1948-12-02 — Page 7

THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1948.

CHINESE GOVERNMENT READY Divorce Granted In

TO SCATTER TO THE SOUTH

Evacuate Hsuchow Airfield

Shanghai December 1.

The Chinese Air Force has evacunted suchow Airfield, American amirces said today.

Commercial airlines have gus- pented a lifts to the last Nation- alist leastlon North of the Yang- {sir

Ja se piluks who tried to But commercial plas at the Let early today reported dis- Forder verging on panic at the Hanc how airbuse --final link with Munking 200 miles South East,

They said they could not estab-

radio eniat.

to La

Departments To Move

To

South China And Taiwan FEAR GRIPPING NANKING

Nanking, December 1:

While no orders have been given for the evacuation of Nan- king, plans have been drawn up for the various Government departments to scatter to Canton, Taiwan, Hengyang and Chungking.

The Chinese Air Force late last night issued an urgent order for the evacua- tion to Taiwan, beginning today, of ground personnel and dependents in Nanking.

Two groups will leave for Shanghai today on the first stage, and a third group

will leave later.

'

Unnatural

Marriage

A London divorcé court today granted a 31-year-old wor man a decree of nullity on the ground of her Husband's in- Empacity to consummate the marriage in spite of the fact that she had a child by him by artificial innomination,

The case was hellaved, to be the first of its kind to come before the courts.

The judge directed that the principals In the case should be referred to by their initials.

The judge said it would be kattor for the child. If he grant. ed a dverse rather than allow the child to be brought up by an embittered mother tied to a marriage that had never been a reat marriage, and which only through the unnatural ald of science had produced the trait of a rent, marriage.-Router.

DEFENCE PRECAUTIONS! ALONG THE YANGTSE

Nanking, December 1.

The military authoritics along the North bank of the Yangtse River today ordered the cutting down of all shouldor-high bushes on the river banks.

¡This will remove possible cover for Communist ele- ments seeking to infiltrate the Shanghai- Nanking area, Central News said that

munist, but it was isolat-Communists penetrated into

The pilots and they could not The principal elements of the Communists and Nationalists that air service was cut of to stabil Whether the Held al- the National Government will fire reported to be locked in grim force it to move.

we lost

If at war, not in move to Conten

Hsuchow has stood up to near- jf Narking Aghting.

a of Chinese Comed bands, it was about tacones untenable, aceding Nanking Gripped By Fear The evacuation would mean One American psiol, who ask-to an implication contained in ed that his name would not be instructions which, used, and the scene looked likeably learned, have been drasa up for the evacuation * de- the last day of Mukden,

Apendents of civil servant

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He described the thronged with soldiers.

fleld

with

Hranes.

UNAC raportal.

reh

The Insicurtius provite tlust

problems 品密 servants

huge transport nany thousand civil

thee the terrylng of refugees from river parts to South Kingsta, AL the same

the North Kingst

the

ed except by air after the Reds vicinity of Peng and retire the authorities ordered th

Inside knifed Southward. Even so, the jwas now audible garrison was reluctant to leave eity, 110 miles North of Nan- are employed in the various fortifications under urgent orders king.

from Nanking issued four days The river defence authorities of Mao Tse-tung's Chi-ngo.

also ordered the registration of

branches of the

that

Government.

Gover

have to fight ali they expected to

the way if

rench their BRIBE SCANDAL

runways crowded, and soldiers dependents of staffs employer nese Communists is again grip. There was overy indication ul small river craft and prohibit- fighting to get inta

that the Hsuchow forces would Sn the heart of Nanking. The by the President's Offier. Lege lative and Executive Youps wil

followed the repulse go to Canton. Dejsenbut

the Communist advances to- Those employed in the Continwards Heshow

has turned Yuan will be sent to figngyangslarm as the enemy has concen-

June

while trated in forer 80 miles closer, families of officials in Judic

near Pengpu. And, Pengpu, by a and Examination Yuans will go

wrow's

In flies.

100 Just over

outgoing

wifi- drawn is skeleton staff with the Just plane out at Hsuehow on Tuesday due to

com- To creasing modagi muud confusinat on the field,

making it practically impossible

to unload aien ur take on wound- ed spidiAN. A spokesmantel,

Chinese commisetal airlines planned to send ploues back over sucha to reconnaire the fleld. No airdrops will be made in the 214 tinie They may gel to The wrong hack" a pikat saul. Assénated Press.

1

Province,

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to the wartime capdal of Chung-indes from Nanking. kang

The fear is everywhere

to

comrades, encircled

South of Suhaian. Buhalen la 45 miles from Hsuchow,

In this area, General Wei's 12th Army Group thrust Its neck into a noose fashioned

the Central Chinese by

armies Po-

It is not disclosed when the parent.

People are Incessantly of Communist General Liu plans will be put into effect, but discussing the danger and pon-sheng.

belleved their operation desdering their fate. The stream of

One press report sald General pends upon the course and at-

decing refugees is again in full had tightened this noose by come of the present important tood, Mony are going by Yangtse capturing Kuchen, road and buttie near Pengpt.

niles South to Hankow railway centre 30 Sup miles North of Nanking, where and son are continuing on by East of Hsuchow. The Govern ment's Central News said major

Soldiers' Arrest Raised In House

London, November 30,

129 | River steamers

Mr. John McGovern, protested in the House of Com- mons today that two British soldiers arrested in Singapore in June had not yet had the charges

· against them completely formulated and no date for the trial had yet boon fixed. Mr. Kenneth Pickthorn, Con-i servative. Interjected amid Op- position cheers: "Does the Gov- einment conseder. that demo- cracy demands that British privates should be treated in the same way

German generals?

