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CHINA
No. 34604.
ESTABLISHED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1950.
Ministers confident ss. Mausang leaves of success in Malaya
cargo for Hong Kong Shanghai with full
The British marchant ship, st. Mausang, stoom- ed out of Shanghai yesterday morning and onterad international waters thereby being the first major ship to successfully trade with Shanghai in more than eight months. She is due in Hong Kong late on Sunday.
Strachey, Griffiths give views at Press conference DEVELOPMENT OF UNITED MALAYA South Africa
Kuala Lumpur, Juno 2.
The British War Minister, Mr. John Strachey, and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, Mr. James Griffiths, at a joint Press con- ference hore today, said they were confident that the Malayan Communist Party's armed insurrection would be suppressed.
SCAP ruling on foreign exchange
Tokyo, June 2,
"To do this we must make possible the develop- ment of a united Malaya of all races which will progress steadily to self-government with- in the framework of the British Common- wealth," they declared.
The two Ministers are on a fact-finding tour to learn about civil and military problems in Malaya.
General MacArthur'a._Head- quarters announced today thut application forms for foreign-seen
ers to open convertible yen ac- now available at counts are
banks throughout Japan.
Effective July 1, foreign cur- rency deposits other than for oc- Ursunnel und authorised will be discontinued and foreign exchange holdings must be concentrated in yen
or de- posited in convertible yen ac- counts.
"A" necouris will be establish. ed in dollars. "1"
accounts in Sterling.
All convertible accounts will bo barked 100 per cent by serve in foreign exchange.
All businesses licensed to, rov ceived and permit foreign ex- change In Japan must open cop. vertible accounts. There will bo no compulsion, however, to con-
MrGriffiths said: "Having the mountain recesses of Malaya, the vast expanse of jungle and its exposed com-, munications, it is to my minci triumph that things are not worse here than they are.
"There is stil an immensu amount of work to ba done 50 all those people in lonely places now under fire can sleep_pelez- fully at night," Mr. Grifithe Kaki."
"We feel sure that plans which have been prepared to deal with the trouble and which are now being put into effect are along the right lines. We have dleeuss- ed-- fully on the highest level what further help is necessary from Great Britain and we will do
thoso our utmost to meet needs as quickly as possible,
see this "Great Britain will
the Malayans."
Mr. Griffiths said the import- Malaya to the whole shee of Commonwealth and the present
2
"Everywhere I have gone great lendliness for Great Bri- tain him been apparent und wo shall not fail our friends."
|Military measures
not recognising Peking Gov't
Mr.
Capetown, June 2 The Prime Minister, Daniel Malan to- day announced amid cheers that the Union Government had decided not to recognise the new Communist 'Government of China. Reuter.
Tokyo Police ban Red demonstration
Another British ship, which entered Shanghal two days after the Mausang, is due to leave that port today.
She is the is. Tainan of Butter-
field and Swire Ltd., a 3,000-ton
ship
An official of Jardine, Mothe- son's sold yesterday that they would give information today of company's plans to send inor: ships to Shanghai,
understood that the Mau- tang is returning to Hong Kong with an almost full cargo.
Other Hong Колк shipping companies are arranging import permits to Shanghai, though some have stated that the cargo rates are much more "uninteresting" than they were six months ago, when the Nationalist navy was effectively blockading the port.
American view
An American official said that
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Chater Collection displayed
Mr. Austin Castes holding one of the Items In the Chater Collection displayed at the Colonist Secretariat yesterday. The painting shows the old British factory at Canton. ("China Máll"" Photo)..
Paintings buried in grounds of Government House; three who knew the secret are now dead
the Shanghal-imposed cargo rates Twenty-five of Goorge Chinnery's pictures, valued
did not make it worthwhile tr send large merchant ships into the port, though many smaller British ships would be able to make Tokyo, June 2
with “Shanghai *profit The Tokyo
Metropolitan trade. Police have banned a Com- munist-inspired, demonstration at the Hiblyn Park, Tokyo, on
man sald today.
He added: "The principal ron- ron for the low cargo rates on Shanghal, trade, though shugh
tremendous amount of
at more than £3,000, are buried somewhere in the grounds of Government House, Hong Kong, exactly where no living mortal knows, for the hiding-place was known to only three. persons, all of whom have since died with their lips sealed.
