IMPERIALISM OF U.S.

Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25092, 25 January 1947, Page 7

IMPERIALISM OF U.S.

CHINESE COMMUNIST ACCUSATION MILITARY PREPARATION ALLEGED (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 23. “American ‘reactionary imperialist capitalism* faces inevitable defeat at the hands of the peoples of the capitalist, colonial, and semi-colonial countries within the next few years, according to Mr Lu Tingyi, head of the Communist Party’s department of information,” says the Nanking correspondent of the “New York Times.” “In a long exposition which may be regarded as the Chinese party’s new official line on world affairs, he predicts the inevitable triumph of the Chinese Communists and the victory of ‘world democratic forces’ over American reactionaries and their ‘running dogs,’ such as Marshal Chiang Kaishek.” “Mr Lu rejects the idea that the basic world conflict to-day is between the United States and the Soviet Union, and minimises the possibility of war between them. He said that the dominant political in the world to-day is between the democratic and anti-democratic forces within the capitalist world, including a developing antagonism among the peoples of Britain, France, China, and other capitalist colonial, and semicolonial countries towards ‘the imperialist aggrandisement of the United States.’ This with the upsurge of American democratic forces will eventually lead to the defeat of American reaction. “Mr Lu accuses American imperialists of undertaking large-scale military preparations against all capitalist countries, colonies, and semi-colonial areas under all sorts of pretexts, mainly that of an anti-Soviet war. Britain is pictured as one of the main objects of the American imperialistic attack with the loan to Britain and* the offer of an anti-Soviet military alliance as ‘serious preparatory steps for swallowing up England.’ “Mr Lu adds that there is no difference between the policy of American imperialism towards China and the policy of the Japanese Fascists except in form.” SITUATION IN CHINA PRESENT ANTAGONISM DEPLORED (Rec. 10.30 p.m.) LONDON, Jan. 23. “Britain continues to recognise Marshal Chiang Kai-shek’s Government, and deplores the antagonism between the Communists and the Kuomintang, but it has no intention of interfering.” said th “ Lord Chancellor (Lord Jowitt), replying to the House of Lords debate on China. “Britain ‘does not blindly follow the policy of any other Government, but the general aim in China happens to be the same as that of the United States. Britain, however is not committed beyond a desire to ao business with a stable, democratic Government in China.”

CYCLONE OFF COAST QUEENSLAND AND N.S.W. PORT OF BRISBANE CLOSED (Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 24. A cyclone, which is moving south, has closed the port of Brisbane, stopped air traffic between Brisbane and Sydney, and brought exceptionally heavy rain and gales on the far north coast of New South Wales. Sydney is almost certain to escape the cyclone, which lashed the coast in the far north of the State for nearly 24 hours after sweeping past Brisbane. Inland and northern coastal towns have had the heaviest rain for years, bringing urgently needed relief from the drought.' The cyclone has now moved 100 miles inland and is expected to peter out.

The auxiliary schooner Tagua, en route from the Solomons to New Zealand, has been reliably, reported to be sheltering at Hervey Bay after along battle with heavy seas. Cyclone warnings have sent ships into shelter along hundreds of miles of coastline.

When it closed the port of Brisbane, the centre of the cyclone missed the city and travelled south at 10 miles an hour. The wind reached 50 miles an hour, 302 points of rain fell, and roads and fields were flooded. Many campers were forced to abandon their tents and belongings. At the resort of Southport, 50 tents were destroyed. Other seaside towns suffered damage when buildings were unroofed and caravans blown over. While the inland and southern part of New South Wales swelters in a heat wave, flood warnings have been jssued to towns along the northern rivers. A Sydney Weather Bureau official says that the usual track of cyclones is from Noumea across to the Queensland coast, then down the north coast of New South Wales. They rarely come farther south than Lismore, but tife present cyclone will cause unsettled weather and heavy seas at Sydney. * Nineteen towns in New South Wales have reported temperatures of over 100 degrees within the last 24 hours, the highest being 114 degrees at Ivanhoe. At Murwillumba, 400 points of rain fell in six hours. THEFT OF CANCER RESEARCH FILM RETURNED LATER BY PURCHASER (Rec. 9 p.m.) OTTAWA, January 24. A cancer research film which was stolen from a McGill University lecture room has been found The Canadian Press reports that the film and a projector were returned* to its owner, the Royal Victoria Hospital, by a man who first telephoned the police reporting that he had bought the apparatus and had just learned that it had been stolen. The police are still seeking two men who were seen carrying away a case about the size of the projector from the lecture room. The film took over a year to make, and it is the only one of its kind. It embodies all the findings of many years of research, and it constitutes one of the most important milestones in cancer investigation. An official engaged in the search told the “Gazette” that the possibility was being considered that the film might have been stolen by an agent for a foreign government which had appropriated millions of dollars for similar research. The official added: “This film could be the basis for an entire research plan.” The film was stolen after a preview screening.

to put up with even more meagre rations. It was sheer nonsense to pretend that the people were better fed than they had been before. There were a few ueople better fed now than before the war because they were no longer unemployed, but that had nothing to do with rationing. He also doubted the assertion that the people were healthier than before.

"The only figure we get is the calorific figure and all the mortality figures prove is that our dieV is not lethal" he said.

If• the shortage of dollars was the trouble the Government should take the public into its confidence and face the fact that the period of austerity they must endure when the American loan ran out would be much worse than at present.