Serious New China Situation:
Reds'
Ultimatum
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through which troops in eight articles bared on Mr Mao, hub
Shanghai-Nanking 14 eight the Tse-tung's January peace terme. No other detalis would normally retreal South. were given.
Two vital bridgeheads are between The Nationalist Government specifically demanded
They would not officially give any in-Nonking and Shanghat.
Chiangyin. formation last night about the are Chiklang and 24-point draft agreement as nu-Both dominate the vital cam- nounced by the Peiping Radio-munleations corridor Reuler-AAP.
between Shinghut and Nonking. Control of the corridor would represent URGENT PARLEYS
a direct threat to both etiles.
With
South Bank these Apr. 18.-Top Na-bridgeheads secure, Communist tionalist leaders are conferri nrmies could pour across urgently on the new Red ulti-Yangise to enforce any kind malum. Its rejection presumin- of rrace they wanted to impose bly would bring a forced cross- on Nanking.
Nanking
ing of the Yangtse. Nationalist
troops are, powerless
such an advance.
to halt
Ufe
Li Tsung-Jer has, as his innin support, Pal Chung-hist, Central Pri Com- The government is reported China Commander.
mands more than 200,000 troops of the extension seeking ati
They are time limit: Details of the pro-along the Yangtse. posed agreement were brought pusted West from Klukinng to here on Saturday by Nationalist beyond Honkow. Any peace L Huang Shao. nakes could only be made with peace delegate
Pal's support. I would only commit bis troops and his area L Tsung- its oblaining of control.
Communist of t
which last week
helung.
Acting Prezident Jen succeeded
modification
ultimatum
There is only speculation in demanded transfer of Nationalist Nanking as to whether Li Taung armales to Cominunist commundjen will or con accept the Com
At the moment. is munist terms. 12. by April The price believed to have been accep- the temper of most officials is for tance, in principle, of the Com- rejection. But certainly no Chai manist eight conditions. This reply has been arrived at.
ta formal acceptance resulted peace talks opening on April 13 at Peiping.
It seems likely that La Teung- And, Jen will attempt to stall.
perhaps, the Reds will underinkel the river crossing when neither a "yes" nor "no" reply is forth- the terms of those eight, cuming-Associated Press.
The Conditions.
The Nationalist
government now is asked to actually carry out
Communist broadcast suit the proposed consistr uf eight agreement articles and 24 provisions. The provisions are considered means by which the eight articles, or conditions, are to be implement-
un-
There is little hope in govern ment circles that Ll Tsung-jen can oltam modification of this last ultimatum slace the Corn- munists have
publicly nounced the deadline for ac- of ceptance and termination negotiations. Another factor is the Reds cannot wait too long for their river crossing-If it is to be made forelbly. Highwater. due early next month, would
nulie the operation difficult.
IMPOSSIBLE DILEMMA
Li Tsung-jen and his govern- inent are regarded as beluk In an almost impossible dilemma. Ll Ju confronted by an enemy of superior strength. And his own Nationalist ranks are dyl- a political opponent dad by stronger than himself Chiang Kai-shek.
Chiang still controls the bulk of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Forec, Tang En-po, who holds
Shanghal-Nanking the
more than 300,000 nrea with troops, is personally loyal to the Generalissimo.
future this For the
plainly means that an agreement in- volving any kind of surrender would not have the support
of more than half of the Notiana- list Army, Chiang is believed to be committed jo Just liten
fight against the Communist
A top government offeiat is
G.B.S. May
Become An Alien
London, Apr. 17.-A -million Irishmen lying in Lie England, including
George playwright 2.Kest Bernard Shaw, may find themselves foreigners with their native Ireland a re- public.
Native Irish working lu Britain always have been
subjects Kritisia
since Ireland had been part of the British Commonwealth of nations. Tut
flie Republic of Ireland Act Ireland Into effect. кося severs its last fles with the
Crown
Erilisti
13
and be comes
an Independent ol state. Native
wearers
wondering the green are. Just what their status will be and there will be wome
Bona confused very
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1949.
STRIKER CARRIED OFF Death Of POCKET CARTOON Azzam Pasha
Deputy sheriffs used their clubs on a marching group of strikers at Fawick Airflex Co. in Cleve- land. Here three of them and a Policeman grab Maurice Stamm of the CIO-United Electrical Work-
He was arrested. Note the club mark
Stamm's cheek.—AP Picture.
ers.
