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VOL. III NO. 150

MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1948.

HARBOUR ECONOMIC SANCTIONS AGAINST River Bridge

TRAGEDY

European Drowned Off Green Island

Fell Overboard

With Motor

Mr Victor MacDonald, AssİR. tant United Kingdom Trade drowned Commissioner, Was

yesterday afternoon off Green Island while his wife had to watch helplessly from a drifting' sailing boat.

The tragedy occurred when Mr MacDonald, who with his wife was sailing with M. Plerre De Jong, of Co., was the American Express,

the out- assisting in putting board motor.

On

Mr MacDonald slipped and fell

ECONOMICSANCTIONS

Youths' Sex Crime

New York, June 27.~-~ Eleven teen-aged youths to- day beat a man aged 49 unconscious and raped his woman companion aged 39. Police said the youths

the knocked

man un- conscious, ripped the clothes from the woman and' raped her. Police seized five of the youths as they were about to flee the scene and captured others hiding in a waterfront coal chuto.

All were charged with One, under the ago rape. of 16 will be imprisoned Associated separately. Press.

overboard with the motor in his; GANGSTERISM

arms.

He was dressed at the time, and although a fairly good swimmer, his hampering clothes and the strong undercurrent quickly put him it

difficulties.

M. De Jong, seeing that his com- panion was in danger, jumped into the water, also fully dressed, but he could not reach Mr MacDonald.

UNCONTROLLABLE, BOAT

IN CHICAGO

A

Chicago, June 27.-Polico oMcials that the arined believed today Hangsters who took refuge In quarry on the outskirts of Chicago last night had escaped in the dark and boarded a good train. More than 200 police

guarded most of them were withdrawn this morning.

After an all-night vigil.. more resumed than 200 police today

SOVIET ZONE POSSIBLE

Allied Powers Impose Rations

London, June 27.-Diplomatic circles today said they believed the United States, Britain and France were considering a firm three-power protest and possible economic sanctions to counter Soviet isola- tion of Berlin. It was understood no final decision had been reached,

The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, re- mained at his London home and reports on the German crisis were forwarded to him there. Mr Bevin was expected to see the United States Am- bassador (Mr Lewis Douglas) and the French Am- *bassador. (M. Rene Massigli) again on Monday

(tomorrow).

In the meantime the sailing boat the quarry throughout the night, but / had been arranged some time at euch perhaps up to 60.

had become

and

uncontrollable

made MacDonald although Mra desperate efforts to bring it up to the struggling men by using an oar, she was unsuccessful.

Both men rapidly grew distressed as a result of the difficult conditions

they under which

were swimming and finally Mr MacDonald sank beneath the waters.

M. De Jong, himself, was almost exhausted when a sampan

M. De

The United States Air Force fly 100 big A Foreign Office spokesman con- firmed that Sir Maurice Peterson, alune is prepared to

Ambassador to Moscow, planes on Monday from the Frank- British would leave the Soviet capital soon furt area to the city to bring in Sir Maurice's return supplies. The British were expected to fly in another 100 planes and the for London. due to his illness. Ile was expected

BLOCKADE STILL ON to travel by ship from Leningrad.

Russia's blockade of the city-in He will

at length to Mr report He w

on attempt to force the Bevin

If it is decided to send a protest Ailies to leave the capital-showed Marshal their attempts to capture four geng- sters armed with machine guns hid-note to Russia, diplomalle quarters no signs of abatement.

worded sharply be effective. mander-in-chief, seemed to be de- squeeze-out Ing in a quarry on the outskirts of here sald they believed it must be Vassily Sokolovsky, Bussian com- the city.

One of the best-informed and most termined to contine his influential

Sunday policy. of London's

American and British authorities newspapers, the Observer, sald in

alarm.

they

polleeman,

cars and

the

to

Western

an editorial that the three Wester believed that offers for the siege powers should call Moscow's blum came directly from Moscow. Thes and send the Soviets an ultimatum. show Increasing signs that they ex- now pect

the United States and British The Observer said the West

oct and

protest

held overwhelming trump cards in great to

inter-governmental diplomacy.

ULTIMATUM NEEDED

Collapses

A heavy truck and trailer and an automobilo lie in the tangled wreckage of this wood and steel bridge a few minutes after the span collapsed to the Los Angeles river bed. The river is dry at this point. Truck driver was not injured; auto driver only slightly hurt.-AP Picture.

