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THE CHINA MAIL," MOND`AY, JANUARY 13, 1947.

FROZEN BODIES STACKED IN Philippine SEMINARY COURTYARD

Los Angeles, Jan, 11.

More than 200 naked frozen badies were still

stacked in the courtyard of the re-gutter

Catholic seminary in the Inner Mongolian

mountain village of Siwantse near Chung

30 miles from Kalgan, which was depredated by 50,000. Communist guerillas on Dec. 9-11, Waldo Drake, China correspondent of the Los Angeles Times, reported today.

Interviews witli surviving villagers indicated. that the Communists murilered 200 civilian young men, killed 300 local militiamen, and kidnap- ped perhaps 300 more young iner, Drake re- ported.

The victims included woman, the wife of a local army offices, and three youths ander

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Another

Fish Tale

Tientsin, Jan. 12.

in the

H.M: AMBASSADOR ARRIVES

Volcano Erupts

Manila, Jan, 11.

A mighty volcano, a mile pad Sir Ralph Stevenson, British a half high, Mount Mayon, over- Ambassador to China, accom-looking Legnapi harbour sou- panied by Lady Stevenson and thern Luzon, sent balls of fire Air Commodore Hesketh. the hurling" from its crater Air Attache, Nanking, arrived at Kai Tak Airport yesterday afternoon at 8.30 pm in the personal aircraft of the C-in-C. British Pacific Fleet.

The plane was flown by R.A.F. crew, and the pilot was Flight Liegt. Lothian.

Here is a fish story from Canton carried by the Ta Kung Pao which told of a fisherman making a record catch that turned him into a millionaire 20' times over (in Chinese national currency).

The party was met on arrival Luck was in for Jung Chao, by Admiral 3lr Denis Boyd, story. Lieut. Parkinson (representing While fishing in the waters off HE the_Governor), «Group- Canton he baitled tenaciously. Captain Jones (representing to land n man-size catch-ma

the AOC), Comdr. Martin glant fish which later tipped the (HMS Nabeatcher) and Wing- scales at over 300 pounds, the Ta Kung Pao atory runs. But Jung Chao's luck did not end there.

and 300 local troops and kid- the fisherman one

napped two Catholic priests. Father Michelsen, Belgian, and Father Hau, Chinese, both of {thew still unheard from

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His family was amazed when they started to cut the fish as four diamond rings flushed in-. to view

Comdr. Holden.

Flew From

Drake suggested that the

Early in November, the Reds massacre was "apparently cause its magnificent Christian sacked the mission village of church and theological aemin- Kanghu in the same arca and arywere the heart of Catho-killed several spore elvilians, Heism throughout. Mongolia,” Drake reported.

When Drake and 20 Chinese General Fu's efforts to mop newspapermen visited the scene up some 60.000 Communists in nt the invitation of General Fu† the wild mountains in North Tsi-yi, Commander-in-Chief of Chabar this winter would be

The fisherman and the other the 12th War Zone, 200. bodies worse than finding a needle in villagers were mystified momen- bal were still stacked in the court he haystack. This country istarily as to the origin of the yard.

orough that it took the newa-

rings and how they came into papermen party three and

the fish. But an inscription. half hours to travel the 30 miles on two of the rings provided a from Kalgan to Siwanise in an

clue. Army truck.-United Press.

When Fu thrust the Commu- nists from Kalgan two months ago, they also withdrew from Siwantse, which had been their Secondary base for guerilla operations in the wild mountain country in North Chahar. Ap- parently they were unable to

convert tu Marxism most of the Attack On

young men among Siwantse's 3.000 peasants who are mostly Christians

Surprise Attack

Kuomintang

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New York, Jan. 11. The Left-wing newspaper P.M. on the Kuomintang by Anualee Loday published a full-page attack

Jacoby, former Tune correspon-

dent in China and co-author with Theodore it, White of the current best-selling book "Thunder Out of China."

The Red guerillas made the surprise attack on Siwantse at dawn on Dec. 9. Drake reported and quickly overpowered the few hundred local troops while rounding up all men of military are. After burning, the stately Catholic church, the Reds mass ed the prisoners in the court--

Miss Jacoby said Generalissimo yard of the seminary where Chiang Kai-shek, is doing more they were either machine-gun-harm to China than the Japan- ned or had their skulls erushed ese, and declared; "Gen. Marshall with rocks, Drake continued.

The bodies were immediately ponsibility of Chiang for

perhaps under-estimates the res- the stripped of their clothing for breakdown of peace negotiations. use by the Communista.

Chiang is the Government. He is The stately three-story semin- also the Party. Even the new can- ary and the adjoining Bishop's stitution provides for a danger mansion were also burned be- lously powerful Chief Executive." fore the Reds retired into the United Press mountain in the morning of

Dec. 12 shortly before the ar- rival of a relief column from Kalgan.

