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VOTERS IN UK FLOCK TO THE POLLS WATER MAIN BURSTS
INJUNCTIONS ON AIRLINES REMOVED
The Supreme Court injunctions obtained by the
Nationalist Government some months ago Impounding the assats of the China National Aviation Corporation and the Contral Air Transport Corporation have been removed, it was learned yesterday.
This was effected by an order of Sir Leslie Gibson, Chief Justice, in chambers dissolving the in- junctions which prevented the employees of the CNAC and CATC from interfering with the properties.
This ordor in chambors followed the dismissal in open Court of the applications by Civil Air Transport, Incorporated, for the appointment of a receiver in respect of the airlines' pro- perties, which they maintained thay legally bought.
ly
Heavy turnout reported
in urban districts
QUIET AND ORDERLY
London, February 23.
The weather was crisp and cool and in most sections dry as the
polls opened for the British General Election this morning. The early voting was heavy in most urban districts. Birmingham's Labour Party headquarters said: "It looks like a record turnout. Most of the London areas reported extrémely heavy polling.
Labour: Full employment, Ex-1 pendent Liberal 3, Irish Anti- tension of nationalisation to the Partition 4, Labour Independent steel (this year) and sugar Indus- Scottish Nationalist 3, Socialist trics. Maintenance of food controls Party of Great Britain 2, Walsh Nationalis 7, miscellaneous 18. and rationing.
The new House of Commoni
Conservative: Tax cuts and ro-
Only in two major districts did bad weather appear to be hampering poll- ing-in Edinburgh where heavy-rain splashed the streets and in Glos. gow where the early morning fog threatened to turn to rain. Voting was quiet and order- The first isolated incident of the voting involved the Labour condi- date, Ian Mikardo, in the Reading constituency. During the night pranksters brako into his car, toreductions in Government expendi-will have 15 seats less than the off the Labour stickers, iore down ture. Halt to nationalisation and old one as a result of changes in the boundaries of come conati- the Labour flag and damaged the return to private enterprise. machine.
Liberal: Five-year trial, for tuencies. Mikardo said "Must have been existing State-run Industries but some young Conservatives,"
balt to other nationalisation In London, voters
Rubsidies eut and return to cleared Food through the booths at the rate of
"free trade." one per minute. In Portsmouth,
The candidates -1,883 of thein-hours later,
622 of the 025 Liverpool and Birmingham the are contesting
seals in the new House of Cam- first polling was brisk. But women, who were expected to be the deciding factor in the Anal result, were not numerous among by Civil Air the early voters,
It was further learned that the for this is that their solicitors, Nationalist Government was not Wilkinson and Grist, on February rey resonted in Su Lerle's cham-14 applied to the Court-and were bers yesterday. The reason given granted-leave to withdraw their
Jessup says U.S. must be prepared
New Delhi, February 23. America did not want war nor did she expect war, but while, what has happened be- hind the "curtain" was not known to the outside world. she must maintain her “defen-
times
from Court record solicitors for the Nationalists.
Earlier in the day the Chief Justler, In a 20-page
written dismissed with exts judgment
the app cod, for a re-
In
ariels
oct of the Chinese Workers first
at present im-
airilne's pounded in Hong Kong, valued at more than 1.9.$20,000,000.
had
Giving his decision, which he to vote Sir Lestle declared that there can 1eserved same two weeks ago, be no doubt the ass
mons today. In two constituencies candidates have already been re- turned unopposed, and the third will be decided next month.
Neck and neck
Folling booths will cioso at 9 clock GMT tonight, and fire results will be flashed on about 100 BBC transmitters about two
The results' will be broadcast *every 15 minutes after that un- 'sa three o'clock tomorrow mor
ning, when shout one-third of the seats will be decided. The final result is expected any timp between noon and 6 o'clock tomorrow evening. Most of the members of the present Cabinet will know thele fate tonight, but Unofficial polla by Labour Mr. Winston Churchill will not and Conservative indicate that know definitely until tomorrow. these two major neck and neck. The final rav Liberals' offer sult is anybody's guess. All partiey have their eyes on the floating vote-the electors who maka up their minds at the last minute land on how much support the unusually ·Targe number of Liberal, candidates
parties aro
assets in this Tens of thousands of factory case are destined for purposes and, transport workers, postmen which the Central People's Gov-and milkmen, dockers and rail- ernment regards as public pur-waymen, were the first to record
in city and throughout the country, adds Reu- term draw way from Labour is policy statement of indus
sive position" and be prepar- | mall including the carrying of their votes
ed to meet aggression, Dr. Philip C. Jessup, United States Ambassador-at-large, suld here
today.
