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FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO

Nanking Pleas For

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No. 33669.

ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS

HONG KONG, TUESDAY, MAY 20, 1947.

STUDENT SITUATION WORSENS Peiping Youths Beaten Up By Soldiers

Nanking, May 19 Students To Defy

Members of the Peo-

ple's Political Council, which is to open its ses-

sion here tomorrow, have!

actively

campaign

begun

their

for the re-

Nanking Ban

Peiping, May 19.

sumption of Nationalist-Four students of the National Peking University

Communist peace nego-

tiations.

200 PPC

Meeting today to discuss the agenda of the two weeks' sea- sim, approximately delegaten heard two of their colleagues make earnest plens for an end to the civil war.

Peiping! Mr. Hau Teb-yin.

the Liberal, called loudly for Immediate cessali of hustili

that PPC ties and declared members should concentrate their efforts principally on the problem of penee, Referring to the threatened students' demon- strations tomorrow. Mr. 11ME

dzelated that he would not like to guarantee that there would not be bloody clashes and ap- pealed to PPC members to do all they can 10 advocate violence.

non-

Mr. Ta Tu-Hsin, white-beard. ed non-partisan, asserted that

representing

he,

were beaten up by soldiers of the Youth Army here today during student anti-civil war speech-making. The incident, which officials fear might pyramid into a major student demonstration, occurred while students of the National Peking and Tsinghua Universities were addressing throngs at Peiping's West City, urging an immediate end of the civil war and decrying the attempt to unify the country by arms. Youth Army soldiers in the fore the Education Minister.

The recent disruption of rail- guwd dangreed and after l heated argument manhandled way service between Shanghai the students, who are now in and Nanking by Bludents who the Tiniversity hospital.

Ban Defied

over

cummandeered a train in the port city was believed to be partly responsible for govern- went action barring deann- strations tending to cause m

were

FRENCH PORT STRIKE

Paris, May 19.

Activity in the

France

of

und North Afric came to a standstill today dockers launched 24-hour strike to obtain a guaranteed minimum wage,

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At Dunkerque, Cutats and Boulogne, the three principal ports of northern France, the

atrike

total early this morning. There were no labour available to untend, two big freighters which arrived from the colonica with badly needed [email protected] Press,

Communist Threat In Italy

Plane Crashes

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May 19,

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Japanese Mood Changing:

HOSTILITY TO OCCUPATION

Singapore, May 19. The Straits Times today published a dispatch from its Tokyo correspondent, Richard Hughes, re- porting the hardening resentment and slowly growing hostility" of the Japanese against the American occupation, evidenced by stone- throwing at trains carrying American person- nel.

It said the Military Polico UNO, the Straits Times said: require. Amerkan train passen- "The Infont, disorganiqud UNO vers draw down curtains at in Incapable of exercising even night aa blackout protection nilld control. If the occupation against brickbat attacks,

were to end an early na Gen. The Hughes dispatch cited | MacArthur recommends, Japan evidence of what he called the wonki have won the peace. To "Intangible and elusive" Japan- leave this unreformed Japan to cse change of heart.

her own devices at this stage officer eculd be nothing other than a labour crime against humanity."—An- commented **¿t's not what the|sociated "Frean. beggars will do. It's what they don't do and the way thry don't do it. They just inn't, co- uperate. Simple instructions are forgotten or misunderstood.

It said an Americusi

supervising contract

Another

said in You have an exasperated fel: Texas City

stop brickbat fighting near Rang.

less victim of a giant but In-

operation."

Open Hostility The dispatch also quoted Bri.

Fire

Mr. El Tsung-jen, Director

drenched the baseball teams and parts of the plane were hurled have used pistols and fox cf being, somehow a help of the Generalisalmo's Pelping

three blocks away.

rifles tonight against the visible conspiracy of DON-CO- fee. expressed regret

The big 2,000 horse-power police in Lahore, stricken the incident nark issued an or-

cial disorder.

fighter had been stunting over der punishing the soldiers.

La than 24 hours after the Regulations adopted today by

Burlington as part of a Navy capital of Punjab,, now

'New York, May 18. which State Council

Nanking the State Council over In

air show. It swept low over the in its fifth day of com-

tish occupation officers na Bay- The 11,000-ton

!

oil Chiang presided

Washington, May 18.. town with a squadron of other munal upheaval. Issued an edict banning parades Gen.

