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Hongkong Telegraph

VOL. IV NO. 192

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 16, 1949.

Airlift Victims Honoured

FOREIGNERS BEGIN EVACUATING CANTON

REPORT

OF MAO'S Communists Approach

DEATE

Vinton,

15.-A Aug. Chinese spokesman toll

· Reuter · that reports from Intelligence offers bellud Communist lines indicated that Mao Tue-tung, Chair- man of the Chinese Com- munist Party, was

eiller

II) or had gone to Moscow

on a

a spectat mission.

He said that no had bern suffering from tuber- eulotis får some Uline, and some prople even suggested that.

owing to his non- appearance at recent publie funelians, he was dead.

The spokesman personally doubted thls, but he was Hot Nure.

The Atition

New York

WNYC yesterday that rport

of tuber. Leath had 01:

had died

Kwangtung Border

Canton, Aug. 16.-Foreigners are evacuating. Canton in increasing numbers. Several British and American businessmen, together with their families, left for Hongkong over the week-end and more are going this week.

The decision to evacuate Communists had captured Nan-1

195 miles northeast of Was taken for economic kang,

Canton, and were striking rensons as official businesg

rapidly southwaris. is at a standstill

The

its

House Passes

Arms Aid Without Cuts

The Chinese Nationalist mill- cleanest sweep was tary buthorities officially c made by the Standard-Vacuum knowledged thal Reds Janel OI! Company. the biggest bypassed Kanchow, stubborn American firm in South China, Nationalist resistance point 215 radio

which pulled out

entire milles from Canton, and had foreign staff of approximately attacked Nankang. The inss of 12 persons, Its Chinese mana Nankang was not yet admitted, the local however. lalte over Ker will

Washington, Aug. 15.- office.

Private reports sald the Beds The House of Representa- Lighters and tugs left Can-

were already very near the bortives Foreign Affairs Com- ton at dawn yesterday

taking der

of Kwangtung Province, which is only 20 miles south of mittee today approved with- fair Nanking.

out cuta President Tru- Nationalist reports also aldman's Arms-for-Europe pro-j there was heavy fighting meas Hengshan, on the railway that ramme.

The leads almost due south 200 miles to Canton."

broadcast Mao culosis. occurred in Pelping July 17, according to a Chinese Nationalst Defence Ministry spokesman, sald the radio statiov.-Reuter.

MACARTHUR

&

out the company's lorries, and other equipment. A quantity of stock has been behind.

car

left

The Caltex Oil Company has cut down its staff, while the Shell Oil Company is sending out families of its staff and its women secretaries.

Most foreigners are doing

news

BADGER likewise. The cariler "stay and personnel assigned to

NOTIFIED

Washington, Aug. 15.- General Douglas MacArthur

n

to Committee refused Include an authorisation for an

The wor

caused

arms ald programme for non- hastching of departures of Communist China,. and of government Dofore foreigners

passing the prograin- Chung me, the Committee split it up see it through" attitude has, asking or Formosa, The Foreign into amounts to be paid in cash a result of subsequent events Office 1 hos not advised and amounts to be paid in In other occupied elties, been

foreign diplomats of any move, replaced by one of "get out un-hut several said they expectest less you've got to stay."

to receive such notices within a few days.

'the

been

The Chinese Foreign Office an Shameen Isinnd has been practi- cally stripped. It is predicted

officials here that Cabinet rank may go to Taiwan

that rather

Chungking,

contract authority.

The President had requested $1,100,000,000 to help Atlantic CHINESE EXODUS

Pact

ATTI nations to

against WANT MORE AID

nggression. He wanted it all in There are normally 160 Bri- and Vice-Admiral Oscar Cish subjects in Canton,

cash. Generals Ma Pu-lang and Hu

Tisc

Committee decided to Badger were given formal majority of whom are women. Tsung-nan, Commander and De-give 11 this way -- cash

con-puty Commander from the dis- $400,130,000 The exodus of Chinese that the two notice today

to be used up to want tinues. Movements of govern- funt northeast front, few to the next March 31, and $157,710,000 Senate Committees them to return and tell ment personnel and archives to (sland base of Formosa to press

and Taiwan

has Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek to be used between March 31 Chuccelerated. what they know about con-

for additional arms.

and June 30.

Contract authorisation $428.- ditions in the Far East.

