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Portraits of Distinction

FRANCIS WU'S STUDIO

Gloucester Arcade.

CHINA MAIL

No. 34255.

ESTABLISHED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS

HONG KONG, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1949.

NANKING MAY HAVE Ready To Shell The Enemy

ACCEPTED RED TERMS Formal Negotiations Commence In Peiping

ALL QUIET ON

FRONT

Nanking, April 14.

govern-

A strong indication came out of Peiping yesterday that

ment peace delegates have accepted harsh Communist terms which amount to the surrender of Nationalist China.

Easter Holiday

Bernuse of the Easter, holiday, there will be no Issue of the "China Mail" tomorrow.

The "Sunday Herald" will appear as usual, and the "China Mall will he on sale on Monday,

Make sure of this issue for "Rapier's" tips for the second day of the rnce meeting. HIA following among Happy Valley fans Is growing, in view of his consistently high standard of accurate prediction this

KONSUN.

RESULTS OF LONDON 'U' MATRICULATION Results of the London Uni- versity Matriculation Exam- Ination were released yester-

They are as follows: day.

Ht. Joseph's Unlier: Tracks Kislor

Leomar, Leung Wal-roen, Tem Wingedi and Wu Kwok- Jul.

Bt, Hlephen's College:

Mon Walter Ring-Jeong. Tro Jrengung and Tues June

SWAN.

Wah Van College. Hong Kane: Wan-hum and Word Manorhoraz.

Lo

Doces More" Na hund [+ F'k-font

and Tour Talksna

1 Safle College, Song Solo-Jeong Private Students; hon Kitanot, Chen Strateg

Funk Rulebord, Jimmy

L'hlas Jellier, Lan Yutchin

ato Poor Sloture.

The following candidates who sat for Part B of the Foundation prowed me that Pan and completed the meritnation 1..

Private Htudente: Chow Mokulung ani John You Wo

The Communist rodio in a special bulletin said "formal" peace negotiations had begun after 12 days of "informal" talks.

The Communists served an ultimatum, due to expire tomorrow (Friday) to enforce accept- ance of eight terms laid down by Commun- The Communist ist leader Mao Tse-tung. command has declared repeatedly there would bo no peace talks until the government bow- od to those terms.

the

showdown talks pre-munts, Nationalist forces today The

the recaptur d

Yangtze North sumably will, be confined to

of Sanking- Qui working

means for bank bridgebeul

ying, according to reports from putting the terms into effect.

Chinklang. The Communists have shown. a willingness to discuss modi. Heation of only one condition. That is the one calling for the trial of government leaders as

criminals."

Reds "war

The have offered to remove Acting

others from the list if they give up quickly.

A

London

Strike Situation

new

Landon, April 14.

crists

the struck

Port of London this morning when employers

Price: 20 Cents.

All Kinds of

Portable TYPEWRITERS

AT REASONABLE. PRICE. HONG KONG TYPEWRITER EXCHANGE

8. D'Aguilar' et

Tel. 21433

MAJOR EARTHQUAKE

Exercise Sampan was concluded yesterday by the Army authorities at Deep Bay. Ilere are some of the artillery men preparing to shell the invaders.—“China Mall" Photo.

New Regulation On

Gold Takes Effect

Unauthorised transactions in gold, possession of

It

locked out the 1,000 Transport and Guh- eral Workers' Union dockers who voted to return to work

vere The yesterday,

The employers said they were not opening the gates until the Sankinngying is about 80 miles TGWU dockers agree to work East of Nanking 10 miles the normal terms instead of only North Tast of Chinliang, the Na-day work.

The locked out dockers held tionalist sternghold on the South bank of the lower Yongise.

angry meetings on the streets and

Police intensifying preparcilons to de-squares near the docks.

reinforcements. were President Li Tsung-jen and tend the South bank of the Yang-mished to the scene to prevent ise against a psicle Comitui-

anticipated Bure-ups. ist crossing, the Nationalists were

The Cabinet today held its bund An informed source fald pre-reported today to be clearing before ordering troups out to un- ainury agreement is one of the three-mile wide strip along the tond 84 whips in London Docks, brond principles for settlement of South bank and along the Nu-le throught the strike of 14,000 the eight Communist terms and king-Shanghai Hailway line, (25 that much streauous negotiation les ahead in threshing out the technical details in claburation of

the broad principles.

