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REINFORCEMENTS FOR MALAYA WRECKED CATALINA

Pirates Active Near Bias Bay

A varies of raids were care riad out during the weak along the China Coast near Blan Day: trading funke reaching Hong Kong yester. day reported.

The junk matters said that a pirate feet of five motor- Junks, equipped with machine guns, landed uff the Luk Fung cost, forne 90 miles GRIT

of Hong Kong.

More than 10 shops at ons of the village porta in the arom were sacked before the arrival of the Peace Preser vation Corps.

In the battle that followed, mero than 10 pirates were killed and turre captured. The cast escape.

Thieves Cause Black-Out

Inniskilling Bn. Leaving In Few Days; Hussars From UK

VIRTUAL FIASCO IN

IN DRAGNET

Singapore, July 26,

The First Battalion Inniskilling Fusiliers are embarking for Singapore from Hong Kong in the next few days and the Fourth Hussars are standing by, in England under orders to proceed to Malaya as soon as possible; the Government revealed today. Advanced contingents of Inniskillings have already

arrived in Singapore.

The Government

announcement explained the arrangements were made several weeks aga but "stressed that for reasons of high policy it is impossible to declare troop movements long before they fake placò.”

Meanwhile

the British Planes In Search Army today completed large- scale operations in Semenyih

Royal Air Force planes are par- The pilot Jeep leading the night

The whole of the Peak area against Communist-ledticipating in the search. 'area and Repulse Bay, Stan-insurgents but chalked up mail train south of Kuala Lum ley and

Aberdeen were the campaign blacked out for an hour on asco when

as a virtual pur was attacked early today, the Saturday night following the tablish

it failed to es second time in a week. The jeep cutting of the high tension

contact with the was riddled by bullets and a policeman hit on the, hand. The enemy. cable

midway between

attackers, Bring from both sides Middle Gap Road and Istana

the train came through safely. of the tracks, were routed and Road.

A big party of troops was rush- ed to the Barifeld Estate, two was reported terrorista took over miles from Bemigyih, where it

the military dragnet.

The cutting was the work of cable thieves who had evidently been working for a whole week

Only une msurgent Chinese was killed and one riment Chinese Faltra

on the job stripping some 20 | pashmat because it gave troops on the estate house after escaping

yards of the cuble or covering

its (en)

However,

the Army said the operation was not a cumplete

Iden of the difficulties before them While the Police were actively. yaleti hinted that the Army checking up on the theft and e. thinks the terrori: is deavouring in apprehend the rul. when the trap was aprung but cs-ut of 500 persons screened, Mill-

prits, another cable dunge wescaped.

reported at cape D'Aquilar u

Sunday night,

were inside

A length of cable Some Time To

was found to have been stolen;

and the arca was without hight: for an hour,

Cost of replacing these cables, including labour, will run to well over $8,000, the "China learnt yesterday,

Learn Strategy.

Mall" During the two-day operation hunreds of British troops were

Cable thefts have cropped up employed in full battle dress. off and on for the past six months, and some of the offenders have been a wild-goose chase," said one "The campal appears to have heen caught and envicted In the officer. courts. The majority ta[ then! have, however, escaped apprehen

Jap Steel

Production

-Tokyo," July 25. *-*||

Commerce and

The Javanese

Eighteen persons were arrested in the Seminyih arch yesterday.

tary sources said they feel certain some of the arrested persons are important Communists but refused details-United Press.

"REVOLUTIONARY” FILMS-BANNED

Singapore, July 28: The Straits Times said today that the films "Tale of Two Cities" and "Thirleen

Rüg 50 other pictures will shortly be Madeleine" and between 40 and

banned as "revolutionary."

The newspaper said they will High British Army quarters be prohibited in both Singapore ald: "The operation has not al-and the Malayan Federation,-- together been in vain. The troops Associated Press

are naturally disappointed at having failed to

contact the

enemy. They expnoted a light But I will Lake them some time

, to learn Communist strategy,"

The operation was completed at 140 loca tine. The troops comb-

Industry Ministry announced foed a 45-square-mile trap area. day the output of pig iron nud ordinary steel material in the

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Gas Supply Is

RAISED FROM SEA Nearly

The wrecked. Catalina flying-boat, which, erashod off Macao on July 16 with 27 passengers and crow on board, was lifted lato yesterday. It was expected he towed on a raft to Maend last night.

to Quating the Macao, Dally Naws, ал Associated Press message last night said that the Portuguese authorities are in- vestigating the history of three unclaimed Chinese victims of the crash.

