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ACTIVITIES OF VIETNAM REDS Fierce Gale Scours CANTON FIFTH
Occupation Of Townlets In Kwantgung Reported Link-Up With Chen Keng?
The independent vernacular, “Wah Kiu Yat Pa" in a message from
Kweilin say that Vietnam Communist units have taken two -South Western Kwangtung townlets near the Indo-China bor-
der.
The names of the towns were stated to be Shiao Tung and Chang Ton. According to Chinese maps the two places ore small market towns near the Kwangtung-Kwangsi border and about 100 miles North East of the Indo-China frontier with South West Kwangtung.
Tempest Aircraft Due In HK
Twe
formations
of Royal Air Force Tempest aircraft will fly from Singapore 10 Hong Kong to participate in co- ordination lights with ground forces in Hong Kong for a "week
The two places are also about 50 miles North of Yamchow, Kwangtung port midway between Kwongchowan and Indo-China.
A
crash
The newspaper in its reports The aircraft made fram Kweilin said that the Vietnam Communist force is apparently attempting to link up with Communist General Chen Keng's forces driving
landing but the eight crew were not injured. They have been in- terned at Changchow. It was added that the bomber was fiv
across South China to the Lui- chow Peninsula. Other Chinese
press messages considerable Vietnam said that Communist force totalling more than 5,000 men has been attacking a number of small towns on the Indo-China-Kwangsi - Kwangtung
borders.
to attack targets at Nanking.
Agreement Reached On New Guinea
The object of the thrusts from The Hague, November 1. Indo-China; it was added, is to After an all-night session, The formations, under the com- link up with Chinese Communist the Steering Committee of the mand of Squadron Leader A. Kuerillas in the two provinces. round-table conference on the Purse, are earmarked as potential | It has been known for some future of Indonesia today reserves for Hong Kong in anime that Dr. Ho Chih Hinh's reached
agreement emergency situation.
active along the borders of the status of New Guinea-the last outstanding difference between two Chinese provinces.
the Dutch and Indonesian de- legation
The first formation will arrive in Hong Kong on Thursday, after an overnight stop in Saigon, and second fight is to arrive on
day
In addition, three Dakota aly- craft of the 41 Squadron, Royal New Zealand Air Forces, are ex- pected to arrive in Hong Kong today. carrying the advance ground crew for the fighter foun- ations.
is 1,650 statute miles.
HMS Belfast
Vietnam
Communist units
Foraging Trips
are
Some of the units have been bred in the hill in Kwangs territory and engaged in far aging expeditions to feed units cut off from suppiles in Indo- China territory. Some
United States,
оп 'the
No details of the new plan were oficially available.
English Coast
England's South Coast shivered in a 60 miles per hour gate while high seas crashed about the quays of small fishing villages and swamped the promenades of several resorts fast week. Heavy rain, intermittent over the past four days, flooded houses in seaside aréns, and caused Tailroad lines to sag through undermining. British railway's cross channel ferry service.
folded completely because of the fiercest channel weather for years. London had a 10 per cent power, cut and many phone lines were out of action. Photo shows Saddietank thunting en- gine.fisting forlornly on undermined fine at Weymouth, Dorset. The driver and fireman c caped uninjured AP Photo.
Reynolds To Whirl Through Hong Kong
Los Angeles, November 1. Pen-maker Milton Reynolas
is in the air today in quest of
The agreement on New Guinee-this one via scheduled air- ded a crisis which had been liners. developing for the past few days
and which yesterday led some The Chicago manufacturer, observers to forecast the failure whose hebby is globe circling. of the
conference, with the re-took off from the Los Angeles in- signations of the Ministers in- temational airport last night on Chinese volved.
a Constellation bound for New When the Committee adjourned York. There he will have a five- layover at La Guardia
thea passes to
settled.
ITC gone
Amethyst Reaches Plymouth, Gets Rousing Welcome
Plymouth, November 1.
WHEEL ON RED WAGON
Whatever policy has been prepared or is being mapped out for Canton, there is yet no sign of it being implemented by the Kwangtung People's "Government, according to Chinese businessman who arrived in the Colony yes- terday.
The City of Rams is being temporarily left out in the cold there are no indications how the city is going to fit in the overall pattern of the Communist-dominated People's Central Gov-
emment.
Shops have been re-opened for business, on orders
of the new administration headed by Com munist General Yeh Chien-yinh, but there is little or no business to do,
Laury goods, have disappeared, ing an improvised bridge over the from the shops. Their sale has not blown-up Pearl River steel bridge been banned but shop-keepers | to span the city, with Honam. are aware that the new regime The arrivals said that a number frowes on such articles especially if people who died to their coun- if they come from the Liniled try farms have returned to the States
city.
