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NATIONALISTS QUIT CHENGTU Implacable Goes Pakistan Plane

Pai Seeks Passage Of Troops Through Indo-China REDS COOL TO LU HAN

Chengtu, capital of Szechuan Province, though not yet occupied by the Communists, has been abandoned by the Nationalist armies:

"All Goes Well

"

In China,' Vyshinsky Says

vie!

Le Havre, December 15. Mr. Andrel Vyah:naky, 8o. Foreign Minister, mald

here today "All goes well in China. We are pretty certain that Mao Tri tang's China

will be recognlead by every body. This перевагу and saserved."

Mr. Vyalnaky, amiable and smiling had just landed from the liner America on his way book * MUSCUW from the Unged Nations Assembly in New York.

1

correspondent Alked by whether 1 was true that

"Runsia contemplates walng

atomic energy to ferfille de

す regluna by blasting

mountains." Mr. Vyainsky CAM but repeat the

waldt

Tam agency statements. The

atomic bomb could happily change

economic goography fertiline regions.”—Reu

and

tor.

Chifley's Government Resigns

Canberra. December 13.

General Poi Chung-hsi, Commander-in-Chief of

Central China, has arrived at Hanol to nego- tiate for possage of some of his troops through French Indo-China.

General Lu Han, who has theoretically capitulat- ed to the Communists has boon ordered by the Communist leaders in Poking to take in- structions from Communist General Liu Po- chong.

These were yesterday's major nese Nationalist troops ontering developments in the complicat- Indo-China in their retreat before ed China situation, according to advancing Communists would be reports available in Hong Kong last night.

interned.

WR

The AFP despatch sald the con-

Chinese inct with

troops wes The vernacular evening news-

made near Langson. paper, "New Life Evening Poat":

It added that their political said that Mr. Mau Tse-tung, amilation and not been deter- Chairman of the People's Central mined but that

presumed Gavemment, 'and General Chou they were remnants of General En-Ink Premier and Foreign Pai Chun-hal's Nationalist army. Minister. Jointly replied to Gen- According to other AFP re- crni Lu Han's proclamation of ports. two Chinese Nutloralist ships were reported sighted off province neur Dalong

the liberation" of Yunnan.

le

The reply. It added, contain - Tonkin ed Rive main points indicating Bay, salling toward Haiphong.

A cold attitude towards Gen-The French authorities were suid eral Lu Han.

to nove taken necessary steps for

The five points were sald to disarining and Interning the stups if they actually enter Indo-China

General Lu Han must take territorial waters, instructions from the Command-

Communist General Liu l'o cheng in charge of the South China "Liberation" campaign;

General Lu Han must make immediate proparations to, wel-

Defence Of Taiwan

2

Meanwhile United

Press

come the Liberation Armies into poris in a despatch from Taipeh. that Generalissimo Chiang Kai- Yunnan Province;

-

3 General Lu Han must pre-shek has drafted plans for the

diements defence of Taiwan against an ex-{}~ all reactionary vent

Communist amphibious fran escoping nad must take the pected necessary precautions against in-1 assault from the mainland.

and Air Chiefs Army, Navy trigues within the province;

the direction of the 4. The Independent Gendarme ›net under

Goncrallssimo as Nationalist army Division in Yunnan must be o cleved to move North to attack sources expressed confidence that

5. All

and

to

Eight years of Labour rule Bikang (where the Nationalists the remaining Nationalist forces In Australia formally came to have established their mainland would be able to repel a direct

assault. an end today when Mr. Joseph guerilia headquarters);

Military

rofused property

assets

sources B. Chifley, the defeated Labour

the combined must comment Prime Minister, handed in the belonging to reactionaries

moved, strength of the Nationalist forces be protected and not resignation of his Government pending orders for their disposal in Talwan but some 200,000 to to the Governor-General, Mr.

200,000 men are believed to W. J. McKell

The "New Life Evening Post" garrisoned there.

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loter.

He posed for Press photogra- added that this reply from the phers at Government House in Communists was interpreted as Yarralumba few miles outside their distrust of General Lu Han Canberra, before going to the and refusal to deal with Governor-General's study. Mr. direct,

McKell was expected to make him

to carry on until the new Liberal- Withdrawal

Country Party Coalition la sworn

1.

1

oral

The latest count of the gen. From Chengtu

election

figure Indicate

that the Liberal · Country Party Coalition will have a majority

of more than 31 over Labour In Parliament,

With two sents in doubt, tho Coalition parties nvo 75 scats

and Labour 44.

