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Shanghai Reds Censor Newsmen

To Save 'Lives,' Avoid ‘Sabatoge❜

By HENRY R. LIEBERMAN

Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.

SHANGHAI, July 16-Censor-, A member of the consulate said ship regulations for the foreign Mr. Cabot had gone to Nanking press and radio were promulgated He added that there was also the "to say good-by" to Dr. Stuart. today by the Shanghai Military Control Commission to protect "the possibility that the Consul General

who has been due for home leave

security of people's lives and prop- since May might accompany the erty" and to prevent "military Ambassador out of China on a sabotage by imperialists and Kuo-United States Air Force plane now jmintang remnants" during the in Nanking.

present control period.

The plane, a C-47 transport for-

The regulations ban direct or in- direct reference to weather condi-merly used for travel in China by the United States Air Attaché's tions; places attacked by National- ist planes and description of dam-office, was testflighted by Col. [John A. Dunning, Air Attaché, and age; condition of air defenses and location and conditions of airfields; a crew of four last Thursday. The supplies, provisions and movements Nanking press reported that the of the People's Liberation Army; had ordered that the plane leave Military Control Commission there strength and numerical comple- China as soon as possible. ments of garrisons; conditions at

Dr. Stuart has had State De- radio stations, military installa- tions and factories; and the loca-partment orders to return home tion of the Military Control Comt-once he was satisfied that United mission of the People's Govern-States nationals in the Nanking- ment and all other party, political,Shanghai area were safe. He had military and public organizations. been delaying his departure, how- It was decreed that no dispatch ever, pending settlement of the or broadcast could go out without Mukden consulate issue. Although the censor's stamp of approval. the State Department has ordered Censors were authorized to delete Consul General Angus Ward to "the

shut down the Mukden consulate, [ objectionable words or clauses" but not to make addi-Mr. Ward and his staff have not 1 tions or alterations in the manu- yet succeeded in completing prepa-1 script.

rations for their departure from Manchuria so far as is known here.

Provision for Punishment The regulations specified that who

any sender

of messages

"repeatedly infringes" on the pro-

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Two-Week Travel Time Set SHANGHAI, July 16 (P)-Shang-e

visions with regard to banned hal's Security Bureau announced e items might be punished in ac- that travel time out of Shanghai t cordance with the "seriousness of for foreigners will be limited to the offense."

(two weeks, except in unusual cases. Another set of regulations was issued governing the travel of Only two points can be visited on foreigners from Shanghai to points a single trip without special per- in other Communist-held areas. mission. Heretofore, foreigners The travel rules poi, ted to rela-have not been permitted to leave! tively freer movement between the city.

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Nanking and Shanghai and also Permits to leave China now are raised the possibility that foreign-being issued-but there are ers in Shanghai eager to leave means of getting out. Foreigners|

to leave China China might eventually be able to wanting

from proceed to Tientsin, which has not Shanghai must state why. Another been affected as much as Shang-requirement: the departing for- hai by the Nationalist blockade. eigner must have settled his labor A number of Americans in problems. Several hundred Ameri- Shanghai are awaiting action on a cans indicate they want to gol plan being discussed in Washing-home. ton for sending a vessel to remove those United States nationals now

HONG KONG, July 16 (UP)- desiring to leave China. Despite the Communist columns in three South Nationalist port-closure order, the and Central China provinces are Communists presumably consider marching again toward Canton as Shanghai and other ports still open flood waters recede, reports reach- to foreign vessels with the excep-ing Hong Kong said today. tion of warships.

The reports said the Communist Before the suggestion

made drive in Hunan, Kiangsi and for bringing in a chartered vessel Fukien provinces began rolling to remove United States nationals after guerrillas made temporary who want to go, a group of for-repairs to roads and bridges dam- eign diplomats in Nanking also aged by the floods.

had discussed the possibility of ob- Nationalist reinforcements with taining both Communist and Na-United States equipment arrived tionalist clearance for a ship to at Foochow, main port in Fukien, take them out.

and immediately were moved to The departure of United States the front, fifty miles away, the re- Ambassador John Leighton Stuart ports said.

for the United States for report The Central News Agency said and consultation appeared im-six Communist divisions were at- minent following the rail trip to tacking Ichang, a Yangtze River Nanking last night by John M. port northwest of Hankow and key! Cabot, United States Consul Gen-city in the defense of Chungking, eral here.

several hundred miles to the west.

THE NEVOIMAK TIMES

AIR EDITION.

17 JUL 1945