TENSE SITUATION ON SHANGHAI'S LABOUR FRONT
Shanghai, Nov. 23.-Both foreign and Chinese officials are keeping a sharp eye on the internal "situation in Shanghai, where they feel that the growing tenseness and unrest on the labour front could make the city, susceptible to pressure from inside, which is more dangerous than a Red military threat from the outside.
Exclusive
Education
Oklahoma City, Nov.
2%
of
G. W. McLaurin, the first negro to attend the Univerally Oklahoma. was denied the Federal Court today his plea to attend classes ORA non-segre-
gated basis.
ruled that court The McLaurin is receiving equal with educational opportuniles
the white students, but added t Is "within the power of the State to recognise racial distino- tions between its citizens and to classify them
Last
September
McLaurin.
br
who is seeking a doctor's degree in education, was ordered to ba admitted to the university
couri. Since then he has the been attending classes, altting.in an adjoining room which per- mits him to see and hear the profesora-Heater,
STALIN SAID
American official sources nd- mitted that food, labour and the high cost of living factora were as much responsible for the warnings to American nationals to leave the city as the Chinese Communist Huccesses on the battlefield.
The Shanghai Municipal Council the openly recognised yesterday
when it held a aituation
special meeting to discuss factors that could discontented ripe make the city's for n push-over by a Red under- ground uprising and call for action In co-ordination with Red military action.
One American source told tho United Press: "Anyone interested
cyc
In Shanghal's future will be making does not a terrible mistake if he keep a close on the labour situation.' He referred to the wave of strikes in mills, theatres, customs and docks; slowdowns on trolley and bus lines; demonstrations by rail- way workers and other labour groups highly vocal in protests against conditions and in demands.
A growing Hat of factories-
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, $y! TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1948.
Tojo Learns His Fate US Stand On
Hideki Tojo (right) walks past a guard as he leaves.
the courtroom after learning from the International Mili- tary Tribunal that he had been found guilty
crimes and sentenced to death-AP Picture.
of
SAID including machine makers, tobacco, CORRUPTION TRIBUNAL:
SEEKING
NEW YALTA
cotton and electrical equipment plants-informed the city of their shutting down because the labourers refused to return although the first demands were met.
At the City Council meeting, lashed Pan Kung-chan chairman out at opportunists and condemned
spirit
among the
of defeatism
Melals and those government
unpatriots and "nervous hysterical egoistic persons who have begun to Hongkong and In seek refuge Talwan."--United Press.
NOT HOPELESS
war
Belcher Indignant, Says Witness
ot Mr Belcher asked in-
Palestine Is Severe Blow
London, Nov. 22.-The United States decision to reaffirm sup- port for the United Nations General Assembly's partition plan of a year ago has come as a severe blow to British poli- tical opinion.
London official quarters are de- pressed at the split between British and American polley on Palestine, which the Brilish Government at- templed to heal two months ago by supporting the amended partition proposals by Count Bernadotte.
This decision involves aminjor shift of British policy, which lind bren, consistently opposed to any solution for Palestino which was not acceptable to both Jews and Araba,
As a result of the latest United
States decision. announced last
Saturday by the American delegate nt the United Nations, Dr Philip Jessup, the British and American Is now divided by the crucial policy
possession
of the Negev, question of awarded to the Jews under General Assembly's resolution a year age and to the Arabs under the Bernadotto Plan.
the
Today'
''s official Soviet statement. rejecting the Bernadotte Plan
Assembly's resolution
favour the
of
nets the three-power position
Palestine back to
on
that of a year ago, when, on the face of it, the United States and the Soviet Union
closer together on Palestine either was to Britain.
нем than
JEWISH EXPANSION London quarters, ste a defnile possibility that Jewish expansion, making the most of the uncertainty over which partition plan will be put into effect, will extend to the Jewish areas covered by both plans. Thre is every reason to suspect fear that serious fighting will sgala break out if the Jews, .em- Boldened by their recent successes, should
attempt to encroach on terr!- tory occupied by Transjordan and the Iraqi forces, and to push thwards the Egyptian frontier the south.
oni
In
British opinion also fears the
sembly plan. of His Majesty's · Government/ do
the
London, Nov. 22-The Judicial Tribunal inquiring into accusations of corruption among Ministers and Government officials heard today evidence of the attitude of the Parlia
use to United Nations prestiga which would result from a Jewish mentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, Mr John (Belcher. Defusal to withdraw to the truco positions of October 14, because' of The football pool promoters, Belcher protested strongly the American backing for their posses-
tion of the Negev under
As- Harry and Abe Sherman, had accusation. been in communication with the dignantly: "Do you suppose Ministers
According to London diplomatic agent, Sidney Stanley, to ar- this sort of thing-take money from quarters, Britain's decision to sup- range an increase in their paper people?"
