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Hongkong Telegraph
VOL. IV NO. 58
Mar. 11. - General Ho Ying-chin, former Minister of National Defence, hate last night accepted nomination ns Na- tionalist China's new Pre- mier, succeeding Mr Sun Fo, it was authoritatively learn et this morning.
Acting President 1 Tsung- Jen will later today inform the Legislative Yunn of General Ho's acceptance and will asked the Yuan to confirm the appoint-
ment,
General Ho is now expected 10 return to Nankin Iram FInngehow Fomeitme today or tomorrow to begin the process
of Cabinet formalion..
few hours after the return to Nunklag
General of
Chang
GEN. HO YING-CHIN
Tough Time
For Troops
In Malaya
10.-The London, Mar. British troops in Malaya were fighting in conditions can be expe- "as had as rienced anywhere," but they were performing their tasks!
This development occurred with "great vigour," Mr |
Emanuel Shinwell, the War Acting Presi-Minister, told the House of dent's fra supporter, who came Commons today. back by air from Chikow, near Fenghun, where he had been in
Chin-chung. The
contact
with
Chiang Kai-shek.
Generalissimo
4
CHIANG APPROVES
the Reuter understood that
approved had Generalissimo General Io Ying-chin's appoint- ment as the nailon's new peace Premier in succession to Mr Sun Fo,
FRIDAY, MARCH 11, 1949.
JEWISH TROOPS REACH RED SEA COAST
Second Force Driving Down Negev Valley
Amman, Mar. 10.-A Jewish force, reported last night to be advancing through the South Palestine Negev desert towards the Transjordan frontier, has now established itself on the Red Sea coast, it was learned from usually reliable quarters here today.
It was stated to be digging in and waiting to link up with a This force, these larger force advancing along the Wadi Araba, sources added, which include heavy tanks, was driving south down the Araba Valley in the Eastern Negev area of Southern Palestine close to the Transjordan frontier.
The Intest reports received
Defence by the Transjordan Ministry said the Jewish armoured force had been repulsed by the said Transjordan Arab Legion in fighting today. This fightin was
Ghama, 30 miles to be taking place at Gharandal, to the south of north of Akaba, where the Arab Legion barred the way of the Jewish culumn.
authoritative
At Ghama, a Jewish detach- According to Mr Shinwell was introducing ment from their main column sources in the capital tonight, authoritatively stated to the small Jaraeli force on the the Army Estimates. He began was
res-have penetrated eight kilometres Gulf of Akaba consists of men by saying that additional
into Transjordan territory on motor cycles and in jeeps. on Imposed ponsibilities
have reached Army had prevented the change yesterday, reaching El Risha They from a wartime to. n pencetime Plain, organisation being as smooth e was desired.
tho
He then referred to Malay: "In June, 1948, the civil authori
with tle in Malaya, faced campaign to overthrow the ad- Chih-chungministration and to dislocate the General
life of the country, that economie Reuters confirmed
accepted the asked the Army to assist General Ho had nomination as the new Premier maintaining order," he said. in a long telephone conversation from Hangchow.
Chang
10
The task of his Cabinet will
SYSTEMATIC MURDER
"Some thousands
of well-
to-
be to expedite the search for armed Chinese, operating from peace with the Chinese Com- bases deep in the jungle, were the following n systematic policy of munists and Implement
reforms pro- murder and intimidation, sweeping social mulgated by acting President Ligether with the destruction of buildings, machinery and rubber Tsung-fen
plantations.
General Ho, fender of the im
Mary Whampoa portant
tions Military Committee.
Nn-
"Since Junc, in addition to the Academy cilque of the Kuo-4th Hussars and other reinforce- mintang, served for a time at munts, the Guards Brigade hos United the sent from! Lake Success as China's repre-been
It was naturally the-United. sentative-on-
| Kingdom....______
some tim before these “rein-- known to favour the forcements could be acclimatised Socialist policies of the British but they are now operating with
agninst efficiency Labour
enemy who is favoured every military factor, that of equipment and supply.
(Continued on Page 5)
He is
Party
and observers here expect him to apply these principles to the reform pro- gramme of his new Cabinet.- Reuter-AAP.
EDITORIAL
much
with
excep!
