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VOL. III NO. 137

Palestine Truce Violations

BOTH SIDES MAKE CHARGES

London, June 11---Charges and counter-charges of truce violation marked the first day of the four weeks United Nations' truce in Palestine. By tonight the Arabs had reported four specific Jewish infractions of the cease-fire during which Count Folke Bernadotte will try to negotiate peace. The U.N. mediator would be told, the Arabs said. The Jews claimed the Arabs were continuing to attack in some sectors.

All reporta-Jews, Arab and neutral-indicated that the truce, coming after six · months and twelve days of bloody conflict was an uneasy one. Orders for the cease- firo came from both sides at 6 am. (GMT), the hour fixed by Count Bernadotte. the day brought these charges:-

Average Rainfall Exceeded

The Royal Observatory this morning reported that the 'Colony's average rainfall from January 1 until midnight last night had been passed.

Arabs:

The Trans-Jordan Legion officially

violated reported that Jews

the Lease-tire 7 a. m. (GMT) by n burnt

of small arms are in the Musrara quarter of Jerusalem in which a Legion soldier was killed.

Απ authoritative Trans-Jordan source In Amman said the Jews

attacks were continuing

against East Syrian forces

Mishmar of selUement Hayarden, Jewish

In North-eastern Palestine.

But

lof about 2,000 Egyptian roops which had been cut off from a main

Egyptian column on the const for a week.

From sunset to dawn Jerusalem wan shaken by continual explosions an Trans-Jordán Legløn guns batter- ed Jewish districts and Zionist artil- lery replied.

the

In Tel-Aviv, a communique cald

Ierncil

Air Force bombed the Syrian capital of Damascus in the Anal night hours before cease-fire. More than three tons of high ex- plosives were dropped in 15 minutes. the Jews said.-Associated Press.

SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 1948.

Plane Dives MIGHTY DON

Into Water ·

Halifax, Nova Scolla, June 11. -Lleut. Nigel Douglas Flaber, aged 27, son of Admiral Sir Douglas Blacke Fisher, Britain's fourth sea lord, was killed when his Royal Navy twin engined Sea Hornet orashed in the harbour In Halifax Nova Scotia today.

Fashor who arrived on June 1 with the Royal Navy's 806 squadron on the new Canadian carrier Magnificent was on routine training exercise when the plane took a steep dive into the water.

With other members of his unit considered to be the six "hottest" pilots of the Royal preparing to

Navy tio туда participate in

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memoraling Air Forco Day in Halifax on Bunday.--Associated Fress.

Magnetic Mine Sinks

Steamer

150 Lives 'Feared Lost.

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Reservations

TEST CENTURY

Australia 128 Ahead,

6 Wkts In Hand

Trent Bridge, Nottingham, June 11---Australia ended the second days' play of the first Test match against England in a strong position. They had scored 293 runs for four wickets in reply to Eng- land's first innings' total of 165.

Don Bradman, the Australian captain, was 130 not out and Hassett 41 not out when stumps were drawn. This is Bradman's 28th Test century and his fifth three-figure innings of the tour.

Jim Laker, the Surrey bowler, who rescued England in the first innings, against distinguished him. self today by taking the first three Australian wickets. When Miller foll to Laker, the latter's analysis was 12.4 overs, five maidens, 22 runs, three wickets.

The fourth wicket that fell With Barnett concentrating on during the day went to Norman bowling on and outside Bradman's Yardley, who, in his first over, ac- leg stump to a packed leg field, and counted for Brown.

Young still trying mainly to keep down runs, the scoring became very slow before in. The .crowd, now about 25,000, barracked mildly as Bradman and Hassett played a suc-, cession of maiden overs.

