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1011 March
Zuth Feb. Mid Murch Late March READY
FROM UK.
DUE
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Discharging k/Wharf
U,K,
T.K.
U.K.
U.K,
SAILINGS
London, Antwerp
Kotterdam, Hamburg
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Mid March
Early Apr.
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York Building
Agents
Telephone: 34165.
THE DOUGLAS STEAMSHIP CO., LTD.
6.S.
HAIYANG
Sailing For Swatow
12.00 Noon, 23rd February
FROM DOUGLAS WHARF
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DOUGLAS LAPRAIK & CO.
General Managers.
P. & O. Bulld1ng, 6th floor. Tel. No. 31281
30
CHINESE SHIPPING DEPT.
20 Conbaught Road, Central Tel. No. 24689
BARBER WILHELMSEN LINE
M.V. "TIGRE"
LOADS 25th FEBRUARY 1948
for
NEW YORK via PANAMA calling at
Yokohama, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama
Boston, New York, Philadelphia & Baltimore
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FROM ATLANTIC & PACIFIC COAST.
ARRIVALS
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8.8, "CAPE JUNCTION"
about 13th March about early April
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ISBRANDTSEN CO., INC.
"FLYING
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FROM
SAILS
(Korea & Japan 'Manila, Kohslchang,
Ports
Singapore, U.S.A... via INDEPENDENT" Due 25th Feb. Poris. 26th Feb.
PATTISON & CO.
GENERAL AGENTS, CHINA, FORMOSA #“HONGKONG
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THE CHINA MALL, TUES DAY, FEBRUARY, 24, 1948.
PALESTINE JEWS SHOUTING FOR 'REVENGE ON BRITAIN Blame For Latest LABOUR PARTY REPORT
Bomb Outrage
Jerusalem, Feb. 22.
The toll of British killed and wounded in Jerusalem reached 20 tonight as Jews thronged the streets yelling revenge against the British, who they blamed for the bomb outrage which wrecked the Jewish Ben Yehuda Street, causing a death-roll-according to hospital reports-of
45. Rescue workers laboured under are lights and car headlamps tonight in the rubble of four-storey buildings over the 100-yard area blasted by a dynamite-packed lorry at dawn today.
As 1,000) then and women laboured') wierkage, from which
In the
badly injurd had already been taken to hospital, reports came of at- tacks on British wolliers and another heavy explosion wet the-sirras wail. ing ukai.
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Another
Five British salifiers died and six were wounded when their armoured inery was blown up by an electrient- by-detonated mine. Later British soldige was shot dead and seriously wounted while they were being treated le hospital for injuries received when their lory was blown
by a mine.
The gumman who entered the hos pital was believed to be a Jew.
"Murderers”
Tizice mote Hrish servicemen
killed when Jews mortared their billets in Jerusalem's Street a star Prophets,
Earlier today, in fighting which broke out immediately after she ex plosion teren"
two
Britain's
Struggle With Snow
London, Feb. 22. Temperatures in Southern England rose slightly today as snow- ploughs and road gangs continued their all-night struggle to open blocked roads and force a way to
when the cry "British mur-villages marooned in the
went up ang the angry
Royal Air Force men and severe snowstorms of the dier were
shot dead and alast three days. padre wounded when the Jews
A slow thow began in the PawitÇ British
**RISH | London area and the Southwest.
But there
Indications were more frost early tomorrow, mun. Ing and motorists were warned
treacherous to beware of
b eritien) did the situation become hat British troops and police whe had rushed to help in the reseve work bad the witdrawn for their www safety.
Three Arabs were killed and they
bols injured when three mortar fell on the Misharak quarter, behind Jerusalem's ventral prison, tonight.
Mystery Car Jewish fire directed at a police armoured rar was silenced when bige other armed police cars open
with Bren guns near the Jewish Agency, Intense sporadic fir- „ng cominued for some time.
