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VOL. III NO. 185

SECOND

Governors Meet In Singapore

Hongkong And Red

Guerilla Activity

cover

Singapore, Aug. 6-Gover- ors of live British possessions In South East Asia' assembled here tonight for tomorrow's-defence conference which will problems of the guerilla fighting in China and Malaya.

Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor of Hongkong, who arrived today, will lay stress on the growing Communist guerilla activity in South Chinn which, it is believed, may threaten the island colony.

SATURDAY, AUGUST 7, 1948.

IMPORTANT KREMLIN

Goes Berserk In

Restaurant

Monterey, California, Aug. 6.-Gallatin Powers, owner of a restaurant near here, today reported that a "man went berserk" and killed five Filipino mess boys with a .22 calibre rifle. The Sheriff's office sent all available deputies to the scene. The Sheriff said he had not received details of the reported slayings.

Mr Powers reportedly told the Sheriff that the killer, whom he did, not identify, went on a rampage in the basement of his establish- ment at Bixby Crock. United Press.

The liongkong garrison has just ATTEMPTED

contributed the 1st Battalion of the to reinforce Inniskilling Fusiliers

the British forces fighting the in- surgents in Malaya.

Sir Alexander Newboult, acting! High Commissioner of the Malayan Federation, arrived from Kuala Lumpur today and is staying with Sir Franidin Gimson, Governor of Singapore,

The Governor of Sarawak, Sir Charles Arden Clarke, and the Oficer Administering the Govern- ment of North Borneo, Mr James The Gov- Calder, are also here. erpors will meet tomorrow at Bukit Serene, the Johore Baltru residence of Mr Malcolm MacDonald, the Commissioner General of South Enst Asin

A combined force of troops and police began un operation against insurgents in the Baru Arang coal- feld

area of Malaya today but falled to contact the guerillas, a police spokesman said. He described the then last week's rate us smaller when 24 guerillas were reported killed in the area-Reuter.

CANTON CUSTOMS'

BIG HAUL

KIDNAPPING

Berlin, Aug. 6-Two German realdents of the Soviet acelor of Berlin were today sentenced to seven years' Imprisonment by an Government American Military court for attempting to kidnap Wilhelm Duisbert, A German Journalist, from his home In the American sector last Sunday, "lo Turn him over to the Soviet security police."

35,

their

In signed confesalons, the defen- dants, Hildegard Stark,

and Walter Rothe, 50, numitted part in the kidnapping attempt and

for their work told of

Russian officials in similar previous activi- ties.

the Judge John Sabo described case as definite proof of Russian responsibility for the kidnapping" in the Western sectors of Berlin. He said the testimony showed the kidnapping attempts were made with the full backing of the Russian Canton, Aug. 6. Ten thousand authorities. 1 million Chinese dollars worth of smuggled medicine

the haul Rothe named two Russian majors for several made by Canton's Customs offers as being responsible when they boarded a Chinese vessel

Rothe sald he had signed plying between Hongkong and Can. "Arrests" in which he had acted as statement that he would reveal nothing learned through driving for

threat "under Russians severe punishment."-Rerter.

was

ton.

The medicine is reported to have

been found in a secret storage com- of the partment in a coal bunker Vessel-Reuter.

driver.

the

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Wartime Rents

THE

one

HE revised Ordinance govern- Ing wartime rents stands as

pieces of the happiest

of

has

legislation the Government has embarked upon since Liberation. In effect all claims for rent during

occupation the Japanese walved

where rent Gave already been paid, and with the who qualification that landlords Buccessfully stored tenanla properly during the war period the are entitled to slorage fees,

de- amount

of which will be termined either by agreement or Thousands through arbitration.

of Hongkong residents, already welchted down by war losses, high living costs and difficulty in inding accommodation, will wel- come this rellef from what, at one time, promised to be yet another contentious burden. And, it re- mains to the credit of the property owners that Government has found it possible to legialate.

moro on. much broader and

lines than originally, generous

the thonghi, possible; for it was property owners who advanced should they the proposal that

renta waive all claims to warlime If Government, on its part, would concede its right to collect Crown rents. This opened the way for which compromise A practical Government very wisely accepted, The revised Bill also does away with the threat of tedious, and expensive ligation which sasuredly have followed had the their Insisted landlords

upon endeavour icgal rights to recover back rents. The l

excellent

must

example

*

it stands is an of equity based on commonsense, and might well be

taken as yardstick in respect of other settlement problems arising from the Japanese occupation. Every- body associated with this foriala- Llon has reason to feel satisfied.

