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WEAPONS FOR CHINA
President Truman Authorises Consignment
The
Military Aid Programme
Washington, August 8.
Senator Styles Bridges disclosed in a statement to- day that President Truman has authorised the armed services to make arms available to China under the $125,000,000 military aid programme to combat the Chinese Commu- mista..
He revealed that the President, in a letter to him, said that assistance did not mean that the United States will take the responsibility for the Nationalist government policies.
for China If the Republicans win the November election, particularly in military ald to fight the Communiste. Bridges, for examplo, said in his state- ment that the United States has been "fax In Alling its moral commitments to the Chinese nation."
The Senator declared that Truman followed a deliberate and inexcusable policy of 'in- action
and delay in China which has enabled Russia to gain strength in the Far East. He said up to date only 59,000,- 000 or 1/14th of the $125,000,- 000 rande available to Chiang by Congress has been alloited.
He said that the United States The President's letter whlen
has "ost tremendous advantage Bridges included with his own
through our laxity hecmike statement was the Brat defalte have allowed the Soviet Union to administration statement of
the gain by default so strong a posi- status of the programme which
tion ira the East. Specifically became law on April 3. It said, Bridges claimed
have directect the Secretary of delayed four mouths between the that Truman Defence to render
appropriate time Congress assistance to the Chinese Govern-
at the orms and money available to the time ment in aequisition of such mili- the Brst payment to the Chi- fury supplies at the
Chinese nese, Government may request."
under
Not Responsible "Assistance furnished this programme thall not be con- struct,
expressed or impiled as 0171 assumption by the United States of any responsibility for policies, acts or undertakings of the Republic of China or conditions which may prevail In Chine at any time," the President added.
for
we
"cannot hy any stretch of lan-
RED HERRINGS
Skirts Ave Going Up Again
Paris, August 0.
M. Christian Dior, the man who created the "Now Look," le fighting for ite survival in the Parle autumn showings.
In every house except his, mannequins ara showing Di rootoire styles, but the Dior girls keep the natural walat- line and look younger and Mightier than ever.
The general feeling is that M. Dior has lost interest in designing for dollars and is "just designing for Dior."
The top Jaipion housca agree on anly one trend- that skirts are going up again. Lengths range from 25 to 38 centimetres from the ground, Oven for rome of the
Dior models-Reuter.
French Convoy Ambushed
Salgon, August 8. Forces of the Indo-Chinese autonomny movement of Viet Minh ambushed a French mill- tary convoy at Rachgin, South West of Saigon, laat Wednes- day.
It was officially announced to- day that at least 28 French sol- diers were killed. Observers in Salgon regard the attack as a sign that Viet Minh Is beginning to intensify its guerilla warfare, particularly in Tonking.
The situation in Saigon is caim following the strict seru- ' rity
InCasures taken by the police, but an increasing number of attacks on French and the military posts In Tonkin and Cochin-China have been re- pèrted recently. Reuter.
convoys
WOMAN'S BID FOR FLIGHT RECORDS
Washington, August 8.
Mrs. Diana C. Cyrus, 25-year-old aviatrix from Santa Paula, California, will take off on a round-the- world solo flight between August 20 and 25, bent on capturing at least three records.
New York, August 8. Mr. Henry Wallace today con- the House Un-American Activit demned the spy Investigations of les Committee and said Presilently Truman was right in calling the hearings a red herring.
If she
SHANGHAI FIRE DISASTER
of
CHINA'S DISPUTE WITH SIAM
Commenting on a United Press report from Nanking
Bongkok, August 9. that Chinese diplomatic reprezentatives in Bangkok have settled the schools dispute with the Siamese government, a spokesman for the Ministry of Education said today that while negotiations were proceeding satisfactorily, *the Chinese Ambassador, Dr. Haich Pao São, had sought no altoration in the Siamese Private Schools Act.
SOONG
RUMOURS REFUTED
At the same time, the Minis- try of Education announced that 500 Chinese throughout cluding 110
schools in-
the country, in Bangkok, and neighbouring Thonburi, have been registered and allowed to operate. Some of the schools, however, have asked permis-
sion to close for a seven-day period
while they "adjusted themselves lo the country's re- private
Shanghal, August B The Governor of Kwang-gulations regarding tung, Dr. T. V. Soong, will fly schools," back to Canton as soon as the present economic conferences Ou Yang Shun, First Secretary in Nanking are
over, well-f the Chinese Embassy, confirm Informed Chinese sources here Education Ministry
ed the figures released by the said today, denying rumours that a number of schools have bul added that the ex-Premier offered a post in
be not been actually able to the
Central because of a technicality. Regis- Government.
tered Chinese schools must have These sources sald Dr. Soong dren of compulsory
extra permission to admit chil- had still a big task ahead of himnges-between eight and 14 years. education in Kwanglung in reconstruction, Otherwise, they can admit bandit suppression and economic children less than eight or more only stabilisation. His present talks than 14,
may
in Nanking are believed to in- clude all these subjects.
