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REVOLTS IN CHINA OUTRAGE IN MALAYA Australia

Armed farmers resist

rice tax collectors

LIN PIAO'S BUILD-UP-

to allow the disembarkation of Bonds of armed peasants are resisting the collection of rice taxes

a shipload of Chinese papsen-

gera from Hong Kong.

The passengers consisted uf

Nationalist soldiers and depend

ants, 1,015 in all,

The authorities said they had

no valid permits, and Would

imposed by the Chinese Communist authorities in Kwangsi Pro- vince, arrivals from Wuchów told the “China' Mail" "yester- day.

therefore have to go back to long They said that the new regime is having a difficult

Kong in the same ship, the Bri

tish steamer Kwelyang,

time in.trying to collect taxes in kind.

The Kwelyong was still at Kee-The taxes are so high that the farmers have organis-

lung this afternoon waiting for a

final decision from the Bouth

East China command before turning back to Hong Kong,

ed themselves to oppose parties of soldiers sent out to implement the tax orders.

The Nationalist authorities said They added that the pee- they have received no advance sonts' resistance movement is notice that she intended to bring spreading throughout Kwangsi. Nationalist soldiers and depend- ants,

have been given und approval obtained before the ship set out

ist Liberation Armies, are seldom mentioned in the newspapers.

The messages added that even the soldiers at Hankow sing songs extolling the virtues and prowess

The

that polley to build up Lin Plao as the there esragen indicated

appears to be a deliberate greatert voldier in Chinese history, This

may be a prelude to his place, it was added. taking over General Chu Teh's

dominating international elique.

General Lin Pins belongs to the

The rice situation has become This, they maintained, should to cute ut Liuehow, big fallwn of General Lin Plao.

town midway between Kwellin military authorities have to im and Nanaing, that the Communist

port rice from

Hunan to supply The population and the garrison forces.

for Taiwan.

Taiwan advised

Mr. Chow Chan-Kwong, Chairman of the Tung Wah Group of Hospitals, when con tacted by "China" Mmi?" fast raport that the hospitals failed to inform Taiwan the evacuees' arrival.

night denied the

"In fact," the chairman sold, "we cabled Taiwan four times to which

received only We reply."

one

He said that the reply from Taiwan was that if the evacunt- ing Nationallat soldiers' and their

The farmers in Use districts sur rounding Lluchow have refused to bring their rice to Liuchow for more than a month.

Troopa sent to the districte to follect ride taxes and to por. suade the peasants, to sond their rlow to Liushow markets were. invariably beaten back by bandr of armed farmers./

dependants possess valid inndins Nationalist

permits there will be no dimenity in landing.

Asked whether all the evacucer possessed landing permits, Mr. Chow said only a few of the blind soldiers are, not equipped with the permit.

Disorders in South Africa

Johannesburg, South

Africa, February..20..

A police sergeant was killed yesterday and 16 persons were injured when police and natives shot it out in the latest' of a

remnants

The informanta

Trial of American in Hungary

Australian

war crimes

prosecution

Tokyo, February 20, The Allied headquarters and

day broke the long silence on Australian officials in Tokyo to- the Australian war crimes pro- secution,, announcing that 39 Japanese suspects had been ar- rested during the last two weeks and hel3 in Sugamo Fri- son at Australia's request.

Two other Japanese suspects requested by Australia were found to be dead and two were still being sought. The new suspects wore confined with 87 who have been held for long periods in Sugamo awaiting trial by Aus- tralia,

More than a thousand people lost their homes in the tile town of Simpang Tiga, In Perak, Malaya, when 80 bandits set fire to the township. The High Commissioner, Ble Henry Gurney, visited the town after the burning, and the Government has promised to rebuild the town.

Rellet for the victims was begun Immediately. Troops of the Malaya Regiment" and Photo shows a generat detachments of, police now` guard the town while it is being rebulit. views of the destruction—~(AP Photo),

BOMBINGS, BLOCKADE CAUSE CHAOS IN S'HAI

Conditions in Shanghai have deteriorated to such

a point that many residents are trying to leave as fast as railway trains and river boats can take them, according to arrivals from tho Northern port.

Disappointment over Communist rule has become

...so widespread that the population is anxiously. is praying for the return of either Western In Huence or the Generalissimo,

The official announcement from General MacArthur's legal section -Budapest, February 20,

denied the Japanese assertions that many of the men being® Held, Hungary's fiery young pro- had not been told the charges secutor, Gyula Alpal, demand against then. But officials sould ed today that American bual not say when the charges were nessman Robert Vogeler be preferred. meted out the fate of a spy but i The announcement and many did not specifically ask for the of the suspects will be taken to A death penalty.

