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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1950.
Eye-Witness Stories Of Brutality
Marlene Dietrich, the screen's youngest-looking grand- mother, photographed in London after her arrival by air to start work on a British picture "No Highway." Press)
Alps Rescue
(Central
Drama:
Guides Carrying On
to
Chamonix, Nov. 7.
Five Alpine guides, unaware that all attempts reach the Air India plane wrecked
near the summit of Mont Blanc had been called off, were to- night camping less than 3,000 feet below the wreck-
age.
A message saying "Turn back", dropped by a plane, did not reach them. It was picked up by a sixth member of their party who was already on his way down to a lower level to fetch provisions.
As the gallant five already had the most difficult part of their climb behind them, off- cials tonight decided to let them carry on.
Efforts to reach the plane were suspended because of the weather.
All hope for the 40 Indian seamen and eight crew on board the wrecked plane, frag- ments of which are scattered over a wide area, has been abandoned.
to call off operations until the weather improved.
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The party of six, still going on, set out yesterday from point south of Mont Blanc by a longer and more difficult route than that taken by the other rescuers from Chamonix.
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In S. Korea
COURT-MARTIAL FARCE
London, Nov. 7.
The widely-read "Daily Mirror" today pub- lished a message from Seoul, which described de- tails of atrocities being carried out by the South Korean authorities.
The message was by a "Daily Mirror" corres- pondent, Don Greenlees, who declared that mem- bers of the United Nations Korea Commission were investigating Korean Government court- martial, through which more than 600 men and women have been executed for alleged collabora- tion during the Red occupation.
Hasty methods of court proce- dure were being queried. "Packed into gaols in the Scoul area are 5,000 civilians awaiting trial, and 3,000 awaiting inter- rogation."
The "Daily Mirror" correspon- dent declared: "But the Scoul court authorities admit that no major war criminal has yet been apprehended.
"It have seen people, arrested in many cases on the informa- tion of neigbours, bashed to un- consciousness with rifle butts at police stations by the police extorting confessions,
"Most of them admitted join- ing Communist clubs or work groups under Red pressure. The gaols to which these people are sent are shockingly over- crowded.
PACKED IN cells
"I saw one cell, 15 feet by nine feet holding 60 men", the correspondent continued.
Tonight they had reached point less than 3,000 feet below the wreckage of the aircraft,
Experts here thought that the "In another cell there were party might reach the wreck 54 women and 12 babies. At tomorrow evening, Normally, least 40 in most cells are unable the climb still ahead could be to lie down. They are forced covered in summer in four and into a painful squatting position a half to five hours. To return day and night. by the way they had come "Most babies are still suckl- would, it was estimated, take ing, but no extra rations are them still longer.
provided. The mothers get two or three small bowls of barley a day. About 300 children below six are incarcerated with their mothers in the Seoul area gaol.
The authorities therefore de- cided to let them go on
Resumption of operations The official statement said from the Chamonix side will that following the death of depend on whether the recent Rene Bayot, leading Chamonix heavy falls of snow freeze guide, killed by an avalanche in hard enough for experts to the Bossons Glacier yesterday climb more easily and to les- as his party was on the way to sen the threat of avalanches.- the wreck, it had been decided Reuter.
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"Prisoners go for trial in batches of 40. They sit in the body of the court, stepping for- ward for interrogation as their names are called.
PRESS EXCLUDED
attend,
Plane Missing:
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22 Aboard
Ernest Bevin To Visit Germany
London, Nov. 7.
Mr Ernest Bevin, Foreign. Secretary, is expected to visit Bonn, the West Ger- man capital, before the end of the year. This will be his first official visit to the West German Federal Re- public.
A Foreign Office spokes-- man said that no definite arrangements for the visit had yet been made but admitted that it was being planned. It is understood that Mr Bevin will have ..conversations with the West German Federal Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer-Reuter.
NEHRU'S SNUB TO
CHINESE
Bombay, Nov. 7 The Prime Minister, Pan- dit Nehru, yesterday "omit-- ted" to visit the Chinese section of an exhibition held here during "Children's Week" now being celebrated here, Bombay newspapers reported today.
