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PICTURES OF THE DAY CRIPPS DENIES STERLING

OFTHE

STILL NO PIRATES FOUND Showpiece DEVALUATION RUMOURS

Troops Join Police In Scouring Area Marsh New Equipped With

Council Member

Mrs. Rosa Loseby, the first woman candidate for nomina- tion to the Legislative Coun. ell, polled only nine votes at Thursday's election by Jus. tices of the Pence."

Artillery

Army personnel equipped with howitzers and mortars joined with police yesterday in comb- ing Lau Fau Shan for pirates, found nothing, then withdrew.

Yesterday's operations were the result of an attack

by the pirotes on a Police party, comprising Sub-Inspector Kinloch and four Chinese con- stables, after the main Police force was with- drawn on Thursday.

Clothing Coupon Reductions

London, May 4.

Clothing coupon reductions Affecting shoes, gloves, uthinly clothing, stockings, raincoats, were snounced today by Mr. Harold Wilson, The President of the Board ot Trade,

Meeling recent complainte by Mr. N.O.C. Marsh, the aurcesz-

British clothing retailers by ad-

"Where 15 ful candidate, received 83 votes.

undoubtedly Inverstocking in und ปร appolniment by the

some clothing"

the House of Governor as Leguative Council This small party wus on lack. The others continue the Mr. Wilson told

Commons hot new caupon rates Introber during the absence on patrol at Pak Mai when they gun duel with the three men for clothlug-casing the burden the beach intil the ammunitionne by Britong since early in leave of. Mr. M.M. Watson was, were seen by a Chinese woman, announced last evening.

standing outside a large hut. an out then' they withdrew, The

appointment of

Another as they were clambering over villager was struck

During the battle, # young new member of Council, Mr. CC.

by stray The woman im bultel and sustaine a dyke wall. Kaberts. nominated us repre-

superficial mediately, raised the alarm and rentative of the Hong Kong,

njuries. General Chamber of Commerce to threa men, armed with auto-

fil the vacancy created by the de-malle pistols, emerged from the "Democratic parture of Mr. R.D. Gillespie, hut and fired at the Police.

was also announced last evening. the voting at the Supreme Court, 22 proxy voles in favour of Mrs Loseby-were presented to the Returning Officer by a re- of the Hong Kong. presentative Council for Women. The votes were

ruled to be ineligible. A number of those who re- tumed Proxy voles attended also

In person to cust their voles, ha a result of the notter in the pross and over 2. 13, W. on the day of the election.

"Bolster Japan

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J

Blamey

Adelaide, Aust., May 7. General Sir Thomas Blamey suid today Japan must be bullt up again as a bulwark against Russian expansion..

Blaney, Commander of Austra Jian forces during the War. strongly supported the US. view on the future of Japan in ilk press" statements,

He want Australians still re blinded by anti-Japanese pre judler. He led that the United -State

he awakened to the re- alities of tp situation by helping the Japanes revive their Indus- Trials

"Japan must risę again, not as. # wolle power, but as a barrier of Commun. again, the sprand Isin', the General said.

Sub-Inspector Kinloch and his

men returned the firn. A machlac Allied Army"

aun then opened up froin « nest -Realising- on a nearby hillock,

the seriousness of the situation.

A general alarm was sent out

SI Kinloch immediately" tëspatch by the wireless operator at Lau ed two constables to Lau Fau Fau village Poline post, with the village to inform the Police-post result that between 40 and 501

runks, there that they were bene at- Police officers and other

under Div-Supt. Fraser, prozeel- Ped to Eau Fau village. From there

they went to Pak Mat where

search of the locality

Boycott Threat thorough

Shanghai, May 7.

A threat to boycott the now Legislative Yuan, was can. tained in a joint statement lasued jointly by the Demo cratic Socialist Party and the Young China Party here fast

night

Charging the Kuomintang with attempting to prevent the two minority parties from participating in the Legisla tive Yuan by "unjust and illegal" moans, the statement Beclared that it will naturally be impossible for them to take part in a one-party dominated Legistative Yuan.Reuter,

With the pressure of Communism righ! against Japan's Danks, there is no

talking of Japanese Mr. time to be suppression Japan would be a sucker for Communism if the Al- lies teled to keep her ground indefinitely."-- Associated

down Press.

