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LI MAKES APPEAL TO Representative Of SURPRISE HITCH IN
COMMUNISTS' LEADER Asks For Moderation In Demands To Nationalists EFFORT TO SAVE TALKS
Nanking, April 8.
The Acting President, General Li Tsung-jen, last night sent a tele- gram to the Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, appealing for co-operation between the Communists and Nationalists in view of the present difficult international situation.
In a personal appeal to Mao for moderation of the Red "unconditional surrender" demands, President Li stressed the urgency for co-opera- tion between the two parties "especially in view of the darkening in- ternational situation."
Trying to avoid collapse of the peace talks, President Li offered to take responsibility and punishment for any "historical mistakes” made by the Nationalist Government likely to affect the negotiations. He told the Heds he is will• } "I will accept without evasion | ing to be burned in mid- or dis. The reverest punishment," Acting mrbered as a so-called war i trendient bi telegraphed Mau celminal of it will 314sten the "even being burned in oil or dis- end of the civi
-enllest war robert exional for past mistakes which are sull hindering the peace."
President Li said that if they
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COMMUNIST TROOPS ON THE MOVE
taire
costali
President Li has cabled the local commanders of North West, Central and South Chine, including the Moslem Governor of Ninghala, Ma Hung-kwei, ta come to Nanking for consulta- tions on the tenso situation.
uld co-operate ait other ques- Talks Doomed? tions could be easily seller.
Fle thought that the future ponicy of China should follow
WRS
In
Latest information reveals no
"enmmanding" softening of the
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Mr. Attlee Arrives
Britain's Sir Alvary Gascoigne, special representative of Prime Minister to General Mac Arthur, arrived here yesterday Sir Alvary was by Hong Kong Airways plane from Tokyo.
Kal nt
Tak by
iha
Governor, Sir Alexander Bir Alvary Grantham, Originally
had planned
proceed
met
tu
After a
on his way to the United Kingdom by BOAC plane few minutes betwoon planes. However, unfavourable weather conditions altered his plane and Sir Alvary decided to
over.
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He is expected to continue his journey home today. ("Ching Mall" Photo).
Ottawa Call For
A Pacific Pact
Ottawa, April 8.
Canadian
A call for the formation of a Pacific defence pact
sounded yesterday in the Was
·House of Commons.
Captain Howard Green; Opposition member, urged the Government to initiate talks with other countries leading to such a pact.
cern
that
CHIANG TO COME. SOUTH?
Sun Yat-sen's principles and This was done it would be sible for the Nationalists to Communist altitude for Nation- operate with the Communists tionalist surrender. At present the and ather democratic parties
Government's efforts are under-
It is a matter of great con- | *** slood to be devoted to directing constructing a new China.
of the to residents The Chiese text of the tele-Its pente delegation in Peiping to
Dominion's West coast, he said. Krim, which
delivered persuade the Communists to re-
Green declared Captain through General
Chi-tract their conditions. described Chang chung, rader of the Nationalist by a high omteial source yester- the threat to freedom not con- delegation in Peiping. was re- day as "otally unacceptable and ned to the area covered by the teased today by the information shockingly sweeping and drastic Atlantic Treaty in Asia, Russia
and Leyond the
the s scope ot origmal eight Communist terms."
- Meanwaite. reading between the lines of the President's per- Isonal appeal to the Communist
Inst night,
it appears that the Reds are
insisting on the
fice.
Step Further"
President Li said that since
President, he has been anxious
Nanking, April 8. More than 30,000 troops of General Chen Yi's Communist forces, following up their cap- night. of Yicheng last swung East along the North bank of the Yangise today and were late this afternoon res ported to be attacking Kwa- chow bridgetwadi, opposite Chinking. Nationalist strong- hold 40 miles East of Nanking. Heavy Rghting is reported trou.
He thought that his sincerity Chink look
to be going on at
inili be recognised by all De Sicherwe, on the Western pert-metalar party leaders, including
neter of Kwaelnow.
