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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JANUARY 9, 1950.
KMT WARSHIPS TRAIL Traffic policeman's
ss. FLYING ARROW Ship to stand by outside Yangtse river entrance
BROOKLYN HEIGHTS LOADING
(By WAYNE RICHARDSON}
Aboard The ss. Flying Arrow, January 8.
Two Chinesa Nationalist destroyer escorts picked up the Flying
Arrow shortly after it passed through the Formosa Strait.
Nationalists
continue raids
on Shanghai
The
Taipeh, January 8. Chinese Nationalisto announced today that their warplanes bombed Shanghal yesterday for the third day In euoceraian and damaged 20
The
government kald
ships
the raid was carried out
big
by a
of Dianics.
formation
other
pointa
Taingian And
WOTD 4150 attacked.— Amo- ciated Proas.
Lock out at rubber factory
They have been following the American freighter
all day.
The Flying Arrow arrives off the Yangtse at noon on Monday and will stand outside for further instructions before attempting to reach Shang- hai.
Seven French. English and German women, returning with for to their husbands in Shang -
lun, are aboard
Associated Preas
Defied warning
of State Dept.
The en Flying Arrow first hit the headlines recently when the
vessel decided to run the Na tionalist blockade Into Bhang hai despite the U. 6. Dapart. ment of State warning after the Nationslist shelling of two other tebrandton ships, the Flying
for them, and it in unikaty that Any will
ship in sign off the Hong Kong, British shipping trims are ex- pected to start thousands of tons of long-delayed enrgo on its way begitiming
to
this week.
been issued to
ports
Royal Navy spukeinunn said A Roy
In-ructions had that no specta
British shipping thut the then
offer British Roynd
Navy could dups protection from Nationalist warships,
Arms
DRAULIK
However, " British shipping
emrini said yesterday that he was confident that Nationalist warships with British would not interfere shipping from now on,
He added:
what "However. measures protection
will bel
Christmas Box
For the first time since the War, the old custom of donating Christmas gifts to traffic policemen on duty Germany,
Photo shows! Frankfurt Opera House
Christmas Lve.
was revived in The traffic policeman on duty &quare gets a gift from a car driver Other gifte le at his feat.
Norwegian
diplomats
ted on the past try told to leave Taiwan
Cloud and the Bir John Frank-adopted, only the Itoyal Navy can
say, und they have not told
The Flying Arrow hally clear-rel ed Hong Kong harbour on Satur-
149
"Our company will not make di
Taipeh, January 8.
Five hundred employees of day after dehnte among officers move towards effectively block- The Chinese Nationalists today ordered the Nor- the Continental Rubber Manu-and members of the
on aded porta until this protection factory. Hunghom, were lock-
definitely been whether to wall with the ship to question
ed out by the management on Shanghai or not.
the workers the manage-
for full
YO!
Crew
Twelve seamen of the original Flying Arrow crew desisted from ailing when the vessel left with an estimated HK$80,000,000 worth
Saturday after falled to heed ment's demand sumption of production
The
workers Wenat slow" last Wednesday when thel demand for a 30 to 50 per cent increase in wages was turned down.
001
A com-
This was followed by plete sit-down strike on Friday and on Saturday they were told not to report to work,
Bettled."
Guided missiles
of cups for communist Shanghai aimed at Yugoslavia
were re-
The signed-off senten placed by foreign seamen at hand.
The Colony who hunedalely agres or
vacancies when the wen made cœrivin.
The cargo carried by the Fly-
be 6.000 Ing Arrow was said to The majority of the
workers tons of high grade general carg employed by the factory, which melading audic soxia, petroleum 1 one of the largest factories and bales of cellum. making rubber footwear, are wa-| women, wives o; Brituli business men. The factory does
in a largo executives
Shanghai Were
trade with the United Kingdom. among the passengers.
No change in the atriko altua- tion was reported yesterday. Mr. Pang Kam-wing manager, could not be reached for comment lust night.
Drifting mine explodes on Japanese coast
A
on
more
300
Two British
|Brooklyn Heights
loads cargo
wegian diplomatic mission to leave Taiwan. The British Consulate hore, however, remain- ad open.
