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Vol. II. No. 105. Monday, January 14th, 1946.

BEHIND THE SCENES Chungking Effort To Reach

Agreement

CHUNGKING, JAN. 15. DELEGATES TO THE POLITICAL CONSULTATIVE CONFERENCE TODAY CONTINUED WITH MUCH SPADEWORK BEHIND THE SCENES IN AN EF FORT TO ACHIEVE AGREEMENTS ON PLANS TO BROADEN THE BASIS OF THE GOVERNMENT AND REORGANISE THE CHINESE ARMY. GENERAL CHOU EN LAI, LEADER OF THE COM-

REFUSED

COMU MUNIST DELEGATION.

TO MENT ON THE PLAN TO GIVE OTHER POLITE CIL PRENDENT A SILIRE IN THE GOVERNMENT UNTIL IT HAD BEEN FORMALLY SUBMITTED TO THE CONFERENCE.

The plan, a maitinad by Doctor | President of the Sun Po, President of the Legisla Chang Kahek. theo Tuần, caited for unclosion of ular parties in the State Conner Conversions Supreze

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COMMUNIST CHARGES

$

Chungking. Jan. 14.

of the share of authordy assigbed | Lhen..

TIRNY QUESTION

In other worde if the new mem suren, while now representing 25 condition government, would have

Cease Fire Commission

CUNI-

Chungking, Jan. 13. The three-member mission created to imple- ment the carrying out of "cense fire" conditions in the China truce agreement is expected to fly to-day to Peiping to establish vacon - tive headquarters,

are:

The commissioners Gen. Cheng Chick-mín for the National Government; Gen. Yeh Chien-wing for the Communists and Walter Rober*, United States charge d'affairea in Chung- king, as she the member. --Associated Press,

Cease Fire

Order Works

Price 10 cts.

Varied Reactions In Russian Occupied Area

BERLIN, JAN, 13.

FIVE AMERICAN CORRESPONDENTS WHO TOURED

THE RUSSIAN OCCUPATION ZONE OF GER- MANY FOUND A PROGRAMME OF SOVIETISA- TION IN PROCESS, WITH VETERAN COMMUNI ISTS IN KEY POSTS.

INDUSTRY, FARMING AND MINING ARE LARGELY UNDER CONTROL OF GERMAN PROVINCIAL GOVERNMENTS, AIDED AND SUPPORTED BY THE RUSSIAN MILITARY GOVERNMENT.

NEW OUTBREAK IN SOUTH PERSIA

TEHERAN, JAN. 13.

REPORTS OF NEW VIOLENCE IN IRAN WERE HEARD TO-DAY WHILE AMERICAN DIPLOMATS DENIED A RUSSIAN REPORT THAT UNITED STATES SUPPORT HAD BEEN OFFERED REBEL FORCES IN AZERBAIJAN, THE NORTHWESTERN PROVINCE WHICH HAS BEEN THE SCENE OF RE- CENT DISORDERS.

THIS PERSIAN CAPITAL CITY, STILL EXCITED OPER NEW OUTBREAKS OF FIOLENCE REPORTED IN THE NORTHERN REGIONS, RECEIVED ANOTHER SHOCK TO-DAY IN THE ANNOUNCEMENT THAT ARMED NOMADS IN THE SOUTH HAD INVADED THE TOWN OF KHORRAMSHAHIR ON THE IRAQ FRONTIER

Khorramshahr is situated abutil| 10 mile north-west of the Iranian wal port of Abandan on the 1'er- sian gulf at the confluence of the Tigris and Hubrates Bowing out!

Le Karun river. Tray and which drains west central Iran.

of

The United States ambassador The

nnnounced formally that Hopnow, U.S. consul at

Consorship Of Newscasts

Rober!

TRTIZ,

UNITED

de-

The correspondents toured for Jeight days through the south- eastern section of the Russian miles zone from Berlin, 125 scretli to Dresden through Saxony.

This is the first time western correspondenta have been ad- mitted into the Russian area,} under an exchange plan.

Five Americana, conducted by four Russiana and driven by U.S. noldier-chauffeurs, travel- led ku itinerary chosen by the correspondents, and Interviewed; Russian and German adminlı-İ trators.

