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Vol. I, No. 66. Monday, November 26th, 1945.

Kremlin's Game In Manchuria Trying To Redress The Situation

CHUNGKING, NO. 20, RUSSIA'S BID FOR THE RETURN OF THE NATION. ALIST OFFICIALS WHO FLED FROM CHANGCHUN TO AVOID POSSIBLE CAPTURE BY THE CHINESE COMMUNISTS IS REGARDED IN CHUNGKING AS PART OF THE DIPLOMATIC AND MILITARY GAME. WHICH MOSCOW IS PLAYING IN MANCHURIA. RUSSIA, IN THE OPINION OF OBSERVERS, HOLDS THAT THE ONUS FOR THE WITHDRAWAL OF THE NA- TIONALIST OFFICIALS WAS PLACED ON HER AND IS. THEREFORE, TRYING TO REDRESS THE POSI TION.

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Wants A Baby

Boston, Nov. 25.

The Hollywood film star, Morle Oberon, has enrecona- fully undergone an operation "to increase the likelihood of motherhood," Doctor John

Rock said on Saturday.

"She in getting along very nicely," Rock reported after treatment for condition which he described as "rathar common among many wonten."

-Associated Press.

THINKING IS GIGANTIC

OF

Price 10 ets.

FIGHTING BREAKS OUT IN SEMARANG

BATAVIA, NOV, 25.

HEAVY FIGHTING BETWEEN THE BRITISH AND IN- DONESIANS ERUPTED TO-DAY AT SEMARANG AND AMBARAWA, THE BRITISH SAID THAT INDONESIAN EXTREMISTS IN AMBARAWA HAD STORMED A CIVILIAN INTER- NEES CAMP AND "BUTCHERED WOMEN AND CHIL- DREN." A STATEMENT BY LIEUT,-COLONEL H.C.G. HARDING, BRITISH PROVOST MARSHAL SAID THAT DUTCH AND AMBOINESE TROOPS SHOT DOWN GO INDONESIAN POLICE "IN COLD BLOOD" A FEW DAYS AGO.

200,000 Red Troops Now In Manchuria

The British used naval and artillery fite repulsing 1,000 armed Indonesiana at Semar- -any.

The

Newa Agency

Dutch

Aneta to-day reported that a British Brigadier had ordered a native settlement burned after nding the mutilated bodies of four British fillers and 20 In-1 dinn soldiers whose plane had! crashed six miles from Batavin, The British, meanwhile, have virtually completed the occupa- tion of Sourabaya. Only the

An CHUNGKING, NOV 20 THE "WORLD DAILY NEWS” SAID TO-DAY THAT MECHANISED UNITS OF THE NATIONALIST 12TH ARMY HAVE SURROUNDED STRATEGIC CHINHSIEN ON THE PEIPING-MUKDEN RAILROAD 100 MILES southern suburb of Darmo re- NORTH OF THE GREAT WALL ANOTHER REPORT SAYS THE TOWN HAS ACTUALLY FALLEN, THE COMMUNISTS HAVE repeatedLY FORECAST THAT THE CITY WOULD BE THE SCENE OF THEIR FIRST BIG-SCALE FIGHT AGAINST THE NATION- ALIST DRIVE, BUT THE NEWSPAPER REPORTED ONLY "UNORGANISED" COMMUNIST RESISTANCE.

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The Communist "Szechwan Daily" alleged that Chinese Communists meanwhile tad poured into Mukden and ns- serted that they have 200,000 men in Manchuria.

under

NEW YORK, NOV. 25, SOCIALIZATION EUROPE "WITHIN 10 YEARS On the other hand, the Na habitants gathered at the OR LESS" WAS PREDICTED Chungking and Moscow have Unennirmed reports state that Gronailst alleinls who are still } field to give them a rousing vel-' TO-DAY BY HEWLETT JOHN-

reached an agreement smarting under the humiliation [come but were dispersed by Rus- SON, DEAN OF CANTERBURY

AS HE LEFT BY if the events which formed them sinn guards.

