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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1950.
CHINA'S FOOD OUTLOOK BAD The Aquitania
Seven million people starving, Reds say
UNDERGROUND ACTIVE
San Francisco, March 7.
The Communist Chinese Vice-Premier, Tung Pi-wu, painted a grim picture of China's food situation today in which he said, 7,000,000 people were starving and the country was facing four more lean months before the first harvest in June.
A Peking broadcast said that Tung, speaking before the Central Relief Commission, admitted that the people were eating "wild vegetables"
a Chinese euphemism for leaves, grass and similar inedibles...
Report on
HK denied
Assertions by the Interna tional Committee for Study of European Affairs that Hong Kong is a training centre for Communist agents are com pletely un
unfounded. A Government spokesman, commenting on the Commit. tee's report (published in Monday's issue of the "China Mall"), said that the state- ments referring to Hong Kong are groundless.
The Committee' report
that Hong clalmad
Kong is the training ground for Com-
destined acants munlat create havec in Southern
Asia.
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It added that the Supreme Communist Council, composed
of alx National Committees for activities in Indo-Chlea, Diam, Burma, Malaya, In- donesia and the Philippines, has its scat in Hong Kong. Each of the aix committkos, it Was claimed, Included directing membaca,***
five
British jet motor car
Ho blasted the "bureaucratic tendency" of Com- munist workers and charged that they were sympathetic to the people's plight but word marely following the rule book.
Tung said there were 7,000,- 000 "emergency cases" requir- ing immediate relief. Presum- ably several times that num- ber were on a semi-storvation diet, but he did not mention it.
In Washington, meanwhile the Chinese Ambassador, Wellington Koo, today said that peasants In Cheklang,
Hunan, Shantung.
Provinces Kwange! and Konsu were in revolt and Communist tox collectors must have armed guards] accompanying them.
This, he said, was because the were taking the Communists. farmers' entire grain
crops as Inxes. He claimed pitched battles were fought between embattled] farmers and Communist troops who were called out to assist in the collection of taxes.
Dr. Koo snid the Secretary of Stato, Mr. Dean Acheson, un- doubtedly was partially correct when lo sad the Soviet Union was seeking to detach Northern
China. He said "The Soviet Union
has a definite programme mapped out for the domination of the world and while the Democratic nationa of the East and West are disunited the Communists in Europe and Asia are working to rule the world."
reported Dissatisfaction
Birmingham, March 7.
The Ambassador said the The Rover Car Company re-United States CAR. SUVE Asia fused today to elaborate on with far less than is needed in Europe because there reports it had developed a 100- Western
Asiaa reservoir---of h.p. jet-propelled car which foun would be ready. for demon humanity which is increasingly dissatisfied with Communist rule stration later this week.
and thus a great asset on the Rover officials said the reports side of the cause of freedom.
stemmed circulated in Londen from the "bureau of confidence" and, that the "whole thing was embellished."!
car
was
Mr. R. S. Mills, public relations counsel for Rover, and the jet In the experimental process and "would definitely be tried out some time but we cannot say when."
Mr. Mills refused to say how experimental model was to actual road tests.
closo
the
The company imposed on in- dustrial censorship equal only to that of the Detrlot motor
A report from' Talseh' quotes independent 'reports from Red. held China which tell of tha increasing troubles facing the Communist administration.
Singapore grenade incident
Singapore, March 7,
goes home
The 36-year-old 48,000-ton Iher Aquita-sta,' terț' en 'aman
four funnellers seen as she passed Into the Garelosh through the.' Narrowe at Rhui on the fret two miles of her journey ta’kävlang and the Clydebank shipbreakers. The Aquitania, witich
liner. steamed 3.000,000 miles as a luxury
Armed merchant crulaer, hospital ship, and trooper has returned to her birth- place, the Clyde, to be brokin up. (AP Photo).
French President
An unknown person this morning hurled a Mills hand- grenade through the open win- dow of the Chinese newspaper. the "Chung Shing Jit Poo," a Kuomintang organ, in Robin- a few doors from on Road Reuter's office.
