THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948.
Tientsin Authorities Remove Begging Troops From The Streets
Tientsin, Dec. 6.-Local authorities are removing from the streets hungry, begging Nationalist soldiers which have straggled into this old treaty port from their Manchurian battlefields of defeat.
Removal from the streets to camps and shipment to the south of more than 10,000 of these demorallsed soldiers has released one tension in this city which, like Peiping, is awaiting the arrival of the Communists. The Reds have units. within 30 miles of here, but as yet have made no war-like bid for Tientsin.
CHINA GETS ECA AID
More Already
Beaten by the Reds, in some casos captured and then freed, stragglers drifted into Tientsin for a wel- come as crisp and cool as the weather. The stragglers were broke and dispirited, most far from their southern homes. Some were wounded in body, most wounded in spirit.
were
Despite the frosty reception-there was no municipal or military programme of aid for them until a few days So for ago the stragglers were not guilty of exceases.
physical indulged in. as can be learned they had not violence. Their arrival by twos, twenties and hundreds gave considerable concern to foreigners but the troops do not seem to have bothered them unduly.
On The Way Five
Washington, Dec. 5-Tho Economic Co-operation Adminis tration today announced that food. $66,200,000 worth of
petroleum and cotton are al- ready in consumer channels in China and $108,700,000 addi- tional economic aid was on the way by December 1.
The worth of
Held
On Suspicion Of Murder
Lyons, Georgia, Dec. 5.-Five men Burrendered to country officers on Saturday and were held "under suspicion of mur- der" in the November 20 dlling of Robert Mallard, a negro.
sur- of
It said the expenditure of $174,- 946,000 or over two-thirds of the ECA's $275,000,000 authorisation for China had been approved by that date. It said the Inst advanced part
The five men denied any connec- of the programme is Industrial re
They ,500,000 tlon with the killing. habilitation for which $57,2
It said rendered after they heard two scheduled to be spent. that so far the authorized spending them were named as the killers by to Amy James Mullard, the negro's for industry has been limited $1,100,000 for engineering services, widow.
She said a band of robed white ECA
sald that $54,000,000 cotton, and $20,000,000 men shot her husband. Mrs Mallard worth of petroleum are already in has refused to return to Lyons to and swear out charges against the men all food China and of this
one-third or $18,- for fear she would be lynched. She petroleum and
a physician's at present under 000,000 worth of cotton are in con-
core in Savannah. the pre- umption channels. It said sent stocks of cotton aro sufficient' for needs until February.
FUTURE ARRIVALS
that $20,000,000 The ECA sald
and $10,000,000 food worth of worth of petroleum will reach China before January 1; $15,000,000 worth of cotton will arrive during the first quarter of 1049; and fertiliser at present scheduled at a total $15,000,000 will arrive in time for spring planting.
1
The ECA planned to provide
is
A county grand jury was sum- moned after Governer Herman Tal- madge forwarded documents sub- mitted by a member of "the National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People" in behalf of Mrs Mallard.
Trudghi in small groups through to their the city, they appealed fellow Chinese whose response, according
most, wan. not
to
The
enthusiastic.
The stragglers invaded some Chinese khops and restaurants, asking for food and money. khopkeepers pald grudgingly, then closed their doors and sluttered the windows but left their back doors open for their regular customers.
their plight, Once, to emphasise the troops laid in a downtown street the body of one of their number who, ey said, died of cold starvation.
and
British and American sources ad- mitted they had been "fearful", of an estimated six to twenty thousand stragglers and what they might have done, but their concern was mixed with pity for the soldiers and resent- ment against the municipal Nationalist government which parently shrugged off this "invasion" until the troops began pestering the local authorities for food and shelter,
Associated Press.
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Refugees Pouring Into Burma
SNOW AND WIND, TOO
B Moore, Insurance man, enlculated the risk on Wichita, Kansas, streets mad slippery by winter's first midwest snow, then yentured out to recover his wind- snatched hat. The photographer got the picture of the hat retrieving, but the wind-blown snow was moving too fast to be recorded on his film.-AP Picture.
"Exercise Fulton" Begins With Riots, Fires
SENIOR OFFICERS RECEIVE "PARCEL BOMBS" IN MAIL
The week-long "Exercise Fulton," in which the Services and Police are co-operating to deal with a "state of emergency" in the Colony, began this morning with "rioting" and "fires" on the Island and the Mainland.
