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CARDINAL GETS LIFE IMPRISONMENT Sponge-Fishing Govt Employees

Found Guilty Of Charges Together With Six Others

DEFENCE TO APPEAL

Budapest, February 8.

Cardinal Josef Mindszenty, 56-year-old Prince Primate of Hungary, was gooled for life by the special People's Court here today. The Cardinal's counsel announced at the end of the trial that he will op-

peal to the Supreme People's Court Tribunal.

All his private property was ordered to be confiscated. He was found guilty

of three charges:

1. Violating the law for the (9000s

defence of the republic. 2. Or-

ganising a conspiracy against Profound Grief

the republic. and, 3. treason and block-market currency dealings.

Cardinal Mindszenty. who trial, throughout the three-day bad steed l the proceeding with an Immobile expression, folded us he stood with bund

stened to the verdicts. He burf pleaded guttly to the acts charged, but denied treasom

With him fellow accused, neged to have ploited with in and certaia for- eign powers for the restoration of the Hupsburg monarchy lu Central Europe in the event of a third world war.

were fenced six

15-Year Sentence

At Vatican.

****** [ling to overthrow the Govern- ment, spionage and selling U.S. dollars on the black market above the Government fixed rates.

When

the trial opened the Cardinal at once pleaded guilty but denied' he plotted to over- Throw the Government. The others, except Baronayi, pleaded partly gulity, but denied plotling' against the Government. Buran- nyl pleaded innocent.

Vatican City, February 8.

Pope Pius XII heard news of the sentencing of Josef Cardinal Mindszenty of Hungary with the most profound sorrow, a Vatican source reported.

The informant said the Pontiff would seize the first occasion that presents it- sell to make a protesi in the hardest and most de- Anile terms, Associated Press.

closed the Cardinal had been

They were Dr. Jusztin Bara senlenred to life imprisonment

und

admitted

Cardinal Mindszenty writing a letter to the Minister of Justice offering to withdraw from his office temporarily to allow Lungarian bishops to negotiato ngreement

for

a Church-State which he previously opposed.

(There have been unconfirmed Govern- reports the Hungarian

na-

ment sought to establish a lonul Catholic Church, indepen- dent of control of the Pope in tteme.)

Barter Trade System With

Red-Held China

Shanghai, February 8

A barler trade system be- tween Shanghai and North China may be inaugurated when the steamer Greater

In Lampedusa

An important industry of Lampedusă Island, between Malta and Tunisia, in sponge-fishing. Some 250 people are In the industry, which is slowly regaining, the Importance it enjoyed pre-war. Photo shows: A Lampotiusa; sponga fisher strings his catch into "Necklaces" which will, be left in the sun for several days to dry out before they are are stored.-AP Photo.

Two Modern Cinemas To Open Shortly In HK

Shanghai leaves here. shortly Hong Kong will have two of the most modern cinema theatres.ready in the next three months, cam- plote with the latest equipment and air-con- ditioning.

nayl. 60-year-old Catholle univer- instead of death by hanging po- Admits Deals sity professor, found guilty of be-gible under the treason charged ing an accomplice in the con- against him.

Cardinal Mindszenty neknow- for Tangku Judge Olthys said there were

with a cargo of spiracy with the Cordlipat,

Patenced to 15 years' imprison- three extenuating circumstances ledged Royalist sympathies. He flour, which will be exchanged

he admitted engaging JTI munt and loss of political ridits in the Cardinal's case-(1)

Blégal confessed and expressed regre! for 10 years,

Dr. Andrew Zakar.

the Car- (2) he lived for from worldly my deals and offered to make for coal, the spokesman of the

the State.

suid here today. dinal's secretary, guilty of being affairs, and (3) the United States, restitution for the amount lost by Kallan Mining Administration an accomplice and of treason, six through its Minister to Hungary. He also said he changed his

The spokesman said permission made him

mind about & letter he wrote is already been given by the years Imprisonment and loss of Mr. Seiden Chapin,

United States of hope that the polical 1ights for 10 years,

the Bishops before his arrestį Hun- Prince Paul Esterhazy,

America would start a war an

3n which he warned them top Communist leaders in the Greater Fary's richest

land this war would help him attele pre-war owner, guilty of aiding the ors aims. Fanisation against the republie

and

of blackmarket currency Grave Factors

dealings, 15 years'

in gnol and

loss of rights for 10 years.