Australia went to tea leading by

An official Trans-Jordan source said the Jews again violated the cease-nre by an attack at 11 am. MISSION ARRIVES (GMT) on the town of Lydda and Halfa June 11-Seven American d Khyor arca with Naval and Marine officers and onG the Wadi

Then came a long and sometimes machine guns and light weapons. Swedish army officer, arrived in In all

said the Arabs, Jewish Palestine today

uninteresting stand by Bradman cases,

to supervise the Copenhagen, June Are was not returned.

and Hasset who added 108 runs, United Nations cense-fire between magnetic mine is believed to Actually, England restricted Syria sent a telegram to Count the Arabs and the Jews. The fast have sent the Danish steamer, tourists to 370 runs in six hours.

the protesting Bernadotte

a group of military observers to arrive Kjobenhavn (1,688 tons) to the

Bradman, showing his best form, Jewish plane flew over Damascus at Haifa was headed by Col. Erik de bottom of tho sea of Jutland to- / completed his 28th century in Test 50 runs with four wickets down. Between midnight and B o'clock some hours after the cease-fire and Lavaleof of the Swedish army.

of rain was chased away. this morning 2.70 jaches

He said the rest of the Belgian, day with the feared loss of 150 (Damascus had recorded, and the tropical were

and American lives, according to an official of depression which first made its pre- during the night by the Israeli Air officers will come into Palestine on the Danish Admiralty. ·

The total rainfall for the year is now 28.66 inches against an average of 28.54.

that

J

been bombed French,

sence felt in Hongkong late Wed- Force). nesday night, has yielded

JEWISH ALLEGATIONS the Colony a total of 11% Inches of rain.

STORMY NIGHT Hongkong experienced

of traffic.

Jows:

· A Tel-Aviv· communique spoke of | a heavy Arab attack at 10.30, a.m.

road In

Swedish

both Jewish and Arab sides as

cir- cumstances permit, Associated Press.

starmy (GMT) on the Sedjera sefilement IS BEVIN

con-

tinuing to attack their sectors but TO RETIRE?

plosions were heard,

The rea-

Degaussing apparatus-usd Ex- tensively during the war to render ships immuno from this type mine-was

to not fitted Kjobenhavn.

Danish naval experts have begun

the

land.

cricket and his 15th against Eng- WONDERFUL CATCH Young, left arm slow, and Laker, off break, shared England's attack scoreboard after lunch when the Pread 104 runs for one wicket. Al- though no English player was nearer than 15 yards from the bat, Barnes Laker's offside feld with a square

Immediate enquiries to establish pierced off drive and

on

This was his fifth

Bradman continued to bat com. fidently and completed his century in three and a half hours, out of 183 runs scored. century of the tour.

The Test scoreboard: England: First Innings

Australia: First Innings:

Darnes, o Evans, b Laker. Morris, b Laker Bradman, not out

| Miller, e Edrich, b Laker

Brown lhw, b Yardley

Hasselt, not out

full Bedser

Extras

night. Although the average wind on the Afulch-Tibering force was only 17 knols, one short, I lower Galllec. The communique sharp and isolated gust registered jaiso charged the Arabs with

how the mine came to be within an cut in the same over. Runs came 56 knots.

established sea lane, causing Den- easily until at 121 when wonder- Comparable to this was an occa-did not name them.

mark's worst peacetime sen disaster.ful catch by the wicket-keeper, slon in 1935 when a single

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Correspondents in Jerusalem re- London, June 11-Foreign

Tonight, 225 of those. 05 registered

theported that random shooting while

board Evans, dismissed Barnes, knots

con Secretary Ernest Bevin's office the Kjobenhavn were known to have

Barnes slashed at a rising ball average was 15.

tinued there for six minutes after

Just short of a length. Everyone The heavy rain dislodged a fair-the deadline, then quiet descended reported on Tuesday that Mr been rescued.

expected to see the ball flashing to sized boulder on to Harlech Road, ou, the battle

Bevin will not seek re-election lines.

DIVERS AT WORK

the boundary, but Evans was right although the ro

road is not

The all Jewish city of Tel-Aviv from his present district in the wholly closed.

small boulder be-had an air raid alert 80 Another

minutes 1950 elections.

Divers were

struggling beneath over on the off side, and his right come dislodged alongside the Peak after the cease-fire hour.

the turbulent waters of the Kaite-hand almost made contact with the the ball which bat as he parried track, but there has been no disson was not disclosed and no ex- Mr Devin's future political plans gate to release bodies trapped in the few from his glove into the air. Edrich location of

have not been definitely settled,wreckage and planes were still flying "A" "Royal"

yal Observatory official said Both sides had "atlucked strongly Foreign Office kesman ex-ever the scene in search of survivorn, Swinging and diving

"Evans · caught the ball- one Barneli this

but that the morning

present in the last hours before the cease-plained,

added.. that Bevin The Kjobenhavn, on its way from hand inches from the turt squally weath would tend to de- Arc.

