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VOL. II. NO. 160

Britain Is

Still "Good Risk" For Wall St.

London, Apr. 9. Reports reaching London that Wall Street banking firms are willing to grant Britain large long-term dollar loans at three per cent interest if Britain's dollar shortage becomes'ncule- If true-are extremely welcome in London.

They prove that Wall Street must still consider Britain a good risk"

forecasts that despite "calamity" Britain is rapidly, dying.

some Wall The reports that Street banking Brms were willing to grant such loans were published today by two London newspapers in despatches from their Washing- ton correspondents.

British officials on the other hand -time Insist that it will be some before Britain's dollar shortage Dritain still does become acute, has in hand US$2,452,000,000 of the United

million States loan; GAO

credit: dollars

of the Canadian 2,610 million dollars in gold and dollar reserves.

an

In addition, Britain is entitled under Bretton Woods to buy additional 320 million dollars for sterling from the International Fund, this being one quarter of her quota payment to the Fund.

WITHDRAWALS

at least two more years, although Britain could scarcely wait until the dollars run out before asking further credit.

for

The

For and on behalf of s

THAHWA MÖRNING PAST.

haull

Printer and Publisber

Hongkong Telegraph.

THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 1947.

Dino

At the

P. G.

For

Reservations

Price 20, Cents

Tel: 27880.

U.S. PLAN FOR NEW GERMAN Homes Flooded, They Wait

Test Capt. Re-Marries

London, Apr. 9. Walter Hammond back from Australia yesterday, was married today at Kings- ton Register Office, Norbi- ⚫ton. His bride was Miss Sybil Doreen Hammond- whose name was changed by deed poll from Harvey. There, were no flowers and only four people saw the wedding:

was witnessed by Major Howard, the MCC toam manager who also re- turned from Australia yes. terday, and Harold E. Pope, Hammond's business part-

ner.

Hammond's previous mar riage was dissolved in No- vember last year when he

was

captaining the Test

team in Australia.-Reuter. LADEMIENIZIRAJUKANDZ BE139521 MAZOEKSPORTATAYMAKER NEDERESTRESZANGBAARmes

BOUNDARIES

Upper Silesia For Poland Suggested

Moscow, Apr. 10.

The United States was reported today to have developed a German boundary programme which would retain the Ruhr in Germany and Upper Silesia in Poland. At the same time the programine would give other European states a hand in administering the vital economic resources of both regions.

Britain and the United States proposed that an in- ternational commission be created to work out the de- which tails of the compromise German Polish border

control would allow Poland to retain

of industrial Silesia but return to Germany more agricultural lands at present occupied by the Poles.

The Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr V. M. Molotov upposed and said that Poland should retain all the 40.000 square miles of costern Germany; Including Silesia and the farm lands which was placed under her admini- stration at Potsdam,

Standard Rent To Be

Increased By

30%

'The Legislative Council this afternoon will be asked to give first reading to an Ordinance consolidating and amending the restriction of rents, the feature of which provides for an increase in standard rent for domestic premises by 30 per cent and by 45 per cent. in the case of business premises.

n

Tenancy

Tribunal

of

A standard rent is interpreted as, ascertained the rent recoverable from the wit may vary the standard rent.

In the event of expenditure ting tenant on or before December

or

·

Suicide By Woman Nazi

The "Black Angel” Off

Ravensbruck

Hamburg, Apr. 9. Carmen Mory, "Black Angel" of the Ravensbruck concentra- tion camp and former inter- national spy, today committed saicldo in her. Hamburg death cell without knowing that a stay of execution of her sentence had been granted.

The dark adventuress, whose tempéramental outbursts startled French Foreign Minister Georges the Hamburg war crimes court dur- boundary Ing her trial, had appealed os a Bidault agreed that the question should be studied further Swiss citizen to the Swiss Govern- but did not say whether he favoured ment to intervene to save her from or opposed the present frontier the hangman. Associated Press.

MARSHALL'S PLAN

Moscow, Apr. 9. General George C. Marshall, the United States State Secretary, today urged the Council of Foreign Minis- ters to establish special Boundary Commission for Germany.

