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Hongkong Telegraph.
VOL. IV NO. 141
REDS SOUTHWARD
MARCH
Students May Join In
Shanghai,
Juno 17 From 0,000 to 8,000-atud- ents may participate in the southward drive of thio People's Liberation Army, It was declared at a general meeting of the Shanghal Students' Federation yeater- day.
of
The meeting was attended by more than 1,000 delegates student bodies in the city's 207 schools,
Addressing tre students, Mr Sung Jen-chu, Chairman of the Nanking Military Control Com- mission," said that although China's revolution 18 nearing completion after more than 20 years of hard struggle, between 70,000,000 and 80,000,000 people in the South and South-West and North-West Provinces havo not yet been emancipated.
asserted.
at
on until all
Chair-
an
high
Ceylon Wants Irish Sweep
Colombo, Ceylon, June
· 16-Ceylon is to ask the Trisha Hospitals Trust how 2 sweepstake in aid of hospitals could be organised
in Ceylon, according to a Government spokesmas liere.
Usually reliable sources Bald that a hospital aweep. for Ceylon was diocttased by the Government Parliamen tary Party, and the Diree- tor of Medical Services has been asked to prepare a scheme for the Cabinet. Reuter,
Yangtse Safe For Navigation
Shanghal, June 17.-The
on
two
been
An
FRIDAY, JUNE 17, 1949.
Big Four Sit Until Dawn
This Morning
NEXT MEETING TO BE
HELD ON SUNDAY
The Big Four
Paris, June 17.
·Foreign Ministers were reported today to have decided to recess the conference until 2.30 p.m. GMT Sunday.
The Foreign Ministers, weary from hours of debate and hard bargaining, tried des perately early today to reach a working agreement on Germany and Austria before dawn. After sitting for five hours late on Thursday they resumed secret talks at 11 p.m. (Paris time) and continued into the early morning hours,
The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, planned to leave for Luxemburg at 9 a.m. GMT. The Americans and French leaned mors to a possible weekend recess and nobody was wil- ling to take the blame for ending the conferenco while any hope remained.
Heat Wave Causes Thirty Deaths
Now York, June 16- Ifat and humid weather In the
Eastern United States was estimated today to have caused the deaths of 20 people in the past five days.
The peril of forest fire increased in the New England Slates as the drought continued. Smok ing and
Are-making has bent banned In woodlands.
Somo
The Weather Bureau Chifengo said that there was no sign of rain to break the dry spell-Beuter..
Railway Crisis Ends
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HONGKONG DEFY WAR
WIVES' OFFICE
Refuse To Quit Quarters After Husbands Leave For Colony
(FROM OUR LONDON CORRESPONDENT)
There can be few things in the world more depressing than an empty barrack. The soldiers left behind to do the daily chores go about their tasks with the air of, somnambulists. A dog walks miser- ably into a barrack hut, looks around for a friend who isn't there. A lawn mower whirrs somewhere in the distance.
That is how I found Glen Parva Barracks-deserted since the. men of the Royal Leicestershire Regiment left for Hongkong. Out- wardly, it seems that all is quiet behind the red brick, hundred-year- old walls of these barracks.
Here at Glen Parva seventeen women have staged a sit-down strike in the married quarters, in open defiance of War office orders. the outcome of this strik: might well depend the whole future of the And on Army's separated families.
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It all began a week after the Royal Leicesters left Glen Parva for Hong- kong. Seventeen wives and thirty-five children were left behind in the "mar- ried quarters." The first pangs of separation had passed and life had settled London, June 16-Bri down to its usual routine. tain's railway crisis ended tonight
Then one morning the seven- when
"We would engine teen wives received notices to live in Nissen huts, share 1 ferential
be expected to husbands. And, of course, "pre drivers and firemen on the quit their quarters. It was all baths with all the people in the seven Glen Parva strikers would treatment of the London to Scotland routes strictly legal and above board. hostel, and carry hot water 180 cause meeting.
decided
It was Army policy, It was their first after-dinner oposition to turns of duty out of "married quartera"
resentment the letters yards from the cookhouse. drop their pointed out, to move familles certainly
Among Ihundreds of other wives who wouldn't allow
are waiting to Join The most troublesome aspect forcing them to sleep away soon as
as two children to live there."
