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THE DREW LETTER ON HONG KONG Last Out On Changchun

British Intelligence Warning To Canada

PRINCESS..... INDISPOSED

Glasgow, Mar. 16. Princess Margaret WAR slightly indisposed and two. doctors were called to her hotel suite after her arrival to receive the freedom of the city.

The Glasgow Lord Pro- vost said in a statement:

"Owing to slight indispost- tion for Royal Highnesa has rearranged her pro- gramme for the forenoon. ffer visit to the art gallery la being cancelled."

The nature of her all- ment was not revealed. She arrived after an overnight trip from London-United

Press.

Troops Unprepared For Active Military Service

Three days before the Hong Kong expedition salled on Oct. 27, 1941, Bri- tish Intelligence warned the Canadian Government that war with Japan was an early possibility.

Despite this warning, Canada dispatched an ill-

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Drew's letter was written to Prime Minister following the rent of the late Sir Lysuan Dufl. Chief Justice of the

Supreme Court Canado, at that time, who sat n

Hangg ne-man rommission on the kong affair. Drew appeared before

ar.

Chaos In

Palestine Forecast

Lake Success, Mar. 16.

CONTRABAND FROM H.K.

**Shanghai, Mar. 16.

- More than, 550 ounces of Fold

bara" smuggled from Mantia and contraband gin- serig from Hong Kong, were found by." Customs Inspec- form aboard the steamers Tauling stand, Hangyang when they' arrived in Amoy yesterday, According to Chinese reports.

A detailed Investigation into the two · smuggling' enson is now being conduct- ed/Router.

Big Haul Of Opium

Raw

worth

trained, poorly-equipped force that had been selected on the basis that it only would have- to do leisurely garrison duty at Hong Kong. This is the substance of Preinler was necessary to enmplete them by George Drew's nove famous letter to transfer from training centres.

"For Minister Prime

MacKenzie King

no satisfactory reason, which has been the subject of rangements for reinforcements were much cornment in Canada during the delayed that the new officers and past month. Direct quotations of the men~450 in all-only joined the unin

opium Content of chin leiter are printed immediately before departure or st tatlan en raste. Of these additions. below.

$30,000 was seized on 140 hard less than the minta

Widespread chaos and board the s.s."Tsinan" perind of training required for men proceeding overseas And agala bicodshed in Palestine yesterday by Revenue many even were taken without the minimum period of 16 weeks train when the British man-Officers. Three passen-

date ends in May was gers were arrested. "Up to the time of their depar

Boarding the vessel predicted in the second

arrival from the commission as conuiel for the optare, neither one had been able in

Bwatow yesterday position in the House of Commons, give its men any training with the report of the Palestine morning, Revenue Officers seized The report was issued in June, 1942 two-inch mortar. They hat Commission to the more than 300 tacka

Of the total. 240 tals Duff' repurt ex: fired a three-inch mortar. They had Commissioner onerated the Government mad the never fired an anti-tank rifle. They Security Council, releas-discovered in tin containers con-

They rifft the bad never fired blame for army

cealed in hollowed-out bundles Washington, Mar. 16.

command

grenade. Thated today. Setter had never thrown

of paper. The rest was found in ill-fatet expedition, Drew's A Bill authorising the take issue with almost every point applied to men of both

Th

The report said that in-a' Chidese clay stove and hidden the Winnipeg

Grenadiers

folding formation arming of United States made by the commissioner,

recently received in the woodwork It is undoubtedly the strongest me Bever fired their Bren

gun, and from the Commission's advance Lable... merchant ships in a time

just before departure, had party in Jerusalem Canadian | until

"further. of national emergency against a Reval Commission's find-never fired service ammunition with emphasises that unless security was passed by the Senate specially commitirsion beaded their rifles. They were hopelessly uns restored in Palestine, the im-

by the top judicial figure of the day, trained for war

Merchant Ships To Be Armed

here today.

tack

ever

made hy

1

The purpose of the Bill Is to EXTRACTS FROM THE

make the authorisation perman- ent as the Art for the arming

of merchant ships during the

DREW LETTER

"Unks were sent which had never had any

whatever firing practice

men of the

live

"Bare Hands"

plementation of the, Assembly's resolution will be 'Impossible.

