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Maharaja Pearson notes “unusual
reaction" of Reds to UK recognition offer
SOVIET DEMAND FOR Magical Maharaja SEVEN CHINESE PORTS Seek concessions from Mao in Moscow parleys LABOUR FORCE SOUGHT
New York, January 29.
In a special despatch from Paris, the New York Times said to- day that the Soviet Union has demanded that the Chinese Com- munist Government give Moscow full control over seven key ports in North China.
Earthquakes in Persia; 1,000 killed
Teheran, January 29. One thousand persone were reported killed and 1,300 in- jured today in severe earth. quakes which rocked the Persian Gulf area about 200 miles Bouth East of Bushire port.
The earthquakes occurred four days.agn_but_aince roads blocked nowe of the were disaster did not reach Teheran until today. A Kangan dia. trict officer walked four days to reach Blahiro and give the news of the disaster,
'At least 20 towns were sald to have been destroyed.
The Persian Red Lion and Bun Boclety, equivalent to the Red Cross, Immediately rush- ed food and medical supplies from Bhiraz and Bushiro—, Reuter.
Exiled Siam General arrives in HK
The Deputy Commander-in-
The despatch identified the ports as Chinwangtae, Haichow, Chefoo, Weihaiwei and Tsingtao, in addition to Dairen and Port Arthur (Ryojun) in Manchuria, which already are supervised by the Soviets.
Mr. C. L. Sulzberger, who wrote the despatch, said
the Russians are socking these concessions at Russo-Chinese negotiations which have been under way for more than a month in Moscow. Prime Minister "Stalin heads the Russian nogotiators, and Communist loader Mao Tse- tung the Chinese delegation.
MacAr-
The despatch Bald three hus not offelally been released to other demands by the Russians the public. However, unofficial can be made on the force
of estimates a labour call for 500,000 Chinese citizens to be basis of Interviews with many of made available to the USSR, the Japanese who also have been Increased food shipments to questioned by General
thir's oficials. Russia from Manchuria (ni-
Chino herself though
by a disastrous threatened famine), and broad concessions by the Chinese Communists to "minority" groups in Sinking, Inner Mongolla. Manchuria
and Tibet.
forced
is
In Washington, Admiral Forrest Noval P. Sherman, Chief of Operations, said last week that Russia is concentrating on under- sea warfare-the kind of naval operation it would have to use if hoped to halt mass concentra- tion of American troops in Europe or Asia.
Information reaching Tokyo indicates Russian submarinos former art operating out of Japanese ports on Sakhalin as: well as from Russian bases at Vindivostok and Dairen.
Before an audience of nearly six hundred members of the Magia Circle and friends, H.H. the Maharaja of Jodhpur prov- ad himself a 'magician by deceiving nearly all of them. His Highness was submitting himself to the ordeal of conjuring before conjurers to quality for promotion in membership de- (an ordinary member) cree, At present he le simply MMC and to satisfy the council of his ablilty as a performer he A public assembly before has to give a performance before becoming an IAMC (associate of the inner magic circle). In time the counell may bestow the full decrea of MIMC (mem- bership of the inner magic circle). Photo shows the maharaja performing his fire from water trick, before the Maglo Cirajo.
(AP Photo).
Former bandits in control at Tsingtao
(By WAYNE RICHARDSON)
Tokyo, January 29.
There is considerable specula Tough former bandits, who expect to "liberate the
world,” are ruling the former United States naval base of Tsingtao.
The Chinese Communist's cold reception. of. Bri- 'tain's offer of recognition will definitely be taken into consideration by the Canadian Government bofora Canada makes her doci- sion on recognition of the Chinese Commun- eists, Mr. Loster Pearson; the Canadian Minis-
tor for External Affairs said yesterday. Mr. Pearson who arrived, in Hong Kong on Satur
day, said that Canada would take independ- ent action on the recognition question, but that it could not ignore the "unusual reaction" of the Communist Government to the British offer.
