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THE CHINA MAIL, MON DAY, DECEMBER 29, 1947.

NEW YORK DIGGING OUT

Heaviest Snowfall

Picked The Wrong Man

ST. LOUIS, DEU, 23. THE POLICE SAID TODAY THAT A SLIGHT MISTAKE" PRE- IN IDENTIFICATION

Ever Recorded From Movie

30 Deaths From

1

Heart Failure

New York, Dec. 28.

New York looked like a ghost clý today as it struggled to dig itself out of the heavlest snowfall in its recorded history, which, it is estimated, will cost between $2,500,000 and $3,000,000 to clear away.

VENTED CHESTER WINKLER, At 47. FROM HIRING A GANG- STER TO KILL HIS WIFE

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least 30 people have died from the blizzard, most of them from heart failure brought on by over-exertion. Twelve of the fatalities were in New York itself.

Night life in New York itself wa

Producer Indicted

SHANGHAI, DEC. 28. THE HIGH COURT PROCUR ATE HAS FORMALLY INDICT ED FORMER SHANGHAI MOVIE TYCOON CHANG SHAN-KEWN ON CHARGES WITH OF COLLABORATION THE JAPANESE IN THE PRO. DUCTION OF ANTI-UNITED STATES AND ANTI-BRITISH

TION. FILMS DURING THE OCCUPA

Chang is currently reported to

indictment mentioned the pleuro "Upium War" depicting "British Imperialism in China."

The Procurate niso is investigat ing the case against saveral movie actore and actresses who starred in Japanese pictures,

The

the strangled by the blizzard and mabo in Hong Kong.

night clula had more staff that patrons prevent.

Web Equipments, Lampa (Him,

Rubber. Old Tools,

The police sald ho offered to Sewing Machine and Instru-

1 Teak Dining Room Sulte,

pay $3,000 for the job, but made l'arachute Harneas Chesterfield Sultes, Divans,

the offer to the wrong man.

Although snowfall had stopped in and sleigh to continue the vervier Wardrobes, Teleprinter Paper Tape, 2 Dressing Tables,

Tho

gangster" ho selected was Electric Welders with Beds, Dining Tables, Sideboarda, Police Detectivo James Ogden. New York, it still continued in many after cars has been stopped by the

is held on an open parts of five East Coast sintes extend-anow. Winkler Laurence Scott Generator Glass Cabinets, Chairs, Card

ing from the Canadian border, south Engine, Tables. Meadows

Babies charge. Hammocka,

nezake which Dhurries. Toole and Spares Bath, Perambulator,

Ogden said the polico learned af Washington, Billard

Odd Winkler contacted several "mem blizzard swept. Rugs, Equipment, Electric Balls, Carpets,

It was forecast that the fall Ground

bers of the anderworld" and ar- Equipment, Aircraft Instru- Tables, Portable Gramophone.

rendevous at his hotel, some parts of New England would rangs a

York's 50-centimetre ments and Components 1 Underwood Typewriter, Glast Ogden walked into the labby and xceed New Clothing, Aircraft Wheels Ware, Brass Ware and Tea Sets Winkler mistook him for one of nark. and Wheel Equipment, Aero Elc., Etc.

the gangsters.

Winkler then revealed a plan Engine Spares, Repairabl

"Just had to get rid of her."- United Press,

Term::

Generator Set and Switch On View from Monday, the 29th to kill his estranged wife because board. Feather Pillows December 1947. Spirit Levels, Radio Valves. Sextants Bubble, 24 Acro Engines and 1 Jeep & cwt, etc. heated at Sea Transport Office. Wellington Barracks, Hong Kong

1

Lorry

Canadian Ford 15 pwt, with 4 additional Tyre Cover

Loented at No. 7 Store, H.M.

Naval Dockyard, Hong Kong 3 Ariel Motor Cycles

AB Customary.

LAMMERT BROS.. Auctioneera,

CHINA UNDERWRITERS, LIMITED

Loan Credits Running Out

Washington, Dec. 23. The Just of Britain's credit: tr:m the $3,750,000,000 United Stated Joon would be exhauste, ur sedner, officials In 90 days Anid today.

