1949-04-18 — Page 8

Serious New China Situation:

Reds'

Ultimatum

(Continued from Page 1)

Arca

through which troops in eight articles bared on Mr Mao, hub

Shanghai-Nanking 14 eight the Tse-tung's January peace terme. No other detalis would normally retreal South. were given.

Two vital bridgeheads are between The Nationalist Government specifically demanded

They would not officially give any in-Nonking and Shanghat.

Chiangyin. formation last night about the are Chiklang and 24-point draft agreement as nu-Both dominate the vital cam- nounced by the Peiping Radio-munleations corridor Reuler-AAP.

between Shinghut and Nonking. Control of the corridor would represent URGENT PARLEYS

a direct threat to both etiles.

With

South Bank these Apr. 18.-Top Na-bridgeheads secure, Communist tionalist leaders are conferri nrmies could pour across urgently on the new Red ulti-Yangise to enforce any kind malum. Its rejection presumin- of rrace they wanted to impose bly would bring a forced cross- on Nanking.

Nanking

ing of the Yangtse. Nationalist

troops are, powerless

such an advance.

to halt

Ufe

Li Tsung-Jer has, as his innin support, Pal Chung-hist, Central Pri Com- The government is reported China Commander.

mands more than 200,000 troops of the extension seeking ati

They are time limit: Details of the pro-along the Yangtse. posed agreement were brought pusted West from Klukinng to here on Saturday by Nationalist beyond Honkow. Any peace L Huang Shao. nakes could only be made with peace delegate

Pal's support. I would only commit bis troops and his area L Tsung- its oblaining of control.

Communist of t

which last week

helung.

Acting Prezident Jen succeeded

modification

ultimatum

There is only speculation in demanded transfer of Nationalist Nanking as to whether Li Taung armales to Cominunist commundjen will or con accept the Com

At the moment. is munist terms. 12. by April The price believed to have been accep- the temper of most officials is for tance, in principle, of the Com- rejection. But certainly no Chai manist eight conditions. This reply has been arrived at.

ta formal acceptance resulted peace talks opening on April 13 at Peiping.

It seems likely that La Teung- And, Jen will attempt to stall.

perhaps, the Reds will underinkel the river crossing when neither a "yes" nor "no" reply is forth- the terms of those eight, cuming-Associated Press.

The Conditions.

The Nationalist

government now is asked to actually carry out

Communist broadcast suit the proposed consistr uf eight agreement articles and 24 provisions. The provisions are considered means by which the eight articles, or conditions, are to be implement-

un-

There is little hope in govern ment circles that Ll Tsung-jen can oltam modification of this last ultimatum slace the Corn- munists have

publicly nounced the deadline for ac- of ceptance and termination negotiations. Another factor is the Reds cannot wait too long for their river crossing-If it is to be made forelbly. Highwater. due early next month, would

nulie the operation difficult.

IMPOSSIBLE DILEMMA

Li Tsung-jen and his govern- inent are regarded as beluk In an almost impossible dilemma. Ll Ju confronted by an enemy of superior strength. And his own Nationalist ranks are dyl- a political opponent dad by stronger than himself Chiang Kai-shek.

Chiang still controls the bulk of the Nationalist Army, Navy and Air Forec, Tang En-po, who holds

Shanghal-Nanking the

more than 300,000 nrea with troops, is personally loyal to the Generalissimo.

future this For the

plainly means that an agreement in- volving any kind of surrender would not have the support

of more than half of the Notiana- list Army, Chiang is believed to be committed jo Just liten

fight against the Communist

A top government offeiat is

G.B.S. May

Become An Alien

London, Apr. 17.-A -million Irishmen lying in Lie England, including

George playwright 2.Kest Bernard Shaw, may find themselves foreigners with their native Ireland a re- public.

Native Irish working lu Britain always have been

subjects Kritisia

since Ireland had been part of the British Commonwealth of nations. Tut

flie Republic of Ireland Act Ireland Into effect. кося severs its last fles with the

Crown

Erilisti

13

and be comes

an Independent ol state. Native

wearers

wondering the green are. Just what their status will be and there will be wome

Bona confused very

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1949.

STRIKER CARRIED OFF Death Of POCKET CARTOON Azzam Pasha

Deputy sheriffs used their clubs on a marching group of strikers at Fawick Airflex Co. in Cleve- land. Here three of them and a Policeman grab Maurice Stamm of the CIO-United Electrical Work-

He was arrested. Note the club mark

Stamm's cheek.—AP Picture.

ers.

Petain

on

Will Be

93 Next Sunday

Isolde You, France, Apr. 17.Marshal Henri Philippe Petain, the man who surrendered. 'France to the Nazis in 1940, will celebrate his

behind the 93rd birthday next Sunday

grim stone gates of Fort Pierre, on this sandy, wind: Awept island.

