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Vol. 1, No. 57. Thursday, November 15th, 1945.
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Pincer Drive In N. China
CHUNGKING. NÀY LÀ. THE COMMUNISTS ALLEGED TO-DAY. THAT SEVEN GOVERNMENT DIVISIONS, ONE - ARTILLERY REG)- MENT AND 6,000 PUPPET TROOPS HAVE BEEN DIS- PATCHED NORTH OF THE YELLOW RIVER AS REINFORCEMENTS FOR A RENEWED ATTACK NORTHWARD ALONG THE PEIPING-HANKOW-RAIL ROAD.
THE STATEMENT CHARGE PLANNED TO LAUNC SQUEEZE THE COMMU
FIFTH DAY OF JAVA BATTLE
Indonesian Resistance Stiffens
Navy Shelling Near Sourabaya
BATAVIA, NOV. II.
INDONESIANS WERE STILL BOLDING OUT AMID THE RUINS OF SOURABAYA AS THE RATTLE FOR THIS JAVA CITY ENTERED ITS FIFTH DAY. BEHIND A BARRAGE OF ARTILLERY FIRE. WITH MOSQUITOS AND THUNDERBOLTS PIN POINTING INDONESIAN TROOPS USING TARGETS, BRITISH AND INDIAN
TANKS YESTERDAY, ADVANCED ONLY A FEW MON- DRED YARDS ALONG THE EAST AND WEST BANK OF THE KALIMAS RIVER FLOWING THROUGH SOU KABAYA
THE BRITISH NAVY OPENED UP YESTERDAY, SHELL- ING SUSPECTED INDONESIAN POSITIONS ON THE SHORE SOUTH OF THE TOWN OF CRISSE, A SHORT DISTANCE NORTHWEST OF SOURABAYA, INDO NESIANS HAD BEEN SEEN DIGGING POSSIBLE GUN THE RESULTS OF THE BOMRARDMENT POSITIONS.
WERE NOT ORSERVED
Fighting ad Sourabaya con { times with the Allies advancing Soul from the dock area along bakh den of the Kalimas Ri ver, said a communique inned froma Allied Headquarters fo day.
Unita which have Advaniend along the West and East banks holf rather a vague "front line" through the EWI's principal buildings of which a large arbuol and the central post offer within the Allied areo. inst casualties reported are seven In dian "other ranks" wounded
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The British Public Relations Authorities said to day that there were indication of stiffeniug 10 donesian resistance at Surabaya yesterday, especially along the ailway Hue running through the Tewn.
Asia As Future Economic Centre
MR
LOUBIANA, NOV
PANDIT, SPEAKING AT 10152 LANA TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY. DECLARED INDA IS NOW IN THE SAME PEATION AS AMERICA IN EIN AND WOULDS ADVANCE AS RAPIDLY IF GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY
She declared
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State Independence.
Bir Partit
A furions attack was repulsed!
Some by artillery cupcentration. infiltration by Indonesians greur ! red in the Pangan Grand Hotels area, but was dealt with.
Two
Indian suldiers were killed and six wounded. One mortar bomb and five 75 millimetre shells fell in the Gurkha ares, but wounded only one man. At the end of the thay trouns were stablished railway
JAP. COMPLICITY
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Field-Marshal Lord Alanbrooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staf, who is due to arrive in Hong Kong to-day in the course of an air tour of the Fast East.
Mr. Bevin Fails To Work A Miracle
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D THE GOVERNMENT H A PINCER DRIVE TO NISTS OUT OF THE RAIL- ROAD ZONE BETWEEN THE YELLOW RIVER AND THE IMPORTANT RAIL JUNCTION CITY OF SHIII- CHIACHUANG IN HOPEI PROVINCE.
Another Communist report al- leged over 100,000 Government troops were massed in south- western Shansi anki north-wes- tern Honan, ready for drive northwards.
Ambassador Leaving
Cherrini Ngu. 14.
