1946-10-23 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG' TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1946.

SHIPPING NEWs Royal Victorian

NEWS Royal Victorian German Banking

Cruiser Belfast, 2; Bermuda, Dry

Dock.

Submarine Depot Bhip; Adamant, North

Arin

· Destroyer: Pinoy AFD; Cossack, South Wall Tidal Basin; Comet, South, Wall on Comack.

Escort Vestris Hari, 7; Alacrity, Atier- | deen Dock.

Submarines Astute, Tally-llo, Talent," Truncheon, on Adaniant.

Chiness Frigatel Yu Po, 12. Chinen 18M: Mel Chen, Laichikak,

Chiness LST) Chung Hair, M4; Chung

Tin.

Adminlstered by Commodore-In Commission

Depot Ship: Tamar (afloat), West Arm.

Velai Fort Constantine, A1s. Blore Ship: Fort Hosallo, Al8; Fort Sandusky: 18; Empire Charmain, AI; For: · Providence, 17.

Oilers: Colurel, Empire Damnel, you nati Anchorage; Empire Garden. Rapidul, Oil Fuel Jelly; Birchal, Oil Fuel Jolly.

Water Carrier: Empire Tescombe, Yaut

mau Anchorage.

LOT (L): 18, North Arm.

Boom Defence Vessels Baronia, Bodin Defence Depot Kewloon; Barimund, Mac

klo's.

Balvage Veuri; King Balvor, North Wall, Tidal Basin.

Lifting • Craft; 25, 20, Mackie's; 50, Wellington Wall.

Crane Ships Shotahu Maru, Macklo's. Rescue Tuger Encore, Abärdeen; En- tleer. East Ann.

JEMDL 1105, 1100, Kowleon Camber; 1100, Aberdeen.

Tur: Rockglen, Rockland, Tidol Basin; Rockpidgeon, East Arm.

Order Altar

Plate Returned

Plan Blocked

By Russians

Russian representatives on the Allied Control Council blocked Western Power efforts to set up a new German banking system, the official communique disclosed to-day.

London, Oct. 22 (UP),--His Berlin, Oct. 22 (UP).The Majesty the King, 'speaking before the altar of the ancient chapel of the Savoy, to-day thanked the Bishop and clergy of the Cathedral of St John the Divine in New York City for safely preserving during the war years the silver altar plate the Royal Family ordered designed for the Royal Victorian Order.

Then the King.

Mr Theodord H. Ball, deputy director of finance for the American Military Government, said the Rug- slan opposition might force other powers to unilateral, bilateral with Queen

tripartite action.

Elizabeth at his side, presented the plate to the Chapel us a symbol of dedication of the Chapel for the use of the Order.

exhibition on

In the

or

Mr Ball; outilning the plan which, was killed in yesterday's Control Council meeting, said it called for The ceremony, originally #che- the setting up of banks on a land or state level throughout Germany. dule for October, 1939, was pos.-

confined to operating poned because of the war and the These banks, plate then

within their own states, would have been supervised by both a central United States was kept there be-banking commission staffed by cause of the submarine menace.

by Ger- mans and on Allied banking board, Only members of the

Russian Order,-

Col-Gen P. Kurochkin news apposed the plan on the grounds that with the exception of four papermen, were permitted In the

it was not in accordance with the NBC, 109, Aberdeen; 118, Wellington: 700-year-old chapel during the im- monopoly destruction provisions of

the Potsdam Agreement prensive

only "partial and

a

compromiso measure."

Bilpe in Maintenance and Reserve LCI (L)1) 11, 123, 183, 172, Kowloon Camber,

LCT: '1181, 913, 1150, 1180, 1105, 1241, Kowloon Camber

Wall.

Hoom Defenco· Vettel; Darbain, Kow- Joon DD; Jiartizan. Tida) [Jasin

*HIMILI 1000, 1082, 1998, 1160, Kowloon Camber,

Tag: Rockforent, Rockwing. Rock- mount, „Kowloon Camber, Duliide Wall,

Merchant Whips

Alexandre de Rhoden, 10. Anhul, u.

Balta, Yaumati.

Bellerophon, Kowloon Day. Bantawers, Kowloon Whort,

Bulimba, Yaumati,

Callex 11. Trun Wan. Chungking, Kowloon Bay. Dona Natl. A4.

