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TIENTSIN BELIEVED FIRST RED OBJECTIVE
Nanking, December 22.
The North China war swirled to Tientsin's dirt wall and moat to- day, according to well-informed sources, who said they bo- lieve that the great industrial city is at the top of the list of Red objectives.
Tientsin is now isolated by land and cut off from the sea.
The main air-
field, seven miles East, is under Red control, but some aircraft today landed on the field built on the race-course within the city.
Official Chinese roports said Tientsin is in the full
defence stage, with stroom and thoroughfaros barricaded and closed to traffic.
These reports said the Nationalists had been en- gaged in heavy fighting South of the city for the past three days ond nights.
de-New Airfields
Tientsin's Nationalist fenders are not generally re- garded as standing troops and they are facing crack Man- churian Communist units under General Lin Pine,
A Carrison announcement re
markle
vealed Inday that hundreds of mowed villagers have been down by Nationalist guns in the vicinity of Tien- chimiao, in the North Western suburb, when seen wandering about strangely garbed in rod and green.
authorities The
alleged tha! villagers, numbering a couple of thousand, who covered themselves with quilts and bedsheets in a were armed variety of colours.
with bomba supplied by the Com munists, who drove them
a bullet shields,
alend
Peiping Skirmish
funguage
The official English Peiping Chronicle gave front page proininence today to the appeal by the Wong Kuo Tao Tenhwei International Moral Society) nd dressed to all thinking people in help the world for In preventing
the destruction of Pelping.
"We want you to support us In so that our struggle for reason Peiping may be spared the fate of many historical places in Europe where war destroyed what centuries of thought love and labour had built up."
RO
the
great
Meanwhile, Chinese Air Force planes yesterday made success. ful test fight. from the new polo ground airfield off Legation Quarter. The field was built in haste to give Peiping an air link with the outside world. The Arst Janding there occurred on Satur- day, but Improvements had to
While there was again no large-be made before outbound flights scale or close range fighting could be carried out without grave around Petping, General Fu T-risk,
cordon
yl's Headquarters announced to- Menawhile, work went on round day that the Nationalist offensive the clock on the airfield being Against the Communist
built in the grounds of the Temple was progressing satisfactorily.
Aviation and Altar of Heaven. is claimed that Nationalist circles foresaw the possiblity of
supported by mass shell- commercial troops,
airlines running
ing by artillery, dispersed Com- plance to Pelping when it is com- munist troopa detected within thepleted. Western suburbs. In the vicinity
of Kungchufen (Princess Tomb Death Confirmed
after 10 minutes' engagement last
evening.
Meanwhile,
Dlectricity
and
The oficial Kuomintang organ,
Communists In Peiping?
Tokyo, December 22,
A Chinese Communist radio broadcast monitored in Tokyo today claimed the Communists have entered Polping.
The announcer, speaking in broken English, identified the "broad- station A C-7MH casting from Palping in Com- manist-held China."
He requested that foreign embaraice
Nanking be In the given
purported message.
fasued to have been
by Acting President C. W. Liu of Yenching University, to the effect that all' foreigners at the university wore safe after the Communist occupation of the university grounds.
He gave no details of his station's location or whether It actually was within Pal. The broadcast ping's walle. was monitored by the Ameri. can amateur station J-2UBA in Tokyo United Press.
SECOND HITCH IN CABINET FORMATION
water supplies to Pelping have Central Daily News, claimed this had declined to
morning that rumours the Cam-
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1948.
SCENE OF THE CRASH
An aerial view of the scene of Tuesday's disister, when # CNAC Bkymaster crashed, killing 35. In the upper right of the plature can be 'ween the shoulder of the hill where the plane flest struck, The, white mark in the loft centre je the fuselage of the aircraft-(Photo by Bing Tao Jih Pro)
SELF-DEFENCE PLEA
MADE BY DUTCH TO UN
Paris, December 22. The Dutch told the United Nations Security Coun- cil today they attacked the Indonesian Re- public because they had captured secret Re- publican plant to attack the Dutch. Herman-Van Royen, Dutch delegate, was the first speaker as the Security Council met to; take up an American complaint against the Dutch for their land, sea and air attack on the Republic.
Jan
Nanking, December -22. There was another hitch in the formation of Dr. Sun · Fo's War Cabinet tonight when it was reliably learned that Mr. Mel Yi-chi, Chancellor of the National Chunghua University, accept his become uncertain as the wer
nomination as Education Minis- beneath the city's walls enter- ar the ninth day. This resultes munist General Llu Po-cheng was ter..
