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IST' RACE

Betty Lot

Solo-Mark Lassie

Outsider:-Sprinter.

2ND RACE

Flying Knight

Aeroplane

Filibuster

Outsider:-Gypsy.

3RD RACE

Amarant

Pay Day

Ply Love

Outsider-Orkland Bridge.

4TH RACE

Empress Delight

Shun Lee

Easy Golug

Outsider:-First Alnmn.

5TH RACE

Dominion Day

Jeep Leo

Flying Arrow

Outsider:-Ascot Beauty,

6TH RACE

Chief Witness

Belle Fontaine

Possibility

Outsider:--Frostylight.

7TH RACE

Skymaster

Vagabond King

Lovely Lady.

Outsider: Norse Queen.

RACE

BTH

Reputation.

Good news

Speed Wheel

Outsider:-Radioiron.

9TH RACE

Hongkong Siutze

Sportsmaster Madame Butterly

Outsider: Jennifer.

10TH RACE

Pleasant Valley

Rose Emine Lily

Outsider:-Sunshine.

1ITH RACE

Rowangien

Lucky Jane

World Peace

Outsider:-Poker Face.

12TH

Somo Fun

Brivisto

Colonin

RACE

QuislderCare Free.

EDITORIAL

・For the Proprietor of

HONGKONG TELEGRAPII, For and on behalf of

BOUTII CIUNA LOENING POST,

inter and Publisher-

The

Today's Weather: Moderate or fresh rusty Easterly winds; ́cloudy; with rain developing later,

Hongkong Telegraph.

SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1949.

Communists Launch Assault On Taiyuan

FIERCE FIGHTING SAID

TO BE

BE IN PROGRESS

Nanking, Apr. 16.-Chinese Communists were reported to have launched a heavy assault on Taiyuan, while an uneasy peace held sway along the Yangtse.

Taiyuan is nearly 600 air miles Northwest of Nanking. It is the capital of old- Marshal Yen Hsi-shang. The government's mili- tary news agency said two Red army groups (about 150,000 men) Mili attacked Taiyuan. Fierce fighting was reported in progress. tary observers said the attack apparently had no relations with the general curb on other Communist operations.

This was taken in this capitul

These terms, including punish- criminals" and ment of "war recognition of the armed forces

+

years.

of

While

Way

the

The "Shimmy's

$1,000,000 -- Damages Claim

Denver,” Colaiado: /Apr. 15 Miss GULA Gray. former guess of the jass danog krawo sa "shimmy”. han Drog suti for $1,000,000 hate sepinas. the Columbia' Pictures Corporation, denn

She claims that the core poration has hurt her that much by "stealing her life story. The salt claims that Columbia's film “Glida“ ~which starred Rita Hay- worth and Glenn Ford- ziole not only bar Hia but also her "shimmy".

story

#himmy" is.

la. mentioned

In

sult <na of

congmainly

the

rythmics! shaking and shivering of parts of body synchronised and per- formed to personalised and syncopated musical rhythm and accompanied with ap. propriate songs"-Heuter.

Summer Weather For The Holidays

200,000,000 population South of members Peiping to rein-seventies for the first time

10 hasten

A format

He

was

an

Most siste holiday towns enjoyed unbroken sunshine,

Dine "At the

For

P

Reservations

Price: 20 Cents

G

Tel: 27880

HOME FOOTBALL

RESULTS

League Leaders

Do

Well

London, Apr. 15.-All the leaders in the English Football League had a good day today in the first of the Easter holiday matches. Portsmouth won at home, Southampton won away, as did Swansea, while Hull beat Gates head. Rotherham, current leaders of the -northern section of the Third Division were

held to a draw by Doncaster.

Japs Living Beyond Their Means

POLICY-MAKER'S ADMONITION

Tokyo, Apr. 15-SCAP's lop economic policy-maker, told the Japanese people today that Japan has been living

beyond its

means.

