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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1949.

CONDUCTORS SACKED, TRAM SERVICE SUSPENDED Company takes action to stop "free rides"

BUS WORKERS RESTIVE

The management of the Hong Kong Tramways Limited yesterday put an abrupt end to their workers' four-day "collect-no-fare" campaign by summarily dismissing all those conductors who had been guilty of this dereliction of duty.

President of

USI enters capital

Jakarta, December 28. Di Sorkating the Pre- sulent of the day-old United States of tienesta, "was met In cheering crowds when he muute

ceremonial entry Jakarta farmerty inti Bataya

Horel. The tonesian flag has bren flying over the former Paire of the Dutch Goyertis-General |

yesterday's afteral transfLT

sif sovereignty, to Phir muưas vf the Buckneno Indem sua propie Di

in the synthed at natatal inde- pendenser, and they welcomed him accordingly.

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The Parsurfent had not been in August 17, 1945. when, in thy Races of his private residener he and Dr. Mohiunmed

Ht.

Prime Minister

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on utitally pgelsaneel Indonesian independence

At the same time all trams were withdrawn from service, pending a settlement of the whole issue.

Motormen and gatemen, who had participated in the campaign were given a wook's notice, with offact from Docomber 30, terminating their employment.

Other employees of the Company, not falling under Walk to work

above categories, were

the

unaffected.

be coin-

to

Office workers, mostly from the

The Company's action yester Happy Valley and Wanchai di»- day morning, which cuine on a

triet, hud to walk to the offices complete surprise to the workers.

The buses were crowded, and in- the tending passengers at intermediate was in implementation of

which they Kuvc the warning

Publie ears, taxis Bus Full sign. workers on Christmas Day, that stops were warded off with the roaring the Company might

und rickshus all did business, as a result. workers' failure sult of the

elled to take action as the re-

Queen's Road East from Arsen- collect fares from passengers.

at Street and the liong Kong sout

Bank Building Motormen, conductors and Shanghai gatomen reporting for work at filled with two continuous streams of pedestrians throughout the day, 4,15. yesterday found

one up and one down, The rush gates closed and notice past.

during going was at its highest ed up advising the mon of the

Potter buck to work and off work hours. managemont's decision. guarda on the spot. posted there beforehand, prevented any un, toward tholdents.

the

Those will-

The notice did not close the who re- door to those workers Two silver Dakotas garing Dr. Pented their action. Sukornes and tus family and en- ing to perform their duties faith- fully inay apply for re-engage-

city. ver the trazar kele dropping denfleta before tanding at Kemejoran Airport

Appeals for unity

The 4-year-old President wore while uniform, with gold bul- black the and black velvet Mis Soekarno. Riim and had multi-coloured youthful sarine with a belze lace shawl.

Addressing 250,000 people

reurd 1 Presidential

Palace.

President Soekarno appended for

ment.

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WAN

were -crowded; to tral district capacity during the funcheon hour, as office workers, unable. to go home in time for lunch,

and the

REMINISCENT OF OCCUPATION DAYS

Prico: 20 Cents.

Velthurawal of the trams by the company yesterday Along the burden of transporting work. ers to and from othee on the limited facilities of buses and taxicabs. Unable to fight their way on to buasa, workers walked to office and back homa. Bhown here are workers streaming

back home yesterday afternoon-"China Mall" Photo,

Air, sea search for Spitfire pilot in Mirs Bay

Royal Air Force aircraft, British warships, police spoed boats and an American merchantman joined in a fruitless 'soven-hour air and sea. search for a missing RAF pilot yesterday. His identity was not disclosed.

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All restaurants to the con. The aircraft and vessels searched the 200-square mile Mirs Bay area, North East of Hong Kong from 11a.m. until dusk for the pilot who was forced to bale out when the engine of his Spitfire foiled.

wern

had to take their meals in town, The Tramway Company's offices ums despot at Russell Street, and

at North Point. guarded by police throughout the The tramway workers held day. Several police vans parkeri ed yesterday, alongside the pavement on Russell ed protest meeting and sent representatives to ssa Street, with armed policemen on Labour, all-day duty, to be on hand in 01 Commissioner They told the Commissioner that case of any emergency. if negotiations were reopened, they would all go back to work ·

to bo Leaving

their damand thrashed out at these negotia. tipus.

