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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 1950.
Macassar Coup Leader51-Day Trek
Surrenders Without Shot
CITY SURROUNDED
Djakarta, Apr. 11.-The rebel leader, Captain · Andi Abdul Azis, surrendered today without a shot when National Federal troops surrounded Macas. sar, the capital of East Indonesia, an official spokes- man announced here.
Azis, a thickset, former British Army para- trooper, Look control of the city six days ago when Federal troops were about to land from two trans- ports.
would be
The announcement said al coup, has resumed his post of battalion of 1,000 Federal Territorial Commander In East
Indonesia. troops landed today and
JAZIN, they said, marched on Macassar, sur-brought to Djakarta on Thurs- for court- rounding the city by dusk. day as a prisoner
martial, When Als realized this, he
Earlier today it was reported confred his troops in their
In Macassar that Captain Azis barracks and surrendered.
the support of the had sought United Nations Commission In Indonesia. was
to
here
Later, Defence officials disclosed that Lieutenant- Colonel Mokoginta, who captured by Aziz in last week's
REPRISAL THREAT
He declared in a letter
Commission's representative there that he had found docu- ments at the Staff Headquarters
Federal
which Army
of the "definitely prove that the true the Nationalist intration of Army Command was liquidate systematically East Indonesia State."
to
the
Berlin, Apr. 11.-The West
AGREES TO REPORT German news agency, PPA, 10- day quoted an unnamed Soviet This afternoon the Sultan of official as saying that a security Jogjakarta, the Defence Minis- United States of between the East Ger-ter of pact
the man. Republic and the East Indonesia, said in a broadcast European bloc would probably mat Captain Azis had freed the be concluded if Western Ger-Federal troops imprisoned when many would join the European he reized control of Macassar Counel and the Atinalle Part.
and had agreed
when the
Minister, Dr
to
to came Delain of the pact were disjakarta to report,
Budapest last week cussed in
The emp by the 26-year-old with East German Prime
who was frained captain, Otto Grotewo, British 1st Airborne Divi- Foreign Minister. Her
rion--the "Red Devils"-follow- attended the Hun-
Mit
of tension over plans weeks of
Indonesio garian Liberation celebrations, to incorporate Fast the DPA agency aided.
irate Jogjakarta State.
and the Derlinger.
"If the Western Allies would force Western Germany to join
East Indenesis was combined last year into the United States the European Comell and the for Indonesin.--Reuter.
Atlantic Pact,
People
all pence-loving
BANDOENG CLASH would consider such a sicp as a mobilization of the Djakarta, Apr. 11--A Dutch forces of
revenge" the agency and an Indonesian soldier were the Soviet offle) as killed and another Indonesian -quoted
WAS wounded In a clash ssying
The report could not be con- Bandoeng last night, according firmed from any other ource.to an authoritative report re-
ceived here today.-Reuter, -Reuter,
EDITORIAL
A
at
Mr George N. Patterson, who is 29 and a mis- sionary has just arrived in India after a 51-day trek across unmapped Eastern Tibet. During his trip over land which no European has ever crossed, Patterson said, he passed over at least one 19,000 feet mountain not shown on any map. (London Express Service).
INCIDENT
Clash In Air Alleged By Soviet: America Perplexed
B-29 PRESENCE
DENIED
London, Apr. 11.-The alleged shooting incident between American and Soviet planes over Russian territory created today the most serious international incident since the war,
Was This The
One?
Copenhagen, April 11- The mixing - U., naval Privateer patrol bomber has not been located despite An siranda
and search, hope dimming.
Discrepancy between it and that alleged to have been concerned in a shoot- ing incident was the type, but a Russian fighter pilot could have been confused, -Unlled Freas.
What Is The Fly In The Ointment?
Not since Yugoslav planes shot down two American planes in 1946-an incident that ended with an American ultimatum to Marshal Tito has an incident with such
The
Backyard Gold Rush
Melbourne, Apr.
