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Li Tsung-Jen Has No Intention Of Resigning

Contest With Chiang Predicted

New York, Feb. 28-Dr Kan Chich-hou, per- sonal adviser to acting President Li Tsung-jen of Nationalist China, said today that President has "no intention" of resigning and that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek cannot take over the Presidency.

Dr Kan said, "When Generalissimo Chiang resign- How can a private ed he became a private citizen.

President Li citizen declare himself to be President?

will be president until he resigns and he has no inten- tion of resigning."

statement Dr Kan's

fare- shadowed an open fight between 11 and Chiang for control of the Nationallal Government. Their long standing feud flared when Li was elected Vice-President over the opposition of Generalissimo.

the

North China and were moving down toward the Yangtze.

Now, the Nationalist fortunes but there is a are even lover,

"resinylence-of-spirit- trangga When the government fled the mainland to Formosa its doom seemed near.

of

Dr Kan denied the reports But the Air Force began to from Taipeh that Li had for-pack a new wallop. The Navy felted his constitutional right to stayed loyal and maintained a

effective blockade retain the Presidency by re-fairly

points South malaing more than three months Shanghai and

Ground forces on Formosa were . from China. Dr Kan

maintained that Li reorganized and trained.

Hainan, the big Nationalist will continue to serve out bis elx-year term. That term has island off the South China coast, off invasion, Chushan and nine held about five years

headquarters Inland, blockade months to run. When it is up a new president must be electel 100 miles Soull of China, wax

provided

for by the con- developed as an air and naval

base. atitution.'

IL":

Dr Kan und L already had

to leave for been preparing Formosa when he heard of de- velopments in Taipeh. He be lieved that his departure new Prezs

INVASION PROMISE Hopes for an eventunt ceme- back stirred. Last week Chifang speed promised Li would

an invasion in view of the mainland and the execution of

United development. -

Red lender Mao Tse-tung as a traltor.

of the

Chiang's decision to resume CHIANG'S DECISION

the Presidency was generally A member of his According to Associated neelalmed.

"If I wania 14 Press, Chiang's decision to re-staff said:

sure lacin Chiang turn to the Presidency

came core back after long and fruitless efforts tight the Reds, he will be wel-

Conno get Li to say by offlelais to positively whether he was re- turning redging.

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Fuchs Expected To Plead Guilty

London, Feb. 28-Dr Klaus Fuchs, German- born scientist whose betrayal may have aided Russia to build her atom bomb, is expected to enter a guilty plea at his trial here tomorrow. trial will be held at the Central Criminal Court the historic "Old Bailey."

to

The

many

A plea of guilty would rob- unlikely Chiang's fr

the trial of much of its potential gaps in the story.

Security chiefs and Britain's probably will be to accept the sensation. It would wipe out

for neel

witnesses and publicity shy Secret Service will "Indecision provoked angersinuation of Prenie Yen He the

cross-examination by be thankful If the case can be clamping the disposed of without the need for even among many of his former han. Yes old and wants to their

is British attorneys H: likely muccessor supporters. The Collapse

making details public. here But full dossiery will be

American the hands of The Federal Burenu of Investiga- tion.

eir cult

General Chen Cheng. com-lid firmly on the bubbling brew

the fall of Canton left Li with Jcluding Formosa. For 20 years

Hu

bargaining

power

General Pai Chung-lel's 250,-

in the Southeast, in- 000 man army

last year after raumler

one of Chiang's Be he had be

ched friends. and Pal or close snelster.

The ale offensive against the Chiang qui in January of | last year when Nationalist for- mainland was confined to leaflet tunes were low. His popularity raids Taipel went through t scemed just as low. The Com- that air

munists

had seized most

EDITORIAL

C

uf Press,

raid test-Associated

espionage of Communit and in the United States,

Fuchs confession and the case him have already been rastlined in a police court hear- It he pleads guilty to- morrow the prosecution-led by Attorney- the sharp-tongued General, Sir Harley Shawcross

