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Hongkong Telegraph

VOL. IV NO. 284

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1949.

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Reds Threaten Chengtu The Robot Wounded Nationalist Troops

Fatal King's Rd Accident

A Chinese' maie peden- trian WILM killed another min fi 1eriously injured when they were knocked down by a laxi of Fei Bong Garage, In King's Tload hear the AR Installations, at about 6.zv this morning. Full detalle of the mishap are not yet known.

The man killed was Yar Rui aced 40, of 250 hut Nechal ng. Causeway Bay. The lured man was sent to The Hospital.

Queen Mary

Big Decisions On Atlantic

Defence

Parts Der.

Defence

meeting in Paris today.

The

issued

oficial

GOVT. MAY

BE

FORCED TO ΤΟ SOON

FLEE

Chengtu. Dec. 1.--The Chinese Communists today captured Lungchang, 116 miles from the new Nationalist capital of Chengtu, and it appeared that the Government might have to flee again before it had settled down in its new location.

High Government officials in Chengtu told the United Press that the Nationalists probably would have no other choice than to flee to their island refuge, Formosa, despite the loss of face entailed in abandoning the mainland. The Com- mmunists scheduled a triumphal entry into Chung- king for today, and it was estimated here that as many as 90 percent of the civil servants employed · by the Government in Chungking were not able to escape the Communist armies' swift advance.

The (roopa which

ACTORS

The

communiqite

does

vince

3:

tonight naturally not reveal any detailed military plans, but announced what

D

wed re-

his

the

the Cabinet enptured tent's Office and

leave because 1--Far-reaching - Laingchang, cuting the Chung-, who could not

for travel. decisions were reached by the

king-Chenglu highway 95 miles they had no money Ministers of the 12

west of Chungking

Some official who did get hero! on arrived without baggage. 10

marching Atlantic Part

ported nations at the

Chlang Generalissimo Neichlang, only $2 miles from

was announce officially capital expeted to provisional new

easily that he is resuming his position wide and travailed plain.

Other

Rede President, but it was believert troops drove into Szechuan pro- the

that he would await the furn

uf front

trom the south

from Hongkong of two Pichich to which the provincial comisaries, Vice-Premier Chu considered in French Gov.ru -

Kovernment of Kweichow pro-Chio

Chia-bun und Hung Lan-yu, ment circles as an all-important vince had fed earlier.

Secretary General Supreme Connell, who tried to agreement on a common strple-

persuade Acting President 14 to

sume his duttes

Business in Chengtu came to the oficial when a standst!}} uccupation of Chungking wes effort to slow announced. The prices of food down the Communist advance,and gold went up and the city. Router learned from the

nice famous for its tranquility. here and refugees arriving here said highest military

the road was strewn with hun-

was gripped with fear.-United that the agreement on what the dreds of abandoned vehicles. Press. communique

strategic called

Reports from Nelchiang maid concept for the integrated de-

confusion had broken pani and lence of the North Atlantic area

all the out there. Government sourees 'sposes once and for

blamed Chengtu frankly

defence nt gic

plan for the Europe and North Amerien aggressor a potential against from the cast of the Earnean continental area,

enemy.

Fources

In addilikon, Another Commun- ist colume was reported to be along the westward moving road from Chungking.

Government

troops were blowing key bridges on the main highway

In no

French Minister Resigns

legent that the overall military Premier Yen Hat-shou for

fa the plan would be muted

Paris, DLC.

The French case of attack to an abandon-being unprepared for the loss meat of Western Europe to the of Chungking and said that uns, Agriculture Minister, M. Pierre Jess Generali sima Chiang Rat- Plimin, a member of the MRP Party}, shrk could muster beiter de Popular Republicaa The banie idea of the agreed fences than for Chungking and tonight announced that he had soon resigned, the Agence Presse res strategic concept is to meet the Canton,

por ed

He was

known to be in dis- the French with agreement

certain speels Treasury about

as poss blo| [all,

Chengtu must

enemy as far east

the maximum Nationalist sources and that and to provide possible strength in order to many of the govemment workers prevent Western Europe being were trapped in Chungking, in- overrun.---Reuter.

cluding employees of the Presi

EDITORIAL

WHEN

of the 1950 budget bill.-Reu er.

