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COMMUNISTS OCCUPY HOIHOW India-Pakistan agreement signed in Japan
Hainan capital captured without a single shot
KMT GARRISON FLEES
Hoihow, capital of Hainan Island, was occupied by the Chinese Communists' invasion forces at down yesterday according to independent varna cular Press reports last night,
The city fell without a single shot being fired, the Hoihow correspondent
of the "Sing Tao Man Po" radio-telephoned yesterday afternoon. He said that the anticipated battle on the outskirts of the city did not
occur; the Nationalist garrison withdraw during the night.
Peking report on Hainan battle
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San Francisco. April 22. The Peking radio announc- ed that the Communist in- vaders of Hainan routed #1x Nationalist divisione since the Red troops hit the beaches of the Nationalist into
island strong. held on Monday,
Queting incomplete figures, the broadcast said that 1,084 Nationalists were taken pri- soner, and about 700 killed or wounded, including ane real- mental commander killed and another wounded. It gave the beoty as: 400 rifles, machine. sure and carbines, and 35 artillery places. It said two Nationalist planes were shot down, and two vessels dam
afone
brondcast disclosed that the Nationalist divisions were routed In a battle 'in the North Western part of the Island, near Linkao, which was "liberated" on the 15th. -United Press.
Allies ready to fire on Red Berlin marchers
The occupation, he added, was orderly and the populace is calm. Shops began reopĕr- ing for business in the morn- ing and une Chinese newspaper came out as usual.
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Meanwhile, in Taipeh, the Na- tionalist military spokesman yes terday announced that Nationalist troops evacuated Hoihow Saturday night and have
new headquarters # tablished Yulin, in Southern Hainan, adds a Reuter despatch from Taipeh.
apparently The Communists made new landings sometime on
Saturday,
Flying down the North West coast, we could see about 30 de serted junks, but no troops.
Chinnine hürbour, 20 inlles West
Toihow
presented a peaceful scene-white Hands and green shrubs and it was this area which the Nationalist on Friday claimed was "strewn with Cont- munist corpses," after an eight- hour battle where 6,000 Com- unists were supposed to have
*killed
or captured.
becn
The decision to evacuate tame on Saturday morning only a few hours after the Nationalists an-
This was regarded as an in- direct admission that Hoihow has fallen to General Lin Pino's 'Com:nounced "total victory" on both munist troups,
The loss of Hoihow was attrie buted to inadequate transportation end the late arrival of reinforce- ments.
Evacuation described
(By STANLEY RICH) Samah Airfield on Bouth Coast of Hainan leland,
April 23. Nationalist Chiness air force parzonnel and Hainan civil ad. ministrators evacuated Holhow
at 0.25 p.m. yesterday.
The
Communists were then within three to five miles of the
Washington, April 23. High United States Govern-capital.
Kuns
-ment-sources-today-said-ihal.—The departing-air-force-person- the Allied authorities in Ber- nel were reported to have blown lin are ready to use machine-up large petrol stocks of the edge against the expected of the airport, but were not be- Whitsun march of young Com-lieved to have bombed the air- munists through the Westernfeld itself. sectors of the city.
The Communist strength is un- -The Allied authorities in Berlin
but it in belleved tɔ be knowit, have retured permission for the
tween 10,000-15,000 troops. marchers, whu will be drawn from
The Nationalsts have three all over the Soviet Zone, to pans through the Western sectors, bearinles, estimated at 60,000, but have cause it is feared they will at many of the top officers
ovacuated from Holhow to Samah tempt a coup,
and Taipoh by air. American oflcials in Germany
elly.
ns
Top civil and milltary oficials said to regard Berlin as the boarded the few Nationalist navy cross-ronds in the cold war and 10. be resolved not to
dislodged vessels in sicthow harbour, but they were still sitting there when from the city
Non-lethal methods, such
I flew to Samwh.
Sporulle firing could be heard Are-hoses and tear gas, will be
from the airfield, but no Nationa- fried at first. If these fall to stop ist troops were evident, and the the young Communists, the airfeld uppeared machine-guns or such other wea- pons as may be needed will be unprotected. used.--Reuter.
YESTERDAY'S RAINFALL
The heaviest rainfall for April was registered yesterday (ending midnight) when 1.532 inches of rain fell during the day. For three hours from midnight on April 22, ruin fell continuously to total 0.504 inch at 3 a.m. yes-
terday. The heaviest Tainfall
to be totally
Innd and sea.
