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Amethyst Nationalists Decide On War Mr Truman Urges
Wounded Reach Shanghai
To The Bitter End
Shanghai, Apr. 23.--A HO YING-CHIN GIVEN
train bringing the wounded
from the Amethyst from Chinkiang arrived at Shanghai last night.
Most of the seriously wounded were removed first. All were taken to the United States naval hospital.
The wounded who were arriv- ing yesterday numbered 17 and one Chinese pilot.
The
body of Lieut-Com- mander D. M. Skinner, Com- mander of the Amethyst, WILS brought to Shanghai this ever~ init.
The Amethyst has made an attempt to move up-stream but she wan fred on hento.-- Reuter-AAP
NEW COMMANDER London, Apr. 22-The Brillsh Announce! tonight Admiralty
that because he only executive 'officer remaining
the Amethyst - needed hospital at- tention. Lent-Commander J, S. Kernus, a member of the party which took supplies and charts overland to the stricken frigate. had been given command of the ship.
Parliament, when it renssem- bles on Tuesday, after the Fas- ter recess, will hear full re-
Yangtze ports of the
action from the First Lord of the Ad- miralty, Viscount Hall, and the Financial Secretary to the Ad- miralty, Mr John Dugdale, the Admiralty also stated.
The Admiralty said that the Amethyst has on board three Royal Navy officers, one Royal Air Force officer, 52 ratings and eight Chilaese, -Reuter,
BRITAIN SEETHS London, Apr. 22-Britain Is seething with anger because of
in
and
NEW ASSIGNMENTS
Last Trains Begin
Leaving
Nanking
Nanking, Apr. 23.-Nationalist China's top-ranking officials who conferred yesterday at Hangchow with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek decided that the Nationalist Government's future policy would be war against the Reds to the bitter end.
Following his return to Nanking last night, Acting President Li Tsung-jen issued a decree appointing Ho Ying-chin concurrently Minister of National Defence and the Commander-in-Chief of all Nationalist land, sea and air forces to fulfil the Government's policy. An official statement said that the appointment was one of four important decisions made by the Hangchow conference.
The others were:
(1) The Nationalist Government will fight to the bitter end for the people's liberty and the independence of the nation.
(2) All democratic and liberal clements to be united to continue the struggle against the Reds.
(3)-Every action to be taken to achieve unity within the Kuomin tang and to co-ordinato the Government and the Party.
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HARRY POLLITT MAKES JIMSELF UNPOPULAR
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Dartmouth. Apr. 22.Police had to rescue Mr Harry Pollit, the Secretary of the Communist Party, from angry crowd here tonight after a speech In which he an- swered questions about the Communist ahelling of British warships on the Yangtse River.
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Boos and cheers from the 400 people gathered on waterfront greeted his references to the shelling. The red Hag. hoisted by the Communist Party for the meeting, was torn down, and the
hurried Mr Pollitt away able to keep the crowd back..
Mr C. F. Akhurst, father of 23-year-old John Crest Akhurst, killed on the Consort, one of the British ships on the Yaugisc, handed Mr Pollit a rope and a nole, signed: "The father of one of the boys murdered on the Yang- tae."
The note, which was not read to the crowd, Kold: "Judas Iscariot was presented with one of these and used I. Invite you to do likewise."--Reuter.
COMMONWEALTH CONFERENCE
Prime Ministers Hold Surprise Meeting
London, Apr. 22.-The Prime Ministers of five British Dominions held a surprisc mecting here tonight to discuss the first vital point that has arisen in the London talks on India's future relations with the rest of the British Commonwealth.
The three other Dominion statesmen now in London for the talks were absent from the two-hour meeting in Downing Street,»--
This followed a secret plenary session of all eight Commonwealth nations, which heard proposals from the Indian Prime Minister, Jawaharlal Nehru.
Compulsory Medical Insurance
Washington, Apr. 22.-President Truman asked Congress again today to agree to com- pulsory medical insurance as part of a new national health scheme. In a special message to Congress, the President said the "traditional method" of paying for medical care "cannot meet the health needs of today."
President Truman recommended that Con- gress provide a system of Government payment of medical bills from a fund to be collected by special taxes..
