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VOL. IV NO. 98
Signs Of Cold War Coming To An End
Moscow, Apr. 27-A feeling that Soviet Russia and the three Western their powers may be on way toward a new stago in postwar mutual relations prevailed on Wednesday in Moscow.
No one was going so for as to predlet settlements, beyond it'ng of the Berlin blockade. But informed diplomata bgreed this could be the stepping stone
to great events.
and with
Handied correctly hunile care by all sides, some sources said, this new state of affairs could lead to an ending
of the cold war.
(This dispatch passed through
The Moscow censorship. The
Well, They Said It!
Shanghal, Apr. 17 Harried correspondents Look time to smile today sympathetically and
derstandingly at the re- qulation No. 4. pro- mulgated by the Shanghai Garrison Command "except for news released Ly this headquarters. Chinese and English morn- Ing and evening news- papers and news agencies aro forbidden to publish other Inaccurate War
neww.—United Press,
S'hai Evacuation
Navy Will Give
All The
Help Possible
Shanghint, Apr. 28.-The Bri- copy receiver in the U.S. docslish Consul-General in Shang- not show what, if any, excisions hal, Mr R. W. Urquhart, assured
Britons here last night that de were made by the censor).
removal of British
The scepticism that hus usual-spite the
ly accompanied new moves in warships from Shanghai's bund the cold war was lacking into the mouth of the Yangtse off Woosup!! all pavol help for evacuation purposes will still be given,
Western quarters on Wednes
day,
"Something is cooking," said an American source. "At this point. it does not smell bad."
All Western quarters stressed and the situation was delicate agreed that new steps should be slow and cautious-backed by a great deal of thought.-Asso-a ciated Press.
STOP PRESS
RAF Ready For S'hai Airlift
The Royal Air Force has
for completed plans
airlift between emergency Shanghal and Hongkong to evacuate British nationalo from the northern port should the necessity arise.
Fuur Dakota aircraft are standing by at Kai Tak, and "other planes are reported-to
be standlug by al fore.
Singa-
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THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1949.
Britain Accused Of Intervention In China Civil War
RED RADIO SAYS THE
BRITISH LION IS LIKE A PAPER TIGER
Shanghai, Apr, 28.—The Communist Peiping radio last night said four British warships shelled last week in the Yangtse were trying to intervene in the civil war.
The radio broadcast an article written by Ho Sze-ching, Pro- fessor and jurist. Ho-said the British Naval spokesman had not explained what the British ships were doing in the Yangtse on the day the Nationalist government had to accept or reject the Red peace terms.
The action of the British Navy, Ho said, clearly shows the British "will is to halt the People's Liberation Army and intervene in China's civil war."
aware
development was reported from Canton as Ceneralissimo Chiang. Kai-shek called upon China to resist the brutal forces of the "Communists who aru Bt-
lempting to make Ching a mill- lory base for world domination." General Pal's troops had now
I11 a statement released to-
Nationalist night, Me Urquhart said that orl-
The fact that the British received the permission of the ginal emergency plans have been altered by the attack
the government to sail the Amethyst upriver was interpreted by Ho to mean the
British wanted to halt the Reds crossing of the Yangtse. Amethysi.
"I must be recognised "that
which Daily Graphic lute evacuation
British foreign | the from the
said the waterfront to Hongkong with Ofer "admission" that Natlon-declared: naval assistance
"The In the
formist government approval was
guns of British ships received for the sailing "shows have delivered a warning" in originally planned cannot now be guaranteed and indeevi that the British Navy was well Asia and said the British Lio
"will show his roused, certain circumstances muy
that the people's Libera- when impossible. Accordingly
ad He said the British Lion is alternative arrangements have tion Army was at that moment teeth and, if needed, use them." preparing to eross the Yangtse teen examined," the state.host River and is a proof of the Brit-fake lion which is certainly said,
tah scheme to make the people's not fiercer than a paper tiger
sald the fteds are not Mr Urquhart emphasised once Liberation Army hall is crosle more that the peaceful charge-
Brilish Naval afraid even of real lions. of British ships on then before the
Ho admonished the British: Lec
"Those clearly in vessels."
who play with fire Yangtse was stated
British saliors Forty-three
con the House of Commons by Mi Clement
vere killed and more than 100 ore in danger of being Prima the
Communist attacks sumes in the flames." injured In
Another disposition to
Communis! lender Minister, but nsumerstand the ships object on the four ships-the cruiser
Communists Lontion, the destroyer Consort, was quoted by the Red radlo as will have made "adjustments" in the
the sloops Amethyst and Black saying the emergency evacuation
said "resist and vanquish the im Communists The recessary-Neuter.
they lost more than 250 dend perialists If they are so rable when the British returned are as to participate in the elvil war
of China." of the Red artillery.
