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CHINA MAIL
No. 34417.
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HONG KONG, MONDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1949.
RED MILES FROM KWEILIN Pai Chung-hsi Expected To Fight For City
TROOPS SEVEN Churchill Gets
REDS CAPTURE KOYIU
Advance units of Communist General Lin Piao's People's Libera- tion Army were yesterday reported to have penetrated within less than seven miles of the Kwangsi capital Kweilin. ************************ ¿Vernacular press messages said that Nationalist
Defection Of Gunboat To Reds Foiled
Taipeh, October 23.
gunboat
The Nationalist Mei-Sung this morning... re-. turned to Kachslung base with
commander a prisoner
followers
Chief
waters
aboard.
The Mei Sung was on patral duty in Hong Kong when its commander. Mao Hueh-fei,
and
group of plotted defection. Engineer Haich Heng-who and another group loyal to the Nationalists over- powered them and made them prisoners. Msich then 100k ever control and piloted the Mei Sung homeward.-A830 - ciated Press.
Chinese Reds Capture Tihua
Moscow, October 23. Chinese Communist armies have taken Tihua (Urumchi),' capital of the province of Sin- kiang. according to message from Peiping.
Sinking has a common border with the CSSR and Pakistan.
a
:
General Pai Chung-hsi may make a stand against the advancing anti-Nationalist troops outside the city with the aid of the air force. If it materialises, the battle will probably be fought South West of Kweilin from which the pro- vincial administration had already evacuated some 200 miles South West to Nanning, the former capital.
The reports added that Gen- eral Pai still has some 200,000 1roops who, except for a few minor skirmishes in Hunan. have been on the retreat since the Communist troops crossed the. Yangtse
some seven
I months ago.
While the Nationalist military
| spokesman claimed that the Com-
The fire resulted from the over- turning of a Chinese cooking stove. No estimate was given of he homeless. Neither were any casualties reported.
In South China, the flames of the civil war is spreading rapidly to the borders of the Portuguese Colony of Macao.
munist drive on Kaangsi has been Reds Occupy
stemmeri, Nationalist press mes- sages reported that Koylu, former-
y called Shishing, had been Kongmoon
taken by Communist troops under General Chen Keng
Koviu
is "on the West River about 30 miles West of Samshul. The occupation of this river porti brought General Chen Keng's spearheads within 70 miles of Wuchow, the Kwangsi border
In Szechuan, Nationalist Gen- eral Hu Chung-ban was reported to be feverishly preparing to meet the Communist North.
Tass Drive On
Earlier this year, the province of four million inhabitants broke from Nationalist China and do clared itself autonomous.
were
The Communist troops welcomed by a peace delegation headed by Chu Wu, the former Kuomintang mayor of the town. Tass said
The three Northern districts of Sinkiang, 111, Chugu-chak and Altal, which produce oil,
have
been
Kongmoon 40 miles to the North West was reported to occupied by the People's Liberation Army, units of which have branched off to penetrate into Chungman County, birthplace of Dr. Sun
Yat-sen. Shekki,
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INTIMIDATION OF U.S.
"Blinding" Reception CONSULS IN DAIREN
in a gesture very different from the familiar "y" rige. Winston Churchlit shields his eyes with his hands to protect them from the glare of photographers' flash bulbs as he is photographed at the start of his, epetch to 10,000 members of the conservative party at the Empress Hall, Earl's Court, Lendor, Mr. Churchill pledged his party to end the "Rake's progress of unbridled expenditure" if they win at the general election. (AP photo).
Chinese Reds' Victory Poses Problem For The Philippines
County and only 25 miles North main Lown in the threat from the of Macao, is being evacuated.
Most of the evacuees are seeing The
Chunghing
Unconfirmed messages placed Communist General Nieh's van- guards about 320 miles North of Chungking, temporary Na-
to Macao. The town expected to be occupied in a few days.
In Canton, the Communists au- thorities have set up a "Canton Few Military Administration Commif- Lee" to govern the city.
Pending the opening of the People's Bank, the rate of ex- change between the Hong Kong dollar and Jen Min Piao has beer fixed at JMP$500 to HK$1, and
tionalist capital, General Nich, i JMP2,000 to one Chinese silver
has
according to the reports, regrouped mare than 100,000.
doller.
troops for the drive on Chung Nationalists
King-
A report from Chungking said
wolfram, and reputedly uranium that nearly 360 houses were rated Claim Successes
ore, have for the
past
five in a Sre at Kiangpch, opposite the years been under Russian in capital across the Chialing River, fluence, mest of their trade a tributary of the Yangtse. passing over the Soviet border.
