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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JUNE 17

1947

SINKIANG DISPUTE

Nanking, June 16. Omelal quarters today predleted a protracted Sino- Mongolian People's Repub- lle diplomatic wrangle over the Sinklong border in view of a Radio Moscow report quoting the Mongols as claiming that Chinese troops entered Mongolia.

They Bald the Chinese government will stand pat in future negotiations on the 1940 map-seven years before China's recognition of Mongolian independence

which shows that Pelta- shan, where the clash occurred, is within the Chinese border. - United Press.

INDONESIANS

READY FOR DISCUSSIONS

Batavia, June 16. Mohammed Natsir,

Indo- -neaian Republic Minister of In- formation, said today that his government would not insist upon the counter-proposals it has presented to the Dutch negotiators if any botter meana can be found for a peaceful settlement of a United States of Indonesia before January 1, 1949.

"If we could be convinced that the difficulties

during wo experienced the past few months could be avoided, we certainly would be prepared to give up our view for a better." Natsir declared.

Ils statement was taken by ob servers as an attempt to open the door for further negotiations with Netherlands

Republican counter Yes, The

Britain To Approach Soviet Russia On Marshall Aid. Offer

London, June 16.

Britain volunteered today to act as go-between in enlisting Russian participation in the aid for Europe plan, but the USSR appeared reluctant to co-operate. -

France has already asked for the Soviet view on the. Marshall offer. The British overtures, a Foreign Office spokesman said, will be made through Sir Maurice. Peter-, son, Ambassador to Moscow.

The Anglo-Soviet consultations will be along the same "exploratory" linca na those Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin will have with French officials in Paris. There is no in- 'dication, however, that Bevin plana to go to Moscow.

FLIGHT

There is no statement of oM- cial Soviet reaction, but on the eve of Mr Bevin's departurò for talks in Paris. the Moscow nowspaper Pravda, organ of the

OVER BOTH Communist Party, attacked the

POLES

Chicago, June 16. Milton Reynolds, Chicago pen manufacturer, today said he round-the- sponsor A would world plane flight over both the North and the South Poles. It would be the first time a plane made a flight over both Polar regions.

Mr Reynolds sald he would not be a member of the crew of the new bomber a converted B-32-when the fight was made. Captain Bill Odum, plot of the record-breaking fight, will be charge of the Polar flight, which is scheduled to begin about August 1.

Air.

govern-

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Marshall proposal. Pravidla termed the plan "the same as the Truman plan of political pressure with dollars and programme of interference in of other the internal affairs states."

a

Com-

After reading the Pravdn mentary, foreign political observers in Moscow said there was little hope of the Soviet Union taking part in co-ordinated European programme of reconstruction.

The

Europe's Needs

and the

dis-

London Not Late Over

Olympic Arrangements

-Stockholm, June 16.

Lord Burghley, President of the British Olympic Association, who is attending a meeting of the inter- national Olymplé Committee here, denied the report, that London was late with the arrangements for next year's games and unable to carry them through adequately.

Mr Avery Brundage, President of the American Olympic Committee, also confirmed, that London was ready. He said that the arrangements were up to time and satis- factory,

Special ships would be run to take competitors and visitors to London for the games, Lord Burghley added, and these ships would serve as hotels for them during their stay. Reuter.

CIVIL WAR DOCUMENT;

Village Liberated' And Restored'

BY ANTHONY ULLSTEIN (United Press Staff Correspondent)

Pelping, June 17.

The influential Ta Kung Pao prints a bitter document of life in a Chinese village caught in the ebb and flow of civil

'war.

The writer, Dr Pei Wen-chung, geologist in Govern- ment employ, says the ordeal of purge, extortion, blackmail and food seizure in his native Lunnhsien, 185 kilometres northeast of Tientsin, is typical of suffering in other Hopei villages in the war zone.