Ferry Defrauders

twenty

are

between ten and thousand people every month prepared to try and defraud a ferry company out of its lawful fares, the time has arrived for some drustic action. Records of the Hongkong and Yamauti Ferry Company prove that a least 10,000 travellers on their cross-harbour services tried to evade payment of fares during October, and it is suspected that almost as many swindlers "got away with it" during the same period. Here is a nice commentary on the present morality of wonder Hongkong: it gives pause to whether the Colony is entitled to apply the word to itself, for nothing could be more petty and mean than an attempt to evade paying 20 cents for a trip from Jordan The Rond to the Praya, or vice versa. ferry company has good reason to feel alarmed about the position, for it is not only directly losing revenue to which it is entitled, but also indirectly, because overheads are being unnecessarily in- creased as a result of having to employ additional inspectors to try and catch the defaulting passengers. Nor can Govern. ment afford to be uninterested: less of revenue on the part of the company Involves a corresponding loss in royalties: and at a time when Government needs every cent it can lay its hands on. Two -questions are posed(1) Can a system be found which will make it practically impossible for casual passengers to evide payment of fure before entering a ferry boat? (2) What: otherwise, in the form of. a monetary penalty, is calculated to act. as a sufficient deterrent? Taking the second question frst: the ferry company appears to believe that enforcement of double fare when a person is found to have boarded, a bent without paying will be a sufficient deterrent to a repetition uf the offence, and a stern enough warning

4 to others who might feel disposed to try free rides. We do not think the penalty

NO

in anything like enough to meet the pur- pose in mind. We would prefer to see the regulations amended to permit of fare- evading passengers being charged one dollar. This would make the pastime of to defraud the ferry company trying somewhat too expensive, for it is reason- able to believe that the type of person who tries to avoid payment is not one who can afford easily to part with a dollar for crossing the harbour. Not only would such a penalty act as a deterrent, but it would enable

to recover the cumpany revenue lost through those travellers who managed to elude the inspectors and to get their trips free. The first question mentioned earlier also requires attention, Despite the company's explanation of how to board many passengers manage ferries without paying their fares, it still seems incredible that some system of checking before anybody embarks cannot be devised and put into operation. It seems to be the height of naivety for a turnstile operator to accept the word of a person that somebody behind him or her. will do the paying and to allow that individual past the turnstile. If one person is going to pay for more than himself he should be the one to lender, the fares-not somebody who is supposed. to bobehlad him. And so for as season ticket holders are concerned, t neccesary. they should be made to display · their tickets every time they travel-any- body who cannot do so (especially if they. Bro unknown by sight to the inspectors) would then be made to pass through the turnstiles. While there in plenty of sympathy for the ferry company in being mulcted of its revenue, there ducs also appear to be room for a general tightening, up of the system under which passengers ara scrutinised and made to pay their fares or disclose their bona fides as season- ticket holders before they are permitted to emburk.

Parachute

Major Terrence Wlitans, former · British army para-

“automalle" chutisi, wears newly-develo ped

parachute equipment at Ilertfordshire, arter demonstrations of Litt chule that opens automatically at pre-set height. The robot chute is worn with regular seat-pack harness, with a con- trol box attached at the waist. Left dial on box is time re- lease for Jumps at normal height to delay opentag for five seconds allowing jumper to clear plane. Right «liai is height release for Jumps from high altitudes to all jumper to fall through rarefied ale before chute opens. Wire runs' to trip- ping device that starts mechanism, and bulb is for manual release, Major Willans wears emergency chute on chest.-- AP Picture,

Chinese Delegate Rejects United States Resolution

Flushing, December

China

1. Nationalist today rejected a United States sponsored resolu- tion on the Communist

It conquest of China. said the resolution would prove

a "heap to be of beautiful phrases" unless the United Nations urges its members to refrain from giving mili-

the Peking regime.

tary

or economic aid to

Pouring Into Hongkong

GOVT. GIVEN PROBLEM

OF REPATRIATION

Tung Wah Caring For Men

FOR A PRINCESS

TO HUNT FROM

is busting lodge is to be built on the slopes of Mount Kenya no ® £2.000 wedding ́pro- smt from the Kenya Güveru, ment to Princess Elfmabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh.

