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THE CHINA-MAIL, WED NESDAY, JULY 14, 1948.
DARING GUERILLA COUP IN MALAYA
Destruction Of Machinery In Mining Town
BURMESE Successful Hit-And-Run
RICE EXPORTS
London, July 12. The export
of rice by Burma was not likely to be affected by a reduction 10 Burmese Imports of other goods. Dr. Edith Summer- skill, Parliamentary Secre- tary to the Board of Trade, Nakd today.
Mr. Walter Fletcher, Conservas tive, has asked in the House of Commons what the Minister was doing to ensure full delivery of rice from Burma during the rest of the year "now that supplies lextiles and other geocÊN ti Hurma are to be drastically
Fi
Dr. Summerskill replied: "Thu Burmin Government,'
for whom wo wot agents in the sale of
Food Com
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Attack In Selangor
Singapore, July 12.
With machine-guns blazing, 170 guerillas swept into Malaya's
big mining town of Batu Arang today and held it for 90 minutes while skilled saboteurs wrecked vital equipment.
The guerillas, cut all communications to the town, [********
pinned down the police and Europeans, includ ing passengers in an arriving train, skilfully wrecked the mine and vanished again into the
jungle before Gurkhas and police reinforce- ments could arrive.
They singled out five Chinese, including the general
overseer of the mine, for deliberate murder.
A communique issued at the Hery, said tonight that the ter- Federal enpital of Kunla Lum-rorists' sabotage will not affect pur, 25 miles away, said the coal production Immediately but police believed they killed one may do so in a month or two of the raiders.
Royal Air Force Spitfires roar. ed low over Batu Arang as the guerillas, many of them in the een uniform of the former Ma-
People's
Anti-Japanese
Fier, is represented on the inter-my, carried out their attack.
national Emergency mutter and is under an obligi- toon to adhere to the principles of allocation.
ethere
are no conditions at. tached to the sale of rice and the reduction
of of imperts other goods in unlikely to af fect the situation.
not
aware that supplies are drastically curtalted."
being
town.
The Assault began at 7.00 pm, Ines! time with the cutting of road and telephone Tues into the town. The raiders than broke up into
One-37 inte groups.
strong held up a train entering the town and herded the 53 passengers on board into the station master's office for an hour.
Another
#itacked the party onit the real facts from the police station, pinning down 10 Board of Trade?
constables with concentrated fire Do you re- number that the agreemel ap-rubble.
from behind heaps of stone and praved by the International Con- European quarter, keeping the 22 A third surrounded the aimer Sam failed by 70 per cent to deliver the rter and will people there indoors. you make certain that there is no repetition of that failure?"
Mr. Fletcher "W! You
Dr. Summerski1: "I can assure you rire sent from Burma is up 30 schedule. We did make e- quiries from the Board of Trade before I answered this question.”
Beuter,
Damascus, July 13. The Political Committee of the Auah Lengur has been convened for a regent treilng "in the mmuniams of the Lebanon" on Turulay next to discuss the cease fire proposals of Count Fotke Bernadett, the Palestine mediator, oprint sou.ces said here tonight,
-Reuter.
a
After
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Dale Wils
no
mora
Thera is
satisfying rofroshment
than on iced cold San
Miguel Boor. Bo suro
to call for it.
San
Miguel
The Beer
Berved in all leading, hatala, cluba, restaurante,
stocked by all atores
DREWED & BOTTLED'
Sobotage Experts
ir
the damage is Irreparable.
The sabotage was carried out men who "obviously knew the y-out, he said, for two cases
major damage occurred miles apart.
of
Mystery Girl
two
A "mystery" girl in the at tack was a 17-year-old Chinese who walked calmly through the passengers on the railway plat form to take the train's first ald box, apparently for the gueril.
In an attack on the Sengang Estate, near Ipok, terrorists, com- prising 30 heavily armed Chinese. drove off the esiale's manager and two special constables, firing 300 river while shots at them as they crossed a escoping.