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Like Japanese

Fene Massigli, French Ambassador in London, left for Paris today to

"I am a student of science in ransom, in default of which its be present at the tains between Mr knowing nothing about politics," men are sure to be sent

into the Bevin and members of the French writes Dr Pei. "I came from a army. Cabinet. Mr Ben is expected to

Poorer familles are hardly better return to London on Thursday. village which was 'liberated' by off, for sona of wealthier families the Communists long ago and are frequently ransomed, and it is Later in the week Mr William L.

stant restored by Nationalist forces the required recruits finally come.

from the poor families that mosily States Clayton, United

Then there is the The plane is scheduled

Since then it has to hop Secretary of State is due to arrive last year.

practice

of 0.000 miles from Envercargill, New in London for consultations with the been liberated once more and plen-pu, which is just another term for blacknall. Any man may have Zealand, over the South Pole and Foreign Secretary and other British

Today, the bad luck and may be accused of restored again. and expirts. Informed the Palmer Peninsula to Argenting. Ministers Mr Reynolds said none of the area sources said Clayton then will go people in my village cannot even being a collaborator of the bandits of Antartica over which the plane to Paris.

go on living."

He will then be (Communists). will fly has ever been explored by

In battles of the art his village beaten up and shut up. in a dark Bevin may announce to the House

But if the man can pay a saw, he continues, "the Nationalists room. "We are sure there are mountains of Commons on Thursday the re- which

and the Communists more often bribe between $200,000 and $300,000 there, but no one knows how many jsult of his visit to Paris

than not, get off with light casual. he may obtain exoneration, after highly-placed informants here hê-

or how high they are," he said, general progress of negotiations be-

Delics. Those bearing the full brunt saving repented, Hlove would be unacceptable to The "The flight over that portion wili! tween other European countries to Hague, differ in a number of points be made during the darieness of the put the Marshall plan into operation,

are the people, who either get killed from the "final" Dutch proposals. South Polar winter.",

Netherlands, Belgium und

or are stripped of their pos 100,000

"Last winter, more than

"If he bribe is not forthcoming, he The main disagreement involves Mr Reynolds said he was nego Luxembourg-soon to be united in a

men and women from over 10 vill- may then be accused of being an the question of whether the interim tiating with

customs union-have already the Russian

ages in southern Tengyun took refuge out-and-out bandit. Then there is Kovernment would be granted soment for permission to fly over cussed Marshall's appeal for wider

in rushes. They had no food for nothing for it but he must be shot vereignty as soon as it is establish- Siberia and that the Soviets had economic partnership."

three days.

Then, there was heavy i dend as a 'bandit.' ed, as the Republicans demand, or Indicated they would approve the

snowfall.

than 10,000 wore

"Such a situation exists in almost not until January 1, 1949, os the

fight-Unlied Press,

frozen to death, and most survivors

Moth [every hislen in eastern Hopel. Dutch say--Associated Press.

In other countries,.. government lost either fingers, cars or noses.

JOI

not opposing operations heads await the outcome of the Spreading fear through the vill

But for the sake Anglo-French discussions. Informed age of Lanhsien. Dr Wel says, la against 'bandits.

Government forces sources said that Devin and the an organisation of armed idlers and of justice, the French would study ways of assess-

rumans who once worked for the should not mop up innocent people, nor should they fake as their sole ing European needs under the

Japanese and the puppets, and now object the purge of villages. The act on guides for Governmont "mopp-way the Nationalist forces carry various hoods of food, coal, machin- ery, clothing

nd dollar exchange. and

ing up teams." Sydney, June 10,

mopping-up campaigns against ban- The 'Fire Gang'

dits is hardly different from the Declaring that "push button" war- The Foreign Secretary will also con-

whether existing machinery, "Since the beginning of the Sino-l

practice; of the Japanese.. fare was a wild idea," Lleutenant side

'leave Japanese war to the present

When Communist forces. General Vernon A. Sturder, Chief such as the United Nations Econo-