Largest Province,
Manila, October 23.
Communist victory in Ching is having a pro- found impact on the neighbouring Philip- pines.
Seoul, October 23.
Two American Consular officials who had been held almost incommunicado in Russian-con- trolled Dairén since July, 1947, arrived here today.
Slain Priest As A Warning To Rumanians
They were Consul Poul Paddock, 42, and Vice
Consul Culver Gleystone, 24 The two State, that word had been rt.
Department officials who closed the Ameri- can Consulate in Dairen on October 24 ar-` nved at the port of Inchon, 20 miles West of Seoul, this morning aboard the British steamer Shanst
timidation. Two were arrested and
have not been heard of! since. He said he tried to bring out one employee but permis. Naion was denied,
They told a tale of continu- ous intimidation and petty cm- barrassments at the hand of Chinese police 2nd Russian civil administration officials.
Mr. Gleystone was arrested twice by Chinese police, the first last 14 months we had mail from time alone, but quickly related: home twice." One State Depart- He was questioned by an MVDment courier managed to get in - efficer for four hours,
last December. Another was re- em:ceived in March this year.
Mr. Paddock said: "During the
He said his Chinese ployees also were subjected to a Gleystone, who was born in China. continuous programme of. Insaid he received two letters from Peiping and managed to send re- plies when addressed in Chinese (with no official title.
Czechs Accuse
U.S. Diplomats
Of Spying
Prague, October, 23.
The Czech Government to
Movements Limited
Vatican sources said yester
ceived that a parish priest was slain in Rumania and his bady hung for three days at the door of the parish house *** warning to "rebels."
The report received, the informants declared, said the priest was slain in his home after having been accused of fomenting rebellion among his parishioners and urging the peasants not to turn over their produce to the Com. munist authorities, Asso-
ciated Press.
Nehru Arrives In Ottawa
Ottawa, October 23.
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
They said their movements in Dairen were limited to a suddenly decreasing area until during the last two months they could only move in a small area near their Nehru of India today receiv residence and Consuler
office. the last there followed almost con- oldest Dominion as he land- e ed a warm welcome to the During the
part of their
stay
came
foreigners.
High
night accused American diplo mats of setting up an elabor- ate nation-wide espionage net- stantly whether driving or walked at Rockliffe airport of the work equipped with secret
ing while their quarters were Royal Canadian Air Force to radios to gather vital infarma under constant surveillance. begin a two-day visit to this M. Paddock said the Consulate (capital during which he will tion and establish an, under- ground railway to shuttle anti-was closed because it simply be make an address to the com Communists to Western safety replacements, mall or needed sup
impossible
to get personnel bined Houses of Parliament. The official news agency made plies past the Soviets. They said the Asian leader and the playing A 19-gam salute in honour of the charge in announcing new their social contacts were limited of the Canadian and Indian Na- details of an alleged spy plot to
deational which resulted on Friday night The Russians maintain contro! brief airport ceremony at which Anthems highlighted the in the expulsion of a United through the civil administration Mr. Nehra was welcomed by the States diplomat and arrest o an though there is supposed to be an Prime Minister, Mr. L. C. St. Embassy clerk.
autonomous Chinese administra-Laurent The agency also said a priest tion under it. Mr. Paddock said
and other Canadian had been detained at a member the Soviets were represented at
oficials of the ring. hinting at Church two July 4 receptions and one
Mr. Nebra, arrived in -e four- complicity in
in the alleged plot.
official dinner at the American red RCAF plane which had The
hamed Walter C Consulate. The Russians Bgesty
brought him from Nagara Falls, Birge, former Second Secretary of isolated even fruma Waite Ras-night.
are Ontario, where he spent last the American Embassy, as prgan clans, they said.
A crowd of several' hun- dred persons were on hand to iser of the ring which, it said,
Both men appeared in
Mr. Nohra's arrival at the good sprang up in the
watch spring of 1948.
health and were extremely happy airfield, about five miles east of It. gave new details ring's operation and alleged that to be away from Dairen. They Ottawa.
sald the Consular effects roles were played by Miss Louise stored at the British Consulate Schaffner, former Third Se
Septe
which is closed and under the Isac Patch expelled
protection of the Russian military diplomat
Spencer All administration--United Press. former member of the Embassy staff,
and Samuel Meryn, Em- bassy clerk who is being held incommunicado, by the Czech au- thorities.
