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RUSSO-AMERICAN TENSION Rioting in Champs Elysees | Starvation

EXPECTED TO GET WORSE

Two Russians killed in S'hai clash

Two Soviet soldiere were killed in a clash with Chinese Communist soldiers MAG Klangwan airfield In Shang-. hal, according to

to a Talpel

message, in the "Wah Kiu Yat

Lo

Pa"

yesterday,

The report said that the in- cident

April occurred on

Bavlet when seven drunkan soldiers accosted five Chinese women accompanying a cart loaded with household Items.

Com. A passing Chinese munist patrol tried to inter vend.

As a result the clash occurred in which two Boviet woldlors were killed and

soldiers number of Chinese wounded.

The fight was broken up on the arrival of Chiness Com. munist officers who apoiogland

on the spot for the killing of the two Russian soldiers.

BRITISH BARRACKS OCCUPIED

New crisis forecast

over plane incident

WASHINGTON TO REJECT

PROTEST

BY

RUSSIANS

Washington, April 12.

The United States is expected to issue a tartly-worded rejection of the Russian protest against alleged frontier violation by an American plane, according to Washington diplomatic and military authorities.

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vlous warning, ostensibly to look for the last place using this as a protest to occupy Kastrup airport and concentrato enormous air forces in the Baltic Sen.

be a buoy planted by Danish ves- scla to mark the spot where Rus- stan ships dumped gas grenadea during World War II.

These circles expect the United States to issue a counter-protest against They Russia's apparent firing upon on unarmed American plane. forecast a sharpening of tension, further deterioration of relations between the countries and additional exchanges of angry notes. Thoy predict a situation similar to that which followed Russia's blockade of Berlin. State Department officials are not treating lightly Rus- But officials add that they do not want to pick sia's official protest. a fight with anyone. Russia, too, they think, wants to avoid on open fight within the foreseeable future. Government officials take a serious but calm view of the strong Soviet protest about the mysterious air light over Lat- xia Just Saturday. They are to carefully compile, all avail able information San Francisco, April 12. Peking Radio reported today cident before replying to the that the British barracks in Bussions. Peking have been taken oyer But it is feared the Russians by the Peking shot an unarmed navy Privateer and occupied Military Control Commission.plane, missing on a routine flight

carried from Germany to Denmark. The occupation was out at 0.30 am. on Tuesday.

The broadcast recalled that the American, Dutch and French a racks hqd beaj gecupied severnl months ago. It said" that on April. 4 the British Consulate was serveri with a week's notice that the Bri- tish barracks would also be taken

over.

According, on

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The despatch added that Danish Wide search on the in-and Swedish planes are participa- ting in the search and the fast that American bombers had been Swedish permitted to fly over territory, particularly important strategic areas.

If

The Tass report from Copen this turns out to be true, diplomu. hagen call: "Danish public opinion the sources say, the United States Increasingly regards the report of qould accuse the Soviet before the the crash of an Americae plane world of wanton murder of the pretext for American Fals

10-man crew.

manoeuvres calculated to famili-

was one 'The search

of the most intensified in the U.S. air

frum force history, and involved planes far away as Tripoll and the Azures from which Captain York had flown his scout plane to join the hunt.

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Police grappled with more than 3,000 Odmmunist rioters in the Champs Elysses, tamed' Paris, avenue. The demonstrators tried to storm the offices of the newspaper "Figaro" In protest against "Figaro's publications of the memoire of Otta Skorzeny, former chief of Hitler's bodyguard. Chairs, Ambise, bricks and bottles were thrown. Twenty pollos, about 80 rietors were hurt, and 120 demonstrators were arrested. Photo shows: A Ploter flees the truncheon of a pursuing pollosman'while another pollosmen lits Injured on the pavement. (AP Photo).

of

Surprise arrival Shanghai evacuees

Eighty-eight European evacuees from Shanghai arrived in Hong Kong yes- terday on board the Dutch ship Heinrich Jossen from Tientsin, Thirty-four of them wore British subjects,

The evacuees had travelled by train to Tientsin from Shanghai early this

month...: Though they are only a fraction of more than 2,000 foreign nationals who want to The zuissing Privateer, missing leave Shanghai, their success- on what air derces efficials said ful evacuation is taken as was a routine flight from Copen sign that the Communists are at midnight on Saturday,

menace in Red China

Tokyo, April 12. Fifty million Chinese on the: mainland of China are suffer- ing varying degrees of starva- tion, and Communist control of the country is chiefly respon- sible for their condition, ac-- cording to reports, reaching General MacArthur's Heade quarters.