Several Jews in the areas fringit he scent of the explosion wwere wounded and are was reported kill.
1 by gutsfire.
The Jews were convinced that the British were responsible, for', the Ben Yehuda Street outrage, the greatest
ince
the King David Hotel, British headquarters, was blasted on July 22, 1946, with the loss of more than 20 liver
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The police are searching for
moured car seen speeding fruta he scene of the explosion tesar. Stab villages along the Jaita Rad. Irgun Order
Mr.
to
faces.
of
sur-
The Air Ministry tonight'gave warning of gales round the south and east coasts.
In London, it was still freezing at midday but the mercury had climbed to 35 degrees Fahrenheit by 4.00 p.m., compared with 29 degrees yesterday, and remained
here for some hours.
Although there had been ከሳ snow at one point of the Nor folk coust foam from the reced- ing tide froze hard at midday.
In South Devonshire, milk froze in churns while awaiting collection by the roadside and on Dartmoor stocks af fodder were collected for transport to lonely parts of the Great Bleak Moor. where wild ponies congregate in bad weather.
Armoured cars, converted into
stranded.—Reuter.
of
ON MARSHALL PLAN
London, Feb. 22.
A report on the Marshall Plan has been drawn up by the International sub-committee of the Bri tish Labour Party as a basis for discussion at the conference of Socialist organisations of the 16 Marshall Plan nations to be held here to- wards the end of March.
The report, which will be and Western European Inter- considered and probably approv. | dependence. ed by the National Party
Door Open Executive this work, is under- It underlined the necessity of #tood lo call on, the Socialist teaving all doors open for the groups to give the lead by Soviet to take part in the gen- ndopting the Marshall Plan as
cral European settlement Mat an all to Europian unity and shull aid is described as indis- recovery, but to avoid any steps pensable if a disastrous Euro calculated to give the impres-pean situation is to be nvolded. alem of any military aligniment against the Soviet Union.
The recent International So clalist Conference at Antwerp called for such a report as a basis for discussion at the forthcoming talks,
The report conceden. the Unit- ed States right to know that aid is being properly used and t expect the necessary safeguards fer that object.
At the same time, It. reaffirms the right of European peoples The report, which may be n
to shape their own social and powerful instrument in shaping economic destiny and refects European policy, in understood any idea of the abandonment of dralare the British Labour Socialist policies as a condition. Party's recognition of Eastern of aid.
HAPSBURG PROPERTIES CONFISCATED
Boycott
The report, it is understood, assumes the exclusion of France Spata from Marshall aid.
The Labour Party is still firm In ita resolve to advise its mem- bers against participation in the European unity conferenco at The Hague in May, sponsored Budapest, Feb. 22. by Mr. Winston Churchill, lead-
Govern- The Hungarian
er of the Conservative Party ment has decided to take
and a British all-party commit- over all properties in the
tee. the country belonging to
·Hapsburg family. The Haps- Hungary burg estates in' have already been spliť up and handed over to peasant owners under the land re- form decrees of three years REO,
The new order therefore
that meand
castles and other buildings belonging..
former Austro-Hun- to the
to- .garian royal family.
gether with their valttable contents, will now pass to the State,Reuter.
Shinwell
Reply To Churchill
Durham, Feb. 22.
The Labour Party considera That this Churchili-inspired movement would not secure the support of all progressive cle- ments in Europe. Reuter.
COMMISSION IN ERITREA
Mogadishu, Feb, 22. The four-power commission which is visiting former Italian colonies to report on the ques- tion of their future control. finished its work in Somaliland today and left by air for Asmara, Eritrea, on the way to Luxor, Egypt.
The commission, which com- prises 27 members representing Britain, France, the United Stales, and Russia, has been in Africa since November.
It has now visited Eritrea and tailan Somaliland and will go later to Tripoli and Cyrenaica.→→ Reuter.
