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FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO
GLOUCESTER ARCADE
CHINA
No. 33928.
ESTABLISHED FOR OVER ONE HUNDRED YEARS
HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1948.
CHAHAR BATTLE SPREADING Communist Force In Yuhsien Outskirts
TRIESTE ARMY Heavy Engagement KOWLOON CITY
PRECAUTIONS
London, Mar, 32.
All British and American troops in the Free Zone of Istria, adjoining the
Fred
Zone of Trieste, and
been
confined to barracks sinon
midnight yesterday,
Rome
Radio reported tonight.
The report added that British and American 'fron- tler quards in the Free Zone have been reinforced along the Yugoslav frontier.
Reuter.
H.K. HOTEL BOYS BACK AT WORK
In Shansi
At
Shanghai, Mar. 23.
Chi-wa last night expressed confidence in the defence of his province against encroachments from Communist General Nich Yung-cheng who in directing the Communist drive.
The battle along the Chahar-Shans! border is spreading ominously as Communist forces, pushing south, have driven into the outskirts of Yuhsien, 65 miles south of Kalgan, accord- ing to pro-Government despatches today. In north-eastern Shansi, heavy fighting is also re- ported around Kwangling, 60 miles south-east of Tatung, following the Government evacua- tion of Yangkao which adjoins the Suiyuan
border further to the north. Communists awooped down on Zuhsten following a serica of fast manteayres in which they overwhelmed the Government defences at Siboying. 16 miles to the northeast.
The fighting:
The present moves of General Yuhalen, which is the centre of the pre- Nieh's forces, he said, were xent Communist offensive in aimed at disrupting communica- Inner Mongolia, has entered the tons on the Peiping-Sulyuan stage of aŭvogo hand-to-hand railway and obstructing spring The boys and waiters out with both sides suffer-farming in that sector of Na-
ing heavy castinltles.
fionast territory. of the Hong Kong, Pen- As the Communists have tres.
Railway kungs in the paat 24 insula and Repulse Bay passed upon his territory, Gen-hours, working overtime under Hotels and the Lido re-eral Fu Tsoyi, North China heavy guard, repaired the Com- overall Commander-in-Chief, is munist damage to the line, en- turned to work yester-reported personally to be direct abling trains from Peiping to day afternoon, bringing ing the Nationalist operation proceed as far ar Tienchong. to an end a strike involv- from l'esping on a round the aidway between Kalgan and
Tatung. ing over 1,200 of their clock basin.
It is stated that he may later number
Friday to the front to launch noon, when they walked counter-offensive, out en masse,
since
The return to work followed raufication of the compromise arrangement arrived at between the hotel management and the strikers' delegates on Monday afternoon.
Catering service was resumed at the hotels shortly after tif- tin hour yesterday. Right"up
Governor Confident
As a result of the restoration
PETITION
A lengthy petition by Kowloon City residents dia possessed of their land by the Japanese expansion of Hai Tak sirfield during the War yeATH WAR presented yesterday to Mr. H,R. Todd, Secretary for Chinese Al- fales, for forwarding to the Colonial Secretary and to Lord Listowel ·
The petition handed in by two representatives of the people, requested that those in possession of alternative sites be given legal title to the land; and those who are still. without innd be al- lotted alternative sites.
The petition, which WILA in Chinese, is being trans- lated by the S.C.A. for transmission to the author- illes concerned.
At-Bombs On U.S. Warships
Lincoln, Nebraska, March. 22. Representative Arthur of traffic strong Government L. Miller (Nebraska Re- said today.
reinforcements are now said to
Communiste
be arriving at designated points publican) along the line and counter that United States ships In Kweinui, capital of Sul-blown are expected to be struck in the Mediterranean yuan province, Governor Tung
were carrying atom Although Nationalist forces tombs more powerful in Shantung have made further than those dropped on headway along the Tainan-Japan.
Manus As
to that time strike pickets were Aussie
posted outside the
trances.
hotel on-
Both residents and the hotel Base?
stuff
heaved a sigh of roller
that "the whole thing is over"
Canberra, Mar. 23.
Defence
The hotel staff had been work- The Australian ing overtime and performing | Council will discuss plans on all sorts of work to make the Apeli & for the development of lot of the residents less uncom- Manus Island, north of New fortable.
Guinea, as an Australian naval Residents took the whole base. thing in good spirit but not a The base was handed over to few of them forgot to turn off Australia by the United States the water taps before going last year at an ultimate cost of _eut._It_was_reported,-und-flood-.j.£3,000,000.
ed bath rooms were not an in- frequent occurrence.
axainat the Phortly.
