Page
CHINESE COMMUNISTS SEE WAR AS ONLY SOLUTION
CHINA EMBARGO LIFTED
Lake Success, Dec. 8. General "Director ..Fiorello LaGuardia of UNRRA announced to- day that the embargo on UNRRA shipments to China had been lifted "except for a few items
prepared to receive.”
He said his action was taken as a result of "contiued im- provement of the rate of dis- tribution of supplies within China particularly the present satisfactory state of port
clearance."
the
Nanking, Dec. 8.
Chinese Communist leaders are looking toward war as the only means of settling China's In- ternal conflict and the strength of the Chinese
Puppet
Red army has been increasing steadily since Spied On
The Japs
Singapore, Dec. 8.
A small Japanese flag wds found drapped on the folded orm of the a status "of Sir Thomes Raffles, in Empresa Place, yesterday. It remained thore until noon when a ser vant from the nearby Gou. ernment offices removed it. with the help of a ladder - Reuter,
British
Trade
Mission
Shanghai's Economic Bubble
Will Soon Burst
Shanghai, Dec. §. Responsible business quarters are unanimous in predicting that Shanghai's economic bubble, blown fat by get-rich-quick borrowing at ex- orbitant interest rates, is due to burst around. the traditional Chinese debt-settlement sea- son in late January.
Worst Hotel Fire In U.S. History
(Continued front Page 1). bulances. Many of the 285 guest in the 194 rooms of the hotel died- of suffocation. Nec min
Five Young Girls
In one room were the bodies ori en found the bodies of a woman Ave young girls. In another, are-
and three children.
Emergency
mortuaries were
June, a usually well informed Communist source said today. Discussing Chou En-lai's letter to General George
C. Marshall, naming two "impossible condi
In its wake, they say, the collapse will leave a tions" for resumption of the peace negotia-
Manila, Dec, 8.
trail of bankruptcies, acute labour unrest and Ewald Selph, of Los Angeles, tions, the source said "it appears fundamental
Calif., a prominent attorney In
general business depression through out the that with the Kuomintang destroying peace
Manila, the past 20 years, told
country which may set back China's postwar decisions by holding the unilateral National
the Evening News today that
economic recovery two or three years. President Manuel, Roxas senti Assembly all basis for further talks has him secret information on the
Informed soprees believe that, While admitting that there has established in various parts of ended."
Japanese while Roxas was a Voting members re- arising from inability to settle tien
the wave of business closures Brer, some damage and stagna- the city and the count of the dead since the June ceasefire
He added "this has been clear] Associated Press) that Gen. member of the Japanese puppet servations for the Bri- accounts
as a relult of the war, was difficult. before the Chinese foreign businesmen maintain ignored. Since that date all United States before Christmas tion..
was Marshall is returning to the government during the occupatish Trade Mission
New Year will drag down thirty that prohibitive native
The Municipal morgue at Grady units of the Communist army
trans-Hospital reported having 34 bodies were denied by his headquarters. When Selph was repatriated
luncheon in the Hong Chinese, and a sizeable number choking even those exports more.
to forty per cent of all local portation and labour costs are and that it could not take any
concerns-mostly from a visit to the United States for
Nationalist controlled With flames finally
of numbers."
for a resumption of unification sembly failed to open its doors talks.-Associated Press.
Madrid, Dec. 7. Political prisoners declared
promote
'000,000.
to
procession bringing the end and injured from the bfulding,
with China's ability to distri- whether anything is left tonjust punishment meted out to Selph with information. gleaned economic understanding and co- blow to China's hopes for! Y, by the depression Just said that at least 25 or 30 per-
"Unfair On Denmark"
rehabilitation.
These
the economy of the country.
"On the contrary they are a drain costing 240,000,000 kroner which equals about 15 per cent
total national budget. Den mark is a homogenous country and cannot and justly does not. want these people to infiltrate in- to the life of the country. It has 'been patient and silent so long I matter to your attention and con- sideration."Reuter.
are
their fan.