their husbands in foreign stations. of the Austrian problem
their menfolke were con- from home. fronting the Ministers at their
posted. Alternative
· POINTS SYSTEM #ccommo- The plight of these families to dation would be found for the not so midnight session
The Conference agreement on East-West trade † assets in Austria claimed by the which opened here today, how-that there were other soldiers' come of Britain's acute housing factors as the size of the family, "Married quartera" and sca much a result of the was German tional Union of Railwaymen,ed If, and they would reallso familles it is
of the Na- displaced families if they want- Army's policy towards married transport is allocated on a points
depending on the direct out- system, shortage.
the lengi.of time they, have been separated, etc.
Ministers went into the last lap The "Dig Four" Foreign of their conference at 11.05 p.m. last night.
French
Bources sald
secret
that
to
to
from
:
mny
such
The People's Liberation Amry Yangtse estuary is safe for 1s still marching Chineso people are liberated, hejnavigation. This is accord- ing to an unofficial report Students and labourerR also form a "Southward March from the Pilot Investigation may recolved here last night Unit" to go hand-in-hand with tise Army In order to hasten Mission which left in two the conclusion of the revolu-shallow draught vessels yes. flen, the official sail.
Mr Chang Yu-ming,
terday to investigate condl- tions at the mouth of the man of the Federation,
then reported that there are at pro-
Yangtse. sent the following
According to the North China ring openings for students: 0,000 to 8,000 mem- Dally News the Mission bera of
has a Southward Working reported at the result of a Corps, 6,000 members of number. of runs by the East China Zone Headquarters, vesels everything appeared to 400 members for foreign affairs be satisfactory. service,
100
members for Official confirmation general
of the cultural activities and information will re-open Shang- 100 members for cultural work
hot harbour which has in Shanghal.
paralysed Outlining
for eight
days to the students' move shipping. ment in future Mr Chang said
and Berlin was "definite" and Soviet Union. Butterfeld & Swire intimated they were now getting down that its programme would aim, that they would make
This seemed to indicate that ever, directed the Executive of families in the district who had firstly
an Austrian peace treaty. uprooting
the two other main points at their union remnant re attempt to despatch their ship
to negotiate with been separated for a long time nctionary influences,
The Ministers met in the Rosa
Lasuo Yugoslav secondly, engking throw for Palace after taking two
territorial the Railway authorities to have and were waiting to move organising the masses and en-
claims and reparations were the unrictessory lodging turns the vacated quarters." while United States suring the fruits of the fighting Lines declared that the China first record-breaking five-and-a lem of German
into hours
THE SAME THING
The wives reaction to this off for dinner following their
practically settled.
It was recalled that the prob-
ended.
The wives for the now democracy and, Victory
talked it The Conference, representing They talked it over for a long been offered accommodation at to being valued at a certain system was summed up by Mrs The "Hongkong wives" have Cumbley, who said, "..object OVCE, thirdly,
was ready to sail as helping to
assets complete soon as they received fake-over work
em-400,000 members, deelded by a ume-and then made their de- Tranby Croft but they are quite number of points, as if I were a session braces Danubian shipping word that Quarter-hour it was safe to do so.
carlier
and Meanwhile,
Tonight.
narrow majority to rescind a cision: they would move on one free to make navigation facilities, Soviet par- four-year old decision that condition that they were sent rangements if they are able to Ing to ration marriage. They according to a
Mr Dean The Shengking was to have States Secretary of State; re- Austrian
Acheson, United
their own ar can of beans. The Army - plan
ticipation in the exploitation of was opposed, on principle, to to Hongkong to join their hus- do so. The Army his ordered allow you to spend a certain the Bureau of Education, left
10 try- the English language will be with some 300 Chinese and
June 9 for Hongkong turned to the Rose Palace 25 am
oll-fields, and the all lodging turns duties involve bands. omitted from the curriculum of seven foreign
minutes before the second secret settlement of Soviet claims to home. amount
payable by Austria in ing nights spent away
them out of Glen Parva; it has time together with local Chinese middle schools cancelled the departure at the passengers but
session was due to begin.
