1947-01-13 — Page 3

Siamese Complaint To China

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Bangkok, Jan. 12. Siam has complained to Chinn about the continuance of in- cidents between Chinese sidents in Bangkok and Siamese | Nationals, Mr. Dirck Chainan, Siamese Foreign Minister, dis- closed here to-day.

Mr Chainan said he had sent a detailed report to the Siamese Am- bassador la Nanking yesterday for submission to the Chinese Govern- ment.

Helations between the Jurge Chinese population in Bangkok and the Siamese havo been stralved over since the Japanese surrender, which was followed by clanhea between Chinese civilians And Siamese soldiers, in which, according to Chinese sources, about 25 people were killed and 132 injured.

Clashes were said to have arisen out of a dispute as to whether Chinese were entitled to fly their notional flag to celebrate victory without holating the Siamese Ang da well.

Many more clashes have occurred and the series of incidents is rapidly coming to the climax.-Reuter.

Developing ThoriumTM In

Travancore

Travancore, Jan. 12. The Travancore Government to-day announced that the Bri- tish Government is using its good offices to secure the co- operation of a British firm whose technical knowledge is essential for the production of thorium, a vital metal in atomic bomb con- struction, of which Travancore contains the world's largest de- posits.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH; MONDAY, JANUARY 13, 1947.

France Again Faces

New Political Crisis

SEARCH FOR HOWARD HUGHES & GRANT Nogales, Arizona, jan. 13.

A wide search started for Howard Hughes, multi- millionaire sportsman and aviation enthusiast, and film star Cary Grant, after they had failed to notify the military authorities here of their movements and where. abouts, has ended. The two are en route to Mexico City. -Associated Press.

THEY DANCED

WITH JOY

Antarctic Rescue Story

Aboard USS Mount Olympus, in the Antarelle, Jan. 13-SIX men danced with. Joy when, they were

iton,

burnt wreckage of the lyrd expell siglated from, the air alongside the

lost for 13 days. Three

members of the plane's crow were killed when it crashed into na kce barrier at an altitude of 1,800 feet on a peninsula jutting into the Housevelt Sea.

The discovery plane dropped food supplies to the survivors then circ the scene in a Vigilant patrol until a plane arrived and second rescue landed on the open water near the

men.

The discovery ended agonising days of waliing and uncertainty for the men who vanished in a twin en- 30 while on a mission to photograph yined Martin Mariner on December Ellsworth Lond.

THE STORY the Eastern Group of

Captain George Dufek, commanding ships' radio told this atory to the Mount Olympus, hendquarters "The general ap- pearance of the men indicates that they salvaged much of the food."

By Harold King

Paris, Jan. 12.

A new political crisis, coming at a crucial moment in the development of the French Government's price stabili- sation experiment and on the Big Four deputies London talks on the German peace settlement, is expected to arise In France this week.

The two houses of Parliament

I will reassemble on Tuesday, and on Thursday they will meet, in a joint session at Versailles to elect the First President of the Fourth Republic.

The resignation of M. Leon Blum's all-Socialist Cabinet will follow im- mediately, and the fifth cabinet crisis since the rat postwar general elec- tlon In October 1945 will be on.

Parliament will again be faced with the task of reconciling the political dommands of the two leading parties Communists and Popular Republlenns (MAP) and then will be confronted this time by new demands for higher wages which are being neuvely pre- pared by the Communist-led General Confederation of Labour (French

Trade Union Congress).

the

to

Though both the Communists and Popular Republicans are anxious get back into power,

It seems doubtful whether it will be any easier to get agreement between them to deadlock between them led to day than it was last month, when the the of M.. Blum's care- the formation.

itaker governst Atiliude

A

The Communists this time. It ap- ears, are prepared to be more con- cllatory than Inst month when their instatence on obtaining

National Defence Ministry proved an

in- superable obstacle to agreement.

A new obstacle, however, is likely to arise out of their support of the union's

claims. The Popular wage Republicans appear more than ever determined to insist on guarantees of

from

on preventing each Ministry

genuine cabinet responsibility and

being turned into what they call "a political fortress" of the party whose representative happens to be at the head of it.