Hongkong's Cinderella

MITICISM recently expressed by news-

correspondents paper

of Radio Hongkong programmes provides another reminder that this not unimportant pubile service fails to receive the higher level attention which it merits. Broadcasting is clearly the Cinderella of government be tolerated, hut undertakings-10 certainly not to be encouraged to take its proper place in the roster of beneficial public services for which taxes are exacted. Local brondensting has long been denied funds necessary for its progres- Hive improvement. Radio Hongkong (ZEK and the European station) has always existed on a financial shoe-string: full- time staff, casual announcers, studio artistes have all been underpald, a fuctor contributing in no small measure to the non-availability of worth-while local talent. In some respects ZEK has suffered even more than its sister station. There has been no encouragement either for permanent staff or for studio performers; on the contrary the established, cheese- paring financial policy of Government has driven away the best local Chinese talent to a degree where, at this time, ZEK has Itle or nothing to attract listeners. Is a short-sighted and deplorable polley because of the enormous growth Chinese radio receiving licensees Hongkong. But they are not listening to

and only ZEK,

that few, and (3 occasionally, are tuning in to Radlo Ilong- kong. The demand was made in sufficiently vociferous terms two years ngo for (a) an (b) early morning session daily, and inclusion on the permanent staff of at least one expert script-writer and presen- tation oflleer. These radio listeners made It clear then they would willingly pay an Increased licence fee for such a service. The fees have been advanced, but the listeners are still waiting for their early morning

programmes. Presenting the estimates last April, the Finanelal Secre-

JL

of

In

11

on

nt

tary provided for a revenue of $600,000 from wireless receiving licences. Actually the income from this source for the year cannot be less than three quarters of n million dollars, and is more likely to be nearer the million mark. Rndio receiving licensees are coughing up this subston- nt least tial revenue-an increase of

dollars half

1948-19 million

and for it,

least estimates, through Radio Hongkong's stations, they are given very little in return, Impressive efforts have been made by the staffs of the two stations to improve the programmes, both in context and presentation, but they have and to be ninde with inadequate financial resources, making sustained and progressive improvement practically im possible. If Radio Hongkong stations are to justify themselves as media for enter- tainment and education, and not simply as channels for producing general revenue, more consideration must be given to the listening public's wishes in the way of programmes. To suggest that Indio Hong+ kong, with its greatly enlarged revenue, cannot afford to transmit morning sessions Is absurd; nor is the argument valid that because Radio Hongkong in shortly to move into new, modern and not inexpen- enn be made sive studios, no finances available for longer hours of transmission and decent inducements to skilled 'luen! pro. talent to appear on the stations* Krammes, Government has to make up its mind whether to run its radio stations seriously and with the determination to ranke them indispensable to listeners, or to give them up entirely and merely

for licence fee charge

n nominal receiving set through which the possessor can obtain programmes from elsewhere. Government's half-hearted polley of the moment is no inducement for listeners to Tune in to Radio Hongkong, пог опу encouragement to the staff who are made to operate under impossible restrictions.

quiet

in

QUIET PRISONER Fuchs is said to have been a with prisoner, sitting his head between his hands in long periods of soul-searching.

Sea Disaster: 28 Drowned

Feb.

crewmen

Campbelltown, Beolland, 28. Twenty-eight of the Angio Petroleum Company's 7,000- ton tanker Clam were lost today when the vessel sank Ict- between Keykjavik. land and Scotland, reports bere sald.

The crew was believed lo have consisted of 37 Chinese and 14 Britons.

Hadlord reports from res- eue tugs sald 23 men were

lifeboats Two rescued. capsized-Associated Presik

Missouri's Capt Takes All Blame

Mr James Griffiths As Colonial Sec.

SHINWELL PROMOTED MINISTER OF DEFENCE

London, Feb. 28.-Threo key figures in the Labour Government-Sir. Stafford Cripps, Mr Ernest Bovin, and Mr Herbert Morrison, retained their posts in the new Government of the Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attice, announced tonight.

Mr Bevin remains Foreign Secretary, Sir Stafford rotains -the-Chancellorship-of-the-Exchequer while Mr Herbert Morrison

will stay as Lord President of the Council.

Mr Emmanuel Shinwell is promoted from the junior rank of War Minister to become Minister of Defence, Mr Aneurin Bevan remains as Health Minister, while Mr James Griffiths replaces as Colonial Secretary Mr-Arthur Creech Jones, who was defeated in the General Election.

