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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1947′′

Fellowships For India Power Transfer

Newsmen

Boston, July 2, Harvard University an nounced today that '11 workers, In- nowspaper

cluding two women, three foreign correspondents and three labour reporters, have received Nieman Fellowships for the next college, year, starting in September.

Included are Walter G. Rundic, China manager of United Press, to study poli- tical economy and Inter national relations, and. Robert M. Shapien, chief of Newsweek's Shanghai bureau, to study China and Southeast Asia. — United Press.

SHANGHAI ARREST DENOUNCED

Bill A Historic

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Legislative Document

BY FRASER WIGHTON

Reater's Political Correspondent.

London, July 2.

The Cabinet, at a meeting tomorrow, will approve the bill. for the creation of the Union of India (Hindustan and Pakistan) if by then Britain has heard from New Delhi that the draft measure satisfies the Viceroy and the Indian leaders, I learn from authoritative quarters tonight.

If by any chance Delhi's approval of the bill is delayed, a special moeting of the Cabinet will be called in order to ensure that the legislation is ready to be presented to the... House of Commons on Monday next week, July 7,

It is believed that the men- With thin minute-long ceremony, all sure will probably be called the one of the most historie of

parliamentary measures, Indian Independence Bill, though British

which is to transfer power to n decision has yet to be taken. 400,000,000 people, will have been Indian Independence was Mr read for the fimt time. The bUI Clement Attlee's preference as available to members of Parliament Immediately afterwards will be A title and has still

be from the vole

office outside the weighed against Indian Do-Commons Chamber. minion Commonwealth. Bill" and merely "India Bill,"

to

The Government hopes to secure a second reading within ten days of The proceedings at the Introduc- the first reading and to combine in tion of the bill will be exceedingly one day's proceedings the Communs brief, without specchies. The bill debate, Committee and report stages between now and Monday, will-have and the third reading, been printed. Its titie-not thes

EXPERTS TO PROBE

BIKINI SECRETS

Washington, July 2.

The U.S. Navy la going back to Bikini this anonth to find oot among oller things "what actually happened to the battleship *Arkansas."'.

A year after the atomic bomb tests in Bint lagoon, the Navy also hopes to learn

1. Just what the bomb's nuclear radiation did to fish and other marine life of the atoll, and whother the effects have been handed on to a second generation.

of stalls and whether the

2. Akore

about the basle structure coral reef ́at' Bikini has been doomed by gamma radiation to ultim~ ate decay.

3. What happened to the submarine Apogon

A Navy "re-survey party" of 60 men-Including scientists and technicians from the Army, the Atomto Energy Commission, the Geological Survey, the Fish and Wildlife Service, the Smithsonian Institution and a number of universities--wil spend une month

and a half at Bikini from July, 15 to September I---United Press.

Ramadier Cabinet's Fate In Balance

Paris, July 2.

The Communists аге expected

PALESTINE STRONG ARM SQUADS

Jerusalem, July. 2.

A secret "strong, nrm” squad of the Palestine police, whose 'existence was disclosed with the arrest of Major Roy. Furrana month ago, has virtually been broken up, reliable.privato sources within the police dis- closed today.

Farranz, British Army war hero und reputed squad leader in the group, was picked up in Syria and brought back to Palestine and charg- ed with the "wilful murder" of Alexander Rubowitz, claimed by the Stern Gang as a member. He is in custody at Saraland Camp army awaiting court martial:

Though both the milltary and civil authorities have given out, little, in- formation, the case has brought to light the existence of an unorthodox group of war-seasoned army officers fent to the police to use their Com- mando experience against the Stern

after Friday night. fate may therefore be decided on or Gang and Irgun Zval Leumi, Jewish

underground extremist organisations. to oppose the Government bitterly,

Twelve-men squads, usually in but observers here believe that M.civilian clothes and, driving civilian Ramadler has an even chance of cars, were formed to prowl Jowish obtaining his vote of confidence.

quagters outside the security zone The internal situation was some-

of Jerusalem and Haffa as well as in the all-Jewish city of Telaviv.. what relieved by the return to work whose today of bank employees, strike ended with an acceptance of

Reliable sources said they belleved

of group

some three dozen the Government's compromite pro-a

members was organised after con pasals.

