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SPRING WILL BRING A RED ASSAULT AGAINST NANKING

New Defence Plan Likely To Prove A Bubble

Shanghai, Feb. 7.-The Chinese Communists may sit and talk wordily about peace for a while yet, but they certainly will not let spring advance very far before they strike militarily at China's heartland.

The first early hint of spring already is in the air in this region along the Yangtse River.

Nationalist China, having lost the north in battle, is now but half a nation with two incomplete and ineffective segments of government.

The refugee government newly established Canton in the south is a body without a head. holdout government of acting President

in Nanking is a head without a body.

Cleaning Up The English Language

NATIONAL THEATRE

APPROVED

at

The

Li Tsung-jen

Meanwhile, the ouětime ruler

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all China, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, meditates in his palatial toine near his native Fenghwn. He Its as heavily guarded as the U.S. gald hourd at- Fort Knox, Kentucky, Jand his plans are equally well

hidden.

It is beginning to appear that belare" "Chiang went into his highly qualified retirement on January 21, he adroitly stacked the cards against his successor, acting President LI, { fence deals were apparently doomed before they started.

DOCCED PERSISTENCE

Li, left alone al Nanking, doggedly

make his chances seem hopeless.

London, Feb. 6.—Britain's) persists, despite complications that two major political partics were united today on the need for curing future generations of talking American slang.

Conservatives #nd Labourites hoped alike thut the proposed National Theatre in London would restore the language of Shakespeare of British to the infected tongues youth.

For, the Conservatives, Mr Oliver Lyttleton provided the Common on Friday with an imitation of an American mother leaching her daughter English poetry. He drew

roars

from

with the House Irooklyn.

accent-that should be spotted as phoney as far west San Francisco.

ar

Mry Leah Manning, speaking from the Labour back bench. said the National Theatre would Kive the children fresh opportunity for Hearing English beautifully spoken.

in

URLY SPEECH

"So many of our children speak .clipped and ugly speech and American Idiom which is very un- fortunate," she said,

Mrs Manning is the daughter Mr and Mira Charles Perrett

Rockford, Illinois,

The Daily Herald devoted

no more

The Reds have contributed to his hopelessness by Insisting that Li arrest Chiang and others as "war criminals to prove hir sincerity.

could Lat

orrest Chlung than he could fly to the

moon, and the Communists know it.

This also 19 clear: if Chiang thought that by hobbling Li and stepping aside, he could stir

a pub- le demand for his own return to power. he has utterly falled. There ims heen no demand for him to return, and none is developing.

That does not mean that he may

Carton or col one day suddenly show up in elsewhere to fugitive government.

Troops most apt

remain per- yal

Chiang have been › sonally

to moving steadily south. Some al- ready are at Canton. Others

deploying along a de- supposedly

fine

in Cheklang, Kingsi fence and Hunan provinces, the tier just south of the Yangtze River.

A WRY LAUGH

head

A

are

This reputed deployment gives foreign military men a wry laugh. They say that an army which, with an air force and navy, could not hold so formidable a line as the Yangtse.

of could not hold anything.

column-leng editorial to praise

So, if peace talk finally ends, there

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1949.

Mail-Carrying Helicopter Crashes

This is the wreckage of a* mail-carrying helicopter which crashed in a takeoff from the roof of the Los Angeles Terminal Annex post office. The pilot, Harry A. Slemmons, WIN killed. The crash cause is. being

investigated. -- AP

Picture.

POCKET CARTOON by OSBERT LANCASTER

I suppose that now we've been nominated Miss Groundnuts 1949 tt 10ould be beneath our dignity to help with the washing-up.”

INDIA'S BIG

is no point in getting excited about ROLE FOR

a new Chiang defence setup. It will

FL

be a bubble.

If the Reds cross the Yangise...

the Commons-action in giving the and here evidently is nothing to THE FUTURE

درود

European Union In Three Years' Time?