The President also asked for: 1-Government financial old
for the expansion schools,
of medical
2-Federal aid for "the con- struction of hospitals and other medical facilties In
inunities
needed."
where
com-
they are
-Increased Federal
grants
to help State and local govern ments in "controlling certain diseases" and promoting "ma- ternal and child health services, services
Lifting Berlin Blockade
for crippled children INFORMAL TALKS and general public health ac tivitles."
ADMITTED TWO-FOLD OBJECTIVE Paris, Apr. President Truman declared: French Foreign Minister, M. 22. The "As a nation we have not yet Robert Schuman, today con succeeded in getting the benents firmed that there have been of the scientific advances avail-
able to all who nued them. informal conversations at "Our objectivo must be two- Like Success between Rus- fold-to make available enoughsia and the Western allles medical services to go around
and to see that everybody has a for a possible end to the chance to obtain those services. Berlin blockade. Wo cannot bbtain one part of that objective unless we attain the other as well."
Mr Truman
Speaking to a news con- ference following yesterday's
of the cost of his national health cald, however,
man gave no catimate Cabinet meeting, M. Schuman the Husslans service plan. It is expected (have not, made
any definite that the President's proposals proposals for a solution to the will have a bitter battle in Con- Berlin crisis.
The American Medical
gress.
Soldiers said that the feds had occupied all the mountains few miles north, These stand lice sentinels mountains over the capital,
Freighters are busily loading ammunition at Pukow wharves.
Chinking,
Nationalist evacuated strategic city on the
New Zealand chequer who was prominently has already begun a Australia ond Nanking
Railway,
for are understood to have followed, identified with werted silently last night
"If they submitted preciso the arrange-campaign against it.
these proposals, mohim with
would statements stresstag ments for the transfer of power
be the expected
at any mo- entry
The Association's fight is cen-official and we are not yet at
leaders say that it would mean returned from Washington and Gory Insurance. Some of its The Foreign Minister, socialised medicine," but some Lake Success only last Monday. medical men support it.-Reuter. added there were
contacts at GIRL WINS £200 American, British and French
DAMAGES
The former Nationalist Defence Minister, General Hau Yung-chong, has been appointed chief of the Military Academy, Acting President Taung- Thousands of fast minute Jen will by to Canton on Satur-evacuees crowded the Nanking day, it was learned here oprallway station lost nigtit hoping to get aboard last traina good authority last night.
Reliable sources said that his for the south with bundles of exit from Nanking after yester-bedding, cooking utensils and a
tow personal possessions. day's Hangchow conference und
They wailed patiently fur the Chinese Communist attacles last night's decree appointing
hours to get through the bar- Ying-chin on British warships
the Ho
concurrently Minister
of National Defencers and enter limited Yaugise, but there
appeared
Commander-in-Chief of heading south. little Britain could do.
None of the great powers-land, sen and air forces meant not even Russia-recognises the
that he was
relinquishing his Communist regiine is position as the most important Chinese Chinese the government. Thus a diploman in shrinking Nationalist
China. matic protest approved unlike- Jy_And there is no chance of collecting damages,
Britain ap Observers suid parently bad the Choice of shouting it out with the Com- munists or getting its men out Aghing zone, While of the
seriously nobody
considered najor militory action, the idea of retreating before the Chinese Reds was almost as distasteful because Britain feels free to be
Fregu-now-an-He-Ying-chin will be the most powerful Na- tionalist figure.
Ars!
Just
the
who
· New-York between Russian"and"
diplomats.
Apart from evacuation scenes ment of Communist forces from the importance of the Crown as in India-the Deputy Prime tred on the proposal for compul- that stage," said M. Schuman, Nanking was quiet as the feds, the north bank of the Yangtse. a commonwealth link, thus pin- Minister, Mr Herbert Morrison, pointing the problem of keeping the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest always active at night. Legan a Reuter's correspondent in the
Indian within the Common- Bevin, and Britain's two Chief pincer movement that is ex-elty telephoned Nanking
with wealth after it becomes a re-law officers-Viscount Jowit pected soon to complete the en- before leaving last night
the last cratenent of the
Lord Chancellor, and Sir Hart Nationalist military Gapital
the heading
public. "from the south Troops garrisoning Nanking convoy
India, Canada Geprésented by tey Shawcross, the Attorney- straggled through the city short- River, He said that all Na- the Foreign Minister, Mr Lester General.