No Undue

Optimism

Serious Repercussions

kay

Political

gold and publication of information on gold transactions have, since yesterday, boen pro- hibited by the Hong Kong Government. Order made by the Governor-in-Council under the Defence (Finance) Regulations 1940, (Variation) Order, 1949, was published in the Government Gazette.

CREATES HAVOC IN U.S. CITIES

Seattle, April 14. Eight were accounted dead, scores injured and damage estimated at U.S.$10,000,- 000 today as the result of yesterday's earthquake which shook: all Wostorn Washington State.

The estimate, which he emphasised was "purely tentative," was furnished by Washington Governor Arthur B. Langlie. He based his conclusion on preliminary reports from the state patrol, the Red Cross and other agencies.

Experts warned today that In Seattle, cornices of bulldings more tremors could follow.

fell. fire escapes Were ipped Professor Bamuel N. Diakan. loose, windows and water mains head of tht University of were broken and walls cracked. Oregon's geology department Every Seattle policeman was ald further shocks were post-ordered to report duty. Fire ble if the earth's crust continuer vehicles and ambulances roared to “act uø.”

through Seattle streets.

No.

Water tanks spilt open, eleva- tors jammed, windows were shat- tered and bricks, stones and tim.. her fell into the streets.

Thousands of persuas rusheċ from rocking buildings in Seattle, Portland. Tacoma, Olympia and struck other cities. Some were by rubble tumbling from cornices

and roofs.

The worst earthquake in the history of the Pacific North West jolted a 500-mile area at noon yesterday.

Scientists said the quake was of

intensity on a sente which rates No. 12 na total de struction. It was

recorded on seismographs as far away as New York and Honolulu,

It cracked buildings.

The old capitol It cast

building ant the Stato Insurance Building at bricks and glass into city streets

were ordered closed. on the hands of many of the thou- Olympia Funds who fied

Walls the swaying

In the Governor's office structures.

were cracked. Chimneya toppled I! hurled two houses into Puget all over the city. All schools were Sound from Fox. Island,

near evreuited, Tacoma, Washington. They were bellaved unoccupied.

Earth Cracks

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water tanks an top of braken, buildings were curending water down the sides into the streets. Fire mains broke. I cracked the earth. It disrupt- A wide crack openen in the arth ed rail trafe for two hours bee foor of one downtown Sealtie tween Portland, Oregon, and building. The entire front of u Central collapsed "Except with permission granted Seattle. I hit hardest the Puget builds 16 generally prohibits all dealings in gold and forbidsed by or on behalf of the Gov-Sound cities of Olympia, Tacoma Into the street.

A crack 1,000 yards long open- the possession of gold without ernor, no person resident in the and Seattle. Eastern Washington.

along, t street in Tacoma. permission from the Governor, Colony other than an authorised Oregon, and British Columbia and ed

Smaller cracks appeared in the toler, shall enter into any trans-Northern Idaho felt slightly. The new regulations follow: nction whereby ho becomes liahte Eight major. Washington stufr earth West of Sentile.-Associat- "Except with permission granted to deliver gold outside the Colony capitol buildings at Olympia were ed Press,

tamaged. Two wore ordered by or on behalf of the Governor to another person

vacated. All Olympia city husl- no person shall, tion where-

"No parson shall, in tha Tess "buildings were ordered enter any

Colony print or publjen any closed. Information relating to the sale. Seismography located the cen- purchase, borrowing, lending or tre of the quake between Seattle up as security of gold or and Tacoma. to any terma upon which such

Shrieking sirens of ambulances transactions. have been or may and fire, equipment added to the be enterad upon in the Colony din. Many persons fainted. or elsewhere.