The Jewish units tried to cut off Arab Legion outpost
an which gave battle,
Iteshresh, on the coast
off from its headquarters Egypt except by sen.
iti
Arab Legion sources said it has been established that the the Jewish plan was to reach Gulf of Akaba. The forces en- Umm trusted with the task followed about the Wadi Arabo, a continuation three miles in a direct line of the Dead Sea dectivity. which forns a natural boun- from Akaba,
on tha Umm Reshresh lies
between dary
Palcating And Amb Legion sources said the road linking Akaba and Egypt, Transjordan.
The Transjordan Government, Jewish armoured brigade com- and it is believed in Amman
was stated authoritatively heavy tanks that if the Israelis consolidate 1) prised several
positions there, the here. claimed to control the carrying 75-mm guns, besides their
"Oulton" vehicles heavy
of British armoured
force--the
Palestine district of Southern will be cul the Negev. This triangle had various types.
Furce-in Akaba
its apex at the port of Akaba and a base 70 kilometres inland, stretching from Ghama to the Egyptian-Palestine frontier to the west.
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Pretoria, Mar. 10-The Nationalist Party of the Prime Minister, Mr D. F. Malan, had secured only 48 seats in the South African provincial elections up to 5 p.m. focal time today against 70 to, the United Party of Field Marshal Jan Smuts.
Details: Transvaal (66 seats) United Party 26, Nationalists 18, Labour 2, Independent 2.
Natal (25 seats): United Party 21. Indepen- dent 1.
Free State 125 seats): Nationalists 22, United Party 1,
Cape Province (55 seats): United Party 22. Nationalists 8, Labour 1.
The remaining results still to come in are from rural areas where the Nationalists are strong.-- Associated Press.
Mother-In-Law Listens-In To Triple Slaying
New York, Mar. 10.- Detectives "recon- structed today the fatal love triangle shooting in which a sca-going husband killed his wife, her lover and himself while his mother-in-law listened in on a Hollywood telephone 3,000 miles away.
The shooting occurred in the lavish London Terrace apartment of David Whit- taker, 35, assistant to the President of the Universal Camera Corporation. The victims of the tragedy were Whittaker, Mrs Norma Holt, 30, secretary to the President of Univer- sal Camera, and her husband, Emory, 35, chief engineer in the Merchant Marine.
The police learned of the shooting which took place at 9.30 last night when they received a
from phone call
Mrs Otto Githens, wife of the camera com- pany's President. Mrs Githens had been told of the shooting by Mrs Elle Thomas of Hollywood, mother of Mrs Holt
Mrs Thomas heard the shool-
home.
bodies. The neighbours One Wounded In Gun Fight
Washington, Mar-10.-Police,-hunting- suspects in the sensational Martinsburg, West Virginia, train robbery last night, shot one man and seized his companion in a Washing- ton suburb today.
India Is Making A Mistake
PANDIT Nehra's announcement th
India's withdrawal from the British a few months Commonwealth is only
It
away was not entirely unexpected. Des- of old tles and pite the flowery talk
followed the future co-operation which
Dominions of creation of the two new India and Pakistan, it has always been plain that nothing less than complete Independence would satisfy the Intensely nationalistic Indian leaders. Mr Nehru said in his announcement of the new Republie that india was cutting herself world peace- free to play the role of maker. An India free of outside alliances and obligations, he said, could best serve the world, as a meeting place for East and West. However, the timing of Mr Neliru's announcement, coming s does against a background of growing discontent and revolution in Asia, seems unwise. Indeed, it suggests that he has urge to influenced more by an been see India established as the leader of the 'Asian countries than by a desire to The revolu- avert a third world war. tionary movements in Asia from Chinn
Burma
and Houth to Indonesia, in Malaya-are changing the strategle map of the world. The spread of Communism among, the Aslan millions is recognised ns one of the main dangers foeing the to mention India herself. West-not
would seem In these circumstances t that, both from the point of view of from sate- averting another war, and guarding her own independence, India should be strengthening, rather than wenkening, her links with the West. In fact, many observers have seen the two recent meetings in Delhi-on Indonesin and Burma-as an attempt by India to take the lead in a closer association of
West and Enst to solve the problems by faced. With which both are jointly Communists in the leadership, or striving.
