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VOL. II NO. 363

Sabotage Campaign In France

Four Derailments

Paris, Dec. 3.-The sabotage campaign sweeping acroas France today, and including the most numerous and serious series of railway accidents since the three-week-old strike wave began, threatened tonight tu take on proportions of clandes tine guerilla warfare against the Government.

M. Robert Schuman's Cabinet has asked Parilainent for special powers to deal with saboteurs, but the passing of the bill in question has been held up four days so fur by Communist delaying tactics in Nutional Assembly.

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Gene: Charles de Gaulle arrived Parks from his country home as Commnuntat deputies in the strongly Fuarded National Assembly suggested That rightwink

elements and the sponsored the general's followers

abotage so that the blame could be put on Communists.

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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 1947.

SAVAGE FIGHTING

BETWEEN

JEWS AND ARABS

Haganah C-in-C Killed

Jerusalem, Dec. 3.-Arabs and Jews fought a savage hours-long gun battle in the No Man's Land between Jaffa and Tel-Aviv today while British troops broke up with gunfire an Arab mob assault on the Jewish quarter of Jerusalem,

Ten men-seven Arabs and three Jews-were reported killed in the Jaffa-Tel-Aviv fighting and 32 seriously wounded, 24 of them Arabs and eight Jews.

This brought the unofficial toll of casualties in two days' disorder in the Palestine riots over the country's partition to 23 killed and 102 wounded. Hundreds more suffered minor injuries.

The Arabs were making no ar- rangements for a provisional gov- ernment and no Arab Government would be set up "unless it was an Arab Government of all Palestine."

For the first time men

of the three Jewish military organisations agenah. basis for the future Jewish Army, and the extremist Ergun Zval Leum and Stern Gang stood side by side to fight Arabs in--Reuter, the battle between Arab Jaffa and Jewish Tel-Aviv.

Com

The 50,000 further reservists to be called up under the Government's anti-strike measures will mainly be used to unrd railroads,

Govern- ment spokesman. disclosed tonight. Moshe Neuman, Haganah Sabotage on the railways has been mander-in-Chief for the Tel-Aviv accompanied by other

area, was among the Jews killed. acts

Fighting started at dusk yesterday (Tuesday). It continued intensifying throughout the night and this morn-

violence, including the seizure public buildings, stations tories

Birikore.

af of

and fac- by Croups described

DISGUISED CIVIL WAR The authorities consider that the attempt to bring about a general strike has definitely falled, but it was expected that the struggle be- tween the forces of the Government and the strikers and the Communist Parly would continue in various forms for some days yet

Le Monde, Independent Conserva- tive

newspaper, wrote tonight: "Twenty dead and 40 injured in the deraliment of a train near Arras is the first price paid in disguised civil war, the first symptoms of which are showing themselves more clearly every day.

COMMONS STATEMENT London, Dec. 3.-The British Government is determined to "take

steps to preserve order and prevent much tragic conflicts" in Palestine the Colonial Secretary, Mr Arthur Creech

Jones,

stated in the House of Commons today

when making a on the "sporadic and un- Arab demonstrations ties put a curfew on the borderline which took place there yesterday.

The

Palestine British troops moved into

Government, he area in force and started firing in said, was responsible for the main- answer to shots from either side.

tenance of law and order until the. By 2 pm, fighting had subsided mandate was relinquished. into brisk sniping, which continued into the night.

ing. At noon, the British authorld"

area.

tho

At dusk, 24 hours after the fighting sturled, fres were still burning in No Man's Land and the vicinity. Fire- men watched vainly from behind the lighting lines of both eilles, unable to get to the burning buildings be- cause of continued gunfire,

Rioting here was less instead of "But everything points to the fact more serious than yesterday only that we

British troops are witnessing the death because the

acted agony of an offensive that has failed. Vitorously

promptly-United

and

"Everywhere, resistance is harden-Press.

ing amongst the majority of the

French people, who have Intle de

STRIKE APPEAL

sire to ie the country set its feet

were

Dunkirk line this afternoon.

hours

and

Jones paid that ho

Mr Creech Jones said that in Jerusalem there was mob, violence directed against Jews and Jewish property.