The fate of the French Coalition Government of M. Ramadier, the Premier, hung in the balance today as the final phase of the National. Assembly's' debate on the Government's new economic policy opened against a back- ground of social and economic problems and unrest.

end in a demand for a vote of The debale was expected to confidence by the Premier, M. Paul Ramadier.

Under the new Constitution, at under the ne there is delay in the

must elapse from the time the Premier punca his vote ment does not expect the bill of confidence until the motion should be through Parliament by debated,

Government's the end of the month and enacted with

an ample margin to spare before the transfer of power dead-

New York, July 2.. The Left Wing "Committee for Democratic Far Eastern Policy" reported today that Dr Ernest G. Osborne, who return ed to New York last week after nine months in China, has de-Treasury Bench, will bow his heat House of Lords which the Govern

to assent to the Speaker. nounced the "violation of basic civil liberties In China" and urged Generalissimo Chlang Kai-shek to "use his good offices" to obtain the relenso of n girl reporter employed by the Shanghai daily, Wen Hui Pao, Osborne, Professor of Education at the Touchers' College of Columbia

University, roparted that

Joann Mal, 21. was seized by the Chinese secret police at her home on May 30 shortly after the suppression of

Mins the newspapier.

Mai, who covered student activities for tha Wen Ilui Pao, was accused of being

context--will be read by the officials The schedule set by the Govern- of the House of Commons, and the meat experts is being maintained so Prime Minister, seated on the front for.

& Communist.

"At a nese leaders should be aware that American public opinion strongly basic

Now Office

Raw Recruits, August 16,

Fought Szepingkai

At

Appalling Slaughter

Mr Attice's announcement la Parliament today of a change in the title of the Dominions Office and Do- minions Minister indicates that from the day of the power transfer, the Secretary of State, for Common- wealth Relations will provide the link between Britain and the Union of India.

tion

and

the

Afghan

Territorial

Demands

Is

M. Kriegel Vauriment, the Com-sultation between London and munist deputy, gave notice in the Jerusalem about four months ago, Assembly of his intention to ques-Associated Press.

tion the Government's handling of the "Black Muquis" conspiracy to everthrow the Republic by force.

In a latter to M. Edouard Herriot, the President of the

Baid

visiting Britain, M. Vmbly, now

that he wanted to know how it was possible for ngent of the former an officer (unnamed),

who. was Marshal

his

to

Petain, to continue activities for so long. London, July 2. The assumption in political quar- Szepingkai, July 3.

He also sought an A Foreign Office spokesman

explanation ters is that Lord Addison, now Do-

Gullinudot Probably no army since the minions "I know her as a completely non-

Secretary of State, will said today that the British why General Maurice

a Was

made Inspector General, of political, devout Christian and Sun-Chinese civil war began suffered function in this new office, and that Government had received

Gendarmerle, when, according day school teacher," Osborne said. so fearfully or struggled against there will come under his jurisdic-note from the Afghan Govern him, the general had directed the

Committee quoted Osborne as auch odds as did the. American The Cot

staff and the

administrative ment regarding territory in the fight against a section of the French time when the Chinese payment is seeking loans, Chi-] equipped Chinese 71st Army in machinery of the India Office.

its defence of this important Manchurian city.

Undermanned and badly shaken, half of its 88th Division, which bore the burden of Szeplngkal's defence,

raw recruits with

only one week of training.

ot After seeing the devastation Szepingkal it seems extraordinary that any of the 71st could have lived to tell Its story.

of Staic for India, wil), after the tween the Afghan-Indian fron--Operating in the strictest secrecy.

iives this violation of

liberties. The arrest without formal charges and imprisonment without trial of a young girl is not an evidence of a democratic govern- ment."-United Press.

Ship Strikos Mine: 31 Man Killed

Istanbul, July 2, Thirty-one crew members of the Turkish cargo ship Silivri were killed today when the ahip hit a mine off. Bodroum

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All accounts indicated that at least two-thirds of the original 25,000 defenders were wiped out.

