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Communist Papers In Hongkong

London, July 27-Mr David Reas-Williams, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies, was naked in Parliament today why permission1 WEB glven Communists in Hongkong continue Publishing nowspapers and pamphlets In view of the closing by the Communista of the Brillah Information Servico In Shanghai,

Ho replied that it hat been the consistent polley

of the Hongkang Govern- inent to permit freedom of the press and of the publi calion of all shades of opinion, provided that netiviiles contrary to this law or prejudicial to public security were not Indulged in.

In general, these limits had not been overstepped, he said.euter,

New Red Gains In Hunan

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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, For and on behalf of

SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST, LEE!

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Today's Weather: Light or moderate westerly winda. – Falr with_local_thundery showera developing this evening,

Noon Observations: Barometrie pressure, 908.3 mbs, 29.49 In Temperaturo, 87.1 deg. F. Dew point, 70 der. F. Relative humidity, 70% Wind direction, West. Wind force, 10 knols.

Low water; 1 in, at 0.53 p.n.IIigh' water: 4 fl. 8 in, at 1.23 **m. (Friday).

Hongkong Telegraph

VOL. IV NO. 176

AMERICAN JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

TO VISIT EUROPE

Washington, July 27.-The United States Joint Chiefs of Staff will leave on Friday on a European tour to consult North Atlantic treaty nations on the proposed military organisation under the pact, the Defence Department said to- day.

Revolt

In Tibet Denied

While the announcement did not say so, the visit also will give the Joint Chiefs, an opportunity to discuss Pre- sident Truman's proposed US$1,450,000,000 arms ald programme.

The Defence Department said the Joint Chiefs would not be able to visit all treaty, nations- on their ten-day tour. bul added: "It is hoped talks can be arranged with military re- presentatives

the North

for

New Delhi, July 27The Tibetan Government has Atlantic Pact member klar

place covered at any

the expelled the Chinese Mission

phient to them." itinerary convenient at Lhasa, the seat of the The Joint Chiefs also wi

will Dalai Lama, who is the Inspect the United States' de- temporal ruler of Tibet, uc-fence forces in Europe to gain first-hand Information on their cording to information

sintus. They will visit Frank- furt, London, Paris and Vienna. presentative of the Joint Chiefs "has nlready begun informal

re-

Canton, July 28-The celved here today. Chinese Nationalists admit- The Chinese Notionalls! The announcement sald a re- ted new Communist gains Government's representative at

day.

the Tibetan capital and mom- in vital Hunan province to-bers of his staff were understood talks" with a representative of

to be 011 their

way back to the Canadian Chiefs of Staff. They reported the loss of China.

Making the tour will be Ad- Lini, 125 miles northwest of

Reports from Lhasa said the miral Louls Denfield, Chief of besieged Changsha, capital of the Tibetan Government asked the Naval Operations; General Hunan rice bowl. A ited sweep Chinese Mission to leave as it Omar Bradley, Army Chief of through Hunan would mean the feared the presence of Kuomin- Staff; General Hoyt Vanden- end of the Nationalist area all i tang omelals might be an invita, burg, Air Force Chief of Staff; | the way south to Canton, the tion to the Chinese Communists Director of the

Maj-General AM. Gruenther Joint Staffs.

refugee capital,

Government, reinforcements have been rushed to Changsha, rail centre on the Canton-lan- kow line, 25 miles south of Linil. A private radiophone call described Changsha na quiet despite lighting only three miles away.

ported to

Press

plan.--United

to extend their activities to the Before leaving, the chiefs will country.

testify at a House Foreign The leave-taking was

Affairs Committee hearing have been "very

ald friendly the Tibetian authori- the arms

les having given the Chinese

send-off." officials" warm

revolt at Lhasa, as reported Contrary to private reports, or the government insisted it still plier this week from Hong- held Chuchow on the railway kong, these reports said. .20 miles

south of Changsho.

There has been no disordet LOW PRICE OF

Tibet has never reconciled

RUBBER

wag

London, July 27.The poll- Nationalist cources aid, how-herself to the Chinese claim of, ever, the Reds were only half suzerainty, and this in the past tical effect in the Far East of

Chuchow, has led to of

frequent armed the low price of rubber clashes, In 1933, when the again referred to, in the House 13th Dalai Lama_died, the of Commons today. Chineze Government sent

Mr-Leonard-Gammans, Con- servative, asked what oficial condolence mission to Lhasa.

had had discussions Britain PANCHAN LAMA,

mille cast Associated Press.

-LI-IN-TAIWAN. Taipeh, July 27. (Delayed In transmission)-Acting Presi- dent L Tsung-jen arrived here

D

this afternoon and was met by Another Chinese Mission went Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, to the Tibetan capital General Chen Cheng, Governor for the installation

EDITORIAL

THURSDAY, JULY 28. 1949.

