1946-12-20 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRI

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1946.

Britain Leads Plane OCCUPATION LOWLAND SCOTS

Sales

To Argentina

Spurred by Argentina's national programme for ex- pansion ;la all'aviation activitles, the United States. Great Britain and France already have developed a stiff rivalry in 'the' Argentino aircraft market, and future com- petition from Soviet Russin, Holland wid eventually Italy is foreseen.

POLICY CRITICISED

London, Doc. 18. The assertion that as a result of the present occupation policy in Japan the control of the economic and political life of the country was being placed in the hands of reactionary and treacherous elements was made British manufacturers are reported in the Ilouse of Commons to- to have negotiated in Argentina for day by Mr. D. Rees Williams, the possible local manufacture of Labour, who recently visited Roll-Royce engines:

Japan.

of two-senter planes.

Argentina has ambitious of the military trainer type, and the plans for expansion of both El Boyern plant at Buenos Aires is said to be equipped for construction domestic and International air services, and only Brazil, among the Latin American countries, is considered to offer an air- craft market of comparable Im- portance, states United Press.

Great Britain took first rank in

PALACE AS HQ

repre-

come Into

NEWSLETTER

(By F. Crowley) ·

Believed Lo be the first

CHILDREN CROWD LONDON

TOY FAIRS

or.

Goggle-eyed, London children dedication of a church in one of go to the toy fairs of the is Majesty's dockyards since big stores where many parents the time of Charles II, St. are able for the first time to Andraw's Church, Rosyth show them what real toys are- Dockyard, was dedicated by the toys they can play with with- Ven. Archdeacon J. K. Wilson, nut breaking-toys that work.

The Christmas fairs are back again C.B.E., BN., Chaplain of the this year, with all the

prewar glamour and glitter. But poalwar Fleet, on November 26.

The Church has some very prices are more than double those of interesting features, apart from 1936, reports Associated Press, World War memorials. The black market loss, the British school-

After seven years of shoddy pulpit made by two craftsmen boy can have his first, building ret serving in ships operating from or his first pair of boxing gloves. Rosyth and is gifted in memory His sister may get a doll whore eyes

open and shut. of the men of the "Little Ships" Government - controlled ceiling -destroyers, corvettes, etc-prices were removed early this year, based on Rosyth. It bears and the toy Industry has gone wil overhead the words from Mark's out to give the children their first: Gospel, "And there were also real Christmas since 1038. The de-

mand is terrific. with Him other little ships."

Fathers crowd the stores as eagerly as the children, searching for the still non-existent electric trains

and rails, or to handle lovingly the many other constructional toys on display. Sales assistants bemoan the paper When we get something shortage. part

broke

while In away

and which are very scarce, or a building Incorporates in its design four actual set, or a good rubber ball, we have feats from the Firth of Forih nets. to let our customers go away with Behind and above the altar is a them unwrapped under their arms. circular stained gloss window People see them go down the street, presented by Wrens who

Britain's active neales effort in Argentina is attributed to its general

Ho anked if the Foreign Secretary programing of exports expansion would instruct the British the first rush of post-war telling of and a desire to get in on the ground sentative on the Allied Council to aircraft and equipment to Argentina, floor of Argentina's expanding take every alep to counteract this but Colted S'ates, since the relaxn-aviation system. Argentina's favour-polley. tion of export licensing requirements, able exchange position has сим Mr Hector McNell, Minister of has made pid gains, and French couraged the transactions.

State, replied that the present sellers are already exhibiting planes

Government Japanese in Buenos Aires.

office as the result of the general election Inst April, based on uni- A Russian commercial mission in

versal suffrage, in which over 75 reported to have broached the matter

per cent of the electorato voted. of aircraft sales to Argentina, but

Ila Information was that this no shipments have been reported.

Government was doing its best to Types available from Russin are not

co-operate loyally with the Supreme known, but the Russians are reported

Command of the Allied Powers and to have offered planes somewhat pl-

tis deal in a democratic manner with milar to the American DC-3. Soviet engineers are believed to be revising

labour and rehabilitation, which KE some of their military types for pos-run short of cash, the palace would sible transport use.

have far exceeded its present homely were now so pressing.

Mr McNeil said it was expected dimensions. As it is, its massive that a fresh general election would

long. fates spacious

be held in the New Year when the and a

(Continued from Fage 2)

As Rosyth was headquarters of Boom Defence, It is appropriate that St. Andrew's should receive the Chancel Screen mnde und presented by the Boom Defence Depot. In the form of a gate, it was made

from of n

But for the fact that Ferdinand the great problems of unemployment Boom Defence derrick which in short supply, like a doll'e buggy.