He raid: "Britain offered the Chinese Communist Govern- ment recognition, and that Government's reaction was, to invite Britain to send a repre- sentative to discuss the open- ing of diplomatic relations.
Though such a point can be We will apt
"We have tried to assist her by reducing our import,
trestric to think that by. tlon, and I working together, we can reach more satisfactory solution."
He said that the United States was causing the problem by sell ing more than US$7,000,000,000. more materials abroad in one year than they had Imported.
He added that there several reasons for Briton's pre-
werd
1 veremphasised,
Igacre such unusual procedure.
"I a country is in control of its aren: its laws are followed and dienment-one was that the
These seen on the streets.
Mr.
by
can production
made it difficulb
the dollar
for Britain to break into success- ful competition In
its authority is not challenged, quality and efficiency of Amerl- then that country, under interna- tional law. can be recognised by foreign governments,"
Pearson pointed out that areas. meny Iron Curtain countries were "For example, few people in
By that it
Canada, but he Canada are willing to buy an also
was not English-made shirt for six dollars can buy en American mandatory for any country to if they
product for three dollars, offer recognition.
He said that the United States' "Comparatively high prices for Government did not recognise the English goods and materials USSR until 1832-18 years after to an extent, part of the problem tho Russian Government was which Britain (faces." formed.
ences
The Minister, who attended the Commonwealth Confar- said that in Colombo,
discussions fully half of the
the Commonwealth among nations dealt with Asian pro- blems.
Ming Sung ships
MR. LEBTER PEARSON -(Chine Mall), Rhoto.
No reply on recognition from Peking
said
London, January 28.
A Foreign. Office spokesman on Saturday that the Chinese Commuhlat regime had not yet answered the British request for a clarification of the Communist response to the British notification of recogni- tion.
The spokesman said that Mr. J. Hutchison, the British repre Mr. Pearson said that though seatative in Nanking, has there the local Ming Sung Industrial fore not yet proceeded to Peking Company had nine ships under to assume his functions na British mortgage from Canadian Charge d'Affaires with the Còm-
Government,
по
action
had
been taken to recover the ships by court action. demy
He added: "This one fact. de- monstrates very, forcibly the mounting. Interest which Canadu is taking in the Far East.
"Fifteen years ago, the Com-built by funds from a Canadian monwealth members
in loan to the Nationalist Govern Europe, and Asian' problems were mont almost wholly secondary and re- latively ignored."
He added: "It is not necurato to say that the ships are owned by the Nationalist Government, and.”.
met
"This change is caused mainly by Communist expansion in the Far East.
Two aspects
The Ming Sung Company is a private concern, and the Canadian Government has the greatest con-
In the owners of that
"
the country.
unist Government.
Mr. Hutchison was sold to be
Awaiting instructions from Lon-..
alter a sofisfactory raply from an Peking is received.
sola Brition buarters deh. Offolat"!
led rumour that; negotiations
are in progress between Britain and Communist China, and die- missen suggestions that Hong Kong le, the eubject of these -discussions.
British view is that
Bulgarians get death sentence. in Yugoslavia
Belgrade, January 29.
secret
Chief of the Siamese Army, demanded, the USSR would have the South. Tokyo has heard when the Nationalists evacuated į taxicabs, a number of jeops and of Western Nations to demonstrate ed out of "This is the first that terms of hard; labour in prison on
Lieutenant-General
Reds for
Press and
were
of cars--all
American
Latest advlees, necording to Mr. Sulzberger's informants, In- dicate that the Chinese negotia
the tors have not acceded to Russian terms but have been countering with equally ambi- tious demands of their own.
