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VOL. II NO. 171

8 Dead, 41 Injured In Train Wreck

Shocking Action By Jewish Terrorists

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Jerusalem, Apr. 22. The death roll in the latest Jewish terrorist outrage--the wrecking of Cairo-Haifa trooptrain-is now established at eight, including five British soldiers, while 41 persons were injured, six of thém seriously.

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The train was blasted off rails with a powerful mine placed un the track southeast of 'Rakovoth, in southern Palestitie, early today by Jewish terrorists,

This outrage is the worst since the suitcase bombe exploded in the Goldschmidt Omeers Club In Jerusalem In March. killing people.

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estimates from policn plicers who have been working day- long with troops to extricate nur- vivors from the telescaped carriages, say there are probably thirty more people suffering from shock, and bruises.

cuts

Police dogs have been brought in 10 take up the trail leading through the orange groves near the wrecked train, but have falled to and any trace of the attackers.

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ENGLAND FACES DANGER

Macao Rice

Report

Macao, Apr. 23. Government

considering partial lifting of the ban on the export of rice due to the unexpected downward trend of rice price and the surplus in the colony. was learned today.

A rumour widely current In business circles is that Govern. ment will fx R new quota sometime this week.

be

of

No official confirmation could

obtained, but the price rice yesterday remained stendy at $38

(Macao currency} per ploul-United Press,

"The price of rice In the Hongkong "free" market le bc. tween. 580 and $100 per picut.

OF EXTENDED

ELECTRICITY

RATIONING

London, Apr. 22.

The British people who have not yet forgotten the hardships of the recent cold spell, 'in which drastic electricity cuts were imposed, received another jolt today when the Central Electricity Board, which controls the country's output, issued a grim warning,

"Big Four" Postpone Talks On Treaty

Moscow, Apr. 22.

The Big Four Foreign Ministers suddenly aban- doned consideration of the Austrian treaty tonight and decided to return to the"op en question" of Germany to- morrow..

An authoritative source said to-

Troops and Army doctors were sil at work this evening trying to extricate victims from the wreckage. They state that of the injured 23 are day that prospects for the comple- Servicemen und 18

civilians. tion of the Austrian treaty in this

tire

Two Servicemen and seven elvilluns conference were "not dead yet,"

are in a serious condition.

CHILD VICTIM

Most of the

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The informant sald it now up to Generalissimo Stain to deelde whe. ther there will be an Austrian treaty nt this time.

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injured have bren taken to hospital.

The source added that a "crack is three-year-old child Was

left open" for an affirmative deci- among the victims-

slon. The report of some slim hope Meanwhile,

the Jewish

Stern for the Austrian agreement followed Group

organisation, in

a 90-minute meeting of the Foreign terrorist posters plastered all over Tel-Aviv,

Ministers: the all-Jewish city, claimed respon- siblity for planting the bomb in the British Colonial Office in London on April 10.

The bomb was found by a cleaner before it could explode.

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an

They

secretly again Tuesday in an effort to break the deadlock on Austria.

The issue was

Buffeted By Gale

Casualties on The

Aquitania

Southampton, Apr. 22.

or

that unless many It stated factories go over to shift work to balance the demands, scheme for increasing output at the peak periods by the use of nircraft engines is introduced. the country will have larger and longer cuts in electricity in the next three years.

This in turn would cause Indus- trial dislocntion. The Board hoped to have gas

turbine engines in operation in the near future and is ulso watching the development of atcle energy for generation of cler- trielty,

For the long-term programme the Board has arranged for 10 new power stations by the winter of 1050, which will give 'nlmost six million kilowatts more output than that dvailable at present,

The Board has told the Govern- ment of its anxiety about decreasing coal stocks, which, were down to two weeks' consumption in May, 1948. In 1946 Increased demand ex- eceded the capacity of the generat-MA tny plants.

The Board considers that the un- certainties of national conversion to

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THE CHURCHES DISCUSS

RELIGIOUS FREEDOM

Oxford, Apr. 22.

A strong attack on the Roman Catholic Church was made at a conference of evangelical churchmen here today by the Reverend A. T. Houghton, General-Secretary of the British Bible Church Missionary Society.

