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VOL. IV NO. 308
The Hongkong Telegraph
Wishes its readers a very Happy, Prosperous' And Poscoful New Year
Japanese Tell Of Experiments In Germ Warfare
London, Dec. 30-Japancio bacteriological experts drove horses Infected with a horse disease communicablo to man towards advancing Soviet troops in Manchuria after the_capitulation in the hope that they would cause opidomic, according to a witness at the Russian trial of Japanose form warfare experts. Moscow Radio reported today.
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 81, 1949,
Chiang Regime Severs Ties With India
Taipeh, Dec. 30. The Chinese Nationalist Government severed diplomatic relations with India on Friday as a result of India's recognition of the Chinese Communist regime.
The Nationalist Govern-diplomatic mission in India, but ment has ordered the with-will continue to cherish the friendliest feelings" towards drawal of its diplomatie per the Indian people.United sonnel in India. A high Press, official said India was mis- taken if sho believed re- cognition would remove the Chinese Communists' ambi- tion to take over Tibet, which lies on India's north- ern border.
The official, who declined to be quoted by name, sold that Indin evidently expects the Pelping regime to adhere to the
030
CONFIDENCE VOTE FOR BIDAULT
agreement made in 1906 be- Paris, Dec. 30. The tween Britain and China re- French Government received garding "the territorial integri-votes of confidence on both The trial is taking place
and which "In the laboratory I saw cages ty of Tibet,"
the two propositions pre- in the Soviet-Manchurian like those in zoological gardens," Chinese emperor never recognisented to the National As-
ho mid. border town of Kharbarvosk.
sed. "When I asked what they The official said the Chinese sembly tonight after a crisis Twelve former Japanese Boldlcra are charged with preparing and
practising germ warfare,
731,
were used for I was told that Communists unquestionably will over the budget for 1950, people undergoing experiments not recognise it either.
which has lasted 40 days. Ho
said: were put in them."
"I New Delhi think the Communist govern- In a final appeal to support mont will swallow her balf of the Government, the Prime recognition hook, Une and sinker. Minister, M. Georges Bidault, sho will have to think again. said that France was suffering The plan is insulting to the in- from the effects of two
elligence of Communist Foreign astrous and costly wars, Minister, Chou En-iai,"
said.
FOOD FOR RATS When Shiro Ishil arrived to They have admitted belonging take up his post as chief of Unit to "Unit 731," a section of the 731, he told his subordinates Japanese Kwanglung Army that war would begin at the which, organised germ warfare. Soviet Union between June and A witness, flotta, formerly September 1945, the witness -Quartermaster with Unit told how experiments on
It was necessary to make in-will recognise her as the suc boc teriological warture were car-tensivo preparations for ried out on human beings,
Iron shields, fixed to the chest and back of the victim, weid red in the experiments. Blon- were stained with keis used blood,
Japs To Get Coal From North China
New York, Dec. 30. The Journal Commerco reported in
dls.
He said India will bo dimp- The continuity of a budget
if she thir pointed
Pelping pulley was essential, he declared. this cessor to Britain's international
war, Ichii sald, by increasing treaty rights in so tax as Tibetan was spending much less pro- the production of the bacterio-independence is concerned, logical weapon.
"Soon
the
chlet Di the Quartermaster's department or dered me to work out how much food
was required for 3,000,000 alch had to be reared which before September 1045," the witness said.
"Even wives of members of The Unit were called in to help rear them," he added.
M. Bidault said that Franco
portionately on national defence than the United States and other WITH REGRET
big nations. Even Switzerland The Nationalist Foreign was spending 30 percent, where- Yeh, announced Minister, Dr George K. C. as the national defence credits the diploma in tho defence budget amounted tle break. He said it will not to less than 20 percent of the doubt contribute to the furiber | tutal,
In the The Government took spread of Communism Pacife area."