The grounds run down to the banka "of the Bagana Biver. known for ita_good "fishing, and there are pleasant woodland views.

Princess Elizabeth han arranged

the Kenya Government until she deelden lo vult it.

Nearly 1,800 Nationalist disabled soldiers and stat the lodge will be used by refugees who are today being provided with accom- modation and treatment at the Tung Wah hospitals, have created a first-class headache for the Hong- kong Government.

Government appreciates that they have to be repatriated. but no guarantees can be obtained from the Hainan authorities that if the men are taken there they will be permitted to land. is it certain that permission will be given for them to go to Formosa.

Nor

Government officials are making continuous efforts to resolve the dilemma, and hope that very shortly they will succeed in arranging fo the men's transport and

London Express Bervice

Stuart In Serious Condition

their repatriation to an area still controlled by the Na-Cerebral Hemorrhage

tionalists.

In the meantime the men ard being housed in the main hall, compound and every available corner of the Tung Wah Hospital

in Po Yan Street, and in the the Farewell Pavilion In Ken- nedy Town.

Washington, Dec. 1.--Dr J. Leighton Stuart, 78, Most of

coming to the refugees have homes instead of

desire to expressed a

go to Hongkong, they told a Tele-United States Ambassador Hainan and negotiations are graph reporter that they were to China was. stricken" by Nationalist local shipping disabled

soldiers proceeding with companies.

and they had no confidence in cerebral hemorrhage today being able to make a ilving in and is in "serious condition.” Dr Stuart suffered the stroke their home land under Com- munist rule.

aboard a train” while refüarning here, from, a, lecture engagement CONCENTRATION CAMPS Cincinnati, Ohio, University. He was removed: from the train The men appear to be quite thic morning and taken to the confident that the Government U.S. Naval Hospital at nearby in Hainan will look after them. Bethesda, Maryland. He is re- One man from Mukdon said parted to be partially paralysed. Tune they were treated quite well by Dr Stuart spent most of his the Communists in the early adult life in China. He was Mr Chow Cham-kang, chair-day's of the take-over in born at Hangchow on June 24 man of the Board of Directors of Kwangtung, but later they were 1870, but returned to the

has appealed

for his educa- Tung Wah

for sent to concentration camps at United States public subscriptions to help the Tungshan where they were pro- tlon at Hampden Sydney Col disabled men.

vided with a bare Half catty of lege Tung At present

Wah Je rice. meeting the expenses which amount to at least one dollar per head per day.

Meals and medical being provided by the

Walt.

care atei

FOUGHT JAPANESE

und advanced.

work at the Union Theological Semin Fro claimed there were about ary, He-thon-returned to China. the Nanking 10,000 Nationalist soldiers, most-and taught_at_

Seminary Theologleal 1y disabled men, in various concentration compo

and 1009 to 1919. In

near Canton.

include

from

on

Then he began his 27 yium os Wah President of Yenching Univer The refugees at Tung Some of the disabled soldiers |

few Nationalist officers sily. Dr Stuart was chosen by possess certificates of commen- dation for their services during who escaped from Communist the former Secretary of State,

General Giorge Marshall, to be: training camps in Canton. the war against the Japanese,

One of them, Captain Shen United States Ambassador while quite

that time, มิ few, who bave

Signal Corps July 12, 1940. At lost sight, arms and legs, are

Area General Marshall was the Pre- Third

he left sidential emissary to China and vielima of the China civil war.

Bald Command, these men had oeen] > _*

Dr Stuart sought un- Hitherto

because

ho Canion

could with

to 'end the civil living

soldiers' not bear the

"suspicious eye" successfully by the Libera-wer. Dr

Chinn Stuart left time to from who,

In disabled

a Tze-chen. *offeer of the

camps and general hospitals an cast on them

funds

tors,

00 three

appropriated by the Ministry of time, questioned him and his August 2, approximately

months after Nanking was oc-

severai

Dr Ting-fu Tsinng of China appealed to the As- sembly's main Political Committee to declare "moral

Canton or Shcklung on sanctions" against the regime proclaimed by the Com- munist leader, Mao Tze-tung, with the backing of Russia.