Both Britain and Norway have recognised the Chin-
ese Communist Government.
de-
The
severed Nationalists diplomatic relations with botn Vienna, January 8.
and bitterly countries
de- Launching bases for gilded nounced the British action in missiics atined at Yugoslavia
official in
Government will be completed by the und
claration. of this mouth in the Matra
Chinese seeking Hong Kong en- Mountains in Hungary. the try viras were queued up in long monthly publication "Hunnes before the British Vice Con- garlun Communist" reported sul's office hero and the British today,
officer. Immigration
Mr. "Hungarian Communist said Shepherd, said that receipt of np- construction of the bases was 'cations would not be interrupt- announced by Hungarian Defence ed. Minister Mihaly Farkas at a secret Cominform military ference which took placa in Hun- gary on November 13.
con-
J
Peking Radio charge against Philippines
Manila, January 8. The Acting Secretary of For- eign Affairs, Mr. Felino Neri, called 1 Chinese Communist radio charge of oppression of Chinese in the Philippines "too silly to comment on.**
Belgium to follow Belgium will shortly recognise the Chincan People's Republic, circles close to the Belgian Gov- "If the pelvilleges and oppor- ernment stated faat night, otunities for Chinese residents here
■Router despatch both Kuomintang and Communist to cording from BrussCİA.
were as bad as plctured in the Another Reuter report, from broadcast, they would not be seck- magazine report concurs with Oslo. adds that the staff of the ing to come here in such num
Chinese Embassy in Osio are ex-bers," added Mr. Neri. pected to apply for asylum as political
following Nor- "Our Hong Kong Consulate, for
with ap The two ships are operated by Titalet organ which is, believed way's ron of the Com- one place, is flooded
The American freighter, 98. In- Brooklyn Heights, has tention
waiting for of
the Bhanghai-bounds. Flying Ar row to break the Nationalist blockada successfully
no
Western sources here agreed that their informants also have told them
la the Cominform building wall of guided mis-
around most sile basa
of Yugoslavia.
wald Thoy
the
before
our own information.“
leaving for Shanghai.
"Hungarian Communist" is a
Tokyo, January 8. drifting mine exploded yesterday
the Japanese coast injuring 15 people and damaging
than
the Hans Lebrandtsen Company to be mimeographed in Eastern munist Government of China, houses, hotels and warehouses. of New York--the only shipping Europe but which usually carries The Norwegian Foreign Office
The explosion accurred at the firm that has consistently broken | French post marks.
h35,
not yet received however, small fishing village of Koshino, the Shanghai blockade success- The publication said the Com- any application. Jess than 30 miles from Fukui, the | fully.
Inform defence meeting was at- The Embassy in Oslo come city which was almost completely An officer on board the tended by Soviet Vice premier under the jurisdiction of Mr. destroyed by an earthquake in Brooklyn Heights said yesterday Georgi Malenkov, Marshal Ken-Wunsz King. Ambasador in Brus-
that stevedores had already load. stantin Rekoshovsky, Pollsh De-sola.
1940.
The police stated that the mine ed several thousand tons of fence Minister and Commander- drifted in unoticed and exploded Shanghat cargo, and that it was in-Chief of the Army, and other when it struck the breakwater | probable that the Brooklyn Cominform milltary men-United It was the second mine explosion Heights would leave Hong Kong Press.
on the adjacent constiine in 10 fully loaded within the next three months.
days.
Prior to the last explosion, a Cargo on the Brooklyn Heights Japanese policeman, sighting the and Flying Arrow consists mainly
All quiet along
drifting mine. swam to it and of industrial chemicals, cotton, Indo-China border
tried to tow it clear of the coast. low-grade petroleum and nows However, the mine exploded, kill-print. ing the policeman and children who were watching him.
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to
plications of Chinese to enter the Philippines.
Nationalist oficials herr Chinese could not be reached for comment. While there are known to be some Communist sympathisers among the Chinese in Manila, they do not maintain any known headquar- ters.
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VITAL CONFERENCE AT COLOMBO OPENS TODAY
Colombo, January 8.
Mr. Ernest Bovin, the Foreign Minister of the Unit- ed Kingdom, arrived at Colombo today in the cruiser Konya for tomorrow's opening here of the British Commonwealth Ministors' Confor
anco.
Soviet craft
for invasion
י,
of Taiwan
The Prime Minister of Ceylon, Mr. Don Stephen
Washington, January 7. Senanayake, and the British Commissioner in
A Washington newspaper Ceylon, Sir Walter Honkinson, went out to columnist said today that Soviet landing craft were be- the cruiser to meet Mr. Bevin.
ing sent to Foochow to assist Mr. Bevin, in a short speech out Russia, but that China is the Chinese Communists in a
possible invasion of Taiwan. of thanks to Mr. Senanayake, vitally concerned.
