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(Editor's note: Here is a further article by United PBM Cor respondent Chang Kuo-sin, roho trrently arrived in Hong Kong ifter an everland trip from Shanghai.)

The Chinese Communists in Shanghai are encoun- tering active organised opposition to their who wore rute from disillusioned students, formerly considered among the Reds' stoutest supporters.

A high Communist educational official, admitting there are signs of opposition, confided private- ly that the Red regime will not hesitate to take drastic action if this continueS Opposition is strongest in the, mn, wn freqptently insed private Ta-Hsia (Great China) booed when lecturing the students University and the American-on the necessity of submitting to

howed University of Shang-Red rule. hai.

This at present is crystallising of battle for The control

The Tu. student organisations. Heih anti-Red sturichts, who rall themaclves 'middle-roaders, suc- ceeded in expelling the Reds from the control of 40 per cent of the university's departmental student

acieties

Alvo Many Narking students changed their minds about the Reda, Semp asked foreign dipio-

them mate to help

arrange passage to Hong Kong.

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** Pragub, December 30. :

While the leaders of Czechoslovakia's Communist- regime tfaith'a number of material and policy" successes for 1949, they admit that they aro entering 1950 with many big problems still

bo volvod.

to

Actual measurement of their material development in this country has become impossible owing to the restrictions they themselves have im posed

They say that industrial pro- duction is rising. But they con

al key statistical information. They say that a great ingreuse in trade with the Soviet Union beneficial to the Czech econo- But they conceal the facts. They will not reveal how much tmported of whist, or at what priech goods and materiala bought and sold.

my

Are

matters

Curiosity about much would be regarded us espiontige. Foreign corrcapoifdenta ato' there-" fore not curious,

They claim political popularity, But there no vote to support their claims. Although they maintain a public opinion sampl- its ing organisation,, they keep fndiri secret, and there is no tho noist probing Press to lot uut or the light in.

But there in some visible evi- the dence of improvement in

during 1940. material situation

It is visible in shop windows and In family kitchens.

Issued warninga bf more purt- เก

The Party's problems derive from the fact that it worked after the war to build up a mnas mein- befahip. After February, **1048; when the Communists took over power, thousands jumped on the waggon as it rolled on the music of the band.

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Tho. Party leadership know! that most of these were probably are "unreliable."

and

With this element of unreliabi- lity in the Party Itself, the 'Chech Communists are entering 1050 with major difficulties still ahead.

Although the new laws give the over the State complete_power Church, the Catholic hierarchy have reamined independent in spirit, relying for support on their estimate of the sympathy, how ever passive, or 7,000,000 mem- bera.

Church problem

The Church and religious questions are allied to the ques- whose tion of Life petsanis,

"new 80- "education" towards de

has clalist forms of agriculture" heen hindered through a lack of trained educators and by a cer tain amount of peasant stubborn- ness.

Cuviare,

cheeses, Tokoy. fot

and Ru- hama, butter, Russlan

alan wines, Cognac, pate toie gras, make cluborate displays In the shops which are State-run, and which operate the expensive free market.

Visible progress

than Prices which were more 1,000 per cent above normal in January wete down to 600 to 800 per cent above norindl in Decom- ber.

Even in the maxt backward section of Communist-controlled industry, the balding and con struction trades, there has been Prague, visible progress, being started in early 1848 public buildings which were only now being completed.

