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VOL. III NO. 295

SINKS HER

SCRUPLES

Remarking "I'm sure I shall get into awful trouble over this," Lady Astor went right ahead and auctioned a bottle of whisky for the benefit of a Christmas fund during a party at 10 Downing Street, London. Lady Astor is known as one of the world's leading tee- totallers.--AP Picture.

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Meat Situation Is "Very Gloomy"

London, Dec. 13.-Britain's ment ituation is "very gloomy,"

The situation in 1949 is uncertain

because of the position with the

EDITORIAL

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1948.

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Peiping At Mercy Of The Nationalists

Communists

CITY

EXPECTED

TO SURRENDER BLOODLESSLY

Peiping, Dec. 14-Events are moving fast in North China. Unless all the signs are false, Peiping is approaching its last days, under the Nationalist regime.

During its more than 3,000 years of history it has changed hands many times. And the shadow of the new conqueror is now ominously close.

Here briefly is Peiping's position: firstly, the Reds form a semicircle around it from the Southwest to the East at distances from seven to 15 miles; secondly, General Fu Tso-yl's escape route-the Peiping-Kalgan railroad---Is completely scaled with the Reds in possession of most of the line; thirdly, Peiping's two airfields, the West and South Fields, both are in danger of being overrun by the Communist ground forces and, fourthly, the Reds could at almost any moment now cut the Pelping-Tientsin railroad and thus completely isolate Peiping by land.

General Fu's military

strategy

has been so puzzling that the popu- luce as a whole, not to mention those who claim to know what is going on behind the scenes, have unly one explanation-political, motives underlie It,

This would account for the general calm of the populace, al- though the sound of occasional gun-į fire can now be heard through out-Pelping

SUAVE PREDICTIONS-

there is no evidence to substantiate this.

Another is that there is fighting near the Summer Palade on the Western outskirts of Pelping, famed for the marble boat which the Dowager Empress Tau Hai bullt with funds for the creation of a Chinese Navy.

But this too, cannot be confirmed. wonders, not with dismay or panic, Meanwhile, Pelping waits and

but more like a bride awaiting ravishment Associated Press.

And It accounts too, for the nave GUNFIRE HEARD predictions that Pelping will change hands without bloodshed.

If only mic

MANY RUMOURS

become

Meanwhile,

is not

London Startled By Hoffman's Aid To China Statement

London, Dec. 13.-Mr Paul G. Hoffman's - state- ment in Shanghai today that China would still get American aid if the country came under Coalition, presumably including the Communists, is seen here as a most significant public, statement of United States policy since the beginning of major Communist gains in China.

British; and American observers agree that Mr Hoff- man would scarcely have given such an assurance how ever conditional upon the exercise of essential freedoms under a Coalition Government unless the official American policy is prepared to acknowledge such condition.

In Action"

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Chinese Nationalist sol diers entrenched near Hau⚫ chow," "prepare to attack Communist troops from entrenchments" vacated, a' few hours earlier by the Communists, Emoke at left centre is rising from Communist lines AP Picture.

Minister Makes

Tel: 27880

Big Armed Police Force For Japan Is Envisaged

Washington, Dec. 18.-In- formed Defence sources today said the United States Was thinking of building an armed police forco of 100,000 to 150,000 men in Japan. They said that, militarily speaking, no drastic change was contem- plated in the United States' For Eastern policy, but rather a gradunt evolution whereby Japan would not remairi a power vacuum after the occupy- ing forces had left...

First offcial Indication that tha United States was thinking along these lines was in, last September, when Lieut-General Robert Eichelberger returned from Japan and said he favoured an armed police force of 125,000 men.

Since then the Chinese situation has deteriorated, rapidly posing now problems in United Stater policy in Asia' and Terystallising thought concerning a Japanese security, force. However, informed defence sources. insist

no drastic changes are contemplated,

--DISARMAMENT, POLICY

that all Bourcos pointed out powers occupying Jopan were com- mifted by polley to disarming Japan and keeping her disatined. Also, the Japanese constitution commits Japan to complate.........” disarmament. to Howayer, Japan is permitted maintain certain forces inside the country for policing purposes.- and" maintenance of order.

An source said the contemplated force et 150,000 would not con- traveno elther the policy. or the constiptions=iwezig bigni

Love To Woman Both the US Army and Stale

Member Of Diet

which

-

Tientsin, Dec. 14.Gunfire was

Department for a long time have When this change will occur is night as Nationalist troops and re- heard in some parts of Peiping last

opposed sending more substantial a mystery.

military ald to China on the grounds fugees poured into the ancient capl-

that it would not be properly factors are in tal through the West Gate.

utilised. Drvolved. It could be a matter of days.

