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Hongkong Telegraph

VOL. IV NO. 129

Russia Preparing To Give Recognition To Chinese Reds

IMPORTANT PARIS TALKS

Paris, June 2.- Important talks which -may lead to a change in Russia's relations with the Chinese Nationalist, government began here on Thursday.

The Soviet Ambassador to China, Gen. Nicolai Roshchin, arrived from Canton in a French plane carly Thursday morning and soon afterward met Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Vyshinsky.

Diplomatic Informant in touch with the Soviet Tambay sail the overall question of Russia's atti- tude towards the Chinese Communists, who expected soon to claim jurisdiction over the whole government, is under study.

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FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1949.

FOUR-POWER CONTROL

Big Fight

OF BERLIN:

Result NEW PLAN

Bruce Woodcock re- tained his European, British and Empire heavyweight boxing titles last night when he knocked out Freddie Mills in the 14th round, after previously flooring him seven times.

For full description of the fight, turn to the SPORTS PAGE.

·

S'hai Food

Prices Down

The Russiant "hu.ve bebared wily big power with diplomatic correctness In move along with 11. conducting their relations with But Russla apparently pre of rice and meat dropped more the present Chinese government. paring to change all this soch.

When the shaky regime: The Chinese Communists #ro changed its headquarters from expected to convene an all

Nanking to Canton before the onrush of Mao Tze, Tung's Red armin, Gen, Boshchin was the

Blind Couple's Romance

Brallies

American

She is 22-year-old Cathering

Chinese, consultative

Asscintily soon after the fall of Canton, in ter to set up a provisional Communist led, coalition govern- went. Tho!, according to diplomats of many nations here, could be the inoment Russin would choose to recognise the new regline.

Shanghai. June 2-The price than half since the Communist administration took over Shang- ha. Rice dropped from $15 for 175 pounds.to $8 (US currency).

dropped from Ment

$1 per to three pounds for a

The prices of imported such as British luxury goods

watches, elga- uitings, shoes, rettes, increased from 50 per- the cent to 100 percent since

Two. Communist occupation. thirds of all

Nationalist Gold

June

To

Russia Agrees

Study Proposals

A CHEERFUL MEETING

Paris, June 2. — Russia today agreed to discuss a United States plan, backed by Britain and France, to restore four-Power control of Berlin at a secret session of the Council of Foreign Ministers tomorrow.

Today's meeting of the Council was adjourned after only 90 minutes its shortest meeting yet-after the Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, presented the plan on behalf of the Western Powers.

Mr Ernest Bevin, who was in the Chair, suggested an adjournment so that Mr Vyshinsky would study the plan. Mr Bevin suggested two meetings tomorrow-one in the Mr morning and one in the afternoon. Vyshinsky suggested that they could meet in the afternoon and evening, leaving him the morning free to complete his study of the United States plan.

Mr Acheson argued against this, and it was eventually agreed to hold a secret session to- morrow afternoon.

Today's session-the 10th since the conference opened on May 23-ended in unusual good with the Foreign humour, Ministers freely joking with one another.

agreed upon being substitutex for Article 36.

Russian delegates to the Foreign Ministers" Conference sit unper- turbed by the battery of Press photographers with cameras clicking over their heads,"

Seated second from the left in uniform is : General Chukov, Soviet Ger- Commander In many, while the bespec- tacled gentleman on the right is. Mr. Vyshinsky, Foreign Minister of the USSR.--Agence France

Press,

(3) The newly elected-Ber-Zilliacus

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CAUTIOUS attitude Meanwhile, Western diplomats Southampton. June 2.-A reported that Britain and near-blind

the new Com- traded in for tir France have told the United Yuan notes have already been igroped her way off the liner States informally they do not munist

All Gultl currency. Washington Et Southampton zuch like the iden of commit-Yuan notes not exchanged by raian data the more of a blotting fa senzitis f 'finite

will be useless. Englijunan who Courými hee; policy wo das best in of recoμ-

The Military Control Com- for a year by letters written an nizing the emerging Chinese mission announced that all in-

Communist regime.

ported goods held by the Cus- The United States recently toms warehouses by the former Sloane' of Chicago, a aleuell called upon a number of Allan regime will how be released. operator in a Chicago (03- tie and Pacille powers to form a At the same time, it issued re- for tho purpose of thegulations moties factory.

