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Nationalists Lose Vital Liaoning Corridor
SERIOUS REVERSE IN NORTH
Nanking, Jan. 29.-With the Communist capture of Sinlitun the Nationalists have lost control over the Peiping-Mukden rail line, the "last remaining artery of Manchuria" and the overland supply of isolated points was made impossible, informed sources here told Reuter-AAP tonight.
The 20-day fierce battle for Sinlitun, they said, marked the conclusion of the struggle for the vital Liaoning corridor which President Chiang Kai-shek ordered early in the month "must be defended at all costs."
With the definite freeze-up of the port of Liaotung till the end of March, the Nationalists' fast depleting air force will again be forced to undertake the colossal task of bringing up supplies and ammunition.
HMS Kent For The Scrapheap
London, Jan. 29,- Mr Edwards, Civil Lord of the Admiralty, said in the House of Commons today that the cruisers Danne, Dolhi, Cale- don, Colombo and Kent were immediately scrapping.
available
A new phase in the battle for Manchuria is coming up and Indies- tions are that the Communists are now including neutral military ob- In outpoints as tonight's reports
state heavy fighting has already broken out in the area above | Simming
AL
observers think the At present, Communists will probably enclrete Mukilen and wait for a populous disintegration (rather than risk an allout assault on the strongly de- fended city.
Such attacks may prove costly in the begining as Mukden has slinng
defeners and the Cimunists Back ar support.
October when they for
The careers of the ships are: HMS Danne, 4,850 tons, built at the end
DISINTEGRATED DEFENCE These same sources point out. the Communists' th offenalve Jost destroyed more han 80 percent of rail communica- tions In Manthurla, and attribute the
Nationalists defence foilure Sinlitan to insuficient supply lines
of World War 1 and after gond ser-and troops. vice in World War II wait handed tiver in 1944 to the Polish Navy.
Sinlitun, they said, was defended by only one division under General
FRIDAY, JANUARY 30, 1948.
Jo the
territory whereas at present This arra has shrunk to three or four percent, Even this was said to be an optimistle extimate.
While the Communists Northeart now have 500,000 under arms and are additionally able to muster another 1,000,000 if necessary, the Nationalists have only 500,000 or under-Reuter,
Paris Arrest Of Viet
ומחר
Nam Delegate
Paris, Jan. 20.– Tran Nghe Dank, head of the permanent Viet Nam delegation in France, was arrested in Paris today on charges alleging acts against
public.
|
Umberto Lays Claim To
£1,000,000
London, Jan. 29.-Lawyers representing ex-King Umberto of Italy are expected here this week to ask the British Cavern. ment to release £1,000,000 in Treasury Bonds deposited in Britain before the war by the late King Victor Emmanuel, Umberto's father.
An Italian spokesman said a legal battle over the terms of agreement by which the Italian Government undertook to restore Italian properties in Britain to their owners is almost certain.
The Italian Covernment is understood to have claimed the property belonging to the ex-King as well as that of ali other Italian nationals a total value of £8,000,000,
Ex-King Victor is said to have held other investments in other countries, In Argentina he is said to have had about £100,000,-Reuter,
NARROW ESCAPE FOR MAYOR WU
Knocked Down By Students
Shanghai, Jan. 30.-Up to the small hours of this morning, police and Shanghai garrison officers were still processing" students of the National Tung Chi University following the manhandling of Mayor K. C. Wu by five students yesterday after-
noon.
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Schuman Seeks Withdrawal Of
F5000 Notes
FINANCE COMMITTEE
REJECTS BILL
Paris, Jan, 29.-The absence of one-member-
a Moderate deputy-resulted in the technical rejec- tion today by the French National Assembly's Finance Commission of the bill to withdraw 5,000 franc notes.
The Assembly was not bound by the commis sion's decision, it was pointed out. The commission had considered the bill in an advisory capacity.
The commission had accepted
a draw
all 5,000 Franc notes Sucialist amendment that na levy in
from creuiation. In favour of the State
the meantime, he should be Im-ordered the publle not to accept the posed on holders of the notes and notes, one of the most widely used
that the Government decree Jaws in France.-United Press. should decide the manner of ro- imbursement.