Terrorism

The burning of the Siwan- tae church and the adjoining seminary destroyed the physical .segment of the life work of Bishop Leo Desmet, leader of ***Inner Mongolia's Belgian Scheut Missionaries, who built the church in 1920 at the head of the precipitous Priching River Valley. Sivantse village and the surrounding county of Changli have since become one of the strongest Catholic com- munities in Mongolia.

Reading the name of "Yama- | moto" on the rings, the fisher folk deduced that they original- ly must have come from Japan- ese naval personnel drowned as a result of American-bombing of Japanese ships during the

war.

When the rings were valued by experts, a price of $5,000,- 000 was placed on each, or a total of $20,000,000 for the four-Associated Press,

DON'T CARE

DEAD

molten lave spilling down Its slopes for the first time in more than five years on Wednes- day night, according to reports

reaching Manila, ··

a

Two seamen, Regino and R. F. Molina, aboard

small freighter, docked nt Legaspi, sent this word to the Manila Times at 1830 last night: "We are watching from the bridge. of our ship a continuous over- flowing of molten lava rolling down the slope. Huge fire roll- ing down could still be seen clearly despite the thickness of heavy clouds which cover the volcano like a vejį.?

New Guinea Oil

New York, Jan. 12.

The New York Herald Tribuna sald yesterday it had learned that the Kuwait Oil' Campany," jointly owned by the

Company of 25-Gull

it

of the United

on Company States, had begun a two-year pro- gramme to quadruple production barred it from its present 40,000 Barrels daily,

Kuwait is at the northernmost

of the Persian Gulf.

report also said that the

Shell group had' Royal Dutch awarded contracts to the Gulf Oil Company for fullscale oil ex-

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Candidates are reminded that

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Registrer.

ploitations in New Guinea, Asso Hongkong, 11th January, 1947. ciated Press.

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H.K. To Wed United States 168 regimental Sydney Girl

Sydney, Jan. 11. Lieutenant (E.) Tom John- stone, R.N.V.R., Dew from Hong Kong last week on special leave for his marriage yester day to Miss Joy Harper at St. James' Church, King Street.

The bridegroom, who is the eldest son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Johnstone, of Belfast, Ireland, will return to Hong Kong for a few months after his leave, and will later make his home in Sydney.

The bride, who is the only daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Law rence Harper of Marrickville, and also an ex-W.AA.A.F.,

GIRL were a classical gown of off-

Hollywood, Jan. 11. Eva Tanguay, the "I Don't Care" girl of 40 years ago, died inday in her humble Hollywood home where she had been ailing For several years.

The former musical gomedy star had been in bed for several years, explaining.. "I look au awful I don't want to see any. budy."-United Press.

German Communist Demonstration

Hamburg, Jan. 11.

Two thousand Hamburg Communists thronging the Flora Theatre in the "Red" Altona district here today for a protest demonstration against fuel and food shortages, yelled approval and stamped their feet as the city Communist lea- der.Harry Naujoks declared: "The Germans cannot be held down even with rifles."

The Siwantse, massacre may be regarded as merely one in- cident of the Chinese Commu-

He told his cheering audi- nists intensified campaign of pure: "Do not let yourselves be guerilla terrorism throughout pushed into a fight with the rugged frontier country in occupation forces. Fight against North China rather than a German capitalists who particular ap-Christian ges-responsible for this catastrophe. tere. Drake salt.

If the order to shoot is given

are

Pretoria, Jan. 1., combat team In April, 1, 1945,

Mayon has been in frequent by the Action Committee branch According to a pamphlet issued eruption since the 19th century of the Passive Resistance Council with 28 recorded periods in here, all Indians have been re- which fire and smoke poured qucated to refrain from hurt! from the crater. The last erupcipating in-ny functions tion occurred in September ranged for the Royal visit 1943.

put on by the Mayan was in The most spectacular show

1928, when the volcano sent explosive gases, similar in ap- pearance to the atom bombs, 10 miles high.

Mayon is one of the 20 active volcanos in the Philippines and fe closely linked with a chain of subterrancan activity which borders the "Asiatic coast.- Associated Press.

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ticularly, parents are requested to

the schools-Reater. keep their children at home en the day the Royal family visita

1.

This week the Colony's cinema- pers have a choice, at two of the leading cinemas the King's and the Queen's-of Technicolour Flight Lieutenant Richard 6lms. One, "Billy the Kid" star- Handle, ex-R.A.A.F., was best zing Robert Taylor and

Brian Donlevy, and the other. "Leave Her Heaven," with Cornel Wilde (last seca here as Chopin 2. in "A Song to Remember") and Gene Tierney. Of the two, the straight forward, honest-to-good- in many

said,

MALAYAN" CONSTITUTION

Singapore, Jan. 12.

neas

Kaar in

Billy the wave the batter, True, it is sim

ply, a cowboy with trimmings of better-than-usual acting, much

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an

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