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VOL. II NO. 379

The

Por 176 Trinilitor of HONGKONG TELEGRAPH For and on balzalf of

EOUTH CUINA MORNING POST, LTD.

Manlil

Printer and Publisher,

Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1947.

NEW PHASE IN INDO-CHINA

CRITICAL NEWSPRINT

SITUATION

WAR

Political

Moves

DA

London, Dec. 22-Newsprint for tightly. rationed British

Paris, Dec. 22.-Today, cost more in the civil war in Indo-China newspapers will 1948 and supplies may have to enters its second year, tho be cut later in the year, Mr strife is entering also a new F. B. Bishop. General Manager of the Newsprint Supply Com-phase, in which political in pany, warned tonight in a letter "tead of military

to the press.

are dominant.

manoeuvres

at the French A high ofein!

Up Ministry of Colonien summed

since the Viet Nam the altuation

by Ho Chl Nationalist forces, led Minh, attacked the French garrison at Hanol, the capital of the Tonkin Indo-China, province of northern on December 19, 1940, by saying: given "Military operations have way to police security measures in Indo-China."

The Government, confronted with the details of the Company's dwindl- ing stocks and B "very serious" position over future supplies due to a drought in Scandinavin and re- duced home production, had given An assurance that, for the present, there would be no new cut in the which only a supplies to papers,

reduced to few months ago were their

The central figure in this political lowest wartime size-only four pages for

circulation phase is 34-year-old Bro Dai, thir- mass

teenth hereditary Emperor of Ancam dalies.

from 1920 until his abdication on Earlier today. published evidence March 9, 1945, while Indo-China was presented to the Royal Commission still in the grip of the Japanese. Investigating the British Press quoted Preliminary talks between

the Newspaper Society as declaring | French-educated former Emocench}

this

the

und

which have

Scientific Detecting

The above picture shows the paraphernalia which is used by the Police Identification Bureau for scientific tracking down of criminals, from thieves to forgers. The uses to which these instruments are put are described in the adjoining story.

One Killed In

that "the greatest single threat to French authorities the freedom of the press is the power Indo-Chinese, leaders exercised by successive governments been in progress for several months, under the plea of national necessity culminated in a meeting, on Decca

Dal and the to rallon newsprint."

ber 6. between Bao

High Commissioner, M. Emile This view was strongly supported board a French cruiser in by the Guild of British Newspapers bay off Indo-China shortly before Editors.

Bao Dal conferred with Mr William Bullitt. former American ambassador n Paris, during the latter's tour of the Orient.

SAVE WASTE DRIVE

Mr Bishop called for a new drive to cave waste paper, on the success of which would depend "whether a cut in consumption at some later date in 1940 can be averted."

Mr Bishop mid that the reduced supplies of pulp as a result drought in Scandinavia,

TENTATIVE PROPOSAL

M. Bollaert dew to Paris to confer with his Government soon after his meeting with Bao Dai, and is con- tinuing his conferences with Govern- ment leaders in Paris. At the same visit to London was

of time.

combined Bao Dai's

The Joss

Inter visit to Washington ntle man-

with a fall in products from heme announced, together with a probable

would mean mills.

of 47,000 tons of paper over six months -almost equal to the whole of the permitted imports from Canada and Newfoundland in the same period.

Home production would be duced to 20 per cent after January

I nearly back to the lowest war- time figure.

IC-

"Already, on the present basis of consumption, we are cating into our stock."Reuter.

GALE CASUALTIES

Although there oeuvres have been surrounded by strict secrecy, a high ofeial of the Colonies told French Ministry of Reuter that it had been tentatively roposed that Bao Dui should as- loose the leadership of n sume federation of the three-Annamite-- speaking states of Tonkin, Annam and Cochin-China within the French Union

In French

Air Crash

Nanking, Dec. 23. Latest reports reveal that the co-pilot of the four- engined Belgian airliner which crashed near Kun- Monday ming airfield on was killed, and that nine other persons were slightly injured.

Aboard the plane were 30 Catholic missionaries,

The aircraft was bound for Shanghai and Peiping via Canton when it crashed four miles from Kunming nirfield after taking off Associated Press.

Colonial Ministry erasuram eles It is belleved that the object of Bao Dal's meeting with Mr Bullitt and of his trip to Britain, Holland, United Belgium and possibly the

UNPLEASANT

XMAS GIFT

Dee.

H.K. Chinese Bank Included In

U.S. Big Trader List

LATEST GRAIN

· ALLOCATIONS

of

At the

P&

For Reservations

Price 20 Cents

2788

CRIMINALS ARE SMART, BUT POLICE ARE SMARTER

Skilful Detecting Work By Identification Bureau

(By HARRIET, HARVEY)

Cheung Wah was a clever thief. He planned his burglaries carefully, took precautions and left no evidence so he thought.