1
Other clouses of the bill were adopted individually by tie com-
for
whole bill
the commission
PACIFIC WAR
WAS
NO SURPRISE
mission by 21 votes to 20. It was then that the was brought before
the vole. The close vote in the commission was taken as a forecast of a heated discussion in the bill was to be treated as urgent. the Assembly where COVT'S FUTURE AT STAKE The Prime Minister, M. Rober! Assembly tonight what be called the Britain's Attempts To Schuman, emphasised in the National "exceptional gravity" of the bill withdraw 5,000 franc notes. He
Bluff Japan the debate the character of a semi- gave
that the future of the Government oficial vote of confidence by saying depended on its being approved.
The session was suspended until 0.30
p.m. GMT.
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HMS Delhi, 4,850 tons, completed Peru Sint-ku which was "complete- the integrity of the French Ro. Mayor, Wu, the Garrison Cerartinversity after 3,000 police and garri- transaction settled by the payment of both
in 1910 and defed 203 air attacks by disitegrated with the loss of the during the fount period of her dis-¦rity. Moreover, this tinguished service in the Mediter- ranean.
Vint
has
division was A spokesman of the delegation. trained in the tropical
climate of confirm news of the arrest, de- Burma and their fighting strength clined to give any details. HMS Colours, 1.200 tons, com- wan sapped by the Siberian winter Tran Ngue Danh pleted
been ita in 1911 d up since the war now gripping the whole of the North- Paris since September, 1948. He pro- during which sne say considerable; cast.
posed last March in the name of the active service in the Mediterranean.: Their hope of salvation was Gen-
BMS Kent, exampleted in 1928 as eral Fan
Nam Government that France Fan-chieh's mechanisert
should one of the Graf-mit-of-10.000)-tom-frnapt hitt these did not arrive on
suspend hostilities in Indo- China and open iniks with Dr Hu County Class crtusers. She was one time lo tip the scale.
Chi Minh, President of the Viet Nam of the force that rank 10 of the i These somers said the questions Nazi vessels in a convey off Skager now facing Nailonalists
Republic
The French Minister of Alan- the Interior then said that he was Rak.
churia is not how to defend the re- not recognised as a Viet Nam dele- HMS Caledon, 4,180 tons. com- maling pints, but how to with-ate to France. picted in 1917.
The oldest cruiser | draw from isolated spots like Char His deputy, Duong Pac Maj, was the Royal Navy's effective chun, Kirin and Szepingkal and half arrested fasi March and taken strength. Refitted in 1926-27.
dozen other points now encircled Saigon for trial on a charge of mur- was announced | by the Communists for manydering three Frenchnen while leader that four battleships. Queen months.
of a Viet Nam security forer. Elizabeth, Nelson, Rodney
and
POLICE SET TRAP Tran Ngue Danh's arrest place early today, according to the Paris evening paper "Intransigenat." The Intrigeant sah): "At live o'clock this morning (4 a.m. GMT) 40 policemen arrived at No. 45 Avenue Ranelagh but Tran Ngue Danti was not at home..
an
Last Wednesday
it
Valiant and battlecruiser, Renown, tionalists first
They recalled that when the Na- entered Manchuria would be scrapped---Reuter.