Tsingtao railway, the coalmine inay see some atom berbe ing centre of Trechuan has dropped, not only on Trieste, but
PIPICTURE OF THE DAY
Service, Not Self
In the threatened famine at the Peninsula during the hotel strike on Sunday, re- sidents filled the rap and the inner man, Above Mr. H. H. Rose is 'busy = with a glam and Mr. 8,51, Stranzas. with a battle.
fallen to the Communists after Moscow as well," said Rep Miller. Women's
10 days' fighting.
A Washington, however, in an Nearing Tsinan official denial of Miller'
af Rep.
Meanwhile you 20,000 Comment, the Navy emphatically id Petition
munists are reported to have none of its ships in the Mediter reached a point only 10 miles rancan was carrying atom bombs,
In a second news conference, Rev. south-west of Tainan and 40 Miller said: "Three United States miles south of Tainun on the bauleships are in Trieste harbour, Tientsin-Pukow rollway.
If things break out, we would see In Manchuria, the Govern-them drapping atomic hombs withia ment's determination to hold 48 hours"-United Press Changchun at all costs in scen
Chen
The Australian Government in the arrival there yesterday Woman
has made an offer to the Unit- afternoon of General
be
confer-
of the President's headquarters, Executed
There was much jubilation
Athers, Mar. 23,
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VIETNAM GUERILLAS IN SOUTH CHINA FIGHTING
Raids Reported
In Two Areas
Shanghai, Mar. 23. About 3,000 Vietnam guerillas have joined forces with local brigands and Communists in South- West Kwangsi and are carrying out raids in the Tsings and Lungchow areas near the Indo-China border, according to a report ap- pearing in today's ́American-owned Shanghai Evening Post.
The report added, however, that these Vietnam forces, who were driven into Kwangsi by a French operation, are expected to withdraw completely into Indo-China again as the For- eign Legion, which occupied Tralinh on the 'border, has retired to Caobang, in the south.
The Vietnam units at present operating in Kwangel are sakıl, to owe allegiance to President] Ho Chimin of the. Vietnam Republic. He is believed to have his headquarters some- where about 100 miles
Dr. W.W. Yen Charged
Shanghai, Mar: 23.
Dr. W. W. Yen, retired Chin- ese diplomat, appeared in court yesterday as defendant la an
the Kwangel border
from
Nguyen Hai-than, Rightist leader of Indo-China, is
also
reported to have 80m0 3,000
SPITFIRES FOR CHINA!
With her decks stacked -high with crated "Spitfire" aircraft, and more than 600 tons of small Varms am- munition in her holds, the 4,300-ton am. "Lakeside", left -harbour, for 'Shanghai yes-
terday morning.
The ship la carrying the third shipment of ́alreraft sold to the Chinese Gov. ernment by Canada. The "Lakenido" arrived on Mon- day and continued her voy- age to Shanghai yesterday.
Kwangtung Shipping Control
Canton, Mar. 23, men in Southern Kwangai who The Kwangtung Gov- were driven there by Ho Chi-jernment have received min'a Vietnam troops about instructions from Nan- two years ago,
They were disarmed by the king to tighten control Chinese under orders of General over foreign shipping for nullification of Dr. Yen's Chang Fah-kwel, then director along the sea coast of the election to the Legislative
action brought by two voters
Yuan on charges of irregularies of the President's headquarters province; according to
The complainants failed to ap- in Canton.
the Tal Kwong Evening pear, but the court heard Dr. Yen's defence and then adjourn-
News.
ed.
.:
In Hong Kong The report says that Nguyen,
,
The instructions are said to Through hle counsel. Dr. Yen who travels between Canton be the result of complaints pointed out that the plaintiffs and Hong Kong, has asked the that vessels flying foreign flags | buď admittod in their petition Chinese military authorities to have been found entering Chin-s that defondant himself did not return the grma, so that his se ports without entry permits take any active part in the elec forces may drive out Ho Chi- from the authorities.. Lions and only charged the Secra-
In future, if any, foreign ship: tary-General of the Eltelion min's units on the Kwangsl enters a Chinese port not open Office with responsibility, for any frontier.
to trade without prior permis- irregularities..