Holland Sworn In

Meanwhile, Associated Press ports in u despatch from Auck innt, that Mr. Sidney Holland, leader of the National Party whose election victory ended New

him

cently

on

were purchasing

To Watery Grave

The pid· Prangh Now there is only one survivor of the famous Battle of Trafalgar. wooden battleship Implacable was sunk off the lele of Wight That left har conqueror in the battle of 1908, the British ship Victory, afloat at Portsmouth. This picture shown the old-war- rlor with her decks swash and debris floating round her as she settled to her graveʼafter four holes were blown In her huli. From her masthead fly the Teleolour of France and 4he British White Ensign. Bhe was captured by the English three wooks after the Battie · of... Trafalgar when Nelson, in the Victory, beat the French. For many years past the implacable has been

removed before, she Mer top deck was used as a treiming ship by the British Navy. sunk. (AP Photo.)

Quirino

The

The

Proclaimed Crew Of CAT

Pl President In Stormy Session

Manila, December 13. Philippine Congress today proclaimed the election of Elpidio Quirino as President and Fernando. Lopoz as Vice President in a stormy special session during which the minority charged the November election was fraudul-

ent.

House voted 53 to 8 for the resolution pro- claiming the election of President Quirino and his Iloilo running mote for a four-year A few term beginning on December 30. moments later the Senate voted 13 to 6 for their proclamation-a necessary legal step before they took office.

bo

Strategy planners here heard reports from Hong Kong ra.

that the Communists

sheel motel The stately legislature build-Sunday night to heal the party for armoured landing craft and ing which was still under re-breach and assured Mr. Quirino's trying to buy surplus landing pair from wartime destruction proclamation as President. Mr. craft. Thus most

as the Avelino's reinstatement today was observers was heavily guarded wore agreed that a Communist members

his reward for calling a truce. of Congress met

Mr. Avelino was loudly

ap- assault against Talwan was

under tense conditions. Police,

he was escorted not far off.

and While the military men drew Constabulary up plans to co-ordinate the land, patrolled

the

Plane Held

Crashes; 25 Believed Killed

Karachi, Docombor 13.

All 21 passengers and crow of four wore balioved killed when ‘¤ PAKAIR Dakota crashed 36 miles from hero last night, a Civil Aviation Department official said today. ・・

A Defence Ministry spokesman said that two Pakistan generals were on board the plane. He said the wreckage of the plane had been located in a ravine but the country was diffi- cult and search parties:had not yet reached the scene.

The plane, which was flying from Lahore to Kara

chi, crashod at Junjshahi. Some passangers were believed to bo British and American.

The two Pakistan Generals og he apparently swooped down were named as Major-General toward the river, kept his wheels Iftikhar Khan who was believ-up and reversed his engines BO ed to be accompanied by his that the plane made a bolly wife and daughter, and the landing. newly appointed

Bolling Field airmen who took Brigadier

part in the daring rescue said tho General Sher Khan.

fog was so dense that their 40- An Egyptian Embassy official

foot crash boats had to cut speed that

Shaft El

El Khatib, an and grope slowly toward the Egyptian delegate to the Islamic wreckage test they overrun sur- Economie Conference and brother vivors. Cries from the wounded rescue boats ap-

said

of the Embassy Counsellor here were heard as Mr. Hussain El Khatib, was beproached the wreckage Router lieved to be among the passengers and United Fress,

Major-General Mohammed if

tikhar. Khan

Khan was on his way to

attend a course at the Imperial

Defence College in Britain. H Sofia Trial

the first

emcer of

the

Pakistan Army to be selected for such a course. Brigadier

General Sher Khan

was on his way to New York with his wife.

Two officials of the Ministry of Kashmir Affairs, Mohammed Nisź, Undor-Secretary, and Mr. Mush- taq Ahmad, Deputy Director of were also on board the plane.

By Vietnamese Public Relations,

Missing since December 4, the crew of a GAT piano were reported yesterday to bo zafa but hold by the Vietnam authorities

CLEOATIAN

**** The Harol Smed

a message wont, here, quoting the United States Consul there,- Mr. William M. Gibson, sald that it was certain, that', the crow lo hold by the Vietnam authorities.

Mr. Gibson win unid, to have added that sa far sa ha know the crew to being wall treated.