Two "parcel bombs" were delivered to senior Services officers with the morning mail, and at Sham- shuipo two of the "enemy" were caught driving away tracks from the Supply Depot.
The exercise began at 6.30, after which no member of the
'RS allowed Bervices
out of barracks except on duty,
was
One of the first "Incidents" at the British Cigarette Company's factory in Gloucester Road, where Polico riot squnds were called out to deal with "strikers." Troops were also called upon to help, and was eventually "outbreak brought under control,
the
Twice Posed As
Policeman
$70,000,000 worth of food, $60,790,000 Samuel Green, head of the KKK causing the Burmese Govern-represented by smoke bombs-was Lee Yuen Street East on August 24;
worth
of
of cotton. $50,000,000 worth of petroleum. $13,800,000 worth
worth of in- teriliser, $67,500,000 dustrial aid and $2,500,000 for work
After serving a year for imper- sonating a police officer and larceny by trick, Chau Pak-chung, 30, was this morning sent to prison for 13 Local authorities, who once ar-
months and recommended for rested Mrs Mallard on charges of
banlanment by Mr Hin-shing Lo at killing her husband and then re-
Rangoon, Dec. 5.-Authorita-
Police and troops were also called Central Court for similar offences of lensed her, abs
the Ku Klux absolved
at and 'escape from custody. The absolution tive sources said on Sunday out. to a "civil disturbance" Klan of the slaying.
the According to Inspector Sia, was contained in a report sent by the flood of refugees pouring in Shamshulpe.
clothing stall in County
ofcers to Grand Dragon from neighbouring China is
Among the morning's "fire" nceuced went to a Associated Press.
sub-inspector posing as a Chinese ment "the gravest apprehen-one at the military detention bar attached to the Special Branch. Не MAN ARRESTED
sions."
racks, near the Peak Tram station, picked out two pieces of woollen Dalton, Georgia, Dec. 5-Police
which was extinguished by the material and Hawallan shirt and of the Joint China-United States arrested a white man on a charge
Sources close to the Government Army Fire Service, sided by two
told the complainant, Chan To-wah, Commission on Rural Reconstruc-of shooting a negro for allegedly and Chinese refugees fleeing the engines from Central.
to accompany him with the goods tion. But the recent decision to add trying to kiss the white man's wife. Communist menace ore arriving in
was Burma from
During the exercise all troops to the Central Police Station, across the Yunnan $10,000,000 to the food programine The negro, Richard Bingham, It reported in critical condition.
barracks must The border in vast numbers. They ex-outside will necessitate cuts in others.
carry a the slope of the Station, Chan was accused King, said that the food, consisting mainly white man, Grady
was re- pressed fear that Chinese Com- special Identity card and be armed. asked to walt while the
went through is leased by police under bond-As-P of wheat, wheat flour and rice, being distributed-in-seven-main sociated Press.
add-sonal despatch rider was "arrested" the hall of the cities--Peiping. Tientsin, Tsingtao,
then Kowloon soon after the exercise downstairs-and-out-to-Hollywood After In Road by an open door. began: his documents were not Nanking, Shanghai,
and
order and he was unarmed>
waiting several hours, Chan: realised Swatow.
Canton
On the industrial programme, the ECA said that procedures are now established for selecting project en- gineers, mostly froms private United States firms.-United Press.
May Withdraw Oil Drilling Rights
munists posing as refugees might The Air Omeer Commanding's per went up. The accensing bala
enter-Burma In this way, thus ing to the Communist country already faces.
threat
Premier Thakin Nu went so far The "enemy," who have a tres he had been cheated and made
but
as to broadcast on Saturday night hand to enter and "sabotage"
report. all a warning that Burmese indepen- public utilities and important In- On December 4, Chan recognised dence faces a new
He menace.
stallations. are dressed In drill the accused at West Point and had did not elaborate,
informed
trousera and khak! pallovers.
him arrested by a constable. While Tel-Aviv, Dee. -The Israell quarters Bald his purpose was to
the Inspecter on duty at Western Police "COMBINED OPS" ROOM
dealing Station was busy drawal of 31 permits for oil drilling lem.
with other cases, the accused tried An Army spokesman said this
to escape. He walked out of the London, Dec. 5-Princess Eliza- given by the British Mandatory
CANNOT CHECK beth's baby son, three weeks old Government of Palestine, according
morning that the object of "Exercise Charge Room, but was re-arrested today, had his first outing in mild to usually reliable sources today.
