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U.S. AID FOR NATIONALISTS Queen

Opens

Arms Aid To Be Given To Field Commanders CHIHSING RECAPTURED

(From Our Own Correspondent)

Canton, October 2.

American aid to China to fight the Communists is expected early in November and a plan for aid is to be drawn up by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for reference to the State Depart- ment, said the "Ta Kwong Po," widely read local paper, to- day. It added that the State Department is also drawing up some plans for China aid.

Clearance For Evacuation Ships Agreed

(From Our Own Correspondent)]

Canton, October 2. Foreign Minister Yes Kung-chao told newspaper- men' today that the Chinese Government here has agreed in principle to the British request for clearance of two ship to evacuate the British Ambassador, Sir Ralph Ste venson.

and other British nationals from Communist occupied China.

"We always give facilities for the evacuation of foreign- ers from Communist terri tory," said Mr. Yeh, "but our Government hopes that British will

sand one vessel which would serve the purpose."

the

Mr. Yeh expressed gratifi- cation that the China esse against Seviet Russia was put through the UN.. Aatembly. with greater support than he expected. He said the Chinese delegate at Flushing Meadow would produce adequate and concrete evidence to show Soviet violations of the Sino- Soviet Treaty of 1945,

Rumanians Denounce 'Pact With Yugoslavia

Buchm1 October 2

The Ruman Government 26- runced trelay she had denounced the Rumanin-Yugoslav friend- ship treaty signed on December 29. 1947.

The Rumunian action followed that taken carlier by Russia. Fu-

land, Hungary and Bulgaria.

The Government

#

1The "Chien Kuo Jih Poo", an influential local

paper, said that the U.S. arms aid will be given to field commanders and General Pai Chung-hsi, commanding Nationalist forces in Hunan, will get a major shore. With this oid General Pai will organise ten more divi- sions.

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ISBRANDTSEN

Dutch Parliament SENDS PROTEST

Queen Juliana leaves the Knights' Hall to step into her Golden Carriage for a ceremonial drive through the streets of The Hague, after opening Parliament-(AP Photo).

observers expected that the United States General Mansergh

should support those Nationalist forces which showed effective resistance against the Com- munists and should give the support before the Reds overrun South China. The aid is from the U.S.$75,000,000 in the arms aid bill which is to be signed by President Truman very soon.

General Pai Chuna-hsi is expected here this afternoon after an inspection of the West Hunanfront ** Chinxiang

West China

where a Communist offensive Defence Line

is imminent. The general' is likely to become Minister of

Defence in the reorganised A Chungking despatch publish- vernacular Yen Hsi-shan Cabinet. whened in one Kunming

concurrent" "post as~Defence Minister.

port said the penetration into

munist troops is

1 draw

.the

Appointed New

HK Commander

London, October 1.

| Lieutenant-General Sir E. C. Robert Mansergh, KRE, CB, MC, has been appointed commander of the British forces in Hong Kong, to succeed Lieu- tenant-General F. W. Festing.

General Festing is returning to Britain because of ill-

health.ne

- Lieutenant - General

Ferries Collide In Harbour

TO ACHESON

New York, October 2.7

Mr. Hans Isbrandtsen, President of the Isbrandt- sen Shipping Line which owns three merchant ships stopped by the Chinese Nationalists off Shanghai, vigorously protested: yesterday- "at what he called the U.S. State Department's lack of attention_to_aid and assist Ameri- con vessels in distress.”

Mr. Isbrandtsen, said in a telegram to Secretarycomet

of State Acheson:

"Is not this the first time in (The Nationalists have de- U.S. history that a foreign manded that the independent and All Chinese warship in pursuance of an Clipper turn over unrecognised blockade is being passengers on board They als allowed to use unlawful force also told the ships to dump the cargo taken on at Shanghai or in stopping, seizing and hold-return to Shanghai and unload ing an American ship on the it)-Associated Press. high seas?"

Mr. Isbrandtsen said the Flying Independent and Flying Clipper "were seized and boarded by an armed party and are now being held at anchor at gunpoint."

In another telegram to the State Department," the shipping company head sald the Depart- ment's policy "has encouraged and supported the Nationalist purported blockade which you had

as ille- already denounced gal and unrecognised,”

Japanese Communists Sentenced

Kobe, October 2.

An American provost court sentenced two Japanese Com- munists to five years' impri-

Of the Department announce- sonment at hard labour yes- ment that it had asked the Em-terday for making false state- bassy at Canton to get the facts ments concerning the occupa- in the situation, Mr. Isbrandtsen tion.