The "backyard gold rush" today threw up another large gold maggot believed to be worth over £3,000 st Wedderburn. 200 milca north of kere.
This is the biggest yet found, and welche 168 ounces, It -WAS found only six inches from where a 100-ounce gold nugget, shaped like s
dog and worth at least £1,200 Was carlier dug up.
The owner of the mine. claims it has yielded more las £15,000 worth in gold since I Wis discovered. The quiet little spot be came a "boom town" last
month when It becama known tiint
*
farmer
named Butterick had been wcorelly digging up a hole 18 his backyard for months,--Kleuter.
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potentially dangerous possibilities occurred. Big
The publication of the Soviet note accusing | the United States of gross violation of Soviet terri- tory and of international law electrified Western Europe into sudden realisation of the daily dangers in which it lives while the cold war goes on.
of
A generation ago an incident) diflev); to have contained public
much lesser gravity would | opinton, have been, a signal for mobilisa- But the blockade ended with-
Scale Diamond Smuggling
London, Apr. 11.
Inter-
ton and war. But there is no out shooting incidents despite national diamond manufacturers thought of that this time nl- the almost continuous afritt tcday offered a £10,000 reward
SOVIET INTERVENTION IN card. Dut there is no questions to Blue was forces
THE TRIESTE DISPUTE
Rome, Apr. 11-Italy's Foreign Minister, Count Carlo Sforza, today had a long talk-the first for several months with the Soviet Ambassador to Italy, M. Mikhail Kostylev.
Observers believed that their subject was Italy's offer to negotiate directly with Marshal Tito over Trieste. Officials refused to comment.
Count Sforza has describ- ed the Trieste offer he made
on Saturday
at Milan
Thoroughly Disillusioned
FTER the General Gordon comes the Anking. The farce of attempting to arrange with the Communist authorities for the departure from Shanghai of some 1,600 foreign
including nationals, diplomatic and consular officials, con- tinues. It would be easier to understand If the protracted negotiations had pro- duced very good reasons to explain the Communist attitude. But nothing definitive has emerged. All factors that have been suggested as guiding the policy of the People's Government have been entirely of a speculative nature. In the beginning, the authorities in Peking and Shanghai publicly professed that if they had anxieties about the evacuation they were concerned with how soon it could be arranged. Indeed, they made much of the congregation in Shanghai of American consular officers from all parts of China, on whose withdrawal they had previously insisted, and remarked on the "astonishing delay" in completing the process, When, however, the General Gordon WAH requisitioned for that particular purpose, and stayed several days in Hongkong awaiting the order to proceed to the mouth of the Yangtae, the Communists broke their pledges, and the General Gordon's mission went unfulfilled. Subsequent negotiations resulted in stand-by orders to the ss Anking and the result has been precisely the same, purely negative. There has been talk of secret defence measures, of steps to mount the projected invasion of Formosa which the Communists fear would be disclosed, but repudiating that the theory is the further refusal by authorities In Shanghai to allow foreigners to leave by call for another port, such as Tientsin, which is not in-. volved in military strategy and virtually
N
The
a
clear of blockade complications. ironie aspect of the whole affair is that the majority of the people ready to leave Shanghind if facilities were made available are those who stayed believing that Chinese business instincts would be too powerful complete Influence to permit the stagnation of trade in vital ports. How serious the
belled of consequences expectations are the representations made by the China Association to the Foreign Ofice. last week disclosed with appalling figures on the drain on financial reserves. Within a matter of months, £160,000,000 has been absorbed by British commercial undertakings with large Interesta irt China, Unless there comes KOON genuine reversal of Communist policy and an appreciation of the potential benefi£ to be derived from trade with parts of the world other than that enclosed by the Soviet Union, no alternative to whole.. sale liquidation offers. Curiously enough, the Peking regime has made no open threat, of nationalisation of industrial enterprises operated by British firms, but observers
wonder aro beginning to whether the Communist purpose has been misunderstood, because the method failed to conform to indoctrinaire standards. Significance can possibly be detected in the studied aloofness of Chou En-lai re- garding the British Charge d'Affaires, Mr J. C. Hutchinson. In three months, Mr Hutchinson has had two interviews with one of Chou's underlings—and wasted his time. In these circumstances, it is hardly surprising that 1,600 foreigners aro anxious to cut their losses In Shanghai They are not perhaps the big-wigs, but they are thoroughly disillusioned. Break- down of the negotiations a second time will hit them hard.
