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REDS CONVERGE ON LANCHOW General Inspects

Advance Against Moslem Capital Unopposed

FIGHTING NEAR HENGSHAN

"Canton, August T1. Communists armies under the command of General Peng Teh- huai and General Nieh Yung-chan are rapidly converging on Lanchow, "provincial capital of Kansu, it was learned officially in Canton today.

Claim 240,000 In Uprising Against Reds

Canton, August 11, Nationalist Army spokes. man Bald today an uprising Involving some 240,000 men

the Red

had developed In controlled provinces

ices of Honan. Hupeh and Anhwel.

General Teng Wen-yi, the said Communist spokesman,

misrule in the recently con quered provinces caus d the

Other

reasona

for

The Communist advance on this North West China front has been virtually, unopposed for the past two days.

They are advancing on Lanchow from two direc

tions and have reached points approximately 110 miles East and South East of the Kansu capital.

the

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the

has beers halteri.

Conton-Hankow

Lanchow

Musleni General Ma Hung-kwer's tailway, the drive by General stranghold and an important Luo-cheng's columns (South-

warzi towards Konchow, town on the highway linking Southern Kiongsi, is reported to China with Soviet Russia.

The Mutionalist

Government military spokesman conficiant to that Kanchow had been occupi

Communists was not day that General Nich's 62nd and by the

Teonlined here. 43 Arrules had successfully by -;

Pan the 6,700-feet Lu

the uprisings conscription of men and ex- cem requisitioning of food, ne Bald,

pasted were ruthless

Teng said the revoltera pos sessed about 100.000 rifles, In

one Hupeh mountain alone

CAJU

the rebels control 15

districts the spokesman said.

The

revelters are aiding the Nationallet cause by die rupting Red transport and communication lines, Teng sald.Astociated Press

HEAVY FIGHTING IN JAVA

den,

Chief, left today karla where heavy fighting| hay been reported between

Netherlands and

Republican troops.

Indonesian

!

A report from a Chinese source

Shan and occupied Tzing, Gor't Resistance

miles East of Lanchow,

General Peng's 1st Army, after cupying Tungwel, is advarerne ||

with Langhow. North Westward

ay the

ubjective. At the same time, other farers

“ under the command of General Peng advancing Southward from Tichshu have occupied Mund- hsien. They are fighting theh way Szechwan-Shensi+ toward the

Konnu, border region.

Fighting North

Of Hengshan

General

Stiffened

Nationalist resistance In cen. tral Honan stiffened today at the Red manoeuvred for the:

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Guard Of Honour Of Saving South

Tibet's Dalai Lama Proclaims Religious War Against Reds

London, August · 10.

The 12-year-old Dalai Lama of Tibet, the most powerful spiritual influence in vast Central Asia, has proclaimed a religious war against Communism, reliable sources said today.

opening stages of a showdown The youthful temporal and spiritual ruler of Tibet

battle, reports United Press.

The Reds, who are continuing|

summoned more than 100 of the "living Buddhas" who serve under him as High Priests and called on them to pray for the deliverance of his spiritual domain in Cen- come up behind Hongyang..

Patral Asia from the encroaching Communist

ta stream across the Slang River) from Chuchow under heavy Gambing and strafing by Nation- julise planes, had wheeled South- word in an apparent attempt to

Hengshan, two cilles between which the bulk of the Nationalist forces are concentrated.

hordes.

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Lieutenant-General Sir Jonie Harding chafa with a soldier white Inspecting the quard of honour provided by the Argyll and Buther- land Highlanders at Queen's Plar yesterday after អៃ ឆ rival.

AI extreme jaft in the GOC-in.C, Lieutenant-Gener al F. W. Fasting.-"China Mail" Photo.

General Harding Visits HK

Lieutenant-General Sir John Harding. KCB, CBE, DSO, MC, who succeeded General Slr Neil Ritchie, as Commar- der-in-Chief, Far East Lond Forces, orrived in the Colony

Korea From Reds

Washington, August 11.

Some Congressional sources today claimed the United States Government has come close to "writing off" South Korea, believing it may

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follow China as the next victim of the Com÷ ——munist sweep in Asia,

AdminisFdriguezfficials will not go so far in their statement on the situation. However, they admit that the disintegration of the Chinese Nationalist Government placed the Republic v of South Korea in peril.

