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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947.
China Drifting Back To Warlordism
By ANTHONY ULLSTEIN (United Press Staff Correspondant)
Peiping, June 6.
Despite student demonstrations against civil war, highly-placed American observers see no peace or unity in store for China. Instead they see a grave danger of China staggering back to the days of the warlords breaking up slowly into autonomous and semi-autonomous regions.
None believe the government, without real outside military aid, can unify the country by force,
The students act on the following assumptions:
The strong-minded men In the Kuomintang saddle cannot possib- ly meet the outsized Communist terms for peace and coalition. They will fight on. Meanwhile, rebelllous outlying provinces
assert may
TO CONFER
1. That mounting Communist vic- virtual, if not nominal, independence. ON GRAIN
If this happens, foreign countries torics will produce a moment when may intervene to protect their in- the Kuomintang will be prone to teresis. Maybe United Nations ac-
peace talks-this time, Intion will be tried. resume desperate earnest.
Maybe niter a
such as pressure from within while-a long while-things will im-
2.
which
student movement prove.
There is another possibility, lend- roli can
up labour and txiness support will hasten the ing significance to the student up: If the Kuomintang men in arrival of that moment.
Burge. Observers whose reports cut ice power are somehow undermined, it in world capitais say the students is just conceivable that the party's
are unrealistic, These
observers moderates may come to terms with take the following view:
The Reds. But there is
one big stumbling block.
The men with power are the men with armies under their command.
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HONGKONG & WILAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED,
Notice in hereby given that an Extraordinary General Meeting
SHORTAGE
Washington, June 6, The special Cereals Confer-
Tribesmen Killed
In Morocco
The
Rabat, June 0: Communist
·NEWADABER Pellt Morocain.. reported -today thai tribesIDON were killed when French noncommissioned officers opened fire on a tribal demon- stration at Khenifra, in south- ern French Morocco acar the Atlas mountains.
The newspaper said that Moslers imops refused to fire on the demonstration, which was non-political
The tribesmen were sald so ba. demonstrating against the new Kald (Governor) who, they alleged,
used materials
for hought by them
B new monque to bullá hönself a house
site of on the
the proposed Mosque Router,
Japanese Arrested In Los Angeles
More French Railway Workers Walk Out
Paris, June G.
The strike of French railway workers had spread to three main line stations by carly this afternoon, and angry travellers stood shouting outside the closed grills of the-Garo do Lest, where 1,200 workers had begun a walkout this morning.
A strike committee of workers at Gare de Lyon met this morning to on the lines serving the southeast decide whether to call a walkout
All eastbound railway traffic, long distance lines but not the out of the capital was halted suburhan service. while national representatives nogotiated with the Government for higher pay, and it was fear ed that the stoppage might touch off the national strike threatened by over 500,000 rail- way workers.
Trains from Paris to Switzerland and Germany, Austria and castern Franco, as well 30 all suburban trains from Gare de Lest, were at
a stands *
Passenger trains for Le Havre, Rennes, Brest and other points in western France and Bordeaux, Tou- louse and the Spanish frontler did not leave this morning
The Azare and Gare Montparnasse went on n partial strike, affecting CHINA LOAN:
AWAITING
ence to discuss the world grain, shortage would open in Paris on July 9, Sir John Boyd Orr, the Director General of the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation, announced today.
Invitations, he said, had been Tomoya. Kawakita was arraigned And these combat generals may be sent to all FAO member nations, the today and held without ball.
for Europe United States Attorney. Mr James U.S. POLICY too scattered and ambitious to make Economie Commission
Instead they will and the International Wheat Coun- ( Carter, said he would probably try to rule roosts of their cl
treason Indictment when he presents the ease to the Federal Grand Jury own-where and if the Communist
next week. armica let them.
common cause.
Communist Terms
The following factors, observers continue, rule aut a coalition ment under present circumstances:
Even In the
of the Company will be held at Ma's mopeful days of Gen.
That the Articles of Association 'be altered in the manner follow.
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(a) Artiels 17 shall be cancell.
