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THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1949.

American freed by Hungarians

Vienna, Decombor 28.

Israel Jacobson returned to Vienna from a 12-day stay in a Budapest prison today "really con- vinced the Hungarians thought I was guilty of espionage.'

He said he was treated fairly well after the first five days. Before that he was given very little food and allowed only brief snatches of sleep.

The former Director of the was told in return that Kogeler American Joint Distribution admitted their friendship. Committee in Hungary said h

Was

Pope's appeal to diplomats

Valioan

City, December 28,

Pope' Plua'XH today called on 'diplomata of 57 nations, Including Communist Cradd afovakia, to lead their govern ments toward peace In Inter- national relations.

Only by a concerted effgit, he sald, can the world find pance that will wipe out the memories of sorrowful ex periences of the recent past. The Pontiff recalved all di- plomate Accredited to the Vatican in a special mase Ru- dience for an exchange of New Year's greetings.—Unit. cd Press.

Mr. Jacobson was kept at police questioned bestiquarters in Budapest and not | #####DTTTTTTTTTTT

allowed to see anyone from the Legation. He was told nothing about Mr. Vogeler and Mr. Son- dera except that they were being

continually about his relations with Robert A. Vogeler and the Briton. Edgar Sanders, who have been held

by the Hungarians for helg Jacobson said he was ar-

nearly alx weeks on charges of espionage.

He said he told the Hungarians he did not know either man and

PILGRIMS' FLOODING ROME

Vatican City, December 28.

Pilgrims to Rome for the Holy Year, which the Pope inaugurated оп Christmas Eve, are tonight still flowing at a rate of seven a minute through the Holy Door of St. Peter's.

It is estimated thut nearly 500,000 have passed through the Holy. Door of St. Peter's in four kaya. From just after dawn unti half an hour before sunset each day a group of pilgrims kneels patiently before the Door, wait- mg to take the place of those praying the door-steps.

Each pilgrim kisses the door. post as he passes through on his way to kiss the toe of the Statue of St. Peter, and to pray in the various alde chapels of the vast Bartlica,

rested soon after he had crossed the Hungarian border on Decem- to the ber 15. He was taken Budapest prison and kept there until his release yesterday after noon, he said.

PEACEFUL USES OF ATOMIC ENERGY

Washington, December 28. The multi-million dollar atomic research programme is

The questioning centred on the alleged espionage activities of Jacobson himself and the AJDC as an organisation. He was also arked about the alleged activities paying big dividends in the at the AJDC in help Hungarian form of non-military scientific Jews flee the country.

discoveries valuable to ag- He was asked to write on ericulture, industry and éduca-

in his

tion, it was disclosed today. pianation for each entry pisha and official appointment personals

The Atomic Energy book. He estimates that he wrote

Commis- more than 10,000 words a day for live days in longhand.

on

Inore

sion issued a special report findings which have emerged na a by-product of the research almed primarily

developing at effective atom bombs,

During the first 11 months of A small divan In the room this year, the report showed, the

bed, Jacobson's only

His Commission published harida had to be uncovered and search

WRE

Constant light

paperi

FC- totalling 18,000

877

he had to face into an electric pages of information in the fields light that WRE KIWAYW kopt of medicine, biology, chemistry, physics, engineering, minerology. metallurgy And ceramics. Em-

burning.

In-

Hc Wos under guard every phasising that still more minute he spent in the prison. formation is on the why. the

CHINA EXPERIENCING WORST FAMINE FOR LAST FEW DECADES

(By Chang Kuo-ain)

(EDITOR'S NOTE: This & the last of a series of three articles by United Presa correspondent, Chang Kuo-ain, who has recently arrived here after an overland trip from Shanghai.) Communist China is at prosent in the midst of a very grave famino affecting an estimated 50 million persons.

The Chinese Communist government officially admitted on December 22 that 9,000,000 Chinese are "starving or half starving."

The announcement, which I Communist currency has later found had not been dis-inflated between 1,000 and 1,500 tributed abroad, described the per cent within the past two famine as "the worst for the months.) last few decades."

called on

The announcement all local authorities to give pri- ority to relief work. One of the most important measures Was the organisation of refugees into forming and handicraft units for productive work.

Mao Tse-tung recently called upon Chinese Communist army units similarly to form themsel- into co-operative units, ves

Incen- which offered handsome

ves for boosting the production of food.