Delenca prior to the arrival of the Communists. He said the draft resolution wishing to devise measures to

November Early in sponsored by the United States, safeguard It. But, however hig hundred of these men were ask- Australia, Mexico, Pakistan the British stake in China Ied by the Communists to return and the Philippines contains

cannot be compared to the stake to their own villages in North many sound principles, some

of the Chinese people in China, China and were given free pas. noble

icw rentiments and

for our stake is nothing less sago from Canton to Shumchun. beautiful phrases. But when then political Independence of From there they crossed into foreign powcu

continue

and the freedom Hongkong territory.

10

the

Lo outr

nation

is

give military and economic ald of 450,000,000 human beings, Since then hundreds of sim!-

t unimaginable that any lar cases have been freedom-loving people would into Hongkong daily. deliberately choose to jeopardis

Chinese Communists, could the Chinese people be sold in any way to possess the freedom of choice in govern ment and politics? Of Course not

ibat

the

Dr Talang argued Political Committee should adopt the resolution he pro- posed last week, which con- demns Russia for backing the Communists, asks the United Nations members, not to recog uise the regime, and In what he referred to as its "second opern- ülve clause"! asks an embario against milltary and economic uld to the Communists.

pouring

Asked why, as Northerners, the whole future of China for they did not go to their own a cum of $1,000,000,000,

THE TRAGEDY

He continued, "The tragedy of OUT FOR A NEW the matter is that no matter what measures of appeasement Britatri

RECORD

ay adopt vis-a-vis the Chinese Communists, British Investments Washington, Dec. 1.-A war- in China remain insecure so long time fighter pilot, Tom Lan as the Communists keep their phier, will leave Washington by power in China."

un alxilner tomorrow to try to

and

Dr Talang warned the West take a message from President against belleving that Mao Tze-Truman round the world in Ave tung might become another days, to commemorate the dest Marchai Tito. "Nothing can be auropiane night by Wilbur THE SECOND CLAUSE more foilish than such specuin- Orville Wright 40 years ago. "Without the second opera-Chinese

tion and wishful thinking. The Ho expects to be back in New tive clause of the Chinese draft

Communists are 100 York next Wednesday. The pro- resolution the joint draft reper centers in both domestic and sent record is 6 days, 3 hrs. solution would be a hiap

The President's message.cm- Mao Tzo-tung policy. foreign Eeautiful phrases. If the A5- is a sincere believer in world phasises the need for the free sembly should adopt the joint revolution.

Опо Tito in this peoplès of the world to make draft resolution and not adapt world is enough-more thane aeroplane, a forte for peace. the second operative elnure of enough-for Moscow, Hereafter Router. the Chinese draft, it would in the Kremlin will see to it that volvo self in contradiction. no second Tilo will arise in any Such a position would simply part of the world.

ol

“be' ridiculous," said the chict "Russia has managed to do-Timoshenko's

minate Manchuria. Without New Appointment

Chinese delegate,

He made a direct approach Manchurian food. the Chinese to Britain to weigh the "atako Communists cannot feed their

of our Chinese people" agent army or the great cities of its Investments in China.

Pelping, Tientsin,

Berlin, Dec. 1.-The West Berlin newspaper Kurier tonight reported that Marshal Sumyon Timoshenko had been appointed Marahal Konstantin Itokosjov. successor as comman:fer-

Western armies.

n-chief of the Soviet Union's

Shang Dr Tejang said, "I press hal, Nanding and Canto With coal and iron reports are to be believed, the out' Manchurian government of the United King-the Chinese Communists, connot dom Interds to accord some then make any appreciable advance of recognition to the Chinese in the Industrialisation .of.i

China Communists very gooi "Manchuria is the key area has investments In

The paper added that Marshal amounting

a value of not only of China but of the Timoshenko would have under 275.000 US$1,000,000,000.

Japan made him, It is a big whole Far East.

approximately sum. I do not blame the British herself a first class power troops in Germany na weil de government and its people for mainy with the resources of troops in Austria, White Ra "Today, that key and the Baltic, provinces, Manchuria thinking the "British stake i China is Umportant and for

(Continued on Pare (8) United Proes

10

colleagues on their politics.

If they

In their cupled by the Communists. disagreed

Dr Stuart is a widower and answers the men were con-

two children. United demned as "too backward in han though."

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