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OFFICIAL REPORT ON New Egyptian Premier ELSIE MOLLER RETURNS

HK COST OF LIVING

Twelve

per

cent increase

index

over March, 1947,

HIGH PRICE OF RICE

Cost of living, calculated on a base of 100 for March, 1947, has

It was increased by 12 per cent by the end of last month, held in check until June last but subsequently rose, occording to an official report on the cost of living in Hong Kong.

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The Report, released yesterday, added that since the war manual workers have received, rela- tively, very considerable increase in wage rates and their standard of living has in con- sequence improved.

The standard of living of the clerical worker, how- ever, has romained static, if it has not do. teriorated.

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The feport said that if me Feast of lying

ee could be made available

a lower change for ratton-

the Food Freder and supplies,

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the post-war increases in fab wage redes from 300 in 600 per cent above levels of before the war) which are sinolhering local Fortist's with high overheads sub indovelly furcing the whole

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bus Currumunity into the solial of in flation.

Fie swoje through the Austras The Inn, veit Tmakna, folini lowing an evolvation which rock et the ton envir the vrasel was

Men alosukel

sations and dock

walkers ewung their breakfast In

the enlisted mese were trapped

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The Repurt starts by review.

in the economic position of the

WIN

by Balm. which en eloped the: Colony in the eighteen months sang hali

after the Re-occupation and Other naval personnal at the shows that one of the major pro- lazne stood fulplessly on the docks.

which had then blems

to be 45 those atend the Tarakan fured

the adjustment of nereained through

portholes for i

wage and salary rates In the help Truck lack smoke clouds light of the major changes which all but had them from view.

had taken place the

In

cost of Then

played water

living

siner before the

the war through the portholes in an effort to keep the flames from spread seriously

The Japanese occupation hud

curtailed rice produc ing while others teup webdly to

in South Enst Asiu and the reach the victims in their below

shortage of rice and its high price. deck Interno.

Dragged to safety

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When rescue warknes cut a hule

venci's slac just ine above the water line, levi in the Tarakan were able to creep out. Others, some With

of tash hanging from their bodles, were dragged through the twisted steel hull and rush ed to doctors waiting

at the quayside.

were chiefly responsible for the

allowinets to be Government Bluff to patch abwarton the Retail Price Index eniculated on a 1939 buse und to substitute for a Retail Price in- dex calcuated on hose of 200 for March 1947, thus establish- ing a more up to date and realis- (ie als ment for the measure- ment of movements in the cost of itva

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Rising since 1949

The sulls of the calculations on the J1eW

na fol. basis were lows --

Index Figure

March 1947 (base period 100 Jung 1947

92

September 1947

97

December 1947

88

March 1948 June 1940

94

30

September 1948 December 1946

p2

March 1949

03

June 1949

103

September 1940

100

December 1949

112

Those Retail Price index Agures

marked rise in the cast of living i express the prices of commodities

after the war

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In Hong Kong, in March 1039 calty of pool quality mice cost

Seven

to Macch rents

1947 n Catty strips

Government rationed rice of indifferent quality cost 44 while a malty of cents

"free market" tice (Kam Fung Shuet) varied between 03 cents and $1.39.

Unskilled and seral-skilled Jabourets normally spend a large part of their warnings. on rice and this serious rise in price made 1 necessary for employers soon after the Re-occupation to con cede wage rates

eight six to times the pre-war level

First remorts kurd that five were killed but on ohtrial Navy

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thres announced that were dend wun 20 Hospitalisen with severe burns. Two otheva were treuters at the BOCTO

Four of the intured - three Day- al and one civilian et sourd were described as In is unger- ous" condition.

Onlookers at the base sakl. 11. was "feured the death toll prob anly would de biga.“

Conditions of 18 others reported "serious,"

were

The 2,300-ton Tarakan former- ly was the limited States LST (landing ship tanks) 3017, which saw duty in the Pucifle during the Japanese wor-United Press,

JAP TRADE WITH STERLING AREA

Tokyo, January 25. Japan and the sterling began a semi-annual trade re-

area

view today, General MacArthur's Headquarters announced,

Aggravated by

shortages

Wafdiet party leader and

Mualaf el Nahaa Praha, vote a Egypta New Fiemler (right) re.ris congratulations from his in Cairo after pre leceteor Sirry Patha, at the Royal Palace

with formation of King Fareuk entrusted Nahas Pho Government. Sirry Pasha head 1 a Neutral caretaker Cabinet which the <lections In which supervised the recent ge erot

