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VOL. IV NO. 193

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1949.

REDS DRIVE AHEAD AFTER CROSSING INTO KWANGTUNG

Nationalists

Order Civilian

Evacuation Of Kukong

CANTON, AUG. 17.—ONE-EYED COMmunist genERAL LIU PO-CHENG'S FORCES HAVE MADE MORe progress AFTER CROSSING INTO KWANGTUNG PROVINCE FROM SOUTHWEST KIANGSI. ANOTHER COLUMN IS REPORTED TO HAVE REACHED THE OUTSKIRTS OF TAYU, IN SOUTHWEST KIANGSI, THE KIANGSI CAPITAL, KANCHOW, IS ALREADY IN communist HANDS.

ACCORDING TO UNCONFIRMED CHINESE REPORTS HERE, THE MILITARY AUTHORITIES HAVE ORDERED CIVILIANS TO EVACUate kukong, ON THE RAILWAY ABOUT 120 MILES NORTH OF CANTON.

darkened | An Army spokesman admitted On the Hunan

The war altuntion front, Shameen island, where most General Lin Pino's troops forehn firms are located, wasominiously for the Nationalists. that Red troops from Ensi Hurtan

Private

the also had advanced said

on the foreigners

reports are steadily advancing down busy place with

Standard

Nationalists were withdrawing bastion of Hengyang, 263 miles packing. The American .the railway. One column is Vacuum

Red troops Oil Company al- from Namyung, Inside Kwang- north of Canton.

were reported only six miles reported to have outflankednounced its whole stuff would tung Province, of which Canton Hengyang, where National-pull out. The British Shell Ollis the capital. Namyung is 155 away on the north.---Associated ist General Pai Chung-hsi Company was removing women miles northeast of Canton. This Preas has his headquarters, while employees and families of the suggested the Reds may already

have crossed the border.

another column is closing in on Leiyang, 205 miles north of Canton. The fall of Lei- yang, which is south of Hengyang, is expected any moment.

Following the fall of Foochow to the Communists last night, the Fukien Provincial Govern-

the Fuklon

the coast in

Island, off the Foochow region-Reuter.

stoff.

Australia's Interest

In Hongkong Defence

AIR EVACUATION Canton, Aug.

10. The British stemmer, Wusuch, salled for Hongkon today loaded with foreigners.

Tho authorities cald that American nuval planes would evacuato Americans from Can- ton if other facilities proved inadequate to get Utem out ahead of the Communists,

There are about 73 Ameri- cans in Canton

Canton.

DIGGING

OUT THE

Price 20 Cents

DEAD

For

Reservations

Survivors of the Ecuadorean earthquake dig out the dead from the ruins of the town of Pelileo. Thousands died amid such desolation. Violent earth move- ments shook off plastered walls and tiled roofs and crumbled homes--(AP Picture).

French Forces Begin Indo-China Offensive

Tel: 27880

1 CNAC PLANE LEAVES

OVER 60 WILL BE GROUNDED

All scheduled flights of the China National Aviation Corporation, with the ex- ception of one to America, were cancelled this morning. this action being taken fol- lowing Governmont requisi→ tioning of the Corporation's Installations and workshops at Kal Tak yesterday. The official action was taken under the Emergency (Re- quisition) Regulations, 1949, which came into operation yesterday.

One . CNAC aircraft for America left at 8 a.m. today for San Francisco, carrying D full land of 36 passengers,

Five or six of the Corpora- ton's planes are expected to arrive in the course of today. the majority coming from Chungking.

Together with the remainder of the CNAC planes at Kaj Tak,

will be grounded, Tho aircraft will all be tested with 4 view to resumption of scheduled flights in the future. With the arrival of planes today, there will altogether bo

over 60 ground has been no

Meanwhile,

new development. The

Cor-

poration's workshops were pealed by Government yesterday when a party of Police arrived

and took over.

