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No. 34103.
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1948.
CHINCHOW REPORTED TAKEN BY REDS
Not Much Change In Times Since 1793
Shanghal, October 15.
A local German physician, Dr. William Rosenberg, re ported today the discovery of three copies of the 1797 London Times, Tollowing the publication of Reuter story of th
finding of a
1793
Timer in Lendon.
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Dr. Roarnberg found the papers while rummaging among ald book prints and rubbish that
was clearing
before leaving China.
The way of
friend
out
reporting and advertising is barely different Seam 'modern methods", Dr. Rosenberg aald.
He revealed that much spare was taken up an the front sade of the October 19 fame by a subscription list at 10-10.0 per person for the relief of widows and children of brave men who so nobly fought and fell in servite of their King and country, and such as have been wounded in the glorious action off the coast of Holland between the English feet, on-
Dutch And the der Admiral Ouncan. Admirat de Winter, on October 11, 1797."
A
fleet
commanded
by
"Having Or. Rosenberg, who is a keen philatelist, said: perused These issues, examples of well edited paper that
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the seem no modern for thele time of publication.
come to conclusion that we are reading today what our ancestors have been reading before."-Reuter,
Price Rises Threat To New Currency
Nanking, October 15.
stocked,
The resurgent price fluctuations and black mar- keteering appeared today to have been viewed officially as a serious threat to the stability of Chino's new gold yuan currency. Maintenance of the August 1 hope, usually #well 19 price freezing; order, which gow showed emity shelves and sential simily needs such as park. is a key muchor in the Goys
Pas, oils, four, rlee, sugar and ernment's latest economie re-
cigarettes are now practically un- covery scheme, is said to have
difficult. been rendered
anch
oured to pay black market prices. members
the Legislative Yuan today proposed that the order be rescinded in favou of the former policy of fixing prices through consultations between the Government and merchants.
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become the The problem has main concern of both the Execu- live and Legistative branches of the Chinese Government. The Cenisiative Yuan inday devoted its sensions exclusively to dietis. sion of the urice situation Cecuted to bedit un extræendinary desert meeting Monday to vest the law debate,
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1 Prime Minister, Mr. Wong Wet-han the Finance Minder
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M Wang Yun-wu, and cfecal have been requested to
1 pour fe take reports and ans
wer questions.
Frequent Talks
On the Executive side, trequent
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Nationalists Face Darkest
Period Since End Of War. BATTLE FOR TAIYUAN
Nanking, October 15. Communist forces were reported today to have broken into Chinchow while another major Nationalist base Taiyuan in China Proper
is tottering under Mao Tse-tung's armed might.
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These setbacks, following closely on the heels of the Tsinan debacle; have thrown the Nationalists into their darkest hour in the three years of the post-war civil war.
The Nationalist headquarters in Mukden, in a communique reported by Central News Agency, conceded Red General Lin Piao's hard-hitting forces have stormed into the city from the southeast and over-run the city's new district.
Communist, artillery da said Vital Air Bridge to have played A prominent. part in the
break-through.
Over 1,000 shells were lobbed
Lots of the north field would
Into the city in the course of eut the air bridge to Talyuan and the night. The bombardiment [render serial reinforcement to the breached gaping holes in the folly Impossible.
elty wall through which Con- munist infantry poured in. I The city is now enveloped in fames after Communist artil lery set Bre to dumps.
ammunition Spy Roundup
The Nationalkt eat amander in Chinchow, General Fun Lan- chleh, radioed that the Nigthongs Bags, garrison has fallen tock into the old city area where they are bar- for defence ricading themselves
of the city's railway station and urfield.
abininable unless buyers are pre- Red Climax
Flour Up
The Communist steers climax- wi a monthi's offensive by six Red columns to clip off the protruding Natimalist corridor (13 Mix- churia.
Quemember, Mr. Li Fang. pointed out that in Pelping, Tien- sin and Tsingtao flour shot up 100 from eight gold ruan per cattles to 50 gold yunn in a week. He moved a resolution, which was approved by a majority vote, that the monthly four ration for pernaign veterans, in Mukden and head in the three North China Changchun from all luul cortalt, "ities be increased from 15 to 30 with Nnking.
gatties.
Auather group of 00 members today presented a bill containing blueprint for the rationalisation of China's ecatiomic conditions.
The bill, which went through
is Brst reading today, provided:
Loss of the Chinelioy corridor would cut off a large Nationaliai army of 209,000 men, mostly US- esined and equippest Iturria cam-
Five hundred miloa to the southwest, In China Proper, ten- tionis mounting" "In" the" major Nationalist
Com- bastion of munist attheka.
Wusu airfield, south of the city,
1. The unfreezing of the August is reported to have been captured
moving
brought up Foftening-up
In Brazil
Alo De Janeiro, Dctober 18.
More than 100 persona have been rounded up in an investigation of alleged Govlet spying in Brazil.
Brazil outlawed the Com- munist Party and broka re- Tatlong with the Soviet Union last year.