Empire Charmain, A12.

Empire Fraser, Cosmo. Dock. Empire Labrador, Yaumati, Fort Langley, Kowloon Bay. Fort Amsterdam, Yaumat), Port Rensslear, Taikoo Dock. Fregum, Stonecutters. Tukien, 1318

Glaucus, Holt's Wharf.

Glenatrac, Taikoo Dock.

Hal Tan, off Yaumati.

Hai Yuch, Kowloon Bay,

Helikon, 139.

Hickory Crest, Taikoo Dock,

Hermelin, D.

Heyser, Cosmo, Dock.

Hal Kin, China Merchants Wharf.

Hunan, Talkoo Dock.

Kenilworth Kowloon Day.

Kut Bang, Kowloon Duck.

Kwetyang, 113.

Marine Lynx, Kowloon Wharf. Nanchang, X.

Pakhoi, Kowloon Bay.

Paula, Taikoo Dock. Ping Wo, Commo, Dock. Promise, DJ,

Semtrent, Cosma, Dock, Sandviken, Talkoo Dock. Shantung. Kowloon Bay, Shengking, Talkoo Dock, Bilver Guava, Kowlom Dock. Somerville, Kowloon Wharf. Sontay, Kowloon Wharf. Stanhall Kowloon Bay. Szechuen, 13.

Taria, Thikoa Dock

Walnut Bend, off Talkoo,

Wilson B. Keene, Latchilkok.

Wuchang, Lalchikok.

Wasuchi, Talkoo, Bock.

Arriving To-day

Australia,

Period (Jardino), from Labaun.

HMS Clory and Opossum, from exer- ciscs.

Balling To-day

Dena Nati (De La Itamaj, for Manllà, Honolulu, Los Angeles. A.

Hermelin (Thoresen)..

Bangkok, pan., B1).

for Swatow.

Anhui (1 & B) for Swatow, Amoy... Singapore, Penang, pam. Di.

Alexandre de thodes (MM), for al phong, à pm. Đê

Sontay (MM), for Shanghai, 'p.m., Kow-` loon Wharf.

HMS Alacrity, for Tientsin,

Expected Arrivals October 24

Pronto, from Singapore.

Jaya, from USA.

Kwai Bang, from Straits. Wave-Governor, from Singapore........

October 23 Silversandie, from Shanghal, Manila. Sammex, from USA, Shanghal. Yochow, from Australia.

Expected Bailings

October 24

Shahin, for Hothow, Formosa. Bellerophon, for Straits, UK. Marine Lynx, for San Francisco via Manila.

Clovis Victory, for New York, Boston.

Panama.

claco, Seattle and Vancouver,

an

October 23

ceremonies. Dowager Queen Mary, Admiral Viscount and Viscountess Mountbatten, the Princess Royal and the Earl of Harewood, the Duke of Norfolk, the Marquis of Solisbury and many other peers of the reolm heard the King say:

by

"This altar plate, presented my family and myself to our Royal

Order has

and

WNB

Mr Ball admitted that the belated Russian opposition to the mensure, which has been in the various Allied committers for the last 11 months, must be based on the proposal's in- tention to revamp the entire German nancial structure and to issue a new currency.

These proposals are now being studied by the Control Council, Mr Ball cald.

been held for safe custody during the six years of war by the Bishop and clergy the Cathedral of St John the Divine in

The

measure, entitled "Liquidation New York and has become a fitting of Excessive Concentration of Econa- symbol of the deep, vital and un-mte Power in Banking," won Russian breakable fellowship between our approval insofar ne i destroyed the country and the United States of old banking giants but they oppored Amerien.

the selling up of a new system.

Gen Kurockin pointed to the So- "At a service held in the Cathe-viet zone system of closing all banks dral in December, 1945, the

except for minute withdrawals as the plate was received S my behalf correct course at the present time! by my ambassador, Lord Halifax, with no creation of new banking faci- and I am now able with gratitude to those who cared for

altar

great❘lities.

to restore it to its rightful place in my chapel."

The King referred to the Chapel, In which Chaucer was married, in which Cardinal Wolsey met with.

his clergy, as my Chapel" because since 1300 it has been theoretically ret aside for the use of the King. The Chapel was damaged slx timca by bombings during the war but the main fabric survived as it has from innumerable acts of violence since Wat Tyler burned down the Palace of the Savoy, to which it was Jained In 1301.

