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Today's Weather: Light or moderato Eant to Boutheast Winds: fair.

Noon Observatlor: Barometrio pressure, 1021,4 mbe. 30.16 In. Temperature, 67.0 deg. F. Dew point, 67 dez. F. Relative humidity, 68. Wind direolton, East. Wind force, 10 knots,

Low water: 3 ft. 6 in a1-444 pm, High water: 6 ft. 4 in. at 10.54 p.m.

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Two Ships Sink In Over 100 Arrested In Reds Reported

Furious Gales

THAMES OVERFLOWS ITS ESTUARY BANKS

Western Europe Lashed

London, Mar. 1.-Two ships sunk and 13 others sent out distress signals today in gales and storms which piled up huge seas along the coasts of Britain and Western Europe and destroyed port installa- tions and homes.

Many people were killed or injured in the worst storms of the winter. The Berlin airlift was halted.

The 1,955-ton Polish freighter, Katowice, sank off Terschelling, Holland, but the Dutch lifeboat Brandaris rescued all her crew of 26. The Canadian steamer, L'Emerillon (7,160 tons), bound for Karachi, grounded and broke up on the Sorelles Rocks, Tunisia. The crew were reported to be safe.

The Dutch tug Noord Holland took off three men, injured by huge Banck, and the 4,600- waves, from the 1,838-ton Swedish steamer, C. A. ton Norwegian freighter Hoyanger, both in distress off Ijmuiden. Fourteen men were removed from the C.A. Banck-later reported safe-leaving six of the crew on board. The Hoyanger continued under her own steam.

been knocked The qien had down by tremendous waves crashing over the ships. The C. A. Back was driven ashore at Bloemendaal.

Increase In

Dope Peddling

Washington, Mar. 1.-The

traffic

drug

the

Megal marihuana (the Indian hemp)

Increased. ho!

Jmrticularly Americans and mong young jazz musicians, the States Commissioner of Narco- tes reported today.

United

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at

1

over- river Thames The

its banks

many flowed points today as 70 miles per winds piled up thr hour

in the already heavy tides estuary.

The police warned people living in the crowded districts south of the river to be ready quit their homes and the that water

so high waa could not turs

pass under Westminster Bridge. tear the Parliament buildings.

The Harwich-Hook of Holland boal, which could not enter the harbour this morning because of the storm, has now docked,

The Danish steamer Korentoft that shr (2,230 tons) signalled was drifting towards the coast of Veland, in the Frisian Islands, and another Danish vessel, the Astra Owru (not ilsted

CARS STRANDED Lloyd's) was reported anchored

Water percolated through near the Oster Ems buoy, but

cracks in the sidewalks of the drifting.

Tower of London, and at Lam- FINNISH SHIP ADRIFT

Central Londen the Dutch

the beth in lur. Another

runway, w. over the the river assist to Schelde, went

were and trulley buses Service 1,790-Lin Finnish steamer Tan-Cars

by flood waters The strandert agents, sent attempt to amush the sources kar, adrift in tre gale.

Flushing parts of the north bank In Lon- Tankar later entered Harbour under her own steam.don. She-comes-from-Kokkula,

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North Carolina, an entire orchestra, and in Chicago and New York "some rather prominent jazz

been musicians", hart

arrested, American

Secret

of the

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bruke drug

Up n einndestine-drug-laboratory in. Istanbul, Turkey, and arrested 30 people.

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The wors!_of_the food danger that reported

thought to have passed 25 15 Karentoft, with badly damaged the afternoon title fell, but fur-

being taken

ther floodings were expecteri mede uthatches, was More arrests were

tug. Ther Marseilles, France, nt people Terschelling by a Dutch

died down. involved in smuggling dope into Attempts will then be made to carly tomorrow unless the wind British coastal shipping sought the United States, and another low the vessel to Malmoe. Secret Service agent was rowi

Twin Danish ships-the 97-

Ann shelter off the East Coast ar- Vessel Mary fon motor

steamer bours as the gate piled up linge investigating smuggling opera-

and the 1.058-1ǝn sions in Italy.

seas in the Channel and breach- in who Emanuel-were aground

salvage ed the Norfolk seawall, flooding A

coasal rond up to a depth of Danish waters, ship was rushing to the rescue

the Mary Ann in a heavy seven feet.

(Continued on Page 5) i snowstorm.

agents,

The American work with the local polles, are now hoping to draft drug con- Iran and trol legislation, for Turkey.-Reuter.

EDITORIAL

seca

Middle-Road Party Needed

New Malaya Swoop

more

Kuala Lumpur. Mar, 1.-Driiish troops, in a combined than 100 air and land operation, lave arrested suspected bandits-sald to be led by Japanese-in. Pabant State, 35 miles east of Kuala Lumpur. It was disclosed to- day.

