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Hongkong Telegraph.
VOL. IV NO. 181
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1949.
AMETHYST GIVEN WARM WELCOME BY HONGKONG
JUNGLE BATTLES
JENNIE PYTHON
New York, Aur. 2----Miss Genevieve Cuprys, Singapore agent for a New York importing firm, who la known to her colleagues as "Jungle Jennie." wrestled with a 33-fool python in the hold of the Dutch freighter. Sekledijk (9,502 tons), it was revealed today when the vessel docked here.
Miss Cuprys was in charge of a $25,000 cargo, Includ ing icopards, cabras, cals, monkeys and mynalt birds on the 30-day Voyage from the Far East to New York.
One day a 175-pound python broke out of ita eage and Miss Cuprуx threatened to escape from the ship's hold. tried to coax fie snake back to its cage, but the python be- gan to call itself around her body.
Two husky crewmen grabbed lis tall and, freed her. Commenting today, Miss Cuprys sald;
"I was scared
to death, but I realised that the safety of others depended
an nic. I would never do it again."-Reuter.
Tito Will
Help
To Overthrow Balkan Regimes
Belgrade, Aug. 2. Marshal Tito of Yugo slavia today pledged his country's full help to any popular uprising in Bulgaria or Albania aimed at overthrowing the present Cominform-supporting regimes.
to revent without hindrance all their greater |Bulgarian chauvinistle claims
Speaking to an officially-, "but it was counting chickens -estimated
Mace-before they were hatched. The 360,000
Cominform resolution offered donians at Skoplje on the
to leaders of an opportunity fifth anniversary of the the Communist Party of Bul- Yugoslav Macedonian Re- garla public, Marshal Tito said:
"I think the time will come when the Bulgarian people. Ignoring base and shameless slanders, will be able to extend
is and their fraternal hand to
them will help. we
remove whatever Individuals who have
Stirring Scenes
In Harbour As Ship Enters
MEN CONGRATULATED BY GOVERNOR AND C-IN-C
STEAMING TRIUMPHANTLY TO THE ACCOMPANI- MENT OF A CRESCENDO OF SHIPS' SIRENS, AND THUNDER- ING SALVOES OF FIRECRACKERS, INTERMINGLED WITH LUSTY CHEERING FROM MEN ON HIS MAJESTY'S SHIPS, THE SHELL-SCARRED SLOOP, HMS AMETHYST, THIS MORNING ENDED HER DRAMATIC ESCAPE JOURNEY FROM THE YANGTSE WHEN SHE BERTHED ALONGSIDE THE NORTH ARM OF THE ROYAL NAVAL DOCKYARD JUST A LITTLE AFTER 11 O'CLOCK.
Incessant rain did not deter the enthusiasm of the large crowd that gathered on the waterfront to...welcome the gallant sloop back to home waters after having been trapped in the Yangtse since April 20 last, when she was shelled.
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Here is the shell-scarred Amethyst just entering Lyemun Pass at 10 a.m. today. Her epic 140-mile dash down the Yangtse River last week-end to escape
from Chinese Communist detention has made naval history.
May
U.S. Senate
To Slash Arms
Try Aid
Washington, Aug. 2.-Senators today postponed the hearings from tomorrow until Monday on President Truman's $1,450,000,000 military aid programme amid indications that they would attempt to reduce it in size and scope.
area of among
military atd
the
Senator Tom Connally mittée would seek・ "the Earlier today, Mr. Averell Harriman, the Marshall Plan
told raving Ambassador, 10a.m.gave a pleturesque display with stars on shore and the smiling, Democrat), Chairman of widest possible
the House to Macedonia, and not only to
of jubllant Amethyst men. Sirens the Senate Foreign Rela- agreement"
Representatives Pirin (Bulgarian) but to through the haze could be their hoses spraying.
