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Hongkong Telegraph

MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1949.

MAIN POINTS OF ISRAELI-EGYPTIAN

5,000 Lose Homes In Fire

Shanghai, Feb. 21.- Five thousand Chinese were rendered homeless when 4 two-hour conflagration razed about 100 flimsy straw huts in the northern district of Shanghai last night.

Fire brigades were handi- capped by insufficient hydrants and a poor water. supply. Ashes from the fire, carried by a gentle breeze, landed at many

points in the central district of the city-Reuter.

DRAFT ARMISTICE

AGREEMENT

Front Lines To Be "Frozen": Gaza Coastal

Strip For

Egyptians

Rhodes, Feb. 20.-An Israeli courier left here for Tel-Aviv today with a copy of the latest draft of a general Israeli Egyptian armistice agreement-hoped

More Racial to be the final one which Dr Ralph Bunche, the acting United Nations Pales-

Trouble In

Durban

Indians Attacked

Durban, Feb. 20-Two In- dians were seriously Injured in a-clash-tonight when crowds of Africans attacked an Indian bus and motor cars. Other Indians were

less seriously wounded. Many were sent to hospital.

Follce said an African was shot And at from an Indian motor car wounded. The driver of an Indian bus was pulled from his seat and

stabbed. The bus was set on fire. Many arrests were made.

News of the lighting, in the Umgeni aren, spread quickly and hundreds of angry Africans' made a mass assault on the district, pelting Indian motor cars with

stones. Seares of police were rushed to the scene and found that many Indian pedestrians had been attacked and wounded.

tine Mediator, had worked all night to prepare.

Informed sources said the Israelis completely approved the draft, but that the Egyptians withheld approval of a disputed clause on the future status of Beersheba, the Jewish-held "capital" of the Negev, pending reference to Cairo. The Egyptians were expected to send a copy of the draft agreement to Cairo tomorrow.

Dr Bunche read out the draft of the agreement at a 40-minute plenary session of the armistice conference today. Informed sources said haggling over Beersheba were mainly caused by Israel's reluctance to make any concessions regarding this desert town. The Jews were believed to have refused the Egyp tian demands that the forces there be reduced.

Official details wore

The draft agreement so far comprised twelve articles.. still a closly-guarded United Nations secret, but an informed conference source said that some of the main points worer

administered by

and would not be be the United Nations. would front Unes would separated In places by narrow mixed "buffer" strips. These strips would

1. The present front lines would, Armistice Commission and would be be regarded as a "No Man's Land," be "frozen" with the exception of a neutral territory. few areas such as Auja, on the 2. The Egyptian border. Auja become the scat of the

152-YEAR GIRL FOUND

MURDERED IN COPSE

London, Feb. 20.-Police, inquiring into the murder of a fifteen and a half year old girl, whose naked body was found in a copse at a Devon beauty spot last night. today detained a man in the Ply- The district police commandant, Major George Bestford, snicl

mouth area. The girl, Doreen Messenger, had been "fighting tonight and other disorders

missing from her home at Heavitrec; Exeter, since over the weekend were isolated

should occurences which

Friday. not be cecorded as an outbreak on a scale likely to reach that of the riots of

EDITORIAL

Laking

the

3-The entire Gaza coastal strip would remain in Egyptian hands with the exception of several smali changes. Among these would be Rafah, in the south. This area was

to

Underground Leaders Held

Peiping, Feb. 20 (de- layed). The Communist authorities announced they had unearthed a big mill- tary underground in Pei- ping and arrested the ring leaders in a roundup on February 15,

They said the ringleaders included Chang Yin-kuo, chief of the organisation, his deputy Tung Shou-shon and chiefs of five guerilla columns..

The authorities declared. many weapons were seized, including three light machineguns and grenade thrower.

one

The announcement said Chang-was-formerly_chiaf

of the Kuomintang Youth Corps in Hopei Province and "there was no evil he didn't think of." It said his base here was in a middle school.-Associated Press.

