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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1946,
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SIR DENIS BOYD IN N CHINA
NEW MOVE TO END CHINA'S CIVIL WAR
Third Party Mediators' Compromise Formula
Gap Between Nationalist And. Communist Terms Too Wide
́Shanghai, Oct. 22 (UP):~Third Party members now in Nanking are trying to persuade the Govern- ment and the Communists to put aside · their respective demands and find a solution on the basis of the set of four principles which third party mem- bera formulated prior to their Nanking trip, it was learned to-day.
The four principles are (1) Conditional issuance of cease-fire orders; (2) cessation of hostilities on all fronts lo be arranged locally; (3) formation of truce teams by members of the Political Consultative Council to supervise and arrange ≈ truce; (4) when the question of reorganisation of the government is solved in principle, all parties to participate in the government as well as the National Assembly.
Third party mediators con- sider the gap between the Gov- crrment and Communist terms at present too wide apart and fear that talks on those bases would be hopefoss and. long drawn out, while there will be danger of renewed nationwide civil war.
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Sources close to third party leaders Indicated "that the four-polat com- promise plan was studied at rester day's preliminary, talks when thirậ party members met Government officials in Nanking.
Meanwhile the Nationalist troops lified: the C
(Communist slege of Sinio, 50 miles sou
south of Proting, while the Nationalists inside the encircled Ho- pel provincial capital were sallying out to counter-attack the Communists in co-ordination with Gen Sun Lien
chung's reinforcements, moving down from Pelping, the Hsin Min Pao re- ported to-day.
Six Caches
Of
Greek Cabinet
Members Hand In Resignations
Athens, Oct 21.-All members of the Greek Government to-day hunded their resignations to the Prime Minister Constantin Taal- daris to enable him to negotiate with leaders of the Parliamen- tary Opposition for an eventual broadening of the Cabinet.
Maldaris was expecting the return from Paris of Mr Venizelos, the leader of the Liberal Republican party, to inflate conversations. Mr Venizelos was a member of the Prime Minister's delegation to the pesse conference.
Meanwhile, another Reuter report from Athens states that gendarmea opened fire with machine-guns, rifles and tommy-guns in a fierce nine- hour battle against "mountain rebela" at Vrontu, a village at the
YORK TRANSPORT PLANE CRASH
German Arms casualties which occurred when a
Discovered
London, Oct. 21--A list of the
York aircraft of the RAF Transport Command crashed yesterday shortly after taking off from Dum Dum, Calcutta, was issued by the Air Ministry to-night. The passengers killed were: Group Captain G. H. Foss. S/dr. the Rev. 1, WM. S/Ldr the Rev. A. J.
F/Lieut
Stuttgart, Oct 21 (UP)- Taylor, Army officials revealed to-day Hepburn. Passengers seriously in- that six buried caches of German Jured: W/Cdr W. E. Hall, munitions were discovered on R. A. Farley. The next of kin haye Friday and Saturday in Bavaria been informed. Three other passen-
gers and four members of the crew! and Wuerttemberg-Baden only were slightly injured and four a few hours before the three passengers and two members of the mysterious bomb blasts rocked crew escaped injury-Reuter. Stuttgart and the vicinity...
Vice Admiral Sir Donis Boyd, Commander-in-Chief, British Pacific Fleet, greeting Admiral Kwei Yung-ching, Deputy Commander of the Chinese Navy, on the flagship HMS Belfast at Nanking during his recent tour of Chinesć and Japanese ports.-Official Navy Picture, -
PART OF CEYLON DEFENCE ARMY CALLED OUT
* Colombo, Oct. 21-(UP),—The Acting Governor, Sir John Howard issued a special proclamation to-day calling out a part of the "defence army as a precaution in view of the grave situation resulting from strikes,! Stones and bottles are being to-day and emergency labour forcés A thrown at buses and the tele-have been pressed into service to bury
the dead; phone circuits are reported cut in the provincial area.
