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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 1949.

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JUSTIFIED BY EVENTS

Now York, January 25.

Tho belief of Shanghai › merchants that they con carry on as usual under the Communists is not justified by cyants, says an editorial in tho Scripps-Howard papers today.

The article says that Mao Tse-tung, the Communist "leader, has been a successful revolutionary' and civil war legder, and has announced his support of the Russians and his antipathy to- wards the United States.

says:

The editorial

"But have already been drawn by Gen- what can Russia give China? erol Douglas MacArthur who has Japan expos→ Half of her rationed food sup- seen his position ply is being supplied by Ameri-ed to double envelopment and is

calling for additional troops. ran ECA grant, American cot-

Hin these circumstances the ton, also from ECA, is all that Secretary of State, Mr. Dean is keeping Shanghai's great Acehson, has rightly put Chinn Hing Chinei ir liel in his review nerealflingrenecdumours.petrol, of Ait-Wilgi Most of the country's industrial foreign pine of past mis-

For the nằm 3 kmw-how in quaplied by our policy, In

taken, the cull bo free inde American and British techni-

pendent und democratic China ax the only possible stabilising factor in the Far East."

cians.

can

W the Soviet Union supply the defielencles, under the new regime? That has not happened In the case of Russia's European

as Morshal Tito satellites, testify.

"China's needs are Infinitely greater than those of all the Baikon atnica together. The Japanese arms the Soviets gave the Communist armies will not rebuild China's shuttered econ- omy.

The Reasons

Church Murder

Case Re-Trial.

Dublin, January 24.

The Supreme Court of Eira today quashed the conviction and doath sentence against Mrs. Agnes Daly for the murder of an elderly widow, Mrs. Mary Gibbons, who was attacked with a hammer' In Church. Roman Catholic A new trial was ordered. Mr. Daly was granted leava- Bupreme to appeal to the Court on the ground that a point of law of exceptional pubile Importance is involv od. The issue was whether a deposition taken from the injured woman in hospital BEARERERES nemendur dhe Inter charge of murder—“ Reuter.

STRIKE OVER IN^

SHANGHAI

Shanghai, January 23,

PROPAGANDA WEAPON

London, January 24.

Russia plans to turn the World Federation of Trado Unions into a massive propaganda - „weapon among the colonial peoples of Africa, Asia and the West Indies.

This is the belief of informed political observers

here.

carrying out its

erloan Congress of Industrial Organisations, has resigned mal Ite director.

mass

With the withdrawal of Brl- tish ond American trade unions from the Moscow-dominated group, Russia will now have a

British Communists, menn- freo hand in pet project for n Congress of while, are attempting to Asiatic trade unions, hitherto opposition ngainst endorsement

In the withdrawal from Western

WFTU, which the Trades Union Congress will be asked to vete this Wednesday despite agitation some unions, such as the by Amalgamated Engineering Union, where the Communist influence

strongly opposed by trade unionista.

of

.

However, this is only one facet master plan. to "revolu- tionise" millions of people in the

k

elude moving the headquarters THE

the

of the WETU Secretariat to WFTU delegates, Arthur Deakin

"Eastern"

-

probably to Warsaw or Prague.

drawing, is expected to get al- This would almost certainly most unanimous endorsement lead to the resignation of Louis United Press. Sallant, General Secretary of the WFTU and a powerful figure All operators of Luzes, trams the French Communist- and trolleys of the French Tram-n

move- way Company returned to work dominated trade union

ment. Inst night thus ending a strike which threw the transportailon →

system of the city into a state of confusion.