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take to case the severe effects of the world's shortage of grains in prospect for 1047-1948.
which would and
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Strike action was taken by local strike committee at Gare de Lest, and there seemed to be some disagreement between the local com- mittee and the National Federation about the stoppage, which. Waa described as unofficial.
tho
M. Jules Moch, the Transport Minister, M. Paul Ramadier, Premier, and representatives of the rallway workers were meeting this afternoon for further
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Even after President makes his new China policy state- ment, I will still be necessary for
Kawakita-operator of an export- Import business here was arrested
Washington, June 6. govern In the official invitation, the Direc- yesterday by FBI agents who spent
source indicated tor General asks that member na- itions be represented by their food/ months Investigating a GI's story today. that the Chinese are that he recognised bespectacled the Communists and agricultural ministers
the Kawakita as
a former foreman in holding up submission of specifie 18 Pedder Street (1st floor) Hong stuck out for terms of China rounds that the conference will dis-
the prison camp at Oyama.
projects for expending the Have let
left large chunks
cuss "vital questions" concerning Kang on MONDAY the NINTH under their own local government, the collection from and the keeping
Kawakita stood stimy at attention Export-Import Bank loan pend- day of JUNE, 1947, at NOON,These terms were incompatible with
ing a policy re-statement. on forms Indigenous supplies, during the arraignment before
of
An Export-Import Bank official for the purpose of proposing and the overall authority of the central cereals export availabilities and dis- United States Commissioner.
In amwer to reportera' questions, suld the Chinese had submitted no If thought At passing the aub-join. regime.
The Kuomintang could not
tribution programmes, price rela-
Kawakita denied beating any Ameri-projects as yet, und before they do them. ed resolutions as a special ro
tionships and dilution practices. power to
It was
that President Austria, Finland, Sweden, Turkey can prisoners but admitted he was
expected solution, viz:--
the Communists will settle
Truman would restate the United with power,
States policy. for nothing short of full control of und Stam, though not members of acting as foreman at a nickel plant
The fact that the And the the FAQ, have been invited to the operated in connection a coalition government.
bentings, regarding reporters Kuomintang
Inst about four days.-Reuter.
some projects here ready for sub- said: "I do not remember."
mission but withheld them, appear- short of majority control.
"of French Sock Increase
ed to substantiate indications that Observers with good sources
Washington, June 6.
Trailed By FBI
they were awaiting a policy de- military information say there is an
of the Com- A reliable French source said to-
claration. eventual likelihood munists winning Manchuria-which day that Jean Monnet, who is due would then be under Russian in- to arrive here in the middle fluence and perhaps North China June, will discuss the question of north of the Yellow River. Perhaps bread and cereals allocations for even slabs of the sprawling North- France in the crop year beginning July due to the effect of the win cold on the French harvest. Separatist Tendencies
source said, that Monnat may (c) The following Article shall,
Meanwhile, they continue, the old
the LEFC increased. be substituted for Article centrifugal force may awake through. iry to get the third quarter of the
Chinese Turkistan allocation by the 76 476. Subject to any
out the land.
He will also discuss dollar financing to Chinn completely of cereals Imports. The source said
During succeeding monthe FBI may be lost special terms as to voting Already government
authority. 1s of the North- that the special cereals conference in agents trailed Kawakita almost con- stantly and interviewed #cores of upon which any shares of precarious in parts
100 of such the Company may
The basic conflict between the independent-minded Paris on July 9 will discuss the or Huge, have west.
ganisation of much more than bread ex-POWs. Nearly may
and cereals allocations.
former prisoners are expected to be
views of Secretary of State George been issued or may for the Szeciwan, in the Southwest,
reals allocati ant a tentative brought here to testify against C. Marshall and Bank officials on time being be held, upon a
become a separate entity. There are
The tentative signs of ambitions of au-
agenda was drawn up by the IEFC Kawakita whose prison camp act the loan is said to lie in the fact and the South: show of hands avery mem-tonomy in Canton and
following problems: villes, according to Attorney Carter, that the former is looking at the to discuss the
earned him the nickname "The Meat matter from its broad international bor present in person shall These separatist tendencies, ob-
The amount
ources Chopper." Witnesses said Kawakita, political aspect and has become con- avaliable from ali servers stress, may require years of 1. have one vote, and` upon a
known as a judo expert, singled out vinced that psychological as well as chaos to harden and take shape. Methods of collection of local har poll overy member pre- When they
the autonomy vests; 3. Utilisation of local crops; as opponents prisoners who had
worked long hours and with little economic ald to China is necessary various regions may differ in
4. Consumption levels of available
food at the nickel mine 12 miles at an early date,
Meanwhile, Bank officials insist gree.
