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ALL OUT CIVIL WAR
BRITAIN GETS
First Glimpse Of Sun For
22 Days
London, Feb. 21. Electricity was restored to thousands of factories In Bri- fain's great industrial Midlands at 12.01 a.mu, GMT to-day (Mon- day) but fears heightened that gas restrictions would follow the household power cuts shivering Brlions.
for
Britain's first sunshine in 22 days- a new record-to-day brought a par- tinl thaw. However, the Air Ministry prediction that the temperature would drop to 20 degrees in London and even lower In the provinces to-night raised the possibility of further de lays in rushing coal to the nation's power stations and gas works.
The temperature in London at 10 p.m. was 28 degrees. At Ipswich it was five degrees and the local me teorological station said it probably would reach zero before dawn lo touch ita colidest mark of the winter Although power was switched on at the Midlands automobile, locomo-
and other tive, machine-tool dustries at one minute past midnight, none was expected to resume opera tlong until the regular Monday opening hour.
In-
BACK TO PART WORK
Anywhere from 500,000 to 1,000,- 000 Midlands workers have been idle since all electricity was cut off to Industries two weeks ago and now these employees are expected to re- Bumic their joba during the week. However, many will be on part time until local shortages of components and coal for heating and other pur- poses can be overcome,
Imperial Chemical Industries, the
· Nufleld organization, General Elec- tric Compony and Rover Car Com- pany reported they could operate only three or four days a week for the present.
The Austin Motor Company and Cadbury's chocolate works said they would be unable to open at all this week because of lack of coal,
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HAS BEGUN
GEN CHU TEH
Communist Leader.
Gives Interview
BY REYNOLDS PACKARD United Press Blaff Correspondent
Yenan, Feb. 23.
Gen Chu Teh, Commander-in-Chief of all Com- munist arms in China and Manchuria, declared to- day that all-out civil war between the Kuomintang and Communist forces has already started following the end of American peace efforts. He expressed confidence the Communists would win "even if the conflict lasts a long time."
In an exclusive Interview with the United Press, Gen Chu said he was glad the Chinese people, on the departure of the Americans, have an, opportunity to solve their own problems without foreign mediation.
He minimised the loss of Liny!, de- claring the Reds would be able to recapture it if they concentrate muf- flelent troops in that sector.
the American Government had not aided Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek, the Chinese problems would long have been solved and civil war ended. We have the same attitude
Asked if the Communists would de- fend Yenan on account of it beint the for the future." symbol and capital of Communists Geri Chu reiterated the Commun- throughout China, he replied: "Ourists two minimum demands for the strategy is to sop the vital strength resumption of negotiation with the of the enemy. We can give up any place and still achieve our purpose. It Yenon is attacked we certainly will defend it, but only as we have done in other cities. We will not defend Yenon almlessly,”
NEVER IN DAIREN Questioned if the Chinese Com- munists were evacunting Datren, as reported in the Pelping and Tientsin press recently, Gen Chu suid:
"Our troops never entered Diaren. There- fore how can they evacuate the city?"
Nationalists.
lean people have read Elliot Roose- He expressed the hope the Amer-
velfs book "As He Saw it," since they will "profit by IL"
Gen Chu conclucid: “We are not against the American people or the against American foreign American Government, but only polky which encourages civil war in Chine
and also Chiang Kai-shek ·ngainst
115.".
con-
He denied there was any were nection between When I inquired if there
the Chinese and Soviet troops in Dalren, Gen Chu Russian Communists, saying: "At one
BYRD ORDERS
EVACUATION
Deadly Ice Threatens
Little America
Little America, Feb. 22.
(delayed); Admiral Richard E. Byrd to- day ordered the final evacuation of Little America within 48- hours to escape the deadly en- croachment of Antartic ice which is closing in on the Cen- tral group of Operation High Jump.
Churchill Wedding
Thousands of women wont
to Parliament-square recently
to aco Mary Churchill become the brida of Captain St.
Christopher Soames
ot
Margaret's, Westminster.
As she arrived with hor fathor, tho women broko through the police cordón, rushed forward and surround. ad the car.
Speciality Job
By Thieves
Admiral Byrd reached the decision at a onference with Rear-Admiral Richard Cruzen and members of their sice aftr Admiral Cruzen's suid: Under the Sino-Russian time there was the Third Inter-ice-breaker Burton Island, dramati treaty Dairen is a free port, and national but since its dissolution cally broke through fce in the Bay troops from any country, including there is no connection or special of Whales shortly before six am. Rusein, can go there."
allation between the Chinese and
Qae hundred and ninety-seven functioning while their thin-hulled the front door open
Gen Chu, garbed in a faded quilt Russian Communist parties."--Unit-men, who kept Little America when a passing policeman noticed
Moslem League Not To Yield
ed uniform and wearing browned Press. alipper-style shoes, realived me in the recoption room of his head- quarters, and discussed the Chinese military altuation over innumerable cups of tea for two hours. Keep- Ing his blue-visored cap on through-
the
Gen Interview.