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A. P. Photo:

CAT hits Macao transfer of airline radio equipment

new

Officials of the Portuguese colony of Macao werd accused yesterday of surrendering to the Chinese Communists an estimated U.S.$2,- 000,000 in airline radio equipmont which General Claire Chennault claims for his CAT Incorporated, reports Associated Press.

combined in a certain manter to A CAT representative said the equipment was re-

standard of reflect a particular living at one dute (in this case March, 1947, in a figure of 100. while the prices of the samne com-

the modities combined it thugner at a later date are ex- pressEYE.

For example, in an index of 200 if they have together in combina. tion risen 100 per cent or in othe words have doubled since the base dates on it the uelces have fallee

the previous level, in 17 Index of 50 the. 50 per cent of 100

e index for

for the base date), 100 Thus the index figures quoted above show that while the cost of lving

Ja was held

check until

June,

1949,

it subsequently rose tl at the ent of December, 1940, it was 12 per cent above the level of March, 1947.

The Index figure reflects move- These adjustments Inevitably ments in the cost of living of on

ro-

Increased the cost of living of all other sections of the com.

munity, since they were flected in the prices of all gooda and sorvloos in which labour costs formed a substantial ole. mant,

The situation was aggravated by the general shortages of the post-war period which were

wide. The world

result Wha

thi

"average" household of parbr

clues of the community concured, that is to say, of household spending the average Amounts

on cuch of Items of household expenditure which number of households of that class of the Community are found, in a budgetary

to be enquiry, spending over a given period.

It was based on an enquiry into of the Chinese

thai Hong Kong was in grove the expenditure Mr. Russell Halo, acting chief danger of being drawn, like many and Portuguese eterical and skill-

of the Foreign Trade and Com- other countries into the post-war ed technical workers. merce Division, sald representa-spiral of inflation.

While

moved last Friday from a Macao warehouse. A large Chinese junk was reported to have carried it to a Communist port adjacent to the colony.

FROM SHANGHAI EXPLOIT

A small British motor ves- sel, which broke the blockado to Shanghai on January 12, arrived back in Hong Kong yesterday.

She is the 400 ton mv. Elsic: Moller, the first foreign ship to successfully break the Shang- hat blockade during the past

two months,

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While wa Noltonalist shups were keeping 10.000-

American

the ship. Flying Arrow, under survell- lance after dunngang her Jumamy 9. the Elsie Moller went into Shanghai using the shallow and uncharted North Channel.

1 November, the Fist Moller was also successful breaking the Nationalist blockade, Inst

rudder wa damaged aficr Communist machine-gun- ner forced the ship affestatio Not was leaving the North chan- nel

The Communist inflitary thorities explained thin the ship

*Not expected,

ipte. apologised to the Elate Muller captain, Mr. G. O. Gulehouse

Communis At that time the officinis (oid the whip's officer t tly her flag on her main mas! and signal one long ny fr her whistle the ship wou'd then be allowed to pass

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Walle unloading cargo Shanghai, Nationalist warplane

the #itneked

elty three times however, the Elsle Moller was not

Asinged.

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spending class After Shanghai, the ship left for Hone

with Kong on

January 21 bags of mail and 450 tons of Keneral cargo.

Chinese members of the crow wore able to visit Shanghai freely, but the European officers were required to obtain speola! PRESOR.

Brooklyn Heights

There has been no confirmabir report of the American ship, ss. Brooklyn Heights, since that ship renched the Yangtse river Bron over the week-end -pi

The 0,000-ton fabrandtsch- owned merchant ship would pre- sumably have established Imme- Hong diate radio contact with Kong if the ship had been stop- ped by warships.

One report, wholly unconfirm- had cu, stated that the ship broken the Shanghai blockade Jute on Monday,

However, the local agents for the Isbrandtsen ship could net- ther confirm nor deny the report, since they have not received any message from the ship for more than a week,

The ship, which discharged 斷 small amount of its US$8,000,000 cargo at Taku Bar last week, is the sister ship at the Flying Arrow-which unsucessfully tempted to break the Shanghai blockade on January 9. Fut

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CAT earlier this month ask-courts since there were other

clams to its possession. ed the Macan Government to provide police protection removal of the property. The informed Масло authorities CAT that the disposition of the property must be made by the

Arsenal in Jakarta raided

Jakarta, January 25. Indonesian military police killed two men, wounded a third and arrested 14 others in a raid today on a secret guerilla arsenal in the heart of the capital.