Communist Plan To Seize Malaya

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London Dock Strike Spreads To Liverpool

Liverpool, June 27-Liver- pool dockers tonight decided to join the London strike to- morrow. The dockers decided to support the London strike after being addressed by dele- gates from the Landon dockers' unofficial strike committee.

The meeling was attended by about 3,000 people, including many women and non-dockers, Liverpool is Britain's second largest port,

It was not clear tonight what effect that vote would have on the tonas of Liverpool dockers, but the consequences for Britain's export and impart trade would undoubted- ly be rave if the strike was ex- tended to Liverpool.

Airendy some 152 ahips lie idlo along the Thames and men of tho three fighting Services are standing by to shift perishable food cargoes to- · morrow.iteuler,

VOTE TO RETURN Landon. Juno 27-Britain's La- world's bour Government and the largest trade union shared a crisis the Port of London Loday in paralysed for two full weeks by a clubborn unofficial dock strike, Leaders of the Transport General Workers' Union announced that

today striker's meeting voted to go back to work on Monday but whether they will was still a question.

and

The Prime Minister, Mr Allleo ini a

a speech today blamed "Com-

for prolonging munist mischief" the strike, and warned gravely that the country could not afford-con-- tinued loss of food imports and ex- part revenues.

Only an estimated 2,000 of the 10,000 longshoremen, stevedores and lightermen on strike attended a dockside meeting today, And zome of these hotly disputed the claim of Arthur Deakin, President of the Loneral 1,250,000 transport and workers union that the "ayes" car- ried a back-to-work resolution.

had

6,000 The government soldiers, sailors and airmen standing by to join several hundred already at work moving food cargoes If the back-to-work does not materialise.

BLOODHOUNDS OUT The police used bloodbounds and arrived were in radio contact with six ob- on the scene and hauled him safely servation acroplanes as they combed the quarry which covers two square country nboard.

London, June 27-Reports from Reuter's cor- to Russia. police launch also turned up miles of heavily wooded

and Is honey-combed with ravines. and

respondents in the South East Asia area-containing and made

thorough a long!

were leaving a

It was strongly believed here that The gangstera but no body of the area, search

betting establishment which

the Russians would back down if

150,000,000 people in an area of one million square could be seen.

when a had robbed

is the Western side, not the Western Allies spoke strongly

miles-reveal Communist activities in various forms Police this morning say that Mr answering the alarm, tried to inter- MacDonald's body has still not yet cept them.

Russia, which holds the atomic | enough against what is called Soviet could, if sufficiently employment of human hunger and

and varying intensity. weapons and been recovered.

They shot him but he ranoged ip

wipe Russia's misery as a weapon of political De Jong.

have reached fluence on the negotiations for a suffering from shock

These operations power and threat to world peace coercion.

between the A Afterwards,

running and exhaustion, and Mrs McDonald, crawl to his car to send out a radio provoked, literally

from the face of the earth. Stalin General Luclus D. Clay sent to their greatest violence in Malaya, political settlement also suffering from shock, were battle ensued between the gangsters

and Molotov know this very well. Sokolovky a written apology for where Mr Malcolm MacDonald, the Dutch and the Republicans, but taken to the Yacht Club at Kellet and police patrol

Kingdom Commissioner emphasised its potential danger to doubt whatever that, Sokolovsicy's 45-minute detention by United There is no Island where they were looked after gangsters finally took refuge in the The

in the face of an ultimatum demand the American military police Jes-General for South East Asia, in a Indonesia."-Reuter.

described the by Mrs and Alas Loseby,

car was stopped recent broadcast,

GUERILLAS MASSING M. De Jong was reported this Alded by searchlights, the police big that they reopen the roads to terday, after his

for speeding.

situation as "a desperate attempt by

Singapore, June 27.-Between Evangelical Bishop Communist political agitators to im from the effects of his chocking ex- of the night, but finally decided to perience.

com-ories."

knife in plantations, mines and fac-are massing in the jungles of ter

ror-ridden Malaya and it will take Reuter's Singapore correspondent, a "minor war" to rout them out, the in a cabled despatch, says: "I have Singapore Straits Times reported seen documentary

proof that the today.