Devonshire the 1 Two companies of the 1st Battalion,

Regiment, combining in a biggest-ever air attack on bandile eight miles south of Triang, made the arrests in a ground attack yesterday.

One British corporal, who had joined his company only the previous day and was on his first operation, was killed, Another corporal was wounded in the arm. Nine bandits were killed in the air attack.

The arrests, Including those of two known bandits and more than 100 bandit supporters, were made in the villages of Mengkaang and Kemayan, on the railway from Gemas to Mentakab,

rockets. Royal Air Force plans swooped with bombs. cannons and machine guns on the suspected camp, reported by an informer to be well-equipped and in complete con- trol of a big area.

officers were in The Informer said Ave Japanese charge of the camp, which contained more than 110 armed Chinese, Malay and Indian bands. The informer claimed that the bandila had Japanese anti-aircraft guns-whieh had

field Japanese fired on a British planeandthree hidden in the jungle, with many rifles, Ston and Bren guns, grenades and arre stocks of ammunition-Reuter.

Confessions Bare

Concentrating

Near Yangchow

Shanghai, March 2.—Quoting military sources, the Shun Pao reports that Commu

Yang- nist troops are concentrating near chow, 40 miles north-west of Nanking. Mili- tary

sources estimated, according to Shen Pao, that three Red columns with a strength this area. of 60,000 men have moved into But there has been no contact between these troops and Nationalist troops guarding the bridgehead on the north bank of the Yang-

tse..

Jualan

the

start in about

the

re- are expected to Alr reconnaissance, was

Red two weeks. ported to have spotted

from Deputy to Chou En-Inl will south troopa moving

PI-WAL Communist townsbe Tung and Hualyin,

member of the Chinese delcgn- along the Grand Canal

Another column, estimated at tion to the San Francisco United Nations conference, who in cur- 0.000 men, was reported moving

of chairman rently the Yencheng southward in 1 Funing area.

Pepple's Government in North Ych Chien- The military sources said the China. General 99

Communists in Northern Kungsu ying, currently mayor and chair- are busily building sampans. [nun

Military of the Shu Poo reported. At the same Commission there and Lin Tsun- time the Reds are said to be han, member of the Communist commandearly: more than 1,000 Central Committee, are expected smail craft at Klungan-Asso- to take part in the forthcoming ciated Press.

"Lonely Hearts' Murder Racket

Grand Rapids, Michigan, Mar. 1.The police today discovered the murders of a mother and her baby, and said that a couple who preyed on lonely women for money had admitted the slayings and tvor also confessed to a third killing committed months ago.

Mr Roger McMahon, the prosecutor, said bald, swarthy Raymond Fernandez, 34, Spanish-born "mail order" Romeo killer, confessed that he and..... Mrs Martha Beck, 80, both of New York, planned the slayings for money.

Soviet

Mission

Refuses

To Budge

Zone

Nationalist-Communist

Control

parley.

The Government negotiators

Chang

Li-tec. and Hung Sho hsiung.

Chili-chung. Chung Tien-sen

A

vacancy

exists for

the

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CANTON SHIPPING UNEASY.

Canton, Mar. 2.—While Hongkong shipping circles have given, as a whole, a favourable reception to the Chinese Government's an nouncement that Wuchow would be opened to foreign shipping

trade. majority of shipping olreles here are not too happy over the decision.

They

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Ilongkong shipping competition ITAT have very adverse effects on local shippers serving the Canton-Wuchow route. At present the river scr- vice is serviced by tow- boats, carrying both cargoes and passengern.

Hongkong shipping enter the West River trade, these towboats will have to compete with medium- sized motor ships or steamr ships, which offer more safety for both passengers and cargo Reuter,

Lapham

Proposes More Aid

To China

OPPOSITE CHINKIANG will be Shao

Nanking, Mar. 2.---Sixty-

Washington, Mar. 1- thousand Communist are mov- Kiangsu

fifth member of the Govern- Roger D. Lapham, American ing south from North Province towards the Yangtsement delegation. Peag Chao-aid chief in China. today river line, a report received here

Congress last night said.

Vanguards have reached

Slanmumiao. and Yangchow near the north bank of the river opposite the Nationalist key rafl town of Chinklang..

in

Earlier, a Reuter report said

troops Nationallet Mrs that and Chinklang had been alerted yes-

terday-Heuter-AAP.

for

that

proposed as a delegate after the Com-grant new aid to Nationalist he China, but of a strictly non.

