POPULATION SHIFT REDS END SERVICE IN SHANGHAI URGED OF U. S. IN SHANGHAI
Transfer of 2 to 3 Million Order Information Bureau to and of Some Industries is Suspend Work-Britain's
Proposed by Newspaper
By HENRY R. LIEBERMAN
Office Similarly Hit
SHANGHAI, July 15 (UP)--Com- munist authorities today ordered Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
the United States Information SHANGHAI Juły 15—A process Service in Shanghai to close down basic economic reorganization, immediately all the services op- involving the transplanting of aerated for the Chinese people. number of factories and removing At the same time, authoritative [frảm 2,000,000 to 300,000 persons sources said that United States from the world's fourth largest Ambassador J. Leighton Stuart city has been advocated by the would leave Nanking by plane for Sin Wen Jih Pao (Daily News) the United States "in the very near here as part of a plan to make future.”
Shanghai less dependent on "for- The order to the United States eign imperialism" and to integrate information services radio commu- it into the new national economy.erations was given orally to John Meanwhile, under conditions of Henderson, its director in Shanghai, flood and a disrupted flow of rice, when he was summoned today to the price of first grade rice jumped the Foreign Affairs Bureau of the today from thirty-four thousand to Shanghai Military Control Com- forty-two thousand People's Bank mission, a United States Consulate Notes a picul [a picul is 133 1/3 source said. pounds]. The steadily increasing The order did not apply to the price of this basic cereal, to which information service radio commu- local wages and currency are nications. However, since all oth- hitched, is combining, with the er operations were ordered sus- disruption of foreign trade, to pended, the function of the com- make Shanghai's present economic munications system would be lim- position difficult.
ited to the transmission of official
Sin Wen Jih Pao, which is pri-State Department messages. vately owned but operating under The order from Communist au- a military control commission li-thorities said the office must sus- cense, said that the interference of pend at once its daily news service "Kuomintang bandits" with ship-to local newspapers, close its pub- ping had obviously had "certain lic reading room and library and effects" on trade and productive stop showing films and presenting activity for the time being. It concerts of recorded music. These maintained, however, that the
included the entire scope of the long-run problem was still one of information services activities carrying out a basic transforma- tion in Shanghai's economy.
here.
Personnel attached to the Shan- Declaring that Shanghai had ghai office comprises about ninety been built and run in the interests
persons. The service, which has of "imperialists, compradores and been functioning steadily in Shan- feudal bureaucrats" during the ghai since the end of the war with past 100 years, with the over-all Japan, includes two daily news economic interests of the Chinese bulletins issued to the local Eng- people being ignored, the newspa-lish and Chinese-language news- per asserted
"Because of the current difficul- ties imposed on us by the imperial- ists and Kuomintang bandits, we are being led to recognize the ab- solute need for us to rid the old Shanghai in good time of its reli- ance on imperialism. We must make the liberated new Shanghai not only an industrial city that can support the task of the liberation of the whole nation, but also a city whose own economy will be built on the strong foundations of inde- pendence and sovereignty."
papers.
British Office Closed SHANGHAI, July 15 (Reuters) Shanghai's Communist rulers to- day ordered the American and British information services here · distributing news. to suspend operations and stop
The Military Control Commis- sion, administering the port, said it had issued the orders because Britain and the United States had no diplomatic relations with the Chinese Communists.
Plane Ready for Envoy Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
Sin Wen Jih Pao painted out that the factories in Shanghai ac- counted for about half of the coun- try's cotton and textile spindles, about 80 per cent of the national NANKING, July 14-The only cigarette production and about 60 United States plane in Communist per cent of the national output in China, a United States Air Force matches, rubber goods, woolen tex-transport that tiles, flour and silk.
was left behind hen this city fell on April 24, took "But these industries depend off today on a seventy-minute test upon foreign imports for important flight over the southwest suburbs raw materials and machinery of Nanking. The C-47, which had equipment, while foreign mer-been used by the United States Air chants control a portion of the attaché's office here, is scheduled products marketed," the newspaper to transpo Ambassador Stuart
added.
from Nanking when he returns to
It made five recommendations Washington for consultation. for converting the "old and co- Dr. Stuart, who has been delay. lonial Shanghai" into a new, in-ling his departure pending a settle- dependent, strong" city. These in- ment of the Mukden Consulate is- cluded:/
sue, is now expected to leave on or about next Wednesday.
1. An economy movement to be carried out by every citizen, in- cluding the industrialists,
Evacuation Move Studied WASHINGTON, July 15 (UP)— portation facilities to promote The State Department is investi- stronger ties between Shanghai gating the possibility of sending a United States ship to Shanghai
2. Extending land and water trans-
and the interior.
3. Removal of certain plants to to evacuate American citizens who other parts of the country. The want to leave the Communist-held newspaper suggested that the city it was revealed today. cotton mills could be moved to
Hupeh and Honan, the cigarette factories.to Shantung; the mate and rubber factories to Hankor. Peiping and Tientsin.
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THE NEW YORK TIMES AIR EDITION.
16 JUL 1943