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Sinkiang's Future
Depends On Events
Of Next Few Months
By WALDO DRAKE
Tihwa, Sinklang, Nov. 9 (Delayed).
Out here in Central Asin, behind the snow-crowned Tien Shan mountains, Ching is making a brave struggle.. for her future security, against tremendous physical odds. which are being multiplied by constant political and econo- mic pressure from her powerful western neighbour,
Events of the next few months. I believe, are going to determine whether the rich natural resources of vast Sinklang Province (Chin est Turkestan) eventually will flow enstward to help prostrate China or westward to the Soviet industrial
colussies.
at
In the three captured north-west regions.
This agreement was inally almed on June B and became effective on July 1. It
carried the additional vital proviso that the Sinklang-So- viet border along the revolt regions of the Chinese Central Government. would be garrisoned only by troops Yet, to-day, a year after beginning of
peace negotiations, not a single watching the northern half of the Central Government solller Is Sino-Soviet frontier.
Sliklang to-day is balinerd the apex of a crisis which is the immédiate outgrowth of the hereto- fore mysterious, bloody Kuldja re- bellion of well-armed Muslim na-
in Kudjn, instead of the flag of tives which began in September the Chinese Republle, the Insurgent 1944,
and nelally ended on Jan Muslims are still flying a Star-and- uary 2, 1940, with the signing of a Crescent white banner, topped by treaty of peace at Thwn. Chinese the Turkish inscription "Fast Tur- Lutter
decisively were
defeated kestan People's Repubile."
Kuldja's in the uprising, ominus portents of
streets are Alled with revolutionary which to-day still hung over the pre- troops wearing the Star-and-Cres- carious future of Sinking as a procent insignia on their green uni- vince of China.
forms, In Kuldja's shops Soviet-
Fewing The revolt began in the 1 region, made clothing, candy and along the Sino-Soviet border, when machines outnumber similar Chinese America-made several Turkish
Viglar prisomers products. Itusstun escaped from gol at the hamlet transport planes of the Sing
Sino-Soviet Aviation Corporation operate fre- Ulastai. This set in motion the quently between Kuldja
and Alma long-smouldering revall,
which
Ata (modern metropedia 200
miles spread through Bu rlet the westward in Soviet Kazakh- north-west provinces of i, Torba gatat and Altal. The strategie borstan) above a highway coursed by
modern Soviet-made frisks. der rity of Kuldja (Ining), capital of the insurgent "govern- ment," fell on January 30, 1845 after an 87-day siege, followed by # massnere of thousands of Chinese residents.
Muslim Trio
NOW
The Sino-Uighur treaty is a mag- nanimous instrument for self-Gov- ernment by the people of Sinklang. It could well be on instrument for the democratisation of China Proper. It gives the people of this huge Central Asian province exceptional During the slege of Kuidja three privileges, Including the
right to native Muslim leaders assumed me 15 of 25 members of the pro- command of the campatan.
The vincial government
accords and sane trio Inst January, and again them freedom of speech and assem- en June 6 last, signed the
bly, minimun tuxation and unre- peace treaty with Sinklang's present ablestricted domestic and foreign trade, Governor, General Chang Chih-subject. to China's existing Treaties. Chung All three now jointly hold
both. In
key posts both,
kiang
the Chinese
oligarchernment and in the Te
They are, Akmet
Efforts Paralysed
The situation seems
to be that
Kazymov, brilliant 30-year-old Rus-China's efforts to secure north-west sian-educated Uighur, "Soul of the Sinking desperately-needed petro- Sinkiang People who is now vice-feum, coal, gold, tungsten, hides and Governor of
Rakhim Djanrain are being paralysed, in part, Muslim noitical leader, and
Hair insurgents to observe certain pro- Abdul Ture, stolid, aging Kazak, who ofis that Tilwa and all other sections viskons of the peace treaty. Result cially is General Chang's chief mu- gistrate in Insurgent-held fli.
of Chinese-held Stuktang are in the Ege of terrifle inflation and poverty, After the fall of Kuldja, the re- due to lack of industries and com- bellion gained new momentuin, fmmunications pelled by reinforcements which cluded modern artillery and bumbling gents, though, it must be emphasis- In Justice to the Kuldia Insur- planes sporting the rebel's star-and-
ed that the Central Government is crescent insignia. During the win-
if I probably equally responsible for ter campaign in the ley masses of Chinese Turkestan's deplorable eco- the Tien Shan, many hundreds of nomy, because of its failure to pro- Chinese soldiers froze to death, and
vine General Chang with the means detachments were decimated by na- live guerillas inured to the bitter repair essential highways and the financial assistance necessary to weather of the desert wastelands.
store friendly intercourse between Kulda and Tihwa.