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All ready for tonight's annual and famous Chelsen Arts Ball, students of the Royal Academy School of Art give a preview of the tableau they have prepared.-- London Express Service,
TRUMAN OFFERS AID TO PERSIA
Washington, Dec. 30.-President Truman today in formed the Shah of Persia that the United States was ready to offer Persia cortain military ald and would support its roquests for Joans from the World Bank,
COMMUNISTS
PLANNING
NEW TACTICS
Washington, Doc. 30.—United States top_military leaders will visit the Far East early in February for a first-hand check on the China crisis. The Defence Department said that the Joint Chiefs of Staff will make a personal tour of inspection to Hawaii and Japan to survey the situation.
In Japan they will get af overseas writers, Me Knowland full report on the China urged the State Department a
President Truman to adopt a situation from General "positive polley" to block the Douglas MacArthur, who Reds in Asia. "where the Com is reported to have urged munists have gained much more firm action to keep the than they lost in Europe,"
He said the Chinese Communists from should "tell the British in no United. Stator selzing Formosa-including uncertain terms that it is not in American military occupa- the latcrest of world peace for tion of the island, if neces- any Atlantic Fact nation to re- sary.
The Defence Department sald, however that the Army, The President's atate-Navy, and Air Force leaders ment, which did not specify will not visit Formos,
The announcement sald the|
been contemplated for trip has
the Communista comise
In China, and that Britain will have to take the responsibility for her action,"
Con
ANOTHER MUNICH. the nature or quantity of
Senator Knowland sala that the ald, was released a few several months, but that this is the British, by recognising the hours before the Shah left the first time in which all four Communists, "would be by air for New York after could get away together. They than the last Munich." He noted members of the Joint Chiefs tributing to another Munich. hey which might be more disastrous General are:
Omar Bradley, that India has announced her re- Chairman: added that the
General Lawton United Collins, Army Chief of Staff; States Government also planned Admiral
his American tour.
It
technical ald
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Forrest
Stat; cognition of the Reds, and said she too "will have to take Sherman,
to help Persia through its pro-Chief of Naval Operations, and sponsibility for that action” London, Dec. 30.-Diplo gramme for granting
lo advocated a four-point. financial General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air of submitting matic observers here believe and
Force Chief of Staff.
American polley in the Far to under-
East The announcement said: "It the second motion of confidence that Communist leaders developed countries,
The Joint Chiefs of Staff Another witness, Kenjicht is with regret that the Govern Ave minutes after the first, so from all over the world who
previously had visited the Firstly: The United States a dispatch from Tokyo that the Segosi, said that the Unit made a
ment of China learns of the that deputies voted on the two are remaining in Moscow policy of the United States to an commands.
The statement said it was the European, Australian and Alas- should publicly proclaim to the British trading firm of Dodwell porcelain bombs which were
Government of India's recogni-nt once.
A spokesman world that it has no intention and Co. has contracted With filled with plague Infected tion of the Pelping regime. It
motion submitted after the Stalin birthday help peoples everywhere to said the four top military of of having diplomatic relations the Japaneso Government to flens.
now must be clear to the de-
de- was on the proposed increase celebration of 10 days ago maintain their freedom,
will visit neither the with the Peiping Government, deliver 70,000 tons of coal to Cases of bacteria were sent mocratic world that this regime of production tax from 12 to aro planning future Com-
Philippines nor Korea on this Secondly: Mr Truman should Japan from North China,
to the nerodrome for "bacteria-Is only the creation of a foreign 19% percent and the
trip. second munist tactics on
It pointed out that the three-
expedite action on alloiting the The dispatch said that Mr Jim logical diversions in China".
power.
Not only does it luck
B world power declaration signed by on non-scale.
PLAINLY LINKED proposing new taxes
US$75,000,000 military ald fund Sewing, the Drra's
A further manager in
witness. Colonel many of the attributes
President Roosevelt, by Mr distributed corporation profits.
