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EFFORT TO STEM RED DRIVE Floating Ice GOV'T NOT PREVENTING

Communists Swing South East Towards Tingnan

KWANGTUNG ENTRY DENIED

Canton, August 17.

Chinese Communist spearheads, which were reported to have reached Tayu, near the Kiangei-Kwangtung border, were be- lieved today to have swung suddenly South East in the direction of Tingnan, 90 miles South of Kanchow as the government announced it was throwing in reinforcements in an effort to stem the Red push toward Canton in that area,

*********************** Earlier reports that advance units of the Red forces

More Troops For Colony

London, August 17, More troops for Hong Kong Bailed from Liverpool Jast

night in the troopship Orbita. They include the 5/8 Medium Tank Regiment, RA, the 27th Anti Tank Regiment, RA and Royal Air Force and Naval drafts-Heuter.

Britain Not Closing Consulate

London, August 17. Britain has deelded against closing her Consulate-General in Canton, the Foreign Oßce Apokes- man in London announced this morning.

had crossed into Kwangtung from Toyu were not confirmed, but Chinese press despatches reported local Red guerillas were active in Kwangtung between Kukong and. Tayu near Chihning.

The official Military News Agency claimed the main body of the Reds 14th Division was checked North of Nankang, but unofficial reports placed the 14th between Nankang and Toyu.

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The government, anticipating Its South Klangst, the Commun

ist outs of General Lis 16-cheng threat

10 Tingnan rather than to Kukong, is sending jare pressing on Tayu, about 30 reinforcements in that diree-miles from the Kwangtung bur- sloy, which is sin lelegraphic communication with Canton to- day. However, gunfire had been audible at Tayu for the past tw days

tion.

and

In Human all reports indicated

at Hengshan change Hengyang

ho

Jatk

Reports from Amoy sale fight-

st going on in Was

the suburbs of Fuochow, and Central arrival of News

reported the troops from Taiwan in an effort to save the port

com-

At the same time the news agency learned that the Yesterday it was understood manding general, Tang En-po. that the question of the consulate loft Foochow yesterday was referred to Mr. Ernest Bevin, following the news of the decision News admitted that the

In Kunsu, the official Central of the United States Government

Lounghsi, captured to withdraw all diplomatle repre- sentation from Canion.

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Red. miter

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South East of Lithow, August 13, and now had reached

The latest British and the neighbourhood of Anting. makes it clear that Britain

miles from Langehow. The 18 United States are pursuing dif- | MU

General fering policies in China. Britain and 3rd armies under

the ad- keep Pang Teh-hs made up

vance column. The 4th army is oking Tungwei, 30 miles En

Loonghui.

remaing

determined to contacte open in the hopes of maintaining relations with any de facto authority. The United States Government has decided In favour of a withdrawal un til conditions improve.

U.S. Consulate

The Washington, the State De- partiment announced that the American Consulate at Cunton has

Denies Red Entry

Into Kwang tung

jocutest.

at

days.

Tanins are still running teen Canton and HengYBOK,

about 10 miles ghting is still

junction North of that railway Zown. However. the Rels Yulsien in East Hunan are inov- Ing Southward to threaten Lef yang. 50 mails South of Heng- yang which is connected with Yuhsien by a highway.

leaving for Tralos

Hong Kongre slightly more before crowded

today than but this is due to the shooting

at river steamers near Canton,

Cream Man

at London's Bavoy Hotel, London's Thames River might going ashore drinks without

Paul Beiloni, head walter figured that boating crowds on be glad of ice cream and cold for them. So he and son Jahr, spent £150 on fiting out a

with freezing

pear, war surplus ammunition landing craft

serving equipment and a power unit rehashed from an old car engine. Baleme is booming, and each week-end, hot boat. Ing parties welcome the floating barrow-boys. Photo shows: Paul Belloni (In roar) helping con John to serve a boatload of customers.

(AP photo).

Police Find Arms

On Yacht, Arrest American Master

People in Canton are still calm Harbour police yesterday boarded the luxury yacht

although they are gloomy about the future.

Reinforcements are seen in the streets and they are here only short while before going to the Northern border. The Yen Esc shon Cabinet every intentio to defend Canton as the seat of government and a Lase supply. More reinforcements are expected here from Forma before long.

Ex-premier General Ho

Ying-

of an American businessman, Mr. George Murray, an alleged arms smuggler who was killed in San Juan last Saturday, and ar- rested the skipper of the yacht, Mr. Kenneth Pier, an American.

