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Hongkong Telegraph
VOL. V NO. 20
President Truman Wants Cuts In Excise Levies
Washington, Jan. 23. ——
President Truman
sent a special message to Congress today calling for a cut in excise levies, closing of tax loopholes and a $1,000,000,000 increase in taxes on corpora- tions, estates and big gifts.
cuts wern
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Archbishop Advocates CHAKSANG INQUIRY
Gaol For Adulterers
Brisbane, Australia, Jan. 23,-Koman Catholle Arch. fatshop James Dulig hins started vnealing prison for adulterers.
A
controversy Isy
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"I we had adulterers ɛnoled, there would be fewer divoreen, he said.
"A stair which weakens the family 1 committing nuleide. Governments which allow divorces Ugluly treat the question as of title importance are reprehensible." he added.
A Sydney lawyer. Me 6. NI. Staford relorted
rounds
Mi
adulterer
זו"
a hopelesdy medieval aetion."
Staford said that if every
was gadled there would he mate people bellud prison bars than out-
De Hartan Babbage. Andean Bean at Sydney, com mented Gaolion would be a reinerade step and by Ayon
a prevents et
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Fir abbarr arreerd ha ver, with Bishop Duhig bat as long as inelely regarda adultery too lightly this moralty. wrong pruetler will flourish."-United Press.
Dutch Anxiety Over Westerling Revolt
The Hague, Jun. 23. - Dutch Government trzowugh the above of circles are making no effort to conceal their great
anxiety over the Westerling revolt,
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Informed quarters generally see it as holding dangerous possibilities, though it is not a coup d'etat. Even if Westerling is successful tem- porarily, "it is quite certain that there will be no Dutch co-operation with him," it was stated here today on good authority.
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vegeligh canadensed, and for Dutch help.
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800-MEN COUP
A few bries after Wester Flug's zuen had compard the city Dutch tampa took over appcently
44 suformul JOSE CATAL with Westerling Dufelraff barzzest overtrant
Westething
FINDINGS
Disaster
Caused
By Criminal Act
COURT'S
CRITICISMS & RECOMMENDATIONS
That the explosion on the Indo-China Steam Navigation Co's ss Chaksang on September 7 last was caused by an explosive charge deliberately introduced into vessel, and set to explode after อ arranged interval, by persons unknown, was
tho
pre-
Cigarette
Ramp
Singapore,An island.
wide
cigarette which aims to
camp
aquecze
more than $500,000 (£58,800 sterling) from Singapore smokers be fore the Chinese New Year on February 17 is in full swing
The racketeers are re fusing to sell all popular brands at the recognised market price. but de- mand an extra five to 25
cents
Cigarette prices are not now controlled, but the Government may re- impose control if officiat warnings agains! raising prices are not heeded
Reuter
the unanimous finding of the Marine Court 800 Italian of Inquiry delivered by Mr Neill Garland (President) this morning.
"The evidence, however, strongly indicates Troops For Sang Chong, a firm which occupied for a brief! Somaliland
that such persons were connected with the Yuen
Russians
Try New Berlin Squeeze
Berlin, Jan. 23.-The Russiana Aro "still trying to drive the Western Allies cut of Berlin", its British Commandant, Major-Gen- crai G. K. Bourne, declar- ed today.
He spoke as the Soviet zonal orthorities clamped new flow" inelics
on traffic with the
Allest policy
The anfchend
also remained Bourne
General 801171",
"We are here and we are hete
to stay", he said.
About 120 goods lorries were
afternoon queued
Pach
up on
itle of the zonal frontier
mreading post at Helmsted, delayed by the unusually gor pus checking of frontier guards. Others were similarly held up at Martenborn. Only
two, to Three were moving through sách period premises at 141 Connaught Road West, first
hour, a third of the normal London, Jan. 23. The United States
volume.
Even inter-zonal floor. Neither this firm nor any person connected |
milltary traina British Government expects were held up several hours this There is no evidence of any at any moment with it can be traced. motive for this criminal act," said the President. Rome that Italian forces queried
news from morning when Eastern guarda the papers of threa will sail for Italian Somall passengers. land by Friday.
Gouds trains in and out of the capital were running normally.