The

Sorlet-sponsored pro-] gramme was observed at work In a aretor whose cițies largely! escaped the terrific bomb danı age inflicted on western many, and in regione which though rich agriculturally, were Poping with tremendous refugee problems.

STORMY WEATHER

London, Jan.

ia.

An ammunition ship with ten crewmen is believed to have boon losi in gales which have been sweeping the Eng- linh coast since Monday. Twoo bodies thought to be thone of members of the vessels crew have been formul on the beach.

The liner "Queen Mary" homeward bound from New York with troops and civi tiano had to lay off Southamp- ton after she was unable to reach the port. Arapcisted Prens.

Patterson

Rejects Jap Blandishment

WAR

HAS

TOKYO, JAN. 13 U.M. SECRETARY OF Ger-

PATTERSON ROBERT REJECTED A SILVER RETTE CABE WHICH IMPERIAL HOUSEHOLD FOR WARDED TO HE PUR

GIGA- THE

10-

The Soviet programme 1 TERS WITH A baset on a planned economy for THAT THE SECRETARY industry and business, and wide- MIGHT WANT A SOUVENIR spread agrarian reform that has OF HIS VISIT TO JAPAN. liquidated the aristocratic, mili- Headquarters officers said taristic Junkers. and distribut- day that in all probability ed their vast

Rihito does not know of peror holdings among}

the gift offered since the silver landless previously

caretto box was sent over by the poverished peasants.

Imperial Household.

ur

VARIED REACTION German

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Em-

The Household notation itself CHUNGKING, JAN. 13.

government lenders said it was not certian that the STATES ARMY pay the programme is progress secretary would want a gift but capital city of Azerbaijan, hnd

respite B-cent it along anyway, uiet the Russian report that he AUTHORITIES TO-DAY RE-ing satisfactorily,

THE QUESTED

ARMED deniable initial hardships. The The caso was marked with a had "offered the support of his

RADIO STATION reaction of the German Hittle chrysanthemum which denotes Im- head FORCES governinersi to Pishevari,

TO SOFT-PEDAL! man ranges from courageous perial objects. of the

"democratie A.U.S.F. insurgent

Allied officers, under the rules, CHUNGKING, JAN. 13. party government in Azerbaijan. NEWS OF G-I DEMONSTRA- optimism among the new farm-

are not allowed to receive rifts or THE ORDERS TO CEASE Previously tho ombinasy

Imperial BILISATION SLOW-DOWN. den, and blurting complaints in honorariums from the

Household. Patterson rejected SERVED TO TROUBLEU

NORTH CALM

This is not the first instance the streets of Halle and Leipt, the gift with the sertion that SPOTS IN CHINA BECAME In the report of the incident af

People in of censorship of newscuits from

the province of he was not able to accept such APPARENT AT ONCE IN Khorramshahr, national kendar- NORTH CHINA AREAS TO. merio headquarters said last night XU.S.F which on several ce- Saxony, which first was occupi- gifte Associated Press.

Americans, complained DAY WHERE CHINESE COM that the tribesmen, whotn they sions in the past she had toed by MUNISTS HAVE BEEN OPPOS ING ADVANCES OF GOVERN

TROOPS. MENT

The Communists għarged ...) The eText Df one, they would gix FIRE BY MIDNIGHT SUNDAY | darned the repart "ridiculoudTIONS AGAINST THE DEMO-ers, to helpless doubt in Dres-

it very favourable consideralisty

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said were followers of the Sheik kill stories unfavourable to the chiefly of the shortage of food Nazis Hanged

day that entsal Government!

à compromise is considered like troops were continuing fo alvame' ly on the very thorny question of into Communist dominated verți-l the National Assembly whose de- tory and protested to the Generates were virtually selected by The Kuomintang before the Sino- ent about it.

Japanese W Gen. Chon En-lai, the chief

The present plan as outlined by C'onumunast Representativ.. 'n Dostor Sun Po is for this

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An official dispatch said Govern- The tribesmen, the Chungking, progested la Gen. sombly to meet as scheduled on Chang Chura, the Govement! May but to be dissolved aftes ment forcen in bo Jahol pravines meni added. "forced

halted their advance and are with into a Khorramshahr representative 1934 the truce ward and be replaced by the

drawing into the Manchurian which the shell had committee of three

new A-seably to be freely elected

ownership." The spokesman encoded that within six months of the disente province of Liaoning.

