THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 22, 1947.
Acute Tension In Rangoon
Murders Plunge Burma Into Confusion Armed Troops Patrol
The Streets
Rangoon, July 20.
Tonight, 36 hours after the mass assassination of six key figures in the Burma Government, lorry-loads of troops with mounted machine- guns are patrolling Rangoon and the police are combing the city for the killers. The poice have arrested Thakin Ba Sein, a former Executive Council member and leader of the Dobama ("Burma for Burmans) Party, who with U Saw had opposed the agreement which seemed to have brought Burma to the thresh- hold of independence.
tho
A demonstration in sympathy the British Government to safe. with the murdered Ministers guard law and order in was, meanwhile, staged today by the other Opposition Party. the Communists.
the TA
af
Seven new numbers of Executive Council, hended Thakin Nu, Vice-President the Anti-Fascist Peoples Free dom Lengur the Gvernment Parly wore sworn in today fo All the places of their fallen co!
propte
country."
Curfew In Force
There Is something unreal along the superfictal quietness in Rangoon, where the curfew was in forer alt last night,
Argurd police kept watch everywhere, Confidenter Government's
PREMATURE JUBILATION
Budapest, July 20. Budapest netoppers which hailed the return of 409 Hungarian prisonera of pur fram Yugoslavia ahead of schedule as a brutherly unt of in alljed nation, today fourt their rejoicing premature..
The Sociad Democratic puper "Nephyava" reported screening jinonces disclosed that all hud! who were Hangarin joined the German Army.-- United Prean,
Chri
the
the
comrades strewn all over place."
He then talked confidently of forma's future and said: "It
will take us some time to get over the effects of this tragedy, but there is no cause for un- dur anxiety on the part of the public.
The Government is in in the
full control of the situation, and preenationury
we shall certainly truck down Nearly 100,00
meastares seemed universal, but the criminals who slaughtered varlier linel the streetstof in many qurters the
our leaders."-- Reuter. watch, with downent faces, an † question was asked: The Tuneral procession of their The People's Jender, U Aung San and his HIX Cabinet colleagues passed an its way to Bangoon's Jubiler Hall, where 5 Aung Sun is to
le in state.
Burma has been plungeit into confusion by the murders,
which have provided the most serious crisis in the country's Instory
own?
anxious "What if Volunteer Corps! Jaw into their take the
1x that a probability bannis?
uw that they have leat the leadership which kept them
staler restraint?“
It as hoped that the new Gor erument, acting as it has every
Developments In Few Days
•
SIX FAA FLIERS KILLED
Melbourne, July 21.
PLAYED "BOOLA BOOLA"
FOR HITLER
Now Warns USA
Against
Russia
Ufling, July 20. Putzi Hanfstaengle, who played "Boola Boola" on the piano for Hitler but claims, he was a secret agent and close friend of President Roosevelt, today warned the United States against Rus- sia, as he once warned Hitler against Russia and later warned the United States against Hitler.
"You must never under-estimate Russia," he said. "The examples of Napoleon and Hitler should be enough.
Six members of the First Aircraft Squadron! of the Royal Navy were killed on Sunday and ") warned Hitler against Russia, several injured during In 1943, widle working in Bush Hi, Virginia, as a secret pro. exercises in Port Phillip pagata analyst for Roosevelt, Bay, Victoria.
The names of the ensunttles will not be released until the Admiralty has notified the next of kin.
Four aircrew membeTH of HMS Theseus were killed when two Firellice collided in flight
ni Frankston in Port Phillip Bay soon after lunch.
Later
a Senfire crashed on Theseus'
deck while landing, killing
an
Almost simultaneous-
a Seatre attempting to land HMS Glory floated over the wires and crash-landed injur fing two soumen, one of whom
died.
The day's accidents resulted
right to do without British in-ne's Volunteer tirganisation were in the loss of six planes.As
Ofeals in Rangoon predicted that Sensational developments might be exfreied within the next few days,
The Seclast Party and Pen-
22 News govern | terference, will take a hout of already seeking
by Thinkin Ny. the situation in Burma which, ment headed Jer its firnaus, will safernard President of the Constituent As
senibly teral lendey
The Black Sunday against any repetition of this
mission dwill week-end's dreadful, outrage.
Burggere Britain, and it was expected to be It would be difficult to exag formed within a The people of Rangoon walks
thay or two. ed the streets on this "Black sterate the British
sense of The Tradies of : Aung San. Sunday" in fear and suspicion shock. There has been deep ap- deputy chairman of the Execu.. - nervous that the bursting | prvelation in London of the tive Counell, and other assassin. ef a motor-car tyre caused wild courige of U Aung San and his ated members will be taken today No date was panic-white lorry louds of fulvolleagues, and of the very difß-to "Johilee Hall."
for their funeral-United ly armed troops, with machines cult task they had undertaken
Press guns, drove the streets and solin Trying to consolidate Borm- diers guarded Government ollese political opinion so that a Ces and strategic points.
