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CHINA MAIL
No. 34682.
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1950.
POLICE OFFICERS KILLED IN Monty tries the
TSUN WAN SHOOTING Cornered bandit shot dead after fierce gun battle
ANOTHER OFFICER WOUNDED
Mr. Edward Colin Luscombe, Police Commanding Officer for Kow- loon and the New Territories, and Detective Sub-Inspector Alexander Leslie, attached to the Shamshuipo Police Head- quarters, were shot dead by a bandit at Tsun Wan yesterday morning.
Chief Inspector Frederick G. Clarke, Divisional Officer in charge of the Shomshuipo Police Headquarters, was critically wounded by three shots in the chest.
The bandit, identified as Li Man-wai, alias Li Wai, was killed by police
bullots.
one
These were the casualties in Fired at driver
of the most sensutional
khooling affairs between Hong Kong Police and bandits have occurred in the Colony since the re-occupation.
The shooting occurred between 9.30 and noon at Chung (Middle) Kwai Chung Village Jual South of Castle the 7-mile stone mark, Peak Road, and about one mille from Tsun Wan. The village is reached after pussing the New China Texilles, Limited, and the Hong Kong Gun Club, which are about 200 yards away.
across
The cluster of viltugen situated the road is known 13 Sheung (Upper) Kwai Chun Chung (Middle) Kwai Chung and Ifa (Lower) Kwai Chung." Of these Ja Kwai Chung in the largent..
Chung Kwai Chung, where the comprises shooting occurred, about two dozen houses whose occupants are mostly farmers.
What occurred before and after the shooting, as ascertained by
the "China Mail" was this:
Demanded money
yesterday
At about 8.30 morning, Li Man-wal, about 26 years of age and a well-known charactor In Taun Wan, want to the house of Ho Chuan-aku, a prominent Taur Wan
mer
shant, and demandad $150,000.
It was stated that Ho, who te about 25 years old and owner of the Kung Ping Emporium Taun Wan, had promined Li Man- wat $900 ns ho had not the sum demanded in the house.
In an effort to stall the man, Ho's son, Ho Chi-ping, went up-
that staire saying he was going to
etch the money.
Ho Chi-ping canie downstairs with a shotgun whereupon L Man-wal whipped out his revol- ver and grabbed Ho Chuen-Bau
for a shield... disarmed Ho Chl-
After
ping, the ormed man was stateci to have said that $900 was not onough and that Ho Cruen-sau must withdraw the sum demand- ⚫ed from his bank, the Hong Kong
Shanghai Bank in Nathan Roud.
Ho and his son and three other members of the family, were then forced to get into the family enri Chevrolet, bearing the licence plate number HK3217,
Ho, the older,
1
wheel.
was at the
After the car had left the house a report was made to the Tsun
-napping" message to all stations. The message was rocolved at the Kowloon Pollen Headquarters at about 9.30, it was reported.
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Today's Forecast:--Light or moderats 85. winds, fale apart from showers la the New Territodles, thla utarbon.
Arriving at the 7-mile stone before Chung Kwai Chung and Just before the police road- block set up near the small Ho was told to have bridge, turned his car around. At this,
ther police reinforcement equip ped with armoured cars, led by Mr. A.C. Maxwell, Deputy Com missioner of Police, were sent to the scene.
One version has it that the armed man took away the arms from those whom he had shot but this was not confrmed.
the bandit opened fired at the Bandit killed
Firing between the lone des. lasted perado and the police wall into the near hour when during the later stage of the
LI shooting L was shot and kill-
driver but the shots, three of them, mimad Ho. Li got out of 'the car and began to run to- wang Trung Kwai Chung Police officers at the road-block were the first ones to give chase. Meanwhile, a detachment of
ed. Luscombe, Police under Mr. Communding Officer for Kowloon and the New Territories,
Mr. E. G. LUSCOMBE.
