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REDS WILLING TO GOTIATE The Brigade HK WILL BE DEFENDED
Cease-Fire For Suiyuan
Shanghai, Janusty 25,
A conso-Aro agreement. for Suiyuan Province has mbosumagrogalawin prizelplezanja
between Genòral Fu Tio- yi and the Communist de- legates in Polping, accord- ing to
Chinese reports
from Felping.
The agreement
is ex- pected to be signed as soon as General Tung Chin-wu, Governor of Sulyunn, ar- rives in Pelping.
Reports also said that negotiations are proceed- in the ancient capital for a local cease-fire agree- ment for General Yen Hui- Alan's three-month be. sleged Shansi capital of Talyuan.-Reuter,
CAPITAL TO MOVE TO CANTON
Peace T
On Basis Of
Eight Original Demands
COALITION WITHOUT KMT
Shanghai, January 25.
A Communist Radio broadcast today said that the Chinese Com- munists are willing to negotiate peace with the newly-appointed five-man Nationalist peace delegation on the basis of the 'original eight Communist demands.
The announcement was made by the Communist Party spokesman in a
Chinese language broadcast from North Shensi Province,
The broadcast accepts the idea of a coalition government, but said that the Kuomintang-Government party of Nationalist China — will be barred.
new
The broadcast snid
that of new "democratic coalition gov→ ernment" will be created by the
Leftist-dominated "Politient Consultative Coun- cil" now meeting at Shihchla- chung. South of Pelping in Hopei Province. This council Includes 55 Leftist leaders from Nationalist China and from Hong Kong.
The eight pointer on which the Communists are prepared to talk peace were enumerated by the Communist leader. Muo Tse-tung. 10 January 15 in response
from the peare
uppeals Nationalist.
to leave Nahking "by' tomorrow | along at the latest,"
New Governor Of Kwangtung
Canton, January 25. General Houch Yueh arrived. hore this aftor- noon to take up the post of Governor of Kwang- fung.
He was greeted at the station by a ̈vast crowd, Ancheding high provincial government officials.
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The Governor immedi- ately drove to the Provin- élal Government ruest house and hold pross conference, in which he pledged his best- In ad- ministering Kwanglung so that the province will benefit fully---Reuter.
are
"He said the Communists are willing to negotiate "with the representatives ant by the Nanking reactionary
govern.. ment not because we recognise that that Government is still qualified to represent the peo ple, but because that Govern- ment still has some remnants of military.power."
"A Good Thing"
Remembers
AGAINST ALL ATTACKS
Outspoken Speech
* A wreath was placed at a plii-box" an: Blue. Pool Road at: „Wongnelchang" Gap," by Colonel Bir James Alseman, Chief Com, `missioner of the St. John Ambulance Brigade Overseas, you- terday. Nine Brigade personnel were behaided by the Jap· Anees at the spot during the war-"Chine Mall" photo.
(Story Page 2)
Squatters' Camps
To Be
The spokesman continued: "I that Government feels it has lost the trust of the people and that its remaining, reactionary mili- tary power is unable to stand against the people's libe
liberatin army, and in
in willing to accept the laid down by the eight conditions la! Chinese Communist Party and settle the problem by negotiation and alleviate the suffering of the people, that certainly would be a good thing and advantageous to
As the liberation of the people." ... He said Nanking sull has not made clear whether fl willing to accept Mr. Mao Tse-tung'a eight conditions,"
Nanking. January 25. The Legislative Yuan, at on emergency informal session today, tentatively decided
to evacuate Nanking on January The eight points call for the 20-China's New Yoar Day, punishment of Nationalist lenders An official source said the Gov-described as "war criminals" by ernment is preparing to move to the Communisis, abolition, of the Canton "very soon," whilo various Nationalist Government and re- officials sold they are under orders organisation of the Chinese army
"democratic" The Communist announcement
principles. of their willingness to
to negotiate came us two top members of the five mon peace delegation, Mr. 8has Li-tze und General Chang Chih-chung, are in Shanghai in
The spokesman declared Acting President La Taung-Jen an effort to induce Democratic unacceptable to the Compeace however, is said to have decided Let's peace drive
lenders to Join the one of Nanking's five-mari
team-Mr. Peng Chao-shien, "an awaited re important member of the Kuc- tung's action to Naoking's week-end.minlang CC clique and prace offensive, the Communist criminal. The Chinese Commun- Parly Book
spokesman sald
said that the sets cannot accept him as a peace tention to the example of the Ni Monalista
of representative." abandonment
"peaceful settlement effected in their original plea for a cease
that "many Felping us a demonstration of the fire prior to negotiations has more than the 43 top Nationalist advantages gained by capitulation
Day broadcast' will ultimately be Meanwhile. In
The belief is increasing that miany, ugments of the Govern ment are preparing to flee rather than attempt peace talks with the Communista.