'far

Mr Joseph M. Dodge, SCAP's highest financial Full resulta Ds cabled by opponent who played good bnd adviser, reminded the people minton but could not last the in a statement today that pace and Lim took the second they have suffered severe enme comfortably.

Ructor follow:

FIRST DIVISION Blackpool 2 Arsenal

Bolton W.. Burnley. B

Adverppol

0

Manchester

Derby C. Huddersfeld Manchester C. Chelsea Newcastle U. 1 Middlesbro Portsmouth 3 Birmingham Preston

Stoke Cily Sunderland 0 Aston Villa

2

SECOND DIVISIÓN Blackburn

2 Cardin C. Chesterfield 1 Sheffield W. Fulham Grimsby Lincoln

Luton Town

0

A

Oel Tien-hock of Malaya won losses economically and ter- hin third round match, beating ritorially sà a result of war Arve Lossmann of Denmark, by and the situation aggra- 118-11 and 15-4. Hock had this in winning

0

ittle

difficulty

vated by the large gain in

0 match, after he had overcome a population every year.

Despite this, he said, there 1 strong challenge by the Dane in

1 the first set. Bock led 0-0 but seems to be astonishingly little

Lossmann levelled at 7-7 and comprehension

among

the

Nothing should

the score went to 11-11 before Japanese of the real situation of Hock took the next four points their country,

have been expected, as

as a result I in a row for the set.

0

Hock played brilliantly in the second game and led 3-0, 6-1 Southampton 1 and 9-2-Reuler. 0 Barnsley Notts Forest 2 Bradford -queen's F.E. 2 Flymouth A. 1

2 Brentford Tottenham

THIRD DIVISION, West Ham U. 4° Lelcester C.

SOUTHERN

THIRD DIVISION, NORTHERN

Barrow

Chester

0

1

of the war, but a long term of hardship and self-denial but the been has continuously | nation

living beyond its means.

There has been a

a general disposition in the Japanese Go- vernment to accede to any

RETAINS HER demand to spend more and

TITLE

more

more, and to attempt to spend every source of income than once. Too much of this Heliopolis, Cairo, Apr. 18spending has not been put to Ellen Muller Breiss of Austria productive use.

JAPAN'S LOSSES DE retained

1947 women's her world folls championship at Mr Dodge, declared that any Hellopolis yesterday, by taneasurement of direct or in- ing Keren Lachman, Don-direct losses resulting from the mark, 4-3, 1-4, 3-2, in the final. war will

show. that clearly In the semi-finals of the Japan cannot afford to dissipate men's epce team

Sompionships, ita capital. It has

10-0 severe

physical Egypt beat

and economie and Sweden beat Belgium 0-7 damage,

Breiss

financial dislocations. and antered the It has lost its empire

Ellen

Keren

Mulle Lachman

finals

suffered

Josses

and

- Did

and

.

of raw

by defeating Jacqueline with that has lost great invest-

and sources 0 Egission, France, 4-1, 4-1 and ments

France, 9-1 materials, production and trade. o Renco

Charlike,

Also there has been a loss of the

that influences

empire brought to bear on other con- tiguous trading areas.

1

Mansfield T

Z

Southport

2

N. Brighton

1

Stockport C. 1

Rotherham U. 0

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2

14-1-Associated Press.

Crowe A. Darlington Doncaster R. Hull City Oldham A. Traumere R-0-Wrexham York City 1 Rochdale

SCOTTISH LEAGUE "A" Division

1

Clyde

Gateshead 0 Halifax T.

Albion

2

Reuter.

A. NASTY

LITTLE TYPE

Japan's population has been increased by repatriation and concentrated to its home-land, and there is a large net gain in population every year.

of the "Any realistic view old boy threw a glass decanter economie problem suggests a which full of water at the sheriff who rough and rocky road,

Glasgow, Apr. 14.-A 18-year

(Marshal Yen, famed as the "last of China's warlords", long has run his own show at Taiyuan, capital of Shansi province. The Commun- ists have vainly tried ta. conquer him for more than 30 he pays lip service to the government, the Reds evidently rogard him as a separate problem, outside the sphere of the current peace negotiations.)

