Beink
Coca-Cola
For the Prorietor of V
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, For and on behalf of SunE LEN
BOUŢII CHINA MORNING POST, LIB
STINE MA Publi
The
Today's Weatheer Light on modernia norikerly winda, Fals -Noon - Observationer, Barametric pressure, 10105 mbs., 18.05 in. Temperature, 67.0 deg. F. 7. Drw polai, 26 deg. 7, Relativo humidity, ST. Wind direction, K by 8, Wind foree, #knots, High walory ́ ́5 21. at 4,40 p.m. – Law water: & II.5 in. at 8.591.33
Hongkong Telegraph.
VOL. IV NO. 304
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1949.
CHENGTU FALLS TO
Tramways Dispute
Conductors
Continue
"Go-Slow"
Tactics
are
The Hongkong Tram-
workers
still ways' continuing their "go slow" tactics to support their
claim for an increase of wages, and this morning the Company's conductors again refused to collect fares from tram passen- : gers.
official An
of the Traffic Department of the Hongkong Tramways Ltd, said: "There is no change in the situation." asked When
whether the had sent letter Company through their legal representa- tive to the tram workers' union. placing the responsibility on the workers concerried for the effect
D
THE
REDS
Amphibious Attack Against Hainan Expected
Taipeh, Dec. 26.-Chengtu, the last Nationalist capital on the Chinese. mainland prior to with- drawal to Taiwan, was reliably reported today to have been lost to the Reds after days of heavy fighting.
The fall of Chengtu, which had been expected ever since Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek took refuge in Taiwan on December 8, marks the end of large-scale organised resistance to the Com- munist ground offensive in Southwest China.
Pro-Communist reports reaching Hongkong said Communist armies were preparing for an amphibious attack on Hainan, big Nationalist-held island off the South China coast.
(The Communist radio, heard, most bitter of the Chinese civil by the Asso-war, is raging with "growing
on the company due to the "o in San Francisco
nat
any
aren nights of conflict, a Nationalist
slow" strike, the same offelalciated Press, old 12 Nationalist Intensity" after seven days and said he could
generals in the Chengtu Buty thing.
had gone over munist side.)
"If you cannot let me know the contents of this letter, please confirm whether the Company did send such a letter."
In reply to this question, the same official said:---I, nın sorry,
1 cannot say anything."
to the Com-military spokesman said today.
The general defending Cheng-
Trung-nam, tu, Hu Hairan
The Communists are using attempt to to five armies in an Acw just before the Reds overwhelm Nationalist General stormed the city's South gates 11u Tsung-nan, on of their most The official Nationalist Cen- tough enemies who fought them trai News Agency on Talwan instead of the Japoneso during reported its last regular radio the last war. contact with Chengtu was al p.m.. today when it got the message "we are being libera- fed."
11 CONVICTS
ESCAPE
the
oft
Scenes of the heaviest fighting, the military epokemon sald are in the Tauyang area, about 40 Hainan, 10 miles
milles southwest of Chenglu, the Pal northeast, and the General New York, Dec. 26,-Eleven mainland, is the inst stronghold Santal area, about 50 miles
ot Nationalist
20 miles southwest- managed to
area, about
armica smaller broken up into of wilts.
Some of General Hu's These, State General Ya Inn-mow, fonner- troops were said to be trying
convicts, including two serving Chung-hal, who life terms and a convicted roh-
Einstein Has New
Theory
Hsinching WILL STUMP THE MATHEMATICIANS New York. Dec. 26,-Pro- Einstein, Albert fessor
ber described as "dangerous" transfer remnants of his South-an indication that Hu's
east Chine armies to the island. were
today twD
after
at large were
out of breaking prisons.
At Huntsville, Texas, seven convicts escaped shortly before noon from the penitentiary by means of a secretly-dug tunnel. Two were lifers. Four prisoners escaped in a hail of bullets ai Haymarket, Virginia, after leg shackles sawing off their and cutting through wire and the walls of prison buildinga.
The one called "dangerous" by
was serving prison officials five-year sentence for robbery.--- United Press.
EDITORIAL
A
with
the troops
ly at Canton, are estimated toto retreat into Sikang province whose Theory of Relativity Their to the southwest, others to reach made number about 230,000. capabilities
the atom bomb
bine
At the
For
P.G.
Reservations
Tel: 27880
Price 20 Cents
Mao Tse-Tung The Pope Goes To St.
In Moscow
Mao Tse-tung (left), military boss of 'Com- munist China, returns a salute of honour guard on his arrival at "Moscow airport. Awaiting Mao's arrival were, Soviet Primo Minister V. M. Molotov (second from left), Mar- shal N. A. Bulganin (second from right), and Deputy Foreign Minister Andrel Gromyko (right). -AP Picture.
'QUAKES N.