Early in the morning of July 6, he watched a house in Peace Avenue, Kowloon, until he was sure that all the occupants were asleep. Then quietly, he prized open the shutters and the grille, removed a pane of glass from the inner door, opened the bolt and entered. Carefully, he stole $1,425 worth of property and escaped. Then he lay low.

and found

them

bo

Was

In the same way, the ultra-violet lamp has proved highly valuable in the detection of persons giving and the receiving "squeeze money."

also The lamp

detects use of difference between real and Imita- under on pearls. A real pearl,

blue, the lamp, shines blue, an Imitation, oleomargarine, black; a rotten egg black and a good egg, blue. black. Likewise, butter is

FINGERPRINTING been

FingerprinUng is the most exact- the work of and intensive on solved during the past year by the ing

This is one case of over thirty of serious crimes which have

A month later, when he thought the police had forgotten about the previous burglary, he tried again. At 4 a.m. on August 6, he cut through a window glass of a house in Ema Avenue, Kowloon and stole more goods. This time, an occupant of the house, awakened and immediately notified the police, Cheung was found hiding in the grass behind the house. Bince the method of entry was watched with 'p' careful eye by the identical to the burglary at Peace Bureau, these forgeries have not Avenue, the police cross-questioned been revealed to the public for Cheung about the previous theft. security reasons in apprehending the Choung persistently denied that he offenders.

The

The lamp also has been succss- knew anything about it

used no evidence. fully

detecting thieves police, he thought, had

evidence. For planted On Aug. B, Cheung appeared be through fore the Kowloon Magistrate, plead-instance: A room has been repeated- ing "guilty" to the second crime and ly burgled in what seems to be an "Inside job." A number of persons "not guilty" to the first.

'The prosecution called to the wit are suspected but no evidence can ness box 8/1 A Morrison, officer-in-be found against any of them. The Charge of the Identification Bureau. room. is then covered with an invi-. called Antracene. All sus- Inspector Morrison testifed that on sible powder, Washington, Dec. 23.-The Hang Seng Bank of Hong-

July 7 he had examined the pane of Anchier burglary occurs. kong, named as holding 270,000 bushels of wheat on

Avenue and had pected persons are placed under the glass from Peace speculative account, was among the foreign names

found fingerprints which he photo-ultra-violet lamp. The man who has traders included in the 771 big-trader list released by graphed and flied in his "un-solved come in contact, with the Antracene crimes" folder. A month Inter, will, under the lamp, give off a The man is the Secretary of Agriculture Mr. Clinton Anderson today.

when he fingerprinted Cheung, he bright yellow glow. Edwin W. Pauley was the only compared the two sets of. finger- caught and convicted. active

on the prints government official

identical. partial list.

Hearing

Cheung Anderson

additional

the evidence, promised Usta from time to time,

interrupted Inspector Morrison and It was a senatorial Investigation shouted from the dock, "I admit

the of Pauley special assistant to the the charge. What is Secretary of the Army that led to denying it when the Inspector has Washington, Dec. 22. The congressional action authorising to proved the fingerprints on the glass Agriculture Department today reveal names of traders to help in to be mine?" Cheung was convicted

the hunt for those reportedly profit- on two charges. announced that 995,500 long ing in grain speculation.

BUREAU'S EQUIPMENT Anderson's tons of wheat, wheat products

report revealed n and oats, or 37,654,000 bushels. rapid increase in the number acknowledged large speculators had been allocated for, export

the commodity markets during the Police Department's Identification Bureau, Whenever a criminal jo for next February.

past year.

In October last year Bureau, probably the most modern caught, his fingerprints are taken Allocations included 9,300 bushels there were 60 of them Ilsted, but Paris.

23. Finance

and best equipped bureau in the and fled according to fingerprint Characteristics. In this way, if a Cave of wheat for China, 27,000 of wheat by the same month this year there For East Minister Rene Mayer

To help solve Hongkong's swedp- man has previous convictions, his and 12,000 of flour for India, 10,000 were 230-Associated Press, Frenchmen ап unwelcome

MORE TO COME

ing post-war crime wave, the Intl record can be easily found even if when of four for the Netherlands East present today Christmas

name. Over a Bureau has Indies, 72,000 of wheat and 10,000 of) Washington, December 22-The, fication

changes his completely he he attached a number of silff tax, four for occupied Japan and the Secretary of Agriculture, Mr Cllaton modernised its equipment and per-thundred sets of fingerprints are sent increases

his overall pro- bolstering

Ryukyus, and 10,000 four for the Anderson, published today a list of sonnel. In addition to an extensive to the Identification Burea French

Philippines.

