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COMMUNIST SUCCESS Not Exactly
Manchuria "As Good As Lost"
Europe's Plight
Lake Success, Feb. 29.
A UNO survey in- dicates that countries boycotting the Marshall Plan may face heavy economic penalties for their decision,
The 85.pagr report, uitleri "foreign exchange position of the de- vastated carles", does not mention the Marshall Plan specifically but draws these conclusions
1. Virtually all the war-damaged countries are threatened with serious economic regression unless they ceive outside world in a large scale for several years.
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2 The predominant volume forriga financial aid since the end of the war has been extended by United States.
3.
the
Other potential sources of aid can be counted un to supply unly a small part of the needs,
Mukden An Isolated
Island
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Nanking, Feb. 29. [Communist Commander Gen, Lin Plano's victori- our Red armies are fast rolling up the Nation- alist salient in "Industrial power house" Manchuria.
Neutral observers were almost unanimous today
regarding the government position in Man- churia "as good as lost." They believed that its loss will have not only far-reaching reper- cussions in China and the Far East but the whole world.
It is considered here as the withdraw some of the units pre- greatest Red victory since the sently striking at the city's out- end of world war second. It posts from the south and west. adds une of the richest portions Successful reopening of the rail- Soviet orbit.
the world's territories to the line would greatly bolster Muk
Its long poses the iden's chances to throw back the most dangerous threat to Chlang Reds and to reopen other lines Kopshek's 22-year-long rule over of communications, the Chinese sub-continent because on the Chinese raying goes "who controir Manchuria controls China."
Wanted
Batavia, Feb. 28.
M. George Afrin, Batavia. correspondent of the offl- Cial Soviet news agency. Tams, said here today that he was leaving Indonesia Monday because the Dutch authorities, had re- fused a
request to extend. his visa to remain in the country,"
on
3. Atrin came to Indo- neşla from Holland four montim ago on a one month, vina, which was later ex- tended to March 1, this year. A Dutph spokestinti. Bald today that M.. Afrin was leaving at his own re- quest and not···because of his despatches,
He had asked for a vina and air priority to go to Holland to report the world chess
championship, the spokesman www.id. These Bad been arranged and would not be cancelled now. -Boater.
Aid For The Farmer
Nanking, Feb. 29. The Chinese Government will
CHINA NEXT ON THE "RED LIST"
Nanking, Feb. 28.
The Nationalist defcats in Manchuria during the past week-Anshan, Hsinmin,, Penlisi, Faku. and the simultaneous determined Communist assaults on Xingkow and Kalyuan — are not. - propagandist stunts to impress on the United States the gravity of the situation in China ́a well-informed foreign military observer, in Nanking said tonight..
"This propaganda cry advanced by Government crítics and anti-American leaders last October has been proved to be false. The grave situa- tion now fully justifies the apprehension among Government leaders," the observer continued.
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Though the Government has | situation.
deteriorated yet to make a direct request to sharply during the past week., the United States for military Commodity prices have soared aid, it is clear from the Chi- from 50 to 100 per cent while nese press and an "unofficial" the Chinese dollar's purchasing spokesman that the demand is power has depreciated about 80 imminent.
per cent.
The events in Czechoslovakia this week, stealing the lend from the Korean crisis, have convinced Chinese officialdom in Nanking that China is next on the "Red List."
That the situation in
The Chinese press also also re- ported that the Nationalist rein. forcements recently landed at Yingkow had been isolated there by the Reds and were unable to blocking the harbour prevented (US$107,000,000 at the present move out toward Mukden. Ice extend CN$15,000,000,000,000 doubted.
The Communists, Immediately The general Implication is that the today were reported to have cup following their Yingkow victory,
tured Kaiyuan, another impor- successful attempts to move out tong
Government bastion 70 | any defenders by water.—United miles north Mukden.
|Prco Large Communist
Soviet bloc consules, by refusing to take part in the Marshall Plan, ein themselves of
from virtually ali tanjor sources of aid.
This is all the more serious in the light of statisties b the Unite- Nations' report showing that each of the entries not participating in the Man was faced with substantial for eign currency elicits at the end of 1947-Associated Press.
France And Prague Coup
Paris, Feb. 28. The "coup d'etat“ In Prague
forces are
now massed between Kainmin and Chinchow, establishing strong roadblock against govern- ment eforla 10 retrieve situation.
Yingkow's Fall
Nanking, Feb. 29. Government sources in Nan- theking this morning officially an-
Mukden, the central hinge the government salient, in now an isolated island, marooned in o
mile deop Com tight 40 to 70 munist ring. The sallent itself, which at its peak stretches from Shanbalkwan northwards to the
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Man
churia is most grave, is not
Some of the finest American-
The black market rate of the American dollar 昆 week ag was CN$170,000. Today's Igures in Nanking topped CNS. 300,000.