ROCK as fighting troops Mianyang, 60 miles to the north- possible, disclosed today that
Air that
are not known however,
cost.
now he has completed a Due to the uncertain state of short and the
Force thenry that may in time Nationalist The defence troops
such
of Kun- unlock
secrets Hainan is Headquarters said water crossing,
pro nature as what makes the ganied by military observers as ming, capital of Yunnan
WELT ikely to be much easier to seizo vince in the Southwest, amphibiously than Taiwan. Red being bornbod daily an indica.universe tick. melined guerilias are reported tion that the Nationalists In various sections of Interior not been able to dislodge
turncoat troops who deserted to Halnen Associated Press,
recently. Communists Taipeh, Dec. 26. The battle tho for Chengtu, described as the United Press.
The Kashmir Dispute
HE Kashmir dispute is again before The Security Council, which is trying
to find a way round the difficulties set out in the third report of the Concillation Commission for Indin and Pakistan by asking its President, General McNaugh- ton, to enter into private discussions with both sides. The rival parties are strong- Both ly represented at Lake Success. Sheikh Abdullah, Prime Minister of the Indian troops, and area protected by Sardar Ibrahim, head of the "Free Kashmir" administration, are there, and Pakistan, delegations from India and
on
which include the Indian Secretary- General for External Affairs and the Foreign Minister of Pakistan, stand be- hind the rival`Kashmiri leaders, each of whom claims to represent the majority The report which of the population. forms the starting point for the Security Council's new attempt to make peace makes gloomy reading. The views of India and Pakistan the Kashmir To dispute are wholly irreconcilable. India, Kashmir has lawfully neceded to the Indian Union by the choice of its wantonly invaded by Ruler, has been Pakistan, and has been saved from forcible annexation.
of only by the presence Indian troops. In spite of all this, India claims, who has voluntarily agreed to nilow the people of Kashmir to settle their own political destiny through a free plebiscite, and she has invited the United Nations to promote a peaceful settlement. Pakistan, on the other hand, contends that the crueltics practised by Dogrus and Sikhs on Kashmiri Muslims first touched all the original forays of the frontier tribesmen which caused the Ruler to seck assistance from India, and then "Inspired an authentic movement for Independence which has gained ground ever since, in spite of the efforts of Indian troops and of Sheikh Abdullah's party to suppress it. The presence of Pakistan's
have
own regular forces in Kashmir territory
person
ав
The famous
this week
+
JAPAN
Volcano Erupts
Aso,
Japanese Claim To Kuriles
State Department Is Sympathetic
Peter's As A Pilgrim
Carries A Black Wooden Cross
Vatican City, Dec. 26. --- Pope Pius XII, bearing a simple black, wooden cross symbolising penitence, today visited St Peter's as a Holy Year pilgrim.
He went in procession with 2,000 clergy, in- cluding monks in their habits and sandals, each carrying a similar cross.
Observers saw no traces of the extreme fatigue which had aroused widespread fears for his health on Saturday. The Pope seemed to limp slightly on one foot, but 'showed no signs of the daze which appeared to characterise his movements then.
The next big ceremony of the Holy Year will be on January 22, when the Pope will confer the title of "Blessed" on a Roman priest, Vincenzo Pallotti, who died 100 years ago,
After months of study the | The number of pilgrima, some Vatican's Sacred Congregation | of wham began to arriva about of Rites has pronounced an 10 days ago, now exceeds 10,000 genuino two of the miracles a comparatively high. ascribed to Fr. Pallotti.
ber for the opening
numTM
Frau Margkerita Sandner, 50- Committee spokesman sold year-old housewife from the
This number will increase itulo town of Habburg In steadily, probably reaching a Dnvarin will give testimony of peak of several hundreds of one of them as she walks up
thousande during the April, the nave of St. Peter's on the May and September and Octo- dny of the beatification. cerebon periods-The number of pu Washington, Dec. 26.mony.
presont grims expected to be After 17 years of being bed- daily in Rome then, the spokes- State Department officials today said they were "sym-ridden with paralysis she began man said, is about 40,000.
Each one will make
visit One night she heard a voice of several days at least enough pathetic to the desire" of praying to Fr. Pallotti.
to complete the religious exer- the Japanese government to urging her to rise and walk".
ID the four. regnin control over the Next moming her astonished cises aint visite
to Southern Kuriles and South family at first tried to restrain Roman Basilicas necessary
of Sakhalin, but did not know her as she rose on her bed, put gain the plenary indulgence
her feet 10 the ground and the Jubilan.
This Is pardon of the tem- exactly how this could be walked, Frau Sandner adds.