N
answer
strong
The source said the Commun- ists are waiting for the time when the Reds enough to take the offensive and win back territory and they are not trying to keep the Kuo- mintang involved in war until
them.-Reuter,
from Roxas--Associated Press.
Readers' Letters
the
Aid
11
vll-
Kuo-
I
2.
10
my
Yum-
&
Long-time
down
à därke
that he saw
which China is not yet have been increasing in'strength || today but this did not rule out from Santo Tomas" internment Kong Hotel on Thursday of foreign
timate the present size of the Truman if the National Awas able to give the United and reservations for as-business. These sources estim-
The source declined to es a conference with Fresident camp in September of 1943 he have been fully Booked small and medium sized firms areas which would normally be control, three telly Moder
that form the "backbone" Communist war machine
of possible. Government sources placed it
dispositions and mapping loyalty their friends only are collapse at anywhere from "Hangs" and Chinese senti Major General and Mrs. F. W but
States military data on troopsociate members and ated the extent of the Shanghai quarters is that big foreign The consensus in business at slightly less than 1,000,000
to America, the paper sald.
Among the survivors were" men plus a substantial militia
now available, the Coun- US$60,000,000 US$100,- monopolies will continue to in Bande of Washington, DC. Selph's low partner, four months ago. He added "a system has been
Carrascoso acted as intermedi-cil of the Anglo-Chinese One American business leader similar rehabilitation Itehist would be difficult to obtain port machinery, raw cotton and A Red Cross oficial said that The primary question of the perfected under which day is not whether the one hunger strike today in Madridary and took a position as Economic Association of said the resultant depression when they can get them. But names because most of the bodies UNRRA China office. will regu- munists want Marshall and
Provincial Prison. They refused to superintendent of St. Joseph's Hong Kong informed the accompanied by late the flow of supplies from Ambassador Leighton Stuart accept their meals as a protest Hospital to enable him to enter "China Mail" last night, hardships for the populace and businesses here will be adverse were burned beyond recognition. aggravated all other Chinese and foreign were in night clothes and many. month to month in accordance to remain
as mediators but against allegesi bad treatment and the internment camp and supply Formed primarily to
dangerously explosive labourly affected, directly or indirect Police Chiet M. A. Hornsby agitation-will be a crippling bute them."-Ansociated Pressmediate, the source said, adding
operation between the peoples of economic rehabilitation sincr
around the corner.
sons were killed By Teding from it is evident-the Government
China and Britain in Hong Kong, Shanghai handles 90 per cent will reject Chou En-lai's offer
Labour Problems the windows.” from Yenan that negotiations
China and abroad, the Anglo- of the country's imports and 80
The are apparently started be Chinese Economic Association, Luke Success, Dec. 7. might start anew if Chiang
One major product of the de-tween the fourth and sixth floors UNRRAS Director General, Kai-shek is willing to dissolve
with Mr. S. H. Dodwell as its per cent of her exports. Fiorella LaGuardia, today called the National Assembly and re-
“Anti-British” suits, a tuxedo, overcoat, dressing chairman and Mr. Luie
"And this is the first time pression, it was stressed, is the of the concrete and brick struc-
ture about 0815 GMT. the attention of the Allied Con- turn his troops to
own, a Parker pen end pene suen (chairman of the Chinese that I have been so pessimistic!" ng of relations with Chinese who was among the first to reach
in all my 15 years In China likelihood of a further worsen
Police Captain L. J. Carroll, trol Commission in Berlin to the
Sir-Since the publication of and a Ronson lighler, together Chamber of Commerce and +
labour. 13 positions. continued existence in Denmark
Its outsize wage and my letter on Saturday it has come
with about $500 in MN cant former Chinese Government of this businessman added. of 200,000 Germans brought there Nothing To Mediate
