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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, JUNE 14, 1948.

ANCIENT BRITISH LAWS Carried To

TO GO

Sunday Newspapers

Illegal

London, June 13.-Britain is preparing to repeal scores of ancient laws which, though obsolete, still make every day thousands of her people technical law breakers.

Despite his reputation as one of the world's most law-abiding citizens, every Briton is prob- ably an unwitting and unwill- ing offender according to the letter of the Statute Book.

Out-dated laws can-ond some- times do--send him to Jell for doiras what everyone else is doing. Soon, however, Law Revision Dill re- cently tabled in the House of Lords, will put and end to this anomalous state of affairs by repealing, either wholly or partiy, many nels dating as far back as 1235.

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At present, there is hardly plinse of everyday life which is not threatened with punishment.

SEDUCTION & BETRAYAL British women, for instance, might have thought twice before adopting the "New Lonit" had they knowri the wording of an Act, passed in 1770 and still in force, which says: "No woman shall seduce or betray

by man into matrimony

cosmetles, waxes, acenta, paint,

high- Bals, artificial teeth, false heeled shoes, iron stays or holstered

hips.

"If she dogs, then that marriage shall be null and vold."

A Scottish law, dating from 1745. makes it an offence for any woman. to conceal the fact that she is an It has actually expectant mother.

been invoked during the past few years to help the Edinburgh police with an increasing number of ahan- doned bables.

Few men know that, necording to a 1745 law, they are liable to be for swearing in the street. ilned The fines prescribed are 1- "for labourers", 2/- for "middle-class persing," and 5/- for "gentlemen."

An Act, passed in 1904, aut!- cipated the present rationing scheme by making it legal to eat a dinner of more than two courges.

BATHING WITHOUT SHOES Under another 17th-century Act. any person can be sent to prison for selling. buying or even reading a newspaper on a Sunday.

The "Eavesdropping Act" of 1384 and the "Peeping Tom Act" of 1385 still brion offenders before the I courts.

Out of the Statute Book will soon to the Act passed in the reign of George II. providing "for laying a duty of two pemiles Scots pou every pint of Scots beer" sold in certain towns.

And people in six of Britain's seaside countries will at last be able

A little boy is carried to safety as two men struggle waist-deep through the flood waters which recently swept over The town of Vanport.

near Portland, Oregon. The floods de stroyed a large part of the town which

built during the war, and casual-

were high.

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Safety

ERP ALLOCATIONS

FOR 11 COUNTRIES

Washington, June 13.-The Economic Co- operation Administration has made the biggest foreign recovery allocations so far-$95,610,005 for 11 countries.

American cotton valued at $27,000,000 and tobacco worth $7,427,000 have been authorised for purchase and shipment in batch approvals announced by Mr Paul Hoffmann, Economic Co-operation Adminis

trator.

The ECA'S foreign purchasing | programme-a thorny point with the legislators, who believe the bulk of

Denmark: fishmeal $15,000, copra $611,000 to be purchased in the Philippines.

Italy: medient supplies 3000,000 to be purchased in the U.S., crude and fuel oil 5,087,000 to be purchinsed in Venezuela.

Norway: tobacco $1,427,000 to be purchased in the US.

Onanced goods should London. June 13.-Scotland Yard American

from the United States is today issued a photograph of Albert come

Welch, of Cranborne advanced by Mr Hoffman's action.

will furnish more than William

alu- of copper, 14,000,000 worth Crescent, Potters Bar, who has not, Canad

minium, lead and linseed oil, while been heard of since November 18$14,0 of last year.

Greece: coal $1,204,000 to be pur- No evidence has yet been dis-Venezuela and other Latin American

chased from Bizonia, Germany, This covered to suggest the dismembered countries will supply oil.

action brought ERP authorisa-petroleum products $2,060,000 to be

purchased

U.S. and in the

other body found in the pond on Potters Bar golf course might be that of tions to $393,737,029,

countries And western hemisphere Welch.

the Persian Gulf, foodstuffs and raw cotton $4,000,000.

Welch wore size seven shoes and the feet found in the pond were those of a man who wore size five or six shoes.

These countries share in the new approvals:

All cotton is to be obtained in the f U.S.-Associated Press,

RESCUE BY

Military Aid For China

Urged

Washington, June 13.-Tho U. S. Senato Appropriations Committed was urged today

to give both economic and mili-

tary aid to China.

Economic Co-operation

ministrator Paul G. Hoffman

Ad-

and

Army Secretary Kenneth Royall

urged the nation.

had

a

Republican Senator Styles Bridges told reporters that the two

"strong CAFO" for mnade o $463,000,000 aid programme de- signed to halt Communism in China.

Li-Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer, the Army's chlet of pinns and operations, also backed the China aid programme as the Commitica went into a closed door huddle on the multi-billion dollar foreign ald

programme.

