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WHERE ARE HALF A BILLION DOLLARS?
Washington, Feb. 21.
A Chinese puzzle has both the United States and Chinese Governments worried: Where is the hiding place of a half a billion dollars, or more which individual Chinese are belleved to have laid away in the United States?. If the money could be Inent ed, it might Bghten the prospecs Five Chinese relief tond which the United States has been ask. nd to shoulder. President Tric- P115113 has asked Congress for US$570,000,000 in eroucmie na sistance for Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government.
China
Internees'
Grievance
- But proposuis To eate the funds and hand over control of them to Chung's Government have run into such complicaUona that the administration has de-Commerce
Infed the prospect is hopeless for the present,
Government financial officials nid the whance of getting the inftvidual koards appears even dummer than the bellock for enshing, in private assets of the 16 Western European countries tiguring the Marshall Plan.
Bank Deposits
Tientain, Feb. 22.
here said today that The American: Chamber of
it intende asking Congress to
amplify the former | amend or Internees Compensation Bill, which excludes Americans In-¡ erned by the Japanese in China uring the war.
The Chamber and representa- ves of former interfées cabled the United States Ambassador. Dr. Leighton Stuart, at Nanking The State Department told that the bil "discriminates, Congress yesterday that private | ngainst them justly in favour Chinese holding her amount of internets in American-owned to US$600,000,000 or more.
territory." Some US$80,000,00
Izt In American bank deposits, Unted in the names of persons being in China, the Treasury esti mates. The BANCR fidential hut are reported to in- lude me highly placed Chi Dese politieinnS,
Le CO-
Larger aums are elieved by Treasury and State Department
hit 14 be in "loak" ar counts whose real cwners ALTE
hidden. There also is currency. gold and securities.
Asked if the State Depart ment, intends to sponsor a hill govering personal claims against Japan, they pointed out that prior to Pearl Harbour; many Americans in China could not Heave without a total loan of
Press.
Abhaiwong
Political Expediency
San Francisco, Feb. 21. The "San Francisco Chronicle, in an edtlarlat -headed "China and the '48 Campaign"-for President -ald today
"We have the unhappy picture of Republicans ex- ploiting China" as a logical, vulnerable point in Ad- ministration foreign policy, and a President bowing to political expediency by 'doing something about China,' and neither side as yet giving any evidence of thinking the China pro- blem through.
people.
more
the
"The American who
are Infinitely concerned with the preser- vation of world peace than with the identity of White House occupant for the next four years, should demand something better from the responsible heads of both Fress.
pärlies."—United
Fall Of Anshan
Admitted
Shanghai, Feb. 22.
With the steel city of Anshan, whose fall the Gov- ernment confirmed tonight, firmly in his hands, General Lin Piao, the Communist Commander-in-Chief in Manchuria is, rushing preparations for an early all-out bid to capture. Chinchow, key city in the southwestern Man- churian corridor 130 miles southwest of Muk- den, according to Independent reports reach- ing here today.
General Lin Piao is said to have already massed a
large force near Kowpangtse, a railway town only 30 miles northeast of Chinchow, with the apparent aim of forcing a crossing of the Talinho River-the natural defence barrier guarding the approaches to the strategic city. Meanwhile, he has already the majority of their crack ordered the Communist forces troops för the struggle.
These under General Li Yun-chang,
include mechanised operating nlong the Peiping units of General Fan Han- Mukden
the between the chich, railway
newly-appointed Great Wall elty of Bhanha!- Governor of Chahar Province. kwan and Chinchow, to beain whose mandate includes the to- moving against the rear of the opening of communications de-. Nationalists,
tween Mukden and Pelping at whatever cost and who will therefore personally direct the defence of Chinchow.
As a diversionary operation General Lin Plao is expected to launch simultaneous opera- tions in various parts of South Manchuria. where he is credit- ed with having concentrated five divisions, or about 150,000 men.
The buttle for Chinchow. is expected to produce the bloodt- est fighting hillierto of the civil war as the Nationalists, on their side. have concentrated
Political Initiative Passes To Right
Frankfurt, Feb. 21.
business interesta."United The initiative in politics in the Anglo-American zones of Germany appears to have passed to the extreme 'Right-wing for the first time since the collapse of Hitler's Third Reich, (writes Robert Lloyd, Reuter's correspon- dent). On the
Thursday's Nuremberg judg eve of
first
trial of Hitler'r plenary session of the enlarged meat at the Becnomie Council for the joint zones, challenging anti-Allied speeches by Pastor Niemoeller and Dr. Johannes Semmler, ex-
The figla of capital from Still Prime
hib has Ingreased to jet.
plane speed as inflation gains Minister
132214:230121, A State Depart. ment depnet said that private holdings have mounted stencily
. 1945. even while the Gov.
4A Den Vorus Road. Hongkong 000-Associated Press.
the
Yingkow Reopened At present. Government units are engaged in mopping-up operations in the environs of the seaport of Yingkow, where several Nationalist naval units are said to have arrived with welcome supplies in the wake of Ice-breakers.