Chance For Peace

THE

DI

MEETING

Envoys Confer

With Molotov

BERLIN EXPECTS BLOCKADE

SOON TO BE LIFTED

Moscow, Aug. 6. The envoys of the three Western powers called at the Kremlin at 5 p.m. local lime tonight and conferred with the Soviet Foreign Minister, M. Vyacheslav Molotov, for two hours and 10 minutes.

The envoys-Mr Frank Roberts, the British special envoy, M. Yves Chataigneau, the French Ambassador, and General Walter Bedell Smith, the United States Ambassador-left in apparent good spirits to despatch reports to their Home Govern- ments and immediately went into conference at the With them were Mr Foy D. American Embassy. Kohler, Counsellor to the American Embassy, and Mr Geoffrey Harrison, the British Minister to Moscow.

Kremlin

There was no indication whether this

Marshal talk with meeting, the first since their

a Con- Stalin on Monday, was to be the last before ference of Foreign Ministers, which reliable diplomatic sources said here last night might be held in Paris late this month or early next.

Upon the envoys' arrival at the trolled companies has been organised. The French authorities have been American Embassy, General Bedell

"We informed of this measure so that Smith fold correspondents: saw M. Molotov, no comment." Mr they may start parallel moves pend- Roberts and M. Chataigneau following the fusion of the three Western

into his Zones, ed General Bedell Smith

comment.

The general

Back From Pilgrimage

Mary Ann McMahon, 51, crippled in both legs, smiles for her dad, Dr Robert McMahon of Albany, Calif., on arrival at LaGuardia Field, after a flying visit to the shrine of Our Lady of Lourdes in France, AP Picture,

HK Included In New Colonial Development Corporation Subsidiary

London, Aug. 6.-The Colonial Development Corporation, set

study, saying as they passed. "No The amelal statement announcing up by the Government to pro

the new organisation said: "One of mote production In the colonies

of the objectives

Military the Government in the combined econo- and given borrowing powers up mic area is that the I. G. Farben to £100,000,000 is to establish five regional subsidiary. com. empire will not be reconstituted.

panies to cover the main groups of colonies, the Corporation an- nounced today.

this fecilng he afternoon was thut the negotiations in Moscow are not likely to last much longer, whether there is a full-dress meeting tonight or not. The Western envoys were believed to be anxious for a definite move of some sort -8-soon as possible.

Reuter's diplomatic correspondent wrote that the Western move this evening took a fresh step forward in clearing the way for n new four- power conference on Germany "free in London from dureas" on all sides. Diplomalle observers believed that before any announce- the proposed conference ment on can be expected, the Soviet leaders and the Western envoys will have to agree on a formula defining the

"The Independent units that are to be established will be required to operate Independently in fact and in competition with each other as part of the overall econoinic Industrial German programme."

The Russian refusal to unblock the frozen Eastern mark accounts of western sector firms tonight forced the Western Military Governors to grant big Western mark credits to Brnis which could get pay their wage bills. The firms will be able to draw up to 100 Western marks for each employee.

Banks in the western sectors of

The areas covered by each "com" Pany will be:

pi

The Far East: Brunel, Hongkong, Malaya. North Borneo, Sarawak,

Its office will ba Singapore. Singapore.

The

Barbados, Indies: British Gulana, British Honduras, Jamaica, Leeward Islands, Trinidad,

West

measures to be taken by both sides Berlin will atay open on Sunday to Sierra Leone.

conditions

to remove it was thought.

σε duress,

wishi

and Tobago, Windward Islands. Its oflice will be at Kingston, Jamaica.

West Africa: Gambia, Nigeria, Its office will be at pay out the money. The firms will

Logos. not be allowed to draw a total in

Central Africa: Basutoland, Western marks Greater than their Bechuanaland, Northern Rhodesla, blocked Eastern mark holdings.

Myssland, Swaziland. 1ts ofco will be at Lusaka.

