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Hongkong Telegraph
VOL. IV NO. 2741
Marshall Called
To State Dept. Policy Session
Washington, Nov. 20.-U.S. State Depart- ment officials disclosed todoy that the former Secretary of States, Gen. George C. Marshall, Mr Harold Stassen and other non-governmental American leaders have been called in to help find answers to the Chinese Communist upheaval.
Gen. Marshall and Mr Stassen were among a group of 25 who participated in a recent three-day session behind closed doors. The conference was called to aid the work of shaping a revision of revised policy is up- American policy. This
parently in its final stages of formulation.
Among the questions put in
to the group by the Secre
tary of State, Mr
the
shaping America's China
policy.
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The State Department has had
But calling
on a specife policy while it is in a formative stage
11W.
Dean frequent meetings with repre- Acheson, were what to do pentatives or organisations con- foreign policy in about recognising the Com-cerned with munist government of China the last five years. and halting the advance of in leading Americans for advice Communism through
In addition, a three-day con- rest of the Orient. Their
ference under direction of Mr views were not discloserl.
Offico of Government officials said their Francis II. Russell Director of
the fully
Department's were taken
of suggestions
Affairs, those involved Public into account by
strengthening the United Nations was concluded m Saturday at the State Department.
OSLO-BOUND DUTCH PLANE
OVERDUE
Oslo, Nov. 20.--A Dutch WRA OVET- Dakota aircraft due some hours tonight on Brussels to a flight from Oslo, with about 30 Jewish
and children board.
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on
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of petrol, according to an lelal0"
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1949.
Birthday Picture
Charles Philip Arthur, Prince of Edinburgh, plump and healthy son of Prince Philip and Princess Eliza- beth, poses with his mother for an official portrait on the first anniversary of his birthday on November 14. The Princess has joined the Duke in Malta for the wedding~(AP Picture). second anniversary of their
French Diplomats Arrested By Poles
Price 20 Cents
Dins
At the
For
P.G.
Reservations
Plane Survivors Picked Up After 3 Days Adrift
SUPERFORTRESS CREW LANDED IN BERMUDA
Hamilton, Bermuda, Nov. 20.-Eighteen survivors from a crashed American Superfortress, who were picked up nearly 400 miles to soa after drifting on rafts for three days, were brought ashore at Kindley Base here tonight from the Canadian destroyer Haida.
Communists Attacking Kweilin
Four of the survivors - were atretcher cases, but it was believed that their in- juries were not serious. All the men suffered from ex- 66 posure.
American "Disappears"
In Hungary
Vienna, Nov. 20.-Mrs
Tel: 27880
Li Tsung-jen Causes Upset In Chungking
Chungking. Nov. 20 Acting President Li Tsung- jen's action in flying to Hongkong created sternation in Nationalist official quarters in Chung- king tonight.
An
con-
offelal in close touch with Generalissimo Chiang Kai- chek, who is hero to confer with
President Li, cold: "L'
action at this critical time is a surprise and a disappointment."
This official continued: "Mr Li had promised to come days
grave
Warsaw, Nov. 20.—The Polish Government announced Kwangsi.. The Nationalist only four were unable to walkiungary as he was about to Chung-hi arrived and
have
ashort.
that
Hundred waited to cheer the men as they came ashore. They said tonight that they had e- caped from their crashed air- craft through its tall section Into Chungking. Nov 20. fe rafts. OTHERS TAKEN PART
The two rafts were designed Robert A. Vogeler, wife of ty Chungking in two or three revealed Military sources
to hold only six people. With
nn American employee of "The Communists will make The China meeting was heid
today that the Communists to ho
board each, the men nino on from October 0 to 0. Besides
damage, are attacking Kwellin with were cramped and exceedingly the International Telephone capital of it, and it will do the Gen Marshall and Mr Stassen,
ond Telegraph Company, Government those taking
included
three columns-from San- uncomfortable, they said. part university
Bearded and showing signs of said tonight that her hus- When we Arst heard the report specklists
from Hongkong we simply did the northwest, klang on Oriental affalis, amctals of
Chuanhaian on the north their ordeal, they all needed to band had "disappeared" in not believe it. Thom Gen. Pal
ambulances, but
con- International business Brms.
east and Fuchuan In East be helped into
leave for the. United States.firmed it." bankers, and a representative of
Gen. Pal was closeted with Mr College.
