1948-11-25 — Page 8

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1948.

SHANGHAI'S PRICE INCREASES

CREATE NEW RACKETS People Sell Their Own Rations

Shanghai, Nov. 25.—A surge of price increases following abolition of price controls has forced thou- sands of wage earners into one or the other of the city's numerous rackets.

An estimated 800,000 salaried workers have had their wages frozen on August 19. Other workers on a day-to-day basis were able to revise their scale of charges with each new boost in the cost of living. With prices today at least 10 times higher than on August 19, some salaried workers receive in buying power less than one-tenth of what they received three months ago.

The rackets range from eering to merely selling on dise rationed to them by the

Bloodless

Venezuelan Revolution

ARMY IN CONTROL

OF COUNTRY Caracas, Venezuela, Nov. 24.- The Army overthrew the President of Government Romuto Gallegos without firing a shot on Wednesday and an nounced it

general control of the nation.

Troops occupied all public buildings at noon.

was in

Lleut-Col. Marcos Perez Jimenez, chief of staff of the Army, said the Army carried out the cutp beenuse of the "incapacity" of the admini- curation of the Democratic action arty headed by Gallegos, and be- elements cause "extremist" labour

n general strike to were threatening support the President.

out-and-out

blackmarket- the open market merchan- firms they work for.

With salaries in many cases now Insulelent to furnish some workers with a single meal a day, many have turned to auch rackets as "yellow ox" operations. This simply menna

at shops queueing up early entertainment centres, buying up goods or tickets at "official" prices, and then selling such items to others unable to spare the hours of waiting 1ered.

or

Other rackets Include black market operations in foreign cur- rencies which require much more

n long list of shrewdness, capiti

con-

necijos, and a certain amount of

TRANSFER OF GOODS

Another racket is the transferring

of goods from one place to another. Practically all consumer goods have much higher value in the country- side immediately outside Shanghai. Passengers out of Shanghai, carrying cigarettes, rubber shoes, raincoats the and other items needed by peasants, are able to make á ving bartering them for rler, pork and turn, in other foodstuffs which, fetch a higher price inside the city. Simple though they may seem, these activities are frequently more profilable than a straight salary and many of Shanghat's working class have abandoned jobs and gone into this form of commuting.

Sheriff Ralph J. Paul (holding book) reads the Ohio riot act to 30 strike pickets at the American Zinc Oxide Company plant, in Columbus, O., and orders them to disperse or be ar- They rested for rioting. refused to leave and Sherlif Paul announced later he would make no arrests un- less the company gola court order limiting num- ber of pickets.-AP Picture.

Bi-Centenary Of Famous Composer

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German Police Force Is Nucleus Of A Big New Soviet Army

1.

Frankfurt, Nov, 24.-The menacing new "police force" which Russia is building in its zone of Ger- many may be just the beginning of a far bigger, tougher army.. So says Walther Schreiber, major general in the German Army Medical Corps who was offered the post of surgeon general of the new army.

After three and a half years in Soviet captivity, Schreiber seized the police offer as an opportunity to get back to Germany. Then, accompanied by his family, he threw in his lot with the Americans.

The Army apparently neted when large operators smuggle forelyn become more and more associated! Gen.

Marie med

haion camp.

as

vole

ness.

clusions since it is only beginning to develop.

state. The latest offelal westem ment on the subject is General Lucius D. Clay's estimate of 300,- 000.

statements as

of

CONFIDENCE

VOTE FOR QUEUILLE

Comfortable Margin

Paris, Nov. 24.-The French National Assembly passed a voto of confidence in the M. Honri Government of Queuille today by 316 votes to 164.