The papers said that Pandit Nehru "skipped" the China Room in the exhibition, in which 20 countries are participating, on a nod from Mrs Mehta, President of the All-India Women's Con- ference, organisers of the exhibition. W49
Butte, Montana,
Nov. 7. missing Northwest Airlines plane with 22 per- sons aboard was believed down today in the fog- bound, snow-covered Rocky Mountain terrain between here and Whithall, Montana. A. West-bound, two- engined Martin-202 two hours overdue on a flight from Helena over the Continental Divide. A DC-4 is searching the arca south east of here, but 10 hampered by poor visibility.
here
A resident some 10 miles west of Butte reported tɔ the authorities that she had heard + crash.-United Press.
They said that Mrs Mehta had dissuaded him from visiting the Chinese section because the Chinese ·Consulate here had re- fused to remove two posters, dis- played which were "found re- pugnant both by the organisers and by the American Consulate.”.
One of the "objectionable” posters showed a Chinese child' being hit by an American shell' while the other portrayed a Savage attack on a Chinese boy by a Japanese soldier. The Prime Minister
and his
NEPALESE party left for Poona today. No
KING
OUSTED
New Delhi, Nov. 7. The Nepalese Embassy here announced tonight that the King of Nepal had left his palace in Katmandu and taken refuge in a foreign
comment is yet forthcoming on the organisers of reports from
the exhibition.-Reuter,
Widow Prays
By Husband's
Embassy Dead
Body
and that his three-year-old son had been proclaimed "rule:."
New York, Nov. 7. been Parliament has
sum- Mrs Carmen Torrésola was "The Banch of three consists
moned to consider the situa- released briefly from the wo- of
and a two army officers
communique said. men's house of detention today civillan. Defender and prosecution, the tor are Government-appointed.
Earlier the Indian Government to spend 30 minutes with the King of body of her husband, G. Tor- No members of the public or of announced that the the heavily-censored local Press Nepal had taken refuge in the resola, who was shot down by Indian Embassy and that it White House guards defending was understood the King was President Truman last week, "In more than a 100 cases Iânxious to come to India.
Eight Federal agents accom- heard, no defence witnesses ap- "But as his Government ob-panied the young widow from peared and the official defence ject to this, he sought the as- the
house of detention to counsel seemed only slightly sistance of the Indian Ambas- Brooklyn funeral home where less antagonistic than the sador."
Torresola's body was taken on prosecutor to the prisoner. I The Nepalese Embassy In Monday from Washington, have seen 26 men and two New Delhi said in a commu- Her six-month old daughter, women executed, Nono had nique about six weeks ago that Rebecca, was waiting for hers been told when he was to die." a "conspiracy
with two unidentified friends This Seoul despatch appeared the Maharajah of Nepal , and Mrs Torrèsola, who was ar“ under a huge headline which other
high dignitaries" had rested on charges that she con- said: "The United Nations must been discovered in Katmandu.spired with her husband in the put a stop to this brutality".-----
The announcement followed assassination plot, prayed silently Reuter.
the arrest of a number of Nepal before the casket: "for"; fiver National Congress workers in minutes. She appeared composed . September.-Reuter.
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and did not cry or show, emotion. when reunited briefly with her baby in the adjoining room. Arms Cache Found talked with her friends-United Federal agents stood by ts shie
Foix, France, Nov. 7.
A stock of arms, including a British mortar, rifles and am-. munition, was found
Press.
by the UN And AmboinaTM
police on a farm at Bonac, con- tral Pyrences, worked by two Spaniards,
Lake Success, Nov. 7.
The United Nations announ-- Both are to be expelled. It ced today that Indonesia, has is thought the arms are part of agreed to keep it informed the stock accumulated by concerning further develop- Spanish refugee Communists ments in Amboina where, ins
In the Pyrenees many of whom habitants have been fightin were rounded up In September. against Inclusion in the Federal
Neuter DARY
Government.-United Press