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THE CHINA 'MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1949.
China Food Position May Affect Policy
Washington, ABHI 27. The Chinese food situation it being studied by in- ternational experts here as a factor likely to have an important bearing on the Communists". policies if they dominate Shanghai. This is due to the fact that China's seaboard cities are largely dependent upon imported rice and wheat for sustenance and to the belief that in- ⚫ternal communications within China are facing
possible disruption,
oficial food supply According to the Experts say the
for 1040,
total China's 16 "anybody's port outlook in China
463,003,000, Bn guess but will naturally be an population was important question for a long unofficially estimated increase of period because under even nor-10,000,000 during the last decade.
Adequate rice
for China inal politico-economle conditions
the tremendous population bears has been an intere
re-
pro-
heavily upon all means of sub-blem since the war and recently by both has been aggravated alatence.
internal sau
alluation and the fact that rice deliveries to ports
Calcutta Communists Fired On
Calcutta, April 27. Seven people were killed by bomb splinters gunshot and
оп fired when the police banned Communist procession 10day in Calcutta's Bow Bazaar
area.
EL
Nine people were injured and the casualties included five police- Twenty-seven arrests were nande. The pollee opened fire!
fter making lathi
(Blive) wear-gas on charges and using the demonstrators.
Crude hand-grenacles were thrown at the police when they intercepted the processton, watch cane out in defiance of a police
the.
Julve
in Burma for assignment to China Chinn Last ben slowed. autumn harvested a good crop of rice and at the end of 1948, un- der the international allocution entitled to 232,000 plati.
was metric tons of rice from South Eastern Asia.
Intent According to
reports .57,000 tons were here, only
Arst actually lifted during the four months of 1949 white 26,000) tons were arranged for shipping.
Reds To Set Up Central Government
The
Prague, April 27. Chinese Communists
#
Mere
20.
will soon convene a National Consultative Assambly to es- Labilah
Govern. Central ment, Mr. Tjen Shuen-sut, a Professor of Economy at Pal- ping, sald
today, to the Czechoslovak cording to news agency, Ceteka.
Professor Tian, who attend. Peaca ed the Paris World Conference's "overflow" meet- ing herp last week, said Pro- vincial Governments will be national minori. set up and ties wil haya self-govern-
ment.-Router.
RECOGNITION
OF SYRIA
Damascus, April 27. Britain, the United States and France have recognised the new Syrian Government of Brigadier Hossni Zaka.
sali
COMMUNIST RANTING ON YANGTSE AFFAIR
Shanghai, April 28.
The Communist Peiping radio last night said that
the four British warships shelled last week in the Yangtse were trying to intervene in the civil war..
The radio broadcast an article written by Ho Sze- ching, Professor and jurist. Ho said the British Naval spokesman had not explained what the British ships were doing ir, the Yangtse on the day the Nationalist Government had to accept or reject the Red peace terms.
·
"The
action of
The Communist professor made the Boltish
of the statement In the Navy." He said, "clearly shows light that the British will is to halt "Dally Graphic" which declared: the People's Liberation Army and Intervene In China's civil war."
tu
"The guns of British ships have delivered a warning in Asle and the British Lion, when roused, will show his teeth and, if need- salled, use them,"
The fact that the British re- ceived the permission of the Na- tionalist Government HMS Amethyst up-river is inter- preted by Ho to mean the Bri- tish wanted to halt the Reds crossing of the Yangtse.
Wits
Ho said: "The British Lion is certainly fake lion which is not fercer than a paper tiger." He said the Reds are not afraid even of real Hons.
Ho admoniched the British: "Those who play with fire are in danger of being consumed in the flames."
"Imporialists"
MAKING THIRD
WAR CERTAIN?
Austin, Texas, April 27. William C. Bullitt, former Ambassador to Russia, told the Texas legislature today that by
to
conquer allowing, Russla China "we are making certain the coming of a third world
war,"
"Today, using the Chinese ac- complices as instruments, Stalin Is conquering China," Mr. Bullit sold.
