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Asia Parley Asks End Of Dutch Military Rule of Indonesia By th« Associated Press NEW DELHI. India. Jan. 22.— Asian nations demanded in confer ence today that the United Nations call a halt on Dutch military rule of Indonesia, The Asian conference called for immediate end of Dutch military action in the Indonesian islands, and swift steps to give the people self-rule. The member nations agreed to leave behind them a foundation on which they could build a permanent Oriental bloc, and to reconvene if they don't like the way the United Nations handles the problem of Indonesia. Final Session to be Open. The resolutions, adopted in closed session today, will be entered in conference records at tomorrow’s final meeting, which will be open. Officially, the conference stopped short of a spoken call for economic sanctions to back up U. N. orders to the Netherlands. Delegates said they did not want to seem to threat en the W'orld body, but that their desires are clear anyway. Obliquely, they phrased a resolu tion which referred to Article 39, which does not deal with sanctions but does mention the article under which sanctions may be imposed. One resolution called the Dutch conquest of Republican areas of Indonesia in December a “flagrant breach of the United Nations Char ter.” It said the Security Council had “properly seized” the case. Specific Demands Made. Specifically the conference de manded that: 1. The Dutch release at once all political prisoners seized in the ac tion, including Republican President Soekarno. 2. The Indonesian Republican government be restored to power March 15 in the areas it held lh Java, Sumatra and Madoera before Dutch troops toppled it. 3. Jogjakarta be restored to the Republicans as their capital. 4. The Republicans have full per mission to move about their own and other areas of Indonesia. 5. The Dutch complete by March 15 the withdrawal of their troops from conquered areas, and that this be supervised by an outside agency. 6. Dutch-imposed trade restric tions be removed, and the Republi cans have free access to communica tion with all the w'orld. 7. A time-table for granting self rule to a United States of Indonesia, the same as that now pending be fore the U. N. Security Council, be met by January 1, 1950. Freedom by January 1 Asked. This calls for Holland to estab lish an Indonesian interim govern ment by March 15: free election of an Indonesian constituent assembly by October 1. and transfer of com plete sovereignty to an Indonesian government by next January 1. The conference wound up with a demand that the Council use its powers to compel compliance with its orders if U. N. observers find violations. To back up their resolution, the conferees agreed to ask participat ing governments to explore feasibil ity of a regional organization of Asian nations, created within the U. N. framework, and to urge inter nation consultations through diplo matic and U. N. representatives to keep track of what happens in In donesia. The conference pledged its support to the Security Council if it applies the recommended measures. Indonesia t'nrest Grows. The developments here coincided with official Dutch acknowledge ment of growing unrest in Indonesia. The Dutch army at Batavia. Java, announced it has taken over law enforcement in the federal state of Pasundan, West Java. The terri torial commandant. Maj. Gen. E. Engels, reported peace and security ‘have deteriorated more than they have progressed'1 in that area. Trouble also was reported from East Java. Newspaper dispatches said seven employes of the Soera baja naval base were ambushed and killed; a sugar factory manager was slain 50 miles east of Malang, and a Dutch planter was killed and three planters were kidnaped in scattered incidents of Java's continuing guer rilla warfare. India is the conference host. Other nations represented are Afghanistan, Burma. Australia, Iran, Ceylon, Pak istan, the Philippines, Egypt. Syria, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Trans-Jordan. New Zealand. China and Nepal. Siam and Turkey declined invitations. Thief, Locked in Market, 'Breaks Out' With $810 A thief who apparently reversed the usual procedure and broke out of a Columbia road market early yesterday with $810 in loose change is being sought by police. Investigating officers said it ap peared the culprit remained hidden In the store at 1805 Columbia road N.W. at closing time. 