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*** Today's weather Moderate Southeallerly wlads, "Cloudy with bocational drimle patches but partial afternoon stearance.

Noon Observations: Barometrio promure, 1815,0 mbe, 29.97 In, Temperature, 118 deg, Y., Dew point, 64 der. F. - Relative' humidity, 79 %. Wind direction, Eby B. Wind force, 18 knots. Law water: 3 ft. 8 in at 2,20 þ.m; High water 8 il 7 tri ot

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Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. IV NO. 299

New York, Dro, 19— General Id Tsung-jen, the Chinese Nationalist Acting an President, underwent operation for stomach ulcera at the Columbia Presby- terlan Medical Centre here today. Officials stated after tlut his condition excellent.

General Li's wife, secre- tary

Alden and military were at the hospital when to the taken lu **** operating theatre. They remained

until returning to his mom

PERA

The Acting President arrived here by plane on December 7. We in then that he hoped to return to China

the to continne

Com- against the "Oght munist forces of aggression.” -Hepter.

8 Die In Plane Crash

Paris, Dec. 19.---Mr Foster White, 81-year-old indus- trialist of Hartford, Con- necticut. was one of eight people who died last night when a Belgian Sabena DC3) crushed on the outskirts of Paria,

passenger's

eight-four The and four crew members were killed instantly when the plano ploughed into a house, 'exploded and burst into flames

tho

Two of the porzonizers were Belgian, the other an Egyptian. Airfeld emetals believe that the plane, which was on regular Parla-Brussels run, lost speed after. taking off, touched a tree and the roof of a hous and crashed into ano her house. INQUIRY TO BE HELD The late Mr White, who was the of feld representative United Aircraft Service, was well-known in European circles, Flo was married.

An inquiry was opening here icday into the crush.

had stood round the Guards

night. the crash all Police and air officials watched while the bodies were laid out for identification.

of

The plane plunged into a two- storey building. A 74-year-old handy m... was standing by a

in the dining window

whe

room

the plane hit the house. (Continued on Paze 5)

EDITORIAL

MORE

Mao-Stalin Alliance Treaty Expected

Washington, Dec. 19.-Top American officials! tonight said they momentarily await news from Moscow that the Chinese Communist leader, Mao Tse-tung, and the Soviet Premier, Josef Stalin, have concluded a mutual aid agreement which would replace the treaty of friendship and alliance which the Russian leaders signed in August of 1945 with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Nationalist China,

While refusing to disclose the next two years and thereo- positively whether they had fore must make his approach to received any direct word from Moscow. Moscow on this rubject, Sate Department

officialo

11 made

The expectation here that plain that they had no doubt the Soviet Union, once it has concluded pact with Com- that a Sino-Soviet pact would result from the current meeting,munist Chino, will use what is

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1949.

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Price 20 Cents -

Fog Brought Protest Against Delay

This About

Temporary

left of the Manchurian Indus- COUP IN SYRIA American oficiais fried to Irial establishment in an at- discount rumours current in tempt to alleviate China's acuto

States the United

of inutustrial equip during the shortage that Mao was in ment and supplies. past weekend Moscow principally to express his concern over Sevlet intra- tion into the industrially province of Manchuria.

SEEKS BACKING

rich

They thought that any Sino- Soviet agreement on this point was many months in the offing. The official amouammi here was

in

that Mao had gone to Moscow to determine just how much Soviet backing he could count on solving a multitude of economic problems which have been en- countered since the Communists overran most of China.

However, State

Department

officials belleve that unless

tricks in her

Russia has more bag than this, she eventually is: doomed to fallure in this newest i

It ip this upon experiment. which the United States govern- ment is counting.-United Press.

Hashish Found

Aboard Ship

10 The Alexandria, Dec. Basing their evaluation on the pattern

evolved in Eastern Belgian ship Secnut, 1,837 tons,

Europe, officials here thought has been held here and throe

Solution

Reached

London, Dec. 19.-Reports

from Damascus tonight said

Wreckage of a Capital Airliner the forward section badly crushed and the tail half intact-resis In a shallow water of the Potomac - river, Washing- ton, D.C. The plane was making a blind landing approach to National air- port when it crashed in a dense fog.