Re Communists. ntso Chinking
"Peace talks have already been that three regiments of the No-d we have agreed to
quined and tionalist bridgehend are preparing
hugotiate ou the basis of your to window South of the river.
right Jerins. In addition, we have Telephone lines are being dis-
#knowledged all our historical CA connected and equipment packed mistakes ud i have
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The
reports
Fuld
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to difficulties.
certain
."
going ahead by leaps and bounds and it
it looks as though the USSR is winning there by de- fault,
he added. "It might be that, while we are the front done by the holding Atlantic Pact, the back door has he assumed the post of Actino unişliment of war criminals de been feft open," the Progressive Chimp Bevlet advances to secure peace without regard spile earlier rellable reports that Conservative member said.
they had
to consented
*Meat West Canada, because, if modifications
Since
The Communists formally aggression comes, it may well develop in the Pacific and bring revealed that their real desire is
Canadian Ball, he fighting on for a Kuomintang sender and
"Canada is so vitally affected 10 peace with the Kuomintang, «bservers
generally qualified
by what is going on in Asia that talks are Agree that the Pelping
as virtually doomed unless one she should be taking the lead in
Facile Pact." Chinese source said, there is a the matter of a Inst minute miracular change of Com- heart in the part of the
units.
even ex
my willingness to accept
war criminai. President Li pointed out in his cable that the Government has
feris service between Chinkang and Kwachow, which | General Lá said. only restimet yesterday. was stopped again this morning.
g
One ufticini source, declining usual to reveal the nature of
So far, the Nanking-Shanghat ready accepted the original 5 they were such that places
Eatd.
Talks Possible
Nanking, Apr}! 9. Unconfirmed Chinese prose despatches report that a Chin- se naval ship has been or- dered to prepare to proceed to the Eastern Chekiang port of Ningpo to take Genaralla. simo
Kal-shok Chlang South China.
Chlang Kal.thek 12 to a Kuomintang aver preside Party mooting in Canton next month, the reports sald.—ö- #oclated Press.
BURMA SURRENDER
Rangoon, April 8.
The surrender of robel Karan tribesman did not take place today. Saw Ba U Gyi, President of the Karan National Union which has been fighting for an independent Karen state, did not show up to fulfil an agreement to sur- ronder his forces.
Official Burma Government sources fear that dis- sidents.omong his followers may have made the Karen chief a prisoner, to avert the sur- render.
There is no explanation reprisal because the Karens sup from the rebel camp at Inseln, ported British rule before the a Northern suburb of Rangoon. country left the British Com- There has been bloody fight-monwealth of Nations in January. ing with the Karens at Insela 1048. since early February.
A three-day cease-fire agreo- ment, negotiated as a preliminary to the surrender, expired at 10 a.m. The Burmese Army's high commond withheld the signal for a renewal of the fighting.
There was sporucite shooting at Inseln yesterday. but the town was quiet this moming.
Seout pinnes of the Burma Alt Force circled above lusein after the 8.30 am, hour of surrender harl passed without worrl from the Karens.
Battle Resumos
Government sources said tho Army had extended the censo. fre until 6 p.m. (1130 GMT),
word There still was no
from the Karens at 1 pan. but Army
by authorities stood
Meanwhile, rebola tod
robola today no- oupled the towns of Tharawad- dy
on Nattalin Rangoon Prome railway. Burmese
troops Government opened up air and land attacks on the Karen rebels in the Insek
and
the
Saw Ba U Gyi announced yea- prea, 19 miles North of Rangoon, Lerday that he bad agreed
fad failed to to today after they surrender his forces at Inaain and surrender as planned. Burmo on all other fighting fronts.
He Army Headquarters, after waiting broadcast surrender orders to his until 2
local time, began p.m. followers by radio, and said they
to prepare for a renewed on- bad agreed to comply,
slaught against the Karens,
Split Feared
A formal surrender ceremony was fixed for this morning, to be followed by the removal of
Karen Aghters from Insein to a
„*| Rangoon gaol, which was clear- ed of other prisoners."
