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FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO
Gloucester Arcade.
CHINA MAIL
No. 34255.
ESTABLISHED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS
HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1949.
NANKING MAY HAVE Ready To Shell The Enemy
ACCEPTED RED TERMS Formal Negotiations Commence In Peiping
ALL QUIET ON
FRONT
Nanking, April 14.
govern-
A strong indication came out of Peiping yesterday that
ment peace delegates have accepted harsh Communist terms which amount to the surrender of Nationalist China.
Easter Holiday
Bernuse of the Easter, holiday, there will be no Issue of the "China Mail" tomorrow.
The "Sunday Herald" will appear as usual, and the "China Mall will he on sale on Monday,
Make sure of this issue for "Rapier's" tips for the second day of the rnce meeting. HIA following among Happy Valley fans Is growing, in view of his consistently high standard of accurate prediction this
KONSUN.
RESULTS OF LONDON 'U' MATRICULATION Results of the London Uni- versity Matriculation Exam- Ination were released yester-
They are as follows: day.
Ht. Joseph's Unlier: Tracks Kislor
Leomar, Leung Wal-roen, Tem Wingedi and Wu Kwok- Jul.
Bt, Hlephen's College:
Mon Walter Ring-Jeong. Tro Jrengung and Tues June
SWAN.
Wah Van College. Hong Kane: Wan-hum and Word Manorhoraz.
Lo
Doces More" Na hund [+ F'k-font
and Tour Talksna
1 Safle College, Song Solo-Jeong Private Students; hon Kitanot, Chen Strateg
Funk Rulebord, Jimmy
L'hlas Jellier, Lan Yutchin
ato Poor Sloture.
The following candidates who sat for Part B of the Foundation prowed me that Pan and completed the meritnation 1..
Private Htudente: Chow Mokulung ani John You Wo
The Communist rodio in a special bulletin said "formal" peace negotiations had begun after 12 days of "informal" talks.
The Communists served an ultimatum, due to expire tomorrow (Friday) to enforce accept- ance of eight terms laid down by Commun- The Communist ist leader Mao Tse-tung. command has declared repeatedly there would bo no peace talks until the government bow- od to those terms.
the
showdown talks pre-munts, Nationalist forces today The
the recaptur d
Yangtze North sumably will, be confined to
of Sanking- Qui working
means for bank bridgebeul
ying, according to reports from putting the terms into effect.
Chinklang. The Communists have shown. a willingness to discuss modi. Heation of only one condition. That is the one calling for the trial of government leaders as
criminals."
Reds "war
The have offered to remove Acting
others from the list if they give up quickly.
A
London
Strike Situation
new
Landon, April 14.
crists
the struck
Port of London this morning when employers
Price: 20 Cents.
All Kinds of
Portable TYPEWRITERS
AT REASONABLE. PRICE. HONG KONG TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE
8. D'Aguilar' et
Tel. 21433
MAJOR EARTHQUAKE
Exercise Sampan was concluded yesterday by the Army authorities at Deep Bay. Ilere are some of the artillery men preparing to shell the invaders.—“China Mall" Photo.
New Regulation On
Gold Takes Effect
Unauthorised transactions in gold, possession of
It
locked out the 1,000 Transport and Guh- eral Workers' Union dockers who voted to return to work
vere The yesterday,
The employers said they were not opening the gates until the Sankinngying is about 80 miles TGWU dockers agree to work East of Nanking 10 miles the normal terms instead of only North Tast of Chinliang, the Na-day work.
The locked out dockers held tionalist sternghold on the South bank of the lower Yongise.
angry meetings on the streets and
Police intensifying preparcilons to de-squares near the docks.
reinforcements. were President Li Tsung-jen and tend the South bank of the Yang-mished to the scene to prevent ise against a psicle Comitui-
anticipated Bure-ups. ist crossing, the Nationalists were
The Cabinet today held its bund An informed source fald pre-reported today to be clearing before ordering troups out to un- ainury agreement is one of the three-mile wide strip along the tond 84 whips in London Docks, brond principles for settlement of South bank and along the Nu-le throught the strike of 14,000 the eight Communist terms and king-Shanghai Hailway line, (25 that much streauous negotiation les ahead in threshing out the technical details in claburation of
the broad principles.
