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VOL. III NO. 283

Camera Snaps

New Comet

This photograph of a new comet, for the time being known as "Comet 1918L," was made at Lowell obser- valory, Flagstaff, Arizona, as it flashed across the southeastern sky. Astro- nomers at Mt Paloinar sald it was the brightest in this hemisphere since 1927,-AP Picture.

The Berlin Dispute

Vyshinsky Accepts New Proposals

Paris, Nov. 29-Russin ac- cepted on Monday night a new plan for mediation efforts in the Berlin dispute. Argentine Foreign Minister Bramuglia said Soviel Deputy Foreign Minister. Andrei Vyshinsky agreed to the latest plan of the "neutrals" at a night meeting with him. Associated Press.

TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1948.

Battle Scene Shifting Closer

To Nanking

DEFENDERS OF HSUCHOW ORDERED SOUTH

Two-Pronged Drive Reported

Nanking, Nov. 30.—The critical battle for Centrál China on Monday appeared to be shifting from Hsuchow to the very approaches to the capital-Nanking. An estimated 250,000 Nationalist troops at Hsuchow, defence bastion for Nanking, have been ordered to with- draw southward to engage the many Chinese Communist forces, said official sourcos.

The outcome of the entire battle for Nanking may depend on the ability Communists are concen- of the Hsuchow Garrison to make that withdrawal. trating in the Suhsien and Pongpu areas on the approaches to Nanking.

Nanking observers suggested the reason the withdrawal order has not yet been carried out is due to the reluctance of the Nationalist commanders of Hsuchow to abandon tons of supplies there.

The battle for Hsuchow has raged three weeks. Ila abandonment would indicate tint the Gov- vernment regards as more critical the developing struggle in the 211 miles between Nanking and Hsi- chow.

Earlier reports from the fronts indicated that the Communista hadi left secondary troops to engage Nationalists within the Hsuchow perimeter, while the inain force of to- nearly 500,000 troops headed wards Pengpu, 100 miles north-west of Nunking.

If the estimates of the opposing! aldes are approximately correct. the urgency of withdrawing Hsuchow's defenders to help the Government forces to the South appears clear. The Communists seem to hold a more than 2-1 numerical advantage on the roat to Nanking.

Amid these developments, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, wife of China's President, sped toward the United States in an American Navy platic on a reported mission to enlist more U.S..old.

Chances Of More Aid For China Doubtful

Washington, Nov. 29.--Madame Chiang Kai-shek will be received as a distinguished guest when she arrives here on Wednesday from China, the U.S. State Department an- nounced on Monday. But her chances of getting all-out- aid for her husband's Government looked doubtful,

wife

President Harry. Truman's farmer' personal plane-The Sacred Cow-is San THREE POINTS

being sent to bring her from Paris, Nov. 20-it is understooil Francisco to Washington.

has The Generalissimo's that the new plan by Dr Juan Bramuglia to solve the Berlin prab-been invited to be the house guest lem includes the following points: of Secretary of State and Mrs Mar- 1. The basis of the plan is the shail. She has indlanted she will formation of a committer of ex- accept. Mrs Marshall's home is at

nearby Leesburg, Virginia.

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EDITORIAL

Neglected.Soldiery

THE successive defeats of the THE

Nationalist armies in

and

Man- central

churia, northern China have, not without reason. created doubis in the minds

observers about the forelan Achúng qualities of Chiang Kai- shek's troops. But chief suspicion

stability must fall on the

and honesty

of the Chinese field. commanders and the organisation under which the troops

operate.

Army

*

medical and welfare facilitles. Its is notoriously underpaid, usually poorly fel, badly provided for in barrack accommodation. I main- tained with medical supplies, and the enjoys practically none ot special morale-building amenities essential which are regarded as

Sino- armies. The to modern Japanese war provided numerous men being Instances of sick wrillen off with a ration of rice and few dollars when their units

were ordered elsewhere in mercy

ship

Arc

of

of

In this respect a clue is provided

the men frott by the press despatch

being left to the demonstra- Tientsin reporting a

by dimbled tion

Manchurian of cure by nature or the kind- Mampaignera secking to draw heartedness of peasants in the

of

The neighbourhood.

abandon- public attention to the lack

thele ment of fghting troops to welfare. official Interest in their The men claim to have been left own fate in the hour of adversity 10 fend for themselves, and in undoubtedly the surest method

to resort to of destroying morale and several have had

pretty begging. It is not.