Four of 23 persona aboard were kill- od AP Picture.

that the army and the new SHIPPING

President of Syria, Hashem Atassi Pasha, had reached

Bao Dai

To Take Power

Dec. 30 Set As Dato

Saigon, Dec. 19,--The Vietnam Government of the former Emperor of

December 30

forinally take over power in French

Amporary solution, and COYS SAVE A, Bao Dai, will on

under this the deposed Pre- sident Sami Hinnawi had

been released and pensioned. WATER

The reports also said that been named Commander of the

that the Soviet Union would of her crew detained follow Colonel Anwrle Mahmur hind promise Ching all manner of the discovery of 130 kilograms of hashish on board her when economic aid, assure Mao that it had no designs on any Chinese she arrived here from Beirut, territory and exhort him to continue the "people's revolu- tion" in Asla

As for Mao, it was felt here to Moscow Uhat he had gone when he decided that any Im- mediate chances of securing os- sistance from Western nations had gone. It was pointed out that his only friends outside the Communist bioc so far sp. peared to be Burma which itself is in a state of onarchy, and possibly India, which has not even enough industrial goods for Itself.

Was

new

Syrian Army. Tonight's

of session

The Assembly The find

valued at Syrian Constitulent

unt Thursday was adjourned £13,000.

Indisposition of ending to the Acting on secret information, te

President, Hashem vessel Atossi Pasha, the police boarded the when she docked yesterday und

The passion was to have been found the drug hidden in rub-devoted to the swearing in of the

new President

While A representative of the Bel-

the coup d'etat was was present at belog: carried out in Damascus, gian Consulate the enquiry.

usual near the Israeli frontier to discuss with Israell officers current problems of the Mixed Armistice Commission.

ber tyres.

115-

Syrian officers turned

up as

READY RESPONSE

in

TO APPEAL

There has been a very good response by the ship

The companies ping Colony to the appeal by the Director of Marine made early this month requesting vessels calling at Hongkong to exercise care in taking in water supplies.

The

| Indo-China-—along whose

north castorn: bordoren Chinese Communist troops

aro

Of Peking Recognition

Assurances Given To Commercial Interests

London, Dec. 19. -- · British commercial in- terests with £200 million at stake in China, on Monday lodged a strong protest with the British government for delaying the announcement "of British de jure recognition of the Chinese Com- munist regime.

The secretary of a representative body of big British business firms in China called at the Foreign Office on Monday. It is understood that. he received assurances to the effect that the British Government have decided in principle to recognise the Peking government and that the date of the announcement has been left to the Foreign Secre tary, Mr Ernest Bevin.

expressed the

in

Business concerns privately opinion that the announcement would be made bei: fore the end of this year, and most probably before Mr Bevin leaves London on December. 27 for the confer- Colombo Commonwealth Foreign ́ ́ Ministers

спсе. now reported to bo trouped.

The folht Franco-Vietnam Commission announced the transfer here today, according to Agence France Presse.

Agence The captain and all members of the crew professed complete Ignorance of the Hashish but as

and

of his two engineer

stants were detained,

The agent of the ship here sold that tho vessei was scheduled to remain in the hur- bour for four or five days while cided that he has nothing to get loading general cargo for Ant- from Western nationals within werp.-Reuter,

of American The consensus officials was that Mao, faced

situation, with this

had de-

Industrialised Hongkong

than 150,000 people have attended

Kowloon since it was opened last Thurs- day afternoon-a nice compliment to the attractiveness and general excellence of the fair; a worthy reward, also, for the enterprise and skill of the Hongkong Chinese manufacturers whose faith in their ability to compete with the world in many "lines" hitherto considered to be exclusively Western for quality and ingenuity, la unbounded. The claim that this year's exhibition is far and away superior to that of 1948 is undisputed: the goods on display reveal a praiseworthy advance in quality and finish, whilst much mare imagination has been shown in presenting them to the public eye. Tho exhibition deserves to be, a rousing success and can hardly fall to be so. But while local reaction is important, the real purpose is to convince overeens buyers how well, and relatively how cheaply, Hongkong can manufacture essentials as well as luxury goods--more especially those commodities which have to compete

In with products obtainable

other countries whose manufacturing prestige has long been established. In this respect, three types of manufactures take the Himelight cotton fabrics, enamel ware and mechanical toys, Colton weaving has become a major post-war Industry In Hongkong and represents the greatest single industrial development of the Colony since 1945. And it is to the credit of those responsible for the creation of, this industry in such a big way that they.. have gone in for thoroughly modern plant and have provided thefr workers with the best possible conditions. These are two prime reasons why Hongkong can, today, produce Bnished cotton articles equal In quality to the name article turned out in

