Americans Building New, Secret Airstrip In Berlin
EXPECTED TO BE COMPLETED
IN SEVEN WEEKS
Berlin, July 12.-Americans worked feverishly today on a secret new. 5,000-ft airstrip which could easily handle B-29 aircraft and would increase the capacity of the Templehof airfield by approximately one-third.
More than 100 American troops and German labourers have started work on the new runway on a 24-hour daily shift last Thursday, July 8. It is expected to be completed and ready for use in about six weeks and will greatly aid the air battle against the Berlin siege.
Tine new nlrstrip. constructed from brick rubble
NEXT THREE asphalt from Berlin's
and re-melted
YEARS WILL
BE CRUCIAL
ruins and destroyed streets, will be 140 feet wide.
Construction is going so fast that according to workers already several planes have mistaken the new strip for the old ones and started to land on it when the control tower called them off.
Great spotlights have been set up on the field so that the workers, in- three officers, can work on through the drizzly cold nights.
Mr Chifley's Broadcast cluding 40 American soldiers and
by
London, July 12,~The Aus-
RUBBLE AND BRICKS tralian Prime Minister. Mr J.
The rubble, and brick base of the B. Chifloy, said tonight that strip will be 18 inches deep and is the "next three years may being pounded into the grass very well be the most crucial Ave sicamrollers. It is estimated in the history of
that approximately 25,000 British
truck- louds of bricks will be required for people."
the base. Blocks of paving from un- asphalt top. used streets will be stripped for
the
In a broadcast over the BBC re- loyed to tho Australian Broad- costing networks, Mr Chifley sold that Australia would do all in her power to help Britain during trying times ahead,
of
the
started
Air Force oficials who the project after the concrete run- way began showing signs of wear from the heavy airlift traffe, got special permission from the district burgermeister to see the rubbled brick and old asphalt. thelter all, we came here to re-i
to
to
Just back from a flying visit Berlin, he said that he was able get a first hand picture "very difleult position" there,
"Economic and political problems of a character never before countered in our history, have be faced daily," he said. "There is
little respite from them"
CH-
Berlin
it
and not to tear down." one GI commented. "These broken bricks are private property and
couldn't wo
lake It without permission." 10 "Another GI chimed in: "Quite, but it sure didn't take long to get permission. These Berilners are as
Mr Chifley said that the object
of his visit to Brilain was to obtain
and give a clear understanding of the economic difficulties that con- fronted the people of Britain and Australia
'JOINT POLICIES "We want to determine, as well as circumstances will permit, our joint policles for the future. I say to my own people that the path is not easy going but hard, and will
ontinue to be hard.
"Australians know that our future Is linked with Britain, not only by lics of ruce and kinship, but
because of hard practical reasons."
enger as we are to keep
supplies rolling in."
these
An officer said that work is pro- ceeding slowly because they lacked the proper equipment.
"We could use several more bull- dozers, but those can't be flown in here. Also we should have rock in- comes from the Russian Zone and stead of battered bricks, but rock the Rusakies donate us any rock for this."
sure aren't going to
from the Russian or German Com- Meanwhile there is no murmur
munist sources in answer to the three Power protest on the Soviet blockade.--United Press.
Mr Chifley said that he believed MORE FIGHTING
much could be done in Australla to expand production of beef and dulry products and wheat.
IN KASHMIR
Referring to the British emigru- tion to Australia, he said: "Fullest
New Delhi, July 12.An India understanding exists between the communique, revealed sudden that upsurge in the fighting in Kashmir Governments
today.
respective matter.
Only the lack of shipping and acute housing thortage in Australia is holding up the scheme, he said. -United Press,
*
It said that 2,000 "ralders" put in smashing attack on the Uri and Poonch fronts to which aeroplanes were sent to support the defending Indian forces.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 18, 1948.
Captured In Bed After Manhunt Fails
Chinese Communists
Change Their Policy
SAID READY TO WELCOME FOREIGN RELIEF AGENCIES
Shanghai, July 12-Mr Lewis Hoskins, of Newberg, Oregon, chairman of the Quaker Friends Service unit in China, returned from both sides of the Honan war front today with a report that the Chinese Communists have changed their policy and would welcome non-political foreign relief agencies. Hoskins went into Red territory Hoskins emphasised the Friends two months cognition for relief work in disputed political relief
gol Red re-Service unit is an international non- agency supported and Nationalist areas 120 square today mainly by the United States miles around
"Society of Friends," unlt
It was no- was already recognised by the tive both sides of the lines during and Nationalists. Most of its medical the Spanish civil war and the
India-Pakistan fighting worked for the past six years in Chino, including two years in Red territory.