He sugge such a commission

under

wero

authorities.

The Swiss Government asked for a postponement of the death sen- tence until all documents in her case examined by the Swiss

sen- Although the court's death tence had been confirmed, a slay of execuilon had been decided upon.

When the documents confirming the death sentence were read to Mory by prison officials yesterday,

the

calmly-and she took slashed her wrisis und died at 2.30 this morning.

last ne

news

For Their Rescuers

More than any brilliantly written description is told the grim story of the floods in Britain by a picture much as the above. It is typical. The people you see leaning out the upstairs windows eventually had to be removed by "Ducks" and boats. Imagine what the ground floors must have looked like by the time the photograph was taken!

It is for thousands of homeless people like those shown in the picture that the South China Morning Post and Hongkong Telegraph Flood Relief Fund has been inaugurated.

Response so far has been most encouraging, but many more subscribers would be welcome. It is suggested that you... give.

would

the direction of the Foreign Ministers

deputies, and would consist of representatives of the United States. Britain. Soviet This gives Britain a total or 5,868

Russia, France, Poland and a con-

LOST HER NERVE Allled of other million dollars on which to draw:

venient number

She was to be informed later of The latest figures for British with

states, to be designated by the Coun- the stay of execution. Mory's counsel, drawals from the United States loun

cil. are 1,300 million riollars and from

The

Ministers would when informed of the suicide, com- Foreign

mented, "She lost her nerve at the of the Poland the Canadian credit 620 million dol-

and cach Invite million Jare of a total of 1,020

designated countries to appoint a

The guarding of Germans under dollars.

member of the Commission

death sentence for atrocity crimes Britain's foreign- that Assuming

General Marshall said that such a

is likely to be intensified after the trade remains in its present chronic

commission should recommend: state of unbalance as between "hard"

1. A revision of the pre-war suicide of Carmen Mory, a Control and "soft" currencies, 5,368 million

evening. dollars should therefore be good for 25, 1041 in respect of an unfurnished $1,000 or upwards on additions Of Polish-German frontler which will Commission spokesman stated is quickly, and give generously.

there was no un-improvements by a landlord where-

Mory's sulcite was the third Nazi letting

after that by the rateable value of a tenement fairly compensate Poland for the

escape from Allied justice in four furnished letting until date then such

rate of rent as a has in the opinion of a Tenancy territory ceded to Russin exist of the

Curzon Line und: Tenancy Tribunal considers would Tribunal been increased, an incrouse

2. Economic arrangementa ap doctor of Ravensbrueck cump, also have been falr immediately before of eight per cent, on the sum ex- which

is permitted. This is

that raw under the death sentence, poisoned propriate The rates of Interest

ore equitable than the re- materials and heavy industrial re-himself in the same prison last night TRUSSED UP Britala. could borrow in future would December 1, 1941.

sources from the area question, and Herbert Backe, former Nozi The Objects and Reasons of the commendation of the Committee re- also be extremely important (on the

the European peasant leader, hanged himself Inst which are vital to Increases lating to the apportionment of the American loan Britain will pay two Bill declare that these

that Sunday serve

while

trial.- awaiting borrowed have been

economy, shall fairly recommended by the cost of statutory repairs between cent on the amount

landlord and tenant, which it is need, including particularly not on the whole loan-after 1051). special committee appointed to in- landl

Both offelal and unmetal British vestigate the regulations govering considered would have exposed the need of Poland.

