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Peiping Isolated By Communists
COMMUNICATIONS
WITH
TIENTSIN CUT
Two Airfields Closed
Peiping, Dec. 15.-Chinese Communists completed the isolation of Pei- ping on Tuesday. They cut the railway to the sea after the Government itself closed the city's airfields.
Authorities disclosed that all trafic to Tientsin was cut when the Reds attacked and destroyed sections of the railway near Langfang, 30 miles South- The east of Peiping. Repair gangs were proceeding to the scene, but authorities 'were in the dark over the number of Communists operating in the area. railway often has been cut by guerilla raids.
Resignation Of Chiang Rumours
Poiping was on Tuesday isolated with Communist armies almost knocking at her walls, Authorities closed outside the South airfield, the last airlink with the world.
Mon-
The city's West airfield was closed on day. Nationalist ground troops were reported looting the West field on Tuesday.
was balted or Passenger traffic
railway, the the Pelping-Tienlain only land line to the outside which control. the Communists do not
taken owing to This action Was 14. troop movement.
Washington, Dec. Madame Chiang Kai-shek could! not be contacted at the country home of Mr George Marshall, the American Secretary of State, near here today as re- ports of her husband's resigna- ilon as the President of China circulated.
The closing of Peiping's two air fields was not readily explained.
"railway The Peiping-Tientsin was demolished between 'Langlang and Wanchuang, 63 and 74 kilo- from Pelping, metres respectively with 20 explosions occurring early A repair train was this morning. unable to reach the scene of the demolition and had to tuin back at Weisbanchaung, 44 kilometres from Peiping owing to the approaching Red troops, who promptly attacked
bas. oc-
Weishanchuang
Simultaneously, fighting
Well Informed sources said that General Chow Jih-jou, head of the Chinese Air Force, ordered planes to withdraw without consulting Gen- eral Tu Troyl Nationalist-Com-curred between Peiping and Fengtai, mander on the Northern, robus the southeastern approach to the un- wway. clent capital 10 Ellometres (Associated Press correspondents
Later in the morning groups of Com-
A Chinese Embassy spokesman i reported that 105 Nationalist planes te appeared four miles outalde
réperts and had been with Narking: other information.
had arrived at
100 where American
Gen
Fu
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1948.
tho
Marines are of Peiping, and heavy gundre was in contact based and an equal number at refused any crowded airfields around Nanking.) again audible in the city,
Mayor, Mr Liu Yao-chang The withdrawal deprived *
fold
today that General Fu pressmen
Jast ught received of air support at a most critical time, o-vi
All signs indicated that the days Governor of Hopel, Mr Chu Shi- of Nationalist rule in Peiping were chun, the Chairman of the Peiping City Caunell, Mr Hau Hwel-tung. Nanking about endod.Associated Press.
and himself and through them urged patience among the population, food and coal assuring them that were sufficient for several months.
The spokesman, referring to sug gestions that she was acting as a "go-between" in the American at-
the tempts to persuade, Government-to-reach an agreement. with the advancing Communists, Gald Madame Chiang had not seen or spoken to any American officials since her meeting last Friday with
President Trumai,
He said she would probably stay here for at least another week but her movements after that were stili
·uncertain-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
THE
INCREASINGLY-PRECARIOUS
Tientsin, Dec, 14.-The situation around Peiping is growing increas ing precarious with milliary trucks, troops,
the
congesting supplies streets and with refugees streaming into the ancient capital while the authorities are preparing for a slego as railway traffic along all the four lines were suspended.