Increased Tension During the five weeks of the Blum Cabinet the tension between

the Communists and the Popular Re- publicans has tended to increase. The government communique said "When the men were first sighted M. Pierre Henri Telgen, the former that establishment in Travancore of they were standing around a fire Justlee Minister and one of the most a processing factory for monazite, waving a dog. The men were in-influential Popular Hepublican of which therium is a component, formed that there was open water leaders, has just gone out of his was being arranged with tho co-eight miles ahead and the plane way to emphasise the difficulties in operation of a British firm.

would mark a trail

The arrangements contemplated Include export to Britain for limited period of limited quantity of surplus monazite and of the fue- tory's output of thorium.

where rescue plane would land.'

"The men were told to join hands if they understood this message. They joined hands and danced and stood on their heads to indicate they understood."

בה

to the water the way of collaboration by writing in the weekly "Carrefour: "Every- body knows that the Communist party at heart does not want our dificulties to come to an end.

"For the Communists the state is not

undertaking for cominon Thorium is used in contact with

It is the opinion of the plane welfare, but an instrument of pro uranium in the manufacture of the crew that there were no apparent paganda and pressure to be ex- atomic bomb.-Reuter.

serious injuries to any of the sur-ploited for new conquests," vivors although on the walk to the There are, however, soine factors: cuast one man rode in a sled while making for a final agreement on the others walked."

the formation The

of a new coalition craalied plane was dif-government. The Communists are

sec,

smoke actively opposed from fires started by the survivors of

to an all-Socialst Cabinet and led to its discovery."

describe suggestions to the effect us "Both wings were ripped from then reactionary plot to keep the Com plane and the fuselage was broken munists out of power."-itcuter.- and both engines torn out. The plane was 60 per cent burned out." -Associated Press.

Huge Profits

From Many Rackets

Investigation by

taxation

ficult 10

but

the

DEAD IDENTIFIED

Washington, Jan. 13, The Navy Department identified. officials has revealed that an ex-.the three dead in its Antarctic plane traordinary number of people in Sydney have made huge pro- fits from a wide assortment of rackets.

In A Jarge-scale investigators have found that more than 500 people have understated their annual Incomes by amounta ranging from A£1000. to A £10,000. Dig

city blackmarketeers hove earned up to £50,000 which they have not revealed in returns nnd several Inrge companies have under- slated incomes by £100,000.

Press.

Germans Loot

Coal Trains In

British Zone

Berlin, Jan, 13. Germans in bands of as many as 400 are attacking coal trains from the Ruhr, in the British occupation zone, to loot fuel, British Military Government Headquarters reported yester- day.

shot

Clashes have occurred between looters and police, and at a freight yard in Bonn, a German was dead by an armed Beiglan nilitary policeman, who was assisting the German evil police in dispersing crowd of about 200 lookers.

Hundreds of persons have arrested in Hamburg, where

HANDED TO GREEKS

GERMAN GENERAL Arabs Decide To Send Delegation To London

Athens, Jan. 12. General Andre, German commander in Crete in 1941, has been handed over to the Greek security police by the United States authorities for trial as a war criminal, it was announced here to-day.

He will be tried on charges of mass murder and atroci- ties against the population of Croto.

Two other. German gen- erals, who were in command In Crote from 1942 onwards, Brauer and Mueller, were sentenced to death by the Greek war criminal court in Athens on December 10 last year.-Reutor.

KAAPNENI NONGANERNETUNIA (KATACANAISHANKAR I PANZER RANKINGAN DAN

U.S. Pacific

Bases Policy Attacked

Moscow, Jan. 12. The development of United States naval bases in the Pacific, recommended in a report by the Naval Affairs Committee of the been United States House of Repro- more sentatives, was to-day attacked]

the current cold wave. In one lay, 230 Inoters were arrested-Assaelated

Jerusalem, Jan. 13.'

At a full meeting of the Arab Higher Executive yes- terday, a decision to send a delegation to London was reached, although the invitation was extended to the Exe. cutive last Friday by Sir Henry Gurney, who is adminis- tering the government during the absence of the High Com-. missioner, Sir Alan Cunningham, in London.

Dr Hussein F. Khalidi, the Executive Secretary, sald yes- terday before the meeting that "it is only a formality whether the Palestine Arabs go to Lon-

ALBANIAN

don or not, because there can be CLAIMS ON

no solution of the Palestine pro- blem without recourse to the United Nations."

