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Chinese Exiles
Go Home
From Our Special Representative
LONDON, October 24.
Easily the most significant development [?]
China since the collapse of Canten is that rich-<*>
shrewd Chinese are returning
after having sought safety at Hongkong. Cables
Ladiie Mf-DouM. of ibe "ffeitv MaO" fna
"i Many ?f ilies*" Ciiities^.
-\**yn the ?-<>rmi|MMKient, in
vlihlp M*me of the best in
"?3u.strial and financia] brains m
I modern Cbina. The;- had sat
Em Hongkong for six nMWihs
bow the wind was
[ blowing acraas their vast.
continent. They had
I'recently noted more warmth
their cla-s^ and weie
? now taking the chance of going
home to Tientsin. Shanghai
. and other cities,
t It is believed here that run
ioen from the malnlano bad
s 'just brought them a verbal aaes-
I 1 sage- -You 11 be safe" from
1. leading Reds in Peking, *Ik>
i badl} need all the brains and
c administrative experience ob
rtainable frotu ttxar own people.
i Crumbliuut Cause
I Against the prospect of a
I reasonably normal life in Oiina.
[.these refugees have balanced
. and found wanting the future
'offered by further support of
'Chiang Kai-shek's crumbling
Nationalist cause—a life of
exile.
s The Chinese capitalists in
* Hongkong doubt CUang's abui
?|ty to bold Formosa and Hainan
against ttaon.
Aowrtln? to Amman
wbw Cfafeng h? catty caawefc
money for three anafbt. Tfit
Nationalist diebanfe aw mm
of this, and Those whoanreconfe
outlaw than indefinite^- (ran
n—imlrt am, phm the*
hopes an the oatferaak* or a.
(bird world war.
?They say that Red Cbina
would automattcallr aDr bopseff
with Soviet Russia' and tbat tt
vouM be expedient lor *bt
Westefta Poverx to back to Bam
bitt ewen the pitiful imwMMa
of NationaSci Chioa.
AmlmmmUk'Views
McDonald says tbat foreign
amha-aarton uhoi those who
arrived "t IHiwfl nwt tram Nan
king last nckn? ? gencnlly
favoratde opinion of tbe new
Cbina. They praised Uie Cam
mmitsW Rspcrt for tbe rights
of Westerners and even for the
rights at Chinese ex-N?taan
mm*. provioed they taa4 not
indulged in political and eco
nomic warfare.
One ambassador, represent
ing a nm-Britidi anti-Oom
oomrn.se tbe idea tbat tb?
ffefciua Government would not
be able to mamtain admini
stntive discQiune wlieu Oon*
munist nde ?ms extended to
distant prorinees.
Be bad ?id:—"Tney>e es
tablisbed ? steel framework for
a dean, workable ?<laiiliillia>
Uon."
-t think that party dlwripliM
will keep it a>. even when ?t?T
build on the present fnaae
?ork."
RtWflapiiUva fawe
Tbe imfr??jnn tbe oorres
pondent receiw^i from tbe ?m
--bassadoot was ttamt e?cb wotfd
recommend, very utiuurlj. tbe
earnest possible leeugnH?aa of
tbe new regime. _
He bad rotmd aereement ttas
tbe Oommuntet ilwliHriialpn
promise* fresh hope forlbe
Gbinese corns borne, or for tbe
tans-range tradtof prcapeete
of Bonekonc, was debatable.
Red^bta ndsnt ******
brains of experte and tten
xnp them, just as it might
adopt friendly, practical rA :
twnz with Bongkaag imt?tt.
feete suffMenttr atwat to atart
qinbbtnw over tbe border iawe
and sponsoring Internal tmreat.
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