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LAST U.S. DIPLOMATS LEAVE RED CHINA

General Gordon sails with foreign evacuees

EXPECTED IN HK ON WEDNESDAY

All remaining American diplomatic personnel were evacuated from China yesterday morning, the “China Mail” reliably learned yesterday.

Search for missing jet plane

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Valetta, Malta. April 29. Planes of three nations and a British Navy frigate swept the Mediterranean coast North Africa today scorching for a Royal Air Force Meteo jet fighter missing on a flight frem Tumis to Castel Benito, Tripoli.

The Airteor was reported miss- ing after entering the clouds on Egypt for Friday en route to

delivery to. the Egyptian Air Force.

The pilot of a second Meteor accompanying the missing plane reported that the craft was miss- ing after Nying out

of heavy sicles.

The American President Lines ss. General Gordon, left Tientsin yesterday morning with about 800 European evacuees,

She is expected to arrive in Hong Kong on Wed-

nesday.

Another ship, Isbrandtsen's Flying Trader, is due in Hong Kong later in the week with about 400 European evacuees.

The two ships' successful eva- cuation completes months of in- ternational baring between the United States and the Peking Government.

whom intend to hang on, hoping for a resumption of business once the Civil War has reached a more complete stage.

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Under present conditlaris, all foreign nationals who want leave China in the future will be visas by Chinese allowed ex/t omelala,

About 100 clplomatic per Sailed at 10 a.m.

sonnel and their dependants aro be in the Gordon. reported This includon * 'arge group from

the formier American Embassy in Peking.

Passages booked

Ban Francisco, April 30. Shipping offiolate In Ban Francisco reported tonight, that tire liner, General Gordon, ham aalled from Taku Bar, purt of Tientsin, with more than 700 foreign nationals.

Hong Kong fairlines and ship- Aboard are 93 American diplo ping companies have long buck-matle

About 12 plancs searched ists of bookings to take care of meki dipendants

for it throughout the night.

Airliner down

An Egyptian Air Lines plane left Calro today to attempt the rescue of 24 persons marooned when their In desolate plane made A forced landing or Friday.

An Egyptian Air Lines Viking aircraft was reported down neat the Red Sen coast 250 miles Eas of Waal Halfs and 60 miles North of the Sudan border. No casualties were reported.

A Royal Air Force plane from the canal zone took off on Friday "to"look" for "the"milsattig "ship and drop supples. Today on Egyptian Air Lines Viking transport wus attempt to land in the desolate aren and take abourd 20 passen- gers and four crew inenhers. It is almost impossible to reach tha downed plane by rog.-United Press,

Mrs. Doyle sends message to USI Premier

Mrs. Ann Doyle, wife of the "Life Magazines" correspon- Mr. Robert Doyle who dent wus killing in a terrorist am- bush-in Indonesia last Thurs- day night, yesterday, cabled the Indonesian Premier, Mo- hammed Hattu.

The following is the text of her message: "I want to express to you and our many friends in Indonesia my very real opprecia- tion for the sympathy you have extended. As you know only a few months ago my husband and I were privileged to witness the birth of your nation and we shar el a great faith in its future. This faith is in no way diminish- ed. My husband returned Indonesia two weeks ago not only as a newspaperman but as a friend. I can tell you the tragic deed of assassins has destroyed neither his friendship nor ming for Indonesia and her people. Signed: Ann Doyle."United Press

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the removal of the evacuees, many of whom im-American officials from the Chi- mediately intend Colony for England or the Unit- An American ed States.

are still about Though there

European nationals In China, the Sunday evacuation, since very few of these have expressed the intention leave.

to leave the nese mainland. President Linea

3.000

spokesman said that Captain Via dimir Niesen of the General Gor- don radioed that he salled at 10 am, today,

delayed for a The ship was short time by bad weather;

Meanwhile, in Washington, the still more than 2,000 British sub-State Department announced yes- jects in Shanghai alone-niost of terday that more than 700 for-

It is cstitiated that there are

Pakistan Premier-in London

London, April 30.

HONG KONG, MONDAY, MAY 1, 1950.