("China Mall" photo.)
wero
speeding toward Tsun Wan from Kowloon while other police from Tsun Won were converging on the scene.
"sea of ice"
Field-Marshal Lord Montgomery, C-th-C Western Union Forces, watches as iron cleats are fitted to hle boots before ho took a stroll on the famous French glacier "eos of ice" In the Massif of Mont Blanc. The Field-Marshal is on holiday at Chamonix, near the glacier. (AP Photo).
Purge of E. German Reds
Berlin, September 1. East Germany's Communist rulers rocked the party and
KMT reform policy is announced
Talpeh, September 1. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- shek's Kuomintang Party to
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YANKS FIGHT BACK AGAINST BIGGEST RED OFFENSIVE IN KOREA
Tokyo, September 1.
American forces snapped back today after the initial blow of the great- est Communist offensive of the war and recaptured Haman under cover of bombing, strafing and rocketing United States planos. Fresh troops, rushed into line to reinforce the mauled 24th Regiment, By 8 p.m. they had re-
went over to the counter-attack at 4 o.m. covered the lost ground and were fighting West of the ruined and smoking Haman,,
Haman, eight and a half miles from the port of Mosan, is' at the South- ern end of the flaming 50-mile front along which the Rods loosed their greatest offensivo and advanced up to eight and a half milos at one point.
Latest reports said the main battle sector was located in the hills West of Human.
On the Naktong River line fur- ther North, where the Reds mada 17 crossings, n Second Division spokesman said the Yanks were "stacking up dead Koreans by the hundreds.”
area the initial In the Masan attack alone cost the Communisie 1,000 dead. American losses were. described as "moderate to heavy,"
Waves of 1,180 Air Force, Marine and Australian fighters and bombers ranged over the awaying front. Returning pilota said their strating was "very satisfactory."
The greatest air support was thrown into the Haman arca athwart the route to the major supply port of Pusan.. The planes worked as close as 50 yards alıcad of the ground troops.
· Recapture of Haman
United
·Press' Lorrespondent Charles Corddry with the 25th reported the recapture Division
of Hamar. He said the attack which retook the town was pre- coded by intense air strikes. Light bombers dropped 1,000-lb. fuso. bombs on the proximity are
in addition to strafing and rocketing the Red position,
mortor
British troops standing by for action
The
Eighth Army HQ, Korea, Beptember 1.
Eighth Army Head- quarters today prepared to throw the, British forces Into the Korean battle area wher- ever and whenevar 'needed. While the two battalions the Middlesex and the Argyll and Sutherland had been on the alert ever since they me. rived in
Korea on Monday shead see.action of schedule If the break- through on the. Central and Bouth fronts worsena..
they may
The First Australian ground troops may be flown to Korea
General MacArthur bo- Heved that "absolutely a available forces" are needed to halt the current Cornmu». nist drive, a reliabla British Commonwealth source, told the United Pross tonight In Tokyo United Pross
was reported in the Government, today with a day, publicly. pledged itself to button a troops were/main enemy affort boing, dre
mised.
Iwere Mare expulsions trade. ried
on his
the
The reasons given were asso- shooting traffic) During along the Taun Wan Road was ciating with "American sples" blocked for more than
three and exhibiting anti-Russian feel hours. Cars stalled extended for ing. miles on either direction.
Mr. Thomas Cachman, Assistant Director of Criminal Investiga
The action was taken by the Politburo of the BED
of the line on the attack.
con
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the critical points in the battle- field in an all-out bid to stop the North Korean Eastward drive.
After two haurs of merciless pounding by fighter-bombers the Communist four miles wirta and eight miles deep front, What or Haman, the American forces moved into the Eastern outskirts of Haman, which had been lost to the North Koreans......
ciono
An Air Force operations, officer. estimated that nearly 300 support fights had been flown by the combined air forces today. with three hours of daylight rem. maining.