FLYING — BOATS
snowploughs, three times opened Mr Emanuel Shinwell, Minis- the road between Hope Valley ter of War and Chairman of the and Chapel-en-le Frith, in the Labour Party, replied in a speech Peak district Derbyshire.at Denthili, dear here, tonight to
taxis. _were_ Mr.Winston Churchill's_appeal. where couches and
to the Labour Party to join the Congress of European Unity at
. GROUNDED issued a joint statement tonight warn-The Hague next May,
Wellington, Feb, 22. "We doubt very much whether ing the Jewish community "not to complicate matters by taking the law Mr. Churchill's conference is Tasman Empire Airways in our own hands,"
truly representative and it eer-nounced today that, "In the in-"! The statement said Jewish in tainly cannot be regarded as nterests of public safety", all four "Commander in Chief Menahom stitutions were investigating today's platform for stating the Socialist rf. its Sandringham flying boats Helgin.
outrage and were-in contact with the view on the reconstruction of had been grounded, while the The Jewish Agency and the Jewish authorities and Jewish represenEurope,"
engines would be modifed. National Council Vas Leumi) tives abroad-Reutgi.
The Sandringham,
Guy Cox, the Exchange Telegraph corresponent in Palestier, who was earlier stay reported have been shot, died from injuries r
gived in a car crash, it was officially isported. He was 27,
Palestine now awaits Frgue Zval Leumi reprisals against the British which have
it heen unfered by
Britain Accused Of Partiality
Lake Success, Feb. 22.
The Jewish Agency for Palestine stated today that the British policy and administration in Pales- tine was strengthening the Arab attack on partition, weakening the Jewish defence and' Seriously threatening peace and security.
The Agency made thir charge, instary, as "untenable" as the "profen- Palestine a memorandum to the United Na- |-d British neutrality" in tiune Security Council.
The mentärandum · rejectest receni statements hy Str Alexander Cadogan, permanent British delegate to she Security Council, and Mr. Arthur Creech Jotter, Colonial Secre
Danish
fid not distinguish between aggren- for and victim.
the
The Palentine Government was hot", only, obtracting the Palestine Com nision but had also failed. In its obligation.
to maintain law, nemorandum, added.
The memorandum soid it appeared inevitable that, unless preventive ac• tion was taken internationally, there
■ fall-scals Arab, attack
Produce Ford be
the United Nations decision.'
Britain
Copenhagen, Feb. 22.
Denmark is to send → Bellkin butter, bacon and eggs--but at considerably higher prices under-a-new-trade agreement announced today by the Danish Office, star. AARD VELE MIN
In exchange Britain, will: deliver to Deninark minimum quanillier of Bd. tish exports, including coal, fron and
Denmark
Under
will be able to use segling |tain" "payments: "parside, the bloc, for example to buy fertilisers from Calle
The attack' would be sconger and the Jewish defence wesker as ■ direct consequence of the mandatory Gov- ernment's policy, and, administrative practice.
The Arabs were "powerfully en- couraged" in their fight by the aimosphere of tolerance and the relative impunity with which they have been able to operate. Reuter,
U. N. COMMISSION IN JERUSALEM
Peninsula
QUIS HOS SEPARADI
Oriental
STEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY
JEEP
"TREVAYLOR" “DILWAKA” "TERSILLIAN"" - "TRESILLIAN" “TREVELYAN" "TREVEAN" THEVOSE"
SELF
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"TRESILLIAN”
*TRESILLIAN”
"TREVELYAN” "TRAVEAN" "TREVOSE"
British
ARRIVALS
FROM
.U.K. via Straits „U.K. vis Btraite U.K, via Biralts- Japan UK. via Stralin .U.K. via Strálta „U.K. via 8traits
BAILINGS
TO
U.K. Continent via Siralls Karo
Shanghai & Japan. U.K, and Continent
vla Straits
Shanghai.
Shangbai
(Shanghai & Japan
DUE
5th Mar 5th Mar.
15th Apr.
