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COMMERCIAL INDUSTRIAL

PHOTOGRAPHY

FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO

GLOUCESTER ARCADE

CHINA MAIL

No. 33935.

ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 2, 1948.

COLONIAL SECRETARY REPLIES TO CRITICISMS OF S. T. & I.

Government Determined To Get To Root Of All Charges And Rumours Appeal To General Public

"I welcome this opportunity of bringing the matter out into the

the Colonial

MacDougall, in Legislative Council yesterday, when he replied

to the demand on the first day of the Budget debate by the Hon. Dr. S. N. Chau for an investigation into the running of the Department of Supplies, Trade and Industry.

Hong Kong "Office" Of Smugglers

Shanghai, April 1.

A well-organised protection racket for smuggiers in South China is being operated by ban- dits allegedly under Communis! leadership, the American-owned "Shanghai Evening Post" ported today. It quoted travell- ers from Hong Kong and Con ton

Communist troops have formed

for the

in a lengthy defence of the Department, Mr. MacDougall said he himself had been impli- cated in one of the rumours about the S. T. and I, and was said to have been enriched in one of its transactions.

Government was determined to get at the root of the charges and rumours concerning the Do- portment and he appealed to the public to come forward and tell Mr. Shaftain what they know.

After Mr. MacDougalt had finished speaking, the

Hon. Mr. M. K. Lo expressed the horror of the Unofficial members at the implication against the Colonial Secretary who, he said, had their complete confidence.

MR. KENNIFF Housing Applications Dolay

a powerful bodyguard

The Director of Publie Works amugglers. the paper sald. (Mr. V. Kannin) replied to com-

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years of the occupation, during which nothing was done in main- tenance, it was gratifying that' we had any roads at all. The de flay in post-war work on road re- pair was due to loss of plant and equipment during the war, and these had to be replaced.

added that "ux collecting" sta-plaints about delays in dealing Explaining heavy cost of malt“. tions were maintained at Kow-with Applications for land for tchance of vehicles the D.PW. Icon, Tolpo and Hong Kong from houses in

Govern, suld cast of keeping in runking response to where the Communists provide ment's announcement of August order of army type vehicles on "adequate protection for smug-1947.

which the Colony has had largely These fell under two groups, tu depend, was very expensive. gled goods and their carriers."

condition could only im- The

strvices was said those for building houses for sale This

imports of new to be powerless to cope with this or for renting, and those for approve with

vehicles. well-organised bank "which col-plicant's own occupation.

customs

Under the first' category only lects 10 per cent on the value of goods in return for free and un-ine out of 20 applications con- hampered transportation,

"The traders are not looted by the bandits and are even pro-

vided with special passes issued and signed by the Red leader."

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plied with requirements, and 1 eply from Government could be Jexpected

the near future.

Of the present 700-odd vahl- cles only 60 percent were still of the military type, The 40 applications under the

Another reason was that Gov second category all fell within feinment has to carry its own in- hitherto undeveloped areas

astance time was required for their con- sideration.

and

The 13 missing sites mention. ed by Mr. M. K. Lo had been

refused.

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more

Other powerful groups brigende "rule the smuggling

Speaking of revenue of $5,000,- trade on the West River whers

1000 from Water Account, Mr. they are In possession of a

Kennitt sold he agreed water should pay for itself no large fleet junka which carry

then actual expenditure and this tung oit, hog bristles and other

was the aim of Government;- but vegetablo olla to the Portuguese

Regarding children's play unfortunately since the reoccupa- of Magac." Colony of

grounds, delay in their rehabilitors due to abnormal conditions sald The paper

an air routention had been due to the neces it had been possible to strike was uliliacd for smuggling sity of giving priority to housing this happy balance. Loss valuables such a gold bars and and materials for housing, im

working account for 1048/7 was United States dollars between portant as the need for play- $1,500,000; and that for 1947/8

Funda had been provided in the Estimates and it $100,000. On the figures present- ed in the Budget the deficit for was hoped that at least, some of the current year would be $500,- the playgrounds would be re-

100, and the only way to meet habilitated in the coming year.

this was an increase of charges for water, a step which was In- evitable if the wishes of honour- able members were to be met.

