1948-08-11 — Page 5

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1948.

China To Ask More Aid If Republicans Are In Power Next Year

Washington, Aug. 10.-The US$125,000,000 míli tary aid fund is expected to be available to China by January, and if the Republican Party is then in power the Nationalist Government of China will make a new Commu- demand for a larger appropriation to fight

nism, according to Informed sources here.

·

If the programme is expanded, there is a good chance

it will follow the Greek and Turkish plans of having "in- structors" in the field with the troops.

Observers bellove that, despito” evidence that

tho Truman

administration is speeding up ald Marine courT after four months' delay.. the United States

has. for practical

purposen, two policies on China.

One la fult aid to the Chilang Government, which Congress favours under the leadership of Senator Styles Bridges and Representative Walter Judd. "

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The other is the Truman ministration policy, granting limited ald.

"The As Senator Bridges put it, policy which this Government has pursued in China in the last few years

cannot by any stretch of lan- guage be termed bi-partisan policy." NEW POLICY HOPE Senator Bridges said he hopes the administration had started now policy. But, he added. If this

Truman wero true, then the ministration had been "forced by Congressional action."

ad

or for conditions which may pre- vall in China at any time."

Dynamite

Used For

Fishing

As it was the first case of its kind to come before the Marine Court, the master of a Class IV aboat was fined $30 or six days

This statement was regarded In informed eireles as important and an indication that the administration still had reservations about the Nationalist Government.

Police boarded

very

Van Heutsz

are

Heutsz Piracy Trial Continues

was

which the master

Resene workers and curious persons gather around wreckage of Rimou- ski Air Lines DC3 which crashed on Gaspe Peninsula on the Gulf of St Lawrence killing 29 persons. It was Canada's worst air crash. The plane was en route from Anticosti Island to Gaspe.

-AP Picture.

RESISTANCE

GROUP

ROUNDED UP

Soviet Police Act In

Uranium Mine

later Evidence of arrest of the first reincoat by Mr Cairns this morning for

That he was present when first using explosives in fishing.accused was given by a Chinese identified as belonging to him. Future cases would not be dealt detective constable when the accused made a cautioned statement CID office of the Central Mr trial of four men for piracy of in the so leniently, added On his party, President Truman with

the 4,500-ton Dutch motor Police Station was the evidence of has said that the military aid pro- Cairns. gramme "shall not be construed as

Sub-Inspector Nippard reported vessel Van Heutaz on the high Det. Insp. Ilui Hung-cheung who said he accompanied a Pollce party coust the China

in that defendant was arrested as the sets ofT

in expressed or implied assumption by

to the address Queen's Road, the United States of any responsi-

continued West for the arrest of first accused. telephone call from n result of

of a

December last bility for policies, acts or under-watchman who had seen defendant

Cross-examined, Insp. Ilul said takings of the Repubile of Chinn, using some kind of explosive When before Sir Leslie Gibson, Chief

the vessel nothing Justice, at the Criminal Ses- the statement made by the accused was voluntary. He was never ques- but a small fuse (exhibited in Court) slons this morning.

tloned at any time. was found. Defendant. pleaded guilty

The accused are Ling Cheuk-wah,'

OCCUPIED BED SPACE to the charge, but cald that he had 40, unemployed; Keung King-chung,

Detective Sub-Inspector Shaw sald small amount of alias Lul Put, 45, travelling trader; that when he went to 370 Queen's used dynamite and did not think it was Ling Chan-kal, allas Wing Cheung Road West, second floor, to look for

and Chan 20. travelling trader;

a man named Ling, he was directed serious. SI Nippard recalled that a number of serious

30, accidents had C-man, alias Chan Chih. been caused by this practice recently.

charged with piracy by some of the occupants to a bed the corridor where he found Imposing the fine, Mr Cairns sald

the first accused. The that the use of any explosive what-jure gentium in that on December space

1947, upon the high seas they his name was Chau. 14, soever in the waters of the Colony assaulted and put in fear of their

At the Central Police Station was prohibited by law.

