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HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL For and on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LEL

The

Today's ́ ́Woither: Light or moderate Bouthokai windaj cloudy, with occasional lighi drimle in the evening.

Noan Observations: Barompiria' premure, 1016 mbs, 10 in

Relative Temperature, 66.5 deg. F. Dew point 03 der. F. humidity, 90. Wind direction, East by South, Wind foros, 18 kools.

Low water: 3 ft. 9 in, at 3,30 p.m. High water: 8 ft. 4 15. at 10.10 p.m.

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Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. IV NO. 301

Typhoid On P & O Liner

SIX OF THE CREW INFECTED

-----

London, Dec. 21. Six Conca of typhoid fever has been confirmed among the crew of the 21,039-ton P. & 0. finer Mooitan, which docked in London six days

with 847 ago

passengers

from Australin, a spokes. man of the Company din. Hi closed today.

The Moollan's saling due on January 4, has been vota albei)

Since ab actived in

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Munister Health notifying the outlawak tre h offers in lowns to which pas. sengers and crew had travelled

No News Of

Ship

Vancouver, B.C., Dec. 21.

The owner of the only Canadlan

ship known

to

be running the Nationalini blockado Arar Shanghai said today that they hart not heard from the vemel In nearly two weeks,

John Rosene. President of the western Canadian Steamship Company, sald the freighter Lake Canim teft Hongkong on Decem- ber R or for Shanghai.

"We are waiting for word from her now," he added. "We have noi heard anything sitice

Hongkong, but I hope shë made it okay."

He said also that I wan "rather difficult to get in. formation from Shanghai Just now" and the 10,000. In freighter would con- thur to run the blockade 10:0 can find trusiness for hier" Inked Press

To long

ABY

Big Fire

“

Under

Control

London, Dec 21 Firemen

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1949.

MILITARY FOR THE WEST

Atlantic Powers Reach Agreement

Washington, Dec. 21-The Secretary of State, Mr Dean Achoson, announced to- day that "substantially complete agroo- ment" had been reached with the North Atlantic powers on what military assistanco should be provided to them under the arms] aid programme in 1950.

Mr Acheson told a press conference that although the negotiation of bilateral agreements outlining the conditions under which aid was to be supplied were not yet concluded, "substantially complete agreement has been reached on what the fiscal 1950 funds shall be spent for."

Mr Acheson said that with the exception of Britain detailed negotiation of bilateral agreements was in progress with all the North Atlantic powers who had requested military assistance.

It 15

to

any

parted tonight that they hnd The Mooltan, already quaran¦ "rornered" the blaze in the buse- tined twice before this year benent of the Covent Garden fruit 20- cause of smallpox aboard, called and flower market aller a

1h01 caused Aden, hour battle

the at Colombo, Bombay, Suez, Port Said and Marseilles greatest number of casualties in history of the on the voyage home from Aus- the peacetime tralia.

London Fire Brigade.

Discussions with Britain were ciple in details of phraseology,

of "general til at the stage

"With respect to the United In she docked

Four humired firemen frum Immediately

Kingdom, the discussion is sul principles." brigades had fought London three suspected typhoid London's

Arrangements

being on general principles. were cases were sent to hospital, fol.slace 11 a.m. yesterday against

made for the provision of United essential, in my judgment, a pile of lowed shortly afterwords by flames that started

States personnel to Individual discuss fully and frankly empty boxes and castaway moto.

countries "qualified to assist in Christmas trees in vaults 1273-

of complicated questions which may be in the of other Governments minds der the great glass-roofed flower tho assembly

modern weapons with which with respect to the way tu market,

many of these countries are not whitch the programme will be familiar and to help them to

carried out in advance of the learn how to operate and mais-

signing of any agreement and tain the equipment."

the Initiation of any programme. COMMONSENSE Asked About

"This

be seems to me to anxiety in Scandinavian coun-elementary commonsense

both tries on the numbers of United

from our standpoint and from States personnel who would be

tha of the other countries. sent under this part of the pru- gramme, he replied that he had not heard of such reports but the United States would adjust its Missions to the desired needs

Six ochirmed

VASOS were moved to a fover hospital-Reu-

ter.

At later stages of the fro the men were fighting, not only against the fumca and smoke which suured one dearth, 20

also the risk of Injuries

dropping in the steaming water which swirled to depths of five feet in places.-United Press.