Near Bonneville Columbia Rivor, An official

caused alarm, but the big dam and power "The

ines apparently were International Monetary

not damaged. Fund imposes cortain obligations

A Seattle man died of a heart upon its members and when attack after the shock. Two per- Majesty's Government became an ons die at Olympia, Washing

and original member signed

Born in 1890, Mr. Nicoll is mar- thereon, where the quake damnaged Articles

Agreement.

eight State Capitol buildings, were

ried, and has one child. He was accepted

A child was killed at Tacoma,edticaled at Carlislo Grammar of the overseas terri

territories. Washington,

and a high school School and at Pembroke College, of courke Hong Kong student was injured fatally at Oxford.

dockers.

by -gold in mode the security in At meeting this morning, the Cabinet decided to wait and see any manner for the fuitment of

wherever obligation

such if the Labour Minister, Mr. George any Isaacs, could bring about a settle- gold is situated. Bent in a meeting he was having Except with permission granted later today with the leaders of the by or on behalf of the Governor, Stevedores Union, which called no person other than an authorised Press and dealer shall, in the Colony, pozness strike. United

any gold. Heuter.

observers in Nanking' the that reports of Nationalkat enunter-eltacks since the opening of format prace talks at Pelping might inve serious repercussions.

Unconfirmed reports said that followed Nationalist operations telephone centerences with Gen- eulissima Chiang Kai-shek at Chikow in Fenghua, county of Cheklang Province.

Live Ammunition Used In Exercise

This shoree warned against un- dan optimism at the present June- Jure because past experience has details are usually I show that

hurdler to settle than principles.

The rudimentary outlines of the prace settlement are expected to he mught down to Nanking by For candideles passed in U-peace delegate Huang Shao-hslung

The sourceS claimed that the Eighteen guns of the 25th Field Regiment, Royal and delegation advisor Chu Wi

that the split for top-level consideration and

between Acting President L approval in Nanking.

cne kulijent which they took and w/ CUT= plete the Exumune-

Diocesan Boge Bebask; Jaug Tusing, a Wah Yar Chitzer, Hong Kengt MA Tokeketomar.

A NEW SHIP FOR HK FIRM

London, April 13. A new cargo liner for the Indo-China Steam Navigation Company of Hong Kong was launched at Sunderland yesterday,

She is the 10,200-ton Eastern Glory and built originally to the order of the Silver Lise Limited but sold

the stocks to her present own- ers--Reuter,

DA

Wins

THE WEATHER

A1 900 GMT (1p.m. HKST) a rioderate anti-cyclone rovera Cihtres qui le extending Beetward on Japan. A hallow depression Smoking into the Pacific to the 5 of Tokyo, Primeure is also low per E Manchurin

- Telny" Forcinat:-Moderate or th

Wil Cloudy, with bright

during the day,

Yesterday's Wealiter:-

Maxima 70.1 deg. Fah...

Mini 63.9 dew, Fab,

Bundle 3.0 hours.

talofal

intervals

Against an

NIL. Tutat since Zan. 1-- 103,6 mm. 7.22 Ins. average of 214.0 mm.8.43 ina.

Hapo mal

Exquis

Rel. Humbly....

12

Volt

Whol Direction,

Wint Foren

'Tides -

High

LASW

Reading st

15.11. ip.m.

102.4 1010.0 m.b

30.10

fighting indicated

con-

11 is still too early to say who-Tsung-jen and Kuomintang ther the outlines worked out in sergative elements appears to he of a Peiping would be wholly accept- widening as the prospect

the Communist able to the Manking authorities compromise nu since they would be considered in demand to move troops South of

consultation with the views of the the Yangtse seems to be improv

Canton group.

ing.

Motors are B. Chu, ne-

Information ording to

received Attention was directed to the belween the military yesterday evening, were to leave contrast Peining

Red Withdrawal

of

For 48 hours the

Nationalist front with the Communist on the mildelle Yartse has Fen report |ed to be-quiet.

Artillery, pounded away for two days, throw- ing 500 rounds of. live ammunition at the "enemy" advancing on Saikung Road in Clear Water Bay from the direction of Koui and Jin Islands, Port Shelter, in "Exercise Sam- pan" which ended shortly after dawn yester- day.