more highly industrialised countries, and at competitive prices. Striking too, at this exhibition are the wide ranges of excellent enamel ware and the highly Ingenious and novel mechanical toys. Here again our local manufacturers have made tremendous strides, and it is fair to say that only prohibitive Import restrictions can fail to and for them ready and This was o generoas overseas markets, pertinent point made by Mr E. G. A. Grim- wood In his broadcast Inst Saturday. There were plenty of admirers at last year's BIF of Hongkong's products, but owing to the ruling import restrictions, there was little opportunity for our manufacturers to tarn this to profitable account. The removal of many of the im- port controls since then should facilitate the efforts of our manufacturers and exporters to break into a ready and willing market. Eventually, however, the seld test will be whether Hongkong cạn produce manufactured commodities that can capture gold dollar'trade. Producing coats can probably be kept within the competitive sphere, but it is fairly obvious that our present quality, good though it he, will need to show further. Improve ment before the goods will become accep- table to a public accustomed" to "the standard of workmanship in the Western hemisphere. The Colony's Industrial- potentialities have only just begun to be explored. "A big future presents. Itself, carrying with it. a challenge to the Ingenuity and solid faith of our Chhese manufacturers. The manner in which, "they have so far accepted this challenge "excites, general admiration; these meri also merit the confidence of Hongkong that they will, eventually, help to make "the" Colony ...ous of the most importaní

Industrial cities in the Far East,

several pollets of the new governments

Australia

B

quest had been circularised the frontier 60 miles from Tien-yen, far, but authoritative the date for the announcement

ATTACKS REPULSED

Was

FRIENDLY CHAT

quantity of water required by The Commission met on the ships and vessels of all kinds Syrian side et Jissr Banat Yacus had been reduced by as much and chatted in a friendly man- as a third of the normal sup- ner about the Damascus events. ¦ ply. If this reduction

The Syrians promised to turn maintained, there would be no up on January 9 on the Israeli necessity to impose any restric-past few days to be disarme announcement will come before Five Children

side to continue discussions. tions.

The influential French. Con- servative evening newspaper Le Monde asked today whether the latest coup d'etat in Syria resulted from a third attempt to seize power by supporters of the Greater Syrian Plan.

was

WRES A

ably

Trapped In. carefully Blazing Room

other questions A spokesman of the Ching "rajad rome" Association estimated British which he wanted to take up Investment in China at between before Mr Bevin's departure

for Colombo £170-£200 million,

Tho Indian High Commis Omell sources said that the

nino announcement of recognitionsioner, Krishna Menon,

called on Mr Bovin today, In- The Commission had been was held up first because it was working out

dlan sources said his visit was transfer detalls hoped it would be possible to

of tho New under the March 8 agreement, reach agreement on the form pursuance"

talks between Prime Delhi whereby France recognised the and time with the United States, Minister Jawaharlal Nehru and in the French Union. Independence of Vietnam with- and then because it was con.

the Burmese Foreign Minister, sidered desirable to assess the U. E, Maung, which included Franco Presse hadi reported

earlier that

and New Zealand: the question of recognition of

the Peking governmont, thousand Chinese Communists, T was understood that there

sald sources Foreign Office Water authority this pursuing retreating Nationalists, has been party divergence of morning said that since the re- | had taken up positions on the view

Peking of recognition of the American Sources

deprecated government was not yet decided that reports

the

U.S.

and Mr Bevin "is being guided occasioning delay of the British by day to day developmeals."

ting tech-United Press. The French agency added that recognition by injecting some 2,000 Nationalists had nielties regarding Formosa.

The concensus of all available crossed into Indo-China in the

informed openon was that the quietly and interned.

Inside Indo-China, It

the end of the year and prob- that The Director of Marine this officially announced

before Mr Bevin leaves morning said that some of the French post at Phoiu, 180 miles London on December 27.

of Hanoi, had ofhelal comment confirmed that shipping companies had greatly north-west

on

have beaten

Brlush 11 the intakse successfully reduced while many others had instruct- successive attacks by Viet Minh examined the question in all its ed their vessels to refill their (Annamite Nationalist insurgent) that the advantages of recogni-Five children trapped in their

bearings, and

Emmett, Michigan, Dec, 10- tanks in her ports, ite added forces.

to The Viet Minh force, about to outweigh the disadvantages. upstairs bedroom burned that the shipping concerns hete

battalions strong were very co-operativo with the thres

death today when fire roared and--United Press.

through CALLS ON BEVIN

a two-storey wooden However that might be Syr authority to save as much water armed with mortars and auto-

an possible.

matic weapons, flred had suffered only too much from

London, December 19The frame farmhouse near Emmett, hundred shells

Michigan. these successive coups de force.

