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Kromlin Romance London, May 20-The newe paper, Star, said today, the daughter, Svetlana, and Pre- mier Josef Stalin's son, Vasilij, are going to get married.
Stalin's son is a major general In the Air Force.-United Press.
V. M. Molotov's
EDITORIAL
THE
SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1949.
Nationalists Counter-Attack At Pootung
REDS RETREAT, CLAIM
The Battle Of Shanghai Moving Toward Climax
Shanghai, May 21. A Chinese Air Force report issued last night claimed that Government forces in the Pootung district were counter-attacking and that the Reds were retreating, but no details
げんこつ! were given.
Optimistic communiques notwithstanding, the Battle of Shanghai was generally believed yesterday to be moving towards a climax amid rising tension and indescribable confusion in China's commercial capital.
Warships Ready To Evacuate
Americans From S. China
Aboard The U.S. Flagship El Dorado off China, May 20. The United States Navy in China waters now will establish its readiness to evacuate Ameri- cans who may want to leave South China, Vice Admiral Oscar Badger said today.
South China.
With the city's nerve-centre--- the Bund area-paralysed by a stringent blockade, business was at a complete standstill while. housewives confronted empty stalls in food markets.
An official communique Is- sued inte yesterday Indicated that Red placers converging on the mouth of the harbour at Woosung were only five miles apart but it said that crack Nationalist units, fighting with their backs to the city's life- line-the Whangpoo River
ting a further constriction of the Red steel cordon fround the metropolis.
Adon. Badger said, "The evacuation from Canton was not as largo an expected to be operation as in North China or Shanghat although if unduly de-hazarding layed i would be more difficult
The Commander of the United | Admiral Badger's mission in succeeded yesterday in preven- States forces in the West Pacl- Ae revealed that he expected to confer soon with Mr Lewls Clark, head of the Canton branch of the United States Embassy on the general South China situation. The con ference is expected to take up possible emergency evacuation of some 400 Americans in the Canton dren already reported to be threatened by the advance
Communist troops.
in some respects."
Adm. Badger made it clear that "Naval units" have been left behind in the Yangtse area to take aboard any last minute Press reports received aboard evacuees from Shanghal who the El Dorado that Nationalist might desire to leave by private planned abandoning launch down the Whangpoo.- officials Canton indicated the purpose of United Press,
Civil War Developments
Chinese Communists are taking
Ten astonishingly long time to accom-
n
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Shanghai that the time has arrived for them to call upon their reserves of calm. news and fortitude, But 'while Hongkong
Shanghai
with watches the increasing Interest, and no little concern, It also appreciates that the Communists south thrent further are developing a which can have Important repercussions on the Colony. Although the day-to-day news has only sketchily dealt with the Klangal Communist advances through
10 be appeared plish what once comparatively simple task-the capture of Shanghai. There are indications, in fact, that they have been forced, by circumstances for which they had not previously made provision, of changing depending their strategy, and are now more on a successful crossing of the Whangpoo from Pootung rather than the investment of Woosung from the north and west. And if this proves to be the case, it will be to the credit of the Nationalists that they have offered sufficient resistance to force the Com- munisis into this new line of attack. Having made that acknowledgment, it still remains to be observed that there the Impressive signs that Dro no Communists can be prevented from The two achieving their objective. predominant posers are: how long will it take them to capture Shanghal? And to what extent, if any, the city is to be to military onsult? The subjected Bund, which contains an important section of foreign business houses, hos been sealed off by the city police and manned by Nationalist troops. The 'move can be attributed to a variety of reasons: the Authorities may fear bombardment from Pootung and are. endeavouring to avoid heavy, casualties ong the civilian population; they may b: anticipating an attempted' landing. by: Communist forces from across the river at that point; or 1, may be Just
a bold front resture, trying to show when all other hope has been surrender- ed. Whatever the motive or intention the action brings home to the foreign | community in Shanghal (if any emphasis were needed) that the civil war is on. their doorsteps, and that-it-might-prove-position on the border which might_bo...
obriated by an orderly and timed extremely uncomfortable before it
encroachment resolves, fiself. The
of advance. In any event, it behoves the Nationalist defences into an area essen- Colony to keep a weather eye on the Com-.. tially foreign is a reminder to British" munist drive against, our next door.
