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HONG KONG, FRIDAY, MAY 12, 1950.

DISPUTED AIRCRAFT DETAINED

Attack on Man San Islands reported

Unconfirmed reports in Hong Kong yesterday said that the Nationallet held Man San Islands South of Macao, were heavily attacked by Chinese Communist armed craft an Wednesday and yesterday.

Details of the battle wern not mentioned. Previous re- ports had stated that the Chinese Communists were con. centrating considerable forces near Macap for the Invasion of the Man San islands.

MONGKOK

BOMB SCARE

Dismantling of planes stopped as Governor takes action under The King's Order-in-Council

PRIVATE GUARDS STILL AT POSTS

Dismantling of some of the 70 CNAC and CATC aircraft by re- presentatives of the People's Central Government was stopped at 12 noon yesterday when the Director of Civil Aviation, officially detained all the aircraft at Kai Tak. The move was made on directions by the Governor who acted under the King's Order in Council.

The explosion of a bottle of The Director is now responsible for the custody,

nitric acid on the first floor of

55 Mongkok Road shortly after

1 last night gave Mongkol.

scent,

It wou

maintenance and protection of the 70 air-

craft, ponding a Supreme Court ruling on the

ownership of the aircraft.

Up to noon yesterday 21 of CNAC and the 20 grounded CATC nireraft at Kai Tak had been dismantled.

Of these nine had been pointed

mee

Colonial

was to

Jet fighter arriving in Colony today

Singapore, May 11

The Royal Air Force's Vampire which had been undergoing tropical trials in Bingapore and Malaye teft this morning for Hong Kong.

The jet fighter demon. strating in Balgon thle after- Moon, resuming her flight to

• Hong Kong tomorrow. She in due at Kal Tak tomorrow avening United Press.

Romulo arriving in HK today

Brigadier-General Carlos P. Romulo, the newly appointed Philippinen Foreign Secretory, is expected to arrive here by Pan American World Airways

U.S. airmen today, en route to Jakarta.

leave North China

The Philippines diplomat, who k the Chief Philippine UN dele- cate, will head the PI delegation ut tho forthcoming Bagulo con- ference of Asian and. Pacif stoter.

can

WRS

residents another bomb sec.c

General Romulo took his path and sent police rushing to th

London, May 10. of office yesterday as Secretary the Chicago Convention on In-

of Foreign Affairs and wald the ternational Civil. Aviation, 1944. Two U.S. airmen held pri- learned that at 11.

an aircraft cannot lawfully be soner by the Chinese Com. basic objectives of the Philip -

plne

be pan. a man, carrying three hottles,

foreign policy registered in two countries at the munists since October, 1948, knocked on the door of the first

achieved, only in a free and saine time.

left Northern China today floor. 55 Mungkol: Road, and af-

peaceful world, adde a United ter the door was opened, he threw

Press despatch from Manilla. one of the bottles Into the house,black and were awaiting to be who has certain executive powers į

The Loverner of long Kong, aboard a British commercial

vessel.

He said there objectives were and The bottle exploded, causing in-transported out of the Colony.

The official Communist New the security of the nation and duties under the Ground mechanics of both three juries to

occupants, two

still Air Navigation Order, 1949, ond China News Agency; in a broad welfare of the Filipino people. aviation companies were women und a man.

General Romulo" said it cust picked up here by Teleradio, Follec, it was reported, later present at their Kai Tak work of the purposes which picked up two bottles containing shops yesterday afternoon al- give effect to the Convention, said the men-E C. Bender and fortunato that his now appoint

properly fulfil those duties WC. Smith-sailed from Tungtao ment "coincides with the greni cannat nitric acid on the staircase. though they were not working until he knows which of these on the S.S. Hunon, of the Butter collective act of faith in peace

The injured, who were taken on the detained aircraft.

and in methods of peace by the two registrations is the proper Beld and Swire line. Hospital for to the Kowloon

The flers were taken prisoner free states of South East Asia and itself one-a question which treatment, were Lo Yin, aged 60.

tung Peninsula,

broadcast and the women, Lau King, aged

probably turns on ownership of in Yeiyang County of the Kalo the Western Pacifle

He said the Baguio conference sold. 30, and Lau Ho, aged 32. Their

aircraft.

They were released, it epening on May 20 is part of the condition was reported to be not

added, "In accordance with the grand design for peaco" and "it People's Liberation Army's (Com- shall be my prime endeavour to munist) policy of magnanimity at this historie regional under- towards war prisoners."-Asso- | taking within the total frame- cistod Preas.

serious.

