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REGIME AT NANNING Report Of Revival Of SW Political Council
HOPES OF AMERICAN AID
A second South West Political Council, opposed to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and his followers; may shortly be set up at Nanning with Nationalist Vice-President General Li Tsung-jen and General Pai Chung-hsi as the leaders.”.
Independent Chinese political observers said yesterday that a move is already afoot to organise such a body to continue the fight against the Chinese Communists with outside aid from the United States. Comment from General Li Tsung-jen on the subject was not available yes- terday. His private ward at the Tai Wo Yuen Hospital was closed to all visitors except members of his family.
Chiang Takes A
Back Seat
+ A number of former highly i placed colleagues of the Gen- eral were also barred from seeing him.
$5 miles East of Chungking, butj said only a small feree Iz « in« volved and it is being engaged.
The
Ministry also acknow-i The observers said that General ledged that the Reds who had! Li's departure for the United invaded Szechwan from Hupch |States will follow his resignation and Hunan had effected a junction from the Chiang-dominated Na-¡ This had been made as expected tionalist Government, This may at Chienchiang, 130 miles East occur soen, depending on the of Chungking. sults of General Pai Chung-hsi's! talks with the Generalissimo at? Chungking.
General Pai Chung-hsi bas during his visit to the
They added that General L. United emerged as the most promin
will try to convince the American ent man in continental China Government that aid given to a in an
switch overnight
ini revived South West Political which Generalissimo Chiang Council would be used for the Kai-shek appears to have been purpose such aid is meant for. definitely relegated to the back i He will also try to convince the seat, says United Press.
United States authorities Sources close to Atung Prsi-far as fighting the Communists del
that as
The Ministry reported fighting about 35 miles from the Yangtse
town of Wanhsien. 140 miles North East of Chungking Wan- hsien. the third biggest city in. Szechwan. is the objective of a Red column which thrust into; this pruvince from Hupeh.
Anshun Falls
dent Li Tsung-ion said 10th Pre-concerned, he and General Pal Turning to Kwelchow that.
and the Generaliŝino would be able to rally reore than Ministry admitted the fall of
This picture, just released, shows Prince Charles Philip Arthur George-who celebra ed his est anniversary on November 14 with his mother, H.R.H. Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh. The infant Prince, said to be tall for his age, weighs 241⁄2 1b, has cut six teeth, and can walk a. few steps by holding on to the sides of his play pen. Photo).
(AP
REDS CAPTURE FERRY BOAT IN HK WATERS
have agreed to bow out of the 500,000 troops under honest ex- Anshun, about 60 miles South Chinese Communists seized a Hong Kong-licensed
sidea! Li
picture as far as an active role is concerned leaving safe conduct of military affairs in General Pai's hands.
perienced
junior officers. According to the observers, with United States" aid, the South West Political Council would drive the
West of Kweiyang, the provincial i capital. Anshun is on the high- way which joins the main road between Szechwan and Yundan at
South West of Kweiyang
ferry boat in local British waters, and took the ship to Communist China on November
15.
Generalissimo Chiang ugether Communists out of Kwangs and Changyi, about 200 miles Wet The ship, ss. Tai Pang, was operating a ferry ser
with other members of his group hold the province and other South are to retire to Taiwan to build China areas and islands while up that island into an anti-building up its armed forces for Communist bastion which will the Anal military have no connection with the main-against the Communists. land.
President Li
Acting
here
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vice between Shi Hou in Deep Bay and Hong Kong when Chinese Communists boarded the ship and navigated it across territorial waters into China.
seized by Communists in local British waters.
In Kwangi, according to pri- vate reports, Pai Chung-hris .. carmpaign forces are avciding a big-scale battle with the Reds. Instead, they appear to be fighting a de-
The Tai Pang-the same size withdrawal of his troops in the Kwellin area. This will probably and structure as the Yaumati be completed within the next few ferries-is the first ship to be
a few days after he cYunnan Governor? laying action to enable a snouta
ferred with South China leaders
who, according to the best quar
ts, areed to
pool
their re- sources and term à "united front" of anti-Con)- resistance is centred in taking in portions of
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the hard core munit
Ku how Yunnan and Hainan)
Island.
Defence of Szechwan and Tai- wap will be left to Generalis-
sime Chiang.
Some Kwangsi troops have al- ready been despatched Southward
it is believed that Genera'
Chan Chai-tong, Commissioner i Kweilin Garrison authorities
of Hainan Island, Genera Hauch Yuch, Governor
days.
crdered
the death penalty for
Kwangtung, and General Yupe. Joot, arson, rioting and any
other subversive activity.