The Times sayɛ the reason for the tragedy in Chios lies In many things, including: "An exhausted Chinese people,

resulting from moral collapse the Valta agreement which on abled Russia

the to engineer Communist victories, and, Just but, not least, the faults mistakes of

and

British Reds

Political observers see the first

Explosion In Bombay Docks

Mediators of the Bureau of So-

Bombay, January 25. cial Affairs report that talks on'signs of this policy in the lengthy

One was killed and 15 cri- the terms for the strikers are go-attack on the "Inactivity" of the On the other hand, doen

the Chlano Kai-ing on,--Reuter,

WFTU'S Colonial Department tically injured yesterday after- Shanghai's business community

shek Government itself.

carried by the Toss news agency noon in an ammundifon explo the expect

United States 10

over the "A deeper reason would seem

Bignature of V. V.sion in a goods warehouse in underwrite the Communist ad-

the attempt to be

Kuznetsov. of Chinese

Soviet trade unton Bombay dooka. venture

that Communizm

to solve the pro-

leader and chairman of the So- can be extended to Malaya, Indo-Westerners'

Intro-

viet of Nationalitics, one of the China, Siam and the Philippines?"blems of China by the

duction of a purely formalistic

two Houses of the Russian Par Jinment. top without democracy from the

Defeat For U.S.

edi

RADIO

Jong painstaking preparation at This local

H.K.T.

Radio Hong Kong level, and the Chinese re-broadcasting on, a frequency of A New York Times yolution, like the French, Russlun 845 kilocytes per second and on torial says one thing clear in and German, is destined to lead 9.52 megacycles per second in tho the present Chinese altuation it merely from one dictatorship, to 31 meire band. that the United States has met another before its long-term im- defeat at the hands of the 80. pact can

become effective. viet alnice It fought against "Whether Chiang Kai-shek, in Japan dismembering China, and the slower rhythm of the Orient, faces the prospect of it will go down in history na & Chi- coming under Soviet dominanese Kerensky, is not clear, but

events do seem to point way."-United Press,

now

tion.

The editorial says while there is hope in the fact that China has "digested" other conquerors and Fome slim chance that Mao Tse- tung may become a Chinese Tito, it was Lenin who said that the conquest of Europe Communist

may come through Asia.

Implications The strategic

of

the Communist advance in China

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Jews Using Jet Planes?

London, January 25.

The question whether Israel fins jet Aghter aircraft was raised in the House of Commons today.

Air Commodore A. V. Harvey (Conservative, Macclesfield) ask- ed the Minister of Supply, Mr. G. R. Strauss:

"Is the Minister satisfied about the export of aircraft generally? I have information that the Isrocil Government now have Meteor France."

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12.15 p.m. Morning Prayers. (ătudio) 12.30 pan-flaily Programe Summary, 12.32 pra-Landen Palladium Orchestre

1.00 pm-Navy

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1.15 p.m.-Interlude, 1.30 p.m.From the Bhawa."

2.00 p.m.-Close Down,

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6.00 p.m.-Programme Dummary. 6.01 ..Children Bory: "Through

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0.20 Duke Ellington and Bi tậṛ-

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7.00 pan-Jay Wilbur wad 1 triDA

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8.00 p.m."From .jiho

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$.10 p.m.--Interlude,

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8.13 p.m.-" to the Alp" Variety No- quest. ProgrAMME Presented

Boman Howard." (Bludio)

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9.15 pm Talk by Jack Luft, "Ger- many and her Place in Europe" No. 24 The Occupation Statyte," (Studio)

aware". 9.30 p.m.Turbo-Jet" The Story of Air-Commodore Whittle's Invention

Mr. Strauss replied, "certainly

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The Meteor jet is an R.A.F.10.00 Radio News fighter-type plune.

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Mr. Raymond Blackburn (La- 10:16 pm-Weather Report.------------ bour, King's

Norton) recalleri 19.10 p.m.-"Anthology". Presented that British

Clifford Davies, (Audio), aircraft were shot

10.46 pm Nothing but Masie," "Aldary down near the Egyptian-Pales-

Torch and the Queens. Hall Light tine frontier by Israell pilots

Orchestra, (ORBS). Dying British-made Spitfires 11.45 pm-Weather Report Associated Press.

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