Mr Patrick Gordon-Walker becomes Commonwealth Relations Minister in succession to Mr Philip Noel-Baker who moves to the Ministry of Fuel and Power.

•

Mr

THE NEW COL.

Mr John Strachey leaves the lonal Service: Mr George Food Ministry to become Secre- Alfred Isaacs.

Minister

Health: - of tary for War, while Dr Edith Summerskill, Mr Strachey's an Aneurin Bevan.

! Minister of Agriculture and sistant of the Food Ministry fa

Fisheries:-Mr Tom Williams. the last Parliament, beemnes

Minister of Education:-Mir Minister of National Insurance.

Mr Hector McNeil, Mr Bevin's George Tomlinson.

of President of the Board former assistant at the Foreign

James Haroki Ofice and a British delegato at Trade: - Mir the United Nations, becomes Wilson. Secretary of State for Scotland.

Sir Hartley Shawcross retains his post as Attorney-General.

Me Maurice Webb, Chairman Parliamentary Labour Party and a journalist, joins the Cabinet as Fund Minister. He held no position in the ald Go- vernment.

of the

TO ASSIST CRIPPS Mr Hugh Galtskell, former Fuel Minister, becomes Minister of State for Economie Affairs to help Sir Stafford Cripps: In the Rigantic task of steering Bri- tah's Anances,

Cabinet lins been In- Tuo creased from 17 to 10 members by the inclusion as an extra Minister of the new Minstry of Town and Country Planning, Mc Hugh Dalton, who wis the Exchequer

Seventy newsmen from almost Sequel To Grounding Chancellor of

every part of the world will re- flect the globe-wide interest in one of the biggest spy cases of the century when Fuchs appears in the dock of the Central Crt- minal Court.

The Judge will be Lord God- dard, the Lord Chief Justler.

Conducting the case for the King v. Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs

Is

Of Battleship

Secretary

of State for the Colonies-Mr James Grin

Secretary of State for Scot-

land:-Mr Ilretor McNell.

State for Com- Secretary of

Relations: Mr nonwealth Patrick Chreziden Gordon- Walker.

OTHER MINISTERS Ministers not In Cabinet are As follows:

Fht Lord of the Admiralty:- Viscount Hall,

Secretary for War:-Mr Evelyn John St Loe Strachey,

Secretary of State for Air- Mr Arthur Henderson..

Fuel and Power:-Mr Philip Jolm Noel-Baker.

Transport: Mr Alfred Barnes. Supply:-Mr George Hussell Strauss,

Economie Aftal-Mr Tugh

until he resigned after the uc- Todd Naylor Gaitskell, cidental disclosure of a Budget

અ

Norfolk, Virginia, Feb. Cabinet hierarchy, with general

secret. He becomes fifth in the Summerskilt.

03

17 cetitor

of of the Duchy

SEC

The

of new Secretary State for the Colonfes, the Rt Hon James Grinths, Was Minister of National Insurance in the last go- vernment

Fifty-nine years of age educated at an he wan elementary school and the Central Labour College. London. He has been Miners' agent since 1025. ile was President of the South Wales Miners' Federation from 1034 to 1936, member of the National Executive Labour Party from 1041 to 1944 and Secretary of the Welsh Parliamentary

fra Party

1042..

*

He has represented the Welsh division of Llanelly In the House of Commons since 1930.

other

THE GOLDEN AGE National Insurance:-Dr Ealth

LIES AHEAD Food:-Mr Maurice Webb. -28.-Captain Willium D. responsibilitfes

Melbourne, Feb. 20.- Meat Civil Aviation:-Lord Paken- hatti Brown, Commanding Officer Minister.

caring is the cause of war, says Lord

Hilory Pensions-Professor Alexander, a leading

11:0 Australian of the battleship Missouri,

Vegetarian

said today, "I and I alone Co-Operative Movement,

spokesman of the Consumers' Adair Marquand.

for-

Postmaster General:- Mr Ness Society secretary, bear sole responsibility" for metly Defence Minister becomes Edwards.

"For men, it is only a step Britain's ___Attorney-General,

Former Ministers who do not from the killing of animals to Sir Hartley Shawcross,

the ship's grounding last Chancellor

Lancaster la place of Ir appear in the new Government the killing of each other," said Fuchs will be defended by Mr month.