In Chungking, Premier Yen Hsi- made a statement" urging and banning lavish
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Han-me-now all in Hainen) Island--will join the Council. There is also a possibility that austerity General Lu Han, Governor of feasts. Yunnan, will throw in his 10t with them.
Nationalist Troops Will
The ship up the Pearl River. Be Disarmed
The capital, whose continged Be
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CHILDREN'S PLANE CRASH: 35 ABOARD
Oslo, November 21.
A plane carrying 29 undernourished - Jewish re- fugee children from North Africa is missing, and is believed to have crashed' somewhere in tangled forest country near Oslo,
The plane, with 35 aboard-28 children,
nurses and two members of the crew.
its last radio message about 6 p.m. yester- day as it neared an Oslo airport..
Soon afterwards a sharp Eash of light, followed by an explosion, W25 seen near Gjersjoen Lake, a imale South East of Oslo.
+
Aero Holland owners of the plane, announced that the plane is considered-lost
Search parties in the rugged arte North of here today found a signal parachute believed to have been dropped by the airliner.
The authorities said the plane apparente. dropped the fare-bear- ing chute in an effort to determine Le position after missing Osio's Fornebz airbeld.
Meanwhile rescue parties shifted the ground search to the West side 1 Oslo fiord. They found no trace or the plane in heavy forests Sooth East of Cle where a nbme of sacke
425 reported earlier today.
The police said every effort is being made to cover Harum penin sula South West of here before darkness sets in. The bant, how- ever, is handicapped by heart fog and rain which bas-kept most search planes grounded, and lower- ed visibility to a few yards.
Swedish and Danish aircraft joined Norwegian planes in the search.
Police and Home Guard units and Red Cross workers are slowly trekking through the! woods while planes from For nebu fly low ever the trees searching for the wreckage. Oslo radio broadcast appeals to all local inhabitan! to aid in the service.
Last Message
The last message from the plane was recived at Förnebu 21 456 p.m. GMT but was so faint that the control tower asked for a TC- petition which was not received. The message said the plane was then flying at 2,000 feet and was two cr a few miles from the ar- jport.
HK PLANES CRASH IN SINGAPORE
Singapore, November 21. A medical officer and two rescuers' amputated the foot of the pilot to free him from " the wreckage 'of an' RAF Sunderland flying boat which crashed in a shallow sweisp near here last night, killing five and injuring seven.
Squadron-Leader Woolley, senior medical oncer at Seletar airport, began the am- putation, but was overcome by petrol fumca Another rescuer took over, but a third had to complete the amputation. The pilot died later.
to
The plane. returning
after a visit to Mạng Kent Singapore. had just taken off in pitch dakness from calm water in the Straits of Johare, when it dived into the swamp, a mile and a half away. It car- ried a crew of eight and four passengers
The plane's petrol tanks burst when it hit the swamp. flooding the area with highly- inflammable - aviation spirit Rescuers, led by an Air Com- Todore in a mess jacket, were hampered by the fumes.
The names of the casualties all Service personnel-are -withheld until the next of kin are Informed--Reiter
with
REDS BUYING OIL VIA HK
An oilman, who asked that his nane be withheld, said his com pany is selling off to the Chinese Reds. He said delivery is made
WORLD'S
BAD FOOD POSITION
Washington November 21.
The annual report of the United Nations Food and Agri- cultural Organisation declares that the well-fed are better off than before, and the poor- ly-fed mostly are worse off.
The report, to be presented to the Organisation's annual COT ference today said:
The outpat of star, fats, fish, Livestock roducts, Traits and vegetables has been enormously expanded-party in the temperate zobe, and partly in the tropica! and sub-tropical regions.
*Three-quarters of the world's i population has been little affected by those changes. People in the majority of the under-developed countries live as poorly today a their parents and grand-parents lived. In a few of these countries. It is true, there has been some oprovement in food supply: con- samption of war appears to have increased most.
"But there is no evidence that the gap in living standards be tween the rich and poor countries is being narrowed. The contrary ..
true, because once the country has attained a certain level of wealth, it accumulates further capital without much effort and cumulatively adds to its
perity.
pros-
The gap in living standards was not narrowed· · despite last year's harvest in the Northern hemisphere, which apparently turned the tide agalastfood shortages felt after the war, the
Kaid
arc
It added that there basic issues which now challenge governments in their fight against poverty and malnutrition. One is. The clear necessity for technical as- sistance to under-developed coun- tries, where the supply of material equipment and technical "know how" is inadequate.
The other need is to clear the way for expanded trade in agri- cultural goods, overcoming cur rency barriers and production restrictions-Reiter.
