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HONG KONG, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1949.
RED THRUST IN N. KWANGTUNG Winnie Picks
Chen Keng's Forces And Guerillas Seize Nanhsiung REDS TAKE CHANGCHOW
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Canton, September 25. Government troops from Shaokwan (Kukong) were ordered last night to Nonhsiung, North Kwangtung to check the Com- munist troops and guerillas under Chen Keng who occupied that border town yesterday morning.
Grenade Explodes In Printing Plant; Five Injured
Five Chinese printers were injured when an explo-.
sion took place at the Shen Kee Press Limit ed, Nos. 14-15, Lee Yuen Street, East, ground floor, at about 11.10 p.m. yesterday. The Shen Kee Press Limited are printers for the "New Life Evening News" and "To Kung Poo," whose offices are located on the first floor and second floor respectively.
Soldier
Burnt To Death In Singapore
Military circles here believe that the Communists were primarily inspired to obtain foodstuffs, as those in South Kiangsi were exhausted by five Communist armies deploy- ed there. It is not certain
whether the thrust is on a big scale. Other Communist units are still entrenched at Lung- hsienhsu and Patzubsu in North county.
Wengyuan Kwangtung.
Effective defence of Kwang- tung was mapped out today at of Gen- the Whampoa villa
cralissimo Chiang Kai-shek who conferred with Lieuten- ant-General Chow Chib-ya. head of the Air Force. and Vice-Admiral Kwai Wing- ching, head the Navy. A report said there will be co- ordination in the defence of South China.
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Sails From Shanghai BRITAIN
The Africa of five w 200 Britons Aboard
So far the Air Force has strategic been engaged in
One achievement bombing.
At the time of the incident. there were about 10 werkmen sleeping on the ground floor. The printing machine was not in operation at the time.
One of the workmen said that was the sinking of the former he was sleeping on the floor when Japanese destroyer Chang Chi on September he suddenly saw a blinding flash near Nanking followed by a loud explosion. 23 after that warship desert- Immediately. after the ex-ed the Nationalists and join- plosion, the Emergency Unit and ed the Communists. an ambulance arrived at the
scene
Detective Sub-Inspector
General Pai Chung-hsi, Nation-] Howlett, CID Central, was also list commander in Hunan, dew present at the scene.
bere yesterday afternoon from at the summons of
Shanghai, September 25.
The American President liner General Gordon sail- ed from Shanghai early today bound for Hong Kong, Japan and the United States with 1,275 international refugees.
The
ship was only three-fourths full when it slip- ped out of the Yangtse with the early mom- ing tide. It passed through the Nationalist blockade zone where clearance was given under a previous agreement. The vessel could have carried 600 more passengers.
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London, September 25. The Foreign Office announced today that it has asked Rumania to recall its Commercial Counsel
lor in London, Jacques Berman.
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Soviet Statement
Tel. 21433
THE
RUSSIA HAD
BOMB SECRET SINCE 1947
Moscow, September 25.
An official Soviet statement said today that Russia has had the secret of the atom bomb since 1947,
The statement, issued. by the Soviet news agency Tass, recalled that on November 6, 1947, the former Soviet Minister, Mr. V. M. Molotov, said the secret of the bomb had long ceased to exist. This declaration, the statement said, meant that the Soviet Union already had discovered the secret of the atomic bomb and "has at its disposal this weapon."
"As for the alarm that la ba- Ing spread on this account by certain foreign circles, there are not the slightest grounds For alarm.
The. statement added: the secret of the atomic weapon -- "Scientific circles in the Unit already in 1947. ed States understood Molotov's statement as a bluff, believing the Russians could produce the atomic weapon not earlier than 1952. However, they were mistaken since the Soviet Union in 1947 possessed the atomic weapon."
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The statement · then declared that Russia stands on his original Leuition that control is sects
zary.
man's
"It should be pointed out that the Soviet
government, despite the existence by its country of an
atomic weapon, adopts and in-. tends adopting in the future it former position in favour of the absolute prohibition of the use of
of the
the atomic weapon.
"Concerning control Referring to President Tru-atomic weapon, it has to be said. statement that Russia that control will be essential bi had set off an atomic explosion, order to check on folflment of Tass said the latest technical a decision on the prohibition of means are being used through- production of the atomic weapon." out the U.5.8.R. ter largescale-Associated Press
blasting Works in construction
of hydro-electric planta, mines, canals and roads.
Mos.
The Tass statement aroused great
reat interest in Moscow, foreign embassies got hold of f began poring over quickly and the lext
.S. Ambassador Mr. Alan The Kirk, was not in Moscow at the
A spokesman said the action time. He left Saturday night for as a reprisal for Stalingrad The British embassy Rumania's recent expulsion of a was alerted early and is studying British diplomat from
Bucharest
statement. the Arthur G. & complicit
Sarrell, who had! been accused of
with black market gangs
Mr.
of
Execution For Press Gangs
In Canton
(From Our Own Correspondent)
Ecadquarters, in an effort to check the lawlessness prevalent here for over a fortnight.
