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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1947.

KILLED IN ROME

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Winston's Memoirs

New York, May 15.

Life Magazine and the New York Times announced on. Wednesday night that they had

obtained the United States publication rights for Winston Churchill's memoirs.

Tho announcement indi- cated that the price was moro than $1,000,000 (£250,000),

The memoirs are expect- ed to consist of at least 1,000,000 words in five volumes and the American publication will begin next January-Associated Press.

COSSACK

RETURNS

British Warship Takes

Tanker In Tow

ILMS. Cossack, which sailed for Singapore on Sunday, made a surprise return to Hongkong, last night with

former Japanese tanker, the 1.000 ton Tai Tung, in tow.

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The.Cossack's return marks the hird time the British destroyer has unsuccessfully attempted Singapore from Hongkong.

Members of her crew have dubbed the 1,000 tun warshlo' the "Singapore Jinx Ship."

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EXPLOSIONS

Film Company's Buildings Wrecked

Rome, May 14,

At least 25 persons were killed tonight when two explosions blasted the Minerva Film Company. Firemen fighting their way into the charred ruins found more than a score of bodies.

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The police said the building was believed almost empty due to the after-working hour of the explosions, but they were checking a persistent report that from 60 to 70 per- sona still unaccounted for may have been in the building.

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A small exhibition room with annex to the Afth floor of the main seats

for 200 buyers and distribu-structure. Flames touched off Burs whe believed empty at the small deposit of films on the Rith time of the blastr.

floor, causing the first explosiun and 'Persons

sending the fire to the fourth-floor in the street heard screams from others trapped in the all offices, where the second ex- shattered building. Two men

shouted

from

crumbling window

plosion occurred.

The police said fire inspectors had warned the Company against storing ledges for ladders before the terms in the building a month ago rifle hent forced them to fling them and had posted signs prohibiting it, selves from the fourth storey. Both

but had taken no enforcement action were killed,

to see that the order was carried out.

Rain

drove away a crowd several thousands who had jammed the police barricade to await word of relatives feared missing or to watch firemen working with flash- lights inside the gutted building.

Firemen believed all bodies had

As the blasts "whooshed" it crumbling portion of the building into fumes, Thousands of people began to curvere on the Minerva structure from the busy Company centrul railroad station section of

downtown Rome.

Police, Bremen and troops rushed to

of

the scene in fire trucks and Ameri-been recovered from the bumed-out

can jeeps.

Because of the low pressure, fre- men could be seen dribbling tiny as they clung to ladders 50 trickles of water from their huses fect in the air. Water was finally may- ed to the scene in city sprinklers and then sprayed on the fire with bags- ter pumps,

BONES RECOVERED

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An earlier report said that fremen and first uld crews recovered charred bodies from the explosion- Film Company by 10.45 p.m. but it wrecked and Are-gutted Minerva

was feared a "small number of vle- tims" still remained in the debris.

office in the ball of the building which was still standing, but were still looking for additional vletims). -United Press.

Hope To Find Fortune In Tomb

After one day of sea the Cossack picked up the distress signal of the Tal Tung and in a heavy rain and wind storm the destroyer secured a The known death toll was brought

Sydney, May 15. tow to the wallowing tanker.

to 20 by the recovery of a group of H.M.S, Cossack is scheduled

Two Australians are complet 12 blasted and burned bodies from ing plans to leave for Lae, New depart at 6 pr. today for the fourth fourth-floor section, which time for Singapore. She is icip-been a filing room for inflammable Guinea, to seek a fortune in a pered by Captain Guy Sayer.-United cellulose movie films.

Japanese tomb they bought from the Australian Disposals Commission last year for £1 Australian.

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CHURCHILL CALLS FOR A UNITED EUROPE

Bringing Germany Back To The Circle Of Nations

London, May 14.

A vast crowd representing all political creeds packed London's Albert Hall, to its 7,000 capacity tonight to hear Britain's wartime Premier, Mr Winston Churchill, launch the campaign for United Europe and declare that Great Britain and France, as the founder partners, must bring Germany in a friendly way back into the circle of nations.

