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Shorter Working Hours-For.

Donkeys!

London, Mar, 24-Don- keys atving riden lo chilti- ren on at least two beaches in Brinin this year will have shorter Working hours and an hour off for lunch.

Filty donkeys at Weston- super-Mare, Somertet, have had their working hours reduced from 72 ta 64 a week under a "don- keys' charter" drawn up In collaboration with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelly to Animals.

They will finisht at 7 p.in. every night and have Sun-

day "off!"

The East Coast seaport of Skegnem has gone one better by Umiting weekly working hours to 42, but In return the donkeys must Alvo children a ride on Sunday,Reuter.

Diplomat's

Wife's Troubles

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1949.

Reds Unable To Administer Threatened

Captured Cities?

SHENSI RADIO'S HINT

Shanghai, Mar. 24. The Chinese Com. munists have given the first hint that their re- volution, which is prima-ily agrarian, is bogging down in the cities of North China.

The North Shensi radio reported that at its Central second plenary session, the Communist Committee stressed the importance

of shifting

the "centre of gravity" of their programme from rural areas to cities.

of

"Under the Icadership chairman Mao Tze-tung, the Party united the broad masses of the labouring people and polley of carried out this

country sido to utilising the

city, the radio the encircle naid.

plenary

'No Truth'

In Czech Allegations

Opposition Urges Rotaliation

**But that period is now ended. The period has now begun of the leadership of the countryside from the cities."

said it was now The radio

for the Reds to necessary closely link relations between rural and urban areas, between peasants and workers, and be- Divorced Through

tween agriculture and Industry.

The radio said the Mail Order

"all session had called upda

London, Mar. 24-The Op- nil their New York, Mar. 21.-The comrades to devote

mons today urged the British of in- wife of the chief Chinese nereles to learning the tech-position in the Ilouse of Com.

nique and management

Czech official delegato to the United Na-dustrial production, commercial Government to take retaliatory the treatment tions

asked today

the banking and other work closely action against a Human Rights Commission related to production"

It has often been poluted out meted out to a British official In

Prague. to help untangle her marital

by students of China's revolui- affairs,

tion that when the Communitis

Mrs Nyok Zoe Deng Tsiang begin administering elties such wanted the Committed to look na Peining. Tientsin and Tsinan. into her very human troubles they will face problems which

her

far concerned them not have with

Tin-fu, Telang husband and father of her four in rural areas.

Many belleve the Reds lack children. Mrs Taisng sold her husband obtained a mall order the ability to administer urban

think this is when areas, and and, Mexican divorce

one

Nanking,

for f Britain

British

that

Yesterday, the Embassy. Captain Phillip Wildash, British Military Permit Officer in Prague, would be liable to ar- rent unless he left Czech- slovakia within 24 hours.

warned was

The Under-Secretary of State Foreign Affairs, Mr for

replied Christopher Mayhew, take to

that the Government was cun- skiering what action would be appropriate.

she attempted to contest it, he reason why they have not at claimed diplomatie immunity. tempted She said the Supreme Court re-Shanghal, and other cities. Jected her suit for separation on immanity grounds.

nk n

"While my husband, member of the United Nations, in supposedly working for the welfare of humanity, he can in actuality fout all laws of do- cency and abandon his wife and children." said Mrs Talang In her pica,

The radio did not say when the plenary session ended, but said it was attended by 34 Cen- and trol Commitice embers 19 alternates. Twenty members and alternates were absent.

The work of the Reds' Poli- teal Bureau

since June, 1945 plenary session when the first was held, was ratified at the session just ended.

Cenotaph Ceremony

In addition, Mao Tze-tung's Slic sold her husband's elght terms for peace with the picture with Mrs Hilda Ung Nationalists were ratified. Ching Shen appeared in a news Associated Press. paper with the caption: "De and Mrs Talang Ting-fu. She com- mented: "Surely this entinot be the sum total of the effective- ness of the United Nations-that it shall provide refuge for men who would evade their legal and moral responsibilities. And if it is said that mine is a matter of no concert to the organisation that faces the task of saving the world, then I wonder if it might not prevent the success of this organisation."

"If the UN doesn't help while it is busy raising the lofty towers of humanity and justice to Tight up the world, a very foundations will crumble as the

"We shall not be content to leave matters where they are now," he said.