American officials here have in formation that floods and drought

were responsible for part of the starvation but that the biggest part of the hunger was due to re- duction of

of production. This fall in production resulted from Chinese. resentment of Communist contral- and determination on the part of many under the Reds to refuse to produce.

The famine, according to in- formation arriving here, is the biggest famine in the history of China

Rome

be

It is the considered opinion of Americans here that it would United a good idea for the States to send food to Red-con-- trolled areas of China but that thờ distribution of food should de- finitely be supervised to see that. goes to the hungry masses and

it

not to the Communist armies.

armthat

It was definitely known

enme foot

some To sent to Communist

past

arcas in the under agreement between the alista and Communista

the joint

wound up in the hands of the Chinese Communist Army.

ara

probably

The Russians taking amis food out of Com munist Chine. ‛·r,

Reports reaching

There amid)

-the Chinese Rode are now get! ting some Russian and Japanese planes. These were probably: Daptured from Japaneza troops who surrendered to the Rumlang in Manchufty-

at the and of World War

t.

The State Department could al- arise American Allers with the i hagen to Wiesbaden, disappeared willing to approve large-sealsedger complained, and they all nationals, desiring to leave Ching, Zhere are numerous Nation)

most certainly challenge. Russia's airfield at Kastrup and the gen- statement that Soviet fighters en-eral ares of the Baltle." countered na American plane over

the Important Soviet naval base in |Raft sighted

Latvia. American planes

Tuesday mornils | LAV received strict orders 10 avoid

a contingent of Communist troops arrived and by I.p.m. on Tuesday the air territory of Russia or its

completed the occupation.

satellites, And it is extremely

had

in Hong Kong told the United

navy plane.........

Copenhagea

IL

Passungen stories

(British diplomatic authorities doubtful that theuld have appeared_to_be_u_life.raft in the convinced the Privateer and the Communists, and arrived in Tiens Communist “Press-that the barracks-pres-is-f.bound so far off its course.

The State Department's reply could most certainly give a denlu!

to the charge that the plane open- ed fire on Soviet fighters. If the attacked plane was the Privateer.

was unarmed.

it

was the only United States plane evacuations from Shanghai via Kong."

Tientsin. in the Baltic area.

The International Refugee Or- Members of the crews involved ganisation, also orcanged for the in the search, which is now cen-evacuation of 75 Jewish people tred on the spot marked by Cap- from Harbin,, Meanwhile a United Stator tain York but which carlier Early in April all of the passen- al force scout plane spotted, had fanned closer and closer gers left Shanghai in a special but later lost sight of what to the Soviet Ballle states, are train, which was arranged by the

several days before the Hein choppy Baltic Son today in the plane fired on by the Russianstal gigantio search for an American are one and the same craft.

rich Jessen left the harbour on naval Privateer bomber missing

US. Air

April 7. Forco officiais in since Saturday with 10 men

Some of them, realising that the charge of the operation said the Rboard.

ship did not have adequate se search will go on so long as there ship is a chance that any of the plane's commodation for no large a group crew of 10 men might stil be took comp beds, pillows and mat-

tresses, ailve on liferafts.

More than 50 passengers, in- cluding some British and French

Some of the 10 planes taking search today will part in the probably come within sight of the Latvian const, which is re-hatches during the trip... Desf "of

adjacent to the Consular com- but that there is, no wall the two compounds. It is believed there were no Con- sular persormal living in the bar- racks, although

some private families might have been residing there.

(The borracks area covers about acres, including some stables, 20 ac houses and the barracks where 300 soldiers

Legation Guard

nationpis, slept in the the Le wer formerly hou

housed.

termed the (These quarters move not very surprising, in view of the previous occupation of the American, Dutch and French bar- racks. At that time. the Com- munists maintained that the bar- racks had never been a part of the Consular compounds of the various countries. Occupatios of the British barracks was presum- ably based on the same conten- tion.)