The Commonwealth delegates Mr. Constantine Brown, writ suid: am here to be pre-
sold: also are concerned with the gen- ing in, the "Evening Star" sent at this very vital and im-
eral position in South East Asia. "Soviet landing craft in large portant conference which will Various proposals have been made numbers are now on the way from be important for the British that the democracies must en- Vladivostock to the Chinese Com Commonwealth as well as for courage legitimato Nationalist munist port of Foochow to prepare the world as a whole
movements, improving the people's the invasion of Taiwan and im- int second visit to so that Communism "This is my
would portant units of the Chinese Red lose its mass economic appeal. Colom v The last time I only
Ariny are being gathered in the passed through. This time look A big problem will be keeping Foochow area.
Mr. Brown further wrote that willing forward to a longer stay and good China from becoming a work and good
future according to American estimates results und ally of Russia in any
tho Invasion A en contribution to the peach! aggression. Some delegates bo preperations for
Heve the Commonwealth may be would last until next March when
contacta then left for Mr. able to maintain
with the final assault against Taiwan home.
where
democratie he the more
forces in was expected. the
diplomatic and throughout
con- Chinn
of the world" Mr. Bevin Senanayake's
will stay Terence,
The spotlight of British poli. tical (Interest switched East to. day to Colombo, scene of vital Commonwealth Foreign Minis
tomorrow, terɗ talia opening
London.
# Reuter roport from
Despite their growing pre-oc-: cupation with home affairs duel 10 An expected early general Sunday news- election, British papers today devoted prominent space to despatches and diploma- tle comment dealing with Asian affairs the main subject of the Colombo talks.
through
cultural channels.-Router Associated Press.
"Meanwhile, however, the dia- and contented Taiwanese may stage jan uprising kindled by the many Communist agents who have boon on the island for some time", he added.
Demand for Red China
victory bonds
Urgos U.S. stand
Senator Styles. Bridges wants the United States to "take a stand In defence of Taiwan," adds As- sociated PresS. “
He said that if it does not there may be a third world war.
Sorator San Francisco, January 7.
Bridges, in a statement People in the major cities to the Press, denounced the Ad-
of Communist China are flock-ministration policy in the Talwan ing to buy victory bonds, Pe- crisis as "cowardly, bungling, and
grovelling." king Radio reported tonight.
He said ft, is "loading directly
Buyers
an
Popular newspapers seized on ΣΥΣΤΗ the topical issues rising
of the bands cover to atoinic Pearl Harbour which brilish recognition of the Com- munist Government in China. every level of the community, will make the Inst war look like a fire in an ashtray in contrast to The
"Sunday the Rodio sold. Conservative
the holocaust that will como with Chronicle" 'carried the banner
In one day in Shanghai, it is this headline: "British Convoya May added, four factories bought up
Defy Ching's Navy with-the
secondary heading Hong Kong 120,000 units of the bonds, Prepares for Red China Trade,"
Bank The People's
of Ching An article, in the 7,000,000 circulation "News of the World" which has branches in Shanghal, Canton, Swatow, Foochow, Amoy, claimed that thet Stands Nex Tientsin. is handling sale of the
It honda Fire." Is the Reds' Line of
to overseas Chiness, the neserted that Tibet was in the
To facilitate thest Radio added, "grip of invasion lover."
Many newspapers took the line overseas purchases the Bank is that the most urgent task before broadcasting every evening for the Colombo Conference would eign exchange rates over Paling
Radio. be to consider measures to stom the tide of Communism in South East Asin.
Sook understanding
Discount ratos
engaged. the seama cowardly course of retreat which brought on the last war
..
Ho, said he would "far rather have (our boys fight to defend Talwan than watch them die right before our eyes in a lant desperate attempt to save their homeland."
"If we wait until the enemy lands on the beach at California, ha kuld, "it will be too late." Router and Associated Press,
KING GUSTAV'S Discount rates for the trans- portation of imported cotton on:
ILLNESS the railways of North East, North The Commonwealth Minister and South China, will continue
Stockholm, January 8. will assemble to work for a com
Complications in the illness of to be in farce up to June 30
today mon understanding
pro- this year, the Communist Peking 91-year-old King Gustav gramme to combat Communism In Radio reported tonight.
necessitated the calling in of n. specialist
list Assistant Professor South East Asia, says an Asso- clated Press despatch from This "priority rate" should Paul Frenckner.
have ended on December 31, A bulletin signed by Dr. 1949.
Franciner and the Royal Phy- sician he
Dr. Helmar Casserman, has fallen ill with King throat and a high tem-
Colombo.
after this conferende,
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transported to Shanghai in car septic No Change has taken...
