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ASSEMBLY DELEGATES HELD Mercy Flight To H.K. Further Claims Of
BY NANKING POLICE "Popularly Elected Representatives" To
Continue Hunger Strike
SHANGHAI MAN
DIES AT SEA
of the
Shanghai
New York, Mar. 29. Ragnar Dringort, aged 61, manager office of 6.K P. Industries, dled at kes an March 24, offices of the Bwedish-Ameri- -can motor liner "Blockholm" reported when the ship dosk. ed today.
The ship's physician, Dr Gunner Malmsten, Bald Bringert collapsed and dlad In a passage way during a storm. Bringart, with his
returning wife, wa Shanghai following a tion in Sweden.-Associated 'Press:
Vaca
to
Control Of Trade
In Japan
Tokyo, Mar. 29.
PICTURE OF THE DAY
Chiang Likely To Loading Up
Be Re-Elected
Nanking, Mar. 29.
China's National Assembly oponed its sorsions on schedule today to elect the President under tho torms of the Constitution which (Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shak said) "was written in blood and tears." Ten delegates are in police de- tortion.
Personally opening the inaugural meeting, the Generalissimo told 1,639 delegates that Con- stitutionalism would put an end "to the Com- munist rebels who now are indulging in a. mad military adventure."
torium by uniformed and plain- clothes poilce.
In Secluded Hostel
He urged "equal emphasis Fart suppression of the Communist rebellion and implementation of nur Constitution. We have no choice but to remove thin The Associated Press found obstacle 10 our nation-build-them In a secluded Assembly
hostel where the police Ing."
munder said: "They will not be allowed to leave."
Delegates present al the opening session still were 391
the short of necessary two- thirds official quorum, but the Secretary-General snid 400! way
com-
Yen, Chih-tze, Kwanglung-Pro- vince hinhway traffle inspector, and Lien Tsui-an, Shanting rail- offein both Kuomintang members, fold this story of their Under the ejection: more were en route.
"At six o'cluck Constitution,, the only duties of
this morning,
of the
in
Control of international the present session are the lece while the let me were trade in Japan by the occupations of the President and Vice- in seats of the diplomatic gallery tion authorities will continue President for six-year terins.
Assembly hall; à large sume uniformed, #roup of men. this to be re-elected President were
Chiang Kai-she appeared fer- [suddenly appeared. The ten med the hall carried outside or Vice dumped into a forge truck atid without upposition. Presidential candidates, the four taken to a hostel, their captors leaders are the Incumbent Sun still holding them firmly through Fo; Control Yuan President Yujout the journey.” Yu-Jem and Gencruls Li Tsung- At the hostel, Yen anid, efforts ten and Cheng Chien, respective were made to break
• and each import and export must be validated by SCAP the SCAP Economic and Selentine Section announced this afternoon..
To clarify the business status
of commercial entrants in Jopur, M,H. Half, executive officer of
the men's
ly commanders of the Generally hunger strike, Hot dishes were
the SCAP Econaric and Scien- | sima's Peiping, and Hankow headset before each of the men but Bc. Section, rimphasized in a presa quarters.
they refused to eat "until you our rights and the recognize
Interview_that_the_only_business The Torcible election-and-dewishes of the vote:-- they are allowed to engage in with a "specilie licence" is pri-
vate International trade.
He arkled such business must he conducted under the control of the occupation authorities.
Commercial entrants who, do- sire to engage in other business activities in Japan including the provision of services attendant to International trade oro required to secure a separate licence from SCAP, declared Half-Central 1 News.
tention
uf ten representatives. "popularly elected dulegates," auditorium from the Astenibly was the only blot on on other- wise routine inauguration,
Official Version
Offcials of the Assembly Issued, this version of the removal:
"Minister of the interior Chang
Tha ten man,
who
were Li-sheng and Secretary General ameng more than 100 whose demands for Assembly seats on Hung Lan-yu and delegates ap the basis that they wore win-peuled to the group to leave the nere in the November election premises. Their imploring finally where they ran without party brought results. During the wee sponsorship have been rejected, hours of this morning, police as- audi corted them to their hostel; and were carried from the
according to reports, they have resumed cating."
