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ARAB RIOTING SPREADS WIDER Bomb Blast Greets FOR "KWEI HAI" Angry Mobs Loose In Baghdad And Cairo Film Of Princess Canton Pirates Set

PEER ON INDECENCY CHARGE

London, Dec. 4.

was

200 Jews Organise SHANGHAI

Surprise Landing

Arab disorders spread wider in the Middla East yesterday. Bursts of günfire across the Jewish quarter of the old city of Jerusalem signalled continuation of the Holy Land's war of partition. Baghdad an angry mob of demonstrators wrecked the United States' Information Ser- vice Office and a British Kindergarten. In Cairo rioters stoned the British Consulate but were driven off by steel-helmeted police.

. Lieutenant Lord Col- wyn handsome kilted of-In ficer of the Gordon High- landers,

sentenced by a court martial today to be dishonourably dis- charged for five counts of gross indecency in- volving Italian youths.

The 33-year-old Peer was accused of two attempts tri "precure an act of

groan In-

decency with a male perand" and three counts of committing such acts of indecency (all in Italy). Four Itallan mentioned.

names

wero

Lord, Colwyn slood rigidly at attention ам Group Captain Oliver Barnett (Judge Advocale) recited the charges in a solemn, matter of fact voice,

Lord Colwyn pleaded guilty to all the five charges. The trial room, in Chelsea Barracka, was crowded.

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MALAYAN G.-G. WILL VISIT H.K.

Singapore. Dec. 4.

Sir Malcolm MacDonald. Governor-General of Ma- laya, is expected to visit Hong Kong on December 7. it is reliably learned.

One of the main reasons of the Governor-General's visit is said to be connected with his new assignment. He, -wlit succeed Lord Killearn

as Special Commissioner of Southeast Asia next year.. Central News.

RACKETS REVIVE

Shanghai, Dec. 4. Shanghai's blackmar- foreign exchange dealers were

ket

back

at.

their old haunts today as news spread that the en- forcement of the much strict new

In Jerusalem, police and Bri- heralded fish troops raced through the emergency control mea-l'

alleys and winding paths of sures would be postpon- clattering and banging, to halt

the

old city, their weapons

ed.

Blackmarket gold and the United First reports anid two Jewal States dollar quotations were slightly higher compared with yesterday's and and one Arab was wounded.

Baghdad witnessed its third day of rioting.

Into

"Dublin, Dec.: 4.

-A small bomb exploded early today at a moviehouse in the heart of Dublin's famous O'Connell Street where a film

of the wedding of Britain's Princess Elizabeth and Prince Philip was being shown.

The front of the cinema- the Carlton--was damaged by the explosion,,

is understood the explo sive was a small land mine which was dropped through leiter slot in the front door.

The explosive is belleved to have been placed by anti- British agitator, who object-

.

ed to the showing of the.. Royal wedding alm.

today

The incident took place in the early hours of when closed.

the moviehouse

was

Similar incidents have od curred previously when Dub- In cinemas showed nima of British royalty.-United Press.

Chiang's Men Push Ahead In Drive Up

Up Yangtse

Shanghai, Dec. 4. General Pai Chung Hsi's offensive in Central China gathered momentum today as his four columns pushing towards Communist General Liu Po Cheng's bases in Taplehshan Moun- tains on the Honan-Klangsu-Anhwel border, all made "notable progress" towards the im mediate objective of enclosing the area in a steel ring, according to pro-Government re- ports received here today.

The northern and southern | navigation

Double Ambush

If the s.s. "Kwef Hal" had continued her voyage to Hong Kong after being damaged by a Teller mine in Tal Shek Passage (six miles from Canton), she would have been blown up by a bigger mine some 30 miles further down the Pearl River, the "China Mail” learned from an authoritative Chinese Government source last night.

The source disclosed that the

The starboard side tanks were Canton authorities, who arrested than filled to "trim" the vessel.

Normal and shot four of the ringleaders

last week, had obtained informa-

At high tide last Tuesday, the

tion that the extortionista, who ship was floated again by means had demanded HK$100,000 from of anchors, dragging her off the the ship's owners, had organised Island.

two

of groups to do the job wiping out the "Kwei Hal."

