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HONG KONG, MONDAY, JUNE 2, 1947.
CHINA CRISIS EXPECTED TO DEVELOP TODAY
Threat Of General Uprising And Strikes All
Over The Country
Authorities Ready
To Use Force
Shanghai, June 1.
The entire nation waited tensely today for the
general uprising and strikes threatened to morrow but high authorities expressed confl- dence that they would 'be able to handle any emergency, using force if necessary.
Most
major cities still are under martial law. which has not been lifted since the Japanese war, giving the military authorities wide lat- titude to deal with large scale anti-civil war demonstrations with Shanghai City's popula- tion of almost 5,000,000 is expected to bear the brunt if an uprising actually comes off,
The American military au- the Chungshan, Lingnam and thorities have ordered U.S. Ser- | Kuomin universities. vicemen off the streets tomor-
Students Calmer
row unleяs un business. They The Pelping representative of have posted notices to deprn- dents, chlidren sund oflrers off duly not to leave the skyscraper Broadway Mansions Hotel where most of them live.
the North China Studenta As-? sociation rided against a public
says they have -de- demon- stration on Monday but will hold memorint services for the
civil war dead within the unl husversities. A rigid curfew in in effect here, and the Consulate has ordered Americans off the streets. The city is seething with reports of Communist in- Altration and rumours that Red coins are near the city.
The Nanking edition. of the "Hain Min Pao,” in a king dispatch, says -80 students of the Chungking University and several reporters of the "Ta Kung Pao and "Hsin Min Pпo"
arrested by the Chungking garrison heulquar ters, which his clamped down martial law.
were
Theur arrested included Mr.
atu-
In Nanking, scene of the police-student rlots, the Chen Li-yunn, editor of the tients announced they are tem- Shongporarily calling off the Monday trike. The planned demonstra-
-Hain Min Pao,
bal edition has been suspended. tion will not be held but a muss
Canton dispatches report a curfew has been imponed and that troops and police have been briefed in anticipation of June 2 demonstrations by students of
Five Die In Student Parade
meeting of protest against civil war and higher brutality has been calledt. and there is no martial law.
Nanking is quiet
A PPC resolution alo kor.
QUEEN MARY
On Monday last, Her Majesty Queen Mary was 80 years old. Britain's beloved Queen Mother tit takes an active interest' in the life of the country and regularly fulfile mublic engagements. Though she spent the doy quietly, she received hundreds of tringrams and nicosapen from all over the world.
Defence Against Extermination
Washington, June 1.
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London, June 1.
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ist-propelled speedboat, was ready for an attempt early in June to break his own world's water speed record of 141.7 miler an hour, established in 1939-1800¬ ciated Press,
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Emergency Airfield?
Bainbridge, Md., May 31. Evidence increasingly indicated todgy that failure of the tail structure caused the glant Eastern Airlines transport to crash ih a' ́Maryland wood on Friday night, killing 53. persons: In the nation's worst commercial aviation disas- ter.!
Pieces of the tail were found scattered half a mile from where the aircraft first tore into the trees in its dive to earth. Officials of Eastern Air- lines said investigators were, inclined to be- lieve that a structural defect caused the dis- ⚫aster.
Eyewitness accounts of the crash seemed to bear out that belief, and it was given first consideration in the Govern ment's investigations on the aceae an In Washington.
Two cyewitnesses, both Navy
Gangsters Hold Up Monastery
Flans for the develop- inent of Sam Tsao Is- land as an emergency landing point for planes are under consideration.. by the Chinese authori
lies,
a
On Saturday · afternoon, party of some thirty persons, including Mr. W.F. Dukmani of the Far East Aviation Co., Ltd., carried out a flight over the Inland in a CA52 pinne piloted by Mr. Chan Man Foun. of the Central Air Transport Corporalfon
the Himalayas.
close proximity to Macao, was
The plane, bound from New Nanking, June 1,
York to Miami, was Aniling The morals of the East through a clear sky at approxi- and West were analysed mately 16,000 feet when it fal- by the PPC today; the tered and started down at a 30 degree angle, At about 2,000
Seventeen men armed Mr. Chan was the pilot of West was found more feet the dive apparently became with automatic pistols Generallasimo Chlang Kai- immoral, and the result steeper. All persons aboard the and a light machine-gun shek's plane in 1942 and has was a PPC resolution big plane were killed when held up and robbed 50 made a number of flights over calling for the prohibi- siruck.