Plane crashes in Harbour

A Far East Flying Training School plane crashed into the

Since the Order to detain the grounded aircraft by the Depart- ment of Civil Aviation was issued took place at Kal Tak where the ai noon yesterday. no chongo

grounded aircraft are presently detained,

The private guards, supplied, by the two aviation corpora 2 tions, were still present at their posts guarding the grounded plunes.

Police guarding the gates ta instructed not the airport were

to permit any aircraft equipment to be taken out of the airport

British concern

The British Government had been concerned throughout to ensure = 'that: the “question` “öf" ownership should be determin ed by process of law and that the aircraft ahould in dus course be at the disposal of

the

New Red star

on Vietminh

whoever may be determined to on

be their rightful owners,

One CATC aircraft which has Harbour at 5.50 p.m. yester-her rudder dismantled, was seen day. The pilots, Mr. Hardwick being shifted from one parking and Mr. Marshall, both licens- lut to another within

Kai Tak tion to ed fliers, escaped without in yesterday afternoon. Aside from juries.

this there was no unusual ac- The plane, a Ryan with the tivity in the airport in connee-

tion with the grounded aircraft. markings-VR-ADM-wor checke :3- out about 5.30 on a half-an-bour circulis and landings flying.

It made one successful Innding and took off again. While levelling

The King signs

off in its second attempt to land Order-in-Council

the engine failed and the plane

crashed into the sea,

about 200

yards ff..Koi Tok Airfield.

Inside the

Both plots wore cockpit but they managed to scramble atop the plane which Bank three minutes later. Both fllers were picked up by a parsing sampan and later trans- ferred to a police launch which sped to the scene of the mishap. Mr. Hardwick and Mr. Marshal were taken to the

Hospital for a check-up where hoon they were pronounced sound.

HUNGARIANS.

REJECT APPEALS

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Saigon, May 11.

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Queen enjoys a smoke

Holland's Quean Jullanx amtlingly enjoys a cup of tea and a cigarette at the Governor's Palace in Maastricht, during an official visit to the Province of Limburg (A. P. Photo),

Big Three talks

open in London

London, May 111⁄2

The Foreign Ministers of the United Stater, Bri-

tain and France started a three-day confer ence today in search of a strategic formula for winning the West's cold war with the Com munist. East,

The conference opened utj Lancaster House among the United States Secretary 01 State, Mr. Dean Acheson, the British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, and the French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman. Each principal was convinced that Russia was winning the cold war and that unless the trend was reverand there was increasing danger of another war.

the

Reuter, a significance, lay- the presence of British Oppoal.

Tel. 21438

DARING

ARMED ROBBERY

One of the most daring rob- beries since, the Chase Bank hold-up carly this year occur red yesterday afternoon when five robbers held up three. messengers and escaped with more than $100,000, in cash.

Tho hold-up took place in front of the Hang Cheong Tai Arm, 05 Bar Strand, West, at-1.30 p.m.

The messengers, Lal Chiu, Mon Tvan and Lo Kan, all employees of the Sang Cheung Goldsmiths, 80 Bonham Strand,, East, were returning to their shop with $105,000 in cash withdrawn from the Man Fat Money Exchangers in Des Voeux Rooil, West when they were held up by five men, four of them ormed with res volvers. Pak

They were on their way back to the Sung Cheung from the money exchangers shop after having been sent there earlier with a nohutity of gold bars to convert into cash.

Posed as dotactivas

The robbare. Impersonating pouce detectivec, surrounded the. men and ordered them to put up their hands to be ‘searched," The messengers, believing that they were law officers looking for contraband, submitted to the search.

They realised that it was a hold-up only when the robbers after grabbing hold of the cash, began to run and scattered among the crowds

Police detachments, including the Flying Squads were rished to the scene and road blocks were tablished around a wide quickly

area.

At about 2 p.m. four suspects, (including a woman, were appre» hended di ́a'taxi in Wanchai, Two revolvers were 'said to have been (toúnd among their possessions.

Up to a late hour last evening the police were still investigating.