to stay in Nanking whatever hap- pens to awalt peace.
Another report says, the Gov- ernment le considering leaving ayseats-fire order in three days.
Populace Panics
Th
The staff the Executive Yuan, except for a few high-ranking officials, has left Nanking. Most
FR. BU
He also warned
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as
ien, has announced that he is (The Acting President, LI Trung- willing to consider Mr. Mao Tse-It
basis
A
of
warnego led at- |
cleared the way for the begin. lenders named in the Christmas to the commun Shanghai trend.
ning of talks.
civil servants in the Food Ministry At Peiping
and tiro thirds of the staff of the Communications Ministry
dispersed to the South,
bave
dectored-war- criminals.”~---He | the Democratie League leaders added: "We have not completely today flatly refused the personal In finished compliation of the whole' request of Li Tsung-jen and the list."
peace-makers, Mr. ShaoLai-tro:
The list, released by the New and General Chang Chih-ching, The Foreign Office is in dis- conferences, the spokesman say-ber 25, was only the first list "of the Government's peace efforts.
Pelping will be the scene of the China News Agency fast Decem-to go to Nanking to participate in order as workmen loaded archivesing: "As to the pace of negotiation reactionary Kuomintang officials and mice equipment into motor it must wait until after the whole who started the civil war
murdered the spokesman saict.
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are
of Peining is totally liberated and we shall determine ."
Finance Ministry offeinl leaving tomorrow,
The populace, fear-stricken, la elegging the atrocin in thousands, demanding rallway tickels and space to the South, Traina re janimed and even movement afoot around the rail stations is next to Impossible. Reuter and Asso- elated Press.
RAF AIRLIFT
PLANE CRASH
Berlin, January 25.
Revised Agures this norning
Twenty-seven
people,"
Yangtse Defences Crumbling Fast
Nanking, January 25.
the
and Not Invited
Only Admiral Kwei Yung-ching's thin line of naval vessels is loft to offer opposition to a Com. munist, crossing of the Yangtso,
all the
gave eight people killed in the Already tho Communists: The evacuation crash of British airlift Dakota are in. a position to menace Group's units from China la ex- inside the Soviet zone last night.river shipping with artillery. pected to be completed, by Fri-
people were in the plane, and of these 17 have including several destroyers and
The Government's naval units, day, The Talwan unit is in- 317
cluded in the evacuation.- been rescued, injured.
Three children are among the escort vessels, are under orders Associated Press and Reuter rescued. The passengers are sick remain, and open fire should people and under-nourished chil- the Reds altempt to cross be- dren being down out of Berlin totore a peace agreement is reached.
there appears to be nothing STOP PRESS
the British zone. Fourteen of them to stop the Reds and the fall of ard women and fivờ children.--
Pukow is almost certain. Pukow Reuter.
The Weather
point
1 opposite Nanking: af that int the Yangise is only a mile and a half wide.