Her trip to Hong Kong yester

normaal

on day was made

ship

One was at Tal Shck Pastage schedule time. and the other at Lin Pa Shan.

The ship was visited yesterday Escorted by a Chinese gunboat by the Police, the Army Explosives from Canton down the Feari Export, and Mr. A.W. Black of River to Docen Tigris, the 8.6.the

surveyors arm "Kwei Hal", which lost 19 pas of Carmichael and Clarke,

and 18 seriously sengers killed Injured on Nov. 18 last when she was hit by a Teller mine in Tal Shek Passage, arrived under her own steam in Hong Kong yester day for repairs in Bailey Ship yard.

Repairs

The Police took statements from the crew while Mr. A.W. Black Inspected the salvage work done by Captain Winyard,

PHILIP IS POSTED

prongs are said to be meeting China's most important indua-"Kwei Hal"), the vessel was FOR DUTY

stock prices showed a similar trend.

In a press interview, the Governor of the Central Bank of China, Mr. Thousands of students broke Chang Kai-ngau, explained the pur- into the USIS premises, burned pe ni the new Finance Control equipment, threw typewriters Bureau, which will be set up here into the streets and smashed shortly, is to divert capital to pro everything they could find. ductive activities order to lighten the

Under the supervision of Cap- The demonstrators also broke burden of consumers and to prevent

tain F.W. Winyard, Superintendent Engineer of the Kwangai Naviga- the British kindergärten, capital from being used for hoarding

and speculation,

and to Central tion Company

. (owners of the smarhed Ita windowв and

Worried wrecked it. Twenty-six Iraqi

last week by man- and British children, were rea-

Meanwhile, cotton, merchants are with slight resistance in their trial and political aren--the beached cued.

greatly warried by a Chinese report sweep towards the headquarters triangulal sector formed by power off the cast end of Honan

London, Deo. 4. Crowds also stoned the Bri-that the Chinese Government is con of the Communist leader, who Hankow, Wuchang, And Han Island in the Fear River

The ship "dragged" herself on The Duke of Edinburgh, now sidering a "sweeping measure", de has been disrupting navigation yang. tish Airways office.

high ground by means of three on his honeymoon with Princess signed to establish nationwide enn

the One Chinese on the Yangtse River in

Elizabeth, has been ported for newspaper re- All the incidents occurred on trol of cotton, cotton yarn and cotton past few weeks..

anchors. port this evening said that Com-

The Telle mine had blown daty in the British Admiralty the southern end of Rashid textiles.

General Pai, who left the muniat General Chen Yi, whose the port stue bottom (under No. from December: 16, it was an- Street, which is the main Under this measure, it was stated,

The Duke will Defence forces have been very active 1 hold) completely away leaving nounced today.

serve with the thoroughfare.

the Government would purchase al Ministry of National

tonin Nanking last week in order further to the north, especially a hole big enough to accomodate Director of Operations (Division of In Calro

domestic and imported raw

The mite also blew off a dozen the Admiralty). The Cairo riots began early and ration the commodity to the mills. personally to direct the opera- tu Shantung Province, has sunt

The Royal Couple are now in the tuslay when mounted and footimilar actions is said to be con-tions, is said to be "quite satis- a large column to the aid of mon also

templated in regard to yarn.

fied" with the progress his General Liu Po Cheng, but the

Utillaing his war experience in second part of their honeymoon on police charged stone-throwing The proposed measure, if it is true, armies are making.

Nationallet Command has coun- converting and repairing shige at (the Klog' enate in Scotland, students who set fire to one is likely to arouse considerable op-Purpose

tored this move by sending ane Bombay Captain Wingard laid a Circles close to the Court said to streetcar and overturned an- position as its strict enforcement

The main purpose of the of General Ku Chu Tung's three-foot-thick Ewinforced cor day that this appointment: te other within 200 yards of the would, take the entire cotton -industry

crete bottom over the damaged Admiralty is tife first Indication of American university.

out of the hands of private, traders: Offensive is to remove, once aud Shantung armiae in pursuit.

Meanwhile, bitter fighting tank top, with cement distributed the Duky's intention to remain on the Dr. Ellis Stongo, psychiatriet, zve arrested Follce Sgt.

