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Readers' Letters

Conflict-

[admits that tho abuses of the Sir In your leading article, aystem are such that the Gog- entitled "Doctors', Plebiscite," Srnment must seriously consider published In your fasue of altering it. But you, without February 20th, you say, of the giving any supporting evidence, British National Health Service state, dogmatically, that the Act,” A similar, system has long New Zealand nehome bas been been operating in New Zealand, “Arémendously popular and suc- and has been tremendously po- reesťul.” „pular and successful. There I suggest that your readera be ́nd reason why................equal suc- now, allowed to draw their own

ceas should not attend its (the conclusions. British scheme's) introduction in Britain,

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politick!

writer on

-J.-MASSON-FORESTIER-

Note to

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the

Chinese

A case in point is the "Sing Tan Wan Pau" (which I understand longs to Mr. Au Boon-haw) which

that: Feb. 14 asserted

walled City of Kowloon together "When representatives of the

Iron Ore From Hainan

Shanghai, Feb. 22. Two hundred and fifty thousand tons of iron ore will be shipped from Yoling Harbour, Hatan Island, during the next six 'mantha, Four large Chinese shipping flems have contracted to haul the vital ore to Jap- anese ports. Associated Press,

Personalia

.

Mr. and Mrs, ̧À, 1. Cash are sail. Ing on furlough in the . Canton

his afternoon.

TRADE ARBITRATION New Body Set Up In Shanghai Americans Taking Self-Styled

Keen

Interest

Shanghai, Feb. 22. In addition to settling amicably trade disputes among Chinese merchants, the China Na- tional Trade Arbitration Association, which was inaugurated here, yesterday afternoon at a meeting attended by 60 leading personalitles here (Including representatives of the Ameri- can Consulate General and Chamber of Com- merce) will also" attempt' to fron out differ- ences between Chinese and American businessmen, it was learned today.

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Colony Responds

To Warm Weather

For the last two weeks the weather has betrayed symptoms, somewhat 'heralding the approach of Spring.

The mercury' has been rising in the, Reason for the warm weather in with the family of Chu Pui-tong, |«cafe, reaching peak temperature that the anti-cyclone over China ba vited Chu Pui-tong ami Lau yesterday at 71.8 degrees (Saturday seen less Intense than harmat for th: Ngai-fu in Stanley Prison yesterday 78.31. This has come shortly after time of the year and the air reaching morning, they noted that Lau had a cold spell, the cultes of the winter, Hong Kong has probably come from been beaten up, causing a swollen when 33.8, the lowest temperature for over the comparatively warm sea face, and that Chu has un several January since 1917 was registered. south of Japan. Whereas during the occasions vomited blood."

January "freeze period" the air had come motc or less directly from Eastern Siberia and Manchuria,

TE is expected, however, the weather will gradually brewine cooler in the next few days.

An official denial that either pri-

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Sky Merchant Arriving

Nephew Of Gandhi

Las Cruces, N.M. Feb. 21.

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A self-styled nephew of the late Mohandas K. Gandhi and Today, Tho would end hli

nounced 32-day fant here to marrow-11 days short of his goal.

Mohammed Kelfel Den, 47. who claims that' Gandhi's wife in his aunt, explained he be- came too weak to work, with the result he was forced to end his

In a brief sperch explaining [fast. He said he has not touch- the purpose of the body, Dr. ed food or drink other than Kin Wei-sha, Secretary of the water since Gandhi started his Association, said that on early fast last Januądy 23.

as October, 1945, the United Den asserted he lost 19 lb. States Government had Rug. 21 days and now weighs 136 gcated that a Sino-American b. He began the fast through trade orbitration committee be loyalty to Gandhi's ideals.—— established to settle trade dis- United Press,

potea..

TRADE ACCORD

Paris, Feb. 21,

Dr. Kin declared the sign fieance of this Association is); not only national but also in- A commercial protocol, valid ternational," as it together for alx" months and providing with American arbitration or for the interchange of producta ganizations, will set up a joint between haly and the French association for the peaceful set-occupation zene in Germay was tement of differences among signed here today, Italy wi the businessmen of the two nu- send to France vegetables and- tions,

industrial and ngricultural products and receive from France fron. wood, chemicala and machinery-Reuter.

U.S. Representatives Practically

You will not deny your read. Criminal Libel ars, the pleasure of saying' tu SirThe maliciously anti-British themselves, **Audi vimus auitude of a section of the Chinese Passengers who departed, from alteram pestem." Let them. Press in Hong Kong was undauftedly | Hongkong yesterday for Bangkok by then, rend this account which largely responsible for the mob our