Invillag

And tho defection. Invites picture.

assumes the degree proces nor one that

tragedy when it has been proved confidence in a military organiss- tion that can so easily abandon fas It was in the second' Barns its fighting units. ExcusCS,

campaign) that given good leader- aro easily conceived: the swiftness of

and ordinarily decent provisions, the equipment and the Manchuria debacle disrupted the Nationalist

services: soldiers of the Nationalist armles

sturdy time,

and courageous repatriation always takes

fighters. It may well be that the bas been in this case and

Impossible by the rendered

principal reason for the poor almöst · overnight`, collapse of showing of the Nationalists in the detections North and, the mans Chiang's forces: land communica Wons as best are bad-today In was absence of just those factors the affected areas, are out and which inspiro fighting mon therefore unusible; shipping lo zive of their best, no matter how

But when all this as a premium.

badly pressed; they, may be by has been pleaded fond with The enemy. And it may well

the certain

BOCKUNI of truth) 12. amount

.For

statement attributed to

of remains to be observed that the

| Manchur abandoned abandonment of Chinese soldiers

are willing to fight baigners: who, wish still to fight, but have Do tender. la not a new pheno- any time we have the Icadpre

episode menou The Tientsin

who will take care of “us” deplombie simply" pinpoints the

damning Indigtment; but one to Jack) of consideration for the

assessing be remembered › when common soldier in China, both as veraris conditleria" of service and

om-

A

the present moraló of the -Nationalist forcén; AVEN

to save

The Chinese Government's Hsuchow garrison was under orders on Monday to sally south Nanking and rescue an entire army group trapped by the Communist forces, but it gave no indication of heeding the enit.

the

The fate of this frightened capital may depend on the ability or the 250,000-man willingness-of Hauchow. force to quit Its fortress 211 miles northwest of Nanking

Latest battlefront dispatches said Army Government's 12th Group totalling about 140,000 men was encircled by the Communists 07 miles south of Hsuchow and 145 miles northwest of Nanking. Little defence remained on the route to Nanking.

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The encircled arca (A) is territory where China's fate may be selfled as the Communists and Nationalists fight Latest for supremacy in the battle south of Hsuchow. reports indicate that the Nationalists are abandoning Isu- chow, presumably with the intention of defending Nanking.

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Thick Fog Blankets Western Europe

LINER'S

SAILING POSTPONED

London, Nov. 29.—Thick fog with icy tempera- tures still blanketed five countries of Western Europe today, paralysing transport, delaying once more the sailing of the transatlantic liner, the Queen Eliza- beth, and impeding the airlift to Berlin.

(The Communist Radio confirmed the identifiention of the trapped group

and sald It comprised 11 divisions which had alrendy been partly destroyed. The Communist broadcast, heard in San Francisco by the Associated Press, sald the

had been given group

" "final warning" to surrender or die. It mak several attempts to break had failed and the hungry troops were quarrelling-over- airdropped-The "blockout affected-all forms:

travel-London and South-East food,)

Official Chinese sources confirmed England were the hardest hit-and for that

the Hsuchow

commander, many thousands of workers arrived

lale for work this morning." General Liu Tze, had been glven orders to move south to try and trap the trappers Associated Press.

For Britons, it was the third day of disrupted train' services and slowed road traffic-and there was no sign of an immediate change. Weather experts expect the fog to list several days more.

Diplomatie authorities look Madame Chlang to make an urgent plea for new American aid to China. Although she is to be given ever courtesy, it is clear that authorities have little sympathy with her un- official mission.

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Factory Explosion Kills 4, Injures 35

Hull, Yorkshire, Nov. 29,-- A series of loud explosions in a factory building at Hull to- day tore off the front upper part of the works, killing four persons and injuring 35 others.

As rescue squads struggled to reach seven workers trapped in- side the flame-scared building of the British Cocon Mills in Tower Strect, Hull, the an-, guished cries of the seven trap- ped employees were heard,

Smoke from the blazing works shot to a height of 1,000 feet, win- dows were shattered by the force of dre explosions over a great distance. Rescue workers tenight brought out alive one of the seven workers Imprisoned inside the building. The rescued employer is a woman im- cashier, aged 20. She was mediately taken to hospital.

SIX PEOPLE TRAPPED

and Police, Aremen

volunteer rescue workers were still concen- trating on their efforts to reach the other six percons trapped inside the works

The technical director,

citizen

a Dutch explained that petrol is used

in large quantities at the mills. The irst explosion was caused by gos of the tanks bursting open, escaping to the plant and catching fire. Other explosions followed.