"FLYING CLOUD”. IN JAPAN
Tokyo, November 21. The American Isbrandtsen Line steamship Flying Cloud arrived at Kobe this morning, bearing marks of shelling by a Chinese Nation- alist destroyer in the Yangtse River last Monday je
Aero Holland officials said the
Tokyo, November 21. | plane carried 29 Jewish children
The Chinese Communists are who were to have stayed in a buying oil and chemicals from Norwegian camp before going to the United States and paying Israel, a crew of four and two the bill for these vital products Swedish nurses,
United States dollars, Oficials identified the crew a two. American L Frouws, pilot; A. Van Der said today.
businessmen Touw, co-pilot; ML Westenberg: Ferry service between Shi Hau radio operator, and K. Strikje, and Hong Kong has been sus-mechanic. They are all Dutch. pended by
However, a spokesman for the the owner of the Tai Pang, Mr.
camp at Holmestrand, where the Mr. Wong Yuk-kit On the afternoon of November children were to live, said there at Hong Kong 15, Comminist ocials in Shi were three nurses, Miss Lise Hau, informed the ship's officers | Schwartz Jensen of Norway, one
He said: "We give the Com that they were taking the ship from Tunis and one from Israel. murists the oil in Hong Kong
after for the People's Government, and He sak he did not know the
we get US. dollars in promptly put on a crew to take names of the latter two.
New York" The spokesman said “Aezo Hol-{ The dollars were paid to the Ofacers of the Tai Pang did not land reports of two Swedish United States oil firm by wealthy have time to appeal to the Hong nurses were definitely not correct. Chinese who live in Communist Kong Marine Police or the Rayal Earlier reports said there was eld areas of China, he said. Navy for assistance.
only one nurse and another un- A representative of a chemical A Marine Department spokes-identified adult in addition to them, who also asked that his One of the passengers reported man said yesterday that he did crew.
not be used, sald the that two Japanese were aboard not have full details on the Tat
The company refused to release Chemical wasiness with the Reds the Jay the officers from the fishing boat that is booming. but that after the case the passenger list until the plane's firm is being paid in US dollars Chinese Pang, was studied, the whole Aistance from the United States, Tsung-jen, General Pai Chung-hsi
matter according to Kwangti
Press and Associated Press. - who point out that the United
and.
General Chan Chai-tong in and jolted on the rutted highway,cording to an Agence France Colonial Secretary fer action.
passen Ters face the danger of
Another official said yesterday States White Paper was mainly 1932 when Generalissimo Chiang robbery by brigands who have Presse report from Saigon. critical of the
in his appeasement lately been a little persisted Generallasime
The High Commissioner said that though the Tai
Pang was refusal to fight
policy towards aggressive Japan. on this highway.
that he was authorised to deny not under British registry, it was included Kwangsi
Hong Kong ST believe the United States Kwangtung and was, opiuses to Government are moving their de Emperor Bao Dai, head of the new licence, and was entitled to pro-
Many finier employees of the categorically in the name of ex-operating under a will 207 example General Pai's South Government at Nanking.
Help some new "third force. Generalissimo Chiang's Central pendants to Coenstu for safety French-supported state of Viet-tection of the British authorities : China bastion which gives visible
and hope to be able to join them. nam, reports that representatives,when in local waters. evidence that it is willing and
The two provinces became in-But many hundreds of them are of the Chinese Nationalist, Gen- He added that if the authori- | said here last night that Eire has able to fight the Communists dependent and remained so until goin to find themselves trapped eral Fai Chung-hsi, had made ties had known of the seizure, These sources said: President after the outbreak of the Sino- in Camarking, jobless and with contact with Bao Dai to propose they would have given the Tai Li's representative, Kan Chinese war, when the County little or no money when the Reds co-operation against Chinese and
was dissolved to unite with come,
Vietnamese Communists.
in an attempt to retake Kwang chowan Peninsula by eliminating will
When established, the Council
have under its the scattered Communist forces Kwangsi. Yungan and Hainan is
control, there.
land.
The Best South West Political under General Pal stils hopes to Council was established by Ma
The new alignment of forces!
obtain financial
how,
Paris, November 21.
existence as such depends on the Communists. is a bustling place these days, what with people fee- Chinese Nationalist forces in for the same reason. ine for safety and others ficcking will be immediately disarmed Buses bound for Cheacts, capital and interned, if they cross the of Szechwan. arc like mobile Tonkin frontier into Indo- Black Holes of Calcutta, so dan China, the French High Com- Kerous! near suffocation point are missioner in Indo-China,
name
He also said
and other achal Li Chai-sum, General Lif there filled. Besides being bounced Leon Pignon. "said today, ac- I would probably be referred to the loss became "official" United in New York and
SOURCES
PRESS.