think therefors that the doctrine of sovereign. Immunity oporates to prevent this Court from entertaining an application to appoint a receiver," he added. Dr. Jessup, who is on a brief visit here, made this statement at things said that two other reasons The Chief Justice among other a press conference in reply to B quation asking how America - why he thought the application
areas
The Liberal Party has offered to back Labour majority gov- ernment after the election If the Labour. government would give
was taken in Queen's Road oppoelle This plature, reminiscent of typhoon, flood conditions, the now Edinburgh House yesterday morning. It shows, a bus splashing through foot of water which flooded Queen's Road and tes House Street as a result of damage to, the 'water maine in connection with the laying of wire for. Edinburgh House. The water spread as far as Des Voeux Road, and by the time the teak-In the maine had been plugged, sand and other construction materials had been carried by the water as far as the Bank of Canton building. ("China Mall” photo).
CAT
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man describes escape
Communist
captivity
Guerillas active on
mainland
The first inside story concerning the happenings and the whereabouts of Captain James B. McGovern Civil Air Transport pilat whose C-46 aircraft made a crash landing in Communist Chino on December 5, last year and his party was revealed yesterday by Mr. Chang Sze- fat, Captain McGovern's flight radio, operator. One of the two crew members who had escaped from. Coffmunist custody at Nanning, Mr. Chang artived here via Liuchow, Hengyang and Canton on Friday last,. The other escapee was Mr. M. L. Lay, Captain Mc- Govern's Co-pilot. Mr. Lay made his way from Nanning where the party was held by Early 'polling began... In
and the Conservatives.
the Reds, via Kweihsien and Canton. He ar ilvely fashion In London and
But in an eve of polling policy third
rived here on January 28. The Liberals, heavily defcated statement, the Libernis, the industrial cities of the Mid
Talpch, February 23, lande and the North, and seven in the
had main party, stated they thom- last election--they
The Nationalists The Interrogation was mainly
today According to Mr Chang, the a.m. queues were reported at only 10 seats in the last Parlia-selves would not shirk the res many of the country's 16,000 ment-have put more candidatos ponsibility of forming a minorityXT-812 was flying: from Kai centred on why foreign aircraft claimed that guerilla warfare
that situation Tak to Kunmingit on in the fold than they have done Rovernment".
non were flying over Chinese terri- on the mainland la spreading vating stations. must conciled the production
fall is that all proper parties
scheduled flight be with Thousands of workers on their for 20 years. This is how the main, arose. were not before the Court and way home from night shifts wait 18 candidates (683 Labour, three
Bocialiste If the groups line up: Fro-Government: hyarogan bomb with the mainten-that CAT Inc. has not established ed outside the booths, and were Labour and Co-operative and two
from the poll so that they are woman passenger: (Mrs. James
Taken to Nanning of international peace.
unable to form a Bumciently strong case.
government Liu), her six-month-old baby We stand absolutely on our
without Liberal support, It and 16 drums of aviation The cases of CNAC and CATC joined by factory and transport Independent Labour).
Four days later, the party were commitment to the United Nations
men on their way to work.
should be borne in mind that petrol. While above Canton ordered to proceed to Heng- were heard separately plus. for international control of Court in the form of two applica-eiding what Government
The 34,000,000 electors are de
the Liberals - have already the aircraft's automatic direc-hafen, about 110 miles West of these weapons," he said. "But it tions.
they
pledged themselves that theration finder went out of order. Nanning, where they stayed for
These were listed as Kansu, is only the Soviet Union which
want for the next five years. The
should be halt to nationalisa Major-General Claire L. Chen- regi battle is between the Labour twe
However, due to good weather about a fortnight and on January Szechuan, Hupeh, Hunan, Fukien,–
national
hoaded by were named as defendants.
destination, no attempt was made tor boat and en foot they arrived
the guerillas The third-
In Kwangtung, "parties to the
Aluee "Delions
Nan!ng... .ot Dr. Jessup denied suggestion
the last Parliament, has ruled the tional Liberal, 10 National Liber zary for the Socialists to under-
Later other technical trouble Their first place of detention at were said to be increasingly ac- that the United States was the of the airlines, who were repre-
we to some, what management country for five years and Mr.al and Conservative, 12 Ulster take to suspend indefinitely the developed and also due to short- the city was the officers hostel tive and successful in the Eest tercitckt in securing bases in sented by Mr. Eldon Potter, KC, Winston Churchill's Conservative Unionists, and one Unionist, Na-iron and steel met when Nepal and Kashmir in further supported by
General Lin Fino's Fourth River area. age of fuel, the aircraft was fore- of asked for Laboral support, Mr. Percy Chen Party which held 201 seats last tional Liberal).