Acting President Li Tsung-Jen la said to have ordered 50,000 troops personally loyal to lịm to, move to the capital
from the Hankow
ccase
AL 0:00 GMT (Bp., HEST) tha The Government has ordered Siberian unthegelane is gradually faten nil river
traffic to
from aifying and continue to dominate China, tomorrow, while all Nationalist and the neighbouringes with rides forces North of the Yangtse extending Eastwards across Central Japan OA Into the Pelle The mall dinstalon except for one division which now intred between Okinawa and the Will try to hold Pukow, are
kodino Lalande has deepened a little and evacuated.PNG lamoring KNELL 2
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Easterir
e being
Nanking, January 25. Advancó unila of Com-. munist regular columns have rolled within'. Äve miles, of Nanking, placing the Nationalist
capital
within Communist · artii- lery range, the a
The - untis, of unknown strength, renched Hunchi Biddying, rail terminiis op- Puchen Nationalat "outpout
poalto Nanking. alx miles North of, Nanking, foll to the Reds carly" today" and the evacuating Nationalists are back on: Pukow.
le to try and 49 Dian.
prevent Communists from shelling
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* Along the South bank, Nation. gilst troops are · hastily building sandbag emplacements ready for ZUZAN
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The situation in Hun- chlying: "la" described as -"obscure," usually a form
signifying Imminent Com- maulst capture. -- United Prais
Yanking, January (26.
Omico spokesmi today noslied the foreign Embaules" that the seat of the Nationalist: Güvernment v la, moving Bouthward, presumably to CantonAsociated Press.
Set Up
part of the evolution of a scheme for the clear-
ance of squatter areas, one of the roof top- squatter colonias in the Wanchai district will be given warning today to move elsewhere after the Chinese. New Year,
was officially stated yesterday that accommoda- tion for certain squatters cleared from their present sites under the new legislation has been provided in four camps, two on the Island at Shaukiwan and Mount Davis and two în Kowloon, at King's Park and at Lai- chikok.
•
Threat To Shipping Companies
the camps, the squatters will be registered and required to build houses to a simple design, inexpensive but coming up to a fairly high health standard. Precautiona will be taken B water against fire, and
accom- supply and latrine modation will be provided.. Mr. Lo Lung-chi, Democratic There will be a Sanitary De- League leader, who with thepartment foreman and a Social party's founder and chairman, Welfare worker resident in Mr. Chen Lan, conferred for two each camp. hours this morning with the two- peace-makers as well as the Acte an area has been cleared under the new legislation, it is to" ing President's special aide, Mr.be - kept free of squatters by Kan Chieh hou, told the United means of a newly organised Squat- Press there are many reasons why ter Patrol. system. the Democratie League can not By working these various mea- take part in the discussions atures together on a definite eye this time.
tematic line of approach, it is ex- pected that the squatter problem will be gradually and satisfactorily met in a humane but frm manner By No Means Destitute
Those whose duties have brought them into close contact with equor ters since the occupation, said the statemont, have become increasing. 1. The Democratic League ly aware of the fact that all leaders have not been invited to squatters are by no means des- Join the Government: ? y
tititom, ang iyak
1
He declined to reveal the points presented to the poate makers on which this decision was based, but its tourned from another high Democratie League source: there aro twa main reasÒNE.
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By Visiting MP
“We are determined to defond Hong Kong against any form of aggression, either from within: or without. This is the unanimous “view of all parties in the House of Commons,“ This statement was made by Captain David Gam- mons, Conservative MP for Hornsey, in his reference to the pending Communist domina- tion of China, at the Hong Kong Rotary Club weekly luncheon yesterday.
Captain Gommans, who is on a visit to the East, was giving a talk to Rotarians on the international situation.
He made a scathing attack on Russia and Russian penetration into democratic countries; and said an immediate showdown was the only solution, The present palley or drift was fraught with danger, and might lead to a repetition of the history of the last world war.
Cannot Escape
Before the last war people thought they could escapo being invbived in a war waged in an other part of the world, This Illusion had been shattered, and they know now that if war, was to
all be in it. Ike!-- come, we would all be Clon
nation for any
an limpos- sibility. That
why wah
the ques to people
was an
tion was of vital concern to the world today...
