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Peiping Universities Want To Move South

Slim Of Burma At War Office

Polping, November 4.

Presidents of all national universitios in Peiping to-

day petitioned the Government in Nanking for. permission to move South in the face of the passibility of the Reds taking the city. At the same time, other educational groups were pre- paring on appeal to President Chiang Kai-shek to proclaim Peiping an open city.

Meanwhile, a United States The pro-Government Ping Ming Navid LST put into Taku to Ji Pao reported that Nationlist evacuate any Americans wishing warplanes on Sunday bombed to leave threatened North China. Mukden's arsenal and airfield and The_craft wil be heading back other vital installations, causing for Tingtin at an niknown date. heavy damage, but confirmation

Navy sources pointed out the was not avaliable. US Navy always has some ship in this area air Americans van is event any time. They siesset, that no veset has been of Kot to Tangki for the specifie purpose of repetation but Amer. leurs craild make use of these ships as they arrive and leave in the routine course of their duties.

London, November 4. General Sir William Sum went to the War Office today to fake up his duties as Chief of the Imperial General Staff. It was wel morning

showed some General Slim that friendly emcern_for_athak | That made him "Uncle Bill" to AGO, men, brown and while, of the Fourteenth Army who mar- ched with him through Burmu,

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Outside the maça entrance were waiting press photographers. Sir William took tine look at them and another at the rain and In vited them to his offer to take their photographs to comfort,

that office. overlooking Whitehall. General SHO will work. His military nssistants and serrelurtes are in uljousing rooms, Loring clown on him w ber pictures of his predecessors with Viscount M- Field Marshal gonway it the end of the line,

The biggest job in the British Army, the CIGS in one of the few in which there in no formal "handing over" when its holder changes.

For the past three weeks, how- ever, since the name of the new CIGS was unmounovd, there have been several informat meetings which Lord Montgomery hos discussed matters with Sir Wil. Ham.euler

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to

Sidelight On Mukden

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Taiyuan Roinforced

Other reports sui General

Llac Yao-halang, - rummander of the American-trained and equip ped New 60th Army, was killed recently in action about 70 miles West of Mukden.

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Depatches also reported that the Nationušists bombed Red- heir towns

In- South Koper universities" The

petitions

luding Shihchinehunng, main which weer geldressed the city the Reds Hold In this Ministry of Education, described vince. the situation กา grave, They

From Talyutut. belenguered | said the safety of the focultes Shansi capitat, enne an uncor and students

Auggest Brmed press windd

report that the prompt removal to the South.

Red 'threat to the North sirfield

reinforce- has been lifted ind ments and supplies

being landet there. Meanwhile, represetitell

General Fu Tsu vi's headquarters announcedi that his forces have enguged a force of 5,000 Reets in a battle

the Eastern Cank on

of the Felping-Kalgan

raitrench

about midway between the two cities. Headquarters satct that more thun 800 Reds were killed 1,500 taken prisoner-the largest botch claimed it a Jong time.-- Associated Press.

The petitioners the National Peking Tsinghua and Normal Universities and the Art and Railroad Admlulstration Colleges all Government-run wel supported.

Meanwhile, pro-Govenment aturres here told the Associated Press that the revolt of tmops in Mukden's main wirfield an Uctober 30 folie the intendieci

highest the Userpe of 70 of Nationalist officers from thot cy just before Its fall.

They said the offteers har plan sed to leave in two Air Forec trusports, but the rebels would not. allow them un hourd.

They seize the which later fell inluet hands.

REBELS ACTIVE Gansport NEAR RANGOON

Global Strategy To Kill Recovery

London, Novembar 4.

Red

The Communist uprisings in South East Asia aro part of a global strategy to wreck the economic recovery of the non-Communist world.

MALAYA THROUGH

RED GLASSES

Moscow, November 4. Almost the entire British Pacific Fleet is concentrated in Singapore to take part in re- -prisals against the Maluyan Trade population, the Soviet Union newspaper, "Trud", said today.

were

The London Docks crammed will: armoured cars

in

it added. puudusserted article that the British, forces in

increased

Rangoon, November 4.

A terse military communique Loday announced traffic inter- ruption on the Rangoon-Prome highway by the destruction of road bridge near Hmawbi, 30 miles North of Rangoon.