Ior

To-duy, us is traditional in the Chapel, a prayer was offered Henry VII, the great patron of the Chapel,

NOTICE

HONGKONG ENGINEERING & CONSTRUCTION CO., LTD.

Notice to Shureholders, -NOTICE-is-hereby given that the Twentieth Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders of the Hongkong Engineering & Con-

FOREIGN AFFAIRS

DEBATE

(Continued from Page 1)

on we are making attacks one or the other of our allies..

either

"We cannot evolve world peace unless we have mado our views clear by discussion and see what

emerges.

"This should always be done

with

this

the

Dut prejudice or accusation of ulterior motives. and unless is maintained at procedure Council of Foreign Ministers and at the United Nations we shall never | get commun understanding, which is essential to the building of world pence. I shall continue to act on

his principio.

Reconstruction World "The people of the world want. above all, to be allowed to get on' with the work of reconstruction which is

everywhere so necessary after the ravages of war.

"I would ask the House to appre- clute the conditions under

gical

which

This is the why

of 650

m.p.h.

By

Basil Cardew

EOPLE were asking recently about Geoffrey de Havilland. What they wanted to know most about do Havilland, who died in a 650 m.p.b. jet- plane power-dive, was:

:

"Why do fine pilots like this one risk their necks to do such speeds? Is it worth the risk? Can their results ever help the normal air passengers? Who wants to travel at 650 miles an hour, anyway 7"

Donaldson

Waterton

Wilson

One man had a clue to the answer. "I suppose," he said, "de Havil- land was flying the shape of things to cóme,”

All the 600-miles-an-hour men--Geoffrey de Havilland and Teddy Doguldson, and Willie Wilson nad Bl! Waterton have known the answer. They have argued like this: The future of commercial flying lies In-speed. The Country that builds the fastest planes will get the business,

12:4

Ten years ago the air-liner on the plane to break through the wall of London-Paris run averaged 90 miles air which builds up at the speed of an hour. Soon they will be averag- | sound, ing 300 miles an hour for the 250- mile trip.

The prestige

la speeding

Western Classical Care Of Jewish Music Popular DPs In Europe

By America

In Japan

The popularity of Western Munich, Oct. 22 (UP).-The music-particularly the ballet, Assistant Secretary of War, Mr. opera, symphony and concerto Howard C. Peterscianid to-day form is soaring in Japan to- that the War Department would day, says a UP correspondent. ask Congress for $100,000 for

During the current musical sco-

the care of displaced persons son long lines formed in front of the during the coming fiscal year. Imperial Theatre before each per- formance of Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake Ballet.

Camus

Rabbi Philip Bernstein, Gen Joseph T. McNarney's adviser on Jewish nitairs, who accompanied The popularity of the ballet is at-

Petersen on a tour of DP tested to by the fact that more pro-

and who appeared with Mr. Peter- ductions are being planned, includ- sen at a press conference this ing Chopin's Giselle, Paganini's Fan-morning, sald Congress should tasy and Rimsky-Korsakov's Shehere- liberalise the immigration-laws for zode.

Jewish displaced persons and stond pat on its commitments regarding the opening of European Jews.

Palestine

Western

and Stravinsky,

The

of

popularity of this music in Japan to-day is not solely the result of the occupation. Be fore the war Western operas and

number, considering

to

con.

ro.

In

Cavalleria Rustican Pagliacci and La Boheme have either been per- formed or are presently undergoing rehearsals.

Mr Peterson sald hc expected Werkly

concerts, broadenst over UNRRA care of DP's would the Japanese radio, are offered by inue until next June 30 but the Nippon, Philharmonic Orchestra, fused to speculate, as to how long with

selections covering the range the United States of classical, roniantic and

must contend modern with the DP problem in Germany music, from Bach to Beet- und Austria. hoven. Mozart, Schuman, Wagner

Bernstein sald he hoped the equity would be eliminated type

which now prohibits Americana from marrying anti-Fascist Jewerses Germany and Austria. ́*

He said the "big pash" that the music played. was entirely filtering Jewish DPs in over.

mid-September, be said, Infiltreck "foreign

to the Japanese car. Before the war the Fuji Opera were pouring into the United States !

and Austria at Company gave performances of zones of Germany

the In Lohengrin, Carmen, Rigoletto,

of 1,000 daily but now the Traviata, in Boheme and the Barber number has dropped to about

Sevilic.

daily with the influx of roughfi 10,000 more expected between now and the end of the year.

