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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1948.

CONFUSED SITUATION British Stand

IN PENGPU SECTOR

Pengpu, December 9, Covering the China war from an advance headquar- ters is like looking through the wrong ond of a funnol.

The closer you are to the fighting the less you see

and understand.

then

- Generál Liu Chih, overall From these same towers, priests| commander of the East China watched a week ago as the Reds, front, has his headquarters here advanced almost to the opposite and yet he knows far less of tank of the

Hui River, what is going on over the entire trains, warplanes and Nationalist were driven back by armoured area thon des Nanking. Units foot soldiers. further forward are even more

in the dark,

Travellers from nerons the river suld rural residents,

my. whose homes were burned by Na- Chinese commanders runipiantionalist strafing this is one serious fuit in their period of Redi uccupation, are In during the war operations. When any unit cate milsery advaner against the Beaks they shelter, and elething-Asseinted without food, nrw afmost lastantly al

Tress, taet.

of COLL-

Offers ref Lit Chih's head- quarters admit the knowledge of three Government columns moving South after evacuating Hsuchow fragmentary, based na belated reports. They also ndrait the whereabouts and fute of these columns is the key to the whate decision in this region.

If the groups fight their www through the Reds and join forces with the other armies a Penems

Ure

On Austria

Vienna, December 8. Britain has agreed to Aur- tria's suggestion of a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers to consider reopen. Ing negotiations for a State treaty with Austria,

The United States accepted

Austrian

fast request night in a note to the Aur- trian Legation in Washing- ton, declaring that the Unit. ed States was fully prepar ed to take part in

renewed * discussions.

The

tho

previous protracted negotiations of the Foreign Minfatora'a Deputien brake down in May becaumo of Yugoslavia's claims, support. ed by Russla, for reparations and on the Austrian vince of Slovene Carinthia. Reuter.

U.S. Prepared

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Une. They foutly Can The

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Tientsin Sinks Into Commercial Doldrums

Tientsin, Decembar 9.

Throatoned by the Communists and seemingly

slighted by Nanking, this ance graat industrial city is sinking into the commercial doldrums. Tientsin is far from dead but the fortunes of war have brought creeping paralysis upon the mills and machines which once produced goods sold from Moscow to Memphis.

Brighter Shanghai Pictures

Hundreds of factories and Foreigners have another worry workshops stand idle.

Shanghal, December 1. their-about the perlod between pos- The situation in Shanghai owners unable or afraid to buy sible Nutionalist evacuation and seemed to have improved, at raw materials to keep theme Red occupation. They fear least, temporarily, with the rolng.

there might be looting, disorder, stabilisation and lawlessness in these hours or

of the fighting front.

days.-Associated Press. pro.

To

Washington, December 9. Under-Secretary of State, Mr. Robert A. Lovett, said today that the United States is prepared to use marines to help evacuate 2,500 Ameri- cans from Shanghai it necessary.

Mr Bovett also told a news) conference there Is enough United States shipping in that arra lo remove the Americans if they are forced to dee from advancing Communist forces.

te liri bot kao'y whether There are any plans to send wel- difionad marines to Shanght Nether dici he know

whether marines would be used to pen- feel American property there.

Pilot Blamed For Disaster

London, December 8. The Ministry of Civil Avia- to today blamed the pilot for the crash of the Belgian Sa bna icliner at Landon Air Dort on March 2 in which 20

Mr. Lovett said it is up to in- people, including the pilot, were dividual Americans whether to killed.

They are unable to buy because the money value is uncertain and they cont trade freely with North China and Manchuria. They hesitate to Import because sweeping variations In exchange and lack of domestic markets plus uncertain prospects for the future.

uf

Even if they could buy most of them are afraid to do so because they feel this city is certain to

to the Reds. People her talk about when they will arrive rather than it

Some Trade

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There has been a remarkable reduction In ,the number of evucuces of will nationalities both Chinese and foreign,

Prices of contamodities

and luxury items are both going up agnin after plummeting for

who *

Geneva, December 8. week straight in face of bad news, Mr. Shumaldharee Lall, Scare- The fact that they are going up tary to the Indian Ministry of agala indicates that shopkeepers, Labour, was today elected Chair-merchants and others. man of the governing body of week ago were almost hysterically the International Labour Organi- trying to dump their stocks to Bation here, for one year.

get out of business ahead of the

le replaces Dr. Luis Alvarado Communists, have decided that of Peru, Sir John Forbes Watsont i stili too early of Britain, was re-elected as the that Shanghai is lost

Americans, particularly Employers Vice-Chairman

About

to concede

bual-

•

The cotton and grain mills, operating mostly on ECA cot

M. Le Jouhaux of France, asset-men, ero sulit very confused tom and grain, have little haps

The Workers Vice-Chairman.

the basis of Consular of other outside help.