thes controlled 20 percent of the
EDITORIAL
General Maltby's Despatch
【AJOR-GENERAL C. M. Malt-
MA
ta
by's oficial despatch, published today, describes In painful detail and sombre tone how Hongkong valuly strave restal the Japanese Invasion In 17 days of continuous fighting. It Is a document which, for the most part, eonflems Impressions and convictions long held by almost
Wody who was in Hongkong Close agonising days; the prime importance of the dispatch. therefore, is that it knowledze.. Impression sents the
and de. cisions
of the military comman der who, evrnlually, had to ad- vise the Governer that "no fur- ther useful military resistance is possibic," In dealing with preparations made for the fance of the mainland. General Maliby's theme is clearly one of "too little and too late." As Inte ax November 10 a new
defence plan was introduced be carried
the de:
out from half-prepared positions,
but "the time was too short
for
WAY
either of the new flank battalions to be practised properly in their defence ralca....It was,
Indeed. unfortunate that the timing events occurred in such a that the Japanese attack develop- ed when of the six batiallons in the carrison, only two knew their roles
exact and preciso detail,” The unpreparedness of the regu- Iar troops to withstand termined Japanese invasion
1
do-
J
General
also underscared by Maltby's notation: "The 2nd Bat- tallon of the 14th Punjab Regi- ment had had one demonstration of three-Inch mortars, and
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preliminary shooting at all, with two-inch." General Maltby con- fesses that the defence plan was a strategicat gamble which falled to came off, but much more strik- Ing Is the admission that the Japanese as competent fighters were underestimated.
very
brea
to
#t:
A trap was then set and the police arrested him when he arrived.
with
Two Mystery Deaths
once
men had
i
The attack occurred when the Throughout last night, police and Mayor attempted to persuade the garrison inen combed
the campus students to give up their intention of for students in the hunt for the five procce:ling! to Nanking to protest who had assaulted the Mayor.
gainst the University's dismissal of A dramatic scene took place whlic 12 students.
the Mayor was conferring with the Bloodshed
was only
avolded police and university officials. through the timely efforts of Mayor
The
police Wu, who, knocked down and pinned bespectacled
brought in a tall, white-faced to the ground by several students, whom the Mayor immediately ideal
student shouted to the police, and garrison tied as one of his attackers.
nen, coming to his rescue, not
The to student pro.ested: "No sir, I didn't
BY HAROLD GUARD open tire under any circumstances. hit you."
Hitherto, eight students have been "You can tell that to the Court." Most pay packets were made up which will be published in mid- London, Jan. 29.-General taken into custody by the
Percival's Malaya dispatches, police the Mayor answered. "These police of 5,000-franc notes and Frenchmen while eight constables have suffered officials and reporters were ntnar injuries when the students They saw it happen with their own personal effects of the notes with left in Sir Robert Brooke- there, were today trying to estimate the February, will All in the blanks stoned them.
Further arrests are experted be-you deny that?"
eyes. They saw you hit me.. Can drawal.
Under the bill introduced in the Popham's and Gen Maltby's re- fore the "penenesing" is conded
Tunaoediately
PELTED WITH STONES after
Assembly the uples would cease to ports and provide a final crush- the attack.
Mayor Wit appeared at the
uni-be legal tender from today and any ing answer to the harsh critics dey, Lieutenant General Hisun wu, the Police
surrounded
the Hongkong and the of these antes was null and void. Commissioner. Arson Schobern Yu, and the presidents of sturlents from staging a parade on menire
in order to prevent campus
Singapore defenders. The opinion the
in French Parlla- eight universities, conferret AFL
eircles today
An appraisal of the official dis their
was .that ways and means of settling the
way to the North railway
holders
of small quantities of the patches thus for confirmed General station. ident amicably.
nutes
Archibald When the Mayor approached the folders of large quantities, it was not prepared in any aspect for wor
full restitution. receive
Wavel's declaration in on March 1942 in New Delhi; "We were main gate, student delegates insisted thought, would receive part restitu- in the Far East" that the Mayor order the nounted Bion, with the balance turned com police and garrison troops guarding pulsorily into the Government'
The official reports -tend to blame- the entrance to withdraw to a dis-anti-inflation loan now also under
the ineffective British intelligence tance of 50 paces from the gates.
consideration-Reuter.
und ometaldom's turning a blind eye The Mayor complied with this re-
SOCIALISTS' APPROVAL
real intentions. to Japan's quest. No sooner had the mounted Paris,
I am able to reveal, however, from 29.--The unstables moved back
French the than the government's emergency programme
highest authority, that the students began to pelt thei
with to establish
British free market in gold th
government, long prior to stones causing the horses to rear up. and withdraw all 5,000 Frane notes cornisant of Japan's ultimate Inten- outbreak of war, was fully from circulation was virtually as- tion to declare war on both Britain sured of passage by the National and the United States.