Commission, therefore has the duty to state that pre- "......the Hongkong. force went in sent indications point to the that to action against the Japanese with inescapable conclusion out having received a single one of then, the mandate terminates, the 212 vehicles with which it should Palestine is likely to suffer administrativn Most serious Ferely from

Monchros randialdesiresdenizle |

These points.

however, was the fact that

of a

Bizarre

Torture Murder

оп

its

were

A national emergency is de- with some of their most important bave been equipped.. the 1949 grudeblogseth yn part damages The bizarre circumstances

Inst war was repealed last your fined as "any tine at which the weapons. They had little firing President determines that the practice with any weapons. They security of the United States were not ready for active service by

Khodards of training-and-in is threatened through the ap

vehicles to plication, or the imminent dan wa

(war

ship-left with we holds

for of applicatior, of· phynical/Weapons are en absolute necesalty, I would bare provided thaë fölnirana' made:st impossible: to watahijsh- detectives. to', broadcast – « 18-|

Agreement

With Macao

Shanghai, Mar. 16.

the

Loni

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control and checking of details that with bare herstanding of the liminary steps to select a pro- | several witnesses.

* clear

Colonel Ralston, did not know that however, under recere would be unable to: "CATY "Ont" The victim was

attack

by the Japanese for one week. The

the

The Regimental · Colours of the Ist. Hin. Somerset 'Light · Infantry -- the last British troops to leave In=;

• dla *-* beings" displayed:"ať Bombay before, the .... trooDS" ambarked for. U.K. 1

Serious Water

Situation

War Committee did not know of the from the Government of Great Brier's position precluded any strangled in a ransacked hotel official said yesterday,

tragle fact until later...

known that war with

or should have

The Central Bank of China Japan was an early possiblity. That menage pointed out that make

governed,

theny other purpose a small reinforce WESTERN

of Hongkong The mesinge

L

Nanking, Mar. 16. Pro-Government reports today said that the Com

munists after capturing Szepingkal, are now closing in on Changchun-the only remain- Ing major Government bastion in central Manchuria, the fall of which would reduce the Nationalist corridor and wipe out the Gov- ernment inland bastions which so far have resisted capture.

The Reds reportedly are massed around Chang-

chun, and two other divisions are moving to ward. Fanchiatun

and Kungchuling, 15

and 30 miles south

of Changchun.

RANSOM ASKED

One Communist Mongolian FOR MARINES

cavalry division was deployert

at Nangan and Fulungchun, 25 and 46 miles north-west of Chungehun. Other Communist units are moving toward Chang- chun from Kiria.

Remnants of the Szeplngkai garrison have broken through the Communist ring and handed Eouth.

"Government General Wel Lt-l huang's headquarters, annoyAG-| ing the retreat from Szoping- kai, said the evacuation was made in accordance with pre- arranged plans and claimed it will not affect that Government position in Manchurid;

Meanwhile, Government forces heading from Mukden were]· reported to have recaptured | Linschung, a strategle point 40

miles southwest of Mukden.

Shantung Danger

Shanghai, Mar., 16.

The Chinese Communists were reported to be asking ransom of US$120,000 for the return of four Ameri- can Marines explured in Shantung Province Christmas Day...

цо

Navy sources hero satd they could neither confirm nor deny the report—Asso- clated-PresSA,

SWEDEN

GETTING READY

Stockholm, Mar. 16. General Helge Jung, the Swedish Comman-

Other reports sald the Com-der in Chief, handed a to the munists are knocking at the memorandum outskirts of Tainan giving, rise, Government today.de- to the belief in military quar-manding measures for tors here that the Reds are strengthening Sweden's planning to mount new oÍCH

Significant Talks In Nanking

fensives in other areas of military preparedness... China Proper particularly to The mural's-plaga. includeli Chastang Province,

tall-up or more den, heel,mamylon. empty which had been set aside for fregarding the lime limitata Chinese tortures murder is

of the shortage of war materia! and 20 priority vehicles, which were va in the assembly a pians 1 among Manhattan skyscrapers |

mmunition, and the building, of new

. Arab. resistance #has, hás, forded “bátiled, New York | Decesalty with

Some sources adid it was forsfications and airfields. possible the Rods would seek

