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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1948.

COUNT BERNADOTTE

Your Cost Of Stern Gang Shoot Down

Living

What IS the cost of living today for the average person, the average married couple, and

family?

the average

It is a subject of vital im- portance to everybody, and in order to give the Authorl- ties an authentic guide, the Telegraph is publishing to- day and during next week an HCL Questionnaire which it invites readers to fill in.

Mark in the question- nairo, cut it out of the paper. and send it to The Editor, Hongkong Telegraph, Wyrd- ham Street,

your envelopes "HCL Questionnaire."

Mark

See Editorial this page.

Burma Seeks Removal Of

British Col.

UN Mediator

FRENCH REPRESENTATIVE ALSO SLAIN

London, Sept. 17.-Gunmen shot and killed Count Folke Berna- dotto, the 53-year-old United Nations Palestine Mediator, in Jerusalem tonight. The American Consul-Genoral in the Holy City said the assassins were "presumably members of the Stern Gang." One of the mon fired a Sten gun at the Mediator from point blank range.

A United Nations official, Colonel Serot, was also killed.

The Consul-General said that four men drove up in a jeep as the Count's party was passing through Katamon-a Jewish-held area of Jerusalem. Two of them jumped out and dashed towards the Count's car. One was grappled by an American security officer--who wwounded-but the other reached the car, and shot down Count Bernadotte and his companion.

The assassins' jeep escaped, but the Consul-General's report did not say whether all four men got away in it.

The Count's car was fired on carlier in the day while on his way to Jerusalem from Ramallah, 10. miles to the north. High-ranking Arab Legion officers in jeeps, with an armoured car in the rear, then made up his party. A bullet coming from the direction of the Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus hit the running board and penetrated one side, without injuring anyone. inspecting the bullet

holo, the

Rangoon, Sept.

17. The Count tokį Reuter: "I don't want to British Embassy in Rangoon

be shot at either by regulars or ir- (regulars.** confirmed on Friday that the Burmese Government has asked Count Bernadotle that he would be A recent Stern Gang threat to the British Government to take fated if he set foot in Jerusalem steps to remove "a certain Brigala was reported to United Nations tish subject from Calcuttri." otels Taris by an American mflitary · observer just back from the Holy. Land, It was learned Paris tonight,

The statement referred to Colonel Chromarty Tulloch, who is allegedly Iending active support to the Karch uprising now taking place in Burmu.

λ Drillsti Embassy spokesmon said the Burntese Government's re- quest has ucun transmitted urgent- ly to London.

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ASSASSINATED

THE LATE COUNT BERNADOTTE

Fighting Ceases In Hyderabad

Allied Embargo On

Goods Destined

For The Soviet Zone

Frankfurt, Sept. 17-The British and Ameri- cans ordered an airtight embargo of all goods destined for the Soviet zone from the West, German officials said today.

Plugging a long, gaping hole, the Anglo-Americans in a "secret" cable indirectly choked off all highway shipments of goods to the Russian zone.

This sets up a commercial quarantine in the occupied area as far as the West is concerned. Both rail and barge traffic wore halted several months ago.

Instend of direct embargo, military government chiefs ΕΠ Berlin directed that all issuance of **wahrenbegleitscheine" (bills o! Inding) for trucks be stopped im- mediately and all such documents in shippers bands be voided.

The order was cabled to Western sintes bordering the Russian zone.

ORDER TO GERMANS

In the American zone, where the state of Hesse lies next to Sovint- Controlled Thuringia, the military government on September 10 sent | this order to the German Govern- ment.

"Subject: Halting goods destined for the Soviet zond

To the Minister President,

1. You are directed to instruct the proper German authorities that wahrenbegleitscheine will bo Issued for the movement of goods to the Soviet zone.

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Communists

WinControl In Sumatra

Rebellion Against Republicans

- 'Batavia, Sept. 17.—A Com. munist-led "People Party" has gained the upper hand after rebelling against the Indo- nesian

in Republicans! Northern Sumatra, acording to 2. It 13 requested that

you reports quoted by the Aneta instruct the German police to turn (Dutch) agency correspondent back any shipment of goods destined in Medan, the Sumatra capital. for the Soviet zone even though nc companied by wahrenbegleitscheine panuli, northern Sumatra, on Sep- Lae, rebellion broke out at Tu- In order to prevent the smuggling of tember 10 and was directed against goods into the Soviet zone German border police are to be on

the the

Mr military conflict between India the alert to guard against this con-minderation an Army and clvii ad-

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to tingency.