neighbour. and other non-Chinese nationals in
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nad Fullen, enough information -la available to show that a powerful offen- sive is being mounted in the direction of Kwangtung-an offensive that will reach its peak when the Ited armies make contact with their underground forces and sympathisers on the East River. It has been suggested that the Red drive on 'Foochow is a diversion, but it is more likely to be intended as a cover for the .scal off southern advance-to Nationalist armies which might other- wise be in a position to sting and plunder the flanks of the main Communist forces Yungan. It seems to now merging on by generally conceded by observers that there will be no serious opposition to the Communist drive on Kwangtung: nevertheless its tempo may well be con trolled by developments in the Shanghal area. Shanghai is the big prize and until it is in the hands of the Reds, other operations, no matter how spectacular, can be regarded as secondary.. Shanghai .first, Canton next, would appear to be the time table mapped out by the Com- munists, and it will need a serious reverse in the battle for China's largest elty to bring about a change in that programme. And this has meaning_for Hongkong, Inasmuch that a precipitate rush of Red armed forces into Kwàng-
embarrass tung could gravely
The Central News healed! Chinese Air that the
Earce. T low-hanging rain
clouds, provided non-stop sup- port throughout the battles, bombing and strang.
There was no news 'yester- day regarding the situation at Linghau Airport which, how- ever, was believed to be still in Nationalist.
hands. Several large transports were said to be standing by there for an emergency.
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Britain Says "No" To Big
That is what Atlanta, Ga., policeman Ted Edwards (in air) could be saying to his 6-year-old son, Teddy, as he zips under his legs on his special junior motorcycle. The father-son act was part of the big parade of some 20,000 members of school safety patrols in Washington, DC. Father built the machine for junior. -- AP Picture.
Sizzling Churchill Attack On The Labour Govt.
Glasgow, May 20-Britain's wartime Prime Minister, Mr Winston Churchill, re- turned to the attack on the Labour Govern- ment tonight when he blamed it for the. "lamentable disasters” în India, Burma and Palestine.
In--a review of naval-opera- tions, a Nationalist Navy spokes- man estimated that more than 15,000 Communist troops killed by naval gunfire in the past week when warships helped to smash Red attacks on the Woosung-Pootung front. He re- vealed that the Commander-in- Chief of the Navy, Admiral Kwel Yung-ching, Was Personally directing defensive operations.
The full continued yesterday the southern and westerni perimeters with both sides re-
Mr Churchill said the Con- which India will come forward ported to be bringing up rein- servatives accepted the Labour as a Republic within the circle forcements for the next round Government's recent accors of our Commonwealth, and we of the battle for Hunglao
will do all we can to crown this feld while in
adventure with
"The Conservative Party cannot be held responsible for these disasters," he told a mass meeting of 20,000 Conservatives, "but we are bound all the same to face the consequences. We have no choice but to accept what has happened. We must look to the future and try our utmost to do the best for all."
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coun-
them with the Commonwealth. the northem tries to let
Buburb the Comt
two
regiments
Chinese Government's Administration building
a Republican India remarkable threw
the Commonwealth Fuccess," the remain in
and its general treatment of the WILLING SUPPORT Radio Irish question, but, he declared.
Mr Churchill said the Con- the Labour Party had brought servatives had not hesitated fo Lukang but they called of the British prestige to its lowest support the Government " attack ofter eight fruitless ebb for centuries.
their general treatment of the "human se charges, accord. "South American republics strange events which havo
ing to the Central News.
twist the Lion's tail in the Ant happened in Southern Ireland,
The Albanians arctic.
mine whereby an Irish Republic hos The Nationalist Air Force an-|
been proclaimed, Dur
although we nounced yesterday that a few British warships and kill Government planes were hit by sailors. Israeil aircraft shoo: are not to treat Southern Irish Communist nail-aircraft fire down Royal Air Force fighters, as allens..
"We attach, however, vital during low-flying strafing mis- and the Chinese Red Army Bre sions on Wednesday but that all upon the British Fleet with Im-importance to the statutory de- claration of the determination of them managed to return to punity and drive it back.
of Great Britain that the people their base safely.
LAMENTABLE DISASTERS
of Ulster shall not be forced "The sooner the Ministers an out of the United Kingdom The military blockade of the Bund, officially stated to be due dismissed from office the songginst their will." to the "close proximity of the shall we regain our self respect In
United a reference to. battle-front,"
unpre- and con
command catised
the respect of States
aid to Europe, Mr Chur- cedented traffic jams in down- | others."
chill paid tribute to the Ameri- town Shanghai, throughout the Mr Churchill said:" "Lamen.
can "self sacrifee and exertion day with pedestrians, motor table disasters have occurred in in the world cause of peace and cars and man-powered vehicles India, Burma and
Palestino freedom."
clogging all alde streets-Reuter which might easily have been He said the o Socialists were Avolded by a wine and competent "reviling" the capitalist system while living on its fruits" in of our affairs.