The announcement did not which Congress at Its last ses- on Thursday that Takaljukl Tokyo, said
Misini, formerly sovereign nation state, but it
The official figures for the
Winston Churchill, as the then specifically mention the China- sion granted him to us at his Reports reaching two votes were: first vote 305
London Prime Minister of Britain, and situation, but, Ils timing is discretion in "Tho aren of have voles for and 287 against. The Moscow to their home countries 1943 guaranteed Persla's inde-trip
given the return from Premier Stalin at Teheran in plainly linked with the military | China." second vote gave 300 votes for
to the troubled Asiatic
States Thirdly: The Unlied the Government and 200
pendence.
"should unfreeze US$04,000,- against.
Senator William Knowland 000 in ECA funds for China urged the State Department on which remain unspent and will Friday to put pressure on Britain revert to the U.S. Treasury, un- to withhold recognition from the less allocated by February 1 new Chinese Communist regime, or unless Congress extends. The Republican Senator from remark that a serious threat to formla said recognition of the the period for their ́use."-
to the Communists by Britain or other Fourthly: The President Atlantic Fact nations might should send an able military crack the bl-partisan polleymstion to the island of Formosa, statement front on Europe and jeopardise headed by somebody like Enid that the United States Co- the future of the Marshall Plan. Lieutenant General Albert vernment is currently pre- pared to offer certain military assistance essential to Persia."
to deliver the coal within three or Japanese 13th Army, described | support of the great majority four months to Kebe from the how plague bacteria were of the Chinese people." Kallan mines, north of Tientsin, dropped
Chinese on
troops, The announcement sald the United Press.
causing an epidemic-Reuter.
is Government
recalling
EDITORIAL
NNER
Past And Future.
ȚINETEEN hundred and forty-nine la on the way out-a year marked by events which have given cause for pain and regret rather than pleasure or satisfaction. International affairs have been clouded by the failure of the United Nations to exert any profound influence in the political field, although It must bo conceded that in other activities, UNO has continued to justify its existence and to stimulate lively hopes that it can achieve much greater things in the future. In the realm of world politics, the United Nations Organisation has been utilised largely as a debating forum, with many of the debates ruined by acrimony and negative approaches to the various problems. While, on the positive side, UNO helped to bring into being the new State of Israel, it still has to try and solve the vexed conundrum of the status of Jerusalem. Nor has it reached anywhere about international control of atomic weapons. All along, of course, it has been frustrated by the persistent injection into its discussions of conflicting ideologies, with Soviet Russia consistently leading the way in confusing. international necessities with narrow, nationalistic prejudices. It has been suggested that in some respects Russla during the year, overplayed her hand. Undoubtedly she came out second best In the Berlin dispute with the Western Powers; she lost ground through the defection of Tito, and she suffered a reverse when Yugoslavia, and not her satellite Czechoslovakia, was elected to the Security Council. Nevertheless, Russia succeeded in blocking Important proposals brought before the General Assembly, the Security Council and "other" branches of UNO which attempted to secure for the world a
alt
guarantee of peace based upon inter- national agreement. And Communism militant, it must be admitted, made impressive gains during 1949, particularly in the Far East. Its greatest nckieve. ment was the overrunning of China with its consequent effect on Southeast Asia. In fact, the dominating political concern as 1950 opens is the future of the countries immediately bordering Chinn, as well as Malays and the new United States of Indonesia. How to contain Communism as a governing factor within the territory, of China? It is a difficult, complex question defying any outright formula as a solution, more especially as Burma and Indo-China are, in their existing condition of internal disruption, so vulnerable to pressure from over the border. The forthcoming Columbo con- ference of Commonwealth Foreign Ministers may bear some frult, and if it does nothing more concrete than work out a realistic and practical line of approach to the problem, it will have been well worth while. Nearer at home, Hongkong awaits the New Year with out- ward calmness. The current labour troubles are not an encouraging omen, yet firm, but fair handling can resolve the situation. Government should not forget that, In this connection, it has an all- Important: responsibility. Merchants and other businessmen here look forward with some impatience to 1950 bécause there is Hittle doubt it will bring with it recogni- tion of the Chinese Communist Govern- ment which, the majority are convinced, will mean expansion of trade on a big scale. But the picture of the coming.. year is outlined in sombre colours, and if prospects in some directions appear bright, the outlook generally calls for the most cautious optimism.