The

men were killed when they attempted to resist entry of the police into a warehouse. The police seized dozens of 'light Automatic weapons and rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunt tion,

Employees of the Former Na

Government - operater CNAC amine with defected to the Communista have claimed owner. Phip for the Reris. They activel opposed CAT efforts to have the equipment transferred from the volony.

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Freight charges

cargoer Freight charges on destined for Chinese parts ar to be Increased sharply, addi Azavolated Press. Boosts in rates will result from the cancellation by Londen co-

canc operative lesur

losurance Arms of wa Insurance on shipping in

was originally The property stored by CNAC. CAT Incorporat-

risk el claims to have purchased all

China waters. Shippers will have CNAC meets from the Nationailst

buy war risk insurance now on Government.

the up market at a high

US$2,000,000 ir The gure the valintion placed on the equip- mint by Mr. John Williams, CAT's communication chief. There is no other estimate avallable.

Executive action

Mutual insurance co-operatives, 1ko the Stearnslup Owners Mutual War Risks Association. have notified shipping firms her of their Intention to withdraw their coverage of vessels in Chian trade. This includes ships going to into

Taiwan де well as those running

blockade

the

GAT has accused the Macao

tho Nationalist Government of unjustifiably al

Communist Communist ports..

belleve lowing the equipment to be re.

Shipping

circlen moved and transported to Com-

suspension results from pressure The American; muniet China,

of members of mutual insurance ahartered corporation assorte the

associations whose vessels are not Маско Government approved in China trade. These members the Communist removal through have been forced to pay premiums executive action instead of ra, covering, vessels risking the Nà- ferring the case to the courts ationalist blockade oporated by a movements expressed

Agreed:

small minorily of the associations" tives of SCAP and the sterling The situation was, however,

in the cost of living of what may

The Maero police and harbour total membership. area set up committees to deter kept in hand by various measures described an

as the middle class

control efficiats made no move to Hong Kong shippers expresseri mine what action was necessary such as rationing. prices control,

of the Community,

It does not

interfere with the Communist belief that increased to bring trade into balance.

The raid was made during a Government purchases of sup- precisely reflect

movements In the

The charges will cause no large drop- elly-wide manhunt for followers transfer of the equipment. of the other two 30,000,000 balance which must though the cost of living reach-mat

w of Dutch guerilla leader R. P.P. Portuguese Government where off In Ching trade major classes ban community at Hong Копи

Decora omelain, not to in the dispute.

The Macho Government has been treating the Chinese Com

munists with caution, With Red troops on the colony's borders. Macoo finds itself very, much In the came position as Hong Kong.

At present 'Japan holds a, UBS plies and rent control and al- j cost of living into which the ur" 1 (Turk) Westerling, whose band I ported to have, Instructed Mace

be made up by more Japanese ed a peak in 1046 and was still

may

of outlaws raided the West Java of. Bandoeng an Monday,

·

buying in the sterling area be-high in March 1947 it fell there- be divided in terms of sen- fore sterling area purchases con after and for a period of two erul standards of living, Le, the killing scores of persons.

city

be resumed on a large scale. years was held in check.

United Press;

-labouring class on the mo hand A description is given in the and Europeans and persons who Report at the calculation of a have adopted a Western standard retail price index figure on a 1089 of living on the other, baso. These calculations showed that in March, 1947, the cost of

The figures do, however, give n general guide to major trends in living of Chinese and Portuguese

THE WEATHER \À£,0000. OKT (2 dan, HKST) the anti- eyelong central over N, China sovere Sallow Ben, and Koren, An anti-alons clerical and skilled technical the cost of living of the communi- had ball up over Japan and aprend South workers in Hong Kong was ap-ty as a whole,

Eastwerde. A weak trough' is forminu, proximately six times that of

over til lower Yangtze and atending pris-war days. Subsequent cal Manual workers

Southwarda alatur, the E China coat culations on the same basis

**Today's Forecast!--light or moderate Luken each quarter from Jund

Einds, veering SE. Glowly, with bright 1947 onwards showed that the better off

periods, let the afternoon. ¿Balbay warmer.

Yesterday's Weather,

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cost of living of this class of the community fell considerably bver the next two years but in con sequence of recent Increases in

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