The police fired at the stü--Reuter.

for all, the threat to Yankton continues to rage in several aec equally on both sides of the ship active list of the Royal Navy. The sald Colwyn is a "reprosaed Kwok and dix-Korean civilians dents but most of the shooting

tors in the northeast of Shan- and boarded up the outside with length of the appointmens has not

wood. homosexual" who broke down in connection with the slaying) was into the air "and nobody

tung. when his morale and health be- yesterday of Conservative poll- was hurst. came low,

tical leader Chang Duk Soo.

The court. consisted brigadler, two majors and tio cuptuins.

Refusal

Lord Colwyn refused to testify

a to make a statement in mitiga-. tion of punishment but called his wife, his former Commanding Oficer and a psychiatrist as de fence witnessen.

Seven Held For Korean

Slaying

Seoul, Dec. 4, The U.S. Army Intelligence said today that Korean Police. Palc

"I am prepared to give him treatment and I think there is no question but that Lord Colwyn will revive to the condition he overcoat,

First reports of these riots Korean Police said they were and one policeman and ten conducting ballistic tests on rioters were slightly injured Pak's carbine, which had dis- when they were hit by stones. carded along with "his police! The rioters dispersed before the police charges but began to was in before he went to Italy Intelligence officers said it assemble in smaller groups in und can lend a normal, happy was understood that Pak was] other sections of the city. aexual life with his wife," Dr. affiliated way" a rightist youth Stungo suld.

organization. Pak refused make a statement.

Lady Miriam Gwendoline Colwyn barely whispered her| evidence for her husband.

He was wounded in Normandy. -United Press.

Small boys picked up stones to from the strenta and hurled

them at random at shop win-. dows.

Chang was killed outside his home and his Democratle Party! issued a press statement blaming the police for the shooting,

Mrs. Chang said

The partitioning of Palestine, was used as an excuse for riot- ing but domestle politics ap-1

Striking Refloat

Pilot S'hai

Helps Ship

Shanghal, Dec.TM 4. Aided by five China National Relief and Rehabili

tation Administration tugs, the United States Lines 10,000 ton steamer "Lookout," which ran aground at Woosung breakwater at the mouth of the harbour yesterday, was, refloated this morning and entered port under her steam.

own

Reports that the Communist troops had battled their way Into the port of Lungkou, on the northern coast of Shan-| tung's peninsula, about 40 miles west of Chefoo, were denied by official military quarters which said the city was "ntill firmly in Government handa.

In Manchuria

In Southern Manchuria, Gov- Amment troops have the city of Keiping, on the Dalren-Mukden Railway. 20 miles east of the seaport of Yingkow. In report- ing this success, a sami-official three parently entered the picture, The damage to the modern ocean She then had a ten degree. list, Koreans, one dressed like a provoking clashes between liner, which was several hours The ship was reported to have despatch said it further stabi- policeman, had called Chang students and the police. perched precariously across the break-been holed in the number two hold Hsca the Nationalist position in

Southern Manchuria. -EX-GUNNERS WANT from the house to talk to him. In the Lebanon, at Beirut, the water edge, could not be ascertained and the three double-bottomed tanks.

as he turned to Jewish quarter

At the time of the sccident, the was shaken by this afternoon and is expected to be

There were no major develop- He was shot enter the door.

the explosion of a bomb wilch revealed when the ship enters dry ship was piloted by a Russian pilet, menta in the past 24 hours in RECOGNITION-Pg

who was hired by the Chang was the third pro- shattered windows in the tome dock next Monday.

Customs the Paoting and Yuanshih sec- Pilotage mising Korean politician slain date area

Berious The "Lookout" was the first vessel Marine Commisioner for ******* ******* since the Allied occupation be- damage. There were no casual-to run aground in the tricky bottom Affairs, after he had suspended 2 torn of Hope.

ties.

of the Woosung area since the Shang-river pilots who had demanded gan-Associated Press.

Police arrested an Armenian hai pilots went on strike lust Thurs-inffense in the pilotage tariff which is south of Shikchia- who had been seen driving on day. automobile near the spot where the explosion occurred, but he

ACTION DEFERRED ON KOWLOON EVACUATION

The Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, has been asked to defer action against about 2,000 Chinese in the old walled Kowloon City who have only six more days in which to evacuate, the "China Mail" learned officially yesterday. The request was made by Mr. | ertment will include the Kow T. W. Kwok, Speelal Commiá-| loon City 1sauc. gioner,(Foreign Affairs) for Kwangtung Kwangel who left

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binst.

