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TODAY'S WEATHER: Moderato ́or fresh · Eastor: Sautheast

·winds; fale periodo and · scattered showers.,

2. 1.p.m. Observatlons: · Barometria pressure, 1012.8 mba, 20.89 là. Temperature, 81.1 deg. F. Dew poini,177 deg. F. Relatiye humidity." 86, Wind direction, East, Wind force, 21 knots,

Low wzier: 2 ft. 6 in. at 6:02 pm. High water: 0 ft, 4 lo. at 11.62 pm.

Thongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1948.

73 WAIT Foreign Ministers Meet In An

TO BE RESCUED

Miami

Miami, Sept. 20----A lug on Monday ploughing its way through mountainous seas reached the stricken British 900 ton freighter Lochmonur.

The U.S. Coast Guard reported that the lives of those on board were in no immediate danger though the tug reported that high sens kept It from beginning the rescue spera-

Captala of the freighter ground on Little Caymon Jalno in the Caribbean radioed the As- cociated Press the "vessel is standing up to severe weather conditions

rprisingly well"

stricken

71.

hi

The Vissel has 73 persons on board, six

them British passengers. Captain Treweeks fold message that the Lochinonar is on an even keel and "all the pussen- geen and crew are well and carry- ing on normal ship's life."

SURVIVORS SAFE

Ninteen

survivors from the wrecked British freighter Leicester arrived at Montreal in the Aigen- the fresher Tropero and Captain | Lawron, 41, told how his shafri hart tried to run before the hurricane which wrecked her fast week,

Twenty

other

survivors have

from Hamilton, Bermuda,

Storm Wrecks

Schooner

lielaluki, Sept. 20.-Several persons were believed to have drowned when the small Fin nial motor schooner, Verna, was wrecked during a storm on Sunday morning off the coast of Aaland Island,

Three Dodles have been re- covered.

Aalan shermen on Sunday morning found pieces of the wreckage on shore and im- mediately alrried the local police.

A Itelainiti newspaper stated that the vessel was en roule for Brazil with "many women and children aboard."Unlled T'ress.

U.S. Troops

To Stay Put

Washington, Sept. 20.-The reached Bermuda. says ↑ report United States today served no- "We turned the ship around and tice to Russia that the Ameri- Irtid to run off. She behaved very can troops will remain in Koren well for a while unt! suddenly she pending consideration of the took a roll to port," Captal Lawson whole Korean problem by the United Nations General As- sembly.

satd.

"Then a colossal sea came right

over the top of her and she reż mained with a list of about 40 de-

Krees. We tried to strudghten her and lost two port ilfeboats.

formal statement in reply to Radlo The States Department issued a

↓ Moscow.

"Despite the fact that the weather started to improve after she listed, the list continued to in- creas. from midnight to the time we left her."

Emergency

Session

Collapse Of The Moscow Talks

Paris, Sept. 20.-The Foreign Ministers of the United States, Britain and France, met in an emer- gency session late today to decide what to do about Russia's refusal to, lift the blockade of Berlin.

The Western Powers are now ready to admit the collapse of direct negotiations with Moscow.

Pledged to exhaust every diplomatic channel, the Western Powers have only one choice left- appeal to the United Nations and hope pressure of world opinion will force the Kremlin to change its

nind.

As the three Foreign Ministers, grim-faced and wor- ried about the crucial decisions they must now make, gathered at the historic Quai d'Orsay on the Seine, Western Powers' top experts on the Berlin crisis were rushing here by plane for intensive consultations.

in reply to Radio RIGOROUS

The statement sak textually: "It has been the consistent policy of this Government that the best interest of the Korean people would be served by the withdrawal of all occupying forces from Korea at the Caril carliest practicable time. The same embodied in the General According to the survivors, sharks asembly stesolution of November in which provision was probably got at last three of the crew.--Associated, Press.

inade for such a withdrawal as soon

The rescued, men had to swim some distance to reach the Tropero and most of the men were in the water for more than an hour, Capt. | Lawson said.

Sang "Red Flag" On Way To Gallows

!

Singapore, Sept. 20.-A, Chinese Communist who was hanged today Johore Bahru, walked to the

allows singing the Communist

"Internationale."

view was

as practicable after the establishment of the, Korcan Government, which it was the Intention of that resolt tion to bring into being.