Confirming that Marshall afternoon at a meeting held in than extremely annoyed over erned by a Council composed of Press, blamed the anticipated belief that employers, especially abor, kicking doors to arouse the Shanghai real-bonus demands-based on little the bullding, said that he found to my notice that on
cial) as Vice-Chairman; Is gov-dents, polled by the United else than, labour's unjustifiable/all the lifts stalled. He said he by the Nazis during the war
Friday Pocket,
fought his way to the seventh His message said: "This is asked the Communists for a Hong
Kong Restaurant, the fact that when I rane up this D. Benson, manager of the Mer- manifestly fair and an unjust categorical yes or no
foreign, can be shaken cullapse in large meneure en hurden upon the neople of Den: to the question
so-called police station Rt about 3.45 a.m.cantile Bank of Indin; C. Clemo, what they regarded as China' indefinitely-are steadily under-guests. Villagers'
Chinese police officer said he general manager China Light & mark and requires immediate
whether they Cheong Tim-cheung
to would send a man immediately, Power; N.V. A. Craucher, chair- purely restrictive and inelti-ming the Committee
whole commercial Jumped To Her Death attention, Denmark is making wonted Marshall
and Stuart invited contributions to finance a fact that it would, only take five man Hong Kong Stock Exchange licy, which has entangled all labour today strikes for wages the hotel, fold of pleading with a
my house. Notwithstanding the
edifice. king to
Nelson Thatch, chief room clerk, continue their mediation, pen
ciently enforced economic po un heroic struggle in recovery and this source said no direct an- the accidental-shooting of the minutes by any motorcar
propaganda campaign regarding
The fact that Chinese hand who lived on the sixth floor of E. R. Hill, manager Dodwell 200,000
from Germans are not contributing to because there was nothing left censed, and to erect a monument.
swer had been forthcoming lager, to assist the family
No. 2 Police Station, this man did Co. L. Kadoorie; G of
Miskin,
normal trade while leaving practically as high, per pro-woman on the fifth floor not to not arrive until 4.30 al-director of the Hong Kong Bank loopholes for a gumblers field-luction unit, as those of a jump. But he later saw her throw to mediate."
to perpetuate his memory. It was
continually rang though
them and managing director of Gilman day."
killed machine worked in the herself from a window ledge, ap subscriptions could be between 3.45 and 4.15. When & Co.; C. H. Chang, Deputy Chin- stated that
While solid trade recovery has United States was blamed by parently to her death in sent care of the "National Times."
they did arrive they asked for a ese Postal Commissioner; A. A. been largely stymied; mush many on such often ineffectual alley below.. Am I correct in
list of stolen goods and
asked me Chen, managing director of China rooining Chinese firms borrow if well-meaning Botine that to report the matter to the officer Associates Corp. Ltd.; C. Y. Chen, ed capital on the black market agencies
Thaleh related the "National Timessing that
Government. Colony, and the mouthpiece of the intang official organ in litis
in charge in the morning.
the Shanghal "many others" jump, also to These dally burglaries have
chairman Luk Hoi Tong Banking, at interest rate often Chinese Ministry of Information? been reported not only by
Insurance & Real Estate Cos; P. pounded of as high as 13 to Affairs. They, it was felt,
com-Municipality's Bureau of Social recesses between the buildings.
A tour of the upper stories after If so might I ask whether it is Stubbs Road should certainly China; M. Quincey Wang, ex- to make quick awollen profits out of hand.
on home but by many other homes in Lo, manager of the Bank of 25 per cent per month, in order have let labour get completely the flames were brought under- consistent with international
control showed bedrooms of economie causes.
red deem it a great faveur if through change manager Bank of China; from American plastie gadgets The statement of the Com- Chinese journal to raise funds notice of these continual bur-feld & Swire.