AIRPLANE which the Soviets will delay the A withdrawal of their troops frera AFTER Before

ENGLAND to leave Changehun, Virtually as

Chinese the

Com- PUR

VISIT. 12-DAY

Manchuria which was previous fugitives, are not suger to manists entered Changchon, 14-

Ho predicted socialisation ly set for completion of Den. a turn until alequate safeguards ports were deliberately circulat-

of the United States, and ex- The Chinese Communist that Nationalist forces were pressed the for their safety are provided. 1f

belief th nation 8th Route Army was reported they are satisfied on this score coming to becupy the city to would lose its

to Russia rank

to-day to be in control of most they are expected to return.

sequently the Communists were, unless it does socialise Itself,

and radios In Among the officials invol od mistaken. for the Nationalists į

Of President Truman, with newsapers

the Manchurian are General Halung Hahi-hui and were given a slud hund by whom he talked Friday, the Dean Changchun. Director of Chiang Kai-shek's the populare who only too late sabl he found

"a very capital.

While about 20 Central Gov- branch headquarters in Chang-realized they had been victims exmpathetic attitude and a great

destre for real understanding and ernment officials left Changchun chun and Chiang King-kuo, the of a strange deception.

affairs Rsociation with

of the several days ago, it was report- Generalissimu's elder son, who

world." is special Commisaloner for For-

of the

od 20 to 30 remain there.-Ap Russians, he #niel: eigen Aftuirs in Manchuria.

Their

sociated Press. thinking in gigantle. They always have markets and Capita- enjoy a perpetual boom. lism cannot give people the same benefits." Associated Press.

Negotiations are still greek for some arrangements to anmure free passage of Nation- alist troops to Manchuria but no agreement has yet bean reach

ed.

TRAP FEARED There is some fear in different quarters in Chungking that NR. potionalist forces advancing inlo Manchuria along the Peiping- Mukden railroad might be walk- ing into a trap. This is partly based on the negligible oppoai- tion offered to the advance. Chungking, according to the The Communists, It is feau- Jafet reports in ati awaiting ned, might be planning to drive!

n wedge to the sea at the rear reply from Moscow on the varf-

and thus ats proposals designed to secure of the Nationalists proper adjustment of the Nainolate them from their bases in tionalist position in Manchuria | China.proper.

SCURVY TREATMENT

All quarters in Chungking ac- The scurvy treatment which cept as a fact the recurrent re- the Generalissimo's Non and ports of the past few weeks that other Nationalist offfelals are al-the Russians have been giving leged to have reprived at Chang-captured Japanese war supplies chun where they were virtual to the Communists, prisoners rankled bitterly with Chinese quarters here though none in an official position will publicly commit himself on the subject.

that

There is no denying the depths and intensity of Chinese Feeling Manchuria the subject of on where. it la

contended, events would have turned out very dif

Nationalists if ferently for the the Russians had acted

Various reports agree when the Nationalist officials faith toward them.

Arst due to arrive. มะ Changchun thousands of in-

were

And Now This!

STOCKHOLM, NOV. 25, ALL LIVING THINGS WITH IN A RADIUS OF TWO-THIRDS OF A MILE CAN BE DESTROY- ED BY A CYCLOTRON WHICH BY IS BEING BUILT HERE THE SWEDISH NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, PROFESSOR MANNE SIEGBAHN, SWEDEN'S

ING ATOM RESEARCHER in. Ile considers his work of con- structing a cyclotron weighing 180 tops--ten times the size of any other existing here-as the most important step in the Swedish effort to catch up with present-day

atom research. ·

Bath Professor. Siegbahn and Professor Svedberg, Sweden's other atom researcher, ace no rea- son why Sweden could not draw: lovel with the United States in atom achievements very shortly. including the production of atomic bombs.