"doubtless" will run in some other Copenhagen to the North

Danish

The umpire,, Cooks, at the bow- Laker that crease during the day, but

15 the South, Egyptian tanks district.

port of Aalborg, struck the mine further rainfall must be expected. broke through to relleve a spearhead which has recently been current in intel of Lemfjord, leading to the

The new move revived speculation miles off the const as it neared theer's end consulled Umpire Chester Yardley

when. England appealed and Ches- Compton ter confirmed the catch. some London papers that the aging port,

Bradman ran out ofler Barnes EDITORIAL

Foreign Secretary is about to retire Another Danish stedmship, the and apparently told him that Miller from-active polities.

Fregna, took off 220 passengers, ne- was to go in next instead of Hassett Mr Bevin, one time strong man of cording to Captain Kill, master of 1.9 was expected. Whether prem British trade unions, will be 65 the Kjobenhavn. who told of his arranged or not, the unexpected years old at the next clection tenta- "terrible experience" when death alteration in the batung order was

struck his ship in the darkness. tively set for May, 1950.

not

next a success. In Loker's

to o Office spokepon The British destroyer Onslaught over, Miller groped forward vehem Foreign vehemently denied these rumours and

submarine the

Truncheon, perfect length ball and edged it to asserting,

no question visiting North Denmark, stood by slip, where Edrich took the catch, whatever" of Bevin retiring or even to help if needed. being, made a peer.

ΙΠ

Public Opinion In H.K.

is not often we are given such comprehensive _refreshingly

first Impressions of Hongkong so public as candidly expressed in

Charles those uttered by Mr Loseby to the Y'men's Club on Thursday. Mr Laseby said what

a lot of people have thought for

a long time, but for some reason

of

or other have`kept these thoughis to themselves. The crilical sec- tion of Mr Loseby's impressions centred around the absence pubilo opinion, Government's failure to encourage open discus- sions and criticism of its policies

and and legislation, inarticulation of the

the

Unofficial

members of Legislative Council. The pointa were well Laken, although Laseby will

Mir

probably that due course come to And in public opinion is not so

much

atifled as it is wilfully aquiescent, and therefore dumb. Only once within recent years has pubillo opinion really expressed itself, and then it was a purely secilonal display of infuriatlon and frus tration, The occasion was the resentment felt by the husbands over the evacuation of their wives In 1940. They became really annoyed and, many will recall. held several pullo meetings which Governmthi was well and truly castigated, The demonstra- achieve anything tions did not tangible, but they did serve

characteristic of the Illustrate a Hongkong mentality that

At

to

MD-

some

some

which

called pubilo opinion here only becomes vociferous when Imposition is enforced; or suspected injustice done Intimately affects the private life of the Individual But should ofclat policy or acilon cut across the communal life public reaction

Invariably bored.

apathy, Government,

Inic does nothing to stimulato public interest in its own affairs,

or

healthy criticism of itself; and the same accusation can be levelled against some of our organisations

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In

of

whose activities profess to be in the interests of the public. For example there are a number reputable debating societies Hongkong whose standards oratory and argument are high enough to stienet publie laterest. Seldom, though, do any of them scize on local toples of the day for general discussion; they pre- fer to debate the faluous and Immaterial,

28 Buch undesirabliliy of sex equality, the deplorable level of

modern manners, and such like. Govern- mont's policies and its legislation which daily affect the lives of the community are left severely alone, and Government

the

"Anda

itself with only one serious crillo the Freas. That public opinion is virtually non-existent in long- kong can primarily be ascribed to the lack of the community and clvlo spirit But for this

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deficiency Government must take a full measure of blame. It has never been seriously encouraged; Instead Government has persis- fenity fostered the docile acceptance of what is known as benevolent bureaucracy, where the ellizen accepts what la offered him

in the way of pubila services without

asking

nia by questions. Morcover the Hong- keag born have been kept in tight Hillo position in the administrative and social life of the Colony, and from time to Ume their Interests have even been made subservient to

those who have come to Hongkong to get what they

of IL can out Against such a background. It is

wander the 110

.Colony communally

and unconscious

to that oynically indiferent which does not directly affect the individual life. But perhaps Mr Loseby's pertinent criticism will prompt, whatever progres- sively-minded people there are In Hongkong to start a movement designed to promato vigorous and arilculate pubile

It opinion. would be the best thing could happen to this Colony.

that

· "Liere

Lord Derby To.

of

over.

