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DRAMATIC DEVELOPMENTS IN Wind-Swept Duke PROCEDURE FOR
SHANGHAI STREET FIGHTING
Foreigners Marooned
Plane Lands At The Valley
Considerable excitement was caused at Happy Valley when * yellow caloured monoplane landed 00 the Race Course at about 10 a.m. yesterday.
According to eye-witnesse8, the plane came in for a land- Ing from the stable side of the Race Course and took off a few minutes ixter towards the
sea.
A few minutes after it took off from the field, the plane made a second landing,
The light single-seater loft the field again a few minutes after its second landing.
DECISIVE BATTLE PREDICTED
Canton, May 26. Nationalist military sources predict that the next major clash between the Communists and Government forces will be at Chuchow, Important railway Junction in Central Hunan.
Foreign sources who share this view think it may be the last big battle before the Communists subjugate These
the
sutirces
In Middle Of Battle SOOCHOW CREEK STORMED
Shanghai, May 26.
With the Communist forces launching an all-out attack on the Na- tionalist remnants on the Northern side of Soochow Creek, a dramatic situation has arisen in the Embankment Building, where 200 foreigners are marooned together with some 150 Government troops who are still holding out.
The foreigners in Embankment Building, just Northward of the Water- works Bridge, West of the Szechuen Road Bridge, are attempting to arrange a truce, while the British Emergency Planners are seeking ways and means of evacuating them.
The marooned foreigners are holding a conference |
with the Nationalists to try to induce them The to surrender to avoid useless bloodshed. Nationalists are asking for civilian clothes but were told that these will be forthcoming if thoy surrender,
The
collapse of Nationalist resistance at the bridges appears imminent tonight following the Communist storming of the Markham Road bridge about two miles West of the Bund.
two
These Communist forces are | Nationalists to dive in or they
be mopperi up in Sweeping Eastward to outflank would the Nationalists holding other hours. whole
bridges at two of which white country. say that if the flags have been hoisted. Nationalists lose this batt
The Nationalists in the Post battle, the
will
Office Building hoisted the white ommunist··
strategy
through to flag as duak Bubly be to press
fell and all ring at the Szechuen Kwellin, capital of Kwangs!,
Rond crated This strategy would result in bridge. The Post Office surrender Nationalist ter- | followed loud-speaker calls to the the remaining
with ritory being split asunder
Kwangtung Province cut off from the Western and North Westem provinces.
Nationails! sources bellove that
battle
the
for Chuchow
develop within a
Bay
may Wook. Thay Communists Yi, Lin Keng are now Plac and Chen converging on the city, which is the Junction of the Honkow- Canton
and railways.
That 700,000
under Generals Chen
at
British Protest To China
Britain Cheklung-Klangel
are
London, May 20. has repeated the prolest, lodged In Shanghai two days ago, against the use by Chinese Government mill- tary commanders of British- ships.
A formal protest has now been made in Canton.
Some of Chen Yi's forces, they believe, are at present moving Weat ulong the Cheklang-Klang Tailway from Hangehow. Troops moving under Chen Keng South and West from Nanchang, on the same railway.
Announcing this today, a For About 200,000 men under in eign Office spokesman said that Plso are believed to be advancing the latest protest was delivered South
from
Hankow toward by Mr. J. P. Coghill, Counsellor
It of Changsha and Chuchow.
the British Embassy, who predicted
simultaneously moved to Canton when the Chin- with this attack, the Communists ese Government moved South. will try to continue their advance directly South of Nanchang,
100
that
To Leave Canton
At the same time, guerills forces in the coastal provinces of Fuklen and Kwangtung are ex- pected to increase their activities. Informed sources prediet that when the Chuchow battle begins, the Government
will
ovacuate Canion.
The British Ambassador and most members of the Staff of the Embassy are still in Nanking.
The protest concerns the use by Government military commanders in Shanghai carlier this week of British vessels to move Nation- allat troops.
A new Nationalist defence line North Station, Shanghal's main railway station. about one mile North West of the Szechuan Road bridge, where Chinese troops heki up the Japanese for three montha in the Battle of Shanghal in 1937, was reported to have fallen early this evening.