Someone inside the newspaper office threw the grenade out again, where it lay on the road unox-The ploded.
arrives in UK for brief visit
London, March 7,
Vincent Auriol, President of the French Re-
public, and Madame Auriol arrived at Vice şi foria Station, London, this aftemoon to start their three-day State visit to Britain.": King, in naval uniform, with the Queen, step- ped forward and shook the French President warmly by the hand as he stepped from the Royal train..
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P.I. CONSULATE SUSPENDS VISAS TO CHINESE
The Philippine Consulate in Hong Kong yesterday
-suspended issuance of all visas to Chineso...... going to the Philippines panding clarification of the situation arising from allegations that the Consulate here has been issuing. un- authorised permits.
Senor Jose V. Rodriguez, the Consul-General, reached this decision despite receipt yester- day morning of two telegrams from Manila authorising him to issue about 10 visas to local Chinese applicants.
In so doing he exorcised his right as the official on the spot to bypass instructions from the Bureau of Immigration.
In effect the Consul Gen-It-la-also untrue-to-suggest-that- eral's action imposes a virtual transit visas through Manila for paralysis on all movement of there are no sea, or air connet- Bangkok are worthless because Chinese to the Philippines. tions between the Philippines and from Hong Kong even though Stam, he continued. the Bureau of Immigration, a
Good news for Higher body, has sanctioned fare he granted trassit visas he
Japanese war criminals
Senor Rodriguez said that bo
that invariably made sure certain cases.
appli- The Consular decision brought cants, had bought their air or to a new pitch the thorny issue steamship tickets for the journey of visos for Chinese
from Manila to Bangkok. Ap- nationals going to the Philippines, which plicants must produce documen certain Manila papors have been tary proof of such purchases, he
added. playing up recently.
Bonor Neri's As evidence of It camo, a few hours after Tokyo, March 0. General Douglas MacArthur despatches from Manila said that lack of information on the sub- that the Under-Secretary of Foreign Jeet, the Consui-General said. today made' all Japanese war
Affairs; Senor Felino Nerl, had the Dutch airline KLM maintains. criminals in Japan, including cabled Senor Rodriguez demanda Manlia Bangkok service, an those convicted at the Tojo ing an explanation for the con- the Royal Interocean Lines main- trial, eligible for parole. tinued arrival of Chinese with tains a steamship service, Accord- Philippine transit visas to Bangingly, the statement that there One of the first to benefit may kok
are no connecting services be- be one-legged Mamoru Shige- Senor Neri denounced the in-tween Manila, and Bangkok is for mitsu, wartime foreign minister suance of such transit visas on from correct.
that ho had pre- whs, signed the surrender forms the grounds
Up to Manila
munity in the Philip Mancarences do potocest
on the battleship Missouri. Shige-elously issued orders to the Con- who received credit for sulate here to stop granting any mitsu pre-conviction Internment, has such or any other type of visa Senor Rodriguez said that ho served four and a half
to tho cannot be blamed i Chinese on years permitting Chinese to of his.. seven-year sontened in Philippines.
transit visas invariably, disappear Senor Neri Tokyo's Sugamo Prison.
the despatches Into the Chinese community In The announcement sald three-added, said that Chinese getting the Philippines. It is up to the The police cordoned off the road,
man occupation parole board hat to Manila on transit visas for authorities in Manila to exercise tiverted trame and members of
been sit up to pass oh applienats Bangkok almost invariably dis, more, care to so that such dis- the Royal Amy Ordinance Cucoz
who must have served one third appear into the
Senior Rodriguez took the grenade away. The polita
really Their are investigating today, Chin After shaking hands with the specially prepared Royal life
alleged that "there", is no agitated over the course of events to deserve parole also
emergence of At mid-morning today,
transportation, by either ship or and deplored and consideration.
In Philippine youth of about 20 years of age the King and Queen, President waliing room. The King
turned to Princess Queen chatted with M. und General MacArthur's legal chief, plane from Manila to Bangkok domestic entered the compositing room on Auriol
Alve C.
which does not touch at Hon Consular affalem, Carpenter, wald the second Boor of the "Chung Elizabeth and talked to her Madame Auriol in fluent French: Mr."