Canton, September 25. Summary execution will be went back meted out to those persons embassaics their fles Bigging out who draft involuntary con- (From Our Own Correspondent)
Molotow's statement of nearly two scripts into the army. This is Sarrell was First Secretary years ago.
the order issued today by Singapore, September 23.
the
"Pravda," the oficial Com-General Yu Han-mou, Direc British Legation in On his way to Hong Kong.
Bucharest. As Rumania demand-munist party newspaper; avtor of the Canton Pacification a 21-year-old Gunner, T. B.
ed, he WES withdrawn
Cont from his the statement prominent Lewis, of 34 Field Regiment, It is understood that the print-Hengyang
It was the first mass depar-advance with both the Nation-post last month.
page play but made no editorial President Li Tsung-jen- ture of foreigners from Shang-alists and Communists and sub- The spokesman made it clear reference to it.- Royal Artillery. 120 Batterying machinery at Shen Kee Press Acting a native of Wales was burnt Limited, was cwned by the "New General Pai saw the Generalishai since the city was occupied sequently approved by the United that the Foreign Office has nothing
simo before he retired to Wham-
Communist forces four States State Department by
against M. Berman personally.
Tass Statement Pai to death today in one of the Life Evening News."
"It was a joint humanitarian He said the Counsellor had been grimmest read accidents in
After the explosion, severspca late yesterday afternoon.
In San Francisco, the President effort in which all the factions selected for expulsion because he Pieces of shrapnel, one about told an informant that his troops months ago. Singapore's history,
The statement said: have immobilized about 250,000
to the held approximately the same rank
"As for the production of atome Wah Road North into the vehicle. un by the lens were picked care mist soldiers in Hunan put of the American President Lines, concerned co-operated
as Mr. Sarrell Up by the police, it was learned.
energy, Tass considers it neces-A policeman on the beat, remon George Killion, announced fullest extent," he said.
Britain has taken similar re- The explosion was believed that the divisions in Kwangtung
that he had
200 Britons Aboard today
received a
sary to recall that already on the men, in unform; said the per- strated against the seizure but have been caused by
tallatory action in the past in 2 hand should be placed under a unified:
wireless
The
have message from Captain
passengers who
Minister of the command for
purpose
the cases of Bulgaria and Cze. November 6, 1947, grenade.
son taken was a deserter from commanding the W.S. Tyrrell,
USSR been given safe conduct by the
Foreign Affairs of the The five injured workmen were cffective defence.
that the liner General Gordon.
Nationalists through their ship evacuated 1,300 foreign-bom nationals from Shanghai without mcident.
Lewis arrived by the Empire 2,000 Pride this morning with British military and naval rein-
forcements bound for Hong Kong.
a truck touring the city during,
Ife was riding with 24 others in rushed to the Queen Mary Hosui- four hours shore leave when the 15
They were Chan Kin-ming Changchow Falls
truck overturned in Koppel Head office boy of the New Life Evening and burst into flames.
Lewis and Sergeant Arnold, of the Royal Army Service Corps, were trapped helplessly ir The burning truck but Arnold was! pulled out unconscious Just in. time by rescuers.
Trapped in Truck
Lewis was imprisoned between the truck's iron framework and "screamed like hell," said a naval man, Sidney Smith, who tugged at his boots vainly.
News, Chan Sun-ho, Tsang "Bui, Wong Jim, Ah Fung and Tang Chiu, all printers.
Reds Seek UN
Security
Mr.
of
Mr. Killion said · - negotiations
Singapore
In South Fukien the Central for the liner's entry into blockaderi News Agency admitted the fall Shanghai had to be handled in of Changchow, Nanching and Changtai on the outer perimen- see of Amoy. Changchow is the gateway to Canton. The de- fending land, sea and air forces! have held up increasing Com. munist pressure, but the at- tackers are striving to storm that port city by sheer weigh of numerical superiority.
Council Seat Washington, September 25.
Mao Tse-tung's proclama- tion of a People's Republic of China is a forerunner to a
In Peiping General Liu Po- Communist bid, for China's cheng whose troops are in Kiang-
The Singapore military au thorities are informing Lewis torial today.
mother of the tragedy,
choslovakia.
On Friday night, three men in quiform got off a jeep and | dragged: a" pedestrian
M. Berman is in Bucharest at V.M. Molotov, made a statement the army. The jeep then quickly
drove
away blockade of the Communist held the moment, but he is due to re- concerning the secret of the atom coast, Included 200 British, 400 turn here soon. The spokesman bomb, when he declared that this board.