Akeneri. Yasuda and Tal.co #Are not the facts as given to Nakamura, speaking at · as Com- you by our masters and by us as musist sponsored rally in Esuruga good as you can obtain in Canton on July 27, told an audience that from people you already have American troops on manoeuvre in said publicly in your White Pa-the area had raped number o per that you have no faith in Japanese women. The prosecution "Are you not thereby surren- also presented evidence that the A harbour disaster was nar- dering the rights of American same statements made by Yasuda rowly averted yesterday even vessels to travel freely on the and Nakamura were repeated in

high a Yaumati ferry

seas? ing when

poster-type

which Mr. Isbrandtsen quoted faunch rammed into a Star

the were displayed on a board behind Ferry launch in mid-harbour. following message received yes the speaker's stand.

terday, he said, from the captain Fortunately the Yeumati Ferry of the Flying Independent:

He Hole.

ACKIT denied

119 Korean

Cung

newspapers

The prosecution presented evi- dence

show that " American had been in the Tauruga troops

.to

vies had

on schedule for the

area at the time. Police tra

launch the Man Kwong, which

permission was sailing from East to West Premier Yen will forexo his paper recently charged that So- viet Russia had instructed the

lessened the impact by veering womed, cuoren, inclume, larea for many months. Manoeu-

including Am- aside, at the same time stopping). bassador Chinese Communists to build up

Mantish military mission in Iraq the engines.

Doved deck, Food "running short section, but we called off be-... "West China defence line? C012- There was to caterial chanzei

The launch's wooden prow was Moderate gale. Very rough. Heavy cause of changed plans a few days in the North Kwangtung sector necting Tihua in Sinkiang. Kun-sergh, who is 49, was a major from 1931 to 1835.

ming in Yunnan, Lanchow

at the beginning of the last in

His war service was mainly in splintered and showed a gaping rolling Cold rain. Passengers, sea before the rally incident during the part 24 hours. One re- Kansu and Chengtu in Szechuan War. He had previously been the Middle and Far East.

The Meridian, Star of the sick One expected birth No doctor. Chinese (who) boarded North Kwangtung by the Come the coming third world war employed with the Iraq army served in the Western desert with Star Ferry was unscathed owing

at an early date, reports United and as member of the Bri- the 5th Indian Division. after to its metal hull, and procceded yesterday fully aware all these

facts,"

រ wards famous for its campaign in on its way. Burma. soldiers under General Pai Chung- The Nationalists, as a result of

No one was injured in either hsi to this province in order to

Early in 1945, he commanded launch, although much excitement į weaken his positions at Heng-Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's

the 11th East African Division and near panic was caused among ang and Hengshan on the Can-cent visit to Chungking, have

on the Burmese frontier for a the passengers, who were a little ton-Hankow Railway in Hunas.

few weeks and returned to shaken but none the worse for the defend Chengtu and Kunming, However, informed sources

lead the 5th Indian Division in rocking said some-troops from Kwangsil he remaining strongholds, for a

the advance down the Tiddim! will be sent to North Kwang-stitch struggle against the

Road and the victorious cam- -aign which ended in the capture) of Rangoon and the liberation of Singapore.

tung

to join in the coming counter-offensive

Press

* thrown in all possible forces to

Red's.

The Nationalist 8th and 89th against the armies

hum Kweichow

for a Chirsing andit suppression mission" were

mort

Rede in Nanhslung. and Wengyuan. Three Communist armies are located

farce helung.

their comrades in Nan-

reported i have already arrived

in the Yunnan province, accord

day.

MPs To Urge Conference

On A-Bomb.

London, October 2. More than 100 Labour mem-

bine

Service In Java

Later in 1945 he commanded

the troops in Eastern Java and in

Towed To Pier

The Man Kwang remained stationary in ṛmid-harbour for about half an hour until 7.131 p.m. when another-launch of

British, Frigate

Similar poster newspapers zon- taining the accusations of rape by American soldiers were widely displayed over the Kobe-Osaka traced the printing and distribution. of ' the false posters to Communist Standing by the Independent Party workers and said it was the British frigate, St. part of a plot to discredit the oc- Bride's Bay, adda

cupation in connection with the 2 Shanghal Communists drive, for power last report Captain Scurr said that Sumber. Nationalist threats ceased when the warship appeared. He had radised earlier that the Nation-

Was

allat destroyer was threatening to fire on his ship.

More than a score of Japanese Communists were jailed during investigation. Associated

the Press.

