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VOL. III NO, 274
Tallulah's Hand Kiss
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 19, 1948.
EMERGENCY FOOD FOR 2 Killed In
Actress Tallulah Bakhead kisses the hand of President Harry Truman follow- ing his address before a crowd of more than 22,000 in New York's Madison Square
-AP Picture. Garden. Mrs Truman saniles on approvingly, -
CHINA SEA
SHIP IN DISTRESS
Manila, Nov. 19. The Globe Wireless last night intercepted an SOS from the master of the RS Minnesotan, which is in dan- ger of foundering in the China Sea between Indo-China and the Philippines.
The SOS was followed by another that the Caltex
message
stating
Central China Crisis Temporarily Eased
Shanghai, Nov. 19. The immediate crisis in Central China appeared to have temporarily eased today as all evidence pointed to the failure of the Red offensive to either cut off or capture the govern......... ment stronghold of Hsuchow in North Kiangsu.
The Government officially claimed that the "battle- for Hauchow is concluded" and the Chinose Red Radio this morning made weak claims of successos,
rven
. as
CHINA
ECA Discloses
Plans
Washington, November, 18. -The Economic Co-operation Administration today nounced a four-point emer- gency programme for China. The programme, announced by Administrator Paul G. Hoff- man and explained by Harlan Cleveland, chief of the Chino Division, will supply soven cities with rice, wheat and flour through the end of this
year.
Mr Cleveland said the pro- gramme is expected to be well under way by the middle of
Train Smash
Woolwich, Nov. 18.- Two persons were killed and five persons were injured when a train from Charing Cross to Dartford crashed Into the guard's van of a stationary train at Woolwich Arsenal station this after-
noon.
Firemen extricated the bodies of the two dead... 'the driver of the train and a woman passenger, trapped under a pile of wreckage which was fluing on to the platform and blocked all lines.
The guard of the station- ary train.had left from his compartment to help unload a motor cycle. His van was completely wrecked.
The injured were dis- charged from hospital after treatment. Reuter.
US Marines
December. Tho four points Will Fight
were:
1.
ship- now and
Increasing the rate of ments to China between the end of the year.
2. Securing a diversion or loan of Army shipments of two cargoes of wheat of 9,000 tons each and a loan! of 10,000 tons of rice from Hong- kong for Shanghai.
Communists
If Attacked
For
Reservations
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Man Of Many Names Passed Three Worthless Cheques
SENSATIONAL EVIDENCE IN LONDON BRIBERY PROBE
London, Nov. 18.-Sidney Stanley, man of many names, took fruit, flowers and books to Mr John. Belcher, Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade, in hospital, the Tribunal probing alleged corruption in Government circles was told today by Harry Sherman, governing director of Britain's third largest football pools firm.
Stanley had promised to secure for him increased paper allocation, Sherman said.
Questioned by the Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross. Sherman said he had also heard Stanley (also said to be known as Solomon Wulkan and three other names) telephone Mrs Belcher at her home.
was closed 021 Sir Hartley: "Do you remember that the account
both of them. He telephoned Ston- what he called her?""
Sherman: "He called her by her ley, who told him that he should
the irst name-Lulu.”
not have presented
cheques Sherman told the Tribunal that but that he would send him EL he had considered his paper alloca-banker's, draft. tion unfair. Stanley had promised Stanley had not denied that the him he would see Mr Belcher about Lass cheque was stolen and the it and gave him an emphatic as-
conversation was rather a suranco that the paper, position one. Stanley would be put right."
the cheque,
Stanley had mentioned the names of influential people, lika. Mr. George
"hectic" told him to destry
BELCHER'S ADVICE Gibson, director of the Bank of Sherman said that ho later met England, Mr Charles Key, Minister Mr and Mrs Belcher, at a country dr
but bo could not recall hotel. When he spoke of the stolen Works,
the name of and forged cheque and the two Stanley mentioning Washington, Nov. 18.-Official
Wililam Glenvill Hall, the dishonoured cheques, Mr Belcher available American rice and flour, quarters said today that the Financial Secretory to the Treasury sald: "If I were you I would im-
thought
mediately put the matter which was not to have
American Marines at Tsingtao
#extraordinary and strange that hands of the police." before January.