So far as could be ascertained in the short time available there was no truth in the assertion that Captain Wildash plotted against the Czechoslovak Re public, or Infringed its laws in any way, he said.

arrived in

A photograph taken at this morning's ceremony wreath was laid to com- at the Cenotaph, when a memorate the 138th anniversary of Greek Indepen- dence. On the left is the Consul-General for Greece in Shanghai, Mr Paul P. Yannoulatos. On the right Is the Greek Consul in Hongkong, Mr C. Blaker, MC.

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Bill To Reform

UK Marriage Law Withdrawn

London, Mar, 24.-An

Employer With Hand

Grenades

Six-Year Sentence At Sossions

Caught by the Polles in the send лот of threatening to "Callforalan Oranges" (Chinese slang for hand-grenades) it ho did not get his demand of $1,200, Chan Chun was this morning sentenced by the Chief Justice, Bir Lesile Gibson, to six years. The jury at the Criminal Sessions, without roliring, found him guilty of uttering a letter with mena- demanding nioney

ces.

Mr A. Hooton, Crown Counsel, who prosecuted, disclosed that Chan was convicted in 1038 and 1039 for obtaining money and false pretences, and goods by was banished for ten years in 1039.

According to Crown evidence, the accused wrote a threatening; letter for $3,000 to his master, Fung Kwok-yu, of the Vienna Tailor Shop, 468, Nathan Road. The letter was chopped with a chop of the Tai Tung Branch Association, East River, and of Li Wal-kwan, Chief of the Association.

The letter thanked Fung for his previous support, but asked for more on account of the ap

Now Year. proaching

threatened Fung with "most Iserious results" should he report the inatter to the Police, and contained Instructions for alx $500 notes to be placed in a letter box outside Fung's rosi- dence before 10 p.m. on January 21.

on The letter was found the

house in floor

Fung'z about midnight on January 20 by Fung's wife, who handed He the letter to her husband. reported to the Police.

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On January 24, the accused asked for leave from Fund to visit the country and the fol- lowing day Fung received a person telephone call from a speaking In Hakka. At the same time the Police arrived at Street In Shanghai place

SHOWING accused where they found the telephoning in Hakko. He was Sheard to say that $1,200 was

Red Dean's

Attack On ·

War Pact

London, Mar. 24.-Dr How.

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required at the very least or his fokls would send "Call- fornian Oranges".

The accused took the Police to a boarding house where the two chops used on the threaten- ing letter were discovered in a chest of drawers. The maker of the ac-

by Lord attempt get Parliamentary Mancroft, Conservative, to approval for a change in the English marriage law. failed in the House of Lords tonight.

which to a bill He asked for agreement would have enabled a man who has divorced his:

who has wife to marry her sister, or a woman

divorced her husband to marry, his brother. This could not be done under 4 though present law, the widow might marry the brother and the of her dead husband widower might marry the sister of his dead wife, he said,

He described the present law Czechoslovak officials in as "logical, lursh and out of condi- Prague accused Captain Wildash keeping with modern

It encouraged irregular of "accepting Information," of tions."

much un- "plotting against the State," and unions and caused "of being in contact with plat- necessary hardship.

The bill contained a proviso telt Johnson, the "Red Dean" these chops identified ters," a Foreign Office spokes- man said here today,

forbidding the marriage of an of Canterbury, declared today cused as the man who ordered adulterous brother and sister-that the Atlantic Fact "almed them. A handwriting expert Captain Wildash

In-law.

to organise the British people found that the writing in the was that of Frankfurt early today.

Most Peers who took part in

the accused. No official reports have yet

Prague the debate favoured the bill, but into a war camp agafast Rus-threatening letter" from been received

the arrest-of-three it was opposed by the Govern-We do not agree_with_this about

Archbishop of pact. We do not agree that the-in-a-statement-from the dock.. the accused denied that he Czechoslovak employees of the ment and the the British Military Permit Office, Cunterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher. British people should be used

threatened to send "Californian The Archbishop thought the as cannon fodder in u war Church would be neutral, but against their best friends, the oranges" to Fung. As to the rest 130th anniversary of the Inde-it is understood.

ho de-of the evidence against him, he An authoritative source here he opposed it on what he can people of the USSR." Greece, of

two

asked for leniency and to be pertence

Interestsclared. that at the confirmed

the Military ceived to be tire general placed wreaths were

Cenotaph

administered ceived this Permit

"We believe that the interests given treatment for his eyes. He promised to turn over a new base

in caf. mutual

people le of the British morning by Mr Paul P. Yan-jointly by Britain, France and of society. Emotional relations or

"Consul-General for the United States, to issue per-gether excluded between father friendship and in trade, which

