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VOL. IV NO. 100

Currency Shortage In S'hai

APPREHENSION FELT

to

Shanghai, Apr. 29.- Employers, meeting in an emergency session with the Central Bank, today estimated that they would need GY2,000,000,000,000 to meet their payrolls tomorrow. But the Bank: said it could hope furnish only GY900,000,. 000,000 in paper bills.

The employers expressed frank apprehension that currency cipitate an internal etist as the Communist

continued their inexorable march upon the embolted metropolia egest etty In the world ever subjected to revolutionary tuvaston-from two directions.

shortage wil

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The employers proposed an emergency programme, Including arrangements with the ECA to Issue rice tickets to be paid to workers in tren of non-existent cash and also issunier by the Central Bank of certain neces sitles, including cooking oil and cloth.

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For the Proprietor of

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH Ter and on bikolf ef-

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LTE,/

The

Hongkong Telegraph

SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1949.

Safeguarding Another Move To Lift

HK: Commons

Questions

Our Own Correspondent

London, -Apr. 29.-Mr David Gammans, MP, will aak the Prime Minister in the House of Commona next Monday If he will make a statement regard- lug the steps taken to safe- guard Hongkong agairst external aggression and possible

Column

Aabolace.

Fifth

He will ask the Prime Minister the satur' day if The Government will con- sider itself bound by the declaration af polley made In Moscow in 1945 regarding the future of China In view of the changed Inter- national situation and the signing of the Atlanile Thet almed at preventing further Commuhist expans slow in Europe,

Student Holds

Up Plane

Athens. Apr, 20.—A 24-year- ; old student forced a Dakota plane to land at Salonika today by threatening the crew of two Rumanians and two Russiana with a gun. The student. Sto- yan Korm, boarded the aircarf! at Temisoara, Rumania, with 11 other passengers for Bucharest.

TENSION MOUNTS There was no decision nightfull.

Tension in the foreign colony mounted throughout the rainy day.

Working based upon fear that the Shanghai Garrison foree was inadequate numerically to offer

The

Coin-

Its way forward when the plane became nirborne, he forced the crew at gun-point

for Greece.

Ingre tha shught token resis to change the course of the plane tanco and that militarily the city was wide open to mutists whenever they were ready for the final thrust.

Correspondents leaving in- cluded William Costello of the cns,

Georie Grosjean

of AFP, Dorothy Burg of the Institute of Pacific Relations, Mrs Robert Martin of the Shanghal Mercury and William Carty of Paramount News-United Press.

It's Going To Be Real May Day

San Francisco, Apr. 20.-May Day this year will be celebrated throughout "berated China" on n seate without parallel in Chin-.

ese history, slates the Comtmin-

1st Peiping Hudio in a broadcast heard here.

Describing himself as an anti- Communist, he asked Greek ofcials at Salonika to consider him a political refugee. Orders were given tonight for the re- planc. Greek ease of the

said. General Staff statement It was being allowed to return

with to Rumania

passengers who wish to go back.

The plane, a Rumunian PC-3. belongs to the Rumano-Soviet Airline Reuter,

EURASIANS

DEFINED

Berlin Blockade

MALIK RECEIVES NEW

INSTRUCTIONS

Next Week May See

Final Details Fixed

Flushing, Apr. 29.-The American and Soviet representatives will resume their discussions on the Berlin blockade, in New York to- day, the United States delegation to the United Nations announced. The surprise meeting was arranged by the, U.S. Ambassador-at-large, Mr l'hilip Jessup, following a telephone call from the Soviet United Nations delegate, Mr Jacob.Malik, this morning. The meeting will be held at Malik's office at 4 p.m. EDT.

The announcement of the meeting indicated that Mr Malik had received further instructions from Moscow regarding plans to lift the Berlin blockade and call a meeting of the Big Four Council of Foreign Ministers on Germany.

Mr Malik on Wednesday gave his oral assurances that the Soviets would accept a proposal to simultaneously lift the Soviet blockade and the Western counter-blockade and set a date for the Foreign Ministers conference.