Khalidi sald: "It has been obvious all along that His Majesty's Govern- ment was faced with an Impasse in Palestine. Those London conferences are obviously for the sole purpose of bringing that imparse into the open and paving the way for reference to the United Nations.

עסער

GERMANY

London, Jan. 12. The Tirana Radio, quoting a ̈ communique issued by the Al- banlan Telegraph Agency, stated to-night that Colonel-General Enver Hodja,. Albanian Premier and Foreign Minister, has sent to the Foreign Ministers of the Soviet Union, United States, Great Britain and France the following telegram:

freaty suffered

"Even if a compromise were agreed in London, Britain would have to refer the matter to the United Na- tions brenuse Palestino mandated territory and the manda- tory power lacks the right to change the territorial status of Palestine

"On the occasion of the meeting without the approval of the United of the Council of Foreign Ministers, Nations, which inherited the League to take place shortly in Moscow of Nations Obligations.”

with the purpose of preparing the Khalidi added that it was extremely denit treaty with Germany, the ly that he would go to London Government of the People's Republle hineelf, reasons of health, nutely for of open the great allied powers: is genuinely Albania is submitting the follow- for the past 16

days. Merger of Arab Armies

"*Albania is an interested party than 20 Germans have died of cold in by the Soviet Government or- ing also put the finishing touches to with Germany. Albania

The Executive at yesterday's meet-in discussions of the peace gan. Izvestia, as "not possibly the merger of the Arab armies, Futh- occupation. She was our of the first great destruction during the German being a measuro designed to wah and Nejada, but have delayed victims of Fazelst aggression,

and strengthen the peace."

the announcement until Tuesday.

fought against the enemy without Arab sources said a manifesto will shrinking from the heaviest sneri- said: "The report announce the merger of the

two fices. contains such sensational revelations armles under the name of "Shabab el as that the northern flank of the Arab" (Arab Youth), under central U.S. defence

"Owing to the resistance of the line in Pacific should consist of installations named member of the Executive,

the direction of Rafid Tamini, newly Albanian people Germany was com- in the Aleutian and Kurile Islands,

polled to keep in Albania three to The commander of the Nejada, five of her best prepared divisions, but the Americans seem to have for Nahomed Nimer Huwari, is expected Even after liberating their country Rotten that the Kuriles were occu- to retain the direct pled by the Soviet after the

command of single-handed, the Albanian people render of Japan, and that they form organisation later salt that two for many months.

ur-some 30,000 Arab youths in the two continued to fight by following the Hitlerites beyond their frontiers and De Khalidi

fighting them on Yugo-Slav territory solutions of the Palestine inordinate

problem were possible, but only after action by the United

nited Nations.

Press,

POCKET CARTOON

Bany App City

THIS

19 CARRYING HUSH-HUSH TOO FAR

SCHUMACHER

ON UNITED

the continuation GERMANY

Warsaw Death

Sentence

Warsaw, Jan. 12.

The

paper

part of the Soviet Union.

the

"Cartled by their appetite for annexallan they go too far. The expansion of the network of U.S. Naval bases 18 months after

"First, the problem must be raised the completion of war, when nobody from the role of a minor issue in the and nothing threatens America and world to a major Issue. That would when a resolution on the reductione dune automatically when it is re- of armaments has just been accepted. ferred to the Whited Nations," he could not possibly be interpreted as said. a measure designed to strengthen the peace."-Reuter.,

NO COAL, NO WORK

were

to i

ciples

can

Agency

of

the

Losses In Men & Properly

"The balance sheet of sacrifices made by the Albanian people com- prises 20,000 killed, 12,700 wounded, 20,000 politient internees and almost 00.000 houses burnt down or des- troyed. The value of the losses Cholec For United Nations

suffered by Albanians amounts to "Then the United Nations

several million gold franes, which is either decide to impose a

In itself sufficient reason for respect- trustee- ship, Britain continuing as the trustee,

ing Albania's claims on Germany.