A farewell tea was given yesterday by the Sino- British Cultural - Assvole tion in honour of British Ambassador Sir Horaç Seymour, who is going to England shortly on leave During the Ambassador's absence, Mr. Geoffrey Wal linger will serve as charge d'affaires.
Associated Prise.
Kowloon R.E. Jeep
Smash
ON
Immediately rushed to Kon- loon Hospital was:
A Communist dispatch from Shantung sald Government; TWO ROYAL NAVAL AND troops on November 1 recaptur-ONE ARMY DOCTOR WER LONDON, NOV. J4. ed the country town of Ping-
THE SCENE WITHIN DISAPPOINTMENT AND DISQUIET WERE VOICED
yuan, which the Communist had TWO MINUTES OF AN ACEL EQUALLY BY ARABS AND JEWS OVER MR. BEVIN'S | "liberated" two days carlier. DENT IN CHATHAM ROAD STATEMENT ON PALESTINE. IN JERUSALEM, THE They alleged the Government LAST NIGHT WHEN A JEEP ACTING HEAD OF THE JEWISH AGENCY, DR. BER.
FOUE ROYAL troops were helped by more than CARRYING ARE DEEPLY DISAP-
ENGINEERS NARD JOSEPH, SAID: "WE
PERSONNEL 1,000 Japanese and were sup POINTED THE JEWISH PEOPLE WILL NEVER SUB-ported by "American airplanes COMPLETELY SOMEB- MIT TO THIS."
with Kuomintang markings" SAULTED, SERIOUSLY IN- THE SECRET RADIO STATION OF THE HAGANA (JEW-
atatement JURING TWO OF ITS OCCU- A Communist ISH DEFENCE ORGANISATION IN PALESTINE) | issued In Chungking reiterated PANTS. SAID: "THE ALTERNATIVS PACING THE BRITISH the recent charge that the Gov- GOVERNMENT IS WHETHER JEWS ARE TO CON-rument had mobilized 1,700,000 TINUE TO BUILD AND CREATE OK TO FIGHT A troops for attacks against the Sgt. Humphries, of the 907th DEFENSIVE WAR. THEY HAVE FULL CONIF Communista.
Field Company, R.E., who sui- DENCE IN THEIR STRENGTH AND POWER."
It said this number included fered serious head injuries; 150.000 Japanegu and 18 Ameri- - Treated at the Medical Firef The leader of the Palestine | make an oven stronger protest and Arab Reform Party, Dr. Kha- their extremiste may possibly re-can-trained and equipped divi-Atd Post at the Harbour View
Rions. Associated Press.
Hotel and Inter removed fidi, said: "The least I can say
With It is believed here that Mr.
United Staten Naval Kowloon Hospital werd; is that we were disappointed. I
Buvin's statement indicates a final Forces In North China, Nov. 12. accuse the British Government
solution for the United States by
(delayed) of having retracted, the pro- placing Palestine under a trusted Thousands of Chinese Nationa- mine made in the While Paper."
ship, which will not please the list troops of the 52nd Army were From Cairo, Renter reported Zionists, who want Jewish State. landed at Chinwangtao to-day
In
Mr. that undoubtedly the Arab will
Beyin told the London,
from American transports.---Aso-jured. make
world's protents but the
ciated Press. press last night that he in political would atake his political reputa general expectation elreles here in that the Jews will
tion on finding a solution of the problem. It was his belief that the welfare of six hundred million pronic in the Eastern Mediter rangan, Middle East and Indin night be affected if A successful spirit of co-operation and concilia- tion was built up in Palestine,
U.S. VIEWS
strong
Hurley Castigates Chinese Communists
SANTA FE, N.M.. NOV. 14. PATRICK HURLEY, UNITED STATES AMBASSADOR TO ISSUED CHINA, DECLARED IN A STATEMENT HERE TO-DAY THAT "THE COMMUNIST ARMEN PARTY" SOUGHT TO OBTAIN ARMS THROUGH THE JAPANESE SURRENDER TO SET UP A SEPARATE REPUBLIC OF GOVERNMENT OR DESTROY THE
Majar General Hawthorn, Ush Bomsennder in Java, public. ly accused Letenunt General Yucharm Nagano, Commander-in Chief of the Japanese 16th Army to day of deliterately surrendering its arms lo "enruly elements in the country'" and thus enabled them to cause bloodshed and the foss of life amongst Allied troops. Major-General Hawthorn also ne censed Nagano of surrendering his
forces to unauthorised person.