WDS who slen

originally appointed a member, withdrew

indicated munisis would not be them.

that

accoptable to railitary nature,

he

1

the

first

Mr Lapham gave the READY FOR TAKE-OFF official hint of future American Shao Li-tse, chiet delegale help for non-Communist China Pretty, red-haired

and former Chinese envoy to to the Joint Congressional Com- and mitter on Foreign Ald Delphine Downing, 28,

also Moscow, was

a member

10 newsmen. her daughter Rainelle, aged

of the unofficial Shanghai de-afterwards three, were found slain in

PEACE DELEGATES

legation which returned from denied at a press conference that he had asked for US$240,000,000 the basement of their home

Me indicated for the Chinese, as reported by Nanking reports Shanghal, Mar. 2.--Chou En-Peiping on Saturday. after neighbours had report- Į tai, No. 2 Chinese Communist,

the Committee chairman, is

daily that word

expected

Pat McCarran. ed them missing.

the formal who was the chief negotiator for

the from Peiping on during Mr McMahon said the couple the

Communists

setting of the time and place, He said he only told the.

present admitted killing the mother Marshall mission, will head the

ΣΤ working after

pre- $240,000,000, at Lonely Chinese Communist delegation and the Government delegation Committee that it would take

the alert, has been on and confidence. when Hearts" racket

formal discussions

pared for an Immediate take spending rate, to continue the China aid programme for next game that ind welted them ending the civil war begin, ac- 115$4,500 since January 23. They curding to the most reliable off.

However, Continued Improvement in the year. were living at the Downing sources today. The discussions onlcial relations between Acting home-here.

President Li Tsung-jen and Pre-would like to sco mler Sun Fo was reported today, without my although there is still some out specile sum, spoken criticism of Sun for tak- amount to aid the Chinese, but that doesn't mean military ald. ing the Cabinet to Canton,

I think we ought to keep The arrival in Nanking of Ku Meng-yu, scholar and veteran operating in the areas we are 30 long as they do not now in, leader, led Kuomintang

fall into Communist hands," reports that he is being consi-

HOFFMAN PRESENT dered for the Premiership if Sun

Neither Mr McCarran nor Mr Fo resigns.

Laphain would say whether the suggestion had Administration McCarran but Mr will approval.

noted that the foreign al ad- ministrator, Mr Paul Hoffman, (Continued on Page 5)

the

the they put

and left it at

Mr Attlee To Visit Germany

to

He said they also confessed They killed Janet Faye, 50, Frankfurt. Mar. 1.-The January 3 this year in a room- suburban New Soviet Repatriation Mission Ining house in

American

will be York. Fernandez said they got the denied water, electricity, gas, about $500 from Mrs Faye, and telephone and other facilities If Mrs Beck said they got about they have not left by tomorrow $4,000.

Lucius D. General

They claimed morning. Clay, the United States Military body in a trunk

home of Fernandez' sister. Guvernor in Germaur. said to

Mrs Frank Cano. They added day.

that Mrs Cano knew nothing of The Mission, comprising four the slaying. Later they disposed Minister. Soviel officers and four other of the body by burying it in will visit Germany from March have the greatest Influence on ranks, was ordered out as from cement in a rented house in 4 to 7. "for the purpose of in- whether the Premier remains or today on the ground that they much the same way as they dis-specting the British had no further work to perform posed of Mrs Downing and her inents for the Berlin airlift," it

Soviet baby

here, according to Mr was officially announced here to- In the repatriation of

night, citizens from displaced persons McMahon.

BECAME JEALOUS camps in the Amerienn Zone.

were

to go

The trend that develops in the Legislative Yuan when plenary 1.-The Prime sessions begin on Friday London, Mar.

Mr Clement Attice,

urrange-

The announcement added that Fernandez said be met Mrs Mr Attlee "will visit Berlin it- longer are no "Since they entitled to any facilities in this Faye In Albany, New York, self as well as the airfields and Zone," the General said. "They through "Lonely Hearts" corres-other establisments in the British will obviously be denied access pondence and they went to New Zone on which the operation in

York together. He said Mrs based." to these facilities."

Beck became jealous of Mrs Mr Attlee will leave Northolt continued: Faye and hit her with a hammer. Airport, near London, on Friday. General Clay

The Prime Minister's visit 18 "How they obtain their food is The killing followed.

The story of a long trall of being made expressly to see the not my problem. If I

as a gesture of the commander "lonely heart" victims, Including Berlin airlift General Duff

appreciation of the work being of the Frankfurt milliary past) at least four middle-aged women I would throw a guard around whom Fernandez married and done on this operation, it was whom he did not, spilled understood here, He will be the place and walt until they got two

from the lips of the two after accompanied by Lord Elender- tired of it and wanted

their arrest

son, Parliamentary Under- home."