ld the Americans The agency said the had enlisted prominent Czechs in their organisation, -but-the-ring had been smashed by the police and all-fenders and rents and file
the
were
Reds Assault Indian TUC Official
in-
arrived here were the Indian high Accompanying Mr. Nehru as he Commissioner, Mr. S.K. Kirpalani and the Canadian Minister for External Affairs, Mr. LB. Pear- son who had gone to Niagara Falls to meet Mr. Nehru. Also aboard
the Indian Ambass were
dor to the United States, Madame Vijaya Lakshimi. Pandit, who is Mr. Nehru's sister, and his daugh- ter, Mrs. Indira Gandhi-United Presk
TAIWAN PAPER WARNED
leaders here need to be reminded that Tai- wan, Chiang Kai-shek's last stronghold, is only 300 miles from the Northern Philippines -less than one hour's flight away. They remember too well the experience of the last, war when Taiwan served Japan as a major air base in assaults on these islands.
Calcutta, October 23, Dr. Suresh Chandra-B-werfee, ~~If Britain. and the United Committee who has Just re- States recognise Communist turned from.u
members arrested except those President of the Bengal Provincial six week Far protected by diplomatic passports. National Trade Union Congress China will they let Taiwan Eastern tour, said he opposed any
In addition to Meryn, those ar- and the Joint Committee of the pass inside the Communist recognition of the Chinese Com-
Calcutta Major J. Oslav
Corporation rested included
Workers
Taipeh, October 23, zone as an integral part of the munist government in spite of Nechansky, Czech Wartime Union, was today seriously The Nationalist "Chung Hwa
ine military situation.
jured when he was assaulted by Daily today was, warned by the sistance hero: Veleslav Wahl, ab- 25 Communists. People's Republic?
Senator Smith, Republican This question is troubling the
provincial government for insert- The Nationalists claimed-suc-
member; Dr. from New Jersey, exid.am other resistance
Calcutta's streets were littered ing a false report saying a group Agel Dohnalek, small-scale localized Philippine Foreign Once more
a. miñor, official Cesses in
than it cares to admit
convinced that It may
the Chinese
with heaps of garbage and reof US military officers arrived of the Foreign Affairs Ministry, fuse today the second day of the from Tokyo and were bust con fighting on the approaches to
Communist movement was in Szechuan,
and the Associated Press re-explain why Dr. Thomas W.1.
Reverend Frantisek strike of 24,000 municipal em-ferring with the Chinese authori spired in Moscow, and that its Tomiga; a Catholic priest. leader of the Liu,
Taiwan ported from Chungking yesterday.
leaders were trained in Moscow
ployees demanding higher wages. ties. Official reports said the Reds separatist movement, was granted
and that
All leaders, the agency con. it was handled from
The city's waterworks and Another government order bann- were driven from their holdings the fast fortnight over the pre the Philippines during entry_into
tinued, came from a bourgesia other public service installations ed the Hongkong paper "Sine To Fast of the Yangise town of
background- and noki was are being maintained under heavy Jih pao" from entry into Taiwan. Recognition of the Reds he In 1947, the Nationalist Govern) =
Patung
250 miles East North East test of the. Chinese Nationalist said, would be the biggest mis-
worker. It said the American police guard-Reuter. directed ring had ment, which partly established its!
Embassy
three-wall The island republic
take we could make. There still is The past rule over the mainly non-Chinese
In Southern Shensi, the Nation-
linked, to Ja ict of Ufe left in the Chinese
organised Mohammedan peoples of the pro-
aliers reported recapturing Lan-few weeks has backed down from National government and we feel
gether, by "radio. One was in Paris, October 23. vince in 1944, complained to
the bold anti-Communist, position
Bouthern, Bohemia, another In Premier Rene Mayer resigned kad, 250 miles North East •OL
should have our moral sup- Russia that planes with carly Sunday after an unsuccess-Chungking
Western Bohemia and the third it took last July. Then Chiangy s
port." Soviet markings had bombed the ful two-day efort to form a
in Eastern Bohemia and The situation in South Western Kai-shek was welcomed here, by
Senator Smith said: "t: firmly Siankiang town of Peitashan acoulition government.
Hunan, where the Reds have been resident Quirino. Jointly they feel that the Island. of Taiwan
Moravia-United Press. The 54-year-old Eadient Socia-probing charge which Russia denied.
called for Nationalist defences, was
an anti-Communist Britain followed America in
list quit after all hope of reach- described as better.
pact. But the United States Bri-ould never get into the hands cf anyone hostile to the United establishing a consulate in Tihua ing agreement in a cabinet with Three Chungking newspapers tain and India snubbed this plan States Associated Prese
the in 1943, but for
dissension-torn many years vanished.