The 1rtasurles of bath countr ies were studying means of keep. ing Britain gang until the Mar- shall Plan oid became available, they added.

NOTICE is hereby given that the Located at Naval Stores Shed, Nineteenth

They expressed fears that the Annual Ordinary Taikoo Sugar Refinery. Hong General Meeting of Shareholders present political situation in the the pro Kong

of China Underwriters, Limited, United Stated with

election sidential

pressing might provoke debates which 1 Ford 15 cwt, and 1 Bedford will be held at the Offices of

b.id the Company, 4A. Des Voeux would

up the legisinilon Road Central, Hong Kong, on authorising aid to Europe beyond

of March 31.-Rruter. 30th day becaled at N. S. Main Office Tuesday, the

Dockyard, December, 1947, at noon for the Compound, H.M.

purpose of receiving the Report | Hong Kong

of the Board of Directors and a

(M. W.) 15 cwt.

1 Ford 15 cwt..

3 Chevrolet Statement of Accounts for the

15 ewl, 10 Hillman Saloon, year

ended 31st December,

22 Jeep & cwt. ang & Humber 1946 and of electing Directors

U/T.

Located at China Fleet Club

Compound, Hong Kong

3 Hillman Saloon

Permits to view. Catalogues and Speelal Condition of Sale

and Auditors.

By order of the Board of Directors,

HERBERT R. STURT, Managing Director.

te. May be obtained frog Hong Kong, 20th Dec., 1947. Messra. Lammert Brothers.

Inspection of Vehicles, Acro Engines and Stores at the above forations can be made between

The houra

9.30 n.m.

and

12 on and between 2.00 p.m.

and 4 pm on 29th. and 30th. December 1947.

Terms: 50% of the Purchase Money to be paid on the Fall

THE HONGKONG & KOWLOON WHARF & GODOWN CO., LTD.

NEW ISSUE OF SHARES.

Shareholders

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to be paid by 2nd, January 1948.gue the closing date for accep

In

New York papers have been given permission to deliver their editions by underground railway because car

The city or are not able to run. dinance normally inthis the use of the underground system for mercial purposes.

coni.

New Yorkers returning to work to day after the Christmas holidays were struggling their way through 20 inches of snow which fell yester day and last night. Rail and motor ommunications and harbour facilities were brought to almost a standstill sad the Intent reports said that torm was continuing unabated with degrees Fahrenheit.

Trains Help Up

New York Air Traffic Control said

th that no planes had been able to land at La Guardia Airport since blizzard began early yesterday Three plase loads of passenger spent the night at La Guardia cause it was impossible to take them

o hotels,

be

Thousand of New Yorkers passed the night huddled in cold trains that had been held up in the suburbs or slept or railway stations and has de- Pots

A train carrying 400 passengers on a 10-kilometre journey to Flasin which left New York at 10 p.m. loss

Both Chang and the players are currently active in movie work in Shanghai and Hong Kong- United Press

XMAS TYPHOID EPIDEMIC

Paris, Dec. 28. The three-weeks old typhoid fever epidemic in the depart

SHIP SUNK BY MINE

The Hague, Dec. 28 Twenty-four out of

(1,950

the

1t

An K-

to have

25 men on board the Nor- wegian ship "Bkohang

tous) died when Rank off the Dutch coast

after yesterday

bolloved plosion, been caused by a mine.

The survivor, Arnt Rok- ker, today hold how the ex- plosion rocked the whip, which was carrying coal to Oslo, at about 2.00 a..

With six others he tried to reach the coast in a leak- Ing boat, but five of them were washed overboard, and the sixth died of exposure, Two Dutch Hieboats search- ed all day yesterday without finding any mare survivors. -Reuter.

Hunt For Shelter Killer

were

north

London, Dec. 28.

of Flying Squad cars the Metropolitan Police searching London today for the man they wish to see in connection with the death of eight-year-old Ronald James Varley.

Rinald's body was found last he temperature hovering around 26 night, arrived within sight of its de- ment of Belfort, in eastern een-night in a disused air raid shelter

tral France, marred Christmas only 200 metres from his hom celebrations.

in Holloway, London. Deaths from the epidemic! The boy apparently had been

strangled. have now reached ten.