"The commission shall enquire Anancial circles emphasise that if

rent restrictions, and adds that it poorer class of tenant to exploitation.

the rateable

is in- value Britain needs further dollar credits would have recommended a greater w

into and report on the Polish re the tenant is

getting settlement and German settlement in she will seek the lowest-interest rates increase but for its fear that available and these might possibly economic consequences very serious something more than maintenance the areas in question and the best. in repairs and it is equitable and in be available from the World Bank. to the Colony would follow.

the public Interest to sanction that I the increase in rent. Bill provider landlord supplies furniture a sonable charge may be made for it has been served on after nollee

per

д

any

FAIR INTEREST LIKELY The Bank will decide the interest rates for each country applying for a loan, the rate depending on the "good" or "bad" risks which country, in the view of the Bank, represents,

It is thought here that Britain might be able to horrow trom the (Continued on Page 4)

EDITORIAL

The

A Legitimate Grouse

"THE Moan" or "The Grouse"

is a post-war feature. It re- flects the disillusionment of vast numbers of people who played some sort of active role in hasten- ing VE and VJ Days. It also re- of men presents the frustration and women who, eight years ago, glib promises were given many and assurances If only they would make the necessary sacrifices and suffer the Inevitable hardships by and inconveniences demand party total wart commonwealth,

In other parts

Aloan" found good reason for expressing self in Hongkong- the UKVDC, VAD, and ARP-afl of whom have either walled long time, or are still walling, for promises to be redeemed. In the Volunteers have had main the

redressed. But grievances there is a group of this Corps who legitimate possess a

of

their

the

has

ta

appe, it is the Key Post

Group. Originally drawn

Into the the Hongkong

HRVDC gervice Ordinance of

Compulsory

1939, these men went through a course of training, and

then, not by: choles, but under Instruction, were posted to a non-combatant section of the Corps, on the

on the un- derstanding that they were to be derstant prepared to take up arms

and

-at any given moment, It was fight- these same men who, when hosti- Ilites broke out in 1841, main. tained utility, services such ́às the' dockyards, power dations, news- bapers, banks, food supplies; and so on; and they remated at their posts" until 'the capitulation signat \\was » river': members of the HKVDO, dat, for the most part,

rea❤

wearing civilian clothes. Follow- ing V3 Day these so-called non- who went through combatants,

as did of Siantey the torments

to the Colonial others, applied Office for Volunteer pay during internment, The answer has been

not taken dir bey were HOL that as ectly into Government employ- ment, but continued draw their

salaries for

for the pay-

creased

UVA

on

con-

for

assuring

the

means to assure effective laws such areas for the economic well- being of Folish and German people and Europe as a whole, General Marshall said,

"It will be accepted, I think, that southern East Prussia should become Pollsh territory.

placed

ان

Its

days, Doctor Percy Treite, chief COUNTESS

Reuter,

Turkey Gets Fighter Planes

& ROBBED

BRITISH

FLOOD RELIEF

FUND

Donations Received

London, Apr. 9. Three hundred British fighter old Lady Ilchester's bedroom,

of Splifires, tied her up and made off with Mr & Mrs G. Gavortloft planes the latest type Mosquitoes and Beaufighters, the jewels worth two thousand ater- Mr & Mrs S. F. Faber

But they missed the Messrs G. M. Arthur & Co. fastest propeller driven aircraft in ling.

HK & Kowloon Wharf & the Royal Air Force have been de- family's famous black pearls

Godown Co., Ltd. livered to the Turkish

which have been in storage since The Star Ferry Co., Ltd. under the terms of the

Hon Mr T. N. Chau P. Mianitt... concluded Inst August by the Turkish the early days of the war.' military mission which visited Bri-

tain.

Air Force agreement

bury House near here during H. Clark

Already acknowledged Mr Ho Kom Tong Mr & Mrs J, W. Green Anon Mr & Mrs Wallace Harper Dorchester, Apr. 9.

Anon Three men broke into the Mr & Mrs H. Gittins magnificent. 15th Century Mel-Hon Dr S. N. Chau

$25,449.00

200.00

30.00

40.00

250.00

300.00

30.00

TOROO

100,00

the night after cutting the tele- Mr & Mrs J. F. Burford.

"Stenographer" phone wires, burst into 70-year- Wayfoong Portuguese Staft

30.00

50.00

Assn.

100.00

60.00

.250.00

100.00

2,600,00

3,500.00

200.00

30,00

100.00

1,000,00

100.00

.100.00

10,000.00

H.K. Jockey

10,000.do

500.00

20.00

500,00

1,500.00

50.00

20.00

100.00

has been

100.00

200.00

Per "Wah Klu Yat Po"~

Overmay

Chinese $1,000,00

Char Kal ...

