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ESTABLISHED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS
HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1949.
YUNNAN PROVINCIAL TROOPS Manstein War
REVOLT AGAINST GOV'T Nationalist Officials Told To Quit Province REBELS SEIZE AIRFIELD
A revolt against the Nationalist Government has occurred in Kunming, capital of China's South West Province of Yunnan, according to message received by the "China Mail" yesterday.
Disastrous Fire In Chungking; 1,000 Killed
Canton, Geptembar 4.
The Chinesa Central News Agency reported today that
1,000 persona had died in Chungkin an that wartime capitat In Western China wes awaft by the warst fire in history,
Beven thousand dwellings were burred and more than
cause
100.000 persons left homeless. it reparted. The fire, which started on Friday afternoon, raged for 18 hours, it said, 15
wai unknown. Hundreds of the victims sought escape from the flames by plunging into rivers, only to drawn.
Central
charred
News sald 610 bodles had been
found thus Tar in ruinsd buildings-Associated Press.
Increase In River Piracy
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Canton, September 4.
River piracy has reached such *unprecedented heights that most towboats have sußpended service, while the security authorities are yet unable to cope with the out-
ge.
¡Central Government personnel have been given 48
hours in which to quit the province and the airfield was last night reported to be in the hands of the rebels.
One CNAC plane on its way from Calcutta to Hong Kong was not allowed to land at Kun- ming. Other pilots who arrived earlier said that trouble brewing between the Peace Pre- servation Corps of which there are eight woll- equipped regiments and the Nationalist 26th Army came to a head on Friday night. Earlier the provincial troups | posed banned Nationalist troops from entering the elty. Nationalist have forces retaliated by refusing to allow provinctal troops on the airfield.
k
Gn the eve of the coup d'etal,
·Commander: the eight regt- iments published eint declara- tion mancing their anti-Cr- tral Government move.
by the. and jeopardized people of Yunnan Province who continuously remembered their own glorious history,
"Amid the whole nation's Joy over recent success of Liberated Army's swift sweep In numer out Central China provinces," the statement urged that Gen- eral Lu Han and the Peoples' Council of the pro-
of the! vince, "being leaders Yunhan people should select
Political It is not known whether General Lu Han, Governor of Yunnan, has asso- ctated himself with the rebels semirent.
clear decision in upholding the glorious spirit of reserving nur the revolutionary Country
war."
in
Calling for a
for what
of Lu Han, released a latter pentance which
addressed' "to he
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Nationalists To Bring Case To United Nations
Canton, September 4.
Hong Kong last night General
Lung Yung. former Governor of Yunnan and cousin
quick self- re- The Chinese government will soon reach a deci- This previously in aiding the Chiang sion on bringing its case bofbre, the United Nations, but as far as the United States-White Hapor is concerned, it has decided to let the subject rest.
frum oppression.
end the Peoples' Political Coun-regime in the so-called supres
the all of the Province In uat, sion of internal disorder,
In August, encouraging them to deliver the statement warned the people of of Yunnan from the Yuunan not to lose this good op- people
to join with the Phallet yoka and free the portunity but
Liberation Army in achieving A high official source revealed that the advisability of taking the Nationalist case against Com- munism to the United Nations had not yet come formally before the Supreme Council, the Nationalists emergency ruling organ, but he said it will be brought up soon.
The statement which describ. great task.
ed the Chinese civil war as the
Chinese
People
Army's revolutionary
Liberation Letter To
War.
pointed out that the
of the peoples' victory haLi Tsung-jen ready been won since the
Chinese Communist's victory in the Hsuchow.-Peugpa area.
Reactionary
Extortion letters were received Power"
by cello towboats and steamers
on the Canton-Hong Kong run.
One of the latest recipients is the
Butterfeld
and Swire steamer.