No Undue
Optimism
Serious Repercussions
kay
Political
gold and publication of information on gold transactions have, since yesterday, boen pro- hibited by the Hong Kong Government. Order made by the Governor-in-Council under the Defence (Finance) Regulations 1940, (Variation) Order, 1949, was published in the Government Gazette.
CREATES HAVOC IN U.S. CITIES
Seattle, April 14. Eight were accounted dead, scores injured and damage estimated at U.S.$10,000,- 000 today as the result of yesterday's earthquake which shook: all Wostorn Washington State.
The estimate, which he emphasised was "purely tentative," was furnished by Washington Governor Arthur B. Langlie. He based his conclusion on preliminary reports from the state patrol, the Red Cross and other agencies.
Experts warned today that In Seattle, cornices of bulldings more tremors could follow.
fell. fire escapes Were ipped Professor Bamuel N. Diakan. loose, windows and water mains head of tht University of were broken and walls cracked. Oregon's geology department Every Seattle policeman was ald further shocks were post-ordered to report duty. Fire ble if the earth's crust continuer vehicles and ambulances roared to “act uø.”
through Seattle streets.
No.
Water tanks spilt open, eleva- tors jammed, windows were shat- tered and bricks, stones and tim.. her fell into the streets.
Thousands of persuas rusheċ from rocking buildings in Seattle, Portland. Tacoma, Olympia and struck other cities. Some were by rubble tumbling from cornices
and roofs.
The worst earthquake in the history of the Pacific North West jolted a 500-mile area at noon yesterday.
Scientists said the quake was of
intensity on a sente which rates No. 12 na total de struction. It was
recorded on seismographs as far away as New York and Honolulu,
It cracked buildings.
The old capitol It cast
building ant the Stato Insurance Building at bricks and glass into city streets
were ordered closed. on the hands of many of the thou- Olympia Funds who fied
Walls the swaying
In the Governor's office structures.
were cracked. Chimneya toppled I! hurled two houses into Puget all over the city. All schools were Sound from Fox. Island,
near evreuited, Tacoma, Washington. They were bellaved unoccupied.
Earth Cracks
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water tanks an top of braken, buildings were curending water down the sides into the streets. Fire mains broke. I cracked the earth. It disrupt- A wide crack openen in the arth ed rail trafe for two hours bee foor of one downtown Sealtie tween Portland, Oregon, and building. The entire front of u Central collapsed "Except with permission granted Seattle. I hit hardest the Puget builds 16 generally prohibits all dealings in gold and forbidsed by or on behalf of the Gov-Sound cities of Olympia, Tacoma Into the street.
A crack 1,000 yards long open- the possession of gold without ernor, no person resident in the and Seattle. Eastern Washington.
along, t street in Tacoma. permission from the Governor, Colony other than an authorised Oregon, and British Columbia and ed
Smaller cracks appeared in the toler, shall enter into any trans-Northern Idaho felt slightly. The new regulations follow: nction whereby ho becomes liahte Eight major. Washington stufr earth West of Sentile.-Associat- "Except with permission granted to deliver gold outside the Colony capitol buildings at Olympia were ed Press,
tamaged. Two wore ordered by or on behalf of the Governor to another person
vacated. All Olympia city husl- no person shall, tion where-
"No parson shall, in tha Tess "buildings were ordered enter any
Colony print or publjen any closed. Information relating to the sale. Seismography located the cen- purchase, borrowing, lending or tre of the quake between Seattle up as security of gold or and Tacoma. to any terma upon which such
Shrieking sirens of ambulances transactions. have been or may and fire, equipment added to the be enterad upon in the Colony din. Many persons fainted. or elsewhere.