....... It is alleged that the Vietnam alon from the Chinese, author, crefore, the action should forces are Communtats, working will be seized and con
all cursa be brought against the Election in close co-operation with the fiscated, the paper added Office and not against the elect Chinese Communlat headquar Any foreign vessel entering m2 cd candidate. The defence: also imphasised that Dr. Yen was a tere on Shih' Wan To Shan trading port without authority. qualified candidate as he was (Hundred Thousand Big Moun- will be fined. If it is consider riminated by the Central au-tain) on the border of Kwang-fed a serious case,' the-veszél thorities, but shid that he was tung, Kwangel and Indo Chino. would be seized and confiscat not a member of the Kuomin-
In command of this Re-Router. tning Party,Reuter.
|SHANGHAI
The Executive Officers TALKS OF
TUNNEL
Shanghai, Mar. 23,
vived by the City Government.
It is understood
hideout is sold to he Liao Sheng-chih, son of the late Lino Chung-kai, a Kuomintang, loftial leader-Router.
LORD MILNE DEAD
C.H.R. ACCIDENT
Ten passingers were injured when a train plying betwɔón Can- ton and Kukong, on the Cantorî- | Hank:w Line, Jumped the ralis" at Wang Shek, north of Cantón, on Sunday, according to Chinese -press reports - last night, --
Seven carriages were deralled,,
London, Mar. 22.. William Solo, the oldest man his 103rd birthday t/day.Reuetr
of the Hong Kong Coun. cil of Women were re-
Lozdon, Mar:29; ceived in audience by the
Milne, *Field-Marshal Lord. ed States for the purchase of Tung-kuo, deputy-director of
Minister of State for Col-
former Chief of Imperial American equipment and stores
A study of plans to construct General Staff, died in his sleep onial Affairs, the Right at Manus and when this deal 18 from Mukden to take over the
a tunnel under the Wangpoolast night at his, London home, in Hertfordshire, celebrated Honourable decision will
Lord Lis to connect the heart of Bhang- SALVAGE ATTEMPT completed, a
made on the defence works,to defence of the city.
towel yesterday after-hai with Footung has been re- aged 81-Reuter. IN HARBOUR be undertaken there.
Mr. Joseph Chifley, the Prime among the inhabitants of Muk- A guerilla woman, who ea noon. An attempt will be made this Minister, told a press
that the The Hong Kong Council of Bureau of Public Works at pre- afternoon to raise part of thelence today that he had receiv- tien yesterday when for the first, caped from gaol when her
with Wemen had previously submitten sent is engaged in drafting a Japanese wreck, submerged in fed no confirmation of reports time in several weeks a Nation- gendarme guard sloped
to His Excellency, the Governor long-range plan calling for the the central fairway of the Har-that machineguns had been allat food convoy reached the her, was executed today.
Helen Nicolaou and her a memorandumi petitioning for 450 of American capital, to used by the Chinese in a dis- city from Chinchow, a strategic bour.
A third portion of the wreck
gendarme lover, N. Vernickos, the representation of, women on build a tube under the river,
Talks were initiated a year the island.
Colony LIT ter three days of freedom. She Constitution and this petition was Conway, of New York, but were was removed a few months ago.
the proposed new 40 with the visit here of the were captured on March 11 af the governing bodies of the
American engineer, Thomas Blace then work on cutting the
was previously under sentence discussed with Lord Listowel. remaining portion into two has
of death. There were no. re- Lord Listowel said that the subsequently dropped. been in progress.
However, with the 'growing The report did not mention ports on what has happened to petition of die Hong Kong Coun- Indications that American old The lifted portion will be not suggest that the situation the route by which the convoy
cil cf. Women would meet with may be thrown in the Govern removed to the crap dump at was serious, Mr. Chifley, sald-travelied, but said that every
Three other, persons were sympathetic consideration. He was Kowloon Bay,
war the Bureau of Public lorry was loaded with rice and executed in Tripolis and ten, glad to hear that women in the ment side in the Chinese civit fleur. Hitherto Mukden had de- including the former editor of Coone had taken their share in Works again is showing inter
public.service and was anxious est in the proposal. Communist newspaper, in to encourage
them to continue pended upon airlifted food sup-
The Bureau Bald the neces- Larisan.Annociated Press, their efforts for the community: alty of finding room for Bhang- piles for supplying the popula- ilon.-Reuter.
authorities pute with the administrative city in the Manchurian corri-
the Shun
He was commenting on a re- dor, about 120 miles to the port that 300 Chinese had south-west, according to formed into machingan untta pro-Kuomintang daily. and had defted the civil au- Pao. Official reports thorities.
Reuter.
"We Never Dig Into
Such Reports"
London, Mar. 23.
did
Buckingham Palace sources sceptically dismissed a fresh crop of rumours today, that Princess Elizabeth is pregnant.
SWAP OFFER REJECTED
Rome, Mar, 23.
Vernickos.
·
.. '.