"Shots were fired by the Jews and possibly also by the Arabs, although the latter is not certain."

a barrage of quesould Mr make a statement on Palestine "at an early date".

te'. When asked how long British troops would be used to keep the peace between the Jews and the Arabs in view of the ten- sion caused by the United Nations' decision on partition, Mr Greech Jones said: "We hope the final with- drawal will be on August next

Russia May Try To Get Into

Palestine

High Treason

Trial

Warsaw, Dec. 3.--Tho government, opening the trial of five men and two women accused of high. treason and espionago, 10- day charged that the United States and British Embassies in Warsaw had recolved in- formation from the under-. ground which sought to overthrow the Polish Covernment.

The group was accused of collecting economic, politi- cal and military information. for which they received large sums in American dollars from anti-government Polish circles in London.--As- sociated Press

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Detention Cells At Central Are Filthy

And Overcrowded

Last week, Telegraph reporter Harriet Harvey visited the detention cells at the Central Police Station. What she saw and learnt there is described below.

The detention cells at Central Police Station were built sometime before the Twentieth Century: (records of the exact date were destroyed) and have not been substantially altered or rehabilitated since that time.

Today, the cells, accommodating five times the number of prisoners they did pre-war, are filthy, suffocating and grossly overcrowded. The walls Women are grimy and the floors urine-soaked. with breast-fed babies are thrown into overstuffed cells with diseased adults. In every respect, the cells fall far below the minimum health standards required by law.

Located directly behind the Charge!

The

European detention cell is Room at Central Police Station, u dirty. Although it has been provided block of eight small cells house all through ventilation, bucket latrines person arrested on Hongkong Island are used and no tap or bucket fa before they appear in court. Although available for washing. The sleeping most prisoners remain in the cells accommodation consists of one double less than 48 hours, all deportees are decker European alyle bed covered sent back to them (from the court-with dirty mattresses. room) to awali transportation, and When the Hongkong Telegraph often remain there for weeks.

asked the Acting Commissioner, of Sanitation facilities

of a Police for permission to visit the cells, consist

said "You won't liko them. wooden bucket often overflowing he which is placed in the corner of the They smell." He was right. They ccli. It is emptied once a day. There slink.

no washing water.

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Tokyo, Dec. 3-Approximately 7,200 tons of whale oll, more than half of the total tonnage of 12,000 tons procured by last year's Japan- ese Antarctic whaling expedition, Danger Of Offering have been earmarked by the Inter- national Emergency Food Council To Settle Dispute

for export to European countries Insecticido or DDT is oprayed Washington, Dec. 4-American currently suffering from deficiencies neithor In the colls nor on the in- No attempt is nilitary observers considering of fals and cooking olis, Mr C. M. dividual prisoner.

future developments in Adams, Chief of the production made to de-louse the prisoners or to connection with the UNO decision section of the Fisheries Division of curb other disease-spreading vermin.

not been The walls have to partilon Palestine, pointed to SCAP. announced today.

painted or cleaned for many years and they

Alth. are covered with the danger that a "holy war" in

The cell floors are swabbed once the Holy Land may

bring Red

daily. Army units Into the country ostensibly to protect the New Jewish state against the Arabs,

possible

the specia! constables, discussed in Washington. A highly national Emergency Food

allocated to 5,000 tons were the Palestine pollee placed officer who could not be

the

the

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U.S. CLOSES ENIWETOK

י

"Security Reasons"

told

The Arst shipment of 900 Loms leaves Tokyo Bay on Thursday morning aboard the ss Hermund. Its

DARK AND DANK destination is Bremen, Germany, and Ventilation is poor. Half the

a Lake Success; Dec. 3.-The United the oil is consigned to the military cells receive alr through only

of States Government notified the Such a move would put Russian government for distribution in the partially covered barred door. troops on the Mediterannean within British

the remaining four, three have no United Nations Security Council to ond American occupation

through ventilation, dying minutes of the Suez Canal zones.