It said that the rebels warned the villagers "on pain of death" against ossisting the Government to carry out repairs.

The communique stated that Minhla, a town in the Thuyetmyo district, is under rebel fire but Government forces are putting up resistance.

I added that the petroleuni Dennis Healey, Secretary of centre, Yenangyat, In Pakokku the Labour Party's interna-district, was again attacked by tional department, made this the rebels who have destroyed property belonging to the Bri- statement today.

tisti-owned Burma Oil Company.

Associated Press.

The statement was made in urticle

Press Culated by the Labour

"Communist terrorism aims at stopping the producilon of food- stuffs and raw materials which South East Asia has been hoping to exchange for machinery and manufactured goods of Western Europe", he wrote.

NOT BEHIND THE

IRON CURTAIN

"we

.......

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6,:1048.

ARGENTINE AGAIN CLAIMS FALKLANDS

State To Help THE Army Uniforms

Pay For

London, November 3,

Paris, Novambor 3.

Mr. A. V. Alexander, Des The Argentine reiterated her claim to the Falkland

fence Miniator, stated in ro- ply to questions in the House of Commons today that it had

·been agreed In principle that the Btate

futuro should in meet reasonable cost, in cluding the purchase tax, of officers uniforma on com. mfalon.

grant

The amount of, the wil be based on prescribed scales and standards and these, with other details, are being worked out and will be announced as soon as po albio,

When asked. It he

would make statements on the in-

vestigation into CALGO of hardship under the present Armed Forces' pay code, and on increase of pay and 'allow- ance to the Armed Forces, Mr. Alexander replied: "Our review of this very complex subject is well advanced and I hope shortly to announce the conclusion reached." Reuter,

s...SSSTÜSÜDTTLES

Composer's In Trouble

Moscow. November 4, Denitri Shostakovich IN AUMON the lealing Composers once more under are in the So- viet Zone-this time for their al- tititci tote Union of Composers.

Soviet

According to the composer, and critic, Marian Koval, men such as Shostakovich, Khatchaturian, and

formation nine months ago re- mained "publicly passive" and are actually not taking part in the work of the Union.

Islands in the General Assembly of the United Nations today.

Pazo

This elegant cigarette comes to you from London, England.

Dr. Jose Arce, of Argentina, made a statement when Smoke it, slowly,

the Assembly considered the question of infor- mation submitted by the colonial powers on their non-self-governing territories.

"Argentina cannot accept the a useful contribution towards Information submitted by the the eventual settlement of this on un hiterun- United Kingdom in connection cult problem with the Malvina

Islands, tional basis."

Britain, Argentina and Chile which, in the course of previous are disputing sovereignty in the debates, have been referred to South Polar region. Reuter and

us the Falkland Islands," he Associated Press. said.

Sovereignty over these islands belongs de jure to Argentina, In spite of the fact that they have been occupied by force for leer, a century by the United Kingdam, | it does

does not alter the fact that they lawfully come under Argentina's sovereignty.

"We cannot accept these reports since the United Kingdom is not sovereign over these islands and cannot report

them."

Dr. Arce said he looked forward to the day when Argentina's de: Jure position would he recognise

No Doubts

Falkland

-

Future Of The Ruhr

London, November 4. The long-delayed six-power experts' talks on the Kuhr Statute will open in London to- wards the end of next week.

concerned

The six countries are Britain. France, the United Sintes and the Benelux group,

The conference will draft thu detailed constitution of the In- ternational Authority which is to

EN control Germany's industrial

whose brou

n

Mr. Grantley Adams, Bri tain's representative, repiled: Government has "The British

всоре no doubts whatever

4 to centre indi

and funellons were decided by sovereignty over the

the six-power Landon Conference lalands.

of Germany last spring.

The framing Statute is one of the three im

of portant pieces 1049,

He added that Britain must res serve her position with regard to the remarks of the Argentinian delegate.

An

control,

dre

the Ruhr

constitution-

In London, the Foreign Secre-making which, by the spring of

expected to change! Prokovlev have since the Union'sary, Ernest Bevin, sald that Bel- the present Allied Government of

lain welcomed the United States West Germany to one of remote: initiative in

Inter- in secking un national

of 'the settlement torctica question.