Rump Assembly Declaration
Nanking, Mar. 29.
The Association of Popularly Elected Delegates" who hold a rump Assembly today across the street from the National Assembly half issued a six-point declaration demanding that they be allowed to take their Assembly seats and -calling for the punishment of election officials. "The Popularly Elected Delo-; 2.. "We refuse to recogning the gates" were prevented from delegates who have been given leaving the school grounds our seats; which they had been using as
3. "We continue to uphold our headquarters - by 50 white original stand that we were helmated policemen who locked elected by the will of the people the gates.'
and are entitled to take our The six points of the declara- sents: tion area.
me ka
Lien said: "Their escort. war rough:
They handled hard, part of my clothes came off."
on
Airman's Bedside
Crook, Mar. 29.-
Mrs. Sylvia Flynn, aged. 24, of Wooley Terrace, Crook, County Durham, is leaving her miner husband and two-year-old daughter Tomorrow (Tuesday) to begin a 6,000-mile flight to her brother, Aircraftmon Desmond Parker, 21, seriously ill in a military hospital in Hong Kong.
She volunteered to go on hearing that the only chance of saving her brother is for him to be reunited with a near relative. Desmond's fother could not go as he has a broken back from a pit accident.
-
The Air Ministry and Red Cross are pay- ing for Mrs. Flynn's journey.-Reuter.
Mystery Of "Threat" To
Statue
London, Mar. 29. Threats to tar and feather the still unveiled statue of President Roosevelt in Gros- venor Square have been made to Scotland Yard, the news- paper "The Star" reported today.
Scolland Yard promptly denied that threats have been received. "The fact is," Scotland Yord's Press Department
satd. "that statue was delivered a bit spöner than expected. The Ministry of Works had no provision to take care of the statue and thỏy naked us to assign a man to patrol it"
"The Star" said. “Police and American Marines are keeping a 24-hour watch on the memorial.””
At mid-morning today there was no sign of anybody omcial- British or American Gros- venor Square, The Scotland Yard Iman apparently, had gone for tea and since the memorial to entire ly a British aftale no American,
by my pastelation otherwite, was in sight. ammunition
Marines will take an villicikl in- Lorast in the memorial, for the first time on April 12 when Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt will unveil the the ten-foot ten-inch status.exe- culed by the famed Britlah sculp- tor, Sir William Reld Dick, United Press.
Bulle of ale it the Strast Of The Croes in... the old clty af Jerusalem. They are relailed $rult by cigarette kloaks. stalls and bootmakers' shops; and quite openly.
Kung To Take Up An
Important
Post?
Now York, Mar. 29.
The R.A. At The Tower
London, Mar. 28. For the firet 'iime in his- tory, the Royal Artillery will take over guard duties at the Tower of London from Wed Moeday next.
The guard will compris two officers and 80 men from the 08th AA Regiment sta- tloned at Felixstowe,—Reu-
tar.
MANILA
LAND MINE
KILLS US
SCHOOL BOY
Manila, Mar, 29.
A land mine planted by re- treating American forces on the Clark Field air base in December, 1941, to slow the
Govt. Successes Chahar Communists Withdrawing
Peiping, Mar. 29. The Communists in southern Chahar are withdraw- Ing toward their bases in Hopel to avoid a large-scola battle, but Government troops are trying to Intercept and engage thom, pro- Government reports state.
Central News, the official Government news agency, belatedly claimed the Nationalists retook Yuhsien on March .26. Yuhslen, formerly the pivot Nationalist defence in southern. Chahar, is 100 miles west of Pelping. Nationalist, planes attacked convoya of loot-laden moving toward
carts
Communist
bases in Hopel It was sald
that in one such attack alone all
carts were blown to bits and 500 Communists were killed.
Dispatches report skirmishes within ten miles of Tatung, key Nationalist bastion in northern | Shansi, but claim the main Red forces around the city are with- drawing,
They say the Reds in this area suffered heavy ensualties through repeated attacks by Nationalist P-51s and B-255.
fraph After, days of qulat, local activity la reported from Manchuria.