Robbl 80,000 DPs in

Bernstein kald

ot the the United States zones of Germany and Austria only and 30,000 in

Byes were performed in

of

an

The Ueno Conservatory of Music and the famous Chuo Central Phil. harmonic existed in pre-war days.

As in the case of Japan's wartime Axis partner, Germany, political in- SECOND reason for the air filtrations were made into Japan musical world during the war when, In co-operation with German "eul tural" groups, the music of non- Arayan composers, including Meyer- beer, Mendelssohn, and a host of others, was banned.

the post-war perform

enor-

When the fel-driven air-liners come along they will first cruise at 350 miles an hour, later-at-500.

the Proof of this comes from the Lan-mous commercial prestige to the enster, which has already had two country which holds the world speed of its orthodox engines replaced by record. Jols.

All Britain's own plane builders say that every time Britain recaptures the high-speed riband foreign in-

The short cut NOW, the way to get speed in the air Is to build planes that can cut through it with the minimum of fuss, So we have to build on new designs. These have

to be tested.

be

The new planes could put through their paces gently, but this would take many months, probably

or two. year or

Or they could be and are-raced to give a year's ex- perience and lessons in five minutes, We take the short cut because we

A

must. Other countries are straining,

rate

quiries for nirernft double and treble/zz in Tokyo are of good and anti-DP feoling

in a month.

quality, although almost uniformly which the string sections

aurpass the 13 A hurns. Antic

But, whatever the result the Japanese appear to play with sincere vigour and interest.

The D.. 108 Swallow Geoffrey de Havilland died smaller edition of a Trans liner commissioned by the Aistry of Supply Tests in the D.H.108 unbuilt were really tests on the larger plane.

When this hir-liner does come off

the stocks it will travel to Amerien cruising speed of 350 to 450 miles an

hour.

al

York and Lon-

miles beveen Nel cover the 3,000 lo produce fast planes. They are dan in under 11 hours. backed by unlimited resources, from They should raise their glasses in the State in Russia and France, from tribute to filers like Geoffrey de the giant aircroft firms in the United Haviland. Statës.

For these are the men who keep They are all trying to find the Britain ahead of rivals.

LISBON MARU

(Continued from Page, 1)

CASE

Reconstruction Appeal

By

of in- Until

143,000 in Germany Austria are Jews.

He said no Jewish DPs who have Inoltrated into the American zope want to stay in Germany and 90 per cent want to go to Faldstinu. He said the current an-Jewish among the Germans represents

potential danger but is not now serious,

He said Jewish DPs committed and ready to work and that the general character of DP/ has changed within the past si months because of the large influs of new settlers from Russin wc-

now

had retreated east before the G

ого

Atom Bombed Cities mans and were able to save their

atomi

Tokyo, Oct. 22-The two Nagasaki have sent a petition to bombed cities, Hiroshima and Gen MacArthur appealing for help in reconstruction.

The petitions have been turned over to the Japanese Government for whatever action it deems neces- sary since reconstruction of war devastated ellies is the Japanese Government's primary responsiblli- ty-Central News.

children and intelligentsia population.

of the

Peron's Five-Year-Plan

For Argenting.

·Buenos Aires, Oct. 22, (UP- President Juan Peron to-day dis- closed an elaborate Ave-year-plan to increase Argentine's industrial power and extend Government con- trol over national economy. Ho denled, however, attempting to C%- lablish a totalitarian regime, saying that State control was necessary for increased industrialisation.

The plan also calls for the re service, vamping of the whole diplomatic semi-socialisation of

Alruction Co., Ltd., will be held cion and fear that it creates pervades effective distribuat 7.10 a.m., the pistol point you like, of my own parent that the baitening down was trailsed from

HMS Tremcheon, for Sydney.

HMS Hart, for Manila.

Kut Sang, for_Stralis, Calcutta. Helikan. for Saigon.

noon, posts

OUTWARD MAILS

Registered and Darcel mall closes half

hour before ordinary

letters. Air mails close at Kowloon Po half an hour Barlier than at GPO,

Wednesday, October 23 Canton, Shanghal (CNAC) 10 a.m. Macao, Thinshan, Shekki (Kwong Fook Cheung) 10 a..