The minimum vole required for an absolute majority in the Assem- bly is 311. The Deputies today took 65 minutes to record their votes on

a Communist motion against which

Premier, M.

the

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The vole

Government

had asked

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wag

on the rejection motion for a

■ Communist

in- Parliamentary Commission to vestigate the bank accounts of the Communist Party and the Socialist newspaper, Lo Populaire.

of

The Assembly then began dia- cussing a Gaullet motion asking for a Parliamentary Commission "with the fullest possible judicial powers" to Investigate the resources and activities of the Communist Party. COMMUNISTS DEFEATED

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Copios of photographs taken The Communists countered Gaullist motion with an amendment by the South China Morning calling for a Parliamentary enquiry

into "funds distributed in Westeru Post and Hong Kong Tolograph

the Europe by Mr Irving Brown,

Staff Photographers are on view European representative

the of American Federation of Labour."

the The Prime Minister asked Assembly to reject both the Goullist the motion for an inquiry into French Communist Party and

the

Communists' amendment, thereto.

This was a matter for the Judicial authorities,

The he said. withdrew their Gaullists thereupon motion, and the Assembly voted on the Communist amendment as 41

substantive motion.

the

national

The Communist amentiment was rejected by 379 voles ugainst 180.

A motion expressing confidence in Government "to defend the national patrimony within the and the framework of the law Republican order" was adopted by 351 votes against 215, it was offcial- ly announced by the Speaker at the end of the eight-day debate on the Government's handling of the coal strike. Reuter.

Truck Exporters Heavily Fined

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Now in U.S. Army custody, he has revented these things about what he London, Nov. 24.-Britain calls "the first stage of rearmament this week celebrates the bi- in Eastern Germany.

It is not a police force at all, centenary of the composer of but a "red army." one of the best-loved hymns in 2. It is armed with "tanks, artil-

PROMISED BEST WEAPONS the English-speaking world-lery and other heavy weapons,"

3. It will be doubled in size (now Both Tulpanov and Fischer' men- Isaac Watts, author of "God Our

about 300,000) by early 1940 and toned the heavy re-armament Cardiff, Nov. 24.-The results of a The difference between this type of Help in Ages Past."

will continue expansion thereafter. the new outfit end Tulpanov pru- CRSO at Cardif in which racketeering and big time operations In the two centuries since Walls'

4. Neither the Stalingrad neidmised "the best of German

we alleged on attempt was made to ship is only in scope and capital involved death, this and others of his hymns marshal, Friedrich von Paulus, nor pons," according to Schreiber. The 35 armoured transport

Walter von Seydiltz, bosses

bired surgeon, polated to their Palestine were heard today. Free-haired Russian-promoted the occasions of Thanks of Inspector Currency out of Shanghai to bring with great

"clear proof that its

All the defendants were Lt. Col.

back whisky, cosmeties und other giving and Remembrance,

connected Germany movement are

uctivity will exceed police activity." guilty of the charge of being the forces; based luxury goods, largely from General

"the

Whether sung in humble village with the new force in any way.

The doctor

said high-ranking returned from a recuperation of

Hongkong.

churches, or in great cathedrals,

The New York and Eastern Trad- at Saranac lake,

German officer-prisoners picked for exporters of the vehicles.

was fined £500. several months

MILITARY. EXPERTS SELL RATIONS

such no St Paul'a and Westminster

of them, famous ing Company police duty, many

the is being built

Managing New York, and threw in his lot with

reflect in 5. The army of mcketeering, Abbey. these hymus Another type of the

James Simmonds, | 1ព Germany and usable as "balt," the military. Vargas, ene

thankful around a core of German military are gathered in Camp 7073 near Director, was fined £600 or twelve lenders of the 1915 revolution which which is not so much racketeering simple verse a nation's

of

in- of the rent

experts who will be milked

are given on Moscow. They

months' imprisonment. Cecil England President Isaias Medionus taking advantage

Watts wrote nearly 700 hymns, 25 their knowledge, then discarded.