Bussis had made it plain, both by word and by deed, that she would dominate the world, if she could. Within the three and a half" years since the end of the war, shg | had' dominated no lesa thun 11 countries in
tion of 200.000pe with a popu
people.
Captain Gsermons went on to hat the Russians had made it clear that they could not tolerate Any other w life or line ut
way of thought than thoire. In other.]
cannot exist
by side, with any other ideology.
We had, however, been warned. We know what Russia was up to, there had never been any illusion about it. She herself had nover tried
her purpose. Also, the headquarters of the United Nations were in the United States, and as the biggest power In the world. today, the United States had taken the biggest in-. tried to conceal her purpose.
to
.conceal
Greatest Event
The United States did not go isolationist after the war. This Captain dammans considered to be the greatest event of the cen- tury. It she, bad isolated herself 16 after the first world war, Russia would have already dom- inated a much larger portion of the world by now,
(Continued on Pape 14),
Elizabeth Has The Measles
London, January 25. Princess' Elisabeth- ́has the measles. The 22- year-old hotross to the Throne Is at Sandring ham, the Royal country estate in Norfolk. With her aro her infant son, Prince Charles, and other members of 'the Boyal Family:
An announcement. from Buckingham Palace 'sald the attack of measter Is ́taking 'an ordinary course,
The diagnosis of measles was made this morning by Dr. J. N.B. Ansoll, who i attending the Princess. She had been feeling III for two days.—Associated Press.
Reds Set
Up Their Own ERP
Moscow, January 25: Russia and five Eastern European countries have es tablished a council for mutual economic assistance because they refuse to submit to the Marshall Plan dictate.
This was disclosed in an official statement here today that repres sentatives of Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Russia and Czo- choslovakia met this month in Moscow,
The Council, open to similar states, will meat periodically in the capitals of the six nations.
The countries" taking part- wlil oxohango : teohnlost data,
Mimatoriais, raw
foodstuffs, machinery Cand equipment through the Gounell,
ples of the existing members.→→→ Reuter.
ORANGE SQUASH
***What, then, is going to happen
Members will have the right next? he asked. We. bad. to get of volo over any Council decisions the Ides out of our heads that we which affect their own economy, "The shipping companies can appease ResBİO
The Council We cannot the stament to any European have received threatening appease anyone who does not want country which shares the princi letters," said Detective Inspec- to be appeased. for Cashman of Central yes- terday when he prosecuted Wong Ping-shing with the possession of 387 detonators without permission from the police. ...
*According to D.I. Cashman, ; a Chinese detective, was on duty at the Douglas Wharf on January 14, The passengers were going aboard the ship lying alongside the whare and defendant was The detective, searched defen- League is concerned the decision social surveys have shown that dant and the detonators were to revoke the order outlawing the many of the squatters are employ found in this possession, some on League is only a rumour. Not in. public utilities, factories and his person and others in his bag-
been some of official
aur information has
largest firms, as well gogo.
"The detonators are of a com- given them.
The source added; however,
they can that the Democratie League never the
The tor Cashman, but
be recognised the order as valid in problems of squatters is, t
therefore, very dangerous and as a' safety the first place.
one of removing un- precaution I cannot produce then The Democratic League, also
bat rosolves
inte in court. I am sure the improper Itself Inte Indlestes that it has reason to bo
genuine storage of the detonators would for lieve that the Chinese Rods, if workers and their families who have serious consequences; a slight and when they take a dominat are forced to live an aquatters be- ction would result in an "est-
role in the new Government cause of the shortage and cost of plosion." S Ing
Defendant was sentenced to -12° will permit the Kuomintang proper accommariation, and the well as the Democratie League, control of squatters who are months' imprisonment Socialists and Young Citina: Party genuino destitutes or engaged in to continue na-full-fledged politi-criminal activity, cal orrianisations,United Press.
2. As far as the Democratio The results of several malong them,
ISRAEL'S FIRST. ELECTIONS
Tel Aviv, January 20,-- Nearly half of Trael's more „thinh":400,000, éligible voters had 'cast; "their" balidfs by noon today
making
service, and are
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