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VOL. III NO. 135

No Birthday

Parade

Rain this morning caused the cancellation of the King's Birthday Parade 'which was to have taken place at Happy Valley.

In spite of the weather, certain detachments In- cluding the Royal Navy, had taken up their posi- tions, while the field guns wore also ready in place for the firing of the Royal Salute.

Even as late as 8.45 some people, braving the elements, were arriving at the jockey Club Stands only to see the last of the field guns being removed from the parade ground.

Death Of

Mr Bertie Muskett

The

“gné, thy Trivietice of

HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL Fer and on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA MOZNING POST, L'TII,

Ennier and

hongkong Telegraph.

Bernadotte To Call A Peace Conference

Palestine Fighting Ceases Tomorrow

Cairo, June 9.-Count Folke Bernadotte announced tonight a four-week armistice in Palestine will start at 6 a.m. GMT on Friday. Count Bernadotte, United Nations Mediator, immediately asked military observers to supervise the cease fire.

He announced a peace conference to attempt to per- manently end the bloodshed in the Holy Land.

He said Arab and Jews have accepted the UN truce proposal without conditions.

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Count Bernadotte said he will call the peace conference possible on the neutral Mediterran- con island of Rhodes, n Greek pos- session. The conference would at- tempt to mediate the long range

issues involved in the Palestine war. Mr Trygve Lle, Secretary General was seeking six const patrol vessels and 03 military officers to supervise compliance with the cease-fire terms. The mediator will establish his headquarters on

Mr H. W. B. ("Bertie") of the UN, said at Lake Success that

Muskett, an old and highly respected resident, died this morning at St Teresa's Hospital, after an illness of some months.

He was 55 years of age.

Mr Muskelt came to Hongkong from Singapore as a child and com- pleted his education in Hongkong.

Leaving school, he joined Messrs A. S. Walson & Co., but shortly afterwards left to join the Hongkong Electric Company, with whom he has been associated for about 31 years.

A keen sportsman, the late Mr Muskett played cricket for Craigen- Tower in his younger days, was a first-class oarsman for the VRC, and later devoted much attention to lawn bowls, playing in the league for the Hongkong Electric:

Mr Muskett leaves a widow and two children, who are at present in Australia.

The funeral will be held tomorrow at u time yet to be fixed.

Count Bernadotte

about 550

nir

Ithodes. This is miles from Jerusalem.

Secretary-General Lie said under United present arrangements, the

whit Belgium States, France and supply both the ships and the mili- tary observera,

rules out, nt This apparently

Russian ro- least temporarily, a quest that they supply some of the military observers.

TEAMS ACCEPTED

Count Bernadalte announced Arabs and Jews had accepted the terms. Trans-Jordan cease-fire had already ordered is "comman- ders and forces in the field to cense fire as from the hour and date

fixed."

PIGEON HUNTING was made public in the form of a

IN MONTMARTE

The medintor's announcement

letter to the Egyptian government, Premier Nokrashy Pasho

which released,

THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1948.

effect, there may be many outbreaks which would endanger the armis- Ucc.-Associated Press.

AUTOFORÉZCSZEREGISTRYN EKSTANTMAN DESIN 25 21 40 12 14 ZOTIN (AZENZA ADMI

Hongkong's

Airport

London, June 0 Proposals for the construction of a new airport at Hongkong are being "urgently considered" by the Colonial

Office, other Govern ment departments nd the Hongkong Government.

Mr Arthur Creech Jones, the Colonial Secretary, sald this in reply to question in the House of Commons today.

When Mr Anthony Eden, Conservative, said he hoped thai financial considerations would not be final in this matter, Mr Creech Jones replied:

The House may take it for granted that, for all practical purposes, the financial matter IN now Kettled."

He added that he was "fully aware of the Inadequacy of the present arrangements" at the

airport.-Neuter,

III.K.'s New Knight

The King's Birthday Honours List Issued today is notable for the conferment on the Hon. M. K. Lo of a knight- hood. Sir Man Kam Lo (above) receives this honour for long and meritorious public service.

DEPUTIES IN PITCHED BATTLE

Rome, June 9.-Three de- puties were injured in a 20- minute pitched battle between Christian Democrats and Com- munists in the Italian Chamber At Tenat of Deputies tonight. 200 members were involved.

Fists,

feet and furniture freely used during the batte, which occurred during a debate on the Government's programme.

rang

were

While the Chamber President alarm the strident electric bell, signalling the suspension of the session and that the Chamber Hall should be cleared, the deputies wrestled on the floor.