More than 600 men from the The raly had made going diff-

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obligatior

of

explanator

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Dam, on the slides marih

beticular, there are certain Castle Rock, Washington. An un-

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obligations in regard to dealing in at prices in excess of that gold laid down by the Fund, and in regard to collaborating with other members to promoteëxchango stability.

oxebange stabilking to promote

Gold Market "It is well known that for sine time past there has been an active gold market in Hong Kong, the a.m. today situation on the lower Yangise regiment took part in the two-cult. Some of the guns had to prica quoted being always well arriving here around noon. under the command of General ay mock battle which start-be hauled up on slippery slopes. in excess of that laid down by t

International Monetary Fund In Mr. Yu Yu-jeri, sped President Tang En-po, said to be a sup-ed on Tuesday evening. With inelined at a difficult angle.

Winches were used to haul gunea statement issued in June, 1947. of the Control Yunn, said he would porter of Generalissimo Chiang

middle the troops were trucks, jeeps to their mounts and by midnight to all its members, the Fund net in Wie Irar another government delegu-Kai-shek

Tuesday, the Brat 25-pounior agreed that such

transactions gold the

under and other vehicles numbering River tion of six to Peiping on Friday teaches

ready, pointed In stond

the would not be objected to unless. Pak Chung-hsi. well- more than 70. to help the peace talks in private General

Lieutenant Colonel J. D. A.direction of the "enemy."

inter alia they had the effect capacity.

known supporter and friend of

The soldiers worked feverishly of establishing new rates of ex- Lament, DSO, MBE, Officer Acting President Li Tsung-jen..

Dawn on Wednesday jchange. In such case thene trans- Commanding of the 25th Field all night.

readiness, actions would clearly be in conflic Regiment. told the "China w the regiment in

with the Mail" in an interview, that their guns going into action vorn the exercise was on the whole after. The Communists general with-

satisfac ry, "although drawal from the North bank of

The Communist Radio, meun- there are a number of things the Yangise, WAR confinned by

Other groups of the regiment General Ku Chu-tung, Nationalist while, broadcast a long report to to be corrected."

"But that is what the axercise Chief of Staff. This indicated the Youth League Congress by

In enarie of were in the same way preparing that the Communist cease-fire | the Communist Central Com was for," he said.

Ther order-Issued to facilitate the mittee member, Jen Pl-shih.

in operations was Brigadier of Ar at Krud and Jin Islands,

direct fre at the peace negotiations-hud resched which he said the Communists. Ultery, Fil.C. Rogers, CBE. DSO job was to

enemy, observe the results of the front lines.

would welcome a peaceful sellic-M.C.

He "Esercle Sampan" started on shooting and report them to the A National Defence ministryment but prepared for war.

ry guns, 11,000 yards away..

Ty Jarge transactions in gold' communique today reported all said. "No matter which method Tuesday night when an imaginary

fither units in army launches

continue to be financed on the quiet on the entire civil war front is used we must strive to make defending infantry force signalled

: local market, throughout the country.

the Nanking Government swiftly for artillery support in face of were patrolling the battle ares. The communique and the Com- hund up its powers.

persistent "enemy ground forera" keeping sampans, and junks away

"Vory substantial numa in for attacks in the Clear Water, Hay from the danger zone. One such

át open market caused Amusement among eign currenclas Area,

The stretch of water' wan

the gunners, when it placidly glid rates are involved, and chix has regarded

land nk low which the "enemy" was advanced nearer and nearer to the zone the effect especially of weakening as if to see what was going on, sterling against the U.S. dollar. Ing.

As the prohibition of import and The object of the exercise, sald export of sheld has failed to have

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munista captured seven govern-

ment bridgeheads on the North Silver Detained

bank of the Yangise, one istet in

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very

on Tuesday.

Difficult Going

an

Other Groups Proporo

#11 hae been pointed out

the that

gold market of Hong Kong does in fact have the effect of establishing now rates of exchange.

