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HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 24, 1948.

JEWS STILL HOLDING OUT

Arab Assaults On New Jerusalem Rebuffed

New Zealand Earthquake

Christchurch, New Zealand,

May 23.

Earthquakes rocked the hamlet of Walau, 80 miles north of here today, toppling chimneys and, throwing real- denta off their

No feat. "CARURITISH" were reported."

The tremors were wide. spread. Much of South Island was shaken. The shocks were continuing Awociated Press.

London Electricity Failure

London, May 23. Hundreds of thousands of humes in the Landon area were eut off

from

shortly after ricetricily noon tottay when he of the main power les failed.

Thousands of Sunday dinners were sported or delayed inde finitely when electric stovek shut down.

Most of British kitchen stoves are electrically heated.

Partial interruption

Advance On Tel Aviv

Jerusalam, May 23. Haganah forces throw back frosh Arab assaults in the now city and continued to hold out in the bosloged walled city as aircraft and ar- tillery continued to make rubble of historic Jerusalem today.

Moving up behind a 24-hour artillery barrage, Arab

Legion troops attempted to move out of the Sheikh quarter into the north-west quarter of the new city,

Eight armoured cars--six of 23 Miles From

which were put out of action

by the Jews-led the assault

toward the Beth Israel quar-Tel Aviv

The altnek was thrown back after heavy lighting.

Cabn, May 23.

The newspaper Al Assas ported today that Exyptian forces jadvancing along the coast toward wire attcking 3 Tel-Aviv

settlement alput five Jewish

nortle

This u Majdal DI put them about 23 miles

In the old city lagunah claim- ed it repulsed fresh Arab asmuli on to winding Jewish garrison. The Arabs control all but one small brea in the old city where the Jews have been holding out from Israel's temporary capital, for newly a week,

Haganahi

planes bombed

Al Assas, the paper of Egypt- the tan Premier Nokrushy Pasiar's suid an Egyptian Party, also

undisclosed ariny vanguard

Arab village Shufst, borth of Jerusalem, in Friday night. Arab artillery again pounded Mt of tele-Scopus aren where the Hudassah phone service was reported from hospital and Hebrew University some parts of London and Post are located.--United Press. Office scl electric compuny

emergency crews were dispatched

to locate the trouble.

In Central London lights were

still on and industrial consuraers were not affectent.

of telephone in-

Hundreds quiries were being made 10 electric company headquarters by

who irate Londoners

were just -preparing_10_alt_down to Sunday

dinner.

Subway trains and trolley buses were stranded without power-

r-in parts

and London

WU DENIES

HE WILL BE

VICE-PREMIER

Shanghai, May 23.

size has joined the Trans-Jordan Arab Legion besieging Jews in Jerusalem.

In a delayed dispatch from in- side Jerusalem's old city. Asso- elated Press correspondent Donlet Deluge

an announce- reported

Secretary of the ment by the Latin Patelarchate that Passion- ist Father John Salah had been wounded fatally by Jewish ma- chinegun fire.

The Secretary saidi Father

Salah wan hit us he entered the Sisters of Clinrley Church oti

Olivus.to say 1053. the Mount of O

The Secretary sak the shots Local Chinese papers today came from the vicinity of Heb- carried a denial by Mayor K. Crew University on Mount Scopus. advised when Wu that he will be China's next The Mount of Olives is controll-

Vice-Premier.

ed by the Arab Legion. gasoline driven buses passed..by.

He was quoted as stating-that Father. Salah was removed to

of

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PICTURER OF THE DAY PROMINENT ROLE FOR

How To

Hold Royalty

WINGTON Churchill, in The

for opening the Hague

Juliana and Congreas of Europe on May 7. visited Princess her husband at Soestijk Palace. Here he holds baby Princess

Juliana wit Marijke, youngest of Juliana's four daughters. bacoma Queen of the Netherlands sometime this year.

-AP Photo.