Khodlney, 40 tighur chlet by procrastination of the
in-
The rebels, composed of an es- timated 30,000 Uighurs, Kazaks and Kalmuk Mongols, during the spring and summer of 1845 won control of Sinkiong's entire north-west to the Mongolian border. They still control all of this territory.
itself.
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Overtures Through Russians
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1946.
Boys and masters of the Edward Sholley Becondary School Walsall, are spending a period of their school term at
Youth Hostel on lovely Cleave HH, in the Cotswolde. Hore, high above the lovely Cotswolds, the boys study the surrounding area during a geography icon,
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Merchant Ships
May
Soon Have Radar
Soon, perhaps in a year or two, almost all merchant ships will have radar. Then there should be no more col- lisions at sea and, no more iceberg tragedies such as the Titantic sinking, reports United Press,
Radar, used successfully by Allied warships during the war,
YORKSHIRE NEWSLETTER
By B. C. Dunthorne
With local intereat focussed on Municipal elections in late Octo- ber the proposals of the Boon- dary Commission in respect of Parliamentary Divisions in the West Riding are not exciting so much interest as one might ex- pect,
Underneath the surface however they are causing a good deal of heart-burning to the offeinls of the political parties and in no less degree
to
titose staunch vdunteer who know everything there is to be known about their own districts.
The fact that only one seat will be lost-in Sheffield does not matter so much as the fact that the changes which the Commission pro- pose means disturbing connections which have grown up throughout the years of Parliamentary history.
The sentimental Interest which attaches to a place T
certain livision miny seem only a small thing, but to those concerned it is a matter of vital interest.
Shefeld's loss of one division is nothing to the feeling caused by the proposals to do away with the Pudsey and Olley, Elland, Rothwell and Span Valley division, and sub- alitute for them four now divisions, Brighouse, Goole, Harrogate, and a second at Huddersfield.
It seems almost certain that the Boundary Commission will have to
has now become available to the Obstruction Of U.S. hear a good many objections before
public. It is an eye that can see in darkness or fog.
It was a strange sight in the wheel house of a ship out in New York Harbour.
There was a man at the wheel, all right Once in a while he would change the ship's course; occasional-{ ly, he would give the vessel more speed; then slow it down.
And yet this mate did not scem to be watching what he was doing. He was nol. He won stening.
He could hear the voice of his Creme skipper. The instructions from just a few feet away. The captain was enclosed in п dark, screened-in room.
Occupation Plans In Japan
New York. Nov, 201, A Saturday Evening Post article the Japanese Communist Party to says that Russia is working through
render the Japanese islands useless to the United States in my future
war.
The correspondent, Mr Harold J. Noble, listed a four-point Japanese Communist programme:
Strike for every possible les- sening of Japanese economic скра- The skipper, Capt. William Grisp-city and destruction of industrial wold, was watching a magic gadget. strength: 2, obstruct the American It was radar. And this demonstra- occupation programme and tion showed radar, one of the wor's mine American prestige; 3, make the
Japanese Communist
Party and life.
under-
It makes its inal decision and pre- sents the necessary Bli to Pari- ment authorising the bringing about of the changes.
1
I have already heard comment that as far as Sheffield is concerned it means one more sent less to con lest, and one more certain gain for the Labour party. It is significant that comment was made from other than Labour lips.
Doncaster Borough Council, which I mentioned some months ago had been asked to consider the question of a Civic Theatre is to be asked to go further into the mutter.
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Theatre and Orchestra The Estates Committee la re- commending to the Council
the granting
lease for 00 years on a site on which a Civic Theatre will be bullt. The repre- top secrets, passing another test innting party in the hope that it
sentatives of the Civic Theatre Com- by the Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc. ing political force; 4; engage in question of a site.