YEN HSI-SHAN. NOT. RESIGNING

the companу, the Man-Ping,

The other ships are the Flying towed her to the Queen's. Pier in South Klangai ready to reining to Kunming despatch to-bers of Parliament will com-

Clipper and the Flying Trader. When the Man Kwong's passen- All belong to the Isbrandtsen to urge an immediate 1946 was promoted commander gers were discharged she was able Line of New York. Information General Yu Han-moa's troops out Red irregular activities with- United States

The authorities planned to wipe conference among Britain, the of the 15th Indian Corps and to make her own way to the come was that the Trader was not be- and Russia to Commander-in-Chief of Allied pany's pier, as the hole fortunate-tag held, as were the other two. and Governor Hsueh Yuen's pro- in the months-Our Own Cor- establish international control forces in the Netherlands Fastly was situated just a couple of tried to enter the Yangise and

Canton, October 2. announced vincial forces are under orders to

It simply was stepped when it that Foreisa Minister Anna Pau-

respondent, Reuter, Associated over the atom bomb and “other Indies.

The premier. Marshal Yen Hai- clean

feet above the water line. the local Communist at up

weapons for mass destruction" Since April-1948, he had been

-The other launch, the Man was anchored in deep water. shan, în a telegram to several when Parliament reassembles military, secretary to the War Ping had just returned

The Chinese Foreign Office in members of the Control Yuan on October 15, the Sunday Secretary, Mr. Emanuel Shin-carrying the staff of the American Canton said the Independent and and the Legislative Yuan, denied

well. "Empire News", reported to-

Underwriters Bank from a swim Clipper would be released as soon the rumours of his resignation, day.

Lieutenant-General

He said that he has no intentions Festing ming excursion outside the har- the issue of targo and passen commanded the 36th Division in bour.

gers they took on board at of relinquishing his post at the Burma from 1942 to 1945. In 1945

present critical period-Reuter Shanghai is settled.

ker had summoned the Yugoslav Horuen and Polo on the East Press and United Press.

Ambussarior yesterday and, in River. The local Communists are note duncuncing the treaty, attempting to push Northward to

charged Yugoslavia with trying join those

to agate against Russia on Ru-Chihsing

manian territory. Associated

Press

TYPHOON REPORT

in Nanhsiung

Chihsing

The Royal Observatory repart. Recaptured

ed at 11 p.. yesterday that the typhoon near

the Philippines. centred at 18.5 degrees North, 123.5 degres East s moving: West North West er North West of the rate of is hnots.

According to the Manila Wea-

ther Bureau observers,

2 speed-

12p was reported a: the big dis-

turbance headed towards Basco

in Luzon Strait at the rate of 13

and

Moscow Hails

New Chinese

Red Regime

Moscow, October 2.

The newspaper said the MPs will table a motion demanding that the government makes fresh approach to Russia while Britain and

America are still ahead on atomic research."

The report added that some of}

from

he was appointed commander in Hong Kong and Chinese territory The Man wong plies between Hong Kong and left there in 1947 nearby. to become Director of Weapons War and Development at the Office.

He was reappointed to the

year-Reuter.

the members involved also want Hong Kong command in June this Nationalist forces in North "Pravda" and "Izvestia" de- the government to offer mutual Kwangtung have

Yugoslavia, recapturedclared today the proclamation att Chihsing, 135 miles North East of a

to

Finland.

People's Republic in Sweden andre treatened ·

of Canton, according to a com- China was another tremendous

munique Issued today by the victory in the struggle for Kwangtung Provincial Govern peace. ment reports Reuter.

Heavy Bighting is expected along

The papers, which speak in the

this front, Fresh reinforcements names of the Communist Party

the Russian Government

ca

with varying domination

of Russian

The newspaper said the MPs concerned believed Britain has

lose by such a conference. It said everything to gain and nothing to

may have all-party support, be- they even believed the motion

CHOU'S MESSAGE TO FOREIGN ENVOYS

San Francisco, October 2. Mr. Chou En-laf, the Foreign

Japs Not To Pay Minister of the Chinese Common-

Any Further Reparations

ist Government, has sent Mr. Mao Tse-tung's official proclamation of the establishment of the People's Republic of China to the diploms knots adds Associated Press. At from both sides have been sent and

tic representatives of foreign Washington, October 2. countries in China for forwarding 2 am today (1800 GMT. October into this area within recent days. classed yesterday's Peiping, cause Mr. Churchill in January further reparations to

Japan will have to pay no to their respectiys Governments, 2) the storm.was due to intre In South East China, Nation-claration with last Sunday's Ta last year called for a

the vic- Peiping Radio reported tonight at 20.3 degrees North, 121.4 East, alis: araphzibious forces in Amoy announcement that Russia has with Russia before it was too souces predicted today,

3 settlement torious allies, authoritative In a letter accompanying the a position 30 miles South West yesterday launched probing at had the atom bomb since 1947 late. He said then he thought a

proclamation, Mr. Chou said: They made their prediction at believe. the establishment tacks on the Red positions on the in its importance "in the struggle settlement was much more like-ter sampling the opinion of all of normal relations between

opposite the island. for peace.".