There is no fresh word from 100,000 up to March 31 and the Nationalists concerning the $77,050,000 from March 31 to Northwest, but the Communist Juns 30. Radio reported the Red capture The Committee acted shortly of towns 80 miles southeast and after Senators Arthur Van- 100 miles northeast of Lanchow, denberg and John Foster Dulles, Senate Foreign Relations Com-Chungking, however, is toll Kansu provincial capital-Asso- both Republican fortain poll milice by a 13 to 12 vole. The garded as the likely seat of the ciated Press.

experts, had proposed a $160,- Armed Services Committee had Government In the event

·000,000. cut-in the progammo.... previously suggested that the Communist occupation of Con-

The Senators will still be able to present their proposal to the As preparations

being are

Senate despite the Committee's made to evacuate in most circles,

Lisbon, Aug. 15. During | action-iteuler. the Danish East Asiatic Company today reopened its Canton 1948, a total of 61,038 marriages solemnised in Portugal, branch for the first time since I were

7,051 of them in Lisbon, accor- prewar-Reuter.

ding to official statistics.

Divorces totalled 1,110, of

The Secretary of Defence, Mr Louis Johnson, cabled the two of a resolution men a copy adopted lust Friday by the

two return.

Mr Johnson

did not order Allied either Gen. MacArthur, Commander in Japan, or Vice- Adm. Badger, Commander of U.S. Naval Forces in the Far East, to return.

Instead he asked for their comments on the inniter as soon as possible.-Associated Press.

EDITORIAL

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ton.

sume

to.

KANCHOW BYPASSED

of

of

Marriages In Portugal

Canton, Aug. 15-Reliable which 562 occurred in the capi-'] private reports tonight said the al city-United Press.

Emergency Measures

T tomorrow's meeting of the Legis- Intive Council, the Attorney General

le introduce further legislation.

emergency

An unusual measure Is the Bill providing for the expulsion of

from undesirables

the Colony. Under this mensure, wide powers aré delegated to the competent authority to be designated. The grounds upon which a person may be determined to be "an undesirable within the

compass of

The

the Ordinance are likewise very wide. It will be surprising If this measure is not made the excuse for further outery from certain quarters, and renewed charges of authoritarianism may be expected. measure, however, must be judged in the light of the unusual conditions facing the Colony and the possible eventualities. Unusual conditions justify unusual measures, and loyal, and law-abiding citizens, who will have nothing to fear. must agree that the introduction of auch legislation is timely and wise. Owing to the fact that Hongkong today has a population grently in excess of what it is capable of absorbing, the Press has on many occasions in the past urged the adoption of suitable mensures to control The movement of people in and out of the Colony. The Bill to be introduced tomorrow, while essentially an "emer gency measure aimed at tightening up public security, will also go a certain way to solve some of the problems-such as public health-created by an abnormally swollen population.-- Operating side by side, with the Registration of Persons Ordinance, which is expected to become

U.S. ENVOY VISITS KREMLIN

Moscow, Aug. 15.-Tho U.S. Ambassador, Mr Alan G. Kirk, met for about 45 minutes in the Kremlin to night with Premier Josef Stalin.

Berlin

A combined Allied memorial service was held at Fassberg Airfield, in the British Zone of Germany, in honour of military and civilian personnel who lost their lives in airlift operations to and from Berlin. Lending members of the

Western Occupational Powers attended the ceremony.

Inquiry Into Off Cheung

Sinking Chau Is.

The story of the sinking of the British motor vessel Tai Fung off Cheung Chau in the early hours of August 3 was told by Capt. Albert Anderson Warild, master of the ship, before the Marine Court of Inquiry this morning.

CHURCHILL

VISIBLY MOVED

the

Tol: 27880,

54 Rescued In Atlantic

Air

Crash

Galway, Aug. 15-Miss Ruth Nichols, fumed Ameri- can avlatrix, and 54 ather survivors were Anatched from the Atlantic today after an American four- engined airliner crashed five aniles off the coast of West Ireland with 58 person aboard.

The British trawler, Stalberg, landed Miss Nichols and 48 others at Galway. Also aboard were the bodies of two vic- tims of the crash--an American believed to be one of the eight American members of Dio crew ". of nine and an Italian girl, be- Six lieved to be a passenger. other survivors were picked up the aleamer, Lanahrone, leaving one person unaccountoçi lur,

دا

The names of the dead and missing were not disclosed im- mediately. Tha four-engined DC-4, owned by the Transocean Airlines of Oakland, California, of the Inrgest

cho non-schedulo

in operators, crash-landed Atlantic early this morning on a fight from Rome to Caracas, Venezurin, by way of Shannon. OVERSHOT AIRFIELD

It overshot Shannon airfield In darkness and did not have enough gasoline to get back. Passengers and crow took to rubber life rafts or leaped into the ocean with life preservers. Fishing irawlers and scores of other small-craft put out from Galway to search for them.

