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TIENTSIN PREPARES

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DEFENCES ERECTED IN FORMER ITALIAN AREA

CATHOLIC CHURCH NOW FORTRESS

Troops In Shanghai Incident

Shanghai, December 21.

Shanghol's Eastern Wayside district, where the majority of European displaced parsons live, win a turmall yester- day.

Aband

Tientsin, December 21.

The first line of Tientsin's defoncos is boing con. structed along the main street of the former Italian concession which runs paraliai to the Tientsin-Paiping railway line one block away. Reuter's correspondent toured this district and wit- nessed alarming scenes which indicate that the relative peace which some diehards enjoy be- sides their fireplaces may receive a rude shock.

All cross-ronds tealing from Each section of Tientsin the railway Line towards the under a different unit of the main thoroughfare with its beau-Nationalist Army but all are iful Romanesque buildings have going through aimilar prepara- been blocked with recently-felled tions to meet Communist Genern trees and wiring has been stret-Lin Pino's advancing forces on ched across thickly from wall to Tientsin's piendamised ronds.

Reuter. vall, the home of a German refugee Facing theme blocked appron- over cool ches into the heart of the city money and other valuables, und

ind | sundhags are rapally taking the then invaded the hone of w European f kub-tenus shape of machine-gun nesis.

of Chinese soldiers broke unto a enfe shortly after midnighet Sunday and prac- tically destroyed the entire fur- nishings of the cafe when their altempts to rob the premises met with fatlute.

from the ente, the Retreating solfiers forced them

doctor and Ktote

way into

The South side of this wide and helped themselves to money, avenue, along which a trolley left only after being given a sackline Bausported the city's bread

voltables on clothing.

They

of rice by the police official.

Chinese military police, only half

u block HWBY from the scene of the robberies, did not

intervene.

Anglo-Dutch Plantations Meeting

A loss of £684,0.) was BUS-

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eurners

the hundreds of thousands. In belt fenced! off with wiring while adelltional emplacements fur AUTH have appeared through the walls and gates of buildings irrespective of

their designallon.

Company Reports Loss For 1947

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1948.

The Oldest Appendix Out

Horsham, December 20. Mrs. Eliza Hammond of Horsham, aged 21, is re- covering from an operation for appendicitis.

She is believed to be the oldest person to survivo such an operation.

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She is making good pro- gress and it is expected that she will leave hospital early in the New Year.- Router,

Destruction Of Rubber In Malaya

· Destruction of 2,030 acres of rubber in Malaya excellent was reported at the annunt general meeting of the Zlangbo Limited, Rubber Company,

on Monday.

The report of the compony showed a loss of £631, 32. 1. for the year ended December 31, 1947.

Present at the meeting were: Mr. W.A. Welch (Chairman), Messrs. H. Kadoorle, A.E. Fen- At the annual general meet-

ton (Directors), Mr. C E. Abbas ing of the Kroewoek Java (representing the Secretaries and plantations, Limited, the Chair-General Managers, L.A. Wattle And Company, Limited), and man's report disclosed a

Shureholders representing 51,500 jshurea.

1035

This citades embraces even the italian Catholte Hospita: of HK$7,900 for the year end- and the annex of the church, ed December 31, 1947. which is being turned into de- fence points despite all andea vours to prevent transforming them into targets.

Thr

hnd Π

were

the

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BESIEGED PEIPING IS BRAVE BUT UNEASY

Poiping, December 21. Peiping under siege is a brave but uneasy city. There is no telling when the warfare on its outskirts

may surge within the massive walls which now make this historic ground they enclose a refuge for well over 2,000,000 persons.

already

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Everywhere in the city there from Manchuria are military encampments pro- passed Paoling on the Pelping- tected by barbed wire or even Hankow line on their way South,

Reds are pointed stakes, a medieval and

already using their In the Red ter- probably none too effective own currency substitute.

have brought

banknotes Emplacements have been dug into Pelping as souvenirs. They

many alleys and as a consé-

are crudely printed quence they are impassable by

paper, car,

Despite the uncertain future Sandbags protect the police ahead for Pelping there have stations and other official build- been no further applications by ings, both civil and military.