China's Silk Trade
And while, the brakes are oft on the military and economic fronts, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, following twe wécka trained and equipped units of capped hills of Kuling, Central of cool thinking amid the snow. open market rate) financial an- sistance to Chinese farmers the Chinese Army are at pre- Chian, faces some of the hot- during the current fiscal year to sent embroiled in the biggest test problems of his career.
two Reuter-AAP, military debacle of the boost agricultural production.
The assistance, which will be year civil war and history of granted in the form of loans the Far East. at ve per cent Interest
One topnotch division, the deemable by farm. produce, ro. New First Army, is held tight- nounced the Nationalist with presents the first major govern-y in Changchun while other ment effort to rehabilitate equally well-seasoned equippod domestic industries.
units are isolated at Kirin, Sze-
Nanking, Feb. 28. China's silk trade faces a plngkai, Teihling and, more re-
serious threat from, the rápidly cently, Mukden.
recovering Japanese slik indux- Nationalint military spokes-try, according to Kinston Keh, men no longer speak of the general manager of the Chias seventh or eighth Communist BUK Corp. end the Government's hold on Monthly,"
Lo offensivu. It is beginning
Writing in the "China Trade Keh warned that lowing to the dumping of large quantities of Japanese raw silk In U. S. marketa, China's exports
by
of drawal from Yingkow, the matri supply part of Manchuria, fol- lowing heavy destruction Communist artillery.
Meanwhile, bitter street fight. ing is progressing in Kaiyuan, 50 miles north-east of Mukden. into the city
south bank of the Sungori River and extending to Tungilao in the west and Tunghua in the east, 19
The Reds broke un February 20.
Doomed?
Loans will be granted through the government banka and will be. veed mostly in the produc tion of foodstuffs and the ex- Buch as port of commodities tung oil, pig bristles, silk, ten, tabacco, augar and cotton.
The National Resources Com- Manchuria. now constricted to a more bridge- A major battle is reported miesion announced that Chinese has given the Soviet Union no head running from Shanghai- around Chinehow, 120 miles gasoline production increased diplomatic advantage, the French kwon to a little north of Chin-south-east of Mukden,
While Chinese milltary Auto the United States dropped where 130 per cent last year compared thorities are certain that these nearly 2,800 quintals last year. Foreign Minister, M. Georges
Government mechanfaed columns te 1945. Bidault, sald tonight.
The total production crack unita can force their way He pointed out that before the from North China are attemp last year was 8,744,000 gallons, out (should the Generalissime war the U. S. imported 300,000 ting to clear the Mukden-Pelp Production this year is expect give the order), foreign-bser- quintals of raw silke and finished Ing railway.
ed to be doubled. The monthly vers are equally certain. output in January and February the Nationuilst Army is doom- this year was 1,120,000 gallons.
United Press,
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chuw.
"It has only given it a strate
Five Points gic trump card", he declared,
Beyond the bridgehead are the M. Bidault, who was speaking ve beleaguered points, Mukden, meeting of the National Tiehling, Szcpingkat, Changchun Committee of his party,
the and Kirin, separated from each MRP (Popular Republicans) add-other by an average 50 miles of ed, "This striking action against a Communist held territory. free democracy will aggravala the tension in the international
Generalissimo Chiang is expect situation but we must know how to keep calm in these grave cir- cumstances."
M. Bidaull added that the Popular Republicans would support the Schuman Government until the achievement of its task."--Router
These reinforcements began their attacks more than three weeks ago, but stubborn Com- munist resistance has thrown them back..
Reports from Polping say the Communists are attempting to over-run Mukden before the thaw sets in.
HAILE SELASSIE
OBJECTS
ed to make runi cleventh hour effort to save his position in Manchuria but the feat is be
Addis Abbaba, Feb. 29. leved to be most difficult. Com-
Halle Sclaule, Emperor of Abys petent observers estimated that
Įsinis, commenting on the reecat will be able to turn, the nothing short of 600,000 troops Government sources -claim Soviet proposal of Italian trusteeship ide that Nationalist war-planes are over the farmer Italian colonies, toki egninst the Communists. These active over the whole of the would amaupt to a radification of the Reuters today that Italy's return chservers doubt if Chiang Kal-battle-fronts.
Italian aggressions. shek 'can pore so many troops Inside the Great Wall there He The Tsinteti Pulice are anxious from China Proper
where the is intensified
was unwilling to believe, he Communist ac-said, that the Soviet Government to contact the owner of a emali black situation is also critical. leather wallet, containing money,
tivity around Paoting. The would advocate the reinstatement of Star Ferry season ticket No. 1589, ability
One ray of hope exits in the regrouping of other rebel for Italy in the colonies which had served
to fly In supplies and various papers, which a constable of
ces is reported to be taking three times as bases for aggression. tood to the Mukden found in Canton Road near Salisbury garrison. The manpower of the. and Wangtu, from west to threat to the security of Abyssinis, The return of Italy would be a place at Mancheng, Wanhalen
act of international injustice and city's defenders--cetimated дя
south of the Hopel capital.one of the United Nations, the, nm- high as 100,000 by some sources
Reuter-AAP.
|peror declared.—Router. - expected to be sufficient to beat off the Reds if enough food and arms and somunition сал
Road at 5.50 am. yesterday.