ATTLEE WELCOMES FRENCH PROPOSAL

House of Co

Commons today that he

tian leade✶ beliæréð, tito" Integrate the cohl-, and steel-

Observers

Londori, May 11. Are Pelmo Minister, Mr. Clement » Atuce, said in the

"welcomed the French proposal Aindustries of

France and

Germany. He said that the

the Government Labour Government move to give the British policy a bipartisan favour. The American would approach their study of the proposal “sympathetically' and delegations, attending the center halled the proposal as a great ence includes an opposition re-step in the eventual Integration preschtallye in the person of the of Western European countries Republican Senator, Mr. John

cum | Associated Press. Sherman Cooper,

cortala

There has already been some tiong Kong but the Utigation about the aircraft In Court hov held that it was without jurisdic-

deal with the mattera A new Communist star has

London, May. 11. Lord Hall, the First Lord of

presented at the Bevin lunch by Dritish Conservatives were re-

USAF'S FLYING raised since they held that the arisen on the Vietminh hori- aircraft were de facto in posses-zon. Foreign observers hert the Admiralty, told the House sion of the Central People's stated that Truong Ching,, a of Lords in a debate on naval

Mr Anthony Eden, and Lord

SAUCER former foreign Halifax, Government of China and under

Communist, is strength that there was no

both The meeting was

first

Tokyo, May 11.. the principles-of-International

a farmer foreign under-secretary The Army newspaper Stars Law recognised by the British being given a propaganda reason to believe that Russian among the Big Three Foreign-secretaries, and Mr. R.A. Butler

oc submarines were at present Ministers since their session in

Mr. Clement Davier represented and Stripes reported today, that Courts it would be a breach of "build-up" in the areas Stale immunity to make orders cupied by the Vietminh (au- based on an Albanian island Farts last return. It was the Liberale. Tritish Cabinera Hying saucer had been found

lude to the tounéil af nine Minis-

idimusters at the lunch Included and photographed, at Johnson air relating to property in its posses-tonomist Indo-Chinese) insur-as had been reported.

He was replying to a debate in ters of the Atlantic Pact nation the Frime Minister; Mr. Attlee, base near Tokyo. gents.

The saucer Technical Ser the Deputy Prime Minister Mr. His photograph is now being which Lord Toynham, Conserva- next week. The Court so held although the distributed to all inhabitants of tive, who commanded destroyers

Germany Herbam Morrison, Sir. Stafford geant Abner Saucer, Jr., of Green- The Far East and aircraft are not 'State aircraft Viciminh-held territory andis and in the

fence, Mr. Emmanuel Shinwell.flying for years, without attract= agenda, t HongKong within the meaning of the Chl-dirplayed aide by side with the zien of Northern France during were ufe major problems on the Cripps, and the Minister uf-De-ville, Alabama, who has been

United Pres and Reuter, Ing attention-United Fress." M. Schuman authority to impound the 70 ago Convention and are there of Dr. Ho Chi-minh, the President the war, had warned of the dan-

fore not exempted from that of the Vietminht People's Govern-ger of war-possibly in three spotlight with the proposal for CNAC and CATC aircraft at Convention

in the

BRITAIN'S MOST EXCLUSIVE LIGHT CARS premises of the years,” Kal Tak pending a Hong Kong

Lord, Toynham said It had pooling the French and German Supreme Court ruling on the The United States and Central Marxist study group.

of this heen reported that Russia would coal and steel industries under Most of the members

International authority ownership of the aircraft, it was People's Governments have each study group are former members then be at her peak in armament ringle initial reaction was

The officially announced yesterday. Intimated that they hold the Hong of the old Indo-Chinese

production and supply. Cam- Kong Government responsible for munist Party, hcoded by Dr. Russians, now have almost the with only Britain showing any Ho, "I believe it is true that the whelmingly in favour of the plan The Order-in-Council signed by

who dissolved it in 1945.

raluctance.

nce. The British Labour aircraft parked at Kai Tak air- spective nationals and this reed whether Dr. Ho, frequently re- shuarding the property which claim to belong to their re-

For these reasons they speculat-same number of cruisers that wo

have," he said..

Government limited its omelal field which are claimed by United sponsibility could not be dis-

Lord Hall replied that

he comment,

calling the plan States interests and by the new charged if either party were tren ported, to be dead although his

compleis "Important." People's Central Government of to remove the alreratt before the demiso has never been confirmed, thought there was a

under-estimation of the strength Truong question of cwnership, had been may be succeeded by

of the Royal Navy. It had vessels decided.

Ching-Reuter.

of sufficient speed to deal with all the submarines present time.

