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TODAY'S WEATHER: Modernia Eart winds, becoming fresh, Busty Northeast or ENE and strong in exposed pinoes later; partly oloudy.

Noon. Observations: Barometria prossure, 1018.5 mba., 30.08 in. Temperature, 11.3 deg. F. Dew point.: 05 deg. F. Relative humidity, 79. Wind direction. ESE, Wind force, 12 knots,

High water: 8 ft, al 5.30 p.m. Low water: 3 ft. 8 in. at 12.10 1.m. (Saturday).

Hongkong Telegraph.

Trade Union For School ·

Children Proposed

Eccleshall; Blaffordsbrle, Nov. 25-Mr Herbert Copping, Ilead- master of Hortely Hall School fire today outlined plans for the children's trade union which he intended to form as a protection against corporat punishment.

Copping proposed the children's trade union" yesterday after Mr A. Wildman, a cano manufacturer and President of the National Hociety for the retention of corporal punishment in schools, who 14738 visiting the school, had been seized by the pupils and caned by one

one of the boy.

Horsely 12:11 Is

co-educational "free expression" school where there is no

no corporal punishment.

The projected trades union would secure for children, the same teral rights that adults enjoy, Cipplar told a reporter today,

"We hope to have a union representative in every school in

the country to that children can go to their local unlon to obtain advice and if necessary protection," he explained,

"We shall apply for afiliation to the Trades Union Congres and seeing that we shall be numerically the strongest union in the country' we should be in a very strong position for shaping the polley of the T.U.C."-Reuter,

W. COAST STRIKE

SETTLEMENT

ENDS 85-DAY MARITIME DISPUTE

San Francisco, Nov. 25.-The International 'Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Waterfront Employers' Association today an nounced settlement of the West Coast maritime strike.

A spokesman said the CIO Union Members of the crew walked off the Waterfront Employers the ship at Southampton earlier Association reached agreement on this week but returned after the the terms of the contract, but these Company had agreed that the laor terms wero not Immediately should not sall until the strike was announced.

settled.

A joint Katement by Harry Bridges, West Coast longshore leader, and Colonel John Kilpatrick of the Employers Assoctution said, This contract and this new spirit of good faith and co-operation can mean new era for West Coast shipping." United Press.

SECOND LONGEST TIE-UP

Nov. 25.-The

San Francisco, Pacine Coust Maritime

a

strike was 83 days old on Thursday, the second longest waterfront ile-up in west coast history.

An 84-day strike occurred in 1934. The longest of 98 days was in 1936,

Negotiations marked time beenuse of the Thanksgiving Hoilday. Some observers felt hopes were raised by the fact AFL longshoremen on East coast had accepted a 13 cents

"to"August"21"

White Stor

The strike had cost the Cunard some £5,000 a day with the 1,500 passengers on board living at the Company's expense.- Reuter.

DIVES THROUCH

WINDOW

adoption order relating to

ar

An hour wage lucrcuse, retroactive children

21CIO longshoremen As the magistrates announced the order against one child, Hain broke from the warders and hurled him-

self through the window.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1948.

400 FOREIGNERS IN

PACK UP

THEIR BAGS

City's Streets Deserted

N. CHINA'S FATE

IN BALANCE

Tientsin, Nov. 26.-Tientsin this morning pre- sents a desultory and melancholy appearance with the streets virtually deserted except for Chinese soldiers wandering about aimlessly or perhaps aiming to find warm shelter,

This depressing picture followed a day-long movement yesterday extending deep into the night of baggage being packed into crates, cases and trunks belonging to over 400 foreigners who are evacuating North China before the Haiho River freezes and the gathering war clouds break.

Accommodation for 350 persons, was available aboard an American LST sailing this morning for Shang- hai and a capacity passenger list went on board last night. Over 100 Britons and Allied nationals will sail on board the Jardine's vessel, Wingsang, in a few days for Hong- kong, and many yesterday mɔved their crated possessions preparatory to customs clearance later today.

the

zivil

and other strong points are being manned with increased strength and vigilance while Government troops continue pouring into the Tientsin Tangku-Tongshan area.

on the Pacific coast want 13 cents retroactive to June 15 or 15 cents without retroactivity. Most other issues are settled Associated Press.

This Worders grasped his clothing but LINER TO SAIL

were unable to stop him from New York, Nov. 25-With settle falling. ment of tho 15-day old East Coast While awaiting trial for bigamy, shipping strike the. Cunard

Hain had saved the life of a five Queca. Elizabeth will be able to sail (year-old child by diving into the next Sunday.

river Avon-Reuter.