Leourse might be set, with thes
Among the many rounded up British Government, for an ears by the police during the nightly settlement of the problems within ten hours of the assas la get a new constitution into smmation were 20 prominent eperation. members of U Saw's Moychit
Eye-Witness Story Party, whose headquarters were also raided. Three members of the Moychit Party's private Eye-witnesses of the murder, killed nud same describing the attuck today, array were
in battles said: "It was as if a lightning seriously wounded which raged at U Saw's home. hurl struck adl of us."
The Council had just heigum U Saw, who is 46, took part
Constitution its session on Saturday morn in the Burmese
Aung ing when four gunmen in mili- Mission, headed by U San, to London in January last tury uniform forced open the and when the delegation finally door of the Council Chamber reached an agreement with the and rained volleys of Sten guts British Governmeti. U Saw re-fire on the assembled Ministers, "In the twinkling of an eye fused to be a party to the settle- ment. resigned his port the Council Chamber became a
the 1 folio in the invernor's Exeeu- | slaughter house," one of tive Council shortly after his surviors said. return to Burma.
Rangoon Uneasy Meanwhile, under the shadow
am
There was a pool of blond with dead and dying men lying all over the place. "I fainted away and awoke in hospital. ] still cannot believe that I of the national tragedy, Ran-live." he said.
U Aung San did not regain goon was nervous and uneasy.
consciousness after he collapsed The rumblings of a political storm had been in the Burmese on the flour from his chair, and
BONIL survivors said that he air for some time, but not even died on the spot. the most gloomy prophets had
His body was the frat to be forecast anything so sudden
removed to hospital. Five and sensational.
Ministers died in hos
Opponents of the Anti-Fas other cist League had been freely pital, talking of the coming armed struggle," and the "revolt of the people" against the Lengue.. but Government leaders were, mean- while, offering assurantes that they were "prepared for any eventuality."
Bodles All Over ·
The Place
UBa Gyan, Burmese Youth Lender, who miraculously es cuped assassination, said: "I really cannot remember all that happened in those two fateful minutes."
/
"Incredible"
New Delhi, July 20.
|
In 1923 and inter, he added. ↑ Switzerland and went to Eng- land, where he was arrested by the British in September 1939. In 1942, he said, President Roosevelt brought him to Bush
1 warned him not to under- from Canadian estimate Hitler."
Putzi in a tall, lean man with thick hair, hollowed checks and protrading forehead. His full name is Dr. Ernst F. Sedgwick Hanfsiaeng). He explained that
60-year-old
prison
camp. There hu Hatened to Nozi propaganda broadcasts Rosevelt the "true story" be and reported tu President
hind every Nuz banst. son, Egon, of New York and an American Army sergeant, was
he was a
writer, his secretary. art dealer, platist and t "I foretold that Hitler would different times adviser to fight to the last centimetre be buth Hitler and Roosevelt.
cause he
Sitting in his quiet, antique Ufting home, Patzi broke into his story to explain that he was "wild nbout rowing and also swimming".`
He
Warned Hitler Then a Firefly from the
first met Prealdent Theseus piled up when landing itosevelt in 1907 at Groton at Point Cook aerodrome, The School function, He and he occupants were not seriously got to know the late President injured,
well in 1911 over breakfast at Back in Munich in 1922, Putzi the Harvard Club in New York. him met Hitler, got to know during the next years andt was foreign press chief for the Nazi Party from 1932 to 1934. he anld, However, in 1932, "John Franklin Carter was sent by Housevelt to see me in Berlin. Ife asked me to collaborate with the United States in the interests
Ministry Of "Electric- Economy"
A new
under
the
Marshal Tito's Cabinet was announced today,
It
and and
A
WAN essentially a gambler," he continued. "I fold Roosevelt not to haten to emigrants from Europe who gave wish-dreum advice called Hitler I coward quitter, They were the saine Hitler type who kept telling from 1923 on that Russia would fall in a matter of months. Then had warned Hitter against their mivier."
He intimated that emigrants to Amerien were responsible for the American decision to demand unconditional surrender.
