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VOL. IV NO. 105
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 1949.
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MORE TROOPS AND FIGHTER AIRCRAFT FOR HONGKONG Leicestershire Inspectors Olivier
MR A. Y. ALEXANDER
Housewives
Put On A
Show
London, May 5,-House- wives counter-demonstrated for "decent living conditions) and no more war for our children" during a Victory- in-Europe parade of the Regular Army through Central London today.
to
ds "No
The women hid placards un- der their couls and unbuttoned them as the parade passed reveal such slogans More War" "Homes, Not Bombs," and "Peace, for our Kids,"
• the
The police shepherded aniali group away, bystanders shouted: "Lock them up"
Shoot the Lot."
And
The mile-long parade slagen by the War Ofico to stimulate
featured
guns, con-
cars and tunk veyors as it threaded its way through the City and the West End, accompanied by bands and, Highland · drummers and pipers.-Reuter,
three
RACKETEERS
EDITORIAL
Tanks, Anti-Aircraft,
Anti-Tank And Field Guns
GOVT'S PREPARATIONS
FOR HK'S
DEFENCE
London, May 5.-Britain is sending “substantial rein- 'forcements" to the garrison in the Crown Colony of Hong- kong, the Defence Minister, Mr A, V. Alexander, told Par- liament today.
'They will include ́elements of all arms-land, sea and air, he said. Mr Alexander was addressing a House of Commons debate on the situation in China. The reinforcements would bring the British Land Forces in Hongkong to the strength of two brigade groups, each of three battalions, he said.
There would be ancillary troops, including tanks, field guns, anti-aircroft and anti-tank guns." Air Force reinforcements. would consist of fighter aircraft.
The naval squadron in Hongkong would be strengthened by an additional cruiser and, if need arose, an aircraft carrier.
"While we have scrupulously endeavoured to avoid being in- volved in the war on the Chinese mainland, we are no less resolute in our attitude as regards territory for which we hold a direct responsibility," Mr Alexander said.
Hongkong had long had a tradition of neutrality and non- interference in China's politics. he added.
on
from endangering the welfare and safely of the people in Hongkong or hampering the peaceful pursuit of legitimate trade through Hongkong with China."
the when
POLICE FORCE
it was
Is The "Cold War" To End?
bances caused.
lo
Hongkong's
Regt. Coming
To H.K.
London. May 5. The Leicestershire Re- giment, now at Leices- ter. will be the first reinforcement to
Haynes, Murdered On Police Launch
Britain for Hongkong.||EARLY MORNING DRAMA
it was learned at the
War Office tonight, They are due to sail on May 11.
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A field regiment of the Royal Artillery and field squadron of Royal Engineers and two infantry battalions will follow.-Reuter.
West Powers Price For Agreement With Soviet
AT PORT SHELTER
Inspector Ralph Fairburn Craik Olivier and Sub- Inspector Leonard Haynes, both well-known and experienced officers of the Hongkong Police Force, and a Chinese detective, Wong Kam, wore shot dead while asleep in their bunks on board No. 1 Police launch in Port Shelter in the Saikung area in the carly hours of this momling.
Details of the crime are lacking but from an official statement released by the Police authorities this morning it appears that the officers were murdered by three Chinese, two of whom were temporary seamen on board the cruising launch.
About one o'clock this morn- ing the launch was secured at anchor for the night at Port Shelter. About an hour later the guard
was
taken over by two temporary seamen. Insp Olivier was in charge of the
launch with Sub-Insp Haynes Berlin, May 6. The second-in-command, and both Western powers served no-were at this time sleeping.
About 2.30 a.m. the two tem- tice on Thursday that the
perary senmen admitted on creation of a democratic board a third man and with him, Germany will be their price entered the cabins and mur- for agreement with Russia dered the European Police offl- at the coming Big Four Cers and Detective Corporal 797
Wong Kam. Foreign Ministers' confer-
Having killed the officers the then proceeded to
ence.
marauders
The British Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin and Gen. Sir Brian Robertson, British Com China War Front mander in Germany, keynote.
The
set the
bulletin also said the
Contact Lost With 3 Towns
VON RUNDSTEDT.