Outstanding Cadet

The most outstanding endet of the 310 officer cadets who passed out for their commissions at the Sovereign's Parnde at the Royal Milliary Academy, Sandhurst, was Senior Under-Oflicer.J. M. Glover, of Walton-on-Thames. Picture shows Princess Elizabeth presenting him with.

the sword of honour.

French Cabinet's Fate In

In Balance

Paris, July 27.-—The fate of M. Henri Queuille's 10-month-old Government still hung in the balance tonight after a meeting between the French Prime Minister and Parliamentary leaders of the parties in his Coalition.

War Office

The Council of Ministers gave the Government con- ditional authorisation today

Dine

At the

P.G.

For

Reservationa

Tel: 27880

Price 20 Cents

Troops Ordered To Coalfields In Australia

STATE OF EMERGENCY DECLARED IN VICTORIA

Sydney, July 27.—The Australian Government today ordered the first convoys of troops into the coalfields to prepare to work open-cut mines on Tuesday unless strikers end the crippling mid-winter walk-out. The Government went into action as the coalmining union's council decided to call a mass moçting of 23,000 strikers, probably on Monday, to vote on whether to return to work.

Expelled By Labour Party

The State of Victorin has seamen it they decide to strike without A secret proclaimed a state of emer- tomorrow

Com-

ballot.

geney because the munist Seamen's Union has A spokesman of the Victorion refused to handle coal im-Seamen's Union said today that the cease work order to tug Several hundred ports.

crews had been given because soldiers piled into trucks in Sydney and left for the coalfields, and thousands of others were ordered to stand by to move at an hour's notice.

of "Intimidation" by police who nad Interviewed some tugmen

The police described the in-

water- terviews as a "routine front check-up."--Reuter.

CHANCE TO VOTE London, July 27:- Mr

The New South Wales State Sydney, July 27.-Industria? Leater Hutchinson, Member Government has announced it observers here bellove that the

30,000 five-weck-old cont strike of Parliament and bitter foe s prepared to send

troops into the mines if neces-end next week. Their hopes are of the Atlantic pact, was

based on the outcome of from the British expelled

conference today between re- The coal strike, nearly Labour Party today.

live presentatives of the Australian werks old, has thrown more trade unious and the combined

Bary.

may

the

The Jatter

body comprises re-" presentatives of all mine owners unions.

Mr Hutchinson had offended then 600,000 persons out of mining unions council." Party leadership by his attacks work and left the entire coun- on British foreign polley and by try without domestic gas and

Balling

Atlantic Pact electricity, except for cooking, while on a tour in the United during one of the worst win-

In Australia's Stales last May.

history.

the

The expulsion by the Party's

ters

recent

Following the conference the combined mining unions' coun- ell decided to call a meeting to

to treat as a question of con- National Executive followed an The Victoria State Executive Blve the miners the opportunity fidence any adverse Parlia- | Inquiry by Ulic National Counell's emergency proclama- of voting on the question of a

sub-committee

oficials of onion warned

the return to work, Makes Peace mentary vote on the recent Executive's subst wiilch für Seamen's Union that they wouldThe motion was passed-des-

with the American Government With Glen

jan this mattur.

"The

Colonial

Under-

in 1039 of the 14th Secretary, Mr David Rees-Wil-

ter.

v. Socialists

con-

Parva Wives

(By OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT)

and

House of Commons.

granting of holiday bonuses clude the Prime Minister, Mr be liable to fines, up to £1,000 plic serious opposition by Com- lo social insurance employ- Attice, and Mr Herbert Morri-unless their members handled munist delegates. Union officials

consider ces by the Labour Minister, son, the Party's leader in the coal imports.

that the - aggregate M. Daniel Mayer.

meeting will be held on August 1 and that the men will decide in favour of a return to work. Meanwhile, the Federal, and Now South Wales governments have decided that troops will begin working ibo open cut

The Council's condition was that a Cabinet meeting should be held before the confidence motion is debated.

and

Bro

Melbourne, July 27-Tho Australian Supreme Court has withdrawn its warrant for the arrest of the 7,000-ton Canadian. freighter, Haligonian Duke, it was announced here today.

The freighter

was arrested pending determination of the İlability for A£4,000 port dues. The claim had been settled, it was stated.