Major-General Hawthorn had Nagano and his chief of staff.tion and general order No. 1 of Majur Yamamoto, before him nag United
CHINA.
He said the Potsitam declara-
sert to violence.
SHANHAIKWAN FALLS
to 11e
Spr. Thompson, who suffered bad shoulder injuries; and
8pr. Unsworth, and Spr. Youde, both sightly in-
The accident occurred about 0.43
in p.m.
Chatham Road about 100 yards west of the
Chungkok, Nov 14. Shanhaikwan, a key town on the Royal Marine Engineers' Billet. It appears to have been wit Peiping-Mukden railway at the Great Wall, has fallen to attackingnessed by several peopds though Central Government troops, it was hone had an exact conception of reported by neutral sources to-day what happened other than that without any official confirmation. the jeep hit a curb on the right A Communist spokesman was side of the road and then over- unable to confirm the repart but turned. admitted that the Inst Communist report put Government troops only two-thirds of a mile from the city. He said the Government had land- of four armies in that sector of China in an attempt to push he yond the Great Wall into Man- churia-Associated Press.
As conditions for a real solution for Palestine, Mr. Bovin hinted: ne racial discrimination in 'Europe, no racial prejudice in Palestine and that all concerned in dealing, with the problem should place human attributes atop of the scale and racial prejudice at the botwA). Britain, as a mandatory power, had undertaken to establish a Jewish home but had never under- taken to establish a Jewish state.
In Washington, President Tru- American
TROOPS FROM ILK.
Tsingtao, Nov. 14.
transports began man makes no secret of the fact unloading the first thousand of on he continues to favour the army of Chinese Nationalist troops
hundred thousand Jows.
Nation, Longer Socksdmittance into Palestine of one-to-day in this Communist-excircled
his readquarters where he recety command in Asia required' Ja-
ed their swords and ordered their Arrest He then ordered that they be flown to Singanore where their conduct be investigated.
Tanka stood wutside the Head- quarters, traffic stopped and there was an air of staf ceremony nonut the castigation.
Nagano stood with bowed head while General Hawthorn told him that action will be taken as direct- ed by Admiral Mountbatten.
In a statement interpreted Lo both generals they were told that in Genera Hawthorn's oplaton they had deliberately and dis- honourably failed to carry out the terms rf surrender imposed on the nation. -Reuter.
SUICIDE ATTACKS
panse army in China to sor render to the National Govern- ment. but the Commipuista at- tempted to change this pre- dure.
He declared much musinforme. ation about Ching events is be ing published in the United
| States
He stated that the Ameriona military. ን። the coeluding phase of the war, now is creviv-) ing the surrender of lapanisë i forces and taking over Japanese | arms and installations for the China Republic.
NO U.S. DESIGNS He asserted; "It would as- sare prolonging of a civil war China if the United Nations permitted the Japanese to sur render or transfer their arms to war lords, bandit organisa- tions or any armed politien) parly."
For Men
London, Nov. 14. The Bourd of Tratte han withdrawn the restriction limiting the length of mon'n nocks, effective to-day,
Since this restriction wan impored 2,000,000 lb weight of yarn had been anved.- Router.
Further Yet From Home
SEAC HQ., NOV. 14.
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port.
Making public Lust night his It is the first landing of Chlang letter to Mr. Attlee, written in Kal-shek's troops in Communist Aurust last, putting forward his dominated Shantung since the view, President Trumun said that war's end. There was no sign of he still adhered to his opinion, trouble.
