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DISASTROUS FLOODS IN CHINA Maxim's Is Shanghai Police Heads

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Death Toll Of 20,000 Reported In Hunan

"RICE BOWL" AREA HIT

Canton, June 15.

The Communist Southward offensive was reported bogged down today by floods that have taken 20,000 lives in China's "rice bowl."

The death toll was reported by the Nationalist (****

official Central News Agency. It gave no source for the report, which was not confirm- ed elsewhere. Central News said the flood victims wore in the Hongyang area, about 270 airline milos North of this refugee capitol on the Canton- Hankow railway. Hengyang is in Hunan Province, one of Chino's richest rice-praduc. ing arcas.

II the flood situation is as Į The same source claimed the serious as the news agency in-capture dicates, crops will suffer heavy damage.

Government rallway here sald trains were running to Hengyang and some reported the Bloode were subsiding.

of Fufeng, Jehuen, West of Slan and North of the Chiehhslen and Chishan, towns

Lunghai railway. The Communist Fifth Column of the Second Army was completely wiped out by Mohammedan troops of Gen- eral Ma Fu-fang, In-Chief of North West China.

commander-

Central News also reported that the Kwelchow provincial capitul of Kweiyang had been damaged

In the Kinngal front, flood on ettensively by foods. Kwelchow the Kan River has impeded move- borders Hunan on the West.

ments of Communist troops, who Nationalist military sources were busy repairing the highways reported Jubilantly

that floods

between Nanchang, their base, and were holding up the Rad drive the outpost of Hainkan, 100 miles)

wald "high | to the South West, Central News

roads shit a small detachment of Red around Nanchang in Northern querillas were located at Sul- Klangsi Province where the chuen on the Sul River about 180 miles south of Hainkan but were wiped out by provincial troops.

to the South. water

had

Rede have centrations.

hapvy troops con- Nanchang .400 miles North East of": Canton.

Floods Affect Nationalists

Central News also reported | Communist, troop movements. In South East Hupeh, North Klongs! and neighbouring Cheklong ‚„Pri vince, but Hainkan remained the Southernmost Up of the Com- munist spearhead which is still over 400 miles North of Canton,

Floods in that area presumably list forces grouped along the East side of the Changsha Hensyang

the section of

Canton-Hankow rail line.

would affect also those Na Govt May

A railway spokesman said through trains from Canton can go to Changsha in Hunan from

today, os the Canton-Hankow rallway is no longer flooded.

Quit Canton

Aircraft Carriers For HK

Singapore,, June 15.- Admiral Sir Patrick Brind, Commander-in-Chief of Bel- tain's Far East Naval Station, wald yesterday aircraft car- riers would be provided for the defence of Hong Kong, it they were needed.

Admiral Brind said he was antiafied

Admiralty the

la taking

alt steps necessary tho for

of protection

the Crown colony Aroclated

Pres

Tientsin Conditions Improving

Shanghai, June 15.

Conditions in Tientsin have made rapid 'Improvement dur- ing the past month with fac- tory production increased, many new shops reopening and free travel of foreigners now permitted to Pelping and Man- churla, according to a tele- phone message received from Rus- a Tientsin business by 'sian newspaper in Shanghai.

The informant said the Com- political munista released many prisoners.

New stores are opening and the The spokesman said that, apart demand for factory output is in- Large quantities of Reports on the dangerous rise from flood conditions, the railway creasing.

from Manchuria and of the Yangtze River level are terminus at Hengyang was so goods now reaching Nanking dally, with packed with locomotives and rail- abroad can be seen in the stores. way stock that it would be most Cafes, movies and other enter- the local radio station broadcast- ing regular bulletins on the water dimcult for any major movement tainment places are thriving. No lovels at the river ports down-of troops either to the North or foreign newspapers have resumed

publication yet. South. stream from Hankow.

Cultural Conference He added that although Mar-

He said nil was quiet, in North Hunan and local trains can pro- ceed from Changsha Northward to Yochow.

The Increasingly serious flood situation in Hunan Province is likely to delay any Communist move towards Canton, a Chinese Government spokesman told Reu- ter today.

Fifty

to

Guests in period costumes arriva in old fashioned vahicies at Maxim's, famous Paris restaurant on the Rue Royale,

(AP Photo) celebrate the 50th anniversary of its opening.

Jap Police Oust Strikers From Hiroshima Plant

Hiroshima, June 15.