Mr. Strachey gave an under June 3, a Police Board spokes Hong Kong cargo, la that therri Hiding the treasured pictures to prevent their fall-
tish
taking that all military mea. suros which proved neccesary
The police outhorities stated to end the emergency would be token. He reiterated the Bri- that the sponsors of the demon-
Government's Inflexible stration had failed to give the re determination to restore law quisite notice of the rally.
of the cautions" in case the ban was.de-
On the eve of the
tribute to
The
are so many idle ships now ir Hong Kong that the Communist Hor
need not offer un- they usually wish, rates to get ships into their port.
and order In Malaya jand paid: Police were taking "suitable přé-} this, we are not
the spirit
· were, "barrying" out "dangeroun and exceedingly arduous opera
tlone..
vert die present foreign exchange thing through side by side with have been able to inflet are not far agreed American"
huluings into yen before July 1 The balances
now held may be freely remitted abroad-United Press.
Ship fired on while entering Amoy
Thess. Cheung Hing, owned
world situation was fully realis- ed by all who carried the res- ponsibility for its defence direction.
“A tough job”
and
in
dent
June 3.
1
ing into the hands of looters, when the Japan-
ese attacked Hong Kong in December 1941' was almost a State secret,
London strikes threaten
food cargoes
London, June 2. Strikes by Thames barge men and railway workers to day threatened food cargoes, in the port of London and a on move- complete paralysis
ment of goods to the contin-
ent.
More than 550 lightermen whɔ man river barges are on strike Because of bargemon had been
* sacked, after striking in sympathy one by on with 14 men suspended for
for re- those 'mon 'died, each bellaving fusing to work overtime. the secret to be safe with his survivors.
theer, and Mr. Harmon of the At his death-bed his trusted as strikes ·
upon
the
in
port,
and
"Canton hull and cargo rates are ernment House rounds of Gov- hiding place was; but Me Yon Bricklayers, arms, 290 - cartago
morrow to that demands for the centrates tɔ-South-China | mission-were the only-ones-who. place dipl
release of the defendants could
to
Successful operations for heart disease in UK
-to-call-on-1,750
made
rail
Pretoria, June 2. General Smuts, ill with pneu- monia, was reported today to have had a better hight.....
Out of some 1,000 places over, when the treasure would be in sending any ships to from the Chator Collection, retrieved for, the Hong, Kong troops who, month after month, Red, the spokesman added to Shanghal at the present time," these 25 work of Chinnery Governortunately, of
were considered to be the the Diet (the Upper-House) on he said.
Shipping companies still con- June 4, other demonstrations ar
the river, tears were ex- they must be preserved.
that the lightermen's dis expected at Osaka, Kyoto and tinued to shy away from sending gems, and it was decided that
Awww*** | steamners into Canton. "I am thankful to say that the other centres.
With the approval of the then have thur casualties which, the Communista Eleven universities
Still highest rates
In the stoppage Governor, Sir Mark Young, his Takes secret to grave, pule might herald another wide-
Batty- to a nationwide stu-
One British official said that aldo-de-camp, Captain
The last of the three to dis was spread
where
u Government-appointed : high." he said.
strike on they had reports that though the Smith sought the help of Mr. A Mr. von Kobza, and the irony of it misalon has only just beguri an The number of British troops
Nationalists had evacuated
Kobza-nagy, an art photo was that the war had just ended.
investigation into the big deckers killed by them since the emer
The defence in the trial of Wan San Islands-main Canton
of last. and alstant, Mr. Fung Ming, now earlier this year at one of
summer gency began in June, 1948, up
eight Japaness charged with blockade bare-Nationalist war- Public Works Department,
China Ching Mail to yesterday is
Bubic 151."
photographic
tho South attacking Americans began an ships were still standing off the together they decided Mr. Strachey said: "In my view
asked him where the obvious slowdown today in the Pearl River estuary, making the scheme of burying the collection department,
Londor's biggest rail depote, the the problem is not basically a
of its
in a chest in and CESA prosentation
arca unsafe for shipping.
the one but one for the civil military
Prose quarters be Japanese
Kobza, true to his vow, declined administration and for the police,
lieved the Communists wanted still the highest of any Chinese
it Exactly how the burial WDS roveal to any other than the workers this morning decided to their 48-hour-old strike continue sb when "General Briggs' planned phase
British Government, And sh the trial to continue until to port, hov
against the promotion sort, hovering around nine per effected no one now knows. The of operations is a workmanlike
three people who undertook the he died the secret of the hiding-teman to an inspector, and -way-of-going about the job, but
with him.