The President's letter concludes: "The main solution appears to liu, division
The United States sixth marine Innded at Tsingtao
in the quick evacuation of as many | October 11 and concentrated in the
of -- nossible
non-repatriable elty area. Jown, who wish to gu to Palestine.
The National troops landed to-
Medical aid was immaculately on the scene from the Harbour View Hotel, one of the Injured,
whose Sgt. Humphries, was judged to be serious, he ing immediately put on another Jeep and removed to hospital
The other three injured mer were treated at the First Air Post and sent off in an R.A.R ambulance about an hour later.
They've Got A Nerve!
SYDNEY, NOV. 14. THE TOKYO CORRESPON.
OF DENT
THE "SYDNEY MORNING HERALD” TO-DAY CABLED A REPORT FROM JAPANESE CAPITAN THAT JAPAN WANTS TO ENTER A TEAM FOR THE DAVIS CUP TO BE HELD BY AUSTRALIA
If it is to be effective, such action day are of the Eighth Army, under should not be long delayed." Lt. Gen. Thng Feng. The Ameri- THE
In Jerusalem, the Jews are to can-trained and equipped troops | hold general strike throughoutombarked at Kowloon on the same
21 the country, lasting twelve hours transports which had carried the from noon to-day. as a protest Chinese 18th Army from Kowloon against the proposals for Paica to Chinwangtao in late October. Mine, while Lo-morrow will IN obsarved as a special day of prayer and fasting.
The Jewish population has been instructed to observo. a striet stay-at-home curfew during the strike, in order to avoid street demonstrations-Reuter.
will be found in Page 8).
Batavia, Nov. 14. Indian independence, she said.
Fighting raged with unabated weto be as beneficial to the
fury in Surabaya and in Batavia British Empire us
voluntary was limited as British Maj. Gen. D. C. law
thorn accused the commander of the Japanese 16th Army and his chief of staff of deliberately hand ing over arms to "unruly resid ents of Java. economic affairs will vale around Asia, with
rumspared! Asin in peoples with the Russia of 200 years up, and alatul Tature world
India as leader.
A crowd of 3.500 heard the address Reuter.
Allies Making Sure This Time
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TEN THOUSAND MEN OF THE ALL BRITISH SECOND DIVISION, WHICH IS TO GO TO JAVA VIA MALAYA, HAVE BEEN WITHDRAWN He declared: "America has FROM THE DIVISION AND A dispatch from Asociated Preas correspondent Vera Haug China. The United States will KINGDOM FOR REPATRIA- imperialistic designs
UNITED on SENT TO THE
land at Sourabaya said the British Indian troops were battling in the
not ask or accept any special TION OR RELEASE.
This new Second Division In heart of the naval base city and privileges from China. had repelled three suicidal Indone- "The United States desires made up of remnanta of the old slan attacks during. the night. China to furnish its own leader- division and the remainder of killing over 100 Indonesians and ship, make its own decisions the British 36th Division, which sustaining six casualties of the and be responsible for its own fought with the Chinese and own in fighting for the Kota rat policies. The United States en- American Forces in north A way station and marshaling yarda. dorses the aspirations of the Burma and became known a
The British threw 25-pounder
Chinese people to establish the "farthest from home" Bri- artillery barrages against the In- donesians who are entrenched in themselves as a strong, united tish fighting mon, pre-war Dutch-bufit concrete pill-democratic government."
sociated Press. boxes in that aren.
As-
JEWS CALL A
10-
The 30th Division has Jan
in lost considerable men patriation and release.
(the The "Cross-keys" men divisional sign is two keys cross- ed) are now composed of the
Reliable
unofficial
Devens, Durham Light Infantry catimates placed the Indonesians opposing
Royal Scots, Cameronians (two the British in Sourabaya between THE JEWISH NATIONAL battalions) and Royal Welsh 16,000 and 18,000.