The United States Minister in The Army War
that heavy, веди They said engaged
Nathanlat P. Generalissimo. Chlang for an Mr of former Governor Stansen,
upset their rafts several times. Budapest, Never during their time adrift Davis, asked at the Hungarian hour and a half. Generalissima siinnesota, is now President of today that the police had arrested three French diplomats defenders
Office on Saturday Chiang also conferred at length less than 13 Foreign were the waves the University of Pennsylvants, and an undisclosed number of Poles in what it described them in furious fighting.
Vogeler's The Ministry of Defence to-
about
whereabouts with Premier Yen Hal-shan and college president who as a big espionage ring centred around the French Embassy,
Communists at feet high, they declared.
and
that inquiries other high Nationalists on the Anather
in day' said the
was told served
was arrested Robineau as a temporary consul-
All Warsaw newspapers!
desperate at- On the first night they saw
added crisis caused by Acting President tant was Mr Arthur G. Coons,
as he was Pengshui made
near them would be made, she plane swing
Li's departure, the An- featured
story this Warsaw on Friday
♫ board Occidental College, Los
Alto Reuter. Polish tempts to cross the Kien River, one preparing to
away, it turned but
Discounting
of Lim reports geles
The Polish South of Pengshul, but failed.
calculated they
FAILED TO REPLY
one offcial sald the asked to make morning, and it was blared plane for France.
Kwelchow gother Regarding the
Washington, Nov 20. The Ifongkong trip was intended to a Defence even or nine planes new close recommendations out over the Polish Radio. Government said he confessed
disclosed over them.
showndown State Department sald today force of the owners, Aero Holland, in but to state their views fully The Government said the to taking part in the espionage military situation.
that the Hungarian Government Generalissimo Chiang to force ring centred around the French Ministry spokesman Andre Embassy arrested and frankly.
RESCUE OPERATION and Consulates only that one column of Gen. The Hague.
Chlonk Chen Keng's Communist
either to resume the has falled to reply to the Ameri- This conference
was lude-Robineau, Assistant Attache throughout the equntry.
by passed Szenan,
Presidency himself Or The men of a rescue plane's can request for an investigation Prest Army has
give of the
how they into specialised pendent
pre-
the disappearance"
O greater power-Assocläted- tonight the Stettin Consulate, being ut
The announcement said the east of Kwelyang, and is study of the problem
parachuted lifeboat into the Robert Vogeler, assistant Vice Press. made by a three-man group at Aymar de Brussin de Mere Polish police had taken several sumably heading for Fenghiang
ten and watched the weakened President of the International from Robineau con-and Teunyl. to Mr Action,
drming his espionage activities. In Kwanglung, the Commu-survivors of an American B-29 headed by the Ambassador-al- and Find Reneaux of the documents
safe-Telephone and Telegraph Com- ust invaders, after
taking Superfortress scramble to
pany. Large, Mr Pulip Jessup.-As- Warsaw Embassy.
The State Department Press Sancho Island near Macao, are ty from their two frail rafts, sortated Press.
Michael J. McDermott, assaulting Lappa Island nud
Planes and ships had searched
Omeer, neighbouring districts-United 460,000 square miles of occun
Wednesday night, when said so far the Department had Vogeler's since
But he addeä the Superfortress radloed that been advised only of
out
from of fuel and disappearance. she had run
down in the sea that it had heard only was coming
American ometals in Vienna, not near here.
the sald from the Budapest Legation.
Mt McDermott American Minister to Hungary, Nathaniel P. Davis, talked with the Hungarian Foreign Minister 20.-The establishment of en Saturday. He said Mr Davis an "independent nation" of
of expressed the "deep concern"
The children were being taken camp in Norway.
to a holiday
it was stated that the piano had taken off from Marseilles.
consultants 10-
Famebu Airport, Oslo, ported at radio contact with the aircraft was broken over the Osio of Mosa, on the lown Fjoni, about 30 miles south of the capital
Airport oficials said that hope for the plane had not been given up. It was thought 11 might for Schiphol nir- have made fleld, Amsterdam-Rarer,
EDITORIAL
ΣΟΥ.
JESSUP REPORT Washington, was disclosed today that Ambassador at Large,
police
20,
It the Mr
In three days.
Philip Jessup, would start draf- (Continued on Pare 6)
Paris. the Meanwhile said that French Foreign Office said this The announcement
morning that it was lodging Robiteau confessed and would
the ogainst protest " formal bo tried by a Polish court to- confe-
It snld gether with his Polish
and expulsion, Arrest derales. De Mere and Reneaux that official confirmation had to leave Poland been received froin the French were ordered
Warsaw that in
arrested was charges of "threatening security of the Polish Slate."