Burmese Government officlala gathered
at their army head- quarters at Gyogon, a Rangoon suburb, and waited two hours! and a half
past the surrender haur before announcing
Karon
Chief's
that they feared a split among the followers had blocked the surrender. The Kareni
demontling
wern
Shortly before 5.30 p.m. (local ilme) Burma Air Force aircraft were airborne and exactly t 5.30 p.m. they dropped the first bombs, which were followed by trench mortar and Automatic gunfire-Associated Press and
Reuter.
Yuan Takes Spectacular Nose-Dive
Shanghai, April 8. Although lacking official confirmation, persistent reports
Unrest Among Students In Shanghai
Bhanghal. April 8. The local student world showed Increasing unrest 10- day as students of the NA- tlonal Tungehl University ob. werved a one-day atrike to attend a memorint service for the Nanking students Injured and killed in the clash with soldiers in Nanking on April.
1.
Only one student so far is reported to have died DE result of injuries received in fracas, which followed pro Communist demonstra-
the
tlona.
Following the service, the students gathered for a dis- cussion of the Incident, Mass memorial services ware alan hald in other universities while students of one institu- 1lon observed a short fast. However, there were untoward Incidents-Router.
no
TORIES' ELECTION SUCCESSES
area on
London, April 8. The Conservatives have wrested control from Labour of the Middlesex County Coun- cil, which governs a densely. populated
London's Northern and Western out. skirte.
election-one In this County Council elections in pro- gress this week all over Enginad and Wales the Conservalaves, who lost thefir' imajority on the “Council_thive years ago, won. 63
of the D0 seats.
of the
Labour won 23 sents und the remaining four went to Indepen- dents.
in have been armed rebellion since January 31, that the Governmen! give them the richest agricultural and mineral production areas of
Labour previously had 42 seals Burma. Including the port city of of a near collapse of the Pei- nf 50, but the divisions have) tangoon, as their own indepen ping peace
sent be increased. conference Karens state. The dent
Nationalist China's inflated Final results were expected to- because the Chins, angered
of gold yuan currency Into the ray in the London County Coun- Kachis
And Shons--others
which voting| cil elections, for spectacular nose-divo Burma's numerous races had most
The Conservatives, who held been granted autonomous states today since it was introduced took place yesterday. eight months ago, under the new constitution.
only 37 seats in the old councft, In terms of the US, dollar and had won 48 by early afternoon to They accused the Burmese of
Nanking's printing draw oven with Karen state in gold bars,
Labour Party denying them
Drees yuan tumbled 30 per cont candidates at that point in the In two hours this morning | Unliol counting." all markets reacted sharply to
Washington Reply To Arms Requests
Washington, April 8.
Such a pact could include the Atlantic Treaty nations as well the Communist surrender terms as Australia, New Zealand, South Cevlos Africa, India, Pakistan Culride them.
the authority o and the Philippines, he suggested, Railway.
which runs for 45 miles peace terms as a basis for nego.
both President Land Premier
He wanted to know the Cove The United States reply to the Wastern nations' along the South bank of the tations. "As one step further I
ernment's attitude toward such Yangise, has not been interrupted, laily and willingly Recept res-Ho to nerept. He said their ac
plea for arms said that Congross will be re- although it is within Communist
Lonsibility and punishment for ceptance and enforcement would puct. He also asked if it is true
quested to provide military funds for common urtillery range.
historical mistakes likely to affect require the unanimous consent of us a recent press report suggest- all authorities, central and local, cd-that talks of this nature
might
develop from the forth-
defence. coming
visit to Canada
Nanking railway officials today the peace negotiations such 4: said that possengers arriving from the war criminal issue," said the Shanghai along
line could varle.
the
in the country.
distinctly hear gunfire from the Included in the Communists War To Resume? Frederick
radto
North bank.