The demonstration was sponsored will eventually become the dominat-mitice are to be asked to meet the Estates Committee to discuss the Using the ship Wanderer, which is
plonage activities to learn American on loan from the U.S. Navy.
forces distribution, strength, morale, equipment and Intentions.
elvilion
Three Kanges
scope, or
The correspondent said that not only the Japanese, but many outside countries, were confused by the up- parent parallel between the Amer lean and the Communist programmes in Japan.
But there is one disappointment for the promoters. They have been informed the Corporation has no right to make a grant towards the erection and upkeep of the theatre. It has also been declder! not to de any rent for the site until it has been chosen.
Another project which I mention-
This particular radar machine has three ranges, two, 10 and 40 miles With the click of a switch, the range ean be changed. The screen, shows what shore line may be in sight; what vessels are to port, starboard, ahead or astern. IL
pleks out the buoy roules. The operator The correspondent said the United can determine the speed of moving: States' best chance of winning peaceed some time ago, the formation of objects.
in the Pacific after winning the war
a large orchestru, seems likely to The Wanderer Was
brought was to get Japanese industry going become an actual fact. through The Narrows, past and be-again, make a place for Jopan Representatives of International
munteipat tween scores of other ships, and all in
trade, give authorilles nt Leeds, while the
the skipper
Dewsbury, In that them much-desired information or Bull, Halifax, Rotherham, llar- screened-in room may exactly what how, the American and British de- rogate, Doncaster and Wakefield met was in the ship's path. He gavemocratic Governments work and in Leeds Instructions
to discuss what accordingly. He also provide the. Japanese with
recently could be done in regard to such an could maintain close watch on the means of livelihood, thereby remas-orchestra, financed and administered shore line, and keep his safe dis- in the discontent which fosters the by a committee composed of repre- tance.
Communiste. programme-United scntatives of these local authorities.
JAPANESE SERGEANT
GETS LIFE TERM
than Man-experimental
Press.
VAN MOOK WANTS TO RESIGN
Dr
of
-binca
van
A A
This correspondent recalls having 127 1 a paralle) situation in Man- shula last spring What is HIW happening throughout the vast bar They der and hinterland areas of west captured the key city of Wusu on and south Sinkiang is not entirely September 5,
1045 and were then ricar, but certainly the same aggres- limited on the banks of the Manasssive Soviet nioneers who so efficient- River, seventy nutes from Tihwa y
Sinkiang's resources exploited
for years prior to 1944 under indulgence
Tokyo, Nov. 21. of the warlord Chen Shih-tsal are
The Economic journal Nihon narcustomed to perinit much grass Keizal said to-day that the Govern-
The Hague, Nov. 21. Huber'us General Chang was then rushed ! to grow under their foot.
mant to leady daug ICT
Mouk. to Tihwa by air and made
Lieutenant-Governor General of the peace
nationalisation avertures through the fussium Con- Sinklang is Inrger
F
Netherlands East Indies. hng asked wa min. sul-General in Tihwa. The victor- churla. It probably has more in-nnual capacity of 1,000,000 tons In
to be relieved of his post. it was ious Muslims suddenly acquired a gral resources and cattle.
To lose Hokkaido and an additional half-persistently reported here, the Netherlands news ngeny said to-day, concillatory attitude, culentnating in the resources would be like Amer-million tons in Kyushu. their signing last January all pro-ica's loss of the resources of New
Gen MacArthur's latest occupation Informed sources said that Dr. von vialons of the Sino-Uighur treats-cxico, Arizona, Nevada and Utah.cummary, covering September, said Mook, who her borne a lapte part of
-United Press, portion. except its most essential
that Japanese coal production dur- this burden of negotiating a reltle- This concerns authority of the Mus-
(This is the third article of the Ing August reached 1,770,200 metrle ment of the Indonesian ouration for lims to maintain (under the ad-
To-morrow, Waldo Drake tens, eight per cent over July and the past 15 months, fell that his big ministration of Governor Chang) six reports on the public health condi-seven
cent
planned job was completed by the initialling regiments of native Muslim troops tions,la Sinklang).
production. โย August, consumption of the draft agreement by the Dutch throughout Japan was given as and Indonesian delegates at Cheribon, 1,725,000 tons.
Stockplies dropped from 1,010,000 Java, Inst Friday.
