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SERBIAN TRIAL General Draja Mikhailovitch's impending trial in Jugoslavia will
THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 18, 1948.
Soviet Curtain
Erects Iron Round
Korea
Tribute To Navy Fire Fighters
TAP
(By MORRIE LANDSBERG)
SEOUL, MAY 12. WHAT GOES ON NORTH OF THE 38TH- PARALLEL?
BLACKBOOTED RUSSIAN GUARDS WITH TOMMY-} GUNS STAND AT POINTS ALONG THAT INVISIBLE GEOGRAPHICAL LINE WHICH PARTITIONS KOREA- INTO TWO DISTINCT COUNTRIES. THEY DON'T LIKE VISITORS,
Killing
Shanghai, May 12. The United States Navy us. nounced today that a 16-y-ay- old Chinese boy, described as a member
of a -prominent family but an opium' addict, shot and killed, a United States Navy ahoro patrolman who had picked him up on suspicion of stealing a jeep.
The youth was killed in a battle with Chinese gendarmen a few minuten later. The youth, had seized the gun from the shore patrolman's holator and shot him in the buck Associated Press.
Taxis Come
Back
its
YOU CAN GET INTO THE SOVIET ZONE IF YOU WANT TO-BY TAKING A. MOUNTAIN TRAIL AND SNEAKING ACROSS. KOREANS DO IT. SOME- TIMES THEY GET SHOT-BY WHOM IS NOT CLEAR ESPECIALLY BUT TRAFFIC REMAINS HEAVY. INTO THE AMERICAN OCCUPATION SECTOR. A strict "keep out" policy ap is critical of political develop- The official residence
was oplies to the two-fifths of Korea mente in the south, applying cupied by Vice-Admiral J. II.
Auch terms as "Fascisti" and Edelsten, Deputy C-I-C British north of the 38th. However, a
officially have | "pro-Japanese" to consci vative. Pacific Fleet, who later signalledo Americans
the Ameri- travelled into the industrial Korean politica in to Commodorg, Hong Kong: effective and prompt manner in north with passes from the Rus- can zone.
Former residents of Northern Hong Kong is to have which the fire at Admiralty Housenian commanding general. They
were restricted to Keijo, the Korea charge that there is no taxicab was tackled today reflects great
service back again official freedom of speech, presa, northern capital, business.
ligion or assembly in the Soviet omo time this week sector. Some have lost large the Yellow Taxicab Co. will limited property holdings and they na-operate again on a turally are bitter about the land scale, for the time being. ** redistribution programme.
A Communist sympathiser de- The charges have not yet fended the Soviet occupation been fixed by Government but it is hoped that this will oc deute policies.
that by Tuesday. must understand
At present six Korea is now in a transitional taxis, newly arrived Austins, "The Com-will be on the road but the fleet period," he said. munist Party at present is in is expected to be increased the course of purging impure shortly.
Yesterday one of the taxia
on
Prompt action by the Naval authorities led to supplementary Are Aghting and fatigue parties of Service personnel, giving valu able assistance in combating the Ave hours qutbreak which serious- excite interest auf stir passiously damaged Admiralty House, en
Public Saturday afternoon. throughout the world. opinion has been baffled by the contradictory wartike repits which began by representing Mikhailovitch as a hero of the resistance against the Cieman and Italian orcupiers of his cout- try and ended by depicting him credit on your organisation. Please a collaborator and traitor. thank all concerned, I am most What is the truth? As so often grateful."
sladilar rignal was sent to in matters of this kind, it is o.M. ships Bermuda and Tyne nains a consulate at Seoul, scure and very far removed from
which ment fire fighting parties the propaganda disseminated by ashore, The R.N. Dack Yard the parties to the dispute. It has Fire Brigade answered the alar
worked Un- been well remarked that "Nature and fatigue parties
ensingly
to salvage furniture. linc but
she crockery and personal effects, de draves sdges it. Through the clouds spite the dangers of falling tim of lies and propaganda which ber and the unsafe roof of the befog the issues, the following blazing building. facts may be confidently placed teapped and had to climb to safe ! upus the record. Mikhailovitch, by means of ropes but no acrious an officer in the regular Jugoslav, sualities were reported. Army, fought against the Ger-
18
never
ነጻ
One fatigue party became,
Vice-Admiral J. H. Edelsten is now residing at the house of the Commodore, 37 Conduit Road.
