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Chinese Reds Meet Student Opposition
The Chinese Communists in Shanghai are en- countering active organised opposition to their rule from disillusioned students, who were formerly considered among the Reds' stoutest supporters, writes United Press correspondent Chang Kuo- sin, who has just arrived from Shanghai.
A high Communist educational official, admitting there are signs" of opposition, confided privately that the Red regime would not hesitate to take drastic action if this continued. Opposition is strongest in the privato Ta-Hala (Great China) University and the American-endowed University of Shanghai. This is at present crystallising in a battle for the control of student organisations.
Tho Ta-Hain anti-Red two separate groups, one singing students, who call them- the now Rod anthem, the other
the Nationalist anthein selves middle-roaders, suc- Tho Communist authorities ceeded in ouating the Reds
aro at present adopting a toward theso from the control of 40 per- tolerant attitude cent of the university's de- recalcitrants, but several anu- partmental student societies, Redtudent leaders have been arrested for "mistaken thoughta”, In the University of Nanking. also
American endowed by
TEEN-ACERS the Communist missions, students lost to the "Moderato" group in the elections to the Student Council, Univeralty which runs the affairs of the with
university in accordance
the
"democratle"
Live system
versities.
school Teen-age secondary students are also showing dis- new regime by Fust of the asking all kinds of embarrassing questions in class about Soviet administrausla and Soviet control of the advocated by the Changchun railway, Dairen, and educational nuthorities for uni Port Arthur.
Students of the Fu-Shin Opposition is also strong
once proved secondary school secondary schools private
no difficult that their headmaster Pro-led and anti- Shanghai.
was compelled to warn them "to behave or be subject to in- dividual education-"-meaning in an In- spend a period doctrination camp.
in
In
Red students in the novembly halis segregate themselves into
Middle East
Works Relief Programme
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Student opposition came into
the open during the election of representatives
a student пере
rally held in Shanghai in No-
vember.
To
Students both Hsin University and the Uni- versity of Shanghal elected anti- Reds, but the Ta-Hda Reds im- mediately annulled the election on the grounds that it was held **without adequate prepara-
Washington, Dec. 29-on Gordon Clapp, former chair- man of the United Nations Economic survey mission to the Middle East, today made his final report to President Truman on the work of his mission.
On leaving the White House, Mr Clapp said President Tru- man expressed a "great deal uf mission's re- interest" in the commendation for a US$54,- 000,000 works relief programme for Arab refugees. He added: The President has long had an interest in the Middle East"
Mr Clapp sald he told the President some details of his trip to the Middle East and re- viewed briefly suggestions in the mission's Interim
report. which included the proposal for
a works programme. Ho
with
on
He said also that he expected to complete conferences State Department officials Saturday and return to the Ten- essen Valley Authority, from which he has been un loan to the United Nations
Student approval,
CHY
The students later found this meant that the list of candidates had not been submitted to the Red-controlled Union for were of no navall, and the Union ontered a
a new election in which all candidates were previously screened.
FOUR NAMES
to
Protests
The students of one midelle school, asked to elect four re- n November presentatives rally, wrote the names of Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Chu Teh on the ballots.
Red-
The president of the controlled student union, Chơng Yu-min, was frequently hissed the and booed when lec.uring the necessity students on submitting to Red rule, Many
minds about the Reds,
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UNSEATING
CHINA DELEGATE
in
Lake Success, Dec. 29.-The Societ Union and
demanded the Soviet Ukraine unexpectedly effect today that the Security Council unsoat the Nationalist Chinese delegation headed by Dr T. F. Tsiang.
Dr Tilang angrily replied that it would, be intolerable for the Council to accept dictation by a minority.
The Chinese case flared up without warning. in a Security Council session called to discuss the Kashmir case. After an exchange of strong language between the Soviet bloc and the Nationalist delegation, the Coun- cil Chairman, General A. G. L. McNaughton, of Canada, ruled the incident closed and turned to the Kashmir affair.
Mr Jakob 'A. Malik, Do that the Nationalist delegation puty Foreign Minister, and should be removed and that it does not represent the Chinese Mr Andrei Y. Galagan, of people, the Ukraine, told the Secur- The declarations were mado ity Council that Dr T. Fat the start of a vession called Tsiang, leader of what they to consider the Kashmir
They had not been expected called the "Kuomintang" de- until next week when Dr Talang legation in the U.N., doen becomes not have the right to speak Security Council. for the Chinese people in the U.N.