Attice,
a
scheme
Swan.
•
A "FAKE LION"
in face of the will drawn across the river. drive from the from Hankow Communist norths and
faced entrapment unless they could drive south working before the Communists.
could move with local guerillas.
ome 85 miles west from their Yongtse River crossing points,
The
mengré details only
were that railway available offeints said they did not know when the service might be re-
sumed.
Party rapidly Democratic
communica
NANKING REPORT RELIEFS ON WAY
Pent Tze-min, Chairman of
Radio, re- The Communist Liverpool, Apt. 27-Nearly
the Central Control Committee
011 conditions In porting 1,000 Royal Air Force and Royal
The Amethyst, the first ship of the China Peasants' and Nanking, said that order was Navy men, with 200 members of
restored" in the servicemen fuuhits left-here-fired upon, still is stranded on Workers' tonight in the troopship Devon the Yangise East of Nank made the declaration in an-April-rst three days of Communist
Communist The
professor 25 broadcast to overseas Chinese.
and Best occupation, shire for Hongkong. Singapore made light of the statement in Peng attacked the "traitorus tions between the city and the and Colombo.-Beater.
treaties which the Chiang Kai suburbs have been established. shek led Kuomintang had signed It said the people are goin with imperialistic powers, about business as usubi and especially the United States, and students are helping the troops sald the treaties were signed "at to explain Red Army policies the expense of national right in to the populace. exchange
High Level Settlement Needed
THE House of Commons debute on the shelling of the Amethyst, Consort, Black Swan and London which originally was to have been fiery, provocative and embarrassing for the Government finally levelled Itself off into a
are
in
for foreign aid to
the
Tension mounted in Shanghai wage the civil war."-Associa-with economie distintegration, ted Press.
greater immediate threat than Communist advancing
New Gold Yuan dollar armies. notes of 100,000, denomination were issued during the night.
The
evacuation of the city stepped up and the British Con- sulate General appeated In newspapers for evacuees to re-
Immediately port
with limited baggage and their own bedding. that The belief persisted'
011
REDS FANNING OUT Shanghai, Apr. 28.--Garri- Бол headquartere said the Communist forges
the West were fanning out from Soochow One column moved from Soochow
along the rali- WAX that leads to Shanghai. The Garrison asserted 5,000 Reds were killed at Soochow.
It said fighting still was in pro-Shanghai might collapse "ke gress.
rotten
Most
pumpkin. Other Red forces moved south foreigners believed that it would from Soochow along the high-lead to complete chaos with rice way toward Kashing, 50 miles riots and widespread southwest of Shanghai.
ance.
disturb-
An Obstinate Grey Mare
BOX
This is the cight-hour story of the grey mare that. was obstinate. It began at 6.30 am. and lasted unt 2.15.
The mare, a three-year- old, was being taken from Epping to Cornwall. For hours porters and an RSPCA ofielal teled to persuade her Into-a-motor-horse-bus at Waterloo. She defied all their efforts. Then they took her across the station to a rall van. But the grey mare, still opposed to travel, disilked the van as much as the horse-box.
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A bill was sent. for after
recommendation
by
veterinary surgeon. Bat suddenly, the mare decided to enter the van without any more trouble.. and she went off quietly in tho 2.50 train to Launceston.
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Imprisoned In
India To
Stay In C'wealth
London, Apr. 27-India is
to remain a "full and equa!" member
Common- of the wealth of Nations even though she becomes a re- public within the next few months, it was officially an- nounced here today at the conclusion of the secret six-
Room For 10 Years
Man's Ordeal
New York, Apr. 27.--- The Brooklyn police said today that they had re- scued, a 33-year old man, imprisoned in A scaled room for the past 10 years by his mother. The many » had a long beard, was "Filthy" and had apparent- ly had no change of cloth- ing in the past 10 years.
n
The police discovered him after the mother, Mrs Anna Makushak, had to enter hospital because of illness. She had told her friends about her son and they told the police.