German Food Crisis

Worries Officials

London, May 14.

Britain's five top administrators in Germany, at a two- hour conference today,, gave the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, an up-to-date report on the food crisis in Western Germany and their recommendations for coming it

over-

London newspapers speculated Other developments in the German that the conference might lead food situation were: Britain to send an appeal to the 1. In the United States zone, the United States to push emergency | State of Hesse Communist Ger- rain shipments to Western

many.

The Foreign Office spokesman, sald who attended the conferent Air Devin probably would review results in broad outline in his speech in the Commons tomorrow on Ger- many and the Moscow conference. said, Until then, the spokesman nothing would be disclosed regard- ing the results of the meeting.

However, he described the Ger- man food crisis as very gloomy" and a "difficult situation"

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NEWS BLACKOUT

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Long before the dents were due to open a queue formed outside and Police and offelals had difficulty in controlling the crowd.

Members of both French Houses of Parliament who had flown to Bri- tain for the meeting were there to hear the speech, which lasted for forty minutes,

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The rally, the first organised the United European Committee which was inaugurated in Januury, a resolution pledging support passed a for ho campaign.

Mr Churchill was greeted with loud and sustained cheers when lie touk the platform, and his speech was interrupted by frequent bursts of applause.

Europe-to

cncourage

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approval of Hie

peoples of the Dominions, Why should we sup- pose that they will not be with us In this cause? They feel, with us, that Great Britain is geographical- ly, historically

culturally a And part of Europe and that they also have their Inheritance here.

LIVING FORCE

"If Europe united is to be a living force Britain will have to play her Eumnean family. full part as a member of ihe

"The Dominions also know that their youth, lite that of the United

living States, has twice within memory

the traversed

immerise ocean spaces to fight and die in wara

In

"In our fasic of reviving the hap- piness of Europe, her culture and her prosperity, it can certainly be said that we start at the bottom of her fortunes.

most

"Here is the fairest, the

He employed all the forceful co-brought about by European discord, the prevention of which they quence which has made him fairious Party

have been powerless. leaders demanded the immediate re-note of hope for the future,

as he volced a grim warning and a placement of Herman Dietrich, Ger-

"A RUBBLE HEAP". man chairman of the British-Amerl- can Bl-Zonal Food Authority. The Describing Europe today 25

churnel house, Communists, who hold ten of the 80 rubble-heap, a State Legislature seats, said the food breeding ground for pestilence

was inefficient. They ulsohute," Mr Churchill said that

the temperate, most fertile area of the agency

The Influence and power of In globe. said American troops "can never en- peoples of Europe still have force food collection from German their power to allow the streams of Europe and of Christendom have for farmers".

happiness, freedom and abundance centuries shaped and dominated the to begin again their healing flow." course of history. The song and He called for the immediate set- daughters of Europe have gone forth Ling up in Great Britain of an and carried their message to every Z: In Herford, headquarters of organisation to promote the cause of part of the world. Religion, law, the British zone, ofcials

a United put

learning, art, selence, and industry virtual blackout on food crisis news. Europeans to "come together and throughout the world all bear in so A spokesman said, "As far as I can work together for mutual advantage many lands, under every sky and in ascertain, there is no one in the zone to exchange blessings instead of every clime, the stamp of Eumpean who is able to give a zonal food (curses.

origin. picture."

This is the supreme opportunity."But what is Europe now? It le he added, "and if it be cast away nua rubble-heap, a charnel house,

will in the one can predict that it

ever breeding ground of pestilenco, and return Or what the resulting hate. Ancient nationalistic feuds catastrophe will be.

and modern ideological factions dis- "We accept without question, the tract and infuriate the unhappy. world supremacy the United hungry populations. Evil teachers urge the paying off of old scores Nations organisation.

"In the constitution agreed on at with mathematical and for regional organisations to tribution as the pathway

And precision, San Francisco a direct provision

false guides point to unsparing re- to prns- be formed. United Europe will form

there to be no respito? HasTM one major regional entity.