Near Bonneville Columbia Rivor, An official
caused alarm, but the big dam and power "The
ines apparently were International Monetary
not damaged. Fund imposes cortain obligations
A Seattle man died of a heart upon its members and when attack after the shock. Two per- Majesty's Government became an ons die at Olympia, Washing
and original member signed
Born in 1890, Mr. Nicoll is mar- thereon, where the quake damnaged Articles
Agreement.
eight State Capitol buildings, were
ried, and has one child. He was accepted
A child was killed at Tacoma,edticaled at Carlislo Grammar of the overseas terri
territories. Washington,
and a high school School and at Pembroke College, of courke Hong Kong student was injured fatally at Oxford.
dockers.
by -gold in mode the security in At meeting this morning, the Cabinet decided to wait and see any manner for the fuitment of
wherever obligation
such if the Labour Minister, Mr. George any Isaacs, could bring about a settle- gold is situated. Bent in a meeting he was having Except with permission granted later today with the leaders of the by or on behalf of the Governor, Stevedores Union, which called no person other than an authorised Press and dealer shall, in the Colony, pozness strike. United
any gold. Heuter.
observers in Nanking' the that reports of Nationalkat enunter-eltacks since the opening of format prace talks at Pelping might inve serious repercussions.
Unconfirmed reports said that followed Nationalist operations telephone centerences with Gen- eulissima Chiang Kai-shek at Chikow in Fenghua, county of Cheklang Province.
Live Ammunition Used In Exercise
This shoree warned against un- dan optimism at the present June- Jure because past experience has details are usually I show that
hurdler to settle than principles.
The rudimentary outlines of the prace settlement are expected to he mught down to Nanking by For candideles passed in U-peace delegate Huang Shao-hslung
The sourceS claimed that the Eighteen guns of the 25th Field Regiment, Royal and delegation advisor Chu Wi
that the split for top-level consideration and
between Acting President L approval in Nanking.
cne kulijent which they took and w/ CUT= plete the Exumune-
Diocesan Boge Bebask; Jaug Tusing, a Wah Yar Chitzer, Hong Kengt MA Tokeketomar.
A NEW SHIP FOR HK FIRM
London, April 13. A new cargo liner for the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company of Hong Kong was launched at Sunderland yesterday,
She is the 10,200-ton Eastern Glory and built originally to the order of the Silver Lise Limited but sold
the stocks to her present own- ers--Reuter,
DA
Wins
THE WEATHER
A1 900 GMT (1p.m. HKST) a rioderate anti-cyclone rovera Cihtres qui le extending Beetward on Japan. A hallow depression Smoking into the Pacific to the 5 of Tokyo, Primeure is also low per E Manchurin
- Telny" Forcinat:-Moderate or th
Wil Cloudy, with bright
during the day,
Yesterday's Wealiter:-
Maxima 70.1 deg. Fah...
Mini 63.9 dew, Fab,
Bundle 3.0 hours.
talofal
intervals
Against an
NIL. Tutat since Zan. 1-- 103,6 mm. 7.22 Ins. average of 214.0 mm.8.43 ina.
Hapo mal
Exquis
Rel. Humbly....
12
Volt
Whol Direction,
Wint Foren
'Tides -
High
LASW
Reading st
15.11. ip.m.
102.4 1010.0 m.b
30.10
fighting indicated
con-
11 is still too early to say who-Tsung-jen and Kuomintang ther the outlines worked out in sergative elements appears to he of a Peiping would be wholly accept- widening as the prospect
the Communist able to the Manking authorities compromise nu since they would be considered in demand to move troops South of
consultation with the views of the the Yangtse seems to be improv
Canton group.
ing.
Motors are B. Chu, ne-
Information ording to
received Attention was directed to the belween the military yesterday evening, were to leave contrast Peining
Red Withdrawal
of
For 48 hours the
Nationalist front with the Communist on the mildelle Yartse has Fen report |ed to be-quiet.
Artillery, pounded away for two days, throw- ing 500 rounds of. live ammunition at the "enemy" advancing on Saikung Road in Clear Water Bay from the direction of Koui and Jin Islands, Port Shelter, in "Exercise Sam- pan" which ended shortly after dawn yester- day.