Reviewing the movements towards union among churches oversens, the Rev. Houghton expressed sus prise that soms people hoped that the Church of Rome, "this corrupt Church which arrogates to itself the title of Catholic," would be includ-

now understood to have boiled down The galc-battered Cunard peacetime footing make it difficulted in the reunion of Chistendom. to the question of German assets White Star liner, Aquitania, to estimate the time required to es "Those who have first-hand know- in Austria and how much of such reached Southampton

sets would be

By special dispensation of the Chlef Rabbi, Issic Herzog, the two Jewish terrorists.

reparations. (Mer Feinstein

used as German

todaytablish a balance between generation and demand, even no obstocles are Placed in the way of construction Leveral years must pass befze the position ly put right.

after a terrific buffeting at sea which injured 20 of her 1,107

Captain C. E. Cove said he had age, from the time he left Bermuda: westerly gales for most of the voy-

and Moshe Barazani) who commit- This has been one

of the key passengers. ted suicide in the death cell at Jeru problems In the

entire treaty salem Cents Prison were given negotiations. Authoritative quarte full Jewish religious rites when they would not disclose what had were buried today blongside the decided on Yugo-Slavin's claim for Jewish victims of Arab disturbances the Austrian province of Carinthia _on_the-Mount of Olives, —---

and-$150,000,000-repurations-Indi- Normally, suicides may not be cations were seen, however, buried in consecrated ground. The those matters were settled. iwo men, who detonated explosives ngainst their hearts, were to have been hanged at dawn today.

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Another Jewish youth, alleged to terrorist, was captured tonight

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in the part of Jerusalem under cur- few when

attempting a get-away after throwing a hand-grenade at a police patrol car. There were no 'casualties. Reuter.

DEMONSTRATION

Munich, Apr. 22.

More than 1,000 Jews front the small city of Regensburg near here today staged a public demonstration protesting the Gruner execution "in Palestine last week.

in

that

The passengers were injured on Saturday afternoon, when a sudden lurch of the ship Jarred the big liner from stem to stern. much giving and taking on

The Informant said there had been

the Miss E. C. Nyquist, en route to German asset question and it had Stockholm, was taken to Southamp- to the Kremlin for aton Hospital with severe facial in- gone back Russian decision at top level. There Juries when the ship docked. is hope that the Austrian treaty. agreement would be reached before

Others Injured had mostly cuts the conference ended.-United and bruises which were treated on Press.

board.

'LEFT WING SWING miles out of Southampton.

JET TURBINES

Political convictions and, patriotism. are not strong enough to form the foundations of peace and justice.

"The law of God and mutual love of members of the human family are alone capable of restoring the broken trust between nations.

"We are gravely disturbed at the continued detention of German prisoners of war in Britain and we urge the government to take further measures for their immediate re- turn home."----Reuter.

BISHOP'S PLEA

Here is an aerial picture that dramatically and vividly illustrates the extent of the flooding now being suffered in many parts of England. Note the flood waters are nearly roof high and that the farmyard in centre of picture is deeply awash. This photo- graph was taken over Had- denham, Buckinghamshire, and was flown to Hongkong this week.

BRITISH

FLOOD RELIEF FUND

ledge of the church overseas know that in every land the Church of Rome is a perpetual menace to re- simplicity of faith, glous liberty,

doctrine purity of

and practical Christian living.

"It is well to realise that it is a chuch dominated by political intri- The Central Electricity Board gue, with an Insatiable thirst for

London, Apr. 22, plans to from alrecaft designs to boost output would

use Jet turbines adapted material power. In my opinion. it _A_plea for religious freedom, first.

be well when peak consumption threatens to thankfully

for evangelicals for which man struggled, is today to recognise that the still the most urgent to be put up, overload the inadequate generating Church of Rome will not unite with the Dean of Chichester told the (per "H.K. Telograpit")$142,80145 plant, the Board's 19th annual re- the Protestant denominations and to spring meeting of the British Coun-St Mary's School port said today.

be equally determined on their partcil of Churches, which opened in The Misses R. & L. Ber-

London today.

on

Donations Received

Already acknowledged

"Drummond"

covitch "Merely to allow religious worship Mra A Mowbray Jones., Is not what we mean by religious La Salle College freedom and that is where the Copt and Mrs R. W. Wal- struggle is going to take place", he ton said. It was essential to religious Bank of Canton, kaki. own property, freedom that religious bodies should Kowloon Motor Bus Co.