The new "warlordism"
cercals.
from the camp. deck itself out in modern dress.
observers But the picture these paint of China in the years to come government in Valley, with
¦
(b) In the third line of Article 71 the word "two" shall be substituted for the word "three"
cent in person or by proxy shall have one vote for every share held by him".
By Order of the Board,
-R.-G. CRAIG,-
Chief Manager. Hong Kong, Dated this Ninth day of May, 1947.
MAJESTIC
TO-DAY ONLY
west,
do-
may
is one of sold on the
control of the an increasingly rest of
with the thunder-cloud of Red China hanging overhead.
Liberal Movement
ter
The
Mr Carter sald investigators con- ofsidered the story fantastic when a former POW, Sgt William Bruce, a 24-year-old veteran of Bataan, told them he recognised Kawakita in a Los Angeles shop last October,
Fald he hid behind a Sgt Bruce
an auto- post, trailed Kawakita to number whereby mobile and noted down the licence traced...
Sub-committee expents will con sider each of these problems. United
Press.
Italians' Application
his identity was
of
The agents said Kawakita, after returning from Japan, studied one semester at the University Southern California but dropped out of school to establish a foreign trade
Washington, June 6. An Italian soures sald today that business-United Press. of non-Communist China, and
IEFC (Internationat Emergency Italian food officials applied to the Food Council) for a hearing on the inadequacy of the proposed alloca- There is some speculation whetion of 124,000 tons of cereals for the ther the government can long cone third quarter, which includes only tinue to supply its armies with at 10,000 tons of wheat from the United leas: barely sufficient food and pay, States.
said that The source
to moot minimum requirements, is three times that amount
of in order to retain the loyally officers and ranks. Some observers come when
believe the time may
ANGLO-POLISH TRADE PACT
London, June 6.
sources said
Oficial Polish
pensants will bury grain rather than needed from the United States. He today that the new Anglo- sell for inflated paper currency. sald
At 2.30, 5.20, 7.20 & 9.20 p.m. But this development is believed told about 130,000 tons of cereals Polish trade agreement would
5. JEAN - JOEL
only
with a DINGLEI
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GEORGE STEVENS'
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TO-MORROW -- WALT DISNEY'S
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In Technicalori
COMING SOON.
to the KING'S
CHARLES DICKENS'
"GREAT
EXPECTATIONS
were shipped from the United
in
be distant. Observers point out that "nothing happens fast China".
Politically mature students admit their
movement
be
peace
may
States to Italy in May including be signed in London on Mon- The agreement provides 50,000 tons of flour, 30,000 tons of day." wheat and 60,000 tons of maize. for the exchange of goods be
Referring to published
Britain reports tween
and Poland, from
Belgrade today that Yugo-Slav totalling £60,000,000 over three
have been buying ground between the millstones, but agents in Italy they shy away from the thought. wheat in the black market, the years.
that no reports were Sincerely desirous of saving China source said
Britain will supply
wood, fute, light from ruinous civil war, which neither received here about this, but at one particularly side can win,
Poland the students Boy: time Jast year
Allied patrol ships machinery and tools, while "Chino must have peace or die. We were called in by Italy to stop sur will supply foodstuffs, furniture.and
work for peace. Succeed or repulous cargoes of wheat shipped a long list of other items. fail, we must try. If we don't, who in schooners from the Italian Adria-
During the first year, Poland will wili?"
tic shores to Yugo-Slavia.
also supply between 240,000 and
must
The studenta say-and responsible He sald the Yugo-Slava were American observers agree-that | offering 32,000 tô 42,000 lire per theirs is a spontaneous liberal move- | quintal compared to the official meni drinking at the fount of Lin- Italian price of 2,600 lire per coln and Jefferson rather than Marx quintal-United Press. and Stalin, although it may harbour
a minority of Communist activities, But they warn that if the Kuomin- tang clamps down with repressions against them, the student movement. may go underground and turn Com- munist.-United Press.