The

tion,

administration's posi

as outlined in confiden- tial talks with Congressmen, is that South Korea, has a bare chance of survival if granted US$150,000,000 of

Spaak Elected President OF

"American Europa Council

ald this year but practically none at all without it.

The Korean nid bill at present remains unneted upon by either the Senate or the House although the Foreign Affairs Committees of both bodies recommended that it be approved.

Secretary

uf State Denn Acheson was asked flatly during a recent hearing un Korean mu why the United States wished to give assistance that country when it believed China wes be- yond hope. He replied the United States considered there was some

ope of savhig South Korea.

Acheson's remark made even before the State De- partment's White Paper revealed the extent of United State dis- illusionment with nationalist China's chances.

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was

Strasbourg, August 11.

The consultative 25- sembly of the newly creat- ed Council of Europe -to- day elected Dr. Paul Henri Spaak, Belgium's interna- tional statesman, as its Arst President.

Dr. Spook, who was the only one nominafed, re- linquished his post as Bel- gian Foreign Minister be- Cause as Foreign Minister he had to sit on the Coun- cil of Ministers and' was not eligible for the Presi- dency,United Press.

(See Page 7)

Further Earth Shocks Hit Ecuador Town

Groat Risk

other +aid. Congressmen omciala, including ECA officials, admitted aid to "Korea was a great risk. However, they argued that the United State was principally responsible for

of the the evolution

South

Quito, Ecuador, August 11. Korean republlo and could not afford to abandon it without;

Strong earth shocks were attempting to bolster It scano. reported last night in already yesterday for a four-day tour

mically and reduce the chances ravaged Ambato, centre of the of a coup, by Communists aren struck by a series of dis of inspection, here.

within the country.

astroas earthquakes last week. The general was received at All oficials admitted in closed. A radio tugadcast from Ambato Horoscopes

consulted were

a large The Ira of the Lamas were Kal Tak by

party of hearing with Congressmen that said the remaining inhabits of On the Hunan front

The other arm of the pincers

Korca had

chance the town were panic stricken as Lin Fino's Communist

the living roused, the advices sail, by the high military officers including South

an all-out troops driving South from Lukow, open and in the stars

aggression

collapsed. continue to pour across the Lan artillery barrage trying to Buddhas read a warning that strong Communist bid for the con- Lieutenant-General F. V. Fest-ainst

hy previous tremors, River and heavy Righting is said force its way through but the Tibet's isolation from the trol

of Mongolia and Sinklanging. Major-General E. Fms, and from Communist-controlled North few more houses, weakened Korea. Military officials long ago The broadcast did not say whe- here to have taken place North Nationalists resisted

wrote off" South Korea as be stubbornly, world would be violated unless province, an enormous area in far Air Commodore A, D. Davis,

Inspected a

ther there General Harding

new any Western China,

and according to reports. A Nation. et Hengshan.

the swelling tide of the un-

guard of honour provided by the ing militarily untenable"

Usualties. alist ariny group was rushed to believers was stemmed.

The ceremony was spotuored RAF Regiment (Mainya).

urged that they be permitted to "The Government estimated that by Lakow to reinforce the line.

Chinese

were killed last Government Speaking to the press party withdraw American troops. How- 1,000 perecas

week. which wa represented by Dr. General Harding said that this ever, at the State Department's

WitnesEE

reported the Kwan' Chi-yul. chairman of was this first visit to the Colony insistence they

kept in little villure of Libertad and its the Mongolian and Tibetan and that he was glad to be here. South Korea until June of this urrounding felds sonk 1,500 feet Affairs Commission, but it was At Queen's Pier, a guard of year.

General- -Albert Use Argyll from opposed by the authorities in honour drawn

The town, with a population of Lhasa, capital of Tibet.

plete with tartan and bagpipes plans and Operations, lold Con-bout 100 persons, Just disap- gressmen when he returned from The horoscopes were consulted gave an impressive welcome. one year ago and at that time, it General Harding will leave by China that if that country went peared. Where it once stood is mile in gaping hole a halt Communist, Korea would follow was decided to forbid all for-plane on Tuesday, returning to

tameter and 1,500 feet deep- shortly arid even the United | eigners entry. into Tibet until 1951. Singapore.

Associated Press. [States position Jopan may be

jeopardised.

Batavia, Java, August 11.

There is no important change General Buurman van. Free-

Dulch Commander-in- in the situation in this area, ac

The reperts said there were for Soer-cording to Chinese reports.