BATHERS' BUS HELD UP

More than 50 London telephone he will not be leaving Shanghai the Austrian hospital in the at-Another- hold-up of a Kow.. at the present thine and that his city where he died a few hours loon Motor Bus took place

exchanges hnd to switch on emergency

batterles owing 10 interview with President Chiang Inter-Associated Press.

the electricity fallure.United Kai-shek in Nanking yesterday

Press,

PREMATURE REPORT

Athens, May 22.

was connected with the general situation in Shanghai, Including commodity prices and the city's

security.

that Mayor Wu also revented President Chlang had instructed Reports that ex-King Michael of him to assist Dr. O. K. Yui, the

Minister Anne of Finance

and concur Rumanin and Princess

Centrai Bourbon Purma will be married rently Governor of the here soon are premature, a well- Bunk, who arrived here yester- informed source here said tonight. day, in preventing wild fluctua- In the Shanghai markets

•Michael is not expected in Athens tions before June 15. it was added.- during the period, when the new Reuter.

Cabinet is being formed.-Reuter.

COLONY TRIES TO DODGE HEATWAVE

The Heat Wave which touched off the Colony's Summer Season since last week and which is today increasing in intensity, is driving thousands of city dwellars to the various beaches for relief.

1.

Erme

yesterday afternoon at about (Britain's UN Victory on 3.30 p.m. Palestine Page Five; Arme For Arabt Misunderstanding-Paya Nine)

Factories To Go Back

To China?

The bus No. 4033, a special one put on for the swimmers to Custle Peak, was returning to Kowloon when at the 19- mile stone four men boarded the bus.

They had seven revolvers be- tween them and after, ordering

to continue the driver

watches and rings and the con-

BRITISH

EMPIRE

Empire Day Messages

"In these tosting times. . ifis the British Empire which will have a prominent, if not again the dociding, part to play," Lord Clarendon, Chairman of the Council of the Royal Empire Society in London, declares in an Empiro Day message.

Lord Clarendon says:-

"All but three years have passed since hostilities ceased: yet with little hesitation the renewal of world conflict is spoken of as if it is still in the nature to things that only thus can the ideological differences and the clashing

ambitions of nations be resolved.

་

"The issue in set with a stark (thought, has enabled the Empire simplicity which all who are to preserve its strength and In- allowed to think for them-Quence in a world where long- selves can readily comprehend accepted values are being ruth-

whether the

of lessly cast aside.

principles

individual freedom and order- Proof Of Unity

ed liberty which for so long

Production

Drops

London, May 22.

The Treasury provisionally reported today that Britain's March Industrial production dropped six percent compar- ed with that of February.

The statement on the na onal drive for soonemle re- covery, without explaining the cause, said March output was 119 percent of the 1946 123 average compared with Fercent in February-ABBO-

cicted Press.

American Consul Dies

have guided our way of life "The spontaneous outburst of are to prevail, or to go down rejoicing which greeted the mar- before a creed which

young Princess, would rtage of our

British the ancient threaten

civilization our

no Heiress to less than that from which, at throne, once again gave proof to a cost of uncounted suffering the world that in the hearts of and loss, it was recently de- the peoples of the British Empire the Crown remains unchallenged livered.

as a symbol of unity and on ob- feet of devotion and loyalty.

un-

"The visible finks may be- come leaa vielble, but the ties of common traditions and com- mon vatues are revealed as growing ever stronger with the passing of the years.

"Only by the exertion of their full strength by thoKS who still hold democracy dear can this last chapter of horror

ramain and destruction opened. "In these testing times, no less than when the same issue has been fought out before, it is the British Empire which will have a prominent, if not again the de- world history, it elding, part to play. We may re-members of the Royal Empire

"At this momentous crisis of rests with the

Washington, May 23. Thomas C. Wasson, United States Consul-General in Jeru- salem, died this morning- victim of a sniper's bullet in the battle for the Holy Land. The killing of Wasson and the wounding of a staff member was the first major incident involving Americans in the Arab-Jewish struggle for the key city of Pales- tinc.

Vice-Consul William C. Burdett Informed the State Department that Wasson died at 0000 Jeru- salem time.

Wasson was shot yesterday while returning from trying to

folce

that the peculiar evolution- Society, by working to strengthen arrange an Arab-Jewish truce in

the Holy Land. and to ary genlus of our prople, blend- the Society's Influence

to play ing

tradition with develop its activities, of power

social their part in fostering the spirit change in political and

of unity, to the end that claim, as affirmed by the late

LIGHTS COMING ON IN EUROPE AGAIN

New York, May- 22.

Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, told a radio audience tonight that "Europe is sattling down, going back to work and feeling optimis- tic.'

a two months tour of Europe, spoke on the Colombia Broadcasting System's programme "Report from Overseas,"

Baillie, who returned on Thursday from

on

"Now it can be said that a definite, psychological effect driving great deal of Europe's lights the people. They feel happler and they proceeded to ransack the are coming on again," he de- more confident that the United passengers, taking their cameras, clared, adding that the people States is going to stick with them ductor's $100 in fares. The haut were buoyant, business seemed until they get on their foot.

Good

and the general con- was worth about $1,800. Among the

six fidence was in marked 14 passengers were

trast to the depression pre- when vailing 13 months ago he last visited Europe.

Europeans,

Shanghai, May 23. The prediction that factor- At the 15-mile post they order- ies which have been trinsed the bus to stop where they ferred to Hong Kong will got off and made good their es- move back to China as soon as there is a favourable de

velopment in China's inter-

nal situation was made by "prominent industrialists." quoted by the semi-official

cupe,

The matter was reported to the Police station shortly after..

cort-

"This change in atmosphere is attributable to several factors," he said. "One is the Marshall Plan. It already has had a very

NATIONALISTS CLAIM

United Credit Information SWEEPING SUCCESSES

Bureau.

trictions

The children wallowed in the control and systematic super- Reuter, cool rippling water, oblivious to gion. "Jams" were not infre anything else except the relief. quent, especially in front of the

The budding "Johnny Wols-Cairy Farm

waist-deep. mullars" splashed

The two-way traffle got in the casting around admiring glances way of the parked vehicles which

the

who tried to manoeuvre parading "pin-ups

than Although there has been no in fact id more walking

involving holidaymakers wimming evidence of the necessit numinent when one

out.

Senate Inquiry Endorsed

Shanghai, May 23.

Sweeping successes were claimed by the National- ists today on the southwest Honan front, whore Government armoured and infantry units under General Chang Chang aro said to have penetrated deep into Communist-hold arca after a rapid advance from the Peiping- Hankow railway city of Sinyang.

Fears Subsido

do-

"Another factor is the fent of the Communists in the Italian election, Alghtly wrongly, there In a growing feeling that the spread of Rue- alan Communiam is being con. tained." Baillie

said the people who were once afraid that the Red. Armies would march to the Eng- lish Channel now are inclined

to "pooh-pooh. the idea that

Communism is going to make

any more` gains at all” •

"Of

On Upsurge

course, behind all this facade of sunshine there lle all the countries which already have been engulfed by Commitniam, and there lies the grim and awful; tragedy of Palesting, the guerillo war in Greece and the situation in Turkey which may turn eritie- al at any time, the vast ruin that

The Weather

Maximum temperature yesterday was 91.9 degrees

They are reported to have said recorded at 2 p.m. while on Saturday the "nobody would wish to operate his plants in territories under maximum was 91.7. The Requise Bay Beach yes- could be discerned clearly shortly foreign jurisdiction if present res- exchange on foreign terday was a scone of unpra- before darkness.

"By midday, all the tents, hired, were revised for the better." cedented activity, when thou-

They added that many indus- trialists

are more

Irss ur

com- sands, flocked to the popular out at a nominal rate, were book- jed, and, the Jatecomers had to

move southward "be- pelled 10 rendezvous as early as

improvise "changing rooms"

Government cause the

Korbids the majority staying till dual among the bushes and trees,

Only a Race Day gathering

To the more than casual visitor, the importation of machinery from abroad," adding that "some could beat the siva of this crowd.

which MA points stood out The heat Was

Crashing all opposition, Gen-churlan-Jehol border to be in is prostrate Germany, and the intense, but could be, in the opinion of the manufacturers, in order to tidu them over present dificulties, aru despite the blazing rays the beach majority of the holidaymake18,

forced to instal now plants with eral Chang's columns recaptur-position to throw their weight in war of nerves in Berlin-U.P.

the Jchol or was invaded all along its curve ron

comedied.

machinery that has recently ar- ed several recently lost cities the struggle for by young and old sunbathers.

