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In Greatest Battles China's Civil. War

Soon To Be Fought

Shanghai, Mar. 5-The gréntest Lattles of China's 20- venr-old civil war are expected to be fought in the next few weeks as, with the advent of warmer weather, boile the Chinese Communist and Nationalist commands com- plete plans for-a-considerablo intensification of operations. These are likely to dwarf-inj be firstly, to re-establish and com- ferocity, number of men en- munications between Peipint

Mukden-in other words, reopen gaged and fire power-anything and keep open the Government life- hitherto witnessed in the pro-line in Manchuria, the Pelping-Muk- den Railway-and next to recover tracted Chinese civil war.

all Government positions lost since the Communist sixth offensive.

and

The complete capture of the rich territory of Manchuria is known to

Parrying all, questions as to whe- be still the primary objective of the Communists whilst the Nationalist ther he thought such a comparatively Command, meeting under the chair-small force could achieve these ob- Chiang fectives against the large Communist manship of Generalissimo

lighters, the Kai-shek, has drafted a new time-army of well-trained table calling for both the stepping source reiterated the Government's and speeding-up of the anti-determination to stay in the North- east at all costs, and dismissed as Communist suppression campaign.

"totally groundless" current reports that the Government was contem- pinting withdrawal of It troops from that part of the country.

up

The new Nationalist blueprint is reported to take into account some of American-frained 20 divisions

in centres are training infantry

the country, in- various parts of

Tawan cluding the large one on

out this island, will be turning spring.

Go- Some of the newly-trained vernment divisions are also expected to be sent to North China, where General Fu Two-yi is facing what the Chinese press terms "the most dimeult task of his fe"-suppress- bevinces-Hapel, Jebol. Chahar, Sut- yaan and Shansi-under his juris-

At least 10 of these divisions are carmarked for Manchurin, where Ing the Communists in the five pro- decisive battle will probably fought some time within the next two monthin.

Crack Units

One pre-Government source here snict that the reinforcefnents for crack Manchuria will be "mostly units," and that their main task will

ilction.

North China Operations

The forthcoming operations by General Fu, whose Suiyanese my has been described by such well- known military experts as Lieu- tenant General Albert

Wedeme C. former Commander-in-Chief yer, of the United States, forces in this The War country, as "one of the best traincel bra China,"

co-ordinated with Nationalist general offensive in Manchurin and large-scale mop- ping up campaigns in other areas.

How Helped Radio

(Continued from Page 6) generated by his brain and transcribe records chart. It also them on a muscle and heart eflon and in in- dustry, is used for vibration studies. analysis of ignition faults and many other purposes.

While all these things are for the Tarer student of scientifle, aspects, the more popular side of radio has of course, also advanced,

sets, in

There are now a bewildering num her of British radio shapes, sizes and colours, catering for full lastes, from the 43-valve remote- controlled, all-electr radiogram covering 12 wave-bands and costing a mere £702 to a four-valve battery superhet receiver with loudspeaker in case little larger than a folding cameră, much more suited to size of a sul fat.

the

will be

A shrewd strategist and a mas- ter of surprise attack, robust Gen- cral Fu realises the difficulty of the task facing him, but is determined to meet the challenge.

"I cannot work miracles," he said. "But instead of waiting for battles to come to us I shall hereafter look for Battles."

In Central China, in the vast area the Yellow and Yangtse between rivers, General Pai Chung-hisi, Minister of National Defence, wil probably-in the new Nationalist perational blueprint-be entrusted with the unenviable job of crushing General Liu Po-cheng art General Chen Yi, two of the cleverest field commanders and guerilla

in the Communist camp.

fighters

The Communist strength on this warfront is conservatively estimated at 500,000.

Major Battles

laxy Both the eccentric and ther Istener has been considered. There are the usital consels, period cabinets

Meanwhile. General Yen Hsi-Shan, nursery sets, as also freaks shup-

Governor of Shansi Province, has ed like globes; and one ingenious

warned the Nationalist Command contraption set with an electric

that, in his opinion, the Communists elock and alarm wakes you up in the mornin with pleasant are out to launch an all-out of musical tone, switches on nutoma-fensive, and called for tically to your favourite programme and switches itself off at the end of it.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1948.

Discovery

by CHAPMAN

Television goes down deep "PINCHER

AN IMPORTANT now development in television has just been announced by the U.8. Navy, Scientists re-surveying the atom- bombed ships sunk in Bikini Lagoon have used television cameran under water to examine the hulls la detail. Each camera, in a watertight container and fitted with two powerful searchlights, "wan lowered from a ship into the 180ft, deep laxoon. The scientia watching a screen on deck could ree even the rivets in the twisted plates. Fish swimining about the wrecks moved across the screen In newsteeklike sequence. Later, when divers were went down, engineers watched them at work and directed operations by telephone.