•The official report- The Chinese Reds, it
Hong Kong will not form the sub- tion as to how Russia is getting: ed, have asked Moscow for a flat
into these)
This statement refutes previous ject of such discussions or nego- guarantee of US$2,800,000,000 fa her new submarines
Ireports that the Canadian Govern- tiations-United Press. Anancial aid. The Chinese Com-waters and some quarters belleve
ment was intending to take im munists are also reported to have she may be shipping parts scrOS
mediale action to recover mine. The minister said that he Candlan-bullt river boats which askel for big shipments of mill-Siberia and assembling them at They are Communists and follow the Party line. But they also like the fat jobs they hove inherited tury equipment. These presum- Vladivostok.
divided Communism into two as the Ming Sung Company operates Although Russia is presumed to ably would-be-used-to-invade
and old line party members from the North are-pects: first, Aggressive and Im-in Hong-Kong. on the mainland of have ports Taiwan and destroy the last foot-
and Communism; perialistic
The Minister would not com- hold of Chiang Kai-shek's Na-Asia from where submarines can finding it difficult to remove them.
second, Communism as a Socia
report from Prague ment on tionalists, Mr. Sulzberger said. operate on winter patrols in the
that two members of the Cana- "If the Peking envoys are Western Pacific, some quarters The bandits, who had roamed took control. Only a few, cars and Economie doctrine.
He added that the second as-dian Einbassy there had been ac-
A Yugoslav court today Ben- to knuckle under and believe she will endeavour to ac- for years through rich Shantung are
two Bulgarian or more peet required action on the part eared of spying and were order fented dozen grani Moscow the concessions quire additional submarine bases Province, swarmed Into Tsingtao consist of a
agents to death and six others to не that the democractic system was
said: that the Russians are the port two months before they official Kach complete control of the Yellow
better—that the democratic sys I have heard of that develop- [charges of having tried to organlad the despatch sald.
"The Sports
for bases negotiating
further
The manufacture. expected to leave. Songkram, who was ordered to Sea,
Korean Government, South
Yet the Communists still keep tem offered to the people more ment, but I will say that it is the guerilia, spy and propaganda in China and in North regulars grabbed power and so be exiled by his Government, Southern
en duty a vast horde of traffe Uberties and material gains than arst time in my kná zlago that agencies-in-Yugoslavia bec Jar have hung on to it.
the Comununist
Canadian representatives system arrived from Bangkok by a supported by the United States, Kurea.Associated
have throw Marshal Tito's govern- ar policeman-probably to demon-
TORVE Communist leaders who
He did not elaborate on the been asked to _an_Icon.Cure] +ment: special aircraft at noon yes would be completely outflanked United Press. on the West.
have rived subsequently
en-strato that they havo ample po-
drst aspect
tain country."
The hard labour terms ranged 1erday.
lice. "Furthermore, the concessions
countered. trouble in giving, or- re manpower.
He said that one-way this de- Mic. Pearson Intends-to-Team Fermettre were to ill-years Chinese on the streets- of would strategically seal off from
ders to thele arrogant Provincial
The eight:" accused; tried at rulers. the South and the outside world
Tsingtao do not appear as happy monstration should be done was Hong Kong this morning for
Information sor-Tekyo, where he will consult with Skopje, capital of Macedonile, had the Northern-. Chinese provinces
by increasing et the officials of Tsingtao as the overcrowded but grinning to the Astatts peoples to in- General Douglas MacArthur, and all pleaded gulity to charges of of Manchuria (including Jcho!)
familiar with - In
7 form them, what might be ac- then stop briefly at Wake Island espionage, sabotage, and terrorism now shrunk to a population of people I was
de- and Honolulu before returning, to in Yugoslavia during the part six and Inner Mongolia...
about 1,000,000-leave no doubt Hong Kong.
Under the Communists they complished under Western Ottawa on February 9.
months—Associated Press, of what they say their Com
also appear ectod
beaten and plummoxracy. listiess, They munist "mission."
a discourage criticise Britain for lowering
tlog her They make it plain they regard them- selves allied with fussin. Among ment that was plain and which critic that
the Canadian Government the numbers of Chinese in Hong other evidences, pictures of Stalin might be taken as a warning by imports from Canada, he did day that are seen everywhere,
Kong who have shown they, want was "very disappointed," One official bluntly tol
the to leave the colony tr
Red-
Britain was' not buying `as, many "We in-
controlled, interior.