A link?

estabilsh

Cargo

The Americans could alan brin FB-17, who said he had seen

Captain Banta York, pilot of an an exposure suit and up the old legal question: Is Lat-life raft via truly Soviet territory? The several unidentified objects, 40 United States never recognised miles North East of the Danish Russia's 1940 acquisition of the island of Bornholm, radioed later three tiny Baltic states of Latvia, have lostsight of it in spite of

ported to be a wasps'

Mr. Huncen master of the Heln Estonia and Lithuania,

buoys dropped from the plane."

radar defences and where the rich Jessen said that there were A Danish Catalina flying boat Russians are said to maintain a ell number of Shanghal foreign circling the area near Bornholm heavy concentration of afr, navy natiopals, now in Tientsin await

launching bases. island, where the

and reported sighted, radfoed in the Danish fishing vessels approach-ng passenger space on a blockade to find the tatt or any sign of up by Russian patrols and have at the Savoy Hotel.. afternoon that it had been unable ing this coast have been plcked running ship. They are registered survivers from the missing plane. The search and the Soviet note The Catalina crow circled the had a reaction yesterday in Lon area for half an hour without don where seven persons forced sighting any floating object..

their way into the American

Stretching it

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given serious consideration in Iven Rusian protest is being the State and Defence Depart ments. But it aroused little ox citomani and na emergency meetings are planned. Officiala privately say that the Russian protest has not healed up the cold war a bit. Only constant repetition could lead to a shooting war.

Ometals in London are unwill- ing to speculate whether the move is linked with the protracted Peking negotiations to

No one contests Russia's legal diplomatic relations between Br-right to shoot or force down a tain and the Chinese Feople's foreign plane over its territory.

Theret.

to attack an unarmed bomber

has been no development is certainly stretchlag legal points

in the negotiations since Mr. Hut- | pretty far,

chison the Charge Affaires call- All Moscow newspapers pub- Ushed without comment today, the Soviet Union rest to the

life raft was

rocket

not been heard of ag

Air force officials refused to Embassy to support the Russian kay t this stage whether the eb-protest. They were elected by jects might be from the missing London police.-Router, United plane,

Press and Associated Press, Danish naval officials cautioned that the life,,raft might actually

(Sce Page 7).

The is. Chay Bang, Jardine, Matheson ship, le, also reported to be bringing a small number of Bhanghal evacuoes to Hong Kong,

The ship is expected to arrive later this week.

ernment

It was estimated yesterday such a good spirited and co-opera-

than 100, evacuees

Here is some of the information tive group of passengers than the,that more

per month could leave Tientsin Shanghal evacuees to do.

on board blockade-running ships known to be in the possession of

Shanghal Communists high:

high quarters

here: He added: "Under admittedly If the pour accommodation, not one pasagreed to co-operate with forelan

guerfiles on the mainland, of In addition to 34 British sub- China and in the event that-Na- thanked us on arrival. In Hong.

Jects and four. American citizens, tionalist forces make a real at- the group included 36 passengers tempt to return, the people will of Swedish, Dutch, Italian, In- elve them support. The anti- dian, Swiss, Belgian, French or Commuhlat feciing on the main Indian-nationality.

day by day. is growing Ilang where is more stabilly, and E Seventeen Salpelan father ar-

The remaining 78 were Jewish rived on the ship.

DE'S 68 of whom left by air for peace in Talwar, than in many They did not wish to talk about Lydds, Palestine, from Kal Tak places in the world. The Nation- is stabla and the pedź: Inlist money is conditions in Shanghai but one yesterday afternoon.

Following a list of British passenger alcala had a one

officials had at one and Amer an passengers: Robert ple happy. Nationalist 1 troops" Ume charged the Order with..ob-T. Crauder, Frank Vernon Miles, morale is good. Tolwanese are taining moricy on a "fraudulent Dr. Shirley Ellott Gage, 5. 1. Praving an acressing role in gove Fabian, H. G. Fabian, Edmund

8. Nationalbt forces need more The Order carries on its work Lloyd, K. A. Leslie, A. Horn equipment and need more outelde:

E. N. Browne, Hudson WI

aid. They are doing very welt Era Hadileid, ---C. ·A primarily from public donations.

At another me, Communist loughby. officials wer's reported to have Browne, N. Ronland, L. T. with what they have but mist found two eld rifles, which did not Lintilbuc, C. D. Lintilbac, P. M. have more to halt the Communists

Lintilbac, 3. W. Viser,

a long period of time L. F. Over the Order's pro-

Dullam, James Ballard, J. D. United Fress. have triggers, in the C mises official of the Salesian Mooney, W. C. Gomersall, W

"high"

McLaughlin, E W. Laycock, fathers was reported to have been

Bertho Brivin, F M. Brown, V

Jakaria, April 1204 Brown Bleach Menerd, Frank

Celebes Island rebel troops. detained for hours on a charge of

today with illegal possession of frearms.

