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CHIANG TO ORGANISE GUERILLA RESISTANCE Communist Forces 13 Miles From Chengtu YUNNAN TURN-OVER

Hoihow, December 9.

Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will help organise guerilla resis- tance on the mainland of China in a flying trip to Sichang in remote Sikang Province next week, according to Nationalist officials today.

American Ship Permitted To Pass Blockade

Aboard the Sir John Frank. In off Shanghai, Decembar 9. The isbrandihen freighter Bir John Franklin which WAL shot up by Chinese Nation- alist warships on its way into Shanghai, was permitted to pant through the Nationallet bluckade today or her way to

A Nationalist waranty stop- ped her at noon, but Nation. alipt

naval officers. after

boarding her, examining the manicat and passenger Plot, permitted her to proceed,

Filieca passengers were aboard.

In bound for

Bho Japan. Asacciated Prosa,

Ward Party To Board Ship On Sunday

The Generalissimo will be accompanied by Premier

Yen Hsi-shan and C. W. Chiu, secretory gen- eral of the absent Acting President, Li Tsung- jen, according to a report

Other reports said Communist forces have stabbed to within 13 miles of Chengtu, abandoned yesterday by the Nationalists, and that eva- cuation planes have coosed landing there. Other Communist columns were driving into Yunnan Province, last area in the South West still nominally in Nationalist hands.

in

were

There

persistent re-, rican arms a small 'ariny estim-1 Yunnan would be ated at 800,000 men under Gen- poris thal turned over to the Communists cral Sun Li Jen. They face a de- inite promise by the Rela Lo peaceful agreement. The "liberato" Taiwan during 1950. provincial government has evo-United Press Puated Kunming.

of Press. capital Yunnan, and has established) its offices at Tali, 105 miles to the North West.

Many of the lesser government vocial evacuated from Chengtu have been Cown to this univer- sity city which is now overflow- ing with refugees. Classrooms of Hainan University have

been turned into, dormitories for re- tugees and many others unable to find neconbnodation are sleep- ing on the ground.

Continental

Aboard the Lakeland Victory Headquarters

December 0.

The American Consul Gen-

It was earlier announced the planning to were

and

Associated

Tito Mission Banned From East Germany

The

-

Berlin, December 0. Soviet-controlled Ger. man police today released members of the Yugoslav mill- tary mission here after hoid-i ing them under house arrest since Thursday night when the mission was barred from East. ern Germany.

eral, Mr Angus Ward, and his

The release was announced by party with sail for home aboard Nationalists the Lakeland Victory within establish one main headquarters the mission headquarters which

Western Berlin ja in

and con- call to

gins will

vlet sector.

at

HONG KONG, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1949.

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Supplies Dropped To Troops In NT

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Chinese Customs In Kowloon Taking Orders From Canton

The Chinese Maritime Customs for Kowloon and District has been taking orders from the Com- munist authorities in Canton since the fall of that city on October 14, it was authoritativa»--- ly learned yesterday.

60 Lost In Yu On Disaster

More than 60 Chinese pas

The workings of the Chinese Customs organisation in the Hong Kong neighbourhood has depend- ed entirely on the South China authority, When that authority was normal functions in so far as they sengers on the motor vessel Yu transferred with the fall of pertain to land (as opposed to Canton it became inevitable sea) operations, the "China Mail" On lost their lives on December for the Kowloon office to ac- learned. At sea, however, opera-4 when the ship broke up in between Pu Toi cept the overall direction of tions have dwindled to a standstill heavy seas the Communiata, it was ex-because of the Nationalist bloc Island and Tein Kun Island kade of the South China coast South of Hong Kong, it was plained,

and river estuaries.

revealed yesterday. Revenue accruing from lond toms is endeavouring to maintain operations is being used at the decretion of the local Customs branch to provide such services as pay and maintenance of statt and installations.

The Kowloon and Districh Cus-

Russians In Yugoslavia Sentenced

Sarajevo, Yugoslavia

December 8,

Тел White Russians wer sentenced to prison today as Russian spies against Marshal Tito's Government and as help- rs of the Germans in the

second world war.

Sentences ranged from three to

0

At rea a completo Customs paralysis is in the offing because Customs vessels putting out with

Nationalist flag would be violat lat tug Canton orders, and if they put out with the Communist em- blem they would be shot at or seized by Nationalist punboats in the vicinity.

European Officers

In a survey of Customs opera- tiona at present, the "Ching Mall" learned that near-chaos is prevailing, with dual allegiances, and loyalities, and a worried staff efficiency and initiative,

crew and one passenger wore Only three members of the

rescued by a fishing junk.

The Yu On cleared with the Marine Department, on December 3 to carry 13 passengers and 18 members of the crow to Swabua in Chinese territory.

However, the Yu On evidently.

to proceeded, Shaukiwán, and took on an additional 50 pasRc- gers before leaving for. Swabue. Rescued mon said that when the ship begin to break up, about three miles from the closest land, they throw heavy planks UVCF- board, and jumped into the water after them.

Six hours later, a fishing junk master, Fung Wah-tin, sighted the men clinging to the planks, and hauled them aboard.