Paris, Feb. 6. Mr Ronald W. G. Mackay, MP. and advocate of a union of Europe, said today that a European Union was a certainty and might be only two or three years away.

The short, energètic MP, here for a two-day meeting of the European Parliamentary Union Council, said draft recommendations for the Council of Europe, made public yesterday in London, were the "beginning of a Federation of Western Europe."

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"Perhaps I am optimistle, but I

this will be venture lo say reality within two or three years." he told the United Press.

"People in America don't realian that different

scen groups have

working to bring about a European Federation, The Governments aren't ready for it yet, but it will come. The fact

Governments

that

arc

going to call an official assembly

means there Union."

will

be a European

"This Assembly, when meets, cun recommend a constitutional con- vention to be held to draw up plans olt! for a United States of Europe." he added.

STUMBLING BLOCK

KILLED AT DANCE

Assailant Shoots Varsity Student Manila, Feb. 7.—A 20-year- University student and amateur boxer, Francisco Matias, Jr, was shot and killed in the Manila Hotel Pavilion at about 12.80 this morning at the height of a ball given by college students..

Thic

the

Mr Mackay said the major stum bling block in the way of an all- out European Union, now was British Government-at the some

Runman escaped, but Ime, he thinks it unfair to say the Secret Service said he had been Dirilish Labour Government

Identified and an arrest was expected spanist u European Union. it has shortly.

done more to uri- peradoxically, Vince the European Union than any- the Macsiall me che, by making Plan work and favouring a a Counen n Europe, Mr Mackay said.

Government's British The 700 mile course south to

New York, Feb. G.-India is

to European mion is proach be governed by their

ho one,

continued. supply problems more than by any in a position to mediate in gradual

peninsular and inland Asia and points out that the organisation for The Daily Mail, under the head- The Canton government venture can be an effective guarantee pean economic co-operation is in made his way out

Ack, the line M11's call in the Bard," de- fself seems unlikely to last long. for world peace, according to Union in the military field, and now clared: "If the MPs have their way | Most Kovernment departments it will still be Alta, poor Yonel stresdy are there, and have been

the Coumell of Europe in the poll-

cal eld. and not 'He's had it palt."-United Given a frurid welcome. Press,

bill a third reading, It sal that stop them--their time table for the British youngsters picked Amerienn idioru Atm.

from Hollywood

enemy.

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Supporters Fete Portuguese Pres.

Oporto, Feb. 6-Marshal Antonio Carmona, Portuguese President and Governmental Parly

Candidate standing for re-election next Sunday. was carried shoulder high through the streets here today.

He was making his first official appearance in pubile since the elec toral campaign started on January 3. Crowds estimated at 300,000 turned out to see him,

The Avenue of the Allies was packed with cheering people, shout-

Canton

own

Some stookers are predicting that the fugitive government will die in La few weeks.—Associated Press.

Over-Excited By Gangster Film

New York, Feb. 8-Nine-year-¿ fald Martin De Angelis, carried away by an exciting gungster film here, drew a pistol and shot

the cheek.

running

ters. he thought

ing "We want Carmona." This was help," they said,

campaign.

Professor A. Chakravarty, of Calcutta University, now in the United States as visiting pro fessor of English at Harward University.

the economic

A Secret Service officer said the victim apparently had had a mistiri- derstanding with another man at the party and they had exchanged-blows

Then up with their fists.

the shooting: a occurred.

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Western

According to My Mackay, a United States of Europe, with a strong eco- noms and a population of, 275,000,- 000, would be a bulwark against the further spread of Commúnismy In a letter to the New York Times and one which Russia would today, he urged democratic relations dare to attack-United Press. between the East and West. In- dividuai

the protests in

United Nations or outside are not enough, he declared, adding:

"The Asian Conference us

which

not

Pope To Protest

C-An nu-

bcen established to check

Feb, Vatican City, biy racialism and retaliation in the East

basis thoritative Vatican source said to and provide a constructive

he could

which

GREAT ASIA SPIRIT

"This conference is not opposed to It is not any country or people. anti-European or anti-American or anti-Western.