Troops later reoccupied the estate, but the factory buildings were reported to have been razed to the ground.
It was announced in Singapore today that the Volunteer Corps will be reformed.
Singapore Swoop
Flying Forts Impounded
TENSION RISES IN BANGKOK
Bangkok, July 12.
Tension rose today as rum- ***ours increased of a possible
Halifax, July 12. Mr. Charles Collins, the Custom Collector, Bald to- day that, pending advice from Ottawa, he had Impounded a United States Flying Fortress carrying nihe men who claim-
to be an ad to
navigational training flight from New York. The aircraft was reported to be in the service.of Haganah, Captain Erwin
Chandler, of Miami, Florida, the pilot, had said the plane was going to return to its bone at White Piping New York.
sudden move to oust at least part of Premier Phibun Songgram's Government.
Un lon labour wos reported nervous, A general strike was considered for July 14, the Pre- mier's birthday.
Uneasiness omong the military leadership was indicated by the confinement of Li-Col. Narong Vorabut, one of the leaders of the coup last November. He recently Issued pamphlet attacking other lenders of the November revolt.
Two Generala
and SOVOCKI high ranking officers were re- ported to have been questioned by the military command. Army guards
posted in strategic areas. Elements of the Army and Navy have expressed disfavour with the way in which military leaders of the November coup have been impuning the names of the services by delving Into politics and commerce.-As- 100000001 | Sociated Press.
denlad
Cr plain Chandler that the aircraft, which hEd no visible armament, was 'on Its way to Palestine.-Router.
were
AMERICAN ON TRIAL IN CHINESE COURT
Shanghai, July 13. Harold William Allen, 28, of Dayton, Ohio, pleaded. innocent in the District Court today to a charge of assault resulting in the death of a pedicab driver on May 29.
With the town thus in thele control, another party, includ. Ing experts who know what they were doing, smashed the most vulnerable machinery at
Allen told the court he did agreed to pay CN$100,000,000 for the mine. Itself. They Are
fired shots in water
In Singapore, a bill will be not strike the Chinese coolle funeral expenses. In and compressors of eight trailers introduced into the Legislative intentionally. He said he was Allen agreed, the attaches said, and seriously damaged three main Council
giving the just trying to ward him off, that within one month after his excavators. They forced the Governor, Sir F. C. Gimson, blan- but the coolie stubbornly fol-release by the court be
would driver of one excavator to run
run ket power to suspend, supercede lowed him. over the edge into an open cut, or suppress any existing law as
workers cost of living index. The index last month was 710,-
питра
tomorrow
addition,
usy CNS2,253, n.ultiplled by the
The manager of the mine was part of the campaign against the the Incident was the result of a 000.
reported to have asked for mili-Communists. tary protection a fortnight ago, but all troops were tied up else- where.
Mr. J. W. Elliot, the General Manager of the Batu Arang col-
MANILA
MARKET
The prosecution told the court
The bill extends to two years misunderstanding between Allen the time a person can be de. and Sun Chu-hsien, the pedicab tained without being charged.
coolle. The coolic failed to take Plain clothes detectives ralded Allen to his destination and A payment rural area outside Singapore to- quarrel fallowed over day, the fourth large sweep in of the fore. a week. Twelve Chinese and two Malayans were detained,
cent
The court saic that judgment will be announced next Monday. Although the Police during re
Court attaches said relatives of weeks have captured hamthe coolle and Allen had reach mer and sickle emblems and do- ed an out of court settlement of cuments expressing typical Com-
the civil suit wherein Allen has munist ideology, there has been
DISPUTE no direct evidence that the Mala-
Manila, July 13. Mayor Manuel de la Fuente today urged Filipino vendors to pool their resources in a
Co-
yan terror campaign is being directed by Moscow or that, Mos- sow-is-linked with the current disturbances.
If the security officials have
Indication of a direct any
link
with Moscow, they are keeping it to themselves.