100.00

100.00

60,00

24.00

5.00

$1,280,00

1,280.00

Sir Showson Chow

100.00

25.09.

Club do. Recrelo'

Kong I Sun

J. L

100.00

Mr and Mrs Hugh Nish

100.00

Albert Raymond

2000

R. I. Cherrill

50:00 -100.00⚫

and

Princess Elizabeth Comes Of Age Tuesday Week

S. W. Y,

B. IL T Boon Hon Man "Sino-British Cul-

ture Club"

ALLOWANCE FOR TENANT

The tenant is entitled to set-oft the tenant specifying the proposed against the thirty per cent. or forty

half the increase per cent. charge.

If the services undertaken by the amount of the sum expended by hini

SHOULD SHARE RESOURCES. landlord differ from those by re-since August 10, 1945, with the co- ference to which standard rent is sent of the landlord in making the

"German Upper Silesia with premises reasonably habitable. Sco Clause 7. This is considered pre- Industrial areas should also become ferable to the recommendation in Polish, but there should be pro-

The countess, who suffera with Messrs Howah & Co., Ltd. paragraph 2 C of the Committee's visions to ensure that conl and her resources will be available to eus-

With the exception of jet aircraft heart trouble and had been in bed Sir Robert Ho Tung Report.

If the standard rent was (a) agreed tain the economy of Europe.

now in operational service with the for the past two weeks, struggled A. P. Tkachenko.... writing

July

remaining before

The division of the In

and ring for a maid. She WIK Corpn. 1937, or (b) is not higher than the territory, which is largely agricul- Royal Air Force, these types are with her bonds for two hours be- Hon Mr. R. D. Gillespie

combat rent recoverable at lut date, atural land, requires the consideration among the from rank of the world's fore she was able to free her hands HK & Shanghal Banking

fighters. The balance of the delivery of 500 found in a state of semi-collapse but Stewards.

Club Tenancy Tribunal may on the appll-of the needs of the Polish and Ger-

was to-night almost recovered from

C. B. B. cation of a landlord, Bx such other man peoples and of Europe as a

"Pointing out that the find-ghters to Turkey is expected to be her experience, whole Tenancy

photo-M & R Police finger-print rent as chall think at. A

about completed within the next six months

making a KO experts were graphic Tribunal is now given discretion to ing of the peace settlement

he December, minute search for ander ment is believed to

clues today., Gliman & Co., Ltd., sanction on the application of a land- 65,000 square kilometres of Eastern though the outside date in the agree

Are LANDE 1047.

They belleve that the thieves lord an increase in vent which has Germany had been

The Polish administration, General Mar

The planes are neither obsolete nor experts and the raid seems to have J. P. Robinson by a tenant. been agreed to by at

United Delivery Co., Ltd. Air object of this provision is to enable shall declared the problem was

Lord Ilchester, who is in Ireland, Messrs Leo Yu Kee the Tribunal to sanction increases to how and where to draw the final surplus and they are flown to Tur- been carefully planned,

territorial revision line so as to avoid kish airfields from the Royal

told of the robber Mr & Mrs Kwok Hin Wang excess of the permitted increases unnecessary and unjustified economie Force station at Blackbushe, Surrey,

Reuter. willing to agree upset and minimise the inescapable-Reuter. where the tenant i to such increase because of special irredentist pressure in Germany. circumstances, e.g. an agreement to "It is not inevitable that the new

of the

frontlers should block trade and in- after the termination of Jease Ordinance or expenditure by the tercourse. Some frontiers become al- landlord. It is thought that some most impenetrable barriers. We can, landlords may have resisted the if we so agree, ent on terms which establish here a ter- ritorial settlement temptation to raise rents afforded by

Europe

against auch the

settlement The and that in this case they ovil effects. should

example, provide that be permitted now upon op might, for plication to a Tenancy Tribunal to certain economic resources from the

other ceded territory on which other coun in line with bring themselves premises of a similar character the Iries are dependent should be ad- which were raised before ministered with due regard to their rents of

needs." December 25, 1041. Provision in!