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The newspaper seld that the officlata are puzzled over, the fact that no one has come forward to claim the bodies. It added that the body of Weng Chung-pong, whose personal fortune is estimated at US$3,001,000 has not yet been found.. Two more unidentified bodies were recovered yesterday.

PICTURE OF THE DAY

SAFE DEPOSIT

YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTOR ВЫ ВЫЕЗЖАЕТЕ ИЗ АМЕРИКАНСКОЙ ЗОНЫ

VOUS SORTEZ DU SECTEUR AMERICAIN

A young Borliner, standing beneath the board which marks the American, and Spylet esctors of Bertin, estraté one method of carrying Western currency Into the Russian "actor" Those, caught are subject to arrest and confiscation i of the money,AP Photo.

GIFT CRUISERS

ARRIVE TODAY

Local planters joined the troops Presented to China, two British cruisers are due to

first quarter of the year totalled at many points acting as guides. 177,000 al 217,780 tons, respec-

put- through

Pulley and mary RгC

arrive in Hong Kong tomorrow. They are the former HMS Aurora and Mendip, ro-named Chungking and Ling Fu respectively.

Jively for the highest quarterly suing a trail of blood

since the end of the war. Southern Sohore Jungles secking Agures

Steel materini

production the gang of terrorists who were reached the goal set by the gay-driven of after attempting to inxe ernment due to improve supply over a police outpost in a lonciv

Chungking. completed in king and Ling Fu will be entere power, but pig iron produc- Jungle rug 60 miles north of Jo-cruiser. She is under the com- given by local Chinese

1937, is a 5,200-ton light tained at a series of receptions. tloit fell 24 per cent short of the hore Straits.

Are mand of Captain Tang Chow-t two warships will be met j

of

goal due to smaller imports of

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Seven policemen apened

use organisa-

iron ore from China's Haloan Is after the bandits, demunded they hsiang and her fund and inferior quality of cont surrender their arms on the pro- consists of 38 officers and 600 morning by a British gunboat to complement outside the harbour tomorrow supplied by Russian-controlled mise they would not be attacked ratings. Karafuto-United Press.

if they did 10.

Ling Fu is a 1,000-ton light There will be the

be escorted into the harbour.

usual cruiser with a complement of 10 ofcers and 188 ratings.

|saļutes. She'is under

RECORD FLIGHT FROM PARIS TO LONDON

London, July 25.

The Vickers Viking jat propelled airliner today flow. from Paris to London in 36 and a half minutes thus breaking the former record for the flight by four and a half minutes, it was officially an- nounced here,

The plane is the world's first all-jet airliner. In November, 1946, a Lancastrian plane flew. from Paris to London in 41 minutes. The weather was fine and The plané last touched down the wind favourable as the air at the end of its London-to-Paris liner took off at Villacoublay the 1939 record for the run from fight at noon having, roduced. airfield near Paris and swept 81 minutes to 34 minutes, overhead at 345 miles per hour On the takeoff run, the back- sweep from the turbines cut: channel in the pebbly track.

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Cowie Case,

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Bampen Byburða:

Marshall Aid Conferencs.

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Top Lovet Talka in Berlin.

Rage. Twelva

The Fourth Tort

The crew was received by Madame Bleriot-widow of Louis Bleriot, who made the first air. Crossing of the Channel on July 25, -1000.

After lunching at the Aero Club de France, the crew on sented Madame Bleriot with an album of press culfings than

der the command of Captain Cheng Tien-chen. The two war- ship: are expected to arrive at¦ 10 am. tomorrow from Singapore.} They left England in April.

Vice-Admiral

Yang Yuan- chung, of the Chinese, Fourth Naval

Baso, arrived in the Colony a few days ago to meat the two warships. He has already called on the Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham.

gun-

Kwangtung

Passion Murders Sentence

Manila, July 20.

Restored

To Prewar Level

More than 80 per cent of Hong Kong districts served with gas before the war have had their supply restored.

Service to the remaining areas is held up solely by the non-arrival of materials and equipments, long over-due, from home. An official of the Gas Com pany told the "Chiria Mail" yesterday that since the begin- ning of the year gas, has been restored to whole of Happy

Armoured

Valley (excepting Broadwood Trains For CKR

Road), Blue Pool Road, and Causeway Bay.