EXPLOSION IN cesualties and 38 miner

COAL MINE

but

Dear DUKE & DUCHESS

Mons, Dec. 21.A Hungarian mixer Sandor Grosku, WHA killed today when an explosion occurred in A coal mine here. Two other Italian and a Polo-ware st}}] tropped late tonight.

miners an "GOING TO WORK"

Reneers were trying to get at them. Of the 42 unners wher! escaped today two were slightiv injured. Ten of them, however, were taken to hospital suffering from gun intoxication

The explosion occurred when the roof of a gallery enved in. provoking An accumulation

Are damp-Reuter

EDITORIAL

T

to

of

Cherbourg. Dec. 21.-Betors boarding the Burr Quen Mary here tonight for New York, the Duke of Windsor told Reuters' The Cherbourg correspondent:

chess and I are going to work. These days

should everybody

TO ADJUST MISSIONS

reporta

and wishes of the various coun

irica.

*For

the

"In this connection I under- stand and appreciate the action of the United Kingdom in com lng to us with their worries in It has given me as advance. opportunity to make clear the intentions of this Government, Mr Acheun saldi past several weeks the United We are now engaged in an ex- States Government

change has been

of views which repre- discussing the bilateral agree. nts the sensible, rational way met with the North Atlantie; which governments with countries who have request common purpose and common military assistance.

problems reach agreement. "With Italy, Norway, Den-

"The framework of France, Belghum, The bilaterals was laid down by the The Duchess attracted the no-mark,

of spectators

and Luxembourg | Congress after public hearings 17+irations

an she Netherlands went up the gangway in a smart these discussions have proceeded and full debate. I do not think

Heulet tarlo suff

from questions of general prin- it appropriate to discuss

specifle language whylle the negotiations are in progress.

Dogs & Cats Ordinance

Or

VE new Dogs and Cate Ordinance is, ostensibly, made necessary by the rables, but The epidemic of current underlying cause is the gross indifference of so many owners of domestic pets to the existing regulations. Injections and segregational treatment can play a parl in combatting rables, but cannot, either severally together, guarantee the elimination of this dreadful disease. Owners of pets, particularly dogs, are, in the long run, the people most capable the closest Only of achieving this. supervision and the most careful adherence to the regulations on the part of all owners can reduce to the minimum

infection. the dangers of

Insufficient attention has been paid to this aspect of the rabies epidemic, and it has to be

Government confessed that

has bern

forced

Introduce stringent and arbitrary conditions largely because of the refusal of sections of the general public to co-operate in giving effect to the regulations previously in force. The powers given, under the new Ordinance, to police officers and veterinary surgeons, arc, in the ordinary course of events far too sweeping, but there is plenty of Justification for them at this time. The whole tenor of the Bill is to ace that dogs are kept under proper control, and that where this is violated, the Authorities Bhall have the right to punish, Punish- ment will take two forms-destruction of the animal if it is suspected of being dangerous; favs and imprisonment for The increased penalties for offences such as permitting a dog. In publle without a muzzle or not being attached to a lead in a welcome sign of Government's awakening to the serious

owners.

extent these regulations are, today, being violated. Fines of 25 and 50 dollars are

insufficient

dog to deter the careless owner, whose Tuot-loose animal is the most likely to become a rabies contact, to become a menace to and, therefore, the community. The maximum sentences under the new Ordinanec are six months These imprisonment and a $1,000 fine. are not too severe, and if imposed when the Bill becomes law may prove to be the correct

in deterrent to a persistence

Nor will violating the regulations. there be any disagreement with the contention that, in the interest of public health, it is necessary to make the owner of a dog absolutely liable for a breach We feel that the of the regulations. Ordinance could have safely gone a step there should further and insisted that

be a maximum length of lead, for, as we have previously pointed out, while somo dog owners are obeying the letter of the law in attaching their dogs to leads, they are violating Ita spirit by permitting the controlled animals to remain loosely because the leads are so long. No dog can be said to be fully under contral if it is at the end of n 10 to 12 foot lensh. But In the inn} analysia it resis upon the Authorities and the Courts as to what extent they are prepared to apply the re- gulations. Hitherto the blind eye has been turned too willingly towards those who wilfully disobey the law. If the

enforced regulations are

firmly, 'dog realise that, they owners will quickly cannot be lightly ignored. And If, in fact, all domestic, canines can be kept fully under control, there is little doubt that shall see a rapid decline .in. the Incidence of rabies.

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They Gaze Reds Stalk Nationalists For The K.O. Blow

There's something about a window full of toys: children from Berlin, in Hastings for a three-month stay, get ideas about Christmas-London Express

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Service.

Jet Airliners To Come

To Hongkong

London, Dec. 21.-The famous De Havilland

fet airliner Comet will be used on the Vancouver- Hongkong flight in two or three years' time.