The Chinese press in Canton sill four armies, the 43rd an this morning

said that four 451 ander General Lin Pino, and Nationallat armies trained in the 130 under General Ulu Po- around Talwan have been transferred begin the districts

Lokow wailing to cross the river

combined attack

ne: General Pai Chung-hi, Com: fee

driving South to- The Reds ward Kanchow also encountered increased opposition and appear- jrd to have been stalled 15 miles North where heavy fighting took place.

Dutch Army ofeials declined

to the Central China front.

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all comment on the reporter but-mander-in-Chief of the Nation-Hengshan. tle at Soerakarta, key city

re-

Inulist Central China forces, Central Java. Uuler terms of the ported here to have made an ecuse fire agreement, which was inspection tour of Hengshan. to go into effect Inst midnight, On the South Kiangsi front,

sitlrs

are pledged

both

reveal information

on to Kanchow, 230 miles North East alleged or Canton, is still in Nationalist violations before investigation by hands, according to the military a truer commission,

spokesman.

It was reliably learned, how- There is no further report of ever, that at least

2,000 in the spliting in the outskirts of donesian

Republican opened a co-ordinated

20

the Dutch held

troop Kanchew,

attack

city at Pai Transfers

Sunday. A Dutch official source! ald that

afternoon

continuing.

up

10 yesterday fighting was

Dutch observers were inclined

to believe the Republicans may have staged un attack In an at-

R

Headquarters

General Pal Chung-hsl

were

Red Ship Sunk By Nationalists

the

The recent readings of the stars were said to have told the Lamas that Communist agents had filter. ed into their Lamanories or mʊnax-

agents has

imprisoned for spreading

Lieutenant-

were

were

and Sutherland zhlanders com- Wedemeyer, the Army's chief of week***, drawn into the earth last

SAILORS MAN MELBOURNE TUGS

Despite the ominous signs on CHURCH TO DEFY

he horizon for South Korea ad-j ninistration' offelals have no in-

ention of lessening their pres-

CZECH GOVT

Prague, August 11

In West Kansu province the Reds branched Northward and

A Chinese Communist com- teries. As a result, a number of Southward toward Ninghsia and mercial vessel was believed to alleged Communist Szechuan provinces, respectively.

Melbourne, August 11.

ure for Congressional approval The Catholic Church has de Sallors of the Royal Australian General Ma Hung-kwel's Moslem be the victim of an attack by ben

f the Korean old measure.) Ati cided to defy the Commurat. troops

manned all Lugs in the same time they Navy today Chinese Nationalist warship Communist propaganda, the ad- reported fleeing

make, no Czechoslovak government by pro- Raid. Northward toward Ningbsla.

on Monday evening near Tukuanwhile, the tenth Panchen by the Seamen's Union of

Melbourne to beat a "blag" ban ffort to conceal their fear that reading with the installation of ships South Korea muy be the next two new Bishops next Sunday, a In Canton a military spokes- Bar, off Tientsin.

Lama was installed yesterday as snlck that the Communist The ship, it was reliably learn; Tibet's religious leader a solemn, importing coal needed for essen-Asian. victim on the Communist well informe source sald today.

services during the nation- timetable.-United Prest

-United' Press. colourful ceremony at Sining, capi- patched to Tzeki and Chintial sources, last night, was fired on tal of Tainghai, reports Reutor wide coat strike.

was one of five from Canton.

The Navy men today berthed

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22nd and 24th annies were des- ed

from

well-informed

She

local

tial

from Ningpe, presumably to in- and sunk. vade the Chusan Islands, where ships to Communist waters which Thousands of Lamas, colour- an overseas freighter carrying a the Nationalist Navy has estab- were ordered to leave the North fully robed in bright red garments, cargo of Indian coal-Reuter. hasished bases.-Reuter and United China Coast by the naval craft. attended the ceremony from

templ kelze the city just before transferred his main headquar-Press.

the cease fire agreement went ters from, Hengyang to Kiyang into force, Under terms of the 50 miles South West of leng- agreement, both sides will keep yang. He continues to maintain the positions they held at the field headquarters at Heng ccase fire deadline.

Jong.

The United Nationa Commis- sion for Indonesia, which ar ranged the cease-fire accord, had no information on the fighting because no UN observers is Soerakarta.Associated Press.

The Weather

This was reported in today's

Ta Kwong Pau." which added

non-cssential members

that

Canton.

