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HONG KONG, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 1949.
REDS LAUNCH YANGTSE ATTACK
Stalin Names Place For Truman Meeting
to
Generalissimo Statin today Invited President Truman meet him sither in Moscow, Kaliningrad, Odema or Yalta- wherever the President chooses—in a telogram to the Inter. national News Sarvice in Paris, reproduced in a special edition of the evening newspaper, France Boir.
Generalissimo Stalin's message said the meeting could be alternatively arranged In Poland or Czechoslovakia if there were any objections to a meeting in the Soviet Union,
The
message, marked "Telegram, Official Urgent," addressed to Mr. Kingsbury Smith, the European director of the American news agency.
WAS
It was apparently in reply to a telegram sent by Mr. Kingsbury Smith the Kremlin yesterday.
The Soviet Premier sald he had for a long time wanted to go to Washington, but he was medically advised against
a long journey by sea or alr-Renter.
Li Tsung-jen May Try Personal Flight Into Communist Territory
Nanking, February 2.
Govt Gunboats Sink Red Craft Attempting Crossing
STRATEGIC TCHENG SHELLED
Nanking, February 2. Communist forces early today launched the first reported at- tack across the Yangtse River on Nationalist-held Kiangyin, about 85 miles North West of Shanghai, employing mortars and small-arms fire.
The British destroyer, Black Swan, passing down the Yangtse from Non- king, was reported to have witnessed the attack. Black Swan con- tinued her voyage past Kiangyin to Shanghai without incident.
(As she was passing Kiongyin, gun fire was heard and flares were observ. ed in the direction of a village, it was learned in Hong Kong yes- terday.}
Nationalist gunboats early ****......................
today also opened fire on Com- munist river craft, discovered on the Yangtse near Kiangyin. Two Communist bouts
according to messages sunk, from Chinking,
President Li Tsung-jon may make a personal flight Attack Village
into Communist territory in the interests of peace if other efforts fail.
Sources close to President Li said he has already considered such a venture--despite the fact that he is on the Red-war criminal list.
more than a re-
were
******* jand one of the Government pene
General Hsueh Issues Denial
Canton. February 2. Generat Heuch Yuch, Governor of Kwangtung, to- day dented he told a foreign, news agency he would form en Independent four-province military blog 14 fight the Communists regardless of the
forthcoming
in a dental issued through Central News, General Hauch sald he also did not tell the foreign agency that he would not welcome shifting the capital to Canton or that he would welcome the Premier Dr. Bun Fo to Canton only to load the four-province anti- Communist blog.
Reports that the Communists had begun crossing the Yonge and were attacking Kiangvin were not confirmed locally. The latest
outcome of the that the message said Communists early today had at- peace talk.
a small village tacked
on the Should the President seek a with the Chinese Communist North bank of the river, ор meeting with Moo Tse-tung Party.
posite Klangyin. The village la The envoy is Mr. Lee Ming-South of Tsinklang, captured by and other Red leaders at a
of the Control the Communista. place of their choice, there is yang a member increasing doubt here he could Yuon. Mr. Lee is a close asso-
cinte of President Li.. During the Communist forces along the offer them
war against Japan, Mr. Lee was
river were reported to be at- gional pence involving Hon- commander of the Nationalist tempting to hire Junks from kow. Nanking and Shanghai. planeer troops In Anhwel, civilian boatmen and concentrat-
"The time has passed when ri/Cheklang and Klangsu, where a ing vessels in the Grand Canal, į or anyone else other than Chiang was sald to be on good terms ready for the Yangtse crossing. with the local Communists.-- Kai-shek can make an agreement Associated Pres and Reuter-AAPalae commenced shelling Icheng, naval, gunboats today. Involving the whole nation and keep it." one Chinese leader salti
20 miles North East of Nanking. "there is even doubt that Chiang
necording to Chinese reports to- day. himself could make a pact that binding an all areas of China."
Communist reports said forces occupied three-fourths of It appeared to many here that
President
Icheng while Nationalist troops under WUS
pressure Move!
still hold an area stretching from already
the city's Suuth gate to the North bank of the Yangise River.
the
from cliques
South and that he might shirt the emphasis of his efforts from negotiation on a national seple to dealing
only the Yangtse
Valley.
Delivery of the Tower Yang.. tas from Hanków to the sex to the Reds in exchange for per tain concessions would in many ways resemble the transaction by which Fu Two-y) surrender ed Peiping.
Civil War Threatens
In Korea
Yungize
The
Control of Ichang by Rad General Chen Yi's forces, which Chungkan, Korea,
were reported to have brought February 2up heavy artillery-places would Отте thousand Soviet-trained
put the Communists in an ox North Korean troops have invaried the American-occupied South Korean Republic, and a high South Korean official said today the
action might mean opon civil war
between the two zones.
Favourable Position The 1,000 invaders were Bup- ported by 2,000 reinforcements President Li is in n position, who remained North of the 38th with the help of General Pai Parallel in 40 or more pillboxes Cong-hol at Hankow, to negotiate built under cover of night, for surrender
Mr. Sihn Sung-no, Minister of of these three cities and to deliver, should he Home Affairs for South Korea, said the Invasion definitely wan reach agreement with the Reds.