Nudity On British Stage Condemned

London, Apr. 29.-The Public Morality Council,

in its annual report, published today, attacked "the disastrous toleration of nudity on the stage" by the British authorities. The Council is a 50-year-old influential body on which Christian denominations and Jewish congregations are represented. Its patron is the Archbishop of Canterbury, and its President, the Bishop of London,

"I will be the first real May finally agreed on a definition of Britain at

Day for hundreds of thousands of worker in Mukden, Tientsin, Peiping, Tsinan. Nanking and other cities where the workers' deadly enemy-the Kuomintang has ceased to rule." the Radlo said,

in

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Mr Porter McKeever, spokes- mon for the United States de-. legation to the UN reported that Mr Jessup arrived in new York earlier today en route to Norfolk, Connecticut, to attend the funeral of his wife's uncle, Frederick Walcott. Mr McKeever said, stopped by his office and while he was here he received a telephone call from the Soviet delegation asking him if he would come

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Lion On The REDS IN

Loose

Tom J. Jessee, left, and Zoo director Hugh. Davis (centre with torn trouser leg) tree a cul lion which sprang loose into a crowd of visitors at Tulsa, Oklahoma's Mohawk Park recently. No one was injured and the cub was recaptured.

-AP Picture.

Communists Ban Gold Exports

San Francisco, Apr. 29-The

the Communist-held North

NO HURRY

Keeping Nervous S'hai Guessing

Shanghai, Apr. 30,-Com- munist armies seem to be in

no hurry to move on nervous Shanghai. Nor do they seem to have met any serious opposition.

Some Red units have cut off at right angles from the Nan- king-Shanghai railway and are moving south along both sides of Tal Lake. These units, Banking Shanghal on the west, probably are driving south to ward Hangehow. ·

The Reds are also active in the southern part of neigh- bouring Auhwel provinco around Chlhtch and Chimen,

It

A LONG MARCH They may swing northenst from there Ioward Hangchow. That is about 125 miles. would be a long march, but could line up with units mov- ing South from the Nanking- Shanghai railway. Such a hook- up would bottle up Shanghal.

The Communists do not ap- pear to be using many men in the current operations. Shanghai Garrison communiques the only ofcial Nationalist. source of

news

about tho war-have mentioned 10,000 troops and four Red armies. (An Army usually about 20.000 men). Ten thousand showed up at Soochow, rail city 60 miles west of Shanghal which the Reds oc-

this week. cupied The

In the

Tul

Communist 23rd Army is Lakce region. The 14th, 16th and 18th Armies are In Southern Anhwel,

war

OUTWARDLY CALM Shanghai is outwardly cuim about the

but openly warried over monty. The silua- Hon is approaching the night- mure stage. The U.S. dollar was worth more than 3,000,000 gold Futhe

in Friday,

more thon ouble the quotation of the pre- vious day.

Black Swan sailed down the Yesterday, the Brilish sloop Whangpoo to the

Associated Press.

mouth of

Capri, Apr. 29.- Princess Margaret today Mr McKeever added, "le bathed in the Mediterran- cancelled his plans to attend the funeral and will see Mir Malik can for the first time. in his office this afternoon." Mr. Wearing a sky blue bathing McKeever said that Mr Jessup suit-and-a-wide-brimmed- 'The report complainen of themselves on the grounds of would have no comment on the straw the recent multiplication of art, and it is common knowledge conference until he had an opto A motor yacht put at her productions which 10ake

or that a Continental production is | portunity to report to the disposal by the Italian authori-port of gold and silver from

of State, Mr nudity a special feature, and to be imported in its entirey for Secretary

Dean ties,

China area is strictly forbidden Yanging. That left Shanghai's She said it was "hard to see where the beneilt of the patrups of this | Acheson. He also will report to

went aboard.. from

row" ten "battleship

empty any line can be drawn unless type of alleged en ortainment.”

sailed off while their importation, whether Sir Alexander Cadogan, Britain's private beach and

forelyn vessels. A British source from other Commúnist-held BAWDY PLAYS

UN representative and Jean rund

the Island to find an-

mga said "as far as I know" tho Kuala Lumpur, Apr, 20.-The the exhibition of audity be 15-

Chauvel, French delegate.

areas, or from abroad, will re-inck Swan will not return. She Eurasian Union conference has tally prohibited."

