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GOVT HASTENS EVACUATION Scouts Bake S. African Racial Riots
Decision On Red Terms Expected This Week
ANOTHER PEACE MISSION ?
Nanking, January 17.
In face of the growing Communist threat, Generalissimo Chiang. -
Kai-shek's Nationalist regime today hastened evacuations, es- pecially of military personnel, diverting Nanking's importance os a military nerve contre.
Meanwhile a Government decision on a response to the Chinese Reds' eight conditions for peace is expected by Thursday after the Cen- tral Political Council meets for the second time to take up the ques- tion left unsettled in today's session,
Molotov Sees China Envoy
*** |The Government will sond General Chang Chih- chung, Inner Cabinot Ministor, as special ro- presentative to Yonan, former Communist capital, within a few days to discuss concreto stops for peace negotiations, according to the Nanking Chinese newspaper, Mi Jih Evening Post. The report was not confirmed.
Nanking. January 17. The Soviet Foreign Minis- tor, Mr. V. Molotov, has sent for the Chinese Ambawader, Mr. Fu Ping-chan, in Mos- cow and discussed the China situation, according to usual. ty reliable sources here to. day.
Alusela's view was believed
have to
been given
on China's recent aide memoire to the Big Four powers, Big- gesting that they might in. dividually or collectively tend their good offices to schlovo a cease-fire with the Chinese Communist armies.
Detalls of tho discussion were believed to have been went to Nanking.
The report has strengthan- ed the ballef in some Kuo-
mintana circles. Favouring- place, that Russla might be willing to land its good offices If the Kuomintang Govern-
mont
moro Iboral peace offer in anawor to Map Te-tung's eight point. terms-Raular,
mada another
Govt Forces Complete Withdrawal
to
Members of the Kuomintang's Yuan petitioning Premier Sun Fo! highest policy-making body. the to despatch. delegation to the Central Political Council, were re- Communists for direct negotin- ported to be sharply divided to- tions on peace conference arrange-
of National As day when they met in camera to nients, a group debate whether the Nationalist j sembly members now in Nanking Government should continue the today
pppealed
to President the Communists war with
support demands for a Chinng to cease-fire, and, at the same time, snake a new peace offer.
asked both
aldes to end the pro- decl-gande worture
The Council reached no xion
and will meet again Thursday.
or
on
The Elder Statesman, Mr. Chu Cheng, one of the Kuomintang Party Counters, sharply criticised the absence from today's meeting
Leader Of Pirate Gang Arrested
The leader of the gang of pirates who made a futile at- tempt to seize the mv. Kwel The appeal also proposed that Shan last week is among the non-partisans, as well as members of parties other than the Kuomin-seven arrested by the Chinese tong, be allowed to participate in Police, Mr. Lai Ju-mel, veteran skipper of the river matorship the peace discussions.
leader of said yesterday on his arrival
from Canton.
Social Democrats who conferred
son Chang, CUTEDN of President Chlong Kal-shek and
with the Generalissima today, was Dr. Sun Fo, Prime Minister, Mr. Chu tools the chair in the Pre-reported to have advised Chiang he deserved a vacation, and at sident's absence.
time advocated revision of the guaranteeing left untouched.
Criticism
Dr. Sun Fo arrived later offer he was said to have been tele- phoned by a friend.
According to reliable informants,
Mr. Chu went on to criticise mili- tary leaders for deserting part of the Nationalist forces to the Com- munists and to declared that he would never go to Tulwan.
people's right to be
The Kwel Shan: brought about 200 passengers about twice the number who underwent a 90- minute-piracy oftempt tibbing date
Jamboree Cake Show Signs
This. “iced-cake” affair, is a conference table built by Lithuanian acouts at the Pan-Pacifle - Jambores at Wonga Park. 'Melbourne, Australla. The "table,” around which the scouts sit in a shallow trench, is built on à foundation of brushwood and decorated with stones and broken glass. The Lithuanian boys are all migrants to Australia. They were among 5,000 Boy Scouts aftend- Ing the Jamboree, which was opened by World Chief Scout, Lord Rowallan. Besides Australian boys, there were Pakistan, Maori, `Fijian, Filipino and Malay Scouts encamped at Wonga Park-AP Photo.
Strikers Reported To
Be Demanding Further Concessions
Contrary to previous announcements, the strike of farmer taxi drivers has not yet been settled, the "China Mail" learned from usually' roll- able sources yesterday,
the corication, with, articles ishin on her last trip front Cantort, | "The people realise that it in quite safe to travel now with It was learned that academic stricter vigilance by ship's guards, circles in Nanking were planning the former Chinese Navy com- appeals to
to both
sides to stop fight-mander sald. immediately and
and begin nego-
However, from today the Kwel tiations for permanent peace, Shan will leave Canton at 5 pm. It
The Social Welfare Daily, in an ve hours earlier than usual, editorial,
precaution. commented that althohus
The vessel
last left Canton the gap between the Nationallats and Communists is very wide one
week-end ut 0 p.m., instead of 10 thing is restin-both want peace pm. She will depart from here
Meanwhile government section at her usual time (10 p.m.) evacuations from Nanking were The Kwai Shan berthed along stepped up, and the National De-side her sister ship, the my, Kwei A little smaller than the fence Ministry and the Gendarme 1al.