London Swelters On the quiet Yangtze, the .It also broadcast an article to indiente, what

London, Apr. 15. The Communists were reliably re- saying, "All roads lead south to reason for his delay.

Control Yuan Today, the ported to be demanding un- the Yangtae for the three pow opposed crossings as proof of the erful field armies now stream-President, Mr Yu Yu-len, and sun greeted holidaymakers Control Yuan today as the temperature in the good faith government's

soared into in ing southwards to ilberate the the parly

and Legislators, who London peace talks Fighting had ceased

Aldershot 4 Norwich C. are going to along

big the

river

Notts C. that the Yangtse.

Nationalist peace this year.

By 3 p.m. the Bournemouth 2 divides Red North China from. It declared these armies were force the

Northampton Reading the Nationalist South.

being greeted with Elfs baga delegation, delayed their depar

Swindon 1. Leyton O. embroidered, "Speedy Crossing ture, expecting to contact Metherokee was at 73 de Brighton of L

Excler C. the Yangise," and that ecun- Huang when he arrived today. grees Fahrenheit, the warth-Bristol R.

is not known now when est day since last September wall as a strong indication that the try-people were setting

Swansea T. Lips It government had yielded to the markers and sprinkling. the Mr. Yu Yu-jen and his group and the hottest April day Newport 0. 2

Port Vale 4 Bristol C. the will go to Peiping. the com- | dusty roads

for three years.

Southend U. I Ipswich T. peace terms which munists have been demanding march-Associated Press.

Before midday, traße One report in the capital to-

Watford 2 Walsall since January.

day said that Mr Yu hopes to streaming along the main roads

·PEACE SPECULATIONS

contact third party friends" out of the capital at the rate Nanking, Apr. 15-Specula- when he reaches Peiping. These of nearly 18,000 vehicles

secret are said to include Marshal L hour. while at London stallons and government under Com-tion about the Pelping

Na- Chi-sen, leader of the Kuomin-extra trains were expected to munist leadership, now evidently peace talks between the

tang Revolutionary Committee, be put on to cope with the long

one of the queues of travellers. are being discusserl in detail in tionalists and Communists ran

Mr Shen Chun-ju, the secret negotiations in Pel-wild again today when the Na-

ut Leadcru

the Democratic Thousands took advantage of tionalist

delegate, Mr peace

and Mr Ma Yen-tau, the cheap day trips to Brighton, ping.

League 10

"London-by-the-Sea," The report that the Reds nowHuang Shao-hsiung, failed

and other South Coast resorts. economist... were-demanding-free crossings arrive back in Nanking for the well-known Chinese Communist Britain's ins evidence of sincerity led to accoml successive day.

expects also to have an Mr Huong had been expected belief that they were trying to

Communist

DAY IN OPEN AIR prevent

from here to report to President Interview with the the government

crowds throughout stalling on details of the peace Tsung-jeu as the Felping talks Party Chairman, Mir Mao Tse-

Holiday ended in informal 12-day phase jung-Reuter-AAP, conditions

the country spent the day in the tage The Peiping radio lent colour and began in a

open alr, in the parks and on COLD YUAN SLUMPS Some sources were quick to to this belief, broadcasting that

the beaches. Temperatures in non-arrival 28 raft service was now complete interpret his

resorts renched over 70 a new crisis in the Shanghai: Apr. 15. Despite many

during the from farthest Manchuria down indicating to Pengu, 108 miles Northwest jittery peace negotiations but the spate of optimistic reports degrees Fahrenheit

of the afternoon, claimed as local re- of Nanking.

were no reliable reports regarding the progress

neuce conference, China's In-cords. for the time of the year. The King and Queen, spending flated gold yuan currency ex-

at the

Lodge, Royal perienced a record slump of 40 Easter

curren- Windsor, were enjoying a quiet percent ugainst foreign cies and goki today.