Shameen is calm and quiet, Fereigners refrain from leaving the island, which is connected with the city by two bridest, unless necessity occurs for going inte the city to buy urgently needed commodities.. Schools have
The traditional Chinese. tea- houses have also. reopened but patrons are few. The people keep away such places because of muck publicised austerity policies as far as eating and entertainmeni are concerned, of the leaders of the uru:
Government.
and No new laws have been pro. lasses have been resumed with mulgated. But gambling is ban-former teachers and professoYA
reopened
ned by military regulations There have been no orders from Cabarets have reopened but are the new authorities which sub- operating a Joss Cinemas ure | jects to teach and which to aban- packed during the day perfarm- don. ances only. Foreign films are sull being showIL.
· Prices Up English signboards are still be- and in used by shop-keepers business offices.
Prices for fresh food have in- creased considerably compared with the prices prevailing before the Nationalists abandoned the waves, . lipsticic,) city..
Foreign-style clothes, silks and nylons have been discarded by the population for the more simple and sober traditional Chinese costume of rough material.
"Perms" Out
Permanent
"Yack powder," "parfume, fannfors - Bet today is
Able and colourful. Chinese pork, HKScatte
chicken. a new round-the-world record The British navdl frigate Amethyst, which ran-the
resses and hand-bags are to-] IKK$5 a calty: fresh vegetables day things of the past, in Gan- | 40 cents a catty; rice, HK$70 a gauntlet of Chinese Communist guns in o ton.
picul; firewood, H10 a picul 140-mile dash down the Yangtse River-fast"
The indem dresses have been The arxivals spent anout HK$25 remodelled abd dyed
travelling from Canion to Hon into one July, came home to a great welcome in Ply-simple colour. In other instances Kong: They travelled by train to mouth today.
they have been completely dis-Sheklung, where they boarded a carded for plain costumes made bus for Tungtun; thence to Tai. of Chinese-manufactured drill er
pltig. ention.
At Taiping they spent the night. The city, according to the ar- From Taiping it took six hours to rivals, is normal during the day reach Shumchun by train as at a. with the streets as crowded as number of points along the line, during Nationalist rule..
passengers had to get out to From dusk onwards the streets allow the train to pass unloaded are practically deserted as the over "railable" sections of the curfew, officially imposed "at" 11
railway. p.m., is likely to be enforced at the discretion of the new. Carri- son authorities any hour of the day.
calls for
Lieutenant Commander J. S. Kerans,, awarded the Distinguished Service Order for directing the vessel's flight after 10 days'- detention by the Communists, was on the bridge os Ame- thyst berthed to the tumultuous greeting of.. crowds on the quayside, aircraft overhead and other shipping in the harbour.
STORM NEAR PHILIPPINES
The air force officially an-
independent nounced that the aircraft would circles in Hong Kong believe that carry out familiarisation fight the sudden publicity given to over local territory, and partici- these expeditions in the Chinese alter 4,30 am. until this after-minute pate in defence (exercises.
may have been inspired to noon, only a few final points on field before hopping into a Pan The total distance of the flight certain Nationalist agitators to period before sovereignty in In-Damascus, Karachi, Delhi, Cal-
i press.
regulations for the transitional American-Clipper for Istanbul. speed mil
military aid from
the United cutta,
Bangkok, Hong Kong Meanwhile, the anti-Nationalist States of Indonesia remained to Manila, Guam, Midway, Honolulu vernacular "Ta Kung Pao" re- be set ported yesterday that two
These were to be dealt with and Los Angeles. Nationalist gunboats have
when the Committee met this
Reynolda' 'Itinerary
Crowds on Plymouth Hoe; onerous tasks which have been 23 hours on the ground and so cheered wildly and ships' allotted to you. over to the Chinese Communist afternoon. The Committee dis-
"The dash down the Yangtse hours in fight. His longest stap-sirens blared as the little ship, Įregime.
cussed some of the final points
e nimt, à number of people One night, The newspaper
over will be at Hong Kong which wrote the latest chapter has fired the imagination of the were taught in the streets at the said that the before it adjourned. runboats,
that the Hai Chich and Hai It was later learned
in the Royal Navy's proud his entire Commonwealth and 1 end of a late afternon cinema Chow, anchored near Macao have amendment to the New Guinea
deed, of the free peoples of the performance by a suddenly im wirelessed messages to the Peo compranise proposal did not al-
He hopes to be back here on/ory, steamed up the Sound world. It was inspiring and put posed curfew. They had to spend | inuing a storm advisory, warned
early this morning and dock-standing and, in every ple's Central Government and the ter the maximum period of one Saturday morning after four days ed under the shadow of the gallant exploiteter. way
Government of their year during which, it was sug and 23 hours of globe circling
15-inch guns of the battleship from the Nationalist gested, the island should remain
under Dutch suvereignty,
That is a little slower than his Vanguard. The change also
appeared to 1947 global flight. Then he spen- Lleutenant Commander Karara last night that a total of 226 The same journal reported that
thatsored the late Bill Odom's record-performed miracles of navigation passengers, including many woa Nationalist bomber, a C-47 was have included a provision men and children whom she has forced down by Communist anti-every effort should be made to breaking trip of 78 hours, 35 to bring the shell-marked frigate rescued from the Chinese LST aircraft fire near Changchow, settle New Guinea's
possible minutes and 30 seconds in a re-safely to open water, capped by Chung Hsin off the Pratas Island. midway between Shanghai and status as quickly as
converted bomber. Reynolds was his terse and memorable last
“Have rejoined message:
the had been taken aboard her and Nanking.
navigator on that trip.