Dr. P. J. Idenburg. Dr. van Mool's tons on hand at the end of July to deputy, was mentioned as a possible 078,000 tons at the end of August.
to Dr. successor
van Mook, the Kyushu miners received tri
agency added. average bonus of five yen (about
The Dutch Cabinet will meet on US$0.33) per day during August for
discuss to
the results exceeding production quotas, while Saturday the increase
attributed to achieved by the Commission-General was SCAP's food releases and the educa-
In Java, it was learned to-day tional campaign.-Unlļed Press.
Reuter.
SIDE GLANCES
series.
COPA, 1946 BY KIA GERVICE, HOL T. M. REO, LA A. PAY, OFF.
By Galbraith
"I'm so busy all day I don't have time to worry about the future of my business, so this is iny. worry hour!"
per
over the
JAPS FOUND OVER
AFTER` VJ-DAY
BIG TEXTILE FACTORY
FOR CENTRAL JAVA - YEAR
קר
Batavin, Nov. 20.
BTIC OI
cquip-
was
.
Afterwards it was stated that it |-had--been--agreed to form the orchestra, and a further meeting will be held In November. It is hoped that it will thch be possible to appoint officers and proceed with the organisation detalls,
Sheffield was not included in the talka because it already has a work- ing agreement with the Sheffield Philharmonie Society in regard to its engagement of the Halle Orches- ira, a project which the Shemeld Corporation subsidises to the extent of £1,000
per year. have a busy time in the Yorkshire Ministry of Food Ofelals are to
coalfield in the next week or two. They are to visit the mining areas and make arrangements for the provision of extra meat for the thousands of underground workers in the collieries.
There will be no great Yorkshire Show next year, the Council of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society hav- Ing decided as it has been impossible to get materials il would not be wise to proceed with arrangements to hold the show at Wakefield,
FRIGHTENING TASK
OF REHABILITATION IN BURMA
Leeds, Nov. 20. The task of rehabilitation
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SHOWING
TO-DAY
QUEEN'S
3.
At 2.30, 5.15,-
Conditioned a 7.15 & 9.15 p.m. THE SCREEN'S SENSATIONAL COMBINATION OF THE YEAR! ROM-ANTICS WITH DEANNA! LAUGHTER WITH LAUGHTON! A RIOT WITH ROBERTI
Deanna
Charles
DURBIN - LAUGHTON
with
ROBERT CUMMINGS
Started Eve
Margaret Tallichet Guy Kibbon Waltor Catlett 'Catharina Doucet
A UNIVERSAL PICTURF
ALHARIDAR & CENTRAL
DAILY AT 210 520 720 g. 920 PM. -SHOWING
NOW YOU CAN SEE ON THE SCREEN"
PLUS
Con HOPE
PURCHASE
DAILY AT 230 515 715 & 91PM TO-DAY -----
IN TECHNICOLOR,
Bob Hope Vera Zorina
Victor Moore with Irene Bordoni
Dona Drake Raymond Walburn
THOSE LOUISIANA LOVELIES -THE CREAM OF THE CROPI
Directed by IRVING CUMMINGS Iowa FOROVA 22000LET
Baret in the MANÉ ŠAMAGE
WE DERES ÉTEL
M
IRVING 'BERLIN
& Paramount Picture
ORIENTAL
SHOWING TO-DAY: 2.30—5.157.30-9.30 p.m. Never so many THRILLS packed into one GREAT Picture! The first BIG action romanca of our submarino heroos. with a rousing climax you'll stand up and choor!
4 SHOWS
DAILY
ĮTYRONE POWER
Anna BAXTER DazxAMORESTS.
CRASH DIVE
CATHAY
KIWAŃCHAI BORD WANČHATES
5.15,
́ ́At 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 & 9.15 p.m.
THEY'RE BACK AUMIN IN M-G-M'S GREAT ROMANCE
VIVIEN LEIGH •
In
ROBERT TAYLOR
"WATERLOO BRIDGE!
COMMENCING ON SUNDAY, NOV. 271
"AIR RAID WARDENS",
OLIVER HARDY
with: STAN LAUREL
SPECIAL PERFORMANCE AT 12.30 P/M. "THE LIVES OF A BENGAL LANCER"
with: GARY COOPER
NOTICE
THE HONGKONG ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS
ASSOCIATION
FRANCHOT TONE
NOTICE
BUILDING FOR SALE.