Nearly But
mans from the day his country was attacked. When Jugoslavia) W25 overran. he retreated into a mountains with the Serbian small band of adherents and start- ed to organise a resistance move- ment. There is no evidence that any organised Communist opposi- tion to the German invaders took
Not Quite
A
A China Motor Bus Co. bus on the finiversity route nearly back ed into the harbour at Blake Pier yesterday.
place prior to the German invasion of Russia on June 22, 1944, almost
The rinr wheels went over the three months after the invensinati of Jugoslavia. Tito himself did side of the Prayn wall, but for
about tuulely the vehicle did not go not take the field tilf
over'. The bus was left in that September, though there is rea-position all day, and until a late son to suppose that he was ur-hour no attempt had been made ganising underground resistance to remove it
in Belgrade prior to this. Several attempts were made in the early
two
The bus is one of many which have been rebuilt at the workshop as the Old Gilman's Garage, Wan
days to unite the two resistance chai, which are put on the road movements and Titu and Miks soon as they have passed the
required tests. hailovitch met
at, feast occasions. These negotin- rions proved abortive, since the two leaders held irreconcilable Views on a number of topics. Mikhailovitch faithful to King Peter who, by leading the
was
Motor Junk Explosion
the
By contrast, the US.S.R.
with no restrictions movement of personnel.
What the Americans know
נם
about northern Korea today is based on refugee reports, smug- gled editions of northern ews papers-and pre-occupation in formation that pictures a rich reservoir of mineral deposits, power plants, and heavy indus-
try.
Sweeping Reformas
"We
re-
elements and at the same tine
whon
of reconstructing the party."--was seen cruising the streets
Once refugees slip into South-Associated Press. ern Korca, they are both voluble and sometimes all too obviously inaccurate. Most refugen: nd- mitted have come with grudge.
I seems to be a fact that North Koreans are running their
under own government the name of the People's Com- mittee. Communists control it
and the Russians supervise it. A sweeping land reform set is reported being carried out.
North Korea newspapers have repeatedly identified Com- munist Gen. Kim Il Sung as chairman of the People's Com- mittee. Recent arrivals report- ed an alleged assassination at- but there tempt against Kim, was ne confirmation.
There are recurring rumours thal Russian troops have been transferred from Manchuria to Northern Korea.
Taking Booty
Many Americans are con- vinced the Soviets shipped out much Japanese war and indus- trial equipment as booty. On- attribute the Ruasion
cers
"on a Test."
Reparations From Japan: A New Slant
Tokyo, May 12,
The arrival here of the Reparations Commissionor, Edwin W. Pauley, coincides with the disclosure from well inform- ed circles that official thinking in Washington is swinging toward a more practical policy that Japan must pay for losing the war.
New thought on the reparations questions, according to one source, involves the establishment of production capa- city levels for the Japanese which will enable the nation to start on the road to recovery "so that we won't have to take care of these people forever."
U.S.A.A.F. RECORD
Readers' Letters
A Suggestion
Sir-Every day in your Ua- lumns there. is a moan about the poor starving Chinese, and every day too we read of Chinese kilim Chinese in Manchuria. While un- doubtedly this in its way is help- ing to ease the food situation, Lo my way of thinking these thou- sands of men could be better om ployed in providing food to fool these starving malilions instead of crying to other countries to food them.
The
atagnation to the country. peasantry has lost wil purchaa- Ing power for manufactured goods. So a potential home mar- ket for our own industrial goods na well as foreign manufactures bad enough to the industrializa- Is made non-existence. This
tion of China, which is impossiblo if there is
home
market. Chinese industry can only grow if there is a great potential home market based on the raised pur- chasing power of the Chinese pen- santry of 300,000,000 people form
It seems to me that the Chinesong about one-fifth of the world's people want to live on chasity and population. But as great proûts give nothing in return but trouble: interest most capital coes invest- are to be reaped from rent and I can say that the Chines: don't te help themselves because they do in more ways than one. So the Chinese big shots should make n speedy atten.pt to put their own houso in order and get about feel- Ing themselves instead of expect- ine charity from other food drain- ed countries,
THE VICTIMS,
This China
Sir-I am in complete agree ment with Chinese People's letter (Mail May 10) which throws o much light on the economic altun
China. Read together tion af with George Moarad's articl "What Have you got
nell, Joe?" which appeared in the Mail a few
ment in the land and the money- lending business, and no invest- ment goes to industry. This is critical situation of the the chia cause of the
people.
present Chineze
However, news leaking out from the Communist dominated areas in North and Central China shows
have that great results
been wrought by the 20 per cent cus in reri and Interest carried out by the Communists. The purchas ing power of the peasantry is salt to have increased and as a result trade and industry begin to see signs of advancement.