Petain
on
Will Be
93 Next Sunday
Isolde You, France, Apr. 17.Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the man who surrendered. 'France to the Nazis in 1940, will celebrate his
behind the 93rd birthday next Sunday
grim stone gates of Fort Pierre, on this sandy, wind: Awept island.
With him, as she is every day about mid-afternoon, will be his wife, one of the
NEW RACIAL FLARE-UP WARNING
Expert On Russia
Now York, Apr. 17. Str Bernard Pares, the noted his- Aussin, torian and student of died today in hospital Iero raged 92.
few persons who has not abandoneed him.
white-moustacted The tail, Pelala is serving a life sentence for betraying the nation he served berolenlly in World War I.
Many of the Marshal's friends, Including General Charles De Gaulle, have petitioned for his release on the ground that his health is bad. They
say he could not be
to expected endure the harsh buffeling
.
During the last three years of the first World War, he was Attached to the Russian Army. After the war, Sir Bernard" become Professor of Russian Language. History and Litera- ture at London University, He wrote many books on. Russia
Sirleken with pneumonia two wecks 020, be
WILY
"seriously " when taken 14 hospital.
in
He had been living hotel here.
A Knight Commander of the British Empire, he was the greatest British authority of his Lime on Russia, her people, language and lérature.
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Arab League, arriving here at advertisements to the Ceneral from Cairo today, had a
Manager.
Inng interview with Golonel Telephones: 26015, 20010, 20012 Husni Zaim, the new Syrian
Prime Minister, who
came
to power after a bloodless coup recently.
In a
Syrlan
speech to mark tho national
"Evacuation
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NOTICE
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country's complete
Indepen
dence when all foreign troops in 1040, were evacuated 17.-Invita- Colonel Zism attacked the old regime, particularly deposed President Shukri Bey El
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guests of London collectors for losing" Palestine.
Kouri. whom he accused of tisements, change of copy sto.
the International Stamp Ex-
*Evacuation before today On a lecture tour of the Unit-hibition here in May 1950.
The nini is to give collectors was not a true.. evacuation--it ed States last year, he told the of modernte means a chance to was merely changing Amerlcart Deople: "You 121
one 45 pursue their hobby at low cost pressor for another aggressor." America are doing far more and
strengthen international Colonel Zaim aald. He declared than we 10 make war with lies.
that he had "liberated" Russia. I am quite nuro the Russian people are not in a posi- tion to night and that they to not want a new war,"
ACTED AS MEDIATOR
Sir Bernardi was horn on March 1, 1887. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge, where he rat botan his studies of Slavonic language and history. In 1890 ho first visited Russia, to see the setting up of the Duma and to of Bussia's watch the course first experiments in popular re-
form.
In later years, before the first World War, he acted as the un- official mediator between thie British and Russion Parliaments. Meanwhile, he had become an extension lecturer in England for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Liver- pool.
In 1003, he became Professor of Russian History, Language and Literature University.
He had three daughters-Reuter.
nt
Liverpool
sons and two
SOLITARY
FOREIGN
PILGRIM
Nazareth. Apr. 17.-One
winds and penetrating cold of solitary pilgrim-a Boston
another Atlantic winter.
His
report
The French Government look woman-made the journey Capetown, Apr. 17.-The
of these argu- here today for Easter- celc- South African Government official notice
nients, recently by sending abrations. in contrast to the Commission which in-
distinguished Paris
heart thousands who flocked, to vestigated the South Afri-specialist to examine of
Marshal
Nazareth before the Pales- said the can-Indian rioting warned Petain.
tine war. today that Africans might Marstal was still strong.
Petain occupies # modes! Mrs Mary C. Donaldson. from make another attack
three-room apartment on the Boston, Massachusetts, was the Inians "to
their second floor of the square
nineteenth only foreign visitor to the tradi- eratury fort. There are no bars tional site of Joseph's carpenter account."
local across the narrow windows of shop in Nazareth. Els
quarters, but thick washed wails, bare furnishings and the guard at the door speak plainly enough of prison.
George
Eire until the problem is settled.
"I don't know whether
an allen," I'll be
told Bernard Shaw reporter who called on him. "I've spent 20 years of England but my life In
citizen of Ireland. I'm I think the Irish in Britain will have some kind of dual cllizenship, but I'm not sure."United Press.
expected in leave on Tuesday MAN MURDERS
for Chikow to convey details of Communist demands to Chiang
Kai-shek.
!
HIS FAMILY
on
In the two-day racial rioting 142 were killed and 1,087 were injured.