The secretary of the union In speeches in the United ordered all members to strike of Taiwan, the Commanders-in-Dalai Lama, since when an off-liams, replied:

Stales, Mr Hutchinson main tomorrow, threatening to the For "The siuntion In the

tained that the Atlantic Chief of the Chinese Navy and Mission has been maintain-

Pact up the whole port of Melbourne. Air Force and civilian leaders, ed there,

Enst, a a matter on which, as

would be dangerous economical-|—United Press. of common Generat Li's spokesman dis- It was reported from Canton in other matters

M. Queuille told Party leaders ty and politically, and predicted that he would that It would contact closed that the ""American State on Monday that Dr Kwan Chi-concere, constant

this afternoon

lend to an TUGMEN CHECKED mines not later than August 2. Department may not release its yul, the Chairman of the maintained with the United

resign with the whole Cabinet economic collapse of the Wes-

equipment If the moderate Ministers with term powers,

Melbourne, July. White Paper at the request of Chinese Government's Mongo- States Government. Tho

27-Tho Troopa the Chinese Government,

London, July 27.---Veiled of The lan and Tibetan Affairs Com-sequences of the low price

concerned drew, but urged all

Government tonight moving to these mines for this In Parliament, Mr Hutchinson Victoria admonitions to continue to seek an accept- United States allitude toward mission,-

a factor to which threats was to visit Sining, rubber are

represents the district of declared state of emergency purpose.-Associated Press. China

is given." Reu-having proved unavailing, able compromise, is turning for the capital of Chinghai Province, to consideration

Manchester, which won la covering sea and trans- better."-Reuter.

(Continued on Page 5)

the War Office has now The

Premier and the Party 1815 by a majority of 10 voles port, fuel, light and porr WARRANT WITHDRAWN come to terms with five of lenders are meeting again to over his Conservative opponent. the whale State.

separate meetings The constituency will disap- This followed 16 rebel "Hongkong" wives night after

the action of who are on a sit-down strike of the Parliamentary groups.

next general the Secretary of the Seamen's pear before the A resolution demanding the elections under a redistribution Union, Mr W. Bird, who order nt Glen Parva Barracks, the cancellation of the bonus was of districts-Associated PresS. ed tug crews to cease work Leicester home depot of issued today by the right Wing Republican Liberty, the Royal Leicestershire Party of Regiment, whose First Bat- which has two Cabinet repre- tallon is now stationed in sentatives.

of fate

the Whatever the Hongkong.

Queuille Cabinet, it is generally Three familles have accepted agreed that the Labour Minis- the War Office's offer of mar-ter's bonus grant to a relative- ried quarters at Northampten ly well-paid group of workers similar to those at Glen Parva. has started a movement of wage Two other. familles to whom the demands which is bound to offer was made turned it down. gather force when the holiday

board of officers from the period is over. North Midland District Com-

Unrest is rife in factories and Inspected the married offices throughout the country. Foreign Office today receiv mand quarters at Northampton which About 3,000,000 French workers, ed from the British Legation had been rejected and recom- it is estimated, now consider in Bucharest a preliminary mended that they be redecora-themselves morally entitled to ted. When this

at

Conservatives

THE reports received by cable of the speeches made by the Prime Minister Durkam and by Mr Churchill at Wolverhampton were not complete, but they were sufficiently comprehensive to permit of comment without incurring the risk of being misled. Moreover, the pro- gramme of the Socialists is well known, while the alina of the Conservatives have been given sufficient publicity on several recent occasions. It дя for ony departure from present Socialist policies, and any up-the-sleeve surprises from Mr Churchill, that mony examined the speeches. Calling the past four years as years of great dimeulty but grent achievement, Mr Attlee said that his Government had never led the people to bellove that restoration of the country." would be an easy matter. It seems that.. Mr Attlee is fully conscious of the many. sangs which the Socialist programme hus been running info, but he and his colleagues appear to be determined that it must prove workable and successful in the end, and the Socialist platform at the next election is therefore unlikely to be very much different from what it is at this time. On the other alde, one suspecta that most of the Conservatives who read the programme pat forward by their lenders will be somewhat dismayed. The picture'the Conservative Party---especially/ through Mr Churchill and Lord Woolton- has been trying to build up in the public. mind is of an anti-Socialist Party deter- mined to restore economic freedom to . Great Britain, reduce the role of tha State, cut ruthlessly into Government.

no more

basic

expenditure and trim the generous—or,, as more than one Conservative leader has said, over-generous-social services. The programme does not support the picture. To most people outside Britain, it will seem hardly distinguishable from the programme of the Socialist Government

that there is to be except avowed nationalisation. This will not be very surprising to people in Britain who realise how much is common to all parties, but it does severely limit the ground which the Conservatives con fight. The continuance of a national foreign policy, which has been one of the bright spots in the past few years,. Is'assured under Mr Churchill's programme.. In the matter of social services, no changes--other than administrative—are proposed. As regards nationalisation, the Conservatives seem prepared to adopt It," though its extension will be stopped dead. But there will be no somersault reversal of nationallaation actually in operation.. Some observers have been won- dering whether the Conservatives have a sufficiently vital programme

to draw support to their side. What Mr Churchill has said, and what other, Conservative leaders have said in recent'speeches, does not seem to indicate that there will be any great changes in their policies should they, be elected. Whether it is the kind ∙of programme that will sweep the country remains to be seen. It is somewhat tame, and it will need all Mr Churchill's skill to extract even a fow plausibig Öghting points from it.