U Saw

Praying

~ was inude until dusk.

the war-would be introduced next Tuesday.

"The cutes are intended to he as easy an WC can safely make them without inducing a danger that goods would be deliberately manufactured for sale at half cou- punt rates."-Reuter,

In Rome

Margaret O'Brien, the Ameri can child film otar, viho might have wandered it sho had really strayed from Hellywood sharing hands

with a member of the Vati. CAN Swiss Guard. She had hed an audience with the Pope. (A. P. Photo).

Marshall Plan Fruits

London, May 7.

Sir Stafford Cripps described as "false" and in- accurato" suggestions that Britain has agreed. to give up the sterling area in return for U.S. dollar aid 'under the Marshall Plan. The Chancellor of the Exchequer said the arrange- ment under which British acts as banker for gold and dollar reserves of nine countries and the British colonies is still intact.

He dismissed as "completely' [entered the world market for false" recurrent rumours Bri-copper and lend.

intends to devalue the Lain pound.

Cripps said British production in February was provisionally est- mated 24 percent above the 1918 Average. That war highest since the

war, "but we will have to dn

better Sutts of America's

First

Firat food purchases for Eng land authorised by the Econo. mic Co-operation Administra tor, Paul G. Hoffman, will be

·U8$33,600,000 worth of bacon. wheat and flour in Canada.

Helps Canada

This cases the drain on English de- gold and helps Canada; to bolster

fence programme and the Marits shaky American dollar situa- shall Fian for European economiction. rehabilitation

are appearing on The U.S. military, confident of the United States business front. increased defence appropriations Metalworks have received the have handed out more aircraf first new orders for defence pro- orders to get the plants started auction, and a sharp Increase in on the necessarily slow expansion expected within two weeks.

of facilities. European nations, assured o! American dollars, have actively

Princess Elizabeth Meets Godfrey "Opium"

London, May 6.

Princess Elizabeth today interviewed a mechanical man, controlled by an electronic "brain" whon she opened a public health exhibition today. printed receipts, bearing the Escorted by the Health Minister, Mr. Aneurin Bevan,

Inside the hut occupied by the three men and the woman the Pollor found a bundle of

Peading o! the Democratic Allled

Army (First Group, Second Division) and the chop of Koon Bhing, and a dark brown felt hat,

she was on a tour of the exhibition when she encountered "Godfrey," who is eight feet tall.

His electronic brain is called to-order and apologised profusely, much to the Princess'

Tanker

Cleared

Tsc Standard-Oil Charles

tanker

Meyer was cleared from Hong Kong yesterday. after harbour oficials stated its papers were in order

The-tanker is new on, itz-yay

Air Raid Precautions

Jerusalem, May 8. Hoardings Instructing Jews how to behave during àir and artifery bombardments ap- peared throughout Jewish Areas of Jerusalem_this_mor. ning advising Immediate cover in shelters which have been constructed at. frequent intervals in the main streets.

United Prost.

Sudan

Deadlock

Solution?

2

These new orders, coupled with increased European demand for metals, will increase the seram- ble for scarce steel, aluminium, copper, lead, zinc, brass-and-alloy

the next 60 days. Government buying for posals to Egypt for solving the Europe will be limited to grains, deadlock on the administra sugar, rice, flour, fats and oils and

steels in the

U.S.

certain

London, May 6. Britain has made new pro-

drugs Joseph A. Mack, tive and constitutional future Ineling Director of the New York (of the Sudan,

region office of the Department A note on these proposals of Commerce, reports.

was handed to Abdul Fattah Amr Pasha,

tho Ambassador In London,

Egyptian

May 1 it Was learned authoritatively tonight.

All other buying will be done directly between the European

importer and the individual ex- porters.Associated Press.