Chu The 100% cut in electricity for in- out dustries In London, Southeast frequently smiled and certainly ap- England and Northwest England peared confident of victory. continued in force, as did the five- The stocky Communist military hour daily cut for household con- leader
said: "Present dighting has sumers throughout Britain.
become regrettable all-out war. We are
aghting a war of defence against the Kuomintang invading our 'liberated areas. Our victory
even if the
may announce
he
Prime Minister Attlee was . ex- pected to speak in the Commons on the fuel situation to-day, but may delay a detailed statement until depends on the Chinese people, Wo
the desire early peace but Tuesday. He
conflict lasts a dates on which power will be re-
long time we have stored in Industries in London and 'full confidence we can win."
Domestic cuts other affected areas.
Gen Chu added: “We do not need month or longer.any assistance from any other coun- may last United Press.
try in solving China's problems. If
EDITORIAL
Far East And Britain's
Economic Recovery
THE bitterest critics of Britain's Labour government will have to admit that the White Paper on the nation's economia situation, Judged purely from the point of view of facing squarely up to grim and unpleasant reall- ties, le courageous document. Truly has the government applied its own principle of taking the country, frankly and fully, Into Its confidence. R la man-to-man stuff, unequivocal, though much of it unpalatable, The paper makes no attempt to sugar a bitter pill... Harsh and uncompromising. it tells the nation that unless well nigh super-human efforts are made in the fields of production during the next 12 months, the foundations of national life are threatened with disaster, Bluntly the workers, who voted so solidly for Labour at the last general election, are warned that something more than a blind faith In Socialism is demanded if the country la to regain its aconomic foof; that this réalisation rests just as much, if not mors, with the drive and energy of the people as the forms of legislation which will diroot them. And here again the paper strikes a note of genuina realiam when it promises that if necessary, the government will be prepared to modify its own plans to meet the needs for the country's regeneration.
Pakistan Demand
Karachi, Feb. 23. Mohamed Ali Jinnah, President of the All-India Moslem League, soid
the here
Moslem to-night that League "will not yield an inch" in its demand for Pakistan (separate | Moslem State),
Dr Jinnah said that the sufferings of Moslems in the recent distur- bances in Bihar Province and else- where showed only more clearly that they sliould have a separate state.
"Nations are built through sacri- fices," he said. The sacrifices of Dihar Moslems, would not be in
vain.
"They certainly brought our goal of Pakistan neorer and showed our readiness to make sacrifices for its attainment," he added.
Dr Jinnah was addressing Moslem refugees from Bihar now being oc- commodated in Karachi-Reuter,
RIOTS INQUIRY
nt
Calcutta, Feb. 23: Mr D. A. Hardwide, Police Com- missioner, declared in evidence the Inquiry into the Calcutta com- munal riots of August last. year that; the police control room, was hard- pered in its work by the presence of the Moslem Premier of Bengal and other leaders on the day the trouble bugan.
The riots lasted several days and 4,000 people were said to have been killed-000: in one district...
and
his
"The chief minister friends were arguing at the top of their voices," Mr Hardwick declared, colve messages over the five tele phones on the control room table,"
He added that he ordered most of the people out, but could not tell the Premier to go.
The White Paper lists three main targets. (1) productión of coal and power; (2) expansion of the nation's manpower to Increase the output par man and to get the workers to where they are meat needed; (3)' recovery of export markets, to permit an economic balance of trade. And in can- nection with the third sim, the paper recognises most emphatically that this dopanda almost entirely on the economia recovery of Europe and the Far East. The meaning cannot be lost on China. Dritain aska-for nothing, more than rasaonable conditions under which sh can trade with China, and to the mutual advantage of both, genuine stabilising of China's, "and at times it was difficult to re- currency and national unity for the fulfilment of a progressiva domestio policy are: praraquialios. Only thus can aho bring prosperity, to herself, Fahd "kiniultaneously assist Britain to do the same thing. There is a second
Far East fación) which, must affoot Britain's economilo recovery; »Japan and Amurión's future policies regarding her development Recently the British Foreign Offca put out strong fealers to the State Department on the subject of British trading rights In Japan.Reaction was said to be favouri able. But njiherto, General MacArthur,hea uncompromisingly, refused to contemplate the removal of BGAR, barriera, arguing that Japan's economy is attil too, disrupted by the war to, poemić/resumption of normal trading, Britain, on the other hand,, feels she is being aqueazed out of a fegitimate export market by achitrary regulations'nd longer tonable. Unquestionably, if British;icadarn-were-onos: apšinėto "gperata "in"Japan they, could make:" last November, was published to substantial ontribution to Britain's imperatively necessary balance of träds." I day, -Reuter.
