THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, APRIL 6, 1950,
Foreign Ministers To 1800 Chinese Misses in
Meet In London Formosa
GERMAN
QUESTION · WILL
BE ON THE AGENDA Washington, Apr. 5.-The Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, said today that all the North Atlantic powers had now agreed that their. Foreign Ministers should meet in London about May 15.
Prepares For Raids
was sighted over mosa
Tulpeh, Formosa, Apr. 5. -A single Communist plane the For- Straight early on Tuesday. The aircraft, pre- sumably on a scouting mis- Mr Acheson told his press conference that hesion, bore the Chincee Com- himself was planning to go to London before that munists' five-star insignia date for discussions with the British Foreign and was sighted by a com- Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin and the French mercial airliner. Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman,
Jap Planes
Me aircraft made no attempt
to interfere with the other plane, which belonged 10 General He said he thought that Chennault's Civil Air Transport The would spend some time Other despatches from Fro- in Paris on his way to Lon-mosa reported that ARP precau- tions are being taken on the don.
Island in anticipation of possible anke that Mr Acheson
raids by Chinese Communis. subject of his iniks with Bevin and M. Schuman had not planes.
worked yet been sufficiently out in agreement to enable him to any anything about it.
the Mr
Flew Over
War US In
He raid that the agenda for Tokyo, Apr. 6.-Captain Foreign Ministers meeting in Samule Eliot Morison, of the North Atlantic Council wAS cial U.S. Navy historian and not yet completed and that it Harvard professor, said here must be worked out further by
North today that a Japanese sub- Working Party. marine-based search plano
it clear that he ex- He made
to (Hocuss German successfully made a recon-pected naissance of Scattle and re-questions with the British and
French Foreign Ministers, ported on shipping in Puget
The United States, he added, Sound during World War II. was in favour of immediate Captain Moricon has been here steps towards the bringing of two weeks, talking to former Germany into European integra-
operations
the
Atlantic
official
A Chinese, recently arrived here from China, reported phat
at
H.K. want to go to U.S.
Geneva, N., Apr. 5-A £5m Chinese miss who spent more than a year winning permission to enter the United Blates to study sald today that 1,800 others like her are at Hongkong,
When soft-spoken Margaret ·Huapchan Kwel was JB Central years old, she received word at her home in a Chinese province that she had been accented aya, pre®- medical student at Williamsmith College. Now, 13 months later, she is at last beginning her study.
She spent the months between applying patience and Ingenuity to the problem of selling to the coast of China und then into the United States.
Margaret waited longest at Hongkong where hundreds of your Chinese students are trying to convince the American Coneul that they, have no Communist feanings. I took her three months to win a visa permitting her aboard ship.
Once she completes her studies at Williamsmith and ayel-to-be selected medical school, Marraret will return
*aviorad of J to her home clly of Wu Chan
"Thero in so much to be done," she said,—United Press.
SS GENERAL French Claim
SENTENCED
TO LIFE
Brunswick, Apr. 5-A
400 Vietminh
Troops Killed
LARGEST SEAPLANE CRASHES
INTO SEA
Honolulu, Apr. 6-The Navy's 82% ton flying boat, Marshall Mars, crashed in flames into the sea today, then blew up and sank. All the seven, crewmen aboard esenped in life-rafts and boats.
The Navy said the world's largest seaplane-which holds B world record for carrying 308 perrons--was n "total los
The Mars was carrying 6,000 gallons of aviation gasoline when she was forced down. The furl apparently blew up, send- Ing a towering plume of famen end smoke into the air.
One of five Murs operated by the Navy between Alameda and Honolulu, the plane is valued at $3,000,000.
Com-
The skipper, Licut. mander Glean Simmons, said he had been flying for 30 minutes when he saw smako
In No. 3 engine. "I started in bring her down fast" he said, All of us got out within Ave minutes." The men escaped The in three life-rafts and were Command picked up by crash boats from
Saigon. Apr. 5. a large number of planes ara based
Hanchow, North German court here today | French High Kiangsu railway centre at the sentenced Dietrich Klagge, claimed tonight that Viet, Oahu within a few minutes. crossing of the Tientsin-Pukow former Nazi Premier of minh Communist forces lost
and แท SS and Fource added that at least one Brunswick fighter squadron had arrived in General to penal servitude at least 400 killed and maný Shanghat within the past fort-for life for crimes against wounded in their offensive
Lunghai railways.