More than 600 men from the The raly had made going diff-
ол
Bay
obligatior
of
explanator
the
Lif an
Dam, on the slides marih
beticular, there are certain Castle Rock, Washington. An un-
In
obligations in regard to dealing in at prices in excess of that gold laid down by the Fund, and in regard to collaborating with other members to promoteëxchango stability.
oxebange stabilking to promote
Gold Market "It is well known that for sine time past there has been an active gold market in Hong Kong, the a.m. today situation on the lower Yangise regiment took part in the two-cult. Some of the guns had to prica quoted being always well arriving here around noon. under the command of General ay mock battle which start-be hauled up on slippery slopes. in excess of that laid down by t
International Monetary Fund In Mr. Yu Yu-jeri, sped President Tang En-po, said to be a sup-ed on Tuesday evening. With inelined at a difficult angle.
Winches were used to haul gunea statement issued in June, 1947. of the Control Yunn, said he would porter of Generalissimo Chiang
middle the troops were trucks, jeeps to their mounts and by midnight to all its members, the Fund net in Wie Irar another government delegu-Kai-shek
Tuesday, the Brat 25-pounior agreed that such
transactions gold the
under and other vehicles numbering River tion of six to Peiping on Friday teaches
ready, pointed In stond
the would not be objected to unless. Pak Chung-hsi. well- more than 70. to help the peace talks in private General
Lieutenant Colonel J. D. A.direction of the "enemy."
inter alia they had the effect capacity.
known supporter and friend of
The soldiers worked feverishly of establishing new rates of ex- Lament, DSO, MBE, Officer Acting President Li Tsung-jen..
Dawn on Wednesday jchange. In such case thene trans- Commanding of the 25th Field all night.
readiness, actions would clearly be in conflic Regiment. told the "China w the regiment in
with the Mail" in an interview, that their guns going into action vorn the exercise was on the whole after. The Communists general with-
satisfac ry, "although drawal from the North bank of
The Communist Radio, meun- there are a number of things the Yangise, WAR confinned by
Other groups of the regiment General Ku Chu-tung, Nationalist while, broadcast a long report to to be corrected."
"But that is what the axercise Chief of Staff. This indicated the Youth League Congress by
In enarie of were in the same way preparing that the Communist cease-fire | the Communist Central Com was for," he said.
Ther order-Issued to facilitate the mittee member, Jen Pl-shih.
in operations was Brigadier of Ar at Krud and Jin Islands,
direct fre at the peace negotiations-hud resched which he said the Communists. Ultery, Fil.C. Rogers, CBE. DSO job was to
enemy, observe the results of the front lines.
would welcome a peaceful sellic-M.C.
He "Esercle Sampan" started on shooting and report them to the A National Defence ministryment but prepared for war.
ry guns, 11,000 yards away..
Ty Jarge transactions in gold' communique today reported all said. "No matter which method Tuesday night when an imaginary
fither units in army launches
continue to be financed on the quiet on the entire civil war front is used we must strive to make defending infantry force signalled
: local market, throughout the country.
the Nanking Government swiftly for artillery support in face of were patrolling the battle ares. The communique and the Com- hund up its powers.
persistent "enemy ground forera" keeping sampans, and junks away
"Vory substantial numa in for attacks in the Clear Water, Hay from the danger zone. One such
át open market caused Amusement among eign currenclas Area,
The stretch of water' wan
the gunners, when it placidly glid rates are involved, and chix has regarded
land nk low which the "enemy" was advanced nearer and nearer to the zone the effect especially of weakening as if to see what was going on, sterling against the U.S. dollar. Ing.
As the prohibition of import and The object of the exercise, sald export of sheld has failed to have
th
munista captured seven govern-
ment bridgeheads on the North Silver Detained
bank of the Yangise, one istet in
midstream and three other townIS
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very
on Tuesday.
Difficult Going
an
Other Groups Proporo
#11 hae been pointed out
the that
gold market of Hong Kong does in fact have the effect of establishing now rates of exchange.