"Impossible," said the. War not ordered them to move to band, and when you're
your hu beginning with the next semes- lust minute on receipt of a report had half an hour's break at 0.30 gathered again
The Ministers met at 3.30 p.m.
German assets.
Until now,
Ofee, "It would upset, our whole Tranby Croft. the intransigent shipping arrangements.”
had fer. The subject will be made that Nationalist warships might pm, and
Before the "Big
your quota you go under the Four" opposition of the National Union an elective course In
"WE STAY HERE". went on until 8:45 dinner closed, session, Sir Ivone had been blamed for the failure for the after-of Hallwaymen to lodging turns
But, In effect, it amounts to counter until you have enough have mined the Yangtse River Dim, when they adjourned middle schools-Reuter.
mouth Reuter,
the same "Very well," said the wives,
out again and thing, because, al- points to come for Kirkpatrick, the dinner.
British Per-to end the "Sunday only" token
"We stay here!"
though furnished rooms are not rejoin your husband," manent Under-Secretary at the strikes staged by. locomotive the seventeen sit-down strikers afford the prices that are being Parvo wives continue to occupy
The
especially newspapers nicknamed post-war Britain- one
dimcult to And In The Army's trump card is the Foreign Once, was asked if crews at many depote batweco The Hongkong Wives." The asked-doors-are-firmly-closed the............"married---quarters there. there had been any agreement. London and EdinburgARNED
can argument that while the Glen Well, there is always some-
AUTHORITIES
Army was sympathelle thing agreed," he said.
but in the face of a adamant. The wives were given tenant the moment children of home life together. And, Before the NUR
prospective are
other Army Conference until last week to make up their mentioned.
enjering, decision, however, delegates reminds whether they would and
apail presenting the men who have their own accommodation or go
anyway, the Army points out, staged the five successive Bun- to an Army families' hostel hear experience through twelve years be asked to move when their This has been Mrs Marston's the women, know they would day strikes decided to recom-ull. mend normal working
of married life. During this
The wives began to
husbanda the weekend, but they threatened to Their menfolk
were posted. repeat the strikes if the Railway the high, scas, Lottere hadn't be was obliged to share rooms with rapt interest.. The Army stands
waver, war, while her husband
·was ':
Meanwhile, the nation awalts somewhere on serving in the Far East, she the outcome of the strike with authorities do not remove grievances which caused them asked for an extension of ilme separated for ten years, and all down,
gun to arrive yet. So the women her parents. Asked as to what the Minis scheduled increasing the Todg-husbands' views on the matter, furnished
They were to lose either
way. If they back ters were discussing, a French
allow them
howl wil go up from to hear their Mrs Moraton's efforts to ofcial replied,
And all soldiers'
wives "They are dising turns" cussing everything."
accommodation for awaiting passages
Who are This means
The that plans to
patiently extended herself and
to rejoin her two children their husbands; If they enfore their "altimatum undi Juno 11. proved fruitless. speed up long distance trains authoritative
their eviction. Meanwhile, the military au- French will still be obstructed.
notices, publie making a general, re-
opinion will condemn' their ac- thorities anxious to avoid a Her experience is shared by tion. Their only hope The delegates called for a ference to the two questions now
in that "disciplined return to duty to-class scandal, decided that thousands of other Army wives, the wives might change their being debated but without re- demonstrate continued solidari-it might help the wives
and the years of separation they minds and "go quietly." ferring specifically to today's ty"
favourable decision if they sent have already suffered is the real arter speaking to lose women said that there had been
the sland now I came away with the impres The President of one of the two of them to the familles reason behind tefiniic progress" on Germany unions involved, the Associated hostel
near Hull 10 for being made at Glen Parva by son that that would be the last and that a Umited agreement on
themselves.
the seventeen "Hongkong wives. Berlin and East-West trade won Society of Locomotive Engine-
What are the chances of the
thing they were likely to do, But by this time the wives also "definito The Austrian "We feel confident that there were being backed up by public quest to be sent to Hongkong?
men and Firemen, commented:
War Office realy would be "greally
gronting their re- ad-will be a substantial return to pinion Ther received fetters At the moment, very small.