General Bourne, speaking at a Press Club lunch, mid he did not think the latest roud and muit traffe difficulties part of a plan To re-impose a blo
blockade, but
This Anting absolves the Master and all fliters from blane, and the Court notes the good work done by Captain Edwards, Chief Officer Johnson, the En gineer Offeers and the ship's trew in
19 disciplinel
crap with fewer than sen mi abandonment of the ship," added Mr Garant
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EDITORIAL
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New
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This would avoid the risk of 4 eight months' delay in the handing over of Italy's former
lg authoritative nd here tonight,
The British Middle East Land Peres, the headquarters respon
Ser
11 of Ada, de adisaster, The Fout finding ka... ith the most aendeworthy
German authorities. boat pet fooma | fix the a new of
Earlier, British spokesman Itakurin when the rodar lifelment of the Patan-
tare of an alton toilitary ad- rnid that the bottleneck appear maan vessel Nowroz
Vance force to enable British jed to have been created by the at the Mamen of the turke i be coñumended), bad only if the Vale Isang and Cupt J
Smith, recipient realise that it is part 10 bound uver and with arrival at Marienborn of a new
Soviel Ma Superintendent of the
Commondant who monsoon, ho Based Luthie adv
of ust not the whole story.
instating 1.1 fert press all doorderly elements in Indo ihre Step
Navigatio
Perhaps beenuse of
Italy's regarding Paradyana."
Computan, fram
lorries governmenta| erisin the cx- [Araowledge
documents F+t*'{tu¢I confrination that they world sall hand
the letter.Reuter, reached London
were attributable to Russian in- efflelency or to, misunderstand- 1 quodites of ertain items le fur garrisoning the terri-ings between the East and West
dangerous peale Stuf
tory, las calculated Friday to even on the Chaksung selbe the deadline for the depar- the hut Offeer by Jaslines
September 5 IN in self 1
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In the Frencht Department personal
2022, de Cieneral Mujsagers the Cour. flew the E
cditions
that there wa. not The forer af us commelhets sevalling, have paid a
suthiesent control of the up bute to 1 overaton foun met are suflicivsit to cope will thr
iment of the dangerous goods on The have requested the Court the Chuksang. satuation," he added.
The practice us Phirteen Buch Army planes to vile the attention of the allowing smppers to comple.e dew
209 Indonesian special
authorities tự the apple
Shipping Orien police from jakarta to Bate explot and so have brought it
apparent comput the notice dong durag the day to keep the it
nf the worteld open Reuter.
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has plans to
ALDY R The Republican
Jova, arrest the Catziberr and alidN just forces Les Capest
Government.
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Fice Bingade were at the ventur checking up anım given EDSTRIAN Bon through radan Vans
Territories
CALCULATED campaign against the Government Wholesnie Vegetable Market is being conducted. If pursued along sound and factual lines there could he little complaint. But the latest meeting of "200 farmers" from the New Territories held last week, possessed all the earmarks. of mischievous attempts to undermine something which, from the farmers' paint of view, is a progressive and lucrative innovation. The fullest Press report af that meeting did nothing but reiterate generalised grumblings and unsubstan- tiated allegations which have long been tediously offered to the general public. For instance: the Government Wholesale be abolished Vegetable Market must because the farmers are so worse of than in the old days when there was no such institution; the production figures sub. mitted in public by an official of the Wholesale Vegetable Market are incorrect. Those two allegations strike at the root of the matter. If, in fact, the New Territories farmers are worse off under the Govern- ment Wholesale Vegetable Market 'scheme, and If, in fact, production through the aegis of this organisation is less than when the farmers were "uncontrolled", then there fa a powerful case for the abolition of the GWVM. One thing, how- ever, is blatantly absent: fuels and figures to prove these accusations, Recently, an official of the Wholesale. Vegetable Market publicly presented statistics purporting to, prove that the post-war scheme of developing and Improving vegetable marketing in the Colony had, and was still, succeeding. The reply given by “200 *** farmers” is that these figures are in- accurate. Thut, in itself. is a serious.