on the tions Committee, said that members As soon as the Amethyst made were still sounding when
the foreign Foreign Affairs Committee that Vardar (Yugoslav) Mace scen H.M.S. Jamaica enter-
the joint Foreign Relations arms plan before asking fallure to adopt the foreign donia."
ing from Lyemun Pass fol- way into Kowloon Bay, gangways were put in place.
ships and launches in the
After the sloop was occured and Armed Services Com- for Senate action.
programme now Admiral Brind, ac- destroyer vicinity sounded their whistles
would incan the loss of valuable Once again Tito energetically lowed by the
time. Governor, On approaching
the by Cominform
Then came the and charges Cossack. rejected
Festing
and Air Com- Greek government troops to
heartiest felicita- their cross Yugosiny frontlers to at Cdr J. S. Kerans,
cable lengths sack hauled out of fine to star-tions to Commander Kerans, the tack Creek rebels from the rear about seven
behind. Escorting
and the Amethyst then officers and the ship's company. the
the Belfast. them and
Before leaving. Sir Alexander The Hongkong Locat Flotilla and Admiral Brind addressed.
sirens.
so for put up obstacles to the that Yugoslavia had allowed long-awaited Amethyst (Lt-commander-in-Chiet, Far Eastmodore HMS Belfast (Fingship of the General
creation and preservation brotherly relations. The sition with Albania same."
po-
the
Speaking in the huge square named after him along the banks of the Vardar River
DEO) Station), the Jamaica and Cosme Davies boarded her and
བ།
He sold the story was nothing Amethyst were RAF
an but-throwing-of dust into the the centuries-old cily, which cyes of "the masses of the en- Sunderland-flying-boat-and were stationed, ahead
tire world In order to mask two Spitfires, the latter two Flagship. has been a conquerors' caleway their dirty plan for liquidation circling the harbour at fair-
for generations, Tilo attack
the Cominform
and the
garian and Greek
In
of the democratle movement in
Bul-Greece."
Communist
old
parties for stirring a new
Balkan rivalries.
COUNTING CHICKENS
They
Tito said the Cominform was this "not from outside doing bbt through leaders of the Greek Communist Party"
cas. their eyes Br "Ife thus" ugain emphasised his Mincedonia," sald Tito of the open rift with the present rebel Bulgarlan Communist leaders, lenders.-United Press.
EDITORIAL
Wanted:
Α
for
proud, rejoicing day THIS is a
Hongkong. The hearts of Britons everywhere have gone out to the gallant men of the Amethyst, and we in Hong-
be kong are privileged to able to welcome
and them back to their base British soll Involved, without warning and through no fault of their own, in an Intolerable situation, they survived the guns and taunts of the Chinese Com- munists and came out with glory. Britain is proud and grateful. Neprisals of some sort can be expected. Just what form they will take it is impossible to predict; it can only be hoped that those Britons still remalaing In Communist, China will not suffer too heavily. There has already been ample evidence of the Communista anti-foreignism, although so far the Americans have been the chief sufferers. There has beert, for instance, the detention and 11-treatment of the Amerl- can Vice-Consul in Shanghal, Mr Olive; a'
·British official of the Shanghai Tramway Company, Mr Matheson, has served three weeks in gaol on a charge of assaulting an employee; the managers of several foreign firms, and Mr Randall Gould, the American newspaper editor, have been submitted to unreasonablo and persistent demands from their employees and have
· sometimes, 'been confined to their offices for long periods; more recently, there has been the ́¡invasion of the United States Consulate by a mob of eX- employees of the US Navy, Those incidents, have "combined to dispel the original; ¦optimism that ones the...Conti munists had gained control of Shanghai
Meanwore
of the
the ship's company.