Yesterday the Police charged Chou Chi Har Hong Kong merchant,, of acting as agent, for

The heaviest sentence ct European officers are teaving the Yu-On, and thereby endan

20 years. went to Arson Boramovic, A Judge and state prosecutor under

the

pro-Nazi wartinio

ment of Croatia.

govern-

was six

Aleksei Krishko, a 08-year-old Russian Orthodox priest, sentenced to 11 years and months. Others included a former TAIN,

the service on retirement or negotiating with the authorities for a settlement of their claimą: before such retirement. An atmosphere of

hopelessness hongs in the air, as officers, and staff alike witness the virtual

of stretching back to the days of Slr 料 organisation

crumbling Most of those convicted admitt

ed giving Information to the Soviet Embassy in Belgrade, and spreading anti-Tite propaganda Associated Press. ‚

Japs Bartering Steel For Coal From Red China

for

gering the safety of persona through neglect.

A Marine Court acquitted Choy claiming that the police prosCCU...'. tor. Inspector 8. I. Pile, did not prove conclusively that Chou was agent for the Yu On, Veng under now?

Chou's case was the first trial Merino Ordinance

which was enacted this year,

The ordinance states that every

Robert Hart, the founder of the Chinese Maritime Customs

person who by unlawful het, or Some European Customs officers wilful omission endangers per contacted by the "Chips Malone conveyed upon any vessel. suld their job..became almeult 13 able to six months imprison- after the Pacific War when therent and a find of homore than

nationalist mited, element of the $1,000,

Kuomintang asserted such Inno- |·| vations into the service As ro

quiring that all correspondence be

undertaken in Chinese..

• Remaining Static;

Bevin To Head UK Delegation At Colombo

London, December

accompanied

Tokyo, December 9. The first postwar shipment of steel products 10 Communist The fall of Shanghat brought to China will be made shortly in the fore the delicate position of The Foreign Secretary, exchange

North China's the Customs and emphasised Its Ernest Bovin, will lead the British major labour upheaval in the Colony is expect- Kailan coal under contracts can exposure to the ultimate fortunes deleration to the Colombo conferen- cluded between the giant. Yawata of the Chinese civil war, The co of the Commonwealth Foreign ed during the next three months, despite de-

Iron Works of Kyushu and the.

question

of loyalty and allegiance Ministers which opens on January Peking regime.

began to be felt mands for pay increases already put forward

9, the Commonwealth Relations from then on. Omclaix of the Iron Works said

Canton's occupation synthesised Culcer said today 24 Hours after the vessel for further military operations on

by workers of two important utility companies.

200 tons of concrete bars will be the worst fears of the European reaches Taku Bar at Tientsin continental Ching at Sichang. It rmed thy telephone

Is expected that the Generalissimo Lieutenant Colonel Mumcilo Sibi-

shipped This was the majority opinion of labour circles and.

from, Yawata port to staff who then began, to consider Mr. Bovin will be acc on Saturday afternoon of all his party, after visiting movie, acting mission chief,

Tsingtao on December 13 follow-seriously the question of retire-Minister, Mrak, menaid 'Commís- by the Commonwealth Relations "Noel Baker, Sichang, will arrive in Hainan his home In the Soviet sector.

emplayers contacted by the "China Mail" yes-

ed by a shipment of 500 tons of ment. The movement oventually Mr. Malcolm Pe site's master, Captain Paul some time next week,

terday. Colonel Sibimovie said the mis-

wire material to Tientsin on De- became so pronounced that the

General for stoner Sextan, said he ordered the crow

South Top government officials here

sion members had been given un- 'The

of labour, and there is every possibility

20. majority for all-night cargo want to the airfield lete yesterday til December 15 to leave the So-unions, though

cember

administrative body

could fo prepare

no Asia, and Sir B. Hankinson, feciing the of automatic adjustment

EXIT

The

call for the ex-longer disregard contracts

High Commissioner. in Ceylous tanlading on Saturday so as to expecting Chlang's party. Not un

The be ready to take aboard the daportti todny did they receive word

Influential opinion among Cus. British delegation will also include pinch of the high cost of liv-when things on the mainland port of 1,000 tons of concrete bars, rd American diplomats and their of the postponement of the trip. The house arrest was believed ing. express the view that the revert more or less to normal. 912 tour of wire material; 200 tons toms circles, analysing this situacial advisors, from the Foreign There is no denying the fact each of galvanised iron sheet and tion, said Customs revenue and Office, the Commonwealth Heintions Reports from Chengtu today to be part of a campaign to crush increase has been brought

the

and the Board said panto in the alty was in the growing Titoist movement in about more by present that there are elements in the steel sheet in exchange for 20,000 efficiency will remain static until Office,

the Grossing

Communist Eastern Germany. The Ministry situation in China, and by the labour ranks who desire to take tons of Kallan coal during this the civil war is ultimately ra of Trade.

solved. They said present opera The spokesman a told the purpose. columns began to by-pass it to of Interier of the Soviet-spon- excess

the advantage of the present situa-month-United Press. population in

tions are guided mostly by tom- of the conference will In view out off the

porary arrangements not fore of the international altuation, "ine. banned Sikang Province.

the mission on the

seeing any long-range point of clude broad ecotomis, napocta/-- Tho

reports indicated that the grounds that it tried to "Inter-

view.