The motor traffic needs

two rrived in the southern port" in the course of their westward Manchurian corridor,

pusn and are now said to be The Nationalist Army's

commanders, deployed in a semi-circle im-top-ranking Bold

General Wel Li-huang and Gen- mediately north of the Honan-eral Fu Tro-yl, the Commanders- Hupeh border for further in-Chief respectively of Man- A weak ridge exteride from Japan

Obe Eastern Bis. charla and North China, are said scro speratione.

A trough lo developing over B.W. and Central 'Ohina, Pro-Government reports today to be at present working out

pressure gradient: mentalną, abi joint defence plan after learning while said they will probably begin a

toer the Philippiam and the China Bea Intention of large-scale

Today's Forecasti–Modernią. B, Wester encirclement move regard

and North

iy winds, partly cloudy, with postered ment' against the armies of Com-

futuro munlal generals Llu Pocheng China na

endly" "morning showers. operation purpose, and Chen Keng in the area as

Yesterday's Wauthorim Z -General Fu's Closely following soon as the Government northern

Mantas · 91.9: der. · ·Fahutan Senator Robert Wagher, (De- column, driving down from the the Felping-Sulyuan and Pelping-Busshler LX hours

units:

to kay points along Minimam 1.0 deɛ. Fahe Some buoys floated parallel to mocrat, New York) today on Chengehow area, has made furthe the beach some yards away (dorsed Sonate Appropriations

left Mukdent] would be gratifying to swimmers, Committee enquiry into whether ther progress, who are bound to be blocked out American aid to Great Beltain

Government defecca at Arab both Bouth Jehol" and Hopel chow and other strategie cifles in by the "none" and "walat-deep" was helping to finance

armies.

tronts in the past 24 hours, but the Manchurian corridor, and to Dazy qoʻmál ...1011.0 1008 m.b. Bunbathers.

Senator Wagner said that the heavy troop movements by both confer with local military com- The buses were packed--with

Rel. Humidity immediately gives tion for the next round of the Bince his

-the Daw-Patatangi Interval between their arrival at Arab. "Legion" the terminus was a

was a disappoint-rise to the question whether the "Battles of the Corridor

Manchurian some inonths ko, General Wel is Wind Fores American taxpayers should" s03 The only possible way to solve Britain under the European ro

reported to havo succeeded in

Xigh boosting the morala of his troops would be to run

covery programmaplan 15. Vollicles, especially during the promote peace and security, avinle Chinese reports (state) large to the highest mark in the past woek-ends, and also run special British resources aro expended in numbers of Communist troops 12 months and converting Mult

Repulse Bay Beach" busen-cater Palestine to defeat those Jalled are being shifted from other den into, en almost impregnable (All the above Liases are ing for muntathurs only.

Nations objectives."--Houter.

parts of Manchuria to the Man- fortress-Reuter.

fie antivity during the day was considers the lackadaisical man-

the litter of empties and wrap-ner by which the sunbathers Washington, May 22. pers, discarded by the holiday crossed the road of lolter taking makers all over the beach, whith pictures.

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The State Department sald Wasson presumably died in the Hadassah English Mission. Hos- pital where he was taken after

Lord Rosebery, "that the British the shooting-Asscelated Press. Empire is the greatest secular thing for good that the world has be proved ever known," may

still true."

In un Empire Day Message to children, the President of the Empire Day Movement, Gowrie, VC, saya;--

Earl

Anti-Flood Measures

Nanking, May 28. A Central News dispatch from Hankow today said that

amer-

"On Empire Day we' remember gency anti-flood measures were the Hankow our friends throughout our great put into effect in family of Nations. On this day area as the waters of the Yangtze when there is O much fear, River continued to risa" near the

danger.

point.. hunger and cruelty-still in the

world,

other young

people of The dispatch sald the anti-flood many races will be meeting, as dams and underground sewage you do here. We all, belleve channels in Hankow were closed that, through our lasting friend: yesterday. Water pumps were

other installed at strafegle points.- ships, we may help each and people of other Nations, to a happler future.

In Nanking, the Yangtze River flooded farmlands in the north auburbs of the city, affecting cul-

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