Dr. Miklos Nagy. secretary of

Church,

The Catholic Action organisallon, Agg zvating factors, the Jude three years' imprisonment and udded, were the Cardinal's high toss of political rights-for-five station, in the Catholic

hit high degree of education, and the crimes he committed.

years.

The court sald Zakar's con- fession to the police in aiding the investigation was an alleviating clrcumstance in his case.

o threatened.

La

North for the trip by

and National Guild

The spokesman said that the

Get Increase In HCL Allowances

Married. men, widowers and widows (with ong or more dependent children) in Govern" ment service earning salaries from HK- *$150 to HK$374 have had their cost-

living allowances—increased to 100 per cent of their basic wagop

Civil servants in this category benefit most from the

revised allowances.

Those caring salaries betweon HK$375 and HK$1,600 havo baan given allowances ranging from HK$370 to HK$800 for men and women with dopendent children; HK$296 to HK$640 for married mon without dependent children; and HK$222 to HK$480 for 'single men and women without do pondant childron.

Details of the revised cost of living allowances, first describert on Monday an departmental Fecret and a domestic affair by the Public Relations Office. were released for publication late yen- terday,

The vernaculae Pras, howover. published, the details in their l sues yesterday..

Retrospective

The revised Allowances aré ro- frospective to January 1...

and

Allowances for married men without dependent children and

between earning

IK$150 HK$374 have been fixed at 80 per cent of their basle wages; and the allowances for married and un-; married women, unmarried men. widowers and widows in the same bracket without dependent child- ren have been fixed at 00 per.cont of their basic wages.

Government employees carning solurles from US$180 to, HK$145 have had the cost of living allow- aricos xod at 70 per cent of the

thirds of the then's allowance for women)...'-

They are the HK$2,500,000 Roxy Theatre of Cause basic wore (for men)-end, two-

way Bay, with seating accommodation for 1,700, and the Broadway Theatre on Nathan Road, Kowloon, which will seat more than 1,000 people.

Direct Sea Contact

King May Yet Visit N.Z.

London, February 8. King George VI hopos in the not too distant future to be able to carry out his pro- posed visit to New. Zorland. A message to this effect from the King w road at the Ailver Jublice dinner of the "Now Zealand Society in Lon.

don last night.

The Becretary.for Common- 'weath relations. Mr. Philip Noal Baker said: "Wo wit echo the King's hope that that vialt will soon take placo. Wit la good news for ua alt that the King now tools able to hold out that hope,"

• Router.

Hoffman's European Programme

Washington, February B.. The Economic Co-operation Ad- The allowances for employees ministrator, Mr. Paul G, Hoffman, carning up to HK$60 a month offered the U.S. Congresss a Euro- have been Axed' at HK$72 for, pean recovery bargain today man, and HK$48 for women. For with a $5,580,000,000 price tag.

The programme did not include salaries more than HK$60 and

a cent for China or Korea, less, than HK$130, the allowances

Mr. Hoffman said he would are HX487 for men and HK$58ke an interim proposal later on

for women.

China together with cortain sug- Allowances for civil servants gested 'modifications in the China

nid act itself. ・・・ month follow:

With Burma earning more than HK$374. =

Deals Wage

not to accept as bona fide any Shanghai, and arrangements are confession he might make be

now being made with the Chinese cause of human frálity.

The Roxy Theatre will be Shipping (Cardinal Mindszenty's con-

Association of Chinese Ship-ready to open at the end of this and recantations facelona

owners to set a date for the month, but the Broadway will court brought charges from

not be completed until May. abroad that the Cardigal had shiling of the vessel.

Both theatres have been given boon tortured and drugged.)

He added that If the plan the first run of all RKO Radio Prosecutor Elapi denied the Cardina! was drugged, tortured worked out successfully, Shang- and 20th Century Fox releases

hn's coal supply would be for 1949.

Announcing this assured.

arrangement Elapt, demanding the death

(By Our Harbour Beporter) Yesterday, Mr. Leon Britton, Far sald Cardinal Minds

Supervisor of RKO Radlo, The first ocean-going ship'to penalty, zenty was motivated by hatred of Communists were in need of flour said RKO would in future bo fly the Burmese flag arrived Democracy and not defence of re- and Shanghal in need of coal. bringing out fewer pictures than here yesterday marking the

The vessel is expected to take before; but they would all be first direct sea conriection from The court found the behaviour Ligion.

