Friendly Contact On Hongkong's Frontier

Northern Advocate, 19 October 1949, Page 5

Friendly Contact On Hongkong's Frontier

HONGKONG, Tue. (10.30 a.m.).—First official contact between British authorities and Chinese Communists on the Hongkong frontier occurred today in the border town of Shataukok. .

It took ydace between Ir uniformed Communists, who arr Inspector Oliver had a talk with the Communist commander on a formal, but friendly, basis and showed him the international boundary line running down the middle of the main street. The Communists were armed with rifles and pistols of apparent Japanese manufacture. Among them was a pistol-carrying woman. Chinese from both sides of the frontier gathered to greet the soldiers. Elsewhere the border was quiet. Nationalist China’s Acting President

ispector Robert Oliver and 49 ived at Shataukok this morning, ernment's failure to carry out certain political reforms for the continued expansion of Communist influence. These reforms could still, however, be immediately carried out. Sneaking in Chungking, Li Tsungjen "accused the Communists of designing to “sell” China to the Russians. He claimed that there was still a most potential and expanding anticommunist force among Chinese patriots. He pointed out that the Nationalists still controlled territory far greater than the area under their control during the last stages of the war against Japan, '/)*' >„•> v AS