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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JULY 3, 1948.
DRASTIC REORGANISATION OF KMT
Caucus Expected To Be Called This Month To Work Out Plans
MAY ABOLISH CONTROL SYSTEM
Nanking, July 2.
President Chiang Kai-shek is expected to summon a Kuomintang caucus some time this month to plan "drastic, reorganisation"' of the party, a high Kuomintang source told the United Press today.
Details of the reorganisation will be worked out
12,288 'QUAKE VICTIMS
-in the caucus, However, it is known now that one feature of the reform plan is to abolish the existing party control system, in2 cluding the. Central' Executive Committee, Central Supervisory Committee, Central Poli- tical_Council and their subordinate organs.. Another feature; according to the Kuomintang source, is to institute fresh ro-enrolment of party membership. · The source Did it has not It is presumed it will be held been decided where and when either after the close of the Legis-
Tokyo, July 2, the caucus will be held. Kuative Yuan sersions around July enused. 12,288 casualties in Japan's latest earthquake ling most probably will be
20, or after the main political selected, but Nanking is also
ssues, such as the budget, new
Fukui and 20 adjacent towns mentioned as a possible choice. rice control Jainsurer, the ap-of Fukui Prefecture, First
avintment of the justices of the Corps Supreme Court and members of Civil Service Examination Commission, are settled.
HOTEL WILL MOVE TO CAUSEWAY BAY
the
New Party
Sett
✡
nounged officially today.
Headquarters an-
This total does not include the toll in other towns of Fukul Pre- fecture or in Ishikawa Prefecture, which also was struck by
Like.
the
Demonstrating students
·Prica: 20 Cents.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
STUDENT PROTEST
of Heidelberg alt on the tram-Ines as a protest against the ration. Ing system. They complained of getting only 1,500 calories and no. American oigarettes.
Rice Smuggling Out Of Canton Increasing Helicopters
Canton, July 2.
First Corps Headquarters sold The economic crisis which China faces today is
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causing a reverse trend in the smuggling trade in Canton and causing on exodus (at present on
a small scale) of labourers to Hong Kong.
The source expressed the belief Bus: eenvoration of a reorganisa-rount made by tactical troops in on the basis of an 'incomplete on enteus will gork the erup- the disaster area as of 11 p.m. on tion of many yents of inter-party July 1, the casualty toll included A new building to house4ique conplets out of which the 1,595 dead. St. Francis Hotel will be Kuomintang will cume out a new bullt, at Causeway Bay, the rty with a phw controlling ayspected to forense when tabula- The total casualty list was ex- "China Mail" was authorita-
The smuggling of rice out of iton is compleled. tively informed yesterday.
the Canton area is again on Japanese and American relief At present the CCC,and politi- The hotel will have to, vacate
eat grience sigues are controlling and rescue: tasms were continu- the increase. It had shown a Its present premises at No. 11, the parly and the government ring their search for victims of marked decrease in blay and. Chcet's Ruart, Centri, by the canoeuvring te meintain-their-Nippon's most serious post-war carly in June owing to the of the month.
disaster. power. Kunnintas, progressives
comparative stability of the The First Corps said is count Chinese dollar then and the management fed an ap-on the other hand, are attempting was based on plication about two mouling
recovered bodles agn in oust them al pave the way and injured actually treated. vigilance of the Customs au--
Associated Press:
thorities. The source said following dis→
The vigilance his not eased, but solution
existing control the
amugglers are now prepared to resept greater risks owing to the latest collopse of the Chinese wollur.
in appen Toe Privy Counelf for a new deal. against the decision of Tenancy Tribunal. The Tribunal hack ruled!!
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the premises be handed innchbury a new commliter will tack to the owners. The Hong, be elected a take over the power
of the Central Executive Com- inittee. tenderi
The caucus, which will be at-
representatives various party factions, will decide victorul proceedure and powers, und name a new setup,
Keng Land Divestment Co., Ltd. The application was rejected.