"Fanmassachu- The former Under-Corsairs in a mock strafing at-

The District Magistrate of the Japanese attitude in tanker

villages was and public demonstrations 6,000 spceifrenily designed ip prevent

outlying tack. Suddenly it reeled, plunged univeral dislocation of communication,

openly Mr. J. C. W. Eustace, hustlic and that Japanese work private secretary of State, Mr. out of formation and dived out said tonight that fire, was opened the PPC. students from seven

setts" was aflame today through main damage of public ar would personally kneel down be- ties puraded

in a of control into a group of hail on the police who were trying to ing for the occupation forces at a pier in Texas City. fore the Government and Com-reets in Shanghai demanding property and injury to people. Sumner. Welles,

were ostracised and l-treated scene of the recent 'dis- -Associated Press.

radio address alleges players. munista to pray that the wor a "now deal" in education.

Tension Worsens

Two boys were fatally burn-melial, storm centre during the by their countrymen,

astrous explosion and ring factions would lay down

Shanghai, May 19. that the Communists in

A British officer said Japan-fire, the Coast Guard an- their arms and thus alleviate Today's demonstrations were

The security authorities in Italy possess, large stores cd. They died en route to her communal disturbances in March.

pital. Searing flames caught About 11 people were injured, and ese drivers keep in the con- the sufferings of the people feared to be the forerunner of

parades in all the principal cities of China to- of arms and ammunition three other boys who were re-an unknown number killed be. tre of highways deliberately nounced today.

The latest reports said that the living under deplorable cond-farther unrest tiong.

the main cities on Tuesday-the day orderal precautionary mea-

Peoples autca na miversity students re-and that the Party has ported to be in a serious coulifere firing by police and Gurkha blocking military vehicles and

tion at the Burlington Hospital. patrois ended the fighting.

that pedestrians "top in front whole ship from the bridge to chate un which the

money fused to abandon their plans been receiving

Less seriously injured when Pitlent Council is scheduled to

The situation was under con of us in city streets and stare the boilers is on fire pad that the sent directly from Mos- the plane exploded were a girl trol by later evening.

blankly at us to forte us to halt deck was also burning,

Na injuries have been report- and two boys. The injured in- Mr. Eustace said that the mill. or swerve:"....

The influential Straits Timesed, but two men who were in a Mr. Wolles guld there was a cluded a 19-year-old Navy veter- tary lent six brigades to help to

[tug alongside the burning. vessel

fic-United Pross,

of American claim that the hospital. The fire was confined Japanese are being democra- to the area forward<cf the ship's the next few flared into violence as approxt-be deminated by a Communista

flsed, declared In an accom-bridge and there was nu explosion on the on month. He called nutely 10 students were injured regime within

panying, editorial; "It is much despite the inflammable nature of hy Youth Army soldiers'

United States to delay ratifica-

nore obvious noir than it was the tanker's cargo. leave.

The clash heightened tension tion of the Italian treaty.

scheduled ou the eve of the

Mr. Welles said he was "in- 'Associated Press Spencer three-day strike by approxi-formed that some of the highest Nanking mately 10,000 Peiping and Tien- officials in the present Italian Moosa reports from

txin Htadents demanding that student joudera [f MIX

Communist striking universities and col reopening of peace talks and Government have proof that the

upen.

A third member, Mr. Shen Tze-chin, councillor from Can ion, protested that the poli-

The Shanghai demonstration tleal programme Bigned when the Young China and Deinoera was reported to be without Socialist parties entered violence though the Police and

tle

for-masa demonstrations.

Major developments on the attent front are: 1. in Pelping student agitation against the

cow.

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the government could not pro gurrison forces were alerted to civil war and high living costa į real possibilty that Italy will who saw action in the Pack- put cut half a dozen or more fires which consistently was sceptical were badly burned and taken to

sent the opinions of the whole quell any possible diaturbances, people. He advocated that the. The demonstrators arrived too PPC rediscuNA the 12 paint

late to ace uff the 37-men de- ngreement-Reuter.

legation at a rail station going tu Nunking to prese students' demands.

Changchun Fighting

Nanking. May 10.

the

the

Party

Icader,

leger at Nanking have decided betterment of. university finan-Palmiro Togliatti, was receiving | to defy the anti-demonstration Clus conditions.

Shanghal nine Univer-funds sent to him directly from 蟲 mammoth Changchun, leading Manchurian parade tomorrow to emphasiso sities and colleges, continuing

Communist troops have in- filtrated into the suburbs of

elty now under martial law.

anil stage ban

their demands for increased liv-

2.