The King Governor

of

King George applied only to the

China.

the

Steps taken

ány

The Order forbids removal of Budapest, May 11. The Hungarian Supreme Court the aircraft by either of announced, today

Any person had rejected opposing parties, at the appeals of the British and who falls to comply with

direction given by the Governor business man, Edigo: American

The British Government has Sanders and Robert Voglor, who in connection were sentenced to 13 and 15 years shall be liable on summary connecordingly felt it necessary to

viction to a maximum

of take steps to ensure that the Imprisonment respectively for es-

HK$5,008 or maximum Imprison question of ownership of aircraft pionage last February.

and right to their possession

The announcement, did not when the court heard the appeal. Two Hungarlgas sentenced to death at the same trial have been executed, the announcement, said,

with the Order

Anc

ment,

FLOODS IN CHINA

arc

Famine stricken- arcas (of ment of six months or both find should be brought before a Court Communist held China. and imprisonment,

of low and that meanwhile the now being ravaged by floods, An official explanatory nota aircraft should remain in Hong the Chinese Communist news states that the decision which Kong

agency said yesterday.

; An agency despatch said that

has arisen in regard to the 2018 after 21 days from the almost 2,000,000 acres in Anh

date of the Order, the Goveri | wel, Kiongsu, Shantung and nor is satisfied that no action Hopel "provinces, were

The aircraft formerly belonged

Sanders and Vogler both "con aircraft is without precedent. fcased at their trial after being hold in secret detention for some weeks-Reuter.

The Weather:

6650) UMT, (5 pm) • HKAT) insa Irphogh 'now, contred “about” -135 - mile** Kacpr*Muzilla" Continuie, tô inova: NW at

to Chinese Nationalist Interesty and are now claired by both United States interests and by interests representing the Cen- trul People's Government of China.

Moreover both interests, claims that the aircraft are registered in their respective countries. Under

FINE PAID FOR Pišbluknola" A shallow ridge of high BRITISH TRAWLER

simsirds merom Southern Japan Xallow-ben înto' NE' Ching, in "

had taken

the

over

T

The Foreign Ministers and their advisers were expected to devote part of their meeting to hearing a known at the detailed explanation of the plan from M. Schuman. They will pro- The British cruiser strongih bably set up a special group to was greater than that of all the study its complications" other naval powers in the world combined." except the United States-Reuter.

Japanese coal for HK

Tokyo, May 13. The first postwar shipment of Japanese coal for Hong Kongt under, will leave Japan on May 22 in

or other, proceeding is pending | water as a result of heavy rains, the, British freighter, Hood, nce,

aball

todayesin dan today. Contract for the wate

lunch party

Significant un

After this morning's 'session of the Big Threo meettigām big and significant official'luñoh: party-war-oven-the-French and American sjalesman at Mr. --Bevin's: private residance, adda

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In respect of the aircraft,; he ...The famine, said to be the cording to the Jiji news, ugency

refer the question of worɛt in, almost ~ a century, is ..ownership of the aircraft to the fceritred in these Northern China

Hong Kong Supreme Court for provinces. Floods were iso, re the cool was signed between the Page 2.

Kowloon Rotary Club, meeting *·| ported in Eastern Kwangtung in Nishi Nihon Hoɛki. Campany, and, deelston, South China,

the Green Island Cement Com=”| Paga 3*

The 70 planes originally were. At the same time, the agency pany of Hong Kong, Involving a Sun Fo maintenance part of the operating Recta or blamed the United States for shipment of 3,000 tons to the Page 4 OM China National Aviation Corpora- helping the Nationalists destroy British colonyBhaktapur tion (CNAC) and the Central Afr the Yangtse, Hwal" and YellowThe price, was not disclosed, Transport Corporation;; (CATC), river dykes which contributed to said the news Agency-Reuter.

Barclay on Brida page 52

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The two companies were permit inst. year's foods. It sold the ins WLER The two companies were perma UNRILA scheme to divertite CALIFORNIA BEAR Acai

flow of the Yellow River caused Moncow, May 11. main base when the Chinese thousands of homes to be washed LEAVES TAKU BAR The British Embassy, here to Communist forces were approach-aw Then planes supplied by day paid the fine of 500 roubles to ing Shanghal, în 1940, 20

MTEN AVOPNAF, the & United Statesko strafed re-

Si Takyo, May 11. free the $73-ton British trawler Last December. Genéral Cheng fugees, calising many deathi

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nault's corporation, Transport (CAT quired ownersh was: action for by purchase-

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