THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1949.
RELEASE U.S. Communist Version
CHINESE REDS RELEASE MUKDEN VICE-CONSUL Lukewarm
Deportation Order For
Entire Consulate Staff OBSERVER AT SPY TRIAL
Washington, November 27. announced today the Chinese Com The U.S. State Department
munists at Mukden have released the Vice Consul, Mr. Wil- liam N. Stokes, and ordered the entire American consulate staff deported.
The deportation order was issued by a Communist People's Court in con-
nection with a spy trial on Saturday in which 10 Chinese, Japanese and Koreans were sentenced, the announcement said.
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Mr. Stokes was on enforced "observer" at the trial. This accounted for the fact that he was taken from the consulate by the Communist thorities and kept away for approximately seven hours,
'Observer's'
The State Department
by
Ward
"Consul General Angus nounced na Saturday the 20-year-reported from Mukden today that old diplomat's
the Mr. Stokes had attended as an Chinese Communtst Communish authorities on Friday observer a night At that time it was without People's Court
where an alleged "American spy ring was on trial. word as to why he had been taken |"Aine
way, exempt in petion with None of the American consulate are peelest spy charges
general staff was named In the News of
of the latest developments trial which seemed to be the final Consulate hearing for 10 persons in the case. Tense Mukden
All the nevust då wert Chinese, betayed here from Muk- den by the Consul General, Mr.Japanese or Koreans, and sentence Augus Wwd. who with four staff was possed against all.
ས་ "Without having been members was ultraly under de-
In the trial, however, fall portation ordez
uf The CUD- The long
Watt, there are Chinese members The "Oliserver" depens and clerks sulate general staff In Mukslet dent Conservative) comment- the consulate stuif and
tu al were sentenced
deportation No date wES REČ for the deporto -
Comment On Groundnuts
Landun, November 27.
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ed in an editorial today at least two European slut mem- the debate in the House of Fumes. plus War, the Jap-tion of the staff. Commons on the Overseas unse Food Corporation's ground. nuts scheine in East Africa was not creditable to wither. side.
The paper said main opposition eritam was that the schane was pushed ahead too fast and Lou Javishly in early days
Lo
“It should be seen as a failure to apply scienting method technical problems", the "Obser· ver" sald.
ard [: vildren.
named
U.S. Support
For China
Lake Success, November 27.
The United States will take the floor in the Russian-boy- cotted United Nations debate on China on Monday and it was understood that it will introduce a proposal giving only luke warm support to
the Nationalist case against
Russia.
The American Ambassador-at: large, Dr. Philip Jessup, special adviser on Far East policy. will outline the United States position on China's anti-Kremlin charges before the General Assembly's
main Political Committee.
Of Ward Incident
San Francisco, November 27,
The Chinese Communist radio, "for the first time giving details of the Ward case, alleged that four Consulate aides hold the 50-year-old Chinese employoo while Ward punched him into unconsciousness. Tho othors thon
kicked him.
The radio said that the victim, Chi Yu-heng, had been messenger for the Mukden U.S. Con- sulate Generol for 13 years.
missed on September 27.
He was dis-
Later, when he demanded pay Communist press heartily по- ment of wages together with proved of the verdict which severance pay and dismissal fee, "serves as a warning to imperi- Chi "was cruelly beaten" andalist elements."United Press, sent to hospital. Ward and his four aides were arrested And
brought before the People's Court where the defendants "st
first refused to admit their crime. But evidence against them Wos too obvious, too There were many witnesses
overwhelming. an interpreter who had seen, the beating."
The
and
victim also testiflod, com- plete with ясат On forehead. There was a photograph of the victim sprawled on the door of the Consulate, but the radio did
by not explain how a photographer
The decision to introduce the American proposal was all but Anal. It was understood that the resolution will give only taken
Nationalists support to the adapting the mildest purtion of had happened to be on the scene. China's own proposal. It merely
will call on membera to refrain trom using the Ching crisis for any move incompatible with that country's political independence or territorial integrity.
The much stronger Nutjonalist proposni eals for condesination
whether
even
the
No Explanations
Nor did the radio explain how there happened to be so many witnessce inside the Consulate which had been closed for a long time, or why they Fallod
the victim's
come to
Floods In Italy Cause Big Damage
Rome, November 27. An estimated 300,000 per- sons were reported to be fleeing their homes today in floods that have caused mil- lions of dollars worth of dam- age throughout Italy.
There was no immediate esti- male of casualties in the havoc caused by 10 days of heavy ruin- storms, but officials said they be aid-leved there, was some deaths, The presence of the Interpreter They said hundreds of thousands an of acres of land had been flooded, thousands of cattle drowned. The radio said all eight wif-bridges swept away And crops nesses testified they saw the vic- destroyed. tim beaten by five consular off- elals. The vicum said:
WAL
was presumably accident.
Ilkowiso
The heaviest damage was re- ported in the Northern Po Valley area, near Venice and Bologna,
"Ward pressed me down against the stairs, then punched my left and in Central non-
"Ax the Department stated on of another employee
that Japanese-American Saturday,
allegation members of the consulate general Slut
Mukilen engaged 121 Roports To Peking
capionage are ridiculous and ab- Ward who reported solutely false.
Consul General,
M through tha
that "Mr. Word also reported
boen intermed Mr. O. Edmund Clubb, at Pek- he had not yet
Involved Ing. said he had not yet been when he und the four Informed when he and the four with him in
staff mambore
Involved
the earlier trial with would be deported."--Associate! him in the oarlier deportation Press.
would be want order actually
Nor was there out of Mukden. дпу
Information concerning de- portation of the rest of tha staff other than that it has boon
Thewy "
If all relevant data hal benn collected beforehand, the #Meul. ties of the Kongwa aron would have boon taken as a clear warn ing to so slow, Aulet.
it next indispensable step should have boen a small scale pilot ex- periment on the spot,
"Thin step
no1 WAR scampod, it was left out."