King's Road is

now served down to the Commercial Prese where the main ends.

In Sookunpo, only the section: Bernardo Anzures, 21, who Iron Caroline Hill to past the broke into the movies as Indian Recreation Club has had child, received two life sen-gas laid on so far.

Work from tences today for the passion Tung Lo Wan Road to the Tung murders of 21-year-old screen Wah Eastern Hospital is still held and radio beauty Lilian Velcz and her maid on June 27.

entire city district is now Sentence was passed by Judge

with a Tow

- with gas,

Oscar Castelo of Quezon City who exceptions. They are areas be Noted Anzuros is "not of thetween Whitty Street and. Mount cplatinal type."

Davis in the Kennedy Town ares, The court found: three mitigat and Middlea Road and ing circumstances in Anzures' Johnston Rose 300 Wanchal favour

arca, 1. Temporary Insanity: 2. Vo luntary surrender; 3. His plea Up the Peak, of guilty.

aboyo Barker Anzures, haken by the verdist, Hul area, the Findlay Road arcu, Rond, there are still the Gough wept after leaving the corrtroom,

The defendant

has the righl

Shortage In, Peak

to apuent to the Supreme CouMalgmin Road, part of Sever

The Philippines does not have a

Jury system.

to

and Mount-Austin, without

all these places work lans Luger law a prisoner sentenced the

going on full ahead," said fife imprisonment has

Gos Company official, and right to apply for parole or providing we got the materials paidon after serving, 30-years.: and equipment out in time,

the

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The popular con singer, who hope, by the end of the year, to Fur private life : Mr. Jao Chimo-have gas laid on to all districts ct the morni at her home by "Our capacity is now practically to was killed a the early hours that we served before the war. Auzures who slashed her, then up to pre-war level, and we have her maid Pacita Flores, with a.now about as many consumers in hunting knife-United Press. our books,” he concluded.

DAKOTA CRASHES IN AIR LIFT

Berlin, July 25.

German women and children today placed bunches of flowers near the United States Dakota air- craft which crashed near a Berlin block of flats.carly this morning while bringing sup- plies into the city. It was the second American plane to crash while operating the "

"air lift."*!

The wreckage fell on the 906

The Last Straw British-American sectos: fron-

Catania, Bicity, July 25. Francesco Nicotria, 52-year- ald wine merchant, shot and killed Ha, wife, Giuseppa, Nicotrin told the police: "8ha reheated my spaghetti and purned It"United Press.

New Public Relations Officer

tier. The body of the co-pilot of the plane was thrown elear of the wreckage, but the pilot #rapped and only his charred remains were found.

was

The plane crashed almost In the front entrance of the Mate and flying debris littered the Kurrounding area,

The caretaker of the date sald that-he

was awakened by the sount of the plane."

"There was a terrific explosion and suddenly the entire street Was lit by a blinding flash. I

up rushed downstairs, when I

hoard women and children screaming. They were all clustered inuide the front door. They could not got out. The plane was blazing just outside and the hent n Intensie. I led them to the back Mr. W. Gordon Harmon, door." Reuter.

Hong Kong's new Public Re-

Flood Relieflations. Oficer, will assume

in

posto

on August 17.

The Weather

typhoon was centred about 15 miles BE At 3 pa I.K. dummer Time, the of Hong Kong wolne Wy and tending to cure

From it though stretchen westward. lo Tangkin and EW Heinan.

The thire of high preaure from The

Canton, July 28.

Born in the North China pro Twenty-four districts

vince of Shantung in 1900, year Kwangtung province, which Boxer Rebellion, Mr. Hng suffered heavy damage in the non was educated at Eltham Col- recent floods, are, to be given

lege, England. speedy financial aid to allow He served in the Royal Navy rapid rehabilitation, it was dis-Volunteer Reserve in 1017 and closed here today. The two warships will stay in

1018. Two years later, he foined Dr. T. V. Soong, Provincial the Asiatic Petroleum Company the Cpleny for seven days for Governor of Kwanglung, is re. (North China) Limited. some minor repairs and adjust-ported to have himself taken a {ments..

During the saven-day and in obtaining the necessary on appointment in the Chinese Runthines 48.8 hours, period the officers of the Chung relief and rehabilitation funds by Government; Salt Administration In 1924 he resigned to take up

Minor, Repairs

Quebec Air

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making, ditect appeal to the Central Government for adequate the retired in 1930. appropriations.