In

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Othalal figures, withough in- adequate in most respects, shów great expation in forein trading, mostly, it bellevad, inth Eastward direction.

industry

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New York, Uso:mber 29, tommenting on the 'forth. 'camfil Commolabaith ath- Terence at Guyish, the "Timaa" raid the decision on Britain's rale fh Europa with Be › tha' most important development From the meeting, and added it la únichinkable that the Do- mintens would object to Bri cain Hasuring the kay posl tion in ths

ths European demo

cratio system:

"Tire

made eleaf Ito attitude: "By geography and history, by

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Sir Henry McMahon, the author of the famous "McMahon Letters," " which, the Arabs claim, promised

Bul in December

party London home today, aged 87. found teeit strong

He was 'n former Foreign Se- against

oi Government move, withal edutiously,

of farmera While tretary to the group

British the first India and was material advan- playing, with

of the High Commissioner in Egypt. tages, for the sympathy

the Party The letters were a long correa- peasants, smaller

ante

the enough

to

started arresting und Oning pondence with the Sherif Hussein. July, 1815. larger farmers, and taking over of Mecca, between their land for alleged offences in and Mich, 1910, When Sir Henry

meet was the High Commissioner connection with fullure to mandatory delivery quotas.

Cairo.

in

About 20 years later he wrute By taking one group at a time, the Communists were avoiding to the "London Times" denying the creation of an united, front of that he intended to include Pales- politieni or economic resistance. tine in the area of Arab indepen-

(unless they renourico

actual

A new bridge is being thrown One problem is that the pessoais dence

are, ob the whole, the Catholles.

also had every reason to be. while So, in December,

the the ngainst across the Voltava.

larger leve at the time that the fact that operation

Palestine was not included in iny the progress, farmers was in

understood by was icft

inPledge, was well

Hussein," he wrote to the King Church problem Students in Slate-owned uni-

abeyance.

As they enter 1950, the CzechTimes." versities are the most disillusioned

The British Government pub- Communists are committed to

middle class shed the correspondence us 'most certainly eliminating the IB group. They had formerly been pald tuition, board and lodging

Ministry by the Nationalist

operating. Beetrity services are And arrests, especially by right, White Paper in Arabic and that criticised thus hoped to

on almost a War footing Tactory and confiscations of property, dre original drafts on contemporary education, who

translations had been In the University of Nanking,

Communist influence gates are barted to prying visi-fio popular. mis-stem off

tors. But byer the high wille also endowed by American

accurately the Arabic of the Communist students among the revolutionmy-minded

with which "Chechoslovakia keeps religion are committed to oppose Becmise they did; not reproduce Chinese fadent class. SION, the

group in

out "sples and saboteurs" factory Marx and Lonth). This is Toiletters, ****

popular in a nation of Catholics. British representatives on the fort to the "moderate" the elections to the Universi

Following "liberation", the new chimneys can bb béén stooking,

roada are They are concerned to see that Arab-Brfish Committee, report- students Trains run. The. Student Council which rubs the

authorities advised the

scholarships busy with motor transport: There religious feeling seems to boing to the 1939. Palestine Cdn- that only

few afairs of the university in accor-

growing, even in Moscow.

farelice, mathiained that on a [or excep lance with the "democratic" ale would be provided

is plenty of petrol on

They are committed to the so-

Palestine was "exclutt ministrative system advocated finally bright students. The rest market.

pondence A diplomat who is newly, ar cialisation of the land. They are proper construction of the corres for could either continue their educa- the educational Authorities

rived Herb Wild recently: "My committed to long years full tuition, or

pendenc tlon by paying universities,

ty which is at least apathetic!

representatives claim-- the Thu were welcome to join the Com-first impression is that this is a minority pushing along a majori-ed from the area of Arab inde-

to utmy. Owing their running economy. It works."

They are committed to? manist funnelal plight, many

problem of propagating Commued that there was no doubt that Long way to

Inism in a country which, more "Palestine was, in fact and in were forced step-United Press,

that than most countries governed by intention, included by both par- calm The Communists

the Communists, has experience of ties to the McMahon-Hussein cor- matertal aprovement in metnomy is the result of their property ownership and which, respondence in the area of Arab

To the

first 31 ydars of his policy. Non-Comitilinists, pre-after long training, resists, at independence."

passively, by habit

working life were spent in the pared to admit the Improvements, though

Indian Civil Service, which he pre Inclined to put much of itReuter, down to

entered about 1885, andre in post-war re-

become the first High- covery

Commissioner to Egypt,

by

strong In Opposition is also

school In secondary p.ivute Shanghai. Pro-Red and anti-Red studits in the assembly Hults "two segregate themselves into separate groups, the singing the new fted anthem, the other the Nationalist anthem.