EDITORIAL

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TIENTSIN Freight Cars

Five freight cars loaded with wood pulp broke free and went overboard when a storm caught a railway barge off Port Angeles in northern Puget Sound. Other cars still lay over- turned or tilted when the barge (above) reached-port in Seattle. The cars, lost in 36 feet of water, can be salvaged-AP Picture.

BULLETIN ON

HIS MAJESTY

THIS SUNDAY

then ham Palace today, announced

Overboard

FORMULA FOR PALESTINE SETTLEMENT

BRITAIN FALLS IN WITH U.S.

U.S. IDEAS

Paris, Nov. 25.-Britain today announced con- cessions to the American point of view on Palestine and agreed that a conciliation commission should not be bound rigidly by the Bernadotte Partition Plan. The British Minister of State, Mr Hector McNeil, submitted amendments, designed to bring the original British proposals closer to the views of the United States. But he criticised the views of other delogations, embodied in the Australian resolution that

com- a conciliation mission be sent to Palestine with a general directive to "help" "Jaws and "Araba‘negotiate 'a settlement-between

themselves.

1. That

Assembly's

02

the

of

tho

Bath, Nov. 25-Charles Normius Hahn, aged 30, lorry driver, today Many others who are remaining If the Nationaliste hold on to cluded the custody of two warders through obligations or by conviction Hsuchow and Fu wins any big London, Nov. 125,--Bucking- and dived through a window of the are also sending prized possessions engagement with the Balh Juvenile Court to his death.

to Hongkong for storage as a pre Pelping and Tlentein could remain that a bulletin on King George's British amendments tried to embody their greedy will on

Mr McNell cold that the new"]Jewish foreigners should impose He fell 50 foot to the courtyard cautionary measure pending a clari- | secure. In his hands Un next

40 million condition would be issued on these propositions: was sentenced to 12 fcation of the obscure situation, Huin, who

Arabs." months' imprisonment for bigamy

It will he the first These баст a few months ago at Wells assizes,

A major action in Hopel all is Sunday: developments-flights

any settlement should in the process of development. It formal bulletin published since respect

Mr Henry Kattan, for the Arab the General had been brought to court between away from the fires of the the

guards in connection with two

war--are occurring as

13 fenerally believed that the reds carly Tuesday morning when consistency of purport, and should Higher Committee, said that city's will strike within the next 10 days.

tive his outer defences, including pill boxes If they don't General Fu might take the King's five physicians said of the 1947 resolution containing the partial and democratic tests,

effect to the general intentions Arabs were completely willing to conciliation on the following ""Im- the initiative.

he was suffering from an aboriginal-partition-plan. The best available explanation for struction of circulation in the 2. That In the absence of 1. That conclllation be sought the Red withdrawal from the area arteries of his leg.

economic union, or any immediate between the Arabs and the peaceful around Kweisui, capital of Suiyuan, Is their original move against

possibility of establishing it, effect legitimate Jewish inhabitants of the It was believed the bulletin may should be given to the principic upen Palestine. concentration of North city. It was a feint designed to provido further information on which

Count Bernadotte laid

2. That it be carried on without. China's military strength, which will

force Fu to divert troops from which the medical world be further boosted by the current Hopel. If Fu had fallen for it the depend in attempting

may much stress, namely that both the regard to any previous resolutions to find out Arab and the Jewish withdrawal from Chinwangtao and Reds would doubtless have tried to exactly what the King's condition is. should

territories or decisions on Palestine, and that be geographically self-it take into account the merits of with Shantinikuan, coupled

inke Tangshan, the great coal town That it is more serious arrival

than first contained. ol numerous dependants, 60 miles northeast of Tientsin, cut thought is not disputed.

the problem as a whole. 3. That full weight should be 3. That account be taken of the seem to confirm the Nationalist de the Pelping-Tientsin rail line and termination to hold this region

con- The Buckingham Palace announce, given to Count Bernadette's

peace a generally made Fue position in this ment about the second bulletin was clusions concerning the most equit- Middle East, of which Palestine is

security needs along the lines of Taiyuan's collant key area untenable. stand.

Fu apparently is prepared to made after the King's physicians

of giving proctical | an integral part. Unusually heavy milltary activity sacrifles several

important visited him today. An informant effect to these general principles, Speaking of the argument of along the Peiping-Tientsin railway points as he did Pasting to establish close to the Royal Family said the STRANGE PROPOSITION Count Bernadotte and many dele- continued

United Nations again today subjecting an effective defence for Peiping, King's condition was caused by stand- Me McNell also said: "I hope and gallons that the passenger troins to considerable Tientsin, Tangku and Tongshan. ing long hours in the course of his believe, indeed, that my Jewish must accept as a fait accompli the State, Mr friends will not seek to rest their existence of a Jewish MAY SURRENDER KALGAN

case upon this strange proposition double-edged.