It Doesn't Make Sense
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UE Wlogicality of the Powers, stenographer, and he cannot
That Be In Hongkong conlinuco, to pass all under- standing. A typical example has been provided this week by two advertisements inviting applicants for certain Jobs In Government service, One calls
Royal Observatory.
for technto:1 officers and.... as- sistant techaleal', officers for the
Qualifica itons (for the TOS): a bound knowledge of English and
·mininum of three years meteoro- logical or technical experience. Basio Baby $100 monits for the first three years, rising to $800 a month after 15 years' service. Qualifications for the Fassistant TO:
not lower than the standard of Intermediate Selence, or its equivalent, Siari
$250 a month rishing Ing salary to $350 at the end years. The second advertisement Women Confidential was for Amisianis, Quailfonilons: years of previous office. perience; ablo to take short- hind at 120 worda * minuto
ho
years
type,
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but
basie salary until ho has 10 years' service to hlo credit. ́ ́ As for the Assistant Technical Officer
cannot ern
the stenormpher's probation salary until he has completed five
of service. Wo 30 по know who is responsible for In terms of emoluments assessing
relative tho
Importanco to ciclent
public service of (echnical oflaers $12 the Roys! Observilory
confidential and Women
ascistants who take
shorthand -and maintain a
Aling systems, to whoever it is, ho possess Uttia sense of proportion And whether, after studying the relative
of employment terms would-be applicants for technical
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technical officers for the Obervatory will pot ohange their
minds and fake up office work. Is something we would not like to bet on Our
Enclination
bo to would spend those three rears required for special technical training in an office where we could easily bring our shorthand up to 160 words s minnie." If needed, stul our typing to 50 wpm, and get In on the ground floor for one of these confidential assifiants" offer a Jobs, which not only briter salary, but advantages much as leave, pension and quar- ters Fifteen years is a long time to walt in order to be
nd assistant of five
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abla to type at 45 words
a minute, * Starling baate salary $420 a month for two years on. probation, then rising from $#50 to $560 | Inlivo years, Other Inducements inelude learn and pension privileges, and if the... fortunate / applicants are Expatriate officers, they wil!
with
in
Feverquisilés, be it noted, Thesa is mentioned in the advertisement for Royal Observatory Technical what file to make heart to that a man, who Brah lk to possess three years goecial Localment experience" which can after he has e-Cinar schoollar,
own
to skin about $250 a month more than a stenographer, who..." his only to keep her shorthand un
· 120 words`n minuto,"her-lyplur auto di words per minute, and her mouth shut. The facts a the comprative terms of em- ployment for the poultions quoted Above Just dont make some, 120
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TEMPORARY HOSPITALS Temporary hospitals were being first ald crops contemplated and were being organised.
The points where fighting curred today in. Peiping's western suburb include Papaoshan, 'close to the Marco Polo bridge where the China Incident originated in 1937, and Meloukuo, where British-owned mines are located.
Pro-Government reports Indicate that the Nationalists stationed in Lutai have already joined the defen- ders of Hainho, only 40 kilometres
Tientsin.
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The Hanku Operational Head- quarters is expected to be evacuated. This will drastically reduce the territory held by the Nationalists in North China, which is limited by a straight line from Petping, through Tientsin, down to. Tangku Harbour.
The evacuation of Lutal was undertaken following the
appear
behind ance of Communist forces the Nationalist troops in the vicinity of Chating, 20 kilometres Tientsin, where fighting bos occur- red, in order to clear a path for the Intest withdrawal.
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RAILWAY VULNERABLE
With the Communists based at Yutjen, directly norüward, and at Lutal, the whole ralfway stretch beyond Tangku is vulnerable to the Communist thrusts and to disrup- tion, which might result in the Isolation of General Chu Chi-yo's forces who had taken Lutal Im-- -mediately after leaving Tongshan.
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PRINCE CHARLES OF EDINBURGH Royal Baby's Names Are Announced
London, Dec. 14.-Princess Elizabeth's son will be known as Prince Charles of Edinburgh, it was officially announced tonight from Buckingham Palace. The child will be christened with the full names Charles Philip Arthur George.
The christening will take place at Buckingham Palace at 3.30 tomorrow afternoon, The Archbishop
of Canterbury will officiate at the christening.
