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THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 1949.

Fight Over

A Film

China Peace Talks To Start

Large-Scale Fighting Is Over Says Red General

Nanking. Mar. 3-Large-scale war in China was over, the North Stiensi Communist Radio said last nigħi, quoting the Communist North Chim commander. General Lin Flao.

*Addressing. what

the Radio called the "visiting de- mocratie personages" in Peiplug. General Lin Plao sald the swiftness of the defeat of the Nailonalist forces, both in North China and on the Central Front. was beyond the Communist expectations, the Badlo reported.

General Liu Pizo was satd to have claimed that the Kumintang armies were smashed and could not organise

a strategle Hur of defèhre south of the Yangtse. large-scale fighting on a nationwide scale

impossible. --

Further

Wa therefore

Party would le claimed the Chinese · Communist realise a genuine prace for which the people had demanded, not a peare with a Yangtse river boundary,—Reater,

Disillusionment Causes Defection Of

Chinese Naval Ratings

Shanghai, Mar. 3.-Disillusionment over, the treatment meted out to the Chinese naval ratings after two years' life in Britain on a fooling of equality with British "tars" is be- lieved today to be at the core of the disappear- ance of the pride of the Chinese. Navy, the Chungking, formerly the HMS Aurora.

Navy itself.

In an interview with a rating; regime of the Chinese on the Chibiese warship Lin Fu, swiftly began to assert

the result that the formerly HMS Mendip which with

standards of the Royal Navy was handed over to China simu!~ taneously with the transfer of were speedily supplanted by the

home brand. the Aurora-Reuters secured the loose ends of a story of dis- and disappoint- illusionment inent.

It was alleged by this source that half of the personnel of the Lin Fu and the Chungking had applied for permission to "visit their parents in the country" as docked in soon as the ships

Shanghat after the voyage from England.

"T":{"

Before End

Of March

PEIPING MAY

BE VENUE

Narking, Mar. 2.-It was learned reliably today that the Chinese Communist boss, Mao Tse-tung, informed Acting President Li Tsung-jen that the Communists will announce their peace delegates on or about March 15 and negotiations will take place either in Pei- ping or Shil hibchuang, southwest of there, at an unspec...ed date:

This information was said to be contained in Mao's personal letter to Li brought by the unofficial Shanghai peace delegation which returned last week from Peiping.

It was conjectured here that talks might -start between the 15th and the end of the

month probably in Peiping.

letter

Was

very

Sources said that Mho's

details, polite but disclosed no

President Li Toung-jen, Premier Sun Fo and other officials countinued busy discussions on concrete measures of getting talks under way. United Press.

PAVING THE WAY The shock generated by this

seriously challenged by most lenders who rem reversal

3.-The Nationalist of

standard, the

Shanghai, March

must give. in the evidenced

Communists in the lowered in Chinese

have cognise they

dut to their lack of come, the lowered rations, the quietly removed, one-pussibly most

biggest stumbling bargaining power.. cheap uniforms,, provoked such two of the

HINT TO CHIANG Since the W, W. Yen- peace widespread dismay, the infer blocks in the way of negotiated nant said, that are than half prace. the men realised the futility First, they have announced the mission returned from Peiping, widely reported spent in liquidation of Nationalist troops it has been

of their two years

England

the overboard dumped thing on their return home Beuter.

War

Ever

WHIT

Girdles Bomber

The World In Four Days

Strict

Fort Worth, Texas, Mar. 2. secrecy veiled the history-making nonstop round-the-world flight which ended here today Not a word of a United States B-50 bomber. was made public until the bomber landed. Air Force officials said the secrecy was designed

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Fighting to prevent the showing of the Bri fish motion picture "Oliver Twist," Polish Jews battle German police outside theatre in British sector of Berlin. They contended the film

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The bomber, a modernised version of the B-29 Superfortress, but termed a "medium bomber" in relation to the vast B-36 which is now the chief United States "heavy" bomber, landed here today, carrying fuel for seven hours, 30 minutes more flying.

who

Strike

Talks

MANAGEMENT & DELEGATES MEET -

An hour-long meeting between the Dairy Farm ‚management' and dele- gates of the Dairy Farm Workers Association this morning to discuss the threatened,' strike followed by a meeting among workers' représentatives, which was still continuing - at 1 o'clock.

was stormy the

It was understood that pending conclusion of these discussions, the ultimatum presented to the manage- ment yesterday and which expired at noon today was suspended.