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Lane, Crawford, Lad K. T. Pau The Bosco Corporation Pang Kwok Sui.....

"These developments", it said, not to make any approaches to the Church which has so manifestly de- "hold promise of an important con- tribution to the problem of pro-parted from scriptural teaching and viding efficient

Reuter. economical and practice," flexible plants to deal with the

MESSAGE OF GUIDANCE short-period peak loads which accur

London, Apr. 22. public electricity supply asterns." Jet generators which

The growing international tension The Aquitania hit the centre of a is hoped to install shortly have a and acute hardships from which gale on Saturday several hundred

capacity of 15,000 kilowatts. Until the British people is suffering as the The Bishop of Worcester declared: la

wer stations are built inevitable new

power

result of total war, "There is less religious freedom in they are planned for 1050-more and "impel us to give to the clergy and the secular state of Turkey today bigger electricity cuts will be a faithful

there n message of guidance," than

Was under the oid The left wing People's Bloc was

regular feature in Britain's industrial soys a statement issued by the Ottoman rule, although

Mr Mrs and Miss Cox- that does more than 100,000 votes ahead of the ville, Massachusetts, another of the spread more evenly

Mrs Katherine Bush of Somer-life, unters the demand

Catholic Hierarchy of

Walker can be Roman

not say very much". In Egypt, the Mr and Mrs R. A. da Silva other parties in the Sicilian elec- Injured, said she was sitting in the and night, the report declared.

over the dny Englund and Wales.

Government were seeking to pass Kam Cheung Yan The statement continued: tics, ecording to the list results ship's lounge when a lurch threw

We laws that might exterminato

Mr and Mrs C. Arnulphy The report advocated a sustantial make an energelle protest against slonary werk altogether. The from six centres, the Ministry of

her out of her seat, Interior cunounced here today,

increase of night work in Industry or religious, racial and political per-thodox Church in the Near East was Hongkong-Canton Export morning and afternoon shifts, which secution, which is tolerated and even | between the mill-stones of Russian is among the plans the Government | encouraged by leaders' of certain Communism and Islam, and "bc- inve been considering for some nations. months without finally producing The root cause of rivalry

discontent any national policy-Reuter,

is the lack of charity,

Rome. Apr. 22.

Thrown Yards

The crowd gathered in front of the synagogue Regensburg's

city banners saying "W square, with want free enliy to Palestine" and The Christian Democrats were "I was flung several yards. I "Long Live President Truman". A running second with the right wing felt something strike me in the small written declaration of protest was to Domo Qualunque bad third of the back and fell heavily on my be forwarded to the British Consulate Sicily is traditionally Royalist left arm," she said.

at Munich-United Press.

EDITORIAL

stronghold.-Reuter.

From DMS to Governor

HE elevation of Dr THE

Selwyn- Clarke from Director of Medical Services, Hongkong, to the Governorship

the Heychelles is a higher tribute to his qualities than any written essay can achieve. But our con- gratulations have no less meaning. Dr Selwyn-Clarke leaves behind him an almost unique record of selfless devoilor to the' interesta of his fellowmen-especially the Chinese. It would be idlo to sug- gest, that in the carrying out of, his dulles, as he viewed them, the PMS has pleased everyone. In persistently endeavouring to de monstrate the formula that a healthy community in a vital and set, he has tackled his job with a vigour that has both, shocked and affronted more susceptible

Το people.

him, precedent has racant

something

only it positive values and can realise a

desirable end."

has

Otherwise, pre-

cedent la Where to be ignored, or red tape exists to be slashed with

surgical scissora. Sound school. ing in the Gold Coast, and lafër Hongkong, fashioned Dr Selwyn- Clarke's administrative talents. But it was left to a war to high- lght

his practicable

abilities

His story of Hongkong's occupa- tion by the Japanese is one of a unrelenting personal battle

nhuman men on behall

of a distressed · community. slaved himself, and drove others with ruthless vigour and

With

exe

result,

Treated in the ship hospital, it was, discovered her left arm had been twisted.