A

Purged: City Beset By Labour Troubles

Shanghai, Juno 15.

purgo of the local police leadership and roport-

ad despatch of two fishing craft fitted with Won't Clear

the necessary equipment to sweep the lower Yangtze Rivor of possible Nationalist mines,

marked the start of the fourth week of Shang-

hai's liberation today.

The police reshuffle affected all chiefs and deputy chiefs of the city's police stations, who had served under the former Kuomintang regime. They were relievad of their posts and succeeded by man appointed by the newly formed Public Safety Bureau of the Shanghai Peoplo's City Government.

Other ranks had previously exchange market and this situa- been given the option of con- tion is expected to continue until tinuing at their jobs or resign-shipping resumed.

The nationalisation of gold was ing with the majority decid-

said to be the next likely action ing to remain.

Jof the local authorities who to- move today

Instituted "realistic de-

Ships For Red Ports

London,, Juno -15. i

The British Foreign, Ofice Is studying with concern: a declelan taken by the Chih akte Nationalist

authorities

In Formas to withhold clearance from merchant vessels calling at Formosan ports and de stined for porta in the Com. munist araza of China, it wan learned authoritatively today.

it in felt haro that such a practice may be held to be a droach of international agreşi menta regulating the freedom of International trade.

The British authorities. It iù understood, are now consider. ing what -action to taker-

Reuter.

The first concrete clear Shanghai's lifeline the shipping route to the sea-came Posit system to encourage thrift that and protect the people's earnings. seven days after reports intonalist warships had mined "Realistic deposits" will be in on the the mouth of the Yangtse river terms of a unit based and

of essential commodities, caused the closure of the pries harbour.

including rice, cloth, coal, bri- Both craft which sailed for quoltes and edible oil and money

or withdrawn will be it was the lower Yangtes this after deposited

that if the guaranteed cost of these operation is continued. Mr. Gould noon were sald to have been calculated on the

had announced the closing "dowth manned by specially selected commodities ruling at the time."

observers felt of the plant when prevented from Well-informed crows, including at least two

mine sweeping that if the plan is efficiently im-leaving-and payment giyen wis foreigners. The

rather thin equipment

they curried, how-plemented it would encourage considered interim

become a forgotten final-a point which had consis ever, was described as "rude" what had Although

nayal habit in China in recent yearssichtly been made by the mana according observers, "adequate" for the repositing part of one's pay in agement itself-according to Mr present mission..

can

to

to

Two thousand Japanese police hoid firm control wight Png Immobilisation.

enter

Inter-Port Shipping

od

bank.

Labour Troubles

Gould-all

·would

go

on

On this understanding. It

elded to permit operation today

but this afternoon a new hitch

In expectation of an all-clear

im signal tomorrow, when the (provised Cepers owner |

by the

Rehabilitation The city was rent by labour developed when Mr. Gould burned Administration are expected to dificulties today-midmonth pay down the request of the works a return, both the Butterfold. and day a private enterprises af-that his story on the airika se : Swire

Smit Shengking and the Ameri- tempted in arrange their own pay withdrawn from the paper.

The "Shanghai Evening Post China Victory, were to scale in the absence of an official their wage standard Hand

businesses ice was today plastered with One of the many

posters, reading: "Wd have boli week-long of the Japan ifael manufacturing - plant...at

The Egyptian ringged. Star of affected was the American-owned oppressed for Your years, atom-bombed Hiroshima after ejecting 2,500 suez sailed for Taku B, this Shanghal Evening Post and oppose the slavery dystem gall

"To unity, lies our strength.. Nata sitdown strikers, including union workers, morning after walling vainly one Mercury which up till Inte this minate, unetul treatment

night outside the month of the evening had not appeared.

Mr. Bandait Gould, editor of of them was of specifically anti- Communist agitators, Korean and Japanese Yangtse for a clarification of the

the paper, told Reuter tonight American or anti-foreign in ma

If the Post does not appear to ture. men and women college students early today, mining situation.

fler agents, however, sald that

day.

it certainly won't appear to- It is learned that the British port to Reports on the number injured in two clashes with the verse would

owned "North China Daily News'? morrow." discharge her 3,000 tone

that He revealed

the trouble is also experiencing difficulties The Kyodo news agency general cargo if on her return began late the police varied.

yesterday afternoon with its workers over the wages| said a total of 20 police and 101 members trip some days hence, the Shang when three executives of the orquestion.