The

Corporation

is

now

Singapore, Aug. 16.-French forces in Indo-China have begun an offensive to regain control of the strategic northeast Tongking areas be awaiting further instructions fore, the Chinese Communist armies reach the frontier, Reuter learned here today from a usually reliable source,. ---

As

The

NARROW LINKS

in

"Operation Bastille," accord- | Ing to the observer, has already corridors resulted in a lessening of pres- sure on the border areas, pre- sumably because Vidiminh troops have been taken away to meet the threat further south.

from higher authorities, "which are expected within a few days. Altogether, 20 scheduled flights out of Kai Tak Airport today have been cancelled."

HUSBAND

STABBING

ment has moved to Amoy, while Sydney, Aug. 16. - A Daily Telegraph editorial,

Private reports said that the Pacification Head-headed "Hongkong's Fate Very Much Australia's Con-

Communists ure threatening quarters har moved to Pingian cern," urges the Australian Government to concern it."

The first phase of Vietnam Army, and the French Ag the position ensed Tuyu, near the Kwanglung the offensive-known

have to supply their isolated de- | Cochin-China more troops were self more closely with the situation in the Far East.

border, 170 miles northeast of The editorial says that Hongkong is Britain's outer

fence posts on the frontler from also being released to fight in "Operation Bastille" was the air.

the north, he said. FALL OF FOOCHOW

defence bastion in the Pacific and its fate vitally con-

If these reports prove correct, said to be aimed at driving cerns Australia. It adds that the Australian Govern-

they would cast doubt on the the Communist-lcil Vict- Canton, Aug. 17. Foochow,

Nutionalist

Narrow defended Army spokesman's minh troops (Indo-Chinese premier port on the northment, however, has not given any sign that it has any

claim of a successful Nationalist autonomists) from the Red in the main centres. lively interest in Hongkong fate.

counter-attuck further

Vietminh forces

are to the River delta area

and the estimated to northeast.

number between Ahead of the Communists in plains.

60,000 and 80,000, while the French forces have been in- _The_French _plan is to hunt the creased to nearly 150,000 by

London, Aug. 16-Blondo rlee-producing

A new route between Hanal 21-year-old Broa into A competent observer. who

Margaret mountainous country la

and the important port of Hat-Laughlan Williams was to- from anhas just returned effort to re-establish economic scene of fighting

near Hanoi phong has been

opened up, a day committed for trial at lieve pressure

on the valuable siderable French reinforcements" on supply road has been won back from the Vietminh in the formation

last few weeks, and French

Fuklen coast, fell completely under Communist control Just night, according to Chinese re ports in Canton this morning.- Reuter. NAMYUNG WITHDRAWAL

Canton, Aug. 16.--Foreigners! fled this refugee capital of China today amid reports that the Ied armies were more than 155 miles away.

EDITORIAL

SINCE India

Dr Herbert Evati, It suggests that the Foreig Minister, and also the Defence Minister, Mr John Dedman, together with some of Australia's Service ch'efs, should visit Hongkong and discuss with Hongkong defence chiefs the part Australia might have to play in the island's defence.

The editorial adds that Hoagkong is as important to Aus- tralia today as Singapore was in 1942.

"Our concern for Hongkong's safety should be as great as littlo If not greater than Britain's," says the Telegraph. United

i'ress

Two Years After

achieved her coveted Independence two years ago she has weathered many a domestic storm. The path of freedom has not been a smooth the maintenance of order has at onc: times seemed an almost impossible task; the refugee problem, the framing of the constitution and the consolidation of the various States have been other difficulties. But, in the words of Pandi! Nehru, the Indinn people have many achievements to their credit. The supreme achievement of all, according to the Indian High Commissioner in London, Mr. Krishnn Menon, has been merely to survive. This is perhaps putting too low a value on the country's undeniable progress, but Indians are entitled to be proud that they have indeed survived and confounded the critles who predicted that they would not. In his Independence Day message Pandit Nehru sald: "In many ways we have not succeeded in what we attempted to do, but we face the new year with courage and confidence and with full faith In the future of India." It is fortunato for India, that the men who

are now entrusted with her destiny have that

and 'confidence, and are courage

not complacent, for much remains to be done before India can truly be described, an the bulwark of democracy, in the East. -During the last two years the Congress Party has been forced to make consider- able changes in its form. Throughout the years of British rule Congress wILS bound together by patriotism and the common fight against the State. Some of Its adherents, and the mass of the people, came to believe that India's difficulties were solely of British making, and would disappear with independence. Now. Con- gress” is, in power and the difficulties have by no means diminished. This has