people in
3. Revising arrangements by which, the ECA will use as soon as
been used
Mr
Sherman.
said fte
4. Additional amount of funds not will fight the Chinese Com-Stanley knew so many
Pat decided will be diverted from other parts of the ECA programme for food.
a total of
mean a
tanker Bulkhead was standing close cast of suchow, where carlier geld general with the beat drilled stepped-up food
'by.
The first message said: "Hove to approximate position 10.3-North 110.47 East. Cargo fult fond of rice for Army Okinawa. Possible plates As have severe leak sprung ft. danger of foundering exists. Please in the vicinity." alert all vessels
The second message sald: "Water gaining slowly, coding rice cargo and strong pressure against nit." It added that the tanker was clote by-United Press.
EDITORIAL
Huang
in
with 15
and
110
Gen. Fu and Lin Pino are ex-gency steps pected to come to grips first in the general area between Pelping and Tientsin; with the Reds, who have been known to be Infiltrating across Developments in North China are the Great Wall both east and west expected to get back into the head-of Peiping, seeking to drive south-
of westward through Eastern Hopel to join with the strong Red forces ever since holed up in Shantung the fall of the capital of Shantung,
munists only if the Reds attack high places. them or threaten United States civilians.
the
the
Was
it
no
particularly
Witness
Attorneyulty Ought
WAB
said
in the
ย
"If you
Asked by Sir Hartley Shawcross why he did not go to the police when NON-COMMITTAL
the cheques Stanley gave him were Later, Stanley had Invited
dishonoured, witness said he wanted TO FEED 11,000,000
11,000.00
to his flat where he met to avoid unsavoury publicity. This was disclosed as the Navy Sherman
pressed The Attorney General p Although the cost of emergency
witness to say why he had gone diversions could not be estimated ordered an additional 1.250 Marines Mr Belcher and discussed the paper
and not
several times to tell Mr Bolcher about Accurately, Mr Cleveland said he to the Communist-surrounded port allocation. Mr, Belcher thought it would mean a diversion city to assist in the evacuation of committal
Sir Hartley: "Did Mr Belcher hold Stanley's dishonoured cheques. What of $10,000,000 from some other part an estimated 4.000 civilians in the pleasant to him, Sherman said.
They have been
what did Sherman expect him to do? of the Chian aid programme to the threatened breas.
which warned to got out while the escape out any hope for you in regard to business was it of Mr Belther and your paper allocation?""No"
"Did he say there was nothing he Belcher, in said he thought Mr a broadcast lines with Nationalist Gen. Fu Tso- food and agricultural
view of his dealings with The Red radio, in
was earlier set at $200. This route remain open.
officials Tho
emphasised
could do in the $80,000,000 in
matter?" "Yes",
to know of the dutelined "suchow front," claimed vi, who has headquarters in Peiping,
Marine reinforcements were ordered Questioned the category with the four-point
evacuees General, Sherman said he had lent
of the position. He agreed the expture of only 3,000 Nationalisia and Red. Gen. Lin Plao in featured would
ablest programme Fu.
The only to safeguard the today. China's
adopted
the that it should have been his duty one of Gen.
£9,000 and in the battle of Nenchuang, 50 miles roles.
will There is no question of fighting, it Stanley
to report to the police the grave programme
was sold, unless the Marines are reasons for the loan
that to overnment sources admitted that
members of the an estimated 11,000,000 persons feed an
civilians De troops of the highest morale in all
or tho
are Stanley apparently had influence allegations against
corruption, felony. 40.000 men under General
oval Chinese armies, is outnumbered in
15 pounds of rice or whent and attacked
with Mr. Belcher and might have Government of threatened.
forgery
and theft. Po-tao were surroundest. Two days actual manpower and faces keeping dour, per person per month. Wheat This policy was understood to be done something against his arm.