Haiphong (Alexandre de Rhodes)

p.m.

goon,

2

Swatow, Bangkok (Hermelin) 2 p.m. Bwatow. Amoy (Anhul) 2 p.m. Saigon, Delhi, (Air) 2 p.m. Singapore. Colombo, Bourabaya, Sydney, Auckland, Bangkok, Nan- Calcuits, Karach), Basra, Cairo, Johannesburg, Augusta. Marseilles, Lon- don, New York, Montreal (BOAC) 3 p.m.

Shanghai (Bontay) 3 p.m. Canton, Shanghal, Nanking. Hankow. Tsingtao, Peiping (CATC) 1.30 pm. * Macro, Talishan, Shokki (Kwong Sal) 1.30 p.m.

to elect Directora and Auditors,

and to transact any other ordinary

business.

130-

ard

On October

crew.

confusion in the events which

around

To World Bank

that the

He declared that the purpose of the credit was to meet the cost of pur- charing and importing into Franco certain equipment and materials required na part. of the general plan, of reconstruction and modernisation,”—Neuter,

jackets and with no boats to use Ir an escape was made. Maintaining peace-makers are working. Hang- Prisoners-of-War were without life in the holds. The Master was at the an utterly callous disregard for their ing over them are terrific inventious Jackets, and even if you accept that cross roads and could refuse to have fate, the Master did not signal the the Master oblained 2,700 life any part in an action which would

captain of the rescue of science, atomie energy, bacteriol Jackets before leaving Hongkong, lead to such obvious consequences. Instructions regarding the evacuation for party evilish devices for the destruction he must still be held

warfare, rockets and all other

responsible He could have said: “Batiening down of the prisoners. He must have been medicine, intensification of foreign, of human life and with it all suspi- for having failed to achieve an will mean suffering and death by well aware that the ship was doomed, commerce, colonisation and iry.

suffocation, order me to do it at the and it became more and more ap- rigation. Industry will be decent the Buenos Airg at the offices of Messrs. Sir Elly the conference room.

Lisbon Maru

ATCO. was torpedoed and free will, never!", Nothing like this part of a larger plot to send every Kadoorle

"Peace-makers are guided by the & Sons. St. George's sub-consciousness of the danger of a

holed in the starboard quarter caus-occurred.

one of the Prisoners-of-War. to The scheme also proposes the below the via San Francisco. Los Angeles and Building, 2nd floor, Chater Road, recrudescence of Nazi and Fascism ing damage above and

The second course open to him was those Prisoners-of-War whose senses with the armed forces united und

watery grave. It was evident to streamlining of the Government Somerville, for Los Angeles, San Fran- Hong Kong, on Friday, the 15th arising from

economie disorders. water line. The prisoners using the November, 1946, at 12 o'clock There is only one effective antidote latrines were chased down into the to put the instruction Into effect and

and hatches were at this time to report what he had done, and the were not numbed that the ship would a single Ministry of National for the following: pur- to it all, and it is to be found in the holds

covered.

Sentries were probable consequences to the Com-sink, and when the list reached 15°. fence. President Peron pledged the polley which will establish confidence,

some of those in the 2nd Hold the Army and Navy will be removed This settle these outstanding political and

presumably to prevent any mander of the rescue party. posted disturbance

an the part of the course would not have discharged managed to breaks through the batch from politics and decreased quan

all responsibility,

fired territorial dimculties between

They were To receive the Reports of the tions, introduce new relations

upon by titatively but, not qualitatively, ans and

Prisoners-of-War."