"Although the Government

son: or Hong Kong he for tinte enforces rigid prohibl-i

tion on Import and export of is evident that extrama: gold,

In Hupeh Province during the In Ennion, the KwEngine mi Two bailerian of 25-Doundora | 60 officer said. course of their general drive last

tary authorities today clamped an from Gun Club Jill, and one from week.

Communist troops now appeat embargo on the shipment of silver Tal. Lam. numbering 18 gung, spet Colonel mont, was to test the the desired effect, the Govern mont of Hong Kong. In falliment to be maintaining their positions from Canton by the Central Bank out from Kowloon at 7.30 nm,, troops" trelning.

"One

particuler of obligations to the Interna a possible of China,

the terest,pect of

Colonel, was tonal Monetary Fund. is therefors staging areas for

Acting under orders from Gen-

first class The crossing of the Tangise. This

showing of the obliged to take the further stop ip forced crossing will take place, eral Yu Ban-mou, Commander of

young officers the exercise. embodied in the Order. Pacifration lead-

men," to independent ob- the Canton

continued according

"There may be many cases of The downpour made going - These

the

he date of this servers, here, if the peace negotia- quarters, garrison troops detained tlons bog down on the actual im- an estimated seven tops of silver ficult especially along the narrow Colonel, "had just arrived in the persone who, at the plementation of the eight condi- at White Cloud Airport as it was and twisting Salkung Road, on, Colony on Monday: and most of Order, have entered into commit- recently from ments Involving goldt. Permission, B-Former Nazi Diplomal ions.

to be loaded on at CATC charter which the troope and their equh them were only

under special conditions, will bo Bentegoed,

There is a feeling here in dip-plano.

ment had to make progress with Sendhurst,"

Asked what had been the most granted to such persons to Denounoss

A Central Bank official said no lights. At-lomatic quartore that the Goveme

Arriving at the "battle area" successful aspect Tantle Pact.

ment may have agreed on the that the money was being shipped

be shown that In niated, 9:-Mixed

Asnetians

with certain to. Liuchow, military and com- about two miles along. Salkune Colonel Lamont to oight conditions

has ,bad condl-thero

been no, plana

for Nationalisa-specific commillaments to hold off mercint centre of Kwangsi Pro-Road, the regiment pichod camp. ability will which the regiment in pect of the Red armies. but that the Na- vince, to Nanchang, capital of Bet up HQ, radio communications able to deploy under,b

Lions.

of the ban on import which ha Page 10-Motoring Nawaratan tionalists atli hope to stall when Kiangat and to Hunais Province, and dog in.

At the same time the guns. WORK. He was also praiseworthy at been in force since May 16, 1917. Page 111-Gontpremias Aid Bill it comes dows: to brass tacks of He said the shipments were

"It is not proposed to interfere surrender on the Pelping pattern arranged on exders, of the Minis-pulled to their positions which had the villagers around Clear Water

at Port with the legitimalo trade in jewel- Continuing their combined land, try of Finance Associated Press, been earlier decided a reconnala Bay and the dahertzen

Jance' trips.

Bhölter for their co-operation, |lory," å sem und als attacks on the Com- United Press and Router,

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Ready for Approval

Essentials.

of the excreta sto their obligations, prid.

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of gold

contravention

New Colonial Secretary Named

.

Nicoll.

an-

Mr. John Fearns CMG, has been appointed Colonial Secretary of Hong Kong, it was officially nounced yesterday. Mr. Nicoll is expected to arrive in the Colony at the end of May to take over from Mr. D. M. Mac- Dougall who is retiring,

He served as Administrative identified man was killed at Cen-onleer, North Borneo, from 1820

ralla, Washington,

to 1925 when he was appointed! Area On Puget Sound to the Colonial Service as an Ad- The heaviest damage apparent-ministrative Officer In Taugan-

in the occurred

Seattle-yika. Tacoma-Olympla area on Fugot Mr. Nicoll, way transferred to

ly

Trinidad in 1938. He was pras Sound,

Striking just before noon (7.55 moted to Deputy Colonial Secra- GMT), the quake was felt in four lary at Trinidad in 1938. North West states and Briligh Secretary of Fiji.

In 1044 he became Colonial Columbia.

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