For the Prurienie oli HONGKONG TELEONAPIL, “
For and on behalf of SOUTH CHINA
VAMORNING POST,
The
Today's westbert Madernia northeast winds. Talr. Neon ObservationaĮ Haremetrio predstire, 1923.8. mba, 2020 in. Temperature, 68 dag: F. Dew point, 49 deg. r. Helative humidity, 52 %. Wind direction, ENE. Wind force, *nots.
Low water: 3 ft. 7 in. 'ai A20 pm. High water: 8-11, at
5.38 p.m.
Hongkong Telegraph.
VOL. IV NO. 286
Elsie Moller Reported In Gale
Yangtse Estuary Incident
The Telegraph teams on good authority that the Elsio Moller, which recently succeeded in running the blockade into Shanghai, has since been Involved in an incident with a National warship which has left her disabled.
According to local information, the ship left Shanghai but ran into a Nationalist warship at the mouth of the Yangtse.
She submitted to detention, but later tried to
escape.
The Elsie Moller was fired on and her rudder broken
The ship then ran aground and has been in this plight for some days.
It is understood that a salvage tug has been sent to her assistance and it is hoped that the Elsie Moller will arrive safely in Hongkong this weck
Airline Company Using Own Security Force To Track Down Smuggling
C. A. T. has a special Security force which is conducting an all-out drive to prevent opium, gold, and other contraband from being smuggled into Hongkong on C. A. T. planes.
at ention
to
Tok of
scízuro
of
prepared from the
And
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or not "
Opium
Destroys Houses
PEOPLE BURIED
Hamburg, Dec. 4.-A gale, raging over Northern Jermany today, brought lown 180 ruined houses in Hamburg. Four people urled under the rubble were rescued and taken to Buvere in- ospital with juries and the police were till fighting this evening to tree (wo women trapped
since early morning.
The wind also broke the top
of the tran milting mast of the North-west German Itadio Cor- poration.
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Fice brigades nad spectri poltre aquads were called out in Berlin thals afternoon lot- of lowing
reports numerous casualties caused by a 100 mile
hour wind, which
tore through the city earlier today.
At least one verson was killed and an undete.mined number of others were injured when ruins and bomb-damaged houser col- parts of tho 'apsed in various -ily.
A CAT. official revealed this them, whether we are tipped off
drow and thi morning
Saturday's Kal "We have stopped thousands SMASHES Through ROOF
of pounds 3,000 taels of
In the British sector the wind out of from being smuggled China raw
various points, and we blew parts of a damaged wall of in Hongkong are employing all- a nearby school onto the root out efforts to prevent contraband of an apartment house. crashed through debris
three altering through."
floors, taking at least seven oc- them. Onc of munonts with them died while the others re- ceived injuries.
wing of a C.A.T. plane which touched down from Kunming on the way to Taiwan. "We knew that opium WAR coming in, we are working in close co-operation with Customs and Revenue officials to combat similar attempts" he
REY
satri.
"Six of ouT BEET
our Security searchers
SCHOOLGIRL
"combed" pl nes on Saturday. KIDNAPPED.
and from two planes they seized
Antwerp. Dec. 4-Bundreds aplum hidden in bars and boxes
of volunteers during the week sent down from Kunming hy CA.T. Cbinne personnel sending end joined in the march for nine
year-old Josce Janssens, belandags out of there",
***These
men worked from 7mm schoolgirl kidnapped
p.in, on Saturday days ago as she was on her way
in school at Borgerhout. coarching all our planes that
ITC, We regularly search came in.
am
Bel- 13
neur
In the Soviet sector, a collap- sing ruin burled three persons
of rubble. under heaps
Fire
squads brigade volunteers recovered
had received women who
the third Juries while has not yet been found.
and *1470 .n- ретво
the exact
a police
Spero
It will be impossible befors tomorrow to give figure of casualties, spokesman said. The week-end search Was
The British steamer conducted through thick woods was tonight sending out distresa close to Josce's home and in als
from a position in the Sea according 10 n bomb-damaged buildings in the North Antwerp area. Josee was car-Reuter report from Copenhagen red off by
cyclist as she was The #imals geva
position of west walking to school with her a
ght-
about 35 ca-miles Faroe Islands on the west est year-old sister Monique. Mori- que arrived at school alone and of Jutland. They
in teers. She told her teachers that the man placed
Colony's Naval Guns
At Exorcise
board
in
Explosions WCTO Hongkong this morning. were caused by guns warming up in preparation for a routine naval bombardment exercise at
Joice on
the cross-bar of his bicycle.
п
The Spem and that she was
MONDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1949.