PlanesGrounded
1
For Check
Washington, June 6. The Civil Aeronáutics Administra- tion today disclosed that it ordered special precautions five months ago to guard against possible structural failure in the tati assembly of all commercial DC-4 air Ilners.
The Army and Navy have ground- ed all their C-348-military version of DC-46-until vertical stabilisers in the tail assembly could be in- spected for loose or sheared bolts. The CAA said that on January it ordered all commercial operators, of DC-4s to check certain.bolt fit- lings in the vertical stabilisers of their planes, The deadline for com- pliance was first set for March 18. and was. later extended to July 1. After the Maryland crash, the CAA said it had ordered its inspectors to check the entire tail assembly overy commercial DC-4 as a routine measure-United Press.
of
OUTWARD
MAILS
усот
to Poland
A * were
200,000 tons of coal. The British, a Polish source said, were reluctant t bind themselves for more than
as far as coal supplies concerned. It was hoped, however, hat they might conclude additional agreements about further coal sup plies:
t
Polish gold in British custody sum of £2,000,000, will be put at. disposut for the payment of British
Unless otherwise stated, Registered supplies to Poland. It is also ex-
Articles end Parcels Posts cioso minutes earlier then the time stated below:
Saturday, June 1
Canton (Train) 100 pin, Salgen and Bangkok (Bea) 3`p.m.
30 pected that the British Government will grant eredita to the extent of £6,000,000 to British export forms supplying capital goods to Poland
Ordinary letters and cards only for United Press.
Japan (Bea)*3_p.m.
Shanghai (Sex) I pan.
Macao, Trinshan & Shekki (Sex) 4 pan. Canton (Sea) d pan. Kunming. Caleutla, Shanghai, Polping, Canton, Kwellin and Chungking (Air) 3.30 pm.
Sunday, June 2 Bangkok, Singapore, Batavia, Colombo, Bydnoy and Auckland (Air) 19 am. Manua P.1. (A), 10 am.
་་
Canton, Kwella, Hankow Nanking
Swatow and Amoy (Alt) 10 km. Swalow (Bea) 10 min Manila PI (doa) 10 am.
Flood Relief Fund Final Payment
The second and final instalment, £8,390, 35. 2d. has now been tele- graphed to the Lord Mayor's Belilah Flood Reller Fund
Messrs
Bingham Lowe,
&
Mines, Trinition, Bhokki & Kongmoon Matthews, who audited the Fund,
(a) 10 am.
Canton (Train 10 am.
Monday, June A
Swalow (Sea) NoGo, Canton (Train) 1.30 p.m.
URA, Central and South America and Canada via San Francisco (No Pari cels for Canada)' (Bes) 2 p.m.,
Swalow (de) # pan
have forwarded the following report: "We have examined the records maintained by the South China Morning Post, Limod Hellef Fund in connection with the British and we certify that the total dona Manlia, Ceylon, East and South Africations received up to June 4, 1947,
mmounted to HK$203,78
K$203,785.00 and Bairon, Sydney, Auckland and London 240-3-7: These amounts enabled a
(Air) 2.50 17.m.
total sum of £18,300-3-2d to ha Amoy Bhan that, Nanking Hankow, remitted to the Lord Mayor's No
Tringung Palping Luchow & Eun-Honal lood Distress Fund, London. Holkow, Canton and Foochow (Air) "No expenses in respect of, collec
300 m.
hon Macad, Tinahan & Shokki (sex) 4 pan, the Fund by the South China Morn
or otherwise were charged to Kongmoon (Sex) .4 p.m.
ing Post, Limited.”
-(sex) 3 p.m...
_ming (Alt) 350 pm.
Canion. Train) :p. pin. ·
the Export-Import Bank_to approve individual projects and to extend the termination date on the Chinese loat beyond the present June 30 deadline. However it is known
Ang State Department, through the President, will bring pressure on the Bank to extend the deadline and take a liberal view of the projects.
Basic Conflict
for
on a strictly businesslike view claiming the Chinese never will be able to submit enough approvable money, and plans to use all the holding the funds earmarked China merely will prevent the Bank from making other loans which are more in line with its original pur- pose to stimulate United States ex-
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