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Vol. I, No. 74. Wednesday, December 5th, 1945.
CHIANG'S FORCE
PUSHES NORTH
CHUNGKING, DEC. 4,
AS CHIANG KAI SHEWS TROOPS ROLLED NORTHWARD THROUGH MANCHURIA, ALONG THE ROUTE TO MURDEN, WITHOUT ANY REPORTS OF EFFECTIVE OPPOSITION, CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY SAID THE FIRST GOVERNMENT TROOPS TO BE FLOWN INTO MANCHURIA WILL START THEIR AIRPLANE TREK NEXT WEEK
REPORTS YESTERDAY TOLD OF NATIONALIST TROOPS REACHING TÄHUSHAN ON THE ADVANCE ALONG THE PRIPING MURDEN RAILROAD, WHICH IS AP PROXIMATELY 30 MILES FROM MUKDEN.
Final Stage
4.
Washington. Dec Authentative coaches herr to dwa stated that the Anglos Amorean financuri tolles haer ntered the hot atage an o be completed this week
With the participation of Sir Edward Headgen, Perant ent Sceretary to the Toranury. mosperte of
ameement
Bruder
Answer Wanted Yes Or No
1.
WASHINGTON, DEC. THE RESULT OF THE BRI TISH AMERICAN FINAN CIAL NERTIATIONS WILL BE ANNOUNCED ON WED- NESDAY OR THURSDAY WHETHER IT IS A SUCCESS OR FAILURE,
11 1 x per ted that A 41- Houncement will be made in the British Bou of Cotmanx probable by the Prime Minis fer, Mr Attlee, simultaneously. with the Washington announces
A Chinese Central
ment telegation in Peiping is prepared to-day to return to Cheehan, the Mane hartan capital, to assume responsibility for taking over Manchuria from Russian eupation forces cal restoring the rich north-east provinces to the Chungking Chow,
nament
5.12204
The atmosphere of has elated considerably the hasty departare of the “lov ernment representatives INT weeks ago, when it appearst the Communists were going to take
er Changeltun.
to
over
1
4,000 Dead
Karachi. Dec. 4.
Four thousand have perish- ed, forty thousand are home- Jens and overal bridges were washed away as a result of a tidal wave, which struck a hundred mile coastal belt to the Northwest of Karachi on November 28. This was due
tu B submarine earthquake, necording to relief workers who have just returned from the scene-Rouler.
Manila Bank Hold-Up
FOUR
MANILA, DEC 1
FILIPINOS BERD UP TWO CLERKS OF THE PHILIPPINE BRANCHL OF THE BANK OF COMMUNI CATIONS AND ESCAPED IN A JEEP WITH 413,000 PESOS
206,500 0.8. DOLLARS COLONEL J. P. HOLLAND. CHEF OF POLICE IN MANI- LA ANNOUNCED TO-DAY.
Price 10 cts.
DRAMATIC SCENES AT SHAMSHUIPO Hurley's Case
POINTING DRAMATICALLY-AT_A_JAPANESE-OFFICER-
ON AN IDENTITY PARADE HELD YESTERDAY “AT SHAMSHUIPO-CAMP, A DISTRESSED CHINESE WO- MAN CRIED "THAT MAN EXECUTED MY HUS- BAND"" THE PARADE OF MORE HIAN SIXTY JAPANESE PRI- SONERS-OF-WAR HAD BEEN ORDERED FOR THE PURPOSE OF SECURINg identifICATIONS OF THE MEN RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MURDER OF A NUM- BER OF CHINESE VILLAGERS AT SILVER MINE BAY ON LAN TAO ON AUGUST 19.
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HITLER DID NOT BLUFF AT MUNICH
NUERNBERG, DEC. 4. ADOLF HITLER WAS NOT BLUFFING WHEN HIS THREATS OF WAR IN 1938 LED ENGLAND AND FRANCE TO SIGN THE THE MUNICH PACT, SECRET GERMAN WAR PLANS INTRODUCED AT THE
IN. TERNATIONAL WAR CRIMESTRIAL OF 20 LEADING NAZIS, DISCLOSED YESTERDAY
to
were making frantic attempts
little preserve world peace
to
did
they know of the evil plana in the hearts and minds of the Nazi con- spirators.