Back Home With Clogs For His Sister
Back home after six months demonstration tour of Holland are the 209 AA Battery. This picture shows L/Bmdr. A. Sunshine with a pair of Dutch clogs which he brought back for his sister.
Dina
At the
P.G.
For.
Reservations
Telt 27880
Price 20 Centa
Chiang To Continue Fighting "At All Costs" On The Mainland
REVEALS NEW CONCENTRATION OF TROOPS FOR SOUTHWEST BATTLE
(By. Spencer Moosa) ·
Chengtu, Dec. 4.-Gonorifissimo Chiang Kai-shok today said in an exclusive interview that the fight on the Chinese mainland will be continued at all costs and sacrifices.
(Chiang spoke at a time when his armies were in rotreat in the West and were reported retiring from the mainland in South China to Hainan Island.)
"We are now concentrating our troops so that the battle for the Southwest can be sustained," he declared.
"Behind the iron curtain of Communist tyranny, the Chinese people have taken up arms to fight against t'e onpressive rule of the Communists. "They are fighting in the Yangtse valley. They are fighting in Cheklang, in Honan, in Shantung,, in Fukien and in Kwangtung (Red occupied central and
coastal provinces on the East and South).
The Generalisgimo would was "confident of the final out- come even though further set-
attend our
declared The Generalissimo *might "We are now helping to ot-backs
these units struggla
effective social reforms, such as ganlee and supply
Generalissimo beh nd enemy lines."
Chiang ogain | a rent reduction ‘pólity, already the he is in act ve control of the Na-had been introduced on
after reür. island fortrees of Formona, and. tionalist defences
from the Presidency last. Southwest China. Ing January. He soon may resume The majority of the Chinese the Presidency.
people," he continued, "will Generalissimo Chiang 1-renlls that they are fighting for ceived this correspondent at their own economie" "well being, the Commandant's residence in and fro way of life, The the Central Millary Academy, terrorist rule has been the sad, The veteran Nationalist bitter lot of our people in Com- China lender wore a khaki uni- | munist” areas.” form without nay decorationt. Generalissimo "Chiang He looked keen and alert. i everÝ -
Li Tsung-Jen Departs By Air For The United States
STORY OF
C.A:T.
PLANE IN
DISTRESS
making water and remires im Lands on River Bed
Near Pakhoi
ship mediate assistance. The
lifeboat and with tug
Port Shelter. Service chiefs aro! A he rode off he told Mont-ked to watch the demonstration at que: I will come balk and take nivaga noon today.
you lo school."-Reuter.
EDITORIAL
Sheltering
TIE covert threat contained in
the
Tchines Communists statement con-
describe they
AN the cerning what
by foreign of Nationalists sheltering countries is not calculated to win them good friends or quick friends in the field of International relationships. It suggested, for example, that French Indo- China and the United States intend to leaders- to Nationalist offer refuge military and political-for the expresя Intention of enabling the Kuomintang to reorganise themselves and to prepare for a come-back in China. By implication, Hongkong is also considered a place from where these preparations could and would be made. It is a preposterous suggestion. We have already taken certain steps to ensure that the Colony cannot, in future, be used as headquarters for political resistance movements-Chinese or other wise and if we do shelter any Nationalists It la on the understanding that they become purely private citizens. Political intrigue within our territory will not be tolerated, much less encouraged. It is worth noting, too, that it is the Com- munists in Canton who have been respon. aible for the unwanted presence in Hong- kong lately of nearly 2,000 disabled Nationalist soldiers and other refugees. The Communists did not want them in Canton, partly because they were a charge en public funds, and partly because most of the mea are from North China. Tho Communiets solved their little problem by despatching the men to Shumchun and then telling them to find their own way home. Naturally they came into the Colony destitute, unwanted, a charge on the commually, and presenting something... of a problem to the local authorities. In this case, of course, the Communists are
Reuter.
for 2
Nationalists
В
pumps.--
not concerned about "Illegal sheltering"; they have merely passed on a worry to the Hongkong Covernment--and very success- fully, too. It may be necessary, in due course, to make it clear to the Chinese hav that Hongkong Communists traditionally been an asylum for anybody who seeks it as such; so long as he respects the laws of Hongkong and behaves accordingly. We shall not be prepared to give way on this Important principle, or to change the practice un.ess our own Authorities think fl. A warning, such as that contained in Chou En-lot's latest communication to representatives of foreign Powers hardly deserves to be treated seriously-unless, of course, the Communist regime does not really desire friendly relations with its neighbours. British Because everything points to recognition of the Reds in the near future, it would seem that they are taking 100 many other things for granted; for example, the right to be Intolerant, Recognition is an act which indicates that one Power desires to be on. friendly and reciprocal terms with another, but it still reserves the right to conduct its own affairs with out interference.. If, in fact, Chou Bn- Jat has Hongkong in mind when he lasuca a warning about "having to suffer the consequences" if shelter is extended to Nationalist leaders, he la committing him- self to a childish gesture, and he must be politely, firmly told that the
KAI TAK AIRCRAFT START SEARCH
Two C. A. T. planes took off from Kai Tak this morning to search for a C. A. T. aircraft which radioed early this morning that it was out of fuel and going down about 70 miles south of Pakhoi.