In the north of Iran, apparenti possibly the Natiomlist involve ! Vou

calm had been restored.

Associated Press HULLEY PRAISED ed in the alleged advance may

Former Baited States Ambassa not have received the "rvas dor to Chun Maior General Pu. bre" order. He said one force trick J. Burley was praised at to- was "very cluse" to the advare da's session of the Political Con - делё Communist stronghold of, sultative Conference be the older Chihung, but declined to estim¦ statesman Shuo Li-tze. ale the distance,

Earlier, the "New Ghina Daily News,

Communist paper, asserted the Nationalis's on Jan. 12 “ferociously attraærk- ed" Communist position near Kupikow. A Great Wall border Lewn 65 miles north-ead of [i ping. It also reported "heavy forhting" around "Changeluang. in Hopel province, 80 mies vant of Peiping.!

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The three members of the commission/10 set up executivei beadquarters at Peiping-repre- senting the Government, Le Communists

the United States-created to carry out the agreement for the cessation of hostilities, meanwhile flow day to Peiping from Chungking.

Associated Press.

to-

Red Leader's Peace Message

YENAN, JAN. 13.

The administration of Sunkiam is reported to have been taken over Chinese by Government troops. Nationalists Jure replacing the Rassan occupation forces in Man churia. Associated Press

CHENNAULT RUMOUR A Government delegate Shao

Chungking. Jun. 18. she wished to express his Maj. Gen. Claire L. Chennault, gratitude to Hurley for his assist former American air commander par du-te the bad negotiatious in China, quietly and unobtrusive and Yenan. by shred into Chungiting to day, We should not forget the efforts; it is rumoured be will becuase an made by furley during those ne adviser to Chiang Kai-shek. The rotations," he said. "particularly former commander of the “Flying in the last days before his Tigers' returned to China """ departure."' Asociated Press. private citizen. Associated Press,

between

Unrra Short Of Funds For China Relief

WASHINGTON, JAN. 13. PROSPECTS APPEARED SLIGHT THAT THE PHILIP- PINES AND CHINA WILL OBTAIN THEIR RE- QUESTED HEAVILY INCREASED UNITED NA- TIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION ALLOT- MENTS.

Into Iraq.

reparations ollections

of Khang, had been driven back United States Army or consider and clothing, and of the us

ed likely to offend Chinese aussian announce-ceptibilities. themselves An offer tas now been 14 Farther south, In the state of estate of signed to supervise the newenste Saxony, and in its capital, Dres-j

clairst

Nu nuw information was avail- able concerning affairs in Chalusse

of outbreaks | and Zenjan, scene several days ago in which two democrats" were reported killeel and five wounded!.

which they called "plundering." ! For Murder

put out by K.U.S.F. Associar den, the people acknowledged Of Airmen

ed Press,

BOUGHT RAF HALIFAX

that life was hard, but added: "Well, that's to be expected. Wel lost the war."

near

FRANKFURT, JAN. 13. THREE GERMAN CIVILJANS Industry in Saxony and WERE YESTERDAY HANGED throughout the Russian zone bas FOR THE MURDER OF SIX been geared to a strict planned AMERICAN AIRMEN.

War crimes authorities announ- economy, according to produc-! LONDON, JAN. 13. tion plans drafted by the State ced the arrest of 18 German civi

voldiers and sallora lians, Kazvin was reported to have

PLANE Governments THE AUSTRALIAN

at Marshul Z-Bremen for forcing soven other CAPTAIN resumed voting in the provincial| DESIGNER,

GEO-kov's direction.

American airmen into a four-hour WIKNEK. WANTED

Undar this scheme the govern death march, cleation which was interrupted by FFREY

TO AUSTRA-ments allocate available raw ma- At least 2,000 Germane have terials, and direct where the been rounded up to await charges

and murdering

mistreating should deliver) of manufacturers

and at what captured Anierican airmen. Teheran, Jan, 13. So the unked the Ministry of finished products

Similar strict

A United States war crimea A private meeting called by Dr. Aircraft Production if it would prless.

contro section officer estimated 700 cases The is enforced pn wholesalers and involving the slaying and mis- Mossadegh, a member of the Per-sell him a Halifax bomber. Kian Majlis (National Assembly) Ministry agreed.

retailers, on all except a few

violence in which one was killed TO GET BACK

two wounded. Associated LIA.

and

Press,

PREMIER ATTACKED

io

aumber of deputies

He was told that he could not have & paasuge within 12 months.