REDS LOSE HEAVILY On the other side of the scale the Chinese Communists

The India Office and the Secretary Northwest Frontier province beeslatance.

security police are making transfer, cease to function as such, tier and the River Indus.

strenuous efforts to net further out- during the change-over though

Diplomatic sources said the note standing members of the conspiracy. period, the Commonwealth, Rela- nsked for self-dotermination" for They are particularly anxious to tionship Office will doubtless draw the Pathans in the frontier province. trace 30-year-old Count Arouct de

the resources of the upon

former According to the oficial Afghan | Mervelec for questioning." India Ofice.

are viewpoint, the frontler peoples

Seven persons have been arrested Political quarters here think that "mostly closely related to the so far on suspicion of association the new arrangements may even Afghans" and should have the right with the plot. Reuter. “ tually involve also a change. In the to form "Puthanistan” as an autono- tise of Iigh Commissioners through-mous region within Afghanistan. out the Commonwealth, including India.

12th Defeat For Government

These sources said Afghanistan might have been encouraged to sug The point has been made more gest self-determination for Pathans fhan once by the Dominions that in by recent articles in the Soviet press the diplomatie world, ambassadors of pointing out that several million. must have minute countries have presedence Afghans lived in India and describ- suffered heavily also. No units over High Commissioners of great ing the Afghan borders as artificial. They doubted, however, that the could undergo a period of such con-end powerful Dominions.

London, July 2 The meeting of Commonwealth re- Soviet Government would risk centrated give and take without

The Conservative Opposition in the Isustaining a bad mauling.

presentatives at the conference in annoying soon-to-be-independent the Japanese peace treaty at Can- India by supporting Afghan-de-House of Lords which defeated the

·Government 10 times during the on may mands berra, Australia, in August

territory. They Committee stage of the Transport provide the opportunity for the dis- assumed Russia would consider food

Nationalisation Bill, tonight egaln cussion of this point. Lord Addison relations with India more important twice defeated it during discussion of inttending. this conference than the Afghan demandé--United the Town and Country Planning Bill. Reuter.

However it is probable that the government estimates that 170.000 Communists participated in the as- sault and suffered 50,000, catisnities are high.

und

Press.

On Wednesday, two days after the siege was lifted the government's reflet, force the new Sith Army THE REST OF THE SPORT

from Kalyan-continued its pur- salts

of the Reds.

The Nationalists new First Army which met rocky going South Kungchuling is, eported to be fan- ning off to the westward to try to Intercept the Communisto at Pamien- cheng, 12 miles west of here, in a pincers movement with the new Sixth-Associated Press.

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DEATH OF OLD H.K. RESIDENT:

India

Henley Regatta Opens: Bad Day For Oxford

Henley-on-Thames, July 2

The strong overseas entries in Henley's Royal Regatta, which opened its four-day programme with 34 races here today in good but threatening weather, was not called upon to race, other than in the Diamond Sculls and the Thames Cup.

In the Diamond Sculls, Jackson and Mr Barnard Hankey, owners A wide circle of friends will learn with the deepest regret of the death Kelly, of the United States, and of Monsieur L'Amiral, were caution- ed by the Stewards of the Jockey yesterday of Mrs Ethel Redn Wild, favourite to win this coveted Club at Newmarket today for the wife of Mr R. H. Wild of the South prize, made a fine impression in difference in the running of the British Insurance Co.

Mrs Wild died at St Paul's Hos-beating his Belgian opponent, horas in the Churchill Stakes, in pital, and the funeral will Jake B. Piessens, who raced at Hen-wlich he finished fifth, at Ascot un June 18, and in the Queen Alexander this afternoon, pince

the service ley before the war, by four stakes, which he won at Ascot on being re

read at the Happy Valley Jengths. Cemetery chapel at 5.30.

One of his chief rivals, the Bri- The late Mrs Wild first came totish sculler, B. H. T. Bushnell, who Hongkong in 1020 and was in Manila had sculled with success in regattas when the Pacific War broke out in South America earlier this year, Sho was. interned there by the had an even easter' win over his Twenty-one entries, including five Hongkong in October of last year.

opponent.

June 20-Reuter.

