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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 1, 1949.
SURRENDER OF BATAAN New Stamps
NOT AGAINST ORDERS.
San Antonio, December 31. General Jonathan M. Wainwright, retired defender of the Philippines, on Thursday doniod ɑ his- torian's report that the surrender of Bataan violated his and General Douglas MacArthur's orders. General Wainwright said Lieutenant General Ed- ward P. King, in a hopeless position, had sur- rendered his forces to the Japanese in April 1942 before he could receive the orders.
Louis General
#1
historian, Dr. The
Wainwright drew Morton, was quoted in Seattle map of Batnan and Manila Bay on Wednesday as saying that on a piece of paper and lustrat- General King surrendered in ed how General King's decliimat- ed troops defending Butansi In violation of specific orders from
two corps abreast were smashed General Wainwright. Dr. Mor-
on the East, or Second Corps, for ton. Army historian the front. Be showed how Japanese Pacile section, spoke to a his- Imperial troops advanced to the torical association meeting. tip of the peninsula, cutting off supplies behind the First Corps. making hopelers further defence on the China Sea side,
RENO RECOVERS FROM - JITTERS
Reno, Nevada, December 30.
The exodus of earthquake- jittery Reno visitors ended.to- day even though minor tremors still shook the divorce capital and touched off scientific specu- lation that a big one was in the offing.
Two seismologists, eyeing
that still instruments parts of recorded tremors four days after the first quaka shocka hit Reno, agreed that any increasing in- tensity of shocks might shadow a major earthquake.
1'c-
an
Surrender Story
ile gave this account of surrender:
the
"Early On the morning ot April D. 1042. Colonel Jense Traywick was duty officer on the Rock of Corregidor. He had been on duty all night. He came to me and nid 'General King is going to surrender Batman.' said, Traywick, you him that I prohibit that."
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For Burma
Rangoon, December 31, New postage stamps in R variety of colours wilt he la qued hore
January 4,
1949, to commemorate the first anniversary of Burmese independence, according to a prose noto issued by the Government of Burma.
The stamps will be issued In 14 denominations ranging from three ples to 10 rupees. They will be marked "pub. lle" and
""Service." The used service stamps will be for officiat correspondence only. Associated Press.
BRITISH LEGION NEEDS FUNDS
London, December 30. A sum of £250,000 was drawn from the reserves of the British Legion last year to meet the needs ul ex-servicemen and women,
of says the January issue
the British Legion Journal, published today,
in
wns
A similar amount was with- drawn during the previous yeat. The Journal says: "At this rate our reserves will yunish. In war-time our expendituro smaller and our income rose and we were able to put a balance aside, We now need it.
"Whlic Stalc schemes have relleved us a little
the last few months, our commitments in more permanent ways of provid- ing homes and services for our
especially plain," General people,
the
Ageing. and permanently incap- Wainwright told a reporter on onel
acitated, have grown. On top of Thursday, "knew that Gen- fore-
smaller and eral King's position was hope.this, "nur income is
the value of money la reduced." lens but I had positive orders from
Mac. General Douglas Arthur, then in Australia, In which General MacArthur had radiosd, and those werd hic exact words: 'There must be no thought of surrender. You will attack.'
However, the flight of fright- ened visitors, that began yester. day after the biggest shock ruck- ed the city, apparently stopped after tut more than a few hundred
although persons left the area, tremors continued to hit the city On on average 2 every 10-45 minutes.
→ [[Filened gamblers, getting ac- customed tofthe jiggling after ap- proximately 190 separate quakes, reshaped tottering slacks of chips and kept up play at the roulette tables and "dlee games.-United Press.
For Bables Not Over.6 Months For Babies Not Over i Months
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"I transmitted these orders i
-Reuter.
KOREA EPIDEMIC OF SMALLPOX
An
Seoul, December 30. outbreak of
smallpox Koreans But Colonel | among
General King, well knowing, could not attack. Traywick came back to me and said It is too late. General King has already sent an officer forward with the white flag."
"General King had sent the officer with the white flag before, he got direct orders from me to Holal Batam. He absolutely did not disobey me. i want to see no aspersion cast upon General King.