One man was killed outright. He was blown out from the top of the building to the street. Another who was burned jumped into the river along

which the mills standar The whole of the city's ambulances

called to

Fire were

the scene.

to the clanged their v

brigades

way.

mill area within a short time of the outbreak. Private cars and lorries joined in convey to take the, Injured to the Hull Röyal”Infirmary."

Hopes for the safety of the other six trapped workers In the milis diminished as the fire continued to rago unabated-Reuter,

KING STAYING

IN BED

London, Nov. 29.—It was learned tonight that King George, desplie The airlift was halted completely an official general Improvement" this afternoon when fost closed down bulletin today, is now spending over the German capital, which has most of his time in bed.

Is doctors think such complete been in a pocket of fair carlier in the day.

rest Important. While taking this In the morning, Catow Airport maximum rest the King continues to carry on with his usual corTCS- midnight on Saturday, but planes pondence, Sinto documents and were being brought into the Ameri- other papers in the usual way. can controlled Tempelhof Airport by radar.

was closed, as it has been

since

The Queen spends a great part of each day with him.

Main Line expresses from North England and Scotland were up to two hours late arriving in London. Eastern Britain, from the Scottish border to the South Coast, was Shanghai, Nov. 30-Although cloaked in a mantle of fog and the

The new terminus at Togel, in the Senator Tom Connally, Texas

Nanking officially denied that the sailing of the world's largest liner, French sector of the German capital, Democrat who will be chairman of Government was contemplating the the 82,000-ton Queer Elizabeth stepped receiving planes early authority for stating that the King the Foreign Relations Committee in

ovacuation of Hsuehow, Indepen-already 12 days late through the the morning, the new U.S. Congress, was asked dent Chinese reports this morning, American longshoremen's strike-- If the Senate-House of Represents- said that some 100,000 Nationalist was postponed for the slath ives "Watch Dog" Committee on troops have begun a two-pronged today because of the fog.

will foreign nid

Madame hear

drive southward from the suchow Chianit. He replied that the Com-

arca towards Suhsien. mitter may receive her in private session, but not as an "official re- presentative" of the Chinese Gov-

ernment.-

CRITICAL ADVICE Senator Connally had some critical advice for the Generalissimo himself.

Observers are quoted as stating that this force may prove the deci- sive factor in the battle raging around Pengpu. One of the objec- tives of the action is said to be to draw off some of the Communist strength from the Pengpu sector, thus relieving presstire from the advancing Communist spearheads

the Yangtze along both "Chiang Kai-shek is the Generalis- towards

the Hsuchow-Nanking simo," he said. Then he added that sides Chiang has not been "doing enough railway.

of combat generally in the field operations."

of

The Hauchow army was reported to be striking in a parallel wave Katalong both sides of the Hsuchow-

Pengpu rallway-Reuter.

Chiang "If Generalissimo shek," he said, "would take over an army in the field it would do more to restore the morale of those anything else. I be- people than lleve he could. do more than he has done."

Mr Connally said he will talk to the Secretary of State, Mr George Marshall, about the Chinese altus- tinn. He added that Mr. Marshall's

with experience

Generalissimo Chiang

had not been "eatisfactory," The senator said he believed that no American troops will be sent to

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SHIPS FOGBOUND Hundreds of ships were anchored fogbound in the river Thames,

to cluding 60 colliers attempting carry coal upriver to London.

COFRANCIASTERERETETTEL DENG STARTEKO SEND A CEMENT

They Cheered The Fog

London, Nov. 29-The hap- plest men in England today are black market thieves who find the for a perfect cover to loot farms

other of turkeys and poultry for the Christmas sales. Always active when Christmas approaches, the turkey "rust- lers" have taken advantage the country's worst fora many years to make an early

start.

of for

Although farmers have been

AIRPORTS IDLE

Orly and Le Bourget Airports at

Paris

were

almost

idic. Airline

were

rervices from Brussels to London, Paris, Prague, and Zurich cancelled this morning..

Solo Airfeld at Stavanger has at

been the only times

airfield in

Northern Europe where aircraft have

days.

landed during

the past two

Twenty-eight transatlantic flights

Court Reporter Louls' Wulf said tonight that he had good medical

had received neither massage nor electric treatment His doctors were keeping him under close and regular observation, but there is no indica-

bulletin Reuter.

