THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1950,
MOSCOW ALLEGES RUSSO-U.S. AERIAL CLASH
AMERICAN PLANE ACCUSED
OF FIRING ON FIGHTERS
STIFF NOTE TO WASHINGTON
London, April_11. Russia has protested to the United States alleging that an American air- craft flow over Soviet territory, according to a Tass Soviet news agency message picked up in London.
The report said that Soviet fighters took off and demanded that the Ameri- con plane land. 'It did not comply and opened fire on the Soviet machines.
A Russian fighter was forced to open fire in return, the Tais message add- ed, after which the American aircraft turned to the sea and diaup- peared.
The incident occurred near Libava, Latvia, on the Baltic on April 8,
The Tass message said that the American plane, a four-ergined military machine of die B-29 (Flying Fortress) type, penetrat- ed Soviet territory to a distance of over 12 miles,
The Foreign Minister, M. Andrei Vyshinsky, today received the in United Sintes Ambassador
"
The United States Air Force 1 Air Force officiula vald they Fald that pending on offelal in- could not state immediately whe quiry they have no official know- |ther the missing Navy Privateer was the plane that the Russians ledge of the incident referred to
claimed had penetrated Soviet in the Soviet protest.
territory.
Asked by reporters whether the United States recognises Latvia ar Soviet territory, Mr. Michael Mc- Dermott, State Department spokesman, said, "No comment."
Other emcials recalled, how- ever, that the United States still
a
accepts the presence of
One theory
Air Force officlala quoted a member of the crew of the. mising Navy plane who did not make the fight as saying that ""was "hot" ärthed.
Peking bureau has British advisers
San Francisco, April 11, Four British adviætra to the China information Bureau of the Chinese Communit Proes administration were welcomed by the Administra Llan's director, Mr. Hu Chiao- muita dinner party last evening, The Peking radio an- naunter. A
Mr.
The Jour advisers aro: and Mrs. Springhaile, Aisn
Winnington and Michael Shapiro.
Also
welcomed to Peking was the correspondent of the Czech news agency.
The dinner was attended by the Torrespondent as well an mumbers of the Chinco Communist Government and representatives of the Paking Pras. the broadest said-on United Press
TEACHERS' SALARY CLAIMS
MOST SERIOUS INCIDENT
SINCE THE WAR
London, April, 11.
The alleged shooting incident between American and Soviet planes over Russian territory has created the most su
serious international Incident since the war.
Not since Yugoslav planes shot down two American planes in 1946 an incident that ended with an American ultimatum to Marshal Tito- has an incident with such potentially danger- ous possibilities occurred,
The publication of the Soviet When the
Yugoslav Govern-
note accusing the United Statesment refused to release the sur- of gross violation of Soviet vivors on the first plane dr allow territory and of international American officials to investigate law electrified Western Europe the circumstances of the disag into sudden realisation of the pearance of the second phone, dally dangers in which it lives Yugoslavia was served with an while the cold war goes on.
ultimatum was warned that
that
the
MARSHALL PLAN
Americans are warmongers FOR FAR EAST
and
Socialist Ropublics | Navy patrol planes had strict in- ¡ been damaged by Soviet fighternual salary is loss than £400 Instigators of a new war against ;
**
A generation ago an incident the persons alive were not re- of much lesser gravity would feared and 'American officials Have been a signal for mobilisa-allowed to investigate within 40 tion and war. But there is no hours she would be hauled he thought of that this time al-fore the United Nations Security
Council though it was admitted that many London, April 11,
with harsh words and threats will
Yugoslavia complied Moscow and presented a note of Latvian Minister in Washing- Navy plane did not even have any
The flyer told them that the British school teachers join- probably be exchanged before demands and ultimately agreed protest, the message. added.
The note condemned this gross here was no immediate White we he believed that one officer British workers today in de-
weapons or ammuntilon on board.ed more than 5,000,000 other the incident is settled.
were to compensation. Marshal Tile Opinion and judgment were personally assured the American violation of the Soviet frontier by
no foreign Americari military plane, House comment on the incident.
until the American version nn
planes would ever be shot down The Presidential Press Secres carried a 45 calibre service pistol.manding increased salaries to reserved on the Soviet allegations Ambassador ut the same time con- which
the meeting of American
and again and deplored the loss of No B-29s are stationed in Ger- meet higher living costs.
The National Union of Teachers Soylet planes is heard. But then
But there American lives.-United
Press, stituted an unheard of Violation tary, Mr. Charles G. Ross, suld
with # 400,000 membership is no question
in any of clementary rules interna- that presumably President True many, although there is a group
man had been informer of the stationed in Britain.