common policy towards Chinese Communists. By adopt-disposing of official and private

lia CityAssembly ing a common diplomatic front goods for export or import held

authorised to draft a permanent the Nationalists. regimo, the by

constitution for Greater Berlin towards the embryo United States apparently folt The regulations gave further It could

nehlove greater con- indiention that the new regime

Talks on Berlin started yes- employing either the draft of the permanent constitution sub- t

than if the pre-Wetends to allow

of terday after the four Ministers mitted to the Allied Komman- cessions

trade to maintain Shanghai's acknowledged their failure to in Lincoln Catholic church on, without consultation.

powers were to act ind

economy at a high level. The make any progress on the Ger.ntura in 1913. amending it, or submitling such new proposals that an ex- June 25,

American, British and French regulations stated

man unity question.

as the City Assembly deems porter with agreements with un higher-ups here

necessary. altending the Four Foreign

Ministars importer abroad and a letter of Big

it credit but whose goods have not meetings have talking it

been

been set cut can export over. And in the course of the et exchanges,

then. the British and French are reported to have The Military Commission also made it clear to the Americans ordered-a-clearing house for that they do not favour adopting banks to resume transactions to

and Industry. CROS too tough an attitude towards ald commerce

Commercial and native banics the Chinese Communists.

The talks are still going on-began accepting cheques i Aerociated Press.

mediately. United Press.

Her fiance is Frank Smith of 17. Clive Avenue, Boulthamn, who went totally blind in 1945. Elo to a telephone operator us 2 Lincolnshire employment arency. They hope to marry

The couple met in a trat

in college for the blind at Oldbury Grange fust June, Associated Press.

Patna, Bihar, June 2-Five people were killed and 70 in jured, seven seriously, in n election clash today Mobluddinnager village. miles from here--Reuter,

EDITORIAL

at

10.

A Welcome Visitor

IF morale in Hongkong depends chiefly

on signs that the Imperial Govern -meat intends to defend our integrity. come what may, then the announcement that A. V. Alexander, Britain's Defence Minister, is to pay a special two-day vialt to discuss this very subject on high level, should give morale in Hongkong a b brost. It is the timing of Mr Alexander's visit that is importani. There is no aure foundation on which to predict fulare events in South Chinn and their repercussions on Hongkong. But the appearance of the British Defence Minis- ter at this time lends substance to the Blogam which His Excellency the Governor recently pronounced, that Hong- kong must hope for the best, and at the same time be prepared for the worst:

welcome

visit Mr Alexander's . We

brief), not only (though it be rather because we believe that useful result can accrue from His Majesty's “ Ministers coming to see for themselves out-of-the- way parts of the Colonial empire, such as Hongkong, but because it demonstrates that the Imperial Government possesses A lively interest in our welfare and our future a degree of interest not always apparent in the manner in which subjects relating to this, Colony are dealt with in the House of Commons. Mr Alexander is bringing with him Air Marshal Bir William Elliot, who, since 1947 and until recently was Air Officer Commanding-in- Chief of the Fighter Command, and, who, for one year before was ussistant Chief. of Staff of the Policy Division of the RAF. The person, and his background, -enn ··be ʻregarded as significant to any future plans for the defence of Hang kongi and his presence here with Mr Alexander clearly portends an emphasis -on air SPEC, strength so far as the Colony's

defence scheme is concerned,

the flow

FIVE PROPOSALS Authoritative sources suld that the proposals covered the

to Conference observers believed that the proposals, though they may not be acceptable to Mos-. cow as they stand ought at least

to provide a practical basis of discussion.

four-

States Line

Of Policy

For Hongkong

"(4) Simultaneously with the of a provisional establishment City

the government

London, June 2-Mr N. Power

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One Time They Couldn't Apply The Veto

Troubled Whitsun Holiday

Is Facing Britain

London, June 2-A big wave of indus- trial unrest sweeping the country threatened Britons tonight with their most troubled holi- day weekend since the Labour Government came to power in 1945.

Top-level officials of the Government, the railways and trade unions sweated over plans to keep the nation's railway network running in spite of the vows of locomotive crews to continue their "token" strikes for a third successive Sunday:

come

also to

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A prospect of jammed railway stations, aban When today's scasion opened with Mr Bevin in the Chair.

doned journeys and cancelled excursions loomed Mr Acheson' submitted a series

before millions of Whitsun holidaymakers. the to sctile of prosposals

problems, au-

Another cloud in the hoilday, have refused to handle the car- various Berlin

horitative sources stained-five will be reconstituted and it shall Parliament for Gateshead skies was the continuation of a goes of Canadian ships manned thoritative sources reported.

dispute which has brought 8,000 by the Seafarers' International rections. Mr Achesen read his principles to be agreed on by who was recently expelled dockers out on strike and crip- Union.

were not the four Ministers at this ses- from

About -30 men: voted to give the Labour Party, pled the West Coast poris of proposals but they immediately trauslated

sion of the Council of Foreign told the Progressive Busi- Bristol, Avonmouth and Liver-financial backing to the West

Country dockers; no wote wàs. Mr Vyahlusky spoke on points Ministers."