For the past week, the paper of the mob which had seized the plant were hat harbour is officially declared ganization-Mr. Gould, business

safe.

manager, Mr. Fred T. Douglas has been attempting to expand hurt. Occupation intelligence reports re-

and Mr. Charles S. Miner.. in from six to eight pages, but this charge of the Starr group affaiza has been consistenly opposed by ceived in Tokyo indicated only a slightly lower

other than the “Evening Post"--- the printing staff until their-new number.

Meanwhile, Shanghai foreign were locked In until nearly mid-pay is settled.

unsuccessful at- Interests have been night after anl Japanese rural police head- 12,000 workers confined nine cam chipping

tempt to bring about a settlement Query On Mining' the official

The three foreigners were oven- quarters here said they had pany officials in their office and heartened by reports on in-workers remained in the plant all

nouncement that foreign vessels

IA night. On June 13 police said an

Canton, British oficial received no

the three general labour union resources confirmed yesterday they juries but did not imply there attempt was made to settle the "in case of necessity and with tually escorted home by one of

special approval, may carry pas were none.

incident by negotation and 20 re-sengers or cargo from Shanghai resantatives, who had been had asked the Nationalist Chinese

moned by the workers to mediate. Government informally if its ves Rural police reports Identiñed presentatives of the Leftist-con- two other Chinn coast ports. During the course of discusalonnels had mined the Yangiso, rew

those who

defied the trooled Government railway work-

Under the Nationalist regime with the "Evening Post" axe ports Associated Press. meny of

Government and there and communications unions,

prohiblied tives, the new delegates intimai-

The American sources were infdi Military

or nd that they wished to arrive at to have asked the same question. Hiroshima Prefecture's Governor's Korean federation members and foreign ships were orders closing the plant-earmar- Communists attended the meeting from taking on passengers

cargo from Shanghai to any a peaceful settlement, that far- but allowed but barred the police.

No answer, these sources said, ked for reparations

alan enterprises were not dari hatt been received.. local delegates to operate as known Communists

Army intelligence Today's

said: midated against, and that it was

Both Briushy and American the Communists to the end, it to the All-Chine Cultural Work- and members of unions other than curator and

agents forced their way into the

flying the flags of hoped that all enterprises would sources were inclined to be scep "Steamships flying might be in China's Intereats ers' Conference will leave for Pei-that at the plant.

meeting which finally broke up.

foreign

nations, which had keep on functioning.

tieal of reports that the river's to withdraw from Canton Cityping on June 20, says Reuter.

The Hiroshima Governor then

mouth had boon mined. These delegates represent local

entered the port of Bhanghai, 1 auch fest resort.

ordered the plant closed as did n

may be specially permitted by eltuation occurred, the Govora- movie actors, stage stars, writers,

Milltery Government officer on

Department of Trade (of ment would move to Chungking, poets, playwrights and other cul-

The area in which the plantJune 14. The' mob entered the

Control Commis Military The seat of

Government tural people.

under British The conference, the first of its would remain in China Proper.

**' kind in the liberated area, is to

control. Eighth Army omelets plant on the night of June 14 and remained until ousted today,-As- would not go it

to Taiwan,

ол information sooking attended by delegates from

Bociated Press. which technically la not China. be

incident first were told na in- The Foreign Office of the Kuo- many cities,-United Press and

Reuter.

Juries occurred when the polich mintang, which is situation on

look over the plant at 6 a.m. Shameen Island, full of pack-

Later the 30"

received ■ report ng cases containing archives and

that "about were Injured other equipment destined aventu-

in a clash at a plant gate-about 10 30 a.m. when police drove away a crowd of 400 who were obstructing workmon attempt ing to make repairs of destruc tion caused when police broke In.

The river lavet at Hankow

hal Yon Hal-han would fight register. was reported to hav@

ed 25 metres on June 12, This

la only three metres below the record high mark. The water

sald

riann to have

WAS

Nanchang in Klanga!

matres, only one matra the record high leval,

Nationalists

Reach Sian

at

A

to

below

23

the

The Kuomintang-operated. Cen-ally for Chungking. tral News Agency sald Govern- mertt cavalry and infantry units

yesterday reached the outskirts of Move South

Slan, former capital of Shensi

Province in North West. China,

while other Nationalist troops Awaited

hammered at Helengyang 24 miles

to the West on June 19 alter-in-

Neting 3,000 casualties phd cap-

Twenty-seven

ITALIAN STRIKES

SPREADING

Rome, Jono 15. Extra police forces were being posted throughout Italy today as An ostima'ed two million workers In Italian country districts opened a 24-hour strike in support of the 1,600,000 farm workers who are

General Ku Chu-tung, Chief- already on strike.

turing five field guns, more than of Staff of the Ministry of Na-

The Weather

British Control

located

the

Later, the local Japanese pro- other Chinese Pulation

French Civil

Servants On Strike

today.

ees

Paris, June 15.