Von Rundstedt To Be Released
wound the coxswain of the launch and cumpelled him to sten to a point in Chinese ter- ritory, about one mile from Shautaukok
London, May Pro- Here the launch was ground-ceedings against two of Hit- ed and 15 men boarded
the ler's commanders, Field- craft. Together with the mur- Marshal Von Rundstedt and derers they ransacked the ves-
cel of its arms and ammunition, Colonel General Strauss, cro und ihen escaped.
to be dropped and they will be released, Lord Henderson, Parliamentary Under-Secro- tary for Foreign Affairs, announced in the House of Lords today.
on war
MARINE POLICE DOYEN
Insp Olivier was the doyen of the Marine Police and had been connected with the Hongkong Police Force since August, 1923. He was, well-known to the
debate During a Chinese villingers in the districts crimes trials in Germany. Lord patrolled
by his launch and Henderson said that the Gu respected by them. He was 51 vernment had decided. in--the years of age and is survived by light of medical evidence that his wife, Mrs Ada Mary Olivier, Von Rundstedt and Strauss are daughter of the late Mr W. G. unit to
to stand trial, Pepperell, who was formerly Field-Marshal Von Manstein with the Police for many years. is fit to, stand trial, necording A son and a daughter are into medical evidence, and uc England.
cordingly ho
be tried.. The indictment IN WORLD WAR-I--:·
Field-Marshat Von Mansteip The late Insp Olivier saw ac was expected to be served op tive service in the first World him within the next 10 days. War with the Royal Engineers. He would be given such rin He held the Colonial Police Lang sonable time as he wanted, but Service Medal and First Bor and the trial would he held as soon
three occasions received com- as possible.
the
will
acainst
Lord Henderson said, that the Government did not intend to bring to trial in the British zone of Germany any further people accused of crimes against the law and usages of war, except for those whose trials had al- ready begun.
kong Volunteer Defence Forco was being "urgently proceeded with but not yet with such good results as I should desire."
The cold battle for Berlin has Referring -The British. Government had
traditional neutrality, Mrbeen ended by an agreement, consistently maintained a polley TO DIE
of non-interference in the civil
Alexander said that the up-Now the East and West face a test of strength-a Shanghai, Moy B-More-than war and "n-very-vigilant-watch-
porters_of_the_Kuomintang and greater Mr. Alexander said the police the Communists alike hud en struggle for ult of Germany, 20 racketeera who victimised is being kept in Hongkong."
In
A thus pro- In Hongkong, had been
communique further force deciding
four-power residents in various localities of
the that only to their confirmed strengthened, oyed the benefits
Russlan the city
vided, subject and were
recently measures to protect Hongkong, considerably.
had been Government
now numbered much more than obeying the law caught by
and doing blockade on Western Berlin and the police
are the
double its atrength in 1941. nothing to damage relations the Western Allies
counter- scheduled to face a firing squad moved "solely by the desire and
1,200. Recruit-between Britain and China. blockade of the Soviet zone of today,
to prevent according to Chinese determination press reports. Reuter,
unsettled candlilons in China ment for the reorganised Hong-
The steps now being taken Germany will be lifted on May Reds Infiltrate Into would deal with any breach of 12,
mendations from the Governor the conditions under which
and on six occasions from the Eastern Kiangsi Chinese nationals. whether Foreign Ministers of the United
Commissioner of Police. In ad-
sevtral Kuomintang or Communists, States, the Soviet Union, Britain Shanghai, May 6.-The dition he had
creditable reside there and with disturand France will meet in Paris cities of Hengfeng, Yiyang ||
ice. his record of service. entres in of the peace, however on May 23
Sub-Insp.
Haynes 18 "to consider ques-
Eastern you brother of Sub-Insp.
nsp. tions relating to Germany, and and Yingtan In
younger
Haynes who retired problems arising out of the sliun- Kinngsi Province, along the A. for the
tion in Berlin, including ako vital Chekiang-Kiongsi Rail- from the Police last year and
The de is now in Australia. the question of currency in Ber-
and a one-year-old son koni: was at present generally cession since the war-Associat- outside world since Wednes- satisfactory, he said. Supplies ad Press.
day, according to last night's are living in Police flats
cerned, the question of trials of rice, the simple diet of the
war communique of the Prince Edward Road. He is 39 was entirely one for the Ger Chinese, were fully adequsic, POSSIBLE PROGRAMME
Woosung Shanghai Garrison years of age and joined the man authorities, Lord Hender Steps were
Police Force already being
in February,
nry, 1034, son said, of taken to stockpile supplies
Moscow, May -Russia may Headquarters.
