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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1950,
DISCONTENT IN COMMUNIST CHINA BEGINS TO
ASYLUM FIRE A MYSTERY
Davenport, Iowa,
January 8.
*
The cause of the fire that wrecked 4
mental hospital here yesterday, killing 38 women, may never be known
The Fire Brigade chief, Mr. Lester Schick, spit torluy that he had questioned survivors but most
TO SPREAD
Many people in Communist China fool that a third world war would be preferable to living undor the Communists.
There is widespread disillusionment and discontent with Communist rule in China, mainly because of the impoverishment of living conditions.
There is general desire for Mountains to be the Army's something new, and better than chief politeni commissar. the Communist
When he was in Nanking dur- Government. Most of the
ing the Kuomintang duys Lo was disillusioned and
the critor of the magazine discontented people see a third "Social Trends" which advocated world war as the only solution a British-patterned nertallam for for their troubles. Some even China, wish for the return of the Kuomintang.
The New China News Agency. Þe¤Baix
reported that rebelling
[of them were "mental patients in some areas, such na Mancha- and the value of their testimonyrla, are also baøking on the pos- its extremely doubtful. 1 doubt it sibility of a third world war and "we will ever find out what caused are using it as one of their chic
political slogans.
Anti-Communist
the Ore."
feelings ar
widespread
Opon discontent
Discontent in the major cities parelve stage.
Is still in the but it
to beginning to be ex- pressed openly. Anti-Com- munist portars have Apponrad In some alten and versos wort colned In scorn of the Com murists. Three of the more populer vers
ace:
1. The Communists
good
A badi-dozer and a crane used reported to be more to search the debris for bodies had) in the rural areas and stmail so disturbed the ruins of the 61-towns than in major cities, where Chiang Kai-shek is bad, but we hit we have not enough to ent. year-old hospital building that the Communists nee more lenient
****** | have a bellyful.
נו
(This in FUNK
by busineSFRIED
clues to the origin of the blaze and less radlest in their policies.
2. The Communists have liber- might have beers blitasated, he But resentment is also evident
pensated us, but our counters to Nankind
are In the major cities Bilded
growing moss. seven out of 10 persoȚIN talked Firemen still talked today of 10
anti-Communist expressed the soreams of trapped women be-
views for one reason or another Hond barred windows and locked] with Ave out of the seven show- Hours Thirty-seven of the victims ng an interest in the possibly were mental patients. The other another global flare-up.
DlsHasionment and discontent Was a NOTHINg assistant. She wor Mrs. Margaret Worber
is now held down by the mili who was
the Communist rescued from the burning buildingscht of
in some but who died last night of shock.
army aut police, but
Crummunist serad a cas where poliural powry has not yet been
inly established it has ecuptetion of nut-Communist feelings into armed oppusition.
The Toen! Coroner said that most of the 37 bodiiva recovered from the billing
burner beyond recognition An Inquest will be opened tomorrow.
wore
A maps funeral of the vietinis will be held here on Wednesday | morning,--fleuter
MEN RETURN FROM THE DEAD
Auckland, January 8
Red spears
These areas include Manchu
ria. Monan, Anhwel, Klangil and Shantung provinces,
"Monty Bank's
death
on
train journey
Mr.
London, 'January 8.
Monty Danke, fillm director and husband of the British singer and comedianna, Mias Gracia Flaide, died sud- denly in a træls near Som- ploni, Italy, today.
He and his wife were on the way to their home At Capri. Monty Banks, who was 52, was born in italy and his cont namo Wan Marlo Bianchi, He had important parte in British stage mustoai productions before going over to films-Router.
MANILA SHOOTING TRAGEDY
Manila, January 9. Elmer Mocklin, Sr., retired American
from engineer Chicago, was shot to death and his wife, Adela Mocklin, was slightly wounded by their own son on Friday on their farm in Antipolo, 20 miles East of Manila.
A
in referring to the eranonte de.
A palice investigation showed pression)
3. We have turned aver
that 14-year-old Elmer Mocklin, body, but it
Jr. after having been scolded by Is like turning over
his father, got "Mr. Mocklin's 45 from the bed to the ground. (Turning over the body in Chl-pistol and carbine and hid in
isecluded apot near fansheng." nexe is
the pathway menning "emancipation from
their farmhouse. His father slavery r political oppression.") This
was looking for him, and as the is
mun came along, young Kamer ung by the labouring class.
