STRATEGIC POSITION IN ORIENT CHANGED
Lindbergh The "Biggest Nazi"
Berlin, January 7. The Soviet-cenced Berliner Zeitung calls Charles A. Lind. bergh a Nazl and crifieines his trip tu
Tokyo, January 6. The conquest of Manchuria and much of North China by the Chinese Communist armies has changed the whole strategic outlook in the area of the Western Pacific Ocean and Eastern Asia. That is the considered opinion of nearly every lead- ing non-Communist soldier and statesman in this part of the world. Germany..
the British There is a general opinion that, French Indo-China, Lanetbergh, speriod arty init to the the danger of a new world con- Straits Settlements and adjacent Siam, the Netherlands Alr Foren Clot of bluff, a un alagration starting in Asia is in Malaya. Tour of the world to vist Ameri-creasing. An aminous parallel East Indies, Indiin, Ceylon, etc.
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1949.
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Chinos businessman
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Release Wanted
Washington, January 7.
man offered him a baby boy Representative Lawrence H. Smith wants reloase of for 400 pesos.
Chen promptly #COOST! - panied the woman to a car. tain house and counted out the
bills
tho upon seeing baby.
No sooner had ho taken the baby in his arms when a man in police uniform and another man, who said ho was the baby's father, ap. poored in the doorway. In the meantime. the alleged mother dieappeared.
The police are now on the look-out
and for the Chen l ' much wh107 MAN. -United Press.
COLONIAL GETS ADVISORY POST
London, January 6.
A former Colonial civil per- vant a travelling to New York
Russla unquestionably LA superior in land power and prob sees is occupying the same rela-ably could seize some areas now to reace or war in the held by the Western Alles and Western Pacific Ocean area that hold them for " time. Russia Tokyo occupied [2 the years does not have the atomic bomb
and prior to Pearl Harbour.
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United siltutional
Foreign Policy Endangered
Washington, January 6.
Bipartisan foreign policy, one of America's chiaf weapons in the cold war with Russia, is gravaly threatened by a Party row over Senato Com- mittee assignments.
China la looked upon as Immediate chief battleground. There the Russians have won the first round. Manchuria today is considered a virtually Russian antolite power Outer Mongolin and North Chinn Arc
passing rapidly Into the Boviet sphere. Some of the best quafiffedi Brl- tish and Americum observera bo- Beve Asia in the primary target
Republican Senulor Wayne of Russia in
the present "cold
Taft says he thought the no- Morse, who has been due for a They look upon the Rus-
place on the Foreign Relations Suns' aggressive tactics In Ber-politics approach was dead al-
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and elsewhere in Western ready as a result of the Demo-Committee, asserts: Entope my a feint designed to crats' alleged packing of the
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on
the Wademayar, report In view of the presont desperate situation in China.
The Wisconsin Republican about through. It will be onl refors to the report made by a matter of time until we lose Lleutenant General Albert G. the Pacife to the Communlata, a
Wedemeyer at the request of they surely will take over Ja- the Truman administration.no, Keren, the Philippines and
the entire For East. The document compiled by the
"A a direct result of the former Commander of Ameri-Communist siccEGSCH in Chino. can forces in China never hos we look for a step-up in the been made public.
pressure by the Communista in Mr. Smith, a member" of the Western Europe." - Associated House Foreign Affairs Coinmit- Frees. tec. ould:
"My Information is that the report any that Secretary .nf State George Marshall we com- nfelely wrong in the polley he has insisted upon in our rela- long with the Chinese Nation- allat Government.
"That polley has been to not Aive effective Aid until the Sa- oralint Government has taken the Chinese Communists into & conlition government,
"My information is also that
General Wedemeyer recommend
Many Dead Found In The Snow
Chicago, January 6. Rescue workers today dug a mounting number of dead from
ed speelde ald to the forces of snowdrifis after the Herce Chiang Kai-shek to provent the blizzard. over-running of China by the
Chinese Communists, which is At least 18 bodies were found happening today,
and ather persona are still I missing.
War Lost
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Most of the victims were trazen "It is my opinion that Secrr- lary Marshall
President to death in snow-buried motor and
cors, trucks and enbins in Colors- Truman must share the responda, Nebraska, Wyoming and South sibility for what has happened
Dakota. in China."
Representative
Rescue workers pressed through "Whan end
the Chinese drifts 15 feet high in some places. The storm subsided and ended Communists finally take over control of China, the war we one of the greatest railway tic-
In the Pacifio will have
history. ups in been lost."
Elsewhore, flood waters forcer He ntided:
thousands of people to flee their "That is more tragic than fr homes.
Southern The big freeze in some of the Western European countries went
Our California la expected by some whole future tled in with the experts to cause more damage ic than the the Pacific.
citrus fruật crop
1oss sufferest "It looks now as though the US$00,000,000 Nationalist forces in China ar1937, United Press.
won
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Although Senator Morse is not
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Other Republicans say that the known
intention in
demanding draw Democrats, by Erthine into the Soviet orbit an eight to ve majority on the a Republican leader, his state- have seriously ment is signideant because he is! ogo as 1924 In the days Commlitee. ng
Sovial larke when
military wankened Senator Arthur Van-among the Republicans who have jand politfent enfusion helped the
the dentierg's influence In keeping been most inclined to back ad- ate br. Sun Yat-sen to organise Republican votes in line. When ministration foreign polley in the the Chinese rationalist revolu- Senator Vandenbera was choir past. tion. They' note that
Even somie Democrats disagree. mally of man. the Committee was made
with the decision to change the Committee ratio. It is known George, a hipartisan policy is that Senator Walter over," commented Senator Taft, senior Foreign Relations mem- "We are free and independent, ber, regards it os or unfortunate: aren't we?"
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the present Chinese Communist up of seven Republicans and six
onders are men and women who Democrats. Eut
their
Communist start in Plentogy and lactics at that time.
South East Asia
The Immediate position of the Antagonists is roughly 链接 fol- LOWE-
The Western Allies are domi- Aant in Japan and in the island chain at least to the Southward throush Formosa, Okinawa and The Philippines:
South nnd In
Eastern Asin, in Indin and the
adjacent islanti groups, including the Netherlands East Indies and
Ceylon
The position of the domo. cratic nations, however, is noʻ too strong in Burma and the Netherlands East Indies, and
it is remembered that Britain still has not entirely eradiosted the Communist reboin In
Malaya.
Russin and her Communist al- lies are dominant in North East- ern Asia where they control Siberta and the islands within sight of Alaska, the Kurile land chain, which leads South- word from Kamchatka to islets within right of Northernmost Japan's main
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