The latest arrests were in Sao Paulo on Tuesday. Twelve реглана of Blavio origin were apprehended and
calfed ware seized,
Russian propaganda
Sao Paulo police announced recently A spy network is being investigated in Ala de Granda Do But State and more arrests tra akpeated there.
More than 20 have already been ploked up there. -Associated Press,
Incredible Kidnapping Alleged
It would also trap everyone
in the town, including Governor Yen Hel-shan, who last month told the Associated Press that he would kill himself rather
Rede.
Russians
Price: 20 Cents.
Forge Ahead
Moscow, October 15.
The Central Blatistical Ad. ministration said today Rua. ala's In Bustrial production now is 25 per cent higher then it was in 1940, peak your of Boylet accomplish.
ment.
The Statistical Administra
gald also the grain crop this
reached the year has 1940 level and yields more produse than in pro wan yours.
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The statistical Вигоди ro port kald two ministrion did meat their quota this your, the flah Industry for the eastern regions and the milk and meat Industry for the USBR.
th Bavlat news agency, announced that V. V. Dorobov has been relieved of his duties as Minister of the meat and dairy Industry. The
Bald étatistical burenu Government's planned for the first nine months of this year was excended by alx per cent Associated Press.
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goal
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Dispute Between UK Mineworkers' Leaders Widens
London, October 15.
The dispute between the two leaders of the British National Union of Minoworkers generated now heat today with a fresh attack by the Union President, Will Lawther, on his Com- munist General Secretary, Arthur Hornor. Lowther declared that Horner had been sent to the Paris conference of the Communist-controlled Confederation Generale du Travail as a. fraternal delegate and had not been entitled to support the policy of the Communist Party which is absolutely contrary to the policy of the National Union of Mineworkers, the Trades Union Congress and the Labour Gov-
erriment.
The dispute, which threatens to split the Union's. 050,000 members sprang from Horner's action in promising support by British miners for the French
Gold Yuan mine strike. Rate Shows Steady Tid
Lawther told a reporter today that in vlow of the tone of Hor ner's statements In Paris recently it was necessary that he should dispose of any suggestion that the differences between, them arose
Abridgement Of Press Freedom Hit
Shanghai, October 15. The American-owned. Shang- from some personel antagonism, hul Evening Post, commenting it calls the grave "Mr. Homer visitact Paris as on what
than to risk capture by the China's Gold Yuan dropped The CATC office reported they 11 points below Thursday's the fraternal representative of the fabridgement of press freedom had suspended their airlink with closing rate of 51 Hong Kong British miners. In that capacity, in China, said today: "If China it was to be expected, that any is to lose any chance of learn- Taiyuan late on October 14 and cents to one Gold Yuan yes-statements made by him during ing facis save as seen through had withdrawn the ground staff terday morning. It recovered his visit would have been in lino official glasses, surely demo- there, CNAC and CAT are con- later in the afternoon to close with the polley of the National Cracy might as well be aban-
Union of Mineworkers, which is tinuing service as long as the at 42 Hong Kong cents. situation permits, but are leaving
Gold Yuan remittances toto support European recovery and doned as a lost cause". no ground personnel there ever. Shanghai were offered in the consequently the Marshall plan. night. Staffs go there on first planes in the morning and re- turn to Pelping late in the even- ing.
Peiping Fighting
Communist-Inspired
Under the caption "Preis Free- dom on its way out," the Post [maid: "A government ban has Įbeen laid on two popors and there bren (voluntarily)
a
but
Meanwhile, General Fu Tro-yis cents to one Gold Yuan and clos-country. accision of the National the Genetalissimo, in which ho
morning at 28 Hong Kong_cents for one Gold Yuon the lowest yet registered on the Hong Kong! market. By closing time the rate
" regard the present situation has had improved to 30 Hong Kong in France, including the strike in highly muspicious clore-down for cents to one Gold Yuan.
the mining Industry, as a Conrorganisation' on the part of a Yuan remittances to Can- Goju Yuan
movement munist-inspired
to third. ton opened at 38 Hong Kong sabotage the recovery of that "There developments appear ail to stem from the recent speech by
sensational inton of Mineworkers to send Mr. charged
петврарег - Revolt Dented
Horner to the conference required reports had caused unrest and fear, resulting in runs on shop him to carry a messagy Yesterday's 'compotativo, steadi- upon Unior policy, the Topical in Shanghal, among other thingy, -It also reported fighting further up the railroad about half way mess of the Gold Yuan in Hong outcome of which must be to
Hard To Believe to Kalgan, but said the main Red Kong was attributed to the news recure the co-operation of all impending European mine-workers in the forces were seeing northeastward. from Canton of an
Fighting in east Shensl entered rationing system for food and task of rehabilitation. He was not the mopping-up stage following other essential items, and of an entitled to support the policy of to believe that the Generali-almo meant to ret off in China a re- the rout of the Communist armies official denial of a revolt among the Communists,"
headquarters in Pelping reporteded at 43 cents. Oghting 10 miles north of Nankou on the Peiping-Suiyuan railroad
25 miles northwest of Peiping,
near Tungchow battle.
t
mountain to the north, consignment of
BRITISH BAN
HECHT FILMS
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London, October 14.
that
The GY300,000, sald pokesman, was
escorted from
Union
{"Be that as it may, it is hard
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in a three-day the armed forces in Kwangfung. Many trade unionlets here be-nction among his subordinates, Referring to reports of the Im-lieve that the dispute beween the earing to newscaper shut-downs, The badly mauled Red units are portation of GY3,000,000 into two miners chiefs will have re-under circumstances of dictatorial sold to be fleeing in disorder to Hong
Kong
Government percussions for bevond the coal- rather than a democratie procO- wards their base in the Yellow spokesman said yesterday that a jelds and that Communists in thedure.