Y. B. CHAN.
Clearing Japs.
days ago, one could get a true From South
Its only in-
picture of China. adequacy lies in the fact that it has not come up in defence of the common Chinese farmers whom Chinese Observer called "persons who reaped huge profits, and keep
uns ing large number of plumb pics
and vast stock of rice," and yot "ill informed statesmen of Dur Allied Powers Aro striving to help" them. Chinese Observer'a representation is altogether false and will be misleading to U.N. R.R.A. men and other ready philanthropists.
that the
Of
coup d'etat against his cousin, the residents in the vicinity of the Po "keep out" policy to a desire Air Force Superfortress flew Judged capable of maintaining) landlords. The landlords usualty
Canton. May 12,
All Japanese prisoners of war been repatriated ahead of sche- in Kwangtung and Hainan have dule, except for 169 Japaneto
marines detained on Hainan by Central Government offices thore, a United States army of- Beer of the Canton Repatriatica Group reports.
Air Crash In Japan
Approximately 120,000 Japa- nese_risoners of war and civi- The peasants form 80 per cant
lian ternees were sent home. of the population of China. the 450,000,000 Chinese there
The Japanese retained on Hai- are 380,000,000 peasants. If these an are marines kept in Yulin- South Hainan, by the 360,000,000 peasants are keeping kang,
of Agricul- "plump pigs and huge stock of Chinese Ministry rice," as stated by Chinese Obser- ture, the
National Resources ver. then there will be a Kreat Comminalon and the Navy for and China will be a land flowing mines, navigating craft surplus of rice in the country, work as technicians
the and with milk and honey. But the other tasks, with two naval doc- contrary is the truth. Millions of torg remaining in Hoihow, the millions more are eating grass, Chinese peasants are dying and
principal port. mud and even human remains.
Having done its job, the Can- the thrown the Chinese peasan- Col. George R. Hayman, of San There are diverse causes that ton Repatriation Group, under have try into such a plight. One of the Antonio, Texas, has been re- The source said the proposed policy which as yet has not been of rent and interest in the rucai Movement Team, with the task more serious one is the high rate named the Chinese Army Troop announced includes the catablish districts, It will shock our Eng of transporting Chinese military ment of two production capacitylish readers if they come to Agures-minimum and maximum.
units from Canton to other of tent and interest parts of the country-Associat- what rate The maximum Reure is which Japanese economy
the peasantry is puying to the will be modern Shylocks of China. China ed Press. Judged incapable of sustaining and is short of farm lands and ent Manila, May 11. -
minimum will be that
of peasants have to pay exorbitant A United States 8th Army economy which Japan will be sums as rent for lands from the At about 7.30 a.m. yesterday
to a height of 39,360 feet with within her four islands. Such takes 60 to 70 per cent of the for privacy in such operations..
a load of more than 22,000
says, would crop. The farmers Regent Prince Paul, had brought Tak Wharf, Central District, were
Informants report that North
in the sourco
the Japanese to know
paying for Juguslavia into the war on the rudely awakened by the sound of
Koreans are hoarding, Korean pounds of bombs, over Guam production totals and wout their the expenditure on fertilizer and take the farming animals, only side of Great Britain. Tito was loud explosion.
ime of a motor junk yen and are using inflated Rys-on May 7 to break the world's courage_resumption, of industry rest. Most peasants et just auf-1 As the engthe staunch always a
republican.
now fielent grain to eat in good years was being warmed up, the gase-sian occupation currency. In the altitude record for land planes by the Japanese wo Mikhailovitch stood for the con-line tack, for some unexplainable black market, 60 Korean yen in the 10,000 kilogram (22,046 timid about starting, for fear that and in bad years they are short | of two A-26 United States Army pound) class, the Headquarters their facilities might be taken as of food for many months of the Invader planes, and the forcing tinuation of the Serbian hegemony reason, exploded and enveloped the bring 100 yen of Red money..
After burning The people have little contact of the Army Pacific Air Forces reparations.
year. Then they have to borrow down of a third plane by dirty over Jugoslavia. Tite declaredes in flames.
from the land lards. At what rice for a "free" federal democratie" hercely for half an hour, the rewith the outside, world except announced today.
Slow Process The previous record, was 33,-
weather between A of interest?