Superior covers. For

the next 24 Hlm of all

Women will get the right to vote. Board of Directors and State- make necessity for

the use of all hours the Palsoners-of-War had no orders may not be pleaded in justl- the guard and forced to retire.

was then about 8.45 am, on October fention of inhumane acts, but it ments of Accounts for the year these devices so remote that the food or drinking water.

would have

2. At about this time a few of the been an indication that 2 Meanwhile, the Lisbon Maru was WPL

prisoners, risking the small arms are. ended the 31st December, 1941, whole world can begin to think and

how in the company of the Japanese the

down.

managed to escape. The Commander French Application and for the period the 1st January, act in an atmosphere of peace and

Cruiser Kure, which arrived on the tminster disapproved of the bat

"The Master took

of the rescue party sent small ship third course. confidence.

scene at 12.20 p.m. and at 0 p.m. on 1912 to the 31st December, 1945,

off guards and alongside to take Terrible Responsibilty

Tharrlved | 15:20ve the executive orders for the

There was a quite natural "Therefore, upon the great Powers the same day a rescue party

under Ca

Capt Yano.

battening down to the ship's bog'n in particular, and upon the smaller consisted of three gunboats and who in turn passed it on to the ship's

a.m. Suffice

Washington, Oct. 21.-The Prest- l'owers as well, reals at this moment four arrived later. Capt. Yano was carpenter. A third officer from the cured a terrible responsibility. I assure informed of the condition of the ship Lisbon Maru will be called to testify it to say that the ship was in im- dent of the World Bank, Mr Eugene AND NOTICE- is hereby also the House and country that Great and passed certain orders regarding that no threat or duress was used. med ato petll of sinking, and the Meyer, to-day announced

La itain will do i.er best to plant the the salvage operations.

About half By

passing these orders without senior Prisoner-of-War oficer passed French Government was filling-a given that at the same time and feet of the people of the ward firmly the complement of Japanese soldiers the Master committed a positive act it was too late to save the sick men..$500,000,000, to be advanced during question at the time or subsequently, the order "every man for himself." formal application for a loan of on the same day at 12 o'clock noon on the road to reace with the op- had been evacuated to the Kure, and

been 1947. or 80 soon afterwards

many of whom had already follow 19 the rtunities that

policy. such

nt 0.40 pm. the remainder of the of complicity, well knowing the con-

drowned in the rising water. There "Great Britain, Ordinary General Meeting shall

after all,

is a great Japanese Army draft left the ship sequence. Power.

were few survivors from No. 3 Hold. Felid Almosphere Sho set the example in the and

and were distributed amongst the an Extraordinary Commonwealth, where unison be concluded

It is diffeult to determine how each The interior ventila

ventilation The wind chutes were cut down, General Meeting will be held for liberty have been

able to march | boat

The the the purpose of considering and together hand in system of the ship was dependent batch boards put into place, and hatch cover came to be opened. and tarpaulin covers fixed in position decks were nearly awash and on the electriclly generators, and an ceased to function soon after the entry of life giving air utterly prisoners stepped into the water. An if thought fit of passing the strengthened more and following Resolution as a Special liberty Increased. She is entitled to torpedo attack. The only air which prevented. Since the torpedo attack, attempt was made to launch one of

the damored life boats, but it soon COMMUNIST RESIGNS ask that that great experiment be exa- could enter the holds was led the Prisoners-of-War had been deni Resolution namely:

mined by the rest of the world. Her through the hatches by means of ed access to the latrines, and the few sacrifices in the two wars for freedom sail-type wind-chutes. Even these receptacles provided for their natural

Evacuation of Ship and liberty and her ability to practise wind chutes failed to supply suficient functions were hopelessly inadequate

The Master allowed his own crew to evacuate the ship at a time when it in war and peace entitie ́ her to à air. for comfort and conditions were The already fetid atmosphere rapidly

Rangoon, Oct. 32.-U. Thein Poj. proper place and adequate considera stifling.

the Prisoners-of-War worsened. Some cases of dysentery

were either Communist member of the interim Bon of her views in the counsels of ? Holds Baitened Down

fear of further small arms- frez ̈At

resignation followed the ese Army Draft, a small. POW guard on board suffering from diarrhoea. no time did he display the slightest decision of the Communist Party to remained on board with their efflcer. Crowded body to body in stinkding evidence that he disapproved or dh dissociate itself from the Anti- The Army Commandant also re- darkness, the Prisoners-of-War were sociated himself with the polley Fascist League which it alleged war mained behind, and the Master and advised to lie quietly in orthours Many hundreds of prisoners died and would not be able to salve becoming the tools of imperialism his crew were still aboard. The two conserve air. After a few hours

conceived

n a result of this murderous plan. Burma's vital problems. Reuter, the conditions become an bad that deaths omeers, iden of batlening