The Nationalist positions are re- ported to be fast collapsing fol- lowing deep Communist penetra- tion behind the bridges. Reports from other areas North of the Creek said that
tomblike silence descended there after the afiertoon's continuous small arms Are
The commander of the Com- munist 29th Army is reported to have arrived in Shanghoi today to direct major operationa against Hongkew if the Nationalists there
cease their shortly.
da not
resistance
Woosung's Fate
staffs, marooned in buildings at
shaves.
KMT OFFICE IN COLONY UNDECIDED
The Hong Kong Ofice of the Kuomintang has not yet decided whether it will close down or apply for exemption from registra- tion under the newly- enacted Speletics Ordin- uite the China Mall" was informed yesterday.
The now enactment, passed
Wednesday, Lars all political organisa- tions with outside affilia- tions...ox_connections., e
011
It is understood that the matter is being taken up by the Chinese Commis- sioner of Foreign Affairs in Hong Kong with the Hong Kong Government,
Anglo-U.S. Exchange On China
to close in on Nationalists barr- the question
caded in Broadway Mansions.
Reports from
Yangisepoo
eigh!!
thai
The wind played tricks with the Duke of Windsor's hair when the photographer snapped him on his recent visit to Britain. The Duke, making his first visit to London since last October, stayed for a week with his mother Queen Mary at Marlborough House. (AP Photo),
NEW SERVICE TO NORTH STARTS
(Continued on Pago 3)
(By Our Harbour Reporter) Two Norwegian stoomers are due to leave this week-end to inaugurate the Colony's second regular passenger-cargo servico to Tientsin.. With this development in the resumption of trade with Communist China, local shipping circles predict an exodus from Hong Kong of Chin- ese evacuees who are undergoing a difficult time in maintaining themselves here. Both operated by Wallem freighters on this run. declared and Company, with the China that cargo inware and outward has been moving in limited quan- Travel Service as the book-
titles since the beginning of the ing agent, the ss. Daviken
service. leaves tomorrow with the ss. Pronto following on Sunday to begin the first of a series of a fortnightly schedule, which unul now has virtually been the British monopolised by firm, Butterfield and Swire.
"Except for the essential health certificates any Chinese can enter Tientsin without a permit. Since the inauguration of the passengers iervice by B. and S. hundreds of Chinese have reached the Red omcial port," well-informed
& stated yesterday.
There have been numerous en-
local by
Chinese for quiries passage but lack of accommoda- ing the elty daily, approaches tion has prevented
many from 5,000, Ionving.
Mont of the evacuees are going Macao and to Hong Kong, and many are people who had earlier fled from Shanghai and other Northern cities.
With this new service, wo ex- hundreds to return, and bookings have been rather en- couraging," the official declared.
however, Are Foreigners, beset with restrictions, and it will be some time before de- finite Information can be ob tained from the North regard ing facilities to enable them to procure permits to enter Tien- tain,
So far only a handful of far- elgners have managed to return, because they formerly had busi- ness there.
London, May 28. The British
United and States Governments have ex- changed views on future rela- tions with China, it was learn- There have been no casualties ed on good authority today. amang foreigners, including Talks have taken place in British and American consular washington between Sir Oliver both ends of the three main Franks, the British Ambassa-pect" bridgas Szechuan Road, Gar. dor, and the State Department. don and Waterworks--although A Foreign Office spokesman has there have been many close continually stated that the ques
tion of recognising the Chinese Communist troops stormed Communist administration has not in- It is becoming across Garden Bridge after wiping yet arisen. out the defenders and then began
creasingly
clear,
however, that have to be may faced in the course of the summer."
Recognition was the main sub The spokesman said that the
mlies North of Bund. suy
ject discussed between the Com- vessels concerned wara naveral
Communist troops are moving
monwealth and North Atlantic en- small ships of the Blue Funnel
voys in recent unoffelal contacts Line used for river traffic and into the area in strength and are
wiping out. Nationallet stragglers in Nanking.