East Africa: Kenya, Tanganyika Territory, Uganda, Zanzibar. oflea will be at Nairobi

Its

the

the

It was believed that M. Molotov may well wish to report again to Marshal Stalin while the three

ERRONEOUS STATEMENT A British spokesman stated er- Western envoys may equally to report

to London, Washington roneously last night that the Russians Anolentiad unblocked these accounts at the and Parls before

CORPORATION'S AGENTS same time as they granted the City on various points can be

an Administration 25 million marks to All five will be owned by The

next step after such

main Corporation. agreement would be an announce-meet their pressing wage bill. at

"They will act generally as ment on the holding of a four-power

The Soviet-sponsored police chick, Corporation's agents in their areas. between the conference, probably

Colonel Paul Markgraf, earller to- No delinite de-

of day issued & proclamation warning particularly in the investigation of Foreign Ministers.

projects and the managements cision has yet been reached among Berliners who co-operated with the undertakings, and will have a ren the Western powers on the proposed Westera-sponsored police ended by sanable measure of independence in meeting place.-Reuter.

matters day-to-day

under

the announcement said, Board of

move by the Israel Government to set in 'motlon peace talks with the Arabs is not un- altogether surprising. The comfortable truce imposed by United Nations cannot go on indefinitely and a peace pact this time would undoubtedly more beneficial to the Jews than one enforced as a result of further fighting. The Slate of Israel 15 a fact, and to the Jews the only~ matters of great moment now are recognition of that State by the resums Arabs and the right to

Minister Foreign Immigration. Moshe Sherfok is quoted as reker- ving the right to lay claim to Jerusalem, but i LA unlikely that If Count Bernadette can bring the Arabs to the peace conference table that the Israeli Government would make a peace pact wholly coutingent on that issue; more so when it is remembered that the

mettiator Unlled Nailona' already advanced a plan for the demilitarisations of the Italy City and Its temporary administration by UN. In the 300,000 Arab re- fugees now under their

Tales- various parts ut

Government fine, the Diracli possesses a powerfully persuasive argument why the Arabs should be willing to come to the peace conference

Arabs table. The have already confessed that them.

theso the return of refugees to their homes is a para- mount necessity, and the Jows towards could go a long way confirming their good faith the peace proposal by releasing the refugees on the understanding that the Arabs would be willing seriously to discuss peace terms. For the first time here appears to be real chance of bringing the Falcsilne hostilities to per- manent end, and it would be a thousand pilles 11 -opportunity were thrown

for want of a mild spirit on either alde,

In

control

to

over

tho

AWEY

conciilatory

BERLIN CONFIDENCE Berlin, Aug. 6. Increased ndence was expressed in Berlin to-1

Dr Stumm that they would still be

the

ilut Berlin after the Western powers at supervision of the Corpora-

con had gone,

"The Instigators of the plan to

and four

Chairman and

day by high British And American split the police force know that at Directors would be appointed to oficials that the Russian blockade the right time they will be taken each. "It is intended that each group of the western sectors of the capital away to the West", he said. "Those of colonies will be the special in would be ended shortly as news of who

who co-operate with them should

tho

who will, when- the Corporation, the fresh Western move in Moscow remember that they will have to terest of a member of the Board of became known

evor he is in the territory, act as Chairman part of the Soviet Zone."

of the regional sub- None of the German railway start stay in Berlin, and that Berlin forms the Western- the

for his has gone on holiday in cate

sidiary Brk A spokesman of blockade is lifted suddenly, a Bri-

"The other four Directors of ench the that the split in official

today tish

at

will be resident in the area. olice force had made it frontier

station sald, and four polico

very

the intention

Corporation pro- trains loaded with coal were walt-dimcult to fight crime in the city.

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25 Shipping Lines In Alleged Conspiracy

Washington, Aug. 6.-The United States Government to- day accused 25 shipping lines— 19 foreign and six American---- of conspiring to monopolise the direct cargo carrying trado from ports on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States to parts in Japan, Korea, For- mosa, Siberia, Manchuria, Chinn, Indo-China and the Philippine Islands,

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The Attordey General, Me Toni Clark, announced the filing of civil action against the lines, which are all members of what is known as "the Far East Conference.”

He, said: "The Government charges that the defendants have required shippers to agree to patronise the lines of Conference members

4x- clusively under pain of penalties calculated to deter the skippers from patronising any steamship line not operated by a member of the Con- ference: that, by means of such con- tracts, the defendants have secured control of virtually all the commer- cial cargoes transported in the trade involved and aro excluding competi- tion from such trado."

The Philippine lines named 1% defendants are the De La Rama Steamship Company, the Neder- landscho Stoomyart Maatschappij "Ccenn" V. V., M. V. Nousuco and the Swedish East Asiatic Company. Among the British lines are the Bank Line, the China Mutual Steam Navigation Company, Ellerman and Fucknall Steamship Company, Lancashire Shipping Company, Ocean

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Sovlet blockade.

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Soviet

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