_workers_to. the situation It cannot change
Cargo
Every attempt bas bean He refused to prophesy the overnight." (Lieutenant General be a rally cry during the deports are three per cent, and are knew where the hiding place was,
sines the reoccupation of the support them Press.
main is the monstrations, adds United
The depot length of time which might be Sir Harold Briggs is Director of
less than one per cent to North and they swore that it would re- The slowdown came after the China ports,
main a secret until the war was Colony to trace the missing col-centre from which goods are sent Operations needed to and the trouble, but Anti-Guerlila
lection,
etion, but without success. Not Court announced it would hold.a
to the continent, and the three by the Ta Hing Shipping Com-
described it as "s tough job." Maluya),
even the servants of Government Southern counties of Kent, Sussex "Having and chartered to the unculties, great though they are the country's secn pany
Asked whether the Malayan night session tonight in an effort
House know of burial. as possible.
thetrieve are, Communist Party was associated wind up 'as speedily Jebshun Shipping Company. I feel they can
and Hampshire--Reuter. The only way to retrieve the be assessed with the Chinese Communis! The Зерапеве defence afterneys returned to
treasured picturea will U be the Colony on squarely and confidently and that Party. Mr. Strachey said: "All ruddenly announced they had ad-
to tear
GENERAL SMUTS Thursday evening after failing repeated bad news must not be Communist parties are linked ditional witnesses.
up the grounds of Government. to disembark her eight passen allowed to breed pessimism among together, of course. This is an
House, perhaps right, under Gov Two of the accused took the gers and cargo in Amoy.
those who are not in touch with ¦ armed action organised by the stand during the day to claim
erumeat House self, which is The vessel lett Hong Kong on the situation," he said.
Malayan Communist Party-there their arrest was "a big mistake."
London, June 1.
regarded as too stupendous a task and not May 30 bound for Amoy. As shel
et the present time, "There have been for too many is no doubt about that."
"Peace plebiscita" Three doctors last night re- was entering that, port un Wed pessimistic and too many optimis- The actual resources being used
The Japan Communist Party ported that successful opera-
justified. nesday evening, shots were fired the statements about this bust by the Military Committee of the
Malayan Communist Party in the intends to follow up tomorrow's tions for an adult. heart dis- changed ber course and returned Mr. Grimths appeated
general strike tactics with ease are being carried out ating a full day's work to all field aro local. the Malayan people to co-operata "The terrorists here are or- "peace plebiscite and nationwide Guy's Hospital, In London-the An inspection of the ship by whole-heartedly in the battloganised and maintained by the demonstrations ca Sunday to first In the history of surgery forced to give up his work al- heart the officers revealed several holes against Communism. "The battle Malayan Communist Party and coincide with the Upper House There doctors from the Card together because of his in the side of the vessel on the must bo'won of there will be no do not suppose that military. elections.
Department and Thoracle surgical
trouble. Ni
weeks after being starboard
on he was able to walk side caused. by rifle further discussion
The Japanese Government said units of the hospital, reported in operate оп political activities have been or will be shots, although no one on bourd rights or constitution or any other directed by Moscow because it it had secured information to this the current, laste of the "British operated on,
& mile without discomfort and the alilp was injured.
democratic developments,” he said, is too far away."--Reuter. effect and is working out mus-Medical Journal", that seven was allowed to resum
WUTK. surce to cope with the Communist cessful operations out of 10 were
Doctors wrate in their report: performed on mitral stenosis
"Although experience La limited it The Communists are planning (valvular disease of the heart).
