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VOL. IV NO. 2241

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1949.

Truman CHINESE COMMUNISTS

Requests Truce

Washington, Sapt. 21- President Truman today anked for a six-day truce in the threatened strike ofi

million American step! workers, due to start at mht. night on Saturday.

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He also astrect emitogers and unions to Tume gaining between themvelves. Govern ment. mediators would Le available.

The Government mediation chief, Mr. Cyans Chin it after an interview with Paul- dent Truman today this be wor y optimistic about vetting strike.

There were reports of nort

by the employer of n. pervian plan in the motor car intuerage which might provide a seu meut,

Meanwhile, nearly half

million

con miners were out

MAO TSE-TUNG. NO. I CHINESE COMMUNIST

4

1,200 WILL

LEAVE · BY

for the third day ny their GEN. GORDON

leader, Mr John L. Lewis, open- ed talks with northern and

western mine' owners.

Mr Lewis refused to talic until with southern owners they had paid royalty contribu-. to the fund which pro-

tiona vides the pensions for minn over 60.

ESTABLISH NEW GOVERNMENT

Early Bid For World Recognition Expected

San Francisco, Sept. 21.-The Chinese Communists an- nounced today that they have established a "People's Republic of China.' Mao Tse-tung, chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, made the announcement at Peiping at the opening of the "Chinese People's Political Consultativo Conference."

An early bid for international recognition is expected from the Communist regime, which holds dominion över roughly lialf the land mass of China Proper.

Mao said the People's Republic "must unite first of all with the Soviet Union and the new democratic countries." He meant by the latter the Soviet bloc nations of Eastern Europe.

Shanghal, Sept. 21. - The number of foreigners

The Communist Radio in government to bo proclaimed stabilised. The Island has IL hooker to soil in the next few days on the American Peiping said Mao received a formally on October 10. That separate currency fully backed vessel, General Gordon, has standing ovation when he is the anniversary of Sun Yat- by gold reserves. He said these sen's revolution which over-reserves, which chairman Tom been increased to 1,200 and appeared. Gun salutes echo-ürew the Manchu dynasty. Connally of the Sonate Foreign additional applications are led through the northern In his speech Moo referred Relations Committee has char- waid that the Ford Motor Co being received hourly, The Chinese city, capital of an- the forerunner of "the people's in to Formosa for his personal to Sun Yat-sen's revolution as ged Chiang Kai-shele with tale- a September ship is scheduled to arrive cient China and now likely great munist leader boasica back the Formosan currency

revolution."

use, were in fact being used to that the Communist Army had and also pay some expenses of "defeated the Kuomintang

Central the

Government វត actionary government, which is led by American imperialism. Canton

Dr Koo said that the gold has

In Detroit, a union

pany, faced with

source

20 strike deadline, was offering 116,000 workers a new contract on conditions made by a Pro- sidential fact-finding board.. Reuter,

SIAM

WANTS

TO EVICT GEN.

ROBERTSON

here on Friday and may sail

on Saturday afternoon.

The total number of foreign- ers permitted to leave Commun-

ist China is now 2,055, but about

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to bo the capital of Com- munist China.

The broadcast reported that

greeted with thun Ano was derous cheers when he declared 500 will not be able to sail on that the new republic would the American ship due to lack have a powerful army, navy of time for arrangements. Some and air force. The broadest are expected to leave on tha was heard in San Francisco by French ship, Marshal Joffre, in the Assoclated Press.

October.

The American President Lines

said about 450 Americans

аге

booked to sail on the General Gordon, 300 of them bound for the United States and the re- mainder for Japan. The de Tokyo, Sept. 21.-The Siamese partures will reduce the Ameri- Government intends

Shanghai 10 sk can population

H.

General Douglas MacArthur for greatly-United Press.

of Lieutenant- the eviction General C. H. Roberison Commander of the Commonwealth Occupation Foreca. from his house in Tokyo,

П Siamese Governinent repre- sentative stated here today.

The house was the property of the Siamese Government, Lie representative added. When free, it would return to its for

as the Siamese Em-

MORE TROOPS ARRIVE.

The troopship Orbiin, from the United Kingdom, berthed at Kowloon this morning with 1.200

reinforcements nboard. Main party was the 58 Medium Regl-

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The Consultative Con- ference which Mac addressed was called to set up a central government. The Conference is composed of 035 Communist and non-Communist delegutes.