Will Not Necessarily Affect H.K.

on

The note, which replied to one from Egypt on March 11 relates directly to the draft ordinance on constitutional reform in the Sudan approved by Britain and by the North Sudan Advisory Council, but rejected in its pre- sent form by the Egyptian Gov- arnment

Inforinal discussions, aiming at- If Britain abolishes the securing Egyptian acceptance of

consiitutional reform

pro- according to a newsagency re-death penalty the abolition the On the other side of the city, Į port on Thursday, had asked Hong will

bosals, have been going on not necessarily affect Cairo for some weeks. the King and Queen, with Prin- Kong authorities to order the British colonics and depen- cess Margaret, visited the British--tunker-to-return-to-Shanghai

Idencies. Fair. 'They Loured Industries

The Bureau was not satifled the stands for three hours.

The Princess wore * "Nuw Look" length suit for the first time today.

I was learned from villagers operated by the voice. and Ashing Junk crews that these "Godfrey's" Job at the ex-amusement

cccipts are for payments of | hibition is to talk to visitors dues to the bogus Democratie about himself and to describe Allied Army, the Flist Group how the human bodyworks Second Division of which is He talked in a low, confiden Ider the command of Tam Pul rhias Lai Koon-shing allas Koon

fial voice to the Princess for more than five minutes, Shing, the pirate leader.

Occasionally, when he strayer

be from his subject, he had to

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Churchill Calls For Parliament Of Europe

The Hague, May 7. Winston Churchill, Britain's war loader, today called for a parliament of Europe when ho addressed the 16-nation congrass of Europe, meeting here in the mediæval Hall of Knights. The task before us at this congress," he said, "is-

not only to raise the voice of Europe aš o united whole, We must here and now resolve that in one form or another a European as- sembly shall be constituted which will enable that voice to make itself continuously heard and we trust with ever-growing acceptance- throughout all the free countries of this con- tinent".

Japs Get Off From Charges

Japan.

Tokyo, May 7," Allied headquarters announced tellay the release from war crimes. including charges 12 Japanese,. Maj-Gen. Minami Suzuki, former- Hy-Commander of the "Burman independence army" created by SCA's legal sertion said Suzu-

In Japan recently In Singapore charges for lack pl

Kozo Osakl, merchant marine #

Nagano Maru, of the defence counsel for Japanese war crimes defendants who

British were tried before "We welcome any country where commissions in Singapore, the people nwn the government Osaki ako returned

Rangoon. May 7. Former Premier U Saw and five of his aides are spending the last hours of their lives in 'Buddhist prayer today. They

are scheduled to hang tomorrow The movement for European "We seek nothing less than all ki returned for the murder last July of unity, he added, must be a Europe," Mr. Churchill continted, etter investigators -----seven. Burmese Cabinet Minis- dynamic expression of the de- "We aim at the eventual partici- dropped mocratie faith a positive force pallon of all peoples throughout evidence.

the continent, whose society and The "Government" announced "deriving its strength from our

in disaccord of the death sen- common commutation

of sense

spiritual way of life are not

with a charter of human rights | captain tence for two other accomplices values".

and the sincere expression of free turned today. Thoir sentences word Their alm was not confined to

democracy. changed by the President of the

precise western Europe, though Burmese Republie to life impri- | arrangements could apply at pro- Bonment. Both were accused and sent only to western Europe, convicted of minor roles in the conspiracy.

"

ters.

Official sources sald Anal ap

peals had failed for U Saw and;

the other Ave. They will be taken

to the gallows starting at dawn

people."

force suspect,

Mr. Churchill said that he look-of Blackmarket

and hanged in pairs, at-hourly Driven

intervals. Some will be execuí-

ed at Insein Jail, others at Ran-

goon jail. it was disclosed,

Underground

as a whole would be achieved." He was

to Japan

to Palembang, Sumatra.