Moscow",

"What is most sinister of all, the strike for increased living however," continued Mr. Welles,

30 students to Nanking to co-

Semi-official news dispatchen ing allowances and other conceg./allowances, sent a delegation of is the fact that in almost

The

were

The wife of the pre-

raging in the city.--Router.

Voters Too Hungry To Vote

Baden, May 18

Apathy due to hunger was the main impression of today's election for the State Parliaments of Baden, Wuertemberg, and the Rhone Palatin- ate, the three states of the French zone of Germany.

the

overy one of Italy's farger reaching here today admitted situa which Generalissimo

cities, particularly the larger

Shortly before the polis closed, Bath the German, and that Changchun la in a "state Chiang Kai-shek himself has ordinate the movement with the Some 150 Nanking students.

industrial cities of northern German official stimated that French authorities, commenting on the light poll, agreed that the of' singe". The Communist branded "unreasonable and ex-

Chinan University students

Italy, local Communist organiza-not more than about 65 per cent

voted. In the district elections food situation, which has sharply radio, meanwhile reported that cessive."

stormed into the president's re-tions have in their possesilon last November, 58 per cent voted, deteriorated, lessoned the intere the Communists have begun in Nanking Incident

sidence demanding foud, claim- earnest o full offensive in Man-

In Nanking, 300 students

ing that their living allowances very large stores of arme and which was a big drop from the of the average German in any ammunition, which even include.84 per cent recorded in the cam- thing, except food and the mosi choria.

from the National Yingshih

already

tanks and machine-guna."

munal elections in September.pressing material needs. Government-controlled University at Kinhwa, in Che- for the month

The French zone was casting

two The former Undersecretary Central News reports that kiang Province, attempted to spent.

vetes: one to elect new provincial skirmishes/have occurred at the enter the Ministry of Education sident was frightened by the sald if the Italian treaty were

Parliaments and the other to de- of the The cut- but were thwarted by close mch and leaped from a secondatifled now, it would mean the cide on the constitutions Changchun alrfield.

withdrawal .of British and three states: ting of rail communications be guarded gates. A hot argument storey window suffering serious

In November, the Christian De- tween Changchun and Mukden, ensued when 20 Chinese MPs injuries. As a result the pre- American troops which, he said,

until now have been the grea-mocratic Union, the centre party it Bald. is also threatened as refused to lot in the students sident is firmer in hla

the minialion to resign from

test practical deterrent to arm-with a strong Catholic following tlie Communists attack Hwat- to place their demands

ed uprisings within Italy and provinces with a total

won casy majarities in all three to a post.

of 147 tse, southwest of Changchun.- transfer

to Yugoslav

upon seats. The Social Democrats won Reuter,

Italy."United Press.

60 seats and the Communists 22.

pre-war

of the campus site in Nanking-be

Royal Engagement Speculation

London, May 19.

Hannen Swaffer, writing in the Sunday paper "The People," said that while the Prime Minis- ter had not been told officially of Princess Elizabeth's plan to marry the former Prince Philip of Greece, It is expected that the news will reach him within a few days.

Princess'engagement, thority" that the engagement will

the not be announced this month. Swaffer maintained, was "nation's business" and, in recent The Duke of Windsor, aceerd. months Philip's life and characing to the "News of the World,"

The

Such

petitions

deter

the

the

not

Chiang's Statement In Nanking, universities and enlieges decided to hold a pro- cession on Tuesday to present

to

People's the Crunch Political

and Executive Yuan, It ig known whether the students intend to turi aut en masse in defiance of the government ban or to elect a delegation. How- ever, the students voted nat to include demands concerning.the the civil war in petitions to PPC and the Executive Tunn.

Meanwhile, studenta in two colleges miselanary-supported

pressure

British

Stand On

Egypt Unchanged

the demand

London, May 19.

For six weeks now, Germans in the French zone lave not receiv cd any potatoes. This month, they. will have had only 1 ounce, ní fats, and their broad ration haa been cut from 10 ounces to just under 8 ounces a day. The voters of abpulation represented about 6,000,000.

The final results of the polling were not expected bafore tomor

row. Four partles áre÷conomistian |

for supremacy The Democrat Union, The Democrat People's Party, The Social Demo- crats, and, the Communists.

Hitherto, the Christian Dena erat Union has enjoyed a clear. majority. It is expected they wil top the poll again and that the referendum will 'phów a large majority in favour of the

not constitution-Reuter.

