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Peace Mission Will Not Demand Cease-Fire Order
Nanking January 22,
Mr. Shao Li-txo, chief dolegate of the five-mari mission the government is sending into Com- munist territory in quest of peace, today told the United Pross in an oxclusive interview that the government has abandoned its. insistance on'a mutual cooso five order before beginning peace discussions,
Mr. Shao sak the Executive Yunh has reversed its previous stand in that respect and is now willing to accept the Communist „condition
Chiang Acted
"THE-CHINA-MAIL, MONDAY, JANUARY-24, 1949.
Peiping Surrender Raises Peace Hopes
Shanghai, January 23,
The surrender at Poiping and the selection at Non- king of a fiva-man peace delegation which looks possibly acceptable to the Reds lifted the hopes for peace.
This was despite 0 Red broadcast descrling Generalis simo Chiang Kai-shek's retire ment in favour of Vice Presi- dent Li Tsung-jen as an action prompted by America.
Future agreements, of which the one announced Saturday night is the first, will doubiless give a better idea of what is in store, correspondent Moosa said.
Moosa also said a new liaison office for the administration OT The departure of Generalissimo Peiping is expected to include to Chiang is fading rapidly from rank Nationalists and Reds, not- the public consciousness already,
ably
Fu Two-yi and General Yeh despite his 22 years at the helm. Chien Ying.
officials In Peiping
enen be initiated before me On Us Plan? Shanghai newspapers, which te
end of military action. Shoo Li-tze
olher and four delegates were ready at any mo- ment to leave Nanking and take off for any plate that the Reds designale for the initial meeting. Shao Li-tze granted the inter- View in a room just off the building which he conducts a private primary school to carn a living.
The room was simply, lighted by single candle" and one
The kerosene lantern.
Grand Old Man of Peace" and former Ambassador to Moscow, who has been, one of the most ardent ad-
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the hopes of world peace would rest on the success of his mis- sion.
received.
Ittle
the
Shao nid: "When I this commission, I felt a afraid. The rift between Communists and the Kuomintang has been very great, and up to now in this terrible war, terms advanced
by both
San Francisco, January 22.
Chinese Communist The Radio heard hers tonight de clared that General, Chiang Kai-shek's
withdrawal In favour General Li Toung..
of
President, jon, now acting
was
"at the prompting of the American Government.”
Over was the first The broadcast was Communist reaction to Gan- 'eral Chiang's departure from
Nanking for the South.
Liberated area newspa
nounce
at
pers noted the prediction of foreign
#gencies news Nanking that General Chiang Kal-shak's falture to 21. formal resigna- tion is designed to leave the return way орон for his later," the
added. broadcast "All Indications are that the Kuomintang's reaction- ary Nanking Government has no sincere desire for a poace."
Ranter.
genuine democratic sides have shown a very wide divergence. We realise that our mission will be very difficult.
hint
China, hardly mentioned him on
ensement hig
their front pages as all interest quite probable, swung into the efforts of General
and this
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In fact, Peiping might be the
Li and his "left-over" Chiang guinea pig for Nanking, Shang
hal and other cities—Associated government for peace.
Press.
Rich Asia Seen As Aid To U.S.
the blast against . The Red Chiung, retirement in favour of Ll was not taken too seriously. Anti-foreignlim has always been a strong cohesive force in Chinese Some revolutionary movements. say Chlang's 1068 of public following in the past few years lay ** the fact that he could not
and put a
nationalist strong atlong anti-foreign cast in his campaign against the Com- ค Washington, January 22. munists. The anti-foreign bark is
President Truman was re- usually worse than its bite, but It is undeniably
ported, to have told a group a strong rallying!
that of Congressmen today point.
From surrendered Feiping last United States production could midnight, Associated Press cor not catch up, with demand for respondent Spencer Mooga sent 100 years if the standard of a dispatch saying that agreement living in Asiatic countries for peace there doubtless set a could be raised 2 per cent. pattern for localised peace else- where in China,
Joint administration emerges joint in name only because there no doubt which side will do the administering.
"But I feel at the same time Buong Shao-shung, Peng Chaos that peace is the real need and shein and Chung Tien-hsin. urgent need of gif our people. The announcement of the It is vital for the preservation
pesce delegation
first was the of national existence and the elimination of suffering by our the Kuomintang people. Both und the Communists have realis ed the importance of peace. I believe that both sides are sincere in their destres for peace. In view of this I am confident that our mission will be one of success."
The report came from Con- gressmen present at a breakfast in the legislative buildings, where the President was a guest of the Missouri "congressional delegation.