Disagreement between Eagand they went into action against

of vehicles necessary to "move thea providonal council of Gor

to move against Tolnatho but West had despibed, the general dak forte by any foreign Govern Japanese before a single one of their

of weaponk and ammuntden ernment In the proposed arab State alarm for a suspect:

If Hong Kong's serious .B. Navy sources in Tsingtao le his mmorandum, bur he did not ment or agency against the weapon carriers arrived at

look whose description: was assem- Hong without which Infantry units today state by April 1

shortage ; con- several times récently discount- | believe United

ma opta conales was Jing States, Ita citizena. konjure

Secondly, although the Com-nfed in. jigsaw puzzle fashion rainfall might just wali

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Into scilod. to their property

som mission had already taken pre from momentary glances of tinues for the next two ed such "So inefficient was the system

a possibility even mineat. or commercial

The Western powers, it his view, intercats."-Reuter.

"Aft

months, further restric- though the Reds would be at

WETE the Minister of National Defence, measure of responsibilty depends, Visional Jewish council, this

hardly prépaled; for: war and Harvey

the raflhead leading to Tsing-

Soyiar Runis was probably still top Haeberio, 35, clvilian employee tions in supply will have to if they capture Tsinan. Of its functions before the man- the U.S. Navy Photographie to be imposed on the

_weak" after" the- This war. On the drese unfortunate men were without

surrounding

ether hand, it was evident that Ru any of their vehicles until Dec 15. Sept. 19th, 1941, a message wat rai (date ends,

Thirdly, the mandatory pow-Division, who was

The Reds are at present 60 ia was working to Consolidate her when they had been under

found public, a Waterworks

Imiles from Tsingtao which is own security system, in Europe and celved by the Canadian Government

possibility of establishing pro- room tain formally opening

the discussion visional councils by Aprifi:1. == of the

The Router. Hongkong expedition. The

Detectives said the method He added that the Depart also the headquarters of the was tiot. hesitating to use very harsh it was kod

nient in appealing to the pub U.S. Navy West Pacific Com- methods.Reuter. by which the knotted bedclothes lie in a statement yesterday to mand-United Press. a deterrent demonstration than for

were tied behind his back-and use water stringently is taking today announced an becoming fact effective on March 18, the new governed, the composition of the ment of the garrison of

attached to his throat was reasonable precautions to pre- device used by the Chinese for vent an emergency scene Chinese-Macao trade agreement force and the state of its eminent would be justified... I to when the Macao authorities Two battalions which had been covernment of the

The Colony's rainy season_new centuries to make victima tor curs each year between May will curtail the re-export of employed most of the time on coast United Kingdom would be most

ture themselves to death.

and September and up to atx Chinese goods in cooperation defence and had as a result not done grateful if one or two Canadian bat-

The composite description of months ago the reservoirs were with the Central Bank.

much field training, even of

the killer, painstakingly built full and so no restrictions were talions could be provided for this October 27th

enforced. Since that time-how- Items, which

-up-from-statements. by hotel ever less than normal winter will be re-unin, left Vancouver an

for Hongkong, and thrie weeks after purpose

London, Mar. 16.. exported from Macao only if their rival were engaged in field

"On Sept. 23 you (Prime Minister

́staff- and visitors, was that off

"rains have fallen and this now The Foreign Office spoke a husky young man of about necessitates caution in distribu cleared by the Central Bank operations of the deadliest character King) at a chairman of the War

which discussed this man announced today that, the of Committee

Based on records of the feinclude antimony, bristles, gainst the picked field forces

message and decided to and two Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest 26, in a red and black striped sion. cotton yarn, tea, tin, wolfram Japan,

banallons, At the time the decision Bevin, will; Jonve- Paria to woollen jacket and blue denim at: 50 years, average rainfall for: October is 43 incites;· "Nov- and a wide variety of vegetable Below Strength was made the War Committee had narrow, for Brussels where the trousers.Our Own Correr ember 18 December 1 inch

January 18 inches: February (2 "The battalions were the Royal before it, as the evidence at the in-wilf sign the ante-power pondent

shows, no reports of any kinit Western Union Treaty,

Inches and :- March; 3; inches? The text of the treaty will be | ;

Comparative: figures for the | last six months show: October capitals,, the spokesman said." formation regarding the

rainfall as of an itch;-Nov- fact position

military dis

The speech which Mr. Beyin

ember 8; December 25, Jan at Hongkong and no iss

uary 12inches: February 2 formation of any kind upon which will not be released before de welivery:

Now Delhi, Mar. 16. military decision could be properly After the ceremony Mr. Beyth

inches: and this month so far made........It is true that the

decision

The Headquarters of British 1.04 rainfall has been recorded.