Pro-Government despatches report considerable excitement and Jubllation over the news of the reopening of Yinkow Har bour in Mukden, where there is already talk of a large-scale landing of reinforcements for a major counter-offensive north- ward.
| Balkan Generals, at which the Judge ruled that it was "net
The Manchurian problem is necessarily" a war crime to expected to provide top-rank- shoot partisans and hostages, dera in Nanking with a busy Ing Government military lea- The Sinmeat Regency Couneit/ Director of the Bizonal Econn. Interpreted by the same circlesweck as a score of older states-
Bangkok, Feb. 21.
comment's gold and allver re.icday nominated Khuang Abhai- serves dwindlest by US$90,000, wong as Premier for the fourth time in his career. The formal announcement is expect et inter today.
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ONE HOUR LATER. I'VE SHOWN THEM TOA CAB, SIR. THEY SEEMED VERY HAPPY..
The new prenter will call a session of bath Houses of Par- Hament for Thursday.
Fritz Schaefer, ex-Premier of mies Department, and Hurr Bavaria. have caught the inter- street, est of the German man-in-the-
as proof that "the Americans men and veteran generals of at last admit the truth about the North East are scheduled to Communist bandy now that they arrive in the capital today and
tomorrow for conferences. have to fight them in Greece."
If Germany's defent hus ho The moderates of the official moral meaning the occupation Christian Democratic leadership has no moral justification-that are almost unknown to a wider is the conclusion drawn almost
man people.---Reuter,
Veterans Called In These include General Ma Chan-shan, who fought the after the "Mukden Incident" in Japanese to a standstill shortly
General Chang Tso-halang who have been living in retirement In Pelping for the past few i years.
Huang frat became Premier public; the Social Democrats openly by a section of the Ger- 1932 General Wan Fu-lin and
in July. 1944 but resigned after 1 year, His second premiership was in 1946 and Justed only 41 | days.
In 1947 he was
again ap-
pointed premier after Marshal Pibul Songkram's November coup d'olat.
The new Cabinet is expected to be mainly unchanged, though Kuang declared this week that
his selection would not be limit:
i
the have lost their drive, and even
meetings of Dr. Kurt Schumacher, Social Democratic leader, now attract chielly the faithful.
Communist propaganda for a People's Congress for a united Germany arousės hardly flicker of interest here.
Loss Of Respect
The loss of respect, for the
Cheung Lo, 27, was admitted to Kowloon Hospital about 3 p.m. yesterday suffering from internal juries, the result of a fall from: a motor-driven plank at the Tung Shing Sawmill, 1144 Can. ton Road, His condition was re- ported to be critical.
RADIO
ed to members of his party or Allied authority is-largely due parliament; it would include to the development of inter- anyone he thought capable and Allled conflicts and the charges necessary in the country's pre-and counter-charges made In the sent situation. Reuter,
ZBW Hune Kong broadesating on " course of it.
frequency of His kitocycles from 12.87 to 2.00 p.m.. and from, 8.09 to 11.00 p.m., The Santa Fe, N. M. Feb. 21
recont American and and 0.52 ingweycle, in the 21 Major General Patrick J. Hur-Russian publications about metre band from 12.10 to 1.80, 6.30 Lu ley, former US. Secretary of War prewar negotiations with Hitler and 9.00 to 11:00 p.m. and Ambassador to China, an- have been eagerly lapped up by nounced he will seek the Ro- German nationalists ля proof publicon nomination for US that everybody shared Hiller's Senator in New Mexico's June guil and there is no moral dif- primarice.Associated Press
ference between the Powers.
RAF "Polar Flight"
Kinross, Feb. 21.
Six aircraft of the RAF Polar flight, which took off from Iceland early today to fly within the Arctic elrele on a special navigation course, landed at Kinross airfield tonight after an 11- hour battle with heavy winds and bad wea- ther.
Some of them had been pre-1 were without these vital aids vented from reaching the nor during the difficult last hours of thernmost point intended, Bleak the flight
ttle Bear Island, just south of Spitzbergen.
One In Trouble.
High winds and bad weather.. One machine had to remain for the last 500 miles of the behind in Iceland this morning trip, with severe-icing and bad owing to electrical trouble. It radio conditions, made the ap- is expected to fly back to Eng proach in darkmeas to this Scotland tomorrow. tish airfold hazardous..
Seven Lancasters" teft Ice- The,ardous conditions of the land at midnight last Monday flight, whith the "Lancasters" for a circular tour of the At- have made in five days, took lantic from Gibraltar fo Bear heavy toll of their navigational Island to study new methods Pequipment in the machines of navigation as applied to
Consequently, several airerafimam fiight-Reuter,
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2.00 p.m.-Close Down.
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3. p.m.interlude.
D.00 p.m-London Ratar: News,
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11 pm Studios A Taik-"You And Your Camera" by K. A. Walan "Filme, Fliers and Gadgeta." 0.25 p.in.-Atudiat Paso Helial by
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BY ALEX RAYMOND.
these veteran Manchurian lea- The Government invitation to ders for a discussion on the cri- Lical North-East. situation foi- lowed a recommendation from Mr. Mo Teh-hul, a State Coun- cillor who is also a Manchurian, who emphasised the relation- ship of the North-East to the peace of the world as a whole.
Fierce fighting was today re- ported to bo raging, both at Fushun and Penki, respectively 30 miles northeast and 30 miles southeast of Mukden.-Reuter.
Washington, Feb. 22, Senator Glen I. Taylor. Democrat of Idaho, is expected abnounce tomorrow that he
to
is willing to run. for Vice Pre- sident on Henry A. Wallace's Third Party ticket.
He will announced his de- cision in a radio, broadcast.
He said: "I doubt that the Democratic Party is going my direction."-United Press,
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