JAPS TOLD TO RETURN SHIP

Genera!

Tokyo, August 11. MacArthur's Head-

No British ship was involved in Mongolia and from Kannu and the

incldent, Et Was further Sikon provinces, learned.

Rauter reported. from London yesterday that the master of the 7,000-ton Panamanian stemmer Atlantic Trader, radio

■ Nationallet nawet ed that

12 armed теп officer with hoarded his ship and ordered him to leave Taku Bar and the North China Coast immediate ly on Monday morning.

remained to follow develop

Young Lamas performed a spiriter devil dance in praise of their new master.

EVACUATION OF FILIPINOS

Manila, August 11.

The traditional bedsitting cere The Foreign Office today In- mony was held at Kumbu Lams-structed the Legation branch in sery in the suburbs of Sining.

Canton and the Consulate

in

Dr. Kwan and the chief Lama, Amoy to order the immediate Kamba, read documents that pur evacuation of all Phulppine na- ported to prove that the new Pan- tionals, Including non-essential chen Lama was the successor of diplomatic and consular depen- the ninth holder of the office who conts, in those two cities in view murdered: 12 years ago in the, of the worsening military siluu-

tion. United Press. From the Chinese Government the

the new Panchen Lama received gift of a gold slate costing more On the elato were carved poems written in praise of the Panchen Lame.

Gifts to the Panchen Lama of golden silks were made by mary Page 2 'Tibetans - present.

• Many prenant knelt before the new Panchen Lame and asked for Page 3 the forgiveness of their slna.

his staff had been sent to Chuan-quarters today ordered the Japa- halen, on the Hunan-Kwongsi nese government to return the railway, inside Kwangst province. Panamanian freighter as. Remona The rame paper claimed that to its pro-war owners through four armies from

Taiwan had the Panamanian Government re- ments, for there were four other Tibet-Tainghal border region." been rushed to the defence of presentative in Hong Kong. Her yang. The strength of these The 3,500-ton vessel was seized vessele at anchor nearby," armies was not announced and by the Japanese government in master reported. their transfer lacked confirmation 1041 and later sunk by Allied

One of the ships was attacked from, Chinese military sources in aircraft in Japanese waters. Thn and sunk by the warship, at 5.20 than 10,000 silver dollars.

Occupation authorities had order- p.m. that day. As 0800 GMT 11 pm, 1KBT) the tropi«

Enriler, it was reported in the ed it to be raised and restored in The ships left after a warning storm nów centred about 400 miles 'NE of Manlia la marelag NW at lò knots Chinese press that roops from anticipation of today's restitution that the Rationalists "would not Pressure la low over Central China and Hainan Islands had been brought order.

otherwise he responsible for the over Indo-China. The ridge, over Japan | to the mainland to assist General At the same

tine, General consequences. nounced an order for restitution! Tientsin Bottled Up The removal of General Pal of the D80-ton Chinese freighter

headquarters 10. Tseng Lee

Chinese to the

Official government reportă tends to confirm the government at Takao, Talwan, from Formoe said the Nation- recent reports circulating in Similar restitution ordered for afist blockade had effectively Canton to the affect that his various maritime equipment be-bottled up the big Northern city Army-estimated in some ciroles longing to Chinese shippers was of Tientsin, adds Associated Press. at 200,000 man will withdraw also announced. United Fress.

is weakening and a trucìgh 'ta-developing | Yu Yan-mou's forces on the MacArthur's Headquarters between it and the Faride antheyclone North Kwangsung porder.

to the 8 and,

Today's Forecast:-Moderato Bouth

Fasterly winds, senstered showers

fair perioda.

Yesterday's Weather

Maximirez 89,) deg. Fah,

Minimum: 793 deg. Puh.

Bunshinet 8 hours.

with

· Rainfall: 1,5 mm25,90' in. Tois! winer

•! Jats, 1–1287.0 mm.101.4T 'IND, N

Kwadrat an average of 1469.9 mm. 67.87. In

Readin

Baro, at malz ...1908.8 · 1904,0 29.3.

Equals 10.78 7.29.11 inches

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Rel. Humidity

Point Wind-Direction :- Wind: Force

Brides you

Klyana

South Westward down

tha

Hunan-Kwangu) railway rather

∙than o

Hankow-Canton rallway.

Southward down'

the

Elsewhere on the central China

front, there is Utile change.

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