'Surprise Move

Meanwhile,

hundred

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pilots, Mr. Sudbury, who directe: efforts which resulted in the release! of the verael

After earlier struggles-

grants suddenly sprang ashore us rating over seven hours-bad |

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ade a 50-ton coastal

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Reuter.

Kowloon Station Brawl

An

The defonders of Yuanshih,

chwang, ure said to be atill holding cut as the Communist slege of the city entered the 20th day..

Murder?

Communiata at Hungtung, in Shansi Province, recently mur- dered more than 20 Chinese Christians because of their ro- fusal to renounce their religion, according to a "rollablo" report carried in the Government In- formation Offico's bulletin this morning.

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futile. Captain R. O. Patterson of the Slipping past the British block. "Lookout" was today lavish in his vessel ron praise of CNRRA Water Transport's ashore of Tel-Aviv.

tugging and declared that the prompt. Members of the Jewish undor-ness of the tugs attival was the best ground army. Hagaan, now more effort he had seen anywhere outside und more operating in the open, of New York's city harbour.

In addition, the Chinese Four employees of the Kow- were waiting.

The "Lookout" was bringing 1,40)

appeared Catholic Bishop of Huntung's Also now offering: A bridge was hastily laid from tons of United States army cargo to 1oon-Canton Railway

before Mr. Latimer again yes-] diocese, together, with two ship to ahore and, as a British Shanghali aloop, hastily dispatched to inter

Last night. the hip was aground terday at Kowloon on charges Chinese fathers, were arrested

of assaulting and obstruoting cept the vessel hove into sight amidships on the edge of the break Det. Brts, Bo Kwong and Chang and all the movable property of for Nunking yesterday morning torday that Mr. Kwok, in his 16 minutes,

The "China Mail" learned yes- the immigrants disembarked in water with her bow in the Whang-Hong on November 26 in the the local Catholic Church and for

were loaded into poo and her stero in the Yangtse consultations with the talks with Sir Alexander, re- trucks and rushed inland. Chinese Government,

For quested that action on the evic-

the first time Hagana Mr. Kwok took with him a ton orders, sorved on the real members were in military dress, petition from the 14-man Com- dents concerned by the Public There had been no previous word milice of the "Po On County, Work Department be

that an illegut vessel was off the deferred Kowloon City Residents Associa pending discussion on the sub-ciated Press.

coast.--United Press and Assn. Ject at "higher level" --· ·pre- samably in Nanking and London. 8)

Meanwhile, the matter is deve loping into a political tabue with the "Kowloon City Residents Association" contending that

It is understood that the con- 'sultations with the Chinese Gov-

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MERRY XMAS FOR BRITISH MINERS

London, Dec. 4, over the old walled city desplie

Britain's miners are due for i the Hong Kong Government's bumper Chilamas, Day: pocket this declaration to the contrary in year. September last year when the The Coal Board officials hope that Po On County authorities had the back payment of Increase 13 planned set up a Chinese court shillings weekly for underground within Kowloon City today workers, to shillings for surface men. due from the first wirk in November

AIR WEDDING

Shanghai, Dec. 4.) The first wedding in; an @airplane will take place to- morrow..morning when Miss

to

́ Lee: Tan-hi will be married Mr. Chiang Lan÷SUIK aborrd : Dare Ninh bound plans,

Kowloon City Residents will go into paveloger, the Association yesterday dispatch week, before. Christmas wasa allan ed"a" "Your-man delegation to re- ~This means that? underground zmanjina port the matter to Magistrate will: draw: 85% in Extra and sucface Lam in Po On city.

Pa workers, 43, 108 Reuter

The Byears old bride room is a well-known mer- chant:: Mlad Lee, the bride,

premises of the KGB,

Hearing way adjourned to Satur day morning)

S.I. Scragge: prosecuted. Mr. P. A. L. Vine represented all the accused, who are on $500 bail encl

Kao Yin, unemployed, whom the prosecution alleged to be

of cloth," gave evidence,

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Beminary and school, takon away, the report added.--Reu- ter-AAP.

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