W
Farmers
con-
reflection on the honesty of an offelal spokesman. ltu! the Matement IN aggravated because no alternative factual information was presented to prove the alleged inaccuracies. Generalised demnation of a system, unsupported by evidence that can be proved, is not accept- able. The demand by "200 farmers" for the abolition of the Government Whole- ale Vegetable Market Scheme has still to be Just Hied. Undoubtedly there are short- cumings in the system as il exists today, not the len of which is the difference between wholesale and retail.prices, The New Territories farmers may feel, when cumparing those two prices, that they are being given a relatively raw deal, and that any narrowing of the margin should be in their favour. But strictly speaking their complaint is not so much against Government control of wholesaling, as absence of official control of retailing. Farmers are receiving a fair return for. their labour and products. Moreover, they are being helped and financed In other directions which encourages them lo produce more (and, therefore, earn more.) The discrepancy between wholesale and retail prices is not the result of heating down the farmers so that their industry becomes unprofitable, but because there is no control over what the rapacious retailers' charge—a charge based on a so- called scarcity value. While we have every sympathy for the farmers and their aspirations to become financially, success- ful through their industry, wo have even more sympathy for the people who have to buy their' products ́nt indecently Inflated prices in order to satisfy an un-. reasonable appetite for profits.
Miners Back
11. W
before
the
lanight no!
Was
that rianding orders
the searching and the chocking
of
of
be carried out to
AIR LIFT PLAN
Boyal sun to use the ited Shippy weather-bound, the spokesman/irlift were revealed on Monday,
of
AS LAST RESORT
monsoon The
blows from
Berlin, Jon. 23.—“Tap secret” April
end of September, plus to remobilise the Berlin April to the when the port of Mogadishu was This the order when dangerous goods are mad
412 mold. He thought
us the Russians put la foreg a that Britulo Court 15 pleased to do and voived, renders the ByR.em
"little blockade" of the city, womaly endorses
-operate with an Itailan the request," likely to be effective. Part-
but only
culting truck traffic to a trickle inst QA a Isaket Mir Garland,
Is this true when freight cularly is
resort.
since the airfield ㄩˋ and delaying US, army trains The Court placed on record miles on almos. every category Mogadishu was reported to have
for several hours, s appreciation of the > 18- dangerous cargo are double
At Frankfurt reliable soUITES a very limited capacity. once given by the following these paid on general cargoes
that The British Military Attache disclosed
a plan to re- |witnesses: Sub-Insp W. P. Apps, The Court suggests that the
bas
worked out plons with the activate the air lift had been Deet. Tam Pik-chun, Mr R. C, provisions uf the
Merchan Italian Government for the arreads in the office of the Amert- Assistant Government Shipping
Ordinance 1899, Sec- rival of the Italian advance coti-
IIight Commission for Pittsburgh, Jan,
hemist, Mr W. R. K, Collings, on 15, should be printed on the ingest, to number 800 mice, and months, "just in case 23.-About 30,000 of the 20,000 miners Mr J F Lamont, Mr F. A. back of all shipping orders, as these plnus only needed
sources said, the bulky "top i who had been on strike in softCheesman and Mr W. It Bailey, this contatus an adequate war-rmation
and Implementation, secret" document, settling out cord tunes in seven States re-divers.
ning to intending shippers re-he said.
detalled instructions based on turned to work today.
garding true descriptions
Observers here thought that the experience of 1048-49. was cargoes, me
mis-representation, etc. it was out of the question for plotted late last year.-United
To Work
About 37,000 of the strikers Voted at the
wook-end to go Tack to work, but plekets the morning prevented many miners Irom entering the UES.
There is much
to be suid fur British troops
10
con
withdrow Press.
UNDUE AUTHORITY The Court added:
wi hout being Despite the specifle request of all dangerous goods being mani-
by replaced the Master to the General tested on a specluí Dangerous Italiares, both because of the Managers that no passengers Goods Manifest
excluded und
past
disturbances in Somaliland Mr John L. Lewis, President should be carried on the voyage, from the general cargo maiufest. and because the frontier with in the Union, had directed the of the
Trade numes Chaksung commencing
which
do not hiopin is undelimited. miners to return to the three on September 7 at 4 pan., It was accurately describe
dangerous | day work week which he und found after the disaster that woods frequently complicate
These
Railwaymen Strike
ordered earliest in an effort to here and been 12 passengers on their handling and do not pro ty stated that arrangements for 23.--Railwaymen, members
in
until
the
of
country.