lives, Capt. Klans Albertus Vlieks,

of the particulars

accused were master of the Van lleutsz, other ren down by Detective Chan Wing officers, the crew and sengers (names unknowa) and stole while Inspector Hui explained to the he had been arrested. from the marter the ship's motor- accused was stopped when he boat, seven revolvers, GX

pistols,

stols started to talk and a caution was five rides, two sub-machine guns, administered by Detective Lui Luk. Western Alled sources close, to

5075. 3,100 rounds of ammunition

After being cautioned the accused the problem of Russian relations In Straits $175, Dutch: guilders 350 and made a verbal statement which was Germany reported the discovery of from Capt Vlicks an recorded by Detective Chan Wing an underground organisation in the a raincoat: Omega wrist watch, one pair bino- The statement was then read back uranium mines where Soviet work and from to the accused by Inspector Hut and has been carried out under one of culars, a fountain pen;

a European style from his knowledge of Cantonese, the most rigld postwar security Cheng Tim-wee sult.

It was the same as what he heard blackouts. the accused

Inspector tell, Gald

Information Mr A. Lonsdale (Crown Counsel) is prosecuting, assisted by Mr L. R. Shaw

The accused Witness added that the accused sources that the resistance group had Whant, Acting DCI.

established an underground railway Loseby, was never cross-examined by the for escape to Western Germany of

Police but made the statement by slave labourers in the mines. himself.

One of the facts which convinced Senator Bridges and others of his view in Congress that ald to China would be well spent was the report which Lt-Gen Albert Wedemeyer Ravo in Eecret session several months ago 10 the Appropria!ions Committees of both, the Senate and the House,

MORE OPTIMISTIC

"formula" in The Wedemeyer

"training" for cluded more active troops by the United States.

It was learned that the Secretary of the Army, Mr Kenneth Royall, had no become increasingly epil- mistic about prospects for a Na- tionalist victory.

EXCESS PASSENGERS For carrying reven excess passen gers, the mistress of a sampon was fined $50 or 10 days. She pleaded that she had forgotten to count the number of persons.

certain pas-

otorccused

Intter sald

Berlin, Aug. 10-The Soyiel secret police were reported to- day to have arrested 38 mem- bers of a German resistance group operating inside uranium ore mines in the Erz mountains near tho Czech border.

reached

ARRIVAL NOT REPORTED For falling to report the arrival of his vessel immediately to the Marine Department, the coxswain of the motor vessel Yu King was Since July 23, China has been able fined $200 or two months. to purchase US$9,000,000 worth of Sub-Inspector Nippard reported milltary goods from the United States that the boat had put in at Cheung armed forces., Informed quarters Chau harbour from Kwangchowwan cald, however, that the Nationalist and had discharged five passengers. Government was still having dim- The boat then proceeded to Hong- culty in getting all the aviation gaso-kong and led up at the Cheung line

it wanted. This made about one- Chau ferry wharf. Defendant made third of the first allotment.

no attempt to report the arrival. the Reportedly, the hurdle is In nor did his agent. It was only as from the Commerce Department's Export the result of Licensing Division. The Depart Cheung Chau Police Station that a ment has not yet announced China's search was made here and the boat April 22. A search was made of his the Van Heutsz to Amoy for business, an anti-Nazi element.

four It was dis- belongings and

pawntickets ree months July, found at the wharf. queta for the three

were found. August and September, but in ilu covered that the licence had been first three months of this year taken by the agent to the Chinese

to obtain Customs China's aviation gasoline quota Maritime

before the arrival was was 60,000 barrels and for the clearance

bad second quarter the quota was raised reported.

that he Defendant stated to 100,000 barrels.

SUBJECT TO CONTROL

report

are represented by Mr C. 1 instructed by Mr C. A. S. Russ. FOUR PAWNTICKETS Det. Constable Chan Keung salt the he arrested first accused on

Пост of ал address in second Queen's Road West at 4.20 am. on

Det. Constable Lot Luk.sald that one of the pawntickets was for a

told the Customs agent to report to Considered He

the Marine Department. Mr Cairns

Shipments of aviation gasoline pointed out that it was the respon-

and other petroleum products under the aid programme are subject to Commerce Department export con- trol, despite the fact that the old programine was created by special legislation.