The former Foreign Minister, Dr. Wang Shih-chich, well known as one of the President's closest political supporters, was reported to have told the meeting that headquarters were the Infest mill- Kwei Shan, the vessel is on the of the Legislative Council and
sources
Move To Canton
e
Of Spreading
Durban, January 17. The race warfare here showed signs of spreading today oven as Government leaders set up, machinery to control the wild. Zulu.ladian tioting.
'The air still rang with shots in Durban, where police fired on African' looters last night, but police later said the murderous feud was. under control here..
Three more Indian houses were sat alight tonight. in the Cato Manor arca of Durban, the prin- cipal, centre of the past three days of rioting between Africans' and Indians.
In all up to midday today. more than 100 people 'were officially reported killed and about 1,000 injured.
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The district police commandant, Major
G. Bestford, said that while Durban itself continued quiet, armed Indians and Afrleans were causing trouble in the out- lying districts.
Two Africans were killed and three injured when a group of armed Indlans attacked them at Police Clairwood this morning. headquarters reported one death during the riots today at Stanger, 80 kilometres from Durban.
The Minister of Justice, Mr. C. R. Swart, said in Durbari today before leaving Durban for Cape- town: "I have no evidence of anj organised movement behind the riots." He will report to the South African Cabinet in Copetown to- morrow.
The Minister said it was signif- capt that only. Indian shops, were dam geu, though European shops next to them remained. Intact."
.f
Zulu Appeals
Fowlhouse Morality
Sydney, January 17. Australian churchmen aro today strongly sup- porting the boycott move- ment against the Holly- wood actress, Miss Kita Hayworth.
Tho. Bov. Alan Walker, Methodist, who was Aus- tralian representative tho
at
World Council of Churches.conference at Amsterdam, said: "Hay- worth's fowlhopso. moral- lty should not go unchal- lenged. Her actions fur- ther undermine the stand- ards of chastity and the sanctity of marriage."
The Rev. Dr. C. Irving Benson, Methodist, Mel bourne, said "It is refresh- ing to find Hollywood is recognising there are Imits to tolerance-which even Hollywood laxity could not lot go unrebuk
Spring Shokugs, chief of tho
triba "and" the ", deceplod | "king" of the Zulus, appealed to- day to his people to stop the, bloodshed and destruction to pro-ed." perty.
The Rev. J. Arthur Lewis of the Melbourne Baptist Church had this to say: "Hollywood's morals stink throughout the world and the sooner we begin to clean them the better. But why stop at Hayworth when there are dozens of
"bad":" "others just as
"Its my earnest wish that this trouble be settled in a peaceful
he declared. The Durban Sunday Tribune said today that the main causes of the riots had been apparent for yeats. "What has happened" and is happening is that the native has burst the bonds of frustration."
press said I all the evidence from The Johannesburg Sunday Ex- Durban pointed to
United 'Press. nothing incre complicated or
or mysterious than a sudden reversion to their im-
Zulu people.
The Sunday Express
it will be housed in the Canton the opening of the Elliot Paande, pay the men $6.75 a day, and to cording to the informants, weretic than those which can be spi- animosities and political discord.
one
over
was reported that the Motorcars Drivers' Union has put forward additional demands which the operators are not prepared to accept. According to the informants, are to be filled by further the owners were asked at a drawing from among those meeting of the Labour Com-muirting on the list. missioner, Chinese members Insist On Tribunal.
The Union also insisted that Deace with the Communists while tary organs to slash their per- Hong Kong-Kongmoon run of the the managements of the taxi should the management desire to mediate past of the added that civilised peoples to protest against the Nationalists were in their sunnel to the minimum.
Kwangel Navigation Company. Nanking, January 17. present position could obtain no
The Kwel Hai was mined some companies on January 11 to dismiss an employee for any rea-
make further concessions in on, that employee must appear newspaper reports end pictures of the persecution of a minority.
before a tribunal consisting of the outbreak should be posted on "The existence of foreign agents Government troops have guarantees for China,
time in 1947 when 40 passengers According to reliable
of the Labour the United Nations. committee in this country has been suspected evacuated Linhwalkwan, Wuho
and crew were killed. She has order to settle the dispute.
representatives been reconverted into a de luxe The next day, the owners wrote ofee, the managements and the room to show the world that for some time, and while it is and Szehsien, completing their the Government's answer to Mao
that one of South Africa is struggling with common knowledge Chinese passenger river motor-to the Labour Commissioner, in-Union, to present, his caso. Tze-tung's eight-point programme withdrawal from the skeleton is likely to be either in the form
The National Defence Ministry ahi,
dicating their willingness to ro These additional demands, ac problems moe terrible and realise their alms' was to stir up racial Hwai River outer defence line, of a pubile announcement by the planned to move to Canton where The Kwel Shan participated in instate 227 men instead of 283, to about 100 miles North of Nan-President, or the despatch of a
to unacceptable to the operators who led by political theorising. they have not in the past succeed. king, according reliable Government delegation to contact Provincial Government house, The She made a trial run round Honam extend the period of notice of dis have notified the Labour Com The Natal Witness, the oldest ed in organising the native popu-
Inland, with the aluminium super-missal
to two weeks. missioner to the Reds to make arrangements Army headquarters is to
from military sources today.
that effect.