Dispatches say 10,000 Reds at- tacked an airfield southwest of Changchun on March 25 and fighting was still in progress two. days later.
Success Claimed
A clash is also reported near Liaoyang, 38 miles south of ||Mukden," "with the Nationalists. claiming they killed 1,000 Rods: Success in a drive against the Reds immediately north of Chin- haien
Nationalist base between Great Wall and Mukden, is also claimed.
Tha
Motor Ship In Trouble
Manila, Mar. 29.
Globe Wirelons today. In- tercepted an 809 from the Philippine *mator YOUIO! "airius. The distress call said the craft had developed engine trouble in a northeas! gale In danderaus, reef. strewn San Bernarding Straits and needed Immediate
help. The "Siria" juft Marella on Saturday
for Legaspi, Sho cheries à oraw, of 24 'mep: Owned by the United Ship ping Company, cho lɛ a 25:- ton former U.8. Army carts boat Associated Press.
Eurasian
Girl
Missing
A 16-year-old Eurasian girl
The dispatches say that through sh air-supportda placer. "move ment, the Nationalists have cloar ed the Reds 'from the area be- Tween Chinhsien and Ihsien. 80 who ran away from her hom: miles to the nortiz Associated in Macao several days ago is.
believed to be somewhere in Hong Kong, though Police. Hqs. last night told the, "China Mail" they knew, nothing about it.
Press,
Britain's Wonderful
Japanese advance, exploded Easter
According to a reliable source, however, the girl, Lorraine · Aμ,! left home, with "about" #1,000 iri. Jewellery and all photographs of' hatseif...
today and killed an eight-
London, Mar. 28, year-old American schoolboy.
She was to have left a few days On Easter Sunday in England' Three of his playmates, all |
later with her father for the Unit- young girls, were injured, one everybody was talking about ed States. So lat, no trace of her eritically..
the weather. The weather was has been found, although Mr. Auj
By the ice assistance. - The blast occurred shortly be wonderful. It was a little is reported to have requested po fore noon near the housing area summer" in March. for dependents of American sauds, Easter holiday makers bankruptcy which had troubled
had their first holiday of the them for months. Army personnel:
American businoss circlos, according to one busi. nessman today, are speculating over the pOS- sible return of H. H. Kung, wartime Vice- Pramier, to on important-post in the Chinese...ts Government,
·
The
speculation followed publication of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee report castigat- ing "corruption in the. Chiang Government" but at the same time recommending $463,- 000,000 in aid.
In an effort to settle the dispute The 'report, however, was over ·seats, thie Generalissime subsequently withdrawn by the summoned the "Independents" to Committee chairman, Arthur
Bafore at Vandenberg. a second conference.
Sources pointed tending, more than 50 delegates
to
seats.
in a "rump assembly voted not especially to one phase of this their report which declared that the agree to surrender
Chinese Government position The National Assembly will deteriorated after the end of devote the next two days to pre- World War II." paratory sessions pending the The source said that business arrival of enough delegater for a and some diplomatic circios [ quorum.-Associated Press.
were Interpreting this to
Faith In
The Future
"Communist
Agents" For Trial
Shanghal, Mar. 29.
...
It was the second incident of year at the seaside resorts. The four-day Easter holiday
kind within 48 hours.
(The
With the weather to talk about ends on Tuesday, however. And; earlier incident is reported on Britons-could-forget for a while in the West of England there
the international crises, warnings were clouds and the throat page 7).
na Monday.---Assoclated- of more “buaterify" in their way | rain' The 13th Air Force public in of living and threats of national Press. formation office withhold the names of the young victims for one day to permit notification of relatives in the United States. The boy was the son of da Alr Force Sergeant
SOVIET PLAN' REJECTED
Lake Success, Mar. 29.