3. You are furlber

directed to

Several

Numerically, the Stern Gang has to Jerusalem and Baghdad before never exceeded 1,000, but all of returning to Paris for the United them are fanalles with one aim Nations General Assembly. He was complete Jewish domination of the to have delivererl his report on that it would refuse to accept Count Holy Land.

Palestine to The Assembly carly announced Inst June next week).

the "cense fire" its members have Bernadotte's fruce plan, and during attacked Arab

positions several a preliminary despatch from the New Delhi, Sept. 17.-The timės.

Consul General in Jerusalem. The Count had arrived at Jerusa- John MacDonald. Mem

the correspondent said. #t noon today after visiting The Count, a nephew of

prominent Republicans King Ramallah, 10 miles north of Jerund-

Mr McDermott said the assassina- and Hyderabad ended Gustne of Sweden,

tion "is regarded as a great tragedy night, and Indian troops will

were arrested by the rebels and the appointedlem, where he had conferred with here.". Mediator on May 20 this year,

an Arab Legion commander for an

tomorrow morning' enter Se-advise this office by 29th September mander of the Republican forces in Military Governors and the Com- Mr MacDonald reported; POLITICAL GANGSTERS hour.

Thecunderabad, garrison town in convoy in which Count Bernadotte The Stern Gang, the Jewish Asked if he had anything to dis- and party were riding was return the Hyderabad State. terrorist organisation, was founded close about the object of his latest from Government House. by Abrakam Sterz, a Polish Jew tour of the Arab capitals, Count

they possed through Kalamon-a Jewich held area-n jeep suddenly nounced. over

The Nizam of Hyderabad an- who became a member of the Irgu. Bernadotte said that he was

appeared blocking the route

the Hyderabad Two The Count then motored to Arab talning four men

of them Radio, that he had taken power into his own hands, had ordered Jewish front lines, where he proceeded to the Count's car. was supposed to cross-into

Colonel-Frank- Jewish area.

Begley American officer),

ana "cense-fire" and had instructed After his arrival in the

tions Arab security ofleer, grappled with his representatives in Paris not two arca,

lour explosions

one of them shook

and was slightly to press the dispute before the Jerusalem. not known but it was learned that assassinated the two men at point

wounded in the face. The exact location was renc

The second Security Council. renched the Count's car and they were the result of Jewish blank range with a Sten, gun. The firing in the Mount Zion sector:

jeep succeeded Count Bernadotte sald in Damas- above is a preliminary report.

In escaping. The cus yesetrday that he was going on full. report will follow."

The spokesman declared that theval Leuml, but broke away to term sulting Arab leaders-generally,

British Government strongly dis- approved of any British subject Intervenug in Burmess interual affairs and had every reason to sup- pore that the Burmese Covernment appreciates this.

Tulloch was a commanding officer of the famed British force 136 which operated behind Japanese lines in Burma during the war Associated Press,

EDITORIAL

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his own independent organisation.

The force began its ern of politien! himself gangsterism in 1042. Stern was an early casually, British CID men ambushed and killed him in fiat in Tel Aviv in February, 1942.

Members of the gang assassinated Lard Moyne, the British Resident Minister in the Middle East, in Cairo in 1944 after shadowing him

for days.

Cost Of Living Index HONGKONG is sull waiting for Chinese labouring class, another

cost of living index

years

any

based on monthly expenditure which truly reflects the family budget. For three

the Colony has existed on the ex- pedient food and fuel index intro- duced immediately after the re- occupation to meet an emergency, At the best this Index serves only to indicate the cost of the bare necessities of the Chinese working class, and under no consideration can it be sald today to

represout The true cost of living of single person, married couple or family. This so-called Index, however, is still the yardstick by which HCL allowances are made to all Government servants up to a certain basic salary and it is aiso adopted by many private firms for his same purpose. „A -glance at the index by which the Colony's present-day cost of liv Ing is Judged reveals how pli. fully inadequate are those figures. The only Items Included are rul- prices for rice and Boat. vegetables, salt cabbage, oil, tea. salt fish, fish, pork, firewood and bean curd. Not A suggerijon about rent, lightlon, travelling, school expenses, clothing, and s dozen other tiems/whloh are daily necessities and have to be in- eluded in every family budget. Ingkong has walted patiently for any such true Index cost or living, for despite the Salories Commission's recommendations .whteli have been adopted, concessions made to workers in the utility ConGerns and other bustnesses, there is still room for Improvement in the Incomes of a substantial number earners. And, these adjustments in salary can only be made. It' A true cost of living Index is avalls gablo.. Actually three separato in- "dioes,ars. required. Ons for the

and

for the artisans and a third for the white collar brigade. But to apply today an incomplete inder (Intended originally to be used as expedient until the Colony's