windowday that it bad closed the Eniwetok for being placed on the same side as atoll in tre Marshall Islands and within easy striking distance of

"security reasons" frem December the door. Ameriem oil concessionS In Saudi The total value of last year's whole

The cells are dark and in most 1. Arabia.

fall production amounted to $5,000,000, enses

receive no light except The Security Council was will Mr Adams reported. In accordance through the door. Once a day the that the United States intended to The possibility that Russia

instructions from the Inter-prisoners are allowed to exercise in conduct experiments in nuclear fis- year if

offer to intervene is being freely with

Counci on the path of an adventure from Gurney.

the cement Jerusalem. Dec. 3-Sir Henry enlisted for

the of the cell tyard at the centre gion on the atell which is part of the Japanese and the remainder for ex-As laid down by the Health

formier Jepunte mand te now held -which-there-would-be-zo way out.

Chic Secretary of the

Health Or

the United States under the by... Four derailments within

"were being equally withdrawn" from" | quoted" by"name" sald" it" "can" "be"ex-" vithin 12

Palestine Government, had asked

port to Europe in nine shiploads, dinance,

maximum United Nations Strategic Trustee- the average blamed

four him this morning to call off the Arab Jewish and Arob areas. Mr Creech pected within 90 days, if real fight- sabotage,

Japan being credited with $2,000,000 capacity of each cell is pri- ship agreement, 011

Jones replied that some steps were ing breaks out in Palestine. It will Enbotage was the suspected general strike, (now in its second being taken to augment the existing be very embarrassing for both

Also

on the foreign trade account.

289 soners. Last week, however,

The United States Atomic Energy it was cause of a derailment on the Calais- cay), breause

endangering

prisoners passed through the cells, Commission announced in Washing- Fuel oll consumed on the last ex- the security of Palestine, Dr Hus- arrangements for the preservation British and ourselves.""

an average of 10 per cell per day ton on Monday that the construction selni Khalidi, Secretary of the Arab of law and order, but this point

number of testing grounds for "rouline joint UNO military pedition cont $800,000 so it can be four times the maximum" Higher Committee, suld today.

would be covered in his forthcoming There is no

and tests of atomie The police arrested strikers

periments statement.

force yet organised to maintain assumed Japan made a net gain of established by law.

approximately $2,000,000,

Overcrowding is being alleviated weapons" had begun factories and railway stations for Dr Khalidi, a former

at Eniwetok, Mayor of It would also cover the employ- order anywhere in the world.

the 145 Inhabitants Inciting others to stop work. Thirty Jerusalem, added that no decisionment of the Transjordan Frontier

It is unticipated the present whal-partially by the recent acquisition of from which

would have to be permanently trans- held in

Britain bas mnounced her inten- Marseilles and the on this question had yet been faken Force.

and one European cell. In kuburb of St. Andre for

ferred, resisting by the Higher Committee, which The Colonial Secretary mode no tion to withdraw her army, estimated ing expedition on ruute to the An- two juvenile cells (one male and one

tractic will return with more than Victoria Remand Prison.

These French troops

arrange- now at 80,000 men, from Palestine 20,000 tons valued at $7,000,000, have been nequired to taite care of said today that entry to the closed nese The United States Government clearing barricades had met in Jerusalem today.

reply when asked, what thrown up last night.

Dr Khalid told a press conments were being made to maintain before next August,"

This catch again will be offered for the overflow. However, when I in area would be allowed only in ne- Workers in the capital'a flour ference that he had Informed Sir law and order after British troops

The actual removal of British units distribution to countries deficient in spected the cells last week, no effort cordance with the regulations which milla

resumed production after Henry that "irresponsible elements were withdrawn.-Reuter, three weeks.

probably will begin before that time fats and oils.United Praes,

was being made to equalise the would had taken matt

and prescribed

The matters into their own

so that it can be completed by the

distribution between the overcrowd- periodle inspections by the United during yesterday's

announced date.

ed cell bloeit and the Victoria cells. Nations were suspended until fur- The additional female juvenile cell ther notice. was not in use at all, although the The United States would report. female

cell in the cell to the United Nations on the poll- juvenile block was overcrowded.

tical, economic, social and educa- tional advancement of the inhabi- tants of the territory, and all pos- able measures would be taken to endangered and were subject to the ensure that the people were

minimum inconvenience-Reuter.

were

STRIKERS ARRESTED

ไถ

A communique Issued after the hands" Cabinet meeting this afternoon said racial flare-up. that the Government, in calculating

inter-

Measures had been discussed with.

family allowances, was thinking in the Chief Secretary with a view to

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EDITORIAL

casing the situation, he said.

