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REDS BEGIN DRIVE ON CANTON Three Armies In 50-Mile Thrust Into Kwangtung 90 MILES FROM CANTON

Canton,, September 26.

The Chinese Communists hurled three armies into Kwangtung Province today. It was the long expected big-scale drive for Canton, the Nationalist refugee capital.

Accommodation

For Gordon

Evacuees

The us. General Gordon is

due to arrive here from Shanghal

at about 9 today.

A Government spokesman caid yesterday that

accom.

modation arrangements have been made only. -for those passengers who are not pro- teading

by the same. whip and who do not have accom- modation here for an inde- finite peried.

They will

continue their

Journey by the troopship.

Orbita.

The spokesman 2716 that ́i is well known that the ac- commodation position in the Colony is acute.

It has not been possible to extend the hospitality of the Colony to those who

have not been able to arrange for their own living accommo. dation here.

Reds After Uranium In Tibet

events.

ist claims to Tibet as territory received special atten-

The Red force-75,000 strong if at full strength -surged in from Kiangsi Province in a 50- mile thrust that carried to within 90 miles of Canton.

This uncasy capital was confronted with its great- est threat of the civil war. The Reds struck after weeks of probing Nationalist defences.

Official despatches said the Red 10th, 11th and 16th armies took off from Lungman in In South Western Kiangsi. this area 140 miles North East of Canton, the Communists have been building up their invasion force for weeks.

A great part of the Red troops already had reached the vicinity of Hsinfeng, 90 miles North East of Canton, the official reports said. Hsinfng is eight miles East of the trunk highway between Lung- nan and Cantor.

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same

in Chihsing. There fighting North of Chihsing.

Amoy was still in telegraphic contact with Canton today, although the mainland opposite the island city was largely In the hands of the Communists who are preparing to cross the three-mile channel. There is an acute shortage of fuel and rice

Amoy which used to depend on these supplies from Chuan

14 chow and Changchow new Communist hands. Acting

President Li Tsung-Jen lold Chinese

A

newspaperman The Nationaliste said the three that as long as the government armies are under General Chen forces a Hunan are standing up seting commander of the¦ against the Communist forces smond Communist Field Army there is no threat to Canton, Hel

which has an estimated total said the small Communist force strength of 250,000 men.

and guerillas in Nanhsiung and

Yengyuan are no danger to the situation

The Reds also were moving on the Canton railway. A force of 1,200 regulars and 700 irregulars General Li said the best de- were heading for Kukong, rail fence is the offensive and would town 125 miles North of Canton, recommend such change of Lac- Capture, of. Kukong would ties. The Acting. President point- sreak, rail communication seed out that the Reds have long tween Canton and Hengyang. lines of

by Nationalist sir raids..

main South China defence base often ammunications and vide

265 miles

North of Canton.

headquarters for Mengyang is General Pai Chung-hsi, Na- tionalist Central Chins com mander.

Looking For Noah's Ark

Chou Outlines

Principles Of

"New Democracy"

Shanghai, September 26,

The much publicised meeting The Communists have announced that bureau-

of the Kuomintang Emergency Council, failed to take place to. day despite the return of Gen- The strike for Kukong was cralissimo Chiang Kai-shek to the

tion in the British Foreign Ofee. Red Forces In

They

revived

speculation that the

Chinese Communists were bei Wengyuan

the

cratic capitalists will be temporarily depriv ed of their people's rights after their land and. capital has been confiscated.

Communist leader Chou Enlai stipulated this in on outline of the general principles of the new Democracy before the Political Consulta- tive Conference in Peiping, the Communist News Agency reported today.

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NINGHSIA SURRENDERS TO THE REDS

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, September 26. Communist troops are virtually, in control of the

North West following the surrender of Ning-.. hsia on September 23 and the overrunning gf the entire Kansu corridor. A reliable ‘res port said one, General Ma, a kinsman of Gen- eral Ma Hung-kwai, Nationalist Governor of Kansu, surrendered to the Reds who march--- ed up from Kansu. Moslem troops who surrendered to. the. Commun-

ists were those of the 11th, 81st and 128th armies and two other divisions. Other No- tionalist units fled across the West bank of the Yellow River. Red troops entered the Ninghsia provincial capital on the evening of September 23.

The neighbouring province of Sulyuan capitulated earlier to the Communists through the

efforts of General Fu Tso-yi,

former

Commander-in-Chief

of Nationalist troops in North

China, who is rewarded as a specially invited delegate to the Peiping Political Consulta- tive Conference.