Group, ance of her foreign policy and Mr. B. A. Bernacchi and Mr. A.
Lime.
Other Parties: Liberals 473, party added.
a sand bank hear Poillu-hsien, The hostal that with regard to Kashmir she J. Clifford, 'Instructed by Mr. A. The main parties-and what Communists 100. Independents 7, was exorcising pressure on any E. K. Lau and Mr. G. S. Ford, they promise—are:
province.
of the
by the
candi- Anil-Government: 619 dates (851 Conservative, 10 Con- sorvative and Liberal, 17 Con- servative and National Liberal, Independent Conservative,
J
tion
amerga
(tha' statement said.
tory.
ont
rapidly.
The guerillas, it is claimed, were striking` with greater force and effectiveness in seven pro vinces.
Mr. Clement seven Liberal and Conservative, your lount the next nivo reported in Kunming, the plane's] 4, after having travelled by mo- Kiangs! and Kwanglung. has refused to agree to any inter-nault and Mr. Whiting Willauer Party which, with 390 seats in Ave-Liberal Unionist four Na- Therefore it would be neces-to return the plane.to Kal.Tak.. The plan wich makes
government.
Mr. Leo d'Almada, KC, Mr.
"Expanding power" John McNelf), and Mr. D. A. L. Wright. on the instruction of
Any views, he said, which the Wilkinson and Grist, appeared for United States expressed in regard
CAT Inc.
Chennauit and Willauer were]
to the Kashmir case before the security Council were not in the represented by Mr. V. J. D. D'AI- nature of pressure upon any gov-ton instructed by Brutton ernment but were solely design-Company.
and
ed to assist the Council in the The applicants maintained that discharge of its preliminary func-the defendants legally bought the tron, namely, the maintenance of airlines from the Nationalist gov- International peace and security,
ernment before Britain's recogni-
they
its
Independent Labour Party 4, In the first voters at one booth were course of the land went to live at the hotel, to move to a, safe distance from
Secret Moscow deal
over Sinkiang reported
Dr. Jessup referred to "a single tion of the Peking Government Secret protocols, signed in Moscow between the
expanding power tall. h."
in ex-Chennault und Wlauer, they tending its
hold out claimed, In turn sold the proper- "glittering promises of Commun-iles to them. Ism" to peoples suffering from Sir Lealle in the course of his economic under-development. Judgment agid he was concerned The American alm in Europe with applications to appoint Mr. and the Far East, he said, was Hunt and Mr. Ross, chartered ac to support the independent de-countants, as joint receivers for velopment of peoples "which we the properties.
leaders of the Soviet Union and Chino's now People's Republic, have made Sinkiang an in- dependent State, according to the afternoon vernacular New Life Evening Post” yester- day.
is to start *** in
By midday, more than one tenth of the voters in her ares of Spitalfields had already voted.
the
1
While at Nanning, they
Were
The Air Force, meanwhile, to- ported yet another assault on the power plant at Nanking-Asso- ciated Press.
PHILCO
Advanced Design
cubic foot Refrigerator on Display at Gilman's - in the Gloucester Arcade--wit host of other exciting PHILCO Models!
the led to make a forced landing, on/ Field Army was formerly a hotel The Air Force renewed in the North Somerset Division, about 180 West of Nanning in called Kingsan Hotel. Since the warnings to the people of Canton university students in running
two" guards, one' armed with a military objectives... shorts. They sprinted to the polling no one was injured, and the carbine another with a rifle, were It said the Canton power plant from their hostel
aircraft suffered minor damagal posted in the hotel. Mrs. Ann Garner, who will to its propellers and wings.
would be attacked be 100 in May, walked to and Within from the polling station in her landed," Mr. Chang
20 minutes after, we oficially told by the Communists
said, " district of Leicester.