In the Second Division santor, American resistance had spik up into three fingers into this after- noon, Most of the large tract of Bat territory East of Naktong is tween Hyonpung, and Youngsan had been lost to the Communista with GI's taking up positions on high ground East of Hymarpung. Changnyong and Yongsan,
When the Communists crossoď South West of Yongsan, two camm panies of Gra were cut of and in. the confusion, contact was lost with many units..
General Douglas MacArthur, the United Nations Comman der-in-Chief In: Korea, muster- Ing every reserve to meet the enalaught of 50.000 Northerners, saw the. Naktong River fine breached in a dozen places fast bight and today at least two: arjous penetrations, took place.
The Reds had opened a new the enemy attack the vicinity and artillery bombard- of Hyongpung. on the Northern Li Fut-po, an elder brother of
mant on the American left flank end of the Naktong, Une, was Suicide patrol
with the 1 Man-wal
and right-
tside strictly diversionary wit
directed Tomimuunist "sulčias siphtron gettin haya-been held by the pollen, last startling purge of high plac- retrieve its past mistakes,
at the central sector.
within six miles of the Important night for questioning. It was red officials.
purge thoroughly bad party- parted that the Li brotliers, who Six top men, including a for- influences and start working
The 50-mile front line on Friday port of Masan this afternoon North of Hamen the 35th Regi- Was anchored In general at though the main Northern on- to the Chinese were both born and brought up mer Folitburo member, werd for a return
mental Combat Team counter. Hyongpung, about 15 miles Bouth laught against the Western de- in Tsun Wan, had been peddlers thrown out of the Socialist Unity mainland as the Government attacked after the Rede pana West of Targu, and at recaptured fences had slowed down and was
(Communist) Party (SED). at noodles in the village.
trated 3,000 yards on the ex- Four more were expelled from of the whole of China.
The Secretary-General For the last few years, it was
of the trams right flank in the visinity Haman. It dipped in the centre, almost stopped.
scored Communista.
General MacArthur is ordering of Maxan-ni. Masan ni to near where the sald, Li Man-wal had been un-Jobs in the Government.
Into the arillent every reserva pro-Kuomintang, Dr. Chang Chi-yun, employed, while his brother car-
the confluence of the Nam and their greatest gains in terms o outlined the following points in
milct. It was just at the point 16-hour battle and sent the Naktong Rivera.
carrier- where the Nam and Naktong Galted States Navy s the reformed Kuomintang polley:
A military spokesman said ong The land shall be owned by
war curve of the Naktong Eastward, of the ground troops to stem the the tiller and co-operative farm company of 35 was surrounded rivers join, and then around the based planes into close support ing sa
by 800 Reds hut pressure shall be encouraged.
The Western front blazed up Government-operated light in-relieved somewhat by two fight that the Communists made the rockiese invaders.“ at the dustries shall be transferred to of nighter-bombers which dropped greatest number of their 17 river
soon after midnight but 12 hours on the crossings.
·Seen also at the scene__ were direction of Walter ~ Ulbright; private-ownership,-Workers-in-1. Jellted gasoline bombs
battalion of the elected secretary general ve terests shall be protected by the enemy. The spokesman said on The American communications later the American had stopped
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road on the Noktong line runs the onslaught in many places Regime of labour organisa- which took the brunt of the at-21 miles Southward from Hyong though strong Communist forces weaks ago. In this job, Ulbricht promotion Kowloon, Mr. R.V.F. Turner tion,
tions. Superintendent, Divisional
tack on Thursday night and this pung, on the North, all the way had got through to their rear
to the river's great Eastward bend, In the South, where the Nak- No maroy will be given to morning is secure but that an
The enemy has tong River turns to the East, GI
to counter-attack while former Nationalist leaders who other had been disorganised and on the South.
been able to throw at least one began driven back. defected to tho Communists On the Second Div
block across the highway, and it United Nations reserves 'cleared Division front, The newspaper admitted that
during the Nationalist retreat
The chain of the party ranks are carroded with
on the mainland. members who
Southern end. longer
amnesty will be given to the tenders reeled back as much
Massed air attacks.
