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No. 33908.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG,, MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1948.
PALESTINE TRAIN OUTRAGE Twenty-Five British Soldiers Killed In Blast
Nineteen Die Three Carriages
In Explosion
Nineteen of the 21
crew
of a Chinese steam launch, "Sun Winx On," were killed on Saturday when the buller of the craft burst while the Nip was towing a passen- ger Junk from* Kongmoon to Kung Yik, a village port in the Peart River delta,
reported from Macao
was
yesterday,
None of the DARKENKETS [1] the junk wero hurt. Seventeen of the launch's crew were killed outright. Two died Inter in hospital,
Canton Raid On Speculators
What is believed to be South China's
Shattered
Jerusalem, Feb. 29.
A train was blown up today two kilometres north of Rehovoth, and more than 25 British soldiers were killed.
Three carriages of the train, running from Haifa to Cairo, were shattered by the explosions. Cra- ters showed that electrically detonated mines had been so spaced that one would explode under each coach.
I
The explosions flung wood and torn up rulls hundreds of yards. The mines were planted only few miles from the bar. racks at Sarafand, the largest military depot in the Middle Enst.
The train was on its normal run and usually contains three conches reserved for military.
with soldiers,
Dr. Lapp As Prophet Of Woe
These coaches were crammed Washington, Feb. 29.
Virtually all cities in First to arrive on the scene the United States offer were Hagana scouts who start- mained pulling the dead and injured "lush" targets for atom coacher bombs, but, to the scien- centre out of the splintered
and treating the wounded.. tific mind of Dr. R. E.
Two of the three coaches were
Lapp, a leading atomic blown to pieces.
communications for gold and foreign cur- rency manipulators was raided by Canton's secret economic police on Sat- urday, according to press despatches from the Kwangtung capital yes- terday.
When the police broke into a flat on Tung Man Road, they found more than 10 telephones, a battery of the latest types of of radio receiving and trans- mitting sets, and a consider- able number of documents.
A Red Cross convoy was din scientist, Washington is patched to the wreck and the most tempting of all. several hundred troops have
.
Dope Ring Broken In Shanghai
Bhanghai, Feb. 29.
The smashing of a gigantic dope smuggling ring operating between Shanghai, Wuhai and Nanking was reported today hy the C.I.D. of the Shanghal Police.
The report stated that the ring-leaders, numbering 22, had; been arrested.
Among them were Hsieh Chiang-yung (a Talwanese) and Lin Huan-ming (a Korean). These two were said to be ther brains of the ring. The dope
was transported in airplanes or coastal steamera plying between Korean porta and China.
Drugs seized by the Shanghai 'police included 797 ounces of morphine, 649 taels of oplum and 021 ounces of cocaine. The report gave the amount of cash captured from the dope peddlers CNC$270,000,000, with 22 ounces of gold.-Central News.
32 Arrests
AS
Shanghai, Feb. 29 Thirty-two persons were arrestert joined in the rescue work with missioned by the Army to inves-worth CN$6,000,000,000 were seized Dr. Lapp was specially com- and nearly 1,500 aunces of narcoties, the Hagana acouta.
of an atomic as the local police smashed one of A government atatement said "gate the effects
attack on Washington, and his the largest nationwide drug manu- the train was en routa from report makes grim and uncomcording to a police disclosure yester
facturing and trafficking rings, ac- Haita to Egypt. The troops fortable reading to any resident aboard were believed to lat
of the capital. withdrawing from Palestine in line with the Britain decision to quit the Holy Landı-
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OUR OF THEM GUATEMALA PROTESTS Guerilla
BRITISH MEASURES
Following the shelling of Salonika by guerillas earlier this month, the Greek Army in a two-day drive inflicted heavy casualties and took more than 200 prisoners, Including several women, Above, you SEO one of them. . (Á, P. Photo)
DEMOCRACY ON TRIAL
IN HONDURAS SINGAPORE'S
FALL
Lake Success, Feb. 28.