The undersigned is prepared to receive on behalf of the Owners
Permite to inspect the building
The next Council meeting of Tenders for the purchase of No. the Hongkong Anti-Tuberculosis 10 Ice House Street, Soc. A of Association will bo held on M. L. ZA. Wednesday, 27th November 1948 that at 6.30 p. m. at the Medlehl fuces the government and people of headquarters, Hongkong Shanghai may be obtained from the under- Burma is almost frightening in its Bank Building.
signed during office hours. intensity, declares the Conservative
Tonders should be addressed to Yorkshire Post, in an editorial to-day.
All members are kindly request- the undersigned at their offices. The Yorkshire Post, referring to ed to attend. without the political situation, adds: "For a
to have
:
T. P. WU Joint Hon. Secretary
In
sealed cover endorsed Tender for Purchase of No. 10 Ice House Street" and should bo delivered not later than tiválve noon on the 23rd November1oxt The highest or any Tondern not necessarily be accepted,
Dated the 25th October, 1940. ** JOHNSON, STOKES & MASTER
Plany for the construction of a Seven Japanese sailors who five million guilder textile factory, somehow got missed in the general bccupying thrce and one-half hee-surrender have been found living tares at an undisclosed location in
Apparently. quietly-but Central Java, are announced by the making much effort to conceal their long time there has been a dead- Indonesian News agency Antara.
ence-in a remote part of Johore Jock and with it the danger that the The report says the factory will State. be equipped with modern
Burmese Nationalists, having tasted They were living in huts built by some measure of freedom in the early ment, including a laboratory and themselves, grotying their own technical training school,
Produc-
ve days of the Japanese occupation, BOXER REVOLT MARTYRS the capacity is opted to reach Setables and they appear
might loss patience with what they been In contact with the local 120,000 metres of cloth
loth monthly.
population since their, settlement peak of with bitterness as 'the dend Texults are
manda's 01
a Chinese hand of the Burma Office' and resort 'n mile from most critical shortages at present.
village:
only
to hidden arms, which undoubtedly
Vatican City, Nov. 20. The arrival of a shipload of textiles
exis. in many parts of the country. Police from- Johore Bahru, (10 communied by a party of the Buffs "For there is no doubt that the fect for Apostolle Ceremonies, to- - Monsignor Avcarlo Respighi, Pre- surrounded the huts in the dawn war-created sufferings of Burma day issued an "Intimation" announc and the Japanese were
were captured
exoggerated by the acute ing that Pope Pius XII will descend Ilongkong & Shanghai Bank Bldg. without resistance.
feeling that aho had
been for into the basilica of St Peter's at 5 They had two swords, an axe and gotten by Britain and by the world.
lay to p.m. Sunday Apart from political unity now to beautifed martyrs massacred in the
vonerate the some forming implements--Reuter. |
newly come extent being realised. Duma's Boxer rebellion in China in 1000, chief need is for employment incen- Vatican sources sald about 500 tive to workers, represented by con- bilgrims were expected to arrive in sumer goods and sympathetic in Rome to attend the solemn ceremony terent of the people of Britain and of beatification.. Most of the pilgrims the outside world. Without these ad- are nana and priests, including
Nanking, Nov. 21 two The puppet, Chou Fu-hal, under the sense of frustration which must The Pontiff will receive the pilgrims preparing to appeal against his con- vantages, she can hardly escape from runs rescued from the massacre. † death sentence. for high treason, is inevitably find an outlet in dacolty, next Wednesday, addressing them Inviction and sentence before the political unrest and kindred evils a speech that will be broadcast over. Supreme Court, it was learned to- Router.
Vatican Radio-United Press.
day,Central, News. :
wij in exchange for rice is the first cloth received in the in- terior since the Japanese capitulo- Lion-United Press,
Nanking, Nov. 20.
To speed up the preliminary work of conscription throughout China,
Kumamoto, Nov. 21. the Ministry of Defence has issued Two hundred and fifty high school another circular o al the authorities girls to-day boycot.ed their class concerned stressing Articles 19 and romet, saying they would not re'urn 24 of the Conscription Procirmation. until the principal re-instate four The circular also urged completion man teachers discharged because they of all compilation work regarding gave the girls the green signal for details of conscripts-Central News. bob hair-United Press.
Hong Kong.
4th Floor,
PUPPET TO APPEAL