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OVERALL COMMANDER FOR HK "Hello" From SIR M. K. LO'S MOTIO

General Festing To Head Joint Defence Forces MORE REINFORCEMENTS

London, June 22.

The British Ministry of Defence announced today that Lieuten-

ant-General F. W. Fosting would be the General Officer Com manding-in-Chief at Hong Kong.

Earlier, the appointment of an overall Commander of British forces in Hong Kong was announced in the House of Commons by the De- fence Minister, Mr. A. V. Alexander.

The Ministor said that the Commander would direct the naval, army and

air units assigned to the defence of Hong Kong.

SECOND ATTACK

ON ANCHISES BY NATIONALISTS

Shanghai, June 22.

Although lying helpless in the Whangpoo River about seven miles from downtown Shanghai, the Blue Funnel 8,200 ton linor Anchises was again attacked this morning by a National- ist P-51.

This was revealed by Captain J. E. Watson and members of his crew when Reuter visited the damaged vessel this afternoon after a ten mile journey by taxi, tramcar, bus and sam-

pon.

Members of the crew said that they expected the..

attacks to be continued tomorrow.

who is Captain Watson, from Cark, Southern Ireland. when asked Reuter to give this message to his people: "I am all right. I hope to see it out. To me, after six years of war, this incident comes as

a very unpleasant item."

The captain revealed that there were only three casualties us a

result of yesterday's nttnek;

Thomas Edwards, aged 18, deck

There was no incident, however, the Hutterfeld steamer Foochow entered port this morn- ing from Hong Kong.

Mr. Alexander said, "Dur- ing short tour in the early part of the month, I visited Ceylon and Malaya and also took the opportunity of mak- of the ing a general study

whole position in the Far East. "I stayed three days in Hong

with the Kong for discussions authorities, both civil and mill-

on the spot. As I Indiented

on behalf of the Government while there, our object is to maintain the friend llest possible relations with what- ever may be the Government of China at the same time taklag into account our obligations to territory for the people of the which we are responsible.

"I found that the responsible authorities are, foeing their pro- and that blems with confidence

in the field of defence all prac- ticable steps are being taken to ensure the safety of Hong Kung.

To Reinforce

|Garrison

de-

Australia

Beryl James, 24-year-old "Miss Australia," who was chosen from among 1,000 entrants as the Commonwealth's "Ident woman," smiles a greeting as she arrives at Til- bury in the iiner Orcades. She will tour Britain and the Continent, visiting South Africa on her way home. -AP Photo.

Heavy Loss Of Life In Japan From Typhoon

"As the House will know, the Government have alrendy elted to reinforce the garrison in

of the The view of the uncertainty

It was reliably learned that position in China and our res- 90,000 tons of gasoline went up ponsibility for Hong Kong and

In smoke and games yesterday, the Wellare of its people.

when the Shall installation at

was hit during : Gough talend the Nationalist raid.

*Butterfield's main office crippled by a strike since Inst boy of 37, Lanscer Road Liverpool night when the majority of the Saeshanghai and his condition building by workers.

brought to hospi-foreign staff were locked in the

5. He

to

Government have found

Tokyo, June 22.

Japanese government said today that 1,086 porsons were still unaccounted for 12 hours This after typhoon “Della” struck Japan. indicated that the final death toll might run into hundreds, making the typhoon one of the worst disasters in recent Japanese history. The national police, the most reliable source in tabulating casualties, said in addition to the 1,086 persons missing there were 93 known dead, mostly on land, and 85 injured. These figures were borated by the Kyodo news

It necessary to send some addi- tional reinforcements and the mattor necessary stops in the Was

are being taken by all three Bervices. "Furthermore, we have decided appoint a commander, British Forces, Hong Kong, to be in com- mand of the Army, air and such naval units assigned from time to of Hong Benvair The British Embassy repre-time for the defence Street, Glengow He sustained sentative In Canton, Mr. J. P. Kons." ninar injuries to his ankle.

Coghill, was this afternoon await- Mr. Alexander said that Lleu- None of the chsunilles is seriousing instructions and further de- | tenant-General Festing would piso i agency which is in communi-

is ratisfactory.

T.. Mothergill, first ofeer. He

is from Retear. Yorkshire.

Fail of 49, Ian

It was explained.

Another Protest

corro-

talls from the Embassy in Nan act as General Officer Command- cation with its bureaus in the

He storm swept area, Land Forces.

Damage to the ship la o ex-king, before lodging another pro-ing-in-Chicf, ccscive the captain believed that test with the Chinese Foreign would leave shortly and take up

Live 2500 to and sake office following the second attuck his duties immediately

rival in Hong

It will obcut two months to complete on the Anchises.

the repairs. Every single engine

has to be brought to Shanghai Mr. Coghill did not to receive for repairs.

