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VOL. IV NO. 82

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FRIDAY, APRIL 8, 1949.

BUILDING UP

NANKING VAST NEW ARMIES SAY REDS

San Francisco, Apr. 7. — Chinese Com- munists charged yesterday the Nationalist government is preparing to conscript 2,000,000 men to rebuild its armies.

A Peiping broadcast, heard by The Associated Press in San Francisco, said the Nationalists plan on a new military force of between 3,500,000 and 5,000,000 men. Present government forces were placed at a little over 1,000,000.

The broadcast charged the Nanking goverti- ment is going ahead with these preparations "behind the facade of peace." It said the De. fence Ministry recently created 14 training hend- quarters for this purpose.

Gales Lash

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Britain

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The broadleast yak in effort to rebuild units lost. in the last three years of civil war, the Naoking government has begun to replenish and train 37 urmics and two divisions.

light," the

"This throws

London, Apr. 7.-Fierce winds radio said, "on why the Kuoniin- reaching gule force beat Lang reactionaries clamour for

ot

Britain's coasts tonight after a five-degree drop, in temperature carler today, Shipping from Heligoland to, the West Coast of Ireland and south as far as the Bay of Biscay received warning of the gales.

Calen in the Channel. forced

en unconditional ceasefire at the present positions. By attempting to delay the People's Liberation Army at the banks of the Yang- |

River, they hope to time for accomplishing

ise

Kain their

frantic Army expansion plan."

Other items in the Communist

the Newhaven-Dieppe passen-news broadcast also referred to

Her steamer, Londres, to return

a contemplated Red crossing of

to Newhaven with VOS pay- the Yangtse River. sengers for the Continent, in-

cluding minny schoolchildren. The "All China Federation of Some travellers crossed by the Labour" condemned the "Nan- Dover-Calais route, while others king Kuomintang government returned to London.

massacre for its

of Nanking students on April 1."

The town of Salisbury had a driving haft storm followed by

The broadcasi sald the "Al Federation of Labour"

suow, Snow, sket and hall also Ching

carried newly-born lambs to their

shelter.

countrymen

Many small shalps were trouble along Britain's consis.

of students The fishing

statement vessel,

of inculties of seven Peiping Uni- floundered on the Rocks Pladda Island, south of Arron,versities "requesting that

Aurora,

Trade Union Leader

Warns Government

Budget Will Bring Demands

For Higher Wages

London, Apr. 7-Mr Mark Hewitson, Labour Member of Parliament and officer of a million-man trade union, today warned the House of Commons that labour will demand higher wages and strike to get them if the Labour government's austerity programme continues.

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“FREEDOM ... SCHOOL"

Headmaster Unfit To Have Charge Of Children

Eccleshall, Staffordshire, Apr. 7.

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The bearded headmaster

of an expensive Staffordshire mixed "freedom school," Robert Copping, was today found unfit to have charge of children and guilty of keeping them in "a detrimental environment." Similar verdicts were passed on his partner, Edward "Joe" Reynolds. found not guilty of keeping the school's 22 pupils on insanitary pre- mises.

Both were

Copping was said to have taken a girl pupil away for a week. The matron at the school was alleged to have provided contraceptives to a girl pupil whom she suspected of intimacy with a boy.

The boys and girls at the school, Horsley Hall, near here, were said to have visited each other in their bedrooms "at any hour of the day or night," to have talked constantly about sex, and used the filthiest language."

The principal. Robert Cop- pupil's parents. a Chinese dog-| ping, whose age was given as tor, suld he brought his son to 45, and his partner, Edward England from the West Indles Reynolds, denied the complaints and he was solistled with his against them. The prosecuting progress and health at Horsley! counsel claimed the 22 children! Hall, at the school were "under an influence which is baleful and destroying tu their white souls."

T

Mr Reynolds snid he con- sidered himself at person to have charge of children. He had no academic qualifications.

H.K. Girl

Silences The Experts

Reynolds, said to be known among the pupils az "Joe," was alleged to have offered to bet a boy 'n pound to penny" that he would

seduce a not female at the establishment. on remarks made to him by "It was treated as a great joke.

some of the girls. Copping told of Hongkong two years ago to I shall tell you that Reynolds him: "These things

study at the Royal School happen,

2,000- Church Music, sang b has been generous enough to and if it gives a child pleasure, year-old Chinese Bong- and describe this in his statement it cannot be bad.”

ended an

between argument himself, counsel said.

world's leading some of the church musle authorities.

It happened at Church House, headquarters The nn whether

A statement said to have been made by a Dutchman engaged (From Our London Correspondent) as a leacher, Jorrit Jan Vougd, Miss Cecilia Cheng, who was said that he approached Copping sent to England by the Bishop

ATTENDANCE OPTIONAL

declared.