After serving in several Sta It was no part of the Govern seek to re-examine the whole Yiyang is about 20 miles cast tions he was posted to the food which might run short.
ment's policy to inerfere with German problem when the Big of Nanchang.
Marine Police In 1935. He was the responsibility Over 2,000 Communist troops also well-known, respected and
which, had Four Foreign Ministers meet In CHINA SITUATION
been handed over to the Gerį here infiltrated into these eastern popular among all the floating Mr Alexander said that it was Paris, Western' observers
believed. not yet clear whether the Com-
Klangs districts on Wednesday population.
(Continued on Pake 5) munisis intended to take Shang- It was believed Russia may from Loping, sightly to the hal or by-pass it. He hoped the propose the opposing armies would recog-ramme: niso the "undesirability for humanitarian rea
ТСАБОЛБ of creating occupallon forces a battleground of this densely- populated area."
EVENT
In China have tended to obscure recent' international develop. ments in Europe, but they cannot rob the announcement of the voluntary lifting of the Berlin blockade by the Russians of its historical importance, or 'Its significance. The
of Soviet shifting polley in its relations with the Western Powers which has been discernible for some Biltle time past opens
up many the Berlin of possibilities. The end blocünde may mean the beginning of the end of the "cold war;" also it may enly be a monoeuvre on the part of the Kremlin to extricate itself from a difficult position and to gain time for yet another political asianult against the solid concord of the Western nations. It is much too carly to attempt any dogmatie forecast of of this week's the eventual outcome parleys among the Soviet, American, British and French representatives. But this much is chrystal clear: The Russians made the first-moves to end the existing Berlin impasse, which they, incldentally, created; that the tentative
nów reached has been agreement conditions laid down by the Western
such is 鮮料 Powers, and
a political achievement of some magnitude; and In sense, these developments a narrower represent a decisive victory for the Berlin airlift, the
of which. probably as much as anything else, has persuaded the Russians Into a new frame of mind. Tho phenomenal achievements
the airlift of
not only nullified the effects of the blockade on Western Berlin, upon which the Soviets had placed so much trust, but also acted us a boomerang. for li is well known now that it has been Berlin' that Russian-controlled Eastern
success
on
has most grievously suffered from the blockade. The blockade in to be lifted on May 12, and about a fortnight later it is proposed to hold' a meeting of the
reason
of Foreign Ministers Council purpose of trying to straighten out other dificulifes common to the
occupation Powers in Germany. Currency will be one subject, and here, if the Russians have already proven their good intentions by honouring to the full their agreement to lift the Berlin barriers, there is good the Western to believe that Powers will be ready to make concessions establishment of for the
a single currency. Only the pig-headedness of the Russians, and their unwillingness to agree to anything approaching л com. promise prevented agreement on this Issue last year. And looming up in the background is the all-important question of a unified Germany. The Iron Curtain hes so far effectively split the country into
f
It would not be in the pub lle interest to give details at this starte, he added.
NO INTERFERENCE
So far as Germans accused of
The food situation in Hong- in." It will be the seventh such way, lost contact with the ceased la survived by his wife offences against other Germans
the
In
able and they wished to go.
for serious concern,
be added.
following
pro norib, and have cut telegraph wires between these places, the Allied communique stated. from Ger-
of. 1. Withdrawal
many.
A small number of indigenous Red guerillus were reported to 2. Organisation of a central be active near Shlovshan, june-
aro
con-
REDS ROUTED, CLAIM
In
or stateless persons were con
mona.
Rescue Drama In Fire-Swept Anthracite Mine
to them.
70
.
The Government had been in government for the entire coun- ture of the Shanghai-Hangchow
try.
and Clickfang-Klangal Railway, consultation with the closest
a. Commencement of negotia- on the south bank of the Chien- British two areas, forcing the Western
Consul General intions for the German peace tang River in Chekiang Theso
Girardville, Pennsylvania, May 5-Crack. Powers into acting independently
Shanghal about the measures to treaty.
guerillas were, however, said to
rescue aquads, wenring gas masks against: deadly In an emergency.4. Four-power control over have been hunted and wiped out be adopted bringing about the economic recovery of
carbon monoxide, waged a grim battle today to These were designed to offer el Germany pending signing of by Government troops, Western Germany. Considerable progress such protection to British, na- the treaty.