THE WEATHER
It
and
more
active
Pang assistance.
UPRISING IN LUZON FEARED
"EIRE READY.
TO FIGHT" Pittsburgh, November 21. Thomas Barry, a former general in the Irish Republican Army.
set aside US$100,000,000 to boy guns and is ready to fight if neces sary to regain the six) British- controlled counties. of Norther Irciani
Reater.
in the United Chiang in the war against Japan States and that President L: kim-
IL Pignon said that there is no self may go there later on the Associated Press quotes a high Mails From HK
Bare who Is on a month's lour reason to believe that Chinese
of the United States, was-178k- double mission to seek aid and source in Chungking who has been
Communist get better medical care-United In close touch, with Li, as saying
armies will enter
ink at an anti-partition rally, of Indo-Chinese territory, the
the United Societies of that the Acting President plans to Chungking's only air link with Agility report added, but if they
Western Pennsylvania. "We had to America to continue his the outside world is provided by do they
will be treated in
Manila, November 21. to take the 26 counties of South- medical treatment unless his con- Civil Air Tranport, the airline accordance with the statements Uprisings will be staged inern Ireland by force. We will dition soon takes a turn for the run by Major-General Claire made by the French President, M. several Luzon provinces early probably have to use the same. better.
Chennault but its services are Vincent Auriol
in his letter to in December, the "Evening
methods in Ulster,” be said While his health would be an limited and only a handful of the
B30 DaL A1 9624 GMT. (2 pm HEST) the ostensible reason for the visit, Li
News" said today, adding that many people anxious to leave are typhoon is pentred about 15 miliw if he actually does go to able to get out
fin the letter, made public on October 18,
M. Auriol said that confidential reports were re at Okinawa moving WW", or "NBWhat America would doubtless plead The mail service to
to and
from France would co-operate with ceived by the Malacanan shout is knots. It is soon expected to for aid to Nationalist China, the Hong Kong is extremely regular, Viamam to defend the latter's Palace in connection with the
Sometimes letters from Hong Kone independence and eurit
anaileged impending revolts. take more than 10 days to reach would appeal for
Nations As a result, the report said, Chungking. Commercial radio sex aid if necessary.)
Philippine armed forces and the vice between the two cities is M. Pignon said that the visit to constabulary, have
been placed Page 2 also slow, probably on account Vietnam of Mr. Malcolm Mac on an inriefinite alert status.
Kal: Tak's Lean Period." Jimited facilities of the
at the Donald,
Photo Salon Opened. British Commissioner-
recurve and move on there, Northerly
track towards $ Japan. The centre of
source said.
the Borthern nati-clone crossed
Japan and continues us more ad Pai Leaves
lete the Pxel No information in
available from China.
Today's Forecast:---Light' on : moderate
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Yesterday's Weather
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Li like his close friend and as- Chungking end. Kadiograme from) General for South East Asia, v) said to be Cavite-bas. De
sociate. General Pal Chung-si Hong Kone sometimes take the Nationalist commander in 10년 five days to reach Central China, is known to be The Government has still given more than willing to allow any no indication where and when aid given to be supervised right it will; move the capital once
down to the front
Chengking becomes untenable. At Pai Chung-bst. Tho came to the moment, it seemed determined Chungking yesterday with the to arrest the advance fame the news of Li's departure for Hong East as long as possible, This" at Kong, returned this afternoon to least is the inference drawn from Kwangsi, and
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Cantonese by Radio. 217. The Austrian government today Page 12 Anamirced 30 per cent devalu
Finance and Commerce in five vs. An official said The typhoon is moving West Lion of the Austrian schilling in Page 13 - The Defence Ministry today Chiane Cring-ko had gone to North West et 10 miles an hour relation to the US dollar and admitted the Reds had crossed encourage the officers a men at The advisory way used on ship the British Pound Sterling Page 14. the Chien River near Penganul, the front on behalf of his father, reports Associated Press.
United Press.
Manila. November 21, The Weather Bureau mid that the movement of reinforcements a trepical storm, with winds up to During his stay in Chungking, al Chiang Ching-ano, Calang Kai will pass about 200 miles North Vienna,
Eastward and the fact that Gener 90 miles an hour in the centre he conferred with Generalissimo shek's eldest son, went to the front of the Northern end of Lazon. Chiang Kai-shek.
again yesterday his second visit early tomorrow.
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