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This offer was

transmitted by

wing Tulanesians and adds the Labour Commissioner to the

unity that without it the ideals

for Tramway

management,

which they had striven and which | decision could

ed. they had still to achieve could not

be achieved.

whose

not be ascertuli- Repeated efforts to contact the management failed, with the

answer that

If duty was nuintafried. Dutch variable New Ginen (Iran) "would un-tudy was out. dotibtedly be OUTR by 1952."

(Under the Netherlands-indone- Company

stan Union red-table confer

ence agreement. New Guinen will

remain under Dutch sovereignly

pending a Netherlands-Indonesian statement conference 111 the nuxt 12 months. Retter.

JAP WAR CRIMINALS GRANTED AMNESTY

Tokyo, December 28. Forty-five Japanese war minals

cri-

every-

An official statement was, how- the tramway ever, issued. by

nangement in the afternoon ex- plaining, its action. It read.

"On December 25 the Hong. Kong Tramway Workers Union from were notified of the possible con- released Were

sequences of the continued failure Sugamo prison in Tokyo today to collect fares. It was pointed out after

Amnesty that the Christmas

this misconduct was a granted by General MacArthur.

Pailid, unshaven and wearing breach of the terms of service of

those concerned. It

elumsy Japanese army khaid and brown Jack-boots,

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It also also point-

of ac

the criminnis ed out that certain s}}]

Aled out under an American Lion were open to t guard to waiting relatives and this state of affairs sweethearts.

the

"The Union's reply on Decem

As the marchers halted before ber 28 indicated no change of at-

original deg

a battery of cameramen, a bigtitude but contained the sugges American, captain shouted: "Look tion that if negotiations were, re

opened towards obtaining satis- happy, show your teeth."

demands, Japanese Foreign Office ameia's faction of their met the criminals with food and normal working would be re- mency, and offers of transport to sumed in view of the action by the Workers since Saturday De- homes in many parts of Japan-

24 this buggestion is un- Reuter.

eptable, to the

Weather

Company that It should be pointed out the Company had previously stated its willingness for this dis pute to be submitted to inde

arbitration but this : ni- ternative At per at (2.p.m. akar) e smalt the Union, acceptable to

the Company

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(Cantimund On Page 21

The search will be continu- ! today, it was officially stat last night.

The pilot was taking the

routine ex- arcige fight when the incident happened. Other Spitfirea foln-

Spitfire out on a

Rita gives birth to Princess

considers that

"PRINCE ALY, KHAN, anti-cyclone over the Eastern Sch moving. Fast. A small depression centred the persistent non-collection of

Lausanne, Switzerland between Palawan, and Cochin China la fares constitutos no serious a

December, 28. moving West, Da

Today's Forecast |--Moderate for fresh breach of duty, that the employees baby Princess was born to-i

directly concerned must be dis- missed the service in the interests day to Rita Hayworth, the rod

whended movie, star who married of good order

altuation in Moslem Prince Aly Khan last

spring,

NE. winds, Fair.

Yesterday's Weather

Maximum, 67,6 "dez. Fa

Intrum 40,D. deg. (Fah

Bunahlases / 0.6-hum

Reinfalt Ni Total since Jan. 14

2097.2 mm,c=82.57 in. xa apkinst as

, average of 2107.5-mm24:13 ma

**Equal 60.11 2 26.33 Inabes,"

Rel. Humidity. Bater

Daw, Foint W

Wind bietan

Wind Fores

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RITA HAYWORTH?

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Bunderlands. Harvards, po lice launches and • destroyar In the arch.

Snag in UK recognition plans

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Nationalist air

force

abandons China mainland

Tho Nationalist Air Forco has abandoned the

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China mainland. The last batch of aircraft arrived at Holhow yesterday from the Cheng-

tu area, according to vernacular Prass mer- sages from Hainan Island.