There have been 70 since the epidemic broke out to Dec. 7, mostly In the little Lownship of Beaucourt, the site of a large typewriter factory-William Varity, who

Deaths From Fatigue The city had 10,000 men operating ploughs, 50 motorised 20 Mo brous and 100 sand spreaders, ba snow fell faster than they could fear it away. Four workers died of fatigue.

The Queen Mary, due to sail for Briain yesterday, pastpanied her de parture until today.

Some railways running out of the it were suspended and even some! way trains stalled by snow

track.

H.M.S. ST. GEORGE were series of

CLOSED

in

Motor buses jammed with

thr

foot-

weary passenger crawled at half a mile an hour.

dination at 8 a.m. this morning. The passengers had to walk the last bit on foot.

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Only right ambulances were operat- ing in Brooklyn, which has a pulation of icarly 3,000,000. entire bus service was paralysed, a'l the 840 buses on the 13 lines of the New York City Omnibus Company and Fifth Avenue Coach Company being nut of service-Renter.

Reuter.

C&A CS

SEVEN U.S. "MISTAKES"

IN POST-WAR POLICY

Portsmouth, Dec. 28. Because of the reduction

Two out of three people pinned the training under a glass and steel canopy out Mr. naval strength, establishment of H.M.S. St.side a Manhattan cinema which col. George at Gosport has been lapsed under a load of snow crawled closed and new entrants to the out 70 minutes later unhurt, Royal Navy will H.M.S. Raleigh at Devonport

now go

and other establishments.

to

"Missing" Buses

The third victim was taken

pavements

Ca

OF

New York, Dec. 28. Sumner Welles today declared that Russla has decided upon a policy of aggressive expan- sion and if she is allowed to dominate Europe, the Near East and the Far East, there will not be safety for the people of the United States. The former Under-Secretary of State listed seven "mistakes" the United States had made in post-war world politics.

A Domestic

eventually provoke head-on colli Matter?

The mon was understood to have been playing with children in the neighbourhood last night. Ronald was sent out on an for his father, Fred wrks t errand the Springfield, Atom Research Plant of the Ministry of Supply. near Preston.

When the boy failed to relura home after several hours his BOXIOUS relatives searched th** streets and his body was found by the boy's uncle-Reuter.

DEATH SENTENCE

Madrid, Dze. 28. Augustin Zaron, considered to be Spain's Number One Com- munist leader, and four others have been sentenced to death, and are likely to be executed

BOON.

Zorca went on trial last week In 1940, the Admiralty took hospital injured after police had cu the wreckage away with oxyacetylene

before a military court. The ver the barracks at Gosport, inrches.

principal charges against him which had been occupied by the Piles of rubbish, as well as luge

letter were accumulating

They include failure of Unit-

were possession of a because dustmered States policy in China to check

brorghi from general head- and in 1945 commissioned them the Army for more than 100 years, snowdrifts,

quartera of the French Com- as a training establishment fcr were uff duty on Christmas Day, and the civil war, which is ruining yesterday dust lorries were pressed China and "which threatens to

munist Party, possession of ex- new entries,

plosives and direction of Com- The barracks are to go back in service as snow ploughs.

were sion between American and Rus- Among the traffic casualties

muniat activities in Spain as to the War Office.--Reuter.

2,000 men which company officiasian interests in Asia."

Wolles said. "So long as the

Lake Success, Dec. 28. Sterclary General of the Party. listed **

their "missing" which

Soviet Government persists in its

Unless Greece's northern neigh-Associated Press. whereabouts was temporarily บร Anown, A Brooklyn from that provide prorent policy there is no basis bours officially recognized the new a motor car service to get expactant without such

for Russian American cooperation. Greek "guerilla government", the cooperation the United Nations Security Counell haltingly and weakly

Council circles domestic matter, Welles listed other mistakes" sald today. 1. Fallure to persuade the Al-

The Greek Government announc lies to agree on pence settlements, ed yesterday that the formation particularly upon long-range of the rebel government, promul policy toward Germany, before gated by the Greck guerilla lead- General Markos, on Dec. 24, victory had been won

2. Failure to use the leverage bad been called to the attention 2 given by lend lease and military of the United Nations Secretariat

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purchase

of surplus vehicles, plant, scrap, etc., now lying in H.M. Dockyard, Hong Kong.