Rellable sources estimated that between 90 and 40 per cent of Red China's arable land has been damaged by droughts, floods and peatlience during the latter half undamaged of this year, while

of the arens yielded muly half normal crop.

Reporte

from rural North of the Yangtse River

the wald that

moat fortunate people thara were down to two moals of congee (rice Bruel) daily.

Shanghai influx

Many starving villagers

arbas

are for

Mr. Jacobson was decorated by| Commission also announced the flooding the urban arcas

Government the Hungarion

in appointment of a "working party" [ foul, Famine in the rural areas

1048 in recognition of the relief of technical experts to

publishable material.

time,

He was told yesterday

be

they

TAIPEH COMMENT ON INDIA

Taipeh, December 28. Commenting on a foreign Press despatch from Taipeh been that the Government of In- dla will recognise the Chin- ese Communist Peking Gov-. ernment on the condițion Help unlikely that the latter pledges itself

to honour Famine is considered one of lations with India, including all existing rom

of

the most sorious problems the

Rods have yet encountered in the Simla Convention the consolidation of their po- 1914, a local student of In- litical rule, and one which dian affairs termed it "wish- In view of their foreign polloy ful thinking" India hopes -wilt have to be solved without -outalde halp.

by extending recognition to Soviet Russia, to which coun-goin special privileges in try the Chineze

Communists Tibet. definitely conjoined, The source recalled that China is not only in no position to help, has no commercial treaty with but has nggravated the situation Indio, Furthermore she has not by requiring shipments of

Chi-igned

Convention

seem now

The food altuntion in Manchu- rin appears be slightly better than in China proper munist Press reports

Com-

the Simla

nese food In exchange for Rus-which was considered unequal and year barter agreement. sion machinery under EL on-legal.

The saine source commented that should the Peking regime think it expedient to accept such unimaginable said that a Convention it Manchurian rice would soon he what concessions Mao Tse-tung, shipped to North China to help the Chinese Communist leader, alleviate the famine,

would offer to although wou

Moscow which had the this does not necessarily indicate unconditionally recognised 4 Manchurian surplus-United Peking administration 24 hours

after its establishment.

Press.

Missions operating

in Foochow

Boston, December 28,

It le not belleved that the Chi- nese Communists are prepared to accord better treatment to India than to Russlo.

Meantime, reliable sources here predict that India will recognise the Peking Government on Jan- 2, and It is belloved that the uary Nationalist Government has al- ready drafted a statement severing diplomatic relations with India as announcea ita The-

recognition

of the Mao

tung regime---Reuter.

EMIL JANNINGS GRAVELY ILL

Vienna, December 20.

select has caused the complete nulla- calion of the Red's policy of dis- evities of the AJDC. He said

Studies that may do far more persing be referred to the medal several

"non-productive"

res1- but was told "that was last to revolutionise agriculture were dents from over-crowded Shangh- described by atomic scientists at hal. An international motor cyclist | year."

after the radiation laboratory of the

Christian churches, schools soon as the latter The Reds have now abandoned the pilgrimage is among

great

of California at this policy because every man and hospitals in Communist- number

during

the noon by Lieutenant-General Peter University expected

Berkeley. They Issued 自 prosent back to the villages returned occupied Foochow have en- spring. The motor cyclists will Gabor, head of the

Hungarian iminary report on the research to the city with many more.

countered little interference gather in Milan from many parta Political Police, that he was.

into photosynthesis, a mysterious One of those returnees told me from the new regime since last of Europe on April 30, and wil}} released,

process by which that he was unable to remain in agricultural

villago

because he had August's conquest of the city, plants convert sunlight into food, his

nothing to eat; he had to bring missionaries reported today. From the atomic laboratory back his relatives because

The Congregatlonalist-Christion 'at Oak Ridgo, Tennessee, scien- were likewise starving.

American Board of Foreign Mia- tists described new kind of Qualified sources Bald that slons disclosed receipt of mesa- According to Press reports, the plastlo which can be used for there are about 120,000 foodless | ages from Ita 25 missionaries film star Emli Janning is making chemical filters that are and homeless refugees in Shang- stationed in Foochow. They said: thoaily 1 at, the country house highly resistant to acids and hai alone, with the authorities To date all churches, schools and on Lake Weligang in the Ameri- almost shatterproof.

unable to help. The number of hospitals have been able to con-can zone of Austria where he has beggars has risen sharply, and tinue and missionaries have been been living in retirement. they are found in every streat able to live and work much as: The famous Vienna specialist, and alley begging from pedea-before."