The Weather

| Maximumt; 16,4 dez... · Fall" Minimum 7.1 dos Pich Bunshine 10.9 Boura

the

over,

291.6 mi. Nagtinis an averagejst

Britain will stand by her offer to withdraw all British forces from Egypt by 1949 but insists that the withdrawal be negotiated in connec- tion with the revision of the 1936 20-year Premure la' highest and NE Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, a Foreign Office

Marianas and weak blah, cell petita in Shanghal, who went on strike

over tim ́Fariern Ben. A 'complex dépria credit protesting against the

spokesman said today.

sion in the vicinity of Mokholda iy' mov The spokesman was com larger than the treaty figure. ENE The Chins Bes depresion has lost ws, moving NB, Beront' of However, he said that technally yotem, are expected to resume classes soon, since the college menting on

''Today's Forecast-Moderate; houtherly ter have been openly discussed has "given up all ideas of get authorities agreed to reconsider Nokrashy: Pasha, Prime Minis- cally a "state of war" will con- Formosa Pressure is low xederally ex

writtencking to kastaily, winday dine to partly "to his silvantogo-fer they have ting a job for himself in this the system. The schoola tor of Egypt, for the Immediate tinue to exist until the peace

Loody. passed the test."

country or of seeking a post involved are the University of withdrawal of troops regardless treaties have... been.

Yesterday's Weatherim, Domtalon or Colonial adrainistra. Hangchow and the Hangchow of whether the treaty 18 revised and ratified..

ur new one drafted. The "News of the World" de- tion.

Christian College,

The Sudan studente rejected Nokrashy's con clared that "quartero very close

Alarmed by the anappointment, Mr.

Britain nevertheless is steadily Bainfall: Trace. Total ainen Jati.. to Princess Elizabeth" disclosed Attlee and Mr. Bevin had made, agitation, Chiang Kai-shek tention that the treaty should be

night terminated marely because reducing her garrison, tho that "an official andouncement clear to the Duke, might prove issued a statement last concerning her future is likely to an embarrassment, the paper re-requesting the youtha to observe Egypt believes it has fulfilled spokesman said, Cairo, Alexan- dria and, the Nile Valley already be made soon,” adding that "there | ported.

discipline and law and guard its objectivoà. is no reason to anticipate any ob.

The Duke and Duchess of Wind. against being utilized by the "It seems that Dgypt has have been evacuated and the barn. et mal : 1904. 1007. má

aro concon Jections by the "Government."

sor are at Charters. Sunningdale, Communists as their Instru- adopted the attitude that the remaining troops which belonged to the millionaire | mon14”.

treaty ceases to be appropriate trated in the Suez Canal Zone.net. Humidity Not This Month 275. Parkinson and cost £100,000.

Red Influence because one of the governments An for the Sudan, the spokes Wind Direction, ben wun Earlier deniala et un impend. "Every bedroom has its bath-

The Generalissimo deplored concerned. has changed its man said the Condominium Wind Fare juny de Ang engagement were to avoid room, some in pink marblo." i: embarralsment to both the Prin. There is a alter, that acftens the the acts of the students and views," he said, we agreement of 1809 entiBos both the Egypt and Britain to maintain ossa, and Lieutenant Mountbatten water. The lighting from pink their unreasonable and exces. The spokesman mald

treaty permitted, Britain to ro- troops there. While Britain Whip, though close friends, had to midnight blue can be changed alvo domanda."

IN DEAD minde no inutual declaration of to suit each course at dinner," "I am sure that such dis. tain 10,000 troopa in Egypt in recognises the symbolic unity n the paper as the "News of the World" report, orderly and irresponsible acts pracetime for the protection of of the Nile Valley she could dict their Intentiona," the

135 were not perpetrated by our Egypt and Britlah interests in consent to Egypt assuming hole

Auckland, Mar. responsibility; for the Budan while "Plain-plothes police outside conscientious and patriolle the Middle Eastr The Bunday

halmas, thek, Budanese, people Premier bthiNew-Zea Inferring that, the Taral engage the grounds keep back the in- scholars; it is apparent that the Ile declined to estimate..

Trained their agregizont, ment was pending," said that it quialliva i it, added Associated Communists have directly), or presens Britishy garrison

(Continued by pass Traps Frypt: but" conceded it

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FORMER PREMIER

in March that the Impressive The pier was only slightly dam record of democratic progress aged. Reuter, inflicted upon a reluctant Japan Was no progress at all."

paper's

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