More than 10 harbour police boarded the yacht, Mistress, at 3 p.m. yesterday, and searched the ship for arms.

and was released

Was

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history

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CNAC FROM OPERATING

The Hong Kong Government does not intend to prevent the China National Aviation Cor- poration from operating air- craft to and from the Colony, it was officially stated yester- day following the seizure on Wednesday of CNAC's main- lonance workshops and in- "STRIINTIONİS"""On the Northosida

of the Kai Tak airfield.

Gov't Statement. On CNAC Requisitioning

The Government Public Relations Officer's statement * the

The official statement ox-requisitioning of CNACs workshops follows: plained that the large aren occupied by CNAC's work-"As shops is urgently required by the Royal Air Force, reinforce- ments of which have arrived and are on the way for the defence of Hong Kong.

It added that CNAC was given two months to make ar- rangements

for the removal

of its maintenance base.

In Government opinion CNAC should not be forced to close down as a result of the requisitioning of the work- shops. Its day-to-day main- the facilities which tenance Corporation till

Dre enjoy sufficient to enable it to carry all services operated by on Them.

District

Mr. J.G. O'Donnell, Traffle Manager of Pan-American World Airways, which has an in- Jerest in CNAC, Baki yesterday hot Government has had ample time to surmise the needs of the RAF for which it has been om- clafly stated CNAC has to make

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nom

"In

is well known, substantial reinforcements to the RAF garrison at Kai Tak, reinforcements which are vital for the defence of Hong Kong in the event of an emergency, have recently arrived in the Colony, and further reinforce- ments are on the way.

view of the limited space available at Kai Tak to house the planes, stores and personnel which are arriving, it has become necessary .for Government to requisition additional land and buildings at Kal Tak and requisition notices have been served in respect of cer- toin of the buildings at present occupied by CNAC.

CNAC, a foreign company, some time l!པrioved had their main maintenance base and occupied a to Kal Tak considerable area of the avall able land. The tenure which the Company now claims questioned by Government and the matter is at present sub- judice.

in

CNAC has cabled an urgent ap-

"In view of the Important de- Nationalis! peal to the Chinese

fence requirements of the RAF Government to take up the rase

It was decided that CNAC could with the British Government.

no longer be permitted to occupy movements in Hong Civil air

such a large area of lural urgent- Kong, meanwhile dropped 40 pery needed by the RAF and would

on

had

of th

Protest Filed Over Seizure

The Chinese Foreign Office has protested officially against British seizure of the the

China National Avigilon Cor.

poration's shops at Kai Tak airfield in Hong Kong under United military raqulation, Press reported from Canton yesterday.

Tuan mu Chieh, Mirister Communications and CNAC of commun Chairman of the Board of Policy arrived in Hong Kong from Canton by CATC Con. vain yesterday afternoon with Chao Chi-chang, Director of the Civil Aeronautic Admini- tration in connection with the affair, the "China Mali"

At Kal Tak to greet thong two

Colonel offiolate wors C. Y. Liu, Managing Director of CNAC, MET, W. Kwok, "Commlifter:"for"Kwangtung

and Kwangel, and way

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cent yesterday, as CNAC ground-the

therefore have to move their muir ed all their aircraft after Gay-

base out maintenance armed with the new ernment Finergency Regulations,

Is in no way intended t swooped the Corporation's prevent CNAC operatine alrera!* workshop, sealing it off on Tues-v

ic and from the Colony and whe day night.

on June 10 the Company was first informed that they would have to remove their main mala-

E tenance base, it was made quite

en

that the permission granted cher to operate in accordance to them.

All passenger carriers of CNAC rine are paralysed by the move. plane however, a Skymaster, on the San Francisco run, took of with full load carly yesterdayo

service, the "Chira Mail soffelally informed, will con- tinue as the plane will be re- elving maintenance attention on ils route by Fan American Air-

ways.

Four

CNAC freight carriers: cully

serviced before Government took control of the workshop at Kat Tuk, deported yesterday for Nationalist various destinations in China. No further flights of this nature, the same sources stated, will continue from Hong Kong until the CNAC-Government deadlock takes a new turn.

trattle

were

with the terms of the Sino-Britis

Agreement was In Air.. affected.-

"In order to ensure that they were still able to operate, the Company

Informed that they would be permitted to keep building and an area of hard. standing beside it which Goy ernment was advised would quite adequate to permit th the re Company to perform quired day to day maintenanc of their. machines, and in fac compared very favourably with the breac occupied by other companies.

Main Basa

com.

"All that the Company was re-

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fearned.