Soine
timo In 1939, the
mother locked her son in a third floor bedroom and scaled the door of the room with" plaster and bricks, the police said. She had done this to prevent her
being son from conscripted to
vices.
the armed ser-
MENTALLY ILL
The son was fed through an opening in the bedroom ceiling, which led to, the roof.....of the
third-storey residence.
A doctor who examined the
inan said ho was apparently mentally ill. The room in which he had been held was described by the police as being in "a
state," terrible
Tho man's clothing was "hithy," they said. The only sleeping place was a floor mat.
There was a small radio,
with earphones, equipped
lamp and a table, and "innum- erable bo
books."
#
The man's father, 62-year-old Peter Makushak, a tailor, told
the police that he had not scen His his son for 10 or 11 years. wife told him that he had gone to Canada. Reuter..
Spiritualists' Frightening Experience
London, Apr. 27-Five! day conference of Dominion London spiritualist mediums Prime Ministers.
urge The
to
today had an Covernment of India strangle themselves to death have agreed to accept the king with their own hands. The as the symbolle head of
"free
this
association of independent impulse came over them as members."
they donned a little black The eight Commonwealth jacket belonging to the leaders sald in a communique wardrobe of the London that the totes had as their
play:
"The Queen Came
Historical background "the traditionat capacity of the Com-By." monwealth to strengthen its The sinister Jacket had been unity of
while adapting sent to the spiritualists after purpose Its organisation and procedures actresses had complained that invisible fingers grabbed them to changing circumstances."
the round the throat every time. Joint declaration, United Kingdom, Canada, Aus- they put it on.
The mediums themselves said New
Zealand, South
and it was even worse than that. Pakistan
and
they feel the
In a
the Amethyst could make her trip down the river without fear of attack suggests att ingenuousness not usually associated and their political with naval chiefs
But if an error advisers in Whitehall.
committed in des. judgment were
that particular patching the stoop at time, that does not free the Communists from the responsibility and blame. for whose attacking
warships neutral missions were entirely divorced from And this is hostility and provocation, the issue which eventually must be taker up with the Communists when they are
Kashing's fall would cut the
HANCCHOW PRESSURE deal with Cureign a position to
railway to Hangchew, fortified
There were indications that a elty, another 30 miles down the relations
diplomatie Ines. on normal
major baltio was line.
shaping up Furthermore, if the Reds are to become
where The Garrison
"crack southwest of Shanghai Suid
the,
apparently the central authority in China, one of
Communists government troops" had been the first questions to be settled is the
sent northwest
the were exerting their pressure-to- to moet
ward Hangchow to drive future rights and privileges of British
second Red column advancing
wedge between Shanghai and on Shanghal. This column is ap South Chinn. and other foreign men-of-war in Chinese territorial waters. The Yangtse incident parently headed toward Talt-
Reports today said that the miles northwest of song, 23
had Communists our ships position of and
captured the future
Shanghai.
Kwangteh, 53 airline miles Killed When along the river and other Chinese waters
Three ships landed with northwest of Hangchow, and Nationalist soldiers, their decks Changcheng, 25 miles ean only be deelded on high levels, and
to the the
crowded with trucks and planes cast. This this is accomplished the Hooner
would place the Jeft Shanghai, presumably, for Communiste some 65 to 70 'road
One of the mediums, besides after tho Commonwealth better for, our relations with the Com
Formosa. It is on. this island miles from Hangchow.
lenders had officially advised trying on the jacket, and being munists. Naturally there is sympathy
tlist Nationalist China may The Communist radio, in
the King
of their agreement, nearly strangled and drowned, Mr. Churchill's. demand that
make Its last stand.
Snid that India had informed also fell into a trance, and sold The withdrawal of foreigners claiming new victories south of
The Yangise,
sald the Communist
the other Governments of her that, while in that state, she was another. from threatened Shanghai con- forces captured Liyang on the
that yel tinued. The U.S.
Intention to become a "sovereign convinced President Nanking-Hangchow highway 35 Culcutta, Apr 27-Seven
under garment in the play's wardrobe Wilson in
to sail today miles north of Kwongteh. The people due
were reported to have independent Republic"
was being influenced by a spirit, her new constitution.