Mias Nichols had signed on for tho Alght дя assistant stewardess. An airlines official said she had gone to Rome with the Youth Argosy-a bargain price student tour of Europe

and and decided to return to the United States in advance of the main group,

The first

stewardess Sitting an President was so we were without light. The

on Italian, was reported alzo among Mr Neill Garland, Acting acting Chief Engineer came

bridge in his

Miss Nichola working the survivors. Director of Marine, with

clothes after the first time we and other survivors landed here the following as members:struck the rock. I asked him were taken into Galway Contrat Lt-Cdr P. D. Hoare (HMS why he could not keep the en- Hospital, Miss Nichols was put Jamaica), Capts D. C. Sim, gines doing a little longer aud to bed. Doctors said she was

R. G. Gillespie and W. Ee replied: No can.' Ile refused Awcock, master mariners,

to go back to the engine room,

"nnediately ordered

the

The

The ship was of 69 tons Winston Churchill brushed Kee Hong, No. 20, Con- but the crew refused to touch

Strasbourg, Aug. 15.-Mr and was owned by the Yueboats to be swung out. tears from his eyes today naught Road Central.

men

There

the

suffering slightly from shock.

Doctors said none of the sur- vivors appeared to be injured seriouslyUnited Press,

Demonstrator Killed In

Karachi

port a boat was fully manned

the starboard boat although that Capt. Warild, when he thanked 10,000.

a Norwegian was on the lower side. subject. disclosed that immed-was nothing wrong with cheering French men, woately after the first rock was Hfeboat,

and children after hit the engine room stall stop-

without being made

Day.

VESSEL HEELS OVER, an Honorary ped the engines

bridge. instructions from the Freeman of this picturesque, The generatora were also stop- "The carpenter, who went to ancient city of many wars, pod, so that they were without see what damage was done, did

Summoned by the cheering Eght..

not return until after the second Karachi, Aug. 15. — The Giving evidence, Capt. Warlid shock and the vessel was then police opened fire here to- which floated through the tall windows of the Hall of Honour, explained that all his papers making water rapidly into the Mr and Mrs Churchill stopped were lost with the Tal Fung. out on to a balcony.

main hold. We got the port day on thousands of Mos- Replying to Mr Gurlond, lfeboat away without about 30 lems demonstrating outside witness said that in 1923 through people, including three women, the staff quarters of the an application to the Governor leaving about six or eight per-Indian High Commissioner on the recommendation of the sons on board, including two

and

Ono

They looked down on a se of upturned faces expressing the gratitude of a nation to the then Harbour Master. Capt. Chinese women. The vessel to Pakistan, Dr Sita Ram. British people. great wartime leader and the Beckwith, he received an exemp was gradually heeling to star- One demonstrator was killed tion certificate to call on British board and we had eventually to and several seriously injured. Smilingly. Mr Churchill BC- ships because of his services climb up. The two Chinese Hundreds of pollee were rushed knowledged the waves of cheers, during the first World War. He women were looked after by to the building, which is In Then with tears in his eyes he held a Norwegian master's cer- the purser

Wo myself. of Karachi's

thorough main addressed the crowd simply,tificate, which was still valid. kept them above water until fares, when a crowd began de- and in French."

He obtained D British the ship sank. Boats from the monstrating against the raising An informed source said Mr

He raid; "You have paid me first mate's certificate after Lee Sang rescued us.”

of the Indian Union flag outside Kirk had reviewed the United on incomparable compliment exumination In Hongkong.

the Commissioner's quartiers on States and Soviet relations in that I shall value for the rest

Capt. Warild sald he was independence Day. general terms.

of

Vive La France my life.

NO PILOT

ahead of the Kwong Sal and the

Khawaja Shahabuddin, Pakis- The Ambassador told nowa- In the course of the ceremony

All the ships were tan's Minister of the Interior, Describing the journey on Lee Song. after the conference: "I within the City Hall, Stras- August 3, Capt. Warild said that coming from Macao more or teen tried to quieten the mob from don't think I will have anything bourg's Mayor, M Charles Frey, they left Macao for Hongkong on the same course. He

had

but to say about my visit tonight, said: "In making you a Citizen at 2 am, with about 16 tons of plenty on life fuckels on board could not make himself heard but I may have something to say of Honour, Strasbourg honours

cargo, a crew of 24. all the Tai Fung.

above the tumult. tomorrow"

herself. The fervent welcome disciplined and 13 passen-

crowd swelled to As the The

G.S. Embassy described you have received is not an ger

The President:

you overal thousand

and became the call as a "courtesy visit." It

empty gesture buf

suggesting that there

threatening, the flag was was learned that Mr Kirk had straight from the heart.",

uncharted rock?

moved and the police began requested the meeting-the first

Aring into the air. Thin falled time any high American official

to has seen Stalin in almost a year,

disperse the crowd, and they

men

Vyso the

Mr Kirk, a retired admiral in

Gen. Walter Bedell Smith

morrow.

BIG SPEECH

senger

comes ers. The vessel had no par- drew certificate. She 11 feet six inches aft and seven feet six inches forward..

