1950-11-02 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1950, 75

Peking Claims

Successes In East Tibet

London, Nov. 1.

Peking Radio, for the first time acknowledg- ing the invasion of Tibet, said Chinese Communist troops scored initial successes and occupied the eastern Tibetan city of Chamdo, annihilating 4,000 Tibetan troops.

The broadcast said Chinese Communists at- tacked Chamdo on October 18. One Tibetan unit defected.

received by the

troops

TIBETAN FIFTH COLUMN

One-eyed General Liu Po-Government establishments cheng, commander of the invad- were ing Chinese forces, called on the at the rally. Tibetans to lay down arms, as- sist the Peking: Government in strengthening China's western frontier and prevent foreign powers from utilising Tibetan bases for an attack on China.

The Reds found two uniden- tified Britons and two Indians inside Chamdo who were being Interrogated,

The invading units are well supplied with winter gear, dehydrated food thermos flasks, tents, and raincoats, the broad-

cast said. :

The advancing Reds met with local Communists

2,000 and Tibetans in central Sikang pro- vinco and attended a special ceremony "to herald the begin- ning of a new era of Tibetan unity," according to the radio.

Chamdo was apparently the! first target of the Chinere Com- munist troops advancing west- ward from Silang Province along the road which leads to the Tibetan capital of Lhasa, 350 airline miles to the south-Tibet started on October 7 "upon the invitation of the Tibetan west.

people."

The radio said troops of the Second Field Army "pledged to plant the Red flag on the Himalayas" at huge mass meeting before their departure from Chungking. Pledges of support from farmers and

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The radio said the invasion of

The troops forged across some of the world's most rugged

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Improved

terrain and crossed the upper U.S.-Indian

reaches of the Yangtse, Mekong and Salween rivers, all of which riso in that area. Four days later

some units reached the

reached the Relations?

town of Ningtsin where the Tibetan garrison, the Ninth

Regiment, defected.

New York, Nov. 1. The Scripps-Howard wri- said TWO UNITS DESTROYED ter, Ludwell Denny,

that Communist

Congressman's Wife

Dead In Huk Ambush

A punitive expedition of

Manila, Nov. 1. combat troops · Was

rushed into the area of Capas in Tarlac province

today under orders from the National

a band of 20 Huks Department to hunt

Congressman had ambushed a car carrying

Defence

who

Jose

Feliciano of Tarlac and his wife, causing the death of Mrs. Feliciano.

Mrs Feliciano was burned to, sedition or insurrection,-United, death in the car, which was Press set on fire by the Huks,-while- the Congressman managed to crawl out of it and escape with only bruises.

Mr Feliciano is said to be high on the black list of per- On the 19th the invaders today

Chamdo. The garri- China's invasion of Tibet sons whom the Huks want to son fled but were encircled

reached

Borthwest of the city and kill-

closer lead to may

co-liquidate, because of his acti- vities against dissidents in Con-

ed or captured. The destroyed operation between India and units were the Third and the the United States. Eighth daipens (small regi-

ments),

while

United Press.

the

there

gress and elsewhere.

The Defence Secretary," Mr Ramon Magsaysay, said "The are dastardly attack should serve as a warning to people of the danger from the Huks and it will spur

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"3. The Indian feeling that Washington is underwriting the corrupt and repressive French colonialism in Indo-China." United Press.

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of the

when the

denying

Russian

Institute Dissolved

Moscow, Nov. 1.

today that the studies conducted by

The Academy of Sciences

however, First, Second, Fourth, Sixth and Seventh several points of friction be- tween the two nations that will were partially destroyed.

the army to fight announced The radio said investigations have to be settled and this will were under

harder to destroy them". The Oriental way to discover not be easy, he says.

scene of the attack is 75 miles some of its Orientalist institutes what Britons and Indians were

They are: "1. The Indian

were unsatisfactory and it de- north of Manila.

of Liquidation

its "doing in the Tibetan army."

creed COURT REFUSES PLEA The populace of Chamdo, in- feeling that the United States cluding

let her down in the U.N. con- Moslems, Tibetans,

The Meanwhile, fourteen alleged Pacific Affairs Institute.

Leningrad Orientalist. Kashmir of the

members

Communist Chinese, monks and buddhas sideration

Institute will be transferred to. lined the streets to greet the problem.

Party Politburo in the Philip Moscow where it will take over

under

for indictment Red Army which "opened a "2. India's failure to get food, pines,

the staff of the Pacific Affairs with murder and the people new era for

of loan and trade agreements with rebellion

Institute under the leadership of Chamdo whose markets were the United States while food arson, failed in an attempt to the new director, S.P. Tolsotv.. flooded with English goods.'is granted to Indo-China and gain their freedom

the The Academy criticised Court of the First Instance in work of both the Pacific and the voked Presidential suspension

Leningrad Institutes for failure of habeas corpus in

to prepare substantial scientific them bail.

studies of current Far Eastern The 14 had filed a joint peti-problems and for lack of Co- tion to quash the indictment ordination of the history, lan- and be allowed bond.

guages, literature and economy Judge Oscar Castelo upheld of current national liberation the validity of the complaint movements. filed by the prosecutor against The new Institute will contain. the 14, who were among 105 sections on China, Mongolia, Communist and Huk suspects Korea, Japan, South West Asia, rounded up in Manila raids two India, Afghanistan, Iran, Tur- weeks ago

key, the Arah countries and: Judge Castelo ruled that the Soviet East areas. proclamation Suspending habeas Eugeny Shukov, former direc- corpus also applied to bail for tor of the Pacific Affairs Insti- persons charged with rebellion, tute who attended the Charter sedition and insurrection.

session of the United Nations in The 14 accused will be ar- San Francisco as "Pravda" cor- raigned this week and thelr respondent, will head the to establish identity of view trial is expected to begin next Japanese Orientalist Institute.- about the policy of the Monday. The judge said the United Press. future reforms to be followed general right of a defendant to

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Fruitless Talks On Moroccan Reform Measures

Paris, Nov. 1. Three weeks of discussion between the Sultan of Morocco, now in Paris, and the French Government have so far failed

in the Protectorate, it was bail is not impaired in other learned from usually

well-in-cases not involving rebellion,

Mission To Syria

Damascus, Nov. 1.

A six-member Commission

Dalai Lama To Be

Given Asylum

formed French sources today.

Quanters close to the Sultan here said that the main pur- pose of the Sultan's visit was to urge the French Govern-

New Delhi, Nov. 1. ment to grant Morocco politi-

Informed quarters said here cal, economic and financial of the International Bank for tonight that India has agreed

replace the autonomy and to

Reconstruction and Develop- to allow the Dalai Lama,

the Protectorate Treaty of 1912. ment arrived here today at the spiritual and temporal head of with a new Franco-Moroccan invitation of the Syrlan Gov- the three million Tibetans, Convention, leaving. Morocco ernment.

seek asylum in India, outside the French Union but The Commission will study This action was taken limited to France by a bilateral the projects mainly Irrigation pursuance of internationally

Institutions alliance.

that Syria intends to under-recognised "There no question of take with a loan from the political asylum, A commun abolishing the Protectorate Bank The Commission is ex-tion to this effect has been gen Treaty," French official sources pected to whay in Syria for to the Tibetan Regent, said today--Bouter.

kwo weeks ----Reifter. -

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