HIS ORDER
about
for Information
three though it was addmitted that which often was surrounded by
highly organised smuggling many, harsh words and threat Soviet plants on IANOCUvre. probably would be exchanged The Yugoslav incident in 1948 Gangs flooding Amerlen with before the incident is
during the Paris peace lifcit diamonds from London's is settled. Opinion and judgment were
and
but diamond centra conference.
the reward Merchants reading reserved on the Soviet allega- interrupted the
The tions until the American ver- incident occurred along the notice, pasted up in their clubs, clon of the meeting of Ameri- border in Northern Yugoslavia sold that the emuggling traffic
und Soviet planes in when two American planes WI doing
to grent harın regular run from Britain's diamond
exports. Udine were in any veteran diplomat's Vienna
Mr R. Fink, rolleitor and mind that the incident was a out of the official corridor.
stcretary of the International trave one and one that the
One plane was forced down clation, who are offering the ro Diamond Manufacturers' Asso- Russians
would take full nd- with seven U.S. airmen, vantage of in pursuance of their Hungarian civilions and
ward, cald: "The Briush dia- propaganda campaign that
rond Industry The mon
is one of our Turkish officer aboard. "warmongers" Americans are
other was shot down by Yuga best dollar earners and our and "instigators" of a new war slay fighter killed.
efforis are being very largely and all crew
hampered by this illegitimato against Russia.
traile
SOONER OR LATER
of five were
two one W
When the Yugoslav govern- Iment refused to release the sur- "So far as we know, there is
the first plane or not a great deal of diarnond. Britain. The
Sooner or later, something of vivors on titis sort was bound to happen. allow American officials to in- smuggling
into
BUDENZ GETS Despite the greatest caution it is vestigate the circumstances of main trend is from Belgium and
almost inevitable that
disappearance of the second Holland to Italy and from there sume the times the cold war was bound to plane, Yugoslavia was terved to America."---Reuter. have its hot shooting incident.
with an ultimatum. "We are living in a dangerous world," one diplomat sald, "and must be prepared for dangerous incidents Ike this. But that
Apr.
11-Mr
leaving the door open for a
Washington, wider settlement between Loula Budenz, former managing the two countries, but said editor of the American Com- that negotiations must start munirt Daily worker, was to with Yugoslav consent today ordered to appear before a Sehat Sub-C mmitize as the return to Italy the whole mystery witness"
whom Sera - Trieste territory.
tor Joseph McCarthy claims will prove his charges that Pro- fessor Owen Lattimore was Communiati
In
Yugoslav Belgrade, the Communist newspaper Borba proposal sald today that the "actually boils down to under- mining agreeinent",
It was at odds with a policy of a friendly solution to the Issues outstanding between Italy and Yugoslavia, the news- paper sald
In
Mr
Tricsto yesterday
Minister for Dusman Diminic, Communal Affairs in the Croat Government, told 10,000 Croats and Italians that neither the British, Americans nor even the Wie Halland were honouring Italian peace treaty.
"The other side violated the peace treaty, We can also not adhere to something that does exist and that harms the not interests of our people," he said
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address at Buje in the
Yugoslav zone of Trieste,
Mr
big
Italian
Mr Budenz Communism.
has
a
renounced The Senate
nations in doesn't mean that volved or the rest of the worki
have to think in terms of war.