Royal Family visit Shakespeare Theatre

Pictured in the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre, during the Royal visit to Stratford-on-Avon.. Warwickshire, birth- place of William Shakespeare, are (left to right); · Princess Margaret; Queen Elizabeth; King George VI; and actor Anthony Quayle, dressed as King Henry VII for a rehearsal of Sha- This vialt, was the first kespeare's play of the same name. pald to the town by a rolgning British King for more than 300 years. A.P. photo.

International Air Brigade to aid Nationalists

St. Louis, April 29.

Officers of the embryo International Air Brigade met here tonight with members of General Claire Chennault's organisation to map out a programme of active aid for the Chinese Na- tionalists.

cigners, Including 154 Americans, boarded the liner General Gordon off Tientsin.

The

group up ties. Their departure by way of Ticatsin was arranged after the Stole Department, three weeks ago, had given up hope of mov ing the group directly out of Shanghai by water transport.

of more than, 700 is of 26 different nullona-Neal

Liaquat All Khan, the Pakis. Special train

tun Prime Minister, arrived here by air from Karachi shortly after midnight.

Hr

Castle, former Air Force captain and com- manding officer of the Brigade, said he hopes to-have-100-fighters-and bombers in action against the Chinese Communists within three months.

He sald 1,000 volunteers than the famed "Flying Tigers" have applied to join the Bri-which General Chennault once gade at its headquarters here commanded. and if the State Departracnt

The evacuces had travelled from continues its "hands off policy"

was accompanied by the Be-Shanghal by special train, leav-toward the group it will be

ine there last Wednesday, From activated by July. Tientsin, the State Departinent Castle. a magazine circulation

gum Liaquat Ali Khan and number of officials of Pakistan Government.

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understood, the 700 wore trans-

executive whe bolds the rank of borted by train to the fittic portolonel in the Brigade, sald F-31. Не will spend today und

of Tangku

planes are There they 13-25 and Lancaster lown tomorrow in London before leave buried lighters which took them "available" to the group, The ing in President Truman's private out to the American President final complement of the Brigade. Alte

ne "Independence" on Tues- Line's versel, the General Cor-he salt, will be 408, much larger day for his official visit to the don, at Talsu Bar, the nearest United States.

deep water anchorage. All Khan told Liaquat

re- State Department officials said porters that he would encet Mr. that more than 2,000 Americana Clement Attlee, the Prime Minis still remain in Communist Chinn,

and Mr. Patrick Gordon- Walker, the Commonwealth Re-almost all of them by their own

choler,

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lations

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while Secretary, London, where he would rest before starting his tour of the

United States.

Asked whether he would dis- cuss. economic and other matters with President Truman, Liaquat "I am not AllKhan replied: just going to discuss. only the Weather In the United States."— Reutor.

Bome businessmen` In Shang- hai, estimated officially here to number eight or ten persons have been unable so far to ob- tain exit permits from the Cɔm- mmunist authorities. The

State Department

nouncement said;

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Peking wants KMT expelled

from

Red Cross

He said Chennault represen, discusă tatives were here to the future of the Brigade, but declined to

details: go into Castic Bald the Brigade was orgaalsed to "protest the indif. ference of certain groups to the menace of Communism" bub will have the financial support: of the Chinese Nationalists.

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FIVE BOMB INCIDENTS

IN HK IN 13 HOURS

Two more grenade planting incidents were report-

ed in Kowloon yesterday.

One grenade was discovered hidden. In the Kow. loon New Taxi Company by a taxi driver re- turning his vehicle to the garage at 3 a.m. yesterday.

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Tunisian bid for independence

Lake Success, April 30. -A formal proposal to recom- mend Tunisian Independence from France will be put be fore the autumn session of the

The second was an explosion, beljeved to be caus-..

ed by a grenado, which occurred at 9.a.m. yesterday in a private garage in 15, Sa Yuen Street in Kowloon. No damage was caused, however, and there were no casualties. This brings the mysterious in five injured. One hour later, United Nations General As bomb and grenade planting in-the police in Hong Kong were cidents in the Colony to five since Saturday. The polles are making vigorous investiga- tions but up 1 late last night no person had been arrested in connection, with any of the incidents.

