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VOL. III NO. 288

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FROM KIANGYA

Shanghai,

Dec,

The China

MONDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1948.

Social Democrats Lead In

Berlin Elections POLLING REPORTED

UBE

EXCEPTIONALLY HEAVY

Called Vote Of Confidence In Legal Government

Berlin, Dec. 5.-Unofficial results from more than 50 polling stations in all parts of Berlin showed the Social Democrats well in the load with 20,366 votes. The Christian Democrats obtained 6,991 votos. and the Liberal Democrats 4,858 votes.

The Social Democrats, with 4,660 votes, led in returns from 16 polling stations in the Charlottenburg district. The Christian Democrats polled 1,468 votes and the Liberal Democrats 1,388 votes.

..

Results from 24 polling stations in the British sector gave the Social Democrats 8,996 votes, the Christian Democrats 2,770 and the Liberal Democrats 2,075.

Seventy-five percent of the voters had gone to the polls by 5 p.m. local time -three hours before the voting booths closed.

Berlin election headquarters an nounced that-60 per cent of the 1,300,000 electorate had voted 4 p.m. local time.

Colonel Frank

by Wingsang Due

Tomorrow

Howley, the

American Commandant of Berlin, described the high polling as "proof to the world that Berliners were worthy of the chance the Western Allies gave them to decido their fate by democratic processes."*

"It is a signal yote of confidence In the legal City: Government which. the Communists have tried by force and propaganda to discredit," ho said.

NO SERIOUS INCIDENTS ·· No scrious Incidents had been Merchants Steam Navigation. Com-reported during the day, but West pany officially announced that 336 sector policy arrested 13 men after passengers and crew were rescued minor clashes near the American- from the ill-fated Kiangya. which Soviet sector boundary. sank at the mouth of the Yangtze estuary on Friday night. There were an estimated 4.000 persons on board

Volers were still going to the polls in large numbers when dark- hess fell at 4 o'clock this afternoon. at the time the ship exploded and Two German policemen, cach sank in less than an hour.

wearing a pistol and carrying a "The company statement said 20′′| truncheon, patrolled in boredom of the crow of 131. survived.Asso-before cách polling booth. They elated Press.

had nothing to do.

EDITORIAL

Purging The Unions

WIDE

VY certain

oro

the

the machinery of the movement Is to be caplured by an outside body for purposes of its OWN making. The Communist Party is indicated

organisation

as an

on a

which

is structurally different from every other political party. It has been constructed functional basis, and the most

and solive

crafilly planned machinery of the Party Is in operation Inside the trade union movement The successful work- ing of this machinery secured only by the co-

co-operation

of individual trade unionists, not

Η Κοιν of whom hold official

repercussionis follow to decision taken by the General Council of the British Trade Union Congress to rout out the disruptive agencies planted In the unions and trade councils by the Communist Party. The em phatio declaration of Brita TUC leaders that active associa- tion with any Communist organi- sation tb Incompatible with obligations of loyalty to trade union principles Is Ilkely to be cohoed In other countries where there are efforts to disrupt the trado union movement. The

positions in their unions. And TUC decision

will make too,

without thly co-operation tho Its impact felt upan national

alms of the Communist organisa trade union centres which have Iton cannot bo effectively to make up their

furthered. minds about

One One constant alm continuing their support of the of the Communists In trade World Federation ať Trade

unions is to xommersault polley Unions. Everything points to the with the Intention of creating proposal of the British TUC

confusion among the rank and that the WFTU should, suspend file members and to embarrUGS its activities will be opposed br the soberminded lenders. More. the All-Union Central Council over,*&

deal of evidence has of Soviet trade unions and no been accumulated to show that doubt the Bucsians

the Communist parties every- will be able

where are, in the words of the TUC General Council, the Hobject

and slavish agents of forces which aro working in the interests of a foreign Power whose polfer is to keep world divided, impoverished and dread In constant

of a third world war." The TUC is now resolved to meet this challenge to its authority and to fight out this fasue In the trade

union movement. That it will succeed

Little doubt,

for the

can

that the

to mobilise considerable support for this opposition.. therefore be expected British TUC will give effect to its dealsion to witlutraw.from the World Federation if the latter body refuses to suspend Ska activities. But the TUC is not

with the only concerned

Com- manist tendencies of the World Foderation

of Trade Unions. is consclous” of · the danger to, whlola ito own organisailor fa exposed by the Communist Farty

machinery and it Beiling oat 'now-'to' resist Inflltra- which is Milan: Into the unions,

the dominating technique of the Communists Bacio polnis s issue from the TUC standpoint to whether

decisions

the

strived at majority--let alone an overwhelming majority-in Boley-making counelis and con- ferences of the trade union mova. mons"lo to, be¦, ihs” põllby, upon which the fulted) movement' can lpurvas,Re course, or whether

thero

the

average trade unionist in Britain

Communiam Joalhes

pa much,

he

perhaps more, Extreme Captialism. Even more important, he loves and belleve In the right of Individual Uberty Abery which Communism, even if it -operated only within the United sphere of the trade valon 'move." ment, would deny him. The purge of ¦ Reds from the` Heltish trade union movement will be one' its most historio schlove- *ments.