Such an experiment would have produced knowledge that has since been gained "at exorbitant cost," the paper said.
merely
"All sorts of other mistakes certainly wore madu" but the fun.
woman.
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BRITISH WOMAN OUT OF GAOL ordered.
Naples, November 20 The strange Stokes episode tal-
A 43-yritish Mrs.
Green. detained the Communist "trial" and sentencing of Mr. Ward and four by Capri police on October nides to leave Mukden. They were after the disappearance at a purty of a cheque for of abusing
a Chinese on the taland accused employer.
1,000,000 lire, was released on The State Department called the provisional liberty" from a Naples today, the police here "trumped up" and had ap-goal pealed to 30 nations to bring pres-
#ure
on the Communists for Mr. Ward's relena,
get
When the Americans will mul of Mukden was not indicated. For months before the recent de-
transportation
stated,
of alleged Soviet aid to the Chi- | nese Communists and asks mem- bers to withhold diplomatic re- cognition from the Communisi regime. The Chiscar
proposal was considered doomed to defeat,
There ช considerable doubt ruutious American draft will get majority support from the United Nations members, many of whom BFC planning soon to recognise the Communist government of Mao Tse-tung.
However, the overwhelming consensus at the United Natiens that the world organisation can do absolutely nothing to re- tard or slow down the deteriorat- ing situation in China,
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Manchurian Rope
Dr. Jesup; In his speech an Monday, was expected to sup port the Nationalist contention that Russia is qulity of strip. ping Manchuria. But Dr. Jon. sup wall expected to dodge the charges about Russia's role in the Communist victory.
Italy between eye. I then lost consciousness.** Rome and Naples. More than 30 The Radio said that the Jap-rivers and streams overran their anese, Shiro Tatsumi, testifled he banks.
joined the beating on Ward's or- ers. I caught hold of Chi's arm, but did not kick him. It was F
and kicked Clogna who pushed him." Clogna and A. Rehburg both admitted holding Chi's arm, the radio said.
The entire town of San Cesarco near Modena was threatened by the flood and more than 10,000 persona were rescued from in- undated homes by policemen, fire- men ond Red Cross squada. Traffle had to be suspended o'n several railway lines because of washed-out bridges. Roads were fooded and closed to automobile trame at several points.
The Písa authorities said the entire town was in a state of The radio said that the Chinese alarmn after the river Arno broke in several In Venter,
"Ward who led the assault, admiited ho used both hands to
drag Chi down the stairs, but then claimed Chi fainted and fell down himself."
banks through Its
cky. places in the salem, it is becoming increasing-waters of the Lagoon flooded ly clear that any move to impose sections of the city and in Cas- Internationalisation is imprac-
tical...
The other major Itam now he- fore the Assembly is the problem of Jerusalein. There is a good On the other side it was re- chance that the special Political | ported that Israel might agree to Committee will give various con- Ea compromise along the lines set
the Пeling proposals on
Holy forth by the Archbishop of Can- City to a sub-committee. It will terbury in a memorandum mode then take up the Clapp report public on Saturday. This would short-term work reduce the area of the new city enlling for relief programme to help support
to be ceded to Israel, almost 700,000 Arab refugees of the Holy land war.
It is felt that Hashemite Jor: dan might bargain away its claimi to hold the old city containing most of the Christian, Arab and Jewish shrines in return for
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concession to its desire to incor-
There was stül considerable The pollee udded that they doubt whether the Assembly can were still investigating the disagree on a solution for Jerusalem appearance of the cheque.
during the current session which Mrs. Green, on her release, re- will end around December 10. porate tho arca designated as turned to Capri, where she had With both Israel and Hashe- Arab Palestine In the original
the past year.-
mile Jordan adamant against partition résolution. pulling their forces out of Jaru- 1 Press.
damental reason for fallure liesvelopments, the Reds had denied been living for
not in faulty #ppointinents or
casual accountancy but in the Lurened
neglect of scientific method and
recht.
for their
depar-
Reuter.
In connection with the spy trial,
particularly the plot expert. Department officials observed that since the Communists took the Manchurian city in Novem live, 1948, the Americans Πιάνα
The "Observer" concluded, "Thut
in the lesson we should learn from been under virtual house arrest
the groundnuts scheme. It Was promising in conception and may yel win through to success.
But
It should go on record as a spor tacular example of what happens in this sort of enterprise when the scientific method in ignored." - Associated Press.
CHILDREN STILL MISSING
Geneva, November 20.
and any espionage activity on their part would therefore have been impossible.
y a result of
Apparently the whole staff was ordered deported the spy charges.
Restricted To Compound
The Department said that under the restrictions by which the con- sulate people have lived, they were only permitted to be in their Or the consulate, Д Tompound
The International Refugee Or-block away.
ganisation today appealed to the Today's State Department an- Eovernments of 37 countries fornouncement, Issued by press
Vice
ald in tracing some 20,000 chilomeer Mr, Michael J. McDermott, dren still missing nearly five sald: years after the war.
Consul William N. IRO's international tracing ser-Stokes returned to the American vice asked the governments to consulate general in Mukden on supply lists of children who Saturday afternoon somo stren passed through or were found in hours after he had been escorted their territory during or after off to attend a hearing in con- the war-United Press,
nection with spy charges,
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