Tokyo, Dec. 14 The Finance that General MacArthur, until the There have been reports The hostilities north and west of Edith Summerskill, Parliamentary But if political factors are involved, Felping shifted over closer and a Secretary to the Board of Trade, the changeover could. well

Minister, Sanroku. Izumiyama, past few months, favoured going to bo told Parliament today.

delayed unill January or February. curfew has been imposed beginning

resigned today from the Japan- Chiang Kai-shek's old with large qt B p.m. local time. ists in Pelping are going through all be far from the west airfield, per-

though Meanwhile,

the National-

Gao Parliament after a 47-year-stocks of Army materials in Japan The fighting is presumed not in

I may consequently be deduced the principle of a new Administra-old woman member of the Dict the occupying troops. However, this were not being utilised by the motions of readiness to fight. Argentine and I am afraid I cannot Machineguns have been mounted on

haps within very, few miles," re that both in Nanking and Washing- tion by coming to terms with the charged that he had made "Im- situation changed and stocks con- hold out much hope that it will be and outside the clty walls, conscripts Bulling in the almost total abandon- ton, where Madame Chlang. Kal- | Communists while there is thme. proper advances" to her in the sidered surplus or unusable a few much better than in

ment of the west airfield -after com-shek is now on a special mission for 1047, she are being drilled with every sem-mercial planes had proceeded to the Chinese Government, representa America would not be prepared to

Reports from Washington that lobby.

months. ago now are regarded as .added.

blance of fervour and at all the elty Tientsin-and-military-aircraft took tives of the American State Depart-increase the scale of her aid to declare a recess to restore order last

The Speaker of the House had to vital to defence. The amount of meat available for gates hundreds of civilians have off for other safer fields..

ment have advised China to admit China unless the Chinese Adminis 1018 had been considerably less thon | been mobilised to fill sandbags.

While the west aerodrome might

· UNCONFIRMED REPORTS tration made a major effort to help claimed Izumiyama had

night when Mrs Sariye Yomahita for 1947. Moreover, substantial

unusable Peiping still

Itself are seen here

embraced as consistent

In view of these Indications of inroads has had to be made into Rumours fly thick and fast,

the south The

fleld which

yet

with this conclusion.

her. stocks of canned corned beet this latest is that Tunghsien, 12 miles to menaced.

VAST DIFFERENCE · The Cabinet accepted Irumiyama' changing outlook, there have boca

reports completely lacking

con- year, she said-Reuter.

the east, has been abandoned but Considerable excitement reigns in:

resignation. admitting he had be- firmation-that General MacArthur Pelping generally with troops pour-

Observers admit that there is a vast difference between a decision in last week-end.

come drunk during a party earlier requested strong reinforcements ing in and uncertainty about General

and United States military policy-makers Fu Tso-y's intentions or where-

principle to discuss a Coalition and

the considering rearming. The House Speaker declared that were abouts

a Anal agreement on terms upon it was useless to restore order after Japanese. 200 owing to the Light-lipped

Whether the National policy.

which the Communists and 1100-

Council considering a dozen Americans,

Communists would

Mrs Saruye Yamashita claimed that Security be prepared to

Buch 134 Stateless and 37 others

Izumiyama tried to embrace her,

policy definitely is not left

work together,

The Council's Pelping by train

deci yesterday for

-Izumiyama was not present to known. successes of

sions are top-secret and no an- Tlentsin where they will board an

the Communists have placed them defend himself. LST for Shanghai on Wednesday.—

It was said

Finance nouncement is ever made on them. In a strong position to "Uletate terras

However, defence *sourceA at Reuter.

Taiping, Dec. 14-The largest city for any Conlition which would pre-Minister was asleep in the Ministers".

than

the Security YANGTSE DANCER

walting room. in North China entered a virtual pare, the ground for subsequent Diet went back into the 9th session Council insist that an armed pollco

After a recess, the lower level Nanking, Dec, 14.-Chinese Gov-stale of siege on Tuesday:

whittling away of non-Communist

force is os for; as United Slates supple- ernment military quarters sold on Fighting surged towards the nor-elements on the lines which have in an effort to pass Monday that new Communist suc- thern outskirts of the ancient capital. become familiar la Europe since the mentary Budget Bill and then vote planning gots now,

A new clash with the Communists war.

non- the Opposition Party's cesses might soon force the National-

the against İsts to fall back to

broke out south the

of Changhsientlen Yangtse

At the same time the Communiste confidence River

Nanking.

on the Pelping-Hankow railroad, opposite

have two practical interests

Another These well the

informed quarters seven miles southwest of here. concluding auch an agreement.

woman

representative, based their forecast Communist People at Pelping's south air fleld

1. China's dependenco on Mrs Chiyo Hakekibarn, 50. made

the infiltration to within

clearly hear could

charge ngainst the Finance first existing channels of trade, which Bunfire.

