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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1948,
PUZZLING QUESTIONS Schuman And
IN CHINA CIVIL WAR
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Shanghai, December 17.
The civil war in China today has resolved into a Chin-
oso puzzle in which two questions are posed. What is the significance of General Fu Tso-yi's pull- ing in practically the entire North China strength inside the Peiping walls, and what is behind the Chinese Reds' apparent easing of pressure on the encircled Nationalists in North Kiangsu?
indications point to holing
The Peiping situation has If it is true, military officials still not developed to a point here think that--it must be for where General Fu's exact aims the purpose of pinning down the
But can be determined,
all Red forces in North China and keeping them from going to other fronts while at the same time keeping his own, forces
possible behind Peiping walls.
General Lin Piae was reported to be massing 15 Red columns
round Pelpl
in Priping, preparing for A siege defence, at which he is a intnet us
muster.
Christmas Parcels In Hold-Up
London, December 15. A ronvoy of 20 lorries drova into Euston railway station, Lon- don, today to clené 30,00o Christ- Imas parcels held up by the 10% days old strike of vannien nud platform stGEL.
Ioway vivos slow! idle beside piled packuges, including Christ- mins trees, is private lorries were lender under exten police guard. Bailway officials consider it will tok, alovost a week to clear | the aevumulation of parvels from
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The strike committer reported torlay that because private for ries were brought in to Euston, abt 100 vanmen of nearby St. Parreyns wallway termland had steelded lo bon overtime work and! movement of parcela tion the two statións.
Reliable eye witnesses'
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counts inside the walls Indloat ed that the Reds are accepting that a Gonnal Fu's purpcas,
No Interferenco
The Reds control all of the Immediate areas outside Pelping other than Immediately South where the airfield is still in Gov- ernment hands,
The fleid
WAS tleserted rs
days ago and is now taken over) by Chinese Air Force planes.
General Fu is building fw airstrips inside the elty-one an A polo field just outside the legation Quarter walls.
so far in the The only fighting so immediate Peiping area has been the West where the city's Water ond power plants are located, but these are now f Red hands, according to all re- parts.
But the Reds are not inter
fering directly with the traffic in and out of the South felt.
Easing Off In Kiangsu be-
The St. Paveras men are meet. Ing tomorrow to deckie their at-
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MOPPING-UP IN BURMA
Rangoon, December 15. Government troops today kill-
un the city. In North Kiangsu the
Nanking Shaken By Explosion
Nanking, December 17. War-threatened Nanking was startled Inst night by a distant explosion, the origin of which is boing investigated by the authorities.
pearance to the East of the city The explosion followed the up-
of a plane with unfamiliar lights.
The plane appeared to drop a) flare, following which there WRB an explosion. The aircraft elreled the area twice and then few North across the Yangtse.
The explosion, which pecurred at 0.40 p.m., rattled windows and shook the city.
Sforza To
Hold Meeting
Romo, December 10, Count Carlo: Sforza, Italian Foreign Minister, And M. Robert Bchuman, Fronch Foreign Miniator, will meet
in France on Desember 20 for an exchange of vlows.
The meeting will be held In a city in Central France.
The Ministers may discuss esertomic problems between. the two countries, particular. ly the schome for a French. Italian. customa union which is now being studied by ex. poris. Reuter,
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PEIPING MIXTURE OF CALM AND TENSION
Polping, Decembar 17.
Peiping, still inviolate behind her massive cronollor ed walls, watches with unaffected curiosity Na- tionalist, troops march and counter-march through hor ancient streets,
Little attention is paid to the occasional' crash of
gunfire from beyond the Western walls.
The city is full of troops, both on the move and idle.
Most of its historic building»| and grounds are used as billets and the overflow is accommo- dated in untenanted homes, of which there are many,
Both troops and civilians up- hear to be enjoying the bright sunshine.
Some of the troops, who have heen marched long distances' in get to Peiping, were found am- big in the tranquil grounds of arch placer as the Temple Heaven, a pleasant change,
Fu's H.Q.
of
RAF Men's Fate In Palestine
London, December 18. Mr. Winston Churchill, loa- der of the Parliamentbury Oppo- sition, asked the Government for an assurance that it would establish whether cruel and outrageous measures were takon Furce Mosquito aircraft shot down, in Palestine by an Iarnell fighter..
Helsinki, December 15, Finnich police toxiny handed over to Russian frontier guarda 15 detainees accused of fighting for the Axis powers in the lust War Most were persons frutn Soviet-Incorporated Estonia, Lat-
against the Royal Air of Vhs and Lithuania, classified as
Russian subjects,
Central News saya two bombs were dropped.