Press.

treatment of approximately 1,500 to obtain the signatures of other Now he and his wife and two unrationed consumer goods.

American airmen who fell into the deputin of Ibrahim Hakiut, the drome on March 1

Hura aero- petition for the re- children will leave

Mines and factories are run hands of German civilians would sipation

by boards of directors and be ready for the military courts Persian Premier, was considered "We expect to do the trip in in Teheran to-day have failed about two weeks," said Captain workers council representatives within a few months-Associated

MILLIONS OF REFUGEES in the purpose.

Wikner.

In factories and mines, anioni- A large

"We hope to have a few' pas- attended the meeting but it was sengers to help cover the cost of nation is 100 per cent. The gen- reported afterwards that most of petrei and all and we intend to eral plans call for one big verti them had refused to sign.

bake it an exhibition in nid of cal union, with multiple divi- The Governor of Somnan, 100 the Royal Australian Air Force sions, one for public adminis miles north-east, of Teheran, at- and R.A.F. Benevolent Fund."-trators, to which the provincial rived in the capital to-day with Router. his wife and Two daughters.

He remorted that he had been urged to leare Somnan by the leaders of the Tudeh (Left-wing) | Party after a strike of railway workers had begun.

Half an hour after the Governor had arrived in Teheran, it was reparted that the strike had been called off.Renter.

LOAN TO TURKEY

London, Jan, 13.

BRITISH O.C. KILLED

BATAVIA, JAN. 18.

presidents belong.

G.I. TO DIE FOR JAP. MURDER

OSAKA, JAN. 18. In agrarian reform, the Ger AN AMERICAN COURT man governments, with approval MARTIAL CONDEMNED TO of Soviet authorities, split up DEATH TO-DAY AN AMERI 7,000 Junker estates which con- CAN SOLDIER FOR THE MUR- DER OF TWO JAPANESE ON tained more than 247 acres THE EVE OF HIS DEPAR each, among 281,155 new hold- TURE FOR A REPLACEMENT

DEPOT FOR RETURN TO

THE UNITED STATES.

His Identi

Identity was pending review of

and

not

of the che

disclosed,

THE U.N.R.R.A. THUS FAR HAS PUT BUT $8,000,000 INTO THE PHILIPPINES FOR EMERGENCY RE- LIEF, SAYING THE GOVERNMENT, THROUGH WAR DAMAGE LEGISLATION FOR THE ISLANDS,

A BRITISH BATTERY COM-ers throughout the zone.

Along with the land there was HAS DESIGNED TO MEET PHILIPPINES NEEDS.

MANDER AND FIVE INDIAN IN A "CEASE FIRE" ORDER

TROOPS WERE KILLED AND division of the livestocks Also the islands are not con- He indicated ho hoped to FLASHED BY RADIO TO ALL

SIX OTHER BRITISH INDIAN tools. Each new holder got from

It is believed to be the first case COMMUNIST FORCES. MAO sidered a nation unable to pay, achieve progress toward getting

TROOPS

WOUNDED IN AN 12 to 10 acres, for which he must

in which the death penalty han TZE-TUNG,

INDONESIANS pay the government. LEADER OF as China and other countries, more U.N.R.R.A. funds during

AMBUSH BY

CHINA'S

The Exchange Telegraph said NEAR SOURABAYA,

Saxony's toughest immediate been imposed against an American IT WAS

erime against a THAT gramme are underway.

problems are Cheng is scheduled to proceed in an Ankara dispatch to-day that REPORTED TO-DAY,

housing, feeding soldiers for a

Japanese, the United States would grant Another Indian soldier Officials here stated that the by an

or re-settling millions of re- Army Transport Coin-Turkey a loan of $4,250,000

Testimony indicated the killings atwounded by mortar fire in an area

and Czechoslovakin-Associat-once in whisky and Japanese man wounded by Indonesians at

anke-Amaciated Press. Bandoons

The Indonesian police chief of Buitenzorg, as a svpbol of col operation. with the British, has surrendered 20 Dutch carbines.