Jawaharlal Nehru, Premier of India (soated, left) and Liaquat All Khan, Premier of Pakistan (scatod, right) algn the text of the agreement on the measures to be adopted to deal with the minority problem in India and Pakistan with special reference to the situation in Esat Bengal, West Bengal, Assam and Tripura, at New Delhi. Also pictured here are C. 8. Bejpal (black coat, behind Nehru), Indian Becretary-General, External Affairs; 8. Dutt (centre, walte coat), Indian Becretary, “External Affairs; (behind Ali Khan), Pakistan Becretary-General External Affairs, and Ikram Ullah, Pakistan Foreign Secretary-(A: P. Photo).
Wallace on danger of war
However, good clue to the | Nationalist
position was that aunay AT-6 training planes had
New York, April 22. been taking off from the field with 25-pound bombs strapped The former U.S. Vice-Presi- under each wing. The Nation-dent, Mr. Henry Wallace, ex- alist's air strength of 18 B25's pressed fear tonight that the and 27 F-51's opparently was
Baltic aeroplane incident" not enough.
might lead to war as did the The last rumour
from Hofhow
of the battles
battleship, before the take-off was that 4,000 sinking Communist troops who "pretend- ed to surrender" on Friday night had joined faces with 2,500 said: guerilias and had broken out of their
encirclement.-Associated Press.
Gurkhas kill 100 terrorists in Malaya
"Singapore," "April-23
The 1st/2nd Gurkha Rifles, operating against the Com- guerilla forces in muhist Malaya, have just raised their tally of killed to 100.
was reached in The Ogure battle with a 14-man band in die Sezumat area of Johore in which the Gurkhas killed Ave of the guterlas.
*Maine.
BRITAIN MAY
Mohd All
ABANDON
INTERESTS IN CHINA.
London, April 22.
Britain may abandon her £250,000,000 stake in China if negotiations to set up diplomatic relations with the Communist Government hang fire much longer.
The cost of remaining in business in China is near-
The progressive Party leader "Such incidents as the Navy's Privateer, the defeat of Chiang Kai-shek by the Chinese Communists and Russia's discovery At
of the atom bomb have coured many persons to wonder if there is not a smoother road to pro- sperity and security than the cold wark
He urged President Truman, Premler Stalin and Prime Minis ter Clement Attles to take heed of UN Secretary General Trygve Lie's attempts to lead them into peaceful negotiations in the United
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America's
aling a point where a decision by British firms atomic!
to pull out seems inevitable unless prospects of a trade renewal brighten, it was learned in London today.
least they are seriously considering how long they can wait for the conclusion of the nego- tiations that have been dragging on in Po- king since Britain "recognised” the Commun- ist regime last December.
The cost of keeping British suggest that in Chinese Commun- concerns in business in China ist as in British business circles of two different appreciations of the reached peak figure
a £350,000 in one month, it was situation exch
stated in the House of Coni- In a nationwide broadcast, Mr. Wallace asked for the formons during the debate on re-
cognition. mation of a non-partisan peace
This dgure has fallen in the party to replace the "blipar
is still months, but past four Slean war party that is bleeding high enough to give the greatest the United States to death."
Russia's difficulties
concern,
The first school, fargoly com. posed of Moscow-trained Chi- „nego... Communist leaders, __up pears to argue that the inevit ability of an open conflict be
tween the Communist and non- Communist worlds make it un- necessary to develop links be tween Poking and the Western Powers, even as a temporary' expediant The second school; basing it- the assumption that the
to face China with a considerable cold war will last long enough period of economic development in which all avaliable resouPLEA should be mobilised, is reported
self
on
weapons
Washington, April 23. The Defence Secretary, Mr. Louis Johnson, disclosed last night that United States mili- tary scientists are working on a "variety of new and more powerful atomic weapons for both strategic: tactical use..
Mr. Jolinson also expressed his stay nation's determination to shead in atomic warfare until
Kussia agrees to let the United Nations control atomic weapons.
The Pefence Secretary made these statements in a semi-annual report covering the activities of the entire milltary establishment for the last half of 1949.
"New (atomic)
weapons, have which may
the highest military significance and mur- pass the destructive power, in any arms previously known ard being developed," Mr. Johnson Bald.