An initial order for two of these aircraft, which are the first jet airliners in the world and two years ahead of anything any other country has produced, has been placed by the Cartadian Pacific Airlines.

Negotiations are in progress for the delivery of further aircaft at a later date.

the

Vancouver-Hongkong service On the Comet will fly a quarter way round the world with three one-hour halts in 20 hours. The distance is 6,800 miles and stops will be at Anchorage, Alaska, Shemya in the Aleutiana and Tokyo. -Our Own Correspondent.

Britain's Austere

Food Rationing

&

Britain Jap Peace

Treaty

Cabinet Discussions

London, Dec. 21-Top

Cabinet Ministers tonight discussed Britain's attitude toward a Japanese peace treaty, an informant dis- closed.

San Francisco, Dec. 21.--- Chinese Red armies, nearing the end of a year in which they have all but blown the Nationalista off the main- land, today stalked. their enemy for knockout blows in the West and South,

The radio in the Communist capital of Peking boasted that the armica of General Hu

Tsung-nan, the best left to the Nationalists in all China, werd being encircled in the Chengtu ares. Previous Nationalist re- poris have Indicated, however, that General Hu has extricated the bulk of his 400,000 armres from the former govern-. ment capital in the West,

mon

- General Hu's troops last were ·· reported moving down the high- way from Chenghu to Sikang province. In mountain-bound Sikang, Generalissimo Chiang Kal-shek proposes to act up a guerilla base for a hopod-for comeback on the mainland.

The Peking broadcast Bald Communist troops control 50 mtice of the main highway be- Iween Chengtu and Sikang,

| beginning at Pengshan, 35 mles | south of Chengtu. Only General tu's rearguards are still in this area unless the reports of his retreat are unfounded.

In the South, a press report in Hongkong said Red troops were enbarked on a mass mave- ment down the Lluchow Penin- suta.

This is the peninsula that louds to Hainan Island, where remA→ nant Nationalist forces from the debacle in Bouth China have taken refuge.

EASY OBSTACLE

Only three miles of water separate the tip of Lluchow Peninsula from Hainan. It would be easy for the Reds to leap this Strait.

This informent also disclosed that sentor finance officials of the Commonwealth nations will

The status of Yunnan pro- at the same inez at Colombo

vince, South of Sikang, still was ime as the Foreign Ministers.clouded. The Nationallate of They will map Conumonwealth their Island redoubt of Talwan needs for dollar purchases, in- announced on Monday they had cluding oil.

recaptured Kunming. Yunnan's

Late press reports in Hong- kong said the city still was held of warlord General by forces Lu Нап, who turned on Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and went over to the Com- munists on December 0.

The question of a Japanese capital. peace treaty has been under study in both Washington and London for months. The United States State Department is pre- paring a draft treaty, due for completion by the end of the

who London, Dec. 21.-Britain is today the only year.

experts The franclui country, west of the Iron Curtain, with a general also will meet in Certon are to

The later reports asserted dollar nerds of

fighting still was in progress "When they are signed they rationing scheme still in effect, four years after decide on the

the entire Commonwealth area.in Kunming's outskirts between will be published and will, of

Onc of the area's heaviest General Lu's troops and those course. be registered with the the end of the war.

dollar drains has been Common-

loyal to the Nationalists, Butler, four ounces, Cooking wealth and sterling area pur-

Margarine, chuses of dollar oll, ouncer;

Britain has Nationalist warplanes bombed fat, four ounces; Bacon, four ounces announced

halt in purchases the fringes of the city.

On Formosa, Mr K.C.. Wu Cheese, two ounces; Milk, are of all dollar fuel oll imports and took over the provincipal ad- pinia for adults and three and a one third reduction in dollar ministration as Governor. in may cases, less than A half pints for children be

United Nations. At that time I shall be glad to discuss their terms."-Reuter.

STOP PRESS

Chennault And Willauer Make Application

out the Week in and week British housewives crowd the shops and grocery stores to buy their weekly rations, which are, they

were at the height of the war.

Planning a meal is still a big

one

headache for British house

with a wife. especially

unrationed limited budget, for foodstuffs are often beyond her means and a

and man can, often does, ent his weekly meal ration at one sitting.

two

ing, promised

ministration.

Mr

a liberal ad-

tween the ages of five and 18 gasoline exports beginning Jan-Wu, possibly with U.S. bless-

day for uary 1-Associated Press. a pint A years, and children under five; Soap, rough-

Formosans, who dislike the week; Ten, two TWO DIE IN FIRE ly a small tablet

given more mainlanders, were and half ounces; Eggs are

ABOARD SHIP

power in the provincial govern- allocated, about one egg a week

ment. They were given the Civil Affairs, in the winter months and be-

Copenhagen, Dec. 21-Two Commissions of iween two and three in the

Danish workers were killed and Reconstruction and Agriculture summer months.