ECONOMIC FACTORS made by Clause 18 of the Bill.

PREMISES DECONTROLLED General Marshall proposed that The following premises will no the Polish Government be consulted

She will continue with most of As the anniversary coincides with and the Ministers apply longer be subject to rent restriction: promptly

the European the end of the royal tour the prin- her studies, though probably on a has not been the conception that (a) land which

cess will broadcast to the Common-more informal basis, developed by the erection of build-matters of general concern

interest.

Special attention Is being given i wealth and Empire from Cape Town, or ings of a permanent character; be dealt with in the 6conomic fac- the speech to be the most important to constitutional history.

"There in

specific are (b) any entirely new building

she has ever delivered, and her au Intimates affirm that she has an respect of which the written permit tors affecting Germany which re-

dience probably the largest she has unshakeable falth in the future of

Donations should be addressed of the Building Authority to occupy quire consideration, German pre-war

provided about addressed,

the Commonwealth and that pro- to the General Manager, Souths the same shall have been granted Imports of foodstuffs prov

decilne from Britain's of Three days later the King, Queen phecies

China Morning Post, Morning under the provisions of Section 110 one-fifth of the total of food : con-

and Princesses will Bail HMS major power to something like a of the Buildings Ordinance, 1935, 1sumed in Germany. Before the war

Post of which under pro-

Building, Hongkong. the German área now after August 16, 1945; or

Cheques should be made out which (c) any premises

tiny after visional Polish control also contri. Vanguard for England and the lessatellite state-reports

awaiting the heir presumptive has reached her and the other mem-

to British Flood Relief Fund."": August 16, 1945 have been rendered buled over one-fifth, of Germany's who it is predicted will become more bers of the Royal family on their

And more D repairs habitable by

total

n figure of International present mission-strike her a food supply.

For the purpose of acknow- effected at the expense of the land-Germany must in futuro, Import stature:

Travel will figure vitally in the ledgment will donors kindly two-fifth or more if her food supply Legally she becomes responsible lord.

"Extensive Repairs means repairs abroad; German economy will have for all her actions just the same as future queen's programme and

Indicate their names in Block an even every other citizen and she may now voyages to Austraila...and, Canada

Letters. wholly necessary for rendering the to be industrialised to

and greater extent than pre-war or Ger- serve as regent in the event of the will be made in a few. years-- premises reasonably habitable

(Continued on Paru (4)

(Continued on Faro 4)

King's absenco or incapacity...

Associated Press,

Termal

for their custom- ary work from private employers .the governments concerned Would not be justified in assunt

any responsibility ing ment of their salaries during the

Ла period of Interament." argument, nothing more specious could be imagined. For example. it is the first time it has been sug- gested that private employers over agreed to

assume an intern ent

ment-period responsibility for

pay

до

по

due to men who had been drafted into the Hongkong Vol. unteers: further, it makes pocullar distinction between men who wore uniform and were in during line the front hostilities and those who worked behind the lines in a different fault uniform through of their own. The injustice is all and the Colonial too Apparent, Office ruling calls for revision. The Colonial Office has no right ost personnel to assume that key-post were paid by their private

** internment; and ployers' during

be the case. where that might obviously the person would not allowancen, Volanteer qualify for The Key-Post Group have strong claim for reimbursement, and one that the Hongkong Glov ernment should vigorously take up with the authorities concerned.

em-

9ncrease of population from 1937 would protect:

extensive

peaco

should

South Africa, Apr. 10. Princess Elizabeth, heir to the British throne, sym-

bol of a war generation bent upon great reforms, and one of the world's most popular girls will celebrate her 21st birthday on April 21, thus marking the to sterner rew transition from Royal apprenticeship ponsibilities.

In

.

as

F. C. Fairburn

Mr and Mrs A. U. Lind

100.00

100,00

$58.754.00,

(The sum of $500 previously at- tributed to Messia Elius & Co. Ltd. was received on behalf of Mr C. D. Culbertson).

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