Was Army
Sherman four citie both troops and the populace sup-
that during cities Tientsin, Peiping
are ago the Government
the Chinese situation recently actions with Stanley, Sherman said meeting with Mr-Belcher and the- known to be battling eastward in an plied throughout the winter in spite and Tsingtao. Rice citles are Shang-in-keeping with recommendations on Questioned about financial trans-
10 .rcileve Huang. The of the steadily dwindling farm, and hal, Nanking, Canton and Swalow.
D worked out by the National Security he had lent Stanley' further paper Controller, Mr Gray, at the attempt
Mr Hoffman announced that emer Council for President Truman. £7,000 by cheque on security of a Board of Trade, he told them that Government claimed major succes industrial production.
are being taken bo
post dated cheque for £27,000 from he had been "forced" to use more ses in that sector and the tension
"avert food shortages in Chinese Nanking and Shanghal Is expected
TO CONTINUE TRAINING
a firm called Lass and Company, paper than he was properly entitled to be ifted considerably with the
which Stanley gave him together to, and Mr Gray said: "You will not Ile sold that the action followed
States Marine and with Red failure to get a strong foothold
urban areas."
The United
a personal cheque for £12,000. get any more paper," in North Kiangsu,
recommendations by Mr naval forces are expected to con- It was about this time that Stanley
SURPRISED urgent
had made arrange- Mr Belcher also sald: Roger Lapham, Chief of the China inue training Chinese Nationalist told him that ECA Mission, and by the Chinese seamen at Tsingtao as long as pos- ments for him to see Mr Belcher have used more paper, then we shall government, which emphasised the sible after the evacuation is com- again about the paper allocation and have used more
populations. picted.
later saw Mr Belcher in the House distress among urban
Mr Cleveland, in explaining the The Defence Secretary, Mr James of Commons.
STANLEY'S ASSURANCE complications of the ECA diversions, Forrestal, said yesterday the ques- said that if Nationalist-held clites tion of withdrawing the force at Tsinan.
fall to the Chinese Reds, ECA al- Tsinging, and whether they would
the interview, Board ní bren seeking Gen. Fu has
fotraents suggested for those cilies fight was up to the State Departmeeting for the following day at
State Department which the Paper Controller, trade hundreds of thousands of tons would be "subject to review.". He ment.
Kallunn explained that the emergency pro-spokesman said the answers "depend the vuld be present to discuss Trade inspectors visited his arm at
the paper allocation. of coal piled up in the
Stanicy assured him that he had Cardiff and investigated the paper
position. The 1,250 Marines mines, the output of which could not gramme in effect means the supply-an circumstances."
will reinforce told Mr Belcher about the case and
Sherman said that David William duty at Tsingtao there was no doubt that the paper had told him he had heard be shipped out, but so far it was ing by the United States between
under Vice-Adml. Oscar C. Badger, position would be righted. not belleved to have met with much now and the year's end the United the 3,000 now on
States share
ECA
allotments
States of the United
Sherman then sald he lent Stanley Mr Belcher had returned from
one day with which would have been shipped in Commander
"winnings" sterling Gen. Fu's troops for many weeks January, but which are being ship- Naval Forces, Western Pacific, The the £5,000 as a loan because he racecourse
hundred mounts surface feet there normally includes thought Stanley had influence with then to have declared ho had lost. Red have been probing
12 destroyers, two Mr Belcher. Sherman said he did *trength in the
area of Paoting, ped now to replace the
is unable three cruisers,
Mr David Williams, secretary to the Chinese government
not secure a promissory nota from the Empire Parliamentary Associa southwest of Pelping but so far no
to supply as its share of the pro-, transports and supporting aircraft.
carriers Tarawa ond Stanley nor did ho give Stanley major battle is developing.