private place to bathe. The Council would not cease (As

Government permit, will stay the law stands

The Princess, who was with quire a Should the conference show

at the mouth of the present, nudity is 10 protest "until the exploitation

Peiplag Yangise with he cruiser Belfast Eurasiant

allowed on the stage, provided f nudity on the stage is de-

Mr Milk has received Major and Lady Mars Harvey, states the Communist

embarked from the beach below Radio in announcing provisional which arrived on Thursday "A person of mixed European

finitely forbidden." The report formal Mescow assurances The show-girls remain

the co- to the picturesque villa named regulations governing and Asian descent whose father

also criticized a "continuance of lift the blockade and call a Big Torre Saracena which has been trol of these two metals. or any of whose progenitors on pletely immobile).

the policy of providing mancial Four mesting, diplomatic sources The Commeil the

#cell,

tent to male side is of European

her during her stay Government | forecast (hai from

the British and

by the sumably referring to a Folies support

80-year-old half-English, descent. (A European Is

from Paris, at sources for the revival of the French representatives would be all-inclusive name given mem-Bergere Revue.

brought into direct talks next half-talian Edwin Cerly, writer "restoration comedies." bers of the white race).

present showing in the provinces |

and engineer. The plays it said, were re-week to arrange final details

DENIES REPORT decadent, and unfit for public

Mr McKeever at the same presentation."

time denied a published report Jamentable that--notable for that there is In Anglu- their religious indifference and American proposal relative slackness In morals-support plans to be advanced in the from public funds should

Council of be meeting of the forthcoming for plays "which Foreign Ministers, if one is to

Today's excursion was present religion as contempli-be held."

The report said that the two Brst bit of real privacy ble and sexual morality as ab-

powers would ask the Ministers Princess has And since Burd,"

to agree upon the merger of the arrival in Italy on Wednesday. Soviet-occupled zone

has been Up to now she many with the Western Ger- followed by photographers and she op- man Federal government into a journalists wherever slagle federal stats. The report pered in public. said that France

hut not agreed

Today, at Major Harvey's de to the Anglo-American pro- quest, the 30 British, Amercian who pol nor the tentative decision su Italian Journalists

It added, "It is a May Day The definition was needed to and which may come to Lorosarded in their day as "bawdy.

which marks the end of 22 years ensure uniformity in admitting "Many of the Kuomintang's rule of ter-member to the Eurasian Asso-harmful ror."-Router.

EDITORIAL

clations.--Associated Press,

touring

salucious and

productions are the country, excuslug

mcst now

True To The Navy Traditions

necessary to converse

no most people the shelling of the feet frustrated is, understandable; that all Amethyst, London Black Swan and of them are grieved because they were aut Consort has now become a part of the hiss able to see the show through to a entis- tory of the Yangtse River, but it is only factory conclusion is natural; but not a

with some of the men who survived that tragie ordeal is single man need feel ashamed of the role appreciate how deeply bitter they are in he had to ennet, or of how he carried out their hearts-bltier because their mission his duty. Hongkong, in company with the failed, 'Inexpressibly hurt by some of the rest of the world, watched breathlessly innuendoen directed against them in from nfar the outcome of the deliberate Shanghai, and bewildered by the reaction Chinese Communist ntincks on the British of figures, such as Horry' Pollitt who found warships, but never for a moment did this in the river tragedy a meam valý pf mak-Cofony think that those ships and the men ing political capital. And they carry with aboard were doing other than acquitting ́them, also, the maddening memory of Chf- themselves in the truest traditions of the mese who, at the funeral of their comrades, Royal Navy: and the full stories of those used the solemn occasion for undisguised attacks and the gallant manner in which sneers and Jibes. Nor

did the House of they were met-ngainst preponderant odds Commons, when it debated the Incidents, served but to confirm that confidence in trouble to devote much time to the gul- the steadfastness of the British Navy. - lantry of the men, who, without reasoning | That it is even possible for survivors of or questioning the wisdom of the orders, that river tragedy to arrive in Hongkong sniled on a duty task which brought them | belleving anybody felt they had let down into conflict with an overwhelming dis the prestige and good name of the Navy play of military force. Somewhat helated- is, to da here, fantastic. For the manner ly official tributes are now being made to in which the crew of the Amethyst, Lon- the courage and fortitude of these sailors don, Black Swan and Consort believed and officers of the Royal Navy, who, we Hongkong is and always will be proud and

behalf of this British grateful. They remained unflinching in Colony, have proven to the world that they dangerous and hopeless line of duty, and have no reason to be otherwise than proud in so doing flung back in deeds more tell- of the manner in which they conducted ing than words, the taunt that the British themselves under the most trying and dif- Lion is but` a paper tiger. We shall not fleull ́clrcumstances, That many of them soon forget such herülsm and devotion.