The paper's statement came after Malayan Communists plan to seize The Allied authorities were watch the country by a revolution. They yesterday's bloodiest day in the dis

Communist threats of

second Indonesia" turbed peninsula, in which terrorists intend to make " cal pretext for their aggressive general strike in support of the in Malaya, employing murder, arson carried out 10. murders.

The tenth of yesterday's slayings The Observer said that under the Russians. They believed, however, innd intimidation to paralyse the was reported here this morning dication the government, admittedly

Quarry.

submitted with the

utmost

morning still to be in bed suffering hunted for the men throughout

part in Berlin,

they would-to Otto Sibellus of the Soviet sector pose the rule of the gun and the four and ve Gowand guesskab:

EDITORIAL

wall until daylight.Beuter.

Criticising Government

CRITICISM of the Government of the

raised by a newspaper correspon- dent during the weekend, the writer contending that too much unfair criticism is directed against people whose qualities are never recognised. The point holds some interest. In the do- mocracies,

of criticism open Fovernments

* Recepted method of giving expression to opinion, and is also arded by governing authorl- iles as a useful safety valve, In theory, when "Pro Bono Publico" writes his scathing criticism of what he considers government's ineptitude, he is protecting

own

ди

WE HO

interests and those of the community. Only occasionally is his indictment directed against any individual: to him, Govern- ment is a system, a method of administration not always fully comprehended, but

either which

tells him experience or instinct is not fulfilling its functions as it should. Undeniably MONO criticism of Government is ill- Informed, but hardly ever is it malicious. And in Hongkong it is sometimes shallow and lacking solid background because Govern ment is not sufficiently disposed to take the public lato lis con- and keep the_taxpayers fidence properly Informed.

In Hong

kong too, as it has been noted before, much of the crtiicism

Government is directed against based upon self-interest, where- fore the critics lack perspectivo and their horizons are narrowed down to the immediate present as its affects them. By and however, tho averace largo, nowspaper correspondent Hongkong who vents his spleen on Government does so becaure he is convinced of a"genuine injustice, or is confident that the governing authorities have fallen short in carrylar out their re sponsibilties to the publis.. News- paper criticism is assuredly

in Moscow and not to un-

brow Karl Marx's description of Russian behaviour in the Crimean War-retire in a very decent man- ner. It is for this contingency, and for this contingency alone, that the Russian leaders have kept the road of retreat open by using. a techni-

ucts."

110

mirror of public feeling,

how maller

How feebly or vigorously it be expressed. And without Government would often be left groping, not know- Ing whether it was satisfying or disappointing. In the main, the target for newspaper criticism of Government is its policies,

Government absence of policy. has been bitterly assailed over It has housing, largely because never announced a defined policy in connection with this problem. None of that criticism has con- tained the slightest suggestion that the technical and administra tive officers of the Government are themselves unable to give effect to a housing volles if one had been

been positively advanced. The reputation of the Individual civil servant is not at stake; for the most part he is recognised as an able and fully person to fulfil his duties; but ho, like tho critical pubilo, is frustrated by a system and by negative policies. Hongkong. of course, suffers from administra live disabilities

to all common colonies. Its high level polleles are still conceived by, and directed from Whitehall, and Re legislation is

to approval or.otherwise by Secretary of Slate; wherefore Hongkong pos

mous Kovernment an autonomous in bamo

me only. The Colony fila Into a general · framework only which mean that sometimes purely local needs

Ignored

sesses an

qualled

or have to give way to the general denign

has long This been criticised by the Press and will continue to be so unli Ilongkong is afforded wider local

15.01!

So too administrative powers. will the Press cantinue to watch over the

the interests of the com- this antalle munity. even if constant criticism of the govern- mental machinery, far without

Govern such.critical analysis,

lose ment would

much of the Impetus it needs, to carry out ita functions.

Stalln Nuremberg Charter,

and Molotov should face charges of crime against peace and humanity for their estern starvuilon blockade of the Western Zones of Germany. It sald the effect of these mensures would be slight, however, In contrast with Russia's ability to starve Western Berlin, be cause the Russians wete self-suficient.

The German

wrote Sokolovsky and the manders-in-chief of the Western Powers pleading against the dangering of the food supply.

Ing the

STRIKE THREATS

that such a strike Ineffective is their sectors.

would

en-

be country's economy.”

nan Nationalist."