port the
Bernadotte Plan Was allocation. They were "very
Mr Williams, Assistant Secretary motivated in part by a hope that perturbed" to hear from Stanley of the Empire Parliamentary Asso-Anglo-American solidarity on Pales- He arrived here from Paris, where that he had used money to bribe; ciation, said that as they left the Une would assist the United Nations
Mr Belcher.
hotel, Mr. Belcher said of Stanley: in adopting and enforcing a policy At a meeting in the Savoy Hotel "What a rotter he must be" and how which would enhance its prestige foolish the Shermans had been to and bring peace to the Middle East.
--Reuter. trust him.
New York, Nov. 22-The magazine, Business Week, to- day expressed the opinion that "Moscow la now using the Berlin crisis to angle for another Yalta deal. That's what lies behind Vyshinsky's bid for a
San Francisco, Nov. 23.-China's meeting of Stalin with Presi- dent Truman and Premiers present plight is "not hopeless by America "must Attlee and Queuille. It would any means", but
become ап ardenal!'
in the fight 24 against Communism in Asia. Dr cover the Japanese treaty well as one for. Germany and Peng Hsuch-pel, adviser Austrin," it said.
Chinese cabinet, told Interviewers on "Moscow's idea is to use Berlin Sunday.. as a bargaining counter to get from Truman the kind of concessions he got from Roosevelt The United States. Britain and France have re- Jected this idea. They refuse talk even about Germany until the blockade i Urted.
"But the
initiative remains
Stalin's hands.
Berlin
to
to the
he had been a delegate to the United Nations Assembly.
"Despite losses in Manchuria," he Eald, "we have stemmed the Com- munist drive in Central China. We instill hold a large part of China.
He con still use United to, firstly, draw
"But we must have old," he added quickly, "arms and military equip- trans-
States attention from the Commu- ment from America. With nist ndvance in China, This is shifting the balance of power in the portation facilities lacking in South
China, America must become, our
Far East against the United States,ursenal." All Southeast Asla could collapse it Washington does not come up soon with
a changed policy for the Pacific. Secondly, Stalin can keep up war tension in Europe which is forcing the Marshall plan nations to in rearma-
divert their resources ment."—United Press,
WAR ON RELIGION
Washington, Nov. 22-The House
Un-American
of
Aviation equipment and plans should make up a large share military aid supplied, he suggested. "The recent defeat of the Commu- mist armies of Hsuchow was largely through the fine showing of the air force."
JAPANESE ARMS Chinese Communist forces Activities Committee
armed seized from the
re-
in London, they told Mr what Stanley had said.
Belcher
A witness, Mr David Rufus Williams, who was present at the Interview, told the Tribunal that Mr
TEAHOUSE
STABBING
ICE CREAM SELLER CHARGED
Mr. Belcher added that in public life one must be careful about one's associates. Stanley had been intro- duced to him by someone "high up" In the Labour Party and he had accepted his acquaintance.
PHONE CALL
en-
Mr Williams agreed that he had been convicted in 1936 for fraudulently converting money trusted to him. Mr Willams sald after he had been approached by the -Sherman-brothers with the story that money they had given Stanley had been misused by him to bribe Mr Belcher, someone had phoned him.
The unknown person mold: "If you are interested in the Sherman business, keep out of it. Keep off the_grass."-
End Of Strike
1
Hopes Dim
offer "has given
New York, Nov. 22-Hopes for a swift settlement of the costly 13- day-old East Coast dock workers' strike faded today when the Union turned down a compromise plan proposed by the shipowners.
Joseph
Ryan, President of the AFL International Longshoremen's Association, said at the end of a three-hour meeting with the owners How a teahouse toki was stabbed
that the compromise based on the Iwice in the abdomen, necessitating |
welfare employers' n surgical operation at the Kowloon
us no concessions". Hospital, was told before Mr Justice
"We have no right to submit this Gould not a jury of six men and a
Mr to our membership because it woman at the Criminal Sessions this John Belcher about the phone call. different from the proposition re- in the United States by infiltrating Japanese at the end of the Pacifie
Belcher churches and church organisations, war, he added,
morning when Li Hong-tung, 25. ice Mr
said: "Do not worry Jected by the members," he added. cream seller, of Johore, Malaye. about it. I will deal with it, Σ The Committee said that the
to maliciously think I know who it is."