weekend. The King sat in the The latest gold yuan decline grounds in the sun, the Queen, coincided with the record in with Princess Elizabeth, the

The boy then lifted a glass Earthquake Damage walked crease in the Shanghai Municip-Duke of Edinburgh and Princess

Seattle, Apr. 15.-OMelal Copenhagen, Apr. 15. al Government's cost of living Margaret,

vesterday placed the services Teoh airline Continental index, which at 16:140 repro- across the Park.

of detective who grappled with the figures Seng khoon,

his hand In the damage in the Pacific northwest sents a rise of 344 percent for

struggle. It was thought a earthquake at $15,000,000, Thera the period of 15 days over the were booked to capacity

eight deaths and and the were fractured bone was index figures of 3,402 on March Northolt and London Airports. Malaya, won his third round boy hurt

Easter visitors from abroad in match in the Danish bad- steepest climb cluded 50 Norwegians visiting minton championships here detective was taken to hospital, than 30 persons were injured.--

when he beat John-Reuter, This is the

elvic since the index was introduced Newenstle-on-Tyne. They were today

reception this

party Nygaard. of Denmark, 15-8 the Elver n the basis for in 1945. as payment of wages and salarles. evening as the biggest

In the second set, Nygaard led observers here to from Norway to visit the city and 18-15.

10-1-and 11-2 but Kloon drew EUROPE'S SUNSHINE. - In living

as indisputabile Coats

n burst ofwarm level at 13-13.- In Europe

of warm evidence that the value of gold

Khoon now meets Dave Free- In Europe a burst

holder of the yuan was depreciating jot

the fourth British tític, in much faster rate than its pre-sunshine, today greeted Euro man, American

as the CNC peans enjoying the year's Drst decessor, known

holiday in town or countryside, round, (Chinese National currency).

Freeman won his third round Unlled States dollar, on the lakes or at the seaside. The

at around 10,000 Many places in Western Europe match, beating Poul Christensen which stood

of Denmark by 15-3 aat 13-8. A faird twenty-four hours earlier sour-reported warm sunny weather.

while

Freeman was given In Paris, the temperature at Ito 123,000 this mornin per5 p.m. was 23 degrees Cen-

young Dane and All Rokl bar touched

expresses out of fight by the ounce, as compared with 4,000,- tigrade.

Paris were doubled and It was after the match, the American

srid:

"It was a surprise to me. 000 yesterday evening..

chaques estimated that at least 150.000 Christensen is is most promising For sales Dgainst

afluyer secctors of all four dated tomorrow, United States left the city for the holiday,

was quoted at From dollar tonight· 140,000 and gold bars at 7,200,-Berlin people." 000 gold yuan-Reuter.

there

Nathan Road Traffic Plan

corridor THE concrete cum - grass

which, by an net of the Traffle Kow- through Department, now runs Jon's main thoroughfare from Salisbury Road almost to Haiphong Road, has become the butt of humour, both gay and pelulant. Residents In the. Mody Road district find it nothing less than nuisance-an

obstruction. unnecessary Motorists are divided in opinion, but the majority tend to regard the black and white wall as a hazard rather than a help. Fundamentally the "corridor" is design- ed to keep vehicular traffic moving at a quicker, but safer pace than when Nathan Road possessed no Buch obstruction: It was also intended to beautify the road. The idea can be sald to have succeeded in the first place, and failed miserably in the second. Traffic to and from the Star Ferry undoubtedly. is better regularised since the wall was darc-devil erected. It has eliminated driving, with dangerous cutting in and out which characterised the movement taxis in this parti of cars, bakes and

