Communists RoutedNear Great Wall
Peiping, Sept. 29.-Chinese press reports said on Sunday that the Nationalists had routed Communist troops Ulacking Chinhs, a Peiping-Mukden rail- way town 85 miles northenst of: the Great Wall, and inflicted} heavy casualties in a drive against the Reds from Huniteh, newly captured former Red
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1947.
Italians Fear Mob Violence
Rome, Sept. 28-There are fears of a coup d'etat and outbreaks of armed violence in the minds of large sections of the Italian people, particularly the middle classes.
WAR GAMES
JITTERS
supply base about 28 miles west IN. GERMANY
of Changchun.
The dispatches conceded that the Communists blew up and attacked a Nationalist armoured train on the railway about 33 miles southwest of the Great Wall and damaged ax miles of tracks. The report
Frankfurt, Sept. 20-United States Military Government sources said on Sunday that attempts were being made to persuade the Army to abandon
With enormous stores of arms and ammunition hidden in all parts of the country, both the extreme Right and the ex- treme Left would not, it is thought, hesitate to use force should either of them think that is the best means of at- taining their ends.
In an interview Signor Pletro Nenni, leader of the with Reuter's,
Fusionist Socialists, declared: "1 do not belleve that revolutionary movements can happen in Italy,
"In any case, it is not our inten- tion the Reds, who have been its testing of air raid sirens in think that in this I can also speak to use such methods, and I American zone cities because for the Communists, of German “jittera”
Chinhal for a week, were beaten in battle and overe retreating to the northwest with Nationalist troops in pursuit.
Tire Central News Agency report-2 ed more than 8,000 Communist dead counted on the field after "sweeping
"Russia, in my opinion, is not yet in a position to replace Ameri can aid to Italy", he continued.
several
The tests were planned in conjunc tion with American troop exercises
"It will only be after The Army had broadcast that the Germann must halt all traffic and years that the Russian market can
of material use to
Italy.
For leave the streets when they heard the be sirens the same alarms that In
this war-
reason,
Socialists wo
have warfare" by Nationalists based
time warned them Allied bombers
Always considered it useful and Hualtch. As the drive was said to
coming. Rumours sprend
necessary to have economic agree- have started on the night of Septem were
ments with the United States. ber 25 and the dispatch was
quickly. dated the alleged September 20, the
lasses in would have been inflicted the If day. I one of approximately space anywhere nebr
this true,
claim would represent a sizable Nationalist victory, but carelessness with figures เกม been a common feature with Chinese
reports Associated Press.
wor
"IKE" MAY REVEAL HIS
POLITICS
"We want, however, a policy to- In Stuttgart, repeated breadcasts of the order touched off tales of an Im-wards Amerien that need not be a pending new war, a subject Germans passive acceptance on our. part of
world policy of Both in Stuttgart and the
the United often discuss. Frankfurt, many Germans were re- States.
"At the same time, we want a ported Inspecting their cellars, pack-
spreading policy as regards the Soviet Union ing emergency kits and fabulous stories about the massing of and oriental countries with their troops.
vast trade possibilities which like- An Army statement, ascribed to wise is not a policy of Russin.
maintain that the country's Colonel George S. Eyster, published by the American-sponsored Dena political and economic crisis, apart w:ws agency,
sold the Germans from a bad harvest, is due prin-
their air raid; cipally to the breaking
rold
up of the bunkers" on hearing the sirens. It Popular Front when de Gaspert formed his fourth Cabinet Inst June
were
lo "go Into
said the drill was "designed to prene Socialists and the Communists
are troops for a serious emergency.
Military Government authorities were then excluded from the pointed out that nearly all air raid Government). bunkers in Germany had been de- molished in the demilitarisation pro gramme. Headquarters then issued Washington, Sept. 28-Poli-a substitute statement simply order- tical observers belleve General ng Germans to quit the streets at
the alar
aların. Dwight Eisenhower will identity himself as a Republican shortly after he becomes President of Columbia University on January 1.
Gen. Eisenhower may not be Announcement, planning such an but he scarcely will be ablo lo avoid repeated Inquiries about his pali- tics, which his retirement from the Army will permit.
Ils friends are confident that
K
he announces his political affiliations
|
The first announcement of the
scheduled test was broadcast by the Stuttgart radio on Friday. The brandcast told the Germans that "there was no reason for turbance."~Associated Press.
"Alfred makes productive use of each minute of the day. While you've just been wasting time, HE has already won two games of solitaire.**
Some Neutrals Hang On
To German Assets
Geneva, Sept. 28-Progress in the settlement of the problem of German assets in neutral countries has been so slow that responsible British and American authorities ure considering the advisability of dumping the entire matter into the lap of the Inter-Allied Reparations Agency in Brussels, it was learned today.
British, French and the United ment of refugees.
Since the end of the war, the | reparations and the resettle-
States Governments have tried
In this copacity, the three Govern- to negotiate settlements with ments have acted as trustees for all Spanish, Allied Governments entitled to share Portuguese, Swedish, and Swiss Govern in German overseas assets under the ments, designed to get German Potsdam Agreement. assets and German loot in these countries liquidated, and the proceeds made available for
"I believe that if there is to be a the lessening of political and
Bocial struggles, the popular and Republl can Government the Coalition Government must be recreated.