Into the new cyclotron, which produced 20,000,000 "electron" volta is built a short-wave radio transmitter, similar to those in regular broadcasting sets. Tho cyclotron works with heavy hydro- gen atoms and imports the great- cat.....speeds to nucleua particles enabling them to be unleashed for the creation of radla-active mater- ial-Routor.

FEVER IS ABATING

JUST PAWNS The existing bitterness is accen- tuated by the conviction that the Nallonalists are being callously used as pawns in a cruel chess game

their military Th which weakness is being exploited with and almost diabolical moves

in him

That's Not Fair

VOLTE-FACE REPORTED

Communist Headquarters charg- ed to-day that the Russians had apreed to delay their troop with- drawal from Manchuria until Cen- tral Government troops can fly to key pointa in tho Changchun sector. They said the decision A would conform to a Nationalist re- qucnt.

The

Russians would provide facilities for "the Government]" planca to land at Changchun, the Communists said. Associated

¡U.S. OFFICERS

ARE

A Better Turn

Moscow, Nov. 26. Diplomatic sourena indicated to-day that negotiations to. ward agreement among

the major powers on international policies have taken a better turn and definite progress har been made during the woek although

agreement is immediately in sight on points at issue,

The absence of Josef Stalin has retarded progress, but he is expected back from his Black Sea vacation momen- tarily-Associated Prosa.

mained in the hands of the M donesiana Associated Press.

R.A.F. IN ACTION

Batavia, Nov. 25. Pilots returning from Jokjakarta reported that thirteen rockets hit

which Wa

the

radle station thoroughly wrecked.

These details were given in a

Sign Of The Times

Hull, Nov. 25.

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A crossed mining pick, Davy lamp and a golden flocco (for the woollon indus- try) will floure in the coat of arms of the now Lord Calverley, formerly George. Micff; Labour Momber of Par- liament for Hult,

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His father was a miner, his mother a'wenver ̃ásl ́ho was mill worker when he was 10. Hull's thred charter crowns are also in the design. -Router.

Loan In The Bag

WASHINGTON, NOV. 25. THERE ARE STRONG INDI- CATIONS THAT THE LENG THY ANGLO-AMERICAN FIN ANCIAL DISCUSSIONS WILL END THIS WEEK WITH AN AGREEMENT SATISFACTORY TO BOTH COUNTRIES.

The British delegation is report-

communique which also reported to have obtained reservations

air netion over Sourabaya where

and Indonesian gun was destroyed on the Queen Mary, leaving Fri- day. Unofficially, Americans and by direct bomb-hits.

Successful straffing truck British any that barring a Labour cabinet rebuff, which is not expect- WAR reported from Ambarawed, the agreement will be signed

of

where Oghting has intensified. The Indonesians there attempted 11 Jakeside landing with 200 ATA boats and occupied a nearby pri

Allied troona яon, from which drove them with tanks and artil

lery An enemy pocket in the centre of the town is now being cleared up.

communique states:

In mid-week.

Inform to indicate the United States or erred a $3,500,000,000 loan to

IL nd up lend-lease. represents a compromise on the original British request for a loan without interest. A later request was for a one per cent. loan. They finally asted $2,000,000,000 with "Slight interest at two per cent, and ground opposition to our continued similar amount interest free.---As- advance is reported from Sourn- sociated Press. baya but enemy shelling has in- creased in the past 24 hours. attack by 1,000 Indonesians includ- ing 400 wall-armed panco preser vation

army

rapulsed at Semarang.-Ecuter.

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Slave Tells Gruesome Story Of Torture

An

KWAJA LEIN ISLAND, NOV, 26. KOREAN SLAVE LABOURER, ANYOKA KANAGAWA, TOLD THE UNITED STATES MILITARY COURT TO- DAY THAT HE SAW JAPANESE SOLDIERS POUR A MIXTURE OF PEPPER AND WATER INTO THE NOS TRILS OF AN AMERICAN AIRMAN IN AN EFFORT TO OBTAIN- MILITARY INFORMATION. THE TORTURED AIRMAN AND HIS FOUR FELLOW MEMBERS OF A B-25 MITCHELL BOMBER CREW LATER WERE' BEHEADED, THE WITNĘSS SAID, ON FOX ISLAND IN THE MILÍ ATOLL. THE 10 AC-

DURING THE TESTIMONY. THE AMERICAN PRO- SECUTOR READ A STATEMENT BY JAPANESE LIEUTENANT.