Fortunately, there is plenty of machinery for any aggrieved nation
to get full satisfaction without resort to war."
Throughout the long months Foreign Relations Sub-Com- of the Soviet blockade of Der mittee Investigating Senator in, the Western Powers lived McCarthy's charges that Proin great fear that a clash be fessor Lattimore
Is a Soviet tween the Western and Soviet espionage agent subpoenned Mr planes would occur. Then tem- Bud:nz to testify before it on pers were so short and tension Monday-Reuter.
so high that it would have been
Atlantic Disaster Rescue Drama
New York, Apr. 11. An Italian freighter informed the Coast Guard late today that it had picked up the entire crew of the Norwegian freighter Geisha, which was rocked by an explo sion about 680 miles southeast of Newfoundland. The Coast Guard said the Italian vessel was about five hours from the Geisha at 1900 GMT.
Diminle added that the Powers, in settling the were treaty. peace guided not by the Interests of Yugoslavia but by their own. Reuter.
the
Const Guard
call headquarters The distress
of received a messago from the Gelsha had been received by cutter Ingham, whilch picked it several Coast Guard vessels on up while steaming to the scene. patrol far out in the Atlantic Ingham relayed the following and Baid: "Explosion on message from the Paolina, anboard. Need help. We are Italian freighter!
going into lifeboats."
the
cutter Ingham is
went to the which yesterday rescue of the burning freighter American Producer.
sald the The Coast Guard
"All men of the Geisha board. All well. Medical sistance not required."
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The Coast Guard had no other
samo
CRISIS THREATENS
Apr. 11. - The Belgrade, Italian-Yugoslav dispute over Trieste threatens to become crisis which could change the political situation in Yugoslavia, Westem diplomats raid today.
of Behind
exchange the
and Home charges between Belgrade are a series of diploinformation on the rescue and Geisha was owned and operated Italian said it would be about 10 hours by Knutsen Lines of Haugsend, by 10
Western before the Ingham or the second Norway, and carried a crew of government 10 get
Bartaria, could reach about 30. She return of cutter, the support for
trom the Canal Zone Tricato to Italy.
An explosion aboord the Antwers.
Americars the thirty crew Meanwhile, the Trieste was
in the Geisha forced set up
States Lines. Italian peace treaty as a free to take to the lifeboats. Earlier, Producer, United
reported reported that Mackay Radio had
the stubborn territory. But the Big Four
that the Norwegian freighter smouldering fire in its hold had ware able powers never
unidentified been brought under control and Cypria and Agree upon
Italian vessel were steaming the ship was proceeding to to the aid of the Geliha
Halifax-United Press.
mntle moves
to
П
candidate
for
(Contd. on Page 5, Col 5)
the scene.
П
was en route
to
if
tan
Pakistan Air Crash
Yugoslavia was warned that persons alive were not re- American officials leased and allowed to Investigate within 48 hours she would be hafted be- fore the United Nations Security
Karachi, Apr. 11.-The Pakis- Council.
Yugoslavia complied with the confirmed the reported crash of Defence Ministry tonight demands and ultimately agreed n Pakistan Air Force transport to compensation. Marshal Tito aircraft in the Northwest Fron- personally assured the American tier mountaing on April 8 with Ambarsador
foreign a loss of 10 lives. plane ever would be shot down The communique stated that again and deptored the loss of
operations were mndo American Ilves-United Press.
difficult by the mountainous AIR FORCE DENIAL terrain. Washington, Apr. 11.-The The aircraft was carrying 18 today dented that Pakistan Army other ranks and Air Force any of its planes had been in three Air Force crew. Authorl- volved in "any firing Incident"lative sources earlier stated tho
If the Baltic area.
aircraft was in fight between (Contd. on Faze 5, Col. 3) j Gligit and Peshawar.-Reuter.
that no
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