CZECH
ESCAPES
several
Paris, July 12. Dr. Hubert Ripka, 62-year-old Czechoslovak Minister for For- operative effort and take over
seizure of power in February, to- eign Trade before the Communist not only the retail trade but eventually the wholesale busi-
day officially Informed sources belleve it is sence in Paris as on
ly revealed his pre- ness from allen merchants.
Inaugurating Manila's Central stemmed from the Calcutta Con- of
probable that the disturbances He was clandestinely flown out
des exile.
Market, which
Czechoslovakia, was primarilygress of the Indian Communist months ago, but remained in hid- established to accommodate ven-
Party dors ousted from
in March. carly
This was ing until his wife and two chil- pavements and
the dren were also able to escape. streets, Mayor de la Fuente said attended by delegates from Filipino vendors should take adcountries of Southeast Asia, and Dr. Ripka was a member of e vantage
Malayan delegates later dis- exile Czechoslovak Government the of cision, to nationalise the retallared and went underground. in London during the second
-Reuter and United Press. World War-Router. trade. He deplored the fact that vendora took goods on con-
from
alien merchants thus acted only as middlemen. The Mayor promised the co- operation of the Government and the Philippine Chamber of Com- merce to Filipino Importers in the organisation of a firm by the ven- dors themselves.-United Press.
the
Government de-
Ulster Celebrates
Belfast, July 13. Messages from Orange Institu- tions all over the world, support- ing Northern Ireland's constitu- tion де part of the United Kingdom, reached Belfast today for the traditional 12th of July demonstrations,
The Grand Lodges at Canada, Newfoundland, Australia and the United States have pledged their cooperation in the campaign against interference
10
13
A BRITISH Crossword PUZZLE
8
15
16
118
120
21
22
23
25
126
Eiro in
Northern Ireland affairs.
Nearly 25,000 men marched in the rain to a meeting at Finag here, where the Deputy Master, Sunator Joseph. Cuan ham, sold that the Order had recruited thousands of young men in the past year.
97
129
The enthusiasm of the assemb lies was regarded as a reply to the recent attempts to the question of Irish partition- Router.
BOILED TO DEATH
reopen
A Tokyo, July 13. Yasuke: Takahashi, 21, walking
along a road in the hot springs
Cluos Across
3 Fall to
pieces.
7 Vestige.
8 Affirms.
10 Boll down.
13 Bullfighter.
20 Clothed. 21 Quietude. 20 Disavowed. 27 Praised. 28 Feed to
15 Rum easily. 20 Reduce to a '17 Settled.
minimum.
18 Withdraws. Senio
Yesterday's 'Crossword,
village of Onikubi, stopped on Acroma Priest, 5. Pinch,
28
Clues Down.
2
1 Tempest, 15 Compare.
2 Discourage, 10 Freedom
3 Granted.
.from strife.
4 Temporary 18 Piercing.
Cessation.
5 Term
Followed.
11 Artist's
10 Cardboard:
container.
22 Shelf.
23. Saltpotro. 24 Gots
D
AWAY.
.." stand.
812 Ventured.
20 Shut
violently.
weak ground and dropped into Learn, 9. Attain, 10 Earay, 1114 Dwell. a spring and
boiled to death. Massa, 12 Fury, 13 Inane, 10
Bearer.
San Miguel Brewery Hongkong, Ltd. Prefecture 300 miles north at Miro, 23 Elder, 23 Trost 20 insane, f Chain, 1 Arulated, in
Tlliphone: 28804:
APEO
The mishap occurred in Miyagi Sildes, 10, Scheme, 30 Metro, 223' 8μm, 4 Tonable. § Preside, 0 Tokyo. Apparently an under Rested, 27. Terzo, 28 Alter, 29 Extended, 16, Shelter, 17 Im ground spring wescored the mus | Eluiled. -
marre," 10 Create, 21. Enrol): 24 Cacondareolated. Fross,
Down1 Platform, à Interest, Be
Relatives of the coolte asked sentence upon Allen if the latter the court to impose a lenient
Is convicted.-Asscelated Press.
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