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CHINESE NOTE TO UK No Backing Down On The Blockade Issue

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HONG KONG POSITION

London, July 4.

The Chinese Government today replied to the British note pro- testing against the Nationalist blockade of Communist-hold Chinese coast ports.

A British Foreign Office spokesman said the note was delivered from the Chinese Foreign Office through the British Consul-General, A. P. Coghill, in Canton..

He declined to reveal the contents of the note, but it is understood that the Nationalists show no sign of backing' down from thoir plan to closo China's vital seaports.

U.S. LABOUR WANTS AID FOR CHINA

meet

In addition to the reply to the | Mills, If the Government will British protest of last Thursday, send representative to the Chinese Nationalists are also with the "democratie authorities reported to have told the British in Petping." Government that a free flow of trade to Communist China is tantamount to alding the enemies. o Westen Democracy.

The Nationalists are swid to have told the British authorities that Hong Kong is becoming the Communists miata supply base which would be exploited by traders from countries syn- New York, July 4. Bathetic to the Communist cause. Mr. Matthew Wall, Chairman

is understood that China's

of the Free Trade Union Com-reply to the British note contends

the

mittee, today urged prompt and adequate aid (to Nationalists.

Mr. Woll Issued a

statement outlining il 10-point definitive constructive American policy to

meet the crisis in China.

He said:

"We reject all nu tions unct polleles of defeatism in China.

Americans, he said, must drop the illusion that the totalitarian Soviet, with His vast slave labour conomy---átan the lighto. do- wire or capacity to play a pro- gressive of liberating role in s relations with the Chinese pco- ple.

non-

The statement calls for recognition of and non-assistance to the Chinese Communists and asks for a United Nations Securs Ity Counell study of the entire question of the role of Russia in fostering and financing the civil war In China.

likely to be of aid to the Chinese Communists.

HMS Amethyst

In the meantime, the British Government la still awaiting official contact with the Chi nese Communist autheritise to negotiate the

the removal of frigate Amethyst, which ная remained anchored in the up per

Anchises Affair

Mr. McNell replied that if Mr. Platt-Mills was referring to the Communists the swer was the same as on Juno 20-that the Communists declined to contact British representatives,

CHINESE ENVOY SEES MR. BEVIN

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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JULY 6, 1949.

AMERICAN CAUTION Working Out New Policy On China

Nationalist Government Resources

Canton, July 4.

The Finance Minister, Hau Kan, said today that the Ne. tionalist Government has rà- Mources to fant 18 months an the basis of its present in comd..

• Mei Hau urged tha public to support the now illvar dollar currency In place of the rejected Gold Yuan R

sociated Press.

Communists And China Catholics

The

Vatican City, July 4.

Chinese Communista have cut of money remittances from abroad to Catholic mis- sionaries in an attempt forte them out of China, according a report to the Holy Congre- gation for the Propagation of the Faith.

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Washington, July 4.

The U. S. is cautiously trying to work out a now

policy toward Communist-split Chino, This effort is the first really positive American op

proach to the subject in several years.

It is being carried mainly through conferences in a number of world capitals.

How well it succeeds may be Indicated in the immediato future when the U.S. Secretary of State, Dean

Acheson, and President Truman reply to

to questions raised by Senators bitterly critical of the State Department's recent handling

of Chinese affaire, Two big problems confronting policy makers are:

"All mission- The report said: arles who have remained in ter ritory occupied by the Reds have declared they

transform 1371 themselves into Jabourer or

second-hand street ventors, As long as they can earn a piece of bread to be able to continue their apostolate."

Missionaries

have been barred from visiting their communities, totalling 3,000,- 000 Catholics, but that the Com- munitats have abandoned their ini- tial crucitles foward them,- United Press.

Japs Want Buchman Task Force

J. What should the US.. In close co-operation with Iritain, France and other Western powers, do about establishing economic and

STARTLING CHINESE THEORY

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Interested the crumbling Chinese Na-China

countries in this part of the lonalist Government? On the problem of dealing with world, a high Chinese official Chinese Communists, American told Reuters today.

conferring diplomats have been

This being the position, The British Government

with their Western colleagues in added, Britain should tak. Im- also studying the Chinese. Na

the Chinese, British and French diete step; to initiate such an tion!lat replies to representa Written by a Belgian mission-capitais, as well as Washington, Alliance tions concerning the bombing ary, the report added: "The rapid

The official also expressed the of the British Dive Funnel Line Communist advance in Chinese

that view

If the Communists that the

the Nationalists' closure of

motorship, Anchlets.

ferritory as vast and populated as

Inroads make deep

into South Communist-held Chinese 0H

they would -held ports does it

British officials are said to be Europe is a triumph for Russia,

In general, the Americans urgad | China

eventually consiitute a blockade and the Na- i dissatisfied with the Chinese Na- which has meticulously prepared a solid front in the Ear East as "certainly occupy Kowloon."" Hionalist Government is actutionalists' apology for the bomb- and directed this offensive. But in Europe with the same restric- Therefore, if the British Gov- within her sovereign rights.

ing because at least one addi- Inasmuch as the Communiste dostons against selling war materials ernment does пот initiate an The Chinese Nationalist retional attack was made after the

not have at their disposal per to Communist countries.

