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Viet Namh CRIME ON DECREASE Truman's Budget

Conditions IN HONGKONG For Peace

FIGHTING GOES ON Police Steadily Winning

Paris, Jan. 10.

The French News Agency, in a dispatch from Saigon, said Viet Namb radio to-day an- nounced that President Ho Chi minh has sent a letter to the i French Government outlining the conditions which Viet Namh considers necessary for restora- tion of peace in Indo-China.

The following are the conditions:~~~ 1, Immediato Cessation of hosites in Cochin-China Annam and Tonkin Provinces, 2. Beting Into operation Commissions for application of the September 14 modus vivendi;

and

the

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3. Immediate resumption of the Fontainebleau conference in order to arrive at a definite settlement of France limitations, The between the and

Teller recalled the friendship and Indo-Chinese French

present conflict on of force practised by certain representatives of France and Indo-China."

themed the

Meanwhile, the French High Command communique to-day said Viet Namhese in the Glalam region been pushed back to the town have of Thonal in a series of night operations by French forces.

There was some desultory Viet Nam artillery Bre in Hanol during the night and concentrated principal- ly in the area where the Pasteur Instituto and Shell Building stand.

arcas,

French dispatches said the Viet Namh President, Ho Chi Minh, had sent

a letter to the French govern- ment outlining conditions which he would consider necessary to re- establish peace, including renewal of taller for definite settlement United Press,

Fight With The Underworld

YOU MAY

FIND THIS HARD TO BELIEVE, BUT CRIME, SO FAR AS

Mr D. W. Macintosh

Said Excessive

REPUBLICANS OBJECT

Washington, Jan. 11.

President Truman proposed a $37,528,000,000 speeding programme for the Government's next fiscal year and the Republicans promptly blasted it as far too high. President Truman, in his but chairman Robert Taber, annual message, called his bud- (Republican of New York), of get realistic and "hardboiled", the House Appropriations Com-] mittee, set out to trim it by $8,000,000,000.

ROBBERIES ARE CONCERNED, IS FOUR MORE ARRESTS

STEADILY AND DEFINITELY ON THE DE- CREASE IN HONGKONG.

Mr D. W. Macintosh, Police Commissioner, was able to make this clear in an exclusive interview with the "Hongkong Telegraph" to-day. His figures for

robberies of all kinds-armed, housebreaking and street incidents-covering the entire colony up to the border for the month of December, were almost half of those for August.

The comparative figures are: August, 72; Septem- ber 68: October 60: November 42; December 39.

And for these encouraging com- number of street robberies would be parisons, the Police Commissioner very much greater. work of his force is very assumes, with good reason, that the largely

responsible.

Was

force

now

Ho

STREET LIGHTING

to

AT TEL-AVIV

Palestine Conference Latest

Jerusalem, Jan. 10.

Four alleged terrorists were arrested to-day during a three-hour search and screening of the inhabitants of Rishon Le Zion, one of the oldest Jewish townships in the country south of Tel-Aviv.

All four are

believed to have! authorities for some time. been wanted by the security

to

in

NO CHANGE OF MIND

London, Jan. 10. The British official Invitation A number of persons tained carlier to-day when

were de- the Arab Higher Committee

hotel Palestine to altend searches were carried out in the all-London conference on Palestine on the resumed Jewish city of Tel-Aviv.

January 21 is not regarded here as indicating any change in the situa- tion. An official spokesman to-day said that there was no reason suppose that the Govorament had accept the Mufti of Jerusalem as changed its mind about refusing to one of the delegates-Reuter,

INVITATION TO PARLEY

Committee

The Palestine Higher

the

British

to

Tel: 27880

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A second and final edition will be published on Mon- day, Tuesday and Saturday, containing results, pari- mutuel prices and winning cash sweepstake numbers for the first six races.

This special edition will be on the streets shortly before 5 pm,

TEXT OF EXTORTION

"Excessive in many respects," ANDREASANTON snapped Taber.

Chairman S. Bridges, (Republi- can, of

New Hampshire) of the Schate Appropriations Committee, called the message an "acute shock to American payers" which had ex-| pected "tax reduction, debt reduc- tion and east of Ilving reduction."

Over half America's foreign ex- penditure during 1947-48 will be in the form of loans for reconstruc- tion or for trade expansion.

The President declared that the period of large-scale general relict was almost over, adding that the termination of UNRRA left the ur- gent question of refugees and dis- placed persons.

In addition to the British loan instalment, other foreign expendi- tures listed by President Truman

were:

of

LETTER

PENINSULA HOTEL ON THE ALERT

Mr Macintosh said he was satisfied

and threatening letter from

Following receipt of an extortion that many streets in the suburban

"Overseas Youth

the minimise the seriousness of Hong- they

Mr MacIntosh did not attempt to

areas were so poorly lighted that!

tlon," extra precautions

Action Organisa- kang's crime wave, but he told the

contributed

after-darkc

are being crime. "Telegraph", that he believed the vestigating this and was

He declared that he was in-

taken at the Peninsula Hotel to pro- awalting police force,

tect residents as well as property. whose TOWN RECAPTURED

morale, he reports on the subject. asserted, was extremely high,

Everything that is delivered to the While admitting that crime was French forces have recaptured the operating to the highest point of far more prevalent

hotel is being closely scrutinised, now in Hong- important frontier town of Son Laelciency, possible in view of cur- kong than before the war, the Police

while residents have taken it upon themselves to form groups of Vigil- near the Chinose border in Indo- rent conditions.

