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INDO CHINA STEADILY

BECOMING WEAK

Saigon, May 2.

French military operations in Eastern Indo-China face a steadily deteriorating position, in tho

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only a political settlement with the Annamitos can save them.

Seoul, May 2.

Owners Reaping Profits

By A Staff Reporter

Proprietora of many so- called hotels or boarding houses in Hong Kong are teaping handsome profits by | allowing their premises to be

used-as-houses-of-111-fame—|

In any of these hotels or boarding houses, upon payment of a sum of money, it is poss 'sible to obtain a young girl" for

Immoral purposes.

In some cases, a number of girls live on the premises in order that they might be immediately avail- able for any guest. In other cases, the girls are sent for from a near- by brothel.

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the uutual practice for the girls to be paraded before the

guest, who is at liberty to pick and choose "In much the name toanner as if he were selecting some ticle in a shop.

the licensee

The arrangement for the pro- Communist lett Koreans curing of these giria 'ja' made opened full-scale guerilla war-with the room boy, this pro- fare on Cheju Island today. cedure wilt permit They attacked one town for charged in the Folles Court, to three hours, encircled three piend that he knew nothing about. villages and murdered at least the matter. seven persona including four

women.

of the hotel or boarding house, if

With the troops they have, one informed source explains, the French cannot force a success- ful conclusion to their fight. with the guerillas on the field of bottle. They can only hold major strength. they say, which raight

be disastrous. keep open cities and towns;

Opposing this assortment of lines of communications, gar-

French troops are an estimated rison, certain plantation areas

Each girl who is engaged by a 70,000 armed guerillas, split up

guest is called upon to pay to the and occasionally stage a small-

In small bands hut nominally The police from American hotel, through the room boy, 40 scale offensive to interrupt the

under the leadership of Ho Chi occupied South Korea, who to 50 per cent of the amount smuggling of arms and keep Minh in the north and Nguyen rushed to Cheju on Wednesday which the guerillas. from gathering | Binh in the south.

to reinforce the local stations, customer, forces for a "major" attack.

The French extimate there reported the guerillas who

· th are at least 30,000 guerillas attacked todny appeared well

In the majority of 'cases, the central Tonkin, trained and armed.

They said they beat back the guests who call for girls seldom

stay for more than The rest querillas raiding the village of Hence, the hotel is in a position hold a good portion the coast Ora, three miles inland from

to let the room to other guests after a three-hour during the course of a town

night.

To wipe but guerilla resistance. Janela military sources estimate. we take between 300,000 and 500,000 crack troops. The French now have aboul 110,000 troops

here. Replacements reportedly w are slightly less than losses from demobilisation, battle wounds and disease.

Foreign Legion

Of the 110,000 troops fighting. under the French flag. 60.000 are French or European, 15,000 other from North Africa or parts of the French Union and

2,500

the north, in

In Cochin-China, in the south, are another 23,000.

In Annam, in between.

Two Objections

she

receives from her

Do Not Stay Long.

two hours.

Although the guest only occu- is the room for a short period

to bona fide that all rooms

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are

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From 31st March To 3rd May, 1948.

ADDITIONG

Beer-Wholesale Prico

off"

Maximum Retali Priou for domsumption _the_premises-where-

sold eg, sold by licen ved rataiter or Üldensed doulering

Ewo, Quarti

Maximum Retail Price for consumption on the promises ~~~whara" Bold sig. licensed pub. Ioan, hotel þór·rostaŭr·

ant:

$225 per bottle

$1.60

$2.85

Golden Tree, Pints.. Golden Tree, Quarts ..

1,00

115

140 per bottla

1.55

nant's Stout, Pinia Musketeers,

1.00

1.00

220 per boule

1.15

1.40 per 12 oz bolile

1.15

1.35

1.05

por

bottle

1.00

1.83

2.25

por bottle

'1,00

1.25

Maxlimun-Retail-Price

Thres

Wich Pints

TOILET REQUISITES Hair Oil & Brillantine

Brylcream, large size Brylcream, small size

Sanadalwood FOODSTUFFS

Soap

2

Beef & Bundrios (Australiañ)

'Beef Tongue: blader

Beef Tongue roots Mutton (Australian)

Sheep Kidneys ...: Poultry (Australian)"

Turkeys.

CLOTHING & TEXTILES

Cooper Men's Cotton 'Käst Underwear

Style 1007kogee,

Style 8833

PATENT A OTHER MEDICINES

Glucodin

...Parke Davis & Co.