Dalton.

Mr bre:

Arthur Woodburn the secretary, Miss Mary Foley, Curtin Bennett, one of Britain's

Mr for Scotland), This past, like that of Mir (Secretary "As Captain of the ship, it Morrison's, is most brilliant King's Counsel.

of The Key (Minister

age" "golden

when a Cabinet post Charles Fucha is liable to 14 years' Im- was my duty to keep her saft equivalent to Minister Without Waris). Mr Wilfred Paling everyone would live on lettuce

nuts and prisonment for betrayal of in- and cure," the 47-year-ctd

(Postmaster General) and Lord leaves, root, Portfolio. formation which

lave officer told a court of inquiry. поду

Sir Frank Sockice, Solicitor-Listowell (Minister of State for vegetables is not far away, she speeded up Russia's manutac- He added, "I did not do it”

added.-Associated Press. | General, is the only one of the Colonial Affairs).-Reuter. tire of the atom bomb.

This dramatic reversal of Cap-eight Ministers defeated at the The indletment describing him

a civil servant charges him tactics came as the court opened

tain Brown's previous defence General Election

his office. with communicating to a person its 18th day of hearings, which

New Cabinet Ministers Bro unknown information relating to

Mr McNeil,

the new Secretury are designed to fix the respon- atomie research calculated to be

Scotland,

and Mr Patrick, sibility for the grounding of the

Gordon-Walker who directly or indirectly useful to

45.000 ton battleship in Che takes the post of Minister for not only un enciny ant prejudicial to the

fcammonwealth Relations from safety or Interests of the State. Peake Bay on January 17,

his When Captain Brown took the Noel-Baker, but takes his place former chief. Mr. Philip stand in his own defence on February 18 and February 20, in the Cabinet as well.

мг ho testified that his team of officers fell down when he need herto ed it most and he felt "utterly alane as far as assistance from

A second charge states that he gave other vital information to a certain person" at Bos-

ton, Massachusetts-Reuter.

Police Sent To

cerned."

for

who relatns

Gordon-Walker has hit- been Mr Noel-Baker's Secretary. Parliamentary

In taking over Fuct and relin- my team of officers was con Power, Mr Noel-Baker

quishes his seat in the Cabinet {but remain a "Minister of Today ho alood tall and Cabinet rack."

THE FULL CABINET read from a prepared statement, The full Cabinet list is as Bangkok, Feb. 28.-Siam is "I feel, and I feel it strongly, follows: rushing police armed with the that despite all of the numerous

Burma Border straight before the

court and

State

Prime Minister and First Lora Clement latest weapons and vehicles to shortcomings of others which has of the Treasury:-MI Its northern province of Chien- been revealed in this courtroom, Richard Attlee. grai following reports of I could have and should have! Lord President of the Coun concentration of Musaw tribes-kept the ship in deep water."-cil:-Mr Herbert Morrison. men across the border in Burme. Associated Press.

of The tribesmen moved into the Shan states bordering on Slam when pursued by Chinese.Com- munist groups. Burmese au- thorities are sald to have flown troops into the area to disarm the tribesmen,

Bevin.

Eight People Slain Cripps,

By Armed Raiders

for 'Secretary

Affairs:-Mir Ernest Foreign

the Exche- Chancellor of Minister of Town and Country Planning: Mr flugh Dalton.

Lord Privy Seal:--Viscount Calcutta, Feb. 20-Armed

Addison. The commission of Chiengrat,

raiders killed eight people and

Chancellor of the

Duchy of who came to Bangkok to zeck wounded 17 others when they police ald, was promised attacked the Assam mail train Lancaster-Viscount Alexander pollco chlef Luang Chart Trakan near Santabar, East

of Hillsborough. Bengal, Kasol that more police would be today.

Lord. Chancellor: - Viscount sent. He mold the military would

An East Pakistan communi- Jowilt.

Home Secretary:-Mr Jamies belp if the situation deteriorated, que said that casualties includ-

Siam has also moved troops c

some Moslems. Armed Chuter Ede.

of Minister Into Aronyn Pratlies,

Defence: Mr on the guards, which normally escort Indo-China border.—Associated all trains, have been

streng-Einmanuel Shinwell. Press,

thened.--Reuter,

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