Mrs Beck said Fernandez shot Secretary for Foreign Affairs Mrs Downing when Mrs Down-with special responsibility for ing became suspicious of him. Germany. Other Ministers may later, it was The personnel of the Mission He had talked Mrs Downing visit Germany nationalist

selling her flye-room understood. still defyinst the into were tonight

German sources in close. 10úch threat to starve them out if they cottage and acted as her agent

the Zone. A on promises of marriage. Mrs with the Soviet Headquarters in did

leave

to the Downing's husband was killed Berlin reported that Mr V. S. leutenant belonging

that the in a motor accident, a year ago. Semeno, political adviser to Mission told Reuters

to slay Fernandez said he had been Marshal Sokolovsky, the Soviet Mission was prepared

in their Indefiallely

they until

reçelve to the United States. quarters orders from their Government.

The officer

THREAT DEFIED

ክብ

Dominions were when the two new go, INCE the end of the Pacific war the

created, The British followed, and then ap. Japanese have had increasing

The Australians the New Zealanders, portunity to smile behind their hands t

have been hanging on, but they, too, are their conquerors. Their first fears that

now expected to withdraw completely and the Allied occupation would be a reign the ruthless

leave the job to the Americans. So that of terror-inspired by

bomb-have effectiveness of the atom.

the assurances that America has no in- Instead they

tention of giving up her responsibilities been more than dispelled.

by destiny Unked have found their

in the Pacifle will be welcomed "Down General MacArthur to the future of the

Under," But criticism of General Mac- Arthur will continue. The controls in- United States, is not hard to imagine with what satisfaction the Japanese have

troduced by the occupation have led to themselves transformed by world

Japanese The belief, at least among

the rift between events from a hated enemy to a potential

conservatives, that ally to be woned with Inet and diligence.

Russin and the Allies will enable Japan Likewise, it is not hard to imagine the

hier 10 continue

pre-war dismay with which they must have re-

policy. It is apparently this belief which garded, the recent report from Tokyo

led recently to the return to power of that the United States Army Secretary,

Mr Yoshida and his so-called Democratle Mr Royall, did not consider Japan worth

To counteract this re Liberal Party, That report defending in a future war.

action, a number of liberally-minded fime for was subsequently denied, strenuously and

Japanese voted for the first at length, from Washington, but the bint

their the Communists, who increased

The police notified the nuo

ceiving the news of Mr Attlee's said: "I nin i was enough to remind the Japanese thu

not bound to pay any representation in the Diet from four to the Allies are

Mr Attlee's Inst visit to Ber- soldier. I take orders, and my thorities of most major cities of coming visit. Japan without thirty-five. This leaves co-operation. Unfor. price for their

orders are not to leave until the United States of the couple's receive orders from my Govern-arrest. on the chance that there was in July 1945, when as had been other victims, Fer-lehder of the Opposition he ac tunately, the effect of the report was not

fleecing of companted Mr Winston Church- confined to Japan. Alarm was fell hy

Asked what the Mission would (nondez told of the

1, then Prime Minister, to the Zealanders, who,

do it food were cut off, the licu-half a dozen widows. Australians and New

was Mrs Jane Potsdam Conference. One victim always favoured

tenant repiled with a wave of though they have

we Wilson, 50, of New York City, He will stay with General Sir the hond. "Don't worry. to prevent a stronger SCAP measures

have plenty," he added. That whom he met in November or Brian Robertson, la all, I cannot give you any December, 1947. revival of Japanese Imperialism, are weil

trip to Europe and, he said, she spokesman confirmed that the more information than this,"

going to aware of the Importance to themselves

In Heidelberg Army Head- died of a heart attack in Cadiz, Prime Minister

"sco Berlin on the spot. of events in the north Pacific and Asia.

quarters, Brigadier General Spain.

Another wat Miss Myrtle According to the present ar- Harold said: "Let's wait and ses The British Commonwealth Occupation

what happens in the morning. Young. of Arkansas, He said he rangements, Mr Attlee will be Force in Japan, never more than a token

plan to married her under the name of in Berlin from Friday night to It was understood that force numerically, has gradually been cut

escort the Russians to the Soviet Jeroz Martin, took $4,000 from Sunday morning, when he will her on a bun in probably go to the British Zone down until it is now estimated to be only

Zonal border with a military po- her and put

Visit several airports. 2,500 strong. The Indians were first to

lice escort had been temporarily Chicago, bound for Arkansas-in

United Press. abandoned--Reuter,

any effective middle-of-the-road party, and brings back unpleasant recollections of the position before the war. If Japan the free place among is to attain a

power notions of the world without ngain falling Into the hands of the old governing classes, occupation reforms must stimulate the growth of a centre a balance between party able to hold extremists of the right and left. This, rather than handing over the country to hostile to the Communisis, Any parly should be General MacArthur's nim.

ment."

gocs-United Press.

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head-married in Spain before coming Miliary Governor went into A choice of three

FLEECED WIDOWS

with his chief at his conference Potsdam homo BOON after re:

British whose

the Governor, They took Military

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