Meanwhile, the local Flood, Re

From 1040 to 1941 Mar, Harmon was Press Attache at the British

Air et Committer is reported to have Embassy in Chunking,

Disaster

revealed that the Einistry of So- cial Affairs has been: Instructed

In 1942, he joined the Army (In

to appropriate, CN$24,000 million telligence Corps), serving in China for food roller purposes in Kwang and rose to the rank of Lieuten Toronto, July 251 Twenty-eight persons, In-: It could not be a certained whip ant Colonel He was demobilled cluding one, woman, were kill-ther this appropriatlon como as June, 1046 ed when an airliner crashed on the result of Dr. Soong's personal Gaspe Cape, in Québec, on approach to the Central author Saturday night, the or whether and her husband's feat, and delivered Port Menter, on Anticosti Island

The airliner was flying from will be coming lator-Reuter mcastiges of kontwill from, the

KÉNE BOL Coral Acre Club to the Arco in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, and

de France and M. Jean was about 12 miles from its des CANTON TAXES: Bleriot, Bleriot's son who is mainland, when it verashed Into

tination at Cape, on the Quebec vehi Secretary General of

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The Chron Canton July, 20.

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tional Acrofinution), 52eavily.

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plot who spotted

The chief pilow Captain sum crafted plane described, the area faxed this month, by reliably re

mpre, told Reuters The Viking na bingcurable, except by fous ported f

has no vices, and very little desa.

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We had a beautiful ride."- Ngi-, being organised. The plane warfremm

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Pacle entleyeland to Central Calna te weakening and retreating waitward.

Today's Foreczal--Moderate""or" frèch NW wise. Cloudy with ́ralia aš times.

Yesterday's Weather 1000

lainfalle Nil. Total alpes. Jadi,

| Hanimum't, ka olem, Foto S Minimum 77.6 deg. Fab.

·1200.4 47.95 fep, 'se againri'ab -averages of 13700 mm.=$0.87 sink. Bondings at... 10 4 naro, à mal100 1049.8 mi 5.

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1984 Inches) action. het Humidity.

wind Force Widd. Direction

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(Military Division) in the 1440

Mr Harmon received the 0.B.E. LOW King's Birthday Honours. He re turned to Ching with Kemaley Newspapers in July 1040 and was posted, to Palping.

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AUCHINLECK FOR "MALAYAP

warded by the Chinese be- Ordo” of the ther with Nözette in The

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MYSTERY EXPLOSION

Jersey City, New

Jersey, July 26, An aircraft pliot reported here today that he saw wiremendous

explosion" aboard, a 100-foot long boat In Raritan Bay, near Now Yark, and when the smoke ofarad 'the boat had disap. peared.

Bonta began exarching the arsa after the pilot's report, -Router.

Canton, July 25.

The local railway administration has arranged for armour-

ed trains to: patrol the Conton-Kowloon railway while the military puthorities have been asked to supply soldiers for the land, protection of the route, it is re- ported here.----Reu- ter.

SINO-HK TALKS ON CURRENCY CONFIRMED

Nanking, July 26.. Officials of the Nanking

ed a Shanghai press report of Hend Office of the Central Bank of China today..confirm- negotiations for the conclusion of a China-Hong Kong.eur- rency agreement.

The same source disclosed that Assistant rectorio of Centrul Baile of Colos's Business of the Boreutron-beam mentioned as a poralblechole" to undertake negotiations and that he had con- Jucted preliminary

discussions week with British Embassy officials and Anercial, authorities litre.

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The prevention of the flight of Chinese capital to Hong Kong is said to be the chief purpose of the contemplated: bgreement. The resumption of negotiations follows the recently announced decision of the Executive Tuan to

renow talka with friendly powers on the uillization by China of Chinese capital deposited abroad:

Central Bank officials, however, Have no information as to whether the matter will be broached during parleys on the currency agreement, Agence Franco-

Presse.

BOY INJURED

A five-year-old 'boy, Cheng Pul- tin, living at 13 Observatory Road, top floor, was admitted to Kow foon Hospital at 1:30 pm, yester day suffering from injuries sun- fained when he was knocked down at the Junction of Austin Rond and Austin Aventa by pri vate car 7809, driven by W. B. Poola, of:17 Austin Avenue.

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