Foreign businessmen inter-charted furniture. The air was munists' strength tallies with British prepaganda? Whether or to the people of Stubbs Road. for the avowed purpose of
anti-
dumped on the market. glaries, and give more protection declaration
The "China Mail" was informed
gestions on how to improve the flesh. A Shanghai, Dec. 8.
Communists
The Payoff
situation. Typical was
Among the guests in the build- no its status
the Chief of Staff Chu Teh made above, do the British authorities sixth time in the last few months other places where Britons
last night that the Association in- Fifty-five suspects accused
as suggested Incidentally this was about the tends to extend its activities
comment of one of participation in the citywide pondent John Roderick
veteran ing were 50 girls attending to Associated Press
Then came the payoff which American Correa intend to acquiesce in this fia- that burglars have broken
businessman, who state young peoples' convention. ricts last week appeared for Yenan that the Red army is British Cooling by a local Chinese
at grant attempt
and had been threatening ever since said, "Everything the Chinese Along with the stories of terror into inflame anti- preliminary hearing yesterday on the Increase but is still not newspaper?
my hotisc.
Chinese may become associate the first black marketeer heard have done so far has been nega-came tales of herole rescues and i before the district procurator able to stand up against the
E.M.L. SOARES.
members and carry on activities cd the first case of America tive. They have done every narrow cscapes, One 18 year-old" a charges of seeking to incite Kuomintang in a decisive battle
FIAT JUSTITIA.
similar to those of the parent cigarettes in the first specula thing to freeze trade. They air, Betty Huley, said she climb... body in Hong Kong. disturbances and inflict injuries and must continue
"Rubbish"
tive wave of the
war days have got to wake up and do cd to a ledge outside her upper Sir, We write to you regard Becoming A Habit?
On Friday last, Prime Minister Shanghai became glutted with something positive, something storey room. ing the sale of Roses for the TV. Spong cabled the Associa these goods, and their price to unfreeze trade. Not only to Betty said; "Three windows Sir-I should like, through the St Vincent's Fund which took tion:Let me wish you
every fell.
benefit the foreigner, but, to away on my floor, two other gilla medium of your paper. to draw place recently in the Colony.
For over a month now the benefit attention to the extreme shortage of police in the vicinity of Stubbs, the British Serviceman is given. It is a well known fact that
everyone Including were huddled. Firemen were try-in- In Canton
Chinese press has daily re themselves."
ing to reach them. I gritted my Road and which
Canton. Dec. 8, ported closures of business
These sources said that If a teeth and walked the ledge to would appre- the "Cold Shoulder" wherever clate greatly if you would publish. he goes in the Colony and yet met members of the Provincial hand-unable to dispose of them ed, the quickened trade. tempo,
The British Trade Mission caught with such stocks on positive programme were adont-where the other girls were. Then 3.45 am.
Aremen came up On Saturday night at about he is the first person to be Department of Construction and locally, unable to ship them would provite Chlia with up to
and got down." about half a dozen looters who approached when any help is local bankers yesterday for dis- to outports or the interior at US$1,000,000,000 United States
wakened by
Hysterical ready get away with half a dozen in this Colony it should not be here. broke into my home and had al required for different funds. cussions on the establishment a profit due to high freight loan, prospects for which appear Mrs. A. R. Minnix was rescued winter suits and
With all the money that is of a copper and iron factory charges and "squeeze" require to be fading. It would also from a rcom on the fifth door...
ments, and unable to pay back put money into bona-fide trade She was hysterical because her 15, necessary to approach Service- Earlier yesterday the Mission the accumulated interest. whereas the present tendency is year ald men for assistance. If ever' we visited the National Sun Yat-
The situation has reached for capital to be salted away in trapped on the 11th foor,
son-Rutledge-was, pi. see any person place his ex- Sen University. They will pro- point where, for example, one gold bars, U.S. notes tind dur-
L. W. Cochran and his wife of cellent car at the disposal of cred to Shoontak District today firm has had to pay $2.20 in able goods.
