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CHINESE FARMER FARING WORSE

THAN

BEFORE

By BLAKE CEARHART

Yuan Wong is a Chinese peasant farmer. There are about one hundred million Yuan Wongs throughout China. In the last year many things have happened to Yuan, His country's flag went down and the Communist flag went up. His ruler became a Communist named Mao Tse-tung and his former ruler, Chiang Kai-shek, went to Formosa. began hearing When the Communists get .Yuan strange words that originat through with Ytian he Anda he under the Nationalist Govern→ ed in Moscow. A big estate right back where he started was cut up and he received ment. He rets a bare living the ax all the rest. a piece of land that he could for his family, and

collectors CL call his own.

Yuan is not an educated man. ror his ances- but neither he

It was

strange new world that was

At

created for Yuan 11 months tore ever liked Kaslan His- ago. How is he doing to-torically tussin has been a no- tlon that has taken things away day? Not so good.

from the Chinese without glv- And least not nearly as well as ing anything in retura.

today Yuan pees Russia and the he expected.

of Communism

a larger pari

The rosy glow created by the Russian brand Communist promises of new playing freedorn and new way of lifeilte. has disappeared. Yuan Wong is

cold living in a

reality. Thus piece of

grey dawn of

in his

THE BROTHER tuan has a brother Chen went to Shanghai he lo his own Wong, who

his youth and eventually land. But at regular in

officials became a prosperous merchant Communlat

No to Rood intervala

appropriate How is he doing? come around und

Chen Wong does not Dome of Yuna's rice. They also either.

hale Communism as such. levy heavy taxes against him.

does not hate or gel enthusias

political system. tle over any

Communist Junk Seized

He

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1950.

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World Bank Chief Fails To

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British Opinion

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Dove- London, May 11.Britain's lopment Corporation, which last January broke the off negotiations for a $5,000,000 loan from

talk it over with World Bank, still refuses to the Bank.

Mr. Eugene Black, the Bank's President, who has been trying in London to persunde the Corporation's chiefs to change their minds, is now on his way back to New York, without having been able to carry the matter further.

To

Shah

Forgive Fatima

Prince Abdor

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the British Corporation is be notified promptly to that Other court sources said the ut

expected going to New York on business effect when a sultabis acknow Shah's pardon

ledgment will be inserted, free Washington, May 11.-President Truman today urged Congres-

It was conjectured here to- of charge. Fovimentsional leaders to speed the approval of the huge Foreign Aid Bill to shortly now the official mourn lainly different from the loan.

inic Int for his father, the Reza Shah, is over. It is be- day that he migh discuss some with New York's aide-trucking the banks, thus strengthen Secretary Acheson's hand at his important meeting in London.”

lieved the Shah originally de-new projects

hla The message came as the Senate and the House of Representatives were

to excommunicate sister

to avoid offending Mosiem World Bank loan.-Reuter. trying to settle their differences over the Foreign Aid measure, which include $2,850 million for European recovery.

clerics, who opposed the mar-

INTELLIGENCE TEST ringe of a Moslem Moslem,

All he wants to do is to carry

on his businers in the traditional

Chinese manner.

That

means he wants

to

practice "querze", a myslan of extracting bribes in return for But the fest business favours, thing the Chinese Communista

they Look hd when

was to eliminate Shanghai

over

It is no longer par-

Saigon, May 11.-French naval forces seized a junk transporting a Chinese Com- munist officer and 22 other ble for Chen Wont to greans a tax bureau or 20 ranks in the Bay of Along the palm on the Tonking coast, the get favourable government rul Frunch Military Information ing on business transactions by placing money in proper hands Service here announced to-But his taxes on and he is a wildered man In a strange Chen do day.

world. What The seizure was made during new an operation which resulted in Wong and Yuan Wong intend the clearing of Vietminh forces to do about 117

Nothing that is, nothing im- from

the coal-mining area of

miles east of mediately. For one thing, they Dong Trieu. 00

are afraid to do anything.

of 4,000,000 Hanol.

The Information Service cald Communist Army that 000 people detained by the has a firm grip on Chian. There in the are lots of discontented through. Victininh were treed

claimed, but the nation, but the discon-

standard ini have no operation which, it resulted in the occupation by tented the French of the Nuyen Basin. which to rally. Vietminh forces lost 350 killed and more than 1,000 prisonern In An operation by French troops with naval, nir and

A

EFFECTIVE FORCE There is an old Chinese axlum

trullery that a "political party without

Truman Urges Speedy Passage Of Aid Bill

TRUMAN AT

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Washington, May 11 President Truman today de ticated the world's greatest

across of Coulee Dam, You hear reports resulted in Averillas fighting in the Honan Columbia River.

mountains and in Kwangs and 10 ment the recapture of Nar Dinh. miles south-cast of Nam Dinh, Kwantung. The only effective

support 25 miles south-east of army is no political party at power generator-the Grand

Hanoi.

Other operations

the

Mr Truman also called for Congressional approval of

$45,000,000 to launch his

"Point Four" Programme of

aid to backward areas of the

world.

"A reduction of the amount." he id, "would not only am per effective work in this field bul

have serious would also

psychological re-

political and action in there is where con

on of the United States is now crucial."

lence in the m determina-

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3. They are very Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakis- will permit my rived in Chicago by air from tan's Prime Minister, ar- a two-day New York on

The Prime

Mr Truman's message was

of the visit today. the Chairinen sent to

and the Begum Senate and House Foreign Re-Minister

who Khan were re-

Kwantum the Communists the 10,500,000 cubic gard con: lations Committees omise Ald Liaquat Al hago por extension of the French-con-1s on Chiang Kai-shek's island erete

fortress of Formosa.