SEEING-EYE

BOX BOON.

TO BLIND

The US. Army Signal Corps

is experimenting with a seeing-

HITHERTO no man has been furtier down than the 3,000 fect reached by the American, Dr. William Beebe, Professor Pic card now hopes to get down 2 miles when he employs ha“ bathy,, scapha" machine,..

NOBODY

what KNOWS

strango creatures live in the abysmal deeps. The climate there has remained un changed sinco earliest times. In 1930 a hugo Ash believed to have been extinct for thousands of years was dredged up near Bouth Africa. By permitting us to see where human eye has never been, deep sea television breaks down one more battler of nature.

Tosh? But how

it will sell!

EADING LADY, D. L.

eye "cigar box" which may be-Murray's novel, is a thick

come a boon to the blind, says United Press.

The device, shaped like a cigar box and weighing about three and half pounds, would warn its sightless User of obstacles within a 20-foot

radius.

tosh

of readable slice which will please a great many people..

It is recommended by the fol- lowing qualities:

It is very long-approximate- ly 200.000 words.

It is therefore cheap-12s.. Od. ne (Hodder and Stoughton).

But the Signal Corps, emphagising that it does not want to raise any cau- false hopes among the blind, tioned that the device is stil in the

Its theme is that unfailing recipe It stage.

15 experimental

now for success; the Glamour of the Fool- Ambition In the building 25 experimental models to light, Youth and be tested by the Veterans' Adminis-work of faded tinsel and old troupers; the loves, hopes and tragedies of those trulion.

who write, sing and exploit different the seeing-eye kinds of musical entertainment.

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Gail's magic

LIBRARY LIST

The End of an Eport. A. I .Flowse. (Minemillah, Isa). The political retections of a historian who was a Labour candidate but believed 11 private enterprise. let aw that the war was coming : now belleven we are heading for an renosile catastrophe worse than 1931

Over the 24 and Far Away. Hartley Keiball Cook, Alfen and Unwin, a td.), Three centuries The of ritin hostiday-making history of life's sunnier side

Au Inaccent at large. Bernard Hollowood (Sidgwick and Jackson. 7. 6th. A travelter thoughtfully explans the wonders of the Ameri can entitinent trom Boston Cons- stin westwards. With

at equally anitising, dräwalory

Iesides, he is too old a hand to inflict that worn routine on his public.

But, broadly speaking, you are on the right lines. Add a villainous agent and a few magnates. Englialı and foreign, and you have a pretty far notion of what is inside Leading Lavly.

IN

Study in hate

The Dark Daughters (Heinemann, Ds. Gd.) Rhys Davies has written a serious and powerful novel, It is u suistic study of ingrowing hatred. Do not take up lightly; you will not be able to stop reading it.

11 portrays the rise, triumph and 1 Welsh chemist, martyrdom of There are three phases.

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In the first, Mansell Roberts comes a smooth, handsome to London, young hypocrite, who deceives his NE of the most ardent duplicate fas in the United States is wife, neglects his three daughters and Mrs M. D. Rothschild of New York. makes money by financing disorderly She tells me she plays as many as houses in Paddington,

WBS games a week. She Phase 2-s wife dend, he is elected Honorary Member of

the married to his fancy July from the Women's National Commitice of the music balls, by whom he has a girl American Contract Bridge

League Laura. The three daughters of his first

is always marriage are growing up to hate him a few years ago, and

"Mother" Rothschlid. for their mother's death she loves to bid and her Partner £15 ty WA ASANS

and their own spinster- can ruin her day by missing a slam hood.

Phase 3-Nine years

It has a superficini, resemblance to It is not Life- human existence. dear me, no-but it is a

sentimentalised bhirry. photograph monster.

of the old

And it has a heroine named Gail Darien.

There were occasions in the

Great Tales of Terror and, the Superumtural. (Hammond an Inand 10.). A century of

Taken in small doser Shudders will last the horror-addict during many a night when the wind is howling down the elitmaret

George Malcolm Thomson

cat my Roget's Thesaurus.

Peter Warner, hero of

Leading

later. The villain has

spoken of as

contract.

When or whether would go into general the Sigial Corps did not know.

The user would carry it like a lunch basket. It is powered by ordinary Blushlight batteries and is equipped with a flashlight type ball two lenses and a photo-electric cell. How It Works

Andrew Arkin of New York was become the victim. In the her partner in a recent duplicate, Here is how it works:

If that is not Sred English, I will same house as his daughter Mansell and Mrs Rothschild scowled a bli Roberts lives as a recluse half-mad, when he bid six no trump on to- The bulb, in the

believing he has seld himself to the day's hand, because she likes to play If there told me that Guil was a tiresome

Devil.