Kong, en route.
a statement to the Press on Shing Jit Pao" building, had an for a short while. The Prin-
Commenting on Benos Noria Monday he announced, his will- The moment the Arromanches, Shigemitsu is eligible and has
statement, altercation with te start there cess nodded vigorously in reply vessel which brought the visitors been in all ways a model prisoner
Rodriguez Ingness to submit to Scnate He has not yet submitted his
branded as he ran to the President's remarks. to Dover, docked the Duke of
ridioŭtous. went aboard and in parole application, howover. The King then led the President Goucester
Several hundred minor war The grenade lodged on a land-over to the waiting group of no- the name of the King and Queencriminals are now oilgible or will Ing. As the compositors scattered, tional leaders to introduce him. welcomed the President to Eng- become eligible within the next A young office boy, not realising The Queen, with Madame Auriolland's shores. the clunger, grabbed the grenade of her aldo, followed smilingly as and threw it out on the road, the Prime Minister, Mr. Clement where a chauffetin of a parked cir. Aillec, and the other distinguish kicked it to the side of the road. ed company, greeted the Presi-
Fortunately for all concerned, dental party.
After the reception the Royal the grenade-hart-a-dud detonator.
Reuter.
and threw a grenade
auit.
Then President Auriol, and Madame Auriol came to the ear- petes gangway to step on to the quayside at Dover. The President then walked slowly to the presi
for him at Marine Station,
way he paused for On the moment to wave to the crowd which were the first to send out
party and their guests went into dentis? train the quay.
CAT to appeal against Supreme Court decision
A Canton report said that In-Officials of General Claire Chennault's Civil Ail
creasing numbers of Nationalist
underground workers were ap- pouring in the city making anli- Communist speeches and chalk- in anti-Red slogans on walls and
streets.
Transport yesterday ordered their solicitors.to appeal against the Supreme Court decision, which turned 71 CNAC and CATC planes and assets over to the Chinese Communists:- official said yesterday that notice of appeal
will probably be submitted this morning. It is not possible now to Shenghial Bank. This transaction. apply for any injunction on themeluded late last week...
The remaining US$10,000 was planes or assets, pending the less, gearless, 100 h.p. vehicle
of CNAC under the Natiohällst with a gas turbine engine.
A private dispatch from Hoi- outcome of CAT's latest legal aid to have been paid to creditors Reports said "The Whizzer how, capital of Hainan Island, action.
njanagement.. was based on the jet engine said Nationalist planes and coast. | General Chennault has made it developed by Sir Frank Whiltle, al guns sank 13 Red junks carry clear that he intends to take the world pioneer in jet propulsion. ing reinforcements and supplies case to the Privy Council, if legal The engine, these reports sald, to Red guerillas holed up in the action in Hong Kong falls to give is threofeet long, 18 inches mountains of the Island. The hit possession of the CNAC pro- wide and runs on a diet of guerillas were reported to be perty, which he claims he pur- suffering heavily from shortage is understood that the appeùl Rover officials who built King of supplies and ammunition as a George's "Shooting brake," said they could give no further details result of the Nationalist mopping- will be heard by the remaining up campaignUnited Press. Supreme Court judges who have or Information,
not yet passed decisions, on the ownership of the property
The Red currency was reported An manufacturer guarding the secret to be continuing its inflationary of a new model.
Reports
In Landon said the phat and reports from Shang- bai said 52 banks have closed) jet car with an engine known' as "The Whizzer", was a clutch-because of the heavy tax and little
business.
keruseho."
Rover now makes the Standard conventional semi-sporis con best. which is one of Britain'sgə
vehicles in the middia price Correspondence
-range--United Prem,
THE WEATHER
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The continental' Anthofclook: dominates
transactions
with Japan
"Tokyo, March 7,
chased.
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SIAMESE CONSULATE DENIAL
the greetings of the British peels to the President of the Frene Republie.