Thousands of pilgrims filed poral punishment due to sla accomplished.
the Holy Door of St which must otherwise. bo cx« through Commenting on the Japanese Peter's, pausing to kiss the plated before the soul can enter announcement that they did not door-pasts as they did so, dur-Heaven, according to Catholle recognise Yalia agreement giving these
and
the validity of the ing the 24 hours after the Pop Sunday
by
n had
with
much
Year
the doors
on Honshu quarters hero
Japanese, of Selence which runs through were felt in Tokyo and jarred Southern Kuriles and Sakhulin i closed"-Reuter.
area covering nine pre might hold out on these issues be carried as the final chapter tectures north of the capital to gain Allied renunciation of to Professor Einstein's book to National police said seven per- any
reparations claims. The be published in February.
While
McNaughton Studies The
on
The
Lateral
MANY PILGRIMS · Dour-ceremonies and events. by at-visiting the Basilica of St. Rome, Dec. 20-Pilgrim tendance for the opening days Peter, where he led some 10,000 sons were killed and several
Jubilee exceeded expectations, visit to the Church's main returned to · អម said that Japan should pay no Einstein's new hypo- į injured at Imaichi, city of 17,000/ fact that the United States hes of the Catholic Church's 1950 † seminarists and students on thesis is known as "Generallsod | population 85 miles
apartment to rest, north of more reparations led to specu- the Holy Year Central Com altars. He then
mittee said today.
on Theory
Gravitation". of
Tuesday, the Tokyo.
Beginning apparently Imaichi
(Con3nued on Page 5)
Holy Door will open at 6 am the University
was the epicentre of the dis- spokesman for
GMT and until 330. pm GMT, collapsed Press suld it was his definitivn
daily-Associated Press, "unified field theory which turbance, 85 houses
The Imalchi seis forth in one series of equus there and 150 were damaged.
railway station tions laws governing the two fundamental
the collapsed and the rail bed sank of forces
20 miles route from and on the universe gravitation
Utsunomiya to Mikko, forcing electromagnetikm
to buses. travellers to change SEARCH FOR FORMULA
In the Windows were broken
Two Physicists know that virtually Kanaya Hotel at Nikko, all phenomena of nature
and reight trains were derailed an produced by gravitation. electromagnetizm and have been the Nikko yards.
In Tokyo, damage was limited seeking for years formula by
broken dishes-Associated which both could be understood to and to determine what is behind PreSE.
Canton Workers To Be Unionised:
70-year-old
today the scientist stumped his colleagues
estimated 600,000 10 700,000 and other regions back to the opened the Holy and physics in mathematics
Russians, the officials said legal-Christmas Eve.
pilgrims people visited St Peter's Basilicu, Twenty thousand ly. the Russians when he first announced hts
from all parts of the world to the majority of them passing Tokyo, Dec. 26. An stronger case Theory of Mass and Energy in
day begun to leave for home by through the Holy Door opened 1005. His new theory stumps all-day series of earth. Meanwhile, however, sourcen plane, train and coach after en Saturday by Pope Plus
Christmas General Chem again. He calls the new
number taking part in the
of pilgrims, many of whom are from Ger- stickler "Generalised Theory of quakes north of Tokyo to close touch Gravitation" and it designed day caused seven deaths. Douglas MacArthur said the ceremonies.
Опо Japanese announcement was not
bitterly disappointed many, France, Belgium and to bring together under one un Damage was widespread
made
without his knowledge. homeward bound pilgrim to- Switzerland, was augmented by derstandable formula all known
but comparatively minor. They thought U.S. officials might night was a Parisian housewife Romans and other Italians. physical phenomena.
navo indicated to the Japanese who failed to push her hurried Thousands also visited the News that his new theory Simultaneously, Mount
come for
way into the great stream of other three Patriarchal Basilicas had been completed
establishing a after 30 regarded as the world's largest that the time had
Romo at which Holy Doors pilgrims visiting St Peter's. of Ro to begin Kyushu them is defended by the claim that, if they
years of
of work was made by the volcano, erupted on
She said, "I saw it was useless were opened
hnd
brought not been
in to protect
Princeton University Press at Island five miles southwest of bargaining position for them- n Press conference with selence Tokyo. Great quantities of stone selves at the peace conference and quickly made my pilgrim Mary page on Saturday
age to the other three Basilicas. and St Paul Outride the Walls.. certain Muslim areas, the entire popula-
from and ashes spewed
the theory advanced in high ago 1 cot back to St. Peter's Pope Phis concluded today writers here to report the annual would have fed to tion of those areas
an A crater.