Miami, Florida, escaped by swing a so-called poor person, or take to inspect the silk industry interest on every $1 it borrow- that poor person into one of there.
ing en theels from the top floor ed, but cannot sell its goods
to the eighth. There, the flames.... these exquisite hotels to dine Sir Leslie Boyce, lender of even for the original $1 wedgested by foreign trade circles, ran said that the next thing, she
set the sheets on fire. Mrs, Coch with him, then we will all be the Mission, is scheduled quite willing to
to item imported from the United turn month's pay to any fund you with a part of the Mission to United States consumers for "face" which eventually has to her on the street..
over a leave for Hong Kong tomorrow! States could now be sold back would go something like this:
1. Let China lose some her down. Cochran later Joined As far as we can see the will proceed to Swatow to cover is largely theoretical, since for while the remaining members a 15 to 20 per cent profit (this only reason that so many their inspection people are "starving" is because China-Central News.
Sh South many items export licenses
would not be granted); wherre they are too idle to help them-
hapless owner selves, and taking into con-
of sulfa drug rideration that our own people|
stock dreams wistfully of this theoretical solution, while at the at home are also on rations, we say RUBBISH!
short
same time sulfa druga are badly
beded all over China. THE ROYALS.
Business in Shanghai is be
feel it my duty to call this argent the Government collapses, fremy for an officially sponsored your paper the police would take M. S. Soo, sub-manager Butter and ather non-essential items viewed were eager with gug heavy with the odour of burningTM*
on policemen-United Press.
teeries.
guerilla
The police are searching for a
Marshall Denial Chinese Major-General named The statement echses Yenan's Ho, who is said to have broken "Emancipation Daily" editorial quarantine regulations and came claiming the fifth month of ashore from the ss. "Wingssag the civil war was marked by - without being passed by the the passing of the initiative
medical authorities. He was last seen wearing a khaki shirt and from the hands of Chiang' the event of his being seen Land the liberated areas. Meanwhile shorts, with no insignia, and intro to the popular armies in Forces Haw, is to be notified. published reports (not by the
SGENDERY FERFUME
ما
a.m. I was
+
four summer
LEGGKOOLLOOLGG
Muse
FIRST CONSIGNMENT·
JUST RECEIVED FROM PARIS
The
LATEST CREATION
by
L RONDON & CO.
French Bank Bid
30000
care to mention.
SINO-BRITISH CLUB MEETING The next meeting of the Sino-British Club will take place at St. John's Hall Wednesday at 5.30 p.m.
ה!
It is hoped that one of the Trade Mission which will bef present in the Colony will give a talk. In the event of this not
success."
to
Philadelphia, Dec. 8. The American Friends Ser- that the first foreigh vice Committee announced today
relief workers permitted to operate
One Way Out? Such a programmié, ás sug-
knew was when firemen brought
realistic exchange rate. Figures throw her two children, a boy be lost anyway-by setting up a A city Breman saw a mother, of CN$10,000 to US$1, to the 11th floor, then jump to her... suggested ranged from the rate and a girl, to their deaths from CN$15,000 or even CN$25,000. own death. further loss of public con- Red outside of Temporarily this may cause Two-year-old Anne Turke was fidence .in. Chinese
a window of ai cur- Afth floor room by her parents-- Tency. But these sources until firemen erected an escape
behind the Chinese Communist ing. accompanied by closures say healthy trade conditious adder. Both she and her parents.
lines bad arrived in Yenin with medical supplies. United Press.
being possible Professer Le A
will talk an "The Historical Events Leading Up To The Double Tenth"
Surprise N.W.
of firms and native industries in the outports and the interior,
Drive In Honan
powerful Communist force under the famous
Nanking, Dec. 8.
one-eyed General Lin Po-chen in a surprise manoeuvré - raced down from the Taihang area in Shansi to the rich coal-mining north- quarter are how due, Member region into confusion, the Hsin Min Pao re- western corner of Honan, throwing the entire
Metbbers are reminded that subscriptions for the current
ship cards will be issued on
Wednesday, by the Secretary.
ported today.
tionary tendencies which exist would halt and reverse infla were saved. as it is in the course of a year
ór: so
Bodles were found on every for above the third. Actual r
west side from the third floor to damage was confined to the south- the roof. The building faces north.