He added that the confidence of Americans in the atomic bomb Is beginning to resemble the confl- dence of the French in the Ma- ginot Line-Associated Press.
elpate in the civil war of Chinn." Pen-Tze-min, Chairman of the Central Control Committee of the and Workers' China Peasants' Democratic Party, made the do- claration in an April 25 broad- east to oversens Chinese.
Peng attacked the traitorous Kai-shek's
treaties" which Rith im
Kuomintang had
perialistic powers, especially the and said the tres- States, United
Forrige Ho said the British Office "admission" that National-
1 Government approval received for the ning "shows that the British Navy was well aware that the People's Libera- An announcement
that tion Army was at that moment the Yangtse to cross preparing former President Shukri al Kou-pro
Another Communist feader was in River and is a proof of the Bri- while watly who resigned military
the tish sehense to make the People's guster by the Red radio as say-ties were signed at the expense cieslady following coup which swept Colonel Zalm Liberation Army hal its cross-ing: "The Committalsts will re- of national rights In exchange for to wage the elvil This would leave 149.000 tons into power, has been released ing before the British naval ves-sist and vanquish the imperialists foreign aid
war."Assoclated Press, il they are so rabid as to parti- to be lifted In the next two
sels." Burnia. trom months, mostly What will happen to this com morce is unpredictable during the present confused altuation In Shanghai.
Unpredictable
Headquarters
A report on the Chinese food situation at FAO says: "In China, the most serious feature Is that
attempts to
han. Later. the demonstrators controi runaway inflation have tried to hold up traffe.
Tram cars were set on fire and buses damaged by stones.
ان
The procession was the offshoot
+
proved ubortive.
prices on
work
were
When celling all commodities imposed last August
in
meeting organised by the hal. supplies almost disan.
with meat, fish and
exes pro- local women's Communist organluxable only at enormous prices. sation to express sympathy with The authorities were compelled the Communist prisoners now on to lift celling prices last Novem a hunger strike in West Bengal ber, but only after the prices of pants.--Reuter,
food and consumable goods had increased from four to 14 times since August.
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HUNGER STRIKE
Bombay, April 27. One of many Communists on
strike hunger
In prisons throughout India has died at the! gaol at Rivandrum, South India, where 22 detainees are hunger strike for Increased main- tenance anel other facilities.
In Caleuth. 327 security pr!- wild to be Communists, колега, have been abstaining from solid food sinet last week-endt.
in Masulipatam. Madras Pro- vince, 20 Communist prisoners under trial are also on a hunger strike. Reuter,
CLAIM AGAINST BRITAIN
Bavana. April 27.
"Rice prices increased by 600 per cent
cent, esusing great hardship, and vegetable and farm products had a 300 per cent rise. A three- month embargo on extible oils and oli seeds was also imposed in an attempt to improve food supplies and lower prices.
"Despite ECA ald, China found it impossible to purchase; the whole of its rice allocation] last year.
Lower Consumption
An FAO general survey of the Chinese food situation says total} cereal crops in 1047-48 reached approximately pre-war level be- cause smaller production of rice and kaoling was compensated by Increased production of wheat and maize. China's
food Imports consisted alinost entirely
belg
consi
ecrrals.
563,000
ol metric
tons in 1947-48 compared with
000.000 tona before the war. Guatemala has submitted 21 FAO's most recent China sur- statement of her claim to Britishvey said: "Food
cons Honduras to Senor Ernesto Dihl- levels vary greatly
th
10
average with
go, Cuban President of the Inter-to province and from year
national American Commission on inde- year and the
Compared pendent territories.
means little. The statement maintains that pre-war consumption cercats Britain has lost all right to the have fallen and the decline hus territory through her fatture to beca only partially offset by in- build #road
road that she had con dreased consumption of sweel $9 tracted to do in 1859. A report potatoes and other stareh foods. on the statement will be present- Overall, calorie consumption ap- ed to plenary session of the pears to be about live per cent Commission, expected to be held below. the pre-war Agure." next month-Rouler.
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