There is the United States with Europe's mission come to an end?

dependencies; there is

the Has she nothing to give to the Soviet Union; there is the British but the contagion of black d Empire; and there is Europe, with Are her peoples to go on harrying which Great Britain is profoundly and tormenting one another by war blended.

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FOOD SHIPMENTS SHORT Most British morning newspapers briefly quoted officials

at Anglo- American food headquarters In Stuttgart as attributing the crisis

3. An unofficial source to the failure of United in part States food shipments to come up to British zone gave the weekly basic Washington's promises.

Ration for one person: 15 ounces or One official was quoted as saying one large loaf of bread, nine ounces that 70 per cent of the blame could corcals such as macaroni, sugar or be attached to this fallure and 30 jam, 6 ounces vegetables, 18 ounces From bits of carbonised clothing, it

Pers to deliver up their quota akimmed milk. But, the source said,

cent to the failure of German potatoes and less than

a plat of was believed the victims comprised

almost all items had been cut by Murder Confessorst two bodies carried from

equal numbers of men and women,

ct crops.

the present shortage, and the main item Al-nowspapers-subordinated the filing section were locked in an Declared Insane

The hopeful buyers, A. McDonald Stuttgart quotations to the London potatoes-was practically unobtain embrace.

and it. S. Mann, both of Adelaide, conference on the food problem, able in large cities. United Press. Only one Leeds, England, May 14. The firemen said they expected to South Australia, say they hope to however.

the go to Lac in June to see what the News Chronicle-put even yesterday re-senrch the debris

on the dispatch and sub-headilne victims jected a confession of murder made night for further

because develops from the oddest deal ever

that paper

beside it another dis- from the stand by a defence wit-company officials and police had been handled by the Disposals Commis-

patch from New York headlined:

and vengeance until all that lifvesta Here are the four main pillars of human life with dignity and comfort ness, Denis Wood, 19-year-old sol- unable to read a certain gure ension.

The the number of employees

"We were misled" " America: lles under dier, today declared Wood Insane,

Mount

the world temple of peace."

has been ubliterated? Are wo all, Wood startled the court on Mon-, building when the explosions occur- Lunamen, which dominates Lac, and None commented editorially.

The Daily Worker said rich Bova-

FAVOURABLE U.S. OPINION. through our poverty and our quar- is the red, day by announcing from the wit-

thought to contain, among other

Mr Church recalled that some rels, forever to be a burden and a urlan farmers in the Americon zone ness stand that he, and not the de-

of hundreds things, the bodies

were feeding supplies to pigs, cattle

ifteen years ago, when he first begua danger to the rest of the world? Do belief in Lae, the Japanese establish- Japanese soldiers. According to locni

and farm dogs, while the British

Washington, May 14.

writing about the United States we imagine that we can be carried ed their hospital under the hill to

Indefinitely

the zone was starving.

the forward The Senate today approved legis. Europe, ho wondered whether

upon of America would shoulders broad though they are "And the Bavarian government- secure in the patronage of the State ation providing US$350,000,000 to United States escape Allied bombers, and valuable

of the United States? such development 119 equipment may still be there.

Department and the Catholic Church take up where UNRRA left off in regard sue

"The time has come when these After the capture of Lae by two

European antagonistic to its interest, or even

questions -goes on

solemnly declaring it helping war-devastated

must be answered. This la Australian divisions in September,

countries and China to avert starva- contrary to its safety. cannot fulfil its butter and other

But all that has passed away," the tour of Worker's of the west," the Daily

The Senate rejected a move to ment

Mr American opinion is

Churchill stressed tho point Berlin correspondent wrote.

follow House action

that the wholehearted in chopping favourable to the revival and

efforts of "Bavarta in only a particularly US$150,000,000. garing example of what is happen tration's programme. The bill will not unnatural when we

from the Adminis creation of Europe. This is surely France and Britain will be needed remember from the outset European unity Ing everywhere in the rich

how the manhood of the United is to become an effective reality be district. That is the plcture after now go to a joint Senate-House con- cintes has twice in a lifetime been fore-It is too late-Reutor. months of Anglo-American bl- zonal activity."-United Presa.

p.m.,

in

the

Was

tomb

$350,000,000

FOR RELIEF ·

RAIN HELPS FIREMEN fendant Erle Briggs, committed the The fire, which had raged through Briggs was on the gutted ruins and rubble of this murder for which trial,

building since 0.45 The court threw out Wood's con- brought under control at 10 p.m. and feasion and found Briggs guilty of put out shortly afterwards When murdering his wife.