"STRANGE IDEAS” Counsel alleged that Copping

A medical officer who in- had stayed for a week with spected Horsley Hall said at Westminster, the Guatemala City, Apr. 7.—| one of his girl pupils in an un-

tendance at meals and classes of the Church Assembly. where they

was optional. Bed sheets were discussion was The Government today said occupied house.

slept In adjelning bedrooms extremely dirty, crockery un-modern music would oust tho it had rushed Army and Air with the budget demands. Force units to the Mexican Copping)

communicating door. washed, I have never seen any 17th-to-19th Century forms of fell in the mountainous Caer-called on the workers in Kuo- The warning reflected dis- which

and Reynolds were school nnywhere with can-simple service? barvonshire-and-in-Swowdonia, mintang-controlled-arcas_10.

-border-area -to-suppress sald-to-have kept the children ditions approaching thishe Miss Cheng-listened in silenco- the nusterity budget budget debate, Mr Hall said the

would "subversive” groups.

in insanitary premises Their

to North Wales, where shepherds unite closely with students and pleasure-of-many-Labourites Concluding today's

the

of tho arguments the price changes in food throughout against

food was alleged to have been (Guatemalan

eminent church musicians, Then sources In China and be ready to welcome which the Chancellor of

Mexico City sald a Guatemalan the drinking water

kept in a

In a mouldering condition, the People's Liberation Army." Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, amount to "about fourpence per

On the allegations of obscene the rose and sang. announced yesterday. spelling head per week on rations."

was con- language at the school, Copping

The

organists of Westminster force of revolutionary continued and

taminated, and there Mr Hewitson said. "We shali 1,000 men, supported by fighters adequate heating or light.

was no sald: No language is obscene Abbey. St Paul's and Canterbury The broadcast had a joint higher prices

and high taxes.

unless the mind hearing it is Cathedrals, and other notable be led to seek wage increase, and bombers, crossed the bor- Financial Lashing Lack, the

Submitting that they were not obscene."

musicians

The in

audience, and, if they dare say 'no' to

der after forming in Mexico, of Treasury, Mr the Secretary

fit to have the care "ot these there

applications. I give a

with the intention of over-

Reynolds, asked if he thought listened in amazement. Hall. accused Mr

warning to the government that throwing the Government. They any children, "the prosecut right that he should bet a

When the last strange note in the Firth of Clyde, but its. People's Liberation Army cross Glenvil

they are going to face indus said

said: counsel

the audience had been ing

boy "a pound to a penny to had died away, the invasion crew of

ste.-- three were

the Yangse River quickly."Hewitson of laying false

phasis on food price increases trial disputes

gentlemen in this country, under preparation for a year.) Associated Press.

have strange, ideas seduce the housekeeper, replied: upplauded. Miss Cheng thanked Reuter.

regarding

freedom of education "I would not seriously sit down them shyly, and explained, The Government statemen!

children and self-and put that to

The to a child.

"That, sirs," she said, "is o said "subversive" groups at-

expression

tune more than 2,000 years old, matter arose from the child and lown of Malacatan

"somewhat lacked the

confusing" and 1wo men

answering in that und we have some even older by merely document which could be pro- on the border

manner it was dismissed from

up to 4,000 years-that we use were killed and one wounded duced in

evidence explaining the child's mind."

for hymns. their tenets showed seriously.

that there

An order to remove the "I have just sung 'Of Heaven, was no punishment for anyone, children from the school was Most Merciful Father. The children were allowed to do

next month.- adjourned until

tune is a Chinese folk song," liked, and could

Neuter.

(Continued on Faro 5) themselves about

EDITORIAL

now

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Unpopular, But Realistic

SIR Stafford Cripps, In his 1949-50 Budget, has exceeded the worst forebodings of the British housewife: HER budget has revised that a goodly to be so proportion of whatever savings she has been able to make from the weekly pay envelope is to be absorbed in increased ment, prices for necessities such as cheese, butter and margarine. And as the Government has already extracted u It will TUC that promise from the

of continue support the policy

to their restricting wages

present maximum, the effect of the Chancellor's Budget la equivalent to an increase in Income tax. Sir Stafford's budget has

described

British already been

by economists as "courageous," and by the

"disappointing.” - man in the street as Both will agree that It is unpopular, and most decideilly:It confounds the prognos- ticationa of the Conservative Party an Election Budget. that it would be Nothing could be more calculated to Jose Labour votes, were It possible in these times, to decide an election on such an issue. But when the housewife's sense of grievance and frustration has been acknowledged, and the political capital of the Opposition parties has received Its proper credit, the Cripps Budget for this year still deserves to be described as zenlistic. It carries with it the hard reallum of necessity and a Bubtle but thorough evaluation of a long- term polley which Sir Stafford, before he had become Chancellor of the public Exchequer, had enunciated in

thesis speeches. Cripps'

18 simple exports are the Ilfe-blood of enough: Britain, always have been. But today the export market has largely to be selective, because the real life-blood· is a reservo

oven

ba

such as they have 1101 seen since the First World War."

Olber Labourites complained. some bitterly, but Sir Stafford talked down most of their pro- tests at a private party caucus earlier today.