Paris, December 20. Senor Julme Torres, Director General of the United
Nations Educational, Scienile and Cul- tural Organisation (UNESCO) "My action has been proved suggested here last night that by the President of the United December 10 each year should States and the public and I was be devoted in all schools to the principles of freedom and dignity of man.
the
awarded the Congressional Medal
of Honour for it." I am not ga ing to do anything about this), He was inviting mumber States matter aside from keeping the
the UNESCO to help make record straight." widely known the international
Declaration of Human Rights, In Georgia, General King, also adopter by the General As- now retired, agreed with General sembly of the United Nations on Wainwright's account--Associat- December 10 this year.-Reuter.' ed Press.
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-PRESIDENT
QUIRINO
Manila, December 31.
President Elipido Quirino warned Filipino nation- alists that his administration would discourage
any moyo to score foreign capital away from Philippine investmont fields.
In a Rizal Day talk before the National Economic Protectionism Association, the President said. "We should invite capital to invest and in- dustrialists to establish industries here. Once established, these industries are not foreign but local concerns."
He added, "As long as we can control their operation they will help us in our economic development."
Control Economy
"I will discourage any move on the part of NEPA (National Economic Protectionism Asso. clation) that is based on emo- tion," President Quirino do. clared.
NEPA objectives were explain- The President told the Asso-ed by President Gil Puynt as in- ciation that many people felt tended to Increase Filipino that revival of prewar protec- production, increase the number tionisin was premature at this of export Hems and renctivate time. He said as the Philippines | local industries so they could tries to rise from prostration supply a greater portion of the caused by war, it was necessary people's needs-Associated Press. to control Rational economy but no country in the world could stand on its own feet without
depending upon other countries.
BRITISH RAIL STRIKE THREAT
London December 21).
"“'Depends On Where You Sit"
New York, December 30, The weekly magazine New Yorker," afting paratiete between
Nazl paratroope .cepture of the Hague and Rotterdam in 1940 and Dutch of Jog.
paratroop colure of Jakarta. In 1948, commented:
"It In interesting to
com. pare recent Dutch opinion of the Indonesian Government
with eariler Nazl opinion of the Dutch Government. Pr. van Kleffens, former Foreign Minister, said the Indonesian Government had lost all au. thority and existed only as a
dio station.
radia
"We recall that when the Dutch
Government was In In London, the Gar- mans said the same thing- said it was a shadow Gov. ernment existing only as и programme on the BBC.
"100 where
Press.
much depends An you alt." -United
No Comment On Uncle Joe
certain
He said it was natural that the Philippines tried to be eco. nomically self-sufficient, “but, The Ministers of Labour, Mr. in view of the apprehension of George Issars, was tonight for- Foreign businessmen at this mally notified by the National stage of our development, we Union of Railwaymen. who are should be careful in adopting threatening to strike for higher Our economic
pay, of their claim for an all- programme. President Quirino pointed out round wage Increuse of 12/0d. Washington, December 30. that In 1047 the Philippines
President Truman per week.
today re- 10 umendiment to the The Minister has now 21 days affirmed his belief that adopted constitution to guarantee equal to decide what course to adopt persons in the Soviet Union are rights to Americans to develop beture the railwaymen can exceedingly anxious for peace. the natural resources of the legally call a strike. The union The President
to was asked Philippines for 24 years,
has à membership of 460,000.—condrm at his weekly press con- "It would be inconsistent," he Reuter,
informal statements said, "If we should now organise
about the Soviet leaders which ourselves to exclude foreign
he made In a speech
eech in Kansas capital and industry, and dis-|
City earlier this week. courage the influx of foreign in-
He decimed to give any ex- planation vestment."
Import Order
Explaining
COSTLY LOSS
•
TO FRANCE
Paris, December 30.
ference, the
of the statement. President Truman
corrected
France lost nearly une-eighth reporters who had printed stories
Stalin was of her normal year's output of suggesting Marshal Coal as a result of the October one of the leaders to whom he and November coul strike, it was had disclosed in the Nations) Assem-
referred. He salt there was по con- nection between hils Kansas
the new Import A serious epidemic, which took control order, President Quirino thousands of lives, was stopped said the control law is aimed to in 1946 by extensive immunisa-regulate the quantity and quali- bly here tonight. tion under the U.S. Military ty of foreign goods so that in- A Parliamentary report put the City statement and remarks
health government, Public thorities are continuing the im-
flux would not disrupt Phillp- total luss urising from the strike which he had made during his pine economy, but instead would at 1,460 million franes. The loss presidential election campaign. Assa- munisation programme.
Insure the Republle's economic of coni was estimated at 5,600,000 this summer that he "ked Uncle ciated Press.
stability.
Lons. Reater.
Joe Stalin".-Reuter.
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