THE DOCUMENTS SHOWED THE MUNICH PACT WAS SIGNED ONLY TWO DAYS BEFORE THE DATE SET BY THE GERMAN HIGH COMMAND FOR FOUR ARM- IES AND THE AIR FORCE TO BE PREPARED FOR A BLITZ INVASION OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. Another document quoted fit- ler as saying four months be fore the Munich pact that "It is my unalterable decision smash Czechoslovakin by mili lary action in the near future”
US prosecutor Alderman sub- mitted 11 secret directive from Hitler, dated Oct. 21, less than a month after Munich, stating that the German armed forces must be prepared for the liquidation of the remainder of Czechoslovakia and vccupation of Memel--the province of Lithuania adjoining Enst
Prussia.
"We are now able to spread on the pages of history the truth of the fraud and decelt practised by the compieptors for achieving for their own ends the pact of Munich as a stopplog-stone towards for ther aggression," ha declared.
On Supt. 26, three days befors of advanco units to the Czech bor- the pact was signed, the approach
der was stopped because, accord- ing to another of the documents, "The Fuehrer does not intend to march in before the 80th in any caso."--Reuter.
BRITAIN TAKES OVER Britain'a casc against the
The robbery was the biggest The situation was improved in Manila's history and eccur. To the outside world this nival greatly by Russian
red as the unarmed clerks were clearly appear to be merely an until Government transferring the remai
funds to the action of pacification and not It fores could be Blown in to take National City Bank.
warliko undertaking. Action must therefore be carried out by the The police said that pileg-
transfer hast peace-time armed forces only." the Nazi war leaders is being pre- tion during the rol been asked by the Bank of Communications which is the second largest Chinese bank in Manila. Associated Press.
son.
Generalissima Chank Kai shek's
included
the
chum and is now returning, said Froup which fled from Chang-
be could discuss with the Rua ains the light of Chinese Gov- ernment Troops into Manchuria As soon as he arrives in Chang- Associated Press. elm.
NEW SUPPLIES BOLSTERED BY AIRBORNE SUPPLIES, CHINESE NATION. ALIST ARMIES IN MAN. CHURIA YESTERDAY AWAIT- ED THE GREEN LIGHT FROM
RUSSIA TO BEGIN THEIR
MARCH ON MUKDEN.
Although his main forces are
The British insistence on the ofmed speed in the completions. of the talks is due to the need for
drbaste in arly
130 miles 190 House of Commons on the rati fication of thes Bretton Woords Parliame, ad
Scheme before
KOUPEN
for the Christmas
Cear Itenter.
FINAL PROPOSALS
London. Dre. 4.
Anal proposal.
Prime-Minister Clement Allee and his Cabinet to day considered the draft of the under which the United States masti munke a loan to Britain,
It is understood that the prin cipal differences remaining be tween the Lwo governments was whether Britate could give in La Davinents if she experiences
bad vent financially. Aamuelat. ed Preas.
CHUNGKING WINTER SETS IN
CHUNGKING, DEC. 4. THE HARD WINTER PRE- DICTED FOR CHUNGKING HAS SET IN.
Although the war is over, living conditions for the population of 1,300,000 inhabitants are as bad to-day as they were in the warst years of the war.
Coal la Bearce and expensive And most of the homes and offices in thin hill city are unheated.
Sights familiar during the war years are being reenacted. Government employees
huddle
in their overcoats in cold ofllece rubbing their hands together for warmth and in most case dream- ing of Pelping, Nanking or Bhang- hal
Rext
Spring-Assecinted Press.
MME. CHEN TO JOIN. HUSBAND
directive stated.
During the afternoon session Alderman brought his recitai up
to the Munich period.
"As the statesmen of the world
Soviet Relaxation Of Censorship
LONDON, DEC. 4. SOVIET CENSORSHIP HAS NOW BEEN RELAXED TO THE POINT WHERE IT IS A A MERE FORMALITY, AS LONG AS CORRESPONDENTS REPORT FAIRLY AND ODJECTIVELY.
from Mu
Mukden. the Nationalial Commander, Lieut- General Tu Yu-ming, emphasized that an entry will be made until the Russians complete the occupa tion negotiations or until IL IM definitely established that the Communists had withdrawn.
The Central News
Agency re- poeta in Chungking that the Increased Soviet delegations whose decision varied and that Nationalat ape: rheads are within in international congressis, messages were delayed and dea- thirty miles of Mukden.
more freedom for pofitical troyed. It also pointed eroessed elation General Tu
parties and the appeal by the that this created a distrust of over the arrival of 11 Curtis Command Transport planes bear-President of the Soviet Union uews from Moscow and impeded
offor Soviet youth to study in for undersunding of the more than twenty tona
the Soviet Union in Britain and America. supplies. The planes were flown eign countries are indicative of by Chinese crews.
this move.