Karens In Pincer. Trap

Decisive Stage In Insein Battle

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Ho Ying-Chin Seeks To Reorganise Nationalist Armies

May Discuss Plan With Chiang

Shanghai, Feb. 21.-General Ho Ying-chin, former Minister of National Defence, who arrived here from Nanking on Saturday evening by special military plane, is expected to pay a visit to Generalis- simo Chiang Kai-shek at Fenghua today or to- morrow, it was learned.

He is said to have drawn up plans for a thorough reorganisation of the Nationalist armies which ho de sires to submit to the Generalisamo. Unconfirmed “reports said General: Paf“ Chun-hai, a close associato and sup- porter of Acting President Li Taung-jen, might join General Ho in his trip to Fenghua.

According to pollical circles here, already hold the winning hand, buj

Ho Indispensable to there are still 'chips, to be won. General present unge en'n to the Nguonnlige Laction, ceplus- Government in the presenting government control will go in- Nationalist tug-of-war as ho com-ternational recognition and the mands a great influence over army agency for receiving any American commanders graduated, from the alt. The possibility that even only Whampoa Military Academy, which a nucleus of an anti-Communist include General Tang En-po, com- government may be pushed back mander of all the forces in the Non- into power by a third world war is king-Shanghai-Hanchow area. never lost sight of.

The 64-year former Comman-

TENUOUS CRIP der-in-Chief of the Chinese ground

The Canton bloc already has taken

old

forces is

is generally expected to be In the Chinese Air Forca, Navy appointed Prime Minister If Dr Sun and most government hard specie

should

Fo

resign or be ousted. in

case General Ho should decline there all held in Formoso, The tenuous. grip on international Premiership, it is said that he may recognition is also maintained by accept the Defence Portfolio under

the presence here of the Foreign Cabinet headed by General Huang omco with sccredited diplomatie Shao-hslung, a native of Kwangsi nike "Acting President Li Tsung-jen Meanwhile, there are real and and General Pai Chung-hai, and an fundamental differences between Li adviser to the Acting President-Taung-jen's and Chiang Kai-shek's

Router.

missions,

groups that cannot easily be settled, LI'S SUBTLE MOVE

if at all.

·Political rivalry dates back, more than two decades when Canton, Feb. 21-Acting President Chiang openly fought Li and his L Tsung-jen has dealt his most Kwangs! clique, who still support subtle blow yet to Pemler Sun Fo's here. Right Wing Cabinet with his arrival The stake is control of the Nationg Ostensibly, Li again has taken the initiative toward unity between in the battle of suburban Nanking and Canton to better the Insein.

Government's chances

become the centre where the Rangoon, Feb. 20.--Burmeso heavy arms from Faluja--the Egyptian pocket in the Central government troops snapped a Negev will be impounded under pincers trap today on the main list government. Armistice Commission supervision stronghold of the Karen rebels until such times as the Armistice has been fully Implemented.

4. The Israelis would be allowed

the acting President. That anta goalsm persisted and was intensified Inst May when I defeated Sun Fo for the Vice-Presidency and gave Chiang his worst political set-back in recent years.

regional lines which Li's projected Hostility also is drawn along of making itinerary of South China Indicates to keep their forces in the Eastern Two government columns sought peace with the Communists.

he intends to develop further by brick Negev, facing Transjordan, until to pinch off a fortified

and But his unex

to Canton visiting key milliary leaders. his unexpected trip is regarded as a taclic to under- such time as a settlement is reached concrete building, once the property in

SIMILAR AIMS tho with King Abdullah.

of the American Bapilst Mission,

position of the rival In their relations to the Reds, Karen tribesmen have Canton Group, which quietly observers And little difference be- 5.-The Foluja garrison would be which the completely evacuated and the city converted into a heavily armed for such Right Wing leaders as Foreign either to stall the Reds off or gain

controlled by Chiang Kai-shek and

tween the two-factions-both "seck- taken over by the Israells when the The Karens slowly curious Minister Wu Te-chen and Chen Li-some settlement that will permit the armistice is signed.

under succusion of heavy blows by the government troops, reinforced by

maximum to be salvaged from the armed sailors whose ships bombard- ed Insein with light artillery.