All the Anchises' these instructions until tomorrow. were permitted 10 The Chinese Foreign Office last passengers come ashore In Shanghai tonight telegraphed the authorities

day.

Skeleton Crow

concerned presumbly in Taiwan- regarding the first attack on the Anchises but it was thought un- likely that the telegram arrived

ara an

The British Government had kept the Governments in other Commonwealth countrica fully Informed of the steps taken,

have also been in touch *W. with the Government of the United States," he said.

The captain will ask the au-in time to prevent today's incident. Commonwealth

thorities to permit him to main-- lain a skeleton crew aboard and will try to get the other ashore. He said: "It is impossibic to imagine why we were attack-

men

ed. We have no military value. This

is certainly boyoni a nul- sance."

ที่

He thought that protests were they were

of no avall beenuse

Nationalist P-51

machine-gun the ship lying un- protected off Gough. Island and flating badly to the right.

The Weather

In London, Dr. Chang Tish- hai,

Ambassador Chinese Britain, called on Mr.

Ernest

to Countries

Deyin at the Foreign Office last

night at the Foreign Secretary's Mr. Leonard Gammans, Con-

request,

servative, asked

whether the

of

FOR RECONSTITUTED COUNCIL APPROVED

A motion for a new, reconstituted Legislative Council for Hon Kong, consisting of six Official and 11 Unofficial member tabled by Sir Man-kam Lo in Legislative Council yesterday, wo unanimously approved by all the Unofficial members.

ese and five non-Chinese.

fw

The Governor, Sir Alexander Grantham, informed the Unofficial member that the motion should be forwarded to the Secretary of State fo his decision. Sir' Man-kam's motion was an amendment to Mr. Landalo's motion i April which envisaged a legislature of 20 members, consisting o nino Officials, including the Governor, and 11 Unofficials.

to represent ure The amended motion pro- cognises that the Urban Council, nominated vided that of the 11 unofficial like other organs of Government, terests of the Colony as a wi

this was the members, BLX shall be Chin-must evolve in orderly develop- suggest

ment and progress to meet the mental idea! I do not say thi Of the six Chinese members changing views and aspirations of has been realised to the ful four would be elected and two the people. It envisages a gradual all times.

expansion of the Urban Council (Continued On Page 11) nominated by the Governor.

leading ultimately to municipal U the give non-Chinese men- status and with a franchise that bers, twe would be elected and three nominated by the Governor may be as wide as that proposed (one of whom shall be a Portu by Sir Mark Young, and that in gucre if the elected members do this expansion the new Legisia- ture will have a decisive say. This not include a Portuguese),

The electorate would be confined seems to me to be obviously sound if we are to have a new Legisla. to British subjects and there

ture, and, moreover, it will obvinte would bo separato elections of any possible suggestion at some

ninese candidates by Chinese

future date that the Young Plan electors ang non-Chinese can- as a form of constitutional re- oldates by on-Chinese electors. form was imposed on the Colony

The Governor would have an 8 i will,

original and a casting vote and the usual reserve power.

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testing and ex-

CAF Plane Raid Red Positions

Sir Man-kam Lo, introducing his motion, sold it was to tent public opinion two points. namely, whether the Young Plan should be abandoned, and in the alternative should the consiltu tion of the Legislative Council ha amended along the lines he had Indicated.

Pubile reaction so far had been confused, The Council of Women had intimated that they supported

lons, Jeeps and vehicles, and t the Landale motion. The Chinese

ac-in the river wero altacked * Chamber of Commerce, the Kow- ceptable measure at the present devastating results."

Lime can onl loun Chamber of Commerce, and result in a substantial measure of the North West front on Jud

only hope that there will

The only fighting on land wa the Kowloon Residents Associa-

The two general acceptance of the altarna-when Nationalist forces cla tion were not at one. newly formed Reform Clubs beld Live including the vexed duestion they drove contingent de

e of the electorate at the Legisla munist reinforcements in A conflicting views."

me the great merit of the

Canton, June 2 Young Plan is that it was con- Government planes were ceived

action yesterday bombing perimental prelude to more sub- stantial constitutional reforms. It in North Fukicn around

strafing Communist posit follows therefore that this meril will disappear it a more substan- tien, along the Kan River: and H inf

al constitutional reform as con- tween Fengcheng

can kang, and along the Chekić templated by this motion take place immediately. But it Klengst railway. can take place immediately

only if it does command general accept Agency aald that troop cancel The Kuomintang Contral 1

the Young Plan is not an ance. Those of us who feel that

The Electorate

East Shenal back to Hupch: vince,

Central News sald that Gor

"I now come to the alterna- ment forces from Shensi were tive, including the questions as in Hupeh and near Chuchi, a to whether all the members of on the border,

Some of their views have been, live Council level, valuable and helpful. There were others, which

but he were not,

comment on was not going to them.