れ course; high. £250 or tensive "Antifa"

months. Mrs ninc between official prices had been counted in the discrepancy

Coli-England

nine montig £250 or of which are still sung by many de-

indoctrination in 6. The top man thus far ap- and prices on the open market, is

powered pointed to the force is its chief of Gallegos, who took office only lost the selling of goods legally rationed nominations.

staff Lieut-Gen. Vincenz Mueller, a munisin, the 55-year-old doctor said. Henry Epps £100 or six months and "If these people enter the police Richard Epps £50 or three months' February

first to employees by the companies they the nation's

work for.

"fanatical Cominunist."

now, they are supposed to work as imprisonment. -President elected by a direct

On behalf of Simmonds it was high experts," he explained. "They are companies, cigarette com-

The disclosures by the publication of Watts' pages, nits and other producer Hymns and Spiritual _Songs

ranking refugee Schreiber are pre-supposed to hand out their know-ntated that he did not appear at the Weights and Measurements of Cargo ex- in to sumably accepted-by-the-American. and distributors ration

out and others Will tako their the realisation that he made certain regularly at

mistakes in the evidence."-Reuter. him available for an official press place."United Press. church meetings. This was con- MOIL FIELDS STRIKE

offset rising prices. The employees, sidered an importani fuctor in conference.

Col. Sergel Private reports from Maracaibo rather than use these items them-

Schreiber said that services more cheerful and making

the Western Venezuela, the

powerful Russian Amerlean selves, re-sell them on the of industry

interior minister of capital has a stake of about two market.

Whatever form it may take, to for the great Methodist revival led Kurt Fischer bilior, dollars, sald of workers had

Iny there is a racket going on in

the Soviet zone, furnished him with call a general strika

practically every large concern in by John and Charles Wesley.

Walls was a dissenting clergy- the above information while trying the State of Zulis.

the city-even thouth it is only man. Yet his interest spread far to recruit him into the organisation. LA-Col. Carlos Delgado Chalboud, selling the paper from the waste- beyond the confines of his own

Schreiber escaped shortly after re- Minister of Defence in the Gallegos paper baskets, which often may net parish, or even his own country. In fusing the job.

The little doctor-general sald that Cabinet, broadcast the first com- enough to pay the expenses of two later life he knew leaders of the

after or three coolies.-Associated Press.

figures as to size of the new army munique to the people

colony of New England: His home asked He

lead to wrong the cast London became the clearing warned

He house for American problems,

work among

found the Indians: donors for Harvard and acted

He also helped in important funds. the choice of Harvard textbooks and professors-Reuter.

of the people, was at his home un- der the protection of the Army The Whereabouts of other politient teaders was unknown.

where

centre

ان

throughout

Gallego's

overthrow. everybody to stay home, foreigners not to interfere, said no meetings of more than three persons would be nilowed, and gave orders hoot inmediately to troop patrols

or disturbers of tho nny loolers

Delgado Chulbaud said the prace. army had the full backing of the Air Force and Navy.

Workers were warned to return to work at once. Bars and publie places were ordered closed.

In a broaricuet

neilon, Perez Army

FAR REACHING INTERESTS

With

the

cerlain 1707 the English people began cominand in Germany, which mustledge-Later-they-will-be-kirked last hearing_of_the case "because of ported from Hongkong and South China

amount of their own stock of goods to their employees each month tsing hymns

the

their

open lightening religion during the 18th chief in Germany, and

GALLUP TO USE

NEW TECHNIQUE

New York, Nov. 24.-Dr George American Gallup. Director of the Institute of Public Opinion, sal today that he would use "some new celiniques" in his next poll on the American elections, announcing the His purpose is to avold a repetition Jimenez at-of this year's mistake over the re- tacked the Democralle action party election of President Truman,

Dr

sald the new methods had been accused of mono- which

fuller Information 011 polising power under Gallegos. He called for said the Army would not allow voters who were not sure whether to use power to the they would vote, or for whom they any group detriment of the nation. He pro- would vote. The innovations would new Government that also include the calling in of o30 mised u would follow a course of dignity." Democrat and one Republican

their views present

as 10 the -Associated Press.