ago and
Kaifeng The
other work
government areas.
was done
in
Hoskins said he felt the Reds have eased up on foreign relief-even Americans possibly because, firstly,
und has
In
drive
- Jerry Malleck (centre), 23, self-admitted member of a gang which held up a gambling establishment" in suburban Chicago, shot two policemen, and cluded a ring of 200 officers who surrounded them in a stone quarry in the southwestern section of Cook county, is taken from bed at his home. Policeman Jack Robbins of suburban La Grange and Chief of Police C J. Buehl (left) make the arrest of the. one. legged robber.-AP Picture.
ERP
WILL NOT MEAN MORE FOOD
Disappointment For Britons
It stayed behind when foreign condemning party extremism and the face of the Communist of Mao Tse-tung's recent speech missionaries evacunted Hozan excesses, and secondly, a desire for fast December, Currently, it is London, July 12-Mr John medical and industrial supplies now trying to fill the void in medical; Strachey, Minister of Food, to- that UNRRA shipments have ceased. service left by
the missionary day said that even with ERP evacuation. HAD TO TALK FAST
there is no hope of a sudden He entered the Red area through Nationalists and Communists--both in the United States.
Honan is held in patches by the resumption of food purchases e CNRRA tractor team then opera-powerless ting in the heart of the civil war kalaazar and other discases.
against epidemics of into skirmishes and "had During the Kalteng battle ho ran
Quakers, operate hospitals, to do and machine shops. some fast talking" to get past the trigger-happy Communist soldiers who bristled when they learned he was an American.
But the Rod officials, he said, Issued identification papers for the Friends Service unit, saying: "There
The
schools
Hoskins said during the Kalteng battle their 23-bed hospital at Chungmou was *swamped with wounded fram Kaifeng, mostly government soldiers who hobbled 30 miles to the hopspital. Some had
is a new policy. From now on wo wounds five days old. The Com- Protect foreign relief bodies. We munists let them pass," he added welcome foreign help in caring for United Fress, the lacpalliving (common people)." Hosking said he felt there laa The communique sald that the "new Communist polley of more raiders fired 1,000
bombs tolerance, not persecution, toward the
before foreign relief bodies. It mny bo purely selfish in motive, but it is consistently expressed by every Red official I caw."
mortar positions
DRESSED FOR launching their attack.
THE PART
London, July 12-John Sherlick, American scaman of 263, West-10th Street, New York, stopped off the Trans-Atlantic, plane at the London airport today, wearing white shirt and grey flannels and a straw hat.
*
П
"Where is the cricket match?" he
asked.
It claimed that 141 raiders were killed during the Url and Poonch fighting-United Press.
PAPER ADVOCATES
He said the. officials did not, specify whether the new polley,
Flood Market
With Supplies
allows the resumption of evangelis- Shanghai, July 13-In a desperate
Quakers do not do.
He said: "All ERP can do is en- able us to pay for our foodstuffs from Canada and perhaps purchase a few foodstuffs In the United States--cheese for example-not readily available elsewhere.
But even.cheese is only to all the gap in quantities available from Canada. It is not a net increase. In the coming year, food problem will be in the balance of paymenta of not what we can get, but of what we can pay for."
WORLD PROSPECTS
An Epic Naval Victory
HOW INDIAN MINESWEEPER SANK 10,000 TON JAPANESE CRUISER
London, July 12-The Admiralty tonight published the story of an “almost miraculous" war- time naval engagement, in which the 650-tón Indian minesweeper Bengal sank a 10,439-ton Japanese armed raider.
The Bengal, escorting the Dutch Yet, among the crew of the Bengal oil tanker, Ondine, in the Indian there was not even a slight injury. Occan in November, 1942, sighted while a hit which she secured on two Japanese armed raiders, one the largest Japanese vessel caused of over 10,000 tons and the other of huge explosions after which the ship 8,000 tons.
disappeared. The minerweeper ordered the tanker to act independently and The Bengal escaped and the On- herself headed straight for the dina, although, badly damaged, was largest Japanese raider.
ro-boarded by the crew which had
During the engagement over 200 had to abandon her and was ultima- shells were fired at the Bengal from tely brought safely back to Free-. the two Japanese warships, each of mantle, Western Australia. which fired broadsides of four d inch guns, while the Bengal had this exploit, sent an expression of The Admiralty, when informed of only one 12-pounder gun with 40 its deep admiration to the Govern- rounds of ammunition.