The Department sald the delay in announcing the third-quarter quota was explained simply by the fact that the United States' own needs under rapidly were expanding heavy demands. It said demands from all countries were progres- sively heavier and the decision on how oil exports would be allocated must be made on the "highest" Go- vernmental level-United Press,

Chiang Kai-Shek In Kuling

following

sibility of the captain of a vessel.

LICENCES NOT PRODUCED Three lightermen were each fined $20 or four days for failing to pro- duce their licences on demand.

Western Powers

Overruled

On Danube Issue

Was Jap Subject

Los Angeles, Aug. 10-American- barn Tomoya Kawakita toxlay said # Japanese he considered himself subject during the war and did not owe allegiance to the United States. The 20-year-old Nisei testifled for the first time in the treason case

He Is Не also charged against him. with ill-treating prisoners of war.

Kawakita orders in camp and did nothing on his own initiative. He denied that he had ill-treated American pri-| soners of war for failure to an

man

Western

the

RESISTANCE CELL Detective Chan Wing read the statement of the Arst accused: The underground leadership was which was in effect that on said to be in the hands of December 11

named members of the "Free Germany" Wong Chun asked him to take group, organised by the Soviet as The leader when the ship sailed on December was Marshal Friedrich von Paulus, 14, Wong disclosed his intention rab the ship and asked the first ace cused to help him. Ife told the first accused that he had not disclosed his intention when they were in Hoog- kong for fear that the accused would tell others.

The trial is, proceeding...

Nationalists Win Tsunhua

said he was following Communist Stronghold

their ore quotas.

""Several times I performed acts friendship to American prisoners,

·Belgrade, Aug, 10.-Eastern of Europe's Communist bloc today he said-United Press. overruled the first major Western power attempt to broaden the terms of a new Danubian river pact with

Nanking, Aug. 11-China's poli- stronger guarantees for free tical centre began to shift towards und non-discriminatory naviga- Kuling, summer capital, the arrival there of Presidenttion. Chiang Kai-shek.

Government

Sleeping Sickness Among Cadets

Peiping, Aug. 11-Capture

!

commander of the German Sixth was destroyed ai Army which Stalingrad

A résistance cell in the mine was reported to have engaged in certain sabotage such as mining machinery before the Soviet secret police arrested the leaders.

The same Allied sources.received- reports that a month ago, the Soviel military court convicted 21 Ger- mans of bombing the Soviet Army and Communist headquarters in Saxoby.

Most of them were re- ported to have been sentenced to 25 years' imprisonment which is the maximum penalty since the abolition of the death penalty by the Soviets -United Press.

Resignation

Threat Denied Washington, Aug. 10-Mr Charles

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of the important Red strong- hold of Tsunhua. 85 miles cast- northeast of Peiping, was an- nounced by General Fu Teo-yl's

President

Press Ross,

Truman's headquarters today.

Secretary, denied reports in the New Headquarters sald that Na York Star today that the Secretary tionalist troops striking north oc- of State, Mr George Marshall, had after an engage-threatened to resign if the President cupled Tsunhua

three- ment in which 807 Reds were killed insisted upon adopting a and 27 taken prisoners.

point pro-Isract plan.

Asked if President Truman had Headquarters sald that a good Shanghai, Aug. 11.-Chinese des patches from Chengtu today said deal of booty including 3,000 cum such a plan, Mr Ross declined to uniforms, comment, The Star had said that cases of sleeping sickness have been mer and 15,000 winter

with his closest political advisers, By a vote of seven to three, the reported among cadets of Chengtu 80 tons of paper, two radio trans- the President, at a recent meeting

advocated B officials

programme High

who conference rejected a French at Millary Academy. Reports gave no mitters and other equipment

a preamble of figures.

with Israel American relations are expected to go to Kuling before tempt to substitute

Nationalists Inside Tsunhua the President Chiang returns to Nin- its own for the one prepared Doctor Pailsin, Indical officer of king

of this month' in- Russia.

the Academy said the disease be- destroyed arsenals, paper factories which would Include granting $100 and million in loans, giving Israel de clude the Premier, Dr Wong Wen- The controversy centred chiefly longs to the so-called Japanese "g" spinning and weaving mills

membership in the application for hno, the Finance Minister, Dr Wang around a French move to omit from type which is more deadly than the warehouses a possible indication jure recognition and supporting her

the United Nations. that they don't plan to hold Yung-wu.

wu, the Foreign Minister, D the preamble a Russlan clause 51 Louis "B" type. Wang Shih-chich, and the Kuamin which would place the

The New York Star is the suc- The Japanese type has a death town indefinitely.