Tho
night.
He said that the fighters in
American P-31'-the Eamo Shanghal closely resembled the types which the United States supplied to Russia during the war. The Hsuchow planes were made up of bell fighters and Tonsport aircraft.
humanity.
Klag, for 12 years the Naz, Fuehrer of Brunswig received the highest penalty a German 15 anti-Nazis and torturing and court enn impose for murdering being listed as crimes against persecuting countless others, all
humanity,
Japanese naval leaders, studying ticn.
the United sald that
Klagged played a vital part in He
STOCKPILES archives and gathering informa- tion on the Japanese side of States was strongly in favour
The Peking radio reported the rise of Nazism long before 1033. He was the man who many such little-known incl-of Germany's immediately ac dents of the war. He is writing cepting the Invitation to join that "vast quantities" of in-
valuable machinery, including as the Brunswick Minister for 14-volume history of U.S.ti Council of Europe.
World
to comment, how American plane parts, have been the Interior, made the Austrian ware agitator, Adolf Hitler, a German naval
He declined War 11.
of statements discovered in Shanghat ever, on reports
by the Chinese Klagges beard his He discounted the value of by the Western Chancellor, Drhouses and are presently being ultizen, plane-currying submarines and Konrad Adenauer, about Ger-laventoried ald the US Navy and found many coming into the European Communista,
The supplies, ranging them impractical. But he said Parliament on the grounds that
and frying pens to were of crates the Japanese could have gained he had not seen Dr Adenauer's cosmetica
machinery,
the Nation- abandoned when a great stivontage in the suc-apeech.
Shanghai in fled from alisty cessful Seattle sneak inspection if they had been fight in their
June-United Press. hunch that the U.S. Navy was! building up a big force there for an Aleutian operation,
1940-STYLE WAR
NO CHANGE
He was asked about charges runde in the Senate that he was pro-Communist following n
policy in the dismantling of Germany.
He said that there had been no change in the dismantling of Cermany,
He Ite elso aid
In an informal talk of the Tokyo Correspondents Club, the naval historian spoke out in sup- port of naval airpower. zuld: "I am still a great believer in carrier-based airpower, think it would be a grea: mis- take to abandon it on the as- cumption that long-rani: Janct- had eliminated base aircraft the need for noval operations."
air
Captain Morison said the bis
tory of the last war showed, in number of instances, that it was equally as dangerous to n- sume that fu ure wars would be fought
new
that there had
been no change in the attitude
the United States
of the
disarmam:ot tr
ment of Germany.
towards
rearma-
The United States had firm inter.ational
from
In Travinh Province, 100
for
southern
SMOKE COLUMN The Mars sank in more than Lagoon. operating base 100 fathoms of water off Kechi flying boats off the miles south of Salgon. All shore of Oahut.
Lt. Commander Simmons land- French communications had been restored and all Frenched his plane in the open see at a military posts were again in speed cf 125 miles per hour, As ture, the communique said. operation after their recap crewmen
French staff Meers, declaring now petered out. said that in that the Vietminh offensive and the first stage of the operations, Vietminh casualties were csil mated at four times these of the defentiers
armour,
sentence When the French attacked today in silence and without with parachutists, emotion. But there was an out-artillery and aircraf, the Viet- from the minh att ekers were forced to burst of foughter
and 10 disperse. public gallery. Someone shouted: withdraw
Things After the initial shock, we gave That is unimportant.
the Vietminh the whole works," will change soon, anyway."-
Reuter.
a Brigade Commander said.
KING LEOPOLD STANDS PAT
Fresh Attempts To End The Crisis
An unofficial French militory summary of the recent netion said that the Vietminh forces, in spite of having received new weapons from China and Siam, were unable to press there - determined op- tacks against position.