K Pan American Clipper were was recently published, in one rage at bhameen, when British official William H. Claassen and Mr. Cam of the world's leading medicaled and burnt. It was commented on. and commercial properties were loot

bell Obard journals, by Sir Ernest Graham the case of the "National Times Little, dermatologist, member of which it is understood receives Parliament, and well known subsidy from the Kuomintang thr

medical predominnur Party

Governmen" (and whose publisher "This system, was in New stated to be a member of the Cen Zealand.....instituted by the tral Executive Commitee of that labour Government and has been a Nanking. But no steps have in the British Government's in operation fur len Tears. To

ligen taken to cope with the maliciou Since the war the system has defamation at the Hong Kong Gar been fully reviewed in theerament by local Chinese journais. House of Represéntatives, and almost universal dissatisfaction with it has been expressed. The complaint was made that it is common practice for physicians operating the health services to andestake treatment of an im- possible number of patients and to rush them through #1 the rate of every Ave minutes. 15 the diagnosis is not conclusive the patients are sent to the pub. lie hospitals, which are conse quently filled with trivial cases,oner had been beaten up or was crowding out serious cases, toys later, with the result

vomiting blood, was published a few prime minister, who had a large another journal, the "Wah Shiang founding the scheme. Pao" on the 20th instant, headed this part in was so shaken by the evidence denial "Got Fat or Got Swollen?" that he said: "If patients art and complained that "their original big treated like sheep passing body weights had Bot been men through a dip, without propertioned"

Naw both these statements are overhaul, the matter should be

eriaus libels on the gaol authorities, Inveallynted." In a subsequent debate the minister of health and suggest, the matter ought not to be allowed to rest with a formal admitted that the abuses of the denial, which is scoffed by at least 4 when it lands at approximately system were such that the Gov-one of the Chinese journals. Whew o'clock, will be local execu-husta Drill for the hot weather in ernment must seriously consider does not the Attorney General indictives of the Standard-Vacuum various colours can be seen among

for Oll Co., associate the editors of these papers altering it.

of the Urm he winter clothes, which are now "Other criticisms have been Crin

Criminal Libel, and thus put to a sponsoring the history-makingeilling far below the ceilings reached made. For instance it is contest the right of the local Chinese fight.

during the mid-winter period, tended that while state doctors als authorities? It has been held minute aviation devices, the Atlas

malign and define the Bri

Carrying the latest up-to-the draw extravagent incomes from that an indictment for Criminal Libel Sky Merchant has on The Aucial security fund, it is can lie where a class (het indefinite) complete

bard display of the Diocese

of Allas extremely difficult to secure any such as "the clergy of the medical attention outside Durham" er "the Justices of the automotive and aviation products. business hours

Mr. F. H. Bedford, Jr., Prest- Peace for the Cour during Peace for

of Middlesex" County of

Chan Tal-mul is 26-year-old of the Atlas Supply Co., the week end. There

In is has been defamed. this case it

shore this novel way of introduc- married woman who assisted in her sald to be a definite falling can hardly be denied that the Com

husband's efforts to maintain thr elf in the standard of medical have been seriously libelled, and t

missioner and staff of Stanley Prison ng his Company's products to family by hawking vegetables at

the world, as well as beerning salyeungchol Street, Mung Kut practice. from both the ethical would be a salutary lesson to the

ante-natal and the clinical points of view. local Chinese Press if appropriate Hong Kong.

Jexaminations. The absence of incentive to 'un-

It is to be doubted action were taken.

During the Atlas Sky Mer-that she would be interested, even if dertake the prolonged training|

FIAT JUSTITIA,

chant's stay in Hong Kong, Mr.she knew, for her life was one round to qualify for the states of ape-

Brdford and the other American of hanking from day to day. cialist has resulted in a serious

ROBBED OF RIFLES | business representatives will Between 10 am and 11 a.m. yes-

Shanghai, Feb. 22. dearth of skilled physicians and

Two village guards on duly in meet Hong Kong businessterday, the war on her ususi pitch President Chiang Kai-shek's surgeons and consequent dis the Ta Ku-ling district near the leaders,

when a Hawker's Squad came on the residence and military hend- couragement of both medical border had their rilles forcibly

The plane leaves for Shanghai crne and touk her, with several quarters in Chungking will be research and postgraduate taken by a gang of armied men Nanking and Feiping before pro-

Friday, and will also visit others, into custody.

one of four model children's Soon after her arrival

Mong At study."

on Saturday 'night.

Kok Police Station, Chan Tai-mcentres for Chinese orphans, -The New-Zealand-Prime. Min- The gang numbering about 20 ceeding to Tokyo on March 4........ ister astmita that this scheme was seen upproaching the pist.

American business representa complained of pains. She was in according to Dr. and Mra, J. R.

mediately rushed to Kowloon Hospi Saunders, of the plane, In may have caused patients to be In reply to a challenge by the addition to Mr. Bedford, include: tal and admitted to the Maternity Orlent Eriendship, who arrived

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treated like sheeps being passed guards to stop, some of the men throught a sheep dip, and the produced revolvers and forced. New Zealand Minister of Health the guards to give up their rifies

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Virmally overnight. the colour cheme in Bong Kong changed, with The Atlas Sky Merchant, car-here and there, "Alaka" Hawaiian rying ten American businessmen poris shirts among the usual for on a world marketing survey, is The veinter" styles. Shorts and long scheduled to land ut Kal Tak on hose have replaced the heavyweight Wednesday.