"corridor" made "cular area before the

offers alao, Ils appearance. And it few safeguards for pedestrians, who now have only two lines of traffle at one time to negotiate, and who are provided on the way neroRA. with safe refuges As a practical effort to rationalise the heavy movement of traffe in Nathan Road the wall possenses Its points. But its weaknesses are all too apparent; · In: culling off vehicular traffic travelling north toward Mody Road, the wall denles -ready access to a number of residential. vicinity, avenues and byoways In that

necessary and to reach them. It is now for the motorist eliher to take the long

H

the route along Chatham Road or run whole length of the wall in Nathan Road to and then turn right, thereby having double back on his tracks. The division of Nathan Road into two-lane trafic both prac- north and south is rational and ticable. It works well and could well existing limit be extended beyond the

But more care ін with advantage. needed in spacing the breaks in the wall

turny. right-handed which permit

in

If the Peking Road warrants a break wall to allow south-bound traffic to turn,. absorb its so too dues Mody Road to north-bound cars. And if, later on, the decides to extend Traffic Department the wall as far as Austin Road, it will be very important to take into considera- tion spacing of the divisions. Kimberley Rond must be protected to allow ingress to traffe moving north and so too must important subsidiary thoroughfares such as Granville and Cameron Runds. These are essential links to heavily populated wherein, also, re residential areas, contained taxicab garages, and no traffic regulating scheme should permit these the cut off from arteries being main road. A subsidiary question arises from this plan: whether it is wise to permit private car parking so close to the Salisbury-Nathan Ronds turning as at present. The car park on the Eastern side of the Peninsula Hotel is not menace, but it could be described as a hazard, and one that is not at all neces- Anry. Overall the Nathan Road trafic Asseta. than scheme possesses Habilltles, but

of its. nspects warrant further consideration, and possibly modification.

more

some

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Finanelal to this big Jump since the war.

day

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River Dragged For Girl's Body

to church

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grammed troms

BADMINTON

Malayans Still Winning

The two Malayans, Wong and underground trains to reach Peng-soon and Law Telk-hock by the forest and lakes gurround-clashed in the third round. An Ing the city. In hot sunshine uneventful match was won Inndreds sat on the cafe terraces Wong by 16-4, and 15-9, Doth to men played perfect badminton won Wong Kurfurstenzamm in the

without difficulty. watch the "fashion_parade."

In the the Brat game fairly easily and York revelled New

of the year, went into a 14-4 lead in the balmiest weather

and second before Law fought back but in parts of Missouri Rome, Apr.. 15-Franco Minnesota, people were digging and took the score to 14-9 be- fore Wong won the next point Aluti, a 20-year-old customs out through deep snow.

In Jerusalem, the Holy City for the game and minich. guard, was held la custody to-

BRILLIANT PLAY Jay while the police dragged now split between the Arab and Good Friday

of Ong Poh-lim Lake Albano, near here, for the Jewish forces, body of his 24-year-old fiancee, passed almost unnoticed, but a

of the. Christian reached the fourth round few members Elconera Saracini.

at Denmark, It was alleged that five shots community crossed to the Old 17-4 and 15-1 victory

Mogena Koclle, were fired at the girl as she City to allend services.

to. the shore was swimming

In Dacea, India, hailstones as who yesterday defeated another after being thrown into the big as duck eggs killed scores Malayan Chan Kon-leung,

Koello led 5-2 and 14-12 in water from a rowing boat yes of birds and smashed windows

a torrential ralastoret.the first game but Lim, play- tordny.

during The Pope's summer palace gale tore the thatched roofs Ing brilliantly, lovelled at 14-14 winning the set. Lim stands on the shores of Lake off cottages and sent them whir-before

now on top against Albano-Reuter.

Ting away in the air-Router.

was

Malaya with over

an

1

had just sentenced him to 28 will severely, test the strength, imprisonment the character and loyalty of the Juvenile court here today for people."

Knys

volver."

United States old has cushion- "assaulting a police officer by

with a rc. ed the early part of the road, threatening him

but it is time the Japanese begon the to face the unalterable facts of. The sheriff, ducked and

their decanter, narrowly nissin his

and organiso own life bend, dented the wall surfa as themselves to meet their own Fluss fragments flew about the problems.-Reuter. court.

tumbler

д bul

court officer knocked it from his hands. A

Reuter.

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