HKCC
TENANCY
Prince Charles' sponsors will be the King, Queen Mary, Princess Margaret the King of Norway, Prince George of Greece, the Down- ger Marchioness of Milford Haven. Lady Brabourne and the Honourable David Bowes-Lyon,
The infant. Prince is second in succession to the Throne. The last
TERMINATED King of England to be called Charles
the
ter
was King Charles the Second, who reigned from 1849 to 1885.
AFTER 97 YEARS ... | The King of Norway and Prince The Telegraph learns that a George of Greece will not be pre- sent at the christening tomorrow. letter has been received by the They are not in Britain and others Hongkong Cricket Club from will stand sponsor for them.
Colonial Secretary
Court correspondent, Louis 'Wulff, minating the tenancy of the reported that Princess Elizabeth and ground which the club has the Duke of Edinburgh chose the old Royal name of Charles for held since June, 1851.
son. Charles will be have been circularised and a The name Charles is also the family special meeting has been called name of King Hankon of Norway uncle. He for Monday, December 20, at the baby's great-grand
was known as Prince Charles of 5.80 p.m.
Denmark until he accepted. the throne of Norway on November 15, 1005,
the
Members of the Cricket Club / theme of the baby Prince.
It is not known for what purpose the ground is required by Govern ment, but it is understood filla Excol-
eny the Governor wil make res in "Arctic Manhunt."-AP.......-ference to the subject at this after
Picture, 20
noon's Legislative Council meeting
Peace Rumours Fly In Shanghai
GOLD YUAN BECOMES FIRMER ON THE BLACK MARKET Shanghai, Dec. 14. Strong peace rumours swept Shanghai today touching off a wave of wild The Gold Yuan, which was quoted transactions. yesterday in black market dealings at 70 to 75 to the US dollar, firmed rapidly to 60 or 65.
The blackmarket price for gold dropped from $8,500 Gold Yuan per ounce to $3,200. Speculatora interpreted ECA Administrator Paul G. Hoffman's remarks as mean- ing that the United States is backing a drive for a conli- tion government in Nanking.
The rumours went, so far as to reports that the United States was suggest that secret - peace
talks urging the formation of a Coalition between the Nationalist government Government of Nationalists and and the Chinese Communisis already Communists in China. have started and that the civil war end shortly.. Chinese readers eagerly read all published versions of Mr Hoffman's remarks and most of them reached the conclusion that the United States intended to give azsistance to end the civil war in China.
There were some
to
Asked if the United States were Nanking putting pressure. Government or on Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Washington to form a Coalition, Mr McDermott, State Department spokesman, said: have no reason to believe that our people in Nanking are pressing the Generalissimo and I believe those. reports. are false.
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Something Like Hongkong
"PURE FANTASY".
do not know what Madame. rumours that
for nor President Chiang aiready has agreed Chiang Kai-shek has asked to resign and leave the country, but what she had been told.
"There has been no change in the theso received no credenco in ip- formed quarters. Another persistent policy of this Government on aid to Mr DeDermott stated- that the Communist China," rumour was Icader, Mao Tze-tung,
rah, the American
has already Reuter. been in contact with Stato Department through hi presentative in China. This report cald Mr Mao pledged that the
that Communists would be willing shore in a coalition govemment and would renounce all connections with Russian Communism, If this ston
Torquay, Dec. 14-Mra: M.L. should be taken The feported Andrews advertised a house for rent.