reach four comrades believed to be fighting to stay tionals, might be possible in Diplomatic circles has been made in the task of framing &
alive in the depths of a fire-swept anthracite mine. the circumstances and to enable vinced Andrei Vyshinsky, the In the area of Kashing, im- constitution for Western Germany based
them to be evacuated should Soviet Foreign Minister, will portant road and reil junction Clinging to the hope that thei The men worked two-hours at ori democratic principles, while vital
circumstances render 11 desir emphasise that Germany should 60 miles south-west of Shanghai, four men
time. trapped since late a
the limit of their and abandon over 1.000 Communists belong Tuesday night, were, still living, endurance. A second big fan agreements have been reached between
bo one country From the military situation, opposition to a federalised GerArmy were routed on Wednes-long-drawnout" struggle to get
ing to the Communist 23rd
rescuers setticd down to Л was brought to the scene to try the United States, Britain and France on
the financial and economic posi-many.
to force alr down the smaller the
of
German question
reviving
tion in Shanghai Favo cause Agreement raised the hope of day at Wangchlangen, a small
opening when it was completed the Industries essential to
economle future of
Rescue, work posed terrine and push an air lifeline through, the communique claimed.. also on the the people, and
The final remedy lay in Chinese posible eventual understanding town to the north of Kaching. on broader German problems
drove back the smoke. Garrison Headquarters have, obstacles. Smoke was and These
hands, but the situation
of possibly dellente subject of reparations.
increased
meanwhile, ordered the removal rescuers who had tried to get Until the smoke has cleared, being studied by British Interests chances for a firm peace.
rescuers cannot enter the two connot be progressive achievements
In Shanghai in consultation with
Also, WestarnTM observers have) of all military and dally neces-down the mine shaft. Corban tower levels where the trapped. Ignored or jeopardised by
any future
the Consul-General,
Celt almost unqualified opli sary commodities out of Kash-monoxide mingled with men were believed to be. In
choking smoke, The measure is belloved ing. deliberationa
We shall pursue the policy of miam ever since it frat became to be aimed at preventing these Western between the
What the rescuers faced was face of hazards of smoke, car peace and ald
our own known that the American and Powers and Russin which deal with Ger-
tho nighi bon monoxide and intense heat, coinmodities from falling into indicated through nationals 011 the very best Russina delegates in New York the hands of the Communists. when carbon monoxide from the rescue
workers swore they many as a whole. Because the Western
possible basis," Mr Alexander | had started Informal talks. -- Germany recovery programme is based
United Press.
Violators of the ruling will be shaft was drawn to the surface would not give up "until the said.
dealt in accordance with mar- by air-pumping operations. men are out. on solid principles it must be dovetailed
The fire itself, raging some- GIBRALTAR OF EAST
tial law and their goods con- Tesis at the surface showed the into any wider plans which the
Lecated
colliery of the Mr Harold MacMillian, for the In concert, occupying Powers,' acting
Moulin Max. 5.--The
Rebuffed in attempts to go liberton Coal Company, was Daily necessary commcdilles would knock out a, mule where In the Opposition, thought Hongkong
best be defended if it stabiilary and Quezon city police oll and vegetable
firewood, down the wide mine, shaft, res secondary. could conceive: but it cannot bo jeitisoned. It
ol cue Indopted Fedibly
workers This morning was made clear that an attack authorities
"To hell with the are. Let's can be expected that this' will be made
one of the upon it would be regarded "as security measures following the while military commodities, in blacked off, il but n. 20 feet by got the men out," perfectly clear to the Sovicis if and
laconic rescuers replied when aggression with the receipt of reports that the pur- clude steel, cement, wood, com 20 feet opening at the when the time arrives for tackling the
would continuo having members of the Quezon munications equipment, gasolina, Working there, they started the asked if they consequences,"
the stubborn Bald. "Hongkong is the Gibraltar family aco being threatened by motorcar parts, strings and tow slow process of lining the nar efforts to douse problem of a unified Germany,
United of the East and must be held." "unknown elements," it was re-materials for making explosives mower space with timber and underground
burlap.
Press. (Continued un Fage 8.). liably reported today-Router.
an act of necessary
to
havo
con-
-Reuter.
flour, rico,
the
top.
blaze,