Any improvement in the eco-
country could be expected nomie situation in Kwangtung as
currency and the trade. well
as in other parts of the after the introduction of a stable
on
open
Sino-Burma Boundary Studies
no
He said that before much per- He said that due consideration
He added that the Truman ad-
mission is given, dificult formali will be given to the outline of the nistration is "w open conflict"
ties have to be undergone, in- aid programme suggested by the with Congress and said the policy much flying experience,
An attractive brunette with ever, to fly around the work
cluding a thorough examination Army Secretary. ftopall, and the Army Planning gunge he termed bi-partisan Cyrus will pilot 'a British Mos-flight over an official course,
Mr. Kenneth
Mrs solo,
its mothods of Instruction. of the achoot, its equipment and 'first round-the-world
Chinese schoola Chief, Ideatent General Albert patley."
He continue. "It is my quite fighter-boinber.
admitted, however, that many Wedemeyer. Their views wer
hope that a new
fastest flight around the world.
· have already given to both House and Senate Him in the Chin icy has be-completes her mission accord Appropriations Committees.
been allowed to admit children Her night plan, according to divert overseas remittances from education age rackets. ten forced by Congressional ne hold these records: first woman oficials, calls for a San Fran and encourage casential imports
Holley that has ing to her flight plan, she will National Aeronautle
If there is anyone who could falling within It is my hope that tactles
the compulsory Association of deliberate delay which the ad-
the underground via Hong Kong, cisco to, San Francisco time
Siamese Ministry of Education ministration has shown la rela-
69 hours five minutes, including tural resources in Kwangtung, teriminate against Chinese in the
officials say that "there is to rebuild industry and lap na- tions with the Chinese Govern-
intention unly
five hours on
the ground ment ore
the part of the ni an end."United
for the entire trip.
would be Dr. Soong, they added.
it Slamese Government to dis- 'Tess,
She will take off in her 400.
Meanwhile, a responsible Gov-matter of education," and at the mph twin-engined plane at about the China Daily Tribune corres-
crnment official was quoted 5.45 am. on her target date and pondent in Nanking as denying gress" of current negotiations.
time, Chinese by same
diplomats fly this course:
express satisfactiun at the "pro- San Francisco to
the rumour, wh New York
which was belleved United. Press. Idlewild airport, 8 hours 25 mins Shanghol
to have origiunted from the Shanghai, August 9.
New York to Gander,
markets last Friday, burned to death and 39 serious- Cairo, 5 hrs 50 mins;
New about the suspension or Fifty-one workers
foundland, 3 hrs 20 mins: Gunder were
with- to Paris, 7 hrs 10 mins: Paris to ernment of American Afd.
holding by the injured when a fie destroyed Karachi, Pakistan, 6 bre 20 mins: rumour as "completely groundless American Gov- Coiro 10 Chinese shirt factory
The apokesman described the here Karachi last night. The death toll is mins:
to Calcutta, 3 hrs 40 and altogether harmful to the It would be "enormously expen- The Third Party leader
expected to mount by
Calcutta to Shanghai, 6 excellent relations between sive and ineficient" because pri- the hearings were "designed to
the in- hrs 10 mins; Shanghal to Tokyo, United States and China." jured people are in a serious 3 hrs 10 mins; Tokyo to Midway, vate Chinese procurement agents distruct people -would have
He to go to
from their rearondition. United problems, which
hra 20
continued: mins; Midway to plainly,
"To States factories,
Nanking, August 8. Congress
The Municipal Fire
Honolulu,
speak Brigade
without any
China may claim territory the failed to solve." and were of a lightning, which hit five switch-30 mins,
husbelieve the cause of the fire was Honolulu to San Francisco, 6 hrs other
hrs Informed sources believed that pattern which was the "same aboards controlling ironing tables
50 mins; both the
metaphor, size of Chekiang Province along Communists Bridges'
and all the Sino-Burmese border as a re- views foreshadowed that which developed in Germany and machines. All the 120 work-
anti-Government groups sult of expanded air
*fundamentally programme in the 1930's."--United Press,
Seven Years Later
American aid
opposing studies, a Foreign Office source boundary demarcation ers were trapped in the factory years and five months after the bets and indirectly kill the lat- Ministry of the Interior which has
because it will said. Mrs Cyrus is selling out seven
benefit the Central Government as soon as the fire broke out, but fight of Amelia Earhart Putnam ter's aspirations in every respect."
its campaign against the re- by the boundary Inission for the He was commenting on reports many of them managed to jump and Fred Noonan, which ended in to safety from the second, third and fourth foors.
disaster
somewhere between New
Just Firmen brought
retumed from the 60 workers the Pacific. What happened to the Guinen and Howland
Sino- Burmese border. Island in to the ground with the aid of
Recording frontier sites along a turntables. More than 100 fre. Earhart-Noonan plane men battled the fumes for aver
380-mile line from Klenkowahan is still a mystery.