Guatemala formally protested to the United Nations today against the presence of British cruisers in "Guatemalan ́ter- ritory".
will
London, Feb. 28. Tho “Sunday Plotorial" said tonight that gullt for the fall of Singapore "Iles with thoan who had not the foresight to be ready-years in advance-for any oven- tuality."
"Foolish statements were made (before the war) with a view to bluffing Japan," the "Pictorial” said, "They only succeeded in bluffing the English people."—As- sociated Press.
Bose Nephews Arrested
Calcutta, Feb. 29. Two nephews, of Subhas
A telegram to M. Trygve cruiser Devonshire will arrive Lie,
- the
Secretary-General, tomorrow morning and from the Guatemalan 'Foreign land troops about midday. Minister, said: “I have the Antarctic Storm honour to submit to the United The Admiralty disclosed lant Nations the formal denunciation night that the cruiser Nigeria by my government of the arm- and the sloop Snipo were ed provocation of Great slightly demaged in a henvy Britain, who has sent to the storm, which swept the Falk. Guatemalan territory of Belize land Islands area last Wednes the cruisers Sheffield, Devon- day with winds up to 100 knots.
the shire and Sparrow under
The Nigeria had to fight its pretext of "protecting interests way through 60 knot gales to threatened by Irresponsible reach Port Stanley for shelter crowds, invited by Guatemala."when the storm broke abruptly. "This Government is malo One boat, carried 20 feet above taining ita serens objection in the waterline, was smashed by Chandra Bose, who headed the
and the juridical field, and emphati- the giant waves
minor "Free India Government" in cally dentes the offensive damage was done to the upper Burma during the war, wore charge of incitement, and deck.
arrested by the police at their forcefully protests the presence The Snipe snapped her an-home today in connection with of these warships, Guatemala chor when 100 knot winds the incident on Friday in which awaits the action of the United struck her at one of the Falk- bombs were thrown and shots Nations in defence of justice." land out-stations. She put to fired at a reception to tha
Still Strong
sea to ride out the storm and South East Asia Youth Con- Lord Woolton, speaking of then returned to
theference delegates. the
A Falkland Ialanda
number of local and anchor.
were aboard at the British Honduras, said in a residents speech at Leeds yesterday the time. "British people are
Both ships are now at Port atill strong."
Stanley.-United Press, Router The
Argentine, Chile and and Associated Press. Guatemala should remember this", and Lord Woolton, who is Chairman of the Conserva- tive Party,
recover
The arrested men are Arabindo Bose, President of the two All-India student Con greases; and his brother, Ranjit Bose. Reuter,
"Purge' Warning In Czechoslovakia
Prague, Feb. 28.
"The foreigners will make a profound: mistake if they, thinke that as a nation we have lost our pride, our valour or that we will allow party différences "For an aggressor not to attack and 23 ounces of gold were; con- | essence, for adulterating" "Ché" drags.
to divido un as a cation in the ids critical city-would be a mili-Ricated.
London, Feb. 29... face of any aggressor, The Communist Premier, Klement Gottwald to- tary blunder of the worst type," The arrested persons include two
Woolton said. The fate of democracy
day threatened a merciless war on “agents of The documents showed-that
Koreans. The majority of them were under the stress of post-
Digging In a hypothetical attack, Dr. lending luxurious lives here
domestic and foreign reaction" and said there the activities of the gold bul
"British Marines and blue! Ilon
were going to be "thorough-going" changes in and foreign
The Army's latest reports Lapp takes a point on the Poto the police started their swoop. currency
war problems was dis-jackets from the cruiser: Shof- racketeers covered Hong Kong. showed that in addition to the mac River, in the heart of They lived in pretentious mansioncussed by two leading Belize airport and the harbour Simultaneously the formation of a
field were
Czechoslovakia. digging in around. Wuchow. Shanghai and Han-killed, 21 were severely injured Washington." os the bomb's tar and travelled by motorcar while
and 28 slightly,
get.
their home
Ministers were stofle with Labour Three mines, one under each "Such a point would show up alarms and surrounded by barbed speeches today.
the three leading troop well of
bomber's radar wire fences-Reuter, coaches, were detonated, but a screen," Dr. Lapp states lacont- fourth did not explode.
cally.