Efforts will be mode to per- Americana aboard, Communiste ao claimed
killed by gunshol and the been
It added that the other seven
of firm, though rather valaspiring statement by Mr Attlee, and n few bulldog-like growls from Mr Winston Churchill, leaving the Impression that, despite a lot of words, the situation, so far as righting British wrong is concerned Is unchanged. And, under the prevailing circumstances R could scarcely be atherwise. We are all deeply hurt and indignant that British warships on peaceful missions should be badly damaged and many valuable lives lost in an action provoked by Chinese, partisans: but the attack was made by the Communists who have no diplomatic status with foreign powers, who conscious of this and whn, apparently, do not yet desire any such contacts, Wherefore, satisfaction concerning the diplomatic Yangtse tragedy through channels must await clarification and consolidation of the Communists as an acceptable instrument of government In China.As Mr Attice expressed it: The position is still fuld. By and large the. Government came reasonably well out of the debate, though there were discernible Minister's the Prime weaknesses in explanation of why the Amethyst, in the Brst place, was ever permitted to be in the region of the. Communist forces Just about the time they were due to strike Air Встонн the river. According to Attlee, the Reds were not due to stage their offensive until 24 hours after the Amethyst,
a penceful (had it enjoyed
destination. trip) had arrived nt-her This information, however, was not basedl en direct assurances from the Communist leaders, but through press, radio and Nationalist sources. That these should be taken as a sufficient guarantee that
the
· British Government should face "this. matter in a robusi spirit and make sure that the British Ang is respected."
will be
general Furthermore there approval of the Government's decision to reinforce the China Fleet: this is T token of our determination not to be ridden over rough-shod by any aggre- gation of politicians and militarists who happen to be in an aggressive mood. Nevertheless, taking the long-term view, relations with the Chinese Com- munists cannot be reasonably determined by a clash of arms, and it was perhaps, recognition of this on both sides of the House of Commens which removed much of the anticipated acrimony from the debate on the Yangtse incident.
our
with
230
closed
RAILWAY EXPLOSION Shanghal, Apr. 27--An
London Express Service.
traka,
Africa.
Indio,
Ceylon declared
mained united
"as free
that they re-Not only did
and impulse to strangle themselves, equat members in the Common- but they also felt that they wealth of Nations,
freely were being drowned in murky was .co-operating in the pursuit of waters, Their conclusion
the once that
como person, peace, liberty and progress,"
owner of the jacket, must have been half-strangled and then drowned by some
KINC INFORMED The declaration, issued from drow
Police Break No. 10 Downing Street, London, persons unknown.
Up Procession
banned Communist procession today in Calcutta's Bow Bazaar area.
person br
membership of the Common- get out and let the play go on.- wealth is not hereby changed-Reuter. accepted and recognised Indin's continuing membership of the five Commonwealth.
means that
Triplots Include Siamese Twins
cutting the American colony capture of a number of smaller bomb splinters when the police countries "the basis of whose sunde the troublesome porn to here to nbout 1,000. Other Americans
were leaving by towns and said they took 5,000 fired on a
prisoners at Anking. plane. The U.S. Navy
The defence of Shanghai was its fleet post office-Associated
set up along a 30-mile line run- Nine people were injured and Press,
ning from Kunshan to Taichang, the
included casualties
Twenty-seven arresis Kunshan is about midway be pol
polleemen.
Tho agreement
Paris, Apr, 27.-Triplels, two ex-tween Communist-occupied Soo- were made. The police opened though the King will have a
twins, were, plosion on the Conton-Hankow chow and Shanghal, Talchang is Are after making lathi (staves) symbolic status recognised by of them Slamese
have no con-hern at Valenciennes, Northern Indla, he will railway which disrupted traffe 20 airline mites northwest
charges and using tear-gas on the demonstrators,
so. far as France, Agence France stitutional functions may have cut the escape route woosung. of 350,000 Covernment troops in
WOOSUNG AREA
Crude hand-grenades were India is concerned. The future reported today. The Central China, It was feared
There was no indication yel thrown at the police when they head of republican Indla her boys, with only one heart, one tonight.
the procession. self will be an elected president. Uver and two kidneys between Reports indicated that the whether the Red forces would intercepted
or which came out in defiance of who will express the sovereign them did not live,
The mother and the other troops under the Hankow Com- drive directly on Shanghai
will of the people and exercise mander, General Pal Chung-hst on Woosung. However, the pre-u police ban. Later, the de
Communists In monstrators tried to hold up the functions hitherto performed (child, a girl, were doing well
Reuter. were threatened with encircle- sence of the
by the King-Reuter, Be traffic. Reuter. (Continue on Paro 5) ment by the Communists. Tho
of
Presse
twins-