With him, as she is every day about mid-afternoon, will be his wife, one of the

NEW RACIAL FLARE-UP WARNING

Expert On Russia

Now York, Apr. 17. Str Bernard Pares, the noted his- Aussin, torian and student of died today in hospital Iero raged 92.

few persons who has not abandoneed him.

white-moustacted The tail, Pelala is serving a life sentence for betraying the nation he served berolenlly in World War I.

Many of the Marshal's friends, Including General Charles De Gaulle, have petitioned for his release on the ground that his health is bad. They

say he could not be

to expected endure the harsh buffeling

.

During the last three years of the first World War, he was Attached to the Russian Army. After the war, Sir Bernard" become Professor of Russian Language. History and Litera- ture at London University, He wrote many books on. Russia

Sirleken with pneumonia two wecks 020, be

WILY

"seriously " when taken 14 hospital.

in

He had been living hotel here.

A Knight Commander of the British Empire, he was the greatest British authority of his Lime on Russia, her people, language and lérature.

[SEWARE OF

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THE

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London, Apr.

¿

Interviews

Syria's Zaim

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of

Newn contributions, always wel- come, should be addressed to the business communications

the Editor

Arab League, arriving here at advertisements to the Ceneral from Cairo today, had a

Manager.

Inng interview with Golonel Telephones: 26015, 20010, 20012 Husni Zaim, the new Syrian

Prime Minister, who

came

to power after a bloodless coup recently.

In a

Syrlan

speech to mark tho national

"Evacuation

OSE FRENAULTÉS DE ANTENA

NOTICE

TO

- Day", commemorating the ADVERTISERS

country's complete

Indepen

dence when all foreign troops in 1040, were evacuated 17.-Invita- Colonel Zism attacked the old regime, particularly deposed President Shukri Bey El

tions are in the mails to over- {seas stamp collectors to be

Advertisers are requested to note that not less than 24 houra

the notice

day prior to

given for publication should all commerolal display adver Notices and classified advortles. manta will be received up to 10 a.m. and urgent notices unti}

Batur... noon on day of lasuo. days not later than 0930.

guests of London collectors for losing" Palestine.

Kouri. whom he accused of tisements, change of copy sto.

the International Stamp Ex-

*Evacuation before today On a lecture tour of the Unit-hibition here in May 1950.

The nini is to give collectors was not a true.. evacuation--it ed States last year, he told the of modernte means a chance to was merely changing Amerlcart Deople: "You 121

one 45 pursue their hobby at low cost pressor for another aggressor." America are doing far more and

strengthen international Colonel Zaim aald. He declared than we 10 make war with lies.

that he had "liberated" Russia. I am quite nuro the Russian people are not in a posi- tion to night and that they to not want a new war,"

ACTED AS MEDIATOR

Sir Bernardi was horn on March 1, 1887. He was educated at Harrow and at Trinity Col- lege, Cambridge, where he rat botan his studies of Slavonic language and history. In 1890 ho first visited Russia, to see the setting up of the Duma and to of Bussia's watch the course first experiments in popular re-

form.

In later years, before the first World War, he acted as the un- official mediator between thie British and Russion Parliaments. Meanwhile, he had become an extension lecturer in England for the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, London and Liver- pool.

In 1003, he became Professor of Russian History, Language and Literature University.

He had three daughters-Reuter.

nt

Liverpool

sons and two

SOLITARY

FOREIGN

PILGRIM

Nazareth. Apr. 17.-One

winds and penetrating cold of solitary pilgrim-a Boston

another Atlantic winter.

His

report

The French Government look woman-made the journey Capetown, Apr. 17.-The

of these argu- here today for Easter- celc- South African Government official notice

nients, recently by sending abrations. in contrast to the Commission which in-

distinguished Paris

heart thousands who flocked, to vestigated the South Afri-specialist to examine of

Marshal

Nazareth before the Pales- said the can-Indian rioting warned Petain.

tine war. today that Africans might Marstal was still strong.

Petain occupies # modes! Mrs Mary C. Donaldson. from make another attack

three-room apartment on the Boston, Massachusetts, was the Inians "to

their second floor of the square

nineteenth only foreign visitor to the tradi- eratury fort. There are no bars tional site of Joseph's carpenter account."

local across the narrow windows of shop in Nazareth. Els

quarters, but thick washed wails, bare furnishings and the guard at the door speak plainly enough of prison.

George

Eire until the problem is settled.

"I don't know whether

an allen," I'll be

told Bernard Shaw reporter who called on him. "I've spent 20 years of England but my life In

citizen of Ireland. I'm I think the Irish in Britain will have some kind of dual cllizenship, but I'm not sure."United Press.

expected in leave on Tuesday MAN MURDERS

for Chikow to convey details of Communist demands to Chiang

Kai-shek.