Referring to his personal letter
of
The
continued
SUCCESSES
Communist armies, and a grow- ine official tendency to charge the USSR with direct and material help
The translation of the more a direct reversal of government to Acting President Li Teng-jen, than 1,000-page White Paper thinking six months ago. the ex-warlord's statement men into Chinese has been com- -tioned that during the time when "possible peace was being dis-pleted, and the first proofs are from the printers for eussed just after the suchow and back
had ended, checking. Bound volumes of Pengpu campaigns Lung, hoping to divert the tide of the full text will be available the destructive civil war away for all government officials.
But the decision has been made Calling Chiang Kai-shek's re-from arcas South of the Yangtse
Acting- subject to possible change, to let Fatshan which received the threate a "reactionary power which River, had urged the
"unift the munsk of it dem Plans for a formal gov- last week after she came out of is nothing but a creation of the President
unperialists and feudalists," the the dletaior-liked conspiracy
ernment reply have been dropped. annual overhaul,
to accept
Generallarimo Chiang Kal The river bandits attempt to statement said that the desperate the reactionaries and
Mao Tse-tung's eight principles."
shek. however. is reported extort various amounts in a lump
"Unfortunately this suggestion
be preparing his own personal cum or in monthly instalments.
was not accepted," "and now that
defence against While Paper al The waterways around Contou
who are facing The statement further praised reactionarie
legations, and in expected to re are so numerous that the navy the freedom-loving spirit of the dead read, have hopelessly scaled
lease It soon after his return to and land garrison forces
are people
Yunnan. It stated that ❘ their doom, resulting in great
his continental Talpch from helpless
do an to anything
belig a small part of China, Yun-rufferings to the people South of Passengers on
tour. river vessels am had contributed her part in the Yangtze River. patronise steerage accommodation | the Chinese revolution which had the impression that it is overthrown the Manchu, Dynasty under safer to travel in the lower part| hoping to free the entire Chinese of the ship than on the better race from tyranny and oppression. ventilated top deck. This is good It recalled the earlier clays protection #gainst Aring from the civil war in Manchuria when shore,
but bandits often lay Provincial Yuntan troops were sent to the North East. By doing river danger, su, the statement
mines,
Because of the more people are travelling
|struggle put up by Chiang will no loubt bring destruction and death to itself.
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Brabazon's Maiden
Flight
Filton, near Bristol. September 4.
The 130-ton giant aircraft, Brabazon, the largest civil land plane in the world, made"
27-minute malden fight here today:
She took off at noon from specially constructed run. way and thousands of specta- tors cheered as the huge, cigar-shaped body of the alr craft rose from the ground. Bhe travelled above the rest of the runway at a height of about 20 feet and 10 minutes later the was circling over Bristol and the villages of Bouth Gloucestershire at height estimated at 500 foot.
The roar of her engines as she took off could be heard two miles away.
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Reds Meet With Difficulties In Southern Drive
Shanghai, September 4.
The trickle of news from the South Central China Provinces of Hupeh and Hunan provinces hints that the Reds' drive along the Hankow- Canton railway-is-not-going foo well. The Reds have been menacing Canton from the Kiangsi-Kwangtung border region, which is well South East of, this orea, but the drives into Kwangtung have been by irregulars.
There is some doubt whe- ther these Irregulars are cap abic of taking Canton even though backed up by General Liu Po-cheng's main force along the Kwangtung border so long as strong Nationalist
Bouth. Tax, to keep the big military machine running, foods, food shortages and the burden of cities strangled by the blockade has put terrifs burden on the pessant
And the peasant seems to be
forces hold flank positionsresorting to resistance tactics Bi- milar to there he employed along the railroad.
against the Nationalists when the
Pal Chung-hal, whose forces are
.