square

of

use

The Netherlands Fokker plant has front. 830, Tect straight avenue Japanese would again have the opRosyth units. It conalsted in and we are besieged by angry cus- In the export market for some time Six storeys high it reaches up 134 it would be unnecessary Interference | "teering wheel, the eight small laborers who will not believe it when

this

to

resumed operations since the war, but is believed unlikely to compete of glant trees which leads to Naples, portunity to express their views, and yet. Dulch manufacturers are en feet; na no lifts have been installed,

democratie process gaged in service, maintenance and Allied I personnel who worked on the With repair for KLM, the Dutch trans-top floor rarely got surprise inspec- cause the Allied Council to interveng,

Neuter. port line, and also have been making tions from brass hats. The building other tranport equipment og motoris.000 feet deep, divided by four bus trailers.

courtyards linked by an archway Italian export of aircraft to South with п colonnade. America la considered impossible un- der present circumstances, but in view of Italian aviation plans and pv-war success in airgraf: nunu facture. it is presumed that italy will neck export markets when pell teal and industrial circumstances make that possible.

Domestic Makes

feature is its gorgeously Persian Premier

coloured

marble staircase, guarded by two by two marble lions representing Victory

and

Defeat, and looking equally lugubrious. At the head of bees and the throne room, cluttered these stairs are ambassadorial chiam-

up with chandeliers, statues and paintings reflecting the peculiar laste Argentina will not be entirely of the period. These became officers' dependent on foreign supplies of pirov

A. G. Staffs working in the

messes.

craft and engines, as a plant at Cor-ceilings overdecorated with

royal apartments could Rave 411

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Confident Of

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submit

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Teheran, Dec. 19, Minister Grava

e

would Rusia

set in the

spaces between the spokes symbolising eight things coming into the ilfe of a sailor at seawind, moon, stors, guidance, and security. Itself simply a larger edition of the ubiquitous Nisson, St. Andrew's is to be extended and it is hoped that this may be an augury fur the reten- tion of Roxyil as a mutive establish- ment..

we say, "We're sold out","

Jap Doctor On Grave Charge

Yokohamu, Dec. 18.

A former Japanese prison doctor. Back To School

charged with falling to use avaliable Visitors to Prestwick aerodrome anesthetics when he performed a he- these days can see a dozen young morrhoid operation on an Allied flier, men training to be pilots. That they broke into tears as he told the Eighth are already Service pilots makes not Army Commission that he wanted to

since whit of difference,

the El himself so he could be with his requirements for Service and Civil dead father. flying ure quite different.

a

Dr Hiroshi Fujii previously tried

In the Service a man may be alto hang himself, but failed when the pilot only.

but use captain of a civil belt snapped, and he fell to the pri plane he must have a thorough son floor, knowledge of navigation, and us He told the court that he could thorough a knowledge of the mass of not understand the aldavit of Dr L. H. Goad since "I always loved him civit fying legislation.

ake a brother."

Woman Lawyer A Japanese woman lawyer, Miss Toshiko Sugai, 24, appeared the first time in the Toyko defence counsels for defendants Gen Jiro Minami,

doba is reported to be building planes in ride health and equally obese The Prime

jes Sultangh sald

keep his promise to The Queen's massive gold

bath

the to was removed early in discourage

parliament, practical Jokers, The Chapel, once northern Persian provinces and ex-subsidiary of Scottish Aviation, Ltd., proporal for oil concessions in five

The school, Air Tutors, is sumptuously decorated, suffered

presed the hope that the national and, has as its chief Instructor Mr from Luftwaffe action, while the

could begin

G. A. Oldfield, who came to Prest Kin on Sunday. house is intended to be

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wick in 1930 as navigation Instructor: crimes trial to-day is one of The Prime Minister said in an in- exact miniature of Naples San Carlo

With one exception all the pupils Theatre. The rest of the palace is terview that his recently organised hardly decorated at

Demeratic party was its huge National

have their homes in Scotland, and "growing stronger every day." and dungeon-like rooms which served as

there is one sna; in that they have wax willees proved most dificult to light that the Leftist Tudch party

to go to London for dieir examination, and adequately and impossible to heat. "getting weaker and weaker,"

there being no centre in Scotland. Other ranks were housef in

thin the Azerbaijan Democratic stables, while offlcers lived tents orty no longer existed-Associated and wooden huts in the park.

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BEAN MYGO

RECOLLECTIONS

the

Press

Teheran, Dec. 18.

Rorder Tweeds In Danger? Border tweed manufacturers are perturbed about their hold on world markets which, they say, they are able to meet only to the extent of 20 percent. The foreigner is steadily Government

encroaching.

This utte to the

Relinquishes Minar Posts The Premier has relinquished his The grounds are laid out in the past as Foreign Minister and Mints- Home Brandioan style. The parkler of the Interior, apparently as a

was designed by famous landscape result of some criticism of the elec-policy which compels them to devote gardeners: there are shady Stu- Lion machinery, it

it is slated, paths, beautiful fountains and The Tudeh Party contended that cascades adorned with statues. athe Premier holding the Premiership grand terrace and waterfall which and the two Cabinet posts, was in a necessitated 1 the building of an position to control the election.- aqueduct some 20 miles long to

to Associated Press. bring the necessary amount of There is also a line "English garden

lake from which Field Marshal Alexander used to take off by seaplane when he was really, in hurry, and where the troops batlied

in the summer.

