Canton Preparing Purge
Canton, July 25.--- In Conton, sources in a position to know said that the Nailoanlists were preparing a purge of "bad elements" with- in the Kvesiatong,
Persons discussed for possible expulsion from the party include Mr T. V. Soong and Dr H. H. / Kung, both brothers-in- Inw of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek antl once among the moNÍ powerful men in China. Both are now abroad.- Associated Press.
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VOL. IV NO. 173
TRIPOLITANIA POLICY CAUSES
FRANCE ANXIETY
Paris, July 24.-The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, had a lunch-time talk with the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman,] liere on Saturday. This talk was today believed] by observers to have partly allayed French anxiety: about the British Government's intentions in Tripolitania,
This problem in Anglo-French relations has shar- pened since the British Government recognised the Emir Sayid el Senussi ns head of the new Arab State of Cyrenaica.
Agitation in Trípolitani urging the newly re- cognised Emir to extend his sovereignty over Tripoli. tania is believed in French official circles to have Bri- tish backing.
RUSSIANS END LITTLE
BLOCKADE
The meeting between Mri Bevin and M. Schuman helped to lay the ground for) full Anglo-French under.
standing in that strategic
part of North Africa, one French Foreign Office official
said today. But at the same
Washington, July 24.- Democratic Senator Estes Kefauver said today that a
time it is recognised on concurrent resolution will be
Hamburg. July 24.-The both sides that Britain and) introduced on Tuesday in Russians have announced France do not share a com- both Houses of Congress that they will begin culling mon attitude to the so-called | which would authorise the off their "little blockade" Arab problem. President of the United of German lorry traffic to States to call a conference Berlin on Monday, it was tanin is being discussed through
of representatives of the Atlantic Pact nations to de- vise plans for bringing the Atlantic Democracies into a single federal union.
hos
officially reported tonight.
д
German officials of the British zone border central force said that the Russians nt Luebeck told their British zone opposite numbers today that lorry truffle Kefauver said the idea
to all parts of Berlin would be bipariison
permitted to cross there as from vaging Both supportin
Monday Houses, and interest in the
morning. Luebeck was
the point federal
at over Tripolitania as been union' has
in which the
"little blockade" over Cyrenaica. creasing stendly. He said started. It later spread to all the bill will be referred to the bizonal crossing points
plong the Senate Forign Relations and the Soviet frontler except at House Foreign Affairs Com-Helmstedt. mittees with requests for early The Russians stopped all lor- ry trafic carrying goods and supplies to Berlin through those, points." Later
MONDAY, JULY 25, 1949.
“PRACTICALLY UNSINKABLE”
Typhoon Strikes China Coast
Close To
Shanghai
dificult to get accurate weather
The future status of Tripoll-
Information from the Royal Observatory, Hong- diplomatic channels between the United States, Britain,
kong, this morning said that the typhoon "Gloria, Franco and Italy.
which caused tremendous havoc Since
at Okinawa on the rejection by the United Nations of the Bevin-
Saturday, struck the China coast south of and very Sforza plan
close to Shanghai between 6 and 8 a.m. today. оп the Italian colonies, the four Powers are now repported here to be en-
A message from the today and was expected to that China suggestion
Navigation Com-afrike that city of 6,000,000 - Britain should have trusteeship pany's as Hanyang, whichght with winds of 100 to 125
well as was anchored off Shanghai, United
per hour, according to
States
Air
Force at 9 a.m, stated that she weather unit reports, But in the case of Tripolitania, was riding out winds of 60
The Bureau at the Air Force trusice nation would be flanked by a five-nation Advisory knots velocity from the
base in Tokyo said it Was Council representing Britain, south,. France, America, Italy, and on: Owing to disruption of com- Arab State.
munications with Communist- As political maturity advanced held Shanghai, in Tripolitania, British trustee- damage has yet been received, no report ot go slow" tactics at 1lelmstedt, the five-nation counell would
the Russians started ship would come to an end, but AIR FORCE REPORT committee, of which the former
where the mnin
Tokyo, July 24-The typhoon U. S. Supreme
autobahn continue to function. Court Justice, (motor highway) to Berlin
"Gloria" roared across Owen Roberts, is the chairman, crosses into
the the Soviet
China Sea towards Shanghai The plan envisaged by Kefauver This tied up hundreds of vehi and co-sponsers calls for acles carrying perishable car- In some federation of Atlantic Pact 412-
goes. Then the Russians tions and the transfer of cer- gradually relaxed the go slow tain powers at present exercised controls until
became by independent sovereign na- normal again. tions 10
пл overa!! North Atlantic Governing United Press.
hearings.
Kefauver sold the resolution
is backed by the Alianlic Union
EDITORIAL
body.
traffic
zone.
That left Helmstedt as the only road route to Berlin from the West.-Associated Press.
SAAR PROBLEM
French politicnt quarters, Britain is also seen as, thwarting French objectives in the Saar, but at the French Foreign Office this question is regarded as only secondary in importance.