South One fell to the Yeuhua, 10 miles East of Nan- king, and the other near Yant. sechi, on the Bouth bank of the Yangtze, aix mites North-East of the capital. The latter bomb killed three tive countries people and demolished several fuccused of collaboration with houses.Reuter-AAP.
Axis powers.--Reuter,
The USSR had requested their extradition under the 1944 pence treaty, which stipulated thni Finland deliver to thetr rusper- nationals Allied
STATISTICS BACK BRITISH DENIAL
London, December 16.
The Ministry of Supply today issued official figures
of Britain's aluminium exports to the United Stotos during 1948.
Troops
also are billeted in Chung Nan Hai, part of which le now the headquarters of the North China Commander, Gen eral Fu Tro-yl.. Empress Dowager Tzu Hsi once lived in one of the palaces there, Today, in the beautiful grounds where she used to stroll, cavalry horses graze contentedly.
Crowds Ratheret to watch division of Nationalists troops march though Hatamen, the pie- juresque gale counseling the Chi- nese and Tartar cities of Peiping
Curious Situation Troops maved Northward along. Hatamen Street past the Glacis, where thousands of workers are busy building new airfield.
Their labours provided an in- teresting spectacle to thousands.
During the past few days, Pel-
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An Israeli spokerman said Tel Aviv tonight that the Israel pilot who shot down a Mosquito plane over Jewish. tpertory in Palestine on November 20 did not see its markings.
Earlier.
Irnell militars: spokesman sold there were no survivors from the plina, which might have been British-Reuter,
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London, December 15. Anglo-Saxon Petryleym
They have not given any
The figures support their which Mr. Howard Bruce, elinging he been enlm and relaxed aign of staging a direct assault denial of allegations of sharp Economic Co-operation Adininising the day, but with night- Da and tension course Wrough Reds, practice in reselling to Ameri-trater, alleged that Britab had under-currents of uneasiness
elty.
Co. which is a member of the The American chief of the tter apparently having caught can firms large quantities of cold to the United States,
The altuation is curious now. Royal Dutch Shell group of con- General Huang Wefs 12th Army aluminium scrapsbought with Co-operation Administration is-
is ostensibl;panies, announced at it. pro- Group in a knotted nouse and Marshall Plan dollars.
sion to The Netherlands, Dr. Alan Every preparation
house to house poses in the next few days to The sintislics after, reducing General Tu Yu-
showed that Valentine, today cleared the Duteng, made for Loris of ming's three Army groups to the nearly 900
aluminum Government of charges
that it and streat to street fighting, but make an offer to holders of pres Bumerical strength
!n of
September a single ingots sent
ac-Improperly re-expected Matshallet e mat of 10 residente still ference and ordinary shares in Venezuelan Oll Concessions to think the city Itself will most
of the 1000 Plan gonds to the United States counted for group, suddenly eased off per- mitting
General tons of re-melted scrap aluminiu 13 Junctions
Dr.
Valentine said: This how escape becoming a battle-quire their shares on the basis of 12 Shell ordinary stock for ruch VOC share, whether pre- Govern!-
ference or ordinary. Let Yen-nien's
Stutes in 1948. The remainder was from The Netherlands relict columns
sent in July (74 tons) and August ment explanations which pushing Northward.
gards us thoroughly sallafuetury It was believed that the Reds (22 tons), under General Llu Po-cheng may
A Ministry of Supply apolies and we have so reported to Mr. man valued these ingots at £70,- | Howard Bruce in Washington, to- be swinging out Westward and when
hese under Chen Y! Eastward 175. 40,124 and £1,385,respec-gether with a strong regommer-
dation that The Netherlands' ex- The to begin another pincer move-
No ometal explanation was blanation be accepted and that Cyprus have agreed to release mant aimed at points between given for the discrepancy between he issue immediately on offelbl for passage to Israel 600 "non- Pengpu and the Yangtse-United these figures and the total of statement to that effect."-Red-combatant" theological students dilont VOC shareholders accept». Press.
12,012 tons of aluminium scrup' ler.
held in Cyprus camps.--Reuter. Ting it.-Router.
Beten's Beauty Salon, el 28 insurgents in mooing-up were stres with Central Fold is ingat form to the United Mission has just received oficinily fluid.--Associated Press.
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Joperations in the Pegu District. 40 miles North of Rangoon, to- Light's military communique
Seven rebels were killed and
unteers several
injured Government forces dispersed ins |surgent bands in Tavoy, In the Tenuiserim Division of Southern Buria, the communique" added. ---Heuter.
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