Boldlers keep a constant guard or 789 Americans previously in Americans for facilities to leave, from the city's walls. Embrasures this district there are now 238 have been chiselled In the pic- turesque battlements for fire to leti. Of that number 87 are con-

sular and EÇA be directed against the Reda if

employees and dependents. they come within range.

Rod Christmas

Nowamen Tropped

There are also four corres. pondents who came from Nan- king for a day's trip but now toem destined to be hare when the Rede arrive,

A 10.00 p.m. curfew and the impossiblity of getting, a rick- show or taxi after that time have curtailed local life.

This for- divided eigners are

into two classes-those unashamedly ner- vous about the future and those who affect or genuinely feel non-ed Presa, one of the four news- chalant.

man, reports that "temporarily

Harold Milks, of the Associat-

The latter refer to the situa merconed" is more descriptive at tion with a certain levity, the their position than "trapped". In sort of levity which inspired jan emergency they could be the parody song entitled "I'm flown out at any time from the - Dreaming of A Red Christ-newly constructed Polo Ground airteld, But the chances one would have to take salling of that little airstrip are worse than those of enpture by the Reds.→→ Associated Press.

Peiping's sense of foolation has wo increased since the railway to Tientsin was cut. Telephone ser- vice has now also gone. Radio is the city's only contact with the outside world.

The Reds now are in a position to divert o good part of their strength in Manchuria and to a reinforced North China drive toward Nanking and North Shanghai

The Chairman said that the joss The Chairman's report follows: of "The reported destruction was made up almost entirely by office expenses in Hong Kong. He Bandocardio Estate, which con- said that the Company has vir- aisted in 1941, of 2,030 acres. Church Fortross

tually no income or liquid ussels excellent rubber, a large proper in Hong Kong and that the Ex-tion of which had been replanted R body consular meeting regarding the prevailing change Controller in fava han not between 1034 and 1941, is a most to Hong serious matter for the Company. permitted remittances last night without Kong. tained by the Angin-Dutch conditions

Until this property 'begames DC- (Java) Plantations. Limited, releasing any statement. Among

Present at the meeting were cessible to the Agents of the Com present

Mr. W. A. Welch (Chultman), pany, no decision can be made in during the year ended Decem-the ocials

of the representatives

United Messrs. 11. Kadoorie, A.E. Fenton respect of its future. ber 31, 1047. This was an-

States, itaon, France, the So nounced OTE Monday

at the wist Enton, Belgium, Italy and Directors), Mr. C. & Abbas (re-

Secretaries and "You will see from the Direc Preventing the Company's

general Switzerland.

General Managers, J. A. Wattle to Report that 234 acres were The grilled gateway meeting of shareholders.

of the and

and damaged or destroyed. The rubber Company. Limited), Those who attended the meet-Catholic church has been filled Shareholders representing 680,- remaining is very good,

with a ing wore Mr. W. A Wedel (Chale-with sandbags amkist which gun 1000 shares.

high proportion of budgrafts and mani. Messis H. Kadoorie, A E. loopholes are evident, white the

The Chairman's report follows clonal seedlings. It is intended to Fenton (Diretor 55 Mr. C.E. former pharmacy of the Italian in part:

plant up the area destroyed as Abbas (representing the Svere Hospital is completely trans-

**་་ am sorry to have to report soon as possible, but there is a turtes and General Micaiders. J. A. formed into an, oversized pillbox that it is still not possible for the great dearth of planting material Wattle and Company, Limited), with Its single storey roofs Company's representatives to visiin Java at the moment, and it may and Shareholders representing hristling with military activity. either of the Estates. Shureholders he year before a start can be 151,450 shares,

The Italian Consulate, in which were informed of the reports re-made. The Chairman's report follows Baron Tallarigo resides, seeina to In part:

he in the direct path, of the "The Company has suffered a strong points Just across the have esenped, Rithough it' 1st planting some catch crop, such very serious loss in the reported | street, destruction of all bildings and

Incidentally, Baron Tallorigo machinery. and almost all the inspired the Italian community 2,884 meres of rubber planted on to turn their beautiful club into Giornoengkarie-Pengoedoeran tate in the South Malang area of Java. It has not yet been possible for the Company's representatives To visit this Estate.