The material in the caches included foot of Mount Olympus yesterday,
to carbines, machine-guns, according A German
reports reaching Observers believe that the Govern- barrels and hand-grenades, bayonole, Athens. The rebels, who are said ment is making supreme efforts to recover all lost areas before the is anti-tank bazookas and thousands of to have lost 22 killed and over 50 wounded, withdrew when they realise suarice of the can fire order which rounds of carbine ammunition,
they wore being outfought, is expected shortly. The Commun The authorities sald most of the ists in the Paoting area are said to enches were found near Ulm and Col Tsatalos, commander of the The gendarmes, commanded by. be retreating toward Moncheng, 11 New Ulm
the Bavarian Macedonian gendarmerie, lost Ave miles north-west of Paoting, while Wuerttemberg-Baden border about killed and eleven wounded, it was heavy fighting is reported in Tsaoho, 40 miles east of Stuttgart.
reported. The fighting was describ- north of Paoting.
ed as "heavy.", in the centre The French informer, who a
The general labour situation con- tinues
grave us steel-helmeted soldiers line the city's streets and Grave-diggers aro the workers.to strike. They ceased work I strategle points.
latest patrol from guard posts established at
American Airline Govt Defeated In Lords On Health
Ge Communists North Kiangsu, poc-prisoner of the Germans, and had five Greek soldiers were killed Pilots Strike For
and five wounded when arted men
ket was reported to be continuing been forced to help bury the weapons ambushed a Greek Army regiment unabated with the Nationallats ap-in April and May, 1945, during the parently attempting to capture more Wehrmacht retreat to the Bavarian on the road between Salonika and
Kalkadike in Southern Macedonia Communist bases before peace talks redoubt, personally led counter.
Reuter, Intelligence were resumed.
agents and public. Latest reports said the Nationalists safety officials to the six caches,
Arms-Carrying Penalty captured. Fuan, 13 miles south of He named soron caches he claimed Tungtal, while another Nationalist he had helped bury, but one pla Justice, Mr Hatzipanos has drafted a Athens, Oct. 20-The Minister of
miles north-west of Tungal. Heavy that some unkown persons those found in possession of British casunities were reported on both already removed the burled arms military equipment and for those aides.
However, the investigators were buying, selling or accepting such Nationalist Successes Nanking, Oct. 21-Government it had beca since the weapons had
unable to ascertain Just how long equipment-Reater. troops recovered the north-western
been removed. Honan town of Taiyuan this morning from the Communists, states a report reaching here to-night. Taiyuan is Co miles north-west of Chengchow.
:
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Higher Wages
Washington, Oct. 21-About
Bill Clauses
Reservations Tel: 27880
TUC Leader Calls For Revision Of Trade Union Practices
UNAUTHORISED STRIKES CONDEMNED
Brighton, Oct. 21-Mr Charles Dukes, General Secretary of the powerful General Municipal Workers Union and this year's President of the Trade Union Congress, made British trade union history to-day with his presidential address delivered to 800 delegates of 192 unions in the opening session of the Congress here.
For the first time, a president of the Trade Union Congress called on the movement to take activo responsibility for industrini efficiency, to use the opportunity now glyen to develop workers' participation in the conduct of industry, to adopt its wages polley in negotiating methods to new conditions and to re-consider restrictive trade union practices, which had been adopted in a different age when the fear of unemployment was still paramount. His views were given added
weight by the manner in which Impossible To
they were received by the Con-
gress. •
Even if it is realised that there may still be opposition when resolu- Mons about productivity and workers' participation in the conduct of in- dustry, are Introduced, there is no doubt that Mr Dukes address will have a favourable reaction,
Lift
Singapore Moratorium
On the "closed shop die, too, London, Oct. 21,-"It is not the President took a f A:o Une, possible to lift the moratorium, defending the right of ery union said Mr Creech Jones, Colonial In initiate a hundred per cent or-
the House of
ganisation in every workshop, where Secretary In
It is strong enough, but deprecating Commons, during his reply to de idea of forcing rival unions out Sir Waldron Smithers, (Cons.) of business by what he called "head- who nsked the Colonial on collision.
In one vital passage, Mr Dukes Secretary if he would take steps. sald: Traditional trade union prac- Bo that mortgagees in Singapore Deo constrained us to drive the hard can demand or recover mortgage es possible bargain with employers interest due since the Japanese and to impose niany restrictive ment
surrender sures to protect workers to secure continuity of employment, to lesser the evils of unemployment and pre vent unscrupulous exploitation of the most skilled and efficient worker against the lesser skilled.