meaning of the poll statistics-- Reuters

Prison For

Defiling

Graves

Namur, Nov. 24-Seven Belgian

civilians were sentenced today

Lo

terms of imprisonment ranging from

the

Gallup

Offer To Russian Emigrants

century, and thus paving the way

in

collected money for missionary

of

con-

Trustee for iwo of that university Big Allied Air

GIVEN WRONG

Force Urged

London, Nov. 24.-A former. "Conservative Air Minister, Viscount Templewood, urged in the House of Lords the formation of an Allied Air OPERATION

Force

Jet Bghter of 100 of the Intest types of squadron longrange

50 bombers,

pilatiess Akron, Ohio, Nov. 24.A tonsil rocket squadrons and 150 transport lectomy patient and a gland patient squadrons. were waiting to enter the operating room at a hospital here.

He said that with a fully equipped and manned force of this kind at The orderly wheeled the gland the very beginning

of a war the tpatient into the wrong room and

Allies could "stop and disorganise the surgeon promptly removed the

advance attempted Russian any patient'a tonsils.

across the Continent." An embarrassed hospital official

Lord Templewood was opening a apologized, but blamed the doctor, deb

debate on the state of the Royal hurse and orderly for the mix-up: Air Force. "I do not question the Now the patient must wait until

fact that 20 atom bombs can do she recovers from the wrong opera irretrievable damage to Russia, but tion before she can undergo the for their effective use, supremacy In proper one

the air is essential," Lord Temple- wood

said. Lord Addison, replying for the Government,

sald that the negotin- tions for the conclusion of an A- lantic Defence Puct and bringing It into an effective working form was making good progress.. He con- tinued: "How soon the preliminary consultations will be concluded I cannot say. "Reuter.

cyst.

for the removal of a Shanghai, Nov. 25.-Six hundred 20 days to five months for pillaging and 20 Russian emigrants and other

The hospital says there will be extrac- graves of United States war Stateless Europeans in China, who dend at Fosse, just outside Namur, hold the necessary landing permits, no charge for the wrong

Another nine were found not have been officially notified of per-lon-United Press.

rescitle in Argentina, guilty and released. The prosecu- mission to tlon sald the Incidents tool place in

quoting International Refugee July and August this year when the tording to Chinese press reports employed by the Organisation sources. accused were

These sources, indiented that the American War Graves Registration Command in preparing the bodies Argentinian resettlement scheme re- for, repatriatlon or transfer lo per- mains by far the best hope for Stato- ceme-less and displaced persons in Shang- mahent American military

Ini-Router.

teries in Europe.

Objects removed from the bodies Included gold teeth, fountain pens, watches and medials-Reuter..

Still No Cabinet

WELSHMEN TO HAVE MORE SAY

London, Nov. 24.-In order to meet Welsh complaints that Wales has not enough say in ber own today proposed a Council for Wales and Monmouthshire, The

affairs, the British Government RECORD FLIGHT

Council Sydney, Nov, 24-A four-engined Brussels, Nov. 24-Belgium was will consist of representatives of Douglas DC-6 airliner bought by GIBRALTAR FLEET Atill without a now Government to-We

Welsh local authorites, employers, the government reached Mascot alr- Gibraltar, Nov. 24-Eight British night despite daylong efforts by workers, and other organisations. port with a new transpacific com-

Syskens, tho Catholic warships are expected in Gibraltar Gaston

It would now be up to the Council mercial air record on Wednesday, are the aircraft Finance Minister in the old Cabinet, }; · this week. They

to see that the Government was I cut three hours, and 63 minutes entrier Illustrious, the cadet training to form another Socialist Catholle adequately informed on the trends off the previous record of 22 hours ship and former cruiser Devotishiro, Coalition. the destroyers Rapid, Scorpion, M Syskens took on the job last the failure of M. Paul Battleaxe and Cacewbow and the night after submarines Tantlvy and Toredo Henri Spaak, the outgoing Premier

-Reuter. Router.

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