Uhls Анів, throughout towards it,
East becomes alliance of West and essential. Britain, by virtue of her "life- Ine" routes through the Indian Ocean and the South China sens to Australia, New Zealand, and the rich reservoir of by the Malaya, is intimately affected trend of Communism in the Far East. Holland, too, and France depend to at great extent upon their supplies from this area. Any further Red successes in Asin may well wreek the chances of which, it is recovery, upon European
of the workl acknowledged, the future depends, India herself now. fnces the Communist discontent rumblings of within her own borders, and with the fresh in Mr Ilurma example of Nehru's mind his decision to cut India's
les with the West seems even
The course of events makes strange. Indin, whether Mr Nehru ilkes it or not, the West's main ally in the East, The Western Powers are faced with the ngreements necessity for renching new with the countries which are still free of the Communist menace, and with the Governments in those countries which
realisation The are fighting it. growing that the Western Powers can no longer stand in the way of genuine nationalism in the East. Britain's withdrawal from Indin, it was thought at the time, would go a long way to proving her good faith. But Mr Nehru is apparently not antisfied. It would be were pity if his ultra-nationalism allowed to sabotage, on allianco of West and East to combat the growing incursions of Communism.
1
On February 27, one patrol was engaged in a light skirsih with Legionnaires.
The South Palestine Negev wedge, from which
the Israeli troop movements were reported, rests on the shores of the Gulf. Within a 15-mile cireult along the Gulf's coastline ie the fron- tiers of four countries Egypt, Palestine. Transjordan and Saudi Arabia.
1
heard
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"Axis Sally" Guilty Of Treason
Russian Indicted By Grand Jury
Washington. Mar. 10- The Federal Court jury to- day found Mildred "Axia Sally" Gillars guilty of trenson for making time propaganda broadcasts for the Nazis.
war-
The 40-year-old Malne-born netress faces 6 sentence rang- impri- ing from five years' sonment and US$10,000 dno to denth.
The jury of seven men and five women reached tho. verdict 20 hours 25 minutes after they began deliberations.
The defence immediately an- nounced it would appeal. It has five days in which to ask for a new trial. If the judge, My Edward Curran, denies the mallon, he can pass sentence at his convenience.
The slivery-hatred defendant' istened with head erect and no show of emotion as the word "guilty" rang out in the court- room.
The
that she jury decided "wilfully" betrayed her country when she took part in a broad- cast froin Germany entitled "Vision of Invasion, 1044, describing Awaiting invaders.
In May the horror
Other overt acts with which she was charged were ignored by the jury.-United Press.
TO STAND TRIAL
Mar. New York,
10. A Federal Grand Jury today rê- turned espionage indictments Judith Coplon, 27-year- against old Department of Justice em
A. Valentine Gubitchev, 32-year-old Russian employed engineer
by the
PIG SERUM ployee
and
Des Moints. Mar. 10-United Nations.
counsel
for the Iowa Phar-
Gubitchev and Miss Coplon
PATROL ACTIVITY It was stated authoritatively here that intense Israeli patrol activity had been noticed inside the South Negev wedge-less
on four than 10
They are indicted on the ing by long distance from her Carl J. Stephens, milca broad
for the lown Farm Bureau.counts. One
count sald Miss shores of the Gulf of Akaba—
startled Committee State Coplon delivered to Gublichev since February 25.
The detectives found three Legislators by gulping down information relating to national no disturbance because exclu-a bottle of pig cholera defence, including Intelligence to espionage reports relating sivo apartments in the buildingserunt.
and counter-espionage activities are sound pronted Mrs Holl'a body, clad in a silk print blouse, To refule a statement by the in-the-United-States. und a dark blue skirt, lay on a counsel sofa with a bullet in her head maceutical Association that "f and another in her left breast. the bottle of serum were bro-were arrested here last Friday Bureau of TELEPHONE DRAMA ken on the floor it could spread night after Federal
dark discuse among Whittaker, wearing
many people," Investigation agents had trailed business suit,
the them through New York streets. pleked en Mr Stephens was sitting
up The police acted on a tip that
Gubitchey Was the sofa and shot three times bottle and drank its contents.
suspended two men, resembling the train Isreal has been credited with
in the right temple, chest and
from his United Nations post robbers, had been seen. The plans to build port on the left forearm.