The agreement ip for a tran- A broad programme of econo- sitional period-transitional, that
mle ald overseas is one of the major acknowledged develop- in to say, until the other sido de-foundations of the programme the ad-the President outlined in yester- gress since Chlang Kai-shek yes- ment in the peace offensive pro-erces into what form
ministration shall-emerge.
day's inaugural address. ferday retired and left Nanking victor, but he has a sugar-coated country would be the result of The spolis are going to the Long-time prosperity in this Reports during the day that the delegation has been selected pill for the vanquished, Moosa such D rise in Aslatic living were once denied, then
wrote.
standards, Mr. Truman was re- cially confirmed and finally an-
ported to have sald." nounced by
government spokesman, "
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unoff-
On the surface, this transitional agreement presents features al- most too good to be true,
are
Presumably he meant that the Eastern countries would be buy- ing more goods and materials from the United States.
Mr. Truman also was quoted the butalde would are to be as saying he realises the respon
|sibility he has on national and Foreigners
guaranteed international affairs and that safety of life and property, and Congress has an equal respon- freedom of religion is permitted į slbility. for everyone.
Those present, he said, asked Unless the present Indications for teamwork in striving for are false, even the air link with peace. the outside world will be allow- No one wants another war, the friends say Hsu Hui- President sald, and, he does not tung, chairman of the City believe there is any necessity for Council, will By. South today, another one if everybody works Hau is supposed to be
dichard for peace. member of the Kuomintang.) Another war might set the na- The agreement is a masterpiece tion back a century in progress, n fach-saving at which the he was quoted as saying.—Reu- Chinese, with long centuries of ter. practice, have
have no masters,
ed.
Shan said: "We will do our
Earlier reports linked former
Political control of Pelping utpost to make it a success. We Premier Chang Chun, one of the changes, but yet postól and hope that the Communists Will Inner Cabinet members and telecommunication services with reply immediately to our offer Minister without Portfolio, as of initiating talks now and pro- one of the delegates, and It was maintained. pose a place where discussions known that he was one of Sun can be held to permit as carly
Fo's choices. However, It was e start as possible.
believed that the Executive Yuan "Peace in China is necessary had decided that it might be to the реасо
throughout the better for him to remain in Nad- world. As soon as the Com king since he is one of the top munists accept
the government policy makers. proposals and designate peacc The five-man delegation re- talks, our delegation will pro- presents all major cliques in the eeed there immediately."
present government. Shap Li Asked if the government terms tze, chlef delegate, represents the as outlined in Chiang Kai-shek's Independent Left of the Centre New Year
Year message still stand as Liberal Group; Chang Chi-chung, the government polley, Shao re- the Whamped Clique dominating piled: "If the government and the Chinese Army; Pang Chao the Communists both Insist on shein, Rightist CC Clique;
Huang their original terms, peace will Shuol
Shao-hung
Kwanga!
There is no mention anywhere impossible."
headed by Li Tsung-ien and of surrender, only a subtle im
Pal Chung-hsi, and plication in a clause providing representative for troops to be moved out of the
clty for, reorganisation- good word,
Ollier members of the pence General
mission are: Chang Chih-chung, Chung Tien-hsia member of the Inner Cabinet as of Sun, Fo's Clique. United the Minister
without Portfolio, Press.
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1949
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London Newspapers Differ About China
London, January 22,
London newspapers differed today on how uncom
promising the Chinese Communists may be in their dealings with the Nationalists and the West.
Treasure Hunt In Bataan
•
Manila, January 22.
Tales of treasure buried on the former battleground of Bataan have touched off à minor gold rush in the Peninaula West of Manila.
Colonel James. H. Keefe, Chief of the Customs Secret Service, told the press after roturning from Batain that the people of. the province, are trooping to the vicinity of Mariveles. Last week a man was reported to have un- darthed a cache of platinum, jewellery, gold coins and paper money worth US$25,000.
Treasure hunters talk excited-
The Liberal News Chronicle The Conservative Daily Tele-ly of other valuables rumoured to editorialised that, posterity would graph had this to say.
have been buried by troops and
not condemn President Chiang "The task of economic and Wives of United States Army Kai-shek who retired on Friday | administrative reconstruction officers when the Japanese besleg- for his refusal to compromise presents stupendous
problems ed. Bataan, seven years ago,—AS- with Communism.
which may temper the ideological sociated Press. "He know better than some of real of the Communtats and con- the statesmen of Central strain them to foster good re- Europe," the paper sald.
lations with the Western influential Independent Powers." Times, on the other hand, saw
The
But, it added, their victory
some hope for a Chinese coali "cannot but have dangerous re- tion government in the fact that percussions in Malaya and In- Chlang's successor is General Ldonesia and perhaps in India."- Toung Jen
Associated Prem, The
Times said if the Comi munista "still desire a coalition, he is a man with whom they might be willing to treat".
Balgrado, January 21..
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20 per cent of the French popula |tion- (about 41 million), is now suffering from the continental in fluenza epidemic..
Although generally of a mild M. Lubomir Radovanvich, Vice-type, the disease has caused a
"He has very little to bargain; with," the paper cautioned, how-President of the Belgrade Fodera number of deaths, particularly ever, and all will depend on the tion of Lawyers, has, been ap- among very young children and Immediate ambitions of the Com-pointed Yugoslav Ambassador in old people, the organlestion *munists."
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