Trouble

the taken against the proposition. already covered yesterday.

"(5) Occupation costs will nessmen's Forum in London pool. It was then decided to adjourn be reduced-to-a-minimum and toniglit that we were wit- coalfields with the strike of 2,000 Another Bristol delegato ad- to enable the Soviet delegation will be determined by methods nessing the last days of miners Blaenavon, Wales. dressed dockers at the Scottish pro- to be agreed on, on a quadri-Western imperialism in the ment and Labour Party leaders decided against stikke action but Mr Acheson's

Gravely-perturbed study

Govern-port of Leith, where a meeting posals which were understood to partite basis."

Far East.

prepared to leave for Blackpool to SECRET SESSION

continue......... to boycott have been agreed between the

Not even Ernest Bevin could in the Midlands, where next | Canadian vessel in the port Luce Western delegations, und

Mr Acheson suggested that the drafted by their experts.

conference go into secret session make the sun stand while, re-week the Party Annual Confer there.

the after the translation of his pro- veraing Joshua's experiment, ho ence will try to diagnose

At Bristol and Avonmouth, ant causes of this new Industrial troops drafted In last weekend trumpets of described as posals which he

Communism to keep the walls rash.

today continued to discharge "procedural."

BLOW TO AUTHORITY

food and general cargoes. The Mr Vyshinsky said that while of the old order from falling

The strikes hit hard at the dockers' committes decided to formation of a new Ailled Kom- the document was being trans- down, sald Zilliacus,

mili-prostige of the Government, het unions Involved a the mandatura, the voting system to

Hongkong Island on

representatives of the two olated yesterday's discussion be employed, the regulation of the re-establishment of

the torily untenable against a foo particularly since the railways, riva currency and traffic between the Kommandolure should

who commanded the land. ap- coal and docks are now nations- Canadian seamen's disputo-the Western one

and Eastern sectors

tinued.

proaches, and the only way to flsed undertakings. And the fuc: Seafarers International Union to Berlin for the

defend it was to come to terms that all are unofficial is and access

blow and

Canadian Seamen's Western Allies.

He said that Mr Acheson had with the new mostly Communiat to the authority, of the Trades Union. The proposals will be els tried to prove that paragraph government of China, he added. Union Congress, the Labour LIVERPOOL STRIKE

Bession cussed in secret

7 for the ECA (European) REALISTIC POLICY

Parly's most pow

After considering their cases, powerful wing. morrow.

Advisory Commission) agrcc- Wo could do business with The railwaymen demand the the dockers will vote for or did not provide for the now China only If we rid withdrawal of new schedules against a return to work. unanimity.

our minds of the idea of which mean that some locomo- At Liverpool, more than 6,000 strike today The Statute of the Kommun-perialism and white superiority tive crews occasionally have to dockers were on

from in any shape or form and under-spend nights away "Labour Re-up on tho quaysides.

and export cargocs were plling home. datura did provide animity.

Mr W.

P. Allen, etoed that the Chinese meant to

lations Officer of the Hallway Mr Incesti Parliament The proposals for voting pre-

He referred also to a message be masters in their own house.

A realistic British For

today to meet that, efforts were being made to Executive, agreed cedure inside the new proposed on December 17, 1945, from the Eastern polley would include trade union leaders to discuss spread the disputes but the Kommandatura would be divid four Chiefs of Staff

to the immediate

this morning *London dockers unconditional the whole principle of these no- the Allied Control Council which ***

for ed Into subjects where majority vote

we said that all decisions of the de facto recognition followed by called "Todging turns" The date tid not fail

riccotiations about Hongkong of the meeting remained unfixed. Government had made it clear and reserve subjects which

un- the protection of British In Side by side with the Sunday but the dispute in Canada was slow of a matter which should con- "go terests and the development of strike threat is a

workers in this country. The Acheson

of

While Mr Acheson

movement, disorganising trame cer had British trade, he said.

illiacus went on to say that at some of Britain's most im- He added that tea was also the agreed settlement on the future claimed that the unanimity rule Allied

control in Berlin, un enabled one member to exert American policy in the Far East portant railway freight yards, view of both sides of the indus

in ruins, the Americany Which glowed no sign of ahating proved facilities for access to the control over the other three, it Western Doctors

-from

ort did in fact prevent the majority were hated and distrusted, and tonight, Western zones, the authorita- from imposing its will on the were morally, politically and ADVICE REFUSED. live sources

ces ·ndd.

minorily, Mr Vyshinsky said, militarily bankrupt in, the Far

Using this method to press i .. ́ ́ TEXT OF PLAN

and the minority could not im

This was'n golden opportunity demand. for an all-round 10 tho

majority on The text of Mr Acheson's pose its will

shillings a week Increase for all -men- refuzat proposal was as follows: "It since no proposal was carried for Britain to give a lead.