General Staff, mic Commission for Europe. could ment," he says, "no one knows how village, Dr Pei continues, they per- of the Australian said today that in spite of the de- be used in carrying out the pro-muny times this organisation has suade or coerce villagers to fee with New Delhi. Junn 18:

the gramme and at what stage u conter- changed its name. It now calls them. Taught by, experience, the Press reports said today that more

ence of European countries might be Avould

self the Self-Defence Corps. But farmers often comply, knowing it to thon 60 persons were killed and

called be needed for a long time to come.

the villagers speak of it always as be the best way left open to them.. more than 200 wounded seriously Ife made the statement

Those slow with their legs are shot. the 'Fire Gang.” on Saturday when some 2,000 armed (arrival in Sydney

Nationalist from

Larces visit "When

hen the

A man shot dead is a dead 'bandit." " men raided a village in the Gurgaon | months' tour of Britain

and

the villages to mop up, the chiefs

In Mortal Fear district, 35 mlles south of Delhi, United States. Associated Press.

and men of the Fire Gang inform them which village has Eighth Rou- the Communist to participate in lers (memberg of the recovery plan would mark a Eighth Route Army) to be extire villagers of Luanhsien are in mortal widening of the division between

pated, and who are Communists to Icar of the Fire Gang of a neigh-

Onc

bouring district, “Any man from our the countries

of the East and the be shot hefore firing squads.

village, un being sighted, is beaten

and hel

held for Western democracies. On the other word from the Gang is mough to

reports. he ransom." hand, if the Soviet Union accepta

condemn a village to the torch or B

Gang (Continued from Page 1)

the

man to death.

only if the village offer, the countries of Eastern

"When the Nationalist forces with stop finding The political situation in Hungury Europe could be expected to follow.

draw, key points are handed over transfers a large part of its farm- was still unsettled today. There her lead. The prospects of economic de Gang, and all neighbouring vil land, together with several tens of were unconfirmed

that collaboration

dollars, to reports

throughout the conjuges placed under

their district. control. millions of, its

"HOW con (our) Meanwhile, the Moslem League Colonel Stefan Szemes, who led the tinent would then be brighter than Though it may occupy only limited

village, which is fender, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, up-Hungarian military mission at the at any time since the war.

It nevertheless exercises an populated by only 50 or 60 families, arcas. pealed to Moslems in India to con-

Paris peace conference, has been ar-

and meet much an enormous demand.. absolute which 18 authority Iribute funds the Moslem League rested.

supreme. to set up machinery for referendums in the Northwest Frontier, Baluchis- tan, and Sylhet in Anta United Press

Streets Littered With Corpses

“District" omdials"report" that ́"con÷ ditions were more ünisettled than at any time during past months and that chances were slender of an early return to normal.

Reports sald Sardar Beldey Singh toured the arcu on Saturday ond found the streets "littered with corpses",

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HUNGARY'S OFFER

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1

two the

It is also expected that the Small- holders Party will expel at least alx more deputies from their party to

morrow.

Europe's needs have been estimat- ed in some quarters at US$6,000,- the next three 000,000 a year for years.

Russian refusal

"

out

Due to a land dispute dating back to the 10th century, said Dr Pel, the

Whe

foulard that it will

the

Wide Range Of Talks

but in all probability Although foreigns observers rc-

The Fire Gong, Dr Pel continues, refuse, of course, is free to when the garded the Pravda criticism of the raises regular "contributions" from Gang men would report the village Marshall plan as discouraging, they

farmers for guns and ammunition; as a Communist base

Then sold that tussin's need for foreign

It collects "unburned bricks" for the Nationalist forces next come. be shelled

with The post of Hungarian Foreign trade and for the machinery and

construction of forts, and foodstulls the village may Minister is still not definitely al-

wheat cannon or massacred by the self- loted, but the Justice Minister, Mpowers can supply are factors that

equipment which the Western Huch as millet, wheat, rice,

defence corps. flour and pork.