"We have told the conciliators we Reds should seize power in this conference and hand over the arms pleaded not guilty
wounding Mong Kau, fokl of the
Asked who it was, Mr Belcher in committee any offers the em
are willing to sit down and discuss country, "you would have to choose to the Chinese Communists with a at nace between church and Com did the Communista run along the
flourish," he smiled. "But neither Wosung Teahouse, 833 Canton Road, would not say any more. He had ployers may have, but we want
on October 7. Accused pleaded muilly been
surprised
that Mr Belcher had sak he know who the caller was. thing we can offer to our mem- road and pick up guns as they were to possession of a dagger. dropped by Japan's Manchurian Mr W. A Blair-Kerr, Assistant Mr Williams said that after he The shipowners plan called for
- said on Monday that Communists main well organised, and
seeking to "corrupt" religion with weapons
orc
munis...
"The Russians did not call a press
armies."
10
Mr Williams said
fold
no
the men to return to work pending negotiations on the welfare plan. which the Union had requested high on its list of demands when it cut its until wage demands from 50 to 25 cents
an hour.-United Press.
"If you should choose the church, then prepare for persecution.”-
Crown Solicitor, together with Det-spoke to Me Belcher, there were ed The House group's views are set
Insp. J. R. Sykes, prosecuted. more telephone calls and he thought forth in a pamphlet entitled,
"One Speaking of the criticism of Mr Blair-Kerr said that after the possibly Mr Belcher must have done Hundred Things You Should Know Generalissimo Chlang Kai-shek's About Communism and Religion." govemment, Dr Peng said "Chiang accused had had tea and a bowl of something.
beef and rice, he went the
The
Tribunal adjourned It is one of a series of committee is aware of the corruption that
with the bowls in his hand tomorrow-Reuter. counter reports to be
to be published before the exists. I am sure he has latended
and banged them down. He accused end of the year dealing with Com- to clean up, especially in the lower the necountant and ether fokis of munist influences and threats to sirala, but to say such corruption having spot at him or otherwise various phases of American life. exists throughout the government is abused him. A foki appeared sti
Forthcoming reports will focus an exaggerated."--Associated Press. Communism in education, labour and
government.
ENEMY NUMBER ONE
You cannot be a Communist and Yunnan-Indo-China sheaf. Mong Kau, who was stand-
believe in God," the report said. "That is the long and short of it. You cannot belleve In God and havo a peaceable life under Communism. "In all their plans, the Commu- nista mark down religion as enemy number "one,
Train Robbed
Kunming, Nov.
22. More
the scene and nakert the accused whether he had paid his bill, where- upon the accused lifted his Hawalan Jacket and showed a dagger in a
the doorway, shouted ing at attract the Police.
Accused then made to leave and Kau he was passing Mong than stabbed him in the stomach
ns
10
chase, accompanied
fakis. other
he 218
50 passengers on a Yunnan-Indo- Mong gave China trein were rabbed on Satur by day evening at a point about 200 kilometres from Kunming.
By putting wood and rocks on the track, the bandits, numbering more than 50, stopped the train.
"Where they dominate, they at- tack it head on. Where they do not dominate, they try to deceive and corrupt from within, just a they do in government, in educa- tion, in labour unions, and through They opened fire during the at- a nation's general life,"
tack and killed one railway guard The Committee said the YMCA and wounded three passengers.- and the YWCA are both Commu-Central News, miat "targets," with the Reds' trying
to "dig Into such groups any way and any time-they can."--Associated Press,
HK AMATEUR
GIRL SETS FIRE
TO HERSELF
NOWE-
and
re- the accused
CHENNAULT COULD
ALTER BALANCE
Shanghai, Nov. 23.—Maj Gen. Claire L. Chennault to- day predicted that If another "Flying Tigers” organisation takes to China's skies, the military balance would swing in favour of the Government in short order.
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(Continued from Page 1).
No such threat. would deter the 97 percent; Cevennes 06 percent; Government from its course, minia-Acquitaine-72 percent; and Pro
vence-45 percent. ters said.
fifth columnists.”—-Associated Press.
to
ita
CHALLENGED TO SABRE DUEL
"He added that the coal output on Mr T. Hollway, the Prime Minis-
Saturday was 122,700 tons coin- ter of Victoria, returning to Mcl-
overseas holiday.pared with a normal daily "average Accused fell
of Talyuan bourne from an The lifting of the siege of force now, the alego got up. stabbed
three days, would be lifted in three days, with said on Monday, "I have.coma hack of 105,000 tons,-Reuter. Mong again in the abdomen. Ac-Talyuan within
"I think the measago from the Australian Communists, but Russlan cused continued to run, followed by "with the Communists high the Reds hightalling it into the hills: convinced that we are not fighting
Air Force Association the fokis. He ran up to the roof of talling it into the hills." was '14th 79. Walching Street where he was mentioned by Gen. Chennault as Washington is more significant than
DUNKIRK DOCKERS Those caught. The dagger was found under a specific example of how the appears on the surface. a water tank. On the way to the Flying Tigers could swing into boys were all veterans of the war in
Parla, Nov. 22. The 800 Dunkirk Chinn. They fought here and they dockers, who last night voted. police station he stated that the dog-
action.
ild not have a very good time doing resume work, today decided to re- cer was his.
