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VOL. III NO. 284

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1948.

Sweeping Gains Nanking Gets Ready To

Claimed

Nanking, Dec. 1.-Sweeping gains were claimed last night in a Ministry of National De- fence communiquo which, reż ported Nationalist troops strik- img out southward from Ilsuchow were fast advancing on Suhalen after overcoming grim Communist resistance.

Following their successful occupation of Tesolsun, on

on the Klangau-Anhwe!

border

General Sun Yuan-llang's

forota scored further

gains

and in another batilo yesterday annihilated more than 7.000 men of Chen Y's Third Army and captured another 800, the communique claimed.

South of Subslen, Govern- ment troops were said to be conducting their operation "according to plan," with the

northern and, southern columus anslated by powerful air squadrona, tightening their pincer attack upon the Com- munists above Fengpu.--- Reuter-AAP.

Ambassadorial

Post For Mrs Roosevelt?

Washington, Nov. 30.-The White House on Monday declined to comment on a report that President Truman has offered. to name Mrs Franklin D. Roose- vell, widow of, the late Presi dent, as United States Ambas- sador to France.

Raporters told the Presidential Secretary, Mr Charles G. Ross, that the report was carried on the radio on Sunday night.

said,

hove no comment," Mr Ross

Ho also had nothing to say about a similar report that Mr Marshall Field, a Chicago publisher and mer- chant, had been offered the post.

same

There has been a good deal of Cabinet shaking-up outside the White House," Mr Rosz remarked, smiling.

Shut Up Shop

FEAR APPARENT EVERYWHERE

Evacuation Of Air Force Personnel

(By WILLIAM PARROTT, REUTER-AAP CORRESPONDENT)

Nanking, Dec. 1-Fear of Mao Tse-tung's Chinese Communists is again gripping the heart of Nanking, the capital of Nationalist China. The relief that followed the repulse of the Communist advances towards Hsuchow has turned to alarm a's the enemy has concentrated in force 80 miles closer, near Pengpu. And Penpgu, by a crow's flight, is just over 100 miles from Nanking.

The fear is everywhere apparent. People are incessantly discussing the danger and pondering their fate. The stream of fleeing refugees is again in full flood. Many are going by Yangtse River steamers up to Hankow and some are continuing on by trains to Canton..

Hundreds of men who have already sent their families away are packing their bags for a last-minute flight.. More and more houses are becoming vacant, especially the better-class places.

A few shops have closed and their staffs have been discharged. Hoarders are selling stocks of rice and other commodities at less than the purchase prices and black market quotations for the United States dollar and other foreign currencies are beginning to climb.

Several members of the Legislative Yuan, apparently no more optimistic than the average citizen, are reported to have requested salary advances of 10,000 gold yuan.

of

The principal elements of the is believed their operation dependa Chinese National Government will upon the course and outcome of the move to Canton if Nanking becomes present important battle near Mr Jefferson Caffrey is the United untenable, according to an implica- Pengpu, about 120 miles north States Ambassador to France. Mrtion contained in instructions which, Nanking, where the Communists

have

bern and Nationalists are reported to be Ross said he does not know whether it is reliably learned,

for up

the evacuation of locked in grim fighting. Mr Caffrey plans to retire.-Asso-drawn ciated Presa, ・・

gevendants of civil servants.

The evacuation would mean huge The Instructions provide that de- pendants of staffs employed by the transport-problems-as-many-thou President's Office, Legislative and sand civil servants are employed in Executive Yuana will go to Canton, the various branches Dependants of those employed in vernment. the Control Yuan will be sent to Hengyang. in Hunan Province, while families of officials a Judicial, and Examination Yuans will go to the wartime capital of Chungking.

SOPHOULIS HOPES TO BE OUT OF BED SOON Athens, Nov. 30. --- Queen Frederika of Greece today visited the 28-year-old Greek Premier, M. Themistocles Sophoulis. who attacks last suffered two heart work. M. Sophoulls told the Queen that he hoped to be able to get up in a few days.Reuter

EDITORIAL

It is not disclosed shen these plans will be put into effect, but it

Why The Secrecy?