From Hainan Island bases, Chinese fighters and bombers attacked a number of Communist targets on the Luichow Peninsula, opposite Hainan.

The targets included concen- trutions of boats

and junks CAT planes fly

silver from PI to Taiwan

wharves, storehouses and troop caravans. Hits on warehouses and wharves resulted In big fire.

Other bombers atineked targets at Canton, Wuchow and Swatow.

Meanwhile, Genera! Yu Han- mhow announced at Holhow that there are some 20.000 Communist guerillas in the hills on Haloan

Island.

He added that the Nationalist

campaign

to exterminate

them

is in progress.

He said that defences against a Communist Invasion of the is- land have been completed and that military reinforcements wil come from Talwan

General Yu innto these state- ments following his return from consultations with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek nt Taipeh.

Sino-Korean pact

The Nationalist Government of China la soliciting the assistance

silver

Manila, December 28. Hundreds of, boxes of Chinese Nationalist coins were being loaded aboard transport planes of Major-General Claire Chen- nault's Civil, Air Transport today for transfer to Taipeh. thero A reliable source said are about 18 CAT planes which will be making shuttle lights to and from Talpen to carry away the precious loads, It is under- stood cach plane loads 70 boxes weighing 60 kilo- of cotas cach grams,

It is reliably learned that there " total of about 5,000, boxes of coins which arrived here by ship

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the United States a tow

of ECA officials in Taiwan and weeks ago. It is estimated the

concluding

South

Korca In Sina-Korenn commercial irealy, Press from reports Associated Taipeh.

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value of the coins is about $69,-, 000,000. An

informed source estimated

Taipeh, December 28.

The Chinese Embassy has al-it would take live days to finish Some official quarters here believed that Britain's plans ready made preliminary negotia-the ferrying job. The planes be tions with Korean authorities gan to arrive here lato yesterday.

commerce-United Press.. to recognise the Communist regarding trade and

and South Peking government had hit between Taiwan a snag although admittedly Korea.

The Taiwan Provincial Gov- POLICE CHIEF SHOT there was no official con-ernment is planning to send a

IN BATANGAS firmation available.

six-man delegation early In January' taktildy the possibilities,

to Korea

"

Mantia, December 28. Officials were at the opinion

The Chief of Palleo of Tanauan, Governor K. C. Wu nado It that there was a two-way pres-

forthcoming Talwan- the Batangas home-town of the. eure causing London to review plain the

Korea trade will be open to pri-unsuècessful, Nacionalista pro- carlier plans.

who previously midential candidate, Dr. Josa :P. vate merchants

Laurel, was killed by unknown They pointed out, firstly--and have been denied commerce.

If the Korean negotiations are persons last night and conversely the generally ac-

relations with cepted idea that sothe loading successful, trade British commercial, shipping and Japan and the Philippines and may be established Anancial enterprises are exerting Indonesia pressure on the British Govom-later. ment to go slow on recognition.

Secondly, the Chinese Com- Koren,

have are reported to The destroyer it was learned, munists

requested the AS. Flying raised a new issue of Britain's also Arrow approaching Hong Kong, trade with Nationalist China after to assist

that and to report whether the Peking regime is recognised. any plane wreckage had been observed.

Request to merchantman

Mr. David Jones, master of the Flying Arrow, replied that he had not seen any. He kept watch for any signs of the missing pilot.

Mr. Jones told the "China Mail" last night that he saw at least six RAF aircraft searching the seas about five miles from Hong Kong at about noon.

Trial of Jap germ warfare experts

London, December 28, Japanese aircraft scattered plaguia fleas Bouth of Shanghat during the war, according to one of the 12 Japanese gorm warfare experts being tried by a Boviot military court in the USSR-Man- churian border town of Khaba- rovsx, said a Tas massage.

The prisoner, Lieutenant-Gonor-

Chief 'Marcolino Modina was the third police head of Tanauan to die violently since the liberation, He was mowed down by fire from Taiwan is offering to sell salt, automatic weapons as he sat sip sugar, paper and caustic soda to ping a soft drink in a store.