Those not in the direct path of
2. Rpcourage trade by allow ing the free use of US currency already in China, and the free ase of Chinese private capital the flames were suffocated in their Abfond for imperting goods roome-Associated Press, deemed useful.
3. Increase the national re venue by allowing all imports except those detrimenti) to the hation, and applying higher!
Projected
duties, particularly Air Lines
luxury goods 'semi-
4. Improve China's foreign
A Taipei, Dec 9 exchange position by subsidising Corporatlan kanounces the fol- The Central Air Transport exports until they get moving. Jowing projected ale line, in
6. Install a far simpler tax the near future.
Treasurer, who will receive The area was recaptured by the Government onlyragranizé, and apply it. falely The Foochhw-Talpillide
subscriptions at the
trae.
FISH PRICES
ERMO
two months ago.
It was reported that hostilities 'slege of Felhsien in south Shan- were breaking out all over the tung and recaptured Hslachen, district. General: Liu / Po-chen's northergast of Félhsien.
Hopei Offensive
In North Kiangsu, the Nationa-
Foochow t 2. The Taipei-Shanghai he
and uniformly. The present vin Amoy and Tainan, complicated system, under which no-one knows whether his business will be taxed 10 per cent or Bo fer cent, buts à pre-] line via Amoy and Canton. mluin on evasion, contributing
3. The Shanghai-Hong Kong
to the general feeling of un- More than 150 planes are
The following was the averace while troops were said to have captured Sale price of fresh and salt fiah per two important, Nationalist oc catty during the week ending Dec., 5
Fresh Fish Bill Fras cupied towns-Taiyuan and Wen- Usts reportedly assaulted Wayu- certainty seated now ready for operaung a net-
Yellow Croaker,
Crocker
Golden Thread
Grouper
•Red Snapper
Horse Kead
'Goat Fish
Bad Ben-briam
•Lizard Pish
Cotter Pike
Anchovies Green Plichard Round Herring Ebrienp
·Macao Bols
· Chavarth
$1.20
Í.26
1.10
1.20
*#7
1.12
1.20
halen-northwest and
West
ofchen, nine miles south of Encheng
6. Allow Toreign shipping werk of air lines covering the
Kalteng respectively.
Ten thousand Communists had Inlind, at least for & year, re- whole of China and the Com The Communists were also re-masted at the Lipuechochino area laxing the chauvinistic and pointión expects to extend its Los ported to have captured four small Hear Italan, which is northeast of damaging guntalaithip of every survices later to the Philippines. 1.1 points which the newspaper Chenkiang. The Communists playungoveriegn right," and Mblaya-Central News,
7 named as Yangcheng, Munsling, were also reported to be masstag which so far hhs amounted to New Year and strangly cautions 45 Taotsun and Hungchings
to threaten Tallisien, and Talhing. China's sovereign right to deeped labour against killing the
The Nationalists were rushing The Communist forces in east on China's Wood United Press goose lat lays golden eggs
61emergency measures and all Yel-Hopel were said to be regrouping,
low River crossings between La-for a winter offensive. They, were yahig and Kaffeng were closed by divided into four columns with 20 d heavy guards, The Government regiments each for the purposes of 127 forces also vilified the Communist mobilityUnited Press.
“Gölden Goose
Shanghai, Dec. 5. Major KC Wadvocated allout cooperation between empl tal and, labour to tide over the
It was reported, that several large establishments under a pressure of heavy losses are contemplating Uaited Press.
liquidation,