:

ly if an approach were made the 11 nations which make up the People's Republic casualties were reported

than it would be if they waited the Allied policy group known Chins and countries in the world "This victory of the Chinese until Russia has the atom bomb. to have

been inflicted on the

as the Far Eastern Commission to be necessary."--Rester. Communists.

people deals a most cruel blow The newspaper said the Labour

These of North Luzon, and was moving NW =

A Nationalist task force, rum-to the aggressive plans of Immotion will be considered at the even representatives of the Phi-

sources assertod WNW at 14 knots, there was

at bering probably 1,200 men, was perialists in the region of the next meeting of the Conservative ppines, who insisted most relere over Korex and a strous Easterly reported today to have wiped out Pacific

said "Pravda, shadow cabinet United Press strongly on their right to ur- ON OTHER RAGES

of Basco.

THE WEATHER

A 600 GMT

03 D.MM. HKST typhoon was entred about 12 lles NE

Hand

Осрати

Auw between this anti-cyclose and the Communist regiment of about the Communist Party organ

typhoon

the rame strength, Today's Forecast-Modesic NE winds from the island city of Amoy adds incitasing to dreng. BE winde aer in Associated Press. periode thundery, whowers during the

• quick stab

"All proponents of peace meet the historic victories of The repert said the Nationalists, millions of people of China, with

the

night, becoming fair with the periods who went ashore on Friday under pride and the liveliest sympathy.

the

support of gunfire from war said "Izvestia," ships, raided the mainland near organ. Sungyu, West of Amoy.

In addition to

Later.

Yesterday's Weather:-

Maximo 2.8 deg. Fab

Minimum 79.4 deg. Fab.

Sunshine: 0.2 hour-

the Government

Stories Públished to wiping out the

that

ther reparations from Japanese DENIES PANCHEN this was not possiblement in the

industry, privately concede that Fage 2 LAMA KIDNAPPED is turn of

Canton,

for

2

HK Workers Celebrate Red

Regime Far Eastern Commission came Page 3

after the Indian represen− ] Gov't Vegetable Market Opposed. tative, Mr. BR Sen, made 3 Page 4 Dr. Kwan, Chi-yiu, the Com- 'missioner

strong statement supporting the

Barclay's Bridge Mongolian Mgand United Tibetan Affairs, denied in Gan-Japan should be forced to pay no States contention that

Page ཇ་ ton tonight a press report from more reparations from her in

French Plan For Disposal. Of London (not Reuter) that the

Italian Colonies 20 dustry

Page

7- Tito Accuses Russia Of

Rainfall: 3.0, 0.12 in. Total since regiment, the Nationalists report-

Jadi 1--1838.9 mm. 74.29 ins, see-tney, crippled two Communist In addition to leading editorials Panchen Lame had been kidnap While it was always spainst an average of 1965.3 mm. battalions before returning to on China, the papers published bed by

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clear that

*Readizer.at Ammunist reinforcements the full text of the proclamation,

stories about the proclamation, Chinghel ninform・・ Agents in the United States could black timidation. moved into positions, 150 miles signed by Mae The tung, they are Kwan

wan said that the Fancken any further Japanese reparations

by virtue of its veto right in the Page 8 29.28 inches,North East of Canton yesterday Chinese Communist leader, and a of the rbetaris, left Kumbara American officials |

who is the spiritual leader

Korea-Not Helpful, UN Omelas |

States for the coming battle which may letter signed by Chirs

this turn of events on September 6 before because it relieved them of the Page S settle the fate of this temporary Premier and Foreign Minister at the Chinese Communists occupied necessity of opposing Reneral Indonesia To Ask For U. 8. Loan

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the new regime which said Slaing the provincial capital af Commission sentiment and also ano 19

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showed that the United States Hong Kong Waterfront China to be in a town South of Lake portance in Far Eastern politics Air, Shipping Movements

said position concerning Japan's im- Page 11 Asso-okonor. This eren said to be tree has been fully recognised. Unit Page 12

lof Communist forces-Recter, led Press.

Sports.

Private zurces Red regulars are Inside Canton's The Moscow Radio has been Kwangtung Province in that area broadcasting news on Nationalist troop trains rolled to steadily since last night ward the front:

}ciated Press.

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