Closer Association
Mr. Creech Jones said "The de mands for interest on mortgages. entered into prior to the date of
the liberation of Singapore cannot be enforced at present owing to the Moratorium and until legislation has Been enacted dealing with the valuation of transactions during i the period of Japanese occupation, some of which may have related to these mortgages. It is not possible
the Moratorium p
I suggest that in the new situation resulting from socialist legislation and closer association of unions with each problem of industrial management
The question of the Introduction the unions will have to reconsides
attitude towards many of these nt a legislation is at present under resirletive thots and practices, considerallon by Ute Governor, or We shall have to assume responsibl Singapore, but I will - nak him lity in connection with the control consider whether it would be desir and management of industry that we able or possible, meanwhile to lift have considered hitherto to be beyond the Moratorium la" cases where, no our province.”
nction was taken during the Jában. Ho sald managements that "try ese occupation which id any way to play off one union against another affected the particular - mortgages." and to encourage non-mionism are ... playing a dangerous game.""
Sir to asseren Refund
asked why i
A bigger problem, he said, was of the inability of Mr W. L. Burton. the existence of organimations outside a farmer civilan internee to return the filllations of the TUC, but to Singapore, further detalle or hebelloved that the jurisdictional which had been sent to him, paisage dimouities arising from this could money amounting to 2034 paid by ho solved hy patience and by indus. Mr Burton had not been retiaided to trial statesmanship without bead-Me Creech Toned replied that
London, Oct 21.-The Govern 1.100 Trans-world Airline pilots ment was defented twice to column was advancing on Anfeg. 21 to which he led the agents showed law providing life imprisonment for saying that this was the "last where the. Opposition have an/on collision between TUC unions, and
came out on strike to-day, night in the House of Lords
non-affiliated unions.EATUR
there was clearly, some misunder resource for settling a year-old overwhelming majority. Defeats wage dispute.
He condemned unauthorised standing since the um montloned occurred on the committee stage strikes and conflicts arising out of Burton's former employers – on the
had already been refunded to
Ar of the National Health Bill, inter-union relations, and told dele understanding that they hadTM Their Union spokesman predicted which, among other things, puts retas that every responsible, trade wider tant, with a passage ha a complete paralysis on boom for all hospitals under State owner unlon official and loyal momber and domestic lines of the company.
Informed British aviation observers ship.
should be able to see the danger, am taking up the matter with the Governor of Sintrupore with, a "There have been exunuating cirview to clearing 1 up Mr Crotch 503
there is little. [ Likelihood of British trans-Atlantic In the Bill's passage through the cumstances in some cases but no Jones addes pilots coming out on strike in House of Commons the Conservatives extenuation Justified the deliberate Mr. Evelyn Walkden, calling for a with their American had crucised arrangements for the Incitement of bodies of workers to statement about shipping delays att
thanogement of hospitals, and to-night break union rules. colleagues.
in the House of Lords they carried He called for renewal of the war Associa⚫ two amendments against the Govern effort. In solving the post-war prof
British
ment,
Arst by
and doction and employment problems. for second by 25 to 15. The amendments Ho complained that Britain was not
as voies to 17 and tere seek to make a Hospital Management making full use of its productivo Committee under the State scheme fortes and declared that full employ, Hable in certain circumstances to be mant of x-servicemen and women
Link With Explosions- Whether these caches, supposedly The report added that the Com-buried for sabotage or resistance, munists who were attacking Ting-had any connection with the three hrten, 80 miles north-east of Cheng-bombings, in Stuttgart in and nearby chow, have been Hung back with Backnang on Saturday night in heavy losses, in men and equipment which two Do-Nazification courts and were retreating towards the and the Stuttgart Provost Marshal's southern Shanal border.
office were bombed the officials could not say.
Among
in
London
Churchesympathy
To Be Restored
1
UNRRA Embargo
On Shipments To
The British Airline Pil tion has approached Overseas Always Corpory Pushing further north-west after
further increases in pay, t occupying Chihfeng, 170 kilometres Stuttgart oficials did not know
f stated to be no question north-east of Chengtch, Government exactly what the four caches Inside
London, Oct. 21 (UP)--The strike.. troops were last night reported in Bavaria contained; but stated the side Fushan, 50 klomatres north-east contents of the two caches found Just Bishop of London's Commission It is stated in Washingtonfused and also to have certain powers would ald materially, in ending the of Chengtch.