Put The Convicts To Work

GITATING both legal and lay minds in Hongkong for some time has been the question of the best corrective punishment for the tenderfoot as well as hardened erfinals who dally appear in the courts on charges varying from pelty thieving to robbery with violence and armed, hold-ups. A substantial body of eplaten re gards with favour application of

com

liberal

ment, it being argued that for the majority, prison sentences merely provide an interlude during which offenders know they will obtain food and accommodation of a more generous nature than they normally enjoy; and, the experi enco leaves no impression punishment on the mind.

As things are today it is

possible for the worst

type criminal to the sternest

form punishment, Inasmuch that al- though he is sentenced to hard

escape

of

of

labour, this may never amount to anything more than developing a hobby such as wood carving, or learning how to make boots described by one official as "Jost sitting around." To the man who has trained himself to a criminal career this form of punishment is Just a marking of time until ho can obtain his release and return again to his depredations.

IS

Inay. in a few cases, have the desired effect of conversion from

crime to honesty of living, but with adult Chinese 'criminals this must be regarded as a rare effect of prison life l Hongkong. The polist is driven home by a study of the who appear before

vast number of offenders

magistrates and the criminal sessions with long records of evil-doing for which they have served several веліссея, Tho great need ap- to be to find work, for these criminals which comes within the des- Oc.

oription of hard labour, casionally some prisoners are put to work under the PWD,

but seemingly there is

Boogo in this direction to all of the men occupied. What required is a gigantle operation which could not only absorb all of the hard labour

DOUN inmates at Stanley, but would

have

the

added advantage of being a use- ful development scheme. The use of prison labour for preparing Hongkong's

ТЕСТУ nield is one suggestion.

Assuming the

Deep

from

Bay area is selected for the aero- drome, a considerable saving of publlo funds could result puting convicts work on re- claiming and clearing the site. It would not only be hard labour, but constructive,

and likely to prove' a more effective form of punishment than just allowing the mon to sit around.... “

Statement On Malayan Seamen

POTENTIAL DANGER

France maintains a sizeable force, including some regiments of the Foreign Legion, in North Africa, but they are needed for the protec- Canberra, Dec. -The Immigration of Algeria and Tunisia. tion Minister in the House of Re-

Fighting in Palestine might presentatives here has detalled the

Bet circumstances in which the 14 Mala- | the whole Middle East aflame. Tho yan seamen, who were awaiting re United States has no troops in that patriation, entered Australia.

area. Some hope is expressed here that the Jews will be strong enough to protect themselves.

He said the first deserted his ship in 1942 in Australian waters. An- other refused to resign his ship's articles in 1943. A third was per- mitted to sign off his vessel, but he did not sign on again after his leave, ...Three of the Malayans served with the American transport services and were signed off in 1040.

10 Thake any further enquiries, the

Minister said.

"What the Government is doing is in accord with the established practice in Australia, and there is no intention of departing from that, he added Router.

The e state numbers slightly more than 1,000,000 in population. It is surrounded by more than 30,000,- 000 Arabs, However, none of the Arab nations has a trained army equipped with modern weapons.

thousands of

Trapping The Reds

Washington, Dec. 3.-A hunt for methods of ketting legal traps for Communists get under way in Con- gress today. Representative Richard Nixon, Republican of California, said: one possibility is compulsory registration of ali Communists as ngonts of a foreign government.