RECIPROCITY
POLITICAL OBSERVERS IN LONDON AND MOSCOW ARE INCLINED TO LINK THIS DEVELOPMENT WITH THE RECENT SYMPTOMS OF SOVIET WILLINGA. "S TO LIFT THE IRON CERTAIN" BETWEEN THE EAST AND WEST.
Orders for the final march on Mukder will come from Chung-
Preas.
have to
The occasion for this relaxa- tion in Russian censorship ar- kine. General Tu said.--Associated pours to have been furnished by REPENTANCE REPORT the recent collective protest by prese Communist troops in Northern British and American Hopei
IR and radio correspondents reported are "repented of their past misdeeds Moscow, and was followed up and come into the Government by much foreign speculation fold." within twelve hours of the about
Stalin's Generalissimo report of the Communist collapse prolonged absence from Mos- at l'aotow, in Sulyuan province.
The Central News sald to-day that the Communista re-attacked
at 03,00 a.m. yesterday morning with a heavy barrage on the wall- ed city from the north-east but wore thrown back-Reuter.
cow.
On
vit
sented at the Nuremberg trials to-day when Sir Hartley Shaw cross, British Attorney-Generai takes over from the American team the job of prosecutors.
Sir Hartley will state his case on count two of the indictment "crimes against pruce" and will outline the planning, ini- tiation and waging of Germany's wars of aggression,
His address is expected to take up most of to-day's sitting. A striel time-table has been arraured by the General to speed up the British Attorney
having been given a time limi
each British prosecutor
tory of Nazi aggressions. for his development of the his-
Sir Harley and his British colleagues are understood to be lleve that the prosecution's case up-to-date has been too long be planning to finish their argu- and detailed and are thought to
ment in three or four days Reuter.
Whose Navy Am I In?
About eighty islanders, trad been brought by boat and motor bus to Shamshuipo and one by one they inspected the parade. Sixteen Japanese, who were identified and accused by the in- Innders, were taken to Stanley Jail to awalt trist.
neasca
wit-
All except two of the
accused the Japanese company commander, who stood in his uniform at the head of the parade, though he and his fellow-officer had been told that they could remove their badges of rank and take any place they Ilked in the parade.
Each time a witness Reensed him and the naval interpreter translated the accusation the company commander answered
"I admit it. I have already
admitted it."
One of the witnesses. Wong Yee, showed the marks of wire bonds still
on his throat and wrists
and told bow he had been bound with wire in front of a newly dug grave and left there all night.
Washington, Dos, 4. Maj. Gen. Patrick Hurley will get his requested oppor- tunity to discuss publicly the reasons for his recent resigna- tion as ambassador to China at an open hearing of the senate foreign relations com- mittco Wednesday.
Originally the committee intended to hear Hurlen bo- hind closed doors, to hear his προβατίδης
of
blundering
U.S. policy in the Far East, but he objected to any scoreGy in the
hearing.Associated Preas.
Jock Gets A
Lucky Break
LONDON, DEC. 4.
LING HOME FROM PALES A SCOTS PRIVATE TRAVEL
TINE VIA ITALY FOUND HIMSELF TREATED AB "A VERY IMPORTANT PERSON." Ho crossed France in a special Lrain compartment decorated with British and French
flage. At Dieppe he was entertained at the new N.A.A.F.I.. whose completion was speeded up for his arrival,
Reason was that I'rivato Jock Bruce, 8th Gordon Highlanders, of Nelson Terrace, Leith, BEOL land, was the 600,000th man to travel on the Medloc rail rout to Britain.
Medloc in the name given to the eni reute Cross the Continent
FORCED TO WATCH Sume of his fellow villagers. | to Calnia which is used by leav» whom the Japanese had seized partlex.--Reuter, after a skirmish with some Chi- nese Communists, were not su lucky.
com-
Their heads were struck off with awords. Every one of the eighty islanders who inspected the parade yesterday had been forced by the Japanese pany commander to watch the atrocities,
One by опе they walked along the ranks of prisoners, stepping to touch a Japanese here and there and declaring: "Thia man killed people.' "He killed Chung Chau!" "This man was present." "He killed my brother."
Two witnesses
had to be restrained from at- tocking prisoners.
LIBERTY SHIP IN DISTRESS
New York, Dec. 4. The Liberty ship "Henry Ward
with Beecher"
541 homeward bound American treaps aboard to day radioed for assistance from point 340 miles north-east Bermuda,
Di
The vessel, bound from Marseil les to Norfolk, Virginia, 1s aid to have dropped a prouellor.