"Consequently, the whole popu- Ris,

In now heavily booked Ós ង

might lead to Soviet co-operation.

Cash Presents condidate.

Furthermore, he says, a "construe-lace, from 10 to 60 years of age, lives in constant panie. Many dare of subjects scheduled for the Anglo- month. Funds are "requested" for

An Indiention of the wide range tion fee" is levied once or twice a hot pass the night in their homes French talita is given by the com- position of the British delegation,

Mr Bevin will be accompanied of h's principal private secretary, P. 3. Dixon; Sir Edmund Heli

Patch, head of the Foreign Office Economic De partment, who participated in the negotiation of the American lean to Britain: Roger

Stevens

and N. E Nurh of the Foreign Office; David, Waley, Treasury expert on European economic problems;

It is learned that the Hungarian Minister to Moscow, who returned to Hungary recently, has definitely refused the appointment to the post of Foreign Minister-Reuter.

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but fee to the fields or a neighbour- of socks, shoes and the purchase uniforms all the year round. When ing village."-United Press. a member of the Fire Gang marries, villagers are told to produce cash presents,

comforting Nationalist forces, pigs and cash (often large sums) are All from the farmers." collected this in addition to the ordinary and extraordinary taxes in kind.

This constant draining of farmer's E meagre resources has resulted in a Rell of the Ministry of Food; J. H. drustle depreciation in land values, Brock of the Ministry of Fuel and Dr Pel reported. "Expenses dus

from each

cach mos of land. he says, "offen exceed what the land can

year."

Power, and H. J. B. Lintait of the Board of Trade-Associated Press.

Govt Acquires Thorium Plant

Loudon, June 10.

yield through the on the necount

continues is in the hands of the vil- lage chief, who is also the head of the Fire Gong. And "too many gangs select recruits in proportion to the size of the household's fortunes.

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below:

Tuesday, June 17 Canton (Train) 1.30 p.m. Shanghal (Se) p. Manlia P.1, (80×) 5 p.m. Kongmoon (Noa) p.m.

Macao, Tainshaft & Shekki (Ben) 4 pm. Canton (Train), p.m.

Canton, Kwelin, Chungking,

and Amoy (Alt) 3.30 p.m.

Straila (8¢ÂÀ) à pm,

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*(Air) 10 m.ro.

Haiphong (Sea).10 am). Shanghai (901) 8.30 a.m73. Shanghal (Bes) Noon.

Stralie, Nangoon and Calcutta (Box) 10

Masha YI. (Hen) 10 mm. Canton (Train) 1.20 p.m. Stralis (Bea) 4 pyn

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"A wealthy family might DU requested to send two or three The Supply Minister, the Rt Hon ita members to the army, irrespective John Wilmot, told the House of of whether there are that many Commons today that Government young men in the family ... Should had purchased one of the United a wealthy family decline to send its Kingdom's most important thorium recruits, a process known as "ku-chia plants and commissioned it to handle is necessitated: the wealth of radioactive ambalances for medical family is appraised, converted into scientifle and industrial purposes. cash and surrendered to the Gang

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Washington, June 16.

The controversial wool bill is expected to be approved by Congress today' and sent to President Truman for his signa- ture or voto.

This is in spite of warnings from administration' Teodora that the provision the bill for a permissive increase In tariff or the Imposition of quotas on Imports, of foreign wool would jeopardise the Geneva trade

and in fact impede the execution of the United States foreign and economic policy.

It is learned that the bill was the subject of discussions between the President and Congressional leaders at the regular Monday White House meeting this morning, but according to the Democratic. Tender. of the House, Mr Sam Rayburn, the Pre- sident

Have

no indication whether he would vete or sign the bill,

Mr Rayburn said that he would vote against the bill when it comes up in the House later today and he might make a mation to send the bill back to a conference of the House and Senate. Congressional | lendery, however, doubt the success of such a move-Reuter.

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