United Press, T regarding Commu

Communistst apparently were fere with, peaceful order." trying to prevent any major Na- tionalist forces retreating from Chengtu into the mountainous ice were still around his home in Blchang area where the Nation-Hull force" but that he had been When the Lakeland Victory allets plan to build up a new centre told he could leave. He said an ontors Taku Bar the bright red of resistance on continental China. East German pollen general and "danger" flag will be fylng from The Executive Yuan meanwhile two Germans in elvillan clothes! her foremast. Captain Sexton sald set up lemporary office at Holhow entered his house today and told it in the closest thing he has to to handle the evacuation.

famullion on Sunday morning.

He pointed out, however, that the speedun-has not been approved by the Communist purt wuthorities. Captain Sexton sent a third mos sage to the Purdße For Enat Lino's agent in Tientsin today asking for instructions and advice on Com- munist regulations American vessois,

The Red Flag

the Communist red and gold flax. pointing out

ships had trouble at Tlentin

not flying the flag of Communist

China.

aftor

cope route to sored East German government Colony, than anything else, tion to get an increase in pay, whether of p' permanent от д

Colonel Sibimovic said the po-

Labour Party Retain South

Chiang-Li Breach Soviet sector homes by December House of Commons, complete

The vessel is scheduled to pick Now Wider

a small cargo, including Tien-

tsin rugs. No one is expected to

be allowed ashore.

from the

راسة

Premier Yan Hi-shad‹ sald on Captain Soxton said Major his arrival in Talpch that the Willam Basch of Boston, an Army medlent officer pleired up at breach is now even wider between Kobe, Japan, will offefully welcoma Generalissimo Chiang and Acting Consul Ward and his party aboard. President Li Tsung-jen, adds an

Associated Press, United Fress.

s, report new Capital,

He said Acting President zi arrived in the United States earlier this week for medica treatment, had changed his mind about wanting

Generalissimo Chiang to resume the presidency. The Generalissimo "zedleed" from

office lost January

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temporary neture, these sources point out, but, the majority of the workers prefer to wait and seo how things eventually · turn out.

Red Gains In ✅✅China Listed

San Francisco, December 9. The Chinese Red radio salt Many in the Colony, including today that at the end of October the workers, are not sure how the Reds controlled 71' per cent

Bradford Seat-they stand if they are compelled of the total area of China and 75

to return to a Communist Chima. per cent of the population. If they are displaced from the A war communique tasted, by comparative security' of a more) the general headquarters of the or less permanent employment Chinese Rcd ariny" recounted here.

their military successes until the end of October but did not in] Wait For Futuro cludo, the substantial gains' scor~|

ed since.!

the Reds There is also a feeling, shared It said at that time: by all, that what the future controlled 4,270,000 square miles holds for the Colony has yet to of territory and 300,000,000 people. be seen, and emplbyare cannot be expected to rush into com mitments which they may even tually find they cannot carry

Bradford, December 9. him he was free. However, the The Labour Party retained general ordered him to get the the South Bradford seat in the mission members out of their

returns from yesterday's bye- Although the mission head-election showed today. quarters is located in the British The seat itself is not important was viewed as a sector by four-power agreement but the vote the mission members lives in the straw in the wind on the Labou Sovlet beetar and drow their Party's prospects for the geiser al rations from the Rursions.—Unit- election next spring. The result ed Press

was a sharp disappointment for Mr. Winston

ston Churchill's Conser Party vative

Plight Of Non-Vigilant Bolshevik

The victory was the 35th time. in a row the Labourites success fully defended, in elections to: All vacancies, the districts they cap

In the past few days, during the campaign on the Kwangtung- Kwangsi border, the Communist army struck Westward from Lim- kong, on the isthmus of Lulchow No headway has been made by feat near the coast of the Gulf Peninsula, and took Hoppo bounty, the workers of the Hong Kent of Tongking-United/Press. Telephone Company ord the

Hong Kong Tramway Compony eled in their demand for pay increases.

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Craddock (Labour) 23,336, John months ago, are getuig restive Correspondence, Eof Salgen, moving slowly WNW

Itrague, December 9, Windle (Conservative and Na-over the dolay Kotting any Page 34 Another tropical depression is moving

Czechoslovak Communials today tional Liberal) 19,319, C.3. Cón-regly from the management grid, WNW over the Western Carolinm." An the

and announced the fall of Vilem Nevy, ning (Independent Liberal: 2,882. nccording to officials of their ott-cyclone centred over Koren Premior Yen cald that Chiang editor of their own party nowa-Associated Press covering, China, Japan and the pelgli- bouring sese, muring Eastward is not considering taking over the paper, the Rude Pravo," for

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ferences would be to talk to given a new, and still more pro- to originate in the vicinity of

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Ndrys resignation'‹ from Para De Deus FANART been given to the men...

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