V level of the Nuktong after a dry blindly obey Russian dictate,
Ejected from the party were:: "less Important Communistsisht and a half miles under the
Initial Red
sal assault; plote
Mass Ailled-air áttxoka wore spell drove. a five-mile wedge who, come over to the Nation the Communists were Paul Merker, state secretary in
loading
late this afternoon | between the American Second Loo
thrown alists.
rafts. on the Agriculture Ministry:
of the the West side
#gainst the Communist forces and 25th Divisions and set at of Hadlo chlef editor
amashing Into the West line of lost six Communist battaliona Bauer,
Chinese in foreign countries river to reinforce their already Berlin; Bruno Goldhammer, de-
the
United Nations däfonos on the East bank 15 miles South to Gerhart puty
B-28 Marauders ranged up and Eister, pro- (such as Australia, Malaya, In-xtensive crossings.
West of Tacgy, the Philippines) down the river, shooting
Quadrangle, adida Router, Will Krelko- | donesia and chief; paganda
Wave after wave of Air Force
(Continued on page 3) everything in sight in an effort and Navy planes swept low, hører The Kuomintang's statement to italt the Communist drive. Reichstahn (Soviet zane railway meer, general director of the must ald the Nationalist cause. system); Lex Ende, former chief followed the recent reform or
dered by the Generalissimo in editor of "Neues Deutschland, and Marla Wekerer, an uniden- which several formerly Influen- tified party member-Associated tlal behind-the-scenes political Press.
Agures were publicly shunned by the Kuomintang-AP-Reuter.
Morine Polico, Division, and other Inspectors..
Mr. Luncombe, aged 33, came
He i from Surrey, England, survived by his widow and two
children.
Inspector Leslie, aged 35, came trom South Scotland. He is mur- vived by his widow and a child.
aged Chlef Inspector Clorks, 46, who came from London, har a wife and child here.
Clarke's
condition Inspector was reported to be still critical last night. He is at the Kowloon Hospital.
The following statement was by Police oficially released Headquarters last night:
"At about 9.30 am. a car was parly at stopped by a Police
Tsun Wan. Chung Kwai Chung, An armed man jumped out, and chased by the Police enicred a house by the roadside.
The Police party surrounded
is supreme boss. - The announcement was made by the offelal party newspaper "Neurs Deutschland
can
no
ss. Szechuen arriving today
dashed into a Li, meanwhile, house, which is known as No. 27 We! Tam, at the end of the main village street and locked himself in. The house belongs to a farmer named Au Young Fat who was reported to be absent at the time.
The street is a dead alley and Li was reported to have got into the house through the back which is open field,
closed Ini and an The police exchange of fire took place.
When the police arrived the house and there was an ex- tear gas bombs were throws change of fire.
wider "Police reinforcements into the house in an affort to
Ofeer. Kowloon Commanding smoke the cornered man out "Li was Reon by
and New Territories District, Mr. onlookers through the upper windows of Luscombe were sent to the scene to have and a Police party broke into the the two storey house fanned the smoke. from his house led by Detectivo Bub- armed man fired at DSI Leslie when the latter reached the landing of the first floor and The ship will be arriving one fatally wounded him in the chest, day behind schedule. An official "The armed man then fired, of the Company explained that through the upper window sul-atch a delay to not extraordinary ters at a Police party outside the Clarke house, Chief Inspector
struck in the chest and
faco.
4
The muter Leslie.
Was
wounded.
"Mr. Latscombe then led a party into the house to go to the assistance of DSI Leslie. At the
bottom of the stairs, Mr. Lak
The ss. Szechten is due in Hong Kong from Swatow this morning and she is to sail for Singapore on Sunday. Butterfield and Swire sunounced yesterday. She is carrying 200 'deck par- sengers and 1,200 tons of cargo transit to Singapore. the company said.