At this morning's parleys, called by the Board of Directors, Dr the Hon. S, N. Chau, one of the directors, explained to the men the circumstances which led to the present agitation by the Association, in which they demand payment by the com- pany of surelles on behalf of three employees convicted of in- timidation by the court, reinstatement of the men; dis- missal of the foreman involved the dispute which led to the In the men's arrest; and an assurance that there would be no repetition of such incidents,

NOT FULLY KNOWN

and

management said It was

Farm Strikethought advisable that the facts

of the case should be fully known to all members of the Dairy Farm staff before they took the drastic step of going out on strike.

It had come to the manage- that many em- ment's notice

were unaware of the ployees details of the disturbance at Poktulum farm three weeks ago

to learn The British in the Peiping area along the that the Communists told him Deval coale, which, had been elussie Chinese llnes and they are willing to forego most

the

criminals they first publicly called it a pattern for of

Settlement Mado great REACTION SETS IN

the entire nation.

named except the four In most cases, the request to

Second, they have not denied families-Chiang, Kung, Soong

The conference between "visit the country" underlined an

in Nanking and Chen. These reports were widespread reports

officials of the Dairy Farm attempt to break away from the SHIP GOES NORTH

The first The Air Force amounted that

round-the-world and the workers' representa- Chinese naval life because of

Shanghai, March 3.--Adhurat that they are basing up on the followed by others also un- confirmal--that various figures criminal demands. disillusionment over the condi-

Mao have x

persuade the operation would be repeated flight was made In 1933 by the tires, which ended at 1.25 Kwei Yung-tsing, Commander-

since Chairman

been trying to

! American, Wiley Post, Hons of service in China com-

P.m., resulted in a settle- i-Chief of the Chinese Navy. Tse-tung announced his famous Chiang Kai-shek to "take a trip regularly.

The United States Air Secre- completed his 15,596 mile teip in pared to that in Britain.

sild today that the Chinese Lant

ment of the dispute. eight-point peace programmie in abroad," which is the traditional rating said patriotism and deter- Naval ship, Chungking, las January, the Chinese have said Chinese way of avoiding un-tary, Mr Stuart Symington. 187 hours.-Reuter.

The terms of settlement which led up to the present dis- mination to pursue the National-

content. Kone to North China and is now these two points were supremely pleasant things like the execu- General Hoyt S. Vandenberg. Stoff. ist cause was fanned all the way! KM

Are:

After Dr Chau hind presented anchored at the north arm of Important if negotiations

WETE

The Dairy-Farm Chinese the men's delegates with the -once-led-the-nation. reaction set in.

be any point in the Gulf west troop reorganisation was by far His

H. H. present brothers-in-law.

Workers' Association will full fucts, and had answered repre- the most important and treat- Kung and T. V. Soong already

The 14 crew members stepped of Port Arthur and Dairen.

the country-In out obviously tired. They had

Put up the bonds for the questions, the workers' com-ment of war criminals a flexible are out of The Admiral said the

sentatives adjourned to conduct flow Intentionally America and Hongkong respec- worked in shifts as they

three workers now in police their own meeting. manding offleer of the ship was bargaining point

famous Chen bro-

custody. ordered by wireless to return placed there so concessions could tively. The fa

bro endlessly over four continents. in

Chen China.

Mr Stuart Symington Raid: ↑

in the but there was an indication he be made later.

11- complying with the The other six points, sald the Kuo-to is ill in Formosa whilet is an epochal step

last seen in development of ale power. been Chen L-tu was structions.-United Press.