!

HIS FAMILY

on

In the two-day racial rioting 142 were killed and 1,087 were injured.

In its report published today en-the-emuses-of-the-rinting-the. Commission said: "Unless the position is carefully watched

white

war.

Among the crowds of residents who flocked to the 25 churches where High Mass was offered were a number of Mos- lems newly converted to Chris- CANNOT SLEEP WELL-tianity during the Palestine. From his windows he may Nazareth's population before and all exhibitions of public Jonk down on the sandy road by the recent upheaval was about repressed, the which his wife arrives for her 12.000, divided about equally violence femly natives may make another

at daily

visits,

between Moslems, Catholics and bringing some Stack upon "Indians' lo square delicacy 10

his Orthodox Christians. supplement. their account."

Today there are some 20,000. monotonous prison fare.

Madame Including

and .refugees, Patvin lives in village on the island to be near any fishing

except abo

about 2.000 Moslems are Christians,

The position in Durban, scene 36-year-old of the race riots, needed con- stant vigilance, the report said.

Thursday

the man she married when he

Petain does not

In Incing the Communists, Li

Copenhagen. Apr. 17.-Peler Tsung-ion cannot expect any more than surrender terms. The Christian Hansen, currently proposed agreement, fermer from a village near here,

A number of people atten- It absolve the authorities was 64 years old and at the when stripped of its face saving told the police today that he

ding the services wore Hammer from any blame for falling to peak of his popularity.

and Sicide badges, particularly facade, is what the Communists strangled his wife and their six

It one by one in their prevent the initial outbreak.

Greek Orthodox rend much

those at the have referred to as surrender children on the "Peiping pattern." This farmhouse on Holy

also absolved the police from and has written nothing at all. Church, which celebrates Palm means a gradual shift of all He added that it took him two allegations that it had failed to The old man does not sleep Sunday today.

repress the power to the Communists, be- hours.

Initial outbreak well, and often his guards and A Franciscan Brother, Robert ginning with an amalgamation:

with vigour, and tha It had him slowly pucing the floor at Mhogue, from Washington D.C.. of the Nationalist forces into the

encouraged the rioters.

night. He is almost always up said that the badge wearers Communist armics.

al dawn. When the guard

were refugees who had come *We are satisfied that the raises the flag on the parade under Communist influence but

the fort, police acted with promptitude around before

were still regular churchgoers.~~ and discretion, considering the Marshal stands stifly at atten-

Beulce. unexpectedness of the situation, tion and salutes from his win- which had developed and the

Petain decided to be forces & their disposal."

Hansen sold he could not ex-

his art.

of each "We

afraid were other and then it happened.

He admitted that he and tus

had quarrelled on Thurs that their troops be allowed today about whether they should

the Yangtse, they

farm. Je are move to a larger asking for control of a region said he had wanted to leave his

VITAL BRIDGEHEADS When the Communists

cross

wite nsk

one

dow.

the

a

on the South bank which ex- present

ever since his Among the number of factors soldier when he was a boy on a MOROCCO FLOODS tends Southwest on a 30 mile brother committed suicide there which the Commission believed mail farm in northern France. front from ⇓ point about 110 ten years ago.

budd caused the riots, the re- He lived through the

Morocco. Apr. 17-Floods in bright

Morocco have cut tele- miles Southwest of Nanking. The police sald the quarrelport ilsted the Africans' housing days of fame as the hero of south This belt would be 40 miles did not seem sérious enough to

situation, "herding together" in Verdun and through the fateful phone lines, destroyed bridges stretches of deep.

make Hausen want to wipe out

compounds of large number days of defeat when he signed and washed away Control

of this area would file? whole family. Villagers,

Africans and the the ormistice with Hitler and roads. No news has been re- put the Commuist forces within neighbours of the Hansens, also unsetiling influence upon the headed the Vichy government. ceived of an entire battalion of ensy striking distance of Hang- could not

African mind of the fact that; At the end of his long career, the Foreign Legion for, some elow. Hangchow Is the rail United Press.

South Africa has a hostile press, friends say. Petain is sad, but days, the

day.--Reuter. abroad.-Reuter.

not viiler.—United Press,

LOSIDAN PRIA) SERPICE. CHC muívA YORK

understand

IL.

1 of

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the

country without personal ambi- tlons and intended to restore 11 to its own people.

Azzam Pasha left Catro earlier today for Damascus, His departure was considered by Special facilities are

to be of grent to be circles in Cairo provided

broad British importance and connected with plones and British ships from reports that Nur Es Said, the all parts of the world, the spon- Iraqi Premier, was on a surprise sors sald.-Associated Press. visit to Damascus.-Reuter.

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