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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1946.

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Reporters & General Office 32312 Chinese Government and Communist negotiators . turned their peace meeting into a sparring match for position yesterday. Meantime, the Government pressed their preparations to ad- minister the areas seized from the Reds. General George C. Marshall and the U.S. Ambas- sador, Dr. Leighton Stuart, resuming their ac- tive roles, conferred with minority Party lea- ders whose proposals succeeded in bringing the Communist negotiator, General Chou En-lai, back' to Nanking.

ATOMIC CONTROLS

Mr. Attlee rightly described the Government's Atomic Energy Bill, debated in the Commons, as "exceptional legislation," and the support given it on behalf of the_Opposition by Mr. Law af- storation of territory the Gov- forded clear recognition of its "ernment had seized since Janu- necessity. If the control of re-ary, a truce and for acceptance search into nuclear fission is, to of political pacts which never be internationalised, it is clearly were put into effect.

Wang Ping-nan said that his .concessions Party's maximum are acceptance of these agree-

The Reds clung stubbornly

to their demands for the re- Confused

an essential first step to take it inta Governmental hands. The

-Where Are They?

London, Oct. 21. Completely ladder-proof stock-. ings, fully-fashioned and made of silk, are being produced in Britain.

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They look the same or- dinary, hose, susceptible to lad- dering, but the secret is all in the "tying-up of the loop," ac- cording to the "Textile Bul- letin."

the Production is, only in experimental stage as, although the patent was taken out in

Peiping Area 1930, war held up production- Fighting

Nanking, Oct. 22.

Meanwhile, four new ways of helping women in the choice of stockings and underwear are re- commended in the report of the Hosiery Working Party to the vast sums involved the Governments "which are far from the Fighting of a confused Government. They are:

1. Standard sizes for stock- ment suggests £30,000,000 as the terms the Government delegates and fluid nature flared ings-at present they vary cost of work at present envisaged are willing to accept." up southwest of Peiping slightly from manufacturer to

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"illegally issued again battering for the suburbs sistance" for all stockings and currency as banknotes." Another measure of Paoting, important railway underwear. restores lands seized by the town 80 miles southwest of Pei- 1. Estimated shrinkage or. Communists to their original wing. Government troops are con- stretching after washing and in- structions for washing, to he marked.-Reuter.

G.O.C.'s NEW POST

of national defence. Thus no de- sire exists in any quarter to query the principle of a Government monoply of atomic development. provided that this is not

inter preted as a ban upon the research and theoretical teaching which are bound to go forward wherever higher physics is serious- ly studied. There is no reason to believe that the Bill is intended ro be used for the negative pur

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National Assembly' in Shanghai, the Government began mobilising resources of China's two civil air transport lines to carry the delegates to Nanking for the National As

solidating their positions to the north and south.

Meanwhile, the Communists claim that fighting of consider- able tempo is going on in north more than 2,700 Kiangsu, with in the past five days. Nationalists killed in two sectors

London, Oct. 22. Major-General F. W. Festing. Yendn says in one local action General Officer Commanding Government artillery fired more Hongkong, is to succeed Major- than a thousand rounds in a four General G. H. A. MacMillan as hour onslaught.

Director of Weapons and Develop- There were informal exchanges ment at the War Office on Febru- of views throughout today, with ary 1, 1947, it was officially an-

and United States nounced today. mediating groups concentrating General MacMillan is to suc

ni restricting advances in sembly scheduled to open there atomic research in Britain. How en November 12. The Commu- Chinese Minority far the Government are progress-nists and

that ing positively in fostering research Parties have announced depends not on the Bill, hur on they will not send delegates Chinese AK $ 2. (per kilo:) the use they make of their powers unless peace is restored:-Asso- their efforts to find a basis in ceed Lieutenant-General Sir Eve-

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under it. For the present, and (apparently for some time to come, Wedemeyer's View fit is the destructive aspects rather than constructive possibilities of

Philadelphia, Oct. 23. Lieutenant General Albert atomic energy which "must pre Wedemeyer said that he believes occupy the public mind. The or the Chinese people want peace, dinary citizen. however, must but certain forces in China want comfort himself, as best he may, power and are willing to insist on with the hope that his own Goy-power at the expense of peace.", ernment and the Governments of other nations will eventually esta blish such controls as will fulfil their responsibilities to mankind.

NO RE-TRIAL

No sanction should be given

The general, who recently Seaded Army operations in China, did not identify these forces.