FRUSTRATED LEADERSHIP
Li Tsung-jen flew out of Hongkong this morn- ing for the United States where he hopes to regain health for himself and moral and material help for the rapidly crumbling Nationalist China's fight against Communism.
The Acting President left Kal Tak at 9 a.m. in the chartered Pan-American Clipper Courser. He is due to arrive in San Francisco at 6 p.m. Tuesday--9. a.m. Wednesday, Hongkong time..
Chlang's te
·
said
between
provide However, he seemed.sadder and very effort was being made to
contrast his close-cropped, hair a little Communist, territory and Free greyer,
Ching by
human by protecting Generalissimo
rights and introducing political marks were in the form of a and social reforms."""" written dintement the speaks The Generalissimo's statement very little English) in reply to then declared:
"I wish-to of questions put by a serier this correspondent.
ne Generallarimo sald had gone to Chungking time when the Reds threatened ilie city lo had gone at the Insistence of Acting President Li Trung-jen, he added.
The presidential party was taken across the har-Li hour in a police launch, and went immediately to the plane from the Kai Tak landing ramp. 7
Chinese
Minister of Foreign Even the Generalissimo's power Affairs, George Yeh, Mr T. W. over inner circles of the pary
of
sident
ΟΙ
The
shirk it"
Basure-may-coun- trymen, who are now siffering under the heel of the tyrant, at that when the Communists are beatin. FLS they will be, the government will spare no effort to improve ther political and economic well being
und will give them a new and free way of life.”
The Generalisalmo conceded
he said,
"He that sweareth to his own
was the Biblical David's way of aying that people who endured heir injuries without changing heir loyalties would
ould receive
heir reward.
countries
CHIANG'S DUTY
QUOTES BIBLE "I expected Acting President
Chungking to Genealizimo Chlant, quoted to retum to
that cope with the critical situation the Bible to imply confronUng us,"
of the. Communist Generalissimo cognition sold. "However, he regime by any of China's war- Chiang decided to leave the country." me allies would be a betrayal, "As o Chinese patriot and He suid that China "never leader of the Chinese revolution, horayed the democratic cuuu- Kwok, Special Commissioner for and among provincial officials it (Defence leadership) is my tries." Kwangtung and Kwangri, has diclined to a point he could responsiblity—and I shall not
Then he cited from the 15th Penim: United States Charge d'Affaires, not force or cajole them to give. Robert Strong, Second Secretary help to LA Tsung-Jen. Robert Bladen, and E, Milligan, Li Tsung-jen. Immediately on the fall of Chungking created ahtrt and changeth not." This. chief of the political section of takius office, called for a series diffent situation for the Nation the American Consulate, were of reforms and liberalisalen of alists in Southwest Chian. among those who were present party controls. He sought the "But the democratic peoples at the take-offUnited Press. release of political prisoners, re-l of the world," he added. "must General Id is travelling as a strictions on the secret police, rinise that the anti-Communist
"If the democratic con the struggle on China's mainland is fully accredited rerres n'ative better pay and food for
of the world,” the Generalissimo a vice pre armies, foreign power-a
extension of political not Anished."
"understimate dent and in
the the capacity of powers and participation in
the
Then he spake of uprisings continued,
mportance of the anti-Com- acting president. A special Government for minerity parties. behind the Red lines. Airlomatie . visaa bearing red Every phase for h's pro-
"The Chinese Communists at munkat struggle in China they J. Muc-ribbons and the red wax seal of gramme was ignored. He
will The plot, Captain
was Moreau's bidding."
endanger their own free- Govern, said he and his Chinese the United States-not the plain powerless to onfores any
"are
bent on conquering China, em. security and independence, operator chop on a passport-bear mute decision.
enslaving her 450.000,000 peon but whatever happens we chall co-pilot and would
because witness to the respect the State
Turning from efforts at poli-by brute fore. But the Chin- continue to fight there
es an oficial, as well as reorganisation of the military.