There were 49 passengers and visitors, including wo- tion of mixed dancing one infant, whose decapitated men, at the Ching Shan Sam Tano Island, which is in body was found in its mother's Monastery, Castle Peak, used on an air and naval base throughout China.
All ballroom finors in Nan-arma, and four crew members, shortly after noon yes by the Japancas. during the king are already bare and night
Villagers in the clubs feature only singers. men attached to the Bainbridge | terday. One. woman was Pacific War. Dancing is banned in the capi-Naval Station near where the shot.
vicinity wore pressed into la- plane etashed, gave similar ae- The monastery is a favourite bour gangs to assist in laying The PPC, which will pass its counts of the tragedy although resort of week-end picnickers out the airfield and construc- resolution to the Government they were not together when it and the robbers, mingling with tion of the herodrome,
Iargo-sized anrodromg ! way. with a recommendation that it happened. Seaman Frank Welsh, the tourista, cnjoyed lunch be become law, would have the 24, uld he was standing out fore making their presence actually completed and five Nanking system extended to all alde his apartment when he saw known. They then produced others were under construction. the plane going by. It. nosed their weapons and stripped the provinces and leading cities.
The Island was repeatedly Mr. Chang Chi-chiang, who over and crashed in an inverted monks and visitors of all their bombed by Allied planea during initiated the motion against position. As it started to turn meley and valuables.
the Japanese occupation and dancing, is an elderly Chinese over the whole (all assembly A monk managed to slip out Hong Kong residents in Macho shadow boxer and an exponent started to fall off, disintegra of a back door and give the at the time will no doubt have of acrobatic posturing which ting into a number of pieces.. alarm. When the Police ar-vivid recollections of the vibra
Welsh substantiated his story rived. the robbera retreated, tions which were felt all over Involves no contact with a Bart- ner. He painted a harsh picture on Saturday morning by lead opening fire at the nape time. Macao as the Allied planes un- of the Immorality of mixed ing reporters, and photogra- Ons woman-was hit in the leg loaded their deadly cargo. dancing-that "wiggling action" phers to the area where he by a stray bullet, accounts for mucis "savage con- thought the tall pieces might The whole gang made good duct" in Western society.
be found. Reporters found their escape.
E' With China engaged in a civil Farven“, pléces in 100 yard
the cessation of illegal secret A presidential commission advised America today
police arrests and protection
for the freedom of the and safety of reporters.
Martial Law
press
to start a $1,750,000,000 a year system of uni- versal military training and spend more bil- lions for defence against "extermination" in atomic warfare.
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The President's advisory commission on univer- sal training is headed by Dr. Karl Compingon of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a noted scientist.
adjournment
war, the young men and women square area about half a mile ON OTHER PAGES The Weather
of this practise from where the plane first-hit moral discipline, he maintained, and sheared off trees in the
Some speakors cams to the wood, indicating that the tail Page Two defence of dancing. One coun-assembly was shaken loose be- cillor remarked that he himself before the plane struck. was not a dancer but timidly admitted that he enjoyed watch- ing others dance. Another pro claimed that modern China, with European influence and
social entertainment,
Nosed Down. Chief Boatswain's Mate WTC. Gorham said he was standing outside the base building at the Naval Station when he saw the education, required modern plane falter and nose down, Ho The Commander of Tientsin
Bald It fooked as though a piece These proponente, however, imposed martial law from noon
of the tall ansambly flew off.. were defented. Ninety members today, banning congregations,
Rescue workers recovered 62 voted against dancing, 69 for posters and newspaper stories
and 21 maintained silence..of the 63 shattered and burned prejudicial to military security.
bodle which were placed in the Router. American sources say the action
hospital at the Naval Station. is precautionary and does not
"Wenkness is an invitation | ship planning an
This morning officiale began the resirlet public movement except to extermination the Commis- on July 31.