The only resistance is in South Shemsi where the Nationalists North of the Chin Mountain are making attempts to drive the Rec's Northward. If the Communists cross Chin Mountain. they will

a Schue, the next how eneralissimo Chiang Kai-

to

shek.

Sinkiang Moves

No Ban On HK Exports To Red China

The Hong Kong Government

not received any struction from London

in. to impose any ban on export of specific materials to Com munist China, the "China Mail Was

informed yester

day:

No direction has been re- ceived from home following the report on Saturday that Britain and the United States nad

decided to ban the ex-

certain portat

strategic materials to Communist held territories in Chină.

Apart from articles on the prohibited list, Hong Kong is "still" issuing 'expert- "permits for all exports, whether to Communist

Nationalist

Intensive efforts are being pre-Communist ele. made by ments in Gišklang "to" throw -that province. under the - Red flag, and there is evidence tha ∙details for a ̈čegional" peace ar

sow being dearted ling beside the

held part, the same deafted, reports

three miles from Ararat (in back-

sitting

Coifax

USA _Or.

North Carolina, Aaron J. Smith of Greens- borg, North Carolina, leader of the expedition; a Turkish Army doctor Walter "Wood, Sea Cliff, Long Island, USA: Wendell Ogg, Knoxville, Ten. nessee, USA, and Digan Poyraz of...AP's:5Ankara bureau (AP.photo).

Private sources with contacts

still in Tikwa and other strategic

intar.

locations in Sinklang, have cabled ON OTHER PAGES

their Canton offices that discus-

sions have already been held he- Page 2 tween local political and military Correspondence commanders representing the pro- Page 3: vincial

government, and Com munist and pro-Soviet agencies.

European Women Insulted

Shanghai.

These private despatches state Page 4

Barclay's Bridge that

National branches of the government in Tihwa bave ad- Page 5

vised their respective superiors in Japs Angling For Peace Con-.

Onc

Ship, Planeten of the possibility,

Desert To Korean Reds

said

ference

Change Of Heart in United

Nations

reports have already been warn-

Some government Page 7:- squacies ed their offices will be taken over.

It is known that

chartered Page 8 commercial-planes were Cordeses De Gaulle On Atlantic Part

London, September 25. Reports that Tibet's jagged Westward along a highway from city from Whampoa this morning mountain guards uranium ore Namyang 155 miles North East fie is studying the general situa today swept that isolated coun-of Canton Namyung is just in- tion more fully before he calls try into the torrent of atomic side the North Eastern tip of a meeting. There was some ex- Kwangtung and in the general change of views among top Kuo- the com- plaint against Soviet Russia be- The renewed Chinese Commun-area of the Red massing point in mintang members on

Kiangai.

for alding fore the UN Assembly Chinese

the Chinese Communists.

General Pai Chung-hsi, Eight principles were laid their national government Commander-in- in Hunan, down. One of these provides China, the Red radio said today.

in-Chier went to Whampoa yesterday at two classifications of people: This seemed to indicate there ternoon to see Generalissimo. 1. The People-which includes was nothing to speculate on abroad- Chiang Kai-shek for the secondwerkers, farmers. Detty bourgeoir, that Manchuria might stay out-

to Sinklang recently, ostensibly Page 9 time in 24 hours, Pai-told repor-Nationalist capitalists and such. side of a Red regime for

for China

Seoul, Sepiemper 26.

for the purpose of evacuating top personnel, but bas lers he will return to the front patriotic Democratic elements" and be a pro-Russian independent

Communist North Korea's zovemment tomorrow and declined to make u who repudiated

their old status similar to Outer Mongolia any other statement

sa reactionaries.

The Red radio quoted Man- Radio Pyongyang is todayweather has prevented their take- The exact political situation ir. Nationals which includes churia's delegate to the Political chortling over the acquisition the bureaucratic capital class. Consultative Conference at Feiping of a plane and ship which, it Sinking is confused. The fa says, were obtained through eth West province, simdar 1 which for the present will enjoy as saving Manchuria would be "

Korean of the no rights.

heavy industrial base" for Com- disaffection

has long been Yiran, The eight principles covered munist China.

auloziomous and subject to direc crews. such subjects as education and

Russian influence. propaganda during the period of the new Democracy before. So

political, cialism is achieved and polis military, economic, cultural, na- tional and foreign policies

Frobable presence

Of mere concern to the people in Canton was the increase of Communist forces at Lung-hsien hsu in Wengyuan (Yungyuan)

county. North Reds Closing In in Cantoa The Mrespondent |

the "China Mail"

News

inspired by Soviet Russia to lay claim to an area they believe to be rich in fissiable material.