Commissioner said that this colony

Export-Import Bank loans, $730,- antes. Chink, French

He re-emphasised that the dispatches from

was not so badly victimised in this

000,000; Foreign relief, $350,000,000; Military expenditures in was seriously handicapped by lack respect as Singapore and other cities Henry Gurney, Chief Secretary of

of international organisations, $18,- received by the management of the Hanoi said.

was to-day officially invited by Sir

countries, $545,000,000; Membership given a copy of the threatening letter

Demand For $5,000 foreign The "Telegraph" this morning, was French sources said the action" summe

in the Far East. indicated that French forces

the Palestino Government, to send wero

He attributed the crime wave to the delegation to the Falestine Con- regaining control of the frontier

000,000, Stote Department «LT'S ON PAGE 5waran creatural aftermath of ference, when it is resumed in

Foreign hotel. Dated "6th January of the incredibly ludlated popola London.

DEFIANT GESTURE ·

Relations, $173.000,000; Refugee re- 30th Year of the Republic of China," Hot and tion,

proportion of which shable

Paris, Jar 10.

resettlement programme, the letter reads: · cannot find work because trading

Jemal Husseini, Vice-Chairman of

Professor Smertenko, Vice-Pre-gramme, $137,000,000,

$220,000,000; Philippine ald pro-The Peninsula Hotel, the Committee, sald and industry have yet to get back to considered that the cause preventing for a Free Palestine, who has been that he now aldent of the American Committee

Notice is hereby given to the pre-war levels, and who

abova Hotel that the Organization Conceding that his estimated cost has been directed to station in the therefore the participation of Palestine Arabs forbidden by turn

to criminal ways of living; S, had been removed.

Home

national defenco the presence in Hongkong of a num-

Truman contended:

is "high". Hongkong Area aiming at the up- ber of "natural" criminals who, with

setting of the orders of the British wartime training in tlie use of arms,

"Although I expect the United Foreign rule in Hongkong.

Government, and the termination of now have no hesitation in using them

Nations to move successfully toward maintainance fees will, therefore, The if they meet opposition

world security, any cut in our pre-be subscribed by all big firms in sent estimate for 1948 would im-the Colony, and, in this connection, mediately weaken our International you are to pay the amount of $5,000 position."

once for all. The recommended figure "repre-staff to take the morning express You are to arrange to send your sents a proper balance between train on the 10th instant destined security and economy", he said.

The proposed overall national de- for the Ol Kwan Boarding House fance expenditure, of $11,587,000,000 in Sheklung, and have your firm's compares with an estimated $15,- name "Grand Peninsula registered 150,000,000 for the current year for on the room booked. purely military purposes.

money will be collected by our re presentative then, whether on the Atomic research and administra-way or at the boarding house. tion, now in the hands of the Civi- delay in payment will then be re- lan Atomic Energy Commission cognised as hostile, and should you rather than the Army's Manhattan report to the Police for protection, project, is due to be allotted $443, the bombardment will be of a more 000 000, although the anticipated severe nature than outlay is carried under the "national ones.

previous resources" category rather thon nu- tional defence.

The Tin Fook Goldsmith and the Sun Sun Hotel have failed to com- ply with our order, and they will enjoy our exhibited bombing.

Read the opening instalment of our feature, "How the Rus- sians Really Live," which you will find on Page 5.

And

of up-to-date equipment, the ab- sence of which was entirely due to procurement problems.

force cannot afford to indulge in the What is more, he said, the police spectacular at the expense of solid ground work,

The streets hove to be kept clear,

Alone

not

"Their attendance had been im- peded by the Government's former intervention in the right of Arabs to choose their own delegates," he said. The Higher Committee will meet the invitation and to select its dele- on Sunday to consider its reply to gates-Reuter.

STOP PRESS

REINFORCEMENTS ARRIVE

Salgon, Jan. 10," The French liner. Pasteur to-day

200 IN TRAINING arrived at Saigon with troop rein.

Asked if he had considered Im forcements including tho First

plementing the professional Marine Regiment for the French

and quickly eradicate Hongkong's force with Vigilantes In order to try police forces now fighting in northern Indo- China.