The bomb would be timed to
mile.
kow, which had. prior to the raid. been in communication with the centre in Canton.
the on
Books showed that gold and foreign quotations were sent out and received by the centre al most every minute of the day, added-the-reports. Transactions--who splattered over the nearby burst-at-an-altitude-of-about-half-
by radio totalled "billions of dollars" daily.
Only two arrests have been made, but more are expected.
'THE WAY OF THE
TRANSGRESSOR !
Berlin, Feb. 29.
A German dance band player
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Twisted girders from the cars.
organge groves. The track was twisted and tangled with de- bris,
ambulances
claims According to what he to be authoritative and thorough-
PAKISTAN BUDGET
Karachi, Feb. 29. Pakistan's first budget pro- posals were presented last night
in
today.
Beven-man
The Chancellor of the Exche- all was calm and under control Rudolf Stransky,: who helped "Baltimore Sun" also" was ban-
quer, Sir Stafford Cripps, preach- ing in a Bristol church, warned) that Christianity-and-totalitarian-i tem could not persist side by side 'n the same nation,
"The only
formation told one inquirer the
ned, but this later was denied,
Bixteen more:Journalists have, been expelled from thé : Czech Journalists Union, making 15
them to Impossible for
work, including the former Chief Editor of Obrana Liđu, – the Czechoslovak Army newspaper, and the former Chief of the Presa Bection in the Food' Ministry.
commission to purge all political parties of The Governor, Slr Edward "reactionaries" was announced, Hawkesworth, told Reuter that
The commission is headed by. In the face of possible
organise the Communist Inter- Guatemalan threats.
national Informations-Bureau. The defence ring around (Cominform). Belize is still thin, but every- Another member is Alexej thing is going on without a Cepicka, the Communist Minis- Cries of the wounded, and the ly scientific estimates, Dr. Lapp by Finance Minister Ghulam to the totaliterion
conclusive answer | hitch under the command of ter of Justice, who succeeded the Czech National Socialist, dying rent the chill air while says that the bomb would der Mohammed, and showed a decipic is the Christian and demo-
Fuehrer-prin- Admiral Sir William Tennant Prokop Drtina. Bren gun emplacements now troy cutright the Army and Air
Drtina, former Secretary to came over sniper-Force, the Navy Department, the fielt of 234,100,000 rupees for cratic Christ-principle", he said.rim the airfield and tommy-President Eduard Benes, Was infested roads from both Arab State Department, the Depart the 1947-48 year and 101,100, and Jewish towns nearby,
"Den:cracy, without a spiritu gunners patrol ita perimeters. found badly, injured today. An ment of the Interior, the Depart 000 rupees for 1948-49.
Similar posts have been set announcement from the Com- Jewish sources enld the ment of Agriculture, the Atomic The Minister told a packed al content, is just another form In Saxony-Anhalt, in the Soviet bombing "probably" was in re Energy
to be Judged up throughout Belize Harbour. munist controlled police said he
had attempted suicide. Commission building house that the main features of of government,
Sir William Tennant, com- Zone, pusled hin trumpet prisal for the blasting of which runs the nation's atomic the dominion's
Drtina who brought financial post-solely from the point of view of through д portrait of Kari Jerusalem's Jewish business resources, eight
hospitals, and tion were lack of industrial dela eficiency in getting thingsmanding the forces guarding the conflict between Commun- British Honduras against a leta and anti-Communists in Marx and played the comic district along the Ben Yehuda two of the main bridges across veiopment. disruption of the
possible Guatemalan attack, the Cabinet Into the open on song: "You are badly shaved Street 1 week ago.-United the river,
banking structure, dislocation "It is, therefore, for eyer in today sent a detachment of January. 21. He charged in today" with the portrait hang- Press and Associated Press The loss of Ute in this area of transportation and com danger of being overthrown by Marines to
Parliament, that Communists at the Guatemalan Olomouc were ing on his instrument.