Mrmits to the Western Zones of and daughter, mother and son, will help to achieve security The Chief Justice ordered the Greece at Shanghal, and.

has now Consul for Germany.

standard been brother and sister, he said. They and C. Blaker,

of six years' sentence to be served a four closed.

therefore never arose,

after completion Greece at Ilongkong.

considered! The same source

"But in the family and domes- The wreaths were bordered

Dr Johnson made his state-months' sentence passed on the with bluc

tie circle within which there isment in a message to a public accused on February 21, for and white, the it unlikely that the office would for the present, with be re-opened

this absolute mutual tecurity Greek national colours,

and the distractions and tor-meeting attended by six Rus-breach of a deportation order. subjects

delegates sian women

to the the nation!

thend no Czechoslovak

ments of sexual attraction are

His Lordship also commended would, therefore, be able

recent International centre.

One wreath was from the obtain a permit to visit Wes- not permitted, the in-laws are Day celebrations in London. Fung for his courage in exposing.

the matter to the Police. suddenly to be excluded." Greek Cornmunity of Hongkong tern Germany-Reuter,

added. And the other from the Greek

He maintained that if the Community in Shonghol

possibility of an emotional and sexunt relationship ruled out by an implieli as-

Wus pursued

Greek National Day Observed

commemoration

of

foundation of all human society, noulatos, the family, is allowed to wenken and collapse."-United Press.

US Forces

To Leave

Philippines

San Francisco, Mar. 24 Philippines will soon be stripped of United States naval, air and sca power, Rear Admiral Ralph W. Chrisile said today.

The Admiral. former Com- *mander of American Naval forces in the Philippines, said: "Conditions in the Far East are certainly explosive, but we afford lo maintain cannot strong forces averywhere owning to reduced budgets and the shift of naval power to the Atlantic.

"After March 31, we will have no naval aircraft in the Philippines.

à no

'He said the Sangley Point naval air station, near. Manila,

Into 18. being converted

·but base, general navy American warships will be sta- tloned in Philippines waters. The only remaining naval base, besides Sangley Point, will be n repair station at Subic Bay, 40 miles from Manila.

The Admiral said Filipinos "view this situation with some alarm."-Associated Press.

HK COUNCIL OF WOMEN

A general meeting of the Ifongkong Council of Women will be held on Tuesday, March 29, at 5.10 p.m. In the Public Voeux Relations Omeo, Des Rond.

The Comunissioner of Police, Mr D. W. Macintosh, will be the Guest Speaker.

All interested are welcome. Members are asked to note the change of placese de

d

the

MC

of

emblem in

Also present at this morning's Messrs A. C. ceremony were Gloulis, S. Palioro, Panos D.i Sklotle, G. M. Stamatclatos, S. Petropoulos and Denis Victor.

Mr Yannoulator is at present on leave from the North.

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PARTY'S CALL FOR PROTEST

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London, Mar. 24-The Britian Belgian Plane's

basic security ita members that they the The Services' parade which wassurance,

must

subcon-"organla; mass demonstrations" Forced Landing to have been held in Kowloon which today has been postponed be-sciously and instinctively in all against the Atlantic Pact, and

relations with in-laws would "demand of every Member of Lympne, Mar. 24-Royal Air cause of the bad weather.

Parliament that he vote against Force planes and two lifeboats

ratification.

searched the Channel off the its ratl

a Bel- The party said in a statement: Kentish coast today, for "We warn the Government that glon Splifire in distress. The. the British working people will plane was later reported to have to be made a forced landing on in never allow themselves used as the tools of Wall Street beach near Calais. The

By Galbraith

"Oh, George hasn't time on Saturdays to be fixing garago doors--he's on the world plan committee of the chamber. of commerce!"

20.

Lord Mancroft withdrew his bill in view of the Government's altitude.-Reuter,

Grim Meat Outlook For Britons

វ the key for war against) was cuid to be safe. Socialist Russia and a Socillat

pilot

The Channel was choppy on Europe.

"The United strength of the account of strong northeasterly peoples of the world will smash winds. Wireless operators at the war plans of the Atlantle Lympne Airport reported to the Pact"

Air Ministry that they had plek- The Party sald the Pact leded up a message from the pilot Britain "to the American mil- of the aircraft stating that he Itonaires and war lords."

was "going down into the Chan Britain is already placed un-nel."-Reuter, London, Mar. 24.-Britain may soon have a further cut der American military occupa

tion." 1 the statement continued.

in the meat ration, London we do not want Britain to be

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meat traders believe, unless turned into the supplies of corned beef atomle war.

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