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POLITICAL PRISONS BECOME
POPULAR IN
IN RED CHINA
Call for reservist volunteers
Washington, July 8.
The United States Army und Navy today sent out an immediate call for reservists to volunteer for extended oc- tive duty.
An announcement by the De- partment of the Army said that enlluted reservists would be.row quired for a minimum period of one year and would be recalled In their reserve grades.
The Navy Department asked reserve officers and enlisted men to volunteer for uctive duly, primarily arjoat and overseas for not less than six months.
The Army sold the reservists most urgently needed included radas, tank und unti-aircraft artil- lery meehonies, engineers and heavy equipment operators.
|Political prisons in Red China may be any man's place of abode ono day. You don't have to be a Chiang Kai-shek to got there.', Just a slip of the tongue in the wrong placă and at the wrong time will suffice, according to United Press.
A vital weapon in the hands of the Communists to get rid of their political opponents, this is one of the many things which Mao Tse-tung has copied from Stalin.
There is no physical torture, So he returned to China with but there is enough psychological] the honest desire of "serving the and mental. terror and strain to people." He visked Peking to see make an inmate Lo half-crazy the capital of new China and until he confesses his alleged took a train to Nanking, where gullt or is converted."
his family lived.
Under survoillance
one
Military
funds request
Washington, July 8. President Truman will pro-| for more military funds, chiefly bably ask Congress hext week
to pay for bringing American forces to the needed strongthi for the Korean war, Senators said today.
Senator Dennis Chavez (Demo- crat, New Mexico), n Committee the member, said that while White House had not indicated. how much the President would that he would sack only a moder- ask, it was generally understood
ale sum at this time.
There are a wide variety of
The Senate Appropriations "offences" which can land a man)
Committco has been told that in a political prison. They are
After reporting to the police Mr. Truman will ask for more not found in the statute book and he was put under surveillance money primarily to implement the opinion or whimsy of on In- and required to report twice a yesterday's decision to step up dividual Communist kanpu week and to name three former | services?. manpower through | (OMelal) is the only verdict. C-2 fellow employees who were voluniary enlistruents ahd,-it ne-
There is no public and formal still in Nanking. He said they all cessary, conscription. trial and no warrant is required had left Nanking, but the Com- [ for arrest.
munists Insisted there must be The political prisons are behind some left behind and by hook ar the life of nervous tension which by crook he must round up three Is the common lot for most of for them as a show of sincerity, the people in China today. No So he scoured the town in an one is sure of himself. No one is effort to fulfil his assignment certain of tomorrow. Anything but without success, Then may happen. You may think night he was hauled off-to It appealed to reserve medient everything is right in your rela-political prison. There he was corps officers to apply without tions with the state. But you held incommunicado for several delay. A voluntary recall pro- may be dragged out of bed, in weeks. At last report he was still gramme for a limited number of the middle of the night and there. reserve officers would be An-huuled off-to a political prison.
Then there is the case of a That's nounced shortly..
to happened what
man more than 10 years old. He score of Chinese reporters in owned more than 1,000 mows of Canion. Most of them formerly innd (330 acres) In Klangal, worked for Chinese newspapers which put him in the category of in Hong Kong. As soon as the big landlord. The first taxes Communists came to Canton they and levies Imposed on him by quit their
were the papers, which
Communiats nmounted to not pursuing a pro-Communist about 2,000 pleuls of rice. editorial line, because they Though a big landlord, measur- thought it unsafe la continue to ed by the land he owned, he was work for "reactionary" papers. a very poor man Anancially. Hel
On the basis of the announced rented his land to farmers, Communist policy of granting) never collected rentals since the | pardon to those who cease to beginning of the Sino-Japanese The Air Force hus already enll-thought they had gained personal the landlords in China. Its cons work for "reactionaries," they wat as is the case with most of
The Navy Department said that it wanted officers for the supply, civil engineering and medlent and dental corps ant specialists in electronics, Intelligence and com-
munications.
Entirted volunteers were want ed in the radar, fire control, and com-
electronies, aviation munications branches.
rd for reserve volunteers.- Reuter.
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SOMEWHERE IN HIS MIND..
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JOHN HODIAK NANCY GUILD ·
SOMEWHERE
IN THE
NIGHT
safety
with resignation from their jobs. So they stayed put in Canton. Some of them, looked around without success for new Jobs. Some put aside their digni- ty and look anything that was available.
Lightning strikes
But the lightning struck out of a clear sky. They were rounded up in the middle of the night and off they went to the political prison.
but
worked in the cities to support the family. He simply could not afford to pay the taxes and levies. He begged for a reduction in the taxes and levies and even offered to give bir land free to the state, but all in vain.
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n political prison. The injustice | Committee, also declared his.
STAR
sent the old man, bred in the support for the expected request. Soo them in action in "SANDS of IWO JIMA 1′′ traditiorial Chinese moral con-Reutor. cepts, Anto the stormlest rage of his life. He went immediately on a hunger strike. When he inoked as though he was about to die. A man in Tsingtao had al- the Communists became worried most the same experience. He and offered to release, him. was working in the American die in the prison as a martyr of refused to be released, vowing to Consulate, which was called
justice, unofficially the "American Na- tionals Affairs Bureau"
The Communists brought in his after relatives and friends to persunde the Communtats occupied the him to go out of gool, but stil! port. It was so renamed ba- he refused, Finally, the dying
cause the Communists do not permit the maintenance foreign
oman was carried out on a stret- |
sher-United Press.
consulaten without diplomalle relations.
The men was riding home on a bicycle, but got into an accident, The Communist police came up, usked his name and where he was working. He told the police he worked in
Indonesians preparing to
the American attack Amboina
Nationals Affairs Bureau," but the police mistook it for the "Foreign
Nationals Affairs Bureau of the Communist elty government,--because-of-the very
Jakarta, July 8.
all-out amphibious attack on rebellious Amboina Island.
Reliable sources said military operations could be expected with-
The Indonesiún Government was reported massing troups. similiar Chinese pronunciation. and naval craft today for an
The police went to the "Foreign Nationals Affairs Bureau" to check if the man was really working there. There was no such name on the payroll, Immediate- ly he was arrested and guoled in a political prison for one week despite his explanation that be bud said "American" and not "Foreign Nationals Affairs Bureau."
In a "How weeks" against the island, where separatists. 'three months ago proclaimed a republic of the South Molucca islands and seceded from the United States of Indonesia.
from the
Military units, including the Yet another man got into the Indonesian Republicans' best same kind of trouble. Не had fighters of the Siliwangi Division worked in the C-2 department of were reported assembling in the the Nationalist National Defence Eastern part of the Indonesian Ministry, but ne was not a Kuo-archipelago. A troop-carrying mintang man. He netually did |LST called today from Jakarta underground work for the Com-for East Indonesia. munists while working there. He Indonesia's Infant navy-four had helped in arranging the de- corvettes purchased fection of two Nationalist army Dutch and a muraber of small |
craft-in recent weeks have con- Shortly before the Communists centrated on blockading Amboing, captured Nanking and Shanghal, leaving anti-smuggling patrols he resigned from his post and | Elsewhere almost entirely to came to Hong Kong. Here, he Netherlands naval units-Associ- | read only the Leftist newspapers, ated Press. and was tremendously influenced by the reports of how good con- ditions were la Red China, how cheap eggs were and so forth.
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