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VOL. IV NO. 192
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TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1949.
Airlift Victims Honoured
FOREIGNERS BEGIN EVACUATING CANTON
REPORT
OF MAO'S Communists Approach
DEATE
Vinton,
15.-A Aug. Chinese spokesman toll
· Reuter · that reports from Intelligence offers bellud Communist lines indicated that Mao Tue-tung, Chair- man of the Chinese Com- munist Party, was
eiller
II) or had gone to Moscow
on a
a spectat mission.
He said that no had bern suffering from tuber- eulotis får some Uline, and some prople even suggested that.
owing to his non- appearance at recent publie funelians, he was dead.
The spokesman personally doubted thls, but he was Hot Nure.
The Atition
New York
WNYC yesterday that rport
of tuber. Leath had 01:
had died
Kwangtung Border
Canton, Aug. 16.-Foreigners are evacuating. Canton in increasing numbers. Several British and American businessmen, together with their families, left for Hongkong over the week-end and more are going this week.
The decision to evacuate Communists had captured Nan-1
195 miles northeast of Was taken for economic kang,
Canton, and were striking rensons as official businesg
rapidly southwaris. is at a standstill
The
its
House Passes
Arms Aid Without Cuts
The Chinese Nationalist mill- cleanest sweep was tary buthorities officially c made by the Standard-Vacuum knowledged thal Reds Janel OI! Company. the biggest bypassed Kanchow, stubborn American firm in South China, Nationalist resistance point 215 radio
which pulled out
entire milles from Canton, and had foreign staff of approximately attacked Nankang. The inss of 12 persons, Its Chinese mana Nankang was not yet admitted, the local however. lalte over Ker will
Washington, Aug. 15.- office.
Private reports sald the Beds The House of Representa- Lighters and tugs left Can-
were already very near the bortives Foreign Affairs Com- ton at dawn yesterday
taking der
of Kwangtung Province, which is only 20 miles south of mittee today approved with- fair Nanking.
out cuta President Tru- Nationalist reports also aldman's Arms-for-Europe pro-j there was heavy fighting meas Hengshan, on the railway that ramme.
The leads almost due south 200 miles to Canton."
broadcast Mao culosis. occurred in Pelping July 17, according to a Chinese Nationalst Defence Ministry spokesman, sald the radio statiov.-Reuter.
MACARTHUR
&
out the company's lorries, and other equipment. A quantity of stock has been behind.
car
left
The Caltex Oil Company has cut down its staff, while the Shell Oil Company is sending out families of its staff and its women secretaries.
Most foreigners are doing
news
BADGER likewise. The cariler "stay and personnel assigned to
NOTIFIED
Washington, Aug. 15.- General Douglas MacArthur
n
to Committee refused Include an authorisation for an
The wor
caused
arms ald programme for non- hastching of departures of Communist China,. and of government Dofore foreigners
passing the prograin- Chung me, the Committee split it up see it through" attitude has, asking or Formosa, The Foreign into amounts to be paid in cash a result of subsequent events Office 1 hos not advised and amounts to be paid in In other occupied elties, been
foreign diplomats of any move, replaced by one of "get out un-hut several said they expectest less you've got to stay."
to receive such notices within a few days.
'the
been
The Chinese Foreign Office an Shameen Isinnd has been practi- cally stripped. It is predicted
officials here that Cabinet rank may go to Taiwan
that rather
Chungking,
contract authority.
The President had requested $1,100,000,000 to help Atlantic CHINESE EXODUS
Pact
ATTI nations to
against WANT MORE AID
nggression. He wanted it all in There are normally 160 Bri- and Vice-Admiral Oscar Cish subjects in Canton,
cash. Generals Ma Pu-lang and Hu
Tisc
Committee decided to Badger were given formal majority of whom are women. Tsung-nan, Commander and De-give 11 this way -- cash
con-puty Commander from the dis- $400,130,000 The exodus of Chinese that the two notice today
to be used up to want tinues. Movements of govern- funt northeast front, few to the next March 31, and $157,710,000 Senate Committees them to return and tell ment personnel and archives to (sland base of Formosa to press
and Taiwan
has Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to be used between March 31 Chuccelerated. what they know about con-
for additional arms.
and June 30.
Contract authorisation $428.- ditions in the Far East.
