1948-11-23 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1040.

MADAME CHIANG APPEALS TO AMERICA FOR IMMEDIATE AID

Warns That If China

China Reds Train Air Personnel

Tientsin, November 22.

Falls All Asia Goes

San Francisco, November 22.

The Chinese Communists are Madame Chiang Kai-shek urged immediate and definite aid on Sunday for

at present training air force

personnel and possess 300

aeroplanes in Harbin and Kia- mudze, in North Manchuria.

General Chit Chung-ting, the

Deputy Garrison Coatmander

the Chinese Government as a matter of American self-interest.

In a trans-Pacific broadcast on an American broadcasting company network, Madame Chiang acknowledged that "the present situation in China is indeed gravely critical."

of Tientsin. sal daring the Doscribing the criticalness of China's prosent situa-

commemoration of "Anti Air-

when

Raid Day" yesterday. sirens shrieked and ARP' corps. fire brigades at peace presen vation corps were inspected.

General Ch emphasised the Maprotamine of air rand precntitious by the general politie a pun sired by North Chinês overall

Whe

stery tend th Joe By Joy prepareburns in the Peiping Impera Pature ona tyard en-

General FH furthermore strenard the Day's particular significance in the face of the coming conflict, saying that Daly preparedness can prevent extensive damage from sudden attack.

tremolo esetrie

pink

tion, the wife of China's president said: "The approach of winter finds our people cold, hungry, weary and undergoing terrible hard- ship.

This condition has come about not because there is

a basic lack of food and fuel in the country, but because, following the devastating Japan- ese occupation of much of China, the Commu- nists have systematically destroyed communi- cations and are preventing goods from moving in large areas of the country.

the

recent

article

2.

but the United States, in la principal enemy.

Can there be any question Ir the minds of Americans cobertu= ing his ultimate objective he succeeds in his present aggression against Nationalist China ***

"We Will Prevail" Macaine Chang

"W.

concluded:

in China are ennvinced that

it is the better part of wisdom

"Crusade In Europe" Termed Blow At U.K.-U.S. Friendship

London, November 22.

The Conservativo "Bunday Times" On Sunday oritlalaed / General Dwight D. Eisenhower's now book "Crusade in Eu rope" as a "blow at British-American friendship and under- standing."

"The reports of General Elsonhower's book make surpris. Ing and painful reading for his adınirers and for all those who wish well to British-American relations," the pewspaper de clared editorially.

1

ed

Another London newspaper, the Sunday Plotorial complain- that "the oxtravagance of the bouquets he hands to some of the American generals is in strange contrast to the chilly praise with which ha so nearly damns Montgomery."

Referring to an accompanying copyright article on the hook by its military correspondent the Sunday Times quid "it is right that an answer (to Elsenhower) should be given un- truths exposed and wrong judgments corrected, and since the man most criticland, Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery is unable to speak openly for himself the "Sunday Times" has felt in duty bound to pubilati 116 own military correspondent's report." Associated Press.

CONTINUED AID MEANS OBLITERATION OF U.S.

INTERESTS, WARN REDS

Shanghai, November 22.

not to nerept failure ignominious. The highest organ of the Chinese Red Party-Con-

ly but to risk it gloriously.

This spirit, which perval

China during the darkest hours of the struggle against Japanese #ggression inspires 18 Today.

The struggle against Commnursin is a new chapter in the age-old conBief which we faced in the

tral Committee of which Mao Tze-tung is the chairman-today made it clear what will happen to American interests if China falls to the Communists. "Obliteration" was the word used.

men in ark 10-year agony of the Ja The Chinese Red radio broadcast this morning car-

panese war.

We

"And

to f This then a tenuous foothold for Am- Insidios and cleverly planned. Comasoutst

"This is not ex parte temsoning, propaganda 1 undoubtedly weaktned the Just nek your

anitary While nahing e quarters de Pemorale of many of nur prople.

Japan." theaks the coming hostilities has contributed importantly

She quoted from A recent "We will prevail again as in Pat Hupes will greatly affect towards some of

by the Chinese Com prevailed against Japan, whatever The whole North China situation,

munist chief, Mao Tse Tung. be the vicissitudes, whatever be the military surgirnak is entering

Sne sald he "frankly admits the cost in human suffering, and a arw stage, weronding ba a

today that he le a Communist tonal from head to foot and that not

devastation, for Bere press report, which preilirts.

cause is a just one."Associated that the His, coming the ough the

alone the government of China. Press. Cont Walk in ever-increasing gnoliers, will abandon their Joyner hit-and-run Tarties.

Military Initiative

reverses.”

Not Dounted

Maderne Chiang said Commun- 1st propaganda had won ovir "te of extr people who are poli- tely gullible" and "others who should know better."

The second class embraces the enwarts, the beastlings," she said, those who hope to benell Communist goodwill in the event of a Communist vietory."

With military, admistrative nad eeotrimle

North Bowen in China investest in General Purum To-yi, the looming battle will be for military initiative and demi- nation.

Meanwhile, following the op- pearance of Communists in Sonho South and Helangho, East ant East respectively of Pelping, Gen- eral Fu's men have cummenced an belign

against General Lin I'mo's myvadliest

forces East of Tungehow, resulting in Red withdrawal Eastward of Salats.