(near, Chaukan Paus) to Nanting, two hours before
While blaze.--Reuter.
quelling the
members of the mission worked pliots have How numerous
around, the world, none has
through torrential rains and threo- Blown over an official course
-different attacks by border tribes specified by the sporting aviation
men. which the National Aeronautic
amounts to more than 100,000
China will Association
clair square kilometres, it was under- slood-Associated Press.
Bridges pointed out that if the Chinese are unalie to go to the United States Ariny, Navy other Government Agencies
and material and arms procurement,
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Father's Day
In Shanghai
of midulo
of
amilate. The
3
G
are
-Reuter.
Pacific Scouts' Jamboree
the
Singapore, August 0. Malaya plans to send a con- is the American tingent of 80 boys to the Pan-
Facific
Scout Jamboree in a Australia if shipping accommo-
available.
Course must include
to
secure and
The area
Indictment
Demanded
Sacramento, California,
August 8.
check-in Shanghai, August 7.
ut New York, onedation is The
European capital, Karachi, Tokyo Chinese population
Efforts Shanghal observed Father's Day
of and San Francisco.
are being made by the yesterday with a special
The fastest time around
Malayan organisers and Austro- radio world was made last year by passages for the boys to
the lan authorities programme and the raising of
William Lcholarship fund
P.C. Sallee and from Australia. by
Milton as in 78 hours 55 students
young schools, mus. 30 secs. With Odom at the from December 28 to January 9
The Jamboree Students sold flowers at CN$300,- bomber 10,672 miles to take away Wonga Park, near Melbourne, In Party, Mrement, called bell
will bo held 000 each.
controls, they few an A-26 attack at the "Yarra Brae"
The national chairman of Mr. In a radio broadcast, Mr. Pan from millionaire Howard Hughes Victoria. South East Asia will be for the indictment of
estate at Henry Wallace's Progressive Kung-chan, Chairman of the City the previous unofficial. record of well represented. Council, urged the local public 81 hours 14 mins 10 secs. Hughes' the tentative Malayan
Elizabeth fillal plety and yalty to the country. He do 1938.
that there
ero ex- Mr. Benson, a former Governor Wi great significance in the celebration of flight, in 1024, took 303 huurs. Philippines, Ceylon and India.
The first round-the-world sentative groups from China,
pected,
as well as large repre- of Minnesota, made the statement Father's Day at the present tine Mrr Cyrus plans
the tr a speech to a meeting of the when the Communists are trying boat Odom's time by nearly 10 boy scouts from 40 countries will
not only to
California State Central Commit- It is expected that some 10,000 tee of Mr. Wallace's Party, tu ignore the existence of their hours but to fly about 1,050 miles gather togother Fatherland-Reuter.
in united uations of youth.-Reuter.
observe
Gelsberg
course was 14,672 miles, flown In 1200 szoute from PakiaContingent espionage.
In addition to Sentley and Louis Budenz for
more. Unlied Press.
THE
SATISFYING
PILSNER
Carlsberg
BEER
Sole Importers: EAST ASIATIC CO.,LTD.
Ho told the gathering, "I am absolutely sure that two people In America today, as newspaper readers and radio listeners know, are actually guilty of spying against this country. Elizabeth Bentley
They are and Budenz. They have admitted it."-United Press,
China Airlift To Tsinan
Shanghai, August Di The Nationalists hava com- pleted the airlifting of more than 10,000 crack troops from Tsing- tao to Tainan, where the Com munists were reported plotting a major offensive to wrest to be control of the Shantung provin cial capital, according to pro- Government dispatches today.
The dispatches said that patrol action has already broken out. east as well as south of Tsinan, which is entirely isolated except by air-United Press.
MARSHALL AID
Washington, August 8. Authorisations for Marshali, Plen procurements, passed $1,000 million mark with 'an an¬ the nouncement of new authorisations today amounting to, 104,102,408, of which China will receive $33,- 700,000,000
The rest of the authorisations will be alloted to nina Zuropean natinha said/Tricsto-Rautor.