Canton and Künning, capital of grounds was. Yunnan Province, for export to Burma and Indis.--Reuter.

Washington, Mar. 31. President Truman today or dered the Tennessee Valley Au- thority, the Government's cloc tric power project, to draw up plans for increasing the power output for armaments, produe- Lion.--Reuter.

Kowloon Roads

Replying to Mr. Leo d'Almacia's complaint of the condition of public roads in Kowloon, Mr. Kennift said that considering the

Debate On Czech Coup D'etat

Lake Success, Mar. 31.

Chile called on the Security Council today to set up a sub-committes to investigate the 'accusa- tion that the. Soviet Union interfered in the affain of Czechoslovakia, ⠀

Was

THE D.M.S.

Cheung Chau Hospital

For T. B.

on

The Hon. Dr. Isaac Newton, D.M.S., referred to the difficulties in the way of a serious attack on the problem of tuberculosis in the Colony, and said that it was intended to make full use of the hospital at Cheung Chau for con valescent cases and to spond | roughly - $1,000 a day on extra foods for tuberculosis patients. Everything possible will be done at the

time to improve home conditions and to... assist": patients in obtaining «multable light work during thelp rehabili- lation period

sartle

an eloquent revela pointed out,

weak position, except, by - im-

Hong Kong Importers' Complaint

Canberra, Mar. 31. Mr. R.-T. Pollard, Austra- lian Minister of Commerce and Agriculture, said today that he was investigating ro ports that beef extract had been sent to Hong Kong pack- ed in ink bottles.

The Hong Kong Trade Com- missioner was sending him samples, and if the offence were proved, Mr. Pollard added, the firm responsible would be TC- fused further licence to export.

Export licences, he said, would be refused to all exporters who ignored warnings about shoddy pucking of goods.

The standard of packing gen- erally in the Commonwealth was

mush "pretty good," but some room Ams were exporting badly packed goods, damaging Austra lia's goodwill in foreign

kata-Reuter.

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MAT-

PICTURE OF THE DAY

Guerilla

Ona

woman of sixteen guerillas captured In· Greece following the ahelling of Bulonika. She Was Eater murder placed on trial for

and treason.

Post-June Dates Elizabeth

--For

London, Mar. 31. Princess Elizabeth had made no further engage- ments after Jurie, a Buckingham Palace offcial told Reuter today, but he refused to comment on persistant rumours that the heiress to the Throne and her husband, the Duke of Edin- burgh, were expecting a baby in October,

Mr. Morse On US Aid

To China

San Francisco, Apr. 1. Arthur Morse, chief manager of the Hong Kong and Shang. hal Banking Corporation, arrived here today in the.

and "President Cleveland" said there is a possibility the United States can win China Into her camp if she will give immediate and ample finan. cial-military aid.

"But how much ald the United States should give and what exact Form It should take 1. would not even at; tempt to guess. Conditions In China are chaotic and anyone who can work out a solution can sit back and take it easy The the rest of his life. Chinese sometimes have a strange way of working out their

The own problemis. Orient is a strange place."— United Press.

Food Flow To Britain

Price: 20 Cants.

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Electricity Nationalised Sixth Step In Labour's Plan Domestic Rates FINNS GET

Increased

London, Apr. 1.

Britain took ownership at midnight of all the nation's electricity utilities, the sixth major enterprise to be nationalised under the Labour Government's programme.

One of the first developments under state control will be higher rates for a large proportion of domestic consumers in urban areas. Chairman of three of the 14 costs including higher prices for Area Boards that will adminis- coal. ter the industry said that domestic rates would have to be increased to, meet rising

Four US Marines Released

Shanghal, April 1. United States Navy head- quarters here announce that the Chinese Communists to day released four American Marines at Haiyang, a coastal town on the Shantung penin- sule..

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George Gibson, Chairman

Northwestern Electricity the Board, sald "the price of domes- tic electricity has for some years been uneconomically low and the prices wouldve been increas ed even thớií, the board had not taken over the undertakings."