771 socalled

big traders in the com- fingerprint dle and fingerprint ex-day to be checked for previous re-

gh the cords. And although perts, the Bureau has dive cameras He announced lax hikes

modity futures markets. Un This boosted the export of grain

The names colonial and allocations for

included Edwin with special lens for crime photo now has 120,000 fingerprint forms radios, night clubs,

the oight

Panicy, spect

speciai ascistont to the graphy an

an ultra-violet lamp for on file, a set of angerprints can be petroleum products as the national March 1 to 401,000,000 bushels. The Secretary of the Army, but no other detecting forgeries and for apprehen-traced within two minutes and sent next for the assembly neared approval of the government hopes to export 570.000, Government employees were on this suspected criminals, a type-back to the police economic programme,

|000 bushels during the 12 months list, which Mr Anderson said was a writer identiftention file, a uhofostat-day's hearing at: court. ready includes a heavy tax on ending June 30, The February "partial one."

projectors machine, special

and As in the case of Cheung Wah, profits and incomes in the upper allocation was compared

are taken at the scene Mr Pauley testified before the developers. It is run by Scotland- Ongerprints brackets.

which no one has allocated for fienate Cominittco that he had large trained Inspector Morrison, an exon sprehended and are fled for The Assembly got down to dis-34,014,000

been when he pert on photography, fingerprints, cussion of Individual articles in the January.

occupied programme and it was indicated that zone in Germany received the big the Army, but said that he had been ding Chinese) identification.

arrested persons are compared with

event that Anal approval would not come until rest February wlihdraw financial support

quota, 180,000 long getting rid of them. It was believed

The most spectacular of the new this fle, in the from the fund. The dollar-for- tomorrow morning.

1009 of grain

Italy equivalent.

The publication

of traders' names crime-delecting devices is the ultra- decused has committed a previous two or three days more would be dollar contribution is an Incen-

received 177,000 long tone-United will be only the first step in” o violet lamp, of which the Bureau crime, undetected, government's| volo the needed to

Chan Fal stole Last January, tive to private donors to continue

Congressional attempt to learn has two. Its uses are many and total budget of 900,000,000,000 francs to rive, and it is as well to bear

(US$7,600,000,000).

Associated

whether there is any connection varied. A note forged by crasure motor out of a car. In mind that Government contri-

between

Government food buying unnoticed by the naked eye, will caught but his fingerprints (which butions eventually aro derived

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speculations, Senator be detected by the lamp through the he left on the car) were recorded. up from the public purse. Instend

Homer

verguson, of Michigan, salt, i adherence of carbon used to make #ctober 17, he was picked fund al abandoning the

He said that the Senate Appro- the erasure. Carbon, under the lamp by the police as a "suspected per

By his fingerprints, he was Government together.

Belgrade, Dec, 22-Father Albing priations Sub-Committee, which he gives off a bright blue glow. In the son"

with the motor identified Gomeiro, one of a group of monks heads, will be ready to go into the same way, a counterfeited note which ident easily afford to continue its dollar- for-dollar contribution : to

nine months. anual maximum of $1,500,000,

ntation for transmitting millitary in-

on January 6,

ly the same colour as an authorised had committed

has in the fund of an thus assuring

Jerusalem, Dec. 22-Foreign in- formation to a spy centre. abroad,

we want to find out is note, will, when placed under theviously.

The Identification Bureau Income necessary at least to

surance companies in Palestine are was sentenced today to 10 years whether any persons who were in a lamp, give off an entirely different

file of all types of typewriters. maintain

colour. fis

ta commitments to no longer issuing Insurance policies, forced labour, the Yugoslav News position to know what the Govern

PLANTED EVIDENCE Within five minutes, the make, typo those qualifying for assistance. including cover for death caused by Agency reported, from Pola, south ment was going to buy, and when it The matter definitely calls for

riota, British insurance official of Tricsic.

was going to buy, used that informa- By this method, the Bureau has and age of a typewriter used in an Inquiry on the part of the Un-

The sal here today.

other

defendants received tion to their own, advantage," he detected numerous forgeries during anonymous letter can be traced...

HANDWRITING BRANCH past few months. Although Tomorrow is the deadline for sentences ranging from, three to six sald-Reuter. officials. The work of the War Memorial Fund Committee

During the past year, the hand- most British insurance companies 10 years forced labour. onerous enough in all conselence, end the "riot" cover, he said.