Shanghai Anti-Narcotle Bureau,

London, May 7,

Tho

In

ha Egyptian note rejected' ~the British proposals-of-an- Anglo-Egyptian technical study of the draft ordinanca made on February 23, The recent British note to is a matter for Colonial Egypt-relates, only to the-Im- executive councils and legisla-mediate future of the constitut

In consultation with the tional reform programme for the res United Kingdom Government, It Sudan, it is authoritatively un- darstood, and not to the problem is not proposed to hold such con- of the ultimate status of sulations until the issue has been Sudan-Reuter. setiled in

Making this clear in the House The Royal Family were spe- with the explanation that two of Lords, the Minister of State cinlly interested in the diamond Chinese seamen were smuggling for Colonial Affairs, the Earl of Listowel, said that the death exhibit. They saw the biggest in opium valued at US$80,000. uncel white

diamond in the

the world. the 6-1/2 munce

The ship's officers said Wylie River stone, and the pink and plum-was-found-in-the-quarters white diamond from Tanganyika dead and buried at sea.

of the Chinese, who were found

given to Princess Elizabeth as a wedding present.

Of this, the Queen exclaimed: "I have never seen anything so ceautiful. It makes me wish it were inine,”—Reuter.

Daylight Kidnapping

Canton, May 7.

Mok Chung-kwal, agent for „Gtandard-Vacuum all Cam - pany in Canton, wa kid- napped in broad daylight last Wednesday, according to A report made to the pollca.

-Six-armed-men-are--sakitan have entered Mok's residence In the residential district of Honam Island (opposlt Can- ton city) and relieved the oc cupants of their belongings.

Not content with their Foot, the men took Mok with them for randomReuter.

TRAIN CRASH

Milan, May 7.

Cancer "Curer" Withdraws

penalty is n

Britain,

It will be

the

recalled that when Members of the House of Com- Three days remand was grant-- mons last year discussed the Golded by Mr. Hin-shing Lo at Cen- Count murder case the British tral Magistracy yesterday when

Government emphasised that the Shek Hong sau, us, unemployed,

prerogative, of mercy was at the

ed, were charged with conspiring Sydney, May 7-discretion of the Governor as the and Wong Kan-fen, 38, unemploy Mr. John Braund. 78-year-old King's representative. The Gov together and with others not-in Sydney man, whose claims to cure colentes to-revise execution of Lee Hung on April 6.

ernment can advise Governors of custody to demand $50,000 frozn cancer were investigated by a

Insp. G. Willeton is in charge committee sat up by the New the penalty but the decision rests South

Wales Government, hanwith the Governor.

of the ca3c. given An undertaking to #top treating cancer patients, the New South Wales Premier announced

today.

The

ported

Committee recently re-

to Parliament that Mr. Braund's treatment-was~~~~|| way a specific cure nor could it retard the growth of cancer. Reuter.

TOKYO MELEE

Tokyo, May 7, than 100 rival stall- several including clashed with Semurai swords, clubs and baseball bats in

More keepers, Koreans,

Kurashiki Cily today, the Kyodo

news agency reported.

Two hundred policemen enter-

Outsize Monster In Himalayas

Calcutta, May 6.

|A 90-foot long and 20-foot high spécimen of the long extinct dinotharium—apparently an out- sizod version of the olophant-was' raportad today to be roaming the Himalayas, "happily plucking the tops of huge ancient trees.

The report, in a Calcutta some one has been seeing come-

A "moving mountain of flesh. majestically," has Wendering been recently encountered by tribal people in Balipara frontier tract. The correspondent. added he understood "a preliminary ac- count has already been sent to the Royal Zoological Society, London."

or alive. Reuter.

The Weather

India

From an anti-cyclone over, West 'Mon- tolik, an intense ridge of high presure has thrust southwest across China almost to the Formosa Strafta

and not the government the after prosecutors decided to drop Rescue workers reported that led the molee which lasted from wspaper from its correspon- thing or what they have seen is

his case in which mistreatment ut least seven persons were kill-the night of May 5 to carly dent at Shilling, Assam, said fossil. Our report from

Allied war prisoners wased and 15 injured seriously when morning on May 6, sald Kyodo. the monster was sighted on the did not say whether it was dead.

a passenger train crashed into Ono unidentified person was in-southern side of the Himalayan alleged. ed forward with confidence to the Of the remaining 10 Japanese, four grain-laden box ears which jured seriously and thros slightly. range bordering Assam. day when the "Union of Europe six were commissioned officers broke loose from a freight train A hundred policemen were pa- Gallarate, 60 trolling the city in Western Hon- anxious at Arst, Mr. Tanking up to major, two were in a tunnel near

officers and miles north of Milan-United (shu, Kyodo

added.-Associated Churchill declared, lest the United non-commissioned

Press.