It

its"

The

re-

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this

"Our national defence will be been greatly diminished by the consolidated, Mao said, "and no imperialist will be allowed agein Government in fighting the Com

expensea of the Nationalist to Invado our territory. We will not only have a powertai munist advances through Shung- army but also a powerful bir hat and Foochow earlier force and a powerful navy. Lat year. the reactionaries at home and abroad tremble before Associated Press.

RECOGNITION London, Sept. 21-Britain has definitely decided to extend de facto recognition to a Chinese Communist Government as soch as this is proclaimed, it wa belleved In formed

today.

usually well-in-

In response to questions of just what type of "clarification" of policy his government sought, Dr Koo said they are interested in knowing what progress Wed belag made by the high-level Far Eastern group headed by Dr Philip Jessup United Press.

quarters in London RAILWAY

This decision, it is thought, was the outcome of the Foreign Ministers" discussions on the wore held in Far East which Washington last week.

WORKERS

The United States Govern- SPLIT ON

Dine

At the

P.G.

For

Reservations

Price 20 Cents

Tel: 27880

Start Of 33-Mile Ascent Fresh Wave

Of General Election Speculation

London, Sept. 21-Bri- Iain's devaluation of the Pound has started a fresh wave of political speculation on the possibility of general election in Novem- ber.

in

to

But Labour Governmeni quarters tent no support today to the sugestion, which many of the Gaverament's hackera as- celbed to "wishful thinking the Opposition camps."

Parliament is expected have an emergency recall for two days next week to discuss devaluation, and speculative re ports have suggested that the Conservatives muy sut down n inalion censuring the Govern- mnt on certain aspects of de valuation polley.

Lut the Government would have to be convinced of a serious ennenge from its own sup- porters throughout the country, und of the need for a treab mandaw following devaluation, bcure it scrapped all its long- stumding schedule, which times the general election of mid-1930, STRAW IN WIND The possibility of such a chal

The US. Navy's research rocket, Viking II, has just made a second successful flight of 33 miles into the stratosphere. The Martin built missile was launched enge cannot be ruled but A straw in the wind, according to at the White Sands, proving grounds, in New Mexico. Government opponents, was the It carried a mass of instruments, and radioed back action of the General Counell of some 10 different kinds of scientific information during the Trades Union Congress last

the five-minute flight. Picture shows the Viking IIght in withholding judgment

leaving the launching base with a woosh.

DEAN

ACHESON

OFFERS RUSSIA OLIVE BRANCH

Flushing Meadow, New York, Sapt. 21-Nr Dean Acheson, United States Secretary of Stato, today appealed to the Soviet Union to co-operato in solving international problems.

on the devaluation decision. Formal endorsement had been expected.

The Parlamentary Labour Party-

y-nearly 400 strong-110.3 yet to react to the Government's action.

Before Parliament moeta next week, Sir Stafford Cripps" and other leaders will endeavour to ensure that the Paraamentary Party- is rallied effectively be- hind the Cabinet.

Ominous rumblings on ins political side of labour ...' have followed the news that devalua-, tion, means dearer bread and

the possibility of other increases

the cost of living.

In

NEXT TEN DAYS Many observers believe that

If there were serious evidenco of loss of confidence-on-the- abuur side and in the country Government generally would retort, "Let the country

The

-Addressing the United Nations Assembly In the first major speech of the session, the Secretary of State urged the Soviet Union to reverso it's previous position on the Grock-question and join in seeking a settioment of tho Liccide problem.

peace,

the

now."

noxt 10 days-during which devaluation criticism will received full Parliament- "I believe I express a de-tul means, and to build up the

ary ventilation will un- sire widely shared, in this conditions essential for

the Govern doubtedly decide Assembly," ho

obliga "Disregarding thero

ment's course of actien.

IL was learned this afternoon sisted in policies threatening

that Sir Stafford Cripps, the the USSR, which in the past other members of the interna-

the Exchequer, Chancellor of has not participated in the tional community. As a result has now agreed

to meet the areas of at

when I voice, the hope that tions, & small group has per-

includes delegates from the Democratle League, founded by intellectunis, and delegate from the Kuomintang

Revolu tionary Committee composed of former followers of Chiang Kai chek who now oppose him. Such groups as business and labour Com- are also represented. munists are the most numerous GOVERNMENT COUNCIL

The Conference will select ment.