TRAGIC PICTURE

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Rest Of The Sport

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The rest of yesterday's Inter- national sports results-county cricket, Davis Cup and tourna- ment tennin, baseball, athletics and motor racing-will be found on the back page.

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Both the second and third wickets

12.4 and

Rumours of Bevin's retirement fed

A tragic pleture of sudden death also upon the recent return to the striking the Kjobenhavn whlic,many Cabinet of Mr Hugh Dalton, long a jof its passengers were asleep was rival of Bevin for high Labour pierced together by survivory lying Party posts.

in hospitals, hotels and hastily im-. In fact, when the Prime Minister, provized arst aid centres

Clement Attlee was forming his peaceful old city of Aalborg. government three years ago, most of Some told of hearing the screams London political pundits believed

trapped behind cabin Dalton was slated for the Foreign doars, jammed by the force of the

people Offfee. Instead in a reported last explosion. Other passengers were minute switch, he was given the killed by planks flung from the fell at 121, and at this point Laker's Treasury.-Association Press,

cargo hatches as the ship heeled superb bowling was represented by the remarkable figures, on a per- Captain Kill said: "The explosion feet pitch his analysis being occurred aft and the ship settled overs, five maldens, 22 runs In the shallow water almost per- three wickets.

This did not deter Yardley from pendicular."

An Aalborg merchant, who was bringing on Bedser and Edrich with the exhausted survivors, the new ball straight away in order told of men and women in various that Brown, the new batsmen, could London, June 11-Lord Derby, 30, one of Britain's richest men, is to stages of undress jumping into the be fully tested with speed and swing.

ell-covered waters. Children were Bradman began to store marry Lady Isabel Milles Lade, 27,

and freely

and it was a far different separated from, their mothers it was announced today.

Lord Derby succeeded to the title husbands from their wives as they Bradman from the hesitant, batsmen strived to keep aflont in the rough who began his innings before lunch. after his grandfather's death in

in He went on to his 50 out of 81. "He February.

string of Inmous Stanley bourd as people realised the

Tie said some panie broke out on a hundred minutes by driving a half. racehorses, the

sizzled shulp volicy from Bedser, which House

stables at Newmarket, and a number of estates including Knows-

vus sinking, but Captain Kill de over the turf for his second four. ley Hall near Liverpool which has clored: "There was no panic among Then ho turned Young to leg and put 30,000 acres, 500 employees and the passengers. They behaved with Australia in front.

admirable calm."-Reuter. private post office-Associated Press.

Marry

bun

a

2,600 Guests At

Palace

of

London, June 11.-Two thousand six hundred guests filled the State Apartments on the first floor Buckingham Palace at the

third presentation party of this year, given by the King and Queen.

The Royal party, which Included Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret, moved informally among the guests. In the garden, tea and Ice cream were served at a long marquee facing the Palace buildings,

while a Guards band played. Reuter.

among

sco.

ANOTHER DYKE

BREAKS

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Bradman's footwork was a joy to see. He frequently walked into his off drive against Laker and cleverly placed his shots out of the feldmen's reach

batsmen began to look though they were in for a long stay when Yardley decided to take his; Grat turn with the buil, and he broke

the partnership in his first Portinnd, June 11-The flooding over. Yardley's fourth ball of good Columbia River broke through a length went more quickly off the other dyke on Portland's outskirt pitch than Brown, attempting today and raced over a rich lowland back stroke, anticipated, and Brown area extending 10 miles to the cast.

: was leg before, Australia's fourth Portland Airport, four golf and wicket fell at 185, when they stood country clubs, n inkeside resort and only 20 runs ahead of England. homes for several thousand persans In trying sweep Young to leg were inundated. All the residents both fansett and Bradman mis- ears were expressed that some might ball in the air near the untenanted were evacuated a few days ago, but timed their strokes and sent the

short Ane leg position.

have returned.-Reuter,

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Tokyo, June 11-Political ob- servers today predicted the early collapse of the Cabinet, formed on March 9 by the Democrat 62 lender, Mr Hitoshi Ashida,

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