COUNCIL HAS CALLED A Fusiliera,--Reuter. In the capitai Lieut-Gen. Yiu- GENERAL STRIKE OF PALES chiro Nagano and Maj. Gen. Mel- TINE JEWS TO-MORROW. IN.
atill in in Nationalist hands. GENERAL STRIKE Buffe, Northamptons, Derrets,
KAUFBEUREN, NOV. 14. WRECKING OF GERMANY'S MUNITIONS INDUSTRY WAS STARTED BY ALLIED DEMO- Haugland reported the British LITION
SQUADS WITH A were moving slowly to keep the
low OF SERIES
THUNDEROUS casualties
and night take BLASTS WHICH DESTROYED nearly a week to clear out the ro- ONE OF THE BIGGEST POW
maining half of Sourabaya which; DER PLANTS IN THE VAST I. G. FARBEN NETWORK.
"This begins the destruction of Germany's war potential," declar- ed Lieut-Gen. Luelan K. Truscott, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army, as he pushed the plunger to set of the first of 14 terrific explo- sions.
Bixty buildings were blasted spart, with debris flying hundrella of feat into the air-Associated
Press
WE'VE GOT OUR
NAVY BACK AGAIN
JERUSALEM, NOV. 14.
chiro Yamamoto were accused of PROTEST AGAINST THE BRIGO SLOW IN
unauthorized surrender of their TISH PROPOSALS FOR arma to the Indonesians and wore SETTLEMENT OF
THE IMMIGRATION own to Singapore to face charges.
Associated Press.
CHINA WARNING
(Mr. Bevin's speech on Palestine
The Japanese have revived their The Communists cut the Teing- lawn tennis association and official tno railroad to virtually isolata aked him if Australian players this port since the end of the war. would object to competing against more than 10,000 Japanese of the Japancas team in the Cup. The fifth independent brigade surren-gestion is described by Austra dered here, but some have been lian Lawn Tennis officials as ad affront. They oppose any idos al allowed to retain their aris да guards for the extensive industrial the Japanese being allowed to plants in the Tsingtao viclaity enter the competition at present In an article in the "Melbourn Herald", the Davis Cup player, Harry Hopman, says that Austri- lions would loathe to play against their recent enemy. It in unlikely that the International Lawn Ton- nis Federation will permit Japan or any other Axis nation' to take part in the Davis Cup for some
ho writes.
Associated Press.
Amazon Captured On
Hong Kong
Border
GANG OF 19 JAPANESE WHO HAD ATTEMPTED TO CONCEAL THEMSELVES UNDER CHINESE CIVILIAN CLOTHING, WERE APPREHENDED BY THE CHIN- ESE AUTHORITIES JUST OVER THE HONG KONG BORDER ON TUESDAY, WHEN THEY ATTEMPTED TO TAKE THE TRAIN TO CANTON. - WITH THE JAPANESE, WAS A YOUNG chinese GIRL, ABOUT 20 YEARS OF AGE. SHE WAS ARMED WITH A REVOLVER NED TO HER LEFT THIGH AND HAD AN AMMUNITION BELT ROUND HER WAIST.
Bho was regarded as an ac- complice of the Japanese.
Orgy In Manila Cathedral
Years,
The International Lawn Tennis Federation is meeting in London this month, and the problem vi enemy nationals and their entry into the Davis Cup and Interna tional competitions · thon will be discussed Germans, after the last war, were not allowed to compete for nearly ten years until 1927...... Router.
CHINA LEND-LEASE
Washington, Nov. 14 An official of the federal econo mic administration, whose task includes winding up China's len ledao account, said to-day. transaction la boing arranged allow China to procure goody ordered under lond-lease but no delivered by V-J day.