BANK ROBBERY vanced" when the conference work on Sunday," ended,
this
Baltimore, June 10-Threo added. United Press and Reuter.
The 480,000-strong National England and even from Ger arranged, and would be upset $40,000 today in daylight Shipping schedules have been gunmen escaped with about Union of Railwaymen is be-many-bogging
them
in not
if the War Office had to find robbery of a branch of the First Heved by some delegates to the give. in. The ex-commandant Conference to be wanting a de- of families' hostel similar to
the wives who National Bank · here--United want to join their Press. cision to launch a nationwide the one near Hull wired the And a woman who had stayed in a families' hostel wrote a long and none ditions there. too savoury description of con-.:
EDITORIAL
Russia Caught In A Dilemma
S the Counell of Foreign Ministers
A drags its low length niong, the
dilemma of the Soviet policy becomes more and more apparent. Until the last few months, the "course" to be followed In Germany had seemed clear enough. It is no longer so. There are doubts and anxieties in the Kremlin. One of the carliest Bolshevik aims had been to bring about a Communist revolution in Ger many. That was to be the next stop after the Russian Revolution. A Soviet Germany with its great wealth of indus. trial potential and technical skill would be a reinforcement of the "Soviet camp" so tremendous that it would change the whole balance of European power and. bring the Sovietisation of the whole con tlacnt within the range of Immediate 'possibility. That vision faded after
1923. The policy of fomenting a German revolution was replaced by a polley of an entento between the Communist Russia and the capitalist Germany-the policy first of Rapallo, then of the Hitler-Stalln alllance of 1939. But in 1945 it became possible again to think of a Communist Germany closely. linked with, even part of, the Soviet Union, That required two things. First, the Germans must be brought to regard the Soviet Union as their friend and protector. and the Western democracies as their enemies and oppressors. Secondly, there must be created in the Eastern Zone a strong and well organised German regime under effective Communist control which would, when the time came-when tho Allled armies withdrew-be able to nelze power faall Germany. There were indeed difficulties It was hard to win German friendship and at the same time, take n vast toll of reparations from the country; and Russia was in desperate need both of capital equipment and of consumer. goods. But the policy was followed as contatstently as possible. Mr. Molotov become the champlon of German- unlty.” The German Communists were encouraged to be ardent: German nationalists. The arsaw Programme and the People's
were the formal expressions of "
the plan. German
nationalism was to be (like "Colonial nationalisms". clse- where the instrument of a Communist revolution and of Soviet Imperialism. It was all very orthodox and "correct". But then came the disturbing factors giving rise to doubt and hesitation, On
was
the growing fear that a Germany Ilberated from the Allied occupation and control might not so easily be brought to accept the Communist regime. It might on the contrary, reject Communist lender. ship, establish a "Western" democracy. and link itself not with the East but with the West. That was
ong disturbing ..thought. The other has been sharply stimulated by the shock of Tito's behaviour In Yugoslavia. The German Communists have been encouraged to be nationalist. Might they not become "Titolata" also, accepting Communism but rejecting the supremacy of Moscow and the
supremacy of Stalin7. The Russians have a deep suspicion that all the Germans even the Communist Ger. mans, regard themselves as superior to the Slavs. Might not a strong and unified Communist Germany refuse the Russian
STILL CONFIDENT Western officials last night_re- mained confident that the four Foreign Ministers would clude a double agreement on the Austrian treaty
and vivendi in Germany,
a modus
Ал source,
BOUT CO
con-a
waa
ihe
introduction
of
the
пет
from British
to a
soldiers all over
PLENTY OF "ge low mevement, on the striker's net
Railways if the wage claim was' Army's one to accept
RICE FOR
hegemony, challenge Russia and Statin SHANGHAT
for the leadership of a Communist world? That permanent Russian Inferiority complex vis-a-vis the Germans has reasserted itself. In something not far from panic the Soviet policy has been violently changed. Instead of a strong and centralised German Government Mr Vyshinsky has suddenly demanded In- defialte continuation of complete four- Power control. He will have, only Ger- man administrative organs, and theso 4 entirely subject to ordern. Even In Berlin he would keep the 'German Municipality-in strict subservience to the Allied Kommandatura; and the Komman- datura must be subject to the Soviet veto. Stalin, after his long wooing of the Ger
them. And yet he is in a dilemma, For,
not
met by July 4...