The British roturned the gungj to the Indonesian police.--Asso ciated Press.

CLAREDONISTS. DE- where full scale U.N.R.R.A. pro-| his visit to China. A NEW STAGE OF PEACE Philippine Government is in poa- mund plane via San Franciscol four per cent. interest to build air-in cast Java and an Indian patrol- Augees swarming in from Poland followed the soldier's over-indul.

CHINA HAD "ENTERED UPON

AND DEMOCRACY."

Ile expressed the hope that "all result of American army spend-

session of substantial funds as a and Japan.-Associated Press. flekda-Associated Press, comrudcn in the party will Co~

ing there and it felt that the

thom-

operate closely with the people of P.I. Government should bring China in continuing to exert kelves for consolidation of internal in its taxing powers to pay for peace, realisation of democratic the funds it is now asking the. reforms and establishment of

near

Independent. free and atrone

U.N.R.R.A. to supply.

In The Steps

Of The Dictators?

San Francisco, Jan. 13.

was

The Weather

To-day's forecast:-Continuing fals with light casterly winda, Yesterday's temperature:- Maximum: 70 degrees at 12 noon. Minimun: 66,8 destrees at 7 a.m.

P.W. CAMP ROMANCE

ed Press.

China's Magna Charta Found In Nanking

Chungking, Jan. 13.

The lost original text of Doctor-Sun Yat-sen's three peoples' prin- ciples, considered by the Chinese as their Magna Chrits and which was stolen by the puppets during the Japanese invasion" of China, has been found and restored to its legal owner, Madame Sun Yat-sent, a dispatch from Nanking reported to day.

Chiness Relief Rehabilitation -China."

Administration. officials hero The message, sighed by the continued to press upon the Central Committee of the Party. U.N.R.R.A. that China desires onld:

"Efforts of the Chinese people, larger allotment but the agency The San Francisco "Chronicle" said yesterday in an article that. following the Japanese war. In having no funds to most the re- building peace and democracy. quest according to its present

the American occupation authorities in Japan "displayed a have already been elenalled by budget, the matter continues ap- kind of fear" in burning assertedly anti-democratic "Japanese important achievements.""

parently submerged,

school-books and "close the dictator's way of displaying fear." Mao Tze-tune had the "cense

ACTION NOT. EXPECTED Fires flared Oro" order sont to both military

amidst what bringing democracy to any pdo- Upper

California authorities in regular

the other and irregular--

nowspapers; plc. clated Press.

UNRRA show uceningly agreed was the difficult task of Bocks of democracy word little Indication that positive revamping tho Japanese educa- burned by the million in Gorg

Long Beach, Jan. 13. MARSHALL LOSES action is expected soon.

tional oystem and increasing many; the Bible was burnod A romance that began when HIS SHIRT 1:

Cheng Fao-nan, Chipeto Re- Nipponese literacy from the cor with great ceremony but Its they met at the Santo Tomas The manuscript, which is re-; his_sword, were also recovered. Chungking, Jan. 19. lief Administration representa-rent surprisingly low rate both results wore at most temporary,, prison camp in Manila three years, garded as priceless, was recover The Chinese police hero are tive, is leaving for China un prorequisitos to a offcctively old the paper..." Team Aro resulted in the marriage yea- ad through the efforts of the Ma- to have dispatched a special re- scarching for a houseboy who Wednesday for a one-month con- functioning democracy.

"You can burn books from the terday of Lillian Ann Workman,

liver the articles to Madamo Sun. the diepatel stated. 20. pork of Gaueral Marshall's warl- cinia on Chintsa Rellef pro- the burning_of_any_booke from the heart,” it sald- dfsappeared along with a large forence with Chinese Relior, off- The "Chronicle challenged page, but you cannot burn them 22, and Major Eurono Carl, Smith, or of Nanking, Ma Chao-chun, presentative to Shanghai to do

The bride was born and roaredtor, Sun Yat-sen, including Associated Press,

Other valuable belongings of Yat-sen who is now living there, robo. Associated Press.

oven bad once, as a method of cinted Pross,

In Manila.

Associated Press.

blems,"

Mayor Ma Chao-chun is anid