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STUBBORN

Helainid, Mar., $1, Finland's "Inaletenne that Soviet Russle should sand her military aid ority if spool- fically asked for, has caused a hitch in the Finnish-Boviet negotiations for a military au- alatance and Friendship, pact,

President Juho Panal

Paasikiv hle Cabinet and lenders a of Parliamentary political groups are mesting tonight to work out fresh Instructiona

· for the Finnish dalagates who, have been negotiating the pact in Moscow for the past weck.

A compromite elution la being sought, it was under- stood.--Reuter,

170 Stations We're

Friends

But-

industries and enter- prises 'nationalised since the La- bour Government came to power In mid-1945 include coal, civil aviation, transport, "the Bank of England and Cable and Wireless, a globe circling communications system.

Legislation for, nationalisa

Bogota, Mar. 31. tion of the gas Industry, also The Chilean delegation to the has been passed but the Gov-Pan-American Conference here ernment has not yet taken today referred to Britain as^a

control.

Properties taken over by the "friendly power" but insisted Government at midnight include that Chile's claims to British 170 generating stationa awned possessions in the Antarctis by municipalities or private com- were “irrefutablo",⠀⠀ panies and between 500 and 600 distributive system. They employ a total of 98,000 people.

Now Stock

The statement was made by Chile's chief delegato, Senor Ju venal Fernandez..

"Chile proclaims her overwhelm-

It is rumoured, that while Chile

The four Marines had been held captive by the Reds since Christmas Day,

Navy hoadquarters said that

Administering the industry willing respect for law and her constant practice of international arrangements were being made be the Government's British

justice," he declared. to recover the body of a fifth Electricity Authority which is Marine who died of wounds when authorised to raise as much as will attek to her Antarctic claims, the Marines were captured by 2700,000,000 for development

sho nay decide to vote against Red - guerilias. while: duck-hunt purposes.

the Guatemalan anti-colonial ren Stockholders in all the com- salution because she believes that The NAVY

said that presumably panies will be paid in Treasury how is not the time: bilaniaze. the four Marines were in good

guaranteed... British Electricity the morale, and prestige of Western physical conditions despite their stock whose Value Wai pe an-Europe. three months captivity.

nounced tonight:

In, Usis speech, Sonor Fernandez. The Reds released. the

For municipally owned plants called on delegates to remember "following a series of friendly the Government will pay only that Europe was going' through and persistent meetings with enough to meet their net out the "saddest hours of its history" Communist representatives comtanding debts-Associated Press-Reuter.

mencing Sunday, March 28,

four

Navy officers

in have been contact with the Red representa tives at Communist-held Hai- yang, about 60 miles north of the Marine Navy baso at Tsingtao for attempting more than a month,..

The usual procedure for an- nouncing an expected Birth in

to negotiate the release. All dur the Royal Family is an official ing-that-time-a-Navy akip has notice from a Royal residence been anchored off Halyang wait- that so and so will not, for Ing for the Reds to make up their the next few months, be under-minds to give up the Marines.,- taking any further engage- ments".

These announcements, in the cases of the Duchess of Kent and the Duchess of Gloucester, cama four full months before the births

Associated Press.

Adviser To

T.V. Soong

of their children.

It has een, confirmed by

Palace Buckingham

that A nursery floor is being built into Clarence House, St. James Palace, loner

Canton, Apr. 1.

MACAO IS NOW ON THE TELEPHONE

At 11 o'clock yesterday morning, the first telephone connection ever made between Hong Kong and Macao was inaugurated when Sir Alexan- der Grantham · exchanged grootings with the Governor of Macao, Dr. Oliveira

Shortly afterwards, the Por- Cable and Wireless officials tuguese and British Consulsare at present experimenting were linked by telephone, fol-with a similar link-up which is The Australian Trade Commis-lowed by the Postmaster-Gen-to be made between Amoy and Hong Kong, whilo/it is expected in Hong Kong, Mr. R. eral in Macao who spoke with that the next connections will be which will not be ready for Prin- Hazzard, accompanied by Mrs. the Cable and Wireless Mana Shanghai, America and England

her husband Hazzard, will visit Canton short-ger in Hong Kong, Mr. F. S. cess. Elizabeth-and-

ly to decorate a fellow Austra Coote. Saveral local news- untli early next year.