Air.

BS

Michael Steward, Finan-

rial Secretary to the

Mr. McGovern then Asked: "How is it that men arrested in June have not you had the charges against thear com. plately formulated? Why can- not he now tell us when the

balus to Canton.

Hundreds

men who

have

Ku-

Mr. Bevin Was At

A Party

binckude of mill North Kiangsu river ports to prevent the smug- gling of supplies from the Shang- hat-Nanking area to Communist→ infested North Kiangsu,

Central News said the Govern ment

evacuated Kuchen, Troops 30 miles north of Penipu, to Itsinmachlan,

Other Chinose reports said the Communists are at present, massed on both banks of the Hwel River North of Pengpu. where a heavy battle is im. minent.

The reports said that Govern- iment warplanes staged day-long

attacks on Red

concentrations, causing 10,000 casueltics.

ed

A Government military spokes-i man told the press that two Gov- crament Army Groups

racing Southward from Hsuchow reach- that a point eight miles North of Substen and will Join in the

Joi Hwei River battle

ttle soon. These Army Groups are commanded by General Chiu Mene

Ching-chuan and General Sun Yunn-liang.

London, November 30. A witness told the Tribunal probing alleged corruption in British public life today. fighting wur erupting at

Foreign Secretary, Mr. the already sent their families away chen, 125 miles North West of

Ernest Bevin, had attended a are packing their bags

for last-Nanking. minute Right. More and more

Red Raid party given by Sidney Stanley, houses are

one of the key figures in the becoming vacant. The main force of General especially the better-class places, Chen Yl's Communist armies of

inquiry.

In Sulyuan, North China, the Enst China wns somewhere

Mr. Ronald Curtis, senior part- Government troops from Ning- South Eart of this front, in aer in a firm of property consult-hsia province

were reportedly Įposition to sent the trap

lants, said the dinner, held last advancing rapidly toward Pan- fighter with a lunge Westward. George Gibson, a director of the Western Sulyuan.

June, hul been given for Mr. tow after capturing Saratsi la

The new operation was believ-

Hsuchow Armies

On Move

even

of Bank of England.

A few shops have closed and |their staffs have been discharged,

Hoarders are selling

This fact, plus the newa stocks

a Red rald on Kauanchon,, on

Mr. Curtis said he had been led to aim at consolidation of the rice and

other commodities of Hess then the purchase prices,

the North bank of the Yangying to get a licence for altera- Sulyuan-Chahar section, which it and block market quotations for

126, 66 miles East of Nanking,tions to a seaside hotel. Stanley General Fu Tso-yi's main base the United States

added to

interview for and to which he is expected to tollar and

the disquiet in Nan had obtained an

him with Mr. John other foreign currencies are be-

Belcher, move in the event of forced eva- king. ginning to

Lo climb.

There was increasing evidence Parliamentary Secretary tis

the cuation from the Peiping-Tien- Board of Trude, with whom he tain arep, where a major battle Is the hourly that the Government was

had brought up the matter of Yuan, apparently making behind the scenes pre-cence.

out at any Legislative

expected to break more optimistic

theparations for the flight Southward

moment.-United Press: Mr. Belcher said ho would look | g average citizen, are reported should the Communists threaten into it.

cross the formidable Yangtse Later he met Mr. Belcher ugain River barrier.

In Stanley's luxury flat, Mr. Bel-

no

Beveral members of

than

to have requested salary ad. vances of 10,000 gold yuan. fisuchow's 250,000 man garri

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to

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Officials denied stoutly there cher said he had discussed the YOUR HONG KONG? son was reported swinging South was any plan for removal of matter with

Marshal Chiang Kai-shek's Gov-cerned. Horn battle to

Nankinis, Sove while signs multiplied in theernment. But individual minis- capital that the Government is tries shipped out dependents in the prepared to fee

increasing numbers.-Reuter and Usually reliable

Assoclated Press, the Hsuchow garrlson-

men will be tried? Is it no disgrace that man should be hold for such a long period? Mr. Steward

The and replied: Treasury, men ՈՒ

by being tried bad said that Private Quinn and elvil authority. It is not the War Private faland harl

been Department's responsibility to that charged jointly with voluntary fix a date for their trial. But we strongest forre left in the area- causing hurt in

in commit robbery, have provided legui tel

Another British soldier.

vate Mine whom

understood

these men and shalt

was

Uiem."

Mr.

was arrested In August,

charged with being in unlawful possession

of arms

Sources

said

for allied from the fortress in an

continue inttempt to save 140,000 Nationa- NEW YORK'S

lo do whatever is proper for fist troops trapped by the Reds

65 relies to the South, McGovern "Why WIFE These

of the sources spoke which he these men hunded over to the movemen was alleged to have disposed of civil authorities when the guna suchos

as abandonment ៧. Improperly.

They said that were alleged to have been stolen communications-including They were to be tried by the from his department?” rivil huwer. So far as he wis

transport-between Nanking und Mr. Steward: aware the date of the trial had chargert with a civil fence." Wednesday.

They were suchow would be cut off on not yet been fred.

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