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Charge Account* Invited FINAL SALUTE—Chiang Kai-shek (center), who retired Friday as China’s President, shown be ing cheered during inspection of troops of the Nationalist garrison in Nanking January 16. • The review was one of Chiang’s last official acts. i This is the home in Fenghwa to which Gen. Chiang Kai-shek retired. Fenghwa is located in Chekiang Province, southeast of Shanghai, and is the scene of Chiang’s youth. He was not born in this house, but acquired it after he attained prominence in China’s national affairs. —AP Wirephotos. Peiping (Continued From First Page.' less give a better idea of what is in store. Nanking Approval Hinted. Nationalist officials strongly hint the agreement had Nanking’s ap-, proval, and this is quite probable. In fact. Peiping.might be the guinea pig for Nanking. Shanghai and other cities. It is believed Gen. Fu may make a trip out of town to arrange a local peace at long-besiged Taiyuan, Tatung in Shansi Province and Kweisui. capital of Suiyuan in Gen. Fu's old territory’ of Inner Mongolia. The airfield in the legation quar ter has been a busy place for the last two days. Among those who are reported to have left is Gen. Cheng Kai-min. vice minister of national defense and head of thw Nationalist secret police, and his brother, Gen. Cheng Ting-fang, a division commander and an oppo nent of any compromise with the Reds. The cease-fire became effective at 10 a m. yesterday, ending 40 days of siege. Accord Read To Newsmen. Under the agreement, all of Gen Fu's troops inside the city are to be moved out for reorganization. The agreement, a fateful page in Peiping's fateful history, was read to newsmen by’ Maj. Gen. Yen Yu Wen, spokesman for Gen. Fu's head quarters. Gen. Yen was far from glum. He smiled broadly and seemed to be in the best of spirits. The preamble said the agree ment was designed to shorten the Civil War. satisfy a public desire for peace, protect the foundation of industry and commerce and the re maining relics of an ancient civili zation and to prevent the vitality of the country from sinking any further. It said that for these purposes and "to bring forth an early reali zation of a nationwide and thor ough peace, both sides having con suited each other have agreed to publish the following points.” 13 Points In Agreement. There were these 13 points to the agreement: 1. Both sides have ceased fire at 10 am. January 22. 2. A liaison Office to be estab lished by both sides to be respon sible for all military and political affairs during a transition period. 3. Units smaller than an Army group to begin moving outside Peip ing yesterday, keeping their original organizations and designations but to be reorganized within one month. The spokesman said some National ist units already had moved out of the city. 4. A necessary number of troops to be retained inside the city to help th'e police maintain public or der. 5. All enterprises operated for the benefit of the public, such as utili ties. banks, warehouses and schools shall keep running and no damage shall be allowed to occur. All per sonnel are assured safety. Personnel Assured Safety. 6. The Hopeh provincial govern ment and its bureaus shall maintain their status and await an overall settlement by the liaison office. All their personnel likewise are assured of their safety. 7. The gold yuan (the government currency! shall be allowed to cir culate as usual pending specific ex change Regulations. 8. The construction of all military works shall be stopped from the time of the cease-fire. 9. The safety of all foreign con sular officials and their property, as well as of all other foreign residents of Peiping, shall be assured. 10. Postal and telegraph services shall maintain their routine con nection with the outside w'orld. 11. All local newspapers may carry on publication as usual but shall be subject to registration and examina tion. to be enforced later. 12. Historic monuments and art treasures shall be protected and the freedom of worship of all religions and the safety of religious organ izations shall be assured. 13. People of all walks of life are Turn Your Basement into a Recreation Room KENTILE ASPHALT TILE 150 Sq. Ft.,* in any one room, in choice of solid colors and installed over concrete ‘Slightly higher over wood floors Inchld„ trlm waste. Call Dt. 7541 for Estimates DIENER S 520 10th St. N.W. Off F. Open till 6 P.M. 1715 R. I. Ave. N.E. Open till 9 P.M. Washington’s Largest Floor Covering Co. requested to carry on as usual and create no panic. Shanghai's Hopes for End Of Civil War Are Raised SHANGHAI. Sunday, Jan. 23 (JF). —Surrender at Peiping and the se lection at Nanking of five-man peace delegation lifted hopes today in this largest city in all China for an early end to civil war. Hopes were not dampened by Red broadcast describing Chiang Kai Shek's retirement in favor of Vice President Li Tsung-Jen an action prompted by America. The departure of Chiang seemed to be fading rapidly from public con sciousness despite his 22 years as China's leader. Shanghai newspapers hardly men tioned him on front pages. They were mainly concerned with Li's ef forts to arrange for peace. The Communist blast at Chiang's retirement was not taken too seri ously in Shanghai. Anti-foreignism has always been a strong force in Chinese revolutionary movements and the Reds have been hiting hard at the anti-American angle. Some, indeed, say Chiang's loss of public following in the past few years was due largely to the fact that he could not put a strong anti Reds Win Great Psychological And Political Prize in Peiping By th# Associated Press In their bloodless