It has also been announced lan, Mr. W. J.

with the that Princess Elizabeth has given to Dr. T. V. adviser paper correspondents also tried out the new telephone service. division O.B.E. up horseback riding, love ut (milltary

Reception WAE exceedingly *Awarded The decoration was

which she. shares with her hus- Mr. Duncan in 1943 for his good and speakers could hear at

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Lew

band.

An official at Norman Hart- services with the Desert Alreither end as clearly as if they

were using telephodes a nell's, the Queen's dressmaker, Force in the North African cam-buildings apart.

From to-day the Hong Kong- who made Princess Elizabeth's paign. wedding dress for her marriage last Nov. 20, told Reuter today that the Princess, had ordered no new clothes, for the summer,

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The Weather

Preure is high to, the 55′ d'Japán. and over· G. and NW/ ̃China. It is low orer Manchuria, end',zafutively'-low/orvat Blam,& degression which la dersloping, to the Eastern Ben'will probably sisive M, Today's Forecast ve-Moderata BƐ\windo, It has taken Ave years for the Macao telephone line will be light or variable. Is the Afternoon") (sals, decoration to catch up with Mr. open to the public, and calls may with monine atlet; her.

· Yesterday's, Wagtherin [Duncan who has moved about

China extensively, since the ends made through arrangements Maximum 31. de Pal with the Telephone Company Minimum: 66.9 des Fah of the war-Router,

from any public or private tele- Buruhins: 8.8 hours, fl

or from the Cable and Rainfall: Nil, Total pison Jazil. phone, Wireless telephone

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Soviet Concession

To Austria

Londan; Mar, 31. The Soviet Union made a £6,250,000 concession In her claims against Austria when the de- puties to the, Foreign Ministers of Britain, France, the United States and Russia met here today.

Senor Hernando Santacruz (Russia), of having giver, ex- Regarding the regulation ro-

Ottawa, Mar. 31. Chile), opening the debate, on pression to the "uncontrolled quiring official signatures en VBC

Britalo, and Canada are short- his country's charges that Rus-explosions of a coarse bully" in cination and innoculation certi- ala was responsible for the his refutation of the charge in ficates, Dr. Newton said that the ly to announce a short-term, ex- regulations were not made by the tension of the présent › serafiga» Communist assumptional a previous debate.

Hong Kong Gavemment. If he ments for financing British food power in Pragub on Feb. 22,

the Philippines, purchases in Canada. accused M. Andre Gromykotion that he could not bolster his South Africa and Egypt announce there will be no scaling down in China, Macao, Australia, Iran, "As a result of the agreement,

The original Russian claim thusiasm" was a good deal lesi pudent, Invectivos," he said, "but that only certificates with oficial the Dow of Canadian whost, was for a lump sum payment since he heard -- M. Rektomoy

signatures will be recognlaod by heat, eggs and cheese tomorrow we cannot be silenced by cheap them, and they have, all-done so, when the credits: granted, by of £50 million over two years calumny and insulte

Benor Santacruz sald he had to one lion of the pulse Canada to Britain in January in part settlement of the dist.

tions in Hong Kong can affect the come to an and. Sh

posal of German assets in Aus- the names of six Crechoslovaks A who were ready to present, leste,

The extension will cover the tria. This figure was later re Dealing with criticism of the

em tomorrow and duced to £43,750,000, and to date when

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remarks on the French proposal £37,000,000 in six your was still little high and he hoped this

was not the Bovjat last word,

Mr. James: Marjoribanks, the British delegate.. welcomed the United Nations.

Metal. Hospital, he said that for ERP becomes available to Bri-Soviet representative, made.s, was milli, preoccupied with how As additional proof, he said, tunately the treatment given in bet there was the circumstantial evi- mental hospital does not, depend dence of Rumia's political past, entirely on the building and das The new arrangements involve new proposal for the payment Austria: could pay the and what concession on both sides Reu- to Russia of £37,500,000 in would happen if she failed to do and particularly, her actions. In that negotiations are going The Bulgaria, Rumania and Hungary, abend for the appointment of a terepes

dence before any organ of the conditions prevailing at the: More torlod bestant United States | day: M. HV.Koktomov, the Russian statement but said, he

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