While this port was reported as
"A few minutes after the paper pure fantasy by most of the well- informed sources here, one compet-appeared on the streets the first (and successful) appileant arrived ent Chinese authority expressed the by tax-followed by 90 others, opinion that the Nationalist offies: right up to midnight. Two telegramis certainly would be interested in Mr
came... Next day the mailman Simultaneously communications foffman's old statement as a spur staggered up with 300 letters with the new frontline at Luthi, toward possible coalition govern Sald Mrs Andrews, appalled," athway between Taneku Harbour
ment. •** and Tongshan, ceased and the latest
this source I'm afraid to answer the door. seems likely *** reports indicate that the Nation-
said, "that Mir Hollman, remark ine alists have evacuated their positions here in his conference will be in
The Generalissimo. terpreted by Headquar
bibers Nationalet leaders as mean ing that the United States termined a coalition ré-|
ime which
eliminate the 'so-called"; corrupt elements of
and establish a
Meanwhile, General Fu Ten-y's headquarters in Pelping has been removed from the western suburb Inside the capital following the Communist advance,
there.
The Tiontain Garrison fers in advancing the curfew, from | midnight; “lo 8. p.m., while the Garrison Commander, General Chen Chang-chich, sued a statement after a day, of wild : rumours,; Ine cluding the war's end, discouraging
prosent
Associated Press.
WHIRLWIND HITS
GRANTHAM
Grantham, Lincolnshire, Dec, 14, Today's whirlwind hit the south end of the town, towing garages from their foundations, lifting, roofs
the ronulace from falling victims, to truly Tonnelimonettovernment inoff of buth; and Kattening: gardens..
the Communist propaganda tonen which the Communist would part
path United en fyrdek
ive in the Nationaller rear and the decompanying whispering campaign. REPORTS DENIED terrine roar during the forrential
He urged calminem 2 durfa - the present critical, situation Fubar
Washington Dec. 14) The Ameri- Cam Blat Department: today denied
Residents said list they heard o One foot was flung about 150 yards.
downpour as the wind passed by Reuter
„FATHER'S NAME
Tel: 27880
Friedrich Ebort (above), G4, the namesake, son of the first Weimar: Republic
· president of Germany, is the newly-elected mayor of the Berlin rump govera- ment set up by the Com- munists in the Soviet zone of the city. A hand-picked convention held in a musi- cal comedy theatre in the Soviet zone split the city wide open by naming the. government. AP Hcture.
U.S. Woman On Murder Charge
Hamburg, Dec 14-A young American woman: "fighting for her life in court, accused of the murder of her soldier husband. lost her battle for a trial by Philip, the baby's second name, Jury In a US Military Court is that of his father, who had only today. une Christian name: Afthoritate and nervous, 25-yeneçold-Mrw- third of the four names of King wilma Ybarbo, of Malden George, which aro Albert Frederick
Ming-
Arthur George. It is also the name sachusetts, was told she had "left of the first Duke of Connaught, son the constitution behind," when she of Queen Victoria, of his son Prince came to occupied Germany. Over- Arthur of Connaught, and of his ruling her attorney's challenge of constitutionality, and their grandsou, the second Duke of Con-:: naught, who died in April, 1949, demand for trial by jury under the U.S. constitution, the three Judge uged 20,
court-declared she was now, subject to the military law of the occupied zone,
The Court correspondent said that Princess Elimbeth and her husband chose Charles "for per- sonal and private reasons." All the eight-sponsors-are-related to the
baby.
In giving ther baby four names, the Princess and the Duke have followed recent custom in the Royal Family, Princess Elizabeth has, three names, Elizabeth Alexan- dra Mary.
The christening cake for the baby was brought to Buckingham Palace tenight and placed in
one of the State rooms where the reception wi be held after the ceremony.
The silver lily font used at the christening of Queen Victoria's was also brought today children from Windsor Castle to the Paince
Router.
NO XMAS
Is
For the first time; therefore, an American woman will be tried for pcapital offence under occupation: Jaw
story Winesses will begin the tomorrow of what happened the Sor-
nigh, of September 21 when
cont John Ybarbo of Goliad Texas was shot just outside the Ybarbo bedroom where his six-year-old son was sleeping.
PARTY QUARREL Principal witnesses will be throo American soldiers and two German girls, guests at: a pary in the barbo home. They have told of a quarrel between Mrs Ybarbo. and. her husband, who won the silver cross in World War II
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