TWO ATTACKS

for

Informed quarters said the

It said also that Government what they danger of a serious party split has receded. Hewitson carried planes patrolling the arca re- please his fight into the open, remind- ported that two armed groups, hours they went to bed. ing the House of Commons that one of about 50 men and the

"These

the

"The bodies of these young

a

he is an offeer of the General other about 150, carried out the creatures are, in fact, often cold and Municipal Workers Unton, attacks. It added that early and they shiver, there is a gen- A smaller group raided cral state of disorder and squa- nation's second largest

yesterday a trade unlon. He said that in view of El Carmen Customs house near for in the bedrooms, the stores the continued high taxes,

le the Mexican border and escaped and other rooms," counsel satci.

SEDUCTION RUMOUR could not go to his unlon fol-with some $35,000, Then the lowers and tell them that a two groups attacked Malacatan

A detective sergeant read

been said to have is and kidnapped the chiefs of the wage of 05 shillings wekly

and Civil Guard statement

that he by Reynolds mado "sufficient to keep ilfe and soul local army

traced a rumour that he had together in a decent home." detachments.

United Press.

From there, they went Au seduted a 10-year-old giri back worker at the Santa Catalina, where they over to a kitchen powered the Civil Guard post. school.

Copping, during the hearing, London, Apr. 7-Qualified seized stores and destroyed the

Cabus Bridge strateglo

and denied that a girl he had taken support for Sir Stafford Cripp's others of lesser importance. The to London for a week was one budget proposals was given by statement said simultaneously a of his pupils, Ife said she had

Opposition speaker, larger group the chief

attacked *ranches

QUALIFIED SUPPORT

Mr Harry Crookshank in today ann farms in the Sania Teresa / been a pupil but was then doing

Houso of Commons budget debate.

of gold dollars by which the nation can finance itself. Where- Internationally fore, most things must be subordinated, firstly to the saving of gold dollar expen. diture; secondly to its accumulation as a credit. Thus the key of the Chancellor's Budget can be found in the observation with the that "we intend to continue policy (of restricting dollar expenditure dollar be covered by 10 what ean

ERP of the the rest earnings) for

The Budget also possesses, a period."

Thus flavour. anti-inflation strong there is to be no concession in the heavy purchase tax which discourages extrava- gant spending on so-called luxuries; nor Is there to be any important relief in the also deprives income tax, which people of what otherwise would surplus income. The only crumbs which have fallen from Sir Stafford's austerity budget banquet are a penny a pint off beer and two shillings a bottle off table wines, which will mean little or nothing .in the economic lives of millions of Britons. Yet, apart from the emotionat appeal, the Opposition will probably be hard put to offer penetrating criticism of the Budget. It may be unpalatable, but it is in accord with facts, conditions and necessities, and it is unlikely any

of that that the difficulties about without conscience" engaged in tloual system because he remission of taxation arise to-acts of vandalism." Nowhere lieved human beings had other Chancellor, whatever his political party, could have avolded the more un- day, he will have done as good in the statement were they renaturat tendency to do

or right, not the wrong, things. job of work," Mr Crookshank ferred to as revolutioniste popular features of Sir Stafford's solu-

He said 50 to 60 percent of wald.

rebels. Dr Gustavo Adolfo tlon to the country's existing economie

to Trangay was listed an the the children smoked, but The Opposition objected

tainly 50 percent would problems. The predominant meaning of

the increase in death dulles, holender. the Budget Is that the people are onco

Mexican General Adolfo Per-the school as non-smokers. said, because this was a dis- Incentive to saving. to suffer hardships,

rone Benitez, chief of the 21st an adolescent boy and again called upon

"It is one more example of Mexican Military Zone which were found in the same inconvenience and solemn responsibilities

using capital as income," he comprises the border arch, re-rooms at the school, they would the name and for the cause of

portedly crossed the border to be rebuked but not punished. addled.

PARENT SATISFIED Britala's future. It in a severe burden, "We must consider it as just offer to co-operate with the local

Misconduct was unlikely after. A sop to the Labour Party in Guatemalan authorities to clarity and one that probably only the British,

budget which cannot be vory

the first few weeks, during as a nation, could face up to and bear.

palatable to them."

which time they were watched (Contintied on Page 3).

carefully, he added. Ona of the i

secretarial work and he now In- and Buena Vista areas.

Colonel Roberto Garcia Aretonded to marry her.

Defence counsel cald Copping both of whom He approved the Chancellor valo was placed in command of

denied the complaints, sincere- they' of the Exchequer's "Arm inten-operations and all authorities in and Reynolds, tion" not to allow food subsidies the area directed to co-operately believed in the way

in ordered WAE

ran this educational establish- lò risc above £403,000,000 a Mobilisation

approach towards military zones in San Marcos ment. One astonishing featuro

was that not Department bordering on Mexi- of the case

single parent had heen called to say that they wore dissatisfied

year as a realistic prices,

co.

"If the Chancellor has, at last

"ACTS OF VANDALISM" with the way the children been able to persuade people that social services have to be The Government statement were treated, counsel cald.

Copping started his educa- paid for and that it is because referred to the groups as "men"

the situation. Ile asserted that the attacks had not originated in Mexico United Press,

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