Furmation work on the new site of the hotel is already in pro- se maagement told the Aho Mall" that actun! con- 4truction work will begin at the eld, of this year. The new balid- Ing will be seven storeys high. All
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rooms will have attached New Faces
bathrooms.
Fen the beginning of August
bild St. Francis will be out of business..
of
Berlin Situation Worse
London, July 2
British and
until the completion of the new The source suid he believed ed" to such a degree that
that the Gentralissimo, who will United States, direct the party reorganisation, will follow the majority wish as French diplomats here will reorganised remain in, almost "continu- He is not ous consultation" day and expected to throw his personni, night_____
BURMESE
-MINISTER RESIGNS
"Rangoon," "July-2-
to what form the party should take.
weight behind any clique.
fice
Prices Higher Operating in small groups, mugglers minimize their chances of defection, and both land and sea routes are used to get this
Kong
mgner
become rarer. A
few private anks are said to have increased their interest rates to 18 much cu Aver per cent i day. Ja order fo slice depository.
Hankow
Cupital is said to be finding its way to Canton from the north. It was recently reported that In a "surprise swoop" on a crowded passenger train from Curtoms'
offlrers discovered MIRU among the „passengers' luggage targe quantities of National dol- lars, which were destined for Canton for "secure Investment"-- Reulei
"
For Canton...
Centon, July 2 Helicopters are to be used Communist
In Kwangtung's suppression campaigns.
The Kwangtung Provincial Government is reported to have ordered some of these machiges from an American manufacturer. and they aro now being shipped to Cariton.
Magistrates in the Pra Vinco's
counties,
according Chinese prosa
горогва have been instructed by. Dr. T. V. Spong to build small
•nemdronies in their districts to facilitate the use of thes helicoptera In the Govern- mant's--"bandik-suppression*-
to
throughout Kwangtung- Reuter,
HONAN PLAIN BATTLE
INCREASES IN TEMPO
Shanghai, July. 2.
in Hong The big battle on the Honan plain increased in
ferocity today-as-soveral·~frosh-Government-
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Italian Industry Halted By Strike Of 3,000,000
Ramo, July 2.
An extimated 3,000,000 Italian workers left their
Jobs at noon today in a 'nationwide Leftist . demonstration against the anti-Communist Government. ‚·
Industrial workers led the strike from, the Alps to Sicily closing every plant and factory. Thou- sands of store employees and local transporta- tion unions and other labour groups are pre- paring to walk out in sympathy.
The half-day strike was and their series of strikes.- felt first in Industrial Milan United Press. where nearly half a million workers quietly left their jobs and crowded the suri- bathed streets and public
squares. Other unions plan to stop work at various hours during the afternoon. Tho labour demonstration end at midnight..
is to
In Milan, Turin and Genoa the strike brought no excitement in the first hour. Additional police were an, duty and officials said they are ready for possible trouble when the political rallier begin in the evening.
Industrialists said the half-day strike would, deal production D severe blow, Skeleton labour forces were permitted by the unions to tend blast turaces and other vital Installations.
Fow Stores Close Although the Italian Commer- elal Workers Federation voted ir
the sympathy with
industria! unions few stores in the "major eltics of Rome.. Milan or Turin cloued at noon. Businessmen's
Air Rates Raised⠀
The
Bhanghai, July 2 Ministry of Com munications has approved an Increase in passenger airline fares "ranging from 100 to 180 per cent.
The fare from Shanghel to Hong Kong was boosted 180 per cent Associated Press.
Communists
Release 4
US Marines
Shanghai, July 2. groups urged woskurs to stay on
The four United States the jos and also called in volun- Marine Corps airmen, who...
teer workers.