Haliveroil-Liquid-50cc

DELETIONS

Beer, Wholesale Price

Maximum Ratail Price comsumption

150 per bottle

$3.00 per bottle

2.00 per bottle

1.20 per tablet

1.40 per- ib. .80 per Ib.

1.

1.55 per lb.

3.00 per lb.

5.30 gach

4,50 euch

3.00 por lb. tin

18.30 per bottle

Maximum Retail Prica consumption premises

off

for the

the promises where sold .g. sold by theen. sed retailer 'or licensed deater. Tecate, Pints

***** $0.03. FOODSTUFFB Fresh-MiLK---

Avo Sterilized Whole Milk 31⁄2 76

Buttermilk

Avo Sterilized Whoje Milk 3%

Buttermilk

Avo Sterilized Whole Milk 3%

Buttermilkc

Avo Sterilized iced and con-

sumed on premises Avoset Table Grade Cream

Butterfat

Avoset Table Grade Cream 18%

Butterfat

Muk

Evaporated-all brands Evaporated--all brands

Klim Powdered "Milk Unsweetened Condensed Milk.

Beaf & Sundrios (Australian)

Ox

Ox Kidneys

Mild Cored Ham

Whole

Shank 'End Middle Cut

Butt End

Vest (Australian)-

Call's Liver ··

But

Cheju baltic.

The police found six doud

of time, he is nevertheless collec persons including a woman who The French offensive in Tonkin was hanged and another stabbed

upon to pay, in addition to the in the Inst months of 1947 had with a word. two major objectives: to, bring A man was found stabbed to amount already paid the girl, the same room charges as he would kho Chi hinh s

army

to battle death at the nearby village of have had to pay for a 24-hour and to stop the smuggling of arms

which the guerlilas border of

stay. the Kwatigsl

of Pyungni ecross

rictly.

The large profits which are to China

Army

observation planes be

Meat be made by the letting of rooms The guerillas, however, with- flew over the area and reported to guests of the type referred to 35,000 are Indo-Chinese. The drew to mountain strongholds that the guerillus had encircled have caused the hotels or board- largest non-French bloc la the and the French themselves claim- and perhaps had already attacking houses in question to refuse European

among the ed only. 7,000 casualties contingent are

German their opponents. The arms traffic, ed Pyungni, Hakini and Sinsm, accommodation approximately

all within 10 miles of Cheju.

questa on the plea to avert any members of the Foreign Legion, accor

according to one reliable source,

Telephones and other com have been booked. French officials deny rumours was stopped temporarily but now of tarre-scale-desertional has resumed across the frontier munientions between Cleju own suspicion, it is

thinly and most of the inland villages fictitious-name-to-be placed on Germans and North

where. patrol ports are

the doors..of rooms

which They report about 80 Germans spaced. This source estimates the were cut-United Fress.

what

reserved for immoral purposes. deserted in the last limit of 1047traffle is cbout 30 percent

The extra room charge earned it was before the French offen- and less than that number from

by these hotels or boarding houses -the

of "French Union" | sive

through the letting-of'a room for In the south, mity and "major"! tropps.

prostitution two or re-French offensive has so far de- The 35,000 Indo-Chinese,

purposes of three attack along the

times

not cruited and trained from all parts veloped, an

night are entered in the uruất include about perlimeter of the marshy Plaine

books of the country,

account. Only a félitious entry 15,400 members of two religious Des Jones, west of Saigon. Lass

London, May 2. the than 300 guerilla casualties were the Keets.

Hoahros And

Ten people on board the cutter Pears and as a result, Govern- Caodalsis. The intter themselves reported in French communiquer are arguments for the necessity which, however, claimed disrup- Phoenix, which was stranded on ment is also defrauded of theome

Hotels.. tion puerilla organisation and a coral reef off the wild northern

or boarding houses of a political settlement.

Friday capture of large quantities of coast of Australia on

which are dedicated to this sordid Grois.

night, were reported to be still business. of traffic in human safe, Radio Australia sald. The flesh are never troubled by the Australian

Air Force are dis- Police Vice Squad, which appears cussing moves to effect

a rescue to be more concerned with tha The Phoenix, a supply ship arresting of certain street walkers ruption with relieving pressure from Darwin carrying supplies for "obstruction." on Salgon from guerillas who Australian-American natural his-

andi equipment for the[/

of

ranks

A Donger

The Hoahaos and the Cuodalsta Juined the French, they, an- the return to nounced, to secure

Em- power of Bun Dal, former peror of Annam. Negotiations be- tween Bao Dai and the French are dragging along and have no! con- successful yet reached n clusion. Some here fear that If the -French dot come to terms with Bao Dal, the 15,090 Heahao and Candaist-fighters may turn-on shift of armed the French,