RESIGNATION OF PREMIER, REPORT
23.
Italy has flatly rejected Chinese afternoon newspapers, In Identical Nan- king despatches, Insisted today that Premier
Yugoslavia's offer to swap
Trienta for the Italian city of
n
the Gorizia,
Foreign Ministry spokesman said today,
a
Officially they stuck to the usual "No comment
because we never dig into such reports.' tinofficially, however, they sald' cial announcement cancelling there is no good reason to suppose" Frincess' public dates in expected the Princen in expecting a child in any time In the next few weeks. abe naturan 2 shay, been reported This will be necessary," it "auld, abroad and in one London news in expectation of the Princess be paper,
coming mother in October." Unit now the British pres
The Western: Allies proposed
the return of the free territory
Chang Chun had submitted his resignation to President Chiang Kai-shek, and said the Gen- eralissimo has not yet decided whether to accept.
hal's Industrini and ÷residential. sections to expand necessitated some means of getting heross the river and the bridge idea was thrown out due to objec tions of shipping interests. -- United Press. 340
Japs Asking For Cotton
U.S. Dollar Drops
Shanghai
In
Shanghal, Mar. 23. Quotations for stocks and black market” Unlied States dollars, after sensational gains in the past several weeks, slid today following heavy, remittances of funds from Shanghai to South China ports over the week-end
Black market United States As a result of the jiationwide, dollars, which touched a peak inflation, the Executive. Yuan, of CN8540,000 last week, drop is reported to have decided this ped to CN$500,000, while gold morning to readjust the pay bars stood at about CN828,000, of Government employees each 000 per ounce. CN$4,500,000 month according to the cost of lon-than-four-drys-ago.————-living-index of the previous
Heavy declines were also month. racorded on the stock market
According to an official Con- where Chinese and foreign tra! Now Agnicy report from shares dropped 10 to 15 per Nanking a draft plan, will be cont in the past 24 hours, forwarded to the State Council Tokyo, Mar. 23; General Headquarters today The shortage of funds has for adoption at its next maste announced that private traders meanwhile sont black marketing on Friday: Routers The despatches fall to clarify | Yuen President last autama, and cotton shippers Interested interest rates for Chinese dollars, soaring to 40 per cent whether the resignation was succeeding T. V. Boong. in selling raw cotton or cotton ed the speculation. Its only allusion The paper added that the heiress yesterday with an offer to resubmitted to clear the way for Speculation has been rife in waste to Japan have been in por mimtireravalle dishonoured to the Princess possible pregnancy to the throne had already given up linquish her claims on Trieste Government reorganisation Chinese political circles regard. yited to submit samples to the cheques during the part week appeared a couple of months ago in horseback riding, one of her fa if italy will give up Gorizia, to which is expected after the ing the boat Fremler. The after Japanese Government official totalled a new record The Sunday: Pictorial which- asid the Vourlie pastimes, would no longer the northin Princess and. Philip had confided to delve the leavier Royal care and had The Ministry spokesman Vice President and the enforces unconfirmedly, claimed that. To date, all draw cotton Yes The price of rice, schoway
election of the President and noon paper, Hwa Mel Wan Fat Board of Trades e
CN8400,000,000,000.-/
intimates
cates that they would like chosen a nursery in Clarence House, said: "It is clear that Italy ment of the constitution at the Chiang Kai-shek, mày, give un quired by Japan had both par remained
London: web chosen || as the
Nanking next Monday first President under the con- government/banis, helpf
Premier Chang could also stitution by asuming the Mr. Frank Fickello, chief of have submitted his resignatium Executive!! Fuan Presidency SCAP: Foreig Frida Divis ddo to the current financial which is equivalent to the Preston, mal alméulties the worsening in- mierahlp. Most political circles samples.
of
Nursery
of Trieste to Italy: last Satur- day, Yugoslavia"; countered
KANAWIAL SCIENTIONS DE Foric Royal residence In the cannot accept the separation of National. Assembly "opening in the honours of becoming the chased : on: a government-to-/ por #picul/
In frook page story by a
couplay own homes lille dow being a part of Italian flesh bartered cafespondent" the paper, ade of the femodelled. The Princess and Pal for another part of Italian
twidely circulated of the popij•rögmennima Uving in Kensing flesh Ascociated Prese
Kar, Sunday: papers; wald that an offle Inn Palace.
On Other Pages
Members of the Royal household "emphasised that # great deal odviausi ly has been made of the fact "that the couple are not going on the Mayat` {lbură of: Austrália, and - New, Zealand
next year,
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5,000,
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