Minister. It was possible the Communists are largely foreign and the destruction of

non- Nanking and steady

; Premier Shigeru Yoshida, re- In a Communist were trying to neutralise the fold, Communist demand for the main-

seven miles south of Pelping, and 145 miles to the northwest.

plying, said: "I am sorry that the the only one of two here still in They

that acknowledged

the 12th

Finance Minister is not hero, but. I must still investigate. Group, encircled for 17 days, operation. Army had lost more than half its original combat forces of 110,000 men and might soon be wiped out entirely. The 12th now is compressed in- to a four squaro mile area and is critically short of food and ammu- nition.

Is It Too Late?

THERE ย every appearance

now

come

that the whole of North China

(which

*ticana the key cities of Pelping, Tientsin and the ceaport of Tangku Is -About to under the domination of the Communists. One authority for Бренса Mocsa. doyen of the foreign press corp China and one of the best. halanced and

Informed mout

In

correspondents In the interior. Μέσακα

that the teneral Вауз

that

conviction in Felping is General Fu Teo-yl is preparing compromise come to

10

with

tbal

a

the

the Reds. and the fact the Nationalist military leader

abandoned has Tongahan coal miaing aren without Bring

(desplie a shot earlier

military preparations seemingly intended for

manner

AS

An

defence) lends naibentle colour to this belief, Possibly Tong- khan was, militaristically speak- ing, indefensible,

That but should be mirrendered in such raises Immediate donbla

10

LHD whether Nationalists ·In Iopel intend to engage

any further perlour Ashling. The mines were left Intact, which is contrary to the declared scorched, earth policy

down allegedly fald

by,' the defending

Nationalist forces. Moosa's Furthermore Mo report from Peiping... *credits...

General Ru that with giving Instructions nothing should be destroyed the Tongshan area, although the mines were holding 1,000,000 lons of stockplie coal. These

taken. In sasools developments, tion with

the growing debacle Yangiae, the failure of In the Generaliscima Chiang to, rive General Fu the support, supplies andreinforcements which he naked før, lond subslantial

backing

to the conviction that the Nationalist forces in North China are about to surrender. Thereafter the big question in what the Communists Intend to do. Freed of military commit- ments in the North, and perfectly capablo

quickly repairing rall communications which they themselves have destroyed, Reds would be u position to switch. maxLive forces Lo Central

Eastern China

of

and

for an attempt at float

to

11

(0 the beginning

10

coup

the

de grace In the Yangise are To Nationalist

armles already committed

strategical dis advantages this may well strika them-

of Lue end as a fighting machine, and the prospeel of a sudden collapse of the Nanking troops in the ngiting on the Hiangsu-Anwhel front cannot be ignored. Nor NON I their consequences,

would pave the WAY 10

-for

sweep southwards that would embrace Nanking

and Shanghal and.

ta Couthwestward the

Wuhan

Bro

would,

...

Canoe this ha cities. And the Communists after, choose their own

Bigbling ground. Generalisalmo Chiang Hal-shek's armies are not yet to bo written off, but the signs that they may be irretrievably defeat- ed in battle, or sold out by de fection

Inbre Towing ominous. If

there were ever moment when inspired resolute leadership was needed by the Nationalists in the field now, but the sign, which will promote any such confidence has yet to be made. And the fear is that I will come too late.

B Even the hauguration of the "Shanghal Self... Salvation

Bod

National Salvation | Autaociation” has the earmarks of a desperate gestare: in the Interests

ofa

lost cause, though "it would be |· comforting to think otherwise,

anent forces

оп

60 miles

of

Fighting Near Peiping

The recent millitary

-that tho

011

for Yoshida Gow Motio

tenance of a working link between any Communist Administration and the outside world.