A spokesman of the Third Naval District here said he pre sumed aid would be dispatched promptly from Bermuda and he helloved overal ships were stand ing by to lend ald-Associatri Press.
Captain E, R. Barrett, Intel- ligence Corps, and Chief In- spector Tyler, of the Hong Kong Journalist's Police, were in charge of the.
parade, which was conducted Complaint
with scrupulous fairness.
The Japanese were first told exactly what was going to hap pen. It Was explained that they could at any time change their positions in the parade. question witnesses and reply to accusations.
Only one witness at a time was brought onto the parade yet inspected the parade were ground. Those who had
not allowed to meet those who had already inspected it and the two groups were κίνος lunch at the Pakho Restaurant at different times.
of
JUSTICE IN OPERATION
Totalitarian Nov. 1, correspondents
methods of were told by the Soviet Foreign
deuling with enemies do not Batlafy Office that the Foreign Com-
the British sense MOST PEOPLE IN HONG Justice. Justico, as opposed te, missar would give no considera- tion to their complaints, because KONG FIND IT DIFFICULT rough justice, takes time..
TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN But action la constantly he- they lacked substance.
THE BRITISH AND AMERI On the evening of Nov. 7. CAN BAILORS IN UNIFORM. ng taken on a very large num- ber of depositions and denun- however, during an' official re- ONE WAY IS TO NOTE THE
regarding ception, the Foreign Commissar STARS IN THE CORNERS OF clations
Japanese crimes in Hong Kong and a was reported to have approach- THE BROAD COLLAR, DRAP ed an American correspondent, ED ON THE SHOULDERS. long list of accused who are
THE STARS. "I know you corres
OF COURSE, waiting trial. ARE IN THE CASE OF THE saying: pondents want to wipe out
US. SAILORS. Russian the censors
censorship. men, would you say if I agreed to re- ciprocity? The correspondent was delighted, and a toust to mutual understanding Was drunk.
The correspondents' letter of protest, which was addressed to the Soviet Foreign Minister, complained that
were partly ill-qualified
ELECTIONS IN YENAN
(By John Doderick.)
WIDER SCOPE
The murdered islanders of Lan Too and other victims of What W. S. B. Tate, & Chief Specia- Japanese barbariem will not go
list in the United States Naval Reserve, writes in the American unavenged. magazine Atlantic on the br
the worn by the British and American Navy men. He set himself the job of
A few days later, correspon-anding out why, and this is what YENAN,, DEC. 4.
dents noticed that the censors До вдуть: FREE ELECTIONS TOOK PLACE THIS MONTH AT YENAN wore giving them wider scope semble la patterned after the uni
"I learned that the whole en- AND THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNIST OCCUPIED for comment on Soviet affairs, form of the British sallor; that TERRITORIES OF SHEN SI AND KANSU PROVINCES. and wore becoming more co- THE FIRST ONE, A VILLAGE ELECTION, REMINDED ME operative, and unfounded ru
the triple stripes on the collar and cuffs of the jumper com- OF A NEW ENGLAND TOWN MEETING I ATTEND-mours about internal Soviet de- memorate the three great English ED YEARS AGO.
velopments began to diminish naval battles the Defeat of the The Communist region, on-] Communists had one official, an- Correspondents hove they will: Spanish Armada (1688), the braces several million pouple. other party one, and a third non-soon be granted facilities
Battle of the Nike (1708), and Voting was in a mud-walled Communist party had still an- travel inside the Soviet Union, Trafalgar (1806); and that the primary school a couple of mnless other. Thero were not enough thus removing the restriction black neckerchief is FUKUOKA, DEC. 4. out from Yenan. The lecturer parties to put up candidates this that keeps them tied to Mcs-morning for England's inspir- ing naval hero, Lord Nelson MADAME CHEN KUNG-PO. explained the procedure to the
cow, and be able to give first- (1768–1805). WHOSE HUSBAND HAS. BEEN group before voting.