Canadian materials ns' in the past. European missionary.
the world and
He added: "We do not want to tend to liberate
One thing in quite plain in dan't you worry, We'll liberate Thington; the Communist authori- see the world
split into two groups-the Sterling ties have tight gun-backed - economic The despatch added that des- The source' was Gen. Hala Yu-your country too." at Bangkok, he was offered the
of the In Tangino, as in Shanghel, choles of exile or death, it was pite a diplomatic Impasse in the tsal, who is in charge
"In 1948, In using It-Associated
we exported more Moscow negotiations as à result. Taipch office of the Uleinan De- the Important Communist ofththority and no reluctance what area and the dollar area.
that C$5,000,000,000 worth elais make no pretence of vip Press. reported.
counter-ferica Command.
wever, in 1949, this material; however, and 200,000 Uke commoners. Between 100,000 General Kach Songkram was demands, the end of the Russo-
greatly fallen off. originally expected to arrive from Chinese talks will be announced Reds, he declared, were being
"in a carefully-framed communi asteinbled for
"During the war and since, Bangkok on Saturday but due to
we have advanced Britain a poor weather conditions his spe- que heralding their 'complete Hainan
much
rotativaly. In Joane and clally chartered Siamese. Airways success."
oradite as 'tha United States has, aircraft had to slay overnight in
but' now -we 246" our markett Halphong before arriving here.
disappearing. Mak "Either this problem can be solved by Britain's cutting off her Imports from dollar areas, or else by increasing her experts:
He was escorted by a Siamese Colonel Gendarmaric'. officer, Chamras Mandurananda,
Dressed in civilian clothes the general was met at the Kai Tak airport by a handful of local po- Hice officers.
The flity-six-year old general vas exiled following the dis- overy of un alleged plot to over- throw the present Slamese Gov. ernment..
After he was arrested by tho
on Friday night Siamese police
Difficult to meet
prepare Hainan invasion
Tdipch, January 20. More than 5,000 motor "All Indications are that the
powered junks and other small U69R-If it is willing to con-
craft are being massed on the cede. In principle-would have
difficult time In meating South China sea coast for the Paking's requests for capital invasion of Hainan, an official ald source told the Associated
Press.
equipment and financial on the scale desired."
of the demands
and
the invasion
Tsal said that Nationalist war- of ships were patrolling the waters Noting that a new group Red Chinese negotiators, headed around Hainan day and night by Forelan Minister Chou E1-ol, He estimated the Nationalist recently arrived in Moscow and strength on the island at more that Chou met Stalin without than 100,000 troops plus about Mao, the despatch sald:
90,000 provincial military men. This circumstance has led to Tsai dismissed ruinours of dis-
speculation Jncreasing
amongsonsion among Nationalist Army Communist lenders, on Hainan as unfound Observers in the have concluded that Mr. Mao har proven too stubborn for Premier claimed, in their determination to Stalin's trates and was therefore meet and beat the Reds, when and the Bonins are moving East Band deliberately excluded from this they come...
The Weather:
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Can takon over
soever
They have taken over all the Ss. Wing Sang
big cars, including those which -members of the American Com
sulate were obliged to leave bahind. They also have all the TMN big villas and houses in the once charming German-bulis |
returns to HK
olty
A small British ship which was reported shelled on Wed- nesday afternoon near Amoy, But unlike Shanghal, there is arrived in Hong Kong yester considerable night life and salety day undamaged.
world. Some · satellite diplomats or were fully united, he among those who can afford to; · Though · reporters were not)
pay. A number of bars and allowed on board the ship, one some cabarets remain open. Food member of the 'crew-sald that
These twin sati-crclones sitiosecond phase of the talks by the Taal claimed that the Nationa od if you have the money previous reports that Commusiek
erowth, catutida, Westward to the wéinity Kremlin.”
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