HEAVY FIRE POWER The battle appeared to have reached a decisive stage. The Karens, Aghting to establish their own in- dependent state, battled their way

HACCLING MAY GO ON Last night, a country roadman; stockings, On her neck was a red ilve, weeks ago.

The haggling over Beersheba may work saw what mark about half an inch wide. cycling home from The police were

An autopsy showed that she had go on for a day or two yet, informed every he thought was

at rogs. a bundle precaution and that adequate forces lifted a coat, and found the girl's been strangled. It was thought that sources said. This prediction push- were standing by, he added-Reuter, body, naked except for a pair of the girl's body might have beened back the probable signing date. laken in a car to the beauty spot of the armistice until the middle of known as Begitar's Bush, which is next week. The bargaining rad be about Ave miles from her home. come close on Beersheba, this source said, adding that It was improbable had that the Jews would be loft in un-into Some of the girl's clothes

the town on January 31 and been thrown on her body, while her restricted control of the town.

have fought it out there since. In- head rested on her underclothes The Israelis evidently regarded sein is 10 miles north of this capital There were no murks of violence the negotiations as ended. A source city. except on the neck, and no signs close to the Jewish delegation sald

Naval units, thrown in to back the of a struggle.

they were "sitting back and waiting army, carried heavy machine guns the Egyptian answer" to the to stop up the fire power against the The man detained in Plymouth latest proposals.

rebels. They landed under cover of was being taken to Newton Abbot,, Mr Elias Sassoon, the Israeli

a barrage from their ships standing Once near the place where the body was Foreign

expert on Arab out in the Rangoon river. found, for questioning, The girl, affairs, was to leave here this week The sallors .fanned. out" along the pretty and of medium build, bad for Paris to open political talka

The Prize For Hard Work

THE Four-Year Plan submitted

by the British Government

to the Organisation for European Economio Co-operation

challenge to

is

industry. British The terms of the Plan are not rigid.

neither

can

good progress in 1949. But big- zest developments of all

arc

planned for the oil and chemical Industries. There Is no oli in Bellain; oll has to be imported and up to now most imported oll han

refined abroad. A dozen large refineries are the varlegs Baures being built and by 1953 Britain

They

be

enforced The

by nome central

authority;

forecasts

of production and of Imports

What

and exporti arc

each

of

the

not

will

cven be

Plan. In fact,

achieved: tells

Industry what it munt do to make Britain economically Independent by

1853. In this sense the Plan is a challenge to the Ingenuity of managements and workers challenge to their

enter-

prise and capacity for hard work. If they meet this chal- lenge successfully, then the Brillah

Doople

been

now

new

expected to Import and refine 20 million tons of crude olf rear. And attached to the re- finerles will be a chemicals industry extracting In- dustrial and domestic chemicals from the by-products. At the time the original chemicals industry, based on coal, limestone and salt,

will

be greatly ex panded. All the projects in the

Lamo

tan call for greater EZVILY,

a bigger output

each worker. and an all-around Im- provement which is to be gained mainly from How Industrial

machinery plante,

were befars will be tho Arst year of the

with have "reasonable" standard of

of living by 1953;

which

101

means

NEW

and

most people will bo ltying modern equipment. This year

better than they 1930, though the richer sections

period of expansion; and

of the community will still be would, perhaps, be a mistake to

rather

worse off.