Press, States should vinw with hostility two civilians-Unlied Press. the Idea of à United States of Shanghai, May 7. Europe, but he rejoiced that the i

its cra of The Shanghai gold and foreign great republic in curfew, has been imposed on ap currency black markets

which world leadership had risen far proaches to Insein jail-Associal- have been unusually active in the above such moods.

Freedom from fear was that past few days, went underground Fr

police one of President Noosvelt's economic as the

After the second....30-year. __day.... **** war, mankind needed and sought

buclod of rest.

There was no sign of tension

as preparations were completed

for the executions. An pli-n\ght

ad Press.

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Coollas To Hang. Perjury Appeal, Uphald. Fine" "Thras

SAFE CAM

Surpske, Labour Ribela' Demand -

Pagh Bevon

four

to widespread, ralds in a fresh treedoms that mattered most to-; offort to

Numerous legal transuction. arrests were 'mude although the exset number was not divulged.

The last known quotation this! morning" was CN$1,180,009. for

one U.S. "Dollar while une ounce

A Council of Europe was a subordinate, but necessary part

of the world organisation of the United Nations.

Wants Posthumous Marriage

Polping, May 7 Parents of a young student couple who committed suicide on. Wednesday. night approached-lawyers-today-to-arrange a posthumous-marriage:

contract.

Yuan Yu-shan, 18-year-old, posthumous marriage should be also left

:

A deep depression is moving over East | Manchuria. An- umocisted sharp imagh | extende" southwards to Shinghal and link A

Natural history experts in with a depression over Chaneking Bombly Were dubiður about life depression mouth of Krumu la wanke togelbllity of the morter's A yeak Padlás anti-cyclóns entenda to existence.

A

(North "Japan and the Bouth China Sea,

—Today's--Forecneši Elahs-or-moderate Balim All, Curator of the south me variable "winds”. Unmitiled with Bombay Mistery Goploty, do rain at times thundering.“ almrod: ". Just don't believe it. Yesterday's Weather

Such

been

a spolmion has never Maximum 87,9° dog. Vah. found even In its foo-Minimalis 75.8 day, Váh. illodformnywhere in the Barishinar 8.8 benzetting „world, and 1. am prepared. to Agafalls"«Nu. Total risen Jan.. stake my reputation on danya ke 11.7mm.t=8,30 fra, me again

10, average of 848.8 mm,011,TO (500, ing this report!! :

ποιο in English: boy, and Hsu Cheng-halang, a performed because she became a "Goodbye, my dear parents; aurl

Associated Pre He had thought that the design girl of 10, took their lives with crust in the Yuan-house (this my friends. May God bless you, of gold bar touched CN$59,000,000, for world government might have poison in the former's home sur on the girl's reputation).

would be intended to remove-any Meanwled

a prominent local followed the system of three or after first testing its efficacy They also were keen on post-

Hamburg, May 60. the reports CRIME

more groups-"armies of peace": on a 'dog.

Special security meastires have humous marriage because Chinesa din Anti-Chiness Move in diam. representatives of foreign and The Council of Europe, in They left letters declaring they consider it bad luck cot to have been ordered-by-the-British Army The Royal Zoological Society

the Chinese hanks have petitioned cluding Bellato and her "alghat | Flight" of Shanghai Capital the Finance Ministry for a re-monwealth.

Com-wanted to be buried together in a member of their family die in of the Rhine during the visit to In London said they had recely- Dara, 'at maktuurioTRA (1900.8 DUB, vision

Government's Hamuphere. 3. The vast Soviet saying they would be united in an "outside ghost would haunt it. Royal, sister of King George VI, account. of a

The Western western hills near Peiping and their home, as that would mean the British zone of the Princessed a vague and insubstantial". Kumidity of -- the

"monster." Dr, De Point foreign exchange control policy. Upion

paradise.

Miss Hou, who attended the who is due to arrive by air on Geoffrey Vevers, Superintendent Wind Diration (1)modelInternational: Sport."

Keuter.

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