home of Luigi Taverna, brealiing

Nanking, Nov. 10. normal: population of 10,000 all windows and causing damage A cowardly attack with acid Unless the Hew Slamons Gov- The attacks caused no deaths, to the building. At Monza, pilot was killed in Nanking's Wrapped in blankets, some sunshines Ni

A Chinese Air Force fighter as returned to the town. Maximum 12.4 slog." Fahe

| | Xinferiturris GT.2. deg. Fah was made last night on a dancerument defaults on its alatu One man was Injured when he machinegun bullets were fired military nerodrome today when are struggling back from their Exinfall Tract. Total sinon Jan.

tory obligations. It seems ung ostas, employed at the Lid Ukely that the peace atthement was, being beaten by a gang of into the window of a store on the the P-51 he was linding drifted refuge in the Himalayan, carry 2533,4 mm. 101.10 Ins, ho grafnist an Cabaret, after she had alighted can provide the Alles with any five after testifying in the trial main street owned by Enrico a few feet off the course and ing with them cases of apples average of 1038.8 min.-03.11 ini, from a tram to report for duty. ground for objecting to Marshal against the Communist paper in Talla

struck a hedvy, atzamroller, and potatoes The girl, Miss Chan Siu-fot. Phibul's return to power. how Milan. He was, Nicola Miragila, Last weekend's two political gravely Injuring the vehicle's The local population say that barn at maly1019,4:1919. m.b hind her logs and hands Injured aver disquietior, this must prove member of the extreme lightlat attacks in Dils still remain un driver for the raiding tribesmen took 280 AD.8841.95, 30aben and her dress burnt The girl, too, who suffered from his Italian Social Movement

decision to support; Japan: at 'a

solved. The police nald they. The plane was imashed into lorryloads of plunder, skadellel, Huanialty dekat ng It was learned, gave the Police critical phase, in the rack Caste At Vigevane shortly after two were unable to get witnessed to a dozen plocon xploded and Brigadier LP Sen, whose Wind Dlection, NE

Dew Point. Ata dostu the names of two suspects. Tulern war. "Houter?" NC "},"lin.th) a hang armed with grmades } testify Using Primal burned-Associated Pressi pursuit of the raiders has bech, Wind Fores Marlin Praca-10 kubik's