WON'T BE BLACKMAILED

LONDON, NOV. 25. HARRY POLLITT, SECRET, ARY OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY

IN BRITAIN, SAID YESTERDAY THE SOVIET UNION NEVER WILL, BE "BLACKMAILED" BY THE ATOMIO BOMB OR ANYTHING ELSE

He declared: "What tho Char- berlains and Hitlers failed to dos no Anglo-American Imperialistic bloc will over accomplish?'

Addressing the party's conven tion, he expressed alarm at Bri- tish foreign policy and sald Bri- tain's future depended more on relations with the Bovlet Union then on any other international factor-Associated Press.

CUSED JAPANESE OFFICERS SAT IMPASSIVELY CHANGES HIS MIND

Not Entering Manchuria

Japanese Lieut. Commander Tokuna, executive

on officer Mili atoll, named several of the

defendants as either having par-

ticipated in or had knowledge of the executions.

ATHENS, NOV. 26. GREEK GOVERNMENT QUARTERS SAID TO-DAY THAT ARCHBISHOP DEMAS- KINOS HAS WITHDRAWN HIS OF GREECE RESIGNATION AS REGENT ·

*------DACHAU, GERMANY, NOV. 25. A VENGEFUL WITNESS IN THE DACHAU WAR CRIMES TRIAL VIOLENTLY TWISTED Press.

OF VINZENS THE EARS SCHOETTL, WHO WAS NAMED BY THE WITNESS THE

AS HORROR CAMP

OFFICIAL WHO SHOT A COMRADE FOR LEAVING

TO FORMATION HELD BY REDS GET A DRINK OF WATER.

As a result of the incident, the

TIENTSIN, NOV, 25. court barred the prosecution from

UNITED STATES THIRD OFFICERS in good having witnesses enter the prison- MARINE CORPS

ors dock to point out defendants.

NEGOTIATING WITH Schoettl cringed under the sud-

CHINESE COMMUNISTS FOR den altack.

THE RELEASE OF SIX AMERİ-

It was believed that he might Defendant Johann Kirsch Was CAN MARINE OFFICERS WHO

have bargained with government named. by another witness as res-ARE PRISONERS IN A VIL ponsible for sending hundreds of LAGE 80 MILES

for more authority in naming the WEST OF

The Korean witness told of Ministers in return for remaining Jewish children from Dachau tu TIENTSIN.

Shanghat, "Nov. 251′′

seeing the Japanese lead one of na Regent Osweiscin Jewish camp for extir

the Blers to the side of a grave, mination. A witness told of the by a gasoline shortage 14 days ago

The Archbishop was asked yes- Lieut-Gen. Albert Wedem blindfolded with hands tied beterday by the new Premier The corpse-filled boxcars found by during a flight from Polping toyer. American commander ini counter-moves,

British American troops when they enter- Tientsin.

Ho WAS beheaded mistokles Sophoulis, the Some unofficial quarters go 10

China, declared to-day that ed Dachau. The witness said they assert that Russia is had been transported in the box been partly camouflaged

The plans and position have: far sa to

there have been no American with a samurai sword, then the Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin Emissary to in

soldiers

and the British bayonotted Greece Hector McNall to remain Japanese seeking domination not only over

troops entering Manchuria and cars without food or water while effort to conceal £ from air

body before throwing it. as Regent but he had refused--- Manchuria but the whole of China.