THE decision to Execute Toja

and his fellow war criminals

in secret has

paper:

incensed

ценк

abd everywhere

even have ex- the general pubilo perienced a feeling of surprise.

have

the

The necessary precedent surely

Nuremberg where the prin elpal Nazi war criminals went to the full blare the gallows in of publicity. Exclusion of news- paper correspondents from Japanese executions has been ordered by General MacArthur, whose relations with the Press

been Buver

particularly happy. Correspondents in Tokyo,

a tacit expulsion, have frequently found to criticise the Commander foto Supreme

reliance aloofness, his clavish oni

the advice of staff officers, and his refusal to take the Press into his confidence, MacArthur, indicated that he Tegards

often under

ita'nsocasaŁY

In

necessary

ha

been

threat of

aulaanes. The result of the imposition socrear on occasiona least fustify. arguing ing Correspondents,

their right to attend the execu- tions, point ouk the Dossiblo effect of secrees on the Japanese, Bide by alde with mass credulity, the Japaneso have displayed. tremendous conoelt which

ables them to bellove they were not beaten in the war; but have merely changed aldos. With that mentality, and in the face of an apparent American polley outright conciliation, they may easily be persuaded that the con querors were reluctant to carry onl the sentences, and that the zuza trial was nothing more than a farok. The opinion has 3-thân sade boen, expressed bz competent observers that: the

BX

Tokyo trials, dragged out

served only to en- they were, hance the prestige of Tojo, who tried very hard in his speeches from the dock to justify himself in the eyes of his countrymen, One effective way to remove any glory he may thus have himself would be eyewitness de- scriptions of his ignominious Moreover, necounts by indepen- dent newspaper correspondents moro must carry

carned end.

weight and than a bare official al-

Swede that Justice had been

carried

new

out, and would also keip to kill at birth Inspired rumours that the long legal Arguments leading to concept of laternational low in

had been warfare modern w vain. In a search to find a reacon for the secrecy which is to attend the Зарадеве executions the curgeation prompis Itself that if Tojo, like Goering, managed to take his own life, the fact could be kept from the Japanese publlo There is no doubt that I he did cheat the Kallows ToJo's martyrdom would be complete; Among

nation of suicido- worshippers he would stand cut BLE D a hero. But his look haa already rison so much becausó

...of his defence from the dock that If can be offset: only by the fullest pabllelly attending

Bila excaution. SCAP HA refused to

why the executions should. be carried out in secret, und because the world is entitled to know how the 'Japanese criminals

of the Go-

MOVING TO TAIWAN

The Chinese Air Force late last night issued an urgent order for the evacuation to Taiwan, beginning today (Wednesday) of ground per- sonnel and dependants in Nanking.

According to a reliable source, the order provided for the departure of two groups for Shanghai today on the first stage.

The third group will leave later at an unspecified date.

The source Indicated that due to possible lack of accommodation In tem- Talwan come personnel may porarily be housed in ients--Reuler.

PREPARING TO FLEE

Nanking, Dec. 1-Hsuchow's 250,000-man garrison was reported swinging south on Tuesday for a battle to save Nanking, but signs, multiplied in the capital that the. Government la prepared to flee,

Well based reports sald

that Government offices might sentter to the old wartime capital of Chungking In the west, Canton in the south, and to Formosa.

Usually reliable sources said the Hauchow garrison-strongest force left in the arca-sallied from the fortress in an attempt to save.140,000 Nationalist troops trapped by the Reds 65 miles to the South,

These

sources spoke of the movement As abandonment of 'Hsuchow. They said that all com- munications—including nir transport Nanking and Hauchow

between

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They. Await Assignment

These national soldiers, surrounded by their baggage and piles of ammunition, walt at the Shanghai-Nanking railway's north station in Shanghai for assignment to various points along the line, where they will protect it against attack by approaching

Chinese Communist forces-AP Picture.

Army Camps Inside Temple

Chinese Nationalist soldiers, set to. defend Peiping against advancing Chinese Communists, have pitched their tents on the grounds of the ancient Temple of Heaven" (background). The ancient place of worship has been one of the main attractions to visitors of Pelping-AP Picture.

Britain Agrees To Give Negev To The Jews

Paris, Nov. 30.-Britain today backed down on her Palestine stand and agreed to give Negev to the Jews.

At the same time, the Security Council called a meeting for Thursday to consider the Jewish request. for United Nations membership. Yielding finally to

the

strong

In substance, the United States would be cut off on Wednesday. United States arguments, the Brl- and Britain now want the General

This indicated the garrison was tish announced that they were Assembly to:

to expect

moro air withdrawing their endorsement of reinforcements and supplies unless the Into Count Folke Bernadotto's

fold

טות

1. Create a United Nations con- it got out and fought, and that air Palestine plan. The British dele-cillation commission of three or five

declared members. service was cut off to force it to gate, Mr Harold Beeley, move.

that Britain now favoured the for direct American proposals Arab-Yowish negotiations.

ISOLATED CITY

.