In- unanimously passed a resolation
that the diplomat's mind tional
The text of the Soviet note to Soviet protest by the State De
U.S. Air Force officers suggest-doclaring their salaries aro 50cident is a grave one and one. the United States, according to partment.
ed in Wiesbaden that if the Rus low now that many woman tea that the Russians will take full the Moscow broadcast, rebus dis
sian report is accurate, the miss-chers are working as night wait-advantage of in pursuance of follows:
their propaganda campaign that A Naval spokesman said that ing Navy Privateer may have resses to eke out a living.
Teachers whose average an "The Government of the Union of So
Sovici
"are disillusioned, incensed and
Tokyo, April 11. deems il necessary to state to the structions to stay at least 18 miles fire and unable to reach safety.
Russia. angry and with very just causa",
comTM American diplomats, Sooner or later, something of ' Government of the United States from Russian territorial bound-
Closely guarded area aries and to operate without arink
said the resolution. of America the following:
this The teachers aro
sort was bound to happen.mercial attaches from Washing The intest "According to verified date, on when Dying near Soviet areas.
Those instructions were issued
Despite the greatest caution Itton and 12 Aslan capitals will Stephen Zakian, a Navy alec- Apr!! of this year, ut 17 hours.
was almost inevitable that some-work out a minor "Marshall time ago by Admiral tronica technician from La Grande,roup of Unten workers to ask a
wage increase. and 35 minutes, near the town of some
lly, Commander of Oregon, and a regular member of The widespread labour unrest time the cold war was bound to Plan" for Asia, with Japan 'as Libava
when they confer a four-engined military Richard
pivot, Eastern the plane's crew, was on the fold is already causing the Cabinet have its hot shooting incident. plane of the B-29, type (Flying
Navalnolly
Dangerous world Tokyo on April 17, diplomatic Fortress) bearing American iden-Atlantic and the Mediterranean, when it left Wiesbaden. He sald grave concern, Any widespread
It was positively not' armed,
wage increase means increased "We are living in a dangerous and Japanese, circles here bel tification marks, was sighted. The he added.
General Hoyt S. Vandenberg, plane' penetrated the ferritory of the United States Air Force Chlet
Air Force search planes have costs for British exports, which warld," one diplomat, seld, "and lieve.
are already meeting increasing must be prepared for.. 10 a distance of
dangerous The present substantial United the Soviet Union 19 'a
Tomorrow the powerful Con
doesn't meani that nations Used to make the country a that the American plane continued aircraft was involved in any ex- for some
federation of Shipbuilding and involved or the rest of the world workshop for the remaining anti- to penetrate into Soviet territory, change of machine-gun fire with
The area where the shooting Engineering Unions will send out have to think in terms of war. Communist peoples in Asia, diplo
ballots to members of all of its Aight of Soviet fighters took off any Russian fighter on April 8 from a nearby aerodrome, and de-as alleged in aussian note to
day.
machinery one of the most closely guarded 37 afliated Unions asking whe- Fortunately, there is plenty of matic circles predlet.
for any aggrieved na- manded that the American plane "His assertion followed several spota in Russian-held territory ther the Unions should strike oton to get full satisfaction with
land at the sero
for arbitrate demands follow it and
Soviet patrol boats Intercept weekly wage increase.-Associat
resort to war drome. The American plane not hours after the State Department
even fishing vessels which von ed Press. only failed to comply with this announcement of receipt of the
Arc on the Russian protest. demand, but opened
turo into the arga. There have Following another statement.
buen reports that the Ruslans Soviet planes. Owing to this, an advance Soviet fighter was forced this time from Admiral Forrest of Naval Sherman, Chief to open fire in reply, after which W. She the American plane immed to-Operations, that the Navy plane missing over the Baltic was not ward the sea and disappeared. -
armed,
bservers here read into the two statements the possibility that the American military chiefs think the missing navul plane was
But the blockade ended with-] the craft the Russians shot at. Lloutenant-General John K.
incidents despite the Mr. Narain told a public meet-out shooting in Admiral Sherman recalled that Cannon, Commander of U.S. Air the Navy plane has been missing Forces in 'Europe, called this ing here: "It is a misnomer to almost
in the
in
21 kilometers. Owing to the fact of Staft, sale that no American been scouring the' Baitie in vain competition throughout the world. Incisionts ke this. But that States aid to Japan will-be canali
11
an
"Unheard of
missing with 10 mon op
The
hava
craft.
trace of the missing
was said to have ocurred ta
base near thore.