Mr Hardwick said that his first Information about the massacre Jo the Terroll Damar district was when the smell of decomposing bodies bo- gan to creep into the control).room. The evidence at the inquiryl taken
ships of the Central group were He roused. Mr Harriman," and 'a taken northward, began at once to search disclosed that nothing, apart fold up equipment in time to meet
the Monday morning deadline. The from the lavatory, had been touched. last meal was scheduled to be served in camp at noon to-morrow (Sunday).
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POLITICIANS
TO DUEL
Sequel to Argumont
AT-
Rome, Feb. 23. The leading Italian political agures were reported to-day to have ranged a duel of honour at dawn to- morrow as a climax to a bitter twi day public argument over the merits of Italian generals and troops during The African campaign
Long Report To Congress
Tokyo, Feb. 24. Supreme Commander Gen Douglas MacArthur posted ont to-day that the Japanese food blockade is now more stringent than during the war, and in i carefully phrased report for the United States Congress warned that to expose the Japanese lo starvation would gravely imperit. the American task of fasily con Kalidating
its viotory Pacific.
the
Gen MacArthur said victory in a modern war "in which a clash of icologies is Involved" remains little raore than an armistice between one campaign and the next until the very root of the causes which led to war
has been extirpated.
Gen MacArthur's views, released for publication to-day, were eme bodied in a requested report to the War Department for presentation to Congress in support of appropriations for occupational purposes. The re port covered approximately 1,800 words.
FINALISING VICTORY The report pointed out: (1) The task of Analising the American victory already has made promising progress,
(2) Occupation establishments in Japan, "now cut to only a fraction of their former strength," are now at the lowest numerical level conditient with either reasonable security ar of the regeneration accomplishment of an entire race from Its tradition. al threat to peace to a powerful bul-
a recurrence of work okalast a
of war.
(3) While Gen MacArthur is in fullest accord with the desire of Congress to practise stricte cost l- econo- mics. rationalisation of
a
Randolfo Pacciardi, 48-year-old volved in this great task shows it leader of the Republican Party, re- be in aggregate infinitesimal com portedly challenged Independent pared with that which might have
Benedetti, Thieves broke into Mr G. A. Tullo
-old been
- !n incurred 53-year-
a comparable period of extended combat." Mount Giounale Bella Sera, after the latter Harrimon's, house nt 548
(4) Occupation at the most is Comeron through a lavatory window had described him in his newscopes
temporary measure in the discharge as a "coward" for having criticized on Saturday night, and, ignoring Italian Army officers for their fight of clear American responsibility. everything else
Gen MacArthur said: "It must be on the premises, ¦ in Africa.
and remuin our firm purpose to re-, disconnected the Bush lavatory and
A sword duel is sullawed in Italy, store peace and normalcy at the very took it away-by the front door!
Neither Pacelardi nor Beneditti carliest time practicable, and it is The thieves worked noiselessly would comment on the report, Pac-my full intention to recommend the removal of existing military controls clard's Party organ, La Voce Re- and the robbery was first discovered publicana, said yesterday that a over Japan Just as soon as civilian veteran sold er intended to challenge controls muy safely be substituted." Benedetti,-who-is-former leader-of
“UNMISTAKABLE LESSON. the Monarchist Party.
"History points out on unmistak MEDAL FOR BRAVERY able lesson, that military occupation.
serve their purpose at the best only Pacelardi, who won the Italian gold for a limited time after which a de- medal for bravery in World War I, terioration rets in,"
Gen MacArthur pointed out the; fought as a colonel with the Gari-
do- baldi Division In Spain. He went complete blockade of a force into exile in 1927 to escape the Fos-pendent for food and other supplies cists and lived in North and South is one of the most effective wenpous
liberation until
of Italy. known in military science, and re- Bocciardi told the Assembly last called that such a weapon was used week that the Nailonal London, Feb. 21. At an Independent Labour Party officers who served pourly, RACE AGAINST WINTER
Conference in London to-day, delo in the African campaign." He co- nations pledged pecially criticised Gen Trezzani, now March 1 was originally set for the gates from seven
for United Chief of Staff in the Ministry, for evacuation of Little America, but themselves to work
which losing the African campaign. when he arrival brougat Socialist States of Europé Admiral Cruzen's
Italian troops against . a the immediate decision to speed up "would be a powerful instrument for had 200,000 Ital
the British force of 30,000. ice closes in ensuring friendship between departure before the
Benedetti attacked Pacelardi per- with the passing summer and the peoples of the United States and
sonally and the fall
the latter replied in bis approach of the grim Antarctic Russia"..
party newspaper until an exchange of
challenge. Insults" and the | It was reported that two reprezen- talives for each man lot last night at Amerien Parliament building to arrange for a
duel.-United Press.