The trial climated a lengthy North some 300,000 bags of flour chosen for their sultability for Hong Kong to the newly-born of Baranayi and Nugy, in dely-

Oght between the In wartime, ex-

Government to be exchanged for 100,000 tons ing the Nazis

this area, the Cardinal. and

independent nation. The battle

of conl. tenuating factors in their cases,

The taste of local cinema-goers

She is the LST Chip Lara, one Royalist sym-reached its height when the Com-

will be our first consideration. We of the four-craft. fleet of the but Baranayi's

are going to show them pictures Burma Navigation Corporation, 2400 3 $419 pathles, shown in the court room, munists announced plans to na-

tlonalise Church

The schools. The

they like, and this will mean counted against him.

Cardinal opposed the measure,

A spokesman for the American longer runs at the theatres," said the nation's first and only ship-141422 threatened ex-communication ‘a

Burmese magnates. my Catholic Member of Parlla-President Lines said today the Mr. Britton.

company's ss. President Fillmore

Heading

Reconverted and refited at an US$4,000,000 pro- estimated cost -Parliament

be the voted last June to

cost of about HK$1,700 10 $789 duction "Joan of Arc, starring 000.000 at Singapore in 1947, the 1900 to 1900 Taku Bar, Tientsin's anchorage. nationalise the Church's schools.

At the close

Bergman; und "Good Sam"

the

first ocean-#1,000 to $1,099 Chip Lam of The Judge's, it will be the Best, American ht-hearted comedy with Hongoing ship to be under Burmese B1,100 to $1,100 statement the defendant Aled freighter to try to trade with the Kong's popular male star, Gary registry. Her sister

the $1,200 to $1,299 LST. quietly from the court-room. Communist-held port.

not known whether the

Cooper, in the lead..

Chip Sing, is second of the only 8,260 to $1,800 $1,400 to $1,400 was Cardinal would be transferred

flying the nation's flag.

#1,640 to R1,599

Father Bela Ispanky, a priest. rilty of treason and blackmarket currency deals: life imprisonment int loss of rights for 10 years.

Dr. Laszio Toth, former Calho- J editor, guilty of treason." 10 years imprisonment and loss of rights for 10 years.

The court ordered the con- Ascation of the property of all the accused except Dr. Nagy. The court also ordered all defendants

A further alleviating factor so to puy the expenses of the telal

far as Nagy was concerned was to the Hungarian Government,

profits The decisions were announced evidence that he used

APL Freighter

nt a tense court session by pre-i made in back market transactions ment who voted for the measure, is to arrive on February 18 off will

Biding Judge Vilmos Olthys. The defendants were lined up before him as he pronounced the court's nadings.

Stands Quietly

Cardinal

slood Mindszenty quietly, his hands folded and his face expressionless, The judges entered the crowded litle court- rcom soven minutes later. Every- one rose as Olthy announced Im- mediately: "The people's court is now in session.'

Then came a roli call of the defondants, The Cardinal mur.

to aid social institutions.

Ispanky spied for money, the court declared, and that counted nguinst him.

The poverty of Toth, the size of his family, and his deafness were all in his favour, the court said.

Judge Olthy then said:

"The head of the Church be- came political teader. Hops. burg rule and Democracy aro imposalbio

The ro together. storation of the Hapsburg (10 the throne of Hungary) the only hope for the land.

bankers and owners, owners of factories."

was

formar

The court said the United mured as his name was man-Slates supports reactionary forces tioned. The Judge then an- and aims to oppress Democratie nounced, In each case Indivi-countries. dually, that the court has ar- rived decisions of guilty to the various charges. Tänslan in the court prow since, in ao- cordance with tha, paople's pro- cedure, the sentericés were not

later,

Chapin's Role

"According to the

considera-

sun from his present jail cell to prison.--Reuter and Associated

PIESK.

In Jail, But Elected MP.

The spokesman sald his com-

Last year, Congress appropriat▾ ed8400,000,000 for China nid. "in" cluding $120,000,000 for militar purposes.

Married Married Married

Hen, Men Unmarried Widows, (No. De Woman,

His new proposal did include Widewr pendant Unmar

(With Children sted economic aid for Turkey, and Dependent rin) Wtdaws. Greece, which many observers: Children)

predicted would be dropped.