The Russians.

end, they died in large numbers.Asso- searchers. A messenger requires under present orders there will the they contend,

into the grave. Boveral days to make the round be none." have not abandoned their ideas of

He said there were trip between the village and Tien-

small world revolution and unleas

tain for negotiations.

cadres of Americans in Man-| powers Band solidly behind China,

It is known the matter haa boonchuria some time ago to aid in her future as a sovereign nation,;

taken up with Chiang Kai-shek the embarkation and debarka- nlready endangered in Manchuria, might be subjected to

General de Gaulle to-day anked and Chungking officials, have con- tion of Central Government the Constituent Assembly fortatives in an attempt to obtain the forred, with Communist represen neverer tents.

complete ro-organisation of France's armed forces and permit men's release.-Associated Press, the shake-up of the tradition and the introduc- ridden army ton of new ideas and methods necessitated by the advent of the atomic, ageAssociated Press.

the

even

They echo the argument made by a Chinese newspaper that the question to-day la not whether the Nationalists or Communists should triumph but whether China as à whole should-survive.-Asseclated

Press.

clate Presa,

SHAKE-UP

Paris, Nov. 25,

Ceiling Collapsed On Marshal Zhukov

BERLIN, NOV. 26.

ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BUILDINGS IN THE

WORLD. DOES NOT EVEN HAVE A COMPLETE ROOF. AND ITS WALLS ARE STILL SHELL POCKED; BUT INSIDE SIT THE MEN WHO WORK IN THE CON- TROL OF GERMANY.

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The airmen wern forced down

K.C.R. COACHES DERAILED

troops, but these were with- drawn with a handful of Intel- ligence officers at the request of the Soviet Consul.

He confirmed that Chinese divisions" carrying Americ.in equipment were entering Man-. churia through the Shanhai-| kwan gateway.

THE THREE REAR COACHES OF THE TRAIN FROM CAN- He added that American TON WERE DERAILED NEAR training of 89 Chinese divisions TONG TAU HA IN CHINESE has ceased and the equipping of TERRITORY SHORTLY AFTER the divisions on n contract 2 P.M. ON SATURDAY, FOR basis was virtually completed TUNATELY WITHOUT CASU

ALTY.

Tho four coachos which were

Associated Press.

not derailed were brought Into WITH ARGENTINE

Kowloon at about 6 pm, and a re

lief train brought in the passon IN MIND

gers of the derailed conches about midnight.

Washington, Nov. 25.

hind him.

Associated Press,

Abortion Clinics Go Over

Big In Paris

PARIS, NOV. 25. THE FRENCH AUTHORITIES, SPURRED BY RECENT NEWSPAPER CRITICISM, HAVE TURNED THEIR AT- TENTION TO ILLICITLY OPERATED ABORTION CLINICS.

ACTUALLY THERE ARE NO FIGURES ON THE NUM- BER OF ILLEGAL OPERATIONS PERFORMED FROM ANY SOURCE BUT THE NEWSPAPER "LIBERATION- SOIR" AFTER AN INQUIRY OF ITS OWN PLACED THE FIGURE AT 150,000 A YEAR, IN PARIS ALONE. Physicians are loathe to talk, the war a great number. of for publication on the subjost patients were married women.. but will say confidentially that Associated Press. more persons seek advice on the

subject than before,

This, they polated out, comes TRIAL AFTER track repaired overnight, and the to-day studied the proposal by birth-rate has dropped to a point 14 YEARS

The Ino was cleared and the Top State Department officials at a time when the nation's

The suggestion was contained births.

THE BUILDING IS THE FORMER BERLIN KAMMER- GERICH SUPERIOR COURT SITUATED ON THE PARK JUST OFF THE POTSDAM, STRASSE IN THE AMERI- CAN SECTOR IN THE CENTRE OF BERLIN. Horo three times a month Colonel F. W. Drury, who ruas COLOMBO, NOV. 26,

meets the council of General the building as chief of the ad-TENSION Eisenhower,

In a note handed to the United Many mid-wives, nurses and Field Marshal ministration.. THE STRIKE FEVER WHICH- HAS

States Ambassador In Montevideo, some physicians are operating IN Montgomery, Marshal Zhukov

· BEEN RAGING

"The Russians are easy to IN BOMBAY General Koenig Many please and only got excited when

Mr. William Dawson, by Uru- flourishing clinics in privaca COLOMBO FOR THE PAST, and WEEK SEEMS TO BE ABAT othor quadri-partite Allled com- such things happened like the

guayan Foreign Miniator Albert homon and apartment-bousco. ING SOMEWHAT.