War was Assembly When approved Socialist Party.
by the petually expected to commence the government ordered non-aggression pact with Russia in 1930 but was thwarted by Germany's all banks and the Paris Bourse August of that year.
days to discourage during
the Assembly
WU'S THREE POINTS Earlier, the Mayor had laid down three points for the termination of the incident, firstly, the arrest of the 12 students whose dismissal had led students of the school to decide on a protest journey 10 Nanking the cause of the entire incident; secondly, the students to resume classes today; students who attacked thirdly, the the Mayor to be handed police custody.
over lo
BAYONETTED
TO DEATH
Jewish DP Tries To
Resist Arrest
Upstairs Tenants, Please Note
would
Earlier
Jan.
that
be, closed two speculation
in
DEFENCES DENUDED Meanwhile, Britain's For Enstern defences were denuded: 1. by Mussolini's Mediterrancan threat In 1935 when Italy invaded Abyssinia, 2. With the outbreak of war with Germany in 1939.
reported
every
decision embark on a campaign of nimed at advertising netltious British strength in the For
(Continued on Page 4)
Mayer said he would introduce to East. the Assembly the bill today to with-
UN Recommends Jewish Militia Force
Southend, Jan. 20.-As she moves debate on the free gold market.. around her upstairs flat In Rutland The
withdrawal of 5,000 Frane Avenue, Thorpe Bay, Miss Peggy notes, representing more than one Inch-White's heels go tap, top, tap. third of the
of Francs in This tapping has lost her
number the circulation is considered to be a tenancy of flat
heavy blow at the black market tur- "It is a most annoying sound in an rency speculators. The arrest of the Viet Nam re-
upstairs room, espeically if they are
The British intelligence This denomination | presentative in Paris prover
bil has been fully all Japanese preparations, em- high heels," Judge Andrews sald at widely used in black market deals. phasining that again that France has definitely
Stuttgart, Jan. 29.1 Jewish
the Southend County Court. "Miss If the banks follow previous practices against
the Japanese war decided to negotiate
displaced person died today as a Inch-White must leave
Chinn was
Inrgely Emperor Bao Dai and not with nay:
result of being hayonetted
her fat in they will by three months."-Reuter.
question the holders of elaborate camouflage to disguise the Communist elements in Indo-China.
American troops when he resisted
large numbers of these bills whereul Japanese strength. British In- It is still early, however, to judge
arreat during the search of a
presented for c
exchange.
telligence reports covered A two-day banking holiday was aspect of Japanese war preparations, "The pace
eventual the
Jewish displaced persons camp at consequences
BURGLARS' HAUL which of the advaner was surprisingly
such an arrest could inve in Indo-
Roldenbrim, near Stuttgart.
announced Newbury, Jan. 20-Burglars brake Rene Mayer. Banks ordered to close Truk, Formosa and Hainan Island.
by the Finance Minister: Including detalled reports from Yap, fast, the troops were lightly China itself."-Reuter.
The United States Army head-Into Highclere Castle, the residence today und Friday, Mayer said, would equipped and must have
quarters said tonight the dead man of the Earl of Carnavon, and
The British War Office cot, be permitted to reopen on Saturday was to accomplish
the
was bayonetted after he had hit
20 aaway with
family miniatures because the free gold bill is expected deception marches
undertaken....It was
guard and attempted to escape. valued at £400 and £00 in cash. obvious that the enemy syslem of
Army searchers reported
to be approved by then. Lord Carnavon: 15 they had,
In the United Intelligence
uncovered counterfeiting equipment States-Reuter. was most complete
manufacturing United States dollars ......The efficiency of the enemy air force Was probably The
and occupation
the scrip within greatest surprise 10 me--my
camp. The soldiers also discovered Impression at the time
55 gold coins, roubles, marks and Reneral was that either the
Japanese London, Jun. 29-Scotland Yard is
livestock hidden in the camp. pilots had reached a surprisingly Investigating the death mysteries of
THIRTY-EIGHT ARRESTED high standard of training or that two women who net their deaths As a result German pilota were leading their during Tuesday night in the Actonplaced persons were reported Algkita," When milliary
area at spots cam-
about
miles have been arrested by noon today. four manders and their staff.
officers
| apart.