'Special police action squads have been detained since. went on duty in Rome at noon but April 5 by Chinese Commun- helineted and heavily armed Jeep 1sts; were released "in good
slowly
tours
of men cruised
at
through the downtown area with health" to the United States
Headquarters out any outward sign of change Naval in the capital life Industry is singtao, it was officially an 40 scarce around Rome that the lounced here, strikte is not expected, to be folt unill transportation
out.
A-US navy statement did that
workers go negotiations for the release of the
pen arrested" when' their plane. The taxicab service in North was forced down 18 miles west of Italy stopped at noon but con-Tsingtao within Communist held tinued in Rome. Buses and street- erritory, were conducted at Hale core will stop all over Italy at 5 p.m. Movies and theatres will be closed until 8 p.m. Bars and restaurants were open in Rome but closed in the smaller central Land Northern cities,
Citizens Walk
yung under the direction of Vice- Admiral Oscar C. Badger, com- nonder, of the United States Naval forces in western, Pacific."
Haiyane is 60 milce northeast` if Tsingtap on the Shantung coast.
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-the -names-of the Marines-are A transportation strike will hlf First-Lieutenant, Harold W. Haw- all-big-tilles at the evening rush cins, 25' of Kalamazoo, Michigan, hour. Although-the-suburban ser- Master-Sergeant Thomas J. Shaw. vices in Keme were to keep run-of Winnfield, Louisiana, Tech- ning with citizens forced to walk ucal-Sergeant Robert C. White,
to
outlying stations provincia
trains and buses in the Milan area were to cense service be- (ween 5 p.m. and midnight.
of North Fork, West Virginia, nd Corporal Robert R. W. Lawid, # of Petersburg, New York.
A navy, spokesman, who inter- The half-day general strike wil viewed the group at singtao this be followed by a simliar work
norning and flew to Shanghai stoppage.cn July when chemicahe general treatment was "OK." bla: qvening... fold the press. that. industry
and Communist units-joined in the tray,~ agitation will lead the Bald that they were given ----
'swelling the number of mon involved on both --sides-to-around 300,000, according to pro«.
Government dospatches. Official sources at General
The Foreign Office spokes-cureal to Hong Kong and Macno, man said today that the
where prices are still higher,
This reserve trend in smuggling Berlin situation has "worsens also due to the ever-decreasing purchasing power of the populace. Stores ure still very heavily over- stocked, especially in canned food oods, and in many cases prices re lower than those
Legitimate tradexx_are_rapidly. The spokesman said the cold turning-to-illicit-trading-or-be- Diminishing They are either. U Saw Lein, secralary to the of cliques are likely to come out Western powers has become, even The source said-n-realignment var between-Rusia -and-the
oing "white collar" workers. Ministry of Commerce, 15upply from the reorganisation and Transport, was arrested to "new faces installed-in-controllost from the four-power Berlin
with more serious since Russia walkedicted, many are making their
As opportunities here are re -day and charged with the loss of Ing positions os demanded by Kommandatura on Thursday. several million rupees in Gover must. members.
way to the British Colony to seek meni revenue.
He confirmed that a strong joint more renumerative employment,
Many of the factories here are Liu Shih's East China Com- munist suppression headquar- this is swelling the army of
ters in Hauchow (north Kiang- Ise migrating nemployed. Many of these are
su) claimed that up to last The floating-population is also night, five Communist armies trough extends to the Yangtse and fected by this trend, and now had been dispersed by Gov- the ENE wong the a cost of Japani consists
mostly of
womenfolk. ernment forces and that in a depresion has formed over Shantung. Their men are deserting the river single engagement, south of Another trough extends frous a depres- for butler means of livelihood. the city of Tung-hsu, 25 miles pines to trupical depression which at alon over Indo-China marosa "the" Philip- One boat-woman, when ques south of Kaifeng, 0,000 Reds ONT (0 p., HKST) w centred toned on this said that her hun were killed and many others 400 miles NE of Palau and is moving band, who had carried on the wounded or captured traditional "profession," had gone
und
Ho ended that the reorganisa-note of protest against the Soviet The Minister of Commerce, U Ko Gyl, Immediately resigned tie since 1924 when the party man capital was being considered
tan is expected to be "most dras-starvation, blockade of the Ger-cutting their overhead expenses and challenged the Government underwent its 1st thorough re- but said it was
prove any corruption on his form under Dr. Sun Yat-sen- verious possibilities
only one of part.-United Press.