Nationalist Setbacks
URING the past week, the fortunes of the Chinese Nationalists sank pitifully
to
are now
to a new low mark. Expectations that the Communists would halt their military
order the plans for
winter in consolidate their vast gains during the After summer have not been fulfilled. cutting off Chungking's road link with Yunnan by capturing and Kwangel Kwelyang, the Communists steadily driving nearer to the Nationalists" second refugee capital, and the Nationalist Government is reported to be removing to Chengtu. The choice of Chengtu la surprising, and was made probably be- cause the loss of air communications is rendering it necessary for evacuation to be made by road to the nearest accessible temporary refuge. point that will offer The Nationalist Government, however, will not be safe for long at Chengtu, as in Szechwan resistance Nationalist Province is dissipating fast and the Com munista may be expected to strike to. as soon as they wards that city almost
the taken Chungking. Where have Nationalists, will seek to remove to in such an event is a subject of, speculation. On the mainland proper, the most logical cholco la Kunming, but there is consider- able doubt whether the Nationalista would relish transfer to a province which autonomously has traditionally been minded and where the political hold of the Kuomintang is only a tenuous one. At the same time, they are averse to moving the entire structure of government to Formosa, as this would be taken as surrender of all Nationallat authority over the entire land mass, of continental China and would the *provide the Communists with.
strongest backing to their claim for
recognition as the effective government of the country. Meanwhile, the departure for Hongkong of the Acting President, LA has dealt the tottering Tsung-Jen, Kuomintang another strong political that blow, Although it is claimed Lf's visit is due to illness, no student of Chinese aПatra is prepared to accept the explanation at face value, and opinion is generally agreed that the action marks his retirement from active participation in the Nationalist Government. As he is the Kwangs faction, the top leader of which still controls the only sizable military force ranged against the Com- munists that is more or less intact, his retirement poses the question what stand the Kwangsi armies will take in the Im- 'mediate future.
A
Embassy
Robineau
on the
TINY announcement did not reveal when or where Robineau will be tried, or where he is being held.
when he was arrested on Fri-.
Press.
17th
18 MINERS
KILLED IN
NIGERIA
The Polish authorities said Lagos, Nigeria, Nov. 20. day boarding a plane for Paris Eighteen miners were killed they found papers on him im- and 81 others and several plicating the other two French-police men and Poles,
con-area
In Prague, Polish sources sald that Comulka probably would be Poland's Rajk in a big public trial. He is acctised of Titoist
were
Enugu made it neces-
crow
told
The Haide picked the men up northeast last night 380 miles of Bermuda, after a B-17 recrue bomber had dropped a lifeboat by parachute close to their two
rafts.
on
The crew of the bomber said
drift
rafts
the rafts, but they knew
ANXIOUS TIME
broke and the survivors
Won
KHYBER PASS TRIBESMEN
FORM NATION
Kabul, Afghanistan, Nov.
Pass,
disappearance, tan's eastern border, is that they saw no signs of life the United States Government Pushtoonistan, on Afghanis
over Vogeler's and asked for an lavestigation being acclaimed. here by there were still some survivors
noon. He said the report was
to Afghan reports, there because sea markers were and a report by Saturday after press and radio.
the rafts as the
Davis not received and
of the Afridi sent out from injured in plane zoomed overhead.
Pathans, tough tribesmen of the continuing his efforts on behalf reves
border In the instruction locker of of Vogeler.
Afghanistan-Pakistan which "grave disorders"
WIFE ALARMED
area, met at a mosque in Tirah Vogeler left Budapest, Hun RB-gh, just south of historic and elected & Observers speculated that the broke out in the coal mining the dropped lifeboat was a note of Enugu about 250 telling the men on the rafts not to remove the parachutes from sudden arrest might be
these might gary, by car on Friday morning Khyber nected with the removal of miles east of here on Friday, the boat because
the
ment of the new country. travelling by former Comulka, Windysluv
the
two coun-
This is highway between
the latest of a long Secretary-General of the Polish the Nigerian Government or as a sea anchor to prevent orally to Vic laternational parliament to act as the govern
nnnounced tonight.
series of incidents that have tries and should have arrived in Communist Party.
The Government statement
produced strained relations be the situation in the The rope connecting the tifo Vienna on Felday night.