The reason for closing tho plant could not bo determined. It The striking farm workers won normally employes about 2,000, 10 motortrucks, and hundreds of tional Defence, fold the Cabinet a minor

victory yesterday when Rural police headquarters re- rlies.

meeting today that there would the Government agreed to ralsported troubled on June 11 when The na big fighting until Com- their cost-of-llying allowance. The the company served notice that! A million civil employees Amunjst. General Lin Phao sent in imus of the strike the union 668 workers would be dismissed, went out on a 24-hour" warn- for higher wages down his troops South from the demands for national wage con- The union rejected the notice and Ing strike border region of Hunan, Hupeh tracts-remains unsettled-Reu-someone tore down notices posted and Kiangsl, it was reliably ter.

In the plant. The next day about.

Long-distance telephone calls learned here.

and telegrams were limited to Although General Chen Kang ***

"matters of life and death or AL' 5800 GET (4 pm, axirby an astive had concentrated three Communiat

extremo urgency." trough extends from Indo-China 10 saring groups totalling nine armies dasiyesion over the Eastern Bie, thee et Fanchon, Nanchong and Chang- E and ENX to a depression, 3 of "Jaishu, in contral Kiangst, thesa Japan. Both depresiona kro risering ENE. Pressure has fallen over the China || troops could not engage in largo senle fighting without help from Ben, but gradients remain wánh,

General Today's Forecasti—Moderals E' to W General Lin Piso winds, variable in showers, rimtoly in the Chen Yi, General Ku said. monlog.

reported earlier that

Yesterday's "Wanther→→

- Maxienum 17.3 km. Jah,

Minirəm: B1.1 der. Pak Hanshine.1.3- hours,

Rainfall, No. Totas ainda dan

440.\n10.12 : [ns, 50, anzióit,

•'average of- 7618 MomPPE 10%

Daro, at ma

Xonala

or

General Lin Plao's troops were spread over Hupeh and Human orok totalling ten armies. General Ku said that General Chen Yi antroops will remained at Nanking, Shanghai and in the Hangchow

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10. 3.

arta.

Proinder Yeri Hal-shian's Cabi- net, in its first regülar · meeting today" diamipäed Generál · Chen from the post of Clovernor of Ho nan and appointed Mr. Chảo Ta

Glaneral Chang defected to tho Communist ide before Honan Provinse was totally lost to the Communistá, V. Asporlatád✨ Frond and Better. ***

Chinese Asked To

Form Street Guards

The Chinese Chamber of Commerce has been asked to assist in the setting up of a Street Guarda organization, the "China Mall" learned yesterday,

A similar scheme, sponsored by merchants in Queen's Road, Central, a few months ago, was rejected by the police authorities.

t

Yesterday it was taurned 'hat the authoritión concerned "have "written to the Chinese Chamber of Odmmarda bn, tha!

subject and requested the Chamber to sponsor, the, salablish ment of Strant Guards, as an auxiliary police unit.

The organisation will be operated on lines similar to the ... Street Querde before the war. Each block of shops, will be required to form Its Individual organisation from, amông - I allop salstantai”

There will be one central body controlling the street - Quards. This body:: wlil' be tht der the Commieloner of Police.

the

Basis Of Payment

For the fifth day ships avoided the channel to Communist-held of the mine Mr. Gould and Mr. Douglas in-Shanghat because sion) In case of necessity, to quired on what busts the workers reports-Reutor and Associated carry pruengers or cargo from would accept payment today ani) Press.

Shanghai to another port along

the

Chins coast.

The announcement also Iaid down the procedure to be obser- ved

by foreign shipping com panics in applying for permission ter their vessels to enter or leave port.

Currency Conversion

The Bank of China was today again besieged by large crowda Įní people seeking to convert their foreign currencies. Business was freported to be dull, on the official

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