There is no fresh word from 100,000 up to March 31 and the Nationalists concerning the $77,050,000 from March 31 to Northwest, but the Communist Juns 30. Radio reported the Red capture The Committee acted shortly of towns 80 miles southeast and after Senators Arthur Van- 100 miles northeast of Lanchow, denberg and John Foster Dulles, Senate Foreign Relations Com-Chungking, however, is toll Kansu provincial capital-Asso- both Republican fortain poll milice by a 13 to 12 vole. The garded as the likely seat of the ciated Press.
experts, had proposed a $160,- Armed Services Committee had Government In the event
·000,000. cut-in the progammo.... previously suggested that the Communist occupation of Con-
The Senators will still be able to present their proposal to the As preparations
being are
Senate despite the Committee's made to evacuate in most circles,
Lisbon, Aug. 15. During | action-iteuler. the Danish East Asiatic Company today reopened its Canton 1948, a total of 61,038 marriages solemnised in Portugal, branch for the first time since I were
7,051 of them in Lisbon, accor- prewar-Reuter.
ding to official statistics.
Divorces totalled 1,110, of
The Secretary of Defence, Mr Louis Johnson, cabled the two of a resolution men a copy adopted lust Friday by the
two return.
Mr Johnson
did not order Allied either Gen. MacArthur, Commander in Japan, or Vice- Adm. Badger, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, to return.
Instead he asked for their comments on the inniter as soon as possible.-Associated Press.
EDITORIAL
ᎪᎢ
IA
ton.
sume
to.
KANCHOW BYPASSED
of
of
Marriages In Portugal
Canton, Aug. 15-Reliable which 562 occurred in the capi-'] private reports tonight said the al city-United Press.
Emergency Measures
T tomorrow's meeting of the Legis- Intive Council, the Attorney General
le introduce further legislation.
emergency
An unusual measure Is the Bill providing for the expulsion of
from undesirables
the Colony. Under this mensure, wide powers aré delegated to the competent authority to be designated. The grounds upon which a person may be determined to be "an undesirable within the
compass of
The
the Ordinance are likewise very wide. It will be surprising If this measure is not made the excuse for further outery from certain quarters, and renewed charges of authoritarianism may be expected. measure, however, must be judged in the light of the unusual conditions facing the Colony and the possible eventualities. Unusual conditions justify unusual measures, and loyal, and law-abiding citizens, who will have nothing to fear. must agree that the introduction of auch legislation is timely and wise. Owing to the fact that Hongkong today has a population grently in excess of what it is capable of absorbing, the Press has on many occasions in the past urged the adoption of suitable mensures to control The movement of people in and out of the Colony. The Bill to be introduced tomorrow, while essentially an "emer gency measure aimed at tightening up public security, will also go a certain way to solve some of the problems-such as public health-created by an abnormally swollen population.-- Operating side by side, with the Registration of Persons Ordinance, which is expected to become
U.S. ENVOY VISITS KREMLIN
Moscow, Aug. 15.-Tho U.S. Ambassador, Mr Alan G. Kirk, met for about 45 minutes in the Kremlin to night with Premier Josef Stalin.
Berlin
A combined Allied memorial service was held at Fassberg Airfield, in the British Zone of Germany, in honour of military and civilian personnel who lost their lives in airlift operations to and from Berlin. Lending members of the
Western Occupational Powers attended the ceremony.
Inquiry Into Off Cheung
Sinking Chau Is.
The story of the sinking of the British motor vessel Tai Fung off Cheung Chau in the early hours of August 3 was told by Capt. Albert Anderson Warild, master of the ship, before the Marine Court of Inquiry this morning.
CHURCHILL
VISIBLY MOVED
the
Tol: 27880,
54 Rescued In Atlantic
Air
Crash
Galway, Aug. 15-Miss Ruth Nichols, fumed Ameri- can avlatrix, and 54 ather survivors were Anatched from the Atlantic today after an American four- engined airliner crashed five aniles off the coast of West Ireland with 58 person aboard.
The British trawler, Stalberg, landed Miss Nichols and 48 others at Galway. Also aboard were the bodies of two vic- tims of the crash--an American believed to be one of the eight American members of Dio crew ". of nine and an Italian girl, be- Six lieved to be a passenger. other survivors were picked up the aleamer, Lanahrone, leaving one person unaccountoçi lur,
دا
The names of the dead and missing were not disclosed im- mediately. Tha four-engined DC-4, owned by the Transocean Airlines of Oakland, California, of the Inrgest
cho non-schedulo
in operators, crash-landed Atlantic early this morning on a fight from Rome to Caracas, Venezurin, by way of Shannon. OVERSHOT AIRFIELD
It overshot Shannon airfield In darkness and did not have enough gasoline to get back. Passengers and crow took to rubber life rafts or leaped into the ocean with life preservers. Fishing irawlers and scores of other small-craft put out from Galway to search for them.