His Belgian-born wife was al tween Afghanistan and Pakis- said that
have been colliery
the independence sary to evacuate explosives from of one raft, who had clambered armed when her husband did tan. The Afghans the mines in the. Interest of into the boat, started the engine not arrive in Vienna on schedule
of the Pathan tribes and colling comrades and reported him missing early pressing for
today. The United States Lea for the creation of a new coun- detailed to carry out this pre-and picked up their
tion in Budapest reported that
try for these warriors. Pakis from the other.
All this took 35 to 40 minutes, he has been selted by the Ilun-
tan, on the other hand, considers the watching
an integral authorities. United the Pathani area garlan during which
part of its own national state.
The Afghan Government' says rescuers in the bomber spent an Haids, which The destroyer
members of all the Afridi clans anxious time.
then about five miles
were present at the Tirah con- first surface
vention and that a constitution plung arrived from Warsaw
was the
waa drawn up-Associated without the French diplomat,
"Three lifts were made with ship on the scene. She swiftly The 'remaining M. Robineau.
but in con- lowered her longboat and took, three members were expect out interference,
at Iva off the survivors, one hour and after the Ilfeboat ed to be released soon-United tinuing the evacuation
minutes the poilce were 15 Valley mine
Helsinki. Press Bre
surrounded by a larga
where the survi- ber
armed
The point -of-miners crowbars, picks,
hatchets and vors were found was only 10 Communist Party- spears who rushed
Surete three
The police were
public safety.
cautionary measure,
The evacuation of dangerous explosives from the, Iva Valley and Obwetti mines had begun, the Government statement said,
DANGEROUS SITUATION
deviationism-United Press. AIRMEN RELEASED Paris, Nov. 20-The Nationale have released of Blx crew members of the Poilsh plane who were placed in custody yesterday after the These forces are now virtually enclosed within their home pro vince, but, at the same time, the Com- munlats have not made any serious altempt to penetrate deep into the
Kwongsi people province. The
militant lot, and it la. known. that many of their commanders, are bitterly anti-Communist. The Kwangsl people have always wanted to run their own affairs in their own way, and hayo, both political rezisted successfully and military pressure from without. Chiang Kai-shek, at his strongest and at the height of his popularity and power, was unable to subdue the province, and it was not until 1937 when the Japanese overran the country that it threw in its lot with Chiang wholeheartedly. Whether Kwangel will now resist the Communists, and with what success, will be watched. with Interest,
U.S. Navy Air Reductions
Washington,
Nov. 20.--Tho
was away,
mer was dropped.
with
Red Purge In
Finland Near
purgo
Press,
Nov. 20-The NEW PLANETS
In Finland
today us, the Com- at the miles from the position where appeared to be on the verge, of Committee Central police and attempted to disarm search organisers had estimat-a them and obtain possession of ed they would 12, on the basis munist
of reparts of flares and radio urged all members to expose the explosive stores."
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in the organisation.
DISCOVERED
Moscow. Nov-20-Soviet
covered three small new planets.
The statement added that the distress algnals, and drift cal- every spy and saboteur with- astronomers this year, have dia- U. S. Navy said this week-end officer in charge of the police culations-Reuter, that 28 navel, and seven marine endeavoured to reason with the aircraft
without · success will be miners but squadrons decommissioned and the opera-The situation became so dan- that the polles were ting
· status of six air bases8lled to open fixo In seit-` |
reduced within the
next four months to save money..
Allack
Coming Here For A Rest
defence, resulting casualties This will bring the
among the miners totalling 18 Manila, Nov. 21-Vice-Pre-
sident-elect Fernando carrier al groups down from men killed and 81 detained in 14 to 10, cut the number of hospital and six casualties scheduled to leave for H patrol bomber squadrons from among the police. Ce
80 to 25 and reduce Marine The statement said that no from further incident had been re- Corps Aghter squadrons 23 to 10.Associated Preis.ported since Friday-Reuter.
on November 27 abox liner President. Clevelan
The tone of the Communist which they have named Russia,
Moscow and Komsomolia. well, convinced Party Order Informed political quarters-that
Communist leadership membership in Finland
The
ofcial Gaylet...news and agency, Tass, added today that was these discoveries bring to 113. planeta about to experience a thorough the number of -anall
discovered by Soviet astrono overhauling.
There were recently rumours merse hold that the
several Flonish Communist
Tho agency
around ers were regarded by the thres new planets, smuight for
al- 100 years ago, mova form as Titolsts, for though the Finalah Party is not the sun in orbits between Mars several days rest and relaxa❤a menber of the Cominform end Juplier and appear si dim
-United Press.
late-Routes. Ple LionUnited Press.