News of Mr. Mel's decision be 1949. In frantia digging of walls lykilled on December 10 in a Na-
tionalist bombing raid on his came known almost simultaneous- the populace and a rush for Headquarters South West ofly with the official announcement_ names of the ministers announced coincided
with the nominees approved earlier today
the by
Kuomintang Polifical Council.
Dr. Sun Fo la understood to have conferred with Mr. Mai immediately, following the Council meeting, but is believed to have failed to persuade him to change his mind.
kercrane and candies, prices al Suhsien have been confirmed in of the Cubinet appointments. The/termined to give eventual-inda-..
which spared over 100 per cent evernight
The cost of foodstuffs, especially wheat and our, also rerk.eted
sky-
Pengpu.
General Liu's final Communist offensive across the Hwai Blver against Nurking had been expect The 50th execution in Poipinged almost hourly by observers.
The niagistrates had spoken with the stretcher bearers,
who
since Friday for violation of mai-
law took place yesterday and that Liu had been wounded tadi morning at the Bridge of Heaven.
in the leg and died from loss of blood while being taken
The victim was Chang Hsien-
kc. alleged Red agent who was first-aid post. chuired - with having set fire to
20 tons of fodder belonging cavalry.
Pengpu Quiet
the
The Fengpu front was relative-
ly quiet ngain today. There has
been little notion there past week.
In the
to a
HSUCHOW VETERANS TRAPPED
Pengpu, December 22.
It yox reported tonight
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ILL-FATED AIRCRAFT FLEW AGAINST ADVICE
The China National Aviation Corporation Skymaster which crashed 10 miles East of Kai Tak airfield on Tuesday was "flying in vory foggy weather conditions against the advice of the Hong Kong Control Tower," it was officially disclosed last night.
Total casualties, including Mr. Quentin Roosevelt,
28-year-old CNAC Vice-President and grand- son of the former President of the United States, were 35-two more than originally as- sumed by the local CNAC office.
Among the dead wore Dr. Pong Hsuch-pci, Chin- oso delegate to the United Nations and farmor Minister of Information, Mr. Fong Yu-cheng, Director of the Shanghai Bureau of Contral News Agency, and Mr. Fang Pei-tin, a movie film director.
planc No single part of the was intact. The fuselage Whe incinerated except for the under corringo. Even the tail surface was a heap of white ash.
Police and civil officials work- ed all morning gathering the dead and their posseslers on the hill- Bide.
Pilot Charles Sunky, a na- turalised Danish-American, haw been tentatively identified by his CNAC uniform.
Littering the scene was an as- sortment of clothing, bedding. mail, aircraft instruments, sheets
of music, religious medals and
rolling carde.
be
Others who lost their lives [ter of Information after the sur- Included five women, and a boy. render of Japan.
Mr. Feng Yu-cheng. also
Early reports that looters hmt Thirteen bodies were brought publisher of the Central. Dally heeen busy aro unsubstanflated. by CNAC launches to Hong News at Shanghai, was on bis Police yesterday were buty Kong during Tuesday night way to Canton to establish
gathering cameras, Jewellery. They were taken to the Kow-
newspaper in that city.
currency pocketbooks and Mr. Turner, Divisional Superin-longing to the dead. loon Mortuary.
A wrist watch tendent of the Water Police,
found on the Inspector R. Oliver, Sub-Inspector at one passenger
was still run- Pyle.
Sub-Inspector. Rose and wing. other police officers who were first to reach the wrecked plane were still on Basalt
Island yes- terday.
Rough weather prevented the others from being transported to Hong Kong yesterday. They are expected to be brought. In this marning.
The Governor of Hong Kong sent a cable on Tuesday night to They are exepeted back this the Secretary of State for the morning with the dead. Mr. Colonies. The message read: "REA. J. R. Moas. Director of Civil gret to inform you that a CNAC Aviation, went to the area yes- Skymaster enroute from Shanghal terday to investigate and report to Hong Kong drushed within to the Governor. British territory today."
The messages added: "The plane was flying in very foggy weather conditions against the advice of the Hong Kong Tower. The esti- mated 28 passengers and five crow are all acad, A report follows is
'due course,”
Yesterday a reply was received from the Colonial Office, The Secretary of State's cable said: "Deeply regret to learn of the heavy loss of life in the accident to the CNAC Skymaster."
The passenger list cabled from Shanghai yesterday showed that besides a crew a 'soven, the Sky- master carried 28 passengers two more than originally assumed on Tuesday by the Hong Kong CNAC office.