The other two are the drafting of the Constitution of a Wes The Amerkan Antarcticn Pro-German Government now in the A review article charged that tralla, New Zealand, France. Nor- Bonn and the drafting of an oc- pasul, addressed to Britain, Au- hands of German politicians at the majority of the composers, es continue to sit in Moscow and way, Argentina, and Chile is now cupation Statute, still in other big cities rather than take under discussion with the Com-hands of an Allled tripartite

Governments, "erentive trips to collective farms monwealth

Mr. working party in Berlin-Reufer. Devin told the House of Commons, and industrial enterprises."

Shostakovich, Khatchaturian

"While the studles and consul and Prokovlet promised to mend tutions are not yet complete, 1 their ways in February after am able to say that the British Communist Party criticism of Government welcome the initia their "formalist and anli-people's 'tive of the US Government In this tendencles.”—Reuter.

matter and regard their préposals

Chinese

Anger At Plans For Japan

Shanghai, November 4. Chinese shipowners are objecting strongly to the American plan to restore Japanese shipping to its pro-war loval.

The Americans have proposed The letter proposed: that the Japanese merchant The restriction of the Japanesa marine be restored to 4,000,000 merchant feet to 1,000,000 tons;

The restriction of Japanese tons instead of the 1,000,000

to consta! shipping activities claration. tona agreed in the Potsdam De.

them from

Now the National Association

trado

excluding

commerce,

Overacaa

should

whiph

solely be undertaken by

the Allied powers.

The

The vollapse of production in

London, November 4. this vast area will doubly serve Parliament, Dr. Urho Kekkonen, The President of the Finnish the Communist

purpose.

he und Rate today that

other "Besides denying Europe of the members of the Finnish Parlia-of Chinese Shipowners have sent materials she needs for recoverymentary delegation here and eases of armament labelled it will create conditions of come

had a strong protest in a letter to the in England to show "Singapore" and "Kuala Lum-

apportioning of surplus economic misery and politieni world that Finland "Is not be Shipping.

the National Federation of American tonnage and shipbuilding equip- despair in which alone Com- hind munism can hope to

hind the iron

ment among the Allles us repara- Curtain." gain sup-

The letter, bearing the signa- tions and approval of the Chinese ure h free democratie lares six Chinese prominent in claim for 500,000 tons of Japanese The terrorist campaign was those incipies which here, was sent to the American!

country intending to carry out the merchant marine business vessels, and

held," Kekkonen

The early conversion of various organisation in support. of the loutstanding sald- at a reception given to the intter's protest over an increase reparations, Japan's Industrial re- "In each case this open sabot-Finnish Parliamentary dele

problems such age of the struggling Socialist by the Inter-Parliamentary Union tonnage.

delegation of Japanese maritime shipping quirements, and merchant marine Government has nothing to do with the so-called fight against foreign imperialism-it is

Malaya had been 50,600,

long

to

port."

Not only Guards Regiments bul detachments of Dyak cannibals

from Borneo were helping to suppress by force the Malayan workers, in "feverish attempts to raise funds Lo repay debts to

creditors", Britain's overseas zald.-Reuter.

BAO DÀI COES TO GENEVA

Paris, November 3.

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The Ex-Emperor Bao Dui of Annam left Paris by train tonight to rejoin his family in Geneva. Reuter.

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"It is very natural that in these their troubled times the great own countrymen the Communists outside Fisland may have some world are murdering in Burms and false ideas uid misapprehensions Indonesia as in Malaya."-Reu- about the situation in that coun-

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NOTICE TO MEMBERS

Ninth Extra Race Meeting

Saturday, 6th November, 1948.

The First Bell will be rung at 1.00 pm. and the first race will be run at 1.30 p.m.

MEMBERS' BADGES AND ENCLOSURE. Members and guests are reminded that they and their ladies MUST wear their badges FROMINENTLY DISPLAYED throughout the Mesting.

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The Treasurem' Compradors' Office will close at 11, a.m. and the Secretary's Office at 11:45 am. Both Offices at Ist Moor Exchange Buliding.

A limited number of filius' will be obtainable at the Club House provided they are ordered in advance from the No. 2. Boy (Tel 27828).

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