ACCUSED IDENTIFIED, In a United Press Interview, the
Paris, Nov. 22-Maitre Rena is that they are main on strike in protest against the wartime head of the Flying Tigers---
significance At the station,
more formally known as American willing to volunteer their lives to arrest of their union local secre.ary. Florist, the lawyer in the current Duffleul, was Paris trial of the Cagoulards, the peated the allegations that he had Volunteer Group before it became fight against Communism. Before, The secretary. Ma been spat upon and that the fokis the 14th Army Air Force
yesterday charged with "interfering hooded
menin Prowar French in the tenhouse were armed with Pearl Harbour—rovealed that should they fought the Japanese. Now they with the right to woric, after the Fascist organisation — was today are ready to fight something else various kinds of weapons.
efforts to revive tho Volunteer which they realise is just as dan action of the strikers last week in challenged by one of the witnesses. Rome, Nov. 22----Italian
Mong Kau's wounds penetrated the Group get the green light from rerous to the American way as the barricading themselves in the pori. General Chauvin, to a sabro duel
Police and troops ejected the popers, today demanded an Invest!- gation of the suicide of a 22-year-old abdominal wall, and he was operated Washington and Nanking, he would Japanese ever were."
Malire Florlot, who is appearing Gen. Chennault did not discount strikers and occupied the area on
Saturday. servant girl, Desmona Palombi, who
for the family of a policeman killed In the witness-box, Mong have ready a detailed plan of the set fire to her clothes
the possibility that the revival of the and killed
organisation.
In a Paris bomb incident in Septem- The general did not disclose de- Flying Tigers would have repertus- French North-African troops were ber 1947, alleged to have been Mr Robert A. Dlater,
Hong- herself in a police cell where she was Kau, who is still under treatment the Judge und
that almost but sald
all siens from Russia
today unloading a Belgian cargo ship caused by the kong amateur photographer,
Cagoulards, wAS has held because her employer suspected in Hospitul, told
diamond ring Jury of what happened in the Wo-bombers, fighters, transports, liaison, Gen. Chennault said: "Moscow which had brought cotton
stated to have declared that the bean okicted an Associate of the her of the theft of a
sung Teahouse.
end. other planes would go crazy, and there is a pos-phosphates from Tunisia. Police Roval Photographic Society, London, worth about £110.
General's evidence regarding the ins that they might throw a patrolled the town and the port, Mr Blair-Kerr.. Did you spit on reconnaissance
needed "can be found in China right siblilty
eldent was "les.” Mr Bates is well known in local Newspapers asked why the girl
now." He said that so far ho has Russian counterpart of the Tigers
In Boulogne, dockers resumed General Chauvin asked. the ring was not the accused? photographic circles. He has been was held when"
Witness: No.
Malire from on the side of the Chinese Reds, n-Vice-President of the Photographic found in her possession, why she was
Florlot, to withdraw the allegations Did you assault him in any not received any indication
Washington
the State even though that would be a clear work today. in its disappearance way?-No. Society (of Hongkong, of which he implicated
vival violation of the Sino-Soviet fronty You seem to be in pain am Department feels about the
added'
of friendship." of the Flying 'Tigers, but feeling pain in my stomach,
He said the Chinese Reds should
to continue not be allowed Cross-examined by accused. "If everything clears the necessary Mong Keu anid it was not true that diplomatic channels, it will not be operation of factorios, arsenals and
Long before we will have something mines which they now control was: North-70 percent; Loire-83 seconds of the General tomorrow The trial is. proceeding,
"I tell you this." If I had this air United Press.
ELECTED ARPS
Is also a founder member, as well as when no evidence was produced and Hon.
Secretary for several years. why the flome Police kept the affair
The was one of the judges at the secret for: 48 hours.
on by Dr Moore.
Seated
recent denternational Salon ofThe girl ruffered for 40 hours Pictorial Fold pay sponsored by from the burns before dying accused stabbed him only once the Socio y which has just closed. Router.
ct
how
<
A National Cohf Administration and apologias, of to settle the dis spokesman told Router today that pute by a sabro: duel Maitre: the the percentage of miners now at Floriot has selected two seconds who work in the French mining areas are reported to be meeting the Lpercent; Blanzy (Saone et Lutra)} Reuter.
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