But by 1953

Industry should be well-equipped

to offer, a steady, Imp

In living conditions—«

**

expanded

prosperity which will

fairly

among the The Plan sels out people. clearly what has to be achieved by 1953, and though it does not present yearly programmes ΤΟΣ all Industries, It is easy to guess what each industry must try, to accomplish during 1049. Britain

must have and Europe.

and Britain must have more, coal and

And steel fon

on the nasump- that pulput of steel will keep Lion

the Four-Year increasing, Flan calls for higher production from the engineering, machinery. automobile and shipbuilding fa

textile production dustries. In there is even more need for Improvement and there should be

outstanding progress

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the production of

of finished articles

In this Birat your. The most Important developments in 1949 will

be the opening of the in- dustrial plants which wore started in 1945 and 1940, the flest of which Are now

being Anished-new

electric power

recently started work in the book

department of an Exetes

printing house-Router.

WANT DUTCH

"COMPELLED"

of

for

water

with Arab representatives, presum- 100t Aghting advance in the fonte by

but that

fu

is

OUTMANOEUVRED

In face of Sun Fo's repeated re-wreckage of Nationalist China. fusals to return to Nanking' for Although the Red attack both fac- |uniled peace efforts, Li has humbled tions, they've been forced by public himself by flying here to confer with | desire for peace to deal gingerly his nominal subordinate. His action with Li's peace overtures.

attract more popular Their 'slowup is believed to be a likely will

matter of strategy rather than a support to his Nanking group.

concession to L! Tsung-jen. In the new China they visualise, there will By leading the Government's peace be little room, if any, for political kind. It has been offensive, I already has drawn opposition of any

authoritatively from

reported that the away much political support

policy applies to Sun Fo's refugee Cabinet here. The new tough Red Legislative Yuan decision to convene pro-Communist third party leaders next week in Nanking is one sign who do not exactly how to the of how, while, almost alone, Li has party line-Associated Press. outmanoeuvred his Canton ents.

The L-Sun talks in Canton may Drowned When

a superficial producc even possibly a Cabinet decision to Ship Runs Aground

Osto, Feb. 20-Three Danish yield to demands that it return to Nanking. But experienced political passengers and four Norwegian observers see little or no chance for crew members were drowned when real unity of the two factions. i amali Norwegian motor vessel, the Both are gombling for high per- Bandak, ran aground in dense fog sonal stakes in the game of sheer in the Sogneflord, Western Norway,

politics, The CommunistsIt was reported today.—Router.

ably to pave the way for a final gunfire from Krens barricaded be- penco settlement with the States of hind sacks of rice. the Arab League.

Observers folt the battle has The United Nations Palestine Con- reached a turning point cillation Commission, which arrived several days of fighting probably at Amman,

an, Transjordan, today by still are ahead.--Associated Press, power air from Iraq, Is to be received by King Abdullab of Transjordan this evening. The Commission will leave

tomorrow for

A Reuter despatch from Damascus said the future of the Galliee area

oppon-

agrcement,

Senator Taft Throws In His Support

For An Atlantic Pact

Washington, Feb.

19.--Re-

was expected to be one of its main publican Senator Robert. Taft items of discussion with the Syrian today threw his support, behind Government According to Syrian

son,

*Western

commitment

what

our

TO OBEY UN

American nation is would not. Thirty-seven Senators declined to answer at this time and Washington, Feb. 20-The news

newspapers, Gallien landowners have a strong North Atlantic secu-attack on any National Planning Association a memorandum to the Commis-rity pact which would pledge an attack on all of them.

Extending that mutual defence eight could not be reached. Governments American ald to. to Arab of sion and

the democracies of Senators principle to

William Fulbright and today called for a halt

Western Europe "has been my iden Alexander Smith demanded that the American recovery ald to the asking that Galilee be. annoored to Europe in case of attack.

Syria Reuter,

right along," Senator Taft said. pact contain the strongest possible Netherlands unless the Dutch

FIRST REPATRIATES

The Republican leader, who has

Senator Taft, who is chairman of assurances that the US would not immediately nullify their lates!

Jerusalem, Feb.