The Farm-Bureau is seeking last Saturday, United Nationa wounded man whS taken to Gulf, which would give her an
the passage of a bill to permit officials said he did not possess hospital.
to ajoutlet to the Red Sea. his companion
subsidiaries
pell Hell, with a single bullet in its
the diplomatic immunity although Under station.
the recen! Israel- his heart was stumped
serum and other products with Soviet omcials have unsuccess- The
situated Egyptian armistice. n north the chair pawnshop is
still clutching aout supervision by pharmacists. fully demanded his release. about five streets away from south line was drawn through Luger. In his pockets were 50 The Iowa Supreme Court re- | the White House.
the Negev, West of this line, extra bullets for the gun. The police reported that the as far as, the Egyptian frontler. Mrs Thonias said she received to the Iractis were given freedom a telephone call from Whittaker men
had confessed
civilian movement, part in the robbery. Two of
but shortly before 9.30 p.m. Before held men
the agreed to limit their military he could say Baltimore-Ohio Express in the forces,
ordinary greeting Holt broke in wilds of the Cumberland Moun- It is to the east of the Ine, on the call. She explained, nins, near Martinsburg. The in territory not covered by this "Emary get en the phone and robbery was carried out like a armistice, that Israeli forces said. 'Mama, please forgive me."
to be on
Narma the I knew that he and holdup of the "bad old frontier were reported
get a had been planning to days."
divorce and I was afraid that NO ALTERNATIVE A police officer said the two imen were 23-year-old Luens The Transjordan Government he might do something violent. Ramsdell, and 21-year-old was understood to have been pleaded with him but he said. Then I Palestine George Llewelyn Ashton, both keeping the
truce's too late, mama.
heard three slots ring out. 1 of Youngstown, Ohio,
observers informed.
Well informed sources In dropped the phone and fell over IN CRITICAL CONDITION Aman said Jewish units were In hysterics."
entrenched nt Ras Neres,
police
two
stomach.
move.
The
over
more than an
that
ot his apart- The
Bald 10 sald a policeman fired shown on the map as Egyptian Whittaker when Ramsdell shot him in the territory. A Jewish force ad- ment at about 8.15 p.m.
There were captured vancing along the Sinal Desert Holt couple arrived half an hour 15 hours after the robbery, in fringe had no alternative but later. Holt apparently was de- which they crepped with more
cross Egyptian territory, it was formined to have a showdown than. $1,000.
over the divorce which he and stated, Detectives said they found
Their
be his wife were planning. would. course several hundred dollars in the dictated by the terrain. It was
In Iloit's apartment in an ex- men's pockets. Ramsdell's con- not clear here whether the clusive Brooklyn section; the dition is reported to be, "erit-Egyptian Government would re-detectives found a suicide note gard the Jewish action as a left by the husband which said, violation of the recently con-"In the event of death cremato cluded Rhodes armistice.
me and scatter ny ashes on the
more
cal.'
the Boarding
express as ordinary passengers, the two ordered the crew to pull into.
It was noted here that none sunda so they can be carried to every asidling and went
of today's denials from Tel-Aviv out to the sea."-United. Press. ⚫compartment," forcing many
contradicted reports that Israeli of the 150 passengers to their troops had been moving south knees as they stripped them of through the Negev to the Pales- Jewels and money at gunpoint. tinian const.
The denials were confined to They cleaned out the pockets
before sinuing that the TransJordan of the engine crew leaving the train and then des-frontier had not been crossed ot cended on & nightclub in
any point and that no clastica
Mediator
RUSSIAN, WHEAT
new
· FOR WORLD Washington, Mar, 10-Russia nearby town, robbed the guests with King,, Abdulloh's Arab will provide 30 million bushels 505 million of the annual and got away in stolen cars-Legion had taken place. Reuter,
At Rhodes, Dr Ralph Bunche, bushels of wheat to be supplied the neting United Nations by exporting countries under a
for Palestine,
International an- proposed BUDGET DAY, APRIL 6 nounced tonight that he had wheat agreement, eccording to received no official reports from reliable information here today
In Palestine
Russia had asked for a shere on the London, Mar. 10-Britain's his staff Budget Day is to be on April reported farnell advance towards of one-fifth in the world's wheat 0, Mr Herbert Morrison, the the Transjordan port of Akanba. exports in carller negotiations. There was no explanation how said he had asked United Ite Lord President of the Council, announced in Parliament to-Nations observers to check and she had been persunded to ac- cept half that amount-Reuler. report to him.-Reuter. day-Router,
to
cently ruled that pharmacists The action of the Grand Jury would have to be employed for means the case will now go for
trial.-Reuter. this purpose--Reuter,
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