นมา economy had re-established itself) us a cost of living yardstick for skilled labour and the clerical profession is so unrealistic as be Inane. This week, a corres- pondent who apparently

appre- clates only too keenly from prac- tical experience the futility of the food and fuel index which Gov- emment Issues weekly, suggested that a Gallup poll be inlisted in an endeavour to gain a reason. ably accurate idea of what living costs amount to a the present time for the average family. It is realised, again. that there must be at least two categories of "average family" Hongkong- Chinese and non-Chinese, for standards of living also vary. Nevertheless, given a good res ponse to the Gallup poll, it would be possible to establish indices

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that would afford a much truer guide to the current cost of living than the existing food and fuel figures, The Telegraph

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alopleil the Gallup Foll gestion and is publishing questionnaire (it appears on the back pate) from which Informa- tion it is confident can be drawn up's reallatie cost of living index. We bellevo that only by sa certaining family budgets in il possible to arrive at an accurate ides of living-cosis, and we are confident that If the pubile responds to the Invitation to Mi In the questionnaire an invaluable guide will be offered to the authorities whose duis: It is to fix HCL Recording to the rosi living. We hope by this Une next

week to have some in- teresting and fluminaiing figures to present to Government.

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The

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a United No-

World-Wide Horror

A

Tonight, the Hyderabad Army was carrying out the, cease-fire or der, the Indian Army Southern Command announced..

Despite the fact that thousands of

of action taken.

Francis E. Sheehan, Acting Diree-southern Tapanuli have disappeared. The rebels were believed to have lor,"

gained the upper hand in the ter SUBJECT TABOO

ritory, the correspondent added.

FIGHTING SPREADS Germans have been officially

Fighting at Surakarta, in Central tied of the tronclad embargo, the Java, spread during the night to the entire subject is under taboo among scuthern part of the city-the second bed officials on the grounds-that-largest-in-Republican-hands-the was classified as "lop secret." Republican news agency, Antara, re- Several well-informed officers at-ported tonight,

It

m.d Berlin.

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touched

on

tributed the secrecy to the desire An urmed gang was reported to not to prejudice the Four Powes have raided the Communist Trade blockade

Moscow Unlon Federation office and the re- negotiations in

sidence of a member of the Pesindo (the Communist Youth These sources said the lid was clamped on in an Indirect way organisation sald to have

the disturbances there by withholding billa` of lading

Wednesday), rather than

the agency added. flat embargo-for

Clashod between similar reasons.

Republicans The delay in plugging the legal Dutch-controlled Bast and Central

and the Dutch were reported from. loophole through which trucks were Java Three Dutch soldiers were carrying cargo into the Russian zone killed, one was wounded and one was attributed by Alled sources to

missing when an Army, petrol was oversight. A man connected with

ambushed near Malang, 19 miles technical phases of German trans-Inside East Java, one report said. portation said that the highway ban had

should have been ordered

Over the same radio network, Mr Lälk All, Premier, announced that his Cabinet had resigned and said: "We have fought to the depth of Attempts were made by trans- the news of the murder," he said.

our ability. The Cabinet felt there atlantle telephone to find out further Mr Lie paid a

was no point in sucricing human tribute detalls, it was added.

to Count blood against heavy odds." Bernadotte's zeal and enthusiasm The American Consul-General's in his efforts to bring about a The Nizam stated that he report on Count Bernadotte's assas peaceful and just settlement bo-accepted the Government's resigna- sination began with the words: "Itween Arabs andi Jews.

tion and that the Prince of Berar, regret to report that Count Berna-

his eldest son and Commander doite and Colonel Serot were killed this afternoon at 5 p.m. presumable BERNIUERSARIO SERENARAI JONES JURGIT, SEASCA, OMADZU13S ROYER: 12 by the Stern Gang.""