Manus- Island, near New Guinea, inter this "month" where they For two of Mr. Vogeler's Hun-will be tried by Australlar mill garian co-defendants, Omre Gel-ary

tribunala.

1

!

200-

accute

trocltles

few thousand foreigners remaining in the city ⠀ are impatient for the despatch of evacuation

ships. denial of surrender whatever

pork and beef are beyond the

calls for Pacific Pact

Sydney, February 20. Events are moving so quick- ly in South-East Asia that un- less Australia acts promptly she may be prevented from creating a Pacific Pact, the Aus- |tralian Foreign Minister, Mr. Percy Spender, sald here today,

- Australia, he said, is prepared to enter into a Pucifle Pact if she can- and other powerful nations to join her.

Mr. Spender raid that no such pact could be effective · without United States co-operation. But he believed Britain, New Zealand and ather British Commonwealth Countries could lay the basis for

It.

I was imperative, he sad, that Australiu evolve some such sys- tem of security in conjunction with the United Nations, sur- -rounded as she was by half the world's population who did not understand the value of the de- mocratic way of Mo,

U.S. attitude

Meanwhile, in Colombo, Dr. Philip Jessup, the American Ambassador *t Fargo, declared at 'a Press conference here to. day that the United States was not engaged in any effort to build a

"military bloo" In the Arlan Biates.

He said this in reply to a ques- flon why America was "showing so much interest in South East Asia."

Dr.

Jessup emphasised that there would not be any intrusion of American aid to South East Aslan countries. Any requeat for ald musi military or economic

reach of many. Cigarettes havo] Primate from the countries

so sky-rocketed that a pack of Camala or Craven A (which are the independence and nationallst The United States recognised virtually unobtainable) Conta

more than US$2 each. Utility aspirations of the Asian countries bills are prohibitive, and coal and would do all she could to for heating purposes in forbid, support those-Router. dent.

same

COUNTE MOUNTBATTEN

TO VISIT HK-

Malta,

of the Nationalist armics' defeat tance should: bring him the fate Borneo and Indonesia crimes, so they see no prospect for pro- many disasters at one time. Some people seemed to feel that they which she will teke over in June.

in Kwangsl

A number of the farmer.grups. involved in the tax. resistance movement are being led by former Nationalish army officers.

Hunan farmers

of such persons,” Alpat said.

"Now-Witnesses ·

.

Nine new witnesses brought to the stand today to „United Press... give testimony that Mr. Vogeler and his alx co-defendants com- mitted espionage and sabotage against Hungary,

war

· DETENTION OF BRITISH SHIP

said that the He further said that in order to many remnants of the Nationalist

The Communist authorities in supervise the evacuation, one re-arales have Jained; the farmers prosentative from the bosplints and and supplying them with arms

Fan effort to raise money, invoked the wrath of the populace by travelling with the disabled sol- to resist the authorities. The bands

compelling employers to order diers. However, since the group have established hide-outs in the departed on February 17, there hills.

their personnel to use all their Chinese New Year bonus for pur- has been no word from the re- They said that the Communist

chases of

issue of "Vic-: new

February 20. presentative.

I believe," he added, "the re-ensunition in the skirmishes with ever insisted upon the "severest he reports published in Australia have for merely the oppor-ly used and for a time on Feb-deprived of

forces have suffered considerable ger and Zoltan Rado, Alpa! how- The statement was

All of them are will to friends. The roadways were also

Countess Mountbatten. left Bands," refundable in five tory used as first-aid. centres.

tour presentative must have been re- the farners.

they

years. Thousands of workers. al- here for an extensive penalty"-which is death for hat American

Incendiary bombs were lavish-ready heavily in debt, were thus of the Far and Middo East. She fused permission to land."--Asso- They said that it has been es-espionage in Hungary,

pressure forced ciated Press.

Australia to abandon

extra money ill visit Service hospitals in tunated that some 200,000 small

plans to tunity to quit China. Dis-ruary 6 more than 15 fires burned even before they received it. Travelordan, Hong Kong, Malaya the "Vogeler. is a spy who lost rms have fallen into the hands of!