one
Recently, Nationalist General load got too heavy. based around Hengyang, recap- That phrase in the Liberation tured several points in that vicini-Daily's Hankow despatch about
"eliminating corruption This indicates the Red drive Communist officials is startling. ty. Th South along the railroad hai
there is gtalled
characteristic Whether the bogging
among Red down of
leaders, revolutionary this drive from Hankow will de which won then support, it was
their vaunted
Incorruptibility. their rigid official honesty being thinned out by the vast conquest and the absorption officials who never went through vast throngs of administrative
lay day of reckoning is yet
answered. A
red. A captured Canton would be of limited use to the Communists
Pal's as long as forces stayed astride the railway between Hankow and Canton,
of
The Reds had hoped to break the purifying hiter of Yenan. a or lesson the effect of th new and great problem in con- contat blockade by capturing fronting the revolution. There is Canton and then routing essen an axiom in China that revola. tial commerce into Red Chine tionarics are incorruptible at the from Hong Kong to Canton and beginning but usually moving it North to the Yangterrupted by success.Associated Via the Canton-Hankow rail- | Press. way.
Reds Confer
Describing events in the vast battle area of Hupch and Hunan, where Red General Lin Plaos juggernaut rolled South after crossing the Yangtze at Hankow and then ground to a stop after taking Changsha, the Communist Liberation Dally said in a de spatch from Hankow on Sunday: "Lẫn Pão has called Communist leaders to Hupah to a conference to study the general situation. It was admitted some cities in South West Hupeh Nationalist hands
aro cor-
Britain Cautions Greece
London, September 3. Diplomatie quarters reported
still are in today that the Greek Govern-
"te liberated areas, only the ment has been cautioned by upper structure of the Kupmin. Britain against attempting any tang regime has been smashed, Invasion of Albania in pursult Armed bandits
forces erat of rebel
ficeing from and secrat still exist everywhere. Northern Greece. agents Feudal forces at control the
The Greek Foreign Minister, political, economic, milltary and Constantin Tsaldaris,
conferred Idealogical aspecte In the
with the Prime Minister, Clement villages. They are systemati- Attice, at No, 10 Downing Street Gally engaged in armed -- resla-
on Friday night: A Government tance or aabotage, They are spokesman denied that any up- spreading rumours and refusing gestions that Greece should in- to pay taxes and causing social vade Albaria to prolect disturbances.
Northern frontier were advanced "The Communists decided on a during their conversation. long term plan to consolidate
A
as he moved South of the
that
the Chinese Reds, plus the State Department's abandon- ment of the Nationalists. brought
their position by screening those The -lish position was that it about crystallisation of the iden.
reactionaries who penetrate into would prejudice the Greek case One of the latest direct stens
the Communist camp, eliminatin in the United Nations' considera- token to establish a legal posi
corruption among
Communist tion of the dispute. United Nation
officials and tion with the
increase political was the note in which an officia
vigilance."
Earlier, British press reports made
at Russia's
Tokyo, September 4.
that Mr. Attlee had This hints that Lin, here of the claimed protest was
Manchurian The visit of Mr. Malcolm Manchurian campaign, has found cabled the Foreign Secretary, Mr. recognition
board Bevin, on MacDonald, British High Com-
the "People's government,
The
signing of an
about disturbing Mauretania enomic missioner for South East Asia, somewhat unco-operative coun- Ernest between the Servlets took on more importance today Yangis, from Hankow.
trykida
the developments in
Balkans agreement and the Manchurian regime, was
when an official British source It
that appears
resistance following his conference with Mr. interpreted by the government p
Tsaldoria. a violation by Russia of the 1945 told the United Press that Mr. from the population, coupled with To enter into a continued con-
would Pai Chung Hai's stand around The "Daily, Graphit" contends "The reactionaries are plan.