Eagerness For
Jap Machines
[ment of India, it is now disclosed.
result.
The narrative of the engagement, submitted by the Commanding off- cer of the Bengal, concluded: "Those who took part in this ac- tion will never cease to marvel at the
To think, that a small ship, with only one '12-pounder gun, should engage two raiders, both Shanghai, July 13-Mr Ku Pao more than ten times her own nizo, chang, Department Director of the and each with about 20 times her Ministry of Industry and Commerce, gun power, and enable the tan- yesterday told newsmen upon his ker to escape, sinks one ralder, and arrival from Nanking that more then get away herself, is than 700 applications for the pur-miraculous.
almost chose of Japanese reparation machines had been received by the be justly proud of their little Ben- "The Royal Indian Navy should Ministry.
Out of these applications, 320 gal Tiger; she has had
her tnil had been passed as eligible while twisted and has a few scars, but the remainder were eliminated. on Tiger will be roating again"--Reu
these will soon bo'healed and the
procedural grounds.
In the examination of applica- tions, priority was given to, textile machine and paper manufacturing factories and coal mines.
A list of 05 factories which had been earmarked to receive top priority in the purchase of repara ilon machines had been submitted to the Japanese Reparations Com- mittee of the Executive Yuan for further examination and approval, Mr Ku added-Reuter.
Air Disaster To
Be Probed
London, July 12-Lord Paken- ham, the Minister of Civil Aviation, announced tonight that there would be a public court of enquiry Into the loss of the Swedish Skymaster air- liner and the Royal Air Force York
July 4
that
Northwood, near London, aircraft which both crashed at
on
with the loss of 30 lives. preliminary investigations are tak
The announcement added ing place and that a' further an- nouncement will give the compost- tion of the court of enquiry and the date on which the formal hearings will be opened.-Reuter.
SHOWING
TO-DAY
Tex.
PRESS PHOTOGRAPHS
Copies of photographs taken by the South China Morning Post and Hong Kong Telograph Staff Photographers are on view
In the
Morning Post Building.
ORDERS
BOOKED.
Printed and published by FREDERICK PERCY FRANKLIN for and on behalf of South China Morning Post Limited at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong
KING'S
AIR-CONDITIONED
JOHNNY'S GOT
A DATE WITH
At. 2.30, 5.15, 7.20.& 9.30 p.m..
A KILLER!
He
Mr Strachey believed the world food prospect is improving. said cereals are not so short as six to nine months ago while twice as much rico is moving in Interna~ tional trade as a year ago.
itc missionary work-which the effort to bring down the prices of He said that the Government has LIBEL LAW
various commodities, the Commodi-reached a series of "useful arrange- WORLD WITHOUT TROUBLE
ty Control Organisation here began ments" with Australia. He said the Shanghal, July 13.-The Ta Kung
negotiating leading Pao,
He said when the Reds captured to dumn large quantities of supplies Food Ministry is also independent daily, Chungmou village, 30 miles west of
on to the markets.
n seven-year contract for New Zea today urged the abolition of publica Kaifeng where the
It is hoped that by this measure
land dairy produce. suppression of the Nanking edition the Friends Service unit?",
Quakers work tion laws in commenting on the was centred, they asked: "Are you called in within the next few days we have been able to maintain some CN$5 million million will bo "In the case of Canada," he said of the Hsin Min
Haskins said: "We were in a world as the Brst stop in checking run with the utmost difficulty from pay- It said that Chi the Constitullohat era and suggested were there.
entered without trouble for the 10 days they away prices:
ments, the point of view They even let us go to The dumping of a huge quantity valuable contracts with them." The temperature was 55 degrees incorporation of a libel law in the Kalteng to rescue our stocks while of commodiles by the authorities and it was pouring rain when
criminal code which would Sherlick landed.
all papers and
cover they were still holding the provincial WDP Governor of the Central Bank, tlated 37 bilateral food pacts with admilled by Dr.S. Y. Liu, De- Altogether, he said, Britain nego- perlodicals found capital." Sherlick, who intends to go on to printing accounts detrimental to the Ho said comparable treatment was Czechoslovakia, had only one small national interests, or libelling pri-given to other foreign relief groups bag with a clean shirt for the 8,000-vate persons-Reuter.
Lin Kaifeng. mile
trip.
it. My friends in these are the
"I must sec New York tell me
right clothes; so here I am."