The
had heard that Mr Belcher gramme.United Press
two Princeton,
cruisers and 12 a receipt for the £39,000 in choquer. threw "several packages of £100"
at the Sherman said Stanley kept putting on the table, intimating that destroyers recently arrived
they port city.
off about repaying the loan,
were winnings. The Navy said the Marine rein-
Sherman told the Tribunal
Sherman said that shortly after- to leave forcements are scheduled
he presented the Lass and wards, there was a telephone when Guam next
aboard the Tuesday
227,000, it was
versation and, someone asked Mr will Company cheque for which Dayfield; transport,
Belcher how he fared at the races. be used to evacuate Americans upon returned and he was told that it was a forgery and had been stolen. Its arrival at Tsingtao. It has a
When he presented the other two normal capacity of 1,000 persons
cheques from Stanley, he was told United Press.
The Cold War
THIRD - porty
on
The
nver
met
any
And
endeavours ta hasis
acceptable дах which
can
be expected to
way.
appeared
Dr
have
do otherwise.
a violation
The blockade is the Four-Power arreement und which the German capital is to be internationally supposed controlled. and по amount of special pleading on the part of the Soviets can gainsiy
Wontern Powers For the agree to discus Berlin, and the the future larger subject ....of. of Germany while the blockade would be, to admit the
to
Goes
On
war of the cold
to which the Western Powers and their war- timely, Russia, have committed themselves.
Lide, now,
Nellher
is prepared to give the slightest implacable sign
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less
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The
the g
bo founded discussions to bring the Berlin dispute to an end continue their tortuous
tedious and
It is with growing policy and proposals which
that the universe uneasiness. the Joint names of
conflict, Evatt and Mr Trygve Lle
watches the Insidious The
Berlin dispute has already a courteous bui very with
achieved by the Western
Onc effect:
has It firm resection
accelerated the thelr
spliiting that Powers who reiterate
for Germany Into two Irreconcilable fundamental
requirement
thereby the
prejudicing. I parts, new negotiations is
destroying, ali wholly not Berlin of the fing by Russla
chances of a peace treaty that they can hardly blockade. And
could make the country a useful
European unit. economic Industrial recovery of Western Germany", to a state where it
economically supporting is now Interest of the governing powers and not without reason. Is a serious economic Germany lability to the Western nations. Coenpation and rehabilitation Doria ·APO 'enormous and they haring to be borne by the democracies who fought a winning, not
a losing
to For tho Western Powers
their German
recovery surpend programme until what time
agrees. 10 Russia
ace reason and comes to a friendly and binding agreement on control in Berlin would postpone ∙tite ·ro- covery of Western Germany and the rest
of Europe for several years, which, of course,
Soviela what The precisely desire. An coonomically vitalised Western Germany and 'strong, unified Western Europe remain the best guaranteer, Aglast the farther encroachment `of' Sovketiam, and in the long run the most effective way of bring- in the Kremlin to is conses.)
paramountoy
control, Russia,
Russian
on her
part,
to be more concerned.
appears to
with
to demonstrating
the world
her strategical power in relation
to Berlin than with
trying to adapt hers
herself to
A solution to the present impasse. The shle
baan isue which is partly sted by prestige Interecta and Dartly by varying Interpretation of principles, conciliation.
ore
of
A
seemingly defien Berliners li - Το
thair. DI dislocation
their. life. already »bneriai dally. with further restriction movement and an even harder
to
· struggle' obtain the bare neoesilien of food, fue), and clothing. But to the world the Berlin dispute is a manifestation
wat.
SuccesЯ
the
HEAVY RED LOSSES
Pro-Government
to
reports today claimed that the Commúnist, casual- than tes were mounting to more
Cop- 200.000 killed, wounded and. tured, and the Government plans the dropping of leaflets among sur- rounded Reds in various
pockets around Hruchow naking them to im-
neclately surrender.