Carried 28 Passengers
Search Of Wreckage
Mr. Moss Annoyed
Qvil Aviation Director Mr. A J. H. Moss denied commercial and press photographers access to the crash, Mr. Moss rald he was "rather annoyed that "China Mall" Associated Press and other Pressmen reached the scene. am going to make enquiries ad to how they got there," he said.
Corrien birds circled over the . Pollce and nviation officers island as the police worked. yesterday raked the incinerated Almost all the dead seemed at wreckage of the Skymaster in least partially decapitated, ap efforts to and more victims, says parently due to the tremendous an Associated Press correspon-momentum with which they were hurled through the fuselago when He added that the big CNAC the plane crashed. plane lay in ashes, 100 feet from One man seemed to have had the summit of the 564-foot an idea of what was coming. Basalt Island. Around It HL- His blackened hands were held tered
for more than half
of a before his face... Attitudes
they met were the bodles and bag the rest indicated gege of the 35 victims except death without even knowing it those who had been removed to was upon them. the mortuary.
denet who visited the area.
mile
Fourteen mangled bodies lay of the hillside. Four others, one of whom is belleved to be that of Quentin Roosevelt, still by among waiting the ashes of the plane,
to Hong Kong by
The Weather
form N of Formosa,
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Today's Forecastilod Easterly winria
The passengers were Messrs.to be removed
A 1800 GMT ( p.. KRT) the Van Royen said the alleged (Fort De Kock) the Republican pei, Feng Yu-cheng, Wang Wo estimated today that the plane rapidly NE across Kanchatke. The us
Quentin Roosevelt, Peng Heuch-police launch.
Pilots at the scene of the crash alberian anti-cyclone continue to ranve E behind an intènku, depression curving secret Republican plans were capital 45 miles North of Padang. hal, Chao Kuo-Ohus, Chen was flying at more than 200 miles dated trough extende BW to the B of Han Ming-ying. Lo Llang-chlen, for large-scale military action said the communique
when its right wing Japen and scross the Eastern Bea *an hour "On the whole there was very Chu Yun, Chu Mon, Fang Pei-lin struck the hillside 100 feet from centras Chias.. It has intenside against the Dutch in January, little resistance. Nowhere are Chiang Yun-feng, Hsu Chen- the summit of the rocky 554-foot uiderably with depraton beginntag tu
counter-attacks being made.” the Dutch werD He said
do-
chuch, Wu Ching-an, Lia Teh- island. The communique wald As-
Mo Yi-jen, Wang
They said the plane was on pendence to the United States
---pubilean forces-aut-fro-to-the chuan, Yung-chot Chen-Po-the Hong Kong beam but was Wettber-ekoody-and unsettled-with, drinak....
town and all Installations et chung, Chang But he said they
ching, Shen of Indonesia.
Tiepu before they were cap. Un, Lo Haino-fang, Mrs Wang Hu hillside where the plane crashed Maximum: 12.6 dus. Fahr
Shen Shih-alen, Yang Hal-
lying too low. The blackoned and rain. Costa; mist. of would not get their independence
tured. The area, some 32 miles) Chiu-huan, wit Chu Chin-chun, iramediately burst into flames Bunshine: 1.8 bout.
For Chu Hung- gives Mrs. until the Dutch were sure the citizens of such a federation would coast, is one of the eluheat 01: Maren, Chen, in. Tutai, sinon not fall under the dictatorship of
Wel-shen,
and Master Lut, and left wing were an extremeist party.
The communique zald total Lu
Mr. Quentin Roosevelt's wife, around
and near the summit, Dutch casualties for the four-day Mr. Francis Roosevelt and their had come to rest half way down old campaign are eight killed and 14 wounded, spokesman Nations
Domestic Matter
Inland
from the
prizes of Java..
North Eart
Yesterday's Weather-
rise to the ballet that it Minimum 45,0 dear. Fab.
The official three young daughters are all in the slope.
Mr. Roosevelt has been Shanghai. Bold the United staff in Kallurang was in China for about a year acting a Director of CNAC. His father cafe and unharmed. He sald the
wheeled
Force Of Impact
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Bandings si 10 .. 436.00 Baro, at mal...1017.0 1011.6 mb.
Equals 10.02 27.05 inches. Rel. Humidity
4465 m. 1.
Wind Direction -
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18. kuota.