Inside
Wuerttemberg-Baden to-night recommended that 11 American airline pilots are demandath services in the London aren problem of shoringes, that beset Milliary reports received here to border, ese included soven car bomb-blitzed, churches in the ding 23,800 yearly for men aying with at Britain at every turn.
20 hours weekly in four-engined night disclose Government's recovery bines,
The Government will now have to machine-gun barrels, City be restored and the sites blancs,
________The "Revolation" _*____*__ from the Communists of Fuancheng 24 live hand-grenades, five bayonets of five others sold to finance the
consider whether they will compro- uid Hsingcho, 65 and 60 idiometres two live bazookas and 1,300 rounds
mise on points or not-Relifer Lord Citrine, better known as Sir Waller Citrine and ! for nearly 25 respectively north-east of Nanking of carbine ammunition. All the projects
years General Secretary of the Trade Union Congress, told the conference The
and
·edst
the
These
two
4
China Eased
Washington, Oct. 21 (UP)
Director General of
At the moment the highest paid trans-Atlantic.pilots on British Chingkungcheng and Shunfio su, 87 weapons were German and were Bishop J. W. C. Wand said the Overseas Airways get £2,750
Year. | 85 kilometres respectively, north-fairly well preserved.
final report would not be carried out Besides these pay rates, which would jobs, while power supplies in the Cap Nanking:
the Grand "Although not now they could probably for two years, presumably be increased Taste Corporation area rose as the 25-day-old walk-out that a revolution has taken place in UNRRA Mr Florallo
botten have been put, Into, action after because of the widespread demands Receded to the latest request from was called off. The company but British thinking on workers rights Guardia, announced that due Reg southward from Koopeltien a half hour's cleaning, one officer that first priority in manpower and the pilots uniou, the men hava on double slifts in order to restore to consultation and participation slong the northern section of the Felplay Hankow Railway) : Govern sald
enables
them to rotirea
... persons in the 817 square mile area. The revolution, he bald, had been the rate of distribution of sup ment: troops fought, their way into Prasumably the four hidden horden Britain's homeless familichomes for substantial pension scheme, which normal supplies to the 1,500,000 the conduct of industry to the great Improvement
in Bavaria were at least is large The Commission rejected a plan to TWA has announced the cancella-day-old. Columb prospect after Lord Citrine, who resigned his post to China has been he
M Indefute continuation for the 21- ullent, but some day the full simplies from China's ports, the the railway town of Tingbing and if not larger.
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street-car seance of ft will be
present embargoon understood. leave open spaces, which many morningTinghing, is just.
Jus. 35 miles
Skymaster pilots are asking for the Columbus and;
TAL New
where negotiations
materiais
on Saturday night in used for city parks.
completed its occupation; by this Investigation shows that boat - organisations had hoped would betion of all fights, adds United Press. tie-up; appeared in prospeOhio as TUC General Secretary to becordance to the extent of i north-east of Puoting,RESULTAT Backnang, cene of the first. The report said the sites: must be $1,197, Instead of Dio present $758+ Increase recommended by the Riva-nationalised cont industry, spoke with sailings, on call from
Ten miles north-west of Tinghing
ion de wck sido at the railway, Gov. bothing, agamali fire, mysteriously sold to finance restoration work and were more up the issue to prbitration,kitan Meie to be almost of the verge of, tears. !ernment troops have recovered Lef” broke out in an unheated schoolhòulb | the building of new doch Nested In 1.45
shule-Central, News,
Southern Electric Company rejected the wage a member of the Board running the the collapse man citizens committee. The deep emotion and at times appeared accordance with the cap
la- company, however, offered, to submit
ports of destination in dangamba funt, across, the street from the local Among the churches,
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shipping, union
mazs Industrial sphere of organised work All evilfable men were called in to in the Cheapside district. According agreement between spelersch At Springfield, linol
picketing demonstration around the Ferd is now not unchallenged extinguish the fire
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Government conciliator reported the
was unchallengeable." Heisald Sangamon But, during the
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