The question was to what ok- tent did the views so expressed represent the views of the inhabi- lants as a whole?. It was not easy. say even how representative

Hong Kong was coded to they were of each organisation. Great Britain and thereby became Each of the Reform Clubs might Crown Colony, the fundamental have a few hundred members, basis of its constitution was a while all the organisations en complete control of its affairs by bined could hardly have a total

to

on thres

news

the Legislative Counoll are to Other Nationalist troops be elected, and the nature of still pressing on Slan and H the electorate.

yang in Central Shens, amid "When Hon

agency.

- tow Router says that the Creat

20 Halangtong.

miles West of Changsha, la rep to be partly under Comma control. There is, howeve reliable confirmation of report-Associated Proas

points, namely, which answers itself with

(1)deration whether all members should be elected; (2) the nature of the form

the

Router.

membership of more than 10,000, the Colonial Office through Yet it could not be denied that Governor, and when a Legislature that they represented important was granted, it was granted on

the

· basis. of an official ross-sections of the community und

majority with nominated members. Majority In Favour Apart from y question as to Taking the vlows so far ex-the degree of capacity on the part

bart REINFORCEMENT pressed, Sir Man-kam Lo said, of the population as a whole to

FOR MACAO it seemed that a substantial take a part in the government of majority was in favour of his their

hfluirs=== own

question

Lisbon, Juna motion

but opinions differed

the

The Portuguese government of years the fundamental

which

shaped this ordered two battalions of a of Government

of infantry from Its African co electorate; and (3) whether the course that the Government must of Angola to reinforce the gar Young Plan, as such, should be be ane which

concern itself of Mincao the government nich should abandoned.

with the weifate of the Colony asnounced last night.

I Dealing Brst with point (3) Sir a whole and without sectional or An carllor plan to send a Man-kam Lo said it could not be racial prejudice or distinction, and force of Portuguese troopi

was cancelled last seriously disputed that the fune-in which the Unoficial Members, incao tions of the Municipal Counell since no electorate could be de after the governor reported. Nanking. June 22. under the Yung Plan were not vised to do justice to all sections Macao would be unable to 100 Communist troops have sup- substantially greater in scope or of the community, should be house them-United Press.

than those lin Mr. Richard P. Davis, an pressed scattered peasant rein importance American GID agent and one of volts in Antwei and Kiangsu charged by the present Urbanz Council, whose unamcial members

The death toll. It is bellevret, will ilkely mount with further accounting of shins caught by the storm while at sea

There was no word yet about the fate of 130 crew members and passengers aboard the Inland sen ferry boat, Aobu Maru, which sank during the storm.

Peasants Revolt Against Reds

Communist

the survivors of this provinces, two known disaster, cald the ship wont Hsin Hua news agency report-

"within

minute" ed today. оло down after water started to pour into Dispatches from Hofel, provin Its portholes. Ho indicated' that

clal capital of Anhwel, bald the up

most of the people aboard the Aoba Maru perished.

Shipping Casualties

Nationalist risings" wore led by secret agon's, local bandits and landlords.

were really doing more work than

public know.

"My motion" continued Sir Man-kam, "does not contemplate the abandonment or the idea Laving a Municipal Council, but it does contemplate the abandon-

ment

ment of, the idea of the The rebain were declared to have immediate creation of a Municipal been organised at some points into Council. This immediate creation

Following has cortain obvious disadv

20

the Foreign Office spokesman announced today. Hong Kong garrison was being Mr. Bovin, It was understood, expressed deep regret at the bomb-reinforced by reducing the garri infod again this morning.

ing yesterday of the British Mer-son of Malaya.

He also asked whether Britalo

Government rescue teams re-sword association." Captain Watson revealed that a chunt vessel Anchises by Nation had suggested to the other Com-

that they ported a total of 468 vessels "be Communist occupation of the ro For instance, under the flow low toalist planes off Shanghai.

Britain on Tuesday ordered monwealth countries

Heved lost and 698 others known gion, the rebela seized grain and Plan, many problems were left to defence of the might share in the

to have suffered damage.

destroyed highway bridges. be decided by a commission as warship at the mouth

Boven Communist

Goveen suggested in paragraph 33 of, Sir Yangise river in China "to Hong Kong in view of Its Impor

Lance not only to Britain but to

The

*Pololch!" intervone

newspaper to protect British

ment officials were reported Mark Young's Despatch. Moreover the whole of South East Asia.