CO-OPERATION REFUSED

"Had the Soviet Union co-

operated in carrying out the provi- sions of the resolution of Novem- He was Tan Ah Song, a termer ber 14, 1947. the question of troop village schoolmaster nt Yong Peng, withdrawal from Koren would who

of three terrorists doubtless have been already executed this morning.

solved. Tan was the best known Coin- amunist lender in Johore-Reuter,

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was one

EDITORIAL

Home Building Costs

THE report

Coals

of the Bulking Committee includes familiar arguments-mostly of a negative

nature-and the con- clusion to be drawn is that the middle and lower income groups have very dim prospects of their housing problem being solved for a long time to come, We do not condemn the Building Costs

Are

Committee for their, findings: on the contrary it is a most studious

· report and offers a new appre- clation of the many tantalising angles which comprise the sum of the housing problem. Carefully the report warns the layman that thern

miny present-day factors In building property which only the owner, his con- tractors and his architect can fully appreciate. They involve, for example, tremendously in- creased Jabour

costs, Inferior workmanship over a shorter day's work, higher freight charges. Inflated prices for raw materials, and greatly appreciated Crown Jand valaca Actually, all of these factors are well within the cognisance of the layman, but his concern now is how can he possess a home when his income does not allow film to afford the ruling prices of the day? At the risk

over-simplification we suggest that herein lies the real problem of accommodation. Any dwelling which absorbs, between 50 and 80 percent of a man's Income obviously is uneconomical.

·Yet he must live somewhere, 'And more dwelling bonses isro needed in Honkong, not only to provide economia accommodation. Sap the middle and lower groups of wago- earners, but also to help relleve the frightful living-space acation which coniinves threaten the health and happiness of the Colony.

The Building Costs Committee advances ons or two suggestions--tione of them original nor · berilaularly unique, But they can bear closer Inspec- tion, especially 'by Cloverument,

con-

available

Two stand out very clearly. Dne In making more urexu (and also making them known to the public) for aequtaliian on

for

10-

SENTENCE

QUERIED

...

Commons Protest

The West'a negotiators in Moscow and the men who run the show in Berlin for the West, will be here soon to assist Mr Marshall, Mr Bevin and M.

is not expected. Final decision

until later this week after tomorrow's opening of The United Nations. General Assembly. This new East-West crisis cast a dark shadow over this much har rassed world organisation.

But more serious still is what! Russia will do in retaliation if the West appeals to the UN, Russians have already

The announced that such an netion in their opinion is illegal that only the big four council of Foreign Ministers German problem. jurisdiction over Berlin and

NEGATIVE MOLOTOV The Soviet Foreign Minister, M. V.

haz the

London, Sept. 20,--Capt. L. D. Gammans, Conservative MP, Horney, asked

the Foreign Secretary in the House of Com- mons on Monday if he had any statement to make about the Molotov's decision not to come here handing over of a British sub-at the opening of the UN Assem- jeet, Captain David Vivian, bly was considered a major factor REM, to be tried by the Bur-in the West's readiness to throw up the sponge. Another factor was the mese government which has negative reply that M. Molotov gave resulted in a sentence of five the West's Ambassadors at the Inst years imprisonment for alleged Kremlin meeting on Saturday, gun smuggling.

Molotov, of course, may come later,

especially Berlin is added to

M.

the

A similar question was asked by agenda of the UN Assembly. Mr E. P. Smith, Conservative, Western delegates described the Ashford, who referred to "the sen situation

"very ឆន tence of five

years rigorous

Ferious." But Im- prisonment

passed

they said that they were determined upon Capt.to make certain to the world that Vivian in Rangoon for smuggling.

turn if matters

sharply for the worse,

Mr Bevin himself must return to London for the Parilament debate on Wednesday. The real full sci- sions of the big Western three are

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Hibokhibok Erupts

Smoke, rising to an aimude of 10,000 feet, billows from Hibolchibok volcano on Camiquin Island in the southern Philippines. This picture was made by Tech. Sgt. Gilbert Sheppard of the 13th U.S. Air Force an the fourth day of the eruption. More than 35,000 of the island's 45,000-residents have been evacuated.-AP Picture.

Compensation Likely For Ex-Far East Residents

London, Sept. 20-The British Government has been conslder- ing the cases of United Kingdom and Brittzh subjects who suffered Josses in the-pocupied British and ex-British territories in the Far East and who have returned to Britain and intend to remain here permanently, Mr Christopher Mas hew. Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs sald today.

He was replying in Parliament to an inquiry for Information about compens on payable to British individuals for property. last or destroyed in Burma in 1942.

com-

As soon as certain administrative arrangements WISTE pleted, which he hoped would be in the next few months, a fur- ther statement would be made, he added.

Mr Waller Fletcher (Conservative) wanted to know if enough staff was dealing with this matter, or was this "a paralel to the case in Malaya," in which, fie said, it had to be confessed there was not enough people to deal with it.

fr L

Mr Mayhew replied: "Our difficulties are not concerned with shortage of slaff”-Reuter.