Complete absence of the mili-not guerilla action but might mean tory h
Arca full-fledged war between the North the Nanking strengthened belief that the Pre- and South.
He said: "It In an international
sident was making some, progress
in his efforts although there was affair."-United Press.
an emrial silence on the subject.
A personal
peace envoy of
President Ll meanwhile, has left
on a secret 75-mile journey up the Grand Canal through Red ter- rllory in Kinngsu Province to con- tact
the Red
Red Army headquarters at Hwatyin..
Messages today from Chin
klang, opposite the mouth of the
Grand Canal, sald that the envoy
He said he was misquoted.. -United Presa.
General La Chwan-to of the Nationalist garrison headquarters, denied the reports that Kwangs troops had taken over the de- fences of Pukow and Puchen, a few miles North of Nanking.
About two-thirds
of General Tal Yenien'n Nationalist 0th army still hold the Pukow peri- meter, General Lo said.
Civilians aro
ry slowly trickling back to Pukow
after the mass exodus-in-the past few weeks. Pukow's populace abandoned the
[delegates, told the Centrol New
at Lanchow tintas that the Com- munist Inristener an punislumen' of war criminola has not dashed all hopes for peace.
Red Strategy?
General Chang' viewa coln- cided with opinion of other peace advcentes skin the Government. who steadfastly refused to accept the theory of the war group that the wor criminal
condition closed the four to pened.
A highly placed source vanced the belief that Communist inalstence on the punishment of war criminals
made with the WDE primary cbjective of scaring away former Government ultra-con-
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The American flim star, Miss Rita Hayworth, (contre) pouce for a picture, with prospective parents-in-law, the Aga Khan and the Begum. Behind Rits standa. Prince Aly Khan. The picture was taken at a press conference held in Cannes recently, In the course' of which the Aga Khan gave his blessing for the couple's proposed marriage. Also in plature (left background) ie Mr. Mr. J. G. B. Campbell, of the Guaranty Trust Bank in Parla-(AP Photo).
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servative elements who are close-is pleased to announce ly identified with retired Presl-that The Second
dent Chiang Kai-shek
Canton neanwhile,
Volume of
she
possibility or the Nationalist Cabinot holding its first-meet- Ing: in the now capital of Cany ton on Saturday is thought 10 be remote.
This follows Nanking reports that President Li Tsung-Jen has urged Cabinet Ministers in Can- ton and other Chinese cities to return to Nanking.
No Importon Ministers, how- ever, have ourived here.
|Russians Arrive
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WAR MEMOIRS "Their Finest Hour"
Siamese Commission Approves Plans For 1950 Bangkok Fair
(Exclusive To The "China Mail")
The Siamese Economic Commission has approved
plans for the first international Exposition to be held at Bangkok in 1950, the "China Mail" was exclusively informed last night. Hong Kong will be osked by Siam to act as one
...of the co-hosts.:!.
With final Government ao tion expected shortly, it is an ficipated that offices of the World Exposition will opened by February 1. next The Fair is planned to
be
year. open on the birthday of the Siamese king, on December 5, 1950.
voller position to hurl shells city after it appeared that Coni British, Indian and Russian Em- will commence in the "China / nations. There will be more than
across the river and knock out the Nanking-Shanghai railway Not Clear"
The milliary situation at Tsin- klung. Nationalist-held city 120 iniles East of Nanking, became "not clear" today as military and commercial telegraph communi- cations
and between that.city Chinking were broken. The term
in "not clear" used
press respatches usually indicates the tall of a place is imminent, if not already capured.
Japan's Grandiose Shipping Plans
Washington, February 2.
would attempt to persuade the The National Federation of American Shipping ob-
Communist not to allock the Nanking-Shanghai area while the Government was intensifying its attempts to negotiate for peace
The Weather
jects to reported Japanese plans to charter for- eign ships and to operate outside Japanese home waters.
A Federation spokesman said that by their own estimates of their Import volume, the Japanese have no use for a mer- chant fleet as big as the one for At 0500 OMT ( p.m. K&T) a Biberlin which they are reported to be anilcyclone is gradually, intensifying and preparing to ask the Occupation Kpreading 8 over China with ideauthorities and the Secretary of extending 62'xcross the. Ryiskus, “A'shal- low depravalon now centred over the the Army, Kenneth Royall. Paalde 85% of Tokyo continues to move The spokesman said that the R. Pressure gradients over, the srek are Nippon Times of Tokyo estimates gradually frereasing.
Today's Forecast (Light and variable winde at Grah E. or NE later, Fue
steatohep clearing during the morning
Devin Tatr.
Yesterday's Wothers!
Maximum 77,0 dag. Fab.
Kinimum 82.3 dee. Fah."
Sunshine: 7.3 hours... 'Hainfall: Nii. Total since Jan. 1
inch,
1,0 mm.=0.04
samainat, an sverge of 48.0 mm.). · Jachos,
Reading 10 m. 4p.m.
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