19 Brothers often atoutly opposed the adminis

mittee,

Western Europe, military moves in Indonesia.

sold kissed, friends embraced and Jews tration's foreign policy, joined the innate Republican policy cem-stand idly by If Russia moved into

much of the confusion and Arabs fraternised in the rubble already impressive ranks of Sena- over the proposed Atlanile treaty

In an interview, Senator Fulbright The resolution, adopted by the of Vendelbaum Square today as the tors supporting the pect as the apparenly grew from the fallure of and, "We ought to make very clear Association's Committee on Interna arst batch of Arab prisoners of war Secretary of State. Mr Dean Ache-. some Europeans to realise that no what we mean. There is no sense

to begin the final treaty could bind the United States Iri the Dutch of was repatriated.

moral tional Policy, accused

prepared

a. merely violating their pledges to the United Exactly 187 Palestinian Araba round of negotiations with the Am- to go to war automatically because, unless wo make clear

bassadors of Britain, Canada, Bel- under the Constitution, only States

is to be in sa strong language Con- resuming and

the and

policy Transjordanian Legionnaires

glum, Franer, the Netherlands and gress could declare war. However, as we can make it. We must lot Indonesian war without warning. shumed across No Man's Land to-

he indicated that there was no con- the world know that if there is an Luxemnwhile, diplomitte informants stitutional objection to treaty Ian-attack on Western Europe we wil It called on the State Department ward home after dreary months.

The returns from the prisoner of

said that Norway might join the gunge committing the United States, repel it with force if necessary." and the United Nations to do every- milis, now coal mines and

wero

to consider "force" as one way of other modern Industrial giants thing possible to "compel the Dutch war camp at Matrag Beo

Senator Smith said, "A pact in to free officials of the Indonesian Re- part of an exchange which in ex- negotiations within ten days.

help resist which will expand and speed up

equivocal language might not make public and withdraw their forces pected to clear prison camps with-formal bid would be extended to keeping its pledge to production

Norway, it was said, as soon as the can be anticipated

from territory held by the Indonesian in two weeks. that the widespread improvement

Republie on December 17, 1948, and

As a Red Cross worker said, "This Norwegian Parliament went through The Washington Post mid today, in clear to our allies that we are

the

formally of approving member- copyrighted dispatch, Uhat a poll prepared to back them up and would In productivity will be swift and

in good faith hold negetations for a probably means the war is over.

In the Western alliance. impressive as from 1950; sufficient

Red Cross amelais estimated that ship

of the Senate showed that any armed not make clear to Russin that we Britain

what Sir Stafford

Diplomatic circles agreed, in the Norway's dominant parly over- Russian attack on one of the North have no intention of backing down." to give Cripps has promised—ike capael-

special meeting yesterday,

in an overwhelming vote for US in negotiations passed when Mr ty to pay her way in the world

Senator Taft told a reporter he declaration of wit.

Acheson got the green light from the and to offer her people a steadily

Of the Senator willing to answer Senate Foreign Relations Committeo would favour a North rialng standard of living. There

treaty similar to the Western Hemi at this time, the Post sold, 60 wald after a three-hour closed weaslon to can be no more satisfying roward

sphere 'defenco pact signed, at Rio they would vote to repel any armed discus treaty language. Somo for hard work.

de Janeiro in 1947. The Río treaty attack on Western Europe, while onials hope the part will be signed is based on the principle, that an [only one indleatódho" probably' by mld-March-United Prosa,

plants, new steel works, now textile

truce and popular clcctions.

aggression.

Unless the Netherlands at onco / 700 Jowe werd loft la Trangfordan whelmingly endorsed the pact, at a Atlantic Pact countries would result meantime, that the "critical stago".

complies with these demands,

we prison camps, whille Israel still beld

7,000 Arabs. about will urge the Security Council 10

Arabs who are being hold prisoners, apply sanctions to the Netherlands

Include. 5,000 Palestinians, 1,200 and the United States to withhold Egyptians, 40 Syrians, 11 Legion alt ECA ald to the Netherlands and naires and a fow dozen Iradis, Its possessions," the resolution sald. Lebanese and Saudi-Arabians,

United Press. -*

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