United *Press,
aideration."-United Press.
"Big Bang" Only A Pop
inder con-
AD A SPECTACLE the demolition by the former Japanese magazine, at Lvemun. Pas
yesterday was flon. Spectatora, expecting a big expibs)
@dreappointed. Ney
turo"a faint plume of ame
the demolition was satisfactory, in the centre of the "aboyo! Plass.from the magazine, after the explosion des story on page three.
The Weather
From a depression over ·Manchuria n
Wat 12 knet.
o Hong Kong to work on a river said that large units of Gover-winda; wecalonal light showers, "ulher- Today's Forecast-Moderata's or SE Chinese reports this evening eamer, while their teen-nge sonment and Red troops are still con- fa was ali apprentico in a Hong verging on the battle area. These Maximums 91.9 deg. Yen
Yesterday's Weatheri- Kong fectory.
includo strong Government Miniatum: 19 deg. Fab. columns under the comand of Bunshine 11.4-hours General Chang Cheng.
Rainfall Tree. " Tulai sijos, Tân, đạm
178,0 mm.=14:60, mal- 68 dæaltai atz] Elast ́EVOTEES OF OSIE MAA$1.45 `ins..
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Money Market - Meanwhile, businessmen, offe workers and labourers are fast converting thele' Chinese' dollars into rice or other commodities. spection of the fighting front to
General Liu Shih, Nationalist Commander-in-Chief Ior China, made another flying in-
Equala
Dew Point..
*ted to of
The rich buy geld. bars and day and dropped „personal ore | Baro, ai mal, 17,18063: 10081 mà. foreign currencies, while the leader from President Chiang Kai- Fortunate turn their dollars into shek to the Government conman-Rel Humidity gold trinkets, such as rings, weder in the battle sector.
Banks here are experiencing a „ight_money' market, as depositors
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The Nationalist command. has Wind Direction. thrown in warpines from gli neat Wind: Force by bases, including Hankow, 28 ailles to the south. In support of
| High.. the ground. forces, in this the
Low greatest battle yet fought in een tral China, in the 20 year old civil wark
On the Shantung front, torren tal rain temporarily halted. all operations, including Communist attempts to storm the beleaguer ed Tientsin-Pukow. railway, city
of Yenchow (Tseyang-Reuter.
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JULY 4 PARADE
·IN. TOKYO
Tokyo Nuly 2 Several thousand American and British troops will march through Tokyo on Monday; on a United States Independence Day parade. which will be The Emergency Unit was sont
reviewed by General: MacArthur othe Ylea
Yich, Commercial Supreme Allied Commander, will Bank of Des Voeux Road Central include troops from the 8th Army, at about 5.25 pen.. yesterday, 751, Mar: East Naval Forces and: Far lowing the sounding of the bank at Air Forces, as well as plarms bell!! at Central Police Blush Cominowealth-' Occupa 5tion, NY AREA Magneton Farrés, troops.v1.
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It was later found that the Tour, bundeed Allied pianos wni "Kordan - Olympia Brehmatarm, bad berig: casinda Byne By beat the betúting stand
Adv Crusing of electric wires,
dustry will go out-on-July-7-fron-
The nation's electric power in
~ectures-and--articles on...Com
hunism in China, but not forred.
disten or read them, Asked whether any ransom was paid
the Communists for their re Jase, the spokesman · replied: No, not to my knowledge."
9 a.. to 11a.m. although publi services will be assured. On July & steel workers will go out and on July 9 the nation's glass ceramics and hemp workers wil"deutor.
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