Mrs Bush came to England to meet her husband who is in the American Navy,

Another injured passenger Avas Mrs Judith Fraser of Vancouver, Canada, who suffered rib injuries.

Although the Captain reduced the|

the Aquitania docked on schedule today-United Press..

and

mis-

Dr.

Union Insurance Society

tween those two great forces

of Canton, Ltd. the witness of the Christian Church is

Mr and Mrs M. A. de

Carvalho virtually being sterilised.".

Rebel Manifesto May Cause Commille report

Political Sensation

London, Apr. 22,

was

Canon Guy Rogers of Birmingham, asking the Council's Executive entirely frank, bald: The trouble is not necessarily Identified with the Sa- elalist state. It is as old as the hills. It we were perfectly honest we should have to admit that

the greatest sinners in the matter were the representatives of the Christian religión."

It advances what the authors con- speed of the liner to reduce rolling. to be taused on the eve of the tain is passing. linked many dif it had never occurred to him as it A political sensation is likely sider an immediate solution for the

economic crisis through which Bri- The Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr G. F. Fishier, summing up, said that' Labour Party National Con-

With

this are

ranging from had to one speaker that the pica 'for publication of an "immediate the recent

which made a million temporarily | Russia. remedy for the economic crisis" unemployed-to the period of com-

ference beginning on May 23 by ferent consideraons, shutdown | religious freedom was an attack on!

economic recovery.

LINER LOST manifesto by, a group of left-pulsory military service that Britain should be inclined to say not the "Russia is not the only, and I wing Labour Members of Parlia- can spare for men to be trained for greatest, danger in this particular Rangoon, Apr. 22. ment, headed by "rebel" leader, the anned services consonant with field of threats to religious liberty,"

he declared-itcuter, hortations to be faithful to the

Royal Ale *Force Dakotas are Mr R. H. S. Crossman and The activities of the rebel element sath of Hippocrates, As a

searching for the British India Steamformer Fleet Street editor. Mro, the Labour Party--which is many who suffered ware salved;

Navigation Company's liner Slr

splitting up into many "splinter and others were saved from pain. Harvey Adamson, carrying 250 pas- Michael Foot. To Seychelles, Dr. Selwyn-

songers and which is believed to be lost somewhere in the Mergul. Ar- Clarke takes,nok only Hongkong's

in lower chipelago off Tenasserim continued

Burma.

the

Food Food career

wishes for

of achievement, variety of personal talents which to be used to the are certain benefit of the islands. He is n forceful administrator, `a skHfu! doctor, an expert un tropical diseases and fully qualified A testimontat which

lawyer.

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The ship normally plys between Rangoon and Mergui and left here on April 17. it is thought that she may have run into a cyclone.

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PRESS

BAND CONCERT CANCELLED

Owing to the Inclement weather tho Capetown. Apr. 22.. Princess Elizabeth today accepted given at the Hongitong Cricket Club band concert which was to have been Trade the honorary degree of Doctor of this evening as part of the St are Laws from the University of Care George's Day celebrations, has had may Prome Xinister Jan

morning

Mr Crossman, who was leader of the original revolt of the section of the Labour Party against certain as- It seems certain that production of pects of Mr Ernest Bevin's foreign this manifesto on the eve of the policy, voted with the Labour Party's annual conference will have Government and against the now immediate repercussions. band of rebels on

Consoription.

Union elements, among whom In the present piece of what is numbered some of the most loyal Town. described as "constructive critlelam" of Government supporters, The British India Company's Han-he is understood to be joined by at even iniunto a counter-attack against Smuls, welcoming her to the Univer members of St George's Society & goon agents told Reuter tonight that least 15 Labour Members.

what some are bound to consider a sty, sold that the royal visit is of tended the Cenotaph where wreaths The monifesto is expected to be strategically timed move by the far reaching significance Associated, were laid. published by the end of next week; Tobols,Reuter.

the search for the missing vessel, is | still going 'one--Reuter,

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Christian to be cancelled. This