"Although the Government
son: or Hong Kong he for tinte enforces rigid prohibl-i
tion on Import and export of is evident that extrama: gold,
In Hupeh Province during the In Ennion, the KwEngine mi Two bailerian of 25-Doundora | 60 officer said. course of their general drive last
tary authorities today clamped an from Gun Club Jill, and one from week.
Communist troops now appeat embargo on the shipment of silver Tal. Lam. numbering 18 gung, spet Colonel mont, was to test the the desired effect, the Govern mont of Hong Kong. In falliment to be maintaining their positions from Canton by the Central Bank out from Kowloon at 7.30 nm,, troops" trelning.
"One
particuler of obligations to the Interna a possible of China,
the terest,pect of
Colonel, was tonal Monetary Fund. is therefors staging areas for
Acting under orders from Gen-
first class The crossing of the Tangise. This
showing of the obliged to take the further stop ip forced crossing will take place, eral Yu Ban-mou, Commander of
young officers the exercise. embodied in the Order. Pacifration lead-
men," to independent ob- the Canton
continued according
"There may be many cases of The downpour made going - These
the
he date of this servers, here, if the peace negotia- quarters, garrison troops detained tlons bog down on the actual im- an estimated seven tops of silver ficult especially along the narrow Colonel, "had just arrived in the persone who, at the plementation of the eight condi- at White Cloud Airport as it was and twisting Salkung Road, on, Colony on Monday: and most of Order, have entered into commit- recently from ments Involving goldt. Permission, B-Former Nazi Diplomal ions.
to be loaded on at CATC charter which the troope and their equh them were only
under special conditions, will bo Bentegoed,
There is a feeling here in dip-plano.
ment had to make progress with Sendhurst,"
Asked what had been the most granted to such persons to Denounoss
A Central Bank official said no lights. At-lomatic quartore that the Goveme
Arriving at the "battle area" successful aspect Tantle Pact.
ment may have agreed on the that the money was being shipped
be shown that In niated, 9:-Mixed
Asnetians
with certain to. Liuchow, military and com- about two miles along. Salkune Colonel Lamont to oight conditions
has ,bad condl-thero
been no, plana
for Nationalisa-specific commillaments to hold off mercint centre of Kwangsi Pro-Road, the regiment pichod camp. ability will which the regiment in pect of the Red armies. but that the Na- vince, to Nanchang, capital of Bet up HQ, radio communications able to deploy under,b
Lions.
of the ban on import which ha Page 10-Motoring Nawaratan tionalists atli hope to stall when Kiangat and to Hunais Province, and dog in.
At the same time the guns. WORK. He was also praiseworthy at been in force since May 16, 1917. Page 111-Gontpremias Aid Bill it comes dows: to brass tacks of He said the shipments were
"It is not proposed to interfere surrender on the Pelping pattern arranged on exders, of the Minis-pulled to their positions which had the villagers around Clear Water
at Port with the legitimalo trade in jewel- Continuing their combined land, try of Finance Associated Press, been earlier decided a reconnala Bay and the dahertzen
Jance' trips.
Bhölter for their co-operation, |lory," å sem und als attacks on the Com- United Press and Router,
Paga
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tion.
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Ready for Approval
Essentials.
of the excreta sto their obligations, prid.
"the that the particular lof of
of gold
contravention
New Colonial Secretary Named
.
Nicoll.
an-
Mr. John Fearns CMG, has been appointed Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, it was officially nounced yesterday. Mr. Nicoll is expected to arrive in the Colony at the end of May to take over from Mr. D. M. Mac- Dougall who is retiring,
He served as Administrative identified man was killed at Cen-onleer, North Borneo, from 1820
ralla, Washington,
to 1925 when he was appointed! Area On Puget Sound to the Colonial Service as an Ad- The heaviest damage apparent-ministrative Officer In Taugan-
in the occurred
Seattle-yika. Tacoma-Olympla area on Fugot Mr. Nicoll, way transferred to
ly
Trinidad in 1938. He was pras Sound,
Striking just before noon (7.55 moted to Deputy Colonial Secra- GMT), the quake was felt in four lary at Trinidad in 1938. North West states and Briligh Secretary of Fiji.
In 1044 he became Colonial Columbia.
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