The first occured in the Yau Hing Lung Store in Peking Road, Kowloon, shortly before 8 p.m. on Suturday night which resulted

Red paper denounces Arab League

London, April, 29. The Soviet Army newspaper "Red Star, quoted in a Tass

alerted when a report reached sembly, according to a repre- Chinese trading cam-sentative of Abd El Kring, them that

any on Des Voeux Road Central exiled North African leader. hod discovered a grenade in their promises.

Third alarm

Still a third alarm was rals. ed on the island wide at 1.45 The a.m. yesterday morning.

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llis announcement today dis- closed that an Arab member of the United Nations has agreed to bring the issua of Tunisini independence to the UN.

El Abed Bouhafa, secretary for for Freeduin of Po Sun Goldsmith shop at 83 the Committee

North Africa, declined to dis- Queen's Hoad, Central were the

Arab Elate would close which Intended victims.

sponsor the potentially explosive The shop fold, upon making

item. But Informed sources here Gnal check up round before said it was either: Syria or Iraq. tiring, discovered a hand grenade under a chair. He immediately

Bouhafa also released the text raised the alarm. The police were of a telegram sent to the Seero- informed and the. bomb taken

tary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, away for investigation.

alleging that secret negotiations The authorities declined to are now going on in Tunisia be- make any comment on the mat-

tween the French and a former ter. It is believed however, that Nationalist leader alined at put- there is no political algnificance ting the Tunisian government on in connection with the incidents, the same footing of the Bao Dai but that they may be the work regime in Indo-China.

message, received here today, of an extortion organisation.

The last two grenade Incidents denounced the Arab League as

12 hours.

"a tool of Anglo-American Im-bring the number to five within perialism for strengthening the Near Colonial regime in the and Middle East".

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The paper sald that the League "Mein" cloaking. Itself in Laughns of struggle for a national

became independence" first "instrument for the British Im- chalavement of the perialist" veoples of the Arab East"

tha It added that recently, general offensive of the American monopolies on Brilial economic and political positions in the Near and Middle East had end ed the undivided domination of Britain in the League",

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Earnings of British workers

London, April 30

Demonstrations

The announcement said that.

the secret'! talka reports of "provoked," during this week demonstrations all over Tunisia which led to the arrest of some 450 Nationaliste." It said that the Foreign Press, misled by the French Foreign Ofoe, plo

the turad. theaterrests 33 result of alloged; attempts of "an armed revolt.

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The British worker's average weekly earnings have gone up: According to Bouhafa, the pro- six shillings and ning pence posal to the Assembly will argue since the Labour Government that France has repeatedly vio- particularly in allowing the Nazis clamped down its wage freezelated the protectorate agreement,

over in February, 1948, a Ministry to take

Tunisia » during Thus, the Red Star" stated, of Labour survey showed to World War II. the

Arab League "formerly day. directed from one centre, London,

The survey of 0,500,000 manun!

In view of these violations, it

hos started, receiving Instructions workers in manufacturing indus will be contended that Tunisia also from a second centre, Wash-trien and some non-manufactur- should be immediately granted ing trades indicated that in a full independence. The telegram ington.

"Such 'dualism' in the direction targe number of cases earnings to Mr. Acheson said the French contended that Washington was of the League has led

the secret to the bad reached an all-time high.

Weekly earnings now average lending support to

the formation of two groups inside it,

talks designed to replace £0. 1s. Bd. There had been a and the

regime the pro-British

pro- 20. American. In the first are Iraq percentage Inbrease of 128 per protectorate with

1938,

the modelled on the French agree- ment with Bao Dal's Indo-China and Transjordan, in the second cent since October, Saudi Arabia and recently Egypt survey showed.

Fart of the post-ware freeze government. and Syria,

hoost occurred in the first two "At the present time a struggle months of this year when 1,820

workers, received raltes going on as to which side the no

Yemen, Most of the increases were in the her members of the League, amounting to £263.100 per week building trade, the survey said. will take."-Router.

During those months, it said, there were 240 industrial dia-

The telegram appealed to Mr. putes involving 40.800 workers

Acheson to use his influence "at and 153,000 lost working days.

In January and February of the. forthcoming London 1049 there were 238 disputes with ference to discourage the French from continuing 72.000 workers involved and 172.- 'government OCO Jest working days-Unted these dangerous negotiations."