Fleet No damage or casualties. God Save the KingTM
Due With Nationalists
Captain E. K. Le, Mesurier, MVO. commander of HMS Belfast
reported to the Admiralty late on
that she is speeding toward Hong Kong waters.
day
HMS Belfast was expected to have arrived in Junk Bay at break this morning. The passen gers, mostly Nationalist soldiers and their familles, will then be transferred to the ss. Sing Hing
her to the
ts, Min
and from Chung. The Min Chung will then
Router.
ultimate
Reform Club's Committee
proceed to the Pra
Pratas to pick up A
persons.
the rest of the distressed per
Captain Le Mesurier reported that the ill-fated Chung Hein previously
as aground,
to the South
was anchored Eastward of Pratas Island.
HMS Belfast on a mercy mis- sion reached the Prates and sight- ed the distressed vessel at dawn on Monday.
The Weather
On Civil Liberties
committee on civic liberties has been set up by the Hong Kong Reform Club to investigate complaints from various sections of the com- munity that their civic liberties had been in-. fringed, and in due course a report will be published as to whether these complaints are justified or not. -
five hours and 55 minutes.
Eddie Eran New York State boxing commissioner, is the cur- rent, holder of the airliner mark. He made the trip last year--some 30 hours slower than Reynolds' hoped-for schedule. Egan' spent 39 hours 50 minutes on the ground and 107 hours 25° minutes flight-Associated Press.
Consideration
Of Treaty For Japan?
London, November 1.
Sin
Basis For World Trade
Manila November, 1. "
The Philippine Weather Bureau
the night sleeping on the pave-that Northern Mindanao, Visayar Islands and Southern Luzon wili |ment
be strongly affected unless the Shameen Quiet
storm
changes its course. Government offices are func-
At 2 pm. November 1, Mania tioning as before. The former time, a tropical depression, cen- police are still being employed tred 320 miles East South East but they have been relieved of of Surigao on the North Western armis. For every one former tip of Mindanao, had intensified Tokyo, November 1.
policeman on point duty, there
into a
stowan with maxi- a tropical The basis for a resumption are two arthed soldiers of the man winds of 55 miles an hour of normal private trade be- People's Liberation Army.
The blow was moving West tween Japan and the rest of The streets are being kept North West at 13 miles an hour the world was
laid today clean and there are reports that and may accelerate, the bureau when 11 Japanese banks, 10 plans are being made (ne bulld-said--Associated Press. Among those present to greet] foreign banks and one tourist the ship were some of the ship's company received authorisation repatriated wounded, friends to handle foreign exchange. and relatives, Viscount Hall, Previously all foreign exchange the First Lord of the Admiralty, transactions were cleared through Admiral of the Fleet Lord General MacArthur's Headquar
Greeting The Ship
Fraser, the First Sea Lord, Ad• | ters. miral Sir Robert Burnett, Com-
Bank officials here predicted mander-in-Chief, -Plymouth, that foreign exchange activities Alderman Frank Letherby, the would be in full swing atter Jens Lord Mayor of Plymouth.ary 1, when Japanese export and import trade with some exceptions and
distinguishen would be back in the hands
private traders
banks handling in Japan under
Relatives visitors went on board. Later this morning, the ship's crew of
the frigate were marching through foreign exchange ice the Bank
The foreign This statement was made by be made to Government. On the
the town a civic reception, to Mr. B. A. Bernacchi, Chairman other hand, if there is no ground
the ruling be followed by a civil luncheon of America, the Bank of China. La of the Hong Kong Reform for these complaints, the commit-
The foreign Offre said today the | at Duke of Cornwall Hates Banque de L' Indochine, the Char Club, at. a Press conference tee will not hesitate to say so.
Safeguarding of the civic rights question of the Japanese pesce Early this afternoon, the heroes tered Bank of India, China and yesterday.
of citizens is by no means new, treaty was under active considers of the day were going on leave, Astralia, the Hong Kong and Mr. Bernacchi sald at the outwald Mr. Bernacchi, and consider tips and that the British govern- Amethyst is to spend several shan
Shanghai Banking Corporation, set that he wished to dispel the able time has been spent in Eng-* was anxious for its early months having a rent at Devon the National City Bank of New impression which has been creat and to ensure that the constitu- completion.
respected.
2
At 1606 GMT 17 p.m. REST) trosed as a result of criticisms in the tonal rights of the people are The spokesman said the question to the
port. Afterwards she will return York and the Chang National
Club has been
600 mile SK of Manila, mariak wyer toen Reform Club has inward to lodge their complaints. Į Acheson, during the Washington welcome the snip's:
Fat about 19 koots." "Premure 'remalis hirb
al-cyclone.
Today's Forecast:-cerate
true, he said.
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