Seattle, June 1. that it in a 10 o'clock curfew i
The Navy has announced that rim task of identifying aign declared. instead of midnight.
The hard hitting and historic The plan proposed by the the heavy cruiser Chicago will victims. Some of the bodies I were so badly thangled „that Mayor K.C. Wu today "p-report,, made public by the commission would place control be inactivated next Friday at: identification may be impossi The "Canton Daily Sun" said
inbour White Louse, is sure to be re- of universal training under a the Puget Sound Navy yard. ble.
to today that leaders and asked them not to ceived with utmost interest in special three-man commission of The Chicago was attached At the scene of the crash "five students were kill demonstrate tomorrow. At the all countries.
two civillans and one milltary the Third Fleet in the Pacific state troopers were sorting naval piles of bloody clothing. Nearby ed and many are miss- same time the city government- The commission said Ameri- representative rather than the and participated in the
has posted an unusually large can involvment in war could armed services themselves.-bombardment of the Japanese lay the scattered wreckage of ing and injured" as a cost of living index, upping all come at any time" through Associated Press.
coast.-Associated Press.
the plane. result of an anti-civil Jabourers salaries considerably some aggression in a distant war parade here yester (see Pave G) .which is part of the world. day by 2,000 students of expected to have a quictening · It also sold Amorlea can ex-
Canton, June 1.
Sun Yat-sen University.
proached Shanghai's
"effect.
pect only from four to ten years The authorities meanwhlie Immunity
from ил atomic have informed primary and "encak attack" on its own elties, secondary schoolchildren's par More Troops Needed ents that it would be alright if students remain home Monday. The professors of
on
After that, an attack could hit with "indescribable horror,"
The students, including many coeds, were proceeding in an orderly manner with yella and Bonga when they were suddenly set upon in a blita manner by Chiptung University have the report holds and in that Tasaltants," the "Sun' hid
conlle
U.S. Race Riots In Swedish Port
Several
Stockholm, May 31.
girin.
the
Early reports sald one of the engines had exploded and torn ipose, while the plane was in Alght; and struck, the tail as nembly. But all four engines wate found in the wreckagi
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A group of CAB' investiga- tors who were flying back to Washington aftor studying the United Airlines diastor at New York 23 hours carlish saw thod Issued. Atutement saying they trained men in every part of
case the country would need A state-of-police alarm has been declared in the.
wreckage of the EAL plane Swedish south coast city of Malmoe, follow-
here-United Press. The students continued the will remain on strike until the the country ready and able to
ing disturbances and race riots between white
Crash parade and met with more op-rently arrested students are
rclenycd.
meet disorder, sabotage' and
and negro crews, of two American freighters.. position near the Central Bank
Medan, Sumatra, May 31. even Invasion." of China, where the attackers
Red Outburst
crew members were negroes to another dance hall
A Dulch army fifer was kiN- The commission rejected the severely injured during long named "Arons." succeeded in dispersing the pro-
The Communist radio today argument that atomic bomb that broke out during the wock An unnamed crew meinbar ed near hero yesterday when cession. The studenta returned broadcast a hysterical outburst and other newlioupons". hid
American-built Mustang Tension is high in Malmoe and from the Tamaks told the cal an to their Campus shouting against the Americans had the eliminated need for mass mill- the streets in the evening are press that it made his blood boll fighter crashed and burned, "Down with the civil war." and Kuomintang, claiming Chiang tary forces in wartime. On the patrolled by
unidentified. reinforced police to see blonde Nordic girls in the The pilot was "Down with those who hire as-Kai-shek's government has dis contrary, it aid that in a fu- rounds to keep the American arms of Negroes, and the Negro United Press, sassinst"
covered it is encircled by the ture war more troopn, not less, sailors apart.
seamen' in their turn declared
Traffic Normāls” whole people. It says a second would be quickly required "for
major fight broke out on they weren't afraid, and would
· - New York, May 31. The asentante appeared in front has opened the students home defenge, for effective Thursday night in a local dance keep on dancing with Swedish Representativos 21- málör
clothes and took Iron! rods from push carts to knackment in a tharp struggle.
movement gainst the govern counter-attack, and for a com- hall, "The Admiralon," when the
plote victory."'.