Inttwells and heavy leather Nume despatch cases were hurled across

the room.

17 YEAR-OLD

GIRL TAMES

A BURGLAR

The tumult arose during a bit- ter exchange of epithets in which the Communiste

ihe alluded to Vatican Influence on the Christian Democrats.

Government supporters replied equally insultingly. The Com- munists and extremo Socialists

Paris; June 8-The Police today Announcement of the cease-fire fined musician Georges- Bobin-for hour raised -hopes-that-at-last- violating French hunting laws in ❘ after

UN six trics the

would the heart of Paris' teeming Mant-succeed in bringing at least a martre district.

temporary peace to the Holy Land. Bohin, according to the Police, It has been torn by strife for two lured pigeons with handfuls of brend years and by open warfare since Brekford, England, June 9. then left their seats in a solid group

and charged the crumbs and then hit them on the May 15. It was realised that even-Shapely Evelyn Constance benches. head with a bat.-United Press it on actual cease-fire goes Into Wright, 17, told the Court to-

Signor Alcide do Gispert, day how she tamed a house Christian Democft Premier, burglar.

his main political opponent, Signor Miss Wright ሰዋ awakened Palmiro Togliatti, the Communist around midnight on May 14 by a leader, both watched the, battic.- flashlight in her eyes. She saw a Reuter. man with a gun.

EDITORIAL

60 Men And A Child

WHEN, some months ago, this

Walls

moro

were

paper exposed to the pubile the appalling conditions under which prisoners were kept in the detention cells at Central, there was much hurrying and scurry- Ing by various departments to give the cells at least an outward

decency. appearance of

cleaned and floors were

and women regularly segregated from men. The funda mental weakness remained, how-

the

total namely, Inadequacy of the cells in respect, to space, lighting and ventilation. Nor today is there any improve-

the contrary ment: on scandal has come to light, This week, in a detention cell whose measurements permitted officially nine Ismates, were crowded

ayer:

new

00

kept with him.

one day 60 men and a little girl of three years old. The child's father was in the cell awaliing deportation; the

kirl, possessing no mother or other relatives, had to be She was held in these detestable, surroundings for several hours and was only freed from her torture when the father pleaded that the child was From the overcrowded, evil-smelling, stiging bole of shame

and Indignity she was taken to the charge room where she was abla to loss down, obtain some fresh air, and be given some milk Th horrifying story points a Bager

the

of condemnation not only at the complelo

of inadequacy detention cells in Central, but at the crass stupidity of officials who can permit a child of three to be herded together for hours on end (all ́with (0 · fully grown men -

criminals of varying degrees) In an area approved only for nine

And people. Nor can wo

any shocking Justification for such overcrowding. Judged by general Central standards, cisowhere the

to

UC

fact

"He said if I didn't keep quiet! he would shoot," she said, "He told me to get out of bed and take my pyjamas off. I refused at first, then he took my coat off. He put his pistol down and twice attempted, to The first hit me under the chin. time he caught me a glancing blow.

on the bed, This awakened

Government.

the and

Rice Price Hits New Peak

10, Continuing

detention cells should not contain more than five people at any one time. This has been stretched, reluctaully, to uinc by the But if the medical 'authorities. Police are going to be allowed cram 00 men into thai cell, particularly

this hot in

and

I threw myself on him and he fell Shanghal, June- unhealthy, weather, thère is grim riak of some sudden deaths

my its spectacular rise, the price of rice sister, who was in her bed, and she this morning reached the all-time being credited to the authorities. Five months ago it was suggested called out. I told her it was a night-peak of CN$8,300,000 per picul, com- by the Pollee to the FWD that

mare pa

ла did not want her to be pared to only $8,000,000 last week. some empty offices on the north

Rice merchants blame curtailed frightened. side of the Central compound be

"I lay on the bed and he lay be- shipments from the hinterland for erted conv

Into

side me and dozed off to sleep. He the unprecedented price spurt. dormitories equipped with proper ventilation was quiet and I was not really During the past few days, rice and and sanitation which could

frightened then. He woke me up cotton yarn (which increased 15 per Instead used

of the detention

just before 2 a.m. We had a con- cent in price yeditles

have be- versation cells. Nothing. It seems, has been

and eventually he left,

in tho come pleptal about five, through the front win-current price spiral. dane about that. But the remains that something