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Two Copenhagen newspapers suggested yesterday that the Unit- ed States was taking advantage of the sea search to reconnoftre Rus slan territory.
Paina, April 21. The Indian Socialist leader, today Mr. Jayaprakash Narain,
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Was
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The note sald the plane was clallem and totalitarian Commu-forced out of the official corridor.
nism
to-
U.S. ultimatum
One plano was forced down
The Govlet Government an nounces its resolute protest to the Government of the United States against this gross viola- tion of the Soviet frontlar by
by Soviet planes American military plane since April 8, the date of the al-Tantasti
on manoeuvrO, "which,"at-the-same-time, -can-
leged violation-of-Russian-terri--The reason for the search,"hediated all that Marx stood for."
-Tho Yugoslav - incident-in-1996; Soviet Communism had trans- stitutes an unheard of violation
tion fory
unid, "is to find that missing
ms formed the dictatorship of the occurred during the Paris pence of the elementary rules of Inter-{ The Admiral's statement clled plane."
be conference and all but interrupt- national law."
the evidence of a member of the The Russian note described the proletariat-which United States Air Force planes, crew of the missing plane, who incident as
for the transitioned the ennference. The Incident a gross violation of maintained
only into a dictatorship clique, Occurred
along the border in supported by Danish and Swedish and been left behind in Wiesbaden, the Soviet frontier by an Amerly rain said, when appealing Northern Zugoslavia when two aircraft, have been combing the that the draft was not armed. can military plane and an unheard to the peoples of the world to American planes flying a regular Baltic for the last three days in
"The patrol plane, therefore, of violation of the cleinentary choose between democratic sorun from Vienna to Udine were could not: search of a United States Navy
fired
on any other or returned the fire of any Admiral said. of the
sighted over Latvia at 5:30 PM. A privileged class has firmly search, in which 25 aircraft
Defence Secretary, Louis (local time) on Saturday. (This established itself in Russia
U.S. airmen, "two operating from Kastrup. nem Johnson, anil the Deputy Secre- was about two hours after the day!" he said. "Everything done with seven ed more than 56,000 square miles ary, Stephen Early, talked with i plane radioed Wiesbaden that in Russia is a direct contraven- | Hungarian civilians' and a Turk Copenhagen, have already cover
of Mariah "offieer aboard.. "The President Truman today but said was leaving the German coast etion of the teachings of БСП, given rise to rumours, they did not discuss the plane In-route to Copenhagon).
and Lenin, both of whom stood was shot down by Yugoslav In Copenhagen that the missing läents for re
Meanwhile time la running out for democratic socialism."Reu- Aghter planes and til the crew Navy bomber is a fictional preu. Johnson added, "I can't say as an armada of American planes ter.
lor Ave were killed afte text for two purposes:
"about" it until we have criss-crossed the Baltic Sea area To watch Russian naval
information on it."
where the U.S. Naval Privateer patrol bomber has been missing, since Saturday midnight.
Naval units of Sweden and Denmark, C-14 Skymasters from the Western airlift fleet, and B-17 *U.S. announcement
Fortresses from the far-off US Air Force headquarters in Azores and Tripoli joined in the In Washington the Bile Do- partment announced that Russia Wiesbaden conceded tonight that gigantic hunt, but hope was dim- that ph American miliary dirsin the incident with Russlan
has
4res.
(2) To test problems in occupy ing a country in this case on mark-for ostensibly peaceful reasons.
Mr. Early sild: "All we know about it la what we have seen on the news ticker."
Wiesbaden views
had protested to the United Sintesi (He pluris toporied to be involved plane had only enough fuo)!
craft had violated Russian tghters may be a missing U.S. to last mul midday on Sunday. tory last Saturday and fired on Navy aircraft sought since Satur-Heavy weather kept search planes
day in the Northern Baltic. a night of Russian planes.
Department said that
grounded on ‘Mónday“ nisht “and Air Force-officials said that the until hoon today-Reuter, Assbi
Elated Press. Russia's protest was handed to Navy plane Was hat dengð.
The "State'
the United States Ambarınder,
Mr. Allan Kirk in Moscow
morning
The text' was
Washington" i
received
At p.m.
why not made public, Immediate
Bald
State Department spoke
thit new agency ddapalene quoting the Soviet agen
news
from London incident.
tom gave the of the alleged
Unti it was not known that's protest had been made
The United States Navy "Pri- vateers plane, which has been missing over the Baltic since last Ehturday allaktly resembl Bias Superfortross, referred to the Runalan protest.
Like the B30, the Privater he
toue tengines,
American emelnis began
mediate affort to determine
Gene Latvio's status -
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