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THE CHINA-MAIL:- MONDAY, DECEMBEN 24, 1948,
GRIM KWANGSI PICTURE:
A PLEA FROM KWEILIN
THAT THE SPECTR! OF WESPREAD DISTRESS IS STARING STARKLY AT THE PEOPLE OF KWANGSI, AND THAT ONLY IMMEDIATE RELIEF FROM OUT- SIDE WILL AVERT A CATASTROPHE, IS THE TEN- OR OF A PLEA WINCH COMES FROM KWEILIN.
THE PROVINCIAL CAPITAL, THE CROP HAS BEEN A FAILURE, THE PEOPLE ARE IMPOVERISHED, AND AVAILABLE FOODSTIFES
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WILL NOT TIDE THE POPULACE OVER TILL SPRING
The people have been retuend to zelbar klenia much prized water
Buffaloes Previous The CANTON RELIEF
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wamends are, the nee) for building
beat the winter is tor, and many were the hab:lations destroyed during the Japanese in Vaj
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Afrendy winter las get the people are without shelter an! The most urgent warm clothing meest 1.ld be The focal problem is secundary, al Teat for the next month or we So far there is no sign of muy inose on the part of the previne al government in the www : in Dokuratuur refl measures and all hopes are plneed an outside z
ef possibly from UNRRA, understand. Dat some UNIHA
THE
Remittances
Settled
The two-month old dispute over the ratz At cumulated remittances THE
United States during their are to be paid to benefciàriën, has now been, settled with the receipt of an order from the Chungking Ministry of Pinance.
Christmas Broadcasts By ZBW
Special items in the Christmas Week broadcasts from Hong Kong are as follows:
Christmas Eve: The R.A.F. Į Singers from the Studio at 8.30 DAD.
Marshall Confers With Generalissimo
CHUNGKING, DEC. 23,
Z.B.W. GENERAL GEORGE C. MARSHALL, NEW U.S. AMBASSA- DOR TO CHINA, ARRIVED IN CHUNGKING YESTER- DAY AFTERNOON FROM NANKING ON A MISSION TO BRING PEACE TO WARRING CHINA.
HE WAS GREETED AT THE AERODROME BY A HOST OF NOTABLES HEADED BY PREMIER T. V. SOONG AND INCLUDING GENERAL CHOU EN-LAI, HEAD OF THE COMMUNIST DELEGATION TO THE FORTH- COMING PEACE PARLEYS HERE.
General Marshall plana to trold of conferenc's with Chiang Kai-shek from to-day the Generalissimo and
Christanas Daya Relay of the Morning Service from St John'a Cathedral at 10.30
num. Special Anniversary Broadcast by ILE. The Commander-in-Chief at 7.15 P. Landon Relay "Xanas Va rioty Bandbox," from 8 to 8 p.. In Nanking, Genral Marshall London Reiny Christmas World conferred yesterday with Gen sories Round-up. Wherever
You May
eralissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Be," followed by HM the King,
Although the Chinese Com-after from 10 to 11pm, (Hong Kong's posticipation in this programine reunists had proposed an inume-Madame Chiang Arriv The rate which prevailed when will take the form of two two-diate unconditional trure, re-Nanking-Associated Presa. remittances from abroad were not minute walks by an exinternee of parts from the North indicated frozen was CN$40 to ench S.Stanley Prison and a member of no termination of dollar. Later the official rate was
patilities the first
landing party, thus far. changed to
CN3000 to U.S.resuratively).
A
In Peiping, General Ching Hu- dollar.
Landon Relay When the order enme that the Christmas at Much-india-inese 7th war zone heatquarters, chung, spokesman of the Chin- ben obtained from the brails of accumulated remittances could be och nnd Kenneth Hurre, from reported continued fighting be
with Richard Mur
PARADE
Canton is stepping up the drive for funds for relief avork, and a novel feature the enpaign will be Thelor car Parade of Christaus day.
Promises of subscriptions have
anid
out the Banks ruled that amuunts received from abroad be.
the fore
new offieint Inte THE exchange was announced were te be paid uut at the previous rate of CNS40 to ench U.S. kollar.