both within

caused Home impatience Congress and among the people, so that Congress has had to insist on discipline and point out to its members their responsibilities, rather than their rights, There are now signs that the dissension- within Congress is being overcome, but many problems--mainly economic-have still to be faced. India, in common with other parts of the world, is passing through an economic crisis, which, if not promptly and effectively inckled might prejudice the political and social achieve. ments of the past two years. In Calcutta, for instance,

economically which was dislocated by partition, there has been a great deal of discontent among the people, and Communism has been galning ground stendfly. India shares, the problems of she must other under-developed areas: raise the living standards of her people If Communism' is not to spread. The formula for this is becoming almost platitudinous: lower prices and "greater production, of consumer goods, and increased

18 food · supplies. predominantly an agricultural country, and the methods of her farmers are. primitive. The Government recognises that these methods must be Improved, and that this entails the production of up-to- date ngricultural machinery and the education of agricultural communities. Simultaneously there must be rapid Industrialisation in other fields, and the Government must plan wisely to ensure that the capital-investment and technical skill required are made available. India has shown her willingness to accept foreign co-operation in these fields, and if hor people continue to work with the spirit they have shown in the last two years their efforts should be rewarded

with auccess.

India

their advance

on Canton,

аго

the rugged Tayuling-mountains, Vietminh troops from the rich recent Poinforcements.

от the Kwangtung - Klangsi border.

Radio contact was lost today about 200 miles northeast of

the

NEW ROUTE

CHARGE

with the defender's of Kanshlen,stability in Tongking and to re-sald that the arrival of "con- section of the vital Manal-Lang- the Old Bailey, London's Caaton. An army spokesman stretch of the border from Lang-had made possible the scially troops are mopping up near the husband to death in Austria

virtually admitted

this

the loss of

important rall centre to the son to Moncay, just off the coast. for the Arst time of

advancing Communists--Asso- ciated Press.

BRITISH CONSULATE

London, Aug. 30. The ques- tion of closing down the British Consulate-General in Canton

and withdrawing British Em→ bassy officials there was today belag referred to Mr Emest Bevin, it was learned frem a usually reliable source.

The position of British diplo- in Canton was being re- Office viewed at the Foreign

mats

Reuter,

follow

The operations are expected trained combat groups. to gain force after the rains stop In October.

Ilitherto, the assault troops were men temporarily with At present most of the border drawn from garrison dulles for areas are dominated by the special missions.

Irish Partition

Mr

Question Raised

Strasbourg, A

dom.

RENEWED US WARNING Author Dies the partition issue on the As

coal-mines ot Phu Thwong, the source added.

Lang

Central Criminal Court, on

a charge of.stabbing her

after his heart was produced in Court. force of fighling planes

Dofence Counsel raid that which has just arrived in the girl, a private in the Salgon is expected to be thrown Women's Royal Army Corps, Into the battle within the next pleaded not guilty and

A

few months.

that

her defence. served

opena an September 6.

in

A

In

The small French Air Force The next Old Bailey session in Indo-China has also been reinforced with Junker freigh- Today's was the sixth hear- lers for supply-dropping.

Ing on the charge that the girl Oficial sources In French murdered her husband, Ser- Indo-China are reported to be geant Major Montague Cyril

hostel greatly encouraged by the fact Williams, ibat local inhabitants are now. Kingenfurt last July 4 remaining in· Uso towns and There was a stir of interest villages when French troops in the Court when

the Prose move in instead of fleeing with cutor said that Lieutenant the Vietminh.-Reuter.

John Edward Melver, of the Royal Army Medical Corps, who performed an autopay on the

had Sergeant Major,

ip

Opposition To Leopold

Brussels,

Aug.

18.The

brought the heart from Aux- tria.

PRESERVED IN SPIRIT Spectators craned forward as detectives began to unwrap the

the jar in brown paper from

-

after the decision of the United

16.-Ireland today asked the Council Stales Government to close 19

of Europe to try to gat Britain to give up Northern Iroland. Canton Consulate.