Mias Nichols had signed on for tho Alght дя assistant stewardess. An airlines official said she had gone to Rome with the Youth Argosy-a bargain price student tour of Europe
and and decided to return to the United States in advance of the main group,
The first
stewardess Sitting an President was so we were without light. The
on Italian, was reported alzo among Mr Neill Garland, Acting acting Chief Engineer came
bridge in his
Miss Nichola working the survivors. Director of Marine, with
clothes after the first time we and other survivors landed here the following as members:struck the rock. I asked him were taken into Galway Contrat Lt-Cdr P. D. Hoare (HMS why he could not keep the en- Hospital, Miss Nichols was put Jamaica), Capts D. C. Sim, gines doing a little longer aud to bed. Doctors said she was
R. G. Gillespie and W. Ee replied: No can.' Ile refused Awcock, master mariners,
to go back to the engine room,
"nnediately ordered
the
The
The ship was of 69 tons Winston Churchill brushed Kee Hong, No. 20, Con- but the crew refused to touch
Strasbourg, Aug. 15.-Mr and was owned by the Yueboats to be swung out. tears from his eyes today naught Road Central.
men
There
the
suffering slightly from shock.
Doctors said none of the sur- vivors appeared to be injured seriouslyUnited Press,
Demonstrator Killed In
Karachi
port a boat was fully manned
the starboard boat although that Capt. Warild, when he thanked 10,000.
a Norwegian was on the lower side. subject. disclosed that immed-was nothing wrong with cheering French men, woately after the first rock was Hfeboat,
and children after hit the engine room stall stop-
without being made
Day.
VESSEL HEELS OVER, an Honorary ped the engines
bridge. instructions from the Freeman of this picturesque, The generatora were also stop- "The carpenter, who went to ancient city of many wars, pod, so that they were without see what damage was done, did
Summoned by the cheering Eght..
not return until after the second Karachi, Aug. 15. — The Giving evidence, Capt. Warlid shock and the vessel was then police opened fire here to- which floated through the tall windows of the Hall of Honour, explained that all his papers making water rapidly into the Mr and Mrs Churchill stopped were lost with the Tal Fung. out on to a balcony.
main hold. We got the port day on thousands of Mos- Replying to Mr Gurlond, lfeboat away without about 30 lems demonstrating outside witness said that in 1923 through people, including three women, the staff quarters of the an application to the Governor leaving about six or eight per-Indian High Commissioner on the recommendation of the sons on board, including two
and
Ono
They looked down on a se of upturned faces expressing the gratitude of a nation to the then Harbour Master. Capt. Chinese women. The vessel to Pakistan, Dr Sita Ram. British people. great wartime leader and the Beckwith, he received an exemp was gradually heeling to star- One demonstrator was killed tion certificate to call on British board and we had eventually to and several seriously injured. Smilingly. Mr Churchill BC- ships because of his services climb up. The two Chinese Hundreds of pollee were rushed knowledged the waves of cheers, during the first World War. He women were looked after by to the building, which is In Then with tears in his eyes he held a Norwegian master's cer- the purser
Wo myself. of Karachi's
thorough main addressed the crowd simply,tificate, which was still valid. kept them above water until fares, when a crowd began de- and in French."
He obtained D British the ship sank. Boats from the monstrating against the raising An informed source said Mr
He raid; "You have paid me first mate's certificate after Lee Sang rescued us.”
of the Indian Union flag outside Kirk had reviewed the United on incomparable compliment exumination In Hongkong.
the Commissioner's quartiers on States and Soviet relations in that I shall value for the rest
Capt. Warild sald he was independence Day. general terms.
of
Vive La France my life.
NO PILOT
ahead of the Kwong Sal and the
Khawaja Shahabuddin, Pakis- The Ambassador told nowa- In the course of the ceremony
All the ships were tan's Minister of the Interior, Describing the journey on Lee Song. after the conference: "I within the City Hall, Stras- August 3, Capt. Warild said that coming from Macao more or teen tried to quieten the mob from don't think I will have anything bourg's Mayor, M Charles Frey, they left Macao for Hongkong on the same course. He
had
but to say about my visit tonight, said: "In making you a Citizen at 2 am, with about 16 tons of plenty on life fuckels on board could not make himself heard but I may have something to say of Honour, Strasbourg honours
cargo, a crew of 24. all the Tai Fung.
above the tumult. tomorrow"
herself. The fervent welcome disciplined and 13 passen-
crowd swelled to As the The
G.S. Embassy described you have received is not an ger
The President:
you overal thousand
and became the call as a "courtesy visit." It
empty gesture buf
suggesting that there
threatening, the flag was was learned that Mr Kirk had straight from the heart.",
uncharted rock?
moved and the police began requested the meeting-the first
Aring into the air. Thin falled time any high American official
to has seen Stalin in almost a year,
disperse the crowd, and they
men
Vyso the
Mr Kirk, a retired admiral in
Gen. Walter Bedell Smith
morrow.
BIG SPEECH
senger
comes ers. The vessel had no par- drew certificate. She 11 feet six inches aft and seven feet six inches forward..