Amarica-Router.. cannot be held responsible for
Eastern Berlin Railway Strike
Conservative. Forty
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these disasters." he said. was this conviction which led
General Election me to accept, on behalf of the Conservative Party, the settle- Berlin, May 20-Fifteen thouConser
This Autumn! and railway workers in Easternment which has been reached about India und Common- Berlin went on strike" of mid- |
affairs and
London, May 20,-News- about the night and the Russian-controlled wealth
relations between the
speculation on the German rallway administration rela
nations Paper called out strike breakers. and states of our world-wide possibility of a British General and an Strikers and strikebreakers, associations and the King, who Licction in the autumn our
both
armed with clubs, clashed is its supreme head, and to early British Cabinet reshuffle at-the West Berlin elevated sta-save by
means in our was discredited by authorita- tion shortly after midnight.
can be rescued tivo-quarters here today, East Berlin railway in this period of temporary
These quarters stated that it, under Russian decline and selipad,
the Prime Minister Mr Cle- management,. direction, had said. Its trains We accept the settlement ment Attlee, did not comtem- would run despite the strike which has been made with the plate either an autumn General The union had replied; it would | agreement of the Empire or Election "or; an carly re-con-
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Three
Talks
London, May 20.---Bri tain told. Russia in secret New York talks that sho was not prepared to start "Big Three" negotiations on Greece behind the back of the Athens Government, the British Foreign Office stated today.
The Foreign Office said that the British Minister of State, Mr. Hector McNell, made this clear at the second of recent conversations 011 A
tentativo Russia proposal for talks with The United States and Britain to end the Greek civil war.
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Strikers In Gon Fight
Allan,
May 20-Ope airiker was shot dead and several Injured in a fight nt Cascina, near Millan, between, pro-Communist strikers and rion-Com- munist sirike breakers. The non-Communists had come from neighbourlar Bergame Province to try to take the place of the
several people. The strikers were farm-workers and the police said tonight that 500 workers from a nearby metal-works, who downed tools in sympathy with the farm-workers, joined in the fight.
Clankies were also re- ported from several other parts of Northern Italy, Reuter.
Vyshinsky To Face A
Common Front
The Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr Andrel Gromyko, represch- ted Russia, and the Assistant State Secretary, Mr Dean Rush, the United States, at three in- formal New York conversations on April 28, May 5 and May 14. A usually reliable London
Paris, May 20-The Bri- soured Bald today that
Mrtish Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, the British Foreign Secretary, and the United Ernest Bevin, arrived in States Secretary of State, MrParis tonight for preliminary are likely to week-end talks with his Dean Acheson, discuss Moscow's proposal when Western colleagues before they meet in Paris over tho week-end.
beginning the "Big Four" meeting on Germany next
NO EQUAL FOOTING | Monday.
The Britisli
Britain would almost certainly Replying to 'questions: by a frown on any suggestion of group of press correspondents, mediating on an equal. footing Mr Bevin said, "I have nothing between the Greek Government to say just now. You had better and the guerillas, this source see me when I ain going away." Fadded...
With the American Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, and spokesman said the French Foreign Minister, M. that the New York meetings Robert Schuman,” Mr Bevin is were solely to clarify the Soviet expected to confirm the "com- suggestions. There had been mon policy" on Germnay said to ao negotiations.
have been worked out secretly Mr McNell pointed out to Mr this week by diplomatic experts. Gromyko that the civil WIN
THREE CONSIDERATIONS" would soon. end if Greece's
Usually reliable diplomatic Borthern neighbours stopped circles here think that no major giving aid and shelter to the difference. now exist between rebels, the spokesman added. the Westem Powers on a four-
Mr McNeil also said that the United Nations was carrying on | certain work in relation
Greece, which the three Govern- ments would not wish to cut across.
M; Layon Melas, Greek Am-'; bassador in London, was inform- ed of the course of the New York discussions this morning.
Power settlement and that the Androl Vyshinsky, will face a Soviet Foreign Minister, Mr
common--front-on:
(1) Keeping Rusala out of control of the Ruhr.
the (2) Maintaining
West German State. Determination
to
(3)
not abandon Germany to her. own resources. Mr Acheson la due to arrive by air tomorrow,
The Soviet suggestion for negotiations, disclosed last night The Soviet Embassy, at noon, by the official Tasa news agency, had no information" as to the was linked with proposals that time of Mr Vyshinsky's arrival. the three Powers should make Reports from Moscow Indi- peace appeal in Greece, that cated that he was bringing 70 general amnesty should be de-experts on Germany, political clared and that a general elec-advisers and Secretariat perron- tion, should, be held-Teuter. nel-Reuter.
That's a
WHITBREAD
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tolerate no strikebreakers in Commonwealth, Prime Ministers struction of the Government Sole Agents: A. S. WATSON & CO., LTD.
Western Berlin-United Press, gathered in London, under Reuter,
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