The ss Wingsang is duo at Quarantine Bay at 8 o'clock tomorrow morning with 182 adults and 22 children... evacuated from Tientsin.

*

A message received from the ship by her owners, Jardine Matheson's, says that all on board are "happy and well,

The Wingsang is expect- ed to tie up at West Point wharf at 8.30 a.m.

sector residenta He said that in one area of the British sector, the poll was higher by three percent than in 1948.

The Acting Mayor of Berlin, Frau Louise Schroeder, told Reuter: "The high participation in the election has proved

ed that. Berliners are Democrats. The number of people flocking to the polls exceeded by highest ex- pectations: It proves how the Socialist Unity Party, was

wrong:

ส claiming Berlin was not interested in holding local election,

news

90 PERCENT POLL According to the German agency. DPD, the Deputy Election Officer. Dr Trevitschke, announced that

voting percentages had totalled, 60 percent in almost all districts.

Some districts had reported a 14 percent

cent poll.

According to a report received by the Allied Election Headquarters, two Russian soldiers forced

their way.

Into

the polling station at Straken,

ren, on the British-Soviet sector boundary, soon after the counting began and attempted to scize poll-- ing papers.

It was stated that a German crowd Russians into the street. watching the counting turned the

A 30-mile tour of all three sectors while the voting was at its peak fulled to produce a single example or trouble of voting irregularities at the polls. Extra German police patrolled the streets in the Western sectors and French military polled were stationed at the boundary beannounced that all police in the Eastern sector police headquarters tween the Soviet and French sec- Eastern sector who were alerted Inst tors.

night have been told to "stand- hours of down and that reinforced pollee Up to the final three voting, everything had

gone so patrols on the sector boundary had smoothly that the fears of poll, been withdrawn-Router. clashes had been completely dissi- pated, Pollce precautions were not relaxed however, and special mili- tary patrols and troops reinforce ments were kept on thic alert to guard against possible attempts to interfere with the counting collection of the ballot boxes.

FINAL RETURNS TODAY First authoritative returns were expected within an hour after the closing of the booths at 8 o'clock tonight although final returns were not expected until tomorrow.

and

Western sector police disclosed that 85 persons were arrested-the majority for altempting to persuade electors not to enter polling boollis. Pro-Communists were reported to

have attempted to destroy ballot

boxes in the Neukolln district (in the United States rector) by.de. positing envelops impregnated with phosphorus.

DENA, the German nowa agency, said a number of Soviet sector re- sidents pleaded so vigorously to be allowed to voto at a polling station near the Soviet-American sector that they had to be removed by the police.

Germans living in the Eastern

today's election:

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King George walks over rough ground during a two- hour inspection tour of the National Institute of Agricul tural Engineering at Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England. It was his last public appearance before he was forced to cancel a planned tour of Australia and New Zealand becauseTM??

of the circulatory condition of his legs-AP: Picture,

Kalgan Fighting Grows In Fury

Shanghai, Dec. 6.—The fighting for Kalgan in Chahar Province today mounted toward a climactic engagement that could develop into the first phase of the Chinese Red campaign against the Nationalist best general, Fu Tso-yi, and China's top armies.

The Chinese Red radio gave evidence to the importance, the Communists are placing on the Kalgan fighting by using for the first time the "Peiping Suiyuan" dateline in claiming successes against the government.

once

The North China campaign flared slatance. Despite Ave days of solld up in growing magnitude

as the pressure against the Reds in their Central China battle

more southward marching, the govern- seemed turning toward the government troops have not made appre- ment, as the arca of fighting is clable progress after the first day's slowly being compressed Into march of twenty miles. lighter circlo

Suhsien. of which

(Continued on Pare 5) between Pengpu and Hsuchow, is the focal point.

Both the government and the Chinese Reds admitted that the battle southwest of Kolgan Was reaching the annihilation" stage. The Reds apparently are moving men in from the west and north in an effort to isolate General Fu's strong garrison in Kalgan.

FU'S STRATEGY General Fu, meanwhile,' was known to be bringing up men from passengers the south in an effort to sandwich and seven crewmen-went the Reds between the northern and down in the Pacific 1,000 miles southern unfis of his ground forces. southwest of Honolulu on Sun-There was no evidence so far that day...