A Briton also gets 24 points several others were injured here and Forestry as: well as 17 of Are broke out on the 25 seats on the Governor's Before the Chief Justice, Sir

of today when month to spend. A tin

This biggest Council.

pre- Council Leslie Gibson, in Chambers this

Arst started in January, meat enough for four people Iceland's morning, Major-General Claire slutto

12 passenger motorship, the Gullfoss Bumably is largely advisory. about

The Governor wields authority Whiting 1040, and today, almost 10 years for one meal, costs Chennault andt Mr

rice takes (11,700 tons). butter and polni a pound of

The fire was the second since through the Nationalist govern- Willauer withdrew an applica- later, the original tloa to be joined as plaintiffs bacon ration of four ounces per tight points and syrup costs 10

the ship was launched here on ment, which appoints him.- head

points. still the aro per week

Associated Press. December.--Reuter, against the CNAC, but filed a

application against same.

slintar CATC

The Chief Justice said he deliver his decision to- would morrow morning.

Mr H. G. Sheldon, KC, ap- prared for General Chennault And Mr Willauer, while Mr Chen and Mr Brook Perey Bernacchi were for CNAC and Mr Percy Chen and Mr A. J. Clifford for CATC.

food- Ratuning of certain

FISH PLENTIFUL In 1940 the sugar ration was

few basic food- 12 ounces; today it is eight One of the

been ounces.

which has never stults rationed is fish. Cod herrings and sole are seen on a Briton's table about four or five tim's a

SORRIEST TALE

Meat has the sorriest tale to weak. tell. Meat was first rationed in

Unlike most European coun- ! March, 1840, at one shilling,

a week, Inteles, Britain has never ration- tenpence worth

coffee. Murch this year it fell to only ed

There has always supply of the been a plentiful |10 pence worth.

beans throughout the war and Today, a housewife gets one the postwar period. buff-coloured ration book.

Game, such as goose, poultry,

new

Malaya

and

Terrorists Open

Up New

Offensive

Kuala Lumpur, Dec. 21.-Terrorists killed nine per- sons, including three British soldiers, in four ambushes in the past 24 hours. They wounded 20, including five British soldiers."

back,

The Communist attacks ap-¡ In the Kluang area of Johore, to be the start of the a bandit gang' on Tuesday am- Tramway Workers hiling, sixpence worth on each

partridge and pheasant are Peared A Hold Meeting

Ministry of Food official not rationed but are extremely concerted offensive threatened bushed a Forestry lorry, killing tald

two policemen and one Malay recently that it will be expensive and nearly always by lerrorist's last week

years be

beforo Britain beyond the means of the aver- This morning bandits am- labourer and wounding alz Workers, of the Hongkong many

bushed froops and police six labourers and a Tamil driver Tramways held another general returns to its normal pre-war jage British housewife.

A chicken .for four persons miles from Seremban, killing meeting on the roof of their meat consumption.

The only basic foodstuff that generally costs about 15 shil-three and wounding five British pecint constable,

Also In the Kluang area, unlon headquarters in Russell

the bandits shot dead motor- Sweets, chocolates and soldiers. Fighting Street this morning.

has come off the ratlon since lings.

Bread was sugared drops are rationed to British forces killed one bandit, cyclist on the main road, then war is jam. According to the Union this the

potatoes were four ounces a week-or two wounded Ave and captured one. held up a lorry and looted food.. mesting will decide whether to rationed and

the Kuantan arca

afternoon bandits at- This bandits tacked submit ultimatum to the allocated-rations vary in each small bars of chocolate.

an

a police station in Earlier this year sweats were Pahang this morning, Company demanding $90 month-district-sinco the war but un-

the

lonely area of Malucca, but ly special allowance for all limited supplies of each are now de-rationed but the demand was ambushed a bus, killing

and conductor and there were no casunitles. so great and the queues at the driver workers and three other minor in the shops.

Last night, in a big attack on the sweet shops so long that many wounding two special constables domanda.

A Briton today gets

no sweets of rationed people got

at all. and five passengers, including Kemayan Estate in the Men- Up to the time of going to following amount

Rationing

The takab area of Pahang, five ro-introduced a pregnant. press the ultimatum bed not goods once a week:

were

abducted.......... been delivered as the meeting | Bugar, eight ounces; Meat, after only two months-United wounded constables frod back, labourers

killing one bandit,

Associated Press, was still going on.

one shilling and sixpence warth; Press.

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