"a band that they had become prisoners, of Communlet
guerillas ap- London's East End, a working
(Continued On-Page 2) class district, polled in gala fasb-
proached
From Feliu, the Communists ton, with almost; a holiday at-
took mosphere around each polling about 150 miles West of Nanning, party to Yuehling-hsien, booth and party colours, pre together with some 1,000 Chinese dominantly labour, were every Communist guerlilar where:
"Auntie Leah" as Mrs. Langley, and except for Captain McGovern, The trip took about two days a Labour Party canvasser of long the party had to walk through- standing" is known, there, zuid: "In all my 30 years of election out the entire trip. Even Birs. campaigning, have never seen James Liu who Russian-born wife of a Central Air Transporte- such a good poll”
tion Corporation employer, bad to walk with her infant daughter in her arms. *** "Captain. McGovern walked for about 10 miles,” the radio oparator" sald but he Inter broke down and the Com- muniata gave him a horse.” At Yichling, the party was in which is to develop the stabili-on a number of grounds.
terrogated by a Communist polf-
Referring to the facts
The source said that the secret pendent Outer Mongolia). The aliver horse shon and his party munist regular, to interview of the The United States Would like Chief Justice recalled that the air mic and political agreements. In ment with the Communist overall healed his hat to on
on.
the CNAC matter, the protocols Include military, co-pack states that this is in agres colours Lod on his car party.
Standing by car in to help the peoples of Asia," he line was incorporated in China the military pack, the Soviet the policy of supporting the old woman who turned to her
Indo- undertake
the training of the less that help was wanted.--Reu- tion enterprise in pursuance
pendence movements of the pe companion and said: What Liberation Armies plo
Bald that both client
The secret political agreement nice man, I wonder who he le?!! and made between the the new
'new' Chinesa Wilnistry of Communications of the Soviet Union realise that al under an obligation to consult the street know him waved and the Nationalist government and though Chinn has a huge lightia Soviet Union before adopting and Pan-American Airways Corpora- force; it cannot cope with modern Bursuing new political poiteles, tion
warfare tactics in the event of an
at midday palling was fairly. Paga -After) mentioning the
MAMMA'international conalet."ANNIA Bal Soviet denial
heavy, particularly in the cities, Correspondanos. tot Memorandum and Articles of in view of this, 11-has been|ANAKAKA
A presiding oficer at one poll- PARA
Dairy, Parm Arbitratión; As Good Grip
sodation governing CNAC, Bir agreed that Rumia should under Meanwhile, a United Pres de ing station at a town in Scotland
lie went on to say that the take the training of the Chinees has the New Times Magaalise after he find started to work
spatch from Monoow; reported collapsed and died ten mintiles 19 dominate pen, BD Cola and the corporation naturally felt the in- forcon
ly yesterday categorically denied the United Press and Reuter Today's Foot Moderate wind part of the civil war in China Former Nationalists foenign Pros curcuations that octogena BASEN A slouds, lapene, breaks during the 1849, Shanshandelt had alad: baan agreed, weld there wer
[tui en..., by: Mào Tse-tung's" forces and on October 15:194), the Cen
ths Informant, that the thitial Bolet Chinese Friendship Treaty tral Poopley Government was
stage of military, training Je to proclaimed as the Government
|0%involve only formen:Nasionallet
gee
**Facts of casa ·
The independent newspaper natural resources. The exploite attributed its source of in-tion programme formation to a senior member Hope, and gradually embrace That "nice man”. "Communism is hostile to what ed to the appointment
The present defendants censent of the national clique of the Central China and South China.
of the Chinese Communist Party who the Aslan people want to do and
joint receivers, but the
alam" this expanding |
the
The Important featute the During his tour this morning declaration · of the
of his constituency, the. Prinë of Sinklang (similar to the
`third | povealed the essence of tho. al. secret political indepen Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, had [tical Commissar, the first : -Com-
we want to help them to do parties opposed the appointment laged secret pacis.
what
ty
of their new countrlos and
develop their resources,
of an
Bald but did not wish to do so in- Ion July: 80, 1947, as a civil avian informe covórument and also places: Communist Chino But most of the others in the
tor.
The Weather:
anti-syekhe centred over the Yellow Bee
adjacent penale
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Tarkent dated:" December (21,}
of
5 troops) who: althar: surrendered.
Bin' battle or defected; and
Assist ** Live control or the whole Chinese
mainland with no exception of MTHYLE five' proviniek, 7 slick, Off
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and
shouted Good Luck
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