Able-bodied persons-sħabbily Americans and more than 300 said he would be given time to secret was already long ngo
dressed Jewish displaced, persons, adds get his affairs, in order before existent Associated Press.
with the “deserter"
leaving
are liable to be taken "This statement signified the away by conscription- agents-in:
(The official Nationalist news The British request was hand- Soviet Union already had disorder to fill the quota from Can-
agency announced
fore.
from Cantored on Thursday to the Rumanian covered the secret of the atomiston. As a result many young men that the French liner Marshal Minister to Britain, Mihail Ma-weapon and that it had at its dis- are seen in better dress than be- Joffre also has been granted safe cavci-Associated Press.
posal this conduct in
"Scientists of the United States It is rumoured that a conscrip- and out of Shanghai evacuation ship:)
Bans Japs AtMany executives who have run FAO Meeting
weapon.
NCDN Wrathful of America took this statement tion agent is given HK$150 for
Over Blockade
ertb
PE
by V.M. Molotov for a bluff, con- taking in a new draftee. Some Shanghai firms and indus-
sidering that the Russians would agents, used lorries to grab un tries for decades were on board
weapon willing persons. One report said not posses the atomic the Gordon. Their departme will
Shanghai, September 24. earlier than the year 1952.` that even some soldiers not carry- leave many gaps in the economie In a wrathful editorial which "They however were mistaken, ing sims were shanghaied into Life of the city.
attacked the Nationalist regime since the Soviet Union possessed another unit Singapore, September 25.
General comment of the eva- for detaining the British freigh- The Singapore government cuees was that they were corry icter Edith Moller, the North-china He was roasted alive before permanent seat on the Secursi, told the People's Political today refused permission to leave but things would have Daily News today advocated ac- scores. of eye-witnesses.
Seven others in the truck were tionallst
ity Council now held by Na- Consultative Conference yester two Japanese advisers to at- be a lot better before they woule tion by the United Nations to
representatives. injured.
the day that his troops are “liberat tend the United Nations FAQ think of coming back.
the "illegal blockade and the South and "Evening Star" said in an edi- General Chu Teh, the Com- conference opening September |
South West China.
A good portion of Shanghai's | piratical seizure of ships.".. while
turned out to bid 26 (Monday) because sores of population
Declaring that the ship's release "It is generally anticipated that munist Commander - in it the recent war are still show farewell or watch the Gordon load did not remedy state of affairul The Empire Pride left this the entire Soviet bloe will almost*liberate all
stressed that his armies
at a wharf which has been desert brought about by "piracy no the China Including ing here. afternoon for Hong Kong, leav- immediately extend recognition to
This was disclosed by Mr. Marked for four months by the bloc high seas, The British-owned ing behind the men involved in the new People's Republic and Taiwan Pescadores, Hainan Is-
daily said it is of the greatest the accident whose statements will press for its recognition by
land and Tibet.
B. Williamson, head of the agr. kade.
A handful of Chinese students importance that international law wanted by the police.
the United Nations as the lawful
Southern politicians and gen-culture division of General Mac- The men, aboard the Empire Chinese government.
erals attending the Peiping con- Arthur's natural resources section were on hand when the ship should be completely indicated,
We Williamcon said docked to welcome 65 other stu- and every nation refusing to re- Pride belong to the 34 Regiment, "The Fain thereby
force include Generals Li Chai-in Japan Russia to 6 Heavy Anti-Aircraft Regiment, and its bloc ll be potuta sum, Tsai Ting-kai, Wu Chi-wei under questioning, that the two dents from the United States. sognize the blockade, should act They found nobody to welcome. in unison, to halt repeated bres- Minister is the Vice
Captain W.S. Tyrrell explained ches of international law' com- the students got off at Hong Kong mitted by the Nationalists along All cf them look forward to hold Agriculture in the Japanese go because the Nationalists would the coast and on the high seas. accede to this claim but its mere office. when South China 2:
ernment, and an interpreter.
not permit the Gordon to come. Mr. Williamson said SCAP.ap-
The paper said wach incidents value in Communist eyes. Also "Uperated
The Ministry of Defence ended plied for entry: permits for the through the blockade with pass the detention of the Edith its six-day meeting today. Among two Japanese but the British ausagers for Shanghai United Moller and other illegal acts
Royal Marines, 34 Light Anti-There is, of course, virtually no Kuang-nai, and Chen Ming-chu who
Hrang Shao-hsiung, Chiang Japanese were a technical adviser
Aircraft Regiment and King's chance that the Assembly woul Она Scottish Borderers.
raising would have
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Communist
bridge attack on the Sungyu 'heru,
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London, September 25,
Higher tin prices in sterling
Etimulate the feeling of foreign) | empiaities
their Govern- menta are not doing all they' should to assist them in contin- ing business-United Press. '.
Diary Of Life in Shanghal.
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other metals which have to be
School the B-29 bomber which wrecked
problem. He said, "We told the Japan four years ago „pianed into
Japanese it is not considered in carns dollars for the sterling an amazingly, reconstructed Tokyo
advisable for them to enter res and for the Belgian and Page 6 today with a new trans-Pacífe
Singapere, in an official capacity Dutch currency areas. passenger record.
this time The Pan-American Stratocraí-
He said the application was from, dollar countries have beca Faqe 7 landed at Hanada -altport at
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