Official quarters in Londor would not comment today: e the uranium

other atomic mineral deposits in Tibet Bu they admitted that

tled that past ex. peditions have ascertained the presence there of "mineral de posits of unascertainable value." Chinese Nationalist sources re- vealed that in June, 1947, in-Kwangtung border cidents occurred on the borders used to reinforce the Reds

Russian-controlled Outer Mon

Kwangtung. Nantstung, North

said Chihsing

core

the

On Amoy

The

said that three Agency Communists armies of General Chen Keng had moved South-

Chinese Communists are ward from Kanchew to

closing in on Amoy bei steadily and may be

D which is being stubbornly de-

fended by Nationalist troops as and the Chinese Province

zisted by the Chinese Navy and Press reports

Force, reports Reuter. Air Sinkiang in the Tien Hus Moun (Chihing), South of Nanhsiung. tains which, they said, were flus

They are striking hard against wai not Communist hands!

in despite the mutiny of Magistrate the Nationalist positions on the Yao Chi-chin who died after kill mainland. ing the regimental

of

golia

ia attempts to seizs position where uranium., deposits thought to lie.

wer

G*

commander

British CG

They also recalled that Russ was negotiating with the Chinese Nationalist government until two months ago for a mineral ex- ploitation agreement in Sikiang. These negotiations have, accord- ing to Chinese Communist broad- casts from Peiping, now been broken off and for the fist time the Russians appeared openly on the scene when Chinese Com-|

uurists captured- Lanchow (From Our Own Correspondent)

epital of Kansu Province. A motor road runs from Lanchow

to Tihwa, citadel of Sinking, and

into Tibet-United Press.

In Canton Leaving

Canton, September 26.

An attempt to invade Amoy in jonks and other small craft from Actow, North East. of Amey, was repulsed by Nation- alist gunfire, which inflicted heavy casualties on the Reds The Reds are now strengthen ing their defences at Aotow and the nearby town of Luwuti against possible counter-attacks.

Chen

In Northern Kwangtung Pro-j vince, 1,200 of Reng's troops, striking along the highway from wards, toward anhstung, West- gazed by

were en-

2.

The foreign policy statement said that “China stands by thei side of Soviet Russia and other new Democratic countries and

there will recognise

Mo

the

neutral ground between international peace, camp and the imperial aggression camp.”

Manchurian Base

Manchuria has given full sup- port to the Communist plan for

Murder-Suicide Blamed On Russia's Bomb

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The conference is setting up the Reds permanent government Associated Press.

Jap Family In Picnic Suicide Pact

Arniv

The first to be lost by the South Koreans was the steamship Kim- ball Smith, an American freighter. Teased to the Korean government which arrived in the Korthern port of Chinnanpo og September 29. The second was 5 Scutia

uta Korean Air Force L-5 ob- servation plane

Radio which Pyongyang' said landed at Pyong- yang Airfeld on September 24.

In almost identical paragraphs the broadcast said "The 58 men- bers of the crew of a vessel be- Rhee paring to the Syngman Tokyo, September 28.

puppet government rose, An entire Japanese family righteous move against the pup. of four brothers and five sis- pet government, and entered the ters took their lives in an port of Chinnanpo, on September amazing picnic suicide pact 22. last week following their fin-

ancial distress.

The family, whose ages ranged Nationalists the

from nine to 26 years, disappeared from their home in Osaka on Sep Mr. Gerald F. Tyrrell, Bri-Konghou. Kongkon is West of

Arcadia, September 26. tember 17, leaving a note stating is being extended from Tihtish Consul-General, will leave Chhing, which the Nationalists

intention of committing Russia's development of the their Chih here tomorrow for Hong Kong claimed to have reoccupied

hills. Their mother dead, their father en route to London. His posting has either been by-passed by atom bomb was blamed today suicide in the nearby will be taken over by Mr. John the Reds or is in "what the Chi- for the apparent murder-sui- JP. Coghill,

state of cide of a 35-year-old profes- missing, the family suffered a Counsellor in nese press calls "a state

setback when the two JAL 0000 GMT 15 235 KST trough charge of the British Embassy vacuum."

sor and his student room-mate severe

eldest brothers resently lost their Several hundred Red irregular here.