implicated in would be 90 per cent, according munications systems and heavy the more necessities of the econo- border to "show the flag". mailing explosives in parcels to Dr. Lapp.
defence expenditures.-United mic, or political altuation."
announced that the labeled, as pertume to three Cabinet Ministers in an 38888- sination plot last September.
Drting himself was one of the intended victims, The Foreign |Minister, Jan Masaryk, aʼnon- party_man, and the Vice Pre- mier, Peter Zenki, an anti-Com- munist, were the others. Drting also charged a Communist de puty, Jaroslav Bosnar, with be- Ing involved in collecting arms
He will be out of gaol in man news service, reported to three months, DPD, the Ger-day-Reuter.
Kien Sing Swept On The Rocks Loaded with two large anchors, heavy chains and
cables, a specially chartered motor-junk left
harbour at full speed yesterday afternoon for
the grounded, 6,000-ton Chinese freighter, "Klen Sing" at Chilang Point, some 80 miles northeast of Hong Kong.
"As a result of the detonation, many Congressmen, high Gov- ernment offcials and key mill- tary officers would be killed.
"The leadership of the Govern- ment would revert to those who remained alive in the nation's first_city"-Reuter,
Korea Story] Denied I
ports that American' troops are
Press,
NAVY MEN IN CUSTODY
done. :
A
It wan
Jockey's Death
It was
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Valerian A. Zorin, the Sovied- Deputy Foreign Minister and former Ambassador to Prague. left by plane for Moscow today after a 10-day atay.
Police Parade National Security Police and works militia paraded through Prague. Heavily armed de 'detachments of the police, mechanised and on foot, parad-, ed throughout the strests to the -cheers of waiting, crowds.
Behind them marched 5,000 grim-faced factory militiain civilian clothes and carrying brand new rifies.-
They had come from the Old- Town Hall Square, where they had been told by the Commun- ist Prime Minister, M. Klement Gottwald: “Our police and millia are proof of the pro- found democracy of our Repub- llc. A state whose police pro- tect not the capitalists against the people but the people. against capitalistic, subversive elements and whose police does not hesitate to use its weapons to protect the State that is m democracy of the people."
The War Minister, Mr. Ema-
in nuck Shinwell, declared speech In London that the prin- ciples of democracy were "thren- tened by European distress, which is more responsible for political Two British Navy signalmen were handed over to the Police yesterday confusion than any other, cause,"
"It must be admitted that by the Master of the st. "Ghanai”
much (Capt. Booth) for autempting to stow many people are not so away on board the ship.
concerned about retaining Uberty.
· Local racing enthusiasts in for Communists, Bosnar was The two men, who will appear be of speech and representative in general, and the Hong Kong obliged to resign a few days fore the Magistrate this morning. stitutions, based on democracy, Jockey Club in particular, sus-
Inter. were found inside No, 5 Lifebost just when they are subjected to sustained a heavy loss in the, "The Only Version before the ship was due to sail for fering and starvation," he added tragic death of Mr. Tang Man-only version of the incident The police announcement; the .. Seoul, Feb: 29. Australia.
"That is why the most deter- The U.S. Army authorities. They had with them a quantity of mined efforts must now be made wa which occurred at the concerning Drtina, said he was!
outside his house this today emphatically dented re-applen, bread and other edibles to promote European recovery Queen Mary, Hospital at 12.25 found
and give the nations in Europe am yesterday.
morning with his skull injured. digging in along the 88th
Jerusalem, Fett. 29. "the" opportunity of regaining The late Mr. Tang, was A note was found indicating ha
rushed to the Hospital with a jumping out of a window.
had parallel, marking the Soviet-It was officially announced today their self-respect.
tried to end his life by American Zone's border. that the refugee ship” “Fighter, and
skull immediately "Gottwald sounded his note of Builders with 900 Illegal Immigrants "If we fall in this, we shall fractured "Absolutely no fortications was boarded by the Royal Navy certainly witnbes another phase after he was thrown against sweeping action at a farmers
tactical training or any without: apposition this morning and of totailtarianism, the end of the cement rails of the pad and peasantrally.