7

Government

the Chinese Air Force is taking part In the Kalgan battle as it is stil The Pacific" Air Command concentrated in the defence of Nanking and In the bottle of reported the plane belonged to

Subsien, the 374th Troop .. Carrier The Red radio this morning sector were not entitled to vote in Squadron. It was one of five claimed victory over the National- Herr Carl Hubert Schwennike, ferrying 155 ground personnel ats at Hwalan, southwest of Kalgan, the Berlin chairman of the Liberal of the 98th Bomb Group from Fu's men were pushing the Reds reports claimed that Democratic Party, sald tonight that Okinawa to Spokane, Washing- steadily southeastward toward the the high rate of polling had ceeded the expectations of even the ton, after three months special groups, advancing from the north.

The Red most optimistic political leaders, training.

radio, at the same time, admitted evacuating several towns "The world cannot ignoro this

Efforts were being made to chece west of Kalgan overwhelming expression of faith," Kwajalein, the plane's last stop, for People's Army "as the main he declared.

a crow and passenger list.

word toward SOVIET ALLEGATION.

Kuomintang North The C-54 was belloved at com- China,”. The Soviet-llcensed German news mand headquarters to be the first Garbled redio reception indicated agency, ADN, reported tonight that of its famous reliable type

evor that

the Reds expect the Kalgan four.

Soviet .nowspaper correspon- lost in the Pacifie

battle to be a contest of major dents werd refused Information

strength. when they visited polling, booths In

DOWN SOUTH › the British and French sectors..

Early

returna

that the showed voting had been particularly heavy in the middle alum districts, lower in the working class areas. "In

some

F

· PLANE DITCHED The command reported it was Kitched" after radioing that

two

of its four engines had failed, bu,

forces drove.cast-

In the fighting between Pengpu and Hsuchów, pro-Government re-

An extensive scorch was organised porta claimed that the Nationalists immediately from Johnston Island, recaptured Kuchen, south

River,

of

340 miles northeast of the planie's Buhsion, driving out the Reds under parts of Wedding and Neukoolin, ost reported position

The four Liu Po-cheng and Chen Yi, who famous before the Nazi regime as planes in the ferrying group with have been pushed back from the Communist centres, only about 04 the ditched craft, three navy ships Huel per cent of the residents voted, including the escort aircraft carrier The Nationalists, who struck The British member of the Com-Rendova and army and navy south toward Buhsten when they mittee, Me Harold Hays, said ho was planes from this aren joined in the evacuated Hauchow, were described. I very satisfied with the polling by hunt Associated Press days meeting continuod stubborn ro

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BACK TO WORK ON W. COAST

Today Sees End

Of Big Strike

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San Francisco, Dec. 6.Work will be, resumed in all West Coast ports on Monday, a mari. time employer -announcement said on Sunday night--ending the 95-day old waterfront tle. up.

The joint, announcement of the Pacifle American Ship- owners Association and the Waterfront Employers Associa- tion here anid work would be resumed "overywhere possible,' depending upon "the.extent of readiness of men and ships."

About 185 ships are tied up in the West Coast ports and a total of 280 in all United States ports as a result of the western strike.

How many will have steam, up by

How

Monday morning remained uncer tain

many workers could be reached with the back to work call also was not known.

Union and As-

The Longshoremen over's

the Waterfront

sociation Issued a joint request to radio stations and newspapers to urge all stevedores to report to their hiring halls on Monday.

a

OBSTACLES IRONED OUT Maritimé unions had' agreed on Thursday night to resume work on fow specified ships awaiting Christmas cargoes for Honolulu and Manila, but employers waited unt!! all possible obstacles to a Anal... settlement had "been : ironed- out.. What appeared to be the last un- certainty was eliminated by written

that pass guaranted Jurisdiction of the All Sailors Union of the Pacific would not be invaded maritime by now pacts with CIO

unions.

Steamship operators wero busy determining which of the 80 ships tied up In San Francisco Bay would bo worked' first. The American President Lines released a schedule of tentative salling dates, beginning

the scheduled on Thursday with departure of the Dartmouth Victory for the

the Philippines and Hongkong. The Ulg APL liner, President Wil- Bon, will leave in 19 days, the APL announced.

The Matson Navigation Company and its liner Lurline would leave. from Los Angeles "probably next Friday," for Honolulu,--Associated Press.

MINE EXPLOSION

Oslo, Dec. 5.-One body was found. and 14 men were still missing today, 24 hours after a coal mine explosion at King's Bay, Spitzbergen.

Rescue parties tried to force a way through an old tunnel to the area of the explosion-Router.

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