Mr. Richard Miles, an behalf of Britain, Canada, France and China, and with tacit American approval, today told the Soviet Union in the United Nations atomic energy working com- mittee that “no useful purpose can bo soryed" by further discussion of the Soviet proposals for the control of the atom.
in history warned it. { statement proposing the rejec chamo of control until: all atomic
The mine wat i
Butterfly Tragmentation bomb buried in "the gurth. It had been over. looked by both, Japanissa and .American.bomb disposat equnde
and-Its location forgotten.. Lieut-Colonel Benjamin Molina, chief of the Philippine Army Ordnance, said.
disposal that units have gathered more than 2.000 tons of eight and 12-inch American shalls for dumping into that Kung's departure from the
the sca. Working carefully
and Government at that time, Was
hitherto without incident, Philip- keenly
felt.
All the 160 alleged Com pine troops of the engineers corps Exactly what position Kung
have 'cleared all of the Malinia might assure la-not known but munist, agents rounded up by tunnel and it network of lateral It was suggested that es wartime the police and garrison au passages of mines
end booby ¡Mr. Miles, who is the British overriding stipulation that they Vice-Premier he virtually was in thorities last week will be trips and it was now con- delegate, read · a four-power will not agree to the establish charge of the entire civil admin-handed over to the recently sidered safe,
ment of aver such a feebló istration La Chine at a time when established. special tribunal niche
The Malinta tunel fine
tion of the Soviet plan, which Chłoni himself was devoted
It sheltered when
weapons, havo been prohibited mainly to the.military.
for trial some time next MacArthur, Quezon, nurses and had been under discussion since and destroyed,
Bajaj Kit ju .completely unrealistic":to: Good Job
the heroic defenders of the Rock it was made last June, oppeured; : (This refers to the Faith in the future of con-
Russia's plan included, "fritlý, oxpuct any · njțion to renounce hunker strikers whose where- stitutional rule in China wan
It was also pointed out that if found guilty of participat-during the first five months of
International control of all fácil. atomic., wespond without any as abouts were not known to the expressed by speakers at a mass
Vandenberg, in his statement ing in a Red plot to sabotage war-Associated Press
ities for the mining and proque- burshee, that all nations, will Association at the time), ),
withdrawing the committes re- | public utilities, in Shanghal
tion of atomic materials, and sec-prevented from producing them. "We protest against the public meeting at the King's,
port, flatly announced his unthey will be punished in ac-:
ondly, the control authority to be--Reulor. police uction:
Theatre yesterday morning.
qualified admiration and up-cordance with the emergency
in the framework of the Security Bed "We demand disciplinary The meeting was for the triple-
port' of Chlang.
Council and to have its own in-, Pagó12
'action;', against the election purpose of commemorating the Meanwhile, Chinese sources re-law of endangering the Re
spectorial: apparatus“, SAGT Trade War With Russia "A¦ officials -- who' conducted the martyrdom
roes fused
the publia during the bandit sup-In Manila. to comment on
The four-power-statement? the Chinese Revolution, the rumours, and Kung himself pression period
faald, that the Soviet propósėta || "Danger To E.R.P.. Bind elections in an illegal manner.".
of China Youth Day, could not be approached. observance:
untleyeloneta", sintionary for control of atomio energy over China and Jangne stresure, beina' |~ (Aylapokémon of the special Paco
and celebrating the holding of Business
{wore, ussions and would not hit over the Talog: Bebonis be salar K.Looking
sources while tribunal told the press that the
Units of the British Pacific China's Brst National Assembly, gratified at the progress being Court had been actively making Fiest are due in Manikin Tues-
eliminate the danger of atomlo stets low-grey-Blam and shallow wars
depresion in moving, Eybe the: N. 1 held in Nanking restent lieto made toward rendering art to
are not Izida. Archbishop Paul, Yu Pin, who
"The Soviet China, nevertheless picos of the I is attempting to mediate in the under the auspices
Hong
| that exiphasis on müitary aid sports and will Hold the first They are, the ;, CENISOT & FLMB
Consort 4 scceptable basis for the interToday's Forecasty, frikk winds, Landon, the
nutional control of, atomic energy. modersling,' partly slomeysy Important as economic hoped to: find a solution within whose Director, Mr. Li
factories Boccer toxins of the thron war" gy Commission cannot» mdorse demanding the
4. "We demand full protection
1. "We support Generallisicho to the delegates who have dis- Chiang Kai-shek' and are not opposed to him personally;;;
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