They Hoarded

Applications for particulars and Cigarettes Forms of tenders, may be made

Moscow, Dec. 28.

to ten years' im-

charges

1

er,

AJ a

January, arding cigarettes before the re superiority to make such that the Lake Council circles said

Allies would abide by the Atlon tic Charter.

Pressure Tactics

8. Failure to agree with the Allies before VJ-Day on the post war programme of economie re construction.

Security

IN WRITING to the Superin- A. Moscow court has sentenced Lending Civil Engineer, H.M. two women Dockyard, Hong Kong, not later prisonment each on

at 6th than Tuesday,

cant rouble note exchange with 1948.

about they had no information a view to selling them afterwards

whether the Athons Government Tenders will be required to be with considerabio profit.

intended to bring formal com The accused were Madamu submitted not later than Friday, Trifonova, a store manager, and

plaints against Yugoslavia, Bul. her friend Madame Loginova.

garia and Albania for alleged ald 16th January, 1948.

They bought 1,582 packets

to the rebels. The Security Coun ell will meet on Tuesday for the cigarettes valued at 8,400 roubles n the old currency and hid them

ashed, intending to risell 4. Adoption of political and Inst time this year, and at this last meeting, Brazil, Australia them for the same price in now. economic pressure tactics towards and Poland will leave the Coun- other nations in Western cil and be replaced by Argentina, roubles,

Canada and the Ukraine. the news-Hemisphere. Reporting the case,

Moscow Bolshevik said: 6. Failure to consult France only active item on the agenda popor

This deal was nothing but the as to the policy toward Germany, now is the Indonesian question, embezzlement of State funds withthus gravely weakening ties bo bat a fall-dress Palestino debate States and by the now Counell is expected the purpose of persinal enrich-tween the United

Western Europe."

In January-Router. ment.

6. Failure to recognize

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Anti-Red Outburst

· In Ankara

Ankara, Dec. 28.

statutory declaration in support An anti-Communist crowd estimated at 10,000

and the exhibit thereto may be Inspected at the Company's Re- gistered Office, York Buliding. first floor, or at the office of the Registrar of Companies on pay. ment of the prescribed fee.

today forced the resignation of five univer- sity professors in a demonstration which led

Tho

JUMP TO ESCAPE FLAMES

The Hague, Dec. 28. Two men leapt from a third four window when the Grand Hotel in Charleroi, southern Bel- glum, caught fire, the Netherlands Press Agency reported today. They were picked up serlously in- jured on the pavement.

The men were Arpadt Toth of Vienna, trainer of tho "First Vienna football team which yes. terday played a local side hare, Several other people countant. were injured by the flames which started in the basement and gut.

to a battle with police and firemen who block-..and Leon Krensch, a Belgian ac-

ed the demonstrators from the Russian Em- bassy.

The demonstrations secured the for a nearby university where

th

itted the hotel-Reuter,

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All persons who claim to be tismissal of four members of the members smashed windows and rush entitled to be registered as share Ankara University faculty and the ed for, the Dean's office where

of the Dean, Borket faculty meeting was in progress. holders but whose names do not resignation

The Dean announced to them tha appear in the aforesaid exhibit Aziz Kansu,.

four suspected faculty members bad are required to notify the com- The demonstration was under the bren dimlased and several studente pany of their full names and leadership of the anti-Communist Na shouted, "The Dean is a Communist."

claim and the ionalist.

They diagred the dean to addresses their

League, who Seudcats evidence upon which it is based gathered a crowd in an Ankara sub-street where some 500 police

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Communlam streets were literally fooded banners - depounding Dated the 16th day of Decem mong university teachers, and also several persons suffered minor

Premier Jueles, the Dean broke loose denouncini Bulgaria's { ber, 1947..

He immediately started abouing Dimitrov, gainios sumbers and pas (Brd.) F.E. d'Almada Remedios,

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