(Continued on Page 5)
Amenities For The Forces
THE presence in town in their off-duty hours during the week-end of large numbers of men of the newly-arrived units among our Garrison reinforcements caused two very strong Impressions: firal, a clear realisation that the promise of adequate defence for the Colony was being rapidly pushed nhead to fulfilment; second, a feeling that for a grent many of the men, finding themselves in an unfamiliar place so far from home, what to do with their spare time must rank as dellnite problem. Though Hongkong
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Bre
possesses recreational facilities aplenty, apart from sen-bathing at public benches, these facilities are in the main restricted to members of clubs. Public entertain- ment is confined to the cinema, and though Servicemen in uniform. admitted to theafres at reduced prices, the charges are high enough to maké a fairly 'deep cut into the ordinary Servicemen's weekly pay. The whole question is complicated by the fact that, at least for same time to come, Hongkong will be both Base and leave centre. The simple tastes of the British Serviceman constitute an asset which, with his traditional fortitude and resource, will help him through a dreary hour. However, the problem cannot be regarded as of, and left at, individual level when there are considerable numbers of men involved. The responsibility rests primarily with the Military Authorities-and, no doubt, those in charge of Forces welfare are going ahead with their plans and preparations, NAAFI centres, club rooms, mobile cinemas, dances, bathing plenics, sports, competitions, Inter-unit socials, ete-all such facilities and activities aro nowadays normal arrangements with the Services. The programme at the moment may not be as Tull or as varied as might
many
be desired, but the arrangements may be Bald to be as good as the limited time in which they have had to be made has allowed. It is here that the eivilian element of the population can help by working in closely with the Military Authorities to provide some of the amenities which the Military may not have the facilities for, or.which may be different from those the Serviceman is normally accustomed to and which he 'will probably welcome for a change. His Excellency the Governor has, in fact appointed in committee of twenty-eight civilians and one military member to nssist in arranging entertainment and welfare for H.M., Forces. Their plans will no doubt be more well known when they have had more time for discussion and planning. In 1927, when the Colony was visited by large numbers of troops forming the Shanghaf Defence Force, a similar committee was appointed and did; excellent work. With the cooperation of various public bodies and privite citizens, they succeeded in making the troops' atny in the Colony a thoroughly pleasant one... And so well did some of the men like Hongkong and the friends they made here that they returned later and found civilian employment here. Quita £1 number of them are still living here today. The present committee should not find it difficult to secure the operation from civilian organisations and residents, and if they can help to promote better social relations between civilians and Services, and succeed in giving our visitors in uniform, when the time comes for them to go home, a recollection of a tour of duty in Hongkong that was as full of genuine friendliness ∙ns it was enjoyable, they will, have performed an outstanding service.
same co-
left
Friends and, families of crew members aboard the U.S. light cruiser Roanoke wave goodbye as the heavily armed and "practically unsinkable" vessel sails from Philadelphia for her shakedown cruise. The U.S. Navy says this newest and most power- ful ship of her class has new gunnery and safety factors. (AP Picture.)
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Acheson Working On New China Policy
Washington, July 24.—Mr Doan Ache- son, United States Secretary of State, was today reported to have ordered the "best brains available” to work on China policy, in a full-scale effort to create a new pattern for American diplomacy in the Far East.
1
Six non-governmental experts are to make'an intensive study of the Far East situation, and Am- bassador Philip C. Jessup is directing the pre- paration of a "White Paper" on past American policies towards China which, it is understood, the State Department plans to issue next week.
REASON
It is believed that the paper will nssert that United States aid has been misused by the Chinese Na-
FOR TIBET tionalists.
REVOLT
Dr
Koo,
the
has re-
Willington Chinese Ambassador, quested delay in publication on the ground that the appearance of the White Paper at this time New Delhi, July. 25 could only aid the Chinese The Chinese Ambassador to Communists. India reported today that he But it seemed coriain tonight had information that Tibet's that the State rulers had
Department expelled the would not consent to the Chinese Government Com- Chinese Embassy's request for mission at Lhasa
delay. because plotting from China since the
they feared some of its THREE QUESTIONS Communist victory, typhoon would strike Shanghai 24. To the strains of the Chia-lun, sald
but the Brunswick, Germany, July members were Communists. The Ambassador, Dr Lo
Faced with a revived Com- the night. The typhoon with undiminished force during old Nazi song: "Comrade, ports reaching him
Incomplete re-
munist sweep southwords in Indicated China, Mr Acheson Okinawa badly
Now we have to march into that was the reason
and his battered with
for what advisers have winds reaching as high as 143 the enemy's country, the priestly rulers.
to answer three he called
a revolt of Tibet's questions: miles per hour.-United Press.
extreme "German Right
1. When OKINAWA DAMAGE
Party" today launched its
Communist It was the first explanation Government is created what election campaign in Wolfs-here or elsewhere for the dis- kind of political and trade Tokyo, July 25.-Sixteenburg, near here.