Socialists.
were suspended for one day by because of Chiang's participation. British intererts were centred în
military authorities for report. I modified non-military union Southern and Western Sinklang cepted his resignation wisen
President Vincent Auriol ac
the fall of Chuanhsien proposed later by Quirino likewise where a Consulate General was Socialists flatly turned down his the
failed to win support. strategically important railway long maintained in Kashgar
town 65 miles North East of compromise proposals for a coali
Kwellin, General Pal Chung- hai's base of
Au. operations." thorities said the report, taken from a foreign broadcast, was
completely unfounded,
Sinklang is territorially China's largest province and will, when taken cver, safeguard Russia's long Central Asian frontier,
Soviet
TO
Mayer Gives Up Attempt To Form Cabinet
assist Indian traders and act as tion cabinet. The Socialists want- a check against the spread of first ed to retain all the posts which Tsarist and the Soviet influence. they held under Fremier Henri The Kashgar Consulate was Queuille, who resigned on Octo taken over, by India and Pakistan, ber. 5.United Press. -Reuter.
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A
Franco's Visit
To Portugal
Lisbon, October 23
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A 21-gun salute, bands, flage South Fast of Shanghal
Today's Forecast zmModerate fresh and cheering thousands greeted places. Generalissimo Francisco Francs
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Recognition Issue
Britain. There is fluential
Mystery Of
groups,
TIDAL BORE IN HOOGLY RIVER
Calcutta, October 3
One person was killed and 50° were injured when a six-foot
The Headless udal bore the Hoogly river
Corpes
London; October 23.
took thousands assembled: för? & festival by surprise Jast night and swept of many boats and men on the banks:
Rushing with great velocity and terrific noise, the bore niso
Pre- Finding himself alone, sident Quiring consequently, has adopted a middle of the rosé course. His Foreign Office an. The discovery of a headless nounced An official announcement said
that recognition of and legless body wrapped in Communist China is under blanket and found in the lone-swept three ships off their moor the Nationalists, before withdraw..
consideration. No further moves ly East Anglian marshes has ings but left them undamaged ing from the seaport of Swatow in
were expected here pending ac-faced Scotland Yard with one Reuter. the middle of the week, destroyed
tion by the big powers the runway control tower, fuel
of its must gruesome..
and tanks
Recognition of China's Red re baffing mysteries. and other installations at
gime poses à far different problem The torso was that of Stanley ON OTHER PAGES the airfeld.
The South East China Com-for the Philippines than it does Belty, 46-year-old "straight deal" Page 2 mand predicted the Reds would for either the United States or London kerbside motor car dealer Reds Institute, "Thought Can-
large and in
who vanished on October 4 with trat of the blockade group 100 miles throughout
Chinese community
With 200 £5 notes saying that he was Page 3. the islands,
Remindera characteristic industry, an esti- going to Watford to buy a car.
Since then 600 people reported 'Pagé 4.2. mated 250,000 overseas Chinese
Barclay's Bridge - here have long dominated both seeing Betty, who came to England retail and wholsale outlets through from Irad when a boy and last Page 5
week defectives", searched, for a Ethiopia Eritrea gridwork of small stores.
Plan "The story is told that when red Jaguar car in which a man the Spaniards first came resembling Betty was seen slump Page 7 Ben Francisco, October 22, Manila 350 years ago,
ounded in the front seat while a man vote they found behind him appeared to support from
the cruiser Miguel Cer- The Chinese Communists an- 200 Chinese Junks and trading
*Quarantos vantes. Franco is making his nounced establishment of the ships in Manila Bay, it is felt that
Page: 8- first offcial visit to Portugal, his "Cainese People's Insurance Coma Communist Chinese embassy red car yesterday, dan katal partner in the Iberian - Peninsula pany" to handle. life, ́ ́fire
and is opened, here, it would be able 23.8 inches. Friendship pact. The trip is des transportation insurance. They
The body in the blanket had Pass 9. to exert considerable influence on been clumsily dismembered with cribed as repaying the vizit of said it would be extended later to the local Chinese because most of
- Japan - Trags, WILK ASTE I5- President Carmon, in 1999, heiske cover aerienture and other indus them have relations in South chopper and had been stabbed za creaking.
tries.
China,
seven times.
Page 10 fpeculation has been a
The insurance company ap aroused
Detectives belleve that it had Hong Kong Waterfront. Inspired-In Moscow. over the circumstance that Porta-parently is an agency of the Com-
not been long in the 18 Inches of Page 11 Meanwhile, in New York, Sena-water in which it was found by Air, Shipping Moveménta Pact and wants Spain also to be was at 30,000,000,000 fen min for: Alexander Smith, member chance by a party shooting wild-| Paño 12" included.Associated Press
piso Associated Press.
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