was carried

the two familles moved in. holiday bonus.Reuter.

o War Ofico-is now try-}

ing to find alternative accom-

modation for the remaining 11 SINKIANG TRADE

families.

But the wives' demand to be sent to. Hongkong to join their menfolk is definitely out-for the time being at least.

TALKS OFF

BRITISH

today.

Mr Bird also called on 4CG-. men to stop work.

The Government proclama tion enables it to 'order striking coal miners back to work at

DIPLOMAT'S Victoria's only "black" coal-

The Hallgonlan Duko, with mine at Wonthaggt.

coal from Indio, was unloaded The proclamation provided for by naval personnal last week fines of A£1,000 on Seamen's after a five-month delay owing

A £50 on officials and

to a union disputo-Reuter.

Union ARREST

July London,

27. The

Sarell

ASSAM

HER

GUARDING BORDERS

New Delhi, July 27-Assam, the strategic north castern frontier province of India, is maintaining a redoubled vigil along its borders against Communist Provincial infiltration, Mr Gopinath Bardoloi, Premier, said here today, Mr. Bardolol, who is vialt- WIS

the

report on the incident in volving Mr Roderick Surell, Charge d'Affaires, and in- dicating that he was arrest- on Monday for two hours, a Foreign Office spokesman|. stated. London, July 27-The Chi- neso Nationalist

According to this first Government

The Ascam frontler guards, formation, Mr has

called a halt to trade

Arrested negotiations with Soviet Russia police station he was

in the street. Ating New Delhi to attend the heald, had also arrested two Indian Communists whilst iry- placed conference of Provincial

ing to cross the frontier Into which have been going on

Premiers, said that the. AB-Burma. about four months in Sinklang among others arrested and a

photograph was taker.

The Assam Finance Minister, province, responsible Chinese

Following the intervention of sam Government had built reports said today.

the. Rumanian Government's up a "three-line, defence" Mr Dishnuram Medhi, who is also in New Delhi to attend the The decision was sold to be Protocol Department, Melbourne, July 27-The

ho was against the threat of Com Premier Conference, said that Rusalans must produce atomic part of the Chinese Nationallat releared two hours later.

against munism, especially from the recent round-up of 400 bombs "by the score or by the drive to counter Communist ex-Among the charges

Communists and the seizure of hundred if they wish to rival pansion In China and particu- the others arrested was that of "tumultous Burma."

United States, Frofensorlarly to strengthen her weakened illegally attempting to escape Marcus' Oliphant, the British Influence in Sinklang province. over the frontier, the report prised a chain of police, chock- ammunition at Dibrugarh, an, atomic scientist, said here, today. United Pres.

Doubts. Russia Has A-Bomb

the

Professor Oliphant is visiting

Canberra

The treble line, he said, 'com-ja large quantity of arms and

sold.

points along the frontier; re-industrial town near the Indo- A Rumanian military cam-

Enforcements to police units at Burma frontier, was a "victory Australia

munique today linked Mr Sarelltowns and villages near the bor in the first round of the fight to, adviso

with a "lielt departure University on the construction

order: and fully equipped troops against the Communists." FALSE ALARM: ganisation." of Its albmic power station.

it was learned in London that ready to move into action as The Minister added: "Com

short notice.

munist infiltration Into the pro- Commenting on a Paris news

Frontier guards, he said, revince during the 1 paper report that Russia singed The sharp, strident emergency Mr Sarell had notined the Rums. her first successful atomic bomb bell sounded at the Central Ponian Government last week that cently arrested four Chinese months seems to indicate that after 11 ho was about to be transferred Communiats, Including are their purpose is to make India".. explosion on July 10, Professor llew Station shortly Oliphant said: "This report is a.m. today and two vin loads of to another post outside Rumania, woman who ware. Leving to troke northenstern border areal

two policemen were rushed to the The, Foreign Office added that heross the border after attend-mealing ground for Indian Chi probably untrue-Uke others during the past year. Mercantile Bank, only to find a fuller report of the incident ing secret Communist conference and Burmese Communists Router,

Router. thai. It was a false alarm. was awattad.--Reuter.-.-

ences in Calcuita,"

Inst`, Law,