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'south of Mukden by the Reds, has cut off the son route to bring
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Dispatches hopefully pointed out that if the unita moving
along the Palping Mukdan. rall-
PAPER. BANNED
Needles Bought Up By Gun-Runners
Hamburg, Feb. 29.
Attempts to buy millions of sewing machine
needles supposedly for secret arms manufac ture in Germany-have started a Europe-wide hunt for the leaders of a highly organised in- ternational Black Market gang.
pliced currency
British police officials said that a
Mystery: Men
charges
ed.
with
that goods from China. At tho!
present time, India is the leading Emporter of Chinese silk, The coming few weeks will 3,421 quintals of raw silk in the first nine months of 1947 B6 see the rise of another Commu- against 780 quintals by the U.S. nist regime, observers claim. In the first nine months of But it willmat Le bloodless. 1047 Chine exported 15,447 Inside the Great Wall, it inquintals, or less than one-eighth no longer possible to name the the prewar yearly average. arens which are in Communist Kch nitributed, the low handa. It is easier to name a duction to the years of Japanese few strategic points, and isolat-occupation and civil war in' the ēd cities-Peiping, Pooting, silkworm-raising areas of Man- Tsinan--which are held. by the addition, Tientsin, Tsingtao, Chefor, churia and North China. In Inflation made pro- duction and exportation of all Government in North China.
unprofitable-United' Press
pro-
Though the Government has claimed to have ejected the Communists from the Tapich RAID, INTO SYRIA Mountain (Central China).].
Heirut, Feb. 29.
ping-Tientsin-Paoting triangle Palestine on Saturday night near the large rebel forces are converg- It was reported Here today that ing from the south on the Pel-Jewish bands invaded. Syria from
to consolidate the stranglehold frontier town of Banlar, rustled 25
cow and then retired acros on Manchuria,
the
my detachments; were sent
Few Ships Having few ships, observers to the area, claim the Communists' next ob- Government Bourges, wald the In- 'jective is the Liaoning corridor vaders, whose number was not dis- to facilitate the transfer of closed, apparently came from the supplies from the agricultural Dan region where ***Arab road, ly and industrially rich North blockade has shut off food supplies East province.
and caused a chartage.—United, Press.
the
The Government, other hand, claim that the Communists will 'not attempt to | attack the suppression zone un der the control of invincible General Fu Tao-yl
The Communist spring offen. line from Koupangtze are sulli-search for the four leader of the against them"; the officer anid. "One is expected, will coincide with sive inside the Great Wall; it clently strong they may be in a gang which has links in, the coun: group was carrying, 1,250,000 German position to force the Reds to tries surrounding Germany is being marka 5.000 forgen dollars and 490 General Fu's attempted roller
carried out in cooperation, with Amy (pound notes, of which 180 were for- of the Manchurian armies. erican wone authorities.
gories.
It is plain to everybody that A British police officer at Muenster;
the British-American evacua- said that unconfirmed reports fruni
"But these are, the small fry, Beation orders were well-timed outdide. Germany suggested that thehind them are four very mysterious. "Old, China hands", still ayers Epoedles, were required, as firing pins The Soviet military administration the illicle manufacture of tifles fures who seem able in dir about that "things do not happen today ordered the Russian-licensed for gun-running, to the world trouble Europe freely. Those are the men quickly in China," but even
we are looking for. afternoon newspaper, "Berlin Amts,
The needles are small and valuable.
"These people, who are believed they have been proved wrong Mittag" to cease-publication.
by the recent events in China. 10 be former and selling them in an easy way to.
Rumanian displaced convert German marks ints hard cur persons, are very wealthy and, weem With less than one per cent to have much more freeilem of move
of. Manchuria and about 10 per rency, the pollon officer said.
ment than-any? British citizen.
cent of North China: only in "They adapt one of several Buro. Government's hands, even the The investigation began after pean nationalities when outaldaBoothsayers (the old China
Berlin, Feb. 29.
The paper has been one of the most violent critics of the United States,
many along with Russia. Britain and France, occupying Ger
DPS. Detained
The Soviet order, the first wetion police. datained two groups of Germany, but once they come here hands) will be proved wrong of its kind in postwar Darlin, was 10 Rumanian and Polish displacediner they, merge into the German, cenoncemaran uddan 30.00 London Relay: "Radio News punish it for repeated violation of sons from the American, one who and become German in Events Move Fast
Allied pre directives prohibiting ware, trying to buy saveral million pearance and habit. It is an ideat *10,15 pim/"Bomething For Everybody.** malicious criiicism of the occupyin sevding miching needles in, the front for their operations. --Anocias
11:00 pmClonej Dewji,
"powers/Associated Press.
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