Reported Jewish Threat To U.S. Consul-General

Jerusalem, Sept. 20-A 24-hour United States Marine and Jewish Police guard was posted around the American Consulate today following widespread re- ports that Jewish extremists have threatened to JSM sassinate the American Consul-General, Mr John MacDonald.

he arcanged an illegal Issue of 200 expected to take place before Thurs were being taken by the Consulate

men

FATE OF

TSINAN IN

BALANCE

Shanghai, Sept. 21.-The climatic battle for Tsinan, provincial capital of Shan. tung Province, which will go a long way to determine if the Chinese Reds will win control of the vast..areas in Central China north of the Yangtze River, today 'mounted in fury. Odds at present seemed to bu Lipped in favour of the Reds al- though Government reports claimed _that_airborne reinforcements con

tinued to pour into the besieged city.

Particularly bitter fighting was described of the Yellow River bridge In the northern outskirts

forry

eily and ut several northwest of Tsinan.

of the

points

One report told of the Nationalist efforts to counter-attack to wrest the control of the north airfield from the Reds, - while' the puth airfield continued to be in Govern- ment hands.

SURRENDER PLOT

Mr Christopher Mayhew, Under- it will be because the Russians elect a Crown' rental basis, Instend of through auction; the second, the Secretary to the Foreign Office, re- to push things that way. financing of loans through

plied; "Capt. 211

Vivian is a British No hasty action is contemplated. accredited Housing Commission.

omeer of the old Indian Army whe The Moscow Ambassadors are not Bh are fundamental to the was seconded for service with the expected here encouragement of home building,

probably until Rangoon police shortly before the Wednesday. and without any such Induco- assassination of members of the mant, large-scale building on 鸽 Burmese Cabinet on July 19, 1947.

A special National Defence non-speculative basis C211 be

ACCUSED CONFESSES

A Consulate spokesman dismissed the assassination of Count

communiqus told of a ruled out

Folke Ministry years to

come.

the reports as "mere gosalp" and Bernadotte and to maintain order

Nationalist commander's plot to sùr- "According to his own admission. In this connection much appears

said no extraordinary precautions in disturbed areas.

renaer his entire division to the lo depend on whether Govern-

Feds being nipped in the bud, meni seriously wants its precious

As soon as possible after delegates Bren guns and a quantity of am-

nuthorities. However, Jewish officials of the 58 MR BEVIN GRIM

Nations assemble munition from an Army Ordnance

proved Crown land developed in such a

averting what might have On have set up a continuous guard "un-Tuesday the The mee lag which began at 6.15 til further notice." way that,

Depot to U Saw, who was after- while

UN Administrative to be a fatal blow to the encircled help the housing shortage, it

Chief will ask for a UN Constabu Shantung enpital. wards convicted and executed form. Paris time, lasted exactly one

As it was, the the assassination.

hour. will be deprived of ready and

It was learned that it was

lary of from 1,000 to 5,000

commander was able to go over to "The

said that Mr Mac-backed by "the full authority of the the Communists with 2,000 of the of which substantial Income. The

n "preliminary exploration" of what Donald, offence point

chairman of the United United Nations."

10,000 men in his division. has some

Vivian Importance, Government

WOR reccused

a etvil Was

to do next and how to do it. The Nations Truce Commission, was la in a

1 a position to surrender many

mutter of great political importance Ministers looked a little more checnext on the Stern Gang list"

In his annual report to

The communique said that Gen-

choice. sites

eral Wu Hun-wén, formerly_suber- at what

and no question arose of his trial ful as they drove away in

General Assembly, Mr Lie sald A their assassination after Count Bernadotte, UN

dinate

Gen. of Constabulary

Han Fu-chu, by milliary court. lie subsequently cars, but solet there would be no whe was slain on Friday with his greatly increased the effectiveness ƒ Shantung Governor before the wor

would have confessed and was convicted and statement of any sort on the mee.-aido, Colonel Andro Serot, in the

who Was executed As traltor, sentenced by a Burmese court to ing and departed.

of the work of the Security Council, plotted to surrender his 84th Divi- Jewish-held section of Jerusalem. Ave years rigorous imprisonment." Mr Marshal was accompanied by

and have saved many lives, partision to the Reds yesterday morning. Mr Smith asked, "Are you aware John Foster Dulles, Republican, and A high polico spokesman said he cularly in Indonesia and Palestine. His troops were assigned to the B sentence of rigorous Im- the man who will be Secretary of belloved two of the murderers of "Mr Lle is to present his report, to suburb of Kangshan, southwest prisonment in a climate like Burma State if Governor Thomas E. Dewey Count Bernadotte and Col Serot the Assembly soon after the opening of Tsinan.