Council" of RA. commanded by the Government

ment, it is believed here, has Colonel H. R. R. Prior.

the "People's Republic" and not yet taken up a definite at- Also aboard were anti-tank adopt

organisational titude. In the Washington battery, HN perepunel and other statute" or Constitution. If the talks, the Foreign Ministers of

Balkans Commission, will a profound sense of insecurity Trades Union Congress leaders drafts. Mr Band of the KOSD central government follows the the United States and Franco It was learned here unom-welcomed. the ship.

pattern of Red regional govern were believed to have recognis London, Sept. 21-Lon- tions looking towards

Join in renewed consultas enveloped large

he world.

the Tre sury on Monday, in China, this Counciled that Britain's greater comdon's 50,000 railway work-settlement of this persistent clally that General MacArthur's

afternoon to hear their criticisms The next troopship due is the ments Headquarters are likely to en-Empire Pride on September 30, will do the ruling.

mercial stake in China placed

"Co meet this threat of in-of devaluation as affecting the ers split today on whether and serious problem. courage any such application for to be followed by the Davon- Nationalist observers in Can- the governments in rather dile

security in Europe the United Industrial population. - an eviction order-Reuter. Elre on November 17.

ten expect the Communist terent positionsReuter.

to launch at midnight an

The leaders will discuss ways "If the northern neighbours States jointa win members or ATTITUDE ASKED organised go slow" cam- of Greece have come to realise Je North Atlantic community of reconciling the price in- crosses with the Government's Washington, Sept. 21-China paign, which would cripple that their own self-interest re- in a treaty which makes clear, asked the United States today the capital's complex trans- quires respect for the recom-in advance, the determination "frozen wages" poller. Their for a "clarification" of its new port network.

mendations of the United the parties to resist armed views policy in the Far East, which

Nations and an adjustment of attacks on any of them. the American Government has Union leaders urged them to their relations with Greece,

(Continued on Page 5). unnounced that It is formula works normally until a con- I feel that a solution could be

reached,

mer use bassy.

EDITORIAL

Energy Resources

of tho most highly-placed Scientists in the world seem to be feel- ing somewhat concerned over the possible exhaustion of our coal and oll resources, At the United Nations Scientifle Con ference on 'Conservation and Utilisation of Resources, engineers and ` represen- tatives of governments engaged in much serious discussion on the subject, and also explored the question of alternative sources of cuergy. According to the best estimates, there is enough soft coal in the world to last two thousand years and unproved all resources to last at least two centuries and possibly five. With the population of the world increasing, however, at a rate that is beginning to' alarm us, the question of what we shall do for energy becomes more and more

· prossing, capecially when even in the most backward areas naked flames are giving way more and more to electric lights und⠀⠀ muscles to engines. It is likely, therefore, that large-scale research may be started on alternative sources of, energy to augment those, which are used, today and to replace them when they run out. But when avaliable energy sources - are examined, there seems little reason to worry about the exhaustion of toul and all supplies. Solar- energy has grẻnt possibilities, even in northern latitudes where there is a scarcity of sunny days, for, as the Swiss have shown, it may, be combined, with a water storage system to istido Mover as long as two sunless:

Werks. In the sphere of wind power, the

performance of a 1,000-kilowatt experi 'mental unit In America has shown that electric power can be generated by wind turbines about as cheaply as hydro- electric plants, Following the experi. ments made by Georges Claude, which showed that it is possible to harness power from the occan by utilising the difference in temperature at the surface and at a depth of 1,500 feel, the French are building a 7,000-kilowatt plant at Abidjan, on the Ivory Coast in West Africa. A few imaginative Italian engineers have also suggested driving a horizontal tunnel into Vesuvius, after which, they say, Italy would not have to worry about her : dependence on foreign countries for coal and oil. Of all the methods of increasing our utilisation of mergy, the trapping of the sun's radiation appents most strongly to engineers, There is a house in California where water has been heated for years through an arrangement of mirrors drawing on the sun. From John Ericcson onwards, men finve experimented on various types of solar engines with a great deal of success, sufficient to demonstrate the great possiblities of this - mode · of producing energy and to prove that we need not fear for the time when the last lump of coal and the last drop of olf has been consumed. And lately atomic power has claimed much attention. Who knows but that it may completely revolutionise conception of energy? :

king.

GO SLOW

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The task of the General As- sembly was to make its con- tribution to the resolution of the great problemas pressing the world today, Mr Acheson sald.