The law officers will advise Generalissimo Chiang Kai-ly before dusk to pill-boxes and had been evacuated. For
tionalist positions in the Pearson) and South Africa (De
area
the Dan
Daniel Malun) were the three on the legal adjustments which shek, observers said, will not other defensive positions along emerge from retirement but Li
the south bank of the Yangtsen-fre could be heard. The Inter
irst time
"There are corridors too, at in four
countries that did not attend the will be necessary in any new weeks no
meeting. which was Commonwealth concept agreed Tsung-jen
Wolverhampton, Apr. 22—A Lake Success, where naturally will be temporarily outside the walls of the city.
Civil population that had nominal head in Canton.
to discuss in! upon. not specially called
23-year-old Wolverhampton girl they encounter one another," he The thump of an occasional fled waited anxiously for detail the Australian and New! The
£200 damages commented In a jocular fashion. conference figures will was awarded Il came to power on January exploding shelf and an Inter-Reds to march In.
Zealand points of view on the
even indicated disperse over the week-end, but for a broken left here today M. Schuman 2 this year when the Generalis-millent burst of machine-gun To the
power conference Royal symbol.
individual informal contacts be against the proprietor of a fair that a four down from the fire indicated that the Reds were two major Red crossings were Attlee
today.
Present were Mr no stepped
Clement tween groups may help to cry "fil de Ho, If you can't laugh, the very near future.
ground side-show advertised as on Germany might be held in on the Yangtze and because a Presidency to enable him to reducing the Pukow perimeter
(Britain), Mr Joseph stallise the issues before the reported.
| Chifley loss of prestige would result make a bid to the Reds for an opposite Nanking on the north
Peter Monday plenary meeting. (Australia). Mr
don't come in here."
Speaking of such an even- The Nanking-Shanghai rait-Fraser (New Zealand), Linquat equitable and reasonable peace. bank.
Mr United Prema.
The girl told the Judge that tuality. M. Schuman sald Attlee tonight went to
his official country she was taken along a dark would not delay the Western stop at Chinking at midnight 9. Serenayake (Ceylon).
residence last night.
The next plenary session of
40 miles from London.-Reutersent collapsed and she was pro-
sent in complete darkness. The German state. Fighting in the Pukow pert-the conference will be on Mon-
But, he added, if it happen- meter outside Nanking flared day afternoon.
Jected on to a conveyor belt ed soon enough, the four nations which had a steep slope and a might agree up again after 11 p.m. when
on Germany's drop at the bottom. In the fall future before such a state Nationalist gun-fre went into
she broke her leg-Reuter. Nationalist action to support
established.Associated Press.
EDITORIAL
Will Hongkong Be Included?
HE Labour Party's statement of
Tpolicy prepared as a platform for
an
the next general election contains Important section on oversens policy- Foreign. Commonwealth and Colonial- which gives in broad principle and some detall the Party's views on the present, and plans and hopes for the future. The conclusion renched from a study of this document is that the Socialists have three supreme objects: (1) peace, by maling UNO capable of fulfilling the high ́purposes for which it was created; (2) economic independence for Britain which would continue to fead the other nations toward raising the standard of life and creating more opportunities for social development; (3) a censeless war against. poverly everywhere. The threo aims gre
interlocking and suggest that the Labour Party's policy-makers are not content with narrow horizons. Hongkong, being what many consider one of the mast
colonles. progressive of the naturally finds Its Interest in the Labour Party's manifesto chlefly centred on the proposed colonial policy. Briefly stated. the economic attitude of the Socialista to the colonies is to export, badly needed capital goods, to expand both importa from and exports to the colonies at an accelerating rate; to raise the colonial output both for Britain's recovery and for higher standards in the colonies. themselves; and to continue the bulk purchase system with guaranteed' prices And stable markets. These are laudable objectives and should make`n special appen to Hongkong's industrialists who are only too anxious to expand their
east earlier
this
way service was expected to Ali Khan (Pakistan) and Mr D. Choquers, Buckinghamshire, passage and made to sit on a powers' schedule for a Western
resistance against strong Com munnist artillery and machine gun attacks.-Reuter-AAP.