2--Politically speaking, the Com- The nightly curfew was advanced munists may not be eager to press from 11 p.m. to 8 pm. Authorities home their milltary advantage into gave notlee all gates of the city territories would be closed at sundown.

which they would at once have to necept undivided Trenches are being dug and other responsibility for economie and ad- battle preparations

being

made ministrative problems which they outside the walls. Garrison head- would inherit.Reuter." Pilots dropping supplies quarlors announced the 18th Army

arc having Hitle success bitting the and the 208th Youth Division had compressed target and are facing been moved into Peiping to 'defend steadily heavier Communist anti-the city. aircraft fireAssociated Press. ̈

CRITICAL PLICHT.

Lin

the

These sources say it is obvious Japan could not be left without security forces of Its own when the occupying powers leave. Hence the necessity for building up and trait- ing a strong, well-disciplined police

force.

The sources carefully pointed out that the Defence Department did not formulate United States policy, nor did the National Security Coun the cil. President Truman and Congress can override both, and force, a re- appraisal of the entire Far Eastern policy. However, past tendency has been for Mr Truman and Congress to listen, closely to political and military advice from the State and Defence Departments. United Press,

Mrs Yamashita, then took door and said: "I was, the direct victim of Izumiyama. He forced me out of the room into: the corridor and embraced me

"He told me I love you. I told him he had more important business

to attend to."-United Presă,

Armed Protection For Government

Banks In Shanghai

Amid these developments and ru mours of compromise with the Reds,

Shanghai, Dec. 14. -- The Nanking, Dec. 13-Encircled No-General Fu T50-yl's Headquarters doors of the Central Bank of :

announced that Pelping and Tientsin tionalist Army Groups northwest would be defended "to

the

China and the Bank of China Inst and southwest of Suhalen are now minute." General Fu Is govern- Government Institutions where herded Into perfect lines under the-] "Yollow. Ox" garigs," who, havo been relying largely on airdropped upment commander of North China, paper money is being converted ungentle handling of the tough, most unruly among the queders plies of food and ammunition, in-. A military spokesman. sald.

helmeted rint squad volles.

alnce gold and sliver sales opened, formed sources said here tonight.

Plao, the Communist Commander-in into gold and silver-opened to-

Armoured cats with machine guns might try to They require 500 tons of food, 400 Chlot of Manchuria, had moved all day under the protection of trained squarely at the main on through police lines.

force their Way ons of ammunition

dally. The two encircled groups probably nu

mber his troops into Hapeh province to machine guns, armoured cars trances of the two banks a short bly numbere

Yellow Ox: gangs,

which

have and seize Peiping and Tientsin. The and riot squad police with block apart squatted behind the long plagued Shanghal's economy between 200,000 and 250.000, and strength of this Red Invasion samy bayoneted rifles. thair

of polico, who swung ramrods, and through clover manipulation pught

becomes dally moro critical with the lengthening period was estimated officially hero at.

rinebarrals at the recalcitrant commodities, supplies and black- of the Communist encirclement.

queuers who tried to sneak out

meak out of market activities, have been having ver 60 civil and air force planes China wilways has, for all practical sounds of the government offering Chineto sirened off to gaol. As and long

During the past two weeks, the line to get ahead. sliver sales. They hire stooges to

อ heyday in the current

Hold and Black Morias loaded with profest- are dying several trips each out of

Shanghai dally, purposes, ceased. The Pelping to turn in Gold Yunn for gold and far as half a mile it either direc gold purchasable at $1,000 UY per hours in lines, tako over Nanking and

Felping-Hankow and carrying

supplies to the Eciping-Tehol lines now operate only aliver, have been growing increase on along the Bund Leom the the aurice or silver dollars purchasable beleaguered:

Within General Huang Wel's within Paiping city limits General Ingy Magu against banks, riot squad members were at the equivalent of less than 83 UB Fusilli controls the Pelping-Muk the doors of the two banks, jamming stationed. The garden bridge across cents, and then take it out to re- gradually compressing area, 400 den railway to a point about 50 strcels, blocking the Bund, aldestreet Soochow Creek was guarded at sell:jat & more than double the cost

trafe, and often breaking out in both ends. Policemen told the to persons unwilling to line up Landing ground for light aircraft but miles northeast of Tientsin traf

* gangfights for places in line, the United Fress that all these mea- These gangs are highly resentful. it in understood that no planas are sociated Press C

would-be buyers of gold bars and sures were purely precautionary of the palios breaking up their" able to land yet-Beuler,-AAP,

silver dollars this morning werd just in case organised, mobsters of racket,United : Presari

trucks are being used to form

ה

100.000.

Traffic on three of four north

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