He sold that some
of them futuro, hav?
A decision to abandon the far- He declared: "In view of the tories, banks, shipping facilities Russlan Internal dimeulties, Pre-and other major concerns bullt mier Stalin is probably more up by British enterprise In Chia enger for global settlement than during the past 100 years would ever before."
involve the evacuation of a Bri- He said Stalin bas had to re-tish community totalling several Only bodies actually found are duce the living standards in thousand men, women and child- included in the count, the real kusuta so he can make atom ren, mustly in Shanghai.
Britain's decision recognise toll talen by the battalion is, bombs and equip the most power- therefore, probably more than ful army in the world. The So- Cummunist China was inrgely to favour a policy of working "may" in the near 100. The Gurkhas in their opera-viet "triumph" in China has been determined by the desire to safe-relationships with non-Communist milltary significance, both tactical
and strategic."-United Press. tians have lost three men. great but Russia's position has guard British interests.
in been weakened by Titolsun Consequently, a
a collective deci- powers.
Two questions Nearly
Д thousand men Yugoslavia and threats of similar slon by British firms to withdraw
Kong
satellite from China, which must now be formerly of the Hong Garrison, arrived In Singapore states.
regarded as a real possibility, un- of American, British, French_and yesterday to reinforce the drive Mr. Wallace Gold that most less speedy agreement is reached Soviet Foreign Ministers in Paris against the Communist queriifa Russiana support Stalin but prob- un future relationships, between last summer, Rusalons in close lems are great, as he tries to do Peking and London, might have touch with the Soviet delegations in one generation what it took serious repercussions on the unofficially admitted that the
of British
Soviet Union's ability to meet three generations for the United whole trend States and Britain to do. He said towards Communist China, diplo Chinese trade demands in the Immediate future was strictly Mr. Attleo's difficulties are grea-matie olservers here believe. Many of the men are veterans ter because has to rely so heavily Two schools of thought
limited and that China would of Italy, Burma, and Malaya. on American "charity" and knows They were piped ashore from the that Russian bombs would wipe troopslip Orbita by a Gurkha out England, in another war pipe band-Reuter.
United Press.
forces in Malaya. They belonged to
the 10th
I left Holhow on board the lust plane on Saturday afternoon. It was a C-46 CAT transport, pilot- ed Harry Kellenberger of Green-Princess Mary's Own and the 2nd
and Oth. Gurkha Rifles. ville, Ohio.
The CAF would not let our until the entire group laava Bold was clear of their own C-46 transports, which wers overflowing with Nationalist soldiers rushing to escape the *approaching Communists.
period during yesterday was be Government tween noon and 1 pan. when 0.44
inch was measured. Total amount
of ruin from the beginning of the
year up to midnight yesterday officials
renched 8.852 Inches which is
till below the average.'
THE WEATHER
movements In other
Soldiers' presence
of
mind
averts Peak Tram accident
....
policy
At the time of the conference
need foreign trade outlets else- where to enable her to meet her economic crisis.
the pione are two questions upon
Two schools of thought have existed throughout the successive
How much Soviet polley has ainges of Baltish policy planning since the Government of Mau evolved since then in the light Tse-tung took power, in China. of developments in China and in that Great Power relations, and how The opilenists believed China's need for foreign trado
trado much policy in Peking is deter would decide even Communist mined by Moscow or by China Government to maintain machinery of Shanghal, with its which speculation here actively Two spirited lade of the informed, the driver of the car great fritish trading concernis, in continues.
some modifted form. The pessl- Upon the answers to them. Royal Signals Corps helped to of what had happened on the mista foresaw that political doc- observers, bellove, will depend prevent what might have turn-track below. "There was simetrine would decide the Feking the Increasingly imminent pro- We were originally ordered to ed out to be a serious acci- telephoning," Ratcliffe said, "and trine stand by for evacuating govern-dent on the Peak Tramway soon a gang of workmen were Government to force out foreign spect of British traders in China
busy removing the trunk."
Interests, irrespective of the im- informing the Foreign Office of mont officials, but at the last last night. The soldiers wereThe soldiers said that they wore mediate repercussions en China's their decision to cut their losses [] in China, by, closing, down their minute we learned that they word Signalman John Boss, of Long-out for a walk when they happen- cennomy.
wich, Buckinghamshire and d along the scene. They were.