Briggs was rain began to fall. sentenced to be hanged.

Wood was ordered to be detained } show-window annex

The Dre started in the one-storey 1943, all entrances to the under-quotas for delivery to other districts. tion. The vote was 79-4. during His Majesty's pleasure building and was carried by a glant round tunnels were scaled.

pine tree located just behind

United Press.

EDITORIAL

Calling Whitehall

SINCE e Colonial Office, by custom and tradition, insists upon having a finger in Hong- kong's administrative pic, should also be made to

under. stand

that this colony expects co-operation, not obstruction and procrastination from Whitchall. The Colonial Office succeeded in

horities, the

mediate

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Hongkong

AU- Into believing that im- direct taxailon was ncoessity for, the

colony; but oar Colonial Secretariat does not ap- pear to havO Mr Creech managed to convince

that immediate Jones implementation of the Municipal

Council blueprint is just as t gent. The Colonial Office delay

the propos

In

arctioning

A by Sir Mark

IIls

ago "only" makes Excellency's position at this time Invidions. Sir Mark oame back to

Hongkong as Governor with an importank mandate the creation of an effective instru- ment which would start the colony along the roąd ta' self- government. He and his advisers went about that task with absorption, and thoroughness that resulted towards the end of last

in the

Apletion

of

com

scheme, cordially sup ported by the entire thinking

community. Since then Hong- kong has heard nothing about constitutional reform, but Hay sen put, on the statule book faz

of the main

the

Jegistation, not only thoroughly unpopular, but for which Govern ment had no mandale, Naturally the publle feels it is being treated rather shabbily. Twelve months

ro it hund held out to

aro

cart

Bir

Juicy Inselous plum, enly to find that af the appointed time 1 gels a sour andible crapple. Atark

tomorrow gives farewell broadcast to Hongkong,

it

be assumed that

July greatest regret will be that he cannot, announce the da

date for the establishment of the colony's first munisipal

administration. The biame

not his. Under Iris full and practicable guidance a full scheme was worked out

Months ago and submlifed to Samething has happened to it in the interval. Possibly Mr Creech Jones's colleagues aro tinkering about

out with it, trying to

add OF mubirect; if that is so they should have sent tforward

a report

for Ills Excellency to give to

the public. Perhaps it has just been pigeonholed;

which case strong protest should go from here to Whitela31, In Kay event should be made clear to the Colonial Office that Hongkong la Interested in this constitutional reform; feels that in view of alrect taxation It is a top priority subject; and that further delay in Implementing the scheme will only Increase:

current

embittered feelings.

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SALVAGE RIGHTS McDonald told a reporter the deal the Disposals Commission him and his partner full salvage rights of all material in the tunnel. He added that he was also interested to discover whether the Japanese who might have been trapped inside had committed hara- kiri or had died from suffocation.

Explaining how he had acquired the tomb, McDonald, aminer, said he went to Lae Last year to buy

ine mining machinery.

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CRITICAL WEEKS

rural

Frankfurt, May 14.

ference to save that differenca set- lled.

be continued. "The whole move choice is plot Chulce, and surely the

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an amend-tre in Great Britain inve

forced to cross the Atlantic Oceau and give their lives and shed their Senato action followed a plea blood and pour out their treasure as from chairman Arthur Vandenberg the result of a war originating from of the Foreign Relations Committee ancient European feuds, General Lucius D. Clay, Comman=|that relief was essential to provide "We have no doubt that far from der of the United States zone, pre- the "utter minimum"

of ald to

opposition or pie any encountering dicted today that the German food Greece, Italy,

Austria, Hungary, Judice from the great republic of crisis would remain critical for three Poland, China and Trieste.

the New World our movement will or four weeks and might get worse

The Senate rejected.

their blessing and their ald. While

motoring past Mount unless farmers started to ship pro- Lunamen with some Disposals duce to market-possibly at the ment to bar ald to countries allegedly

falling within the Russian sphere of our own self-governing Dominions Commission officials, I jokingly in point of American guns.