can assure

on

was

The report added that it hoped the British Broadcasting Corporation would not In future Bird room for restora- tion comedles in its

· pro- grammes.--Reuter.

CASUALTIES TOTALLED 115

115

14

of Ger-

Under the regulations, which were issued in Peiping, the people are allowed to keep gold and silver or to sell them to the People's

FIRST SUSSEX CENTURY

Hove, Apr. 20. John Lan- PRIVACY AT LAST

Bank. But they gridge made a good start to are not permitted to use them the English cricket season by. She went down to the beach

valuation or compiling the first Sussex con- as a standard of from the hotel in a summery****

Further fury during a friendly two-day an a monetary unit. pink and blue cotton frock and

more. the buying

match against Hampshire, which and selling mat changed into a bathing suit at

of precious metals is forbidden began here today. the vill before going out to the while the transference of

gold

He scored 122 in two and a yacht.

and silver with the "liberated quarter hours, with two slxes the area" will require a Govern-and 15 fours. The alosing the inent permit, the Radlo states. scores weré: Sussex 207; Hamp- her |--Reuter.

shire 88 for 4.-Reuter.

by the United Sates to propose have been Jamming the Island's at the sme time an early End twe solitary telephone Jines in drastic reduces

In the German desperate attempts to get their

clorics through to their news Mr

McKeever said, "The papers, United States has not at this call

occupation

appeared inclined

to

the

a trucu and leave

London, Apr. 30. The Ad- ginge begun discussions regard- Princess to enjoy her lay oft mirulfy tonight Issued a list of ing any proposals which might swimming and sun-bathing

casualties on the ships be advanced at the meeting of peace-Reuter. Amethyst, Black Swan, Consort and London in the recent Yang-e Council of Foreign Minis-

ters if one is to be held.". the liver Incidents,

"These are all matters which The list, complete up to early are under active consideration today, comprised 37 killed, vein the Department of State. died from wounds, aine dan The further statement in the gerously wounded, 21 seriously press report concerning French wounded, 42 wounded, and. one disagreement with this proposal missing-Router.

TEAR GAS TO CATCH LUNATICS

is, therefore, also without foun- dation since no such proposala exist."-United Press.

FA CUP TEAMS

Fire In Hotel

Room

A carelessly dropped clgarctio from a floor above caused a fire to break put in Room 438, Peninsula Hotel this morning.

The room was vacated by Mr London, Apr. 29.-The teams Willcox of Jardines at 11:30 and 10 o'clock n room boy Paris, Apr. 29.-Police used jehoren by Wolverhampton Wan-about tear gas bombs to capture two derers and Leicester City for smelt smoke and found the room lunatics who spread terror in tomorrow's Football Association was on fire.

hospital at Vesoul, Eastern Cup final at Wembley are: A sctice, blinds and curtains

Wolverhampton France. After freeing them-

Wanderers: wero extensively burnt.

Spring- selves from their strait-Jackets, Williams; Pritchard, the madman smashed all the thrope; W. Crook, Shorthouse, Me Giles C. Stedman, Vice- niedical equipment

Hancocks,

Smythe, President of the United States Dunn, Mullen. kory, while nursing alten crot. Wright;

{Lines, Co., la scheduled Leicester City: Bradley; Jelly, arrive in Hongkong from Manila tear The police used

gos Scotts W. Harrison, Plummer, today, He is on a business trip bombs after being driven back King: Grimtha, Loe, J. Harrl- and is expected to remalo je by a rain of missiles, dicuter, con, Chisholm, Adam.Router, the Colony about a month........

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