OVERCROWDING At 8 o'clock Wednesday morning, the roster for eight block cells and the additional cells was as follows:

Cell No. Maximum Capacity No. of

as established by law occupantų

1 mole juveniles

Nixon predicted action at the regular session beginning in January on some kind of legislation to stem Communism in America. He is chairman of the House Un-American male and Activities Subcommittee called gether today to begin looking for the right kind of legislation.-Arsecinted Press.

to-

female

32 male Juveniles 13 female juveniles 13 female Juveniles

1 mala

19 malea

10 mates 4 males

(deportees)

additional celta

18

23

cell

European

bo

Five Die In Crash

CX-

not

Amarillo, Texas, Dec. 3- Five persons died in a two-engine plano crash near Goodnight, Texas, on Tuesday night, oficials deckled to- day,

They believed at first that there was a sixth person on board‚—‚Á‚550-, clated Press.

Among the others, Gome were The nearest approach to it is the brought here from Japan for re-British-trained Arab Legion in patriation. Pending their repatria-TransJordania, a state no longer

seven were signed of vessels in, larger than the now Jewish state. Australia.

Numerically inferior, the Jews,

Washington, Dec. 8. The "Japan, which had a record poor, to supply more food to these nations "Two were married in Slugapore before, coming to Australia. They however can put into the field at people of the Orient will get wheat crop in 1940 has a much larger appear to be going for to offset esti- one in 1947, but as a result of typhoon |mated shortage. The US Agriculture are now living with their

least one regular de. facto

less to eat in the immediato and flood damage, it is probable the Department recently made substan- army unit and Australian wives. I do not intend] #10

tough experienced guerilla fighters. They have the future unless heavy food im- 1047 rice crop will be only equal to tlal allocations of flour or its when

equivalent in behalf of virtually all Jewish brigade, trained and equipped ports are made available to the 1040 crop."

India and Pakistan comprise the Far East countries. cognized success in the last stages and Agriculture Organisation leo crop is estimate wheat by Britain which fought with re- them, the United Nations Food "greatest defleft region, where the

The International Emergency Food by six per the Italian campaign. Their of the

predicted.

cent amaller

crop Council made pimilar recommendz irregulars, the majority of whom

Uons for rice. Military occupation served in other European

"A sorlous deterioration in the nino per cent emailer." armies

"The picture for food altuation (in the Orient) can

continuo before the last

South Korea authorities

supply war, have beeni

crops Japanese and Koreans with Ameri bo provented only by very heavy chows poorer winter grain the spearhead in the und around Imports, FAO maid in a world food than in 1940, but considerably bet- can foodstuffs. The State Department

operations of the past two years,

ter murvey based on mid-November in

and potato

way crops. Burma has under

US$28,000,000 But American observers. believe formation.

for China, "It appears total food and Slam, two surplus rice produc emergency programme that even a largo scalo guerilla production of the Far East may be ing arons, bave rice crops exceeding which is expected to consist prin- London, Dec. 3-in the remaining struggle between the Arabs and Jews about the same as last year, but the last year, but

still below prewer

elpally of foodstufts. five weeks to the end of the year would bring, from Moscow, the offer of population will result in levels," Britain's miners have to produce la station Russian troops in Pales-

SCUPER

Of the world situation, FAO ́ said, production." 19,326,500 tons of coal to reach the fine.

per capita

Indo-China, another surplus zico "Greater efforts at coracrvation and Hero is way FAO saw the producer, has a poorer rica crop international sharing must be made Goverment's target of 200,000,000

food

Bituation

Oriental while slightly improved rice yields if sharp reductions in food consump in various nationa:

are anticipated in the Philippines tion in dofcit areas is to be avoided. China's wheat crop is likely to be and Malayo."

The situation is as critical this year- above last year and Its rice orop Despite the pessimistic outlook as at anytime since the close of about two per cent increased." for Oriental peoples, American efforts World War II”—Associated. Press.

Orient Faces Prospect Of Food Shortage

tons.

Coal Production

"They might come in on a tem .Working overtime inst week | pórary basis,” experts said, "and miners produced 4,203,200 tons of then, you would never then

out."--/ppciated Press.

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