Another current open
shot him fatally with the carbine.
tlie
expret-
го
The boy
then helped
hia but
In the urban areas is wording of Communist political ether back to the house. Konga. The second sentence of when the father shouted for help. June sing which reads, “Out of the youth ran back to the path- China comes a Mau Tse-tubway When his 40-your-old mo- breame "Out of Chima cornes ther came, he shot her twice with Mao Tse-tung"
the .45, hitting her in the neck Tschung In a contemptums termt
meaul: and thigh, but the woulds were "mongrel breed
The Arst light. sentence of another song which
11
Young Eline: then fled, kiek was while his mother
The backbone of the resistance spavement is reported to be com- posed ninly of Chinese secret village societies zuch ps the Rest Spear Society, which were farm ed hundreds of years nga origin- beads. "The skies of the liberated
Menn. ally for the purpose of self-pro-arens are cient
crnwled tection
Manchu changed to "The skies **ing
of the through more than three miles of rule.
berated BEK
downeast mountain road to town and con- The best organised resistance skies, “ This correspondent ontacted the authorities. The son Two New Zealanders who group is said to be the Ninth several occasions heart the ". was arrested in the town proper had been missing in sinalt Route Army now based
the worded songs sung in Nanking shortly after. the streets, when there were Do plane since December 29, 1949, Tapiehshan Mountains
Honan-Anwel-Hupeh border Communist soldiers or amels ↑ tramped out of the bush today.
ago | zround.-- United Press. And told a backwoods farmer, which only one year
was the chief operating base of how they had escaped unscuth-famous
one-eyed Comminist when their Tiger Moth General Lki Po-chen, crashed into a Tree
They
10-yeu-ol arc
Cadet Pilot Jan Palmer and his father, Oswald Palmer, 40, of Auckland. Search parties gave the Palmers up for fust after their plane had been reported missing in weallm on its way from gant to New Plymouth.
Indian Socialist arrested
The Ninth Route Army, numed apparently in contradistinction to the Communist Eighth Rout Army, is in control of large areas In the Central China provinces, as indicated by n New China Agency report that Communist bad suppression forces after two
Lucknow, January 8. Wan-months hud succeeded in expell-
Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia, the districts ing it from two
H1 Anhwet containing a population Indian Socialist leader, was This two men sak that the of over 4,000,000.
arrested in the Vindhya Fra- plane struck and knocked
The Ninth Route Army is said desh States Union in over
Central programme #tree on a high wooded ridge to have a political
Indio today. according to u lux 30 malies East of Mount the aims of which are indicated telephone message received by Egreti They scrambled out by its
sinkona."Down with Socialist quarters in Lucknow. with a few culs and bruises. Chiang Kai-shek" and "Capture
Dr. Lohin is reported to have Making their way down into open Mao Tse-tung alive."
been taken from the States Union A report current In Nanking, country. They lived for days on
to an unknown destination. No berries and three pieces of chew-the reliability of which this cor- because of the Communia
ing gum.
Then they found an old shuch where stale provisions gave them their first ment since the crash.
They finally reached a remote furm and recuperated in
A hat 'ath.--- Assœelated Press.
respondent was unable to check here.
reason for his arrest is known
blockade of news, said a politic-in Vindhya Pradesh are reported
ally-minded Chinese professor by name of Lo Meng-tse, who both anti-Kuomintang and anti Communist in his political views, had gone to the Taplchshan
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Cathay
A number of Socialist leaders
to have been arrested last week following Socialist-sponsored de- monstrations against the possible break-up of the Vindhya Pradesh States Union and the merger of the territory with the neighbour- Central Provinces and United Provinces.
The Indian Government tools over the direct administration of Vindhya Pradesh on New Year'd Day after political squabbles in tho States Unton, which provent- ed the formation of a stablo Ministry--Router.
RUSSIAN FILM EXPANSION
Moscow, January 8. Boviet Alm producers have do- cided to build new studios in Moscow capable of turning out 4 full-length colour alms a year, the paper, "Soviet Art," Loday.
They
salt
plan to create a vast picture-making enterprise, com- plete even to houses for film: ac- tors and extensive grounds for location work, the paper said- Reuter.
SPECIAL TIMES TODAY
AT 2.30; 5.30
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THE WORLD) UBELTS A COMEDY MASTERPIECE 1 LAUGHI THAT WILL BE HEARD BOUND THE WORLD!
Charlie Great
Chaplin DICTATOR
TOMORROW ONLY: JOHNNY WIESSMULLER in TARZAN AND THE MERMAIDS
Asked why br lind shel hi father und mother, the boy sal he could no lunger stand the scoldings. However, Mrs. Mock- Ba told an investigation that she had long planned to send the boy to a reformatory because he war wayward and undependable.
She said her husband was formerly a United States civil service em ployee and had
enemies.
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