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"Company's other

Es-

property,

VTU declared safe and re-

ceived from reliable sources that "In the meantime, investigations Kruework Estate is not likely to are being carried out with a view

situated just outside this area. as peanuts, on this area, so as to "This lass is most serious for obtain some additional revenue the Company as Kroewoelt was on until it possible to plant rubber, exceptional estate producing rub.

ub Production 19 Increasing each month, and the estimate for the

an emergency hospital and ber at very low cost before the

maternity ward for Incoming war, Bajah Estate consists entire year 1949 is 600,000 pounds which Chinese refugees.

ily of young rubber planted since is most satisfactory, and is more 1027. The total planted area in than was ever produced before which 444 acres were ordinary 1941 was 8G8 aero

acres of

rubber, of the war.

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Dead Woman In Mine Shaft

Wakefield, December 20. The inquest was opened and

It was stated that the body was

They have Fu Too-yl bottled up in Pelping

with

his supply adjourned today on the body of and -escape routes out and can a woman recovered from a dis-

troops with contain his

a re-used flooded ventilation shaft latively light force. They can at Walton Colliery near Wake-

of the field. see the long stretches

and Tientsin- Peiping-Hankow Pukow railroads for transfer of loating in water 126 feet from troops South.

the top of the shaft. The shaft was covered with boards which Red Currency

were nailed down and the trap Trustworthy reports Y door was also securely fastened they are operating these lines with six inch nails. from points 18ss than 40 milos

The body whs discovered when from Peiping on a line to Hanan inspection was made by means kow and from about the same of a light being lowered down the line to Pukow and across the shaft, and preliminary reports Yangtse from. Nanking.

suggest that the body had been in Semi-official Nationalist sour-the water from one to five years, ces say some of Lin' Pino's forcesReuter.

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Deep In City Some nurses from the Italian Tiarel Estate in auother part of Catholic Hospital volunteered to seedlings planted in 1927, and 424 fur war damage or subsequent ?

undertake extra work and are the first baby the Company's repre- already tending net upled by

the transformed club's sentative In April 1948.

"Unfortunately, the security threshold yesterday. The refugee

deteriorated

mother noticed the position hus

newly-paint- Ved Red Cross but collapsed in consulerably during the last few

and gave birth on - months

bave and there

the gateway heits very steps. several attacks 1958 neighbouring

Observers wandered why the and villages. At the estates

first line of defence is being moment, there is an estate guard

welt

the Inside, constructed twenty-Ove men under the

city's towering

edifices. leadership of one of the assistant

beneath the shadows of which managers, and a section of troups!

Intended to To apparently Is niso billetted on the Estate.

"The estimated output for the meet the Invaders. Instead of financial year ended December 31, 1040 i 730,000 pounds. Manufac- parations on the outskirta ture is being carried out by means

the perimeter. There are indications of ad- of hand mangler and temporary

ditional smokehouses. It is hoped to in-

defences and strong stall a sheeting battery and en-points being erected even deeper

beffer Inside Tientsin, presumably gine, and also to bulld smoking accommodation during | serve as a second line of defence 1040, but these improvements will which presages street fighting-- depend on the security situation. along streets inhabited by for- All the buildings were destroyed eigners and originally construct-

being replaced gradually.""

"The chances of compensation

were hurtgraft or cional seedlings damage are, I am afraid, rather planted between 1927 and 1041

The political situation doubtful. "There was also an arca plantes in Java is still very obscure, and up with tung oil which showed in certain areas the security post- promise, and

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than

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