The
Communist
tonight that
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eight points, which amounted to virtual unconditionni Furrender
ful.
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Shedden, Australian Mr. Dean Acheson, Secretary In conclusion, the United Sates Defence Department Secretary. of State, in a statement with asked for detailed statements of of the Tokyo
yesterday
the exchange of notes between the specific ans needs
as possible... powers One foreign observer comment-
Japanese Prime Minister, Mr.
United Press. nounced
the of the Government, was a demand ed that the Communist demands
Bhigeru Yoshida, told the House the eight nations and the Unit-
(908 Page 7) Pecpie's Liberation Army, for the punishment of so-called are un-Chinese and show the
of Councillors that permanent ed States, said the European criminals. moving towards Hankow, in wor
Among
mare those Communists
Commun-
neutrality for Japan is doubt. requests for military assistance North bank Vangtsu named as war criminals werests than Chinese.
are predicated upon the urgent pertant part in Hupeh province, had Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, Some legislators here are in-
Mr. Yoshida said that If a need for improvement in the taken Kwayuan, 50 miles Acting President Li and virtually clined to the view that the Com Pacific pnet is drawn up in rome defensive capabilities of the all the other senior Kuomintang munists, anticipating Government form such as the Atlantic Pact, countries requiring such assist-
are bargaining.
deliberately It was earlier reported that Party leaders.
discouraging I will be impossible for Japan to }
thereby ance, naming their price sky high so that in the event of concessions join sluce she is unarmed.
If the aim of such a pact is aggression against them. being made it would still be i
to establish a basis for peace in
Mr. Acheson stressed that the good price.
assistance the Far East, then Japan may be military able to join under certain con- ditions, he said.Associated Press
North West of Hankow.
five divisions of Communists un- der Generai Lin Pian were moving
rapidly down the Feiping- Only Desire
railway.
Nationalist reports in Shanghai sidngitted two days ago that Hwa- yuan was one of the many points
President Li pledged to Mao, Government · co-operation
with
the Communists and other "de-
handoned by General Pal Chung- mocratic" elements In, the' recon- hai's troops as they fell back onstruction of a new China in a Hankow to avoid « clagh with the cordance with the "Immortal advancing Red nemies-Router,
teachings" of Dr. Sun Yat-sen,
THE WEATHER
The President Enid peace In
ported
anti-egclone exatrvel, uver the Eastern Sex water." Is moving slowly; Kartanah, The deep depreenipis 4 - moving slowly fate the
General An' 3rd
Fuelfe, to the F of Hokkaido, and a shal Ho Ying-chin, returned to Nan- reorganised along Jove depression peralate over NWV-OMne. king today
Today's Forecast-Modersle and 8
fat'd Reuter.
LANDSLIDE IN KOWLOON
elve in its scope.
Drama In Atlantic
New York, April 8. programme A derellet schooner is drift- (Continued on Page 11)
like the Atlantic pact la part of
policy which is entirely defen- ing in the Atlantic Ocean off South Carolina with two chil- GENERAL KILLS
dren imprisoned in a cabin. Mr. Acheson Fald it is clear An intensive aerial search be HIMSELF
that the United States can no Nanking, April 8,
longer rely on
Its geographic gan at dawn for the vessel. quoting The "Ching Times,
of tho Donald Farrott, owner Father of the Chinese Republic. fravellers from Pelping, today re- One man was killed and two position to preserve security, and
wife ware swept'
schooner that one of the former Injured in a landslide at No. 7 added: "Our security and peace vessel, and his
rest necessarily
In
from the combined overboard
weather, leaving China: his only desire and his North China communder, General Cemetery, Kowloon City, st 2 p.m. security and peace of the de- during rough
Fu Tro-yl's, best army comman yesterday.
mocratic world. Thus, the angle their two sons, aged three years AL 3600. (NT (3 p.m. HKBT), a weak | sincerity is "as cloar at white dors, General An Chun-shan, com- Immediately after the landslide,urpose of our foreign polley Has and six months, imprisoned in a
tho
Fire Brigade was summoned teen to make a free world posal-cabin. The Prime Minister, General milled suicide.