A Radio Hongkong recording the on VI
North unit was present on the Norti N. Brown Arm ly low altitude several times, Arm
L
and a recording of the Major-General G. Carrival ceremony will be broad- Trailing behind the Amethyst Beld,
Commodore A. D. cast at 8.15 p.m. tonight. were several launches and the Evans, Alr
Lt-General F. W. Ferry's Golden Star, Davies, and Star
Festing had arrived, and they which was beflagged for the casion. They kept within close were each accorded the General triumphant sloop Salute by the Guard of Honour range of the
berthed nn Band of the Middlesex up to when the and joined in the chorus of Regiment. sirens. Meanwhile, Grefloats
Policy
the
they would quickly attempt to come to some working agreement with foreign frms. But it must be admitted that. in some cases this optimism -umounted-to- wishful thinking, and, despite unpleasantneHS of these anti-foreign Incidents, it is perhaps a good thing that they are giving foreigners a greater realisation of the problems to be solved if trade with China Is to continue. In spite of the continual Communist attacks on "western Imperialism,” Mao Tse-tung has frequently admitted that China must continue to import foreign machinery if she is to become an Industrialised state,
· economically independent. So there are still grounds for hope that an arrange- ment will be renched soon-perhaps when the 'Communists set up their central authority. From the foreigners' point of view the problem is one of considerable urgency.
It has been estimated that foreign firms are spending hundreds of thousands of pounds overy month to keep their branches in occupied China in operation. Many firms have no income at all coming in, but have to continue paying their staffs. They cannot afford "such a drain on their resources In- definitely. There is another d1fcult question: Is trade with Communist China yan extension of trade with Russia, and if so, how far is it desirablo?.... This is n question which must be answered at ́a high level. Tho need seems to be for a speedy decision, on polley from tho British and American governments, and any other Western powers which may be, interested.
Leighton Stuart In Okinawa
"I earnestly believe that we the struggle for
The actual Bill before the House of Representatives Foreign AffairsTM Committee would authorise $50,000,000 less are winning than the sum requested by the peace and freedom In Europe,"
he sald President.
"To succeed, America Senator Connally's announce-be resolute and steadfast," he ment came after Mr Dean added. -Acheson,-the-Secretary of State,
and the Defence Secretary, Mr Louis Jobaron, had talked with the Senate group behind closed dears.
UNIFIED PLAN
bntist
He declared that if the pro gramme were not adopted, il would cost more in the long run, Okinawa, Aug. 2.-Dr J. Some Senators were reported and would put off the day when Leighton Stuart, American to have told the two Secretaries the United States could count the contribullon of the Ambassador to China, who bluntly that the Bill involved on MACAO SHIP
tho President and more than security. of the Communists in Nan- the stop
gap programme On
Referring to a suggested delay nending
nding the setting up of the NEAR king, arrived here by plane which they had been insisting. SINKS
today with a small group-of- They objcct primarily to a North Atlantic Treaty's military Embassy officials, en route President
provision which would authorise organisation, Mr. Harriman said. Truman' to make that the Western Union' coun-" CHEUNG CHAU to the United States.
arms available to any nation in tries hud been working for more Dr Stuart Is the first foreign the world.
than a year on the development of to leave the
unified 1 diplomatic party
plan of mutual. MODIFICATION
defence. Senator Connally said that "These countries aro the
has been a virtual prisoner too wkte a grant of powers to Western European nations to her
I set off from about 6.15 u.m today while Dr Stuart conferred with Mr"in some small particulitces budgets
for
C.-IN-C. ARRIVES The arrival of Admiral Sir Patrick Brind (C-in-C) by barge at 10.42 am from Bel- accompanied by Vice- fast,
The Hongkong Macao Admiral A.C.G. Madden, coin- cided with the turning of the cargo ship Tai Fung (69 former Chinese capital since its Amethyst
ran last seven- tons)
on rocks near capture by the Communists last on the
April.