Some of the Japanese made u bolt for it through the window of the train and three made good their escape. The other 16 were rounded up and are .dotained at Shumchun Head-
The goods are mostly machinery, machine tools, textiles, sond quartore, PALESTINE
According to Chinese soldiers,
MANILA, NOV. 14..
trucks and raw materials. PROBLEM. CABINET SHIFT... All Jews, working on British
WITNESSES TESTIFIED AT A war department oficial con NEW YORK, NOV. 14 numbora... of Japanoso havo al Government Batavia, Nov. 14.
or military enter-
THE TRIAL OF GENERAL pocted with supply for China sald A POSSIBILITY THAT JAR-gunised, themselves into gangs The IndonCHIANS'
choice. of place were urged to quit their. ANESE AND GERMAN SKIL and have hidden themselves in YAMASHITA YESTERDAY como munitions and weapons had Sjahrir no the new Promier moans Joba,
INSTEAD OF a revision of the self-proclaimed The strike demonstration was TECHNIQUE MIGHT BE CALL over the border, over since the REFUGE IN A MANILA OA shek's forced to carry out dearm AMERICAN the vicinity of small villagua THAT THE SIGHT OF 4,000 beer transferred from the Chins TO 5,000 CIVILIANS SEEKING theatre dommand to Ohlung Kat government to put Dr. Bockarnu; called after the British indicated ED. ON FOR BUILDING who has been the Nationaliste oventually-Palestine would be CHINESE INDUSTRY WAS re-occupation of the Colony.THEDRAL LAST FEBRUARY, Ing of Japanese troops but cald loader, into..a minor role:
"I doubt I It's anything ke pinced under trusteeship. The SUGGESTED TO-DAY
The Chinese forces, are keep-DURING THE BATTLE OF BY The British Pacific Fleet, which han boon operating under the con- of the foreign affaire port-folios old League of Nations mandate
The now promler retained some country at present is under the CLARENCE E. GAUSS, FORM. Ing a sharp look-out us most of MANILA, STIRRED JAPA-$4,000,000 worth, ag critics have trol of Admiral Chester Nimitz, In the cabinet. The only member Associated Press.
ER U.S. AMBASSADOR TO the ganga are armed, and they NESE SOLDIERS INTO A alleged. Associated Freda. ** Commander-in-Chief of the Pacific, of Sockatne's cabinet retained by
CHINA.
appear to be getting desperate. NIGHT-LONG ORGY OF RAPE
AND MURDER. - will
Gauss, in his first public state- rovort to the control-ofBfahrir Is the information minis
Paria, Nov. 14, the British Admiralty, states the
Tientsin, Nov. 24. mont since leaving Chungking va
Witnesses said that after the The new French constituent Chungirink. Now, 1 Navy Headpuarters here to-day.
tor, Amir Bjarifudion.
An American marine repatria year ago, asserted that the Chinese drastic reduction in the num wild night the Japanese rolled membly elected Gentrál do-Gauls The governinqutal shift models tion officer reported to-day) an Government was molding it or bur of Chinese army divisions and drume of cuseline into the church interim. President of anal Admiral Nimitz sent a mosaago the Indonesian cabinet on the average of 45,000 Japanese month tremely difficult for American and an increase in the Chinesa Air and got it allro
direct the creation of the fourt to Admiral Sir Bruce Fraser com European system. The informa-17 are expected to be repatriated British interests to do business Force was recommended by Lleuk Other witnesses told of two republle I had boon foregone manding the British Pacific Fleet tion minister sald Dr. Soekarno from North China to Japam The with China nationals-Gon. Albert Wedemeyer to the massacres by the Japanese in conclusion that he would be cleare expressing his appreciation of would continuo, as A spiritual moveminat will start in the next He cautioned that the United Chinese National Conference here LaGuns province south of kanila. to chery
In his role of national lovalty and co-operation of the lender of the independence move for days ahoaril landing craft States should go now in making on Gunday, U.S. Headquarters dis- They said almost 9,000 civilians leader while a poy Outf
type of veselbe Axagciated Ialogue to Calzadoccia fod Press closed. So shey Ascociated Press. were killed Ancelated Press being drawn-Amooisted Pres
naw
Pearl Harbour, Nov, 14.
ment---Annuelatoil Press.