The newspaper in Natal, wrote: "What-lallon into anything like a dis- gvacuated to Shackwan, a smell structured river vessel, Chl Men. This agreement, they made for talks.
employers insist on the right to
South Africans may feel ciplined army of rebels." to be town near Canton, Other reports from North China
which is joining this run nl the clear, was subject to the Union's all at their own discretion
The paper The former is believed
sympathised with The Gendarme hadquarters near future. said that General Lin Pino's Com-more likely, however, due to the
not presenting further demands.
future vacancies, including those about Indians in general and the
Astatie land tenure question in the Indian vletinis. Associated "The passago is better than the When the Labour Commission caused by men drawn for re-particular, It i munist forces which took Tientsin Generalissimo's desire to keep the will also be moved to Canton, The
their duty as Press and Reuter. were splitting and moving rapidly people Informed of major de bulk of the air force and navy Maitland Passage. Mr. Lot deer met the Union's representatives employment and not taking up the East and West to intensify Com- |velopments in the peace move Feadquarters had already shiftedclared. It cuts the travelling time at the Confucian Hall on January rourists attieks on Tangku and ment.
To Talwan, leaving only skeleton by about 20 minutes. It is wider 13, these terms were notifled to/08, either among their former Pelping.
the men and it was then stated employees or new hands, they say.
"China
further Mall": Today's meating was indecisive personnel with Commanders Chow and safes.
that the terms were agreeable. earned that during the last two Observers said it was unlikely with the debate centring around Chi-Jou and Kwel Yung-chin in
instructions to be handed to the Nonking.
was r On January 15, a letter
three days, several former that the two cities would hold cabinet as requested by Premier
reveived by the owners saying employees have applied for, and out for more than one week, Sun Fo who made a simple re-
that the Labour Commissioner been given back, their old jobs. had received a notification from When the Union came to hear of Hualyuan and Pengpu on the quest of guidance from the Coun of the Yangtze River and concen- Eastern end of the Hual river cl on the response to the Com-trate on the South, bank of the
the Union that the balloting of this, it was alleged, a demand
for
re-employment was made to the men to refund line were earlier reported evacuat-munist conditions.
members
allowances given would be confined only to those all monetary former drivers who were still un-them during the period of their employed and all in the Colony; tinemployment. Some of these The Union, furthermore, stated men failed to report for work.
any member(s) According to some of the that should drawn for re-instatement be un- former drivers, the Union made available, then his (their) place(#) it clear that all members re- instated would have to contribute $1.25 each dally toward the up- keep of the remaining 231 men.
ed and occupied by advancing
Communists of General Chen Y's Decision Delayed
armies that defeated the Nation- alat Houchow garrison..
Serious Shortago
with in-
In the light of Government plans to abandon positions North
river, the Nationalists apparently
PLANE CRASHES
IN SCOTLAND
Glasgow: January 17, Five people were reported kill- ate grappling with the problemed when a plane, believed to be whether or not to leave a small American, crashed today in the force on the North bank of the Argylleshire highlands, Scotland.
The aircraft, with 20 persons river to harass anticipated Com- munist crossing operations and aboard, was flying to Iceland. The The Premier asked for direction defent the main ferry
injured werd being brought down to furnish the cabinet
points, It was learned that Navy Com the rough mountainside, strapped structions on a reply to be made mandar Kwel Yung-chin, respon- to stretchers-Reuter. to a request of 60 members of the sible for river defence and Gen- Legislative Yuan who wrote a eral Teng En-po, Nanking-Shang- letter to Dr. Bun asking for the area garrison commander, In tion in the capital, Reliable appointment of suitable represen-charge of the South bank defence, .. sources. salt today that only 8.000 tatives to make immediate contact were at loggerheads on this point.
tons of coal were held at Fukow
with the Communists to Login Admiral Kwel Was said to have to generate the city's electricity peace talks.
Euggested that without a task The majority of Council mem-force on the North bank it would and pumping water suppiles.
Unless coal was obtained from bers were reliably reported to be be difficult for his naval vessels Shanghai, the capital would be in favour of asking for a cease to check crossing attempts- without light and water within 10 fire order as the first requisito to United Press and Reuter. days, Electricity is already limited begin peace talks. But the delay In reaching a decision was report-
The loss of Hualyuan, which provided Nanking's main conl sup- plies, has created a serious situa-
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British Promise To Malayans
Singapore, January 17,
Britain looks forward to the day when Malayans, take their place beside other self-governing people in the British Commonwealth,
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