"Only after the political elections next spring can Government by a single party be justified."
Signor Nenni added that having dissolved the constitutional problem with the advent of the Republic, they must now so reform the economic structure of the country as to nd- just the social inequality, which, in no other European country, is
INQUIRY INTO
INDIA RIOTS
he will say they are Republican. New Delhi, Sept. 28.-The
in the White House will pross
to the
acute as it is in Italy-Reiter.
Army Captain's
Death Denied
Those friends of his who want hura Prime Minister. Mr Aereally for a declaration of his politics. first refusing to interfere, finally Some of them are already claiming agreed to pass on
Rome, Sept. 29-Omicials at that Gen. Elsenhower is Republican. Dominion of India the Pakistan
the British Military hospital in of Kansas City, in Roy Roberts,
Government's suggestion for an particular, has been supporting the
Mestre on Sunday denied re- impartial inquiry into the causes ports in the Italian press that of the sub-continent's tragica Captain Victor Ring of the blood orgy, and the United Press British Army had died there. learned today that the Indian The hospital refused to give Government would consider the further information. proposal tomorrow.
Rc-
Bisnower boon along with Alfred Landon. Roberts wrote: "It is be generally accepted that Ceneral
Ike Elsenhower is publican, much
as a professional soldier who has never cast his lot with any party can be anything. He could not say what he was in the Army because it would not do to put himself in politics, but his Kansas "friends" have" no" "doubts where would line up."United. Press,
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NOTICE
General reaction to the Pakistan- suggestion seemed favourable Political sources thought it would be easy to establish who started the how it spread atrocities were on a greater scale than those in the East Punjab, where the Indian Government took strict measures against unruly mobs.
slaughter in most inst Punjab fled Ring as the man for whom a
and why
surgeon was
UPROAR IN
IRANIAN PARLIAMENT
height of a bitter attack against
Teheran, Sept. 28-At the
him and the regime, the Prime Minister, Gharam es Sultanch, walked out of the Malls today and, with an imperious gesture of the hand, summoned his Ministers and the majority de puties to follow suit.
As he left, the opposition de- puties ent-called and teered: while spectators fought and shouted in the galleries. There were probably 90 Ministers and deputies in the Prime "Minister's "wake when" he left;
were
Substantial results have been achieved. Switzerland gave up about $80,000,000 worth of gold which was proved to have been looted by the Germans from Belgium.
Some Dutch gold has been traced to Switzerland too, but the Swiss Government has not been asked for it yet. However, the Swiss have geted promptly as soon as gold has been proved to have been looted.
Sweden's Claim
Sweden claims that the Allies have nothing to say about German assets, but is quidating those assets on her The Swedes gave 50,000,000 own.
Albanian Spy Trial Sentences
Tirana, Sept. 28. - The People's Court today. sentenced 16 Albanians to death and eight others were given prison sen- tonces ranging from 16 years to life. after conviction on charges: of espionage for the United States.
Four defendanin were sentencest to life imprisonment, three to 20 years and one to 3 years.
The court did not set a date for the executions but prescribed that three of the gulity men be hanged and the remainder shol,
do-
The prosecution alleged that the defendants which included Opposi tion members in the Albanian Par- llament-were all In the pay of the United States mission which parted from Albanin Inst year. They were
to be also alleged engaged in spy work for Britain.
In the indictment the prosecution charged all 24 helped in a plot whereby the "Anglo-Americana In- tended to overthrow the people's Ds they had authority In Albanta realised it did not serve
their im- perialist designs."
The U.S. State Department had ometally flatly denied the charges.
The long drawn out trial began last September-United Press.
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The Italian press and the news agency Ansa said that Ring had died from two bullet wounds in the head.
Previously the Italian press identi-
The minority group of about 25 deserted left in a virtually
The Swedish authorities want to British Army brain flown to Italy early last week.
Chamber when the President closed give it mostly to Norway and Den- Two days ago British headquarters and naming Tuesday
the meeting after calling for order mark to whom they leaned money for the nexas part cancellation of these coup- said that on Italian workinan session. In contrast, the West Punjab Venice discoveral
tries' debts. British Government was sold in some suffering from a head injury and
Portugal has 10,000,000 gold that The Prime Minister's netion came quarters to be "not functioning neying in the hold of a barge behind during an Impassioned and bitter the Allies say they can identify bar for as law and order are concern- San Giorgio Island, Venice, on Sept- attack by an Azerbaijan deputy, by bar as looted mostly from the ed".
tember 22. The communique added Emani Aburi. The Opposition de Portugal has not yit given up any Netherlands, but up to the present, It WOS understood a-Pakistan that this man was taken to
son British military hospital in Mestre. with
the puly charged the administration statement sent to Mr Atlee
unbounded corruption and tained a long appraisal of the In- Associated Press,
called for a commission -In- vestigate all official acts.
diun situation. It dealt particular- ly with the riots in East Punjab and the influx of refugees Into Delhi.