conquest of Peiping the Chinese Communists are gaining a prize of political and psychological proportions far out weighing its negligible military value. They have taken a city which, for centuries, was the symbol of China's government—its ancient capital. To most educated Chinese, as well as to the countless Westerners who have fallen in love with it, the old Manchu capital is the epitome of all that is best in China's long civilization. To millioas of illiterate Chinese it is still the traditional capital, when orders came for many cen turies bidding “tremble and obey.” It is a virtual museum of archi tectural and historical treasures, the chosen home of scholars and philosophers. Famed in the West since the journevs of Marco Polo, its rela tionship to China is comparable to that of Athens and Rome to European culture. All along Peiping sustained a calm, unreasoning confidence that, somehow, it would come through the latest of the many tribulations it has survived down three millen iums of ^corded time. Once Known as Yuchow. After all. the Japanese had spared it, even though tpey started World ; War II outside its gates in 1937; and similar forbearance had been : shown by most conquerors dating back to medieval days. Situated on a sandy plain, breath ing the rar£, winelike atmosphere of North China, Peiping was known as long ago as 2,000 B.C. as Yuchow. For centuries it was a crude place, oftfcn sacked and destroyed but always rebuilt. ■v Bv the 10th Century it was the seat of a strong kingdom and, in the 13th Century, the great Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Kahn, made it his royal residence and seat of the Mongol government, which. in time, was absorbed into the Chinese civilization. Shortly thereafter it became the capital of all China, a position maintained with few interruptions until the time of the republic. It was designated Peking, mean ing “Northern capital.” to distin | guish it from its rival Nanking, or “Southern capital.” With Nanking as the republic's chosen seat, Peking was changed to Peiping, or "North ern peace." Many oldtimers ignore this modernism and stick stubbornly to Peking. The city consists of the so-called Inner City and the Outer City, also known as the Tartar City. Each is ; inclosed by massive brick walls. The Inner City’s walls are 37 feet ; high, the Outer City’s 21 feet, both in fairly good repair, though brush grown on top. Cutting of Trees Stirs Protest. Within the inner city is the old "Forbidden City.” the former im perial quarters, also surrounded by walls, pinkish-purple in color. Dispatches during the Communist siege quoted residents as being prac tically in tears because soldiers quar tered in the old palace and other fine buildings were destroying wood work to feed their fires. Demolition of some fine old build ings and cutting of some centuries old cryptomeria trees in the con struction of emergency airstrips caused anguished protests. The Communists also caused some neighboring destruction by sporadic shelling of the emergency strips, but in the main they capitalized shrewdly on the public's obvious preference to surrender Peiping rather than risk its destruction in battle. Now the Communists are getting a city that is a "going concern” and whose 2.000.000 population may be inclined towards gratitude. It could make them a useful capital, regardless of how the Nan king government’s peace overtures turn out. foreign cast on hte campaign against the Communists. Prom Canton, Associated Press Correspondent P. K. Wu reported considerable gloom at the prospect of Communism spreading to South China. Wo said many were especially worried at the possibility of tljp Communists upsetting the social and family systems. He said Chlang’s retirement re ceived little editorial attention in Canton newspapers, which generally were apathetic. Many of the government offices nave moved from Nanking to Canton. 3«Jrainmen Badly Scalded In B&O Freight Derailment By the Associated Press SYKESVILLE, Md„ Jan. 22.— Three trainmen were scalded today when a Baltimore & Ohio Railroad freight train derailed and a section of track pierced the locomotive boiler. Twenty-six cars of the 73-car freight train were strewn over two sAs of rails. Eight loaded coal cars were dumped. Taken to University Hospital in Baltimore ^.’ith severe burns were Louis A. flight. 29. fireman, and John Earle, 51, engineer, of Balti more and Luther H. Willoughby, 51, brakemajv of Sykesville. A B. & W spokesmen said the cause of tire derailment was not determined. Hospital officials said Mr. Knight and Mr. Willoughby were in critical condition and Mr Earle's condition was satisfactory. The freight was en route from Brunswick. Md„ to Baltimore. The derailment happened at the point where Route 32 crosses the tracks and automobile traffic also was tied up. The accident was on a B. & O. line handling only freight and did not affect the railroad's passenger line. Sykesville is west of Baltimore. YOUR INACTIVE STERLING PATTERN may be in this list! 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