He pledged the United States | unreserved support and davo. tion to a concerted effort to th end.

|ference at the end of the month. The request was conveyed to One thousand railwaymen who the deputy Under-Secretary et attended a London meeting on State, Mr Dean Rusk, by Am-Monday voted to ignore this ad- bassador

Wellington Koo who, vice and "go slow" to press afler hls call, told reporters that demand for an across-the-board he also assured the American 10 shillings a week wage rise. vincial that China woukl This demand has been rejected "defend Canton at all costs" and by the Concillation Tribunal, also Is confident of its ability

Al stations and freight yards to hold Formos

PERSISTENT EFFORT ringing the capital, rallwayman today

mot to make their

are Justified in hopinaj eleventh-hour decisions.

that persistent effort, geared to Tonight it. looked as if not the ever-present process DI more than half the men might change in human affairs, will

eventually produce

After his interview with Mr Husk, Dr Koo said he made

It clear that China felt that in defending Canton and the rest of South China they were not

·

"WC

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will be reflected in The Parliament's two-day, debate --

Reuter,

Chaksang Captain Not Informed Of

Passengers Aboard

A disclosure that the 12 passengers on board tho more steamer Chaksang on the night of the explosion' on ' only trying to protect China's "go slow." Interests and independence but At most of the depots on the hopeful and a more solid struc- September 7 were relatives of his fokis and that he did ture of world relationship than also were helping to ward off north side of London, the men wo have today atheson not toll the Captain, was made by Wong Kal-kin, No. Z Communist penatration inio voted to continue working continued.

compradore and cargo supervisor, when he gavo evidence" Southeast Asia.”

normally But tonight 2,000 Ambassador Koo sald that men at an important South These major problems which bofore the Marino Court of Inquiry this morning, during a "fairly comprehensive"

¡by national action alone but res "I did not receive any phenol, sodium hydrasulphite, survey of the situation in China freight yard decided to press upon us cannot be solved

"go slow" from midnight, with Mr Rusk

quire common action in the money from these passen- dinitro, chloro benzine and red he pointed out

light of the common public, in-

iron oxide, that despite all pessimistic WORK TO RULE-

Wong explained that his prognostications of the, friends

torest. The Increasing recogni-gers," said Wong In reply to

President, Mr Noll duty was to receive and deliver tion of the concept of public the Interest in the held of inferna- Garland. "I thought cargoes, but for fact the scfunt tional relations is a significant world collect the money for cargoes were received and de- though litle heralded fact of the Company when the ship worked under h our time." ..

his request for a lays andja dislocation of time speech did Mr Acheson offer any which included transtormer DIY The Prestas row did it-

twelve

of the Communists during the If the men make their pro- past two months we think we test they will work to rule

who have slowed down the Com-crupulously regarding munist

advance

even one of the 250 regulations in and

worked under bira checked them in three or four the official, rule book, most of

Balled."

Replying to Mr Garland, wit- sector."

which are normally obeyed in ° NOTE OF CRITICISM

Wong gave evidence of the Dess said that he was swaro KOO OPTIMISTIC

wórn aboard. spirit rather than to the letter.

In only two portions of his storage of the various, cargoes that 12 pa Asked whether he was suc-

The result 'would be big đó” cessful in

tables

Officials thought

that

note of criticism of the Boviet red phosphorous, acetic acid come about there were "clarification" of the American

How policy. Dr Keo sald

campaign might be union. One was in his reter gunny bags; rubber tyres and passengers on boar

once to Russia's refusal either tubes, resin, cigarette paperlatives of my tokladky photo

Witness: They sorac information but that it concentrated chiefly in freight to accept the United Nations tran wax.onfarslum would be up to the American yards rather than on paiger plan un atomic control or to put chromate sulphur powder, The President: That does not alter the fact that they were Government to make any state-nos. They prophesied black forth another effective plan of Chinese raw medicine, steel ment concerning that, wo eyes and b

ad tempere

rubber accelerators, passengers, U Dr Koo

Inspectors was considerably ticket

wept bit control and prohibition. optimistic about the allustion in their foot if they tried to hold ton of me general ques-blaycle spokes nipples, sal-Witness, replying further, ad- vanised sheet steel,:: shellac, American repubiles bays, undarə Formoan. Ia mld that in Tor- up. London's rush-hour AvalanTM

Pilbilar `commitments "In the Charter," 'Acheson | penicillin'. atreptomycin, baris taken "the economic, situation ches by too meticulosis an ins said, "we pledged ourselves to acid, creollite, sine dust, cobalt under the... treaty..........úf Rio has become much more portion of tickets Router.sattle our problema: by pocos biud Wille arpente, indigo, he (Contintell

mosa

other was on the

The angles,