“Mistaken thoughts"

The Communiat authorities are adopting a tolerant attstuds tower these tocalcitrants, 'but Verkit #nd-Röd student leadofa *hl** have been wrrosten für falbh thoughts!"; »da« t«

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Терп-адо secondary school

students are also showing disgust

of the new regime by asking all

inds of embarrassing questions In class-bbed Soviet Russia Savlat tontrol of the Chongthun

students

to take the latter

British Embassy in Jakarta

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Long

the

free

The situation, was so bad, espeefally, ifter the 1947 drought, that it had to improve, and Im provement: was more or less. automatic tha Country well prac- tised In Industrial techniques.

But, while there are butter and

ay a

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Jakarta, December 20. The British Information Office here announced today that there and hambabe andUnits of the Chinese Com-dary between 1894 and 1800, jie Consulate in Jakarta (formerly calls and hoes to buy the prices Mint Army have worked out, was also British Commissioner havia) has been raised to the nt which they behold theasure 1950 production plans, accord-rbitrate on the boundary ber

the distance: Czechoslovakin mill

1003. itatus of an Embassy.

titis to before flic Communist Ing to Peking Radio tonight. twech Persia and Afghanistan These units, which are not on For the last three years of his combat duty, are responding to n Meanwhlie three, more 'gations! mahagdment of industily and

The price of builds on the free recent Call by the Chirico Core career in rnilla, ho was Foreign India the Versuflen Fence Students of the Fu-shin becom Sites of Indhesia. They

soldiers to participate Over the year as Soviet Imports Communist School once proved to iftal Elfe and Thailand, matait dropped substantially munist leader, Mao Tse-tung, for Secretary to the Government of redthat their hundinistas Wis

order "ta compelled to warn them to be

people's burden." Neva be be subject to individumi Ambassador to Thechesla tre locul production recovered. "It educatiohifing 40 splend

pag-expected sito present thistle crew 1000 crowns, ci fillo in pople vis

Sookahs January. It is still 800 crowns According to a plan periba fa un hot indtiön tar dentials to President

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The United States and Thalan 2 böðsed servo subpilek. and in proatiction and conference tippontifed Jum British!

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Commissioner on the Middle Interiitionut Commission,

Since then, he has Held Indus- Hrial directorships, mainly in 11,

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Student, opposition come into the envoy from Alterica the, prile. Sow in 1,000, crown, gunster Holdier silpping, bonking and insurance.

bjection or

by the Communist army's

raising tiphery, irritation, mwoll engage infringe vestock runs upper wills and 2 or paper rills and all The Radio sald it is expected: that at least 50 per cent of Chi- nese Communist rooms in North

ina will partiő páfe-in-

Pressos

Aman's shirt was 1,000 crowns,

the Span dug

Mr. Merle Coohtane, Ug, mbi the free market supplements the representatives to student wil bor of the Unite Nailers Com-tution system in which prices are Held In Shinghbrik. November mission (or Indolera for the held down the railon by Reel Wall Inadequate and has nuit been substantially improved. Students of both T-Haia Uni Bast 18 months. versity unde Donornley 6 Inail is represented, by bruges, link all the Workthan can buy with them, are below Bhanghai elected, anti-Redis, but Paramasiva Subhuinyan

most Western Mandards to get the Talia Reds immediately.inted Press.

more money to buy mort, fred murket goods workmen. fiyat der: fightched plece log. ratth. Stakhanovites, or shock workers, find that, the percentage

fergade in their pay packets dodaje o ar hot koop pnea With the percontage

Heir biltput. increase in their

annulled the election on, the,

of 'without,

grounds that it was Hola

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