The governing body, composed stulaments, and come clarification Despite these

fran Washington on the definite conditions thereof representatives of 16 govern- is küll some business being done

meats and of eight employer and I policy for US. business interest Share June this

eight Jabour your exports

representatives, China La expected KOUN

day United Press, have averaged about US$2,000,- opened its 107th session Luday 900 monthly, a good share of this to deal with 21 agenda items on being flight shipments of glycommittees, the budget and the manpower reports of Industrial being hustled out before the ex-fixing of the pected arrival of the Reds.

the

some

agendo for Organisation's conference in 1950.

Since September, according taeuler. informed sources, there has been little trade between this city and the countryside although goods arriving, including limited amounts from Red areas.

Subdued Tension

ure

MR. MARSHALL "SATISFACTORY"

India Arrests Of Fanatics

are gobbled up, then the can. clusion of lighting along the Pangpu line is only a matter of time. Herause of a shortage of sup plies and munitions, the Rels are holding back the columns under Chen Yi while Liu Pa-cheng's men fight, and vive versa,

New Delhi, December D. In Penspo, all selzuls were re-

The Indian Goverment took vigorous action yesterday against quisitioned

baracks. Au

lentlers or organisations it accuses operated Faizan Franciscan fichiers, than

fot preaching religious hatred. Washington, December #.

In Delhi tir brielle was used as a pri-

and New Delhi, 30 Meanwhile there is an air of Marshall, United States Secretary Hindu

The condition of Mr. George lenders of the outlawext_military soner of war enge containing only say in Chinn as the Communists a handful of Reds, the remainder

subdual tenalen about the city of State, was today described as Swayam Sowok Singh, were ar- organisation, Rashtriya advance into the Yangtse Valley. being former Govirament troops, recalled they had been ad- today, says the Inquiry has shown population here who are worried

The Ministry's report, published There is a large working class satisfactory by an authority at rested in big round-up, B. who were defeated, then recap-yari In October to leave un-that the accident anuse be attribinu food,

the military hospital where hu Dyuni, General Secretary of the tured or returned.

Jess they had compelling reasons buted to misjudgment

Any brunk in their underwent a kidney operation on Golvalker Party, was arrested an might the partitioning

bring to stay. Between

distur- Wednesday.,

he arrived by train. and December 5, he added, 1.316 to land at night in conditions of

of the pilot when endeavouring banees.

A hospital bulletin said: *Mr. The assassination of Mohandas At the Race were evacunted.

Couran a new Marshall's temperature, pulse and K. Gandhi last January has ind airfield to being built. very poor visibility,

Many respiration are normal. His gen- to Nineteen passengers and a crow Tientsinites believe Mr Lovett sald Consular and of three were on board the alr

the arrest of thousands this an eral condition 18 satisfactory members of militant organisa- Embassy officials will remain liner when it crushed in fog.—

excape batch for officials, and There are no complications and no Hons. Ito construction at their posts. Anked whether Reuter.

Gandhi preached against adds to their reason to expect any. He Is sit-religious discord-Asociated American diplomata would

ting up in bed."-Reuter. stay in Nanking if the Chinese Government moved from the capitat, he replied that would te decided later.

Observation Post

Two towers of the Catholi church were converted into ar observation post with two Na. tionalist soldiers

constantly, on watch.

U.S. GOLD OUTPUT

Washington. December 9. United States gold output

11

November

In reply to a question, he said that as far as he knows Madame Chiang Kai-shek has no!

yet Betober talalled 188,817 ounces, offered a formal proposal for Compared with 211,000 in new American aid to the Na- September nad 233,467 in October, tionalist Government. Bo Flat year, according to the Amer-plained, however, that he did itan Bureau of metal statistics. not know what the Chinese Birst Gold output for the first ten lady might have told the Scere- ths of this year was 1,803,372 tary of State. Mr. George Mar- ounces as compared with 1,934,122 shal in talks lart week at Walter f the corresponding periodi

Reed Hospital Mr. Marshali is s 1917. Reuter.

patient there.-Associated Press..

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