In the Tonking delta, and the

years' construction,

structure will develop That is more electricity than has ever trolled arca six miles south of ou far away to help Chen and been generated anywhere else

in the world. Hadong.

Yuan,

like In Central Vietnam important The Wong brothers are Vietminh installations were de-polideal voters everywhere ein.

to are inclined

blame by stroyed in the Hue and Tourane They

everything bad that happens on Thus the power.

areas.

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Daily Worker

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Kampala, May

British Communist Party, under conquerors and

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by Mr Mayer Kestenbaum, President of the Chicago! CROSS-COUNTRY TOUR

Council of Foreign Rela- 11.-Pre- Miny Washington, A storage reservoir created

community in Lake Roosevelt, sident Truman appealed to Con- tions, and members of the the dom,

ness today for "prompt pasage": Pakistani

second largest of the omnibus foreign aid kill America's 151 miks long. In the South, widespread the party

The Grand Coulee, where to strengthen Secretary of Ste

Acheson's hand Vietminh attacks on communfea- Communists are beity!

a "madman" who should be for the foods and famine that the last turbine has now been Dean tions were repo; lea.

President "examined by the Depart-2.30, 5.10, 7.20 & 9.30 p.m. In Cambodia insurgent at present are making life murer-installed, weighs about 21,600,- London Foreign Ministers' m.vl-

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four-engined uir-ment of Health." chiet, with 300 followers, was able for large

trical generators, of which 13

The President also urged ap-Roosevelt's During already in place. reported to have been one over Chinese population.

Ho sald in an interview: "1 to the French-Neuter.

So there is no immediate hops re

war, when installations proval of the full $45,000,000 liner, Sacred Cow, was accum-

United States to of ective

uprising the armed

Incomplete. power authorisation by the Administra-panied by Mr M. Ispuhani,

to the up to the S. against the Chinese Communists, were

care of such madmen take M. the

Mr world's United States. Instead. Yuan Wong and Cher from the plan! helped to build tion for the "Point Four" pro-Pakistan's Ambassador

anime to Rid

framullah, Pakistan's Foreign little sooner than in the case of underdeveloped arem, and hundreds of millions the first afom bomb.

members Forrestal." of other anti-Communist Chin-

Secretary, and other Though the dum has vast

The Soviet press has referred Mr Truman, who is on 11.-Ugandare appear to be resorting

strategic sa~ Hndustrini

to the late United States De- Later the Prime Minister and has banned the importation of China's nie-old strategy. They

to the City

since ne the Dally Worker, organ of the are going to try to obmors their portance, it was originally plan-crom-country tour, telegraphed of his staff.

as a "madman" tal, Fradually re-ed for the Irrigation of lands his appeal to Chairman Tom

Connally of the Senate Forelyn the Begum drove

II. Kennelly,

committed suicide by leaping Relations Committee and Chair-Hall, where they were received fence Secretary, James Forres- on order issued by the Governor.tura China to its old ways. Tin Washington State.

House by Mr Martin'

in the United has never

John Kee of the

from a window President Truman sold at eman

Mayor of Chicago-Reuter. Notice of the decision

Hospital history dedication that

Naval States he was deter Foreign Affairs Committee,

MESSAGE OF PEACE

Bethesda last summer. Imined to develop low-cost public

11-The Power on all the great Ameri-

The two Chainnen made the

York, May

is visiting Ehrenburg, who can rivers and fight against its

refused Lo said here Switzerland to gather material Houses of the legislature con-Prime Minister of Pakistan, Me use "for private profit."Reu telegrams public today as both

the for a new novel," tinued their efforts to hammer Liaquat Ali Khan,

foreign aid last night that he hoped

comment on the visit to Moscow Paklatan Stalcs out a compromise

United

to- of the United Nations Secretary-

Lic. Trygve authorisation bill.

would come even closer

United Press. Mr Truman said the "Point gether to help in maintaining General,

will Four" programme

help world peace.

inizsion Pakistan's underdeveloped countries, "par ticularly those of the Near Eastcarry the message of peace to and to scrve and Southeasthe

Work! Istabul. May 11.--Naz/m

their inde humanity, he added. Hikdet, Turkey's foremost poet Asla, to maintain

The Premier told 200 fellow and Communist, today refused Pendence in the face of grave

that they to give up his hunger strike for dangers, I therefore feel it of countrymen at the New York ambassadors unomical and three poets in the most serious importanes that Pakletant Consulate freedom,

in the full sum of the $45,000,000 were that they Anakam announced

the United States, and hnd would start a two-day fast to approved by the

authorised to carry on

was in a strategy thint published in the official Gazette failed in recorded

today.-Reuter.

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not only that the name of their country send diplomatic representatives

from the great responsibility of seeing independent state of Vietnam t

imprisonment.

this amount would

was not sullied in any way.

and his wife effective work in this

The Premier kdot rejected a plea by his hamper. lawyer to stop his hunger strike, field, but would also have ar

sociological later spent half an hour playing which is now in its 10th day: lous political and The Istanbul prosecutor ruled renetions in those areas where with the children of Consulate

the firm deter offelala-Reuter. that Illkdet's health was not in confidence in

dangerous condition

poet claimed.

as the mination of the United States is

now crucial."

The police today arrested 20

nersons for distributing a leaflet by the Istanbul Students Asso-

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the bill will greatly advance our foreign polley, and streng then Secretary Acheson's hand nt his important meting in London."

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Gaokwar Visits Sick Wife

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Parts, May 11-The Gackwar taken by the South China Washington, May 11.-Mr Mr Truman in answer to

of Baroda here by James Webb, U.S. Assistant by 35 Senators asking assurance Secretary of State, told a press that the United States will not un amendment favouring nd-da arrived to visit his Morning Post and Hong Kong

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