The daughters have become "eigar box," sends out a searching course of Leading Lady when reason light beam through a lens. is an object directly ahead within 20 and preposterous young woman who Lady, first appears in an unpleasing vessels charged to the brim with the hands as well as bid them. How ever, she knew it would be foolish be improved by good light. The poor fellow is a journalist. polson.

10 bit severf spades, becaus

because from feet, the beam bounces off the object would and a reflected back into a second spanking. But such is the magic of

To this dreadful house, Laura, who the bidding, the opponents un- He works us a gossip-writer's nark lens which concentrates the reflected name that logic

In the teeth of the evidence, I remain for the godlike Athelstan Riggies- had fled returns and, doing so, pre-doubtedly had at least one of the cipitates the final tragedy. With her missing aces. Her only hope was light on a photo-electric cell.

persuaded that Gail was both desir worth, whose thousands a year are she brings her latest conquest, that her partder had the king of the

rinde "by sitting

bars The cell then emits electric im-able and intelligent.

into translated

All these are pulses which are

substantial merits. restaurants and dietating in the even clever, good-natured degenerate an suit in which he lacked the aco.

The results they obtained gave warning vibrations relayed through And because of them, many people Ing a spiteful resume of the scraps admirable foil for the hysteria which either the handle on the device or an will be ready to overlook the fact that his helpers wore out their shoes rages in the family

A variation on the theme of Lear, them a top score on the hand, bo- and air tact and their self-respect brilliantly executed. that this book is badly written.

cause those who attempted to play

Jost Badly written? Yes sir. When Mr. to gather.”

it at six spades Immediately Murray should say "policemen," he

two club tricks. At six no trump The dull bully mays "civil guardians of the peace." Lucky Athelstan. A pity we have

thirteen tricks were made because Instead of writing that a boy was sent not seen his Rolls in Shoelane for so

East elected to open the king of won, and he to work in an office he says that he long. Journalism is not what it was,

was then able to cash seven spades and all of the diamonds.

car plus.

The closer the user moves towards the obstacle the more frequent the warning vibrations.

Signal Corps officials

sald

they

was overcome.

in

undi

adequate believed a blind person would learn was firmly directed towards a com- I fear, Boy, another quart of cham L. SULLIVAN was, in hist hearts, which Arki

plans to frustrate their plans,

In support of his belief he men- tioned "recent drastic changes in the Chinese Communist administration, Some of the radiograms, too are

of officers and Commnmis! purges the answer to the indolent's dream: Con

soldiers from the agrarian middle record02 all one has to do is push a through a slot, e posting a letter class, suspenion of a large number administrative organisations in in a pillar-bux, and the machine does

Communist areas and conscription the rest.

of civil service staffs, nor closing of Communist schools and dispatch of the older students to the front.

All in all, and, judging by last year's trade figures and the excel lence of workmanship and variety of models, there seems to be 10 reason why the Government's target export figures of £1,000,000 should not be achieved.

of

to use the device quickly and that itmercial livelihood." would help him find his way along sidewalks and around rooms.

They warned, however, that it

personi not help a blind would crossing streets because a speeding! vehicle could not be detected until it was within 20 feet of the user,

SHARP DROP IN HANGOVERS

There WOS 11 sharp drop in hangovers in the United States last

to the Yen's year,

Distilled trecording Spirits Institute.

"Chinese Reds have realised the disadvantage of a long war and have prepared for major decisive batlles," Geneal Yen is quoted as saying.

General Commenting on warning, the metal Kuomintang

"The four signs of an imminent offensive analysed by General Yen possibly indicate a Communist de sire to come back to southwest Ail members of the RAF Volun-China, from where the Chinese Reds teer Reserve and the Royal Auxi-fied to the Northwest in the 'Long liary Air Force are to be issued March in 1934.

BADGE FOR RAF er, the Central Daily News, sald:

NON-REGULARS

The institute, un organisation of the liquor industry, announced that Americans drank 22.0 percent less

Kin brandy,

and other whisky, distilled spirits than in 1916.

Nevada cut its drinking 45 percent to lend the country. Missouri was Nebraska second with 44 percent, The

to such an attempt," third with 40 percent. antidote

Only states with increases per added, "would be to with the paper wear

Virginia, Alabama, West the self-defence of the Iowa, their civilian clothes.

The badge strengthen consists of a circle, half an inch in people so as to prevent the rebels Virginin und North Carolina, in that supplies, order. Iowa was up 22.3 percent, getting adequate diameter, enclosing

the

letters from "RAFVR" or

"AAF" with an eagle Short of suppiles, the Communist, says Associated Press.

with prewar silver lapel badges

from existing stocks to

at the base and surmounted by a forces will certainly crumble."

crown

A new design for the Auxiliaries

;

-taking account of its preflx

"Royal"-may be considered later.