Mr. Lon

arrival in Hong Kone of the air- craft carrier HMS Ocean, a re- quisition order was served on the Company by the Competent Au-

under thority

the appointed Emergency (Requisition) Regula- tions, 1949, in respect of part of the area which

"It has been consistently made clear to the Company and their legal ad

advisers

that, although the

they occupied.

inconvenience caused to CNAC the defence require.. I regretted, ments of the Colony mu

must take

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priority. na moreover that there

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Passage Refunded After the police found sev- trial of three American fliers who

CNAC's passenger and chin and M. Cheng Tien-fans, eral hundred rounds of small were in a Dutch court geoffice spent the whole day yester- quired to do was to remove the

is no intention wantsoever, that Kuomintang Minister of Informa-

to make way for the RAF and it CNAC should be forced to close tion, few today to Formosa for arms ammunition, and several with sruggling guns into Inday making refunds to passen-main maintenance base in t

danusia, Albert Onstott of Yuba

the gers who had booked on A Nationalist Army spokesman la conference with the Generalis hand grenades, they placed an

is worthy of note that no other down any of the air routes they City Identified Munay in Manila

Corporation's flight.

operate to Hong Kong-nor, in been instructed to close angrily declared today there was simo. Their mission is in con-armed guard on the ship and withdraw all officini American

Its main main-the opinion of the Government, is The amount refunded was unforeign operator in Hong Kong to reoorlection not a shred of truth

with Live defence

of prevented Mr. Pler's wife and as the source of the arms.

the The Buperintendent of

available but. It was estimated has established

stich course necessary. personnel should the city

uny

tenance base in the Colony. the crew from leaving.

Harbour Poilge cald last night at CNAC's local business will ime in the future be threatened that Communist forces had driven; Kwangtung.

first

"Govan ment ia given "The CNAC were

nlvised tha Province, ir:

Cum-

the At Harbour Police Headquar General Pal Chimg-hsi.

Mistress'

owner'o

day to day facilities with occupation by Chinese Cran inside Kwangtung

e suffering a loss of more than

to move othe this refugee capitul is

Right, Mr. Pler

one month's notice mmunist

was not the reason that Har $100,000 daily with the state of of government ters lust forces,"

mander-in-Chiet reports United Which

thin

o; repro-maintenance which the Company bour Police searched the ship

June 10 1949. In view o Press.

forces in Bunan and Kinsi, this charged with illegal possession of

ugoffairs existing. moning dew from Hengyang tourms.

He added: "However, because

The shutting off of the CNAC sentations made by the Company, still enjoy are sufficient to enable

further extension of two weeks them to carry on all (Significantly, perhaps, thers Chaoyang 70 miles to the West to HK$2,000 bail,

there didn't seem to be any clear- was no donlal

engine workshop in Hong Kong was granted to ther on July 21, formerly operated by them pro- of private re-

According to Associated Pressly defined role in the life of the nspeet the defence work; there

which is the male maintenance Sat or the Company still refuse.vided

Lvided that main maintenance ports yesterday that the Na-

this and is seheriulęci to fly back to the owner, at the time

yacht Mistress, we decided to in-

base of the CNAC organi ations move, and since the defence boze is re-established elsewhere. tionalists were withdrawing Hengyang late this afternoon. He death, was under surveillance by vestigate the yacht before it lett from Namyung. This town in directed that the Nationallst bare the

will also affect other parts where requirements of the RAF, us hat Government man naturnity take Intel Hong Kong. Philippine Central

the Corporation is established. been carefully pointed out to the n. responsibility for the fact that 155 miles North East of Canton,

Ranchow be moved to sinu gence Agency and the America"

"And this will bring about Compeny and their legal ad- the Company has delayed more Just inside Kwangtung.)

the South East corner

concerning of Army Intelligence

dally loss to of at least

two ihonths in making visers, would by this time brook than Kings-United Press, cisted Press,

Asso Murray's alleged connection with

US$40,000 to $80,000 each day' Our Own Corres- arms shipment to Indones

sald

high

offein of CNAC in Eleven months ago, during the

an interview with the "China Mail" yesterday,

The latest tabulations indlested that there are 78 American of- ficials. including Embassy and Consular attaches, in Canton.

