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HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14, 1950.

MAO'S FRANK SPEECH Three killed in

TO PARTY MEMBERS

Says "blindness" driving China to economic ruin; Government must reduce onerous taxes, stop spending

ADMITS RESISTANCE ON MAINLAND

San Francisco, June 13. Mr. Mao Tse-tung sharply criticised the way the Chinese Reds had been running the country and lashed out at the "blindness" which, he said, was driving China to economic ruin,

Flying saucers myth exploded?

London, June 13.

All flying saucers were shot down yesterday by the Royal Air Force according to "Dally Herald" today.,

the

They were air whirlpools. Investigating the mystery craft which have been seen all over the world, plots of special altitude plance were detailed observations and 10 the

10 keep they

Have reported

Brition Alr Council.

Experts who examined their reports sald that light refrac <tion would make an air whirl. pool look like a fast moving disc and under condensation might take different shaped. even seeming to have jet pro- pulsion.Reuter.

Violation of Kashmir cease-fire

New Delhi, June 13. India charged Pakistan with "elcar violation" of the Kash- mir cease-fire agreement today following-a -clash-between- Indian and Pakistani troops In which 15 Pakistani soldiers and sir Indians were reported killed,

Indian reports of the Incident salet heavy mortar, grenade and rifle fire was exchangod during a four-hour skirmish which flared up on Monday morning after a party of Pakistani troops and elvilians crossed the zonal border In the Jammi region just, South of Kashmir.

The reports suit

were

The No. 1 Chinese Communist, in a speech broadcast by Peking Radio, soid party mem- bers must. stop regarding themselves as on elite class and have some thought about the welfare of the people.

Addressing the Central Committee of the Chinese ́ Communist Party last wook, Mr. Mao spoke in moderate tones as befitting one Chinese to another but there was no mistaking the barbed implications of his remarks.

Mr. concluded on a stern

Homuntin landslide

'A Chineso woman and her two small children were crushed to death yesterday at Homuntin Village when tons of earth and stono buried their squatter's hut in a fandslido.

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The dead woman is Chong Kan, 32, wife of a Chinese labourer,

Three other squatter's huts wara, destroyed in the landslide, making 10 persons homeless.

Two ambulances from the Mong. Kok Fire Station rushed to the scene of the landalido within minutes. after it happened.

Firemen and other, workers dug through tons of debris, but when they reached the trapped victims,. they were dead.

Their bodies were taken to the Kowloon mortuary.