"Seventeen hundred shipping

miles there would inevitably be consi there from Intor

killed at Wuklang, Mr. Alexander said that he did headlined

Beuth West of Nanking af derable duplication of officer in- ference," reported

vessels Ibat or damaged." Assoolated not wish to add details about the

Mancheng, 160 mtide North valving a much The typhoon, with 100 m.p.h, Fress.

more expensive "for obvious

Wost of Nanking! at Fuyang, Government, which would be winds, hitting from the South, cut forces at present

180 miles North West of Nan minimised if not ́olirainsted by a But he could give an assura path of destruction Northward

king and after Buhulen, to the gradual expension, ance that the Government In-up Japan's Southernmost Kyushu

****This North of Nanking:

motion implicitly ¡ ›re-: AL 0005 "GMT, (1 p.m. nkar) the British warship which is alationed

and rapidly dissipated.

Led By Landlord li over the ses of off the mouth of the Yangtse are tended to bring the anti-bandit Island, blew into the Japan Sea The skies over Tokyo are now Jasan NW of Tokyo wrekening and that she is to intervene to protect campaign in Malaya to a success-

The sin Hua agency reported moving NE wwarda Hokkaido, & trough British shipping there from in-

clear and the weather authorities He added that he had already

the rebellion-in early May-was of low pressure extenda BW from it to

terference. Tarmosa and thence serben the Bouth

““At Shanghai Hself and in the stated that the Commonwealth predicted no further damage.

"Della" dealt death and destruc-led by landlord Li Hung-kwei in China Bem to the shallow depression avec

Whongpeo river the task of pro- Governments had been kept fully

tion in varying degrees to about the Mencheng region.

Communist mills stationed at Tonking.

one-half of the total area of, the tecting property is presumably informed and he could not add to

that--Neuter.

Police reports Fuyang waa said to havo completo- Japanese Islands. the responsibility of the Com-

sald crop damage resulting from ly crushed, this uprising, kliling Li munist authorities, who are be- Iloved to have large forces there

more than 112,000 seres deluged ung kwel and capturing 760 re- lor the purpose.

and windswept farmlands le like bels. ly to be perfor

typhoon now contred

Today's Forecast-moderate

winds. Fair.

Yeterrin's Wecher

Hextasumi 11.2 deg. Fah.

Minimum 16,8 deg. Yah.

Hunshine: 5,6 batira.

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Blainfalli 0.1 mm.=0.004 In. Total since Jan. 19. m,m$1.de, tas. against an average, of LELO 15.1X ALAI (SA

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4p... Baro, at mal .....100.1603.1 mb

Danak

Rel. Humidity Dew Point Wind Direction Windeman

10 ms.

16.73 10.48 inches,

45

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11 t kno

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Later a spokesman for the Ad- eniralty said in a statement:

"The present instructions to the

reasons."

ful conclusion.

Dutch Troops To Evacuate

Jogjakarta

Batavia, June 22,

resulted

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Correspondencs Pagi 2

The agency wald Communist - "Our warships have not been up

Reform Club's Plan For Counel) the Whangpod since the Com

The same source reported that thorities tempted to use prok munists seized control of the srca,

fandalides occurred at #9 pinces paganda to pacify the population [P*g* 4

**_Gerolay's. Meldgo this

many leaving "After the Anchises was bombed,

and the rail service was cut at a and Black Swan moved HMS

dazen points: Communication with the "word nasocis fon." It report-Pans 7 up the Yangtse river to mislst her but, The Netherlands Government the sloth areas was still only ed the more stubborn rebels were |", finding her inside the Whangpon will today order the evacuation of partly restoroch. It was reported killed or captured.

"dlepatchen - are”

Engineering Page "Tahinin uncial'

the river, she considered she could Dutch troops trom, Jogjakarta, In- that roads were blocked at 1,410 not help.

donolan Repibile capital, Dr. J. pinces and 376 bridges washed rat confirmation of rumours ar- Page 912030 "If the Communists cannot pro» H. van Royen, loader of the Dutch away ANA

** fotal of 1,818 homes were re-upriam Klangal and Annwed: Page Noia w

Britian::Qeld Reservas elty, I suppose the policy will bo He made reconsidered."

formal Dutch-Repalcan meeting reported hat over 1,000 mothers had led the revoit and had been Page LEMBRA He did not say what form the called brathe United Nations were badly damaged, mirty-nine ported because of thewry, Lex Alf, shipping, Mavema "interventions would fakey. Rear: Sceatshion Ekor endorm

reported washed lavish or the countryside. -- Asná" | Page

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