GY300,000 was trade union movement generally Dragon
The Post continued: "The Gov- leaving behind their dead and transhipped through Hong Kong will probably feel the impact ernment's ban_against_the_two It is almost certain that the newspapers seem based wholly on pro- to a coastal port by agents acting equipment, considerable
claimed on behalf of the Chinese Govern- | Horner Case will be brought up allegations that they streng Government reports
Pressment.
when the Executive of the Na-discreet and cruel in their news United Press, Associated
The spokesman added that the Honal
of Mineworkers and Reuter.
consignment was imported under meets on October 28, and the reporting. Is this the time
fournalistic discretion by edict," 19 price level and that prices, by the Communists. Four Com-
an Import Licenco and exporter
eneral question of Communist queried the post. wages, salaries, rents and in-munist columns are now
under a properly-approved Ex-Union officials consorting, with terests he readjusted through up from the south for direct us-
port Licence.
heir continental counterparts is
The paper pointed out that the consultation between the Cover-saults on the city wall. The Com-
should re thrikely to come before the Interna- Chinese Government ment and elyte representatives: munists have also
An incredible story of how
Jonol
senise that now Committee of the Trade
is the time 2. Banking bloes and production their artillery for
It was reported today
above all times when a vigilant, committees be organised by the bombardment of the strongly de- he was rendered partially un-
The anti-Communist majority fearless and Intelligent Dress is Government in various districts fender city which was the old conscious in a local theatre and some 3,500, independent British the point of importation to a bank Jnion Congress next Thursday.
movie house. nillated with the in the Colony and escorted again ing on between President Chiang to promote the ntilisation of capi- citadel of ex-warlord Yen Shi- taken away by boat and car Cinematograph Exhibitors Asso- from the bank to the point of of the miners union, meanwhile, needed in the national interest.
definite about the need to Aiready there in a great ten- Kai-shek Premier Wong and for production;
a political training camp clation, decided to ban the movies exportation by Revenue Officers is Meanwhile, Minister Wang in au
3. The floating of compulsory Finance
n pro Government was told by 19-year-old with which the American author of the Import and Export Depart-maintain coal exports to France, ency for Chinesa, paper to be despite the Communist efforts in both subsidised and elique con- sak the
This torffener is don- effort to and a mepns of vorbing and unnegotiable "National Re-reports from Nanking
They charged that on May 30, The spokesman said that it was Scotland and South Wales to stop lied, the unfavourable conomie con construction" bonds, the amount Nationalists recaptured the Man student of Wah Yan College Ben Hecht is associated.
when he returned home on dillors.
to be fixed Intef;
churian port of Yingkow. 100
In London. Hecht said that he a perfectly normal case of trans- the flow in sympathy with the erous and should be reversed. Thursday. The Government's prímnty ob- 4. The present rationing system miler south of Mukden, on Octo- jective reems to be how to director rice
The boy, Sin Chan-fan, of No. had a little holiday in his heart" shipment of currency done by n French minera-Beuter. and flour in Shanghai. Der 13 but there was no oficint
2, Stanton Street, returned home every time a British soldier was properly authorised, ngent in the surplus capital resenting from the Nanking. Peiping. Tientsin, Can-confirmation. conversion Into productive chinh- ton and Tsingtao be abandoned: Despatches from Talyuun suld exhausted and hungry after being killed in Palestine United Press. correct and legal form.
5. The Government's subsidy n result of Nationalist action reported missing for four days. nels.
It is understond measurea for combalthy the buying spree polley towards State-owned en- danger to the north, airfield which ile said his parents have reported experience to the and hoarding, and for maintalaing terprises and local governments at one time look as if it might be his four-day
police. the August 19 prie freezing or- be discontinued.-United Press.
Questioned last night, the Police der, are now beltp drafteil.
Bald they knew nothing about it. According to the boy, he left home on Monday with HK$10. After having a haircut he attend-
deillemntions are loown to be go-
On the positive side the Gov. ernment is reported prepared
to relax further the restrictiona on employment of foreign ex- change and capital in buying permissible Importa and also to If the ban on loan assistance
to productive enterprises.
shan
lost, was removed.
Questions Asked On Guardsmen
The resolution adopted by the Legislative Youn today calling for an extraordinary clused session Mr.
next Monday sat the resurgent price Buciuntions and under- round black marketeering acti- vitles have created a slate af nervous tension wid abnormality Among the people,
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