The reports said that the defeated Communists, fleeing from the east and west flanks of Hauchow in
ZAZNATA
STOP PRESS
Cricket: Malaya Follow On
The Malaya.
Combined Services
several directions towards Shantung lost their last three wieloets by and Honan, were still being pursued 11.30 am. today with an addition
fast-moving Government mo- chanised units.
by
of only eight runs to: their over- night.score, bringing the total to 87, Cambelit concluded with an analysis of 5 wickets for 22 runs.
They then followed on and had passed Hongkong Combined Ser- vices first innings. total of 105 with six wickets still in hand,
The scores: that
the Govern- South of Hazchow, ment troops claimed that the Reds are being squeezed to a short section of the railway be ween Fengpa and Hsuchow, with the main forces con centrated at Strheten: 35 miles south of Hsuchow. They claimed Government columns from Heuchow and Pengpu are expected to
to join forces at any moment.
A Central News correspondent in Government quoted a Headquarters spokesmen as declaring that both the Nationalists and Com- 000.000 troops on munists massed the Hsuchow front. He said that as a result of the 14-day battle, the Reds lost 200,000 men while the only casualties were Nationalist 40,000.
(Conunned on Paze 5)
HONGKONG
Irt Lanlage
M MALAYA 1st Innings
2nd Innings
Major Haig, b. Gambrin
Ct, Himter. b. Gambrill 8/1.dr. Leggelt, c. & b, -Fanton Cpl. Rabintan, c. Dawes, b. Banton
Hyrett, not out
Lt. Cor. Lee, not on
Extras
Total (for G ̧ witn)-
Bowling Gambrill E for 22, Banten. for 24
The
the matter inves- tigated." Shermion said ho Was surprised at their attitude as Stanley had told him that Mr Belcher knew Mr Belcher had then arranged he had been using more paper than
After his location.
Troops Move Up Against
Barricaded Strikers
Mr
that
water
tion.
that
น
several and
con-
he lost in to the story, he said
Sherman sold ho met Mr Belcher And Mr Williams at the luxury Savoy Hotel in London and told Mr Belcher at Stanley had said be ench was giving Me Belcher 250 weck and occasionally gave Belcher £100,
Mrs
Stanley also alleged that of the £5,000 loaned by Sherman, he had given half to Mr Belcher and half to
tho Sir Frank Soskice,
Solicitor General, wiiness Bald.
INDIGNANT. DENIAL Sir Hartley Shaworom: "What did Mr Belcher say about this?".
Mr Sherman! "Ha indignantly denied it and ridiculed the whole thing." Sherman said Mr Belcher then telephoned his recretary and said something to the effect that he was
"dealing with explosives." Asked by Sir Hartley if
Dunkirk; Nov. 18-A regiment of 800 North African troops moved in here tonight to reinforce about 400 police and Republican security guards taking up strategic post- tions facing about 1,000 dockers who were strengthening a barricade within the steel gates of a harbour compound. The dockers moved behind the The compound was erected by the
the French Germans to protect the gates last night as
controlled
General front approaches during the occupia Communist Confederation of Labour called alon of France..
services from Passenger ferry general dockers' strike to begin on
Newhaven, England, were switched cher had not a perfect answer to Monday..
bribery allegations connected any to Calais.
with the paper allocation because local headquarters The CGT The dockers piled up boles,
tried to he had never dons: anything about sacks and heavy material unshipped announced that it troops during the past few days and were dislodge the dockers, they would the allocation, Sherman replied: 114 strongly entrenching their inner call a general strike throughout the "There was no question at all of
at Dunkirk any bribery."Y headquratera when the troops ar- region. The situation
(Continued on Pare 5). was described as "serious"-Reuter. rived.
Bel
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