Simultaneously, the Commun. Ist forces at Yukowchen, within the Shuny, district North East of Pelping, withdrew to Ping- ku, further East, Cheatzechen

Presents

closest point te Tongshan, where : the Communists are reported to bus nncentrating in appreciable numbers, Chentzchen is located North East of Tongshan,

"Let me saaure our American

Representative Claims

Free China Essential

Washington, November 21.

our

friends," she said, "that despite Representative Walter Judd, long-time proponent of recent disappointments. Generalissima and I

the

arc not

daunted in our determination to go on with the righteous war aguinat the Communlata who seek to put our country behind the iron curtain.

"Our faith o ultimate victory is as strong as it was in the be ginning.

But One Life

all-out aid to China, said today that the con- tinued existence of a free and independent China was essential to America's position in the For East.

In a radio speech, Representative Judd said the United States should either adopt a more vigorous policy of military aid or "pull out of China entirely."

He

criticised the

"

present

vic-

"The Generalissimo and 1, as American policy, saying that Jong as there is a breath in us, if the Communists were are going to fight against this evil torious the United Stales would

1hreat. And it, un- Communist

have to abandon Korea and happily, we should fail, que only fortify Japan against further regret will be that we have but Communist expansion. Cartent skushes East of Tumehow are regarded by Chi-e itte to give to China."

table discussion on the Chinese Taking part in a radio round- nese deservers as probing attacks by the Nationalists and a prelude

dilemma"

Representative to hagger developments.--Reuter.

Fairbank,

+

PREPARING FOR HIS NEW JOB

Paris, November 22. Field Marshal Viscount Mont- gomery chairman of the per- manent Military Committee of the Five Western Nations, ar- rived at Parls on Sunday.

Expressing thanks for Ameti- con aid already given, Madame

with Chiang said the means and me- Judd were Mr. John thuts of further aid "should be Harvard Professor of Far Eastern

determined by you, but, 1 only History, and Mr. Donald Leach

ask this to tell you that any fur- ther id must be immediate and definite,

Flying from Luxembourg Fleid) Marshal Montgomery landed at Orly airfield in tead of Villacou bly because of weather condi-to

tions.

Later he went to Fontainbicau to inspect the building selected for headquarters of the Military Committee. He also inspected his new personal residence,

Turning Point

Representative Judd

.

Putting On The Dog In Berlin

Berlin, November 21. under the title "game goulash"

Dog flesh, usually disguised

is appearing more and more frequently pn the tables +f

said the Berlin's black market restau- battle for rants. The goulash comes from of power came the 100 dogs which disappear

"If Communism prevalis in turning point in the China, you, my friends, will Asian balance

never recovered.

ried the text of what it called an important statement by the Central Committee directed squarely against United States aid to China both economically and militarily.

A section of that statement carried the punch that the "Kuomintang government is now about to fall. No aid to the Kuomintang

government by any foreign government can either save the rule of the Kuomintang government or protect the interests of the foreign government concerned.

azid, "Chiang Kai-shek and the entire reactionary Kuomintang government in Nanking are now striving to place their martbund rule under American military protection. To this end WAS written retter in the name of Chiang Kai-shek to American President Truman,"

Reletring to the report (which was officially denied) that Mayor "The only possible destiny of K C. Wu of Shanghal has asked such ald or such agreements Admiral Oscar Badger and Am- obliteration together with the bassader Stuart for American Kuomintang government."

protection of Shanghai and re- quested that U.S. Marines tnice The statement added, "The over the Municipul administration"> Coinmunist Party in China holds in Tsingtao, the statement said, that any military or economic aid "The Communist Party Armly

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Today's declaration โด strongest by the Central Cam. niletee since the ultimatum in the past winter at which time! four U.8, Marinos were taken prisoner by the Reds while on a hunting trip.

At that time the Reds warned

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"If China falls, all of Asia goes, and certainly Asia's importance world peace is not one whit less than that of Europe.

Tonuous Foothold

Several

las hostages until the United States forces in China were withdrawn. gangs are known to

The Marines, however, were re- the specialise in catching dogs for leased after nearly three months

sale to binek market restaurants. in custody. Profes.or Fairbank agreed that Ju spite of the food shortage the United States' position in caused by the blockade, Berlin's China was desperate, but said dog population has risen from 40,- Friendly Rolations direct old would neither defeat out to C0,000 in the past year. Today's broadcast, howevel, Communism. nor win friends in China since the National Gov-

"I know that there is a school lenument was unpopular: He called of thought in America which says the present conftlet part of the Before he left Luxembourg on that China is not necessary or social revolution which pre-dated Sunday, Field Marshul Moniga important to the United States Communism, Hc added that mery was awarded the "Grand because you have a foothold in Chiang Kai-shek had had 20 Croix" of the order of the oak Japan. I should like to point out years to halt the spread of Com- crown and the Luxembourg Mill- to you that with the vast China munism, but had failed-United tary Medal by the Grand Duchess, mainland in enemy hands, the ex-

Press, ---Associated Press.

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