Meanwhile, in Jerusalem Fawzi form a Jewish militia in Pales-The security problem will be out-have refused to have anything to do show by a
of The women were: Miss efficiency
Sylvia El Kauki, Commander-in-Chief of tine at "the earliest possible lined in a special report which the with the Palestine Commission, so be expeel- Styles, 26, found strangled in a lane the Arab forces in Palestine, issued n date."
the effect of today's decision will be. five-member Commission will sub-tu mobilize only Jewz. ed from
trained any modern
leading to the Duke of Northumbering his men that they should be tain internal law and order, should report to the Couneli. Although it volved in the probable size of the
Arst "order of the day" today, warh- fighting forces. It is little wonder
mit to the Security Council, The Innd's estate
The militia, at Syon Park, Isle-
Intended to main Commission completed its first regular that the defending troops have worth, Middlesex and Miss Frances prepared to meet about 42,000 arm-be set
The Commission did not get in- small chance of successfully
up even before the British was not made, publle immediately, Manners, 27, whose body was re-ed Jews.
mandate in Palestino ends, the Com-It was known to warn of approaching proposal for a force of 30,000 covered from the Grand Union Canal sisting the assault. General Afalt-
Jewish militia, The Jewish Agency undoubtedly by and his aides
for the 2, saa the border som missen, discisco of the Philippines chaos in Palestine. at Harlesden after a scream had been brigade group," sald the order from heard.
J. Francisco Arab
guerilla headquarters to Its as a
more was larger than original If the second case is a crime, it,
one-man sub-committee to "field
Held forces."
The UN
pectations for an carry on detalled negotiations with voting for partition of Palestine into General Assembly, in
Internal police like the first, appears to be motive- The Jewish
force. forces would also Great less,
Britain and tho Include: The investigators are not
Jewish Arab and Jewish States, provided. onc battery of 12 25 Agency-which has already promis- that cach new state would have a over-pounders (Britain's best field gun): fullest co-operation and speedy loent militin.
Negotiations for the formation of looking the possibilly that they four "Honey" tanks (United States mobilisation of a militia of 30,000 has pressed for speedy formation of Some Commission sources fear that a force must solve the dimcult prob The Jewish Agencylem of where it would get arms, were the work of a man affected by light tanks used in the Western to 35,000 men, moon madness. It was a full meon Desert fighting); anti-aircraft guns:
militin to help protect the Jewish the British authorities will object on Monday.
and at least 400 trained sappers and start discussing tomorrow the ap- although the UN did not plan the before the British give up control
also agreed to residents from Arab attacks, Although nothing has yet been mining experts.
a new armed organisation operating discovered which links the two oc-
parent need for nn International militia as a group to fight against Bround May 15. This is one of the The Jews had currences,
ammunition detectives
for army in Palestine. This International International aggression. have not about three ruled out this possibility-Reuter.
months, the order force would be in addition to the
problems Mr Francisco probably will added.---Reuter.
Jewish militia.
have to iron out when he starts talks.
United Press.
Bre
Burmally to
the
were confronted with a task of great camplexity, but taking into consideration the mitigating circumstances which made defence dimoult, there is nothing In the Commanding Ofleer's des- patel to suggest that at any time was there inspired or enterpria- ing staff work. Much of it, in. fact, appears
to have been naive as parts of General Ralt- by's official diary.
да
Lake Success, Jan. 29-The;
of the Fald 30 dis- United Nations Palestine, Com-, For Palestine
10 mission today agreed to try to
The Commission
The Palestino Commission, in de ciding to go ahead with mobilisation
of militia, emphasised that it also sought to form an Arab militia for the Arab State. However, the Arabs
or
ex~