four-day Were a that the this evening
strenuous WAS of the American meeting
Advancement sociation for the
the Earth tremors
gramme of Chilitman and Holy: claiming Pakistan, making the refugee problem there, already dificult, insoluble. In
The new theory will Afteen months the efforts of the Con- ciliation Commission have achieved only one success the cease-fire proclaimed at the beginning of this year. After that the Commission was checked by embittered controversy; it could not convert the cease-fire Into a truce: it could not persuado India and Pakistan to with- drow their troops. The Commission has now suggested that the Security Council
П single should appoint mediator, with new terms of reference. The cease-fire, followed by the demarca- tion of spheres of influence, has brought Governments, into being two separate each with its army and its administra- tive machinery. At present India will not withdraw her forces because sho is afraid that Sheikh Abdullah might be attacked by Pakistan and "Free Kashmir,"
that Similarly Pakistan fears
If she Ibrahim removed her troops, Sardar would be attacked by Sheikh Abdullah and India. On the face of it the only Kashmiris solution would be for the themselves to settle their own differences peacefully under United Nations guidance. If the Security Council could now persuade India and Pakistan to withdraw their forces from Kashmir, leaving "the next step in the hands "of a mediator appointed by the United Nations, the. ground could be prepared for the free and fair plebiscite, by the results of which both aldes have already agreed to be bound. But the essentini condition would be the readiness of both Sheikh Abdullah And Sardar Ibrahim to assist in tho and settlement by keeping the peace accepting the verdict........
are
all-
Kashmir Problem
New York, Dec. 26.-General A. G. L. McNaughton, of Canada, and his advisers were busy today studying the Kashmir issue in preparation for tomorrow's Secur- ity Council meeting.
of a
Iruce line
San Francisco, Dec. 28.-The Chinese Communist radio sald that Canton's 280,000 workers. are to be organised into trado unions, within the next three months
This is scheduled to begin at establishment
This decision was made by, the of the their functions. Since 1920 the COMMUNICATIONS CUT
8 pm GMT at Lake Success, and, the progressive demilitari- Idea of developing an
with General McNaughton as sation of the disturbed area- preparatory committee encompassing field theory has
Tokyo, Dec. 20-Rail and
the President. It was under- neither India nor Pakistan has Canton Trade Union Council 18th, been a major goal of physics.
communications
the broadcast sald. The meet- Great stores of knowledge were telephone
Two of Pakistan's advisers ings of the preparatory cóm- built up but there has been no round the famous scenie reli- stood that the Canadian dole-its Kashmir milltary advisers which adjourned on the
the views of India and Pakistan
killed in an air crash mlitee, which were attended by
· workers' aingle theory to explain and de- glous contre of Nikko were cut Rallon had not yet been told here at present,
representatives, by this morning's earthquake. scribe. It
Nearly 100 houses and the rail on the draft proposals submitted were For example, scientists know
Success. The possibility of decided on the formal establish
'ment of the Canton Trade there are various types of elo-station collapsed at the nearby by General McNaughton to while on their way to Lake 308
military advisers being asked to mentary particles, in the atom town of Imaichl, Rail tracks their delegations on Friday.
If their replics are and within a radius of 15 miles were
not come in order to assist the de- Union Council on May Day, 1950, Buch as electron, proton
received by: tomorrow morning. legations was being discussed according to the broadcast.
United Press. neutron but no theory, could overturned
lew Portions of the road between the meeting of the Security here today, but no, decision on explain why there are a speelde types instead of many Jujiwara and Takatoku dropped Counell may be postponed until this point appears likely until
the receipt of the deckons of CARY GRANT'S describe below ground irvel, making the they are forthcoming. Maxwell's equations
Meanwhile, Sir Girja Shan the two
Goontha olectromagnetie Belds caused by road impassable.
One person has thus far beenkor Bajpai, Sheikh Mohammed McNaughton not moving electrons but do
Abdullah,
the Prime Minister of Circles in close touch with Hollywood, December 20 officially reported. to have been show why all electrons have killed. Five are reported to be Kashmir. and Mr D. P. Dhar. the Kashmir talks insisted, how Cary Grant's Christmas present
the same charge.
chwith XMAS ROMANCE
Kashmi Home Minister of over, that the need for i
milltary that missing, and three seriously in the
to Miss Beisy Drake included a Also, physicists know
who had gone, to advisers "had not yet arison." bodies produce gravitational jured.
Sir Benegal Natsing: Rau, wedding ring and a romantic The meteorological observa Washing on for the weekend, fields, but no one knows why
that returned to
to New York this India's permanent delegate, and flight Into the Arizona desert to they produce them. So scien-tory, howover, reported
morning.
other members of the Indian find a preacher and only a 24- tists have been attempting to the tremors were weakening.
remained hour bonoymbon. The Initial shock broke
While it is taken for granted Kashmir delegation, the bring all different observations under one theory. Elstoln be window of the Tokyo Corres hat, General, McNaughton's pro- at hand today. In case of a call! The green-eyed bride mu
on Tuesday-United Press, loves he has done that.pondents Club, 100 miles south-posals contained suggestions of from General McNaughton report back batore the
the Router. United Press,
ward-Router;
military nature for
camera