British officials have repeated-
Rabat, French Morocco, Jan
handing over to Italy were the Communist-led Confedern- persuade mine-owners to board
Vide the essential warnings of without prejudice to the negotion of Labour, today started a Pisume negotiations
with him
The flouting of the Master's the dangerous characteristics of tiations now going on in the 24-hour strike, clairing higher for new contruets,
specific request by the No 2 substances to the ordinary man United Нацова Trusteeship wages. Members of the Christ- In West Virginia, plckets per-Cargo Supervisor who accepted who may have to handle them. Council at Geneva for n trustee- in Union did not participate. suaded 4,500 m
miners to stay responsibility for these passen- It is the Court's opinion, that, ship agreement. They have de Hallway truffe was slowed away from 14 mint
Two pltsgers was noted, and the Court where applienbie, additional in-clared that the actual handover down all over 14 mines. Ohk also remained closed conalders this to be an in oter-formation should be provided will not take pince
the Workers of electric power sta Decause of the pickets' efforts. able state of affairs on a British on each package, certifying the trusteeship agreement 15- in tions have decided to strike to-
The buck-to-work
Time and Une again in
effect--Reater. (Continued on Page 5) movementship. showed strength in the Pittsburg For Eastern shipping opera area, but whs wenk in the richi idns, when an accident occur South - Western Fennsylvania the Cargo Supervisor or Come section near Uniontown.
pradore is shown to have exer- Westem Pennsylvania cised undue authority on board Coal Operators' Association said ship, and in the opinion of the that 25,000 of the area's 50,00 Court this should be restricted. miners were working. Fifty-two The evidence disclosed
The
laxity in the handling
mines
were working but 71
general ethers were closed-Reuter, and moving of dangerous goods
Factory Explosion
touny.
An insuMelent
appreciation
morrow for 24 hours.--Reuter,
Mystery Man To Give
Evidence
•
At London Murder Trial
sald.
London, Jan. 23. Aferent picture from that given in the flat, Mrs Hume remem
The Jury berod sitting in her lounge s- would be in this Colony. An inability to mystery man will give evi-by the prosecution.
given a background | fening to a wireless programme read English or even illiteracy dence on behalf of 29-year- in which they might thinks that appropriately called "Justice In has been pleaded by witnesses as the excuse for this laxity old Brian Donald Hume, ucrivairise and gangsterdom might Other Lands dealing with the
cused of murdering a car well have
had their birth, he trial of the French "Bluebeard,” Berlin, Jan. 23-An explor
Landau. sion in an East Berlin fireworks exints of the inherently dan-dealer, Stanley Selty, de-
This is the fourth day of the Mrs Hume heard that pro- factory killed two workers and serous characteristics of many fending Counsel told the injured eight others
of these goods. While this Jury
at the
gramme on the only occasion it Old Bailey trini. Associated Press.
may be largely due to ignorance. (Central Criminal Court) Setly, dropped in parcels from
The
dismembered torso of was broadcast.
"On
that very evening, if an aircraft, was found on the whist the prosecution tells you is Hamilton, Bermuda, Jan. 23. the need is obvious for a more today,
RP Levy, the Counsel, mud-flats of the Essex costs murdering Setty. Mrs Hume will -A fund for the dependents of effective supervision of these
last right, Hume was in that pat the men who lost their lives in trades.
said that as a result of wide Octobor. | the · Truculent, disaster
Jardine, Matheson's procedure publlelly given to the dismem Mr Levy mid he hoped, that tell you that certainly nothing storted today by Vice Admiral for the shipment of dangerous bered body case, a man entire the Jury, would R. V. Symonds Taylor. C-in-Croods, using red Shipping Orly unconnected with it and who Cynthia Hume give evidence on evening that could remotely ap Amerlen and the West Indies ders to distinguish tho hazar did not know Hume had made behalf of her husband.proach murder or the cutting up Squadron, and his wife-Asso-dous goods from general cargo, contact with Hume's solicitors. At the time the murder" was of "body" Mr LovyTM mid.-- ciated Press.
is in the opinion of the Court He would give a very dif-Jalleged to have been committed Router.
was
since public safety is involved,
hear
Mrs happened in that, flat during that
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