CAUSE OF STRIKE The strike started two weeks ago dock Monday over penalties assessed by the government sponsored labour board against 11 men who refused to load "dirty cargo" of zinc oxide without extra bay.

Afty One hundred and

were tied up in the freighters Thames on Saturday.

two

Mr Deakin insisted at the dock- side meeting that the original 11 men must accept discipline,

If they do, he promised revision

of the dock labour penalties system be undertaken and hoper- sonally will take part.

will

NEW SHIPMENT

INTERWOVEN SOCKS

Up to tonight there was no fn=" from village south of Kuala Lum-fearful the strike might spread to OPENING GAMBIT The American licensed newspaper,

other ports, would use troops to Soven masked men killed a Bur "Murders are the opening gambit. Tagessplege, reported that

move any cargoes other than food.- The Communists hope in a protract Chinese foreman and planed a nota

Associated Press. Russians arrested several Germans ed armed struggle eventually to gain to his body saying: "To destroy a

(Continued on Page 5) actor for carrying new world recognition in their

labour thief."-Reuter. issued by the currency

Western Allles. An unconfirmed report said body seeking independence. the Russian troops were searching War has been declared when the

the British Jargely Germans on elty trains for Allled strength of

military ar forces is at the lowest ebb since the Deutschemarks. Mr Richard Crossman, MP (Lab),

end of the second world struggle. The American authorities hope to wrote in the Sunday Pictorial that bring. In 230 tons of flour, drug; have been repatriated to England for Practically nil British battalions if Britain did not start talking vaccines and a small bulk of high straight to the "foolhardy" Ameri- calory foods on Monday. The Bri- demobilisation, and the security of cons, she was in imminent danger tish have added two squadrons to the country has been entrusted to of "blundering into a grave poll their Air Force Transport Command. only two recently-arrived Gurkha tical reverse in Berlin."

brigades. Major-General E O. Herbert, Mr Grossman said he had warned British commandant, sold that

"The Communists have arms in In British officials last year to move their imposing restrictions on food

And plenty

adda: German

The occupation

correspondent headquarters fuel "It is necessary that all possible from Berlin to Frankfurt and to pre-economy, be made so as to reduce to Bangkok, a five-man cabal, working pare their Berlin nector "to stand the absolute minimum the tonnage under the guise of the South East

Asin

Lengue, is co-ordinating siege conditions", but that "General transported into Berlin by the RAF

exchange of intelligence in the area. Clay thought this would be a sign of United Press.

"A well-known Australian Com- munist with Indonesian connections cabal. The a member of this athers represent Annam, India, Malaya and Burma. Chinese im- and ships crews provide migrants constant liaison with Singapore.

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Man Slays

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PLAIN & FANCY SUMMER SOCKS

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with

There is no

"So nothing happened. As a re- sult, we are sadly unprepared to re- sist the Russian squeeze. But resist- we must. We cannot afford to be thrown out of Berlin: What Wo need in order to protect these Ger mans is an impressive display of Go- soldiers, a handful of Military vernment officials and a new agree-. Rome, June 27. Three small boys China and Australia and apparently Iment with the Russians."-Unlied were burned to death in Barl by a weakest with Burma,

Preps

youth who then shot and kliled evidence of Malayan direction from EMERGENCY RATIONING himself, Bald dispatches today from Moscow or overseas bodies or

co-ordination of the troubles the three the southern port city. Berlin, June 27-All

Police said the crime was com- Malaya and Burma, but Allied authorities today clamped emergency

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threatened

the continued failure to reach an Netherlands .extremno Government has fostered them their sectors who

an and revolutionary elements.

The reported Soviet agreement with starvation by the Soviet action. apartment, placed them on top of

with the Re- exchange

consuls and then met fire to it to In the Anglo-American sectors,

furniture

in a new suc- tertainment Involving

food was who tried to open the door, police cess for Russia.

described by 群 high banned.

disclosed. The British authorities forbade When police forced the door, the Dutch sourco as one of the trump movla matinees for their personnel three boys were dead and Di Donato cards in a game in which Russia a monkey- and restricted the use of power for lay in a pool of blood. In a bed is prepared to throw

Canteens were room police found heating and light.

three-year-old wrench in the works anywhere in Ferraroso bound ordered to close early and serve no Rosetta

and Asia.

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