He expressed great confidence

which the Communiste and Na-lyn H. Barker as General-Officer, tionalists can carry on their negro-] Commander-in-Chief of British tiations. Reuter.

troops in Palestine.—Reuter,

Malaya

Grievances

Of Paratroopers

London, Oct.. 22.

in Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek The main cause of bad conditions at Muar Camp

and said that the Chinese leaders) had turned down a number of "attractive offers" from the Jap-. anese to make a separle peace which would have been disastrous to the United States.-Associated

the agitation being fomented for Press.

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Strike

in Malaya, where 243 British paratroopers were court-martialled on a charge of mutiny recently, was, according to the War Minister, Captain Frederick Bellenger in the House of Commons today, that certain necessary en- gineering work had not been completed by the time the main body of the 13th Parachute Battalion arrived.

Capt Bellenger,, who was re-realise the urgency of the mat- plying to a question, said he had ter; (e) failure to appreciate of the Monte Carlo, Oct. 23.

now studied the proceedings of the full implications The cropiers and dealers sit- the court of inquiry. The bad changeover from war to peace German tribunal would imply that down strike at the fashionable conditions, he said, were due to conditions and the standards time; the great assize which heard this Monte Carlo casino, entered its a combination of circumstances, which occurred at this case over a period of months had fourth day yesterday with both including: (a) shortage of en- (f) heavy rain which coincided less validity than a national court management and personnel firm-gineer labour and materials; with the arrival of the battalion Those whom the Nuernbergiy maintaining their respective (b) insufficient effort on the at Muar and which flooded the part of the outgoing battalion tents and the ground to un- court condemned to death might positions.

to precedented degrees. equally have claimed by such a The casino orchestra on Mon- to improve the camp, and

"In all the circumstances I precedent to appeal over the heads day night gave a concert for the draw attention to the deficien- of the Allied Powers to their own entertainment of the strikers, who cies; (e) a shortage of Brigade consider that no specific blame, fellow-countrymen. Were the demand that their salaries be in- Staff in Malaya due to heavy calling- for-disciplinary action commitments in Java- which can be attached to any indivi- three men who were acquitted creased by 35 per cent.

The local authorities are try-led to overwork and to errors "dual."

Sir Waldron Smithers (Con- now to appear before a bench of ing hard to solve the crisis, since of procedure in obtaining en German judges they would in the casino is the main, if not the gineer assistance; (d) errors servative) asked Captain Bel- reality be arraigned for fostering only, source of income of the of judgment on the part of the lenger what amount

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á regime that has brought Gerlittle state of Monaco whose in- Brigade Staff and the officer stuffs and soap had to be des-

to collapse. Their most habitants pay no taxes.--Asso-in-charge of the battalion ad- troyed at Singapore by

to poor vance party, and the failure to NAAFI/EFI owing

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was the consequent loss to the British

cal enemies, similarly inspired to

those extremists of the Left who

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Russia's Atomic Plan

New York, Oct. 23. Professor S. P. Alexandrov, Soviet delegate to the United Nations Atomic Energy Com- mission, has put forward a pro- posal to control atomic energy at its source, by instituting a world survey 'of uranium de- posits. The proposal was made before the Atomic Energy Commission's No. 2 (Political) Committee.

Professor Alexandrov recom. mended that a world survey be held to determine where depo- sits of uranium might be found and mined profitably. In this Union suggesting a means of first proposal from the Soviet.

controlling atomic energy at its source, Professor Alexandrov said that the Soviet's own state- owned mines were already classified for uranium possibili ties Associated Press

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“And I expect lo huve only a shori visit home-just time enough to straddle an issue or so!"!

Captain Bellenger replied: "I have no knowledge of any such destruction at Singapore owing to poor storage and exposure to the weather, but I have called for a report. No loss would fall on public funds in the cir- cumstances stated by the Honourable Member."--Reuter.

RICE RUSH

Batavia, Oct. 23. Prices of rice and other com- modities rose from 100 to '700 per cent yesterday as the Chinese rushed to spend their Japanese "banana money" before the. Oelo- ber 31 deadline for its redemp- tion.

The price of rice rose from 11 to as high as 80 Japanese Giuld- era a litre. A Japanese Guilder is now exchangeable for Dutch Guilders at the rate of 33 to one, making its value about one half- penny. Associated Press.

PROTEST STRIKE

Stuttgart, Oct. 22. All Stuttgart tramways, face tories and ships closed down to day in a 15-minute general strike endorsed by the leaders of all political parties as a protest against last Saturday's bomb explosions outside the Nazification courts, believed to: have been stared as a demquetra. tion against the purge laws/ Reuter.