Some of the passengers said Gamlin W. D. Meyers, F. W

O'Brien,

Alfred Harding, H. 1. clashed early

Federal that they had to wait for months Harrington, A. M. Dixon, W. B. sympathisers of the

of Bungguminase-Asso Lenis, R. E. Lawrie and J. H. town

clated Press, to obtain special vitas to travel to Annily did arrive in Tishtein, they Drummond. had to obtain

exit vied to another ex Tientsia, and that when they Kernaghan, A. A Mackenzin, Government near, Macissor at the

leave the songers who talked t

The the "China Mall agreed that about 3,000 Soviet there were Russians in Shanghai that they were mainly civilians who were working as technicians, advisors to Government officials, or were

Industry.

to

An officer of the Heinrich Jas-supervising work in Shanghal sen sold that he had never known

Workers in Naval Dockyard.

told to

over Royal

wait and see"

protests the, stalemate remains.

at the Peking Foreign Ministry on March 17 and rave Britain's replies to

series of questions United States against the fight

American bomber posed by the People's Govern of an

understood to Boviet territory.~

Naval Dockyard (be considered on a Colony basis, attempts to circumvent the issue ment. There QrTi

"Pravda" and "Izvestia" print workers who have formally and not on that of any individual 3a technicalities, but despite these have included: 1. Why did, Britain not support the candidature of aed the full text of the Russian presented their demand for a United proteat note in the right-hand top $30-a-month special living a!- Peking delegate at the Nations?

corner of the second page, the lowance, have received from

reserved for the the Commodore Superinten 2. A query about the presence o space usually

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: British consul in Taiwan, 3, meat important Government an dent a "walt and soe" reply. What is the British attitude to nouncements. the arsela 'of the Chinese Nation

list regime?-United Press and Reuter.

commercial concern.

Tha Royal Naval; Dockyard and Feu how their fellow workers in the

of the Taikoo Dock:

A

said the British Russians kept to themselves and that no one was positive of what Butir responsibilities were,

Four

Second trip

American

'cluding one US: Copular official, were on board the ship,

The Heinrich Jesson is duo, to on (April 18, TE

leave Hong Kong for, Tiontain

One officer said that the ship than was jo brings back moro

workers will now have to walk with the same dim- | 160′′ persons under the supervi-'

Lacea

come out we 40ckyards ing plow and trying to find a OrdaniAMMOL

demand be

In the meantine keep slon of the International Refugee solution before making a formal At the anio time, all news-This is the first rebuff that the fore they can expect any move approach, ⠀

orried party is But the more worried pers without exception gave Colony's dockyard, workers have by the Commodore Superintend

the dockyard, compaḥles prominence to four brief despat received in their move to get an ent to send home his recom- ched from Stockholm, Copenhagen extra living allowance from, their mendations to Landon.

unlike the utility concerns. colleagues

from The move that

for their business ohd. London reporting the search

colleagues depend fo for: R. lost American, bomber in The Royal Naval Dockyard is at the Kowloon Dockyard have outside, not faside, the Colony. the Baltic The word "arch" ion can be reached locally with The dickyard management ades that while bearable white work is under Uie Admiralty, and no deci- made, has, also, proved boruve. Payment of a furtier 140 a month was printed inside

ide Inverted com-out previous Approval from

have to each worker will mean a strain questioned them o ‹ deprisasian" to the 8 cơ: Jugan continues, 10 A Tasi dawnatch from Copenha-Merrelling the workers represent of the Pingunive; characth! #t/tall/ugh pressure as at prem

THE WEATHER

mas.

London,

~At 0800 GMT 13 p.m. KBT) the

imore, slowly, Kalyard, The Demet gen quoted local reports to the -over”Oklisa ́le, unknown,

worker are membert of the Kow- burdan, life a stumo should come. Today's Forresterate the winds effect that the four-engined bom tatives that they raust wall and Most of the Kowloon Dockyard sent ms marn an unbearable aled becoming Kfalyvinylter berawan Jost somewhere between on the Commodore Superman toon Dock Workert Club, from

dent explained that the Dafty [Gotland and the Lithuanian bor Farm award concerned only the:/which cat committee has bech; £4: Nina Germán ( 29.11 de fabe dar and cited the opinion of the Dairy Farm Company and their up to handle the men damand

plane could have down on a workers, and has faic relation to for the extra living ipecial assignment towards the the Royal Naval Dockyardiga

newspaper, "Expresses" that, the

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