Captain James MacGovern, pilot of the plane, war, com- potted to make a forced land- Ing while on flight from Hong Kong to 'Kunming sà his plane ran out of petrol,

Israel Moving Capital To Jerusalem

and army men plauded when

into the Senate Chamber capital with again when he took the oath. He sea and air forces, the island's tommy-guns and machine-guns said in a speech that it was an

Tel Aviv, December 13. The loading vernacular "Wahad.inistrative machinery swung ready. There were no disturb "act of justice which vindicated

The Israeli government, by Kiu Yat Po,” in a motange from into action under Governor Cherances, however.

"my honour and good name." a narrow majority today, de- Bishang, capital of Bikang, sald Cheng with the assistance of the

During today's Admission to the inner chamber that private reports from United States-financed Joint was by special pass only. Nacionalista opposition called his ided to transfer the capital of Chengtu stated that the Na Commission for Rural Reconstruc- All last minute attempts by reinstatement Immoral."United Israel from Tel Aviv to Jeru- salem, according to sources Press.

close to Parliament..

tlon:

tionalist armiinu have abandoned

Nationalista Senators to block the the capital of Szochuen. Entry

Governor Chen and his organi- proclamation of the Liberal Party of the Communists is expected cation hoped to restore the con-victory- failed because

of last momentarily.

fidence of the island dwellers in week's rapprochement between It added Chengtu area has quietened down, Their main efforts were concen- the split.

that Bring in the the crumbling Nationalist regime. the Quirino and Avelino wings of and that the Nationalist armies trated on

Liberal Party. a land

programme

"The official vola given to Con- der into Sikang Province, have withdrawn across the bor-whereby crop rents have been

gress

1,803,508 for Elipidio was reduced from 50 to 33-1/2 per

Quirino, 1,318

1,318,330 for Jose P. cent of the main crap. It earned

Laurel and 419,890 for Jose

Zenland's 14-year-old Labour Earlier reports had stated that the support of the farmers whose

foernment rule, was sworn in the defence of the city has been support is expected to play an Avelino. The official Vice-Presi-

as the new Prime Minister left in the hands of the small important role in the defence of of New Zealand.

Chengtu garrison with troops and the island. With Mr. Holland was his en-police in control of the city.is fire new Cabinet,, which also was Other vernacular reports said

dential vota

денных Fernando'

was 1.741,284 for for 1,184,315 Lopez Manuel. Briones and 444,510 for. Vicente Francisco.

debate

London Strike Spreads

the

A Turkish Embassy official sald that one Turkish delegate to the Islamic Economic Conference was believed to be among the passen-

Defence (?) Counsel's Address

Sofia December 13. The defence counsel for for-

Kmer Deputy Premier Italcho

Pilot's. Heroisin“In. Washington Crash

Kostov turned against him to- day, called on Kostov to repent his "crime" and satd all charges have been proved against him. In Washington, 19 of 23 persons

Kostov, satellont but alert as aboard a Capital Airlines DC-3

his attorney spent one hour and transport miraculously escaped

15 minutes condemning his client death yesterday when the pilot Kostov and 10 others for treason. daringly crash-landed plane on the Potomac River after miss-

I

the

The attorney, D."Dyulaied, one

ing the National airport, reports of Bulgaria's outstanding court

room strategists, said he wished United Press from Washington

the Kostov had been executadí, by. The pilot, co-pilot and two passengers including woman Royalist police when he was

rested in 1942. The attorney Ignor- were killed,

ed Kostov's plea ai. Innocence. On Crash boats from nearby Boiling the first day of the trial, Kostov Air Force Base rescued 19 vivors from the wreckage. They doorgi Dimitrop and overthrow denied he plotted to assassinato were taken to Bolling Base Hos- the Bulgarian Commuhlat regime pital where many were reported with Yugoslay, British and United In serious condition and receiving States help emergency surgery and trans- fusions.

Dyukmed, said, there should

be two more benches of de- fendants on trial one: to hold Yugoslavia's Tito and fe alder and the other, to hold the "ag- pressors to war" the Anglo. Americans

The pilot who encriflood hla own life in bringing the plane down to a wheel-up belly fands ing was W: J. Davis, 45. Hosirs after the crash his body wa reported

still pinned in the He said: Today, the seventh cockpit of the half-sunkah

day of, this

this trial, we are faced plane with that of co-pilot, I l with a horrible picture and in the Porter, 28. Apparently only middle is Kostov. Credit must bo Davis' quick thinking and skil given indeed to the vigilance of ful piloting prevented a major four organs which revealed this tragedy: Premier

conspiracy.”—United Press. Those sources, said David Ben Gurion (expected to

After missing the National air

Introduce the resolution asking for port in a night black with rain and

Parliament meels, this afternoon..