Hauchow has stood up to nearly a The month of Chinese

2. Instruct the commission 'to promote Arab-Jewish peace negotia British about-lions but refrain from laying down

Communist az-face bran and British the terms on which final Battlement

rault, but it was isolated except by views on Palestine Into harmony must be reached.

air after the Reds knifed south for the first time in two years of 3. Urge a settlement under, which ward. Even so, the garrison was heated United Nations debate. A

reluctant to leave the fortifications UN solution for the Holy Land King Abdullah will take over Arab under urgent orders from Nanking trouble now seemed possible.

met their ends,

de the decision is issued four days" ago, unwise. The": prestige

that any one of the condemned man may, have rained during the trials would be cancelled out by com

·plate... newspPADER (2) Coversto their excoullens

ol

JOINT PROPOSALS

Palestine as part of the Transjordan. 4. Try to establlal international control. for, the city of Jerusalem,

5. Try to make Halfa a free port

There was every indication that Simultaneously, tho Securtly the Hauchow, forces would have to Council headed the Jewish plea for and

| fight | all the way. If they expected speed and set Thursday “as the date | Lydda à fred airport.

to reach their comrades, encircled to decide on the Jewish bid for a 6. Urge, compensation to the thou south of Suhalen. Suhalen is 45 scat in the UN General Assembly. canals of Arab refugees who fled miles from Hauchow,

Israel's formal application was made | Jewish-held territory and do not Į yesterday,

Want to return-Välted Press.

(Centinusd on Fare 5)

Europe Still In Grip Of Dense Fog

Tel: 27880

MADAME

CHIANG ARRIVES

Refuses To Talk To The Press

San Francisco, ́Nov. 30.— Madame Chiang Kai-shek arrived in the United States today to plead for help for distressed China.

China's first lady stepped down from a Navy plane after an 8,000-mile flight from Nan- king and was tightlipped toward reporters, refusing to discuss her pending appeal for all-out -American aid to the Nationalist Government, Chinese sources said she belloved it best to carry her message direct to Washing- ton.

Atfer a brief stop'in San Francisco, during which sho will visit her brother, Dr T. V. Soong, Madame Chiang will board the "Sacred Cow," private plane of the Secretary- of Stato (Mr George Marshall) for the flight to Washington tonight. T take-off is scheduled for 8 p.m. and her arrival in the capital for 10 a.m. EST Wednesday.

Madame Chlang was smiling and vivacious when she arrived and was greeted by a delegation of military aid State Department officials, the latter headed by Mr. R.D., Muir,“ assistant chief of protocol; -'-

WHISKED AWAY

The special Navy plane. landed at 11.86, a.m.; at Moffett Field, the Navy air base about 30 miles south of San Francisco: On hand to great her were Mr T. K. Chang, Chinese London, Nov. 80-Thick fog Consul General in San Francisco, Admiral C. M. Cooke (retired), blanketed Western Europe again former American Navy Commander today, grounding planes, con- in the Western Pacific, and Rear- fining ships to port and once Admiral John Redman, députy Com more almost halted the Berlin mander of the Western Sea Frontier. airlift.. A slight improvement ser a luncheon reception at the

officers

quarters at the field, in some areas this afternoon Madame Chiang was whisked away allowed air traffic to start in Mr Soong's limousine toward San

Francisco. She wore a beaver coat, again at the two Paris airports wer: a dark, ankle-length Chinesa of Orly and Le Bourget, while dress officials at The Hague', hoped | services would be resumed from

Schipol Airport.

All European airline hervices in and out of Brussels were cancelled. The movement of all shipping to and from Antwerp was again halted. In Britain. the sailing of the world's largest liner-the 83,000-ton Queen Elizabeth-for New York was Lime. postponed for the seventh The Uner has now been delayed 13 days, first by strikes and then by fog.

Authoritative cources in China reported that the major conditions on which the United States would grant aid to China had been laid beforo Generalissimo Chiang-in- unofficial diplomatie manoeuvring in Nanking

Shanghal-United Fress.

and

450 TRICYCLES ROUNDED UP

Trame Department officers made

The 81,000-ton liner, the Queen Mary, and the 40,000-ton liner, a swoop after midnight lost night on Acquitania, were also held up by tog tricycles still plying their trade in with the Queen Elizabeth aithe Colony's streets. Southampton.

the

and fifty (300 in in Kowloon)

150

Four hundred Hongkong and The British European Airways were seized and taken off the roads cancelled or indefinitely delayed for in conformity with the now regula- fourth day all continentai tions which makes their appearance services. Three airliners of the | in publle illegal. British Overseas Airways Corporu- However, a few tricycles still re- tion, due to leave London Airport, | main on the roads: these are the ones which have been converted were grounded.

Into trade vehicles and have been

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