"

Bridges sald Wedemeyer told the Committee that both economle and milltory aid will be necessary Communism is to be retarded."

Hoffman testified exclusively on the China situation, Bridges said.

FULL RESTORATION

The ECA chief urged "full restora tion" of China nic. The Ilouse has cut approximately $143,000,000 T the amount asked by the adminis- tration.

Mr Hoffman assured Mr Bridges and other Committee members that he will select the best and most competent people" he can find for the China programme.

Bridges quoted Hoffman as saying the United States must "maintain our operations there to prevent the situation from becoming much more sorious."

Mr Eric L. Kohler, comptroller of the ECA, disclosed that scores ol investigators will follow foreign ald shipments through China and Europe. He said they would check on improper or black-market sales and the possible disappearance of "war potential goods to Hussin and her satellites which might build up the Soviet cúpacity for waging war. -Associated Press.

HONGKONG MINES, LIMITED

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the Ordinary Yearly Meeting of Shareholders will be held nt the Registered Office of the Com- pany, Third Floor, Prince's Build- ing, Des Voeux Road, Central,

ROYAL NAVY Hongkong, on Wednesday the 30th

Britain $30,300,000, the Nether- lands $4,183,905, France $21,749,870, French zone of Germany $941,320, The police are asking Welch to Austrin $2.488.210 Denmark $810,400. $1,427,000 get in touch with them as they are italy 55,067,090, Norway

and Greece $8,104,000. to find he is unharmed.' anxious

Welch was described as 45 years

COTTON FOR CHINA old.

Before leaving home, he had

upTM In addition China received spoken of finding employment in the coal mines.

proval to buy $13,000,000 worth of An effort is also being made to colton from the United States and

London, June 13.-The full story trace number of other missing Trieste was granted supplies total-

beans of the rescue by British destroyers and since persons,

the inquiry ling $578,891, including dry

$206,931, evaporated milk last week of 61 seamen from the started two people have been found. worth

sup- 3.492-lon Chinese collier Hwah Jang, !Reuter.

wurli $353,960, and medical

which ran aground on Piting Rock, $10,000. plies warth

cent of the funds off the Cheklang Coast, about 100 10 per

require purchase in miles south of Shanghal, was told

by the Admiralty today. open market by foreign govern

their

agents. This follows ments or

that bulk a mandate ut Congress aid shall be handled through private | channels rather Bu by United

States Government procurement.

Shipments approved to date are: France $133,389,745; Britain $77,- Italy $67,084,276; the 100,000:

Greeee $20,337,535;

Most of the coiller's crew-all Netherlands

Austrio $24,708,883; Chinese-abandoned ship in their $25,278,643;

Bizonia $3,000,000;

Ger- own lifeboats when the warships Norway many $3,000,000; Denmark $1,375,-arrived and the rest were taken off 100 French zone of Germany $011,-Jater. an- the XS 320: Trieste $2,083,304; China $20,-

188,000.

to bathe legally in the sea without 1 SPEED PLANES

shoes.-Bruter.

SHOCK FOR THE

SUNBATHERS

¦ FOR AIR FORCE

Washington, June 13. The U.S. Air Force is buying 676 of one of the fastest jet aircraft in the world, the North American F86, an Air Force spokesman disclosed Washington today.

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The planes speed was not ported but the spokesman sald i was not enpaulé of supersonic speed.

Pakefield, Suffolk, June 13.- Horrified sunbathers saw a group of school children kicking human skulls, around the bench near this town in Northeast England.

Parish church offeints disclosed Last week the Air Force today that the children tried to open | nounced a Bell aircraft, a traploor of the bombed church became the first planie to fly faster and found skulls in the fourteenth- thau sound. Reports said the rocket century vault.

plane flew more than 1,000 miles per hour-Associated Press.

The officials said the skulls were the remains of bowmem killed in

the Battle of Crecy.-United Press.

PETAIN ILLNESS REPORT DENIED

Franconia Ends

Trooping Career

the

The destroyers Consort and Comus, of the British Pacifc Flect, were on

passage to Swatow when they re ceived distress signals that the Hwah Jang was being pounded to pieces, They reached the wreek about noon Jast Friday.

There were no casualties. Within an hour, the Hwat Jang, held nground by a moderate wind and well, was holed by a rock on the port beam and became a total

from

trans-

Owned by the Hwabsung Steam- ship Company, of Shanghat, she wus taking a full cargo of conl Shanghai to Keelung, Taiwan. Her ship's company was ferred to a Chinese vessel and taken to Shanghai 24 hours later.-Reuter.

FOOD AND FUEL Food. fuel and materials autho-loss. rised by the new action include: aluminium Britain

$10,000,000, copper $1,500,000, lead $1,000,000 40 be purchased in Canada; zing $1.- 700,000.