A 17-year-old girl nearby. Was Chiang Kai-shok's prolonged wounded by a stray bullet, stay at Bun Moon Lake in Con- No clue as to the assailants' trai Taiwan since Christmas identities or the motives nave been to speculation found. Mrs. Medina was known to Eve gives rike

desfelon be a Gulrintata. Liberal. an Important might be made regarding No. The Mayor of Tanauan had im- tionalist China's future course. posod a curfowUnited Press. Observers point out that prior

Chinese reports here sald. Brition firma trading from Hong Kong with the Communiets by running the Nationalist bloo-to a momentous decision, Chlang usually takes time off for medl- kado

have bten

seking and

tation in a quiet place. getting such high rates for mere chandise and shipping from the Rode that they now fear to lose this premium business. These firms have been concentrating on shipments to Tientsin, Taku

PRINCESS ELIZABETH RETURNS TO LONDON

TRAGIC MISTAKE

IN MALAYA

Bingapore, December 20, One British private was killed Valette, December 28. and one officer and another pri- Princese Elizabeth left for Lonnte were injured when an patrol and Canton where the Nation-don today in a Viking plane. of of the Green Howards Regiment alists blockade has the mini-The King's Flight after spending and a Gurkha patrol clashed par mum effect. j!

Regarding Communist pressure

five weeks in Malta with the Mentakab, jn, Pahang, last night. Duke of Edinburgh, whose ship after mistaicing each other's, party

for guerillas-Reuter

on the British Government it i was stationed here--Reuter. known that official circles have been discussing a. report that the Chinese Communists were seeking to make conditions before they will open up ports and rivers, to British fing shipping and permit the British Navy to escort mer- chantmen,

The Communists, it is report id. demand. that Britain shut off all trade with: Halner and Taiwan. This Britain is not willing guarantee.

Fal Riuß Kajitsuko, of the Japanese It is known that Chinese For-

Army Medical Corps, said. that eign Office representatives" and " the experiment proved effective." British consular officials are con- Another prisoner, Takatsu ferring on this matter but nothing Takahashi, a Lieutenant-General has been revealed about the of the Medical Services, said that negotiations United Press. un experimental "unit" produced

bacteria for gerin warfare "main

ly against, the Soviet Union."

It had branches along the Soviet

frontlar so that in case "of war between Japan and the Soviet Union" it could infect cattio and celenxa thom behind tho Sovlet

lines."--Heuter:"

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hd said, but added with a Tokyo, December 28, amito: "It has gone off wit right. She is very tired, and

The Prince said the birth was A natural one, delivered under

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The Japanese Government today. authorised to foreign banks now operating in Japan to engage in domestle banking business. They

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Yugoslavia's relations with West Page, 10 %

U.6 to begin arms ald in

February

which the Company is unable. The' baby," weighing five and

Rith's first daughter by a pres km

pós öne-half pounds, was born about to operate, the, tramway service for, the time, being. The Comelght hours after Rita mado a violis marriage was delivered in pany, greatly regrete the incon pre-dawn dash to the exclusive 1044 by Caesarian Section : The Bank of China. Honst Venience thus caused to the Montchoisi ClinicSANARES) and Share Kong and Shanghal Banking Cor general publio andratates ita in- The new Princess name will.Princess. Yamin, with the mix-poration: The Chartered Bank of pha -tention, to resume the services be Yasmin the Arabic spelling ture of four-bloods in her veins Isidia,, Australia and China, the at the skeliner possible date for the fragrant Jasmine: Bower Spahlah Americen from hdr Mercanile Bank of India, Bank Suspension of the tram services used in Southern France for mother and Ironian-Italian from of America Chase National Bank, tab trauch, a surprise to the making perfums, her father is the granddaughter National C Bank of New York, general public as to them from Filico Aly, unshaven, laggard of Aga Khan spiritual Loader, the Bank of India, Nellierlands workers, The public did not know but smiling, made the announces of millions of Moslems of the Trading Society and the Nether-

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