· return· ·-immediately way stated

Gurkha troops in India closed be subject to the bill National Defense who was then at The spokesman also announ«:5; The last ship taking: British Los Angeles, and the Chief of the ced that the text of the Anglo Gurkhas to Malaya and Hong General Staff. They did not object. Trandordan treaty will be rey Kong is leaving Calcutta on The two units which were sent to leased tomorrow at 6pm Saturday, Associated Pream Hongkong were then chosen by the United Press,

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UNION TREATY

The agreement, in addition Ries of Quebec and the Winnipeg from military experts, no map of to applying to the re-export of Grenadiers. Both units had previous Stongkong, no map of Asia, no in.released at 5.30 p.m. in the five Chinese goods, also applies to ly been below strength and the shipment of such goods Winnipeg Grenadiers had 'In through, Macao-United Press. been on a reduced establishment. Ti

Colonial Pooling Of Resources

London, Mar. 16.

to

GURKHAS FOR HONG KONG

Nanking, Mar. 16. || Military leaders and Governors of Central- China. will open a five-day conference here on March 20 for the purpose of guaranteeing the secur- ity of the area below the Yellow River from Communist attacks, the local Chenli News Agency reported.

This report said the Govern

· · (8) · Arranging accommoda- ors and military commanders of tions for refugen, students.

Anhwel, Klangsu, Cheklang,

4) Recommending land' and Hunan, Hupel and Kiangal pro taxation reforms, vinces have received Generalls (5) Studying "co-ordination: simo Chiang Kai-shek's order to of traille and communications.

(6) Improving control over erallsaimo will preside over the essential materials in variquṇ conferonco, this agency report pacification areas.Associated

Fresa.

Pequena approval of the Minister of train fer probably on the in New Delbl yesterday. New Radio Station report in Nanking. The Gen-

ferry.

War Commitee on the recommends,

tion of the Chief of- the... General Staff.

Japanese Cabinet

Chantec

Cristence of a plati for pooling Britain's colonial, resources with those of other, European pow- ers was hinted by British sources today.

On Oct, 16 the Japaurhe Govern Inclusion of Africa into the| Mr. Revin explained to them scheme for European economis the inevitable consequences" at fell and a new Government

formed under exfremists/efi recovery - was said to be the of Britain's, determined new party. On the same day backbone of the plan which move in Europe,

Department, and Navy Depa would result in the linking of The Star gaid today that, Mr. the United States Instruct the colonial, economic, resou Bevin warned the High Com Pacific outposts to make

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missioners that reduction of positions with due wa

early Imperial Preferences may have informed that the Gave ponsibility of wat to be suggested before long to the United Kingdom Bun reconelle Britain's special peal opinion as the Gove

tlỏi in the Empire with her United. States and they obligations to Europe. The accordingly.

ectal of these }, reductions

would allow Europe's manufac net laformed on the very tured goods to compete on even pened of the reaction.

with Britain in the Em÷

the

Shipping Attacked

On Yangtse

Nanking, Mart,

Chinese steamships were attacked by: Com- munists in theblangise River 160 miles above, Hanków on March 13 the semi-official Central News Agency reparted.

BATH SY KOLs, identified as they'traffle/confirm reports: that the arh | Communists zware Hitráting

-- Manila, Mar. 18- A-now-radio station, to bed. known as the Far Eastern Broadcasting Corporation, will Plans will be drawn, it said, shortly be installed here; ad for:" cording to the PEBC President, Mr. John C. Breyers, who ar-

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Improved – organisation

The Weather

"A", strong; Antlersions :: Dentred over Manchuria covery China and Japan, and al-wink“riday intends', El over the Chin

rived here, yesterday from the and training of local miltis, United States with staff of (2) Revision of the systemises, suillow depringlen E of Okinawa radio technicians and engineers of conscription and food supply,motne Klappe who will take charge of the. in

stallation, 31 MALON

Mr. Broger said the new sts.

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