Kattan said that the argument was that the rump of Palestine la a Indications are that he might even. The informant added: "The King, cake, to slices of which they have

He declared: "If you necept it havo now. for the Jews, you will This extraordinary sinte of Rive up Kolgan If necessary. ns long as alx weeks ago, defed equal Utles with the adjacent Arab

to accept it at some future time affairs for the second day running Kaigan is the capital of Chahar, doctors' warnings to keep off his feet. States." the

for the Arabs, if this organisation Is connected with the declared in-gateway to Inner Mongolia. Many It was only aftor It had been made

He added: "Nobody would be survives the horrors of the uni- tention of the Government rallitary factories there have been moved to clear to him he might permanently happier than my Government if the versal war on the edge of which it nuthorities to conduct

a purge Tientsin and dependants of nu- injure his health that he reluctantly Arabs and Jews were able to reach stands-Reuter. among the Nationalist organs in the merous nationalist army personnel consented to a postponement of his

a defnitive settlement by incares

*See Page 8 for Dr Bunche's tour to Australia and New Zealand, shifted there too,

of an agreement negotiated directly This source said that the The general impression is that Fu

King between them, but my Government

7-point peace plan. intends to concentrate his forces in could carry out his duties even if does not believe there is any serious

relatively small area where it has he had to do so from a wheel chair.

prospects of such negotiations in the a chance of retaining the upper hand Since Queen Victoria's time.

near future" and let the Reds reduce them one by rather than garrison distant points members of the Royal Family have

The Arab case was wound up by childhood tu been compelled from sland for hours at a time.-United Iraq and the Arab Higher. Commit- the representatives of Transjordan, onc.

Press.

New Palestine Proposals

REVISION by Britain of her

Palestine propommix to con- form with the United States' conception as to the best method of effecting peaceful partlion between Jews and Arabs bespeaks her willingness to sacriДes cherished convictions Interests of 好 settle.

in the

ment of the Holy Land dispute, But it wil aloo come as a block to those who were convinced that Britain Intended to insist upon the Bernadotte plan

of

who can hardly fall to recognise the important weight of opinion which goes

in support of the conciliation commlesion in fulfilment of its task. Becaus of

Loo. It

help to may the uncompromising viewpoints of Jew and

Arabs and In

consequence Assist in bringing them together to discuss boundary demarcations in n

more reasonable frame of

mind. There is this added advantage to the

proposals being

Palestine conciliation commission working

110 on behalf

which

Britain

con-

potential American

carried out in orixinal detali HOW

now prepared to support: and the cynies may feel con.

they maintain the United strained to seek a less charit-

Nations Organisation role mediator, able explanation of the overnight

allowing the British revision. The crux of of

testing

parties opportunity of the new British concession to

#semibia settlement amicably American oplatonis

reached. surrender

And should Istuel the principle that

and tho

the Arabs reject this proposed

opportunlly, they would have further right to complain of the United Nations must fix

If the United Nations imposed Jewish and Arab

an arbitrary boundaries;

settlement. For the specifie conclusions the Jews, it

greatly to of the late

their advantage Bernadotte's

to adopt report Brit

Indicates conciliatory frame of mind.

for they have succeeded that she is

crcaling their long-cherished national home and good states. manship at this moment consolidate for them the schievement. Truculence and excessive demands all

... canony their cause The Araba avold certain connessions, cannot but any attempt by the Jown to drive too hard bargala must result in refusal

on the part of the Arabs

to a mettle

on

How

Interpretation the United Stated to accept of the

commission's functions,

shall

namely that it

boundaries, but in conjunction. with the Jews and Arabs. One of the. most Important offools of the American proposals is that they rule Bernadotte boundaries

the

under which Israel would have conceded the Negov to the Arabe in return for Western Galilee. Anglo-American agreement

on the

question

bring.

of the conciliation commission's fanellona "does not necessarily a......seillement of the Palesilne dispute: any nesrer, buk21", may ́luve, an effect on the Jewish and Arab leadera':

harin

ment

How Lin Amerlain

#

in

can

backed by po

to have success. It mitut

*chance of be supported by the goodwill and good senso of the contending parties. The allernative' can yield satisfaction

to neither side.

delays.

rear.