In
.
SURVIVOR OF DAKOTA CRASH PICKED UP Singapore, September 1.
A genoral along the Naktong where the day was under artillery fire near its up behind Communiat cross-
Clash with terrorists in Malaya
Singapore, September 1. In a clash with terrorists in the Perak Jungle last night. 9 police Lieutenant died of
Commando was wounded. wounds and a Royal Marine Because of the increased ter- rorist activity in Selangor State, Europeans were today warned not to travel on reads outside the five-mile limit of Kuala Lumpur, the Federation's capital.
Sandbag bridges
дв
up
:
The Communists were using ox-carts, pack horses and veli- -cles to stream soross the hastily
· constructed... sandbag bridges over the Naktọng in the central sector.
Two American battalions, which were cut off when the main body of the American troops pulled back during the afternoon, wore -not encircled and were trying to fight their way back. Efforts are being made to get supplies to the cut-off units by air. Some small amounts were dropped from-small liaison planes, and plans are being made to make larger drops from
-47 cargo planes,
United States Correspondent Jack Burby, reported from the
sion that omcers there belloved Headquarters of the second ove
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Wan Police who flashed a "kid- Inspector shót
Then the police led by Inspec tor Leslie broke down the door and entered the house. Inspector Leslie mounted the stairs and when he was reaching the land- Ing of the floor, Li opened fire
.:Page 2 and shot the oficer in the neck
Correspondence Following reports of guerilia page 3 *. and chest. He died instantly,
concentrations 12 miton North Inspector Leslie was carried
of the capital, troops In the out by Chinese detectives.
area, ‚were' reinforced yesterday The bandit continued shooting
cambo was fatally struck by An Army officer, the first sur-
and #ro now opmbing the and the police returned the fire,
bullets fired by the cornered man.vivor to be found, was picked It was during this mechanigo of fire
Further
reinforcements
Jungls. and
up yesterday by a. motor launch that, Inspector Clarke was struck
equipment, Including armoured scorching the China Sen for the
Royal Air Force and Royal Page 7 three times in the chest.
cara, were sent to the scene under RAF Dakota aircraft missing on Australian Air Force bombert Indie Ilaison channe Sometime Talon Mr. Lus
Lu** Mr. Maxwell, Deputy Commis- a fight from Singapore to Salgon raided suspected terrorist, hide- combe, ted another party, tote xjoner. The armed man was later The officer was transferred to
roud Motoring-spw. killed. The bodies of Mr. Lus-a naval frigate operating in the outs, today, with atoured cars Page 3
· fred them the fànding
Page 9 shot Mr.
the combs and DSI Leslie were re-pron. Five passengers and a crew malataining a constant
covered from the house."
of five were carried, by the miss patrol Salsicalfi, Ni, Total ainos Janke
Don Iddon's Diary Last night, with the aid of 31671.53 impa m09.11, fro..., ma, namirat (ma heart killing him, Instantly.
The bodies of Mr. Luscombe ing plane. kidsantrees of 1718.8 mm.217.11 long hike white the latter was at the bote and Detective. Sub-Inspector Meanwhile, a combined Army searchlights, British troops and Page 10
Datom of the stairs. .
Leslie were brought over to Hong sha polico rescue party yesterday th Malay Regiment mortared Britain reporte on Marshall Todo marind pay It was stated that Mr. Lds Kong yesterday, and the funeral pancirated the doneo Malayan mountain caves where a terrorist Pago 12
combe taffed to come out of the will take place this: afierodoti jungle to within short di camp was located to loance and Comm house after an interval of 40A memorial service will be fahoo" of another RAF Dakota Searchlights blazed over Kuala minutes during which interval held at B. John Cathedral at which crashed with 11 persons Lumpur if last night for the Ant Air, shipping movemen nothing was heard from him, 4.50 Dan, after, which the seaboard on August 25. All are time sincs te Japanese invasion Page 14
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