Another dow. He has

for promised me he would got

reason

the price to be done. Sixty men in a cell

give himself up to the police."

is rumour Jumps

the

that a new intended for nine la not Joke. The burglar, 17-year-old George currency, known as "silver dollar Could not, for example, some of Cammachi, kept his word. He gave notes" worth about $700,000 of the the police stailon cells in the mid

himself up at the first

police-present currency, will be issued in and upper levels, which.bre not

two months' time-Reuter. No much in use, be made available for the temporary internees the Central detention cella? would mean faking the prisoners to and fro in a police van, but this is a small point of incon- ventence. Some time ago, the Police Commissioner, at a conference, discussed priorities with regard to the restoration of police stations and the housing of police personnel. It is our con- tention

provision of that the proper detention cella should have an light a priority as the rebuild- Inu of

police siallon: furthermore, It is suggested that if the PWD are too busy or too short-staffed to

that carry out work, it should immediately put out to tender,

of

press

be

the

The Colony's good name is in leopardy If anthorities continue to permit

00 men to be berded together in a space Intended for nino; denied too the mlalmum in lighting, ventilation and sanitary facilities.

station-United Press.

BRITAIN & U.S. ACCEPT 6-POWER

AGREEMENT

Invitation To Russia

London, June 9.-Britain and the United States tonight announced their acceptance of the six-power London agreement on Germany, while the French Foreign Minister, M. Georges Bidault, was fighting for the life of his Government in defence of the plan. M. Bidault won his first victory tonight when the Na- tional Assembly's Foreign Affairs Commission approved the plan by a one-vote majority. The narrow vote, also a motion of confidence in the administration, came after the Commission had "cross-examined" the French Foreign Minlater for three hours on the London pact. It is ex- pected that the full French Assembly will give ita approval by a small majority when the crucial vote is taken on Fri- day, a Reuter Paris cable said.

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At the

For

P.G.

Reservations

Announcing their acceptances,tions, cuarantee basic civil liberties both Mr George Marshall, the Ame for the Individual, and provides for rlena Secretary of State, and Mr the ultimate adherence of all the German states as soon as circums- Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, indicated that Russia was invited to tonces permit." come in-on conditions.

"The United States believes that

Mr Marshall told his press con- ference in Washington tonight that the London programme will stand the lest of experience and that it 1 Russia allowed "is zone to join

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Prico 20 Cents

A Tropical Depression

At Go'clock this morning, a tropical depression (not a typhoon) was within 60 miles of latitude 21.4 N and longitude. 114.3 E moving west-north-west at five knols. The Royal Ob- servatory warned that winds would probably

FUNDLY reach gulo

force in the centre.

The depression first began yesterday evening but there was not a single report of gale force, the wind not exceeding 30 mpit

The worst was over between 7 and 8 o'clock this morning when. thero Word henvy squalls and from now on pressure should rise and the wind slowly fall.

Information reaching the Ob servatory concerning the de- pression has been very scanty but the depresalon was un- usual in that it moved south- West thus coming in line with the longitude of the Colony.

Further

Birthday Honours

the Western areas of Germany, it conditions can be developed for its would remove "the principal obstacle it would resolve the issues

Application to Germany as a whole,

which London, June 9.- Tho to the development of a peaceful have, thus for, divided Europe."

Germany following names are selected, He insisted, however, that Russia under occupation powers and from the full list of the King's

would, thereby, remove the prin- must first guarantee individual - cipal obstacle to the development of Birthday Honours. berties and freedom of trade, agreca peaceful Europe."

to a joint export-import programme und halt reparations.

FRENCH FEARS Mr Bevin told Parliament that the British approval of the plan did not mean an abandonment of the hope for four-power agreement,

General Sir Alan Cunningham. until recently... High Commissioner Mr Marshall said he, had no and Commander-in-Chief in Pales- knowledge

of prese reports from line, is promoted to the highest London that an agreement between degree of the Order of Saint Michael

France Britain,

United and Saint George-Knight Grand States was imminent on the ques- Cross tion of resuming reparations deli

and the

Constan-

Paris

He said: "We are still in favour. veries, cut off since the middle of the same award is made to Baron Wright, who has been chairman of of the economic and political unity last year, from Western Germany, to the United Nations War Crimes Com- of Germany,

but that must.ba esta- Russia.

mission since January 1910. Hatтe-:- blished on proper principles."

aigned last year after 15 years as a have been under Lord of Appeal. "Negotiations Mr

recognised Marshall

"easily As understandable" the French fears way for a considerable time on that

Among those receiving

the of a revived

militarism subject, but as yet no sercement has Knights Commander aro German

Charles which underlie the hostile criticisms been reached", he declared...