NATIONALISTS' PURGE

It is understood that the military action is directed primarily against the regional administrator and magistrate of Chinghai, whose local Their loyalty became doubtful par Militia Corps' numbers 3,000 strong ticularly as their superior originally was a Communist but had later switched to the Nationalist camp.

Chinghal is located 33 miles from Tientsin and represents the southern torminus of the Tientsin-Pukow

railway.

Meanwhile, following

the cross- ing by the Nationalists to the cast bank of the Grand Canal, the Com- munists under General Lin Pino are reported to have withdrawn cast- wards across the Last Hope plain with the resultant presence of in- creased numbers of Lin Plac's men along the fringe of the coolmining prca.

Thus far no serious contact be- tween the Communists and the fa- tionalists had been reported but the Government furces garrisoning the Pelping Tientsin sector of the rail- way are on' the alert and units have been sent from Yangtrun station for. Auerilla warfare in Paoti and

weat of Tientsin.-Reuter,

t

mone

This does not mean that Fu is going to abandon wholesale all areas outside his main defence zone. Most probably he will group part of his troops into a strong task forca ready both for offensivo and defen- sive action.

duites.

DEFIED WARNINGS

-

NIGHT BATTLES

able

teo.

mcans

·Abdul Mojeed, for Transjordan, Bald: "I want to make it abundant- ly clear, once and for pil, that differences do not exist between Transjordan and the other members battles of the Arab League."

The

TOP PRESS

NO-STRIKE CONTRACT

San Francisco, Nov. 25-Negolta-

Amman, Nov. 23-Night

the Damascus Gate of around Thus, for example, instead of

MUST LEAD TO DEFEAT heavily garrisoning the railway be- Jerusalem were reported by Arab

today. Legion headquarters tween Pelping and Kalgan, he could Arabs claimed several Jewish in- "Where will Zionist ambitions stop? tore for the

The representative of Iraq asked: use his task force to meet any bid nitration attempts were repulsed The Zionist plan is to use their Union and threat to it. This force could also with heavy losses. be used to crush Red attempts to

CIO Longshoremen's

the

Waterfront Em- onclave in “Palestine as a spring ployers today announced the settle- The sald firing continued through board for further aggressions. ment of the West Coust, longshore got a solid foothold inside his main the night with intermittent mortar "The recent apparent Zionist vic strike and reliable sources expected defence zona.

fire in several Jerusalem sectorstories must inevitably lend to defeat, work would be resumed early next (Continued on Page 5)

Router.

It is impossible that a collection of week.

Hopes For Quick China Aid Dwindle contact, retaining the hiring har

Washington, Nov. 25-Na-)

Wuching. located north and north tionalist China's chances of gol" | China from Communism, what bill resources and the effect a large old ), the longshore chief, Dwight-

In a statement bursting with optimism, both sides announced the signing of a three-year, no-strike hall and reaching a compromise on other major issues.

nt from Harry A joint statement

WEA negotiator (who is pre- H-wall Employers Council), R. J: Thomas, national It is no secret that the administra-John and Colonel WEAA negotiating tion is chary of underwriting to the chairman, sald: present Government of Generalis "We have come to an agreement simo Chiang Kai-shok, Generalis- which we believe to be fair to all simo Chiang's recent reverses are It meets the economie needs traced by some officials to his failure several problems of both sites and to force land, and educational ro

was reached in a true spirit vf com= forms, levying high taxes and con- Consideration#outlined by Mr tinuing corruption in local Chinear promise-United Press. Marshall were... Contiuss* attitude governments United Prons, MACHINELA

CIO

China, Questions facing the council are] toward increased help to whether the United States can save the availability of American ting any quick new American it would be, and whether it would would have on United States com-sident of the aid dwindled sharply today. ... touch off a dangerous inflation at mitments elsewhere in the world. HSUCHOW THE KEYPOINT

Government omelala said that the home and impair American efforts Pelping, Nov, 20-The future of answer to the China, appeals for to put Western Europe back on its

financial and material help, will be feet. North China hinges largely on the delayed pending a thorough study of outcome of the battle. now balng this country's prospects for success. The complexity of the problem waged for Hruchow.

It was said that the entire probe was acknowledged by Mr George C. If the Nationalists lose Hauchow, lem undergoing a review by a Marshall, Secretary of State, yes the Rods will be in a position to toplevel national security counell terday. And, he said, it has to be. start a drive from North to South which advises President Truman on considered carefully un against Fu Tao-y'a armies in Hopel international, domestic and military province.

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