At random, our reporter before the French, with air sup- Nationalist Chinese Ambassador, The Syrian people had not interviewed two large shipping port, forced them to withdraw Foreign. Secretary Mr Ernest Clarence Bethway escaped with

neng Tien-hs!, called 'on

Their parents, Mr and Mrs- renzed to prove each time it

French troops, attacking an¬ had a chance to speak its attach-companies and both indicated

their willingness to respond to other Viet Minh

nye of their 11 children and bir Bevin at the Foreign base of while Dr C. Y. Cheng, Embassy Bethway's 50-year-old mother ment to the Republican form of the appeal. The American Fre- Uyen, 22 miles north of Sal-Mansellor, called at the United through windows in the lower government and, above all, ats

It WAD desire for independence from sident Lines, Ltd., which have gon, destroyed an arms factory

un average of 10 large vessels and captured several modern States Embassy today.

understood that their visits were

One girl escaped because sho torclan powers if the unn of the Arab peoples continue to have informed their head office

to calling at Hongkong in a month, radio transmitters.

France today shipped 000 in connection with the Chinese waz spending the night with her tho

watchword of the ancient

their Foreign Legionnaires Francisco and

from Nationalist Government's pro- maternal grand-parents. Thrco in San capital of the Omayyad Caliphs,

of mining of her brothers and two of her daimed intention office in Manila regarding the Algiers to Indo-China.

on the sisters lost their lives. This union must come out of critical water situation the Tho move was described om- Communist held ports

The police said that the fire conducted negotiations Colony and had instructed their clally in Paris as "the relief of China coast.

Informed soutets certain usighbour offices to direct their ships to forces whose overseas

said, how apparently started from a hout- that Bellevent obstinately

the Ambarradering stove. Beuler from the periodic overthrow of take on water from other ports had expired."Reuter.

03 much 28 possible. The Koyal Interoccan Lines, which are the agents of many ship

and ping concerns

have 03 ut many as 20 vessels calling

At first sight the possibility not excluded, Le Monde

Why

Gald,

be

freely and not as of Syria

Damascan institutionsReuter.

GUIDANCE

water their

PAA TO SEEK Hongkong, have already circu- Incived all their captains to adopt a similar step in order to co-operate with the Hong- New York, December 19-kong authority. The Pan-American Headquarters said tonight that

Airlines

Beveral

the post

service

***

ever,

arc

convinced

Office,

part of the house,

U.S., Britain & Canada To Standardise

Military Equipment &

Training

London, Dec. 19. - The¦ Under the agreement, the promotion of standardian:lon United States, Britain and military committees of the three parts and end products of mill- countries will carry on con-tary equipment in the Northj Canada today jointly an

stant Consultations to ensure Altuntic Aron." nounced their agreement on niformity among them. Their Informed sources de sald ««no: of the United States Rovernment Slain By Giant plans for future standardisu- studies, the announcement sald, high-level committee would be

It the guidance

In regard to its interests in the

China National » Avís

Aviation, Cor-

poration the Pan-

A spokesman said the American, which owns 20 per-

Jelly Fish

tion of milltary equipment will be "aimed at gradual de-appointed and there would be and training methods. The velopment of common designs no direct contact between the and standards in equipment and respective services concerned, But they said that, when deve- Melbourne, Dec. 10. A new arrangements were an training methods

"These arrangements will inlopment was introduced; pri

mory consultations would-v bo omb of the CNAC was sur giant jelly fish stung a 10 year- nounced simultaneously in

to death on a north Washington, London und sure that in time of necessity called to remove any possible prised at reports that the Nation-old-boy

there will be no material

future sources of nimicuities: alist Government had sold the Queensland beach today. The Ottawa.

Informed sources in London technical obstacles to full, co Where possible, the inforbanta airline to Major General Claire father, desperately trying to

the armed Chennault and Whiting Wight off the fish, was unable to sald the agreement was essen-operation among

reported.blueprint willy, baj chase it away in time, dan tially in long-term project. They | forces, · and the

the mealest possible

ble standardized to make Inter, since the agreement with

ils combined *tion of equipment the Par Ambricon forbids the The young victim Brian An- said there was no Intention of economy in I mle to a third party;

#

**drew McNamara, died in agony scrapping equipment in use or sources and efforts will be ob- able

hove:~ been Arrangements The spokesman said the after the giant jelly fish wrap to cease immediate production tained.

also Bald

under discussion for two years. statement we made as a result ped itself around his legs and of any particular equipment

The announcement Lof queries growing out of news body on North Alesion Beach, They added that the idea was the three-power agrotment was They were reported to be en stories of the sale by the Nation 77 miles from Tully. After his to eliminate incidental dimicul aimed toward fulfilment of visaged as a possible model for aliat government of its 80 per father had hit and kicked 11; tles which might impede the wider arrangements under the future extension of military cent. Interest in the line the fish slide away, and escaped co-operation of ground," sa and North Atlantic production and collaboration to all Atlantic United Premamo kaout to seaAssociated Press, nir Lörcer in case of ware "supply:÷board jewhich call for FaceRebunt:187.---Unlied Press)

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