Observers in London thought| Mr William Norton, vice-promier of Ireland, made the plea that the British Government in the new European Assembly, would not pecessarily the American lead.

Norton asked the land into the new Irish Re- The British Ambassador, Sir Council to use its influence public and Ulster, which is Italph Stevenson, Is stili in Nanking, they pointed out to end the partition of Ire- still part of the United King-

Thwarted' in its efforts to put

ralood sembly agenda, Ireland the question in a debalo ότι Socialist Party threatord to which the organ was preserved posible changes in the political night to use force if necessary in spirit,

Gulet Sir Lawrence Dunn,' structure of Europe.

of prevent the return King

Metropollian Magistrate, hastily Leopold to the Belgian throne. "Today Britain ocuples олен

Max Buset, President of the Intervened to say that the con- sixth of Ireland against the party. told the Chamber of tents need not be uncovered in wisties of the majority and Deputies

Socialists public. that the functions there as an occupying

McIver Lieutenant Atlanta, Goergla, Aug. 10- power,"

declared Mr Norton would "oppose by force Margaret Mitchell, author

"We are in fact, denied the sary any attempt to force the peered through a corner of the wrapping to identify, the exhibit. "Gone with the Wind," died 10-elementary right of self-deter. royal issue." day as doctors prepared for an mination,"

At the Inst hearing on August colitres

10, emergency operation to try to

the Socialists and Untena Scotland Yard chief-in- save her life.

He then accused Britain of a, members. П}BO would force had told him her struggle spector said that Mrs Williams The Consulate-Generat

"long history of violence and against any menstres which She was knocked down by a persecution" in Ireland.

against her Leablan tendencies would foepardize the rights and had been one of the reasons Embassy office in Canton have car on Thursday night as she a staff of 76.

claims of the workers-United why I get married." husband, John A Mr Norton's speech was re- Frch, A State Department spoke Marsh, an advertising executive, celved in silence and drew an man said that the Embassy were crossing a afreet on the immediate rebuke trom office would

педр their presiding officer, who appealed

Washington,

16-The Aug. U.S. Stato Department has renewed warnings to

19 034 American civilians living in Canton and the Provinces of Kwangtung, Kwangsi, Fulcien, Hunan

and Kiangst, to leave Chinu, it was discloscu (oday... disclosed that the United States Embassy in Canton has been the ordered to close down If city is threatened by Communist forces.

The Stato Department also

and

and

the

After Car Accident

her

move with to wherever the next capital home. was set up.

Chinese Nationallat Government way to a cinema

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4

the

from

In gold the action

tieces-

Pilgrimage Miss Mitchell, who was 43, offensive attacks on other mem-

to delegates to refrain

ber states.

for

To Mecca

the

The marriage, lasted only 80 days. At the first hearing the prosecution said that it had not been consummated, Reuter,

Abdullah Will Tour Portsmouth

fully regained con- The spokenman Bald: This Dover decision has been reached re- sciousness. garding Canton in the light of She was taken to the opera- This was the first time the Manila, Aug. 17-Press ro the fallure of the Chinese Com-lens room this morning but Assembly had launched Into a ports from Cebu City maid 2.000 · London,” Aug. 10, The Ad-

to comply died before the operailon could general.debate. So munist authorities

that 27 Mohammedan Filipino (Moro) miralty announced today with the usual requirements of be performed. Doctors did not Assembly representativco, In men, women and children from King Abdullah of Transfordan international intercourse and disclose the nature of the cluding Me Winston Churchill, Mindanao and Sulu left aboard with his second son, Prince Nail, their refusal to permit American operation that was placed, X have announced that they will the 65 Chung Hsing on Minister and officials, will visit Consular officials in Communist rays showed a fractured skull sponk. Mr Churchill's speech pilgrimage to Mecer. The ship the Portsmouth command of the occupied areas to perform their from near the top of the head probably will not be made until will stop at Singapore. United British Navy on Friday-Asso÷

(Continued Page 5) to the spine.-Associated Presi. liomorrow.--United Prest, de Press.

clated Press,