Canton trying to help Premier

94 HOURS FLYING Sun Fo resist the effort of acting The unofficial clapsed time for

re- Tsung-Jen to government to Nanking minute.

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-from-England-lo-Chino-but-here--car-of-Chinli-which-could to Ret‘anywhere. They-Baldtion of public figures who've the Air Force Chief of

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Stugapore. the Chinese community accorded the ships spontaneous welcome. In Hong- kong, a great furore was created over their arrvial,

In Shanghai, however, with all links with Britain and the out- side world finally broken, the

EDITORIAL

The

Was

juter

Chinese.

Acute Burma Situation

E seriousness of the situation in Delhi' conference

Tareas been sharply brought

home by the convening this week of n Commonwealth conference in New Delhi to consider how pence can be brought to that ravaged and unsettled country. The conference follows an appen by the Burmese Government to Britain for nid. The United Kingdom rightly considered that

Commonwealth other

countries affected should be invited to take part in the discussions; hence the New Delhi meeting over which Mr Nehru is pre- elding. Malaya, India and Ceylon have a 'peculiarly acute interest in Burma's future since it in to those three countries that the bulk of Burma's exportable súr- plus of rice is sent. And no conference of financing Burma's rice exporta and general financial dificulties would be. realistic if it did not take note of the in- ternal strife which has now been raging for almost the entire period of the coun-- try's independence. It is to the mutual in- terest of all the participants in the New Delhi talks that Burma as quickly as possible becomes a united, peaceful and prosperous nation, for continuation of the fighting in Burma raust interfere with the favourable estimates of xlce production recently made publle. Rapid expansion of that exportable surplus to pre-war quantities and, beyond for the benefit of the whole of Southeast Asla demands

than the

Cessation hostilities; it rèquires restoration of the administra. transpori systems, sound

the combined efforts

all of

Union, Burma and balanced economy on sound lines. These ato

the objects which the

more

mere

the peoples of the

of

New

never

have

is considering. The delegates have lutimated that they are "not concerned with Burmese internal dis- putes except in so far as their settlement is essential to wider aspects of the pro- Terms the conference. gramme before

Karena and of agreement between the the Burma Union, for example, must be n matter for the two parties, but in Ita the conference. dil frst communique, Huggest that settlement of the dispute While depended largely on concillation. that is basically true, it may be neces- sary eventually to offer mediation, for, with the present temper of both sides prospects of conciliation appear rather For the time being the only concern of the Commonwealth countries in the struggle between the Karens and the Burma Government la humanitarian and economic, and for the moment this may be perfectly correct.

forlorn.

thers are

turn the

President

51

talks can begin.

sier 11

and other high offeinis_ were

the landing.

the

94 hours, trip was

The bomber's average

one

the Chinese consi-speed was 239 miles an hour,

CYCLONE KILLS 4

Heavy Damage In Queensland

As soon as this is done, the Company will reinstate these three men, also the one who was discharged by the magistrate. Brisbane. Mur. 2-A 120- The foreman in the case, struck to the Dairy Farm's Sassoon

The Dairy Farm directors also held a short meeting in another room.

NAVY FLYER HONOURED

London, Mar. 2-Lieutenant Commander Eric Melrose Brown, who recently tapded a jet fighter

muld, be a simple matter The plane left Fort Worth aimlle an hour cyclone, with H Choy, will be transferred fled with skis on an alrcraft rains, pan. GMT last Saturday, torrential to get them out of the country 3.21

if they and the Generalissimo, ut together with part of the Eighth Gladstone and other Queens. Unit. Fengliwa, could be convinced Air Force and headed eastwards land coastal towns today,

for the Azarus.-

there is no hope if they stay.

Far

mean

The Bight had started the day killing four people and in- more important from the standpoint of Li Tsung-jen and before but was cancelled when juring many and wrecking other active Nationalist leaders, one engine caught fire. At the hundreds of homes.