They repeated Soviet bloc as sertions in the General Assembly
ERROR OF JUDGMENT
Authority BY PILOT
On Arab Affairs Dies At Ripe Age
Chairman
ANGRY REPLY
case.
of the
Dr Talang angrily replied that the proposal to unseat his delegation would strike a blow at the legal basis of the U. N. He said if a member of the minority
of the Council deny the authority of a dele- the Council would be seduced to a minority dictator- ship which would be Intoler- able.
can
He said the demand by the Chinesa Reda last month for the U.N. to unseat his delegation came from a puppet regime, - while his delegation represents the constituted
government in China.
New Delhi, Dec. 29.-An | error of judgment on the
Mr Malik said he did not in- part of the pilot of the KLM
General Mc- Constellation which crashed tend to oppose
Naughton's ruling but just to on a hill near Bombay's
take note of it. He said he Santa Cruz Airport on July also did not intend to reply to 12 last was the direct cause the "slanderous statement of man who had just spoken "of this accident." according the
"who represents London, Dec. 29.-Sir Henry McMahon, the author to a summary of the report (Dr. Tslang), of the famous "McMahon Letters," which the Arabs claim released today by the Com- nobody."-Associated Press. promised them Palestine, died at his London home today, mission of Inquiry appointed He was a former Foreign Secretary to the by India's Civil Aviation] aged 87. Government of India and was the first British High Com-Department. missionor in Egypt.
The letters were a long correspondence with the Sherif Hussein, of Mecca, between July, 1915, and March, 1916. when Sir Henry was the High Commis- sioner In Cairo.
on
All
board the plans fi crew undi 34 passengers, 11- cluding 13 American Journ- alists-died in the crash.
The accident was the rewill, the report said, of the aircraft About 20 years Inter heriting trees on a cloud obscur.
hill wrote to the Londoh Timesed
In conditions of poor
Workers denying that he intended to visibility white the plot
Wounded
In Clash
Milan, Dec. 29.-Several
WOJ
include Palestine in the area attempting a bad weather ap-
proach to the airport, of Arab independence. -
"I also had
every reason to "The plot committed an error in attempting to belleve at the time that the fact of judgment that Palestine was not included land on Runway No. 23 by ex- In my pledge was well under-ecuting a slood by King Hussein," WTVO to the Times.
A
the Arable of the
the 1939
1-
circling procedure
ho which put the aircraft back into the cloud, Instead of asking for The British Government pub- holding or diversion instructions
after he became Ushed the correspondence as a
aware of the FaldNanking studenis also changed i workers were wounded by whitefts on contemporary at the airport by visual observa-
weather conditions the mission's Anal report, which
in Arabic and that
prevalling was signed in Paris on Decem-their
Some asked foreign diplomats gunfire today in fighting original ber 18, had been filled with the United Nations Secretary Gen- to help them arrange passage to between police and demon- translations had been criticised tions," it said.
strators in Milan. be Hongkong and Formosa,
because they did not reproduce "I hope it will eral and
Representatives of the Dutch Student In State-owned uni- released soon."
Two police officers and three accurately
actual letters
Government and of the KLM in- vernities are the most
were reported dixit-policemen
British representatives on the were fully associated with the
Inquiry in all its stages, the re Committee. stoned group. They had former-jured by stones thrown.
Milan's Chamber of Labour Arab-British ly been paid tuition, board and
orting to porting
Palestine part said. lodging
Bald Nationalist by the
in Italy Conference, maintained that on most factories
The commission of Inquiry, Linistry of Education, who thus No. 1 Industrial city immediate
proper construction ly closed to protest against the
of the consisting of three high officials off Communist hoped to stem
correspondence Palestine was of the Civil Aviation Depart- Influence among
excluded from the urea of Arabment, made certain recommen tionary-minded Chinesa atudent Fighting broke out when some
3,000 workers of the Vanzei independence.
dations for the Improvement of CLAIM ASSERTED facilities at Santa Cruz Airport Following
the toothpaste factory, marching to "liberation,"
representatives and lis vicinity with a view to authorities advised the protest against wages paid by students that only a few scholar- the firm, met more 400 police claimed that there was no doubt Preventing similar accidents. ships would be provided men who tried to break up the that "Palestine was, in fact and
Simultaneously with in intention, included by both students. unauthorized demonstration. <xceptionally bright
The The rest could either continue
vanguard of workers parties to the McMahon-Hussein kase of a summary of the re- of India a Government stones their education by paying full hurled
at the
area of port, police correspondence In the
that re- Arab independence,”
communique announced tuition, or wore welcome to join who, in a first exchange,
his the Government had accepted The the Communist Army, Owing plled with tear gas bombs
Brut 31 years of
Committee's findings and Meanwhile, to their Anancial plight, many
workers working life were spent in. the the students were forced to take the from other factories came out Indian Civil Service, which he that its recommendations were
to reinforce their companions. latter step-United Press.