"We will have དྷྭ complete other purposes have been or are is being taken to faifa,United, which can only be the emergence docks by "Bunshine". Just be- The master of the vessel, a As a result, the necessary being constructed along the Press.
of a disastrous war"-Reuter, fore, the commencement of the change he declared. "Merely foreigner whose name was not anchors, chains and cables were border," an official spokesman
Ascot Handicap, second section: government is not enough. New. changing a few people' in the available last night, asked for put on a motor-junk and sent said. He added that there was✨
he never regained conscious stage settings are not enough. craft to take off part of the to the scene at 6 p.m. yester no artillery within miles of the
Wa, will be merciless in getting, 4,000-ton cargo of iron ore so day. The junk is expected, to
border.
The deceased was one of the rid of the agent of domestic keenest supporters of the and foreign reaction.
His statement was followed"
¡General)|||ituation sika.- Inčaniu Zbul Jockey Club, and a veteran by new moves against the press, kolla: every north-Chips, and More A Weckmina, antiéjnione' sinired oven Mos Jockey Aged 40 years, Mr. Bone 24 foreign, publications" week rides extends from the-butt-adfrown- Tang first donned local racing have been banned from the the China, wak
-A” shallow deprsonian'la Itationary, over, 10 was connected with his goture and two- Catholle Forest Moderate wit-south-east colours when he was about 10 country. The lat Includen Timok and Life," the conica- years old, S
The Kien Sing" was yester--for the job, the captain ur day morning reported to have gently signalled for extra gear been swopt on the rocks by the to hold the ship in position 48 tide, and to have sprung a leak there was danger of the ship with water aceping into No. 1 being smashed on the rocks by and. No. 2 holds.
tide and. wind.
Steam Navigation Company,
for
Taxi-Drivers
Robbed
as to lighten ship. Lo reach the "Kien Sing this The dental followed an
While the local agente “ för morning. the vessel, the China Merchants salvage tug is to leave American Broadcasting Com-Two taxi-drivers were assaulted and robbed by
harbour this morning to agilst any for poodente report that "customers" over the week-end.
American - ware were attempting to charter four
The agents told the "China foxholes along the border. The The first incident motor junks no other craft Mall" yesterday that art of correspondent, Ray Falk, sald just More midnight on Safir Yuen-che!) was instructed to
took place king Street, and the driver (La being available. In the harbour the Iron ore cargo will be let that foxholes were being dur day. A Chinese engag
Usoned to lighten the vessel. at regular intervals along the far taxi bear 91.Wong-ne
"Dol= | driver; to Prince Edward Hood - There was a crew of 60 on 38th parallel and that American Road and Instructed the driver asked to stop land ode of the men ong | Near Tung Chof Street he wall board but no passengers, soldiers were digging new un au Sun) to drive to the Lee pulled, a piece of fcloth round his
emplacements. United Treas. This tre
hock) and gagged: him with? Grim|
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A Chinese Customs cruiser is 'standing by to assist if neces |"haty, and will remain there, un- Mines, Dispute, y tir the vessel is out of danger.
|^kyhé "Kien Bing" was on hör Eway to Japan from Hainan with 1,000 tone of iron ore then Flaground on the freef:
Vrelle
brothe Röt De
M. Vaclav. Nozok, the Com- munist Minister of the. Interior, said in a message to them: "We By standing firmly on must not reduce our vigilance. guard you will contribute to the con solidation of the alliance with Boviet Union and all our -Blav alles,
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