Atsugi and Although the wood-
rate
peasant Jugoslavia in which there would work of the vessel was destroyed through the dispatches cf Tass. 769 feet, set in 1938 by a Ger-
borrows a picul of rice in April Nagoya yesterday, was reported still the official Soviet news agency..
establishment. of such (by this month ди
his rice har today by the 5th. Air Force. be equality and a wide measure in charred remains
Residents attempt to listen to man, Karl Heinz Kindermenn. cfloat.
The 5th Air Force said the The record-shattering Super-figures, however, would not pre- vested in November is used un of autonomy for the six or seven
broadcasts from the
clude tight controls over such war and by July when bis The vessel was loading cargo newB
crash Summer first
occurred major provinces out of which at the time of the explosion, but American Military Govern- fortress is the personal plane
2 piculs to the landlord. That le being killed. Five minutes lator, Jugoslavia is constituted. More fortunately there were no casual- ment radio station in Seoul, but of Lieutenant-General James potentials as steel, petroleum, Hight erop is gathered, he has to return Shimods a pilot lying alas Even when the reparations tantamount to a rate of 400 per a second crash occurred 60 miles over, Tito was a Communist, and ties,
these ure reported jammed. A Doolittle, leader of the first metals and chemicals. Mikhailovitch was not. Thie
very few who have short wavef Tokyo raid and ex-commander question is finally settled the cent. interest in a year, and this southeast of Nagoya, killing radios tune in Korean languagel of the 8th Air Force. It pre-ing nations cannot hope to is on a compound interest basis the pilot and a passenger. British Government sent a mis- sion to Mikhailovitch, who, had been appointed War Minister in
An advance party will leave for King Peter's exiled government. It was difficult to send much in Hainau on Thursday to prepare for the repatriation of sick Borg the way of weapons. Everything Kong Chinese who were deported had to be flown from Cairo, a there by the Japanese, Royal versel round trip of nearly 3000 miles. Navy ships, the escort
"Whimbrel and M.L. 1682, will Meanwhile, Toto's movement
reach Yulin on Saturday to pri- was growing rapidly and, though
pare the displaced persons for it was almost non-existent in delousing and embarkation in the Serbia, it attracted far more sup hospital ship "Empire Clyde"
The "Empire Clyde" will leave in Montenegro, Bosnia, Croatia and Slovenia than Mik- on Saturday for Yalin, and will sail again for Bakli soon after hailovitch could claim in those returning with her first load of provinces. Early in 1941, the sick. There are over 8,000 dia-
mart
subsided.
were
NAVY TO BRING
BACK CHINESE
ARMED ROBBERIES
The
their
Allied
arc
+
Tokyo, May 11.
Three deaths in the crashes
awards inimediately and if he falls to make repas broadcasts from San Francisco viously had made a record flight:
Headquarters from Los Angeles to Hawaii to
experta ment in
A third plane was forced down years then ho is com- and Honolulu.
Guam C. R. Logefen of New estimate that if the reparation, pletely ruined. The landlords by on an alrfield near Kamezaki,
exploitation York certified the altitude re-settlements were announced to such
have gained with the pilot and a single pas- cord
injury. A Federation morrow, it would be at least six much during the war. for
escoping d'Aeronautique Internationalized to be taken from the Japanese interest have ruined the Chinees the cthers on a routine patrol- months before property is author- Such high rates of rent and fourth plane which started with Associated Press.
as reparationя-Associated Press. peasantry and brought economile ling operation, turned back-
Associated Press.
No Freedom Portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Kim supposedly are displayed in railroad stations and public buildings. The northern press
Govt. To Nips
Repat
the
Yingkow In Govt. Hands
Lien Hope Makes An Immediate Hit
Lion Hope, the London Zoo's new
The
London, May 12. 17-month-old · 80-Iba female giant Panda, was installed in her pale yellow cage in the Lion House in Regent's Park tonight after a flight from Calcutta.
panda, the fourth the Zoo has had and the only one in Europe, was presented by the Chinese Covernment to replace Ming, which died several years ago.
Renger
[Korean Silk
Industry
fect a reconciliation. But too much taskan at about 10 qm last Colonel Richard T. Wittmenn, last October 28 following, the So- tendent of the Zcological 'Gar-ing, a sunbathing platform and] to begin operating at 75 per
night.