*It was on this basis that Albania for a specified number of years, until was invited to the conference of war the Jews and Arabs can come for repacations in Paris in November ward with a compromise, or the 1945. Albania is a member United Nations can declare Palestine equal rights of the Brussels Inter- with Independent, subject guided self- Allied government under democratic prin- Taking all this into account, Albania Reparations. of

representation according requests to be invited in order to to polz Hamburg. Jan, 12. population. Berlin factories which

express This

before her opinion latter solution, of course, de- Council of Foreign Ministers. She scopen to-morrow will have to re-i mands, as do all others, that all also requests to be Invited in ime main closed because of the lack of Jewish immigration, legal or illegal, as a full member to the peace con- coal, a Berlin official stated to-day, must be stopped until representative ference with. Germany."-Reuter.. the British News Service in Germany government, which will naturally in- reported.

clude both Jews and Arabs, could establish Immigration quotas Among them is the Siemens would be its right." Works.

no case," said Reports of more factories closing through partition or federnlisation". Palestine be dismembered

Dr Kurt Schumacher, the chair- The American military

I also reported that the per- govern-sonnel of the delegation to man of the German Social meni stated that schools in

London thewas discussed but the names of those American sector of Berlin Democratic party, said in an remain closed until the necessary chosen have not been disclosed ninth time at the age of 87 recently,

would interview-hero to-day that fuel for households had been Associated Press.

--- said he was "mighty proud" it's" a¬ united German will cannot be

boy." DEATH SENTENCE

is 22-year-old wife, Mary pre- obtained by adding together the wills of the various

Doctor Otto Dibellus, the Pro-

with served him.

husky German testant Bishop of Berlin, to-day sent

Son

a telegram to the Allied Control

Burdwan, East Bengal, Jan. 12.

weighing nine pounds 111⁄2 ounces. states.

urgently requesting the supply of terday on Guma Khan, President of mother's

The death sentence was passed yes- was "fine and healthy" and said the Hospital attendants said the baby fuel for the German population.

the Rapigunj Moslem League, and in central Germany alone there are in East Bengal, for murdering a 13- His cable stated: "In one camp member of the Ranigunj Municipality nine children who have had to have year-old boy during the Hindu- their feet amputated on account of Maslem riot in the town on August marriages. the cold they sustained during tran-10. sport. That is one example of the

The judge said that there were no many. Surely It must be possible circumstances warranting a lenient to check auch inhumanity."-Reuter. sentence.-Reuter.

Munich, Jan. 12. Stating that he thought of the future German Parliament

in the form of a Reich Assembly,

Dr. Schumacher is attending on all-Germany Social Democratic Party conference which opened here on Friday, and he and his colleagues were reporting to the conference on their recent visit to Britain.

crash as Ensign Maxwell A. Lopez, Machinist Mate Frist Class Freder- of Newport, Rhode Island; Aviation

Five members of the alleged ick Warren Williams, of Huntington, underground band accused of Tennessee and Aviation Radioman First Class Wendell K. Henderson of kidnapping two members of the check-up, Portsmouth Virginia. Associated local electorate commission have been sentenced to death by a military court at Bialystok,

At Rnzegzow, in southeast Poland, n band of UPA (Ukrainian Libera RETURNS TO CAIRO on Army) raided the election com-

Questioned about French pulley Jn mitice headquarters, but was beaten Cairo, Jan. 12.

off by the militia, who killed four of the Saar, Dr Schumacher said: "In Lieutenant-General Sir Miles the attackers.

all frontler questions, both east and Dempsey, the British Commander-

Leading in-Chief in the Middle East,

of all Polish west, the German Social Democratie members most of the understated In- went on an unofficial visit to who parties will make election addresses Party is against a polley of falts dividual incomes are probably from terin just before Christ visit return over the Warsaw Radio during the accompli illegal sources,

"Consideration of the Saar problem the to-night to Coleo by way of Nairobi, coming week in preparation for poll- racketeers will be prosecuted and Kenya and Khartoum, Lieutenant- ing day next

emphasises the necessity for European probably fined the maximum of General Sir Evelyn Backer, the

Outdoor electioneering has come to socialisation £500 for tax evasion.