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The Assembly had already approved the budget-with the exception of these two clauses -on Wednesday night. But the Council of the Repubile - the
atil) Upper House--mus! prove the whole budget-Reu-
ter.
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Tramwaymen
To Meet
NO S. C. M. POST NEXT MONDAY
Owing to the New Year holidays, there will be no publication of the S.C.M. lost on Monday.
The Hongkong Telegraph will publish as usual on Monday, and will be on the streets at noon,
The tram lock-out re mained unchanged morning, and an official of Ration the company said there was no likelihood of the service resuming today.
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SERIOUS THREAT The offer of American mili- tory old was prefaced by the
international peace anywhere was of direct concern United States.
The President's
The statement noted that the Persian Government had plani- ned 'a seven-year programme for economic and social this of only the East German dele- gress and added that the Presl- pro- under
Walter dent appreciated Ulbrich.
the impor- tance of this programme to With the emphasis
Persla's.economic development., of Com--Reuter. munist
successes shifted Western Europe
from to Asia, the presence
LEAVES FOR HOME Chinese Communist leader Mac In Moscow of the Tse-tung is considered especial- Shah of Persia left for home by New York, Dec. 30,--The ly significant.
The company has not received a reply from the union to its letter of yesterday repeating its offer of going to arbitration on the dispute. Union officials this morning declined to comment on the letter.
The tramwaymen, however,
air today
after a six weeks'
European Communists, among const-to-coast tour of the United whom
are Palmiro Togliatti of States, aly, Yulko Chervenkov of
Matyas
The Shah Rakos
and his party of and Gherghiu Del of Idlewild International Airport 15 took off from New York's
ore due to hold more meetings will havo had the OP-in a special KLM Royal Dutch
today to consider the situation,
Vietnam State
Is Born
portunity in the days since
foundland.
Stalin's birthday of making first Airline plano for Gander, New- hand contact with the head of victorious Communism in Asla;
RARE OCCASION
Salgon, Dec. 30-Choering It is noted here that
infrequently,
From there they will fly to :: Prestwick, Amsterdam, Rome and Teheran. The plane is duo to reach Teherdnut 9.30a.m. local time on Tuesday after a
the
and singing crowds packed the birthday afforded one of the 38-hour stop in Rome, streets of beflagged Saigon to rare occaelons when top-ranking day when
France formally Communist Icadors from both transferred power to the new the East and West formally meet the stop at Rome was being made The Shah told reporters that independent State of Vietnam at a high lovel within the French Unilon;
The
on the advice of his physician, About 100,000 gathered in any case only holds. Its formal bo broken there to permit him Cominform, which In who suggested; the long journey the main
squard outaido the meetings City Hall where the French
European
is a to rest. High Commissioner, M. Leon
mainly for its actlyl Das head of the new State es against Marshalito of of 17 motor-cyclo police Pignon, and ex-Emperoran hitherte matrganisation noted st
The party was escorted: from the to the airport a signed the transfer agreement:ugoslavia.
The present Men, women and child in Moscow may be an answer luggago, weighing 3,000
men, Over 100 pieces secret meeting
of paraded with gold-striped na donal flags and banners while to the fallative shown through including 14 trunks, were pus an aircraft showered 'leaflets. out, this year by the non se hice com
on board the plane. Thousands had come into the Communist powers who bave city from all over Indo-China achieved a considerable mea and were camping out Transsture of policy and defence co- port, cigarettes and medical aid ordination under the Atlantic were- provided Reuter, HAN
Pact-Reuter
A large variety of food was also put on board for the flight. including chicken and turkey, caviar, wines and liquors
* Reuter
scene.
Speaking at a luncheon
of Wedemeyer-United Press.
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