entered about 1885, and left in under consideration.-Reuter,
DIRECT RELIEF Discussing the proposed 18- month works programme with reporters,
recalled Mr Clapp that it was adopted by the Nations General As- United sembly on December 8, and the Assembly asked member nations to supply funds. He said he did not know what the United States share of the $54,000,000 folal would be.
the pro- Asked what effect gramme would have on an es timated 760,000 Palestine Arab lapp sald: "That Mr refugees,
quite a bit. It money will do will continue direct relief on a reduced scalo in 1950, finance works in irrigation beforedla- tion, terracing and water con- trol, and will put refugees to
new
the
revolu-
To Tour The World
work. They are on the bread-young Belgians and
for
shooting
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The Arab
Commissioner to Egypt |
A hand grenade was thrown 1914 to become the first High but it did not explode.
Milan police later issued a
In India, he was a Political communique denying that run- Officer until 1901. As the Bri- fire came from them. They said ish Commissioner specially op they used only tear gas.
pointed for the task, he settled The Chamber of Labour sold the Baluchistan Afghanistan the police used arms.
between 1894 and Antwerp, Dec. 29,- Four
boundary They called a half-day strike 1800.
also He was
British French-in Milan on Friday affecting all Commissioner to arbitrate on left Antwerp man
today on bu. essential services. A rally the boundary between Perala Ho added that most refugees board a 70-ton boat to tour the will be held in the morning in and Afghanistan in 1903.
Square.Associated were in Arab Palestine
Their ship, the Armen, is a Hashemite Jordan, along both banks of the Jordan River, with former French tuna fishing boat niso
sizable
In with a smoll number
auxiliary motor. Gaza, It is sailing now towards Lorient Egyptians-controlled
continue to Tangler and strip along the South Palestine to
then to Central coast, and some in Syria and Teneriff, and
America,Associated Press. Lebanon-United Press.
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PRICELESS FIND IN LIBRARY
For the last three years of his Johnstown, Pennsylvania, career in India, he was Foreign Dec. 29. The discovery of Secretary to the Government of
a priceless "first edition" of India,
In 1910, the Versailles Pente Handel's "Messiah" at the Conference appointed him Bri-Free. Library here was dis tish Commissioner on the Middle closed today by the chief East International Commission. librarian, George Moreland.
Since then, he has held in- San Francisco, Dec.. 20.--Over dustrial directorships, mainly 10,000 handicraft worker--70 in oll, shipping, banking and percent of the total number insurance-Beuter.
in 58 different of employers irades in the Chinese Communist capital of Peking-have been organised into 14 trade unions, Communist broadcast reported tonight
The trades concerned include building, dyeing, paper-making, lailtiing and rug-making,
SHAKE-UP IN
U.S. NAVY
Washington,
Mr Moreland aald there was believed to be only one other such copy existence and that was owned by William Smith, a prominent English authority on Handel's works,
Mr Smith and the Library of Congress in Washington authen- tested the Johnstown And, Mr Moreland said. When officials Dec. 29-The of the Johnstown Library began Ing. US Navy tonight announced a investigating the valun of their weaving, sowing, shoe-making shake-up of top admirals, in- "Messiah" several years ago, the leather manufacturing and
cluding the retirement of Ad-there were only two first edi rtistic handicrafts.
one at the special artistic
miral William Blandy, Atlantletions in this be- Collective
and the agreements
| Library of Congress
University tween labour and capital were Fleet commander. Vice Admirai
other at Harvard William signed in these trades in the course of the formation of the Fechtier, deputy Chief of Naval Library.
will succeed Operation wi
Ad-
Mr Smith acknowledged that unions, the broadcast added.
miral
Blandy, who was com- the Johnstown copy was a first Reuter.
mander of "Operations Cross- edition and the Library of Con-
cats the atomic bomb
gress later confirmed road" in 1940. KNI Johnstown "Messiah" was a first Pouri, December 29,-Madame Another four-star admiral, and the one in Washington was Irma Sarlon, retired school Thomas Kinkald, will retire on not. Mr Moreland said the book will be succeeded first appeared in the Johnstown teacher, died on Wednesday May 1. He night at the, ago' of 107, the a1 Eastern. Sea, Frontier Com-Library 10 years ago, but no one French News Agency mid today.mander by Vice Admiral Oscar could recall how it got there.--
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