For all practical purposes, the ex- pedition is at an end as far as the continental exploratory work of the Central group goes. All long range Alghts have been cancelled.
winter.
The Ice-breaker Burton Island had been to McMurdo Sound, 400 miles away, at the site of the old Scott South Polar base. On his return to Little Amerien, Admiral Cruzen said he saw indications that the ico-pack which girdles the Antarctic between the continent and freo water was already beginning to consolidate.
Admiral Cruzen said the sen ico was becoming progressively tougher. but it was thought the Burton Is land would be able to make a way through the ice before the latter be cama impenetrable, if an immediate, start were mado-United Press.
Padre Held Up
United States Of
Europe Plan
The programme was outled in a resolution passed by delegates from Germany, France, Spain, Greece. Hoiland, Britain and Associated Press.
Minister gave posts to fainst the starving men of Batann
Homeside Paper Raises Grouse Over Royal Tour
· London, Fab. 24,
A wave of public “grausing" over King George's tour of South Africa at a time of severe, hardshipa ot home was brought into the open under scare headlines. in the mass circulating Sunday Pictorial
and Corregidor and then reversely against the Japancso.
"Since the surrender this blockade of the Japanese home islands has been continued, extended and inten- sled," Gen MacArthur said. "Not only have Manchuria, Korea, and Formoso,
long contributors to Japanese sustenance, been taken |
away, but many millions of Japanese citizens have been repatriated from outside back into these four home islands, Trade and finance Inter- Course with the rest of the world is by our decree so prohibited constitute economic strangulation.
"Cut off from our own projected relief supplies in these circumstances countless Japanese would face starvation- and starvation, breeds
to
unrest, disorder and violence. Worst still, it renders a people cary pray to any ideology however evil which bears with it life sustaining. food..
WOULD FORFEIT IDEAL "To permit such a condition to arise would be to 'repudiato those very ideals and principles on which our country has always stood and for which many of our countrymen self- lessly have died. For under the sponsibilities of victory the Japanese people are now our prisoners no less than did the surviving mon од Bataan become their prisoners when South Africo, Feb. 23:
that
fell. As a conso- peninsula Princess Margaret does not want quence of ill-treatment, including to be an engine driver. She said so starvation of Allled prisoners Venice, Feb. 23.
after riding five miles with her Japanese fonds, we have tried and Father Austin Roddle, Catholic
sister Princess Elizabeth in the cabin executed many Japanese ollcors British Army chaplain, loy near
of the Royal train's engine yester upon proof of remorque punitive death to-day from shots received
day.
"Yet can we justify such two nights ago when he was held ·Disgruntitment was confined to The Princess boarded the engine action If we ourselves, in reverted up and shot on the Trieste-Venice | apparently a small section of the at the watering place, of Bufféksjagts; circumstances Duk, rövida," "Good to but with hostilities at population and many Britons were River, which mesas Buffalo, Hunt an end, fall to highway.
And Shot
Father Roddle and another Cathie lie chaplain, Father G. Banks, were returning from Triesto last Friday.
down night when their car broko near the town of San Dona. As they were looking at the car, three armed min pulled up in another car and shot at the two priests.
Father Roddle was taken to the British Army hospital, Father Banks was only slightly injured,
British Army authorilles said the move for the attack was theft United Pries.
In boldface type page, the tabloid | ¦ PRINCESSES DRIVE ENGINE reprated and sought to refute the Aboard the Royal Train......... ericisms that have been: volçed privately and in pub and sewing circle conversations since the King, Queen and princesses sailed away from the homeland on the ove of dis grave industrial crials.
angered because the feeling-hpre-River. cedented since George the Sixth be- came king-was there.
They manipulated gadgets and sustain life among those Japanese people over whom we now stand when the train rounced a curve, guard within the narrow candace of Margaret leaned out and waved to Elizabeth pulled 'the whistic while
their home island prof den hangArthur aid spontadeous her parents In the rear car.
development, which
offera both VER
and Inspiration DS encouragement
of
democratic measure of progress,, rule. Hice in the increasing number
D
But even the normally king-loving Britons-harassed by food, hout
The King and Queen and the two and heating problems burst into dersive laughter when newel Princesses spent a restful Sunday commentators described as "austere"
and held a picale after attending the furnishings of the royal sulle on
sulle apen air church services, the
batti:ahip Vanguard.
The family rode in a motorboat of the Japanese people already Some audiences booed newsreels along the Touw River and inspected estimated as over 2,000,000 who showing the royal family in mummer
en ancient Bushman cave, after under the stimulus of religious. attire while the homeland struggh which they ate a plenle luichopt freedom have been converted to
blizzard-Assoclated Saarsvelt, near. Forestry College Christianity... 75 through","a Press
United Press.
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