M. Aurfol and la party, then entered the train three minutes before it was due to leave.
Address of Honour
wa'
10
*An addresa - of honour presented by the Mayor Dover to the President on hit arrival, "We welcome Your Ex cellency not only as the Pro- ́aldent of the great Repubilo of
few months.
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Benor
absurd, and investigation of his Consulate's organisation, and vigorously re-
·
Bureau's order
futed nowspaper allegations that
ing
encouraging
Mr. George T, Hagan, said these telegram which he received from Cabinet is trying to restrich. :
him to exercise his own
and Yokohama now serving out gration in the matter `of⋅ trans, Į make him the butt of their on-
he had issued unauthorised land-
permits, thereby He showed a representative of the malgration of Chinese to the the "China Mall" a
ch the Quirino copy of a Philippines which The parole board · chairman,,
Defending himself
what the Bureau of Immigration a few would include war criminal weeks ago, ordering him to sus-be described as unscrupulous po Cried' by Chinese and Dutch, andi
pend issuance of permanent visas Liticians, who are exerting every Allied military commissions in Chinese contemplating ros effort to embarrass him, the Con-- Guam, Manila, Bhanghai, Tokyo dence in the Philippines, but Sheral: said, that certain in- factions have decided to their terms in Japan,
slaught
directed at the Manila The other two beard member ents are Mr. Murray Gray and Mer was acting within the scope of are expressing their dissatisfac
this," he explained, administration as a whole. They Robert H. Neptune.
by not suspend-lon over the results of the recent Mr. Carpenter said Generating the issuance of transit visas elections by embarrassing the ad- MacArthur's Bellon conformed to
Chinese applying for them ministration's with accepted penal practicer with legitimate reasons."
abroad, he claimed. throughout the democratic world. Senor Neri has no justification "I have faithfully carried out and "would contribute Immensur- for denouncing such vlaas be my instructions," Senor Rodri ably to the rehabilitation of war cause no order has reached Hong guez said. "The charges fald criminals for productive life in Kong demanding their suspen-against me dry groundless, unfair, Japán." United Press,
sion, he said.
WESTERLING TO
France, but as the man who FACE COURT TODAY
from the beginning played wo gallant a role in the resistshoe. ¡to our common enemy,
Singaporo, March 7.
Paul Westerling, leader of o "Twice in the last four decades querilla army in Indonésia, wil the people of France and Great be brought before the district on charges Britain have made common cause court here tomorrow in the defence of freedom and of illegal entry and assault, police
officers, announced, today, civilisation
we of Dover. Since
Westerling was arrested here on lle nearest to you and shared
26 with so many young in France February
the gun, power DL",the coinmon, entry. 19llow charges of illegal
enemy we are animated to an es- Indonesia, pecial degree, by the sympathy
whose destinies you preside
tha
his flight from
On Other. Pages
Last month, the former Dutch and admiration folt by our fellow army caplain captured the In- The Siamese Consulate in countrymen for the courage and donesian city of Bandoeng with Hong Kong yesterday official-realience of heart and age-old his robel force United Press.
culture of the great people over ly denied reports that exorbit Only six airworthy ant rates are being charged The President, replying sniði Of the 71 plants now owned by Chinese nationals for transit warm welcome touched him all CNAC and CATC under the direc- and ordinary visas to Bang the more truly because of his tion of the People's government; kok, Mar
duen emotion at finding himself in this noble town of Dover.”ga are reported to be aft- The Consulate said that the The ancient tradition of only worthy
rates for these visas are posted Four of the six are Convairs
in the Consular offices, and filendship which links our coast- Page 21 - IN other planes
most notably the Personalle.
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her with and spark plugs missing, and it against Chinese applicants, and town of Calais has been scaled Page doubtful, if the majority of the they are charged the same as for ever by the experience of planes could be
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brought together on a surge of paga the current
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China, the "Yellow Sandmores elga Exchange Board, Mr. airly towards the Chiha sa Nobutano Kiachi, told Press watherblone "dovalnatop the Pacīņa là thi ***Keynes Juded fi men yesterday at Osaka that
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