The gunman fred four shots and of the crowd.— United Press.

Fast Work Saves

Ordnance Depot

Manlia, Feb. 7.-Fast action by the Fire Department averted a possible catastrophe late yesterday when firemen put out a blaze at Ordnance depot in North Harbour before the fire could spread to gun- powder stores.

the

About 150 boxes of gunpowder, which were sald to be enough

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were found to be only a few metres away from the fire, which destroyed aluminum lanks.

Damage

estimated Was us$5,000.-United Press.

[

10-year-old playmate, Edward Ryu for the rightful adjustment of Asia'a day that Pope Pius would speak out blow up at least a large city block, Inear and distant neighbours is an directly against the trini of Cardinal The police said Martin Bred the opportunity

the Western Mindszenty "at the first opportuni-

ly after sentence is known.' shot in the final scene, where FB1 democracies cannot afford to miss. and Scotland Yard

No definite time has been set for agenta werel down gang of thieves and

such a speech, the source pointed out. "The Fonti will merely take the first opportunity offered-by any to speak directly public speech agninst the trial, as he did following

of Archbishop "These words, uttered in the spirit Stepinac of Zagreb," the source said. The source added that the Pope of Tagore and Mahatma Gandhi ami profoundly reflecting the traditional spent a good part of today studying mind of the East, were not easy to reports on the trial and all informin deliver into the

of. an tlon he could obtain on the caDC.- anguished Asia suffering from a United Press, brutal and

the first street demonstration of the The theatre was thrown into an

uproar by the shot but the manage started the

film and next

All electioneering demonstrations

and political meetings hud, so far, audience was soon calmed. been held in private places, as the Government had, banned street de- monstrations.-Reuter.

hod & fixe

ESSONS PRESS REAVICE,

the

to

The wounded boy was rent hospital where his injury was found to be slight-Reuter.

*

DRAMA

contest

cowardly

attack by

a militant Western nation state.

If the Christian West dory not wholly implement this 'spirit of a

n great divilisa-

great Asia and of

tion, it will not only have nienated

the trini

Alois

BRITISH OFFICIAL

FOR TEL-AVIV.

London, Feb. 6.-Mr A. K. Helm, the gravely Imperiiled peoples

has. Indonesia, China, and other Eastern British Minister to Budapest, countries still unsure about their been appointed British Representa

its prospects, but weakened

own tive at Tel-Aviv, following Britain's | foundation during a period when we do facto recognition of the Provi- the need each other in saving democrpey stonal Government of Israel, itself from a darkening force." Reuter.

Tremor Puts Phones Out Of Ordor

Athens, Feb. 6-Telephone com- munications with Patras on the Gulf

of Patras were still interrupted to-

Foreign Office announced tonight.

Pending Mr Helm's arrival in the Israel capital, Mr Cyril Marriott, British Consul-General ni Haifa, will be Acting British Representa- tive at Tel-Aviv.-Router.

REBELS CORNERED

Athens. Feb. 0-Greek National-

day as a result of an earth tremor ist forces killed 3B guerillas and recorded yesterday by, the Athens captured 33 when a rebel band was Observatory. as stunted In the

1008

Patras aren.

RAINING POs) 1

"I enjoyed the part where the lady in front told you to shut up!"

cornered near Kleitorla in North Central Peloponneaus, according to The tremor was described as of a bulletin

insued Modny by the

"moderate intensity." There were Ministry of War.

so far no further detalls, the Athens 7760 Nationalists suffered no news agency" said tonight—louter, casualties Associated Press,""

Constitution For Western

Germany

WORK STARTS ON

DRAFT THIS WEEK

Bonn, Rhineland, Feb. 6.— After five months of concentrat- ed study. the Constituent As- sembly act up here to hammer, out a Constitution for Western'

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