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REDS NEAR FUKIEN BORDER Communist Escapes FORMOSANS ASK
Infiltration 15
15 Miles From Shanghai Reported CANTON PLANS DEFENCE
Shanghai, May 9.
An imminent Communist invasion of Fukien, home province of the majority of overseas Chinese in Malaya and the Philippines, and the infiltration of small detachments of Red forces into the region North of Kating, only about 15 miles North West of Shanghai were major war developments indicated in the official bulletin today.
Li Acts
To
Bolster Strength
Canton, May 9.
Acting President Li actori swiftly in Anancial and mill- tary matters to strengthen the position of Central and South Chinu
reports from After listening Premier Ho Yung-chin and rank- Ing Cabinet members, one of his first acts was to obtain at least a portion of the gold bars and foreign currencies stored last year in Talwan on order of Generalis- sino Chiang Kai-shek,
Acting President Tal said Gener-
The communique also claimed that the Red threat
to Tsingtao had been crushed by the routing of the Communist attackers at Tsimo, North of the port, after a four-day battle, during which 8,000 Red troops were killed. Lacking details, military observers found it diffi
cult today to assess the seriousness of the Red infiltration into Kating whore sporadic fight- ing was reported by the garrison headquar- tors. They said, however, that the city was vital to the effective defence of the metro. polis as a whole.
Besides lying some 12 miles | Near Fukien
South East of Taichung, the Northernmost prop of Shang- hat's outer defence arc,
It is Border located only 10 miles West of the of Woosung, the mouth
They were officially reported loss of which would enable the
to cluse the today to be attacking Yuanshan. Communists
10 miles from the to all ship-chly about Whangpoo river
Fukien border which was the site ping.
headquarters of General Ku Chu- ung, at present the Nationalist- Japanese war and is linked by
coastal highway to the Fukien
alissimo Chiang informed him he Attack On Kunshan chief of staff, during the Sino-
coid use the money in his capa- city Acling President.
It was reported that troops in Kwangtung province will be paid silver dollars like those in Kwangst, Hunen and Hupeh pro- vinces. This is being done to crease the morale of the armed forens.
Communist troops, which have eluding the capital, Foo-
attacks
been making probing around Kunshan, 30 miles Wort
In order to devole more time puris received here. as Minister of National Defence. Premier Ho Ying-chin
the
The offteini Central News of Shlungbal, in the past few days. Agency reported that Commurf- brought in reinforcements today ist armies had inunched a two-
drive with and tegan to increase their offorts pronged
One arm The presence of Acting Presto pueb through the old walled pushing Eastward along dent Li in Canton has raised city that guards the Western ap-Cheklang-Kiangsi railway, aiming according at Nanchang and the other driv. hopes that this co-capital would, proaches to Shanghai, not be abandoned liké Nanking. to pre-government Chinese re- ing Southward in an attempt to
eross the border Into Fukien.
According to the Snanghat gar. the Nationalet delon headquarters However, has ex-
war release, pressed his desire to resign. Act-fenders, who threw off dozens of the Red troops which earlier had Ing President Li will ask either small julds on Kunshan directly intrated into the alway city Ku Cheng, Kuomintang veteran from the West and in the Tal statespan or General Yen Haj- <han to be Premier. Gen. Yen Hel-chan is well known as ad- ministrate of Shansi province and defender of Talyung, provinciai capital, against the Japanese and later #gainst the Communists. (Talyuan is now in Red hands).
a President L shortly wit send Professor Kan Chlen-hou as Presidential representative to the United States in a belated effort fo obtain American moral and ecunamie suport, Kan is slated to be Foreign Minister in any Catunet sponsored by Li-Also- einted Press.
A close adviser to Acting Fra- sident i Tsung-fen asid today thnt withough Generallsalmo Chiang Kai-shek had promised to transfer Presidential powers he
And refreted suggestions that he should go abroad.
Observers interpret this condi- iion as important in that the Generalissimo, as head of the In a
Kuomintang, will still be position to influence the party.
The
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BRITISH CONSULATE
Corisulato at Swntow reopened last Monday with Mr. G.W. Rothery as Vicn Counsul-in charge, it was officially sisted yesterday.
The Consulate wer closed tem- porarily on March - 1 this year.