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INQUIRY BEGUN city, hurling grenades into lory expedition to Arnhem Land, bars and cinemas and generally was carrying £20,000 worth of

Berlin, May 1. sclentine equipment and urgent Lieut Gez, Lueins Clay said to making Ilfo

Insecu

needed supplies. reiner any other largely

night he has begun an immediate She was 10 days out

inquiry into Russian charges of French operations are in prospect She 13 till undetermined. The driest Darwin, on her way to the ex-kidnapping, such as the alleged

of the year are now at landt, a large island

pedition's main base on Groote Bremen incident which .0 90- mentis hand. But some sources say ft Eylandt,

off the viet lieutenant-colonel disappear to-assemble sufficient forces for western shore of the Gulf ofed.

large operation, the French Carpentarla.

Clay told the United Press, "No"" would have to leave towns un- Should the ship break up in Americans kidnapped that officer guarded, convoys unprotected or the heavy 'sens, the passengers or any other Russiah, If, à Ras- large plantations at the mercy and crew could make their way sinn officer was kidnapped it whe rovers. Associated overland to a mission station, by "gòineone' otfier than the.

Radio Australia said.-Reuter. Americans.United Press.

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Chinese Opera In English

Watercolours Exhibition

as they

Many who come to China say sortu going away

are about to leave that they are without having had the experience of a visit to the Chinese theatra. Or else they wont and, through lack of knowledge of the lan- guage and stage conventions, came away dis appointed.

famous for centuries, in manner, that can be under and enjoyed by all.

High Standard

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CLOTHING & TEXTILES

Cooper Cot: Knit Underdrawers Cooper Cotton Knit Undershirts

PATENT & OTHER MEDICINES

Dr. Ross Life Pills

Parke Davis & Co Haliveroil Liquid-10ce.

Phillips Milk of Magnesia

Hair

TOILET REQUISITES. Oil & Brillanting Brylcream Shampoo

Mulsified Coconut Oil Shampoo Tooth Paste-Dentifrico” & Powder Dr. Lyon's Tooth Powder an Listerine

Phillips Milk of Blagnesia

Toothpaste

Phillips' Milk of Majonesia-

Toothpaste' BUBSTITUTIONS Boor-Wholesale Price

Maximùm:-Retall-Price for comedimption "off the premises ***whefa · Hold mig; "old' by 'ficer. 'fed-ratallar-or-tisenada

dealer.

On where gold arg. licensed pub. tican, hotel or restaur ant.

$1.10 $1.35 per bottle „¦ Maximum Retalt ·Price:

$10.00 per U.Š.A. gallon

.90 per 1⁄2 imperial pint

1.00 per imperial plat

20.00 per U.S.A. gallon.

1.73 per U.S.A. plat

,80 per 14% or 10 oz fla

40 per 6 oz lin 3.30 per lb.

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1.05 per lb.

2.30 per lb.

2.55 per b

8.20 per lb.

2.05 per lb.

1.45 per lb.

2.10 per Ib.

Ib.

1.03 per

5.50 each ....

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8.50 per bottle 3.15 per 12 oz bottle Maximum Retall Price

$2.20 per bottle

3.10 per 41⁄2 oz botile

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Evaporated (American)

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An Exhibition of Watercolours and Oil Paintings by Mr. Luis Chan is oреп today at the St. They wished that the Opera Francis Hotel from 10 am to 7 had been in English, that some- |p.n; and will continue until Wed-Fone had given them a hint of nesday. It is being held under what to expect and, perhaps the auspices of the Hong Kong most of all that the gongs and Working Artists Guild.drums had been toned down be of high standard. In "The The acting has been and will Hla Excellency the Governor It seemed impossible that they and Lady Granthara wil attend could ever see a genuine Chin-Unfortunate Beauty" the name the Exhibition at 3 pm,

today!

Who is already famous on Lady the plot and gestures and not the radio and Chinese "stage. There are altogether 88 exbe distracted-or-deafened, by Cheung Big Ting heeda no In- bibits of which ten are in oils, the zeal of the gentleman with matctnm to those who listen In the rest being watercolours. As the gorg

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Mr. Chan has been working hard But the impossible has been charmed by Her voles, will be of inte, the exhibition promises uchieved, thanks to the Wah Yan feqtail charmed by the grades Style to be one of the most attractive Dramatic Society. This troupe of and delicacy of her acting, an shows recently held in the

has already staged two In the other players.

copéra,...... The Colony.

Citinese operas in English. Sa

the brother of great was their success, that marrone-of-the

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