the Senators had discussed 'n hard core of the European de- minute stretch of her journey. Cheung Chau lighthouse Immediately on his arrival, possible modification of the BUI fence," he stated,
*Their reclas minute
current precise
milltary Also at that firecrackers were
The heads thu Clark, who
combined
the from Lewis
provide her way here the P. and O. building, follow on
of nearly $5,000,- sank a short Embassy's office in Canton and would meet again on Friday in equivalent
As far as they are ed
is Dr Stuart's successor as the closed session, thus delaying 000,000. by salvocs of crackers ex-Macao, and
from while afterwards.
top American ploding simultaneously
in the start of the Senate hearings | concorned, work diplomat
hing, already for China. buildings along
uut Monday, he added. Two other ships bound
(Continued on Page 5) the principal the waterfront,
Mr Clark flow to the Naha including Hongkong from Macao were in Knig's, Queen's, the Hongkong the area about the time of the Air Force base at Okinawa for Oriental Building and incident, and pleked up sure the meeting, and is expected
vivors. The river
steamer to return to Canton tomorrow. Hong-Dr Stuart refused to discuss his Kwong Sal arrived in the praya kong at 8.15 a.m. with seven Nanking. experienceR ог the them under survivors from the Tal Fung. China situation before reporting. the verandahs. Tho binger Five of these were men and to Washington-United Press. liner in harbour added thele two were women, one of whom blasts
stirring was dead on arrival. The other
U.S. PROTEST climax.
epoch-making woman was sent to hospital. Washington, Aug. ovent
The cargo
ship Lee Sang United States Embassy in Năn- At 10.43-a.JO. His Excellency brought 31 survivors, including king protested to the Communist the Governor accompanied by six women and two young boys. authorities on July 30. against Lady Grantham, arrived on the The Tai Fung is owned and the imprisonment of two Ameri- quay, being greeted with the operated by the Wai Kee Arm, can journalists in their offices in first four bars of the National 35 Connaught Road West. She Shanghai by a mob of workers, Anthem.
was bringing miscellaneous cargo the State Department announced
C
at the Club.
but the rain kept
,
to provide
to an
Victoria Re-
from Macao.
EISTEDDFOD WINNER
Doigelley
Merioneth, Wales,
today.
2-The
Mr Randall Gould, the editor, and Mr Charles Miner, the re presentative of the owner of the Shanghal Evening Post and Mercury, were imprisoned in their oMees from July 28 to July 28 by former demanding wago
The American protest, which
The Amethyst was then slow ly approaching her berthing place with two Naval tugs sfond- Ing by. Launches and 'mofor- the boats, which had followed Amethyst up the harbour and had let off Intermittent bursts; of firecrackers plus the sound-
of sirens, had by now Aug. Mr F. T. Jones, gathered about 100 yards off the 44-year-old Welsh newspaper- quayside to add to the final man. scored the much-coveted was delivered to the Communist phase of the tumultuous home Bardic "double" when he was coming of Car Kerans and his declared the Crown Port of the Aliens Affairs Office in: Nank
Royal Welsh National Eistedd-tual intervention of the police, ing, said: Although the oven- gallant men.
fod (aris festival) here today. AMETHYST TIES UP
enabling a settioment, is grati- Mr Jones, helt to a tradition
the Government of the fying, As the stoop, fully manned, stretching - back thousand United States has issued In- came to within a few yards of years or more, also won the strucllons that a strong protest the North Arm,
the rain Bardle Chair at the Golwyn be lodged at the fallure of the slackened.
| Bay Festival two years ago. nuthorities to tako action Cheers from various ships Wearing their long colourful promptly once they had been
assembled companies
on the robes,
poets from Ireland, Informed of the facts." out, and *as the Brittany Thay rung
and Cornwall look The State Department also re- Amethyst, throw her first twa part. In today's, crowning cereported that the "olege" "of the
LONDON DRY- WHITE SATIN-OLD TOM
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sex Band struck up of 10,000 and in view of Shanghai by former employ
Oak." There was a happy ex- majestic Cader Idris Mountains change of greetings between the Reuter,
eos of the United States Navy
was tried today--Router,