An interesting aspect is the In- CALLED CHINA'S "NO. '2 The border government is the vestigation of candidates at a two-hand reports of the nation-wide
before day public meeting'
the preparations for the first post TRAITOR" CAME HERE EN highest in Red China, equivalent yeting. People
at the public war Soviet elections--Reuter. ROUTE TO SHANGHAI TO to that of a State. People still meeting either approve or criticize REJOIN HER HUSBAND. consider themselves part of the
past corformances of the candi- TRANS-ATLANTIC AIR She said sho' had not been an- Central Government but with their
dates Associated Press. -
RATES sociated with
Chinese bolitics own system of local nali* «overn"
since she served in the Propagan- da Section at the National Revolu-
They have not set up a
ment of their own because of the
tlonary Army under Chiang Kai- | unwillingness of the Communiçte
shok in 1926 when her husband headed Glanz's political section.
She declined to discuss politica and said she had no plans exeant to reloin her husband - who kuc- cooded Wany Ching-wel as puppet President of the Nanking Govern mont. "Our futuro will depend on the attitude of tho Central Government,” aho sald-Associat. cd Prean.
timo.
·CHINA'S DELEGATES «roˆ·
CONFERENCE SA
Chungking, Dec. 4. China has appointed Dr. Wol- who claim to bo truly democratic lington Koo, Ambasadder in Bri-
to antagoniza the Kuomintang
The current elections will instal
a now government of bardorites
London, Dec. 4. The Civil Aviation Ministry Bald to-day. It was ready to ap- prove any trans-Atlantic Air
Work
"How nico, I thought; how simply dandy. The English aro a aplondid people. "I 'admire them and their traditions immensely -1 really do. I recall being them- ed by the historis accounts of those threo mugnificent victorios
London, Dec. 4. The worst form of censorship i being clamped down on correspon dents in Batavia by the South- East Asia Command Authorities. writes Noel Monks from Batavin In today's issued of the "Daily Mail
Noet Monks adds that no corres- pondent is allowed even to talk to unable to get either factual in- any British general and "we are formation or background from Lieuten- any source other than ant-Colonel.
"At press conferences the an. swer to overy question in 'I do not know"-Reuter.
NOT AN OPTIMIST
Kansas City, Dec. 4: Major-General Cinire nauit to-day urged a thorough in
Chop-
vestigation in connection with General Hurley's charges against como carcer diplomats of sabetan- ing American foreign policy in the Orient.
Asked if the appointment of General Marshall might go far ton ward bringing about a strong nifed China, Chonnauft replied: "Some very able' men have given the problem their best efforts and
have failed.”~~~Associated Pross
they
Troops Who Walked Off: Statement
LONDON, DEC. 4.
THE WAR MINISTËR, MR. J. J. LAWSON, GAVE A WRIT- TEN REPLY IN THE HOUSE OF COMMONS TO-DAY TO MR. G. ROGERS (LABOUR, KENSINGTON, NORTH). WHO ASKED WHY 400 TROOPS REFUS- ED TO EMBARK ON THE TROOPSHIP JOHANN DE WITT AT SOUTHAMPTION.
A
MR. LAWSON SAYS THE INSTANCE AROSE, FROM AN UNFORTUNATE SEQUENCE OF EVENTS AND WAS NOT ENTIRELY DUE TO CONDITIONS ON THE TROOPSHIP..
It originated with about 1,900 plaints occurred and from then men who had expected to re- on the behaviour of the troops turn to the C.M.F. by air after concerned was reported as com
pletely satisfactory.
Accommodation on ships in t present on an austerity basla owing to the colossal flow c mon on repatriation or leave. But there was nothing to show that accommodation was below standard.
"Shades of Marryat! Whose 28 days leave. Navy nih I in?":
Some of tho men loft the ship. complaining of the accommodi The Bonato to-day refeated the tion and food, but after Investi- travel rate which is jointly accept-| proŋnsofi ardendment to the gation by the authorities it was able by all competing airlinen. United Nations legislation which agreed that the accemmo lution It said that the amount charged would have required a two-thirds was adequate and the menu for was not an lasite,
future monis most satisfactory Altogether 690 mos were left behind and had since been re
No further instances of com-
Senato anemonál to... agreement»
It will follow the cag-third princi- táln, and Dr. Victor Kos, former ple, which permits Communists to Political Vice-Minister as Foreign have only one-third of 'olection { „Affairs" an dolorales on the Pre- The Ministry declined to com- neatlated by the President for officials if the balance are non-aratory Commission of the ment on the report that. Pan-allocating American troops, to bi Communists.
United Nations Organisation, it American Airlines offered to rein- use by the United Nations This is a modification of the was announced hero to-day state the pre-war rate-Associat Security Council, Asteciated turned overland, former arrangement in which the Neutor.
od Prose.
Pross
Mr. Lawaon added he had judged it proper not to take. disciplinary measures on this particular occasion Renter,
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