In the Colony's

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summer kit is on sale al

of all classes local trade and industrial cir cla were represented nt the convention yesterday while of ficial gutata included Mr. Bland Calder, American Commercin]

MANY PEOPLE OFTEN SUFFER

from EXCESS

"blackmarket Attache, and Mr. Robert Bryan, STOMACH Meeting the four-engined shirts and white-dzill American Chamber of

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representative of. the local

merce.

Com-

Mr. Calder praised the for- mation of the new organization which, he said, would go a long. way towards the promotion of international business and goal. w. He pledged the whole- hearted support of the United) States authorities for the Asso- ciation.-Reuter.

acquainted with businessmen in She knows nothing of Orphans Homes

on

lives arriving on the

J. E. Pertonhelmer, Vice-Pre- Her baby will be born amid the sent and General Manager; clean and hygienic surroundings of a K. B. Holgale, Export Manager, comparatively modern hospital, ond J. J. Hall Director of Publie lust in the squalid atmosphere of 'a Relations, Allas, Supply Co. Chinese resement.

E. E. Aldrin, Aviation Techni-

col Manager,

of Atlas; D. C. James of Stemez. Inc. Brilish affiliate of Stanco, Inc., and Stanley Kamerick, Atlas Repre sentative in the Far East.

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D. F. Davis Public Relations;

G. Heberlein, Process Pro ducts, Specialties and Liquefied Petroleum Gas, Standard-Vacuum OII Co.

ST. JOSEPH'S

DANCE

An enjoyable evening ̃ü assured at the Club Lusitano tomorrow (Tues- day) when the St. Joseph's Football Club will be holding their dance.

Guests of the 'evening 'will' be 'the members of the Manila fantball team.

Music will be supplied by Ray. L. E. Brown, Standard Oil Co.will be from 3.p.m. to 1 am, or after.

mond Lui and his band and dancing. of New Jersey.

RITA HAYWORTH OFFENDS

The remaining 15 alleged became so weak that they could Japanese war criminals, who no longer work. When the are charged with war crimes war ended in Aug. 1945, it was}- committed on: Hainan Island just like lightning from a clear. between Nov. 1942 and Aug. sky, not only to the POWs, but, 1945, were found to have a case to the Japanese. The end of to 'answer and will give the war meant escape from evidence, on oath, in their own death. The whole Island was defence.

at that time on atarvation tives сл the Motion Picture cations.

Board after a Catholle Youth

Madrid, Feb. 22. -- Two Capuchin priests resigned today as the Church representa-

The demand for tickets has been great and those wihing to attend are advised to obtain tickets early 'from any member of the football or softball frame of the Qlitb..

Reminders

Today TOMORROW

· No. 1 Australian War Crimes The first accused to enter Organisation bad raided movie Emergency Sub-Commitice meet- Court, before which the trial is the witnesses box Was Vice houses, throwing a Rita Hay-¦" ing, H.K. Football Associa- taking place, comprises Lieut. Admiral Tahara Suzumi, who worth picture out of the win-¦ tion, 5.30 p.m. Col. H. G. Guinn, DSO, E.D. said that in 1944, British and dows.

Whin Drive, * European YMCA, (President)-Lieut. Col. J. Americanaubmarines became The picture was one of the 8 pm.” Brock (Judge Advocate), with so active that all Japanese ship greatest box office successes Dinner in honour of Manila. In- Major N. McLeod and Lout Rping in the Hainan arca had here in many years bill was terport Players Filipino Carter sitting as Members. Licen quak.

objected to by Catholics, because Club, King's 'Fark,+7/ņâu/ Major Grant Melatyre, Aug-9.30.a.m. tomorrow.

Hearing will be resumed at of Miss Hayworth's" dances—|Interpor), Golf" Malch: "Manlia y,

United Press.

Hong Kong, Fanling. tralien Division, SCAP. (GHQ), Tokyo,, is conducting the pro-

secution,

Laso there with Majer 1. THE WHISKERS CLUB

Sostet. Advisory Officer, is uppearing for the defence.

In his opening address for the defence, Isso Inoue, sald

·|-that--at-the-end-of—1944,——all- | shipping from Japan had been sunk and owing to "hunger, "all mber of the Japanese balt

China Const. Navigation & En- Yinest Offcers Guild - Union.

Bigg, pm.

Coming Events

DESTUESDAY.

Rotary Club Luncheon, talk

Internatiorial- Pence by Robf

Garden HE Hotel, 12.30 நட்

honcur of Manila In Boccer Teams," HE Cafeteria, & pa

har Football Club Dance. lnb Club 9 pa

fance to St.

In China

North

American

in Stanghal from the United States on the way to Chungking. Four centrea situated in Kwangtung, Canton, Shanghat and Chungking, will be developed simultaneously at a total cost of US$2,000,000 which is the goal of the current financial drive in America and China Reuter.

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ST. JOSEPH'S FOOTBALL CLUB

DANCE

TO BE HELD AT THE LUSITANO CLUB

(By kind permission)

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TUESDAY FEBRUARY 24th 1948

From 9 pm to 1 a.m.

(Ladles by Courtesy)

Musle by Raymond Lui & hin Band

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Any Member of the Football or. Softball teams

COMING TO THE LEE THEATRE

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