When the trial began, the pro-

writing branch of the bureau bas invaluable in detecting crimes proved i and the chairman

bas made li Companies had previously re-secution alleged that in March, 1947, and Americans

documents, threatening clear on several occasions, that fused to accept life policies to cover before the British

vlotters deihanding money will unless more generous subscrip- riots for "hazardous occupations," handed Pola over to the Yugoslavs

Washington, Dec. 22, which added China to the emer and letters

which menaces. By comparing unusual tions are forthcoming and main-

relief programme. such as the police and army, when under the terms of the Italian peace.

characteristics in two

two documents. disturbances broke out in Palestine, treaty, Father Gomeiro agreed "to America's foreign policy in ency

a special but death as a result of rioting has, work actively for a foreign espionage China was described as "com- session, Mr Judd rald, in a state or prove that the two docu-

Congress approved in.

son can almost un Inspector: Morrison in-service.Reuter. always been covered by fe

plete failure" by the Republican ment, that milltary goods could be doubtedly surance for "normal civilian occupa

representative, Mr Walter Judd, turned over to China from stock tlon," the official added.-Router.i

of Minnesota, today,

pilca already existing there.

Vienna, Dec. 22. Five people States, is to assure himself that he were today reported killed and over has the requisite international sup- 100 injured in a gale raging over port for the job. Vienna for the past 15 hours.

Many buildings were ruined thousands of bricks and tiles

down blown Several roads were blocked by de- bris-Router.

federation

Under the new French constitution and such an Indo-Chinese were would be largely autonomous with- the streets. In its boundaries, but its Into

exports and imports and its diplomatic re- (Continued on Page 4)

EDITORIAL

War Memorial Fund

IF Government's decision to

cense

mitted that public response to

the

the appeal dollar-for-dollar

the Over

last six months has not been notable, but contribution to the War Memorial

Uis is no excuse for Government Fund as from the end of this year

to was intended. to spur 3. more

public response ready

to the

before appeal

January, 1348, it has served alimited purpose. aut whether the short-term polloy concerning Government's In the promotion of the share fund

can be justified is another. malter. Many are disgusted at

bo what in considered

of respon- cynical abandonment

sibility, more especially, as the decision appears to have been made at the dictates of the Im-'

gratuitous

Ctumni of interference by re-

Whitehall

mate Treasury

The mote control. Treasury bolds Hongkong's purse sirfugs and by this

and other actions has demonstrated that it intends to pull them according to faney. If Whitehall desired to make us feel humillatod it could not have chosen a better method. We still do not appreciate, how- ever, why the Imperial Govern- ment should get away with this sort of action. It may be true

"that the Colony is indebted, but it is not hopelessly insolvent. We are astared of a food surplus on working account for the year

P ending next March, we have

and we 'assets, number of liquid are floating our own rehabilita tion loan umetent indications

of

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tained it will be difficult, if not Impossible, to carry out the fall designs of the fund: wherefore, any reduction in Income, whether from private or Government. con- Iribations, must complicate and retard the work of the adminis trators.

These and all the other associated - withị the factors War Memorial Fund should be alred by the Unofficials' in Legis.

flint Hongkong's · Anances' are = { ·lative Counoff, backedˇby a re¬

buoyant and pertainty capable of bearing IR annual dollar-for- dollar subscription to the Wat Memorial Funde It, must be ad-

solution to be sent to the Bocra tary of Blate for the Colonics ex- pressing the feelings of the pubife con,the, aubject.

gramme economy.

for

Press,

al- which

RIOT RISK

POLICIES OUT

0

Press.

bustic's

months

with

holdings in commodities

for

each

bureau

American-British took the job of Under-Secretary of typewriter and handwriting (inclu-future reference, All Bagerprints of

Monk Sentenced

accused

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On

the

He was not

theft

of having a secret radiospe question

when Congress appears to the naked eye to be exact and convicted of a crime which he

22.-

+

the

U.S. Policy In China Attacked

one

pro

A

ments were either written, or not written by the same person. If one characterista compares favourably YACHT WRECKED

Ho said that the Congressional authorisation of $00,000,000, credit to "The release of these supplies with a characteristle in another document, there are ten chances to Train Collision

Kai-shek would actually give us relief from that the documents have been Marseilles Generallsalmo Chlang London, Dec. 1

now Incurred in storage on you Harbour Radio today reported that would force the State Department the costs

written by the same hand. Inspec tor Morrison, usually Ands at least Mexico City, Dec. 29-One per the four-masted yacht Le Capitaine to abandon plans for "economic ald" and guarding," he said.. Adn was killed and 51 injured, six Guyomard (353 tons) was wrecked in favour of military aid, and, ho

evidente. When 18 seriously, when two passenger near the mouths of the Ebro River, predicted that Congress would give Mr Judd said that not one shell 1d characteristic likenesses before trains collided head on, on Sunday at off Spain, on her way from Oban to China $60,000,000 before the end of had been turned over to the Chinese produclb"

Nationalists since May, 1946, when characteristics compare favourably, January.

10. „housands

milion "neutral the chances aro Department's Esperanza, the halfway point on the Marsolles

A former missionary to Ching and the State Two of the row of 13 wore rt-

·Mexico City-Vora Cruz -rdliway - Associated Press.

parted drowned-Heuter.

the chief, spokesman for the group polley" went into effect Router