Asian alliance then the Chinese presentatives to the British Gov-apology was tendered.

sonnel capable of governing this

While a decision in yet to be Government should consider

ment ernment are understood to have The British Foreign

Ofice huge country, it is easy to foro-

mado, most officials in taking

steps in re- appropriate tried to emphasise the global no- spokesman would not comment un

see, without fear of making an

Washington believe that even-gard to Kowloon and Hong Kong tore the struggle in China and the next step the British Gov-error, anarchy and brigandage on

tually some months from now before the Communist forces ap- to have appealed to the British ernment is likely to take-Unit- a large scale' Government

The report. Bald

the U.8, will try to establish proach that area. to avoid policies ed Press.

a working relationship with the The official did not, however, Chinese Communist regime ex-| elaborate this latter statement. pected

be sat up next Discussing the possibility autumn.

Mr. Mao Tro-tung becoming Twenty-one Senators have ask

"Aslan Tito", the official ed Mr. Truman

wald that whatever attitude the speak out Chinese against recognising the Communists, and Senator Know- land, Republican of California, says that large number of Sena- tors want the U.S. to under.

He explained himself thus: "If take a new Chino aid programme. Mao rebels against

Sovlet in- fluence, then outside efforts will Western China

undoubtedly be made to depose Nationalist China has a special him by internal strife. If there is Caux-Sur-Montreux, envoy in Washington to discuss any trouble of this nature

July 4.

Government with the White House and State Nationalist A Japanese newspaper execu-Department a secret plan for a naturally profit by it. tive editor has invited Dr.stund against the Communists in Frank Buchman, leader of the Western China.

to The moral re-armament group,

Is working envoy

for bring a "task force" to Japan. American aid, but at the moment like those of the The editor, Mr. Shinzo Taka- his efforts are The Chinese reply to the British hasi, of the newspaper "Main Senators and appear duc for note was received in London yes-chi" was among Japanese dele- polite but firm rejection. ing free and at peace. Further terday. Though its text has not gates who addressed the World However, the possibility still that it is

its avowed polley to

free, been made public in London, the Assembly for Moral Rearmament exists that if any anti-Communist peaceful and prosperous with Chinees reply to a similar note here,

individual leaders force under promote and ald

China Jermanent co-

In tho Communist from the United States maintain- Chinese, Indians, Burmese, Cey succeed operation among the democratie

in making a stund stranglehold. forces of Asia-in line with the

ed that the Chinese Government lonese, Indonesians, Malays and "There is nothing inexorable are justined in their action. Filipinos were among the 1,000 recent conference of Asim na-or invincible about Communism Reuter.

get American help. Officials tions called by India-in order to

delegates from 48

that, such old in China and

might conclude the rest of Asia,

attended. resist and

and defeat Chinese

and But we cannot defeat Cemtņun.

could accomplish a lot for a ro- other Communist influence and ism with military weapons alone.

latively small investment.-Asso- encroachments.

ciated Press, "Democracy has higher Ideals The extension of the Chinese and better ideas than Commun- Communists' influence is only theism or any other brand of total- spearhead of the Russian totalitarian despotism. We must

Moscow, July 4. itarian aggression and imperial- translate these ideals and ideas The U.S. Ambassador to Russia, Alan Kirk, told President Nikolai "Our Government should bring to bear its fullest moral pressure munist consequences of the Com-Shyernik of Rusela today that he

China, espe- will work towards Increasing ber of young Japanese, who had left here for Hong Kong today on France und The Netherlands einlly for South East Asia, the telendship between the United been trained ideologically for with about 2,000 troops and a few to recognise the desire of the Philippines, Australia and New States and the Soviet Union, inore then three years in Soviet members of the Royal Air force October, 1848, Lloyds reported— AUSTRALIA NEW ZEALAND-FAR EAST JAPAN peoples of Asia still under their Zealand, rule for national freedom, econo-grave os the resulting danger to honour and responsibility bestow-

"It is with a full sense of the Japan's disruptive forces. mic betterment and social justice freedom is, the worst danger weed upon me," he said as he pre- guarantees

"We cannot rely solely on legal within the framework and through face today is the feeling of res-rented his credentials

for the methods of democracy.

pair and a polley of do-actlung Kremlin," that I embark upon my

at the Security," he declared. “We need "The world cannot stay free and drift," the statement said duties in your great country."--

a superior ideology which can be and at peace without Asia be | Associated Press and Reuter.

guiding force for all nations," Associated Press.

Reuter,

London, July 4, Dr. Cheng Tien-hal, Chinese Ambasandor in London, today reaches of the Yangtao called on the Foreign Secretary, since the Communist shelling Mr. Ernest Bevin, for a talk which

? two months ago.

usually reliable

sources connect British official sources said with the Chinese closure of ports Also proposed is a special U.S. there has been no contact with in Communist-occupied territory. Commission, 011 which

Inbour the Communist authorities other would be represented, to prepare than in Informal consultations at a programme jointly with demo- Nanking. cralle authorities in Asin (or np.

The Minister of Slate, Mr. Hiec- plying President Truman's pro-tor MeNeil, was asked in the posal to aid undeveloped coun-House of Commons by the Inde- tries.

pendent Labourite. John Platts-

"The Chinese

crisis Is

serious, but not at ali hopeless,”

the statement

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But,

Britals, in a note last week, is understood to have sald that she will not recognise the Chinese ac- tion, which the Canton Govern- ment describes ns a closure and not a blockade.

U.S. ENVOY AT THE KREMLIN

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nations who urn China, they may even-}

Mr. Tetsu Katayama, Japonese Socialist Party leader and the first

Prime Minister elected under the 1947 Constitution, 'said that real democracy is being Ilved at the Assembly.

Mr. Kensuke Horinouch, head of the Foreign Oftee Training Institute, said that a large num

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