the holds began to occur. In No. 3 Hold, the He is charged specifically with those in which the Prisoners

con- prisoners were given hand pumps events in which he played a personal tained.. There had been no dis- turbance, amongst the prisoners, who visin which to combat the gradually part: First the battening down at

rising

Valettenlly impossible sutures now, strandly his negligent TO-DAY'S BROADCASTING were under the firm and mign made it practically impossible to do failure to arrange for tho

benign control of Lt. Col. Stewart, the Senior more

than a few strokes before bo were the nets or omssions with

to pick up the Prisoner-of-War Officer. It matters collapse, and the water continued to little what was the original purpose rise. It will never be known how which the accused as Master had n

baitening

down. At low we many men were drowned in the hold, direct connection, and formed part of are all held to account for the reason but you will hear evidence that the the more general conspiracy of able and probable consequences of number was considerable.

murder. The accused stands before our netions. The Army officera

The ships boats on the starboard you on trail for his part in the Master and stated Approached the

had side been employed to take sick suffocation and death by drowning that the hatches were to be battened Japanese soldiers to the cruiser Kure. of hundreds of prisoners, and the down...

The Master even more than and they had not returned. Thons causing of great suffering to many the two Army · Officers was in a on the port side had been irreparably others. I will now mail reference positlik to visualise what would damaged by collision with the ship to a section of the International Con happen if this instruction was put which had come alongside to take off vention for the Safety of Life at Sea Into efect. Ho would have known part of the Japanese, Army draft. 1029 to which Jepun acceded in 1085. The prisoners were thus imprisoned This has a direct conner Jon in re- that the closing, of hatches would mean the cutting down of the wind in the holds of a siniding ship, half gard to the provision of a life jacket chutes and the withrawal of the only suffocated by lack of air, many to every POW air supply available to the prisoners already drowned-many without life

Kongmoen (Kwan Lub) 4) p.m. Canton (Iwang_Tung) 4 'parn, Swabue (Kwel Tak) p.m.

Wuchow. Kwongisi (Lung Of) 4 pm. Thursday, October 24

Swalow, Amoy (Anhul) 10 a.m.“ Atroita. Java (Bellerauton) 10a.m. Canadą; USĄ,

and South

Central

"That the Articles of Associa tion be altered in manner follow- America (Samtent): p.m.

Canton Amoy, Foochow, Shanghai-ing, that is to say:

(CNAC) 330 p.m.

Macao, Tainahan, Bhekki (Kwong Sal), 3.30 p.m.

Canton (Fathân)_4_ __p.m.

Friday, October 23

(a) In Article 17 the words auch fee as the Board may from time to time determine" be

Macao. Thinshan, Shekki (Kwong' Fook | substituted for the words "the 'sum

Cheung) 10 sm.

Balgon (Helikon) 10 am.

Straits, Calcutta (Kutsana) noon, E Singapore, Colombo, Rangoon, Calcutio, Johannesburg, Delní, Cairo, London. Bydney. Auckland; (Ale), 2 pm.

Canton, Chungking, Kunming" (CNAC)" Macao, Tainahap, Shekki (Kwenig Saly 4.30 p.m.

Canton (Train) 4.p.m.

Coloured Seamen Bring

Drug to Australia

of one dollar, or auch smaller sum as the Directors may from time to time determine."

(b) The following Article shall bo substituted for Articlo. 47. "47. A Feo of such amount as the Board may from time to time detérmino may be charged for cach transfor,

shall, if and required by the Board, be paid before the registration thereof.

Sydney. Oct. 22-Marihuana, 'one A similar Foe may be charged on

of the world's worst drugs was being the registration of any other

brought to Australia" by. American document."

coloured seaman to give to white

girls a proseculor suggested in the

Central Police Court here to-day.

He was conducting a case it which

a negro ship's waller of the US.

By Order of the Boarth

ERNEST, SAHMET,

Acting Secretary.

liner Monotroy, Leonardo Bancroft, Hong Kong 22nd October, 1946.

wha fined £20 for having the “rug)

In his possession-Router.

more

nations. She cannot and will not be dismissed."-Reuter.

GREATEST FRONTIER SAGA SINCE CIMARRON"!

BADMAN'S TERRITORY

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Army

of the

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and some had come voyage began,

udopted.

The case is proceeding

survivors.

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