Japanète for illusioned, frustrated, and simultaneouslyThe whole dity The arrivals said this action of and Ceylon. unmasked. The farmers and bandits as a result and was

against

elvilians in anxious for their own safety, are brigade unable to handle so versally unpopular,

was engulfed in smoke, with the the Communists made them uni- She will also Inspect units of because the the St. John's Ambulance Corps The Australian presentative, Lieutenant Colonel fitable commercial pursuits arcas burned until they were re- were being unscrupulously ex- the results of the United Coun- The Countess will see la India D. L. Goslett, who refused to see in the years to come.

duced to ather bene

plaited the. Press the past month, was Hopes nurtured by the British One hour after the raid all Shanghal was given an alloca-cil for Relipt and Welfare which were not available for comment recognition of Peking have fizzled communications services

were tion of 30,000,000 units of these she founded in 1947.15000 outcompletely. Air attacks by suspended, and no water, light, bonds, and as they are priced at She is expected back in Malta Nationalist planes on British pro- or gas was avaliable for three US$1 per unit, the

amount of in April Routor perty along The Bund and the days afterwards. Eventually, the money required of the city vic- waterfront have produced the French Fower Company released tually reaches US$30,000,000. tear that Taiwan plans the ruth some supply to the Settlement Several hundred heads of firms than face less destruction of British hold-area, which was ings in retaliation for the with surviving

Privata despoliation by the authorities drawal of recognition. As far as homes had to supply of power of over their inability to buy the

Taipeh, February 20. bonds, have left for Hong Kong, The British Consul conferred the Communists, are concerned, any kind for a whole week... they have, dònɑ, nothing to en- Foreign residents of large apart-the arrivals said.

un Sunday with the Governor of courage British property owners, mont houses like the Grosvenor. They described the exodus as Taiwan, Dr. K. C. Wu, regarding

or firms. The Englishman, along the Hampton, the Dauphine and

to afford a troin or steamer Caduceus, at Takao ponding con Pakistan and South Africa are remains constantly exposed to some cases down 14 storeys for Ucket. No one has any desire to firmation of ownership.

of water drawn remain in Shanghai, any longer of an "Indian question in South regard in agreement as to the existence minor irritations, anuba, and dis-bucketfulls And

Dr. Wu said that Information from wells. and bring them up than absolutely necessary, they) indicated that the Caduceus” was Africa," the South African Popular support of the Com. again. By law, no more power 1 added.

owned by the Communista "and that her crew were Communists.. Minister of the Interior, Dr. munists, which characterised the to be made avaliable for private Danges, told the Union House and the people for a few months ap

relationship between

the rulers lifts.

--Router, The arrivals said these famous of Assembly today.

after the detent of the Kuomin- apartment houses, once the pride Dr. Donges led the Union's Lang, has been replaced by anger of a once modern Shanghai, ara delegation at the recent proll-

and dejection minary conference here between Shanghai tnday see no hope in cause of the clogging U

The people of now cold and empty. Refuse, be- the three countries.

Chinese regard it

Communter, and have chutes, is now dumped into the The official joint communique come to issued here last night, said the

exploitation. because they feel that they shall Giving this picture, of Shanghai be leaving it all soon. three nations had agreed to call conditions the arrivals from the The Embankment building, one

round table conference "to ex- North described.

themselves

of the largest apartment holises ? plore all possible ways and refugees from terror. Nationalist ing ground for reject matter. The

in the city, has become a dumpst They wald recent

„spreading serics of disorders. in. revolt

Yesterday's rioting 'grew out

of a clash between two native factions involving about 100 par- sons,

am-

A detachment of nine police 100,000 farmer. terday that graph of which Mr. Vogelor is

sald the revolt

The witnesses

All the witnesses were ployees at the Standard Electric plant, Hungarian subsidiary of The Nationalist Defence Minis- International Telephone and Tele- try declared

had revolted Vice President, Seven of them sent to quell the disorders were against the Communist Govern- were under arrest themselves. They had to withdr the groups. ment in the Tungting Lake re- Six of the witnesses delivered

after the Eton of Hunan Province and that testimony within

An hour sergeant was killed and a detec-many Reds had been killed, adds 10 minutes after the trial opened tive had part of his ear lopped an Associated Press report from for the third day at 0900 GMT. off by a native battle axe.