The Department spokesman, Licoln White, suld the personnel probably would be withdrawn to Hong Kong ulthough presumably a small Embassy staff will Ku with the Nationalist government to Chungking or Formoso. White sald the decision to withdraw "has been reached in the light of the fallure of the Chinese Com- munist authorities to comply with Canton was getting ready for Communists. the usual requirements of inte- the arrival of the

The spokesman asserted heavy fighting was going on near Nan kang in neighbouring Klangsi Province 185 miles North East of Canton.

and other

pondent,

Junks Dodge Warships In Running Blockade

national intercourse and their fe- Foreigners were packing. Ameri- fusal permit American Concan, British

foreign sular officiais In Communist ocfims were evacuating thele for- cupied areas to perform their eign stufts of women employees

particularly and families. The U.S. Enway Chinese trading and fishing junka, carrying pas-

normal functions,

protection of American nationals and Consulate planned to close. and their interests."Reuter and United Press,

The Weather

All transportation to llong

Kong was booked bold. . S.

Navy planes were ready to sup-

songers and cargo, have opened a route to run the Nationalist blockade to and from Shanghai.

ply emergency evacuation for the A number of Chinese residents of Shanghai who

13 Americans here.

The Nationalists claimed Com- munist attempts to seal off Foo- chow from the sea had failed. Official reports said the Red at- tempts to seizo points between the Fukion provincial enpital and

Declining to be identifled for very lowly Northward in the the mouth of the Min River had

been folled by counter-attacks.

At Doon быт (4 p.m. HKST) the typhoon appears to pallory at

be

moving Korean Bratt. From it trough extend on the China coat to the Gulf of Tongkind Eastward to

Bl of Tokyo. Proaktre has amals fullanı

to the E of the Philippine where another tirpression may be forming. Pradesto i "relatively-high-error÷W-Chlo

variable or Today's Forecast:-Light aw. winde, unsettled and showery.

fair periods

Yesterday's Weatherte

Maximum: 82.0 deg. Ful

Minimum: 78.3 deg, Fab.

Sunshiner 5.0 bourn,

Rainfall 0.7 mm.=0.08 in Total

Jan. 1-1891.4 mm.8. Ind.

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Chen Yi's Troops

In Foochow:

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Several hours after Mr. Pier was arrested and sccused of illegal PGRSessio: of arms, the harboti police ordered the armed guar on the Mistress to be remove,

Mr. Pler will appear in Kow- loon court at 9 a.m. today.

Reds Move To Quell Revolts

Nanking, August 17.

The Communist "East China

·

The Civil Aviation Department at Kul Tak, records close to 125 air movements each day. Of this total CNAC accounts from be- tween 40 to 50 flights daily in and out of Ka! Tak.

(Continued on Page 31

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Military District today order- Page 2

Correspondence

ed a new drive against, pea- Expulsion Ordinance

Flest Reading. sant dissidents.

Barclay's Bridge.

PABLOS

took advantage of the new route have arriv ed in Hong Kong. Some are businessmen who plan to return to the Communist-held city by the same way.

On the way two of the jurica

The order was to "completely Paga 3 caught by

boals. annihilate those singing pirate

open. Regletration Ordinance Becomes obvious reasons, the arrivals fold were

Law. the "China Mail" yesterday that They were stripped of all cargo armed revolts,"

The headquarters said the Page 4 they were among 100 passengers and the passengers were forced

thale money Y and peopis must support military Junks which left to surrender on four large

operations widertaken against | Page 4 Shanghai for Nationalist held valuable personal effects. Chushan Island, about 100 miles From Chushan Island, some of guerillas harassing the country- Dutch, Indonesian Hold First

Meeting. from Shanghai on the Southern the passengers · managed to buy ride.

Plans were announced at the Page 7 fringe

passages on Chinese Air Force of Hungchow Day:

relations Britain's Burprise Mova The Junks also carried cargoes aircraft returning to Talpeh in same time to improve

Austria. between Red troops and the poll- A reliable report sald dam. of cotton and other Chinese pro- Talwan

to take sants inhabiting Greas where | Page 9 Others chartered junks to

British Resolution on Politica) muplet troops of General Chen ducts. The junks were allowed Vi antered Foochow this morn to leave Shanghal but the passen them to Taiwan From Taiwan troops are billeted.

The Nankine, garrison,"commian- ***Union. er either flew by regular ing following the fleeing of gers were thoroughly searched LRA Acial air lines or boardedder, Yung . Churig-sien, churged Page:10 nationalist generals to Amoy by and Formsas, writes the "China they were allowed to board the ocean-going.. vessels for Hong special bandits." Mall" correspondent in Canton,

ware not permitted to The arrivals said that Shing Because of (is surounding fer- take out foreign currencies, sile hai is deteriorating More than ***** 30 per cent of the factories ang

before Communist officials

craft.

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Kong

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