General Officer Commanding Pales- an almost completo stop because of

"Germany's policy should not be

reflection of the policy of tine, has also arrived in Cairo 'for the_extrome However, they will suffer most talks with Sir Miles on it has been The thermometer in Warsaw has occupying powers, nor will a unificil when, under the penalty provisions, reported the military situation in been dropping as low as 20 degrees Germany represent the last step an additional ine of drible the Palestine.-Reuter,

below zero Centigrade.-Reuter.

along

the road of Europe's historical amount evaded imposed by tax-

development. tion officials. This fine can be re

nany

duced only by the authority of the Commissioner.

other

There are hundreds of flourishing blackmarkets, from which petty blackmarketeers are corning easy money. Many offenders are "put in" to the Taxation Department by their neighbours, jealous of the way the blackmarketeer throws his easily camed money around.

Investigators have found thou- sands of pounds in ten-pound notes concealed in safe deposit boxes, in tins under the ground, and even under the carpet. With six years experience in ferreting-out methods used by blackmarketeers to evade taxation, investigators now consider that few tax evaders can escape.

Russia May Merge Occupation Zone

Hamburg, Jan. 12. Authoritative British circles in Berlin think that Russia will prob- ably take steps which would lead in the economic fusion of the Russian with the already merged British- American zone, the Deputy Chief of the Economic Section of the British Control, Commission told a repre- sentelivé,"" of the British Now Service in Germany to-day. He added that no such steps had yat been taken,Heuter.

LONDON LORRY DRIVERS VOTE

TO CONTINUE STRIKE

'London, Jan, 13.

As soldiers, sailors and airmen stood by to take over the distribution of food and other commodities, London lorry drivers voted to continue their strike, des.. pito a last minute appeal from the head of their Union to call it off.

Mr.C. R.

the

"In the new international order all countries must make an equal con- tribution," he said. "It is essential that Germany should free herself from the idea that she has a mission In the world. As Germans we have no mission but a function to perforin in the heart of

which Europe, supremely importmocratic Party

The Socini allowed party organisations in the German states a free hand so long as they remained within the lincs laid down by the Cologne conference,

Dr Schumacher declared.

is.

The coalitions between the Social Democrats and other parties in the United States zone were approved by the party leadership.

Nearly 2,000 of the 20,000 strikers that the Prime Minister, jammed into East London's Stratford Attlee had ordered, troops to be used Town Hall and overflowing into over the objections of several Cabinet "The battle against particularism the street, roared "no" to every members who formerly were

trade within the ranks of Social Democracy back-to-work proposal and cheered union ofcials. One paper (the Sun- has already been won, and I wish when the vote to continue the week day Express) Bald that Attice to emphasise there is only cno old walkout was taken.

threatened to resign unless food dis- German Social Democratic Party," Mr Arthur

General Secre tribution

added Dr Schumacher-Reuter, were safeguarded. Government circles denied know- General Workers Union, said after ledge of any conflict within

ofcini

+

tary of the Towel Transport and j

the

his unsuccessful effort to end the Cabinet, and the declared walkout that he could not comment position remained the one stated late on the possibility of bus, underground fast week by the Food Minister, Mr and dockworkers joining the walk out and thus pornlysing transport in the capital.

SERVICES:STAND BY

down to-morrow are also expected.

sured.

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It

In

Dr.

as

Khalidi,

U.S. Merchant Shipping Sliding To Prewar Level

Washington, Jan, 12.

The National Federation of American Shipping dis- closes that the United States merchant fleet is dropping steadily towards pre-war proportions, which had caused a transportation crisis at the outbreak of the war.

BRAVES NO MAN'S LAND

(Continued from Page 1)

Papa, 87, Happy:

It's A Boy

Luls Corrizales, of Des Moines, Iowa, who became a father for the

good."

condition Whe "Inirly

Carrizales' eighth child,

a girl, was born a year ago. He has seven

other children by provicus They range in age from 50 to 65,

OUTWARD MAILS

Unters Articles

minutes

below!

Airmail:

oilerwisa stated. Registered and Parcel Pasts closa 30

staled earlier than the time

Monday, January 13

Salgon, Singapore, Colombo, Sydney, Auckland, London, 3.30 p.m.

Hea Malls

Teamkong. 10 am.

Macao, Teinehart, Sheicki, 4 p.m.

Kongmoon, 4 pan.