Waller Griffith, language pro- employment with a local dyeing Mr. Tyrtel was transferred troops under the turncoat magls in their home. here last December from Cincin tale of Chihing were also ofessor at John Muir College, factory, The eldest sister was too

sick to work Pasadena, and Donald

THE WEATHER

- acros

it low pressure from the depression over Silwria stretchen Southwards Kush and thence SW Into Southern China-W-of-risis- Leongir; a-fairly-extra- Kire anti-clone covers most at China ngti, Ohio where he was Consul aged in this action,

and to the E Carides of high pressure Extends "Eastwards from Bythers Japan assignment

ji went over the South China Șen.

Today's Forecast Licht variable main 19'8'de Fair

Yesterday's Weather 2----

"Kaxiieam: 27.0 'der." Fab.

after. he makes:

London.

In July, Mrs. Tyrrell and their three children returned to Louis- ville, Kentucky, in the United States Kenneth

Mr. British Consul is also due to 153.4 72.5% invitat an leave here soon. The Vice-Consul,

Communist drive in West

Otto

Took Poison

The second

in a

paragraph simply substituted the word "plane" for "ship" and "fliers for "crew" Forced Landing

South Korean efficials, how- ever, are nët in complete agree- ~ment

They say they do no what happened

know

the ship but

On the surface t

aboard

they

were

Jure the airplane was forced down because of engine trouble, Two planes from the South Korean Air Force had gone on leaflet dropping flights North of the of the border and the crew second plane reported seeing its teammate make an emergency He is likely to be given another Hunun, has been, slowed down by Magnesat, 23-year-old GI student Abiker on September 25, found

Landing in North Korean ter Britory, has increased its activities in the Professor Griffith's parents es-

California, were discovered by talde Osaka Are. wist exer there radiant repost to the Foreign Office in the Nationalist Air Force, which at the University of Southern their bodies near a pine forest

the diversion of the Kimball Smith to a Commu- past 24 hours Associated Press berday when they visited their Our OWIS..

Correspondent and

son to deliver some mail Reuter

The bodies of the family all ist port appears to be a clear case mudé, Magneson was found bathtub partly filled with wa- of whom had taken poison, lay of disaffection. Even there, bow- Blackwell REUTER MAN SHOT, with three bullet wounds in alongside lunch boxes, wine bot- ever, lack of information makes officials, reluctant to say anything And * COS "stomach and thigh and Gri- tles, ladies magazines

beyond the fact that they are AT IN BANGKOK |mith was found on the bathrpom metic articles.

is in Communist that the sure the shig is bullet

the head and the police believed th floor with a Bangkok: September 26,

on the hands. Zamily committed suicide on Reuters and a 38 revolver tear

bear his outstretc Taylor

If the crew took over the shir day the nine left their home, ald his 8314 Bam, at mali 11.1013.3 1019.7 m General and his staff will move excaped, with a Gesh wound in The professor's

The eldest brother, 26-year-old it is a case of mudiny and pirating, rusle 25 38 - 28.35 income from their present temporary the left hand when an unidenti- son had bee

disturbed Helishi, apparently confirmed the shipping experts said today. ut President

the rest of the family No mention has been made in Truman's

deaths

hand. larged offices in the British Coo-windscreen of his car in the

had, de- and partially buried them before any Communist broadcast of Cap sulate General compound, adds zuburbs here. The attack fohowed

Akonowed veloped the atom bomb He said Reuter

anonymous telephone call "I cannot think of any other pos-Alongside the body of Heilchi Chirf The rebuilding of these officer, threatening him he did not sible reason for his doing a thing lay scythe, while the bodies of American advisers who were which were burned down by ran stop investigating in alleged like this. He and Donald were the remaining eight were covered aboard the ship when it salled angry Chinese mob in January, Bangkok Chinese arms sanggling close friends and always seemed will branches and leaves from Pusry 1948, has just been completed. A plot-Reuter.

tam to get along well-United Press. Reuter.

Mitsunar. 1,7 des. Fah

Bunshine: 9,5 kours.

Rainfall Trace. Total, since Ja

average of 1925.0 mm:16,78 μ·

Readings at

20 am pişi

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Mr. C. W., Martin, will remain are with Mr. Coghill

James

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La di quarters into the new and en- 484 gizmas fired through RAF | IDOLSCE that: Busst...

Wind: Fore

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5.

September

South Korea, on

ted" Press.

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Europe Ringed By Red Rocket

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Elections May Be Forced On

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Recumption Of Free Tin Deal-

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