"I am man don't need many clothes-all want is to get to the first train to the cricket game."
Today's match between England
and Australia in the third Test was washed out-plied Press.
MOUNTBATTEN
STILL ACTIVE
has
Calwell Defends White Australia Policy
Canberra, July 12.-The Immigration Minister,
Mr Arthur A. Calwell, rejected today suggestions that Australia admit Asiatics under her quota system.
He said the latest attacks were
A bullelin issued by his depart-
Monol conferred with Mr R. A to permit large numbers to reside Malayan seamen
outbursts newspapers
of
of our
to the Chinese press. Ha European, South American and
denled
that big de-Asiatic countries.-United Press, notes would be issued- that are believed to have
caused the elty's intest
economic
NEW MEAT RATION
landslide in which the American London, July 12-Dr Edith Sum-
dollar. rose. 10. EN50,200,000.
merskill, Parliamentary Secretary. Meanwhile, internation from the to the Food Ministry said today that
Garrison
Headquarters Indicated that the all-out drive against un scrupulous merchants is in full swing:-Router
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COLUMBIA PICTURES presents
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POWELL KEYES JOHNNY O'CLOCK
JOHNNY
COBB DREW FOCH
17,500 tons of canned corned beef. have been issued to Britons
.of their meat ration in the place carcass ment held up by the Lon- don dock strike.
for
SA THOMAS GOMEZ JOHN KELLOE
She told the House of Commons that she was not sure the loss In carcass meat would eventually be made up.
"There is a delay in the turni around of the ships," she said. "And you must realise that we not only have contracts with exporting countries but wo must also take their exportable surplus too. If we do not take it up in the specifled time, it might be that we will lose
INDUSTRIAL London, July 12-Lord Loulement said:
OUTPUT RISES Mountbatten continues an active par-
"Irresponsible "It is doubtful whether any quota European-owned ticipation of Indian affairs, parti. Sgure would satisfy any Asiatic Malaya and the Netherlands East Cripps. Chancellor cularly in the efforts to
London. July 12-Sir Stafford settle the nation, and onco Hyderabad issue..
the doors to Indies.
of the Exche Australia are opened for permanent
quer said today that British' in During the
He said the latest attacks were dustrial output in the first, quarter past week, Lord residence of small quotas of Asiatics, based on Australian action Mountbatten and High Commissioner continued pressure would be exerted patriation of a small number
In re of this year was about 11 percent of above the total for the same period chairman of the Conservative permanently in this country."
who: .cama India Committee,
Australla daring
to of 1090, the Tast
prewar year. It the war.. using the Colwell said the Malayan scamon
Mr was du 30 percent above is 1910 dependences
White Australia Policy," but and other Asiatic refugees were
he sold well
She said that the Ministry this) India House sources said that Lord the statement amounted to a de- admitted during the war with
compares well with the year in Importing 1.2 million ton Mountbatten and
Ho
said Australia's understanding they were to leave where in most countries the prewar Russia and 150,000 tons from Aus- Commissioner fence of it
picturq
on the continent from Argentine, 700,000 tons; from Menon impressed both Mr R. Immigration policy is based on the the country at the end of hostilities. level has only recently been Butler
and Mr. Monciton with the concept of 'n nation with homo-
4,000
at-tralia of barley and maize feeding had loft reasonable atUtude and fairness of geneous European populations, free
without tained, Sir Stafford bald in a stuffs. India's offer.
from the tensions and complexities Mr Calwell said that if the Ma-
speech at an industrial exhibition." which beset countries with mixed layan seamen were
Despite this increased production, Earlier, Conservative Colin permitted to hopulations."
stepped up exports and a 20 percent Thornton-Kemsley raid that if Bri- return, it would establish
pre cut in importa Inspired. propaganda, which is almed would be the conquest of Australla, cent of what Britain buys abroad is would give everyone in Britain an Bald. 18 per- maize bought in Argentino, It at the destruction of Australia's by infiltration as surely na by direct sull not covored by export earnings. extra 14 ounces of bacon
on polley."
Assault-Associated Press,
Associated Press.
«Hyderabad's, lo term." well avoided
Lord Mountbatten and Mr Monck- ton-alio contared separately with
protest
tho
the Prime Minister;' Mr. AttleëïHAAN EITHER Minister criticised "foreign | cedent Ho said the ultimato result years ago, Bir Spared with -10. Lain could double the amount of
Mr Winston Church with ch phasis on the Hyderabad lestie
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