In its report published today en-the-emuses-of-the-rinting-the. Commission said: "Unless the position is carefully watched
white
war.
Among the crowds of residents who flocked to the 25 churches where High Mass was offered were a number of Mos- lems newly converted to Chris- CANNOT SLEEP WELL-tianity during the Palestine. From his windows he may Nazareth's population before and all exhibitions of public Jonk down on the sandy road by the recent upheaval was about repressed, the which his wife arrives for her 12.000, divided about equally violence femly natives may make another
at daily
visits,
between Moslems, Catholics and bringing some Stack upon "Indians' lo square delicacy 10
his Orthodox Christians. supplement. their account."
Today there are some 20,000. monotonous prison fare.
Madame Including
and .refugees, Patvin lives in village on the island to be near any fishing
except abo
about 2.000 Moslems are Christians,
The position in Durban, scene 36-year-old of the race riots, needed con- stant vigilance, the report said.
Thursday
the man she married when he
Petain does not
In Incing the Communists, Li
Copenhagen. Apr. 17.-Peler Tsung-ion cannot expect any more than surrender terms. The Christian Hansen, currently proposed agreement, fermer from a village near here,
A number of people atten- It absolve the authorities was 64 years old and at the when stripped of its face saving told the police today that he
ding the services wore Hammer from any blame for falling to peak of his popularity.
and Sicide badges, particularly facade, is what the Communists strangled his wife and their six
It one by one in their prevent the initial outbreak.
Greek Orthodox rend much
those at the have referred to as surrender children on the "Peiping pattern." This farmhouse on Holy
also absolved the police from and has written nothing at all. Church, which celebrates Palm means a gradual shift of all He added that it took him two allegations that it had failed to The old man does not sleep Sunday today.
repress the power to the Communists, be- hours.
Initial outbreak well, and often his guards and A Franciscan Brother, Robert ginning with an amalgamation:
with vigour, and tha It had him slowly pucing the floor at Mhogue, from Washington D.C.. of the Nationalist forces into the
encouraged the rioters.
night. He is almost always up said that the badge wearers Communist armics.
al dawn. When the guard
were refugees who had come *We are satisfied that the raises the flag on the parade under Communist influence but
the fort, police acted with promptitude around before
were still regular churchgoers.~~ and discretion, considering the Marshal stands stifly at atten-
Beulce. unexpectedness of the situation, tion and salutes from his win- which had developed and the
Petain decided to be forces & their disposal."
Hansen sold he could not ex-
his art.
of each "We
afraid were other and then it happened.
He admitted that he and tus
had quarrelled on Thurs that their troops be allowed today about whether they should
the Yangtse, they
farm. Je are move to a larger asking for control of a region said he had wanted to leave his
VITAL BRIDGEHEADS When the Communists
cross
wite nsk
one
dow.
the
a
on the South bank which ex- present
ever since his Among the number of factors soldier when he was a boy on a MOROCCO FLOODS tends Southwest on a 30 mile brother committed suicide there which the Commission believed mail farm in northern France. front from ⇓ point about 110 ten years ago.
budd caused the riots, the re- He lived through the
Morocco. Apr. 17-Floods in bright
Morocco have cut tele- miles Southwest of Nanking. The police sald the quarrelport ilsted the Africans' housing days of fame as the hero of south This belt would be 40 miles did not seem sérious enough to
situation, "herding together" in Verdun and through the fateful phone lines, destroyed bridges stretches of deep.
make Hausen want to wipe out
compounds of large number days of defeat when he signed and washed away Control
of this area would file? whole family. Villagers,
Africans and the the ormistice with Hitler and roads. No news has been re- put the Commuist forces within neighbours of the Hansens, also unsetiling influence upon the headed the Vichy government. ceived of an entire battalion of ensy striking distance of Hang- could not
African mind of the fact that; At the end of his long career, the Foreign Legion for, some elow. Hangchow Is the rail United Press.
South Africa has a hostile press, friends say. Petain is sad, but days, the
day.--Reuter. abroad.-Reuter.
not viiler.—United Press,
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understand
IL.
1 of
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the
country without personal ambi- tlons and intended to restore 11 to its own people.
Azzam Pasha left Catro earlier today for Damascus, His departure was considered by Special facilities are
to be of grent to be circles in Cairo provided
broad British importance and connected with plones and British ships from reports that Nur Es Said, the all parts of the world, the spon- Iraqi Premier, was on a surprise sors sald.-Associated Press. visit to Damascus.-Reuter.
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