Reinforcements were rushed to

Talpen

The Ministry

testified the compound and 20 natives or was sparked by excessive requini- knew

the that sabotage arsd stat squads carrying rice telling of rice by the Communista espionage had been carried out

were posted aron, Lost Monday

and

centred in the Nanhaien and at the ftandard for several years. 100 natives attacked police and Hwayung district in the heart of

After their testimony the judge stoned core and a railway sta-

the main rice-growing region of is expected to call in a panel of tion at the Now Clara native China.

experts to estimate the losses area, also near Johannesburg. Associated Press.

Nationalist gunboat No. 38, which had defected to the Reds last October, returned to the National- fat fold on February 10 and flow was with Chiang Kai-shek's feet in the South Sea.

and Sten around the

FIRE ABOARD DANISH SHIP

Copenhagen, February 20. One hundred and fifteen pas- sengers fied in life boats from a blazing Danish steamship today in Cattogat Strait and were ra- scued by the Swedish Atlantic

liner Ftockholm. '

South Africa's Indian question

Capetown, February 20.

Industrialled into and theatres, 'rather

The Governments of India, with the American or Frenchman the Gascogne, had to trek in/Pplying to everyone who is ablof the detention" of "thɗ "steamer,

The Ministry also claimed that caused to Hungary by the alleged of the preliminary conference, bent on ruthless A tyrant, balls, Mort-foreignors'do not care. I

Meanwhile, the Ministry of Communications announced that on 'agrooment had been reached under which Washington revoked lis order for the seizure of Nation- alist merchant ships under mort- kage to the United States Govern Agents for the 3,038-tón steam-ment, It said this followed the ship: Kronprins Olay, reported payment of principal and-interest. there were no casualties in aben-due to the end of 1940, the Asso doning the vessel after it caught einted Press despatch concludes.

'firy on a routine - trip between

Oslo, Norway, and Copenhagen Build-up

Danmark,...

The blaze was discovered seven

miles off Kullan' Peninsula, North

of Haelsingborg, Sweden, Asso- Lin Piao

ciated Press..

THE WEATHER

for

The trend of Communist pro- barunda at Hankow indicates that allber General Chu Teh is on his

espionage and sabotage-United Press.

Arms smuggled to Westerling from Australia

Sydney, February 20. The Daily Mirror" today re- ported that official investiga- tion was underway into reports of large-scale smuggling of arms_from Australia; to rene- gade Captain Westerling's army In Indonesia. Sales Ma

The ***Micror**@sk}£} @DC-3 Dakotas, operating from deserted airstrips in the Northern terri

asi or

means of settling the Indiana) · Ar ralda", hava dons considerable] halls which run; round, the build-

question in South Africa,"

WAS

The communique added: "It

agreed that neither the dis- cussions under this formula, nor the holding of the round table conference itself, would "Involve any departure from, or prejudles to, the standpoints of the respec- tive: governments on the ques- tion of domestic jurisdiction” Reuter.

British exports hit record

them

homes.

damage, and virtually altered ing are dark and unlighted, and the city'e traditional way of residents have to grope their way life. This, in addition to the to their dats precariously. Many blockade, has reduced buslof

have to walk up seven

reach their ness, to a standstili, disrupted storeys to industries, and provoked in. They, too, have to walk down for Nation, so that prices of cigaret. water, which is rationed.. (pa'and soap tended to rico after ---Bond purchase every raid by beveral hundred per cent.

The arrivals said the air raid

Prices of food (have gone up -kg steeply after avery raid that

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of February WAS directed against the Shanghai Fower Com- pany and the French Power Company, owned respectively, by | American - and French... interests. The American plant was hit threa {"times," and "the" supply of power

· London, February 20. British exports reached an all the whole ares of the former In- page 2

was immediately suspended for tary, were: making: A £50,000 on time record-breaking £175,090,- ternational Bettlement act

Corresponder each night to Indonesia 000 last month, the Board of

Bombs Intended for the

French A 0800 GMT (8 D. TEST) the conway-out or that the International muggled legal migrants Into The entire volume of exports razed over 100 houses in the for- Page

On the retur Journey shey Trade announced today, has plant fall wide of the mark, and Dairy Farm' arbitra Sapes and shop meta hbourless clique within the China Com Australia, the newspaper charged, was stimated at about one-sixth her Franch: Concession and Nan-Barclay's bridge. Today's Forecast Moderate position la Central Chins to cope an entry visa for Singapore, but 1949 and about one-tenth shove plo; and injuries a few thousand French” soandel.

munist Party is consolidating it Westerllag has not applied for above the average for the four tao, killing, voral Bundred peo- Page 6 with pumible revolts elsewham, his known to have boor in the average for the fourth other RYGANDA

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