• harbour tanker, In
Serious Handicaps with rifle fire. Nationalist
1is morning, the Foreign Office soldiers cases the ships were flying the in groups of two and three are spokesman in London atressed the
"Numerous restrictions, lack of oking for informality of the Nanking con roaming the streels looking-
fixed exchange rafes and the ab- clothing rivilian
versations. It is generally be for disguise.
sence of facilities in Hong Kong lieved here that they did not up- Further North. the retreating
to enable foreigner to get per- proach the precision of the recent exchange of views between the mission have been serious handi- ammunition supplies at Klangwar
British Embassy in Washington caps to foreign trade with Com- munist China" an official of a and the State Department.
In Canberra today, the Prime Coreign organisation 'revealed.
Only, those whe can prove to Minister, Mr. Joseph Chifley. There seems to be some doubl
replying to questions In Par Communist satisfaction that they about fate of Woosung. Un-
the
liament, said Australia is con-were formerly bona fide business- confirmed reports say that it was ferring with other Governments men in Tientsin are eligible for captured today, closing the last
concerning the possible recog-re-entry.
Moreover, a would-be visitor escape route of some 150,000 Gov-
nition of
Govern has ernment troops,
Communiat
to The town wOP
obtain two guarantors in ment In China. said to have fullen after a Com- Mr. Chifley also said discussions the Red port. But this is becom- munis, crossing of the Whangpoo are faking place on the position ufing more and more difficult River from the Kauchino area in diplomatie and business repre-businessmen have abandoned the Consequently, many foreign The American Consulate-Pootung.
tailves in China. No docialons have to Other reports, however, say the General today, extended Fukien Province its recent ad-Nationalists are still embarking vice to nationals in Kwangtung ships for cecape by area. and Kwangsi that it would be
Red Ensign, he added.
ring the Communist take-over of | Na
It is stated that the Cabinet will probably go to Chungking but the Legislative, and Control
Latent reports received here Yuans will transfer to Taiwan.: from Shanghul indicate that no
Such s
dictated by per
far there has beers no looting du- Nationailats set fire to petrol and disagreements alstent
between the several
Government organs Router.
The ety, the spokesman added.arned. Henres are in the rather than by any strategy.
nay and heavy explosions could -would mean the complete dialn
heard. tegration of the Nationalist Gov- ernment these sources add, Reuter-APP.
The Weather
AL 9000 GWT (8 p.m. TKRT) fem the Facine dati-eyelona a weak shige extani W to the Eastern Ses and thence to
Pressure 10. Jos krợ
the China Ben. Tonkin,
Today's Forecaili-Moderate was
veering BW. Fair periods and showers
Yesterday's Weather)---
„Merlinume `89.1 deg. Fah.
Minimum 7.6 deg. Fah
*Runehir: 7.8 hours.
*Ruintállt 2010 Total minem Jub.
Americans
In Fukien
Warned
Canton, May 20,
wise to evacuate dependents Foreigners Hit
́and non-essential personnel.
This advico was given from
375.3 mm.-11.91 Ins, as assinat an diction of Shanghal. kterane of 519.0 mm.19.43, ins.
Hendinge as
19' sm2 - 4' PARA A Naro, at man.1.2011.4 100i ma.b.”
29.07. 20.00 Tushem.
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HK FLIGHT OF CAPITAL
on
Rush To Evacuate Canton
Canton, May 26. A new
to rush evacuate Canton has started with the eclipse of Nationalist fortunes in Shanghai. Travel agents estimate that the number leav-
Twenty passenger planes are dally taking about 500 people to Hong Kong. Large numbers are travelling to the colony by train although it is still comparatively easy to get accommodation. River beats plying to Hong Kong and Macao Have hravy bookings. Tra- vel agents state that a heavy in- crease in passengern luggage has been noted lately.
Though bookings to Amaries and other overseas destinations have sharply increased. Fairly largo numbers still continue to arrive in Canton from Hong Kong and Macao but it is stated that many of these are buaingan men making brief visits to wind up their af fairs. Reator,
ovor
RAF AIRDROPS
Singapore, May 20, Royal Air Forco Dakotas based on Kuala Lumpur have dropped nine tons of supplies to security troops in Soulkørn Kelantan and North Porak, the greatest tonnage dropped in one operation sincs the present fight- ng began in Malaya-Reuter,
Grim Find in Cave. IIK Press Delpaation in
London
Mr. Woodhead Leaving. Correspondence. Personalla.