The High Commissioner, Admiral

criminals, Mr. Macintosh did make a direct reply, but pointed out Thierry D'Argenlieu, said on their be pointed out, so that normal busi

that the Police Reserve-was-in-exis- arrival that "it is inexact to say ness can carry en in a normaal way, that organisation were being trained that a state of war reigns in Indio- This

tence and that already 200 men in China. The simple truth is that energies, not only of police squads

called for the full for police duties. some opérations for re-establishment and the detective branch, but

Questioned about the public's of order are now in progress at cer- the traffic

alan willingness to assist the police in tain points."-Reuter.

department. Without their duties, Mr Macintosh said his that sort of work every day, the experience was that the people here were most public-spirited. He elted a number of cases recently which had been reported in the press Illus- trating the truth of his claim.

However, he reiterated the point he made at his arst Hongkong press conference; that the police could be very largely alded in their work, and crime could be much more effective- ly combatted, It

The condition of Eugene Tornin, - public generally 33, of Cameron Road, remains criti- was prepared to report incidents cal from injuries to the head and quickly to the police authorities. In a final word about the which the police force is waging on- war criminals in Hongkong, Mr MacIntosh Bald there was dally, evidence that this fight was being won. The le ercasing number of apprehensions and police court canvictions proved

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EDITORIAL

JEEP ACCIDENT VICTIM DIES Miss

Alia Vassilieva, 32, Nathan Road, who was critically in- 01 jured in a jeep accident in Kowloon last night, died in Kowloon Hospital this morning. Deceased suffered a fractured skull.

concussion,

Encouraging Crime Report

Irgun Announce A Temporary Truce

Jerusalem, Jan. 10. A "temporary truce" against the British

armed foroca in Palestine

was confirmed by the Irgun Zvai Leum!, the Jewish terrorist organisation in a

a letter to the Palestine Government's Public Information Office.

The letter asked the 'Office to announce the news in the form of communique to the press.

The letter was in an official

British Government stamped

envelope.

The Irgun has used official stationery to circalate

propagands in Palestine for some time. They are known to possess forred duplicates of almost all rubber stamps used by the Government

Pleats in Palestine.. These

stamps as well as official the work of former partisans who became skilled in forging passports in Underground printing presses in Europe during the war.

The letter waye no reason for the truce-Beuter.

1.

to

Office to re-enter' Britain, announced to-day that he was returning London on Sunday morning.

"My purpose in going there at this time is precisely what it was when I first went to Britain more than 14 months ago," he declared. "It is to convince the British people and Government that it la sible to arrive at a reasonable.

ust and permanent solution of the Pales tine problem, and that the fate of THE deures riven by the Police Commissioner

more than 2,000,000 people dependa Telegraph" (reported elsewhere on this page) conclusively showing tan."

to the "Hongkong upon immediate action in that that the authorities are surely, even if it is slowly,

direc- against the colony's criminals, are most encouraging and

winning the war Professor Smertenko - We are glad to note, also, that Mr MacIntosh is convinced that the "grotesque and

reassuring. that the ban

complained was based morale of his police force is high, their efficiency worthy, and that he ion" in London papers of the state- on. the has 200 police reservists in training,

deliberata distor- ment he made on his return, from the continent last month.-Reutor. APPEAL TO POPE

Palestine has submitted a memoran-

Washington, Jan. 10. The American League for a Free

attention to the "epidemic of suicides dum to Pope Plus XII, drawing his that will shock the world" among the 150,000 Jewish refugees in European displaced persona comps, the headquarters of the League announced to-night.

Not that the Police Commissioner is self-satisfied; which is another good thing. The crime situation calls for, no complacency. now that figures indicate the pollen are beginning to gain, a strangcholá Rather, on the underworld elements, should every effort be strained to conso Bdate the gains made during the past three months. would be very nice to see some of those 200 trainers come into action For example It as soon as possible,

Mr MacIntosh, in his statement, made two other significant points; the Inadequacy of street-lighting in many residential areas, which is stimulating lawlessness and the serious isck of modern equipment which has proved elsewhere to be indispensable in the job of rounding up crimkysis. In demanding that both thesa

matters of the utmost urgency, one must bear in mind procurement Pope, according

requiremente be treated as

The me

Who memorandum appealed to the

to the League' 40 "alleviate the

factors and problems, the resolution of which by no means les entirely announcement, in the hands of the Hongkong Government or private companies Bat plight of these people and win for proper street lighting as a deterrent to thieves and gangsters, and proper them peace and security normat equipment for the police force to carry out their work with the utmost affectiveness must be counted as top priority circumstances mutt they be permitted to languish. In Socrotarlas Bes concerns, «and under no to be dealt with at leisure and convenience, a

The pabilo must have all the protection avaliable, and the police mal ber alven adequate technical appliances for quaranteeing thas pro fection. Baik pants are so obvious that. There is no further need to Theo Thêm

and dignified life which is the right of every human being."

The League has falso asked the Internatlonni Red Cross in Geneva the death by shooting of Palestinian to inquire into the circumstances of TarvelEpstein, Allamping to escape from an Italian allegedly while prison-Houter.

The Army and Navy together will have an average strength during the year beginning July Ï of 1,040,000 men, about 500,000 less than in the present year.-Associated Press.

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