Widowers

(Ne De pendent

Affaira

In presenting the big bill to the Senate House Foreign Children) Committee, Mr. Hoffman said:

#X75 20 $399

2370 260

ping

The list of 1940 releases/ rice million, owned by, bigsson to 4640

Foll

1390 $222 5201- $125 $132 2249

1450

$260

$270

2550 to 1559

$470

#810

$253

5600 to $499

300 to 150S

$190

$892

EZDA

6330

พ.

2518

#510

BLA

3842

1510

3485

$364

#650

#520

1071

3510

Bang

STCO

$540

€120

379%

$640

#185

#780 $776

2060

$450

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$403

2610

#130

"Joan of Arc" was produced two main Idea of the BNC $1,600 & above 1920 pany asked the Swiss forwarding by Victor Fleming who was res- agency of Bryner and Company ponsible for "Gone, with the formed in late 1947, is to tranship. at Peiping whether the Com Wind."

munists will permit the Filmore

carrying 1,600 tons of

Other Releases

io discharge cargo. The vessel is Other releases include "Taczan's general Magic Fountain," starring the now merchandise consigned to Chinese Tarzan, Lex Barker: "Every Girl

Loy and

and Molvyn Douglas. There will be two technicolor

specials, "Save

"Savage Splendour and

Burma rice." the Australian mak- ter, Mr. C.H. Long, sald yester- day. The company has four LSTB. two under Burmese registry and the other two flying Chinese finga and a number of LCTs for the should be Married," starring intra-coastal Burtnese ports.

No Regular Routes The company.hes, drawn up economical ships to expand their activities. The ships are running according to schedules, but, because of thei restricted monthly, rice quota to different countries there have been no regular routes.

For the last 12 months, the "Boy with Green Hair":

Chip Lain has been engaged in duction which took a year to vagabond voyages to the East

Sumatra, Indies, complete, "Mr. Joseph Young Africa", made by the producers of kok

and the King Kong; and two Disney pro The

Lam begon her Chip ductions.

maiden voyage after reconversion. RKO and 20th Century Fox at Singapore 12 months ago, tow- will lead film releases in Hong ng two LCTS to Nangoon for the Kong this year, sald Mr. Britton, NC

She was DNC, Mr. Long sald, who will leave for Manila todaytish authorities at the British port refitted and surveyed by the Bri- by the President Polk on the si next inp of his tour, which will and procured her registry at

Rangoon, | take.

ocean-going the first him to Singapore, Japan,

ship and India:

be registered there. "Burma is progressing in her shipping." the veteran", skipper declared, But the newly-burn na

pro-

of

merchants at Tientsin.

Cary Grant; "Berlin Express," The spokesman continued: Haifa, February 7,

which was produced in Berlin,

Merle Oberon and. The military court at Acre,

able to consult co-starring Merle "Bryner was Northern Palestine, will an- their Tientsin branch, which we Faul Lukas; "Baltimore Escape." plans to buy more

amazement co-starring Robert Young and nounce its verdict on February can not, and to our 10 in the trial of Friedman repiled that Butterfield and Swire Shirley Temple: and "Mr. Bland- Yellin and Matatlau Schmueli-lighters were available to bring ings Builds his Dream House, evitz on charges of leading the cargo in over Taku Bar. Reuter co-starring Cary Grant, Myrna

and Associated Press. outlawed terrorist Stern Gang. The Stern Gang won one sent in the Assembly in the recent pronounced until some minutes tion of the court, the U.S. Minis- Israeli general alection. Yellin ter, Mr. Chapin, had a great role headed its list of candidates and in building up the activities of is entitled to become a Deputy, tho Judge said. The judge is expected in state Mindszenty," "Mindszenty could have rightly whether the verdict of the court hoped that the United Stales of can prevent Yellin from assum. America would interfere actively infa sent in the Assembly.

THO Isrnell authorities out- in the internal affairs of Hun- Kary. He speculated on war which aident groups known as

towed the Stern Gang after a the would be .connected with an

"Fatherland · Front," claimed American occupation and with the

responsibility for the murder of overthrow of the Republic."

trial had Count Folke. Bernadotte, United The court said the

Nations Palestine. Mediator nothing to do with religion or the Church. He said allegations in the Reuter. foreign Pross concerning It lack objectivity.

Some of the spectators relaxed noticably when it finally was dis-

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