Train:

Canton, 4 pm.

Altmail:

Tuesday, January 14

Manila, 10.30 am,

„Rangoon, Calcutta, Delki, Johannesburg, Cairo, 330 p..

Canton, Lulchow, Kunming, 3.33 p.m. Amoy,

Shangal, Nanka. Hankow.

Chungking, 3.30 p.m. Seamall

The Federation revealed that the fleet this year, would be re- duced 39 per cent to 17,500,000 Tsingtao, Paiping. 3.30 p.m. deadweight tons and eventually would be levelled off to 11,000,- 000 tons. It said the latter rested partly on the French. The figure would be far below defence Incidents in Haiphong, he aald, were requirements, and would give due to a French "blunder," but the Hanol incidents were the result of employment to only 60,000 sea- "a. deliberate wish by the Viet men as compared with the war Namh to resort to force and abandon peak of 250,000. a policy of understanding."

to

several days in Ilanol and was able serlous deflating effect on the nation's M. Boutbien sald he had spent It added that it would have 1

make unofficial contacts with entire economy. members of the Viet Namh-Reuter. MOSCOW COMMENT

Swatow, Bangkok, 10 a.m. Amoy, 30 DATE. Manis, 10 km. Tamkong, 10 am. Haiphong, 10 .. Swatow. 1 p.m. Shangal. 2 p.m. USA, Central and

canada, 3 pm.

Soullı”, “America,

Macao, Teinshan, Bhekiti, 4 Canton, 4 pan.

TO-DAY'S BROADCAST

The Federation attributed the ex- pected drop this year to foreign Moscow, Jan: 12. shipping operations at a cost level

201 on 845 ke kiloeyeles from 12.30- The hostilities in the Viet Namah completely out of our class." teslify to the determination, of the decline would be in addition to the

1.15 pun.. 630-730 pm, and D-11 p.me The report said the 1947 shipping also on 9.52 me. Indo-Chinese Nationalists to

to defend

REPORT DENIED

thoir freedom against attempts to 34 percent drop from the postwar 7.10, London Itelay: Home News from Rome. Jan. 12.

0.30; Variety; 7,- London Relay: Hows; John Strachey, that the government

thus alreinly Britain; 1.15, Donald Peers "Cavaller of could not prevent the "widespread denied that a bomb had been found regime of colonial dependence, a

The British military police to-day pose upon them the former hated peak of 43,311,000

experienced.

Song": 120, Studio: "I Like What I Like" suffering" which a food

commentator in shortage outside the Royal Air Force hotel

Komsomolannya It said the threatened reduction (Violin) and in Orchestra: 0.39. "Music Campoli Brian Kelly; 8, Alfredo would entall-Associated Press. "Miland" in Rome, as was reported Pravda, the Communist Youth paper could be forestalled only if certain Time: London Telay: Plows: 10. Strike leaders, threatened that the

by the Italian police in ali Rome sald here to-day.

tualea Mood; 9.30. London Italy: political economic disabilities TROOPS. CALLED OUT

The commentator continued: "The corrected. There disabilities were Everybody-luzia for all Tasics; 11, were "Navy Mixture 10, "Something for other groups would become Involved

Dr Bottino, chief of the Rome military campaign of Admirati not specified, It troops were used--and lorry con-

but some Industrial Close down. voys manned by hundreds of Ser-

London, Jan, 13. political police, admitted to Reutera d'Argenlieu, High Commissioner for leaders have been asking for clarif The Labour Government called to-day that the misunderstanding the French in Indo-China, by vicemen were ready to go into out troops to haul food for London had arisen over an inaccurate report means contributes to the cessation of policy, especially regarding settle

no cation of the government shipping action if the lorry drivers were not hiter, the deflant truck drivers had handed in by one of his police hostilities and the visit of the French ment of the controversy over Trea- back to work on Monday.

overwhelmingly rejected an appeal officials, who was sent to the hotel Colonial Minister, M. Marius Moulet,sury taxation views, which is at Yesterday's development came as from Union leaders to end the yesterday for Investigations, has not resulted in a resumption of legedly holding, up shipbuilding several London newspapers reported weeklong strike.-Associated Press,

Neuter.

peace negotiations."-Reuter.

United Press.

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