A NEW CLOUD The dispute with the Railway authorities le over the demand
the
for wage increases of 10 shillings
PONTEFRACT STRIKE weekly. The negotiations on the 123 wives of men who had San Francisco, June 16-Bit the Rallway Executive last week Anti-Aircraft Regiment
wage claims were broken off by gone to Hongkong with the 27th slocks of rice are being bullt because it alleged that the NUR staged a similar strike at Ponte up in Shanghai as the result of was not giving full co-operation fract, Yorkshire.
theni
na uninterrupted flow of sup in ending the Sunday strikes. On Whit Sunday, Mrs Elhel plies reaching the city from in-
A substantial return to work | Marston and Mrs Robertha
families hostel, near Hull
Now
would berths for all
families
eventing
1
Menzies Backs Australia's Immigration Policy
Canberra, June 16, Australia's Immigration policy, "viewed in practical terme, is unquestionably Just and propef" the Opposition leader, Mr Menzies, said in the House of Representatives tonight.
which is an and.
""""
land sources, according to a this weekend will leave the way Cembley, wife of ORQMS Ting on a Bill amending the im- seemed to be that he had no Mr. Menzies, who was speak- Minister: (Mr Arthur Calwall) Pelping Radio statement. open for a resumption of the Cumbley, also of the Royal migration legislation and on the discretion but must enforce the
This said that 12,000 tons of negotiations early next week.
A new cloud appeared on the Leicesters; went, at the Army's "Wartime Refugees Removal law, no matter how harsh Iti In- rico have reached the city visit Tranby, during the last 10 days, and by more that a further 40,000 tons are tan workers to plunge London their resolve to stay put at Gilen ed: "Not of racial superiority, Me Menzies cald that 4 would
than 8,000
„Power sta- what they saw there hurdened primarily on the broad con- where Mr Calwell has falled,"
sideration of race, but he add-Mr Monzies said. due before the end of June. into darkness and stop electric Parva
Coal, salt and cooking all powered buses by a strike. "After seeing Tranby Croft sive notion, but of assimilability more internationally offeruive have been difficult to discover a The men complain that a now hostel, we don't need anothes of.raco." were also reaching Shanghai from North and Central China, trade union, will mean that Mrs Marston told me.
agreement, signed by... thele
name than "Wartimes Refugees | week to make_up our minds," the Rndloanld.
Mr Menzies cald that'
Removal BUI"-
12-There was they earn less. But their unior The statement followed
| touch of
of megalomania about Mr president, Mr Frank Foulkes, it's definitely Hongkong or perlenen in other countries show parts that China's largest port expressed his conndence to-nigre already 870 peopl was threatened with
that where
Con that basically different ru 1 EN LA a blockade
There are already Braces liva alde by side, grava night that the strike would not amine acaro.materiallso, adding that the oat together in a mos-room the South African example in 'Keefe, who succesfully, ap-
living there," she said,
problems ariso." He added that 20yor »Mrs Analo to the case of In-
which reported
rvos pealed to the High Court against Nationallat
atudy."
a deportation order, Mr. Menties at warship were try will receive a reduction due the age of one year are expected position parties supporter Aus widespread impression in the patrolling
Mr mouth of the to the recent negotiations, and to eat the same, grownupstratia's Immigration policy as case of the O'Keefes that ar
·will be i mines had boon
that
workers on a bare 48-hours Can you imagine a year-old baby completely as did the Labour Calwell in engaging in a alimally In the weak will gain, he said eating black pudding for break Party, He said that the declared jinglèsshit process of victimisa
Router Fl
atitude of the mmgration on Reuter of
of
deserved
mans, has suddenly become afraid of-Home Whangngo River has been threat - arose from a misunder-Ratlon books are taken away so, en eloquent one, the new: polley once it is understood in closed to shipping-siriceIt was standing of the now.agreement, there is no chance of gotube Menzies said that the Op-intda Mik." There
Germany is going to offend and allenate even the German Communists except for, those whose sycophancy is unshakable.
week ago that No worker within the indus- any extras, and children over
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