Mr McDermott said that a more| detailed expression of the American Government's attitude to the assas- sination would probably be issued later on.

The news of the assassination has shocked the whole world. Messages; received, from Reuter correspondent tonight were:

111 expressed horror at

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Bernadotte's

Successor

WASHINGTON United States ofllcials Washington

· Paris. Sept. 17-While awaiting the newa,

Count Bernadotte was the arrival of the United Nations understood to have almost completed Secretary General, Mr Trygve Lde, his report, which was a revision of from Oslo, the Assistant Secretary 15 original proposals to the United ir Arkady Sobolev) cabled autho

for Nations Security Council,

risation

Dr Ralph Bunche. slated.

Count Bernadette's American regro It wa

was assumed that the report right hand man in Palestine, to as- would be at the Count's head-sume charge of truce observance in quarters on the island of Rhodes the assassinated mediator's place. and would, therefore, he available for posthumous submission to General Assembly,

Mr George Marshall.

it was

Mr

of

the State's troops, would hend

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commillee to govern the State un- new Cabinet is formed.

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NIZAM'S BROADCAST

Addressing his 17,000,000 subjects over the Radio, the Nizam`sald ho had ordered the free entry of Indian troops into Secunderabad, milllary cantonment town near the capital, a demand that the Indians made before they entered the country at dawn on Monday.

He regretted that he had not taken over power carlier, and said that the people of Hyderabad would "live in peace and perfect harmony with the people of India once law and order were restored.

The Premier, who broadcast be- fore the Nizam, announced a ban on the Razakar (multant Mollem organisation)—aiso diern.nded by Sobolev

also ordered Col India before the conflict started, the Aage Lundstrom, Swedish Chief of

Staff of Count Bernadotte's Palestine India's Agent-Gener: 1 in Hydern- To this extent, therefore," said

tearn, truce

to investigato one official, "Count Bernadotic's assassination.

thebad, Mr K. M. Munshi, upoke im- mediately after the Nizam. He id work will not be wasted, but the news of his death has enddened us

that he had explained to the Ruler News of Count Bernadotto's deati, lunt jail."

night "the meatus DI C coming four days before the mo-

action which the Indian the Secrementous annual Asembly, plunged Government was taking to restore tury of State described, the Count's the entire United Nations into con- law and order, assassination

The Nizam, ho A "tragic He received the what tho

and fusion and grief. It was not certain added, had "appreciated" this petion shocking thing.” Howa while lunching In his officeI

Security Council at and had issued the cease-Are order. with the Dutch Foreign Minister, du about the death of the man who tomorrow's meeting could or would Mr. D. U. Stikker.

The Nizam made imown his de- hed succeeded in ending

the cision less than 24 hours after his Palestine war and bringing compara- representative had told the Security Mr Trygve Lie, the Secretary

Council in Parla that Hyderabad was General of the United Nations, who tive calm to the Holy Land.

Søhting “o brutal invasion,'' which heard the news of Count Berna-

Count Berandotto had planned to has shocked, the consesence of the dotte's death on his today from a holiday in the moun- and return to Rhodes on

arrival here leave Jerusalem tomorrow for Iraq world. The Security Council yes- Sunday terday adjourned consideration DI tains, decided to fly to Parla by te leave for Paris-United Press.

the laua till Monday after hearing „etatamente teem Tedlán and Hydern--

bad delegates-Router,

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special plane leaving tonight.

It is with horror that I heard

same time as rail traffic halted

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the

from Semarang Aneta reported the

that 100 armed and uniform Repub-

MOTHER IN NOV.

In princip border cities, includ-licans had robbed four villages in ing the highway station of Helm- Central Java-Router, stedt,

border, pollee have been following the order halting corgo carried

trucks, bound whether they be equipped with legal papers or not.

there

GU cust

London, Sept. 17.-Princess Eliza- beth. expects to have her baby, Transport oficials pointed out that which will bo next to her in line would be no objection to let of succession, about the middle of ting

Nr November, it was disclosed tonight.. empty trucks through.

The birth will take place at there is any rule against loaded

the East coming into Euckingham Palace. The Princess trucks from the Western zones, they added in excellent health and is resting,

[it was added-Reuter.

United Presli.

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