L
Are
was un
Capt. Warild: No. I cannot
"I had no pilot on board and, say that,
This conclud:d the master's
The hearing is continuing,
the root of a motor cor,
began climbing over the of the building.
Kate
The police fired one volley directly at them, killing ond others. and wounding several The
fually dispersed crowd when the police laid down heavy fog of tear gas and mode determined charges to clear the (nearby side-streets.
law tomorrow, Il
to be may prove quite an effective check on unrestricted immigration. Government, however, should see that the measure is fully explained to the general population in order that there shall be no misunder standing or alarm. The fingerprint requirement in connection with the issue of identity cards, provided for under the Registration of Persons Ordinance, arous- ed some resentment among the Chinese population until
was adequately brought to their notice that it had no connotation with the ordinary provision for the fingerprinting of criminals,
Moscow Radlo said the Soviet Churchill may make his was therefore on the bridge Frank explanation in 'simple terms that
Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei eagerly awaited "big speech" in all the time," he said. "Short-ovidence. was also present at the European Assembly to-ly after five o'clock I sighted Every man and woman can understand
Cheung Chau Beacon Light on The weather should dispel any doubts as to intentions
Adamaster Rock. He will speak during a two-
clear up to this: and execution, while
the navy, who succeeded Lieut-day political debate into which was fairly at the same time
ime.
were occacional CHILD MURDER There as the 101 delegates from 12 con-
and visibility was Ambassador to Moscow, arrived trien will plunge, in the more shower in the Soviet capital late last hing.
moderate. I passed the light at June-Associated Presa
six o'clock on the port beam, Today he was studying the two cables distant as far as
1
London, Aug. 15.-A 20-year- results
Judge.
old woman was charged at a Terrorists Raid ou In Western Germany which he had 'ordered to be
to him conveyed
light when I changed tonight with the munter of a post the os soon Police Post
child,
Marion Course according is usual cus-three-year-old they were known.
Greek' Guerillas On the basis of these results tom, slightly to port with the Ward, found dead from head in- Mary Hospital ahend. Juries in a bomb-ruined house Queen Singapore, Aug. 15-A special he will decide whether ond
Claim Successes breaking, and don Saturday. Dawn was constablo's wife and two
he would raise stables were killed when a gang the most controversial Issue tances are deceptive for an
Marion had been infring
London, Aug. 15-The Greek officer who has been on watchs [of 60 Comtnunist terrorists, fire before the Assembly-GOT"
from her home for 20 hours guerillo, radio claimed tonight ing tommy-guns and shooting at many's relations with the Coun- for a long period.
Greek Nationalist overyone in, their way, ralded eil of Europe.
During their search: the police after changing "Shortly Mr Churchill is belloved to police post one mile from Ka-
the
found the body of an unknown planes were shot down and two
armoured cars destroyed ye Jong, near Kuala Lumpur, yes-favour inviting Germany. to be-course we struck a rock on
In other ruin. There at
and man side
In the Mount Vick terday come an associate - terday, it was earned today.
member of starboard
the was no cluu either to his iden
cestor, rizar tho Albanian after apparently A third special constable died the Council as soon na tha Grat chorlly
frontier todny from wounds. sustained West German Government is rare rock struck the ship amity, or to the way in which ho
ships. Immediately after the met his-denth-
***Government losses wäre" "put during the terrorist ruld. ́ ́Two sot up. (others were wounded.
This would entitle her to a first rock was hit tho engine The wonian charged is Mrs The bandlin stole eight rifles place in the Assembly but not room staff, without any instruc- Nora Patricia Tierney. She is and and 500 rounds of ammunition. | in the Cabinet of Foreign tions from the bridge, stopped in next door neighbour, of the Government offensive continued
Router,
|-Ministers~~~Reuter.
the engines and the generatora, dead child-Reuter.
serving to expose the . falseness of any, arguments which may be advanced by those who have their reasons to oppose and fear such legislation. Since the powers granted to the authorities' under such emergency measures are admittedly extensive, the utmost care and discretion must be exercised in their enforcement, As much of the routine work of enforce ment will fall en juntor officers of the Government, they must, be strictly enjoined to observe the utmost. tact and courtesy in their dealings with the public. In connection with fingerprinting for identity cards, it may be a good Iden to have the process supervised by justices of the poace in order to prevent any occurrence which might be construed as officiousness or disrespect.
CHARGE
The Pakistan Prime Minister, Linguat All Khon, later inspect
of the week-end elece proceeded two cables Northwest London police courtjed the damage.Reuter......
con-in what form
Da
before her body was discovered. that two ENGINES STOPPED
6.10
at 453 officers and men killed,
1,780 wounded, A TO
in full, strength-Reuter.