Lroversy with the United States mutual assistance and friendship MacDonald not only
receive a complete briefing on Hengyang has, temporarily sli that the Greek Government is ngreement. ning to turn Yunnan into State Department over what most
from In unofficial and Individust de Japan
General Mac- least, taken the punch
out of having difficulty in restraining the strong base for their last coun. Chinese amelals felt was an error clations any high Chinese, in- Arthur's experts but would Min's forces once rated as the General Staff from occupying a ter attack against the Chinees
in Stali Department Judgment
Chiang Kai-shek, Acting give General MacArthur's ex-atrongest forces the Reds threw zone four miles deep into Albania cludin people bringing us shame and and an incomplete presentation Bilent Li Tsung-jen and Pre-perts a complete briefing on across the Yangtzo. disgrace. In case Yunnan goer of facts, would jeopardise China's
The British source termed it a astray and causes a great dieas position in the United Nations ir mier Yen lihen, have stated South East Asia. ter who could bear this heavy it carries
its rase to either the tha: Communism in Ching is not They have re-
and a co- of information trade responsibility?
Security Counell or the General local issue.
of effort to achieve "The victory of the
In and the Cominform are the mutual interests.
This was the first officlal Indica- The Rovernment has devoted brain. behind Moo Tie-tung, chou of internal disorder by imposing of peacefu. living in this country considerable
that Joint plans against time to a sturdy of Fr-ial and their military collea- tioll
Comr.unist ugression would be compulsory Anscription and but also & success in laying
the White Paper, and at one tire gues donations in kind.
Taiwan Issue -- foundation of victory for the en-had almost reached a decision 'n
discussed here, although inform-
had speculated ed quarters sys-tire world's Peoples' Denver, its called that when Acting For has made the government rete a formal rebuttal it will be One of the chief factors that
this point Frontier. If this is achieved, 19
Mr. MacDonald will get the will bring glory to our entire leign Minister Grore. Yeh mutant in the past to consider United
complete picture that General the first emelal 'sts ement, on the Nations action, has been the Tal MacArthur's experts had been The castles bullt In the air issue, he sald
that the Rover wan lenne.
giving visiting American, officials, by the reactionary - Chiang. Kai-¡ment "at the proper time,'
But now, it believes it can take This includes talks by Genera shek regime must be crushed ue a statement.
that The general foeling is MacArthur's section chlets who immediately so as to eliminate But prolonged discussion that Chins has everything to gain moke extensive use of prepared further unnecessary suffering for brought the decision that it would and nothing to lase now. the people and to expedite the Le to the Interests, of the govern-
ment to let it rest.
went on, the
on renetionary Chiang Kai-shek re-
traina between Canton and Elong Bine hoped to force Yunnan to peoples' Liberation Army with Assembly, in the view of mort Deatedly.nsaarted that the Krem operation
Kong.
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officials.
play her part in the suppressing not only mean ten thousand years
However, this imperialistic
tem was on many occasion
Chinese Army Officer Held At Kai Tak
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Face.
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A Chinese army lieutenant-revolution. trough extenda W and BW acrows the -China. Ben to Indo-China. Pressure colonel who
"This can only be achieved by
wore a badge in leading the people of the entire sentment or bellef
Not that there was a lack of ne bish over NW China and indicating that he was a "guest" of province in proclaiming an im-intes could be punched in the thai large vidite extending from the Yellow Son to the Nationalist Ministry of De mediate break-off with the des White Paper and the luge of Mr.
fence Talwan was detained by perate-Chiang-regime. the immigration office at the Koi "The Anal strike in bringing an Achison's non)"Chian will not accept Ualted
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the great task of "peoples' "re- when he arrived from Canton by volution to victorious ending will
CNAC aircraft.. The Chinese army officer, whose sive credit to Yunnan province." The statement was signed by name was not available was later Lung Yung and the date was fix- turned over to the local agents ed as August 17. of the CNAC for the night." Ha
Mr. Li Yi-ping, representing
was told to leave the Colony, in the ex-warlord, in releasing the the morning.
statement for Lung,, explained
According to the officer, he was that it is the Chinese peoples' told by an. Immigration officer
wish that the day of overthrow- |that Chinare officers who wore ing the present "government
military uniform are not permit ted to enter the Colony without throughout China should be rea-
lised earlier. the Asked about the future status
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accepted. to let the issue reat. The Com-
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