If the government did not du railwaymen, the out it one

one member objected. proposed that?m Và,

so it would let vital British union advice. (1) The four Allled Com · Mr Vyshinsky recalled that the interests go by default and drive The Hallway Excentive un- mandants in Berlin will ar Berlin Kommandatura function another foreign policy nail into nounced today that it would clation

political organisation they range for free city-wide elec-ed for threo years and solved is own comin."

as the It would be pour consolation/mcot delegates of all railway-might want to condemn i2," tlons under four-Power control suelt difficult problems

Router. nn to say afterwards that the nails men's unions in Berlin on the basis of the original Berlin constitution of

had been manufactured in Mr on to reopen negotiations

the claim. electoral procedure employed 1940.

Bevin's closed shop, 100 percent in October, 1946.

The Minister of Labour, Mr SMUTS TO TOUR It was not the unanimity rule tendes union in every branch.George Isaacs, told Parliament (2) The City

Government which had interrupted the work Associated Press.

Capetown. June 2Former. today that he was hopeful of to be constituted as a result of of the Kommandatura.

n settlement of the docks dis- Premior Jan Christian Smula these new elections

will be provisional government.

It was interrupted because in London, June 2-A Treasury pute which has put over 8,000 will leave by plone tomorrow. "It will have full and equate the middle of one of the sessions spokesman tenight denied deck workers out of work and for a three-week tour that will powers of government and will the American Commandant rumous circulating on British crippled West Coast ports, take him to England, Rome,

A few hours earlier, 800 Lou Athens and Calros function under the organisational (Colonel Frank Howley) sudden stock exchanges that the Chan- structure provided for in they said he was going, home to cellor of the Exchequer, Biron dockers attended an unoff Marshal Emule, will spend a temporary.constitution for sleep because he had a lot of Stafford Cripps, had, resigned. claliopen-air meeting to hear a week in England, where Greater Berlin of August, 1940, work to do the next day,

The spokesman declared it to delegate from the, 2,008 Bristol plans to confer with Mr. Win (Continued 'ón Page:5)A be "untrue"--Reuter, i

and Avonmouth dockers who lon Churchil-United Presse appropriate reservations to be

men

And this is warmly welcomed, for, undoubtedly the vulnerability of Hongkong eight years ago was underscored by its inadequate ale. defences. We trust that Sir William Elliot's presence in Hongkong during

will be the coming conferences

that if means of assuring Hongkong there is a "next time" it will find the Colony fully provided for in the matter of air preparedness. It has been officially revealed that the purpose of Mr Alexan- der's visit is to permit him the opportunity of studying defence problems "on the spot." It is a useful idea and can return substantial, even lasting dividends, The Important point is for the Defence to be satisfied, (or to satisfy Minister himse:f) just what are our requirements..

need some-10,000 We Briefly, (Ineluing the Police) to safeguard Internal security: to resist, successfully, a frontal armed attack, we require 20,000 combat troops, supported by strength In the air. Here In Hongkong, we are plucing more emphasis on Internal security than resistance to external uggression because we believe that if there are designs on the Colony they will manifest themselves in attempts to disrupt and sabotage the orderly conduct of Ilongkong. And that is the reason why we shall greet with satisfaction the arrival of reinforcements of Regulara, and it is also the raison d'etra ofibe newly-formed Hongkong: Defence Force. Defence Hongkong has the principal Minister in the British Commonwealth' coming out specially to see what we need in the way of future military safeguards: the beat welcome that can be given hift. is for a record number of men and women to join the HKDF between now and next! Tuesday

manded, In the

quire Allied unl

And

this," The

To-

bc Kommandatura must animous..

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was

East

tomorrow after

Mr William Gallacher, Com munist,

that tho suggested striking. Brilish dockers, de- served commendation for their "comradely loynity to the Canadian Seamen's Union.

Mr Isaacs replied: "It might be that if everyone. know the nction of this 'union and its with cortain