Yingkow, May 12. The Contral Government yester- day officially established Chinese Mukden, May 12. General Tu Yu-Ring, com Manchuria seaport the second
Seoul, May 11. Sovereignty over this important
"The Korean military govern- · first British officers, were para-placed persons from Hong Kong mander of the Chinese Govern biggest in northeast China, where
|-mált today announced a long in Hainan, many of them suffer-ment's north-east armies, today the Communists fired upon United chuted into Tito's headquarters ing from disease and starvation. announced that the Government States ships in the beginning of
range plan to revive the Korean By this time, Tito's Partisans and
A meeting will be held at Civil had nasumed the responsibility the elvil war..
silk industry which, after 1950, ia expected to compete with Mikhailovitch's Chetniks were Affairs headquarters this morn for the repatriation of 1,300,- The destruction of Yingkow's
Japan and China on the world fighting a merciless civil war. It ing to decide the final details of 000 Japanese from Manchuria, harbour facilities will prevent the
silk market, the evacuation.
with assistance and was clearly bad business to sup
in- advice use of the port for a long time!
Yingkow as a debar- eliminating from the United States Army.
Under the plan, which part both these rival movements,
cludes the aubsidizing and enta- Repeated efforts were made by!
The repatriation agreement katlon point for the repatriation
blishment of a sericulture col-. of Japanese Two armed robberies took place was signed by General Tu and
Manchuria. from the British Government to efia
The Communists solzed Yingkow
Dr. G. M., Vevera, Superin-1 include a tree trunk for climb-lege, the industry is expected repatriation viet withdrawal. Government for dens, whose staff was pestored a hipbath.
cent capacity next year, ris com- Five men, two armed with ro- United Statta
Chief in China, who came to ces attacked the volvers and three with load. Mukden to get the repatriation The Communists sot it afro before about when the Fanda will be of the predominantly white cent outpat
port on Jan. 8.
all day by telephoned inquiries Londoners caught a glimpse pared with the present 15 per entered No. 570, Nathan Another group, composed of four programme underway.
withdrawing after two days.
tonight Teddy Bear creature it a char. The lack of trained techni- men, all armed with revolvers, Colonel 'Wittmenn expressed Later a counter-attack by them exhibited, announced
that she would be on view to actoristic pre-chowing on a clans will provent the immedi- entered No. 45 Waterloo Road. At his confidence that the pro- failed.-Associated Press.
the Zoological Society's Fellows bamboo shoot-in her wooden ato recovery of the silk indus the time of going to press. the gramme will be completed by value of property stolen had not Sept. 30, despite the fact there KEPATRIATES BACK- Alexandria, May 12.
tomorrow morning and to gen- crate when she was transferred try which had been dominated ut Waterloo station from the by the Japanese. Their repatria- Viator Emmanuel, the abdi-beta ascertained:
la a civil war going on in Man- Among the passengers who oral visitors in the afternoon.
short of the arrived in the Colony on Baturday Lion Hop la "in excellent con- train on which she had travel-tion left Korea catod Italian monarch, and his
SCOUTS "AT HOME”. +
cominded that the Com- by the wolvang, from Bin dillon" and is quite lively, Dr. led from Bournemouth, to a zoo technical knowledge, necessary wife, Queen Elena, dobarked 'from
truck.
for full production. Jan Italian cruiser today and were The 10th Kowloon Troop of Bay munist control approximately apore were 210 Chinese repa-Vevers Bald.
An eight-years-old girl said | They are Outside the door of the cage
The military government taken to King Farouk'a guest Scouts he'd an "At Home" on 70 percent of Manchuria, tristes from Malaya.
Lien Hóp palace.
was "Just plan includes the establishing alia Farouk greeted she Httle Golf Club when parente and a plan for getting the Jap-pation for service in the South raifong thread bundids of bam-
Saturday tabt as the Kowloon Colonel Wittmann said "I have one of labourers recruited when Lien Hop-Unity in Eng-that
by Japanese during the co-ish arrived, were her weekend perfect."
of seed collection farms, Bilk- klog as he stepped from the Egyp-friends waro, invited to witziens an
The Chinese Government worm experimental stations and nocen, put of Communist-held Bess regions. They are being fol tian launch, but he did not socom-wxhibition of
territory, but he declined to and cared for at the Tung Wal boo shoote, assorted vegetables hopes to find a mate for Lien the development of a superior. pady him to Antoninden Palace signallin where he and his queen will stay!. The proceedings finished with a elaborate on his plan.-Asscelat, Hospital pending plans for their and a porridge-like type of oat Hop in Szechuan Province, the type of domesticated silkworm.
food. The cage's, furnishings] habitat of pandas.---Reuter, -“camp fire sing-song.
return to their native villages., temporarily.
blood had Hlowed to permit of any settlement,
VICTOR IN CAIRO
-Associated Press.
ploneering
ed: Press.
-Associated Press.