The French High Command communique, giving details of which V.C Vietminh attack.
watch posts,
Brussels, Apr. 5.-M. Paul Van Zeeland, began on March 20, taid: "After commitments on Catholic and an ardent monarchist, today took on the Vietminh initial success in Die surmament ind against
all French posts successfully the job of trying to end Belgium's 18-day-old capturing several the reartnament
"Our operational groups ut- pold to the throne.
disorder of the had not changed, Mr Acheson government crisis over the return of King Leo-resisted.
of Germany,
and the Covernment's position
added.-Reuter.
on entirely Sheffield
war.
principles and struery us to pre- pare for a-1940-siyla 1950-Uni ed Press,
FOUND NOT
GUILTY
By-Election
But while rumours of a new "appeasement" plan swept the capital, the exiled monarch insisted that he would be guided only by the decision of Parliament
Mr
Yesterday, after the Liberal fender.
Albert Deveze, London, Apr. 5-Polling took abandoned his week's attempts form u government, the place today in the Parliamen- to tary by-lection al Neepsend, Roman Catholics announced that plans to Shield, caused by
the re- they had completed signation of the Labour mem-end the King's Ave-year exile
within this month. Lieutenant-Colonel Morris,
M. Deveze tried unsuccessful. Won for Labour with a ma-
10.000 at the ly to find a compromise, said to Generat Election involve King Leopold's return- university student, was today February
a short time, then ab- of his son, found "Not Guilty" of strang Neepsend is considered certain ing for
sweetheart.to be hell by the Government, dicating in favour
Prince Baudouin.
the King in a Margaret Anne Jackson, also a The vacancy provides the He warned
Iowa City, Apr. 5. lowo
City, Apr.
E. Berinasck,
linn
his college
Robert 5.-Robert
ber
24-year-old Jurity of over
student of Iowa University,
Bednarek's room.
Joves."Reuter.
away
SIDE GLANCES
Partnership
the
soon as the plane hatted the into rubber Jumped life rafts moments before the explosion racked the ship and 11 burst into flames.
The
0 2,000 explesion sent
towering! foot smoke column into the sky as crash boats, twe helicopters, patrol craft and one submarine raced to the seene
-United Press.
Radio Hongkong
H.K.T.
6,Hgkong Calling"-Protam- me Summary: 0.07, For Children: "o Sang to Sinai Gutter" A by Elton Noamerso
Programme
Orchestra (BUCTS): 6.15. Hayes Raymonde; 0.30, "La Demi-Beure" (Studio); 7. London roncaise Studio Melodies-The Macrino
7.30, Song Orchestra (DBCTS);
from Ireland and the West Country Sund by the Vinter Singers, the Choir of Red Maitis Schun, Bristol und Soloists (BBCTS); B, World News and News Analysis (London Relay); 8.15, "longkong Band Call Ray from 9 Dragons Club, Kowloon); H.45, Sporta Review by EHI PIM
(Studio): 9. "From the Editorialy
London Relay): 9.10, Weather He- port: 9.11, "Ring up the Curtnin Excerpts from "Il Trovatore" (Ver- 41) (BOCTs): 9.35. London Pella-
14:29. by Ruth Kirby (Studio
Serenade"-A Program- "Thunday my of Continuotis Muste Arranged by Betty Drewn; 11, Radio News Iteel London Relay); 11.15. Weather Report, World News and News from Britain (London Talay the King: 11.30. Cluse Daven
alum Orchestra: 10.15. Bonk Talk
tacked, forced a retreat and then Recorded); Gad Save planes and artillery fire." enemy, who were hornssed by
SABOTAGE
In the city of Salgon, Vict- minh supporters were ordered to carry out sabotage and bring The about u general strike. order was ignored.
to the Vietminh In Atomic
Research
Similarly ignored were orders In Salgon to to reinforcements the send
the ralders operating along Dalat read, where a convoy was ralded Inst week,
the
Government with the
getting back the surprise visit to Leopold's villar Britain May Build ather operations by claiming
Lonight.-Reuter.
neur
Geneva, on Monday of
the nu- Frank disorders threatening
use
his
of tion should he return.