United Press. Fresa.

the Lebanon and the

Belgium's issue postponed

Brussels, April 29. Settlement of Belgium's Hoyal question was postponed for at least another six weeks with the dissolution of Parlia

nent today by the Regent, Frince Charles.

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The Regency cannot be ended without o Parliament and King Leopold could not be restored to the throne even temporarily.

"We feel eventually we will have to get into this fight anyhow and we want to do it before the fighting gets over here" he sald. Cole Bald most of the pilots Joining the Brigade, the majority of, whom are warlime Air Force,

dissolution decree calls Navy and Marine filers, will do

to the polls on June 4 to so at considerable

ble personal sacri-

elect a new House of Representa- íco

Pay In the organisation from Ulves, Senate and Provincial Coun- London, April 30.

cillors. the top brass to the lowest rates

It also convenes Parliament on Radio Moscow reported to- day that the Chinese Com-will be equal to that of the Unit-

resign and cent hazard pay. The Brigade's Government "More than 700 passengers, In-munist regime' had demanded: ed States Air Force plus 10 per June 20 when the Gaston Eyskens la former negotiations will start again to cluding 154 Americans, have em- the immediate expulsion of executive: omeer barked aboard the American Pre- Chinese Nationalist representa Marine. Its medical officer is a form a new Cabinet

Mehnwhile M Eyskens' coali sident Liner General Gordon at

Castle bald volunteers for the Loa Cabinet of sight. Liberals and. Taku Bar, the nearby deep water on in the League of Red former Navy Commander.

The Red Government, accord- Brigade come from Canada and nine Social Christians, including Bealued.

the ship from

ing to the broadcast, said it was England as well as the United himself will remain in power, "the solo lawful government re- States. The insignia of the group

uitimatum to the by: M, Paul van Zeeland, Friday. The Gordon's de- A new planet said to dis-parture from Taku Bar has been The broadcast quoted a Tass News of blue with a setting sun topped

they enter a coalition Cabinet or The League. of Red Cross So-Press, play an unusual movement" delayed until Sunday by rough Agency despatch from Peking, by the Cross of Lorraine United the Premier designate, that either face the electorste. They refused has been discovered by a seas which

cieties is a federation of national

the coalition offer, Associated Soviet astronomer in the et ba

groups which furnishes technical Crimea, it was reported her day.

and advisory aid in health, relief and other matters" - J

New planet discovered

anvice for Tientsin, accordin-Cross Societies.

this afternoon, Moscow, April 29. thare

tonight, r

The planet, said to be situated near the constellation Virgo, ho twice been photographed.

The new planet was reported to display unusual mavement, = ""per- pendicular sculptic

The dicoverer was identified as P.F. Shair, senior reserch as tronomer at the Bimlez, tory

in the Crimes, serva-

(Grigory" A Shain, Director of

The General Gordon ranched presenting the Chinese people." is a golden, cagle ‘against à field of Parliament fol-

on

baggage fo

the suspension operations to

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bo had to down river to the ship in the Gulf of Chibli. The Ameri can passengers included 93 U.S. Government officials and depon- dents Their departure complates the evacuation' of American -off- clala and the closure of all official 1:5, establishments in Communist China.”—Assbciated: Preuz.

KMT AGENTS HELD servator was recently awarded IN SHANGHAI

the Crimean Astrophysical. C

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Eleven

In physics for his discovery of heavy isotope carbon exents

Por the atmosphere of the stare);

We The discovery of the new planet,fed has been reported to the Centre

Enstitute

The Chinese Communist For eign Minister, Mr. Chou En-tat. was reported to have made the demand in a message on Apri 28 to the secretary generál of the League Halalso iwas; said to have sent almilar cable, to the secretary@gandrat (of the International Red Cros Com.THE Emitted. Ry?

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Berlin, April 20, Allied Intelligence sources said "Personailty, Parado. today that the Soviets cut rephra- | Page tions shipments to Russia by rail. because or increasing (sabotage in

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It said that such an agreement in these enlightened days is economic rubjugation of meant only to perpetuato political Tunisia, by a handful of French settlers and administrators."

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