Australia and New Zenian? are likely to make their dool.
The Radio said that cotton_fm- sions concerning recognition o ported through ports in North the Peking regime in Chine East, North and South China and londs will be given a 80 per cent Britain, Australia, New Zealand discount of freight rates if cex Pakistan, India, Ceylon, Canad:tified by the Communist Foreign and South Africa will be repre- Trade Administration Bureau sented.
Reuter. Qae of the problems to be dis- cussed is a Japanese peace treaty Commonwealth Primarily nations will search for a solution whether Japan to the question should be strengthened as a pos- sible future ally against Russia. and perhaps Communist China, or kept weak.
The delegates probably will dis clist they question of balances.
the
sterling
Other subjects ⠀⠀
- Other subjects that may come Into the discussion are the status of the French-sponsarád· Eno
·Dal regime in Indo-China,', the
place in his chronic bronchitis. is general condition is relatively good, although his strength is row duced. His heart is satisfactory."
-Reuter.
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new. United States of Indonesia, Choose Burma, Malaya and Thailand,
all threatened by an extension From The
of Communiam from China.
Gomo delegatos haye commented that it would be possible to hold Rootes.
peace conference on Japan with-
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The Chinese Communists as yet have made, public no read. The report is believed here to tion to their recognition by Bri.have stemmed from investigations tain, reports Associated Press by agents of the Philippines Re- from Ban Francisco,
habilitation and Trado Adminis trailon in December of alleged hoarding of
food
and algarettes by Chinese merchants after import Captain Andrew Crinkley, Far Deveral
Eastern Representative of the Is- M. Leon Pignon, the French ( covered wide variety of political controls were placed in effect. The and military topics largely of agents visited many godowns and brandteen Company, said that High Commissioner, in Indo-
domestic Interest, wi
without men-stores of Chinese firms to check Bhanghal cargo rates were about China, and General Alessandri, tloning Britain
Gither yesterday up on
on stocks on hand after house- Uio same from Hong Kong as commanding the French troops or tod
today.
wives complained that such Items they were two years ago
in Indo-China, yesterday visit- ་་
Communist reaction major as coffee had disappeared over- He added: "The
The contention that
ed French outposts on the events customarily is delayed night from the shelves of retail. Isbrandtsen Company has, been
en]Chinose border North of Lăng: while the "Party: line" is fixed stores. Most of the Iteins have ro- high profits
son, North East Tongking the helling of British ships in the
from above, This! was true of the appeared at prices.
higher
Page 2 rates.
HK-Istening post for newamen. excessive
PRATA also threatened to de The principal difference is that French news agency reported Vangtse last April, and again of
Page a today
port foreignere violating price|||Flaminders, they have been unloading They stopped at Chima, an out the British Sloop Amethyst's c
Burolay's Bridge. I have China and Freight or nine thousand tons of post about 50 yards from the first cape from the Yangtse last sum-regulations While no namer Page
wara mantioned, it was general- ly, understood that, the govern- | Pago. 8. fresh cargo instead of only a fraction Chinese Communist-occupied pest mer-United Press, Router and
of that amount, as before." ;
All was quiet in the border Associated Press
ment agency was referring to Austrian treaty' deadlock. -ChineaszgjABAMA
Speculation on UK elections. drode of Communist regular abi-
In Honolulu, President Elpidio, Papo a diers are said to be stationedIN
Quirino and yesterday that the Good points, weakricuses some miles from the frontier,
Philippines Goverment har Chinese Reda Plmon returned to Bulgogi in the Modway, Maine; January. 7.
Page; D evening.
181x children were reported to under. advisement the question
and Contmaroo. Today he will in
1 inspect the Mong- have been burned to death in a of recognising the Chinese Com-hance
10 Duong camp near the Campna fre today that destroyed a farm munist Government, red Page. Members of the orew of the coal miper on the Tongking house during now form. He said the Hipino mind is Hong Kong Waterfront, Brooklyn Heights are reported coast, where Chinese Nailonaifts Mrs. Grace Jones, widowed ppm on the Communist question, Paos 11.4
Air Bhipping movements. So be satisfied that the rebrand who recently entered Indo-China mother of the children, was taken in the Orient. He declined to com-
on Talwan Associated Paso 12 tein Company has taken, ade were disarmed by and interned to a hospital in critical condi- ment
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211, moderata anti-cyclone har moved to the how, when our ships enter Shang-
mni of Japais. A depression is possibly
over. Ke
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