"Despite tightened frontier vigi-Fulton," was to give the three ser- just as he was leaving the com- The grounds are that the gran lanec," informants said,
vices and the Police "Burmese
praction In pound. weather this afternoon. For about
procedure 1x1 the half an hour, ho was wheeled round of these to foreign companies
guards are unable to check Chinese "co-ordinating sources the gardens of Buckingham Palace new legally defective, the
crossing over into Burma. Within event of trouble, in the Colony.! The Palestina Petroleum the last few days they
A "Combined Operations" room is which Princess Elizabeth used 22 Development Company, a subsidiary pouring in over the border,"
being set up in Land Forces Head- Sister to the Iraq Petroleum Company, ago by his nurse,
manned by Helen Rowe,
will be affected by such action ai The possible collapse of President quarters Constantly Princess Elizabeth did not goit holds 29 of the at permits Chiang Kai-shek's Government, they Service and Police officers, it will out--Reuter,
said, may bring a new Communist enable accurate information to be threat knocking on Burma's eastern quickly collected and passed on to door. The country already is the respective commanders. borg by Internal strife with two hands of Communists--the White Flag (Stalinist) Group and the Red its Flag (Trotskylat) Groups
His First Outing Government is considering the with- call attention to the refugee prob-
in his perambulator-the same ono sald
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situation today. seemed to be more favourable to the Nationelists. the government pre- parations for the defence of Nanking
The Burmese press lately has been
continued in full speed. The blockade of the lower Yangtze is tightened. carrying reports of gun-running begin tomorrow evening, will Deross the mountains into Burma actions against supposed invaders in Several smaller river parts are
closed. Naval units.
which reports sald unidentided the New Territories. During that portedly have been patrolling
and Gulf of Chihli and the area of planes dropped armi and ammunt phase roads will be "cut,
been tion along the southern coastal strip bridges "demolished."
Tientsin were sold to have facing Slam and asked: "Who are
Repairs will be carried out under brought down into the Yangtze.
-have Other units which
Leen these interlopers?"
conditions by the Royal En-Chor gineers, and while communications operating in the Hankow arca were are blocked the troops will be sup-sold to have moved down the river.
estimated plied from the air and by, sen."
The evacuation of an 10,000 dependents of civilian
· per- sonnel is scheduled to start December 10. Fully transport planes and still larger river boats were reported to be on the alert Com- nereal airline officials here would not confirm the report that they
the govern by have been alerted ger schedules as all planes might be Londen, Dec. 5-Mr Paul VG, caffed in on short notice to tulos out Central Air Transport Corporation Hoffman, the Economic Co-operation residents from Nanking-United planocrashed in flamesa miks Administrator, who arrived in Lon= | Press. from American-occupied langwan den Aksport today on an inspection
MORE REINFORCEMENTS Airport here today after overshoot- ing the runway in dense for the tolar, mid he wanted to "try and get
the feel of the Chinese situation". Nanking, Dec. 0.Usually reliable CATC officially announced tonight.
when he was asked if his visit to Nationalist sources said on Sunday. Included in the dead wero
theChina was connected with Madame night that elements of Uie 14th Army Chinese pilot, the
command of co-pilot and
the
Group under the radio operator, «The ́plane carried. Chiang Kai-shek's mission to Was ceneral Sung Hal-llen: are pouring | Shanghai 600; Him. freg.); à ́a.m. Cordylbital: Request Half Hour, presented by: Pengpur to strengthen Into total of 20 passengers and crew. || Among the deaths was a baby at States because of her visit," Mr
am not leaving the United Government's defence lines there. The plane was
The 14th Army Group, reported to templing make
a ground control Hoffman salda "The programme was have a maximum strength of 60,000 landing through the fog at Klung planned in October. We are doing men, is coming into the crucial All the other three landed everything we can to show in a Pengpu sallent by air water and mafely. The plane flow in too low exactly our friendship for the rail from former positions North- for a landing and then overshot the Chinese people, he added. west of Hankowe Group in- cludes the 20th Army, 18th Army: runway when instructed to take super de titude, and the left engine few off. Mr Holman will have on Wednes- and another unidentined: Army. calising the plane, to crash about day for Chinn for further, ECA cunt, these sources said. “Associated | Manila:16 "m/bikgu d
+ Press. mile from the airport-Router. Terences. Het
Shanghai, Dec. 5.--Twelve people, including a foreign passenger--a- Russian who boarded the pläne at Hankow-were killed.
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