The decision, it was reported," was reached after 48 hours of hot debate within Cabinet Parliamen tary circles and party gatherings, Parliamentary sources said the transfer of functions would in- clude the Cabinet, Parliament, Government departments and koy London, December 13:

of President · Chaim The entire staff of 1,000 of Weizmann. during the debate on the resolu- one of London's biggest clec- Informed sources said the "Jarz- saler Bill would proclaim an tion Justing almost three hours.trical power stations decided to

ran well into the atrike this afternoon, threaten-undivided Jerusalem and call for They added that the majority of The Commander-in-Chief, For afternoon and sandwiches were ing the capital with a serious the immediate transfer of the Nationalist, General Hu Trung East Air Force, le Marshni F.. passed to the hungry Senators, transport, Industrial and busi-major government function to the manga and man's troops have already crossed Fogarty, CB, DFC, AFC, will ar- the Szechuan border into Sikang. Five at Kal Tak by air today from

i sworn in at the ceremonies pre- that the Communists pre waiting sided over by Governor-General for the Nationalist forecs to clear Sir Bernard Freyberg..

out of the Chongtu area and are

Mr. Holland succeeds, the La- regrouping for an invasion of bourite Mr. Poler Fraser-Reuter Sikang Province.

Di and Associated Press;:..

The Weather

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In South China, more

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FAR EAST AIR CHIEF ARRIVING

HERE TODAY

20,000 troops

of General Fat Singapore. This is his first visit Chung-hal are reported to have the Royal Air Force in Hong Kong since assuming the duties

Senator Camilo Oslas led the opposition in the Upper House

The

session

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Nacionalista

Orlan leader

Holy City which is occupied by Choose ness dislocation. charged President. Quirino was The workers at the Barking Israeli and Arab troopse-Beuter. elected through terrorism and Power Station took their deel- laraell and Arab troops-United fraud. He tried to blook a vote sion when troops were drafted Fress. through, Amendments, oratory in today after token strikes yes-

From The

been trapped by the Communists of Commander-in-Chief on No- and delaying tactics but waitome of London's underground ON OTHER PAGESHIROotes:

The Air Marthal

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near the Indo-China border,vember 20.

GoAbral Pal Gow to Hanol

Monday, and is at present RAF Units in the Colony. will

(negotiattha", for 'passage of his

He will bo. accomparited by Mrs. troops through French Indo-Fogarty, and they will be the Ching to Hainan Island, guests of Air Commodore art The French had previously ir A. D. Davies, at Air Force -deflared that any · Natioónlist |

troops orossing the Border House during their clay in the seould 'be', 'disarmed in accord ¡Colony.

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WOMAN KILLED ́IN FALL FROM- BANK BUILDING

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"Wholesale Frauds trains were stopped in a na

tionwide five per cent electricity Pago 2, The lone Liberal Party Sohator eut this morning which WOB Correspondence i

Wamade worse by last night's, un Page 3 supporting the minority Senator Vicente Sotto who charged official strike, in threo London, First Christmas Hore! Marred By

Sady Tragedy today's action was a matter of life power stations.

for Philippine do

Cuts are normal in cold wea-] Page 4 - ther, but owing to the effect of Barclay's Bridgs Botto auld: This re-the strike the London Transport Page solution, it.

means that Board had to switch. approved.

2- U. 6. Deska – Quarantees over to its the constitutional representatives own power plant

Atlantio Ald" of the people sanction the ter

Naval ratings sent to the three Page vej Forlam and wholesale frauds.com stations were joined today by mura

10 the last election."

of the Grenadier. Chiards Regi ment and the Royal Air Force.

Delegates from all power sta- A83-year-old Chinese woman tion was a "new kind of Fascism foll to fier death from fifth and cited the recent uprisings in tion workers in the London aren "meeting; tonight to decide were floor window of the Hong Kong Batangas and Jolo as evidence wo and Shanghal Bank building into that the people might be inelled whether to strike in sympathy Des Voeux Road at 3 pm yester As the

the men already out or act before adjoum-

London will be “body of the woman,

ment the Senats voted 13 to 8 to plunged in darknem und Industry Chinse was taken to the Queen lift Me Avelino ene-year sus brought to a halt The strikers Mary's Hospital Va

pension and then 13 to 5 to restore complain they have lost a special Apollow official said that night him to the Senate Presidenov, "heat and dirt bonus because It that they were investigatingAihe: Mr. Quiero and Mr. Avelino, was merged in

Router circumstances of the woman's fatal who ran a poor third in the pros us in a page sign, last

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