Lion when they might issue another

TOJO NOT TO HANG YET Tokyo, Nov. 30. General from New York to Britain have MacArthur today granted a stay been held up. Foreign airline planes of execution to Hideki Tojo and were stranded at Northolt, northwest six other Japanese war criminals of London. which was completely condemned to die with him—

United Press.

fagbound.

(Continued on Pago 5)

11th-Hour Reprieve Sought

By Jap War Criminals

Washington, Nov, 29,-Two wartime Japaneso icaders, condemned to die as war criminals, made an eleventh hour appeal for their lives to the United States Supreme Court on Monday. -

TANGKU "INVASION" Tientsin, Nov. 30-Following the and abandonment of Shanhaikuan

15.000 Chinwangtao,, an estimated soldiers have been landed at Tang- ku from a variety of requisitioned

taklar precautions against thefia 好象 vessels, Chinese press reports said

Uime when the stric I7-7- tonight.

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Hound poultry supply addition to the several

enough to meet the demand, the

The High Court previously turned | best defences

The attorneys,, William Logan, Jr., for baffles, the thousand who had made their way

down similar appeals by Germans of New York, and David F, Smith, and armed guards and dogs are down from Manchuria recently posing serious problems of housing

convicted at the Nueremberg war of Washington, challenged the with the powerters $0 oope and feeding.

legality of the trial. They asked "I am not in favour of sendi

raiders-Router. Travellers quoted by the press to-

condemned Japaneso are that the executions bo'stayed and (American) combat troops to

stations were crowded by:

Kenji Dotharo, 04, JARENT" IN START kommer kinkysteitaan pragmaticije | General Mir, Connally sald. "If we had be-soldiers. They said they saw men

hearings.be hold here. nicknamed "bird of evil omen" by gun earlier sending equipment and

,At Southampton, viibility

was Chinese who dreaded his exploits Appeals on behalf of five other trainers, we might have done some in uniform "overywhere" between

less than 400 yards when Captain as the Japanese Army's undercover Japanese, who were Tangku and Tientaliz

convicted of good."

Queen agent in China and Manchuria war crimes but given only prison hey disclosed that shopkeepers C. M. Ford, master of the The plans to receive Madame

postponeri the Former Premier Koki Hirota, 10, sentences, will be filed later, the Chiang as the distinguished wife of had put up shutters at Tangku, where Elizabeth, again

who helped engineer Japan's pre-attorneys said, the chief executive of a friendlycidents involving soldiers were on liner's sailing.

Pearl Harbour war plans an government were announced without the increase.

In the meantime, fearful of an- comment by the State Department.

ald China.

night

They

crimes trial.

The

and

Court altaches sold they assumed Five other Japanese war, leaders, Over 800 passengers waiting - In

sometime this As a special pleader for a nation-countering diiculties from soldiers France to join the ship were sent including former Prenter Hideki the executions of Delhers al cause, Madame Chiang in put by desiring to procced south, the Jarding tack to their Paris hotels today Tojo, 03,jare also awaiting execution | Hirota, scheduled, 10% ng panding n

their conviction by an weok, will ho pastponed top administration. officinis on a evacuation vessel, Wingsang, will not when they went to St Lazare following

decision by the Supreme Court. Churchill, enter the harbour here. Instead station to catch the Cherbourg boat International Military Tribunal par with Mr Winsion

No appeals wartime

were flied on the other General Douglas MacArthur has Britain's war leader. But they have loading will be effected at the Taku train

leadora

#the Vordiels, of The pall of fog stretched across five made it clear privately they lack Bar, where the vessel will turn round

redhead | two-year. Europe. sus far as Vienna, Most Bri- behalf. enthusiasm for her new mission at for Hong Kong with 120 evacuees

American The Wingsabg is dun at thỏ Tʊkti una: European Airways services to

altorneys for Dohera The Supreme Court is scheduled AL time when Mr Truman .and Secretary Marshall are facing a Bar this evening from Shanghal and the Continent were cancelled and and Hirota flod-petitions making the to meet again Grease &mbor, 6. Theis Senolty and poinful decision-Asso- le scheduled to mit on the night of Royal Air Force planes on the Herlin Supreme Court to review the sen-was no Indication as to whon it

December 2 Reuter.

afritt were grounded in Britain. olated Press, 2

tenges of death by hanging, will get Associated Press. **

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