Recent reports of widespread houses in Shanghal-Reuter. At 9800 OKT (5 pm, AKST))—Th«clearing out by isen,
The field, which only a few Nicholas Ratcliffe, of Middies-soaked through after the difficult. cconomie distross in Ching have depressions appears to be stationary from hours earliers was the scene of borough, Yorkshire. Both are run up along the steep track to encouraged the optimists in their the Gulf of Tenkin along the South Caiss Nationalist B-20 and F-51 planes stationed at Murray Barracks May Road, Baas said that he felt belief that the Peking Govern ceteros Bouth Formosa and the taking off and landing, was de-Shortly before 6.p.m. last night, his knees giving away when he ment will not choose to severe Paga gadget Loochoos to the deepening depresion Bulate by the time we took off a tree, broke from Its roots near reached May Road. There were extoling trade links W. Personality Parade Bouth of Japan.
Para p Accentuating the total collapse of the Bowen Road Bridge and fell about a dozen passengers on the outside Wocial and observera Today's Forecasti-Light or modreate the Nationalist resistance was a across the trucks. The two sol- down trand; six of whom were
Ceremonijas at Cenotaph Easterly winds, overcast with lateraltent lone C-48 on the runway which dies who were on the bride The version of last night's In-
hit that the possimistio Europeans.png
here admit Kaffenberger had to skirt around at that preciso moment, told the
school of thought has been Page & PANAR on the take-off.
on "China Mall in an interview sident larued by an official of the steadily gaining ground and fa The Nationalist plane cracked last night, that roof and booking thats along rotten: tree was that they heard the Peak Tramway Company stated up an hour before we began
the crack #{falla 35.8 mm.=1.38, Ins. Tute since trip to Sombook of
dfgothgate from the bridge, mwilt fall across blown over and fell, across the Finally we
After
tram track near the Bowen Road, the
tracks, tha Nationalist B-25, which had been we reigd down to the track, bridge tunately-in Inspector
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tree fall ahdi the trunk messago that we had to clear the and tried to
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Mount Hirugatake, Japan,
April 23. The wreckage of the Air
Force's C-54 which crashed and burned high on the slopea of Mount Hirugatake South West of Tokyo yielded the bodies of the 35 Americans to- day.
Parts of the burned and shat-, tered plane were senttered over n 300-yard area muid scorched trees. A wing tip was found near- ly lutf a mile from the point of the Impact. The tall section was the only part ci the plene intact.
General MacArthur, referring to the plane crash, said this' even- ing that the entire Far East Cominand shocked beyond · worths at this terrible tragedy, The dead were from our midst and we mourn them as our own To their loved ones joes our deepest sympathy, and we can only hope that a herciful God in his divine way may bring to them in this moment of poignant; ngony some measure of lielp and conifort,"
Americana, n.d Japaneko ground patrols today reached the wreckage of the C-45 trans- port carrying. 30 Americans which crashed into a mountain stope 35 m.ca South Week of Tokyo.
General MacArthur's head- quarters announced villsfully that thero were no survivors of the s
crash. The headquarters quoted a report from a ground rescue team of the First-Cavalry Divi-, sion.
The pilot of one of the two- helicopters hovering over the scene on the 4,000-foot Movita peak radioed that ground patrols reached the wreckage about 2 p.m.
Radio report
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Shortly after ground parties reached the crash scene a mili tary, police, jeep at the foot of the mountain plcked up a radio re- port from them saying "no, sur- vivori.".
Johnson Air Base headquar ters for the search for the C-54 which crashed on Friday as it was returning from Manlia. Announced officially that the wreckage had peon spetted on the South side of 7 Mount Hirugatake at 12.30 p.m. today. The "announcement sold that wreckage-waa löentified by the nomber on the side of the piano,
A Manila despatch said a medi~ cal officer, his wife and
two
children were among the 35 per- son's aboard the C-54 which crashed with no survivors near Tokyo.
The headquarters of the Phi- ippine Command and the Thir teenth Air Force disclosed that Lieutenant Colonel H, Kruaner
the Medical Corps, his wife. Alice, and two children, Martha, 10, and Robert,
rt, 14, wer
were aboard the transport plane, Colonel Kruaner
was being sent to Jopon to receive a new which accounted for assignment his family being with him.
Colonel Casper.C. Minty of. tho Philippine Command, was also a passenger aboard the li-inted plane-United Fress.
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