STOP PRESS
Troops,
Police Abandon Nanking
New Yen Rate
a
NEHRU-ATTLEE TALKS Between this morning's con- ference and tonight's meeting, Prime Minister Nehru had tong talk with Mr Attice at No.
10 Downing Street.
Ordered
Ars
I was understood that at this | Washington. Apr. 22. morning's meeting Mr Neliru offelal exchange rate of 300 spoke at length upon his coun- Japanese
yen to onc U.S.
try's position, indicating India's dollar was ordered on Friday willingness to co-operate in the right by General. Douglas Commonwealth if this could be MacArthur. done without prejudice to her
republican status and national Hls directive to the Japanese independence.
government makes the rate effective on April 25.
currencles
export trade. The Colony's increased representation at this year's British Industries Fair is primarily intended to achieve something in that direction, and, if in addition to deriving benefits from personul contacts made at the BIF, our manufacturers can look forward in the not distant future to special encourage- meni from the British Government to
The atmosphere of the talks expert to Britain and other parts of the
was extremely cordial, with no, Commonwealth, the prospects of Hong,
sharp divisions of opinion, An announcement here by kong's industries enjoying considerable
though Australia and New Zen-the National Military establish- expansion are decidedly good. On the
land were believed to have made ment said the exchange rato special points about the Crown would apply to all permitted social side, the Labour Party says that it
link. Some of these appent to foreign
trade
and exchange proposes to encourage local governments
have found some support from transactions, including those for Pakistan. to extend public enterprise, to continue
which the military conversion to co-operate with other Colonial Powers
The points were reserved for rate is now applicable.
at tonight's special Rates for other ngainst disease and
Shanghal, Apr. 23.-Govern-iscussion poverty, to work
it was will be baned upon the official ment troops and Police have meeting, from which, through United Nations 'ngencies, and to
evacuated Nanking,
suggested. a joint statement United States dollar values might be prepared Hervices
for con of such currencies ns register- promote common
over great
The Heds have occupied sideration at the next plenary ed with tho International regions in order to advance the peoples'
session, which will mark a new Monetary Fund translated into prosperity. Here then
another
stage in the discussions,
the yen-dollar ratio,—Associated shining vision and a programme in which
The attitude of the Canadian Press. Hongkong sincerely hopes it will be
and South African lenders was believed to have reflected ana included. For at the moment there is
Opilmistic address toward the more poverty than there is prosperity in
controls the eight statesmen. the Colony, despite record trade figures and the Impressive balance sheets private companies. And Hongkong cer- tainly needs the Labour Party's "great social schemes of housing, education, preventive medicine and research and ' energy in promoting agriculture, and industry." If the Socialists are returned to power in 1950, they will have ample opportunity of putting their nims Into practice, and Hongkong trusts that her needs in the matter of social development will not be overlooked.
HI
of
Pulow.
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Nanking mobs are looling the Presidential offices and garrison headquarters, while the Read are crossing
the river toward the undefended capital,
No police are on duty and all stations have been abandoned and are unattended.
Constitutional problem which Bandits Hold Up That's a
MOUNTBATTENS' GUEST Cars And A Bus
Rome, Apr. 22.--Twenty arm- who carried out the transfer of ed bandits held up and robbed power to Indian and Pakistan passengers In two autombiles
Mr Nehru left London this afternoon to spend the week- Evacuation by troops and the end with Earl Mountbatten- Follee began at 4 a.m.
Nanking is not under fire and the sound of firing across the river has died down.
in 1947--and Countess Mount-and a bus, fought a running guna ballen at their country estate, fight with police and then escap- Broadlands, Hampshire, in Wested, the Italian newa agency, England.
Ansa, reported today. The train service from Non-
The Commonwealth talks in- The agency said the hold-ups king has been suspended.—volve not only the Common-occurred yesterday near Nuoro, United Press,
wealth "Great Eight" but also The bandits were searching 15 their advisers and a number of passengers in the bus when thu lending British Ministers.
police arrived. The bandits cs-
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