Brinsley Pemberton Penke, Britain's M. Bidault is facing in Paris.

Ambassador

and Taking note of the French · con-

Extraordinary The French Foreign Minister spent troversy over the London agree- Plenipotentiary at Belgrade, who has three hours defending the agreement and the fears expressed there served in Tangier, Soda, ment before the National Assembly's on the possible Inadequacles of the tinople, Tokyo, Berne and Foreign Affairs Commission. As military guarantees contained

In and John O. Troutbeck, head of the result of his efforts, lobby cireles said, it was expected that the French The feeling of the French public Chief Civil Assistant to the British

them, the Secretary of State cald: British Middle East Office, Calro.

Sir William Dawson former National Assembly would approve is easily understandable becauGO the plan by a small majority when they have suffered terribly because Resident Minister in the

Middle is put to the vote on Friday.

of German military operations. The French Cabinet was reported

"The problem involves obtaining to be divided tonight on the question of Joining the proposed currency a balance between the necessity of German economic recovery for the reform for Western Gehe Soviet good of all Europe and the danger chosen jast

In Berlin today, authorities natly rejectexi a British that certain segments of German in- request that the Russians should dustry might be revived to a certain plan for 400,000,000 people, bc- comes Commander of the Order of would constitute a evacuate Berlin's broadcasting house, extent that it situated in the British sector.

at some future | the British Empire. -- Associated threat to Europe

Press. The Soviet Chief of Staff, date."-Reuter. Lieutenant General Mihail Dratvin, said the British claim was "bose- ICES"

because the radio which serves the Britisir zone, has been under Russian control since before the British troops entered Berlin.

MEETING POSTPONED

His

Alexis altend

The three Western commanders in Berlin agreed tonight to post- pone the next meeting of the Allied Kommandatura from June 11 to June 16. The Russian commander, In- General Alexander. Notkov, formed

and the British, French United States commanders that he was and would not be able to attend a meeting next Friday,

Colonel deputy, Yelisarov, also could not then, since, it was stated, "he had not the time to inform himself on the matters under discussion."

in Berlin A British spokesman raid tonight that all the items on fully the agenda had been discussed at

trading at- at previous tended by Colonel Yelisarov,

Mr Marshall, in his Washington

conference, press

the United States

held that the political unity of Germany Mr Marshall believed that the constitution for a Federal Germany to be drawn up by the Germans themselves would "Insure the normal tanctioning of free political institu-

that

that

bas cenfly

New Currency For Western Germany

Frankfurt, Juno

9.--Some longer be the main medium of 4 Increased production induced

by "hard" profits. time this month the Western exchange.

Other results of the new money

enter- 5. Unemployment-pome Allies will fulfil their promise will be:

prises which have existed on and give the Germans in their 1.

will shady economy will be forced to Reduced prices--nobody Zones a new

money in ex-be able to pay today's high infla-close their doors. change for the near-worthless tion prieca in marks. Prices, jumped.

Hermann Peunder, Bizonal "chief here after consumer goods produc-.

·reform reichsmarks, authoritativo tlon dropped and the

reichsmark executive," said currency German sources said today. has been worth about one-tenth at would be created by Military Gov- ernment law. Ho said that his ad- original value. This will be- the most decisiva 2. A sumclent supply of con- ministration hoped that substantial Germany's zumer goods-industry withheld Allied food and raw material im- since the almost 80 percent of its production ports would enable industry to raise war. The mark will once again be for this event. The present sellors production and meet the extensive worth a mark.

become a buyers' demand. market will market.

move for Western economic reconstruction

At. the first sign of an imminent The new money is 'expected to 3. Tax reform is scheduled to money conversion, blackmarket work a near-miracle on the stricken follow shortly

in this Bizonal capital after the lasue of operatorz the new money. Income as well-ar German economy.

have held back their goods, while Most important result will be property taxes will be reduced, prices have jumped. Nobody wants abolition of blackmarketing

marks im- in This will lead to a lower State to cash the worthless Trizonia, expected within three incomp... and result: in extensive mediately before reform.--United months, Cigarettes will then no dismissal of staff.

Press.

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