The Texan ship has been batred American air companies stated the heads of the allegians...
| today that, traffle” was: normal” in The North Shansi radio`said
white crew of the Texan steamer At Once
to reporters and photographers spite of the disastrous crashes on One student leader admitted; that an
a liberty ship, trult of the arrests,
William Tamaka,”
because as one of the crew put its Thursday and last night, Therefore the commissioners came to blows with cloured sai. «f the negroes got, bold of our to Associated Presa they were Imprisonntent, physical violence
An official of the American Air, armed with bamboo poles and and the slaughter of bare-recommended unanimously that lors from the New York steuner picture they would ship them to lines told Reuter: This weekend, sticks but anid they wore for handed students the "students Congress adopt "at once" a plan Booker T. Washington" ver the Communist newspapers in the we expect either to equal or ex only defence against special movement dally grown largor. for compulsory training of all ecme Swedish girls,"
The police say that the Tamaka United States and our familles agents who wore hired to beat All social sympathy lies with the nation's 18-year-old males. them. He said that many pro- the students, and Chiang Kai-
Congressional leaders of both sailors objected to the crewmen of would be exposed to persecution" ceed our records for holiday ed! Airlines; one of whose "planes fessors ar
Washington dancing with Reuter sympathetic with shok and his running dogs partien commented that there in the
| crashed at: La Guardia airport on the stand against the civil war are completely isolated," the no chance for action on univer-Swedish girls. A free-for-all start.
DESTRUCTIVE Thursday night, stated that pubs. and better economic conditions. radio declared, adding that the a training this ocasion. Thoyed in which bottles, tables and
He reaction had not been soties. The military authorities ap government has no means of es noted that Ithaa no place on the choirs were used as weapons. Be.
TORNADOES polics were able to
shlo¡ The educational campaigni peared to have got wind of the cape."
schedule of Repablican leader-re the
Tape Lenday, June 15, the airlines have carried of, li separate the combatante, several parado (which was to "have Mayor Wu told the press that taken place on June 2),' and de-, einart Communist operatora, June 2 uprising cams from the of them had received cuts adThren torasdoss, striking at the six months on safety record Ukishamu and mastero. Taknu lauki sovited to be reacting in a reason. clared a curfew and in alert knowing how to handle mobs, Communists. The Reds, he said, gashes requiring hospital treat widely scattered areas in feral has impressed the public and they
ment. from Friday night. The stu-aro responsible for the present gave the impression that fi
night, killed at imaat ibe, infused; abin war, the auded-Bouter. dents advanced the date of the¦ altuation by first inflaming the emaunted; from-students in
* and sent, Uicusanda lepo albany superg Ipoly Escape demonstration in order to avold students to strike on various Felping who called for a na- To avold a repetition of the in pollars or flowing gror the path w
the ringma in Rutomobling, 1933) Red Bank, NJ, May 41.1 belag accused of Commiintat la protexts--but aimultaneously tionwide general strike of stu- cidents the police have obtained As the dead des maident of Two men yorilled; and tan spiration and Irisleted play held and then twisting these into dents, merchante and labourers premiste from the respective this tiny About holy toward 374 others mised with by Instit ...the parade entirely na 4 palclu-, 'anti-civil war demonstrations. to demonstrato against the civil crews that white sailors; bu quki | people-half of whom.
artwhon amulis private finläne and Ug outburst.—Associateą Roms. He said the order for the | war-Unltöd Freedo
allowed to th«*"Admirates” and i willoud" ahöllum Unle
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