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subject--United Press.
Battle Cholera
enrly
Wo
Control Of Oil
of it.
Apart from gold, the German ag- sets in neutral countries are pretty much untouched by the Allies,
Americans Tired
The tone of the meeting was act
. Spain has taken over the property by the Teheran Opposition deputy, Abbas Masoudl. He called of the German state and state agen cits. Sweden is eliminating Germon for the establishment of fully ownership slowly, but huge amounts. Iranian companies to exploit all
of assets of various kinda in Swit London, Sept. 28-Drugs to fight and all other natural resources.zerland, Portugal and the cholera epidemics in Calro and had made no
Spain still regretted that the
Minister Prime Karachi were being flown qut by
belong to Gerinars. In all these: mention of oll, and FAMOUS PHYSICIST almost every British Overseas Air- declared that if the Government did countries there is some kind of block.
not act at once to give Tranions, ing control, at least nominally. CRITICALLY ILL
complete control the minority would. The Swiss have agreed to liquidato present a bill to assure it.
theso German assets, but the execu Berlin, Sept. 28-Professor Max
The transportation of these drugs Plink, 86, recognised as
tion of an agreement has been stall- one of the mostly sulfaguanadine for
Such a bill, if adopted, would pro-ed for more than a year already. world's greatest physicists, was re-treatment of cholera and cholera hibit the Government from carry-
The Americans,in particular, aro ported today to be critically ill at a taccina for immunisation-began
ing out a 1948 oil agreement with | hospital in Goettingen, in the Amerindity
the Soviet Union for the setting up geting tired of being the goals of
endless fruitless
haggling with of a joint Solet-Iranian oll com neutrals over this money which is cluded
can zone of Germany, the news agency ADN reported.
ways Corporation plane leaving London for the East.
the
consignment, which
in
Prof Plink won the Nobel prize In Cole Penichi, went mainly to pany to exploit the northern pro- for the benefit largely of other Allled! 1020-United Press.
vinces.
Commonwealth Gold sumcient to inoculate 500,000 people sources and
Bank Reports Cape Town, Sept. 28-There was confirmation in authoritative quarters here today of a report from Johannesburg, published in the New York Post, that South Africa had proposed plan for the British Commonwealth Gold Bank to help solve Britain's dollar shortage."
The
provided for the British Commonwealth Gold, Bond to issue a rew Empire-wide currency, back- ed not only by the gold boing pro- duced within the Commonwealth but by undug gold reserves now mia- surable
geologic methods Reuter.
Yolan, according to the Now
Princess Dios
Governments. think
The Americans
are beginning tà that perhaps it would help to
to sell oil to foreld things up by letting all tho
The British Embassy in Cairo announced, tonight that three con- ment
Masoudl requested the "Govern-
to form signments of anti-cholera vaccine,
company with Iranian capital to develop all re- will be flown from Britain by the fastest aircraft on the Middle
buyers. East air route to growing, cholera plague in Egypt.
cope with the
Referring at one point to Iran's The first consignment of. 00,000 Anglo-Iranian vaccines is expected in Cairo in the said Bint it is not ready to see any Oil Company), he early hours of tomorrow. All three rivals or to see us exploit our own consignments are expected to reacholl or sell it."-Reuter. Egypt by Tuesday--Reuter.
BRITISH ASSETS
IN POLAND
་
members of the inter-Allied Re parations Agency.' descend on the neutrals demanding Observers closely
"principal all concessionaire" ·{the the programmer willi
MECCA PILGRIMAGE BANNED
Baghdad, Sept. 28,-Iraq-Mosleni Warsaw, Sept. 28-A British pilgrimage to the Holy City of Mecca Treasury delegation arrived today to in Saudi Arabia has been basice for open talks on payments for British this year because of the outbreak of holdings in properties nationalised cholera in Egypt, an Iraq Govern by the Polish Government. Zurich, Sept. 28-Princess Elsa visited Poland last December cati-
A British business mission which day.
ment communique announced to of Liechtenstein died from a heart mated the value of the holdings at attack at Lake, znnu, noor £15,000,000, Invested chicly In
electrical, transport, textile and ollped today,
rims.
French and Swedish delegations are expected for similor discussions. -Reuter
Lucerne, today.
The Princess, who was 72, was the wife of Prince Franz, former reign. ing Prince of Liechtenstein, who died in 1030-Reuter.
Air transport between Iraq, ENDL Faltste and India was also stop
The Arab League meeting, due to take place next week by Catro. will how be held in Beirut, capital of Libanon. Reuter.
nor
that thia would be a confusion
of failure. Allies have neither International law They point out, however, that as the precedent on their sido
in bargaining with the neutrals, the only way to get the neutrals to go along with their plans is to apply economic sanctions or by persistent moral pressure,
The United States, these observers point out, is the only country in a position to use economic sanctions and, having relected that policy im- war when it mediately after the might have worked, no officials connected with the programme, least of all noutrals, export the United States to start "goiting tough", Reuter.
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