BELMONT ENTRIES

New York, June 2,

from abroad, have been received for

Japanese in 1942 and returned to Ehnell's time for the mila-and-the International Gold Cup horse

ALL-AMERICAN FINAL

(Continued from Page 1) Advertison are requested to nofa that no advertisments successive service for Brown to win

the set.. (with the exception of urgent

Brown was'

now playing superbly notices) will be accepted be and ran into a 5-0 lead, with Patty tween the hours of 12.30 noon scoring only six points in these five Saturdays, and 9 am, on Mon games. Tralling fifteen-forty in the sixth game, Patty rallied and took days.

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course was nine minutes 10 race, which will be run at Belmont seconds, against Kelly's nine minutes Park, New York, on July 10, alx seconds.

Chief among

American horses

In the Thames Cup for eights, for which two United States crews, Kent which will resist the challenge of and Tabor, have entered, Kent beat British, French and South American Maidenhead Rowing Club by two bloodstock will be four-year-old lengths in the comparatively Blow Phalan, who was third in the Ken-- time of eight minutes 13 seconds. tucky Derby and winher of the Bel- Kent won this event in 1933 and mont Stakes, one of America's three

classic races, 1930

Tabor, who did not row today, Two South American horses, En- won in 1930, 1837 and 1939.

deavour from Argentina and Ensueno

This Bill gives the Government power to control the use and develop- men of land-Reuter.

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Thursday, July 3 Canton (Train) 1.30 pm. Manila P.X. (Bea) 9 p.. USA, Central and South America and Canada; via San Francisco (No 'Par- cels for Canada) (Bea) 3 p Saigon (Ab) 3.30 p.m./5 Bangkok, Singapore Batavia, Colombo. Sydney and Auckland (Air) 330 p.m. Swalow and Amoy. Canton, Tooskow

and Sheoghat (Air) 330 p.m. Kongmoon, Macso, Tainshan and Shokki

(Bea) 4 p.m.

Canton (Train) 8, pɔn.

Friday, July 4 Manila PL (Box) ID a.ms, Tamkong (Kwongchowwan) (8) 10

Haiphong and Shanghal (Sex) 10 am. Manila PL (8ea) 10 am. Tsamkong. Haiphong. Pakhel & Hol

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Ceylon, East & South Africa and Bom-

Day (Sea) Noon,

Canton (Tralo) 130, pm.

Straits (Sa) 2 p.m. Straits and Batavia (Ben) 3 p.m. Ordinary letters and cards only for

Japan (Sex) 3 pm.

Bangkok Rangoon, Calculta, Karachi, Basra, Cairo, Johannesburg, Augusta, Marsellies and London (Air) 3.30 p.m.

·Saigon and Paris anty (Air), 3.30 p.m. Eingapore, Colombo, Sourabaya, Bydney.

and Auckland (Air) 330 p.m. Japan (ordinary letters and cards only)

(Air) 3.30 p.m.

Nanking, Hankow, Amoy, Shanghai,

Tringlao, Palping. Canton k-Hollow (Air) 3.30_pa. Kangmoon, Mácão. Teinalian and Bhekki

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much lighter school crow,

the Monk and Mighty Maburratlu, together allowed him to rear his next service, ton Combe School alght in the heats with the French coll, Djelal, are due

3-5, but

Plate, but another

herby air on July . winning the match with an un-of the Ladies'

Christ touchable ace.

famous Dark Blue eight in Church lost to St Edward's School in Two lies and, two mares are in In the women's doubles, two the same event. Furthermore, Trinity the list which closed at midnight on United States pairs reached the College, Dublin, bent. Magdalen, sleg Tuesday, semi-finals today, The holders and in the Ladies Plate, while the Orld The race

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bo run over- one Handley 730 Studio: La Demi-Joure American champions, Loulso: Brough College four were beaten by the mile and five furlongs on walght for she London Relay Homs News from and Margaret Osborne, beat Jadwiga Thames "B", crew in the heats of inge basis, "This means that three- Britain - 9:15: Tawies; aud: Landsveran Jedzrojowska and Anita Lizena Ellishe

year-olds carry 110 pounds and all Two Planos: 830 Studies Record Revue, 0-1, 6-3, while Patricia Todd, and the Wyfold Cup.

Today's racing, watched by a large older. borses 120 pounds. There are Revue of the Latest Records, presented Doris Hart beat: the British / pair, and fashionable crowd, was confined, five pounds" allowances for fillies and Service Sibe

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