wins the presidency.

were still in Jerusalem or among session.-Associated Presa, Mr Jefferson Caffery, American those arrested, Indicating that a Ambassador to Paris, Mr Lewin third member of the assassination. Douglas, Ambassador to Britain and] party, might already have been Mr Charles E. Bohlen, Counsellor detained.

of

the

that

theoretically known as a loss, for the sake of stimulating non-profit naklug building projects. But dangling before the eyes Government (especially Treasury) is the "gift" of lakhs .of dollars for Land to bo developed by the speculative and· Is "get rich" property builders. The ehofce would appear to be between the moral responsibility of providing land Cheaply For those who would bufta

If

Are

Copt.

Lyn deall sentence to a

he was not convicted on n capital charge," Mr Smith added, "will you do everything you can to mitigate the sentence of imprison- ment?"

of the US State Department, were. also with. Mr Marshall.

Tho

report

for

'con-

HOMES RAIDED. Mr Bovin, grimmest of all the:

The Jewish authorities into the. Quafi persons who strode d'Orsay for the meeting, was flanked tinuing the hunt for the murderers, by General Sir Brain Robertson, seized 200 Sternlats and sent them British Military Governor for Ger- to detention camp. Tho

police many and Sir William Strang, raided private homes to arrest the Gorman expert in the Foreign Offee. | Sternista.

The only incident occurred when Sternist leader tried to make anti-government

| BOMBER EXPLODES United Press,

IN MID-AIR

they could, от selling derly to those who will bay

Mr Mayhew replied, "No sir,.I because they know there

am not convinced that the sentence quick prolis to be made, As for was out of proportion to the crime the official financing of loans, we of the accused.”—Associated Press. have previously, expressed our views," It has been done in to many other places that we fall to see why I should be impossible here more Parlonlarly 2.5 Government has experienced no dimculty in financing out publie funds its own little housing" problems, Lo. new flats for Government servants, Mongkong. doen not expect ila 'bousing problem, to be completely solved in a day; not even in five years.. But if Government could display the same purposefulness in' help- ing the ordinary clilzen to find has In

hla owb home

providing for its employeer, ‹11 would at least, give new heart and spirit to...... those who

have. reached the borderline of despair.

Tulare, California, Sept. 20-The RESERVE FLEET United States air force's first all Jet BEING PREPARED bomber- 45 exploded, In ̈'mid-

alr. today and crushed neur Alpaugh

ก

Do

courtyard of Police Headquarters, He was separated from Ult

1%

the

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Spain Source Of Weakness

To Western Democracy

London, Sept. 20.-The Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Mr Christopher Mayhow, told a questioner in Parliament, today that Spain, as n Fasciat country, was “a source of weakness to Western Democracy."

the

to

He added that there had botn no, that Britain should approach the change in the British Government's Spanish Government on the subject policy towards. Soaln;

of joint air defence In case Observers believed, the Sternisia said that Spain had for long ""set

Mr Martin Lindsay (Conservative) aggression by a third power, would go under cover ás a: result of

Mr Teeling further asked for an face steadfastly against the Jewish Government's action. A Davenport, England, Sept. 20.Government spokesman said fears with which the rest of the world in Europ with a roar which was heard 10 The British Navy is getting ready to of civil war vanished.

menace of Russian

assurance that every effort would be Communism, miles away, "..

ensure that Western wells were recovered from into service.

put some of its reserve feet back when the Sternista falled to put up

however now. faced. Two bodies were

Can we not find much Europe was properly defended

In It was disclosed on a fight against the Jewlah

case of n.tack and that no personal the wreckage which was strown Monday.

with forces common ground-

that?." over an area of four square miles.

or party reasons would be used, Official said the plane normally Royal dockyards here gives high

An Admiralty order issued to the rounding them up-United Press.

which would mean that Spain could Mayhew, amid Labour elicers, UN CONSTABULARY

not be asked to support it, replied: "No. The Spanish Govern carried a crew of six or seven priority to the reatting of the re-

The plane, which came from serve vessels.

ment has long set, its face towards Mr Mayhew said that the Govern-.. Paris, Sept. 90.-Secretary-Fascism, and we can and nothing ment would take all necessary steps. Muro experimental, air base, was

General Trygve Lie will demand common with that." flying at=(0,000 to 10,000 feet,

urgent formation of a United Nas

He gave an assurance' that party Rautori

He

later rejected a suggestion by transiderations: would not influenco lons guard to forestall such acts as Mr William Teeling (Conservative) (the Government-Router.

Dockyard omela's declined to say how many ships were involved Associated Press.

them

on