15th ABT.
MAIL MAY
15th June
· BAILING
11th Mar.
7th Mar. 12th Mar.
11th Abr.
17th Apr.
18th May
17th June
India
STEAM NAVIGATION CO., LTD.
ARRIVALS
SHIP
"CASTLEUORE”
FROM „Japari SAILINGS
то
"CASTLEDORE”
SHIP
SHIP
"RANGOLA” "SANGOLA”
SEP
"SANGOLA" "SANGOLA”. **
„Kingapore. Penang, Colombo, Bombay
APCAR LINE
ARRIVALS
FROM-
Calcutta via "Straft Amoy & Shanghai-
SAILINGS
TO
Amoy & Shanghai „Calcutta via Straits flangoon & Madras
• Has Refrigerated Cargo Space.
Eastern
I
15
AUSTRALLES
DUE 24th Mar.
BAILING
15th Mar,
DUR
th.Mar. 17ih Mar.
SAILING
Tith Mhe.
zech Mar.
Australian
STEAMSHIP COMPANY LIMITED
saurs
"NELLORE" “NANKIN"
SIMP
"NELLORE"
an-
which Mr. Shinwell added his belief that even if the, European con- carry 500 passengers weekly be- ference produced united. views, tween Wellington and Tasmania, it would be "Inoffective"-Reu-nre powered with Pratt and Whitney engines,-Unltd. Press,
ter.
A BRITISH CROSS WORD PUZZLE
12.
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20
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120.
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20 Turn up
side down,
Jerusalem, Fek, 22. chen. It was" unofficially reported sterling | here that members of the United nitrogen Nations Palestine, Commission 1 Gone by lablbs,
„Trade talks between the two "tries) had been going on ever last September. They broke ever; Danish food
prices.
over, British" "déllyellës./
Denmark will, dallyros in Britai
10 per cent of her exportable surplu
bacon-Reuter
9 Clergyman: 24:Proportion. 11 Bocial5,25 Warde-off.
distinction,-26 Press, Pag 27 Writing M 12. Sincere..
15. Wash out, 28 Make-be- Secretariat arrived today, at Ke-13 Bainh
loved „Lindia: Airport, about eight miles
north ́"" of "Jerusalem.;
"bé" staying
They were
28. Crossword
Clues Down
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Incautious, 3 Golf.club. ..4 Straight="
forward.
5 Discourse
Come
down,
7 Revised.
10 Bum
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19 Freebooters.
17 F
19 Lay waste.
21, Uniform,
22 Genuine..
23 Emperor,
Penio, 29 Ellte, 10 Dappers: Treaty, 32 Melee.
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Prier ́s Raid, & Chatte, 1 Dreams,
$20 Foment 41 Replies 24 KianaA, 25
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Sandakan & Rabaul
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2nd Mar Early April
SAILING
4th Mar.
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Telephone Nos. 27721-4.
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STEAMSHIP
CORPORATION
MOBILE, ALA,U.S.A
Expected arrivals from U.S. Atlantic Ports:-
R.S. "PONCE DE LEON” ...
83. “LABALLF”
Insport
LOADING FOR U.S. ATLANTIC PORTS VIA BUEZ
B.S. "PONCE DE LEON"
NOW LOADING PAR
LOADING FOR U.S. ATLANTIC PORTS, VIA PANAMA”
6.6. "LA SALLE”.
· EARLY - MARCHI
For freight and further particulars · apply:
WALLEM & COMPANY
Agents.
Hongkong & Shanghai-Hank Bidz.
"Chinese" Freight, Agents!", HÌN FAT: à ́CO., LTD. Tel: 26453, 28828 Mʼ23453.
SAILING DIRECT FOR BANGKOK
S.S. "EMPIRE PARK”
LOADING 1st MARCH, 1948 SAILING 2nd MARCH 1948.
For freight, particulară, adply
JEBSHUN SHIPPING CO.
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