L

Are

was un

Capt. Warild: No. I cannot

"I had no pilot on board and, say that,

This conclud:d the master's

The hearing is continuing,

the root of a motor cor,

began climbing over the of the building.

Kate

The police fired one volley directly at them, killing ond others. and wounding several The

fually dispersed crowd when the police laid down heavy fog of tear gas and mode determined charges to clear the (nearby side-streets.

law tomorrow, Il

to be may prove quite an effective check on unrestricted immigration. Government, however, should see that the measure is fully explained to the general population in order that there shall be no misunder standing or alarm. The fingerprint requirement in connection with the issue of identity cards, provided for under the Registration of Persons Ordinance, arous- ed some resentment among the Chinese population until

was adequately brought to their notice that it had no connotation with the ordinary provision for the fingerprinting of criminals,

Moscow Radlo said the Soviet Churchill may make his was therefore on the bridge Frank explanation in 'simple terms that

Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei eagerly awaited "big speech" in all the time," he said. "Short-ovidence. was also present at the European Assembly to-ly after five o'clock I sighted Every man and woman can understand

Cheung Chau Beacon Light on The weather should dispel any doubts as to intentions

Adamaster Rock. He will speak during a two-

clear up to this: and execution, while

the navy, who succeeded Lieut-day political debate into which was fairly at the same time

ime.

were occacional CHILD MURDER There as the 101 delegates from 12 con-

and visibility was Ambassador to Moscow, arrived trien will plunge, in the more shower in the Soviet capital late last hing.

moderate. I passed the light at June-Associated Presa

six o'clock on the port beam, Today he was studying the two cables distant as far as

1

London, Aug. 15.-A 20-year- results

Judge.

old woman was charged at a Terrorists Raid ou In Western Germany which he had 'ordered to be

to him conveyed

light when I changed tonight with the munter of a post the os soon Police Post

child,

Marion Course according is usual cus-three-year-old they were known.

Greek' Guerillas On the basis of these results tom, slightly to port with the Ward, found dead from head in- Mary Hospital ahend. Juries in a bomb-ruined house Queen Singapore, Aug. 15-A special he will decide whether ond

Claim Successes breaking, and don Saturday. Dawn was constablo's wife and two

he would raise stables were killed when a gang the most controversial Issue tances are deceptive for an

Marion had been infring

London, Aug. 15-The Greek officer who has been on watchs [of 60 Comtnunist terrorists, fire before the Assembly-GOT"

from her home for 20 hours guerillo, radio claimed tonight ing tommy-guns and shooting at many's relations with the Coun- for a long period.

Greek Nationalist overyone in, their way, ralded eil of Europe.

During their search: the police after changing "Shortly Mr Churchill is belloved to police post one mile from Ka-

the

found the body of an unknown planes were shot down and two

armoured cars destroyed ye Jong, near Kuala Lumpur, yes-favour inviting Germany. to be-course we struck a rock on

In other ruin. There at

and man side

In the Mount Vick terday come an associate - terday, it was earned today.

member of starboard

the was no cluu either to his iden

cestor, rizar tho Albanian after apparently A third special constable died the Council as soon na tha Grat chorlly

frontier todny from wounds. sustained West German Government is rare rock struck the ship amity, or to the way in which ho

ships. Immediately after the met his-denth-

***Government losses wäre" "put during the terrorist ruld. ́ ́Two sot up. (others were wounded.

This would entitle her to a first rock was hit tho engine The wonian charged is Mrs The bandlin stole eight rifles place in the Assembly but not room staff, without any instruc- Nora Patricia Tierney. She is and and 500 rounds of ammunition. | in the Cabinet of Foreign tions from the bridge, stopped in next door neighbour, of the Government offensive continued

Router,

|-Ministers~~~Reuter.

the engines and the generatora, dead child-Reuter.

serving to expose the . falseness of any, arguments which may be advanced by those who have their reasons to oppose and fear such legislation. Since the powers granted to the authorities' under such emergency measures are admittedly extensive, the utmost care and discretion must be exercised in their enforcement, As much of the routine work of enforce ment will fall en juntor officers of the Government, they must, be strictly enjoined to observe the utmost. tact and courtesy in their dealings with the public. In connection with fingerprinting for identity cards, it may be a good Iden to have the process supervised by justices of the poace in order to prevent any occurrence which might be construed as officiousness or disrespect.

CHARGE

The Pakistan Prime Minister, Linguat All Khon, later inspect

of the week-end elece proceeded two cables Northwest London police courtjed the damage.Reuter......

con-in what form

Da

before her body was discovered. that two ENGINES STOPPED

6.10

at 453 officers and men killed,

1,780 wounded, A TO

in full, strength-Reuter.