Sulphur $500,000: cheese $15. uno,000, tobacco $6,000,000 to be Liverpool, June 13. The 20,000- bought in the United States.

$500,- ton liner Franconia completed her The Netherlands: tinplate Paris, June 13.-The police on service as a troopship when she 000, wheat $3,075,905 to be bought the island of Yeu, where Marshal reached the Mersey today two hours in the United States. Petain is Imprisoned, tonight denieri ahead of time, bringing 875 troops France: wheat $5,565,879, lyres rumours that the marshal is serious-and over 1,000 civilians from Bom- $300,000, cotton ly ill.

A few days ago, the 92-year old After her hittings have been reall to be purchased in the United marshal's doctor sald he was suf-moved at Liverpool, she will be States. fering from "irregular heart action", reconverted on the Clyde and handed This heart condition might

casily back to the Cunard White Star Line. result in death during sleep at the She is expected to be warning marshal's advanced uge, a Paris dollars on the North Atlantic doctor said todny-Rauler.

early in 1049.-Reuter,

Day.

BRITISH REDS CONDEMN

6-POWER AGREEMENT

London, June 13.-The British Communist Party tonight branded the six power London agreement on Western Germany as a betrayal of every aim for which the war was fought, a threat to every nation East or West of Germany, and a preparation for war.

In a statement, the Party called for a "Democratic settlement" of Germany, in accordance with the Potsdam agreement.

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The statement said in part "the London conference plan on Ger- many is a betrayal of every ahn for which the war was fought.

run

$4,400,000 cotton 250.000 yards, linseed oil $1,254,000

French zone of Germany: wheal purchased in the $41.320 to be United States.

AUSTRIA'S ALLOCATION Austria: black iron sheets $15,300, petroleum coke $220,720, vel hary Aupplies $198,000 to be purchased in the US, potash $720,000 to be pur- chased in Poland or Western Ger- many, linseed oil $1,327.100 to be purchased in Canada,

New Life-Saving

Apparatus

:

London, June 13-A new type of "In place of the Socialisation of life-saving apparatus, a circular rub- the Ruhr, under a real international ber float and tent, in being given four power control, the Ruhr intrials by the Royal Navy. dustries are to be left in the hands The Bloat, known na "J.S.", when of the same trusts and combines Inflated resembles a huge which backed Hiller, and which are tyre fitted with rubberised now closely linked up with Ameri- floor and covered by a tent, can big business.

The inflated position provides a dry heat. Other features are

motor fabric

or-

French Losses

In Indo-China

June, 1948, at Noon for the pur- pose of:-

(1) Receiving the Report of the Directors together with the Statements of Account,

(2) Election of Directors, (3) Election of Auditors. (4) General

By Order of the Board of Directors.

T. A. MARTIN & CO.,

Secretaries.

HONGKONG 14th June 1948,

PRESS

PHOTOGRAPHS

Copics of photographs taken by the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Telegraph Staff Photographers are on view

in the

Morning Post Building.

ORDERS BOOKED.

They Answered a the Indo-Call

Saigon, June 13.-France has lost

in two 10,000 soldiers

years of fighting in Indo-China; a speaker estimated today at a meeting of the Union for the Defence of France's work in Indo-China.

The speaker, William Blaze, the French

settlement, leader of

Pro-French said the new Chinese government cet up month was headed by "phantom men" and could not stand against the Vietnam Republic of Premier Ho Chi Minh, now fighting the French.

this

General Chovancos Berlin, chnir- man of the National Defence Com- mittee of the French Union Assem- bly (Empire Parliament) spoke after Binzo, saying the Indo-Chinese situation was insufficiently under- stood back in. France. Associated Press.

SCISSORS FOUND IN STOMACH

Naples, June 13. Mrs Lucia

This plan to set up a reactionary West German State violates the un-

"The revival of German reaction rangements, for carrying food and dertakings necepted by the Allies nt

and of German monopolist industry water, visual and radar alda to Schero la recovering today after the end of the war. It is an open under American control is a threat locate it, and, paddles and a bellow the removal of a pair of surgical breach of four power 'co-operation. to every European nation East and for inflating cushions,

pincers she carried in her abdomen It is plan to partition Europe. West of Germany and a preparation The foal is designed to hold 10 for ten years.

The economie nim of the Ameri- for war.

men and is inflated by pulling a The pincera were left in her can monopolists, with the aid of

Innyard which relcuses carbonátomach after an operation for * their British shicllites, is to rebutu "The signing of 'n' peace trenly dioxide from a bottle. As it ex- tumour in 1933, Sho recently com- the Ruhr Industrial base under with a United Democratie Germany pands, the

float rips

open the plained of a severe abdominal pain American control for the domination | is the only foundation for peace in volice and the gerr is ready for use and X-rays revealed the Instrument. of Europe.

|_ Europe.”—Associated Press.

in a few seconds-Reuter.

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