This denaud was the most error I uletal and criminal have ever seen," he said. "It and ful- galvanized Germany Alled Goebbels' wildest dreams. If they had only taken a lenf from Wilson's book. and sald
D.Ps. Held Up By Weather
of world peace, to try to soft-they were fighting the Party and pedal Nazism and to keep in the German people, the war touch with Ambassador William could have coded in 1944, after Belgrade, July 20, Dodd in Berlin,
Stalingrod."--United Press. Yugoslav Ministry of was able to war Hitler "Electric-Economy" has bech against war. He stencil, but created under Dr. Nikola Petrohe also listened to others. Mr. Gandhi speaking at his vitch, former Minister of Foreign became very difficult to keep in prayer meeting tonight of yes-Commerce, as part of an electri- touch with Ambassador Dodd. terday's assassinations of sevenfication, programme
still had vague hopes of pre- Cabinet Ministers in Burma Ave-year plan.
venting a entastrophe, but they
Shannon Airport, July 20. srit that it is incredible that This change in
completely
Twenty young women and their shattered in the very people who had fought
1934 with the Roehm purge and 25 children-displaced persons- for Burma's freedom. and had
Meanwhile, Dr. Porovitch, the death of Hindenburg, then route to Venezuela, left here hrought her to its threshold formerly chairman of the Pian- should have been murdered in ning Commission for Serbia, hag cold blood by assassins. I am taken over the Foreign Com- afraid it is not su ordinary merce post.
The new department of Electro. murder but had political ambi-" tion behind the art. Such do- Economy is divorced from the ings have become a part and Ministry of Industry. parcel world
were
today after having been stranded only man Hitler feared.”
for 47% hours when their special Escaped Purge plane was grounded by weather Putzi eald he quickly Inst conditions. favour with the Nazis, who The American-owned Trans- marked him as a victim of the Caribbean Skymaster took off at Rochin purge, escaped
to1415 GMT when winds over the
of political strife the Since electrification is one of over, and it doca not the key aspects of the five-year industrialisation, Dr. anger wel for the future of plan for humanity."-Reuter,
Nikola Petrovitch, who is an engineer, is expected to fit the posi
tion well.
Dr. Petrovitch Wan u former partisan who had joined Marshal Tito in 1941.-Reuter,
Belgrade
By-Passing
Port of Trieste
Belgrade, July 20. While the Trieste Demarcation Commission is still working out a solution of the Free City's boundraies. Belgrade is going ahead with plans to bypass the port.
Two simultaneous announce | Adriatic port for the hinter- disclosed Yugoslavin's land. It is believed in well-In- ments intention to develop Fiume as formed circless here that, with a rival to Trieste, and to pur- agreements made with the chase 13 small vessels by Yugo Danubian countries, possibly slay shipping firms from Ita-excluding Austria for the time Ban shipyards for delivery to being, Trieste will fall like a | Flume.
ripe plum into Marshal Tito's According to Belgrade, lap. Fiume is able to extend more favourable conditions to states Even with large subsidies in the hinterland. Links have from the Western powers, it is A few hours before, today's
already been established with hard for diplomats here to sec nssassinations, u Cabinet mem. Looking tired when he wis the Czechs through low tariffs how Trieste'a industrial poten-! ber told Reuters Correspon- released from hospital, U Bu and favourable conditions in tin can be maintained without dent: "We know those dis- Gyan said that he had the pre- the payment of transportation shipping. gruntled elements, having fail-uence of mind to le prostrate costs.
Trleste has to live to a large ed in all constitutional methode, on the floor when the assassins Plans are afoot to extend this measure, on its insurance and are now trying a subversive started "the fireworks" and he preferential treatment to other banking firms, both of which campaign.
suffered only light injury. Danubian countries. If that are tied up with shipping and They may try n their "It was an incredible but un-happens, Trieste, the Free City, aliipbuilding, it is pointed out. stunts-strikce, sabotage, any forgettable experience," he said. will require subaidies from One answer would be the im- thing. We are prepared to face "I do not think I could even re- Western Powers to keep going. them all, for we know that at cognise the assassins if I see The strategy as dictated so least 80 per cent of the people them again. All I can reinem- far by Belgrade is sound. are backing us,
ber--and I shudder to think of While the boundaries squab "We have also the assurance it is a pool of blood with bul- bles continue, Marshall Tito la of all necessary assistance from | let-ridden bodies of my beloved working to set up Flume as an
“JANE”.
ERIC-HOW.
YOU?
DON'T!-1 SAVED YOUR
CAN I THANK) BACON BECAUSE YOU'RE
IN THE SAME LINE AS | AMI-AND I FIGHT
FAIR, IF YOU DON'T!,
AND DON'T JUMP TO CONCLUSIONS BECAUSE
I HINTED THAT WE WERE MARRIEDI— WE'RE IN PARIS
BUT NOW, REMEMBER...
THAT NIGHT....
inediate adjustment of claims and the intensification of the city's shipping programme. It is believed that in this way. Marshal Tito's head start could bo overcome-Reuter,
WELL, I'M NOT TAKING ANY RISKS -WITH THIS COMMUNICATING DOOR!!!