From Trunhua the Nationallets Wu General, Mr tang Secretary

record as recognising

rate of 60 to 70 per cent compared to Teh-chen.

"sovereign rights" of the Danubian 20 per cent of the St Louis type struck northeastward toward Hs-cessor paper to Mr Marshall Field's They

fengkou, Great Wall town 25 miles former Leftwing evening paper calla Mr Hang Lan-yu, states on the river.

ed PM. It is now under Meanwhile.

Associated Press.

management-Reutor. Deputy Secretary General of the Kuomintang, denied a local report that a Anal conference on economic reforms would be held in Kuling in the middle of August-Reuter-AAP.

at the

Can't Agree. On U.N. Army

Success, Aug.

10. The

Lake United Nations Military Staff Com mittee reported to the Security Coun

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The French would also have placed the conference on record as favouring a "liaison between a new Danubian commission and the He Believes In United Nations."

amendments suggested by the United

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munication

The conference, then turned to the Find-Ems, Keep-Ems States' delegation in the preamble. Shanghai, August 31-A rogpicker Chief of these was one which would has appealed to Mayor K. C. Wu of register a conference requirement Shanghal for return of a diamond ho that the interests "of all nationa" be found in the garbage can. profected in the operation of the

ragpicker, un-named in The pact-Associated Press.

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NOTABLE SUCCESS Capture of Tsunhua, which is a' key' highway centre, who the most notable success Fu Tso-yl's troops scored in their current drive against the Reds in Eastern Hopel. This drive is aimed at securing rail con- to Manchuria and

Yokohama, Aug. 10-American generally stabilising much of the consular oficiais reported today disturbed area.

that nearly 2,000 children per year Meanwhile pro-Government news-are being born to American occupa-

said the Nationalists had ton

.in personnal

Japan and started a drive to seal the Red held Okinawa. gap on the Manchurian section of The officials said a total of 910

Pelping-Mukden railroad but no chlidren were reported

being confirmation

on has come from other born to American occupation per- PROTEST REQUEST

This drive is believed barod at sonnel during the Oret six months

of 1048. the Great of China's inflation. It revised the Shanghai, Aug. 11-The Overseas Chinhalen, 105 miles from

Boys outnumbered girls by 472 to The Committee had been trying to rate of court fines which has been Affairs Commission requested the Wall and for months now the nor-444, or 51.8 per cent boys compared

by the devaluation

with 48.4 per cent girls. establish

of Chinese Embrusy in Siam to lodge thern terminus of the railroad. a force for the past outdated

a protest with the Flamese Govern- Reds now, hold most of the streich Of the total, 59.4 per cent were two years.

Fines in lieu of prison terms soment against posed reduction between Chinhsien and Halamin, 85 born to army officers and enlisted that the Big Five-Chins, the United States, Russia, Britain and Franco far have been based on CN$10,000 in the number of these immigrants miles west of Mukden. Their dispersonbel, 20.4 per cent to air force

-U.S. cont) #1 day from 10,000 to 10 per year, a ledgement would re-open the land personnel, 17.6 per centre could still not agree on the overall (1/10 of a

and composition of the pro- Offenders have lately been taking cording to reports wday. strength

The Commission, it said to have corridor to.Mukden though repairs to department civilian employees and posed

Neither could they the alternative of a fine to a prison

acted/allowing representations from the railway: would be an additional 2.0 per cent to navy personnel.

to.. surmount socialed The total Included five pairs of agree on the typh of forces each term.

twins-- United Press. The now rafe! Ch0,000 overs in groups and relatives of hurdle

Trasa. government should contribute.

(U90.00) a-day,issociated Press, Chinese reddents in Slam-Router," guter

plete stalemate regarding the estab- Ishment of a United Nations armed force. It asked the Council to deal with the matter.

Shanghai, Aug. 11-The Shang-

al District Court finally took notice

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