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The airliner struck with such Dew Point
were hurled more than 300 yards, Tides force that two of its four engines Wind Dire cylinder heads were split open, | Hih wis 32
He defended the Dutch "police" that action, beginning on Saturday, an Mr. Mei was meeting President the grounds that the Indonesians Chiang Kai-shek with other uni-had constantly violated the trusts were given freedom of movement was killed in action in Normandy Gold, around the small, mountain resort in the last war. His brother left| The Security Council, he versity professors and lecturers who yesterday, were evacuated in. was not competent to deal with and no curfew was imposed on Hong Kong for Shanghai yester-
day. them,
Mr. Peng Hruch-pel lightly loaded transport planes the question because:
He added, however: "They have (1) The Charter dealt with from the improvised airfield in
be better to years old. the centre of besieged Pelping. the relations between sovereign been told it would
States. Unless Mr. Mei is porsunded by the Generalissimo to accept the Education post the number of portfolios unflied in Dr. Sun Fo's Cabluet will have been increased to two. So far Dr. Sun Fo has not
Pro-Government sourcese said Continued Government re- some Nationalist units were mor- treat from the Hwai River line Ing North from the Hunt River indicated on Tuesday all hope but this is highly doubtful view of previous reliable reports was lost for the Southward found a nominee for the post of from Associated Press Correupon Escape of the former Hauchow Agriculture and Forestry. Reu- dent Seymour Topping that Goy- garrison.
Th
Resistance by the serving
erament troops were abandoning trapped garrison is
the Huni River front and retreat-mainly to divert the Commun~ ing Southward.
ist atrength while Government
The Klangnan Evening Post units fall back
sad Nationalist reinforcements king
toward Nan-
wore moving into Northern A Communist broadcast, heard
Klangau in the Lake Hungtza
and toward the Grand in San Francisco, hinted if will
Broa
Canal to the Enat
Kлayu.
not be. long before strong Red forces
reach the Yangtse at a
ter.
Dr. Figl Found Blameless>
Vienna, December 21.
square
He was educated at baggage and bodles were strewn (2) The matter was remain Indooors from 7 p.m. to the Japanese Imperial Univer- over an area of half a within the domestic jurisdiction a.m."--Associated Press, Reutersity and later at other foreign mile.
and (a) and United Press. of The Netherlands, The altuation did not andanpér International page and curt. The Council meeting, called at the request of Australia and the United States, to consider the and renewed Oghting In Java Sumatra, adjourned on Monday because the representatives of Itussia, the Ukraine and Colombia were not present.
United Nations Investigators. sald the Dutch evidently were At planning their current military campaign against the Indonesian
Dr. Leopold Figl Austrian Republic while still corresponding
the
found UN
with the Republic through
The UN Good Offices.Commit-
universities. He became Minis-
Word Of Executions
Still No
Japs'
Tokyo, December 22. dawn today General MacArthur's public informa- tion officer had no word from: Sugamo prison.” where Tojo and his six-follow.condemned ward criminals have now boon awaiting six' wooks · for execution.
The Post said the Communists point 30 miles East of Nanking Chancellor, was today were attempting to prevent the where the Grand Canal flows into blameless by his party 1.Ex- Nationalists from. advancing the river. around the Grand Canal town of The broadcast claimed capture ecutive of charges made by a tee, which had sought to mediate which may have been, of Kaoya, 85 miles North East of former police chief that he had the dispute between the Nether-
Failures to hold the execu- last riles before they are execut- evacuated by its defenders, who Nanking, last Thursday and in accepted a gold cigarette case lands and the Indonesian tion last night is believed to od-Router are believed retreating South. dicated the next objective would worth 25,000 schillings. public, made the accusation in a
be the Grand Canal town of Edgar Rados, former head of cable report to the Security Coun- be attributable to, the late re- ceipt by General MacArthur of Yangchow.
the State Police Department in eil in Paris. The report said:
"A military operation the official Supreme Rod troops North of the Hwal Vienna, found guilty of blackmail vital sections of the Tantain hard labour, made the allegation lands forces must have involved. States practice of giving con-
considerable planning and it is Pukow railroad. (An informed | at his trial. Nanking source sald Red traina Dr. Fist stated that he first rò dificult for the Committee not to demned men 24 hours advance ard moving Bouth of Hauchow fused to accept the caso but conclude that plans for such notice of execution. *-- as far as 65, milos)-
when Rados refused to take it everdtions were in progros dụr- Newspaperien last night began Any Communist. establishhtent back be deposited it with the ing. the exchange of a rail hoad South of Hsuchow Chancellory. He added that in
dence in the last few days before for the second time their 24-hour
hangings worldwide. Ordinance Becomes would case the supply problem any ease the cigarette ease was the action started and at the time watch to flash the news of the
Netherlands authorities facilitated transfer of the Committee's head- quarters to Kallerant.”
are reported to have reopened and sentenced is 16mths nature carried out by the Nether: cision and the standing United. Terrible State
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