Rodrigues Larota:

There are reports that come mittees meet here as well in the calling of Zhukov's officù falling

There is a possibility of an establishmenta HARRY DITTON, SPECIAL

are compinte The bus company management course of this great experiment | down the day after he moved in. CORRESPONDENT IN INDIA Ftion to tho proposal, because of with private and ward facti- trista, sent to an Institution.

carly statement of American reac-

ciated Press..

morning train loft Kowloon on Uruguay for collective interven where it is lower than the schedule yesterday morning at 8.36|tion by the American Republics death-rata and when nationwide. 'a.m.' with six conches instead of in the domestic affairs of an efforts are being mado to in-

- NEW YORK, NOV, 25. the uaual nine.

ather American nation noce crease the declining numbers of MORE THAN 14 YEARS Bary to protect peace,

AGO TWO MEN WERE AR RESTED FOR THE MURDER OF A NEW YORK POLICE MAN.

tried, -con- Arthur Vogel wan vicfod and electrocuted in 1980,

Ralph Florance, ́ ́ploaded in- sanity, was certified by paychin

This weak. Floranco confessed

will be tomoyed from the ingtits hatte haalmulated Insanit had kept up the docoption. He tion to stand trial for murder.

asociated Press,

·

LONDON, NOV. 26.

has agreed to take back striking of the four-power occupation of Nobody got hurt and we just OF THE employees and refor matters under Germany and Berlin.

"NEWS OF THE dispute to a tribunal. }

Soon all the 400 rooms of the shell holes in the walls of "SITUATION IN BOMBAY 19s, Fascism exista Associated and women coming into the city patched, it up like we did the WORLD, CABLES THAT THE te immediate bearing on Argon- ties for patients and ready pri- Dock workers are gradually

ties where, the State Department marily for the benefit of girls returning to work and unloading almost self-contained building the Control Council's Confer DETERIORATING. wan: proccoding to-day almost ad will be filled. There are 30 con- chce room," he added.Ather angry, demonstrations and

A cheap, quick, dangerously "To-day there have been fur. Fron

unaanitary operation in shabby normal with the aid of about 200ference rooms and the four city prisonora.Router.

"Allied "chiofe, each have their

processions by thousands of stud

Shanghai, Nov. 25 surroundings may cost from £12 offices on the third, floor whijo

ents carrying national flags and Twenty-six more Japanese, in to £25. It can run to 1250 or thole stoffs are "In adjoining

Washington, Nov. 25. alguting sloganajTM* pey duding 12 civiilans, were arrested Lonelines of hundreds of Japa roomer-

President Truman signed a bill Fife adde Tension is now, so to-day in connection with tortare more if the identity of the meso repatriaten stood in the rain,

yesterday authorman military high that the possibility of the and death of three merless person warranta it or if the Patient's bank account can here yesterday awaiting algarance We have our little troubles and naval academy appointments police bavior to sock milltary Diors in Hankow last. Decomber to board the hip which will take mostly because of languages but for sens. of servicemen who died reinforcement is under discussion. Altogether 80 people were fail stand the charges

od-Associated Press,

Physicians say that, befɔro, ed Press them to Japan Associated Press, wo get along pretty well," said in action-Associated Pressly

Seattle, Wash., Nov. 25.

He VdWashington, Nov. 9.

President Truman cont & roos- age to King Haakon Saturday congratulating on the 10th anniversary of his" asyqusion to the Norwegian throno-Associat

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