Dr. Lauda, has been called to the trians and rickshaw passengers, The communications revealed | bedside-Reuter.

The famine has also caused that the Communists posted pro- widespread deterioration of clamations assuring "freedom of public safety, with a sharp rise worship" and "protection of for- in the number of hold-ups and eigners" a few hours after occupa- robberies.

tion of the city last August

ride 400 miles in a procession to| He was told he was "not quite te Great Square before St. Ал agent" but the Hungarians Peter's In Rome,

indicated he had been guilty of The italian Commissariat for indiscretion.

that Tourism tonight estimated

Ho drove to the Austro- $,000,000 foreigners, pligrims and Hungarian border accompanied by tourists will visit Italy in the an office, of the State Security | coming year. This estimate com- Police. After he crossed the

pares with the 1949 total of

border, he was picked up by Rus- 3,400,000 foreign visitors and 4

sian troops because his permit to 1948 total of 1,000,000.

cross the Russian occupation zone had expired.

techniques

and

K they And scientific data, The steady flow of pilgrims,

processes that which will last throughout the

At the suggestion of the Aus-private metallurgists would value, Holy Year, continued today with 'trian frontier police he was allow the Commission will determine the arrival i Naples at 480

ed to spend the night nearby how much of the information can Argentiniens.

be made public. The Argentine pilgrims, headed while negotiations

The Commission is urged to by Cardinal Antonio Caggiano, pleted in Vienna for his release.

Jaunch a more intensive effort to He said he was well treated by Bishop of Rosario, and eight other Bishops, came by son in the vessel the Russians. Salta They will stay three days

In Naples, making a pilgrimage to

the Madonna of Pompell before travelling to Rome.

WGTC com

U.S. reaction

survey and declassify some of the

know how it has gained through its broad research.—United Press,

A special train with 850 Ger-ment today expressed gratifica charges of spying and sabotage, man pilgrims from Regensburg tion" that Hungary had released is still detained in Hungary. and Passau is due in Rome to Mr. Jacobson. I night. Reuter.

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Canton conditions When I stopped over at Can- ton a few days ago, the train

In Washington, the State Depart-pany, who was also arrested on arrived after dusk; the hotel was several miles away at the other side of the town. Ralway Department said that Mr. attendents warned me to remain But it added that the Hungarias | Jacobson had left Hungarian ter at the station overnight Instead Government had at no time Justi-ritory. "The issues which have of travelling through the city fled the way

in which it had been raised by the Jacobson affair | after dark because of the pre- treated Mr. Jacobson,

and by the continued detention valence of footpads and high- Mr. Jacobson was arrested on incommunicado of Robert Vogeler | waymen.

Police are virtually December 15, Another American remain, and are continuing to re- | non-existent.

Increased taxation and reduced cornings, however, have taxed, the resources of the Chinese peo-. ple and the Missions alike, the Board said in an appeal for funds.

Associated Press.

ATOMIC PACT PROSPECTS DIM

Washington, December 28. Mr. David E. Lilienthal, the

citizen, Mr. Robert Vogaler, aceive, this Government's urgent Communist trade bureaux have retiring Chairman of the Atomic vice-president of the International attention," the Department added. Up to now succeeded in keeping Energy Commission, said today the cities supplied with food, but that the prospects for an early

Telephone and Telegraph Coin-—Associated Press and Reulor.

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the effects of the famine aro beginuing to creep into the urban international agreement to con- areas, causing ipilation and other trol atomic energy are remote. dislocations,

He belleves, however, that the The Chinese Communist Now long-term prospects are good. China News Agency admitted Mr. Lilienthal, due to rotire 'as i that famine WEB the primary | Chairman of the Commission next cause of the violent price fluctua- February, made these statements tions in October and November, at the second general news con- wherein the government dumped ference held by the Commission. thousands of tons of rice and He thinks major advances have. other commodities on the Shang- been made in American atomic hai market in' an'attempt to hall research during 1949, but ha the runaway price spiral (Re-refused to' indicate in what field cent economic reports from, of research the advance had Shanghai indicated that the taken place.-Router.

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