dued by foror,
"We are now fighting in free It will
concentrating on halting the Red be the first
Aghting in Communist- march which began to roll souch-China,
occupied areas, fighting, in flashed a message that he was ce ie founding of the Reward with the fall of Mukden offres and cities, fighting in
that the presidential
in November, 1048, 5,000 feet above what appeared publie
office
'schools and factories,” represented in a per- to be a dry river bed, and was vonal visit of the holder to the Li Tsung-jen was given the
UNITY CAMPAIGN powers about to land. He was appar- United States, But more im-title but not
'ght marks the acting president after the last In order to rally support of enced to two months' "condi- imprisonment for jeoper- ently lost, sald a C.A.T. Hong-portant, the
real effort to hast the Chinese massis, Generalis- kong oflclai, but estimated his beginning of the last pagen in Nationalist
are dising Finland's relations with Unal chapter of Kuomin- the Reds on the battledeid nad simo Chiang, sald, "we posillon as about 70 miles be-thre
ang efforts to establish aculica-the Kiangsu campaign uniting all patriotic liberal and a foreign power.
clements in China Prison termis in Finland are low Pakhoi.
to held Red ex-which centred around the battle democrátic stable China
of Suckow, a campaign whies for our common cause regard-not served provided the culprit pansien in China.
point in the less of party afflation, religious is of good behaviour for three. For Li Tsung-jen the battle was the turning
years Reuter. falth or profession." (Continued on Page 5) began long before he look over the president's job on January 21 when the Generalissimo flew ou of Nanking. His figh---
Communism and the hard core.
Conservatives
woman
radio
not ball out was a Russian passenger aboard.
MucGovern
At 1.40 a.m.
The aircraft was flying from Hongkong to Kunming, and after gut nine hours in the air ran of fuel. The woman aboard is
Mrs Woo, Russian wife
Department holds for LI Toung-tical reforms, General Li sought ese people will nover be sub- Associated Press,
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Lime
thin
¤
Chinese, and only passenger on n. lusing fight against both WITHDRAWAL
the plane.
OF
for ours."-
Spoke Out Of Turn Helsinki Dec. 4.A factory worker, Aarne Riane, of Turid, who made disparaging remarks about Marshal Stalin, tha Soviet Premier, has been son-
tional"
RECOGNITION OF
DEMANDED
NATIONALIST CHINA
Mr Charter
All shipping on the coast has of Kuomintang been notified in case the plane began with his election as vice-
only hipo the he Generalis→
4 The Independent Labour Members, He added: "1 London, Dec. has come down on a beach, and president over
opposition in
nand Mr Goltrey Bing, Mr world will not make the samo coast guards have also been simo's hitter
withdrawal of British re- Ronald Chamberlain, Mr Harold mistake with the now China na April, 1048. He
won nothing alerted.
cognition of Nationalist Davies Wing Commander, with the new Rungo." Millington, From that time until Chiang China and the recognition R CAT, ofeinls in Hongkong more than the title.
Swingle Britain's commercial and krow MacGovern is an excelient Kai-shek beran his "temporary of the Communists was de-Smith, Mr Stephen
trade interests in China were plot and are hoping that he leave" Li Trung-len was forced brought the plane down safely. to fight from the, backgroundmanded in a résoluton passed and Mr W. N. Warbey..
Lord Straboigi, chief Labour nothing to be ashamed of, he Bri-
said, though the Americans insisted today by traditional practice of a century is not A third search plane from for reforms he. Inteed wire tain-China. Conference here. whip in the House of Lords, wer, inclined in leer at wee
China could Pekhothai also joined in the tank from lisif na well as Com- The morting, described by its Party discipline, told the con-
the greatest market in the whole, search, and C.A.T. offic his nere
Dr munisin The Generallesimo, sponsors as representative of all ference he belleved that Intend to send a small singin Chen Li-fu and powerful prosections of public life, was sup-liberation of China would rank world for Britain's Anoxis: Legi engine machine to pick up the vincial leaders held the top ported by a number of Men in history as the second great timate and honourable trade occupants
If this is possible,
bers of Parliament. These in event of the century the first between China and Britain, he carly all
alone Generaliksime duo Me Pint-Mile, Mr bring the Russian Revolution in was sad to say, was being Registered number of the When the
Government-Neuter missing plase la 912-31 leffecited anally to give là Trung Lelio Solley, Mr Lester Hut- 1917--which would have a pro- encouraged by the new Chinese Hongkong at 5.5 p.m. yesterday jen a chance it was too late, chinson, and Mr D. N. Pritt, found effect on the world, Gove
to be changed at external dictation. The Chinese Communists may rest assured that whatever attitude or action the Hong- kong Government takes in a matter such ao this, It will be perfectly correct and beyond reproach.
Na
become the