Wartorn Shantung

Although oMcially "liberated"

The badge may be retained by from the Communists months ago,

officers and airmen who

satisfac- the wartorn province of Shantung torily complete their normnt initial is still living on a war period of service.

ARE YOU SURE?

ANSWERS

Questions on Page 9

emergency

bosts today, according to travellers from the area."

the provincial capital of From Tsinan all the way southward along the Tientsin-Pukow Railway, soldiers and militiamen, armed with rifles or brand swords, keep round-the-

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clock watch against curprise Com-

1. Sir Richard Grenville. 2. 3/11 munist attacks.

(3/0 max, charge plus 2d. call box

In Tsinan, most streets are bor- fee). 3. Leonardo da Vinci. 4. Fredricaded at both ends with barbed- Daly, Open Golf Champion, 5. Give wire entanglements. Gun emplace- all it to a museum; it is a cont of mailments have been constructed at

Zealand, South Africa, Russia, important intersections, and every G. New Australia. 7. Thomes. 8. They all night curfew and martial law are bear, the crescent moon, and star, enforced between 11 p.m. and 0 air. symbol of Islam, D. Halfpenny. 10.1

Similar precautions are enforced In almost all large cities and peris Government in. Shantung, while forces guarding the railway between Tsinan and Lincheng are hastily completing new defence works-a definite indication that Communist rebels are not far away.

CROSSWORD SOLUTION ·

Solution of yesterday's puzzle Across: 1, Supporter: 0, Allowance; 10, Tarnish; 12, Rice: 13, Bloom; 14, Image; 15, Load: 18, Farthing: 20, Drone, 22, Cede; 23, Gang: 24, Edge; Observers here forecast that large- 25, Sty.

scale fighting will again break out Down: 1, Sacrifice; 2, Ultimate: 3, in the province this spring or sum- Pincard; 4, Pore; 8, Own; 0, Rail; 7,mer as a result of the withdrawal Echo 8, Ream; 11, Soon; 13, Behold; of large Nationalist forces from the 15, Ling, 16, Agony; 17, Drops; 10, sector and the recent infiltration of sizable Communist columns-Rouler. Tree; 21, Eat.

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CHESS PROBLEM

By A. P. GULAJEV

Black, 7 pieces.

=

White, 7 pieces.

White to play and mate in two

Solution to yesterday's problem:

(=kn) fab! ch}; I....... K~Q3; 2; P-K (R); 1... K-Q5; 2. P--K8 (Q).

Rupert's Silver Trumpet-19

Willic the Mouse taker Rupert's silver trumpet, and puffs and blows until he is out of breath, but no music comes. "Here, let me have go," says Algy. "I was once shown how to blow a trumpet by a Boy Scout." So he cries, and for a Then, while nothing happens. when he is getting very red in the face, a long, clear nole rings out. "Oh, how topping 1" cries Rupert, "Do tell me how you did that, He doesn't notice that some birds are coming straight to them.

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NANCY YOU ALWAYS MAKE MY SOFT-BOILED EGGS EXACTLY TH`` WAY I LIKE THEM

BRANIE BUSHMILLERİ

day, a great boxer who led pagne for Mr. X-

But, oh how grey and gaudy life,

that life becoms Naturally, Peter Warner does not depressing

when

The king of hearts opening was „want to stay in journalism. He wants we read of it the cold print of

to be a song-writer. When he sees Donald- ·Barr-Chidsey's John-the the best that East could have made because If North and South did not Call Darien, who is not only, on the Great (Chapman and Hall, 125. (J.) have two solid suits, West could get

singe but can even sing, mad ambition selzes him.

Truth lies in the verdict of John in with a heart and come through So he writes a show? And Gali P. Marquand's introduction. Sullivan the clubs.

to note that It was interesting Darien sture in it? And it's a smash- was "adult, quarrelsome, bragging;

17 Not so fast. Remember Mr. bully when he was drunk." He was none of the pairs in the room opened Murray is writing 200,000 words, usually drunk.

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SIMPLE -- I JUST GIVE THEM ONE RED AND TWO GREEN LIGHTS

the Skeleton Crossword the

bers have to be filed it, as well ss the words. Four black squares and four cfar numbers have been tuserted to give you a start.

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As there is

across, the second square from the left in the tup line and its three correspond lug ones can be blacked in. Note no that there is a elue for Down as well as 19 Across. This means that the square immediatris above that containing the figure "19" 1 also a black unc.

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