Army was and extricated the three men. One hie and more secured." with
This advice was received from other of the men died on the way to
He said the military ald pro
sald the to face the critien! | Government forces in Peiping by
gramme has been under study Parrott's brother who situation created by the commun- the Communists by units of the Kowloon Hospital.
Tovorn) months on a basis of in couple made it a practice to put ist demand for unconditional "People's Liberation Forces." The
formation, and that the formal the children in cabin In rough surrender for which the deadline molive bf the suicido is not
not create a new weather, requests do
The schooner, Keewatin, need but confirm a situation of which the US. has been swore. Arat reported drifting simionaly The United States note in reply and apparently Abandoned in the Je loft and the Government is prepared Atlantie three days ago. Page 2
to make recommendations to Con-Nassau, Bahamas, on March 20 King George V Bahaci
Prix gress. Congress will be asked to for a voyage to North Carolina.
The Coast Guard received, * Giving.
provide military equipment from New Defence Force Regulations, the United States and some anan- report on Wednesday morning clal amistance for increased mili-from the tanker Richard J. Clevo- Page 3
Institute - „Tenancy |tary, efforts
the land that she sighted, the Keewa required by Cancelan
tin In very rough seas about TD, | defenes, programme.
Exat of Charleston. A The note specified that it will miles be underlood that the allocation search by cutter and planes was of: arms and money would be launched immediately and con
but with {eflected by common agreement tinued through PerUnited
winds, Cloudy, becoming gradually milder.
Yesterday's Weather
Maalum 62.0 dew. Fah.
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Minimum 60.2 deg. Yah. Sunshinet NIS.
Ralssfuli: 0,8 mm.=0,01) In: Total since
1-13.A Jan
mm,3.46 ina. analnej an average of 17,4 mm, *** 7,500 Jus
Readings t 10a.m. 4 p.m.
80,01 80.03 inches
« Baro, al math. .,1D18.6 10189 in.b.
3141. Humidity
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Wind
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.KING'S DOCTOR
IN ACCIDENT
.
The Premier, who spent two days in Canton in an effort to rally the South China group be
plunged hind the Government,
London, April 5. immediately into discussions with
Sir Maurice Cassidy, the King's Acting President Li on the Com- tounikt surrender
now heart specialist, and Lady Cas threatening
Peiping peace sidy were injured seriousy last Inight when their car and a bus talks with collapse.
collided near Camberley.
the
terms
On Other Pages
¿ full dress moeting including Bir Maurice and his wife were Page
man
all Nanking members of the 11 on the way to spend the week Engineering "Pentura,
negotiation end in the country. Their car, Pape Buper-PERze steering committee is to be held with Sir Maurice at the wheel, tonight at the Presidential re- was virtually cut fa two-United] Page' 14 sidence..
Press-
Sokoal-Scandal,
Sporta.
between the Brussels Powers:and] no trace of the
the United States,
Press,
was
the nows of the deteriorating
situation around the peaca con- ference lable.
The US dollar, which opened: at 41,000, closed at 63100, while gold bara soared from 1,950,000 per ounce to 2,550,000. Big
The Council voting is viewed generally as a test for the general. elections next
year. The Conservation Party to day claimed to have captured 78 seats from the other parti or independents, in this week's County
elections Counell throughout the country. Labour gains were 42, the Con- servatives sall. The Conservative.
| operators refused to quoto rates In the afternoon but curb dealers sold greenbacka at 57,000 and gold bars at 2,600,000 to 2,700,000 losses totalled 12: the Labour. per ounce.
losses Rs. Of the 75 Conservative. With today's stoop rise, the gains, 40 wese from Labour and American dollar spurted over 100 of the 12 Conservative losses, eight per cent in a little more than two went to Labour. days against the gold yuan. Rcutor.
The elections end on Saturday, --Reuter and United Press.
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