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Okawa presently is confined in an institution for the mentally sick.-. United Press.

In short, utility cloth is good, but it is not up to the standard of the tweeds produced by the 200-year-uld Border industry and on which it has built Its worth wat putution.

Novel Offshoot

The process is an American one and employs a new method of water picofing and dyeing them, with the wool on, to the appearance and texure of fur.

It takes five skins to make a cont, which could be sold for about £20. Production is expected to begin next

A new Industry has been brought two-thirds of their production to

the home market. 4o the Tweed country by itsors. H. utility cloth for only about ten percent, being per- and A. Sandersch and Murray, Ltd.,

nitted for export

of Bucktholmside Skinworks, Gala- Again, they claim, some English shiels, and which will turn out even- manufacturers obtain more for their tunlly 100,000 sheepskins, enough to Korder Patrols,

Teheran, Dec. 18.

goods under utility cluch con.rolled make 20,000 fur clutal Persian Government troops to-day prices than they obtained prewar, were patrolling the Soviet-Persian whereas Scotish weavers are ofen

order following occupation of all,

with the barest margin of profit. frontier towns

This le

is due to the fact that while the The most important place to be Board of Trade-specifies only 15 per- occupled was Julla, a rail junction cent woollen content as a minimum between Persia and the U.S.S.R.-standard, the Sco-ish brand is 100

percent wool. United Press.

Mr Thos. Munro, C.B.E., Chair-year.. man of the Stuttsh Export Board, has stated that if the Scottish trade If the plans of Miss Edith Taylor, is driven out of high grade production first honorary secretary on Comunn it would kill the aesthetic sense and na Clarsach, mature, the hills of

around rk in woollen goods Morven designing

Sunart at of the whole world, because the Easter will echo not the pipes but the world's designers are trained largely harp and the volces of the harpists. Miss Taylor hopes to conduct a at Galashiels.

AIr Campbell, of Blenkborn, schoal of harping at Rahoy where

the famous bard, Richardson and Co. Ltd., Hawick, lived suggests that au uility, cloth required Maclachlan, known to Scottish Gaels

iri the Coluc

ne sweet singer of Rahoy". could be produced Valley area of England, which has Students will live in Rahoy itself, always specialiscu In this type of where they will have access to Miss

Taylor's clarsuch library.

deserted

With the end of hostilities; the huge staffs began to meli; zome set of for Venezia Giulia and-Austria: other tool:

Alleged Descriers Arrested their release Leket AFHQ more or less split up into

Teheran, Dec. 18. Twenty-six officers who national HQs, and recently it was

had the Persian Imperial Army announced that British GHQ moved up to Padua. Only a small and the Azerbaijan forces staff still remains In the old palace been arrested by the Imperial ex-

Allied co-ordination,

peditionary forces and will be court- ensure Impervious to its historical ass martalled. the Teheran radio clallons, Brillat coldiers who lived ported to-day-cuter. and worked at Comerta will remem

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relations with Ameri-language and, being decent peoples, work. cons, with whom they worked and we have the same decent outlook on played in close harmony. Friend-life which brings us together, with ships were made there which will the result that we are a happy team. last for always.

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Hengyang As War Chinese Airmen

Memorial City

Clash With Police

TROPIC LOVE

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The TUTTLES OF TAHITI

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"The stock market dropped again yesterday, so I'll have. to hurry-there'll be lots more patients in my office this morning!

Nanking, Dec. 18,

President Chlang Kal-shek has ap-

Shinghal, Dec. 18

At least six Chinese Air Force men

fred.

proved the plan to turn Hengyang and one policeman were injured in Into a War Memorial City and has a clash in downtown Shanghai that directed that an, appropriation of lasted three, hours an Wednesday CN$20,000,000,000 be set nuide for the night in which several shots were project,

The defence of Hengyang in the officer tried to

The incident started when a police Interfere in street fast stage of war constituted a bill-

nghting between the soldiers and liant page in the history of China's civilians, but was beaten. However, war of resistance against the Jopa police reinforcements arrived and nese aggression. It may be recalled were taking the soldiers to the station that the late President Roosevelt had when two truckloads of airforce men

also shown .U considerable interest in the project-Central Nows..

Jap

Workers Free

To Organise

Washington, Dec. 10.

captured two policemen, intending to take them back to their barracks.

More policemen rushed to the scene and rescued. the captured policemen.. Thirty-five soldiers were taken to the police-station--Reuter.. union leaders on the grounds that they suffered from "dangerous thought."

The Far Eastern Commission to-

mission proposed that oll bo released. This day resolved to allow Japanese much workers wide freedom to organise is imong the 16 principles relating themselves into labour unions and to Japanese trade unions which the at the same time look a stand Commission announced it has ap- against the Japanese police who for proved and sent to General Douglas decades have falled liberais and MacArthur-United Press,