accounts for is enough to
to show that a direct to set up polls throughout the Mitral stenosis country and hold a "plebiscite" et about 30 per cent of all cases of operation on the stenosed mitral
value is justinable and helpful.” disease, the same time voters are
organic, heart- casting
One of the doctors, 45-year-
They added a word of caution by
would' ballets in the official election. The old Dr. Russel C. Block, has been saying that they felt it woul be Reds want the voters to bal- lots on the problem of permanent to the United States to show lead wrong to attempt an operation neutrality, opposition, to the
ing. American surgeons how the middle aged patients with gross CH-
cardiac enlargement and chronic The story quoted seamen of Boatswain James L. Watler, a tabishment of military bases by operating is performert.
was the first in medical fallure. Many of these were the American freighter Dolly West Indian, was quoted by the foreign powers and opposition to history to operate inside the heart beyand, hope of relief by au Madison, which arrived of nearby "Sun" as saying: reld they were convinced there is New Westminster yesterday. They Clamped down -
Top
national and rural police This was at Guy's Hospital, in operation on the heart valve.
But with greater experience it submit 11-year-old blue baby girl may prove possible to Things were all right when omcials met with Premier Yoshida June, 1948 when be cured an world-wide Communist under our sister ship was there (Teing to discuss plans for meeting the His colleagues, reporting on some of them to the operation," ground with cells in every major
to the the report added Reuter, the authorities clamped down. ferred with Major General Charles Bliish Medical
are Dr. of turn about what
"The rule in North China now have seen in China.
is no telegrams, no transmisalons on ship's radio while in port, and one crew member was quoted as no guarantee of what happens if saying,
you go ashore, pond!
at her from the shore, so she¦ ness."
to Hong Коля
"Smart" seamen don't talk about what they've seen in Red China
-Vancouver, BC, June 2. - The "Vancouver Sun", suid yesterday that fear has tied the tongues of seamen, who have visited Red China ports.
The Weather
deprowion to the &W nổ. Tokyo a trough -extende· 8W/ward (la (B) Foretosay", Cheno
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move.
war.
port, that takes care" 22. BB11017/o) two weeks before. But then Communist threat and then con- their latest JLORER
who talk out of
therou don't have to bellava me,"
"but
I have soon enough to know that the smart ones don't
CAS £600 OMT. (3. văn, ›IIKAST)› from a “talk so I have seen pals el days at sea, but not and of us MacArthur,--Reuter; and United
.:
operation was able to take a posi- tion ar a children's nanny" on voyage to South Africa and back. After eight months she was do- without
distress.
Operation No. 3-A man was
I now leading the world in Page.
clast HK
Among the cases reported by
on,
Willoughby, chief of General Maurice Campbell, 56-year-old MacArthur's G-2 Section, head of Guy's Hospital's Heart
ON OTHER PAGES. Allied officials
tado it clear
Section, and Dr. Charles Baker, they will not
any trouble
ant Phyalelan at the hople Page 2 from the Communista.
sia. Tomorrow Assistant
1. ¡Correspondente." Lalo naws of the success- But in Dairen they really will amount to a showdown benene, with the clamped down. We had been, 21 tween the Reds, and General ful London operations, Britain New P & Dilings to was even permitted to step off the Press. gangplank onto the dock. *
"One of the officers normally, stands on the dock during load: to check the draught scale on give his name, was quoted as say the bow. The Chinese would not ing he was convinced there was a oven permit that, y world black list" and that this "Wo heard, that the reason for explained the "disappearance" ó' | thin is that the Russians have “a sta seamen from time to time in big submarino: Dan
varigus ports.
Morom Boter Kong depraelon over mine who did, and it doesn't mal 24Indo-China;
Physik ter if it is Marseilles or Liverpool Today's Korerast: Moderate winds or Buenos Aires, they have their
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methods
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MOSCOW RADIO ON CHIANG'S VOW
London, June 2 Moscow radio sald last night
the three doctors were these: App Role of Jep Communist Party,
Operation No. 1-A giri of 23, | Page 7
Troman" "aska Amoney for arma
for years. had not been able to walk, more than 100 yards. Five weeks after the operation she was able to go in and down' two
lighte
would have dood resort to com: weeks they leaving Hospital, the wäre mit suleide: to avoid being "hange would walk stals.
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An olleial bulletin issued at noon said, however, that his con- dition is unchanged-Reuter.
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