closure in Canton on Saturday relations that
should persons were injured, one child
the
the United remote Himalayan States and other was killed and millions of month by the British author- had revolted
The Party was banned
Western last mountain country apparently Powers establish with 147 dollars in property damage was
against nominal 2 Should the United States done by
les because of its alleged ex- allegiance to a 150-mile-an-hour
China's Nation- treme nationalist
ald possible Nationalist tendencies, allt Government.
sistance groups? for eight hours on Saturday. Addressing about 1,000 All the injured are Americans. the leader of the Party, Hel-tained a small mission at Lhasa organised in the lands around
China for years people,
has main-spread of Communism could be This news was contained in OF CANADA an Army radio message today
muth Hilbrecht, former major
to signify legal sovereignty Communist China? from the big American
in the German Army, said that over base
exercised in practice his Party was not militaristic. over the country ruled by Bud- Vancouver, July 24-Pirates 300 miles south of Japan A At a Party meeting last week, Dalai Lama, currently a boy.
dhist priests in the name of the previous sketchy message in- Herr librecht said "I am no the storm-swept waters of Bri-dicated the
dead child was politician. I am a soldier." fish Columbia's salmon fishing American. grounds this week-end, escap- The latest message sald half
Today Herr Hillbrecht said of all military buildings on that the German Right Party the Island had been destroyed, was a "new People's Govern and that the typhoon was the ment," which would expand be. worst since the occupation of
yond Its stronghold in Wolfs- Okinawa in 1945,
German Right Party
Before
its prohibition, the Occupied 17 out of 25 seals in the Wolfe-
PIRACY
OFF
typhoon which Inched Okinawa but was sanctioned last week. COAST
attacked a fishing vessel
Ing with $3,000 in a daring sca robbery..
Police said that the pirates hoarded a fish buyer' boat while the vessel was cruising 200 miles north of Vancouver.
An dir and sea search for the ralders was immediately started In the area from Prince Rupert to Vancouver, the centre of a salmon fishing industry of about 1,000 boats.
The previous worst storm, on October last, did damage om- cially estimated at $10,000,000.
HQ DISAPPEARS
In Saturday's typhoon, the message said, mony huts at
burg.
sburg Town Council. After its prohibition, 12 of the 17 seats were taken over by the less ex- treme German Party"
The revival of the German Army Headquarters completely Right Party, is generally regard- Fish buyers have been warned disappeared and the compounded with suspicion since last | by radio telephone to take housing Filipino, employees was work Herr Hlbrecht declared special precautions as police wiped out The Commissary, that the programme of the Na fcor that the pirates may at Chapel and a pler were de tional Socialiste tempt other raids on the fish stroyed, and the Awase depen-bad."-Reuter, buying boats, which carry large dent housing arca was half sums of money during the sal-destroyed. mon stason.Associated Press.
The compound for civilian Army employees was said to have escaped severe damage:"
Ample warning of the storm's
"was
not Bo
TROOPER DUE TOMORROW
STOP PRESS approach apparently prevented rush, which was expected
REDS FIVE MILES FROM
CHANGSHA
A telephone call received in Canton from Changsha this morning said the Com- munist forces, were only Ave miles East from the heart of the Hunan previn- cial capital, reports Router,
South of Chanasha, the Communista are advancing on the rull town of Chuchow in three columns and are only 10 miles away.
Chu chow's fall is expected within next 24 hours. THIS Would Isolate Changsha,'
to
The troopshilp Empire Wind- heavier casualties, but the arrive in Hongkong this morn- measago sald
everyone ato ing bringing further reinforce- emergency rations on Sunday. menis, from the United King- Troops were standing by to pre-dom for the Gurripon here, will vent lootins.
now arrive tomorrow morning. A Northwest Airlines plane Aboard the trooper, which is at No. 5
which flew over the island late expected to berth
on Sunday afternoon was re- Kowloon Wharf at 9.30a.m., fused permission to land on the are men of 3rd Royal Marine flooded, debris-strewn Kodem Commando Brigade, the rear airfield. !
party of the 1st Battalion the
SURVEY OF DAMAGE Far East Air Force Head- quarters is sending a B-17 with a group of officera to survey damago and improve communications, which stlit Leeble.
are
The typhoon was Inst re- ported blowing itself out to- wards the China coast...
Middlesex laneous other
Regiment, miscel- zeinforcements, and a small number of 'army and RAF families;
Anchises Trip Delayed
The typhoon in the Shanghaf area has caused a postponement
Is to
Another typhoon, reported of the departure of the Anchises heading in the general diree for Kohe, where she tion of Okinawa, is still more undergo repairs: than 1,200 miles to the south- The tug Caroline Moller cast, in the vicinity of Saipan, standing by in Shanghal to tow no that its course cannot be no the vessel curately forecast. Assoelated The trip may be made to Press
morrow
re-
3. What defence against the
More work has been done on the last question than on the first two.
Mr Acheson hopes to follow The report by Dr Lo indicated up publication of the While the priests acted in fear of be- Paper with more definite state- coming involved through Comments
on America's munist Infiltration-Associated policy than any so far made. Press.
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