Chairman of the Or-
By Galbraith solve the crisis.
Nuclear Engines
Ł
Captured Vietminh documents showed that their command was trying to explain away fallure
of the Travinh and
She died
"the lack of political prepara- last December 11tually
Sir during an after-dance supper in Solicitor-General.
tion" of the city workers, Soskice, into the
These documents urged Bednasek wept and several Commons.
M. Yan Zeeland. 57-year-old Washington, Apr. 6.-1 jurors wiped
tears or Sir Frank lost
former retiring. Bednasek's attorney pleaded, "A sent in the General Election.
Saigon to cover up the organt- for European Eco-American officials are urg-sharp increase in terrorism in canisailon
to concentrate
setianal weakness and to give man does not kill the thing he The result is expected late nomie Co-Operation and Foring Britain
in the old Minister eign
her atomic projects on turn-time for military reorganisa- Coalition, 15 Catholic-Liberal
out nuclear engines, tlon. Catholic to try tu ing the third
The rebel radio, "The Voice leaving bomb making to the
of Vietminh," today broadcast United States, according toe claim that the battle was COALITION Catholics, the largest reports circulating here to not yet over and that the Viet- minh offensive would continue. party In Parliament,
-Reuter. mall overall majority if both day.
the followed Houses meet together but are
Tic reports
that wo chart in the Lower Cham-
yesterday
Britain's ber. it was on the issue of announcement
starting on Houses should work la whether the
sixth atomic station. to decide on meet together
that the return Leopold's Liberals left the Government 18 days ago.
It is generally believed that M. Canada that they believed that
Zeeland will first try
new Catholic-Liberal the United States was lu
1-31
seed girl in school all right, but the only
her I felt like the janitor!!!!
The
Van
form a
have a
to
Labour MPs
It is understood that Ameri- It clear in ens officials made
ада with Britain discussions
the
Whipped
best strategic and production Into Line
continue to make
coalition.
Yesterday M. Motz announced position to
London, Apr. 6,-Labour that no member of the Liberal atomic bombs and to develop
the hydrogen bomb.
Government chiefs whipped: Parly will be allowed to join in!
Britain, on Government
the other hand, rank and file defaulters two-Party uny without the approval of the was credited with great ability Party's National Executive in the development of engines, sharply back-into line today which is due to meet shortly It was argued that the partner for challenging rigid Party
rhip could progress best with discipline orders. after Easter.
member concentrating A few members of the Liberal cach Party have announced their in- najor efforts tention of giving parliamentary vista-Reuter.
to Eny support
government whose programine provided for a joint session of Parliament to the colled to vote an end Regency, Reuter.
BODY FOUND IN HARBOUR
Police Launch No B discover ed the body of a Chinese man about 40 years old floating near the Star Ferry whart, Hongkong side.
Dals about 9.30 am. morning. The body was dress ed the Chinese clothing, and had been in the water some time.
Bo fur: esime of death is une dorting Sthere was no money
ほいっぷ
on a particular
The leaders' action arose from the Government defeat by the Opposition Conservatives in, a SOVIET NOT AFRAID "nap" division on a technica. issue in Parliami last Wedne*. Parls, Apr. 5-France's Com- day. munist atomic energy chief, Pro- While the Prime Minister fessor Frederic Joliot-Curie, told Mr Clement Attice and the La- the French Communist Party our Party manager, Mr. Hes- Congress here today that the bert Morrison, looked on, the United States "is certainly not chief Government Whip. Mr ahead of the Soviet Union" in William Whitley, talked down at today's private the development of the Hydro-malcontents
meeting of the Parliamentary gen bomb.
Labour For that reason, ho salil; Soviet
call for a united scientists did not fear "it-bomb front in face of growingly seri blackmail"
ous challenges from the Cón-
:
י
The Professor was speaking servative Opposition in the In the Town Hall of Genne-evenly divided House of Com- villiers, the Paris "Red" suburb, mons was warmly received by the fourth day of the Con- the meeting majority, Heus
!torne
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