Damage to property at Glad-' say the Chinese, is the question end of the first 3,063-mile leg.

over the

the first string stone was estimated between Azores, of reorganisation of troops. of "flying tankers" specially Austr. £300,000 and £400,000, POWER OF TROOPS converted B-25-rose to meet An eyewitness said that Glad- Generally, troops only mean the plane.

two- stone "lived through 0 power in China. They

By Sunday, the bomber, des-hour nightmare" At the height- they cribed as being fully combat of the storm, two churches and disciplined, control. If

convent mean peace. If not loo numer-equipped." was flying high over.

crashed to the ground· ¦ ous, they mean stability. If Gibraltar, across North Africa and roots were ripped off more absorbed by victorious

по forces. to Khartoum, to Dharhan, in the thun 60 houses, they

mean a horde of jobless Saudi Arabian Desert,

where ex-soldiers will not be loosed on another mid-air refuelling took the countryside. If the officers are treated "mercifully," there place.

not

danger so much counter-revolt later.

13

of

power the

Ils four 3,500-horse motors purring steadily, The disposal of Nationalist bomber aimed next across the troops around Peiping appears heart of India, skimmed to be along such lines, necording southern tip of Burma and went to the North Shensi Communist on across French Indo-China to

the Philippines. radio. The agreement signed by

Fu Tso Yi. Nationalist Com But it has to

mander, places the rank and file

.of

be admitted that the collapse of Burma's economy and the disappearance

would Burma rice from world trade automatically throw a still greater bur den on overstrained supplies from other sources. The rice avaliable for any of the rice-eating area would shrink and a higher demand for those other cereals which, for want of rice, so many. Countries have had to use in Increased. measure as a substitute, would naturally follow. Thus it may be the New Delh! conference will find it necessary to make alronger auggestions than conciliation Karens and the and propose to the Government that its delegates be per- mitted to net as peacemakers, finding a Rettlement to the dispute through the medium of compromise.

Many people were injured by flying iron, glass and rooting fragments and 300 found them- selves without homes,

swept

Later the cyclone porthwards and hit Rockhamp- the toll.

Several small craft were sunk there, power was cut off. Roofs werd torn off houser and many people were injured,

In Maryborough, zouth of Gladstone, floods were two feet deep in the streets-Reuter.

TRICKY OPERATION Here again it took on another ΟΙ his troops Into the Red Army. fuel lead, through pipes dangled

tankers- His officers can stay at the same from the Superfortress tan salary and other conditions us and here the tricky operation ordinary fted omcers. If they was the most important of all Munitions

want

can. since the longest leg of the flight

to go home, they The Reds will pay their travel,300 kilometres across the Plant Explodes

When they get home, empty Pacifle to Hawail---lay be- fore them. There was no hitch.

expenses.

their no more

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Istanbul, Mar. 2.-A munitions if they divided

landholders.

The refuelling operation was pant exploded in the heart of land will bo than any other. In short, it repeated for the fourth and last Istanbul early Wednesday night, wasn't a crime to fight the Red time over the Hawail Islands First estimates sold as many as army and Nationalist officer late yesterday-and they drove 300 persons were feared killed. The blast rocked the city and 18 going to be punished for it straight in towards the Ameri

Police miles away. under the Pelping settlement, it can

arcas 20 mainland. appears.

The last leg of the journey to feared additional explosions.

was 6,000 The plant, known as the Nur! Worth Such officers "have set an Fort example of

the total Pasha Munitions and Pistol peaceful setile kilometres, bringing"

to up Company, was wrecked. The covered nient to the whole country, distance declared Tho Chu, Red political proximately 23,000 miles. police and troops roped off an

mille, officer who helped draw up the. Air Force officials regarded the area of more than

illustration The company is situated af plan. "That is why the People's ifest as a concrete Liberation Апту and the of their ability to bombard any the Head of the Golden Horu, from the near the city's main electric people wisht to accord them point on the earth preferential treatment," ho basos already available to the plant, which apparently escaped concluded.-Associated Press. United States Air Force.

damageAssociated Press..

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