The Weather
A2 5600 GMT (2 p.m. XEST) the^depres- elen centred on the Indo-China cosal UW of Hainan is moving slowly MW when the hill and is expected ta'eneklaue - th weaken and eventually Ril us: From drept and extensive coinping low Breed Po area covering Biberia a trough, uxtabda
Hankow May
Be Abandoned
Canton, May 9. General Ku Chu-tung, Chlef of Staff, told nown- papermen today that mill- tary préparations for the delence of South Chino
are essential but it is too early to speak about them now.
He hinted that Hankow, if necessary, may be aban- doned. At present the Central China port city is still quiet. Associated Press.
chong sector. 10 miles North East. since the occupation of Soochow firmly stood their ground and little actual change has resulted after several hours of fighting.
Other pro-government Chinese pross reports enld the bulk of the
Communist 31st Army operating North of Talchong appeared to
MAO NOT TITO
Chinese
London, May 9. Official quarters today said the belief is spreading in the British government that the Communist leader, acting under orders from Moscow and will not be an "Oriental Tito."
Government
analyalı have reported on the close elmliarl ty of Comunist comments an the Atlantic Fact. - United
Press.
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Jap Reds Not Strong
Tokyo, May 9. The Japanese Prime Minister, Shigeru Yoshida, in an exclusive Interview with Reuter, said that he did not believe the Communist successes in China would result in increased Communist strength
'n Japan,
Through Trap Door FOR HOME RULE
PARTIES CLAIM
Mr. Harry Pollitt secretary of the British Communist Party, escaped through a trap door while ran angry crowd welted for him in front of the Plymouth 'Corn Exchange. The meeting in the hall was -Interrupted by angry heckling and finally by fighting, when he said the sacrifice of Royal Navy personnel on the Yangtze as a result of Chinese Reds Shall Ing WBR unnecessary-(AP Photo).
Tan Kah-Kee Will Visit Red China
who is
Formosans want to govern themselves and direct
their own destiny, said a joint message seni yesterday to the Far Eastårn Commission by 10 different political' and cultural Formosar parties, exiled in Hong Kong. The partici claim a combined membership of 1,000,000 The statement added that the Kuomintang, being corrupt and incompetent, ond the Chinese Communist, being dictatorial and vassal to Moscow, the occupation of Formosa by eithei group would undermine any democrátic de fence system of the Western Pacific. Liberation being their claim we, Formosans, must assert· oin and self-determination their inalienable right to ask the de- right, the Formosans would mocratie powers to stop aiding have remained silent and con-refugee tyrants, and instead halt
native patriots," tented with the Cairo Declara- tion to hand their,country to the Chinese occupation forces If they enjoyed the same free- dom, the same equality and the same fraternity with the Chinese as the inhabitants of
with Alsace-Lorraine
the French, said the statement.
It added that their country mis- ruled and the
their people misguided the Formosans
want now
10 govern themselves and direct their own destiny. China has no right to colonial reconquest, Formosa has the right to self-determination.
the
In three years since VJ Day, the Chinese occupation forces have already converted the trea- sure island into a devil's island. Treaty By the time the Peace with Japan is concluded, the de- vil's island will have turned into
MALAYA -BANS CHINA PARTIES
Singapore, May 9. The Mulaya. Federation. Government today offletal- ly banned the local or ganisation of foreign poll- fical associations in Singa- 'poro,
The Leftist China De- mocratic League and the i Kuomintang are the only- two groups affected,
It does not affect the Malayan Indian Congress, announcement
said
The stripped
burning hell and the inhabita
will have been tanis naked, added the statement.
De facto, Formosa has been. under Chinang trusteeship: 'de she is under the
sald the Eastern Commission, statement.
Therefore,
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the conclusion of the Tremy
Eastern
FAT
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with apart, the Far
Commissioner
anivage Fermoya fram Chinese tyranny and robbery, and allow her people to express freely. their wishes to direct their own destiny.
Otherwise, the statement
wam-
ed, the Formosan people will have to take the matter into their own hands and fight their own way out, despite all difficulties, oven át the sacrifice of blood, for liberty and
prosperity.
Chinese Misrule
that the Government con- sidered the organisations ́as an obstacle to the de- velopment of a Singapore political consciousness. Reuter..
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