New Zealand quired whether the tomb was for General Clay said

Braila, troops would rulluence which would include Po-Canada,

We are bound sale, McDonald sold. "I was told be out to enforce food collec- land and Hungary. A move to cut and South

called could buy it for one pound and

tions for ration-short cities, "but it US$150,000,000 from the total au- together by ties of free will which mave stood unyielding against all thorisation was rejected 84-19. is the last thing we want to do". still believing they were

Earlier, members moved to rush the ups and downs of fortune. The Commarkier called

a press

"We are the centre and the sum 10,000 relief aid to Europe by authorising conference shortly after McDonald said it was not until

following day,

an the Immediate advance of US$75,- mil of a worldwide commonwealth workers when he wan

at Luneburg singed

the by

Reconstruction of nations. hourlong slldown strike, protesting 600.000 handed a receipt for £1, that he

It is necessary that any policy realised the deal had gone through.

against inadequate food, and he said: Finance Corporation to supply food, "We expect to

food medical supplies and fertilizers. this island may adopt in Europe He then goed to share his buy

United Press.

should enjoy the full sympathy and atrikes." with Mann-Associated Press

the

havo

some

Servant Girl Murdered In Train

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"What they actually had seen", ho around her and we kissed and

com- cuddled, sald, "was the crime boing- mitted, unusual in a murder cano♫", "I wound my fingers around her Robey aald that Horria made a neck, stroking her neckt, and she said statement to the police in which something I think it

was, my

BRITISH FLOOD RELIEF FUND

/ THE FUND WILL CLOSE

ON 31ST MAY.

Already acknowledged

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(per "H.K. Telegraph")$224,701.05 E. Roy Gosumker Kwong Hing Hong. Mrs V. Eyrez Simeon Leo

Por Wah Kiu Yat;Po! Fan Hing Christian

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Donations should be addressed

Britons To Pay More For Petrol

Aldershot, May 15. Frank Alexander Harris, B London, May 14. 21-year-old, went on trial on The Britala footorist wil now have Wednesday accused of picking to pay more for his gasolino. The

to the General Manager, South up a servant girl on Guildford he claimed that he was indignant darling-and 1 squeezed her neck, Petroleum Board, with the approval 11

China Morning Post Morning of the Ministry of Fuel and Power, railway station on April 24, because another girl had failed to she did not struggle, I pulled her on

Post Building Hongkong announced that the retail aries would boarding a train with her, and been an appointment with him. He the floor and I banged her head on

began to drink. The Robey quoted | the floor. be raised tonsorrow from 23 pence murdering her before they Harris ad' saying:

She did not die, so I remembered

Cheques 'should be made out a gallon to 24 pence.

"I was getting wild by this time. I had a knife, so I held her month to "British Flood Rellef Fund." The price of diesel oil for road reached the next station.

I decided to makco someone suffer, and I struck the knife into her neck,

For the purpose of acknow vehicles is up a half-penny a gallon The prosecutor, Mr. E. G. Robey On the station platform I saw a and I again stuck it in, then I was | kerosens 'and vapourizing oil both up said that two passengers saw girl and said" "hello," She stopped arrested,"

"ledgment will donors kindly Harris and the victim, Miss Shalla and smiled and said she was going The court was told that Miss Pur-Indicate their names in Block Purcell, aged 21, sprawied on the to Camberly. We went Into on cell had been stabbed six times with Letters. Door of a third class compartment. empty enrriage and I put my arm la sheath Jife-Associated Prem

one penny, while spirit up 11⁄2 pence and bitumen up nine chill- Ingu a ton-Ualted Press. »,