This storm of
the Kuomintang, the Provincial Government and the 2nd
Front Arpiy, as well as from the various
organisatiores, pľo Government
ent reddents, rich merchante, bankers, hotels, restauranta and Jarize business establiments. and on the day of the drive, the unce raised harf anonbes have been earmarked make calls on their round
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for Kwang, but the great handi a lack of transportation facili
KWEHIN A SHAMILES Kweilin itself, seat of govern ment, is a damables It has now a population estynted at 120,000 uosity native whh fat generada di have called at their home. 1'le
who docked here For sateur PY dan are the war, die wat cast a od luck at the place
way (mod face, Nadzir
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MA :11 Filor rel โปง car lanking. bes Lvand fue sehnol The had 100: themselves
Hon vil lars before they became LICE worfan fably aware that has walk In ten miles to no obvious pur pose they were considerent by the netlabours to be little queer In a very sort in thee also began to thnk it a little sparer to "gu for a walk"; country fe leves no time for such urbanities And the siRNA are that a pivasant hahit, fust Falling into desuetude, will never be revived!
W***** side-
It has long been evident that The only true prophets of our youth were the conie draughts *** Among the things which
often they
prophesied Spiral little men with whiskers. silk hats, unbrellas, al spats on whose thoulders mechanical wings had spronted These business men of the fu- ture were shown beaming sern phically as they whizzed through the air pa their way from suburban homes under Great Gable to their clices in Leaden- ball. Radiculous phantoms of u giddy imagination! But an ex-
Aane na bine them
4 is called a cats,
of courtesy und Jur
kore from a
1.4 a store
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of hot, built of thatch or other furry materm Fvon Government servants, whose
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ainst the pre war rate, have kind of
with this
to be content hable.
But diana: an is the outlook, the zeople plod
unger udgingly.
to rulet there subscribers.
marnde and the
There will be five cars in the drive will start at Hockek in the morning from premises <if Cha Finance Bureau, Han Man Rond North. making tour of the city.
Colleetians will mise iH Antarie Crum prople along the rate.
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RECEPTION FOR CANPONI
CONSULAR ROPY
Chalon. Der 23. There was pleased 11e gathering at Victory Building. Shaneen, when Mr T W. Kwok, special delegate of the Foreign Dice, Chungking was at home to the Consular Bly in 'anton
Among those present were the
triste Ultimele with the British Consul-General, The thought that help must come ou U.S. Consul. the Portuguese fine, and every day one sees now Consul and the Swiss Consul. Fatado pest 475, and people darging According to Mr. Kwok, the ob out debris ark the ruin af de
jeet of the maleshed on hirrnt out buildings
Xathering WIN to strengthen the bond of [friendship and understanding among the peoples of the vari- zations whose business
Suspects In |Hong Kong
Mr. T. W Kwok, special de legab of the Chinese Foreign Office. is returoin to Hong Kong, according to a repor From Canton.
trans-
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BOSTON FAVOURITE
London, Dec. 23. Most delegates to the United meeting appear to be Nations Preparatory Commission favouring smalt Now munity in the vicinity of Baston England com-
DOVILO
the-Marsh,"
7.15 to 7.45 p.m.
tween Communist and National 31: Special Dec
Hogmanay forces, Scottish Programme,
The Communists were report. Pompered from the Stadio by Angus MeNicole to be making every effort to
as the permanent home McNab, from 7.30 to 8 pm.
of the consolidate their positions in Between Dec, 24 and Jan. 2 central Hopeh province and al-
world peace agency.
The New York City area is con- inclusive, the broadcasting the bedly relayed Fu
from Z.B.W. will be extended fur
were confiscatin.t sidered a close round but others
farmers ani
till are in the tunning. Many delegates said they still had open minda.
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online. The order from the Chungking an hour and a half daily, ie, theplies from Ministry of Finance new direels lunchtime session will remain as chants in that aren. that all accumulated remittanet is from 12.30 to 2 p.), but
Twenty thousand Communist The evening sension will begin at troops are reported to be en- Talagino railway in Shantung province.
are to be paid to beneficiaries at | the new official rate, so that they 15 mm. each day instead of 6.30 centrated along the Tunan to
should
not be made to sulfer 72.01 AM 2l present, through no fault of their own
All the Landon and heal relays in the above programmes will be earried on the station's two me- drum-wave transmission721 of 845 and die ken, and it is hoped that The short-wave transmitter, 9.52 mas, wit also again be in com mission: in which case the relaya will be carried on all three trans- missions.
MARSHALL INTERVIEWS
Wha
Chungking. Dee. 24 learned to day that General Marshall, the new special American ambassador, im prepara i to see anyone wishing to contr with him, including ammonials who are in Chungking for the
opening of conferences with the Big Haul In
fovernment on Tuesday.
He has no mediate tans by visit Yenan, but he can talk here with dien. Chou number 2 Communist leader, and En fi, the others of the Yenan delegation. Arinted Press.
C-IN-C BACK
His Excellency the Commander- in-Chief. Rear-Admiral Sir Cecil Harcourt, returned to the Colony yesterday from his visit to Macno. Sir Robert Ho Tung was on the
Canton Robbery
CANTON, DEC. 23. AN ARMED ROBBERY IN THE HEART OF THE CITY, WHICH RESULTED IN A HAUL OF OVER C.N.$3,000,000 IN CASH AND 11 TAELS OF GOLD, OCCUR- RED TO-DAY.
The Cheung Chan Bank and
brings them together in China.R.A. lunch which brought Sirey-changers shop of 67, Tat
Our Own Correspondent.
Cecil back to the Colony.
Hupeh Town Retaken By Chungking Forces
CHUNGKING, DEC. 23. CENTRAL GOVERNMENT TROOPS HAVE RECAPTURED THE IMPORTANT HIGHWAY TOWN OF TSAOYANG, ABOUT 140 MILES NORTH WEST OF HANKOW. WHICH HAD BEEN IN CHINESE COMMUNIST HANDS SINCE NOV. 10, A SEMI-OFFICIAL DISPATCH SAID TO-DAY.
GOVERNMENT SOURCES REPORTED THAT COMMUN
ISTS WERE ATTACKING A TOWN ON THE PEIPING. MUKDEN RAILROAD BETWEEN TAGHSAN AND CHINWANGTAO,
Mr. Kwok's present nússion in gald to be connerted with f Arrival of the 1,500 old Chi- nese repatriates from Austra lia, some 400 of whom 2010 northerners. Arrangements are to be made with the Heng Keng authorities for their portation to Shanghal.
Another question which Mr. Kwok is expected to take up with the Hong Kong Authori- ties is the reported prearnce the Colony of undesirable ele- perimental licence has just licenments wanted by the Chinese-The dispatch said coal trains granted to the American inve
Government for suspected treato Chinwangtae, from which tor of a helicopter engine which
cherous or collaborationist ne-Shanghai draws a large coul than weighs
more no
supply. already have been af- pounds and is to be strappedtivities during the
forted and telegraphic communi- to the pilot's back. It is the
cations have been severed. laynfan's impression that every experiment in aeronautica ส nowadays certain of mverelíry, and we readily take it for grant. ed that the thing is practically done and that life has at laat
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war
Montgomery" In Possibly with an eye to Gen- Shanghai
overtakes the comic drawing. Holder of the Hong Kong inter- Within a comparatively short school record of 21 feet 11 inches
of the new machine.
is now In
eral Marshall's arrival in Chung- king, the Communists reiterated charges that the Government was massing for a large scale in- vasion of the Inner Mongolian province of Chahar.
In Washington State Depart- ment officials said that the de-
time we shall all be gliding in the long jump, a former D.B.S. hither and thither, "humping it bay, Ong Cheng-su in an altogether new sense, and Shanghai with the 57th Concision on American assistance in no doubt we shall calmly adrotatruction Office, of the Engineer transporting Chinese Central National Milit | Government troops to North our lives to suit the convenience in Commission,
at Klangwan It would any Conchai.
Al Chinn still rests with General field,
Marshall, the newly arrived "ontgomery,"
Ong, known to his intimates as special ambassador to Chung-
was one of the king. proof. When we have armour brightest stars in the local inter ed ourselves against the inevit-scholastic athletics
YENAN BROADCAST able collisions we shall be too was a crack sprinter who may A Chinese Communist broad- much encumbered to walk far: have shaved "evens" were it not cast from Yenan monitored in and even those who are indiffer for the fact that Chim, at about San Francisco by the Associat
be indeed optimistic to assume
that this machine will be fool-
world. He
ent to a few bruises incurred in the cause of progress arc likely to seek the stoutest avail-matter than light athletics
the time he left school, was more ed Preas dwelt on the question oneroused in a more important of American transportation of Ong, whose home is in Amoy, Chinese Government troups to
able protection from the "hard VIE
KOREANS PLEA
Shanghai, Dec. 23. Leadorn
8,000 of more than Koreano hero pleaded yesterday. for immediate repatriation, ex- Dressing fear of demonstrations
a certain amount of decent coach-Council will soon ing is brivided.
Ping Road South, bad already closed up for the day at 6 p.m. when suddenly six armed men entered through the rear of the premises, bound, gagged and blindfolded all the inmates and leisurely made a clean haul of | the shop, after which they de- |camped through the same chan-
nel.
So far no arrests have been made, but a foki of the shots. Ng Kwan, has been held on cus- picion of being an accomplice... He left the shop by the back door shortly before 6 p.m. and was not present during the rob hery. dent.
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The shift of rentiment towards New England, in the north-east curner of the entry. developed in informal da son. Asciat- ed Press.
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Freda Utley Utters A War Warning
SHANGHAI, DEC. 23.
BELIEF THAT THE FAILURE OF THE UNITED NA
TIONS ORGANISATION WILL RESULT IN ANOTHER WORLD CONFLICT WAS EXPRESSED BY MISS FREDA UTLEY, WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR OF "JA- PAN'S FEET OF CLAY," IN AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRESS HERE.
THE U.NO. AND AMERICA SHOULD FAIL NOW AS THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS FAILED IN 1981 WE SHALL SURELY HAVE ANOTHER WORLD WAR, SHE SAID.
JMNEM
regretted the fact
that Major-General Patrick Hur-
"If we let Russia go on bully- that she tried to gain control of as the first middle-school boy in Manchuria and the Impending ing and extorting concessions the resources of her neighbonra in nor'easter." For glorious as Is South China to better 22 foot in conferences between General from China and disrupting the order to keep them weak and sub- the march of science, it will the long jump, an accomplish. Marshall and Chinese factions. Chinese unity by her fifth conservient to herself."" nover overtake the common cold. ment not
ovan to The broadcast, said: "Now Iumn Public Schools in England, where that the Political Consultative Party (the Chinese Communit
be held the anti-Communist, we shall have not returning to China dlspatch of troops should be third world war in the fu- statement in Wanhlerton would as Ambasador, but said his 'open settled, at the conference.
ture."
do a great deal of good, bocaune- "HULATAO LANDING
"Otherwise there will be g She stated that only a strong, what was wanted in America was violation of President Truman's united China can play the role - an understanding of the situation Chungking, Dec. 21.
policy statement about non-signed, her to the U.N.Ó. as A in China Central News Agency reported intervention, the action being guardian of world peacq. and possible riots. About 1,300 the US. Seventh alot transmute Tibble to affect the civil strife of rival imperialism and the
* "Unfortunately," she comment- *In the past China was the viced. "Communist propaganda, is mengera of Kim Koo's Korean as debered additional Cent and enlarge the civil war.",
from Hal- national army were ordered by Government troops
breeding, ground, of ware, Japan's people, are, duped, by it's Chinese to evacuate their quarters phone at Hulatno, Manchurian Associated Press.
rape of Manchuria lit the spark of the Shanghai college campus. port. The number was unapeci..
which became a world conflagra They have no other place to go. Ne, but most movements from
tion later. Some Korean army mombers South Ching and Haiphong have
Appersonton peace any more at Rasi will bave denounced the plan for been of armies composed of two ballding a Korean national army divisions Associated Press. in China, donouncing the move as bolition-Associated Press.
WHANGPOO, COLLISION
V
RED ALLEGATIONS The Communista, alloged also. that large consignments of arTTLA
and ammunition are being landed not give u
very influential in America: Mapy
She emphaeaed that, only the continuation of American help to China can prevent Rusain "from": prossing China hard.
Utlay frut ösinetó Chim
at Tientsin from American ships than the appeasement of Germany, in 1988 as correspondent of the and are being sent to Faining by and Javan did." Miss Utley said. London Now Chronicle,” “and rail and air. They further alleg. "We could have stopped Japan while in Harlow that year wit On Christmas Day, Boxing Dayed that armonals at Feloing, and without war by refusing to supply neased the tartibds suffering of and Now Year's Day the General Tentein are working full blaether with war matorinia and how wounded Chiness soldiers and the Post Office will be open from 8 and Japanseo bombers were being wo can stop Tumis at the very herole efforts of the Chinese Red dau. to 13: noon for the sale of toconstructed for use by the Con beginning the apps only.
Shanghai, Dec. 22. A Japanese ship operated by Chipers collided with them. cruiser "St. Paul" in the Whang, Among the vessels which left you yesterday. The emailer vocer yontorday wore the se, Wo Sang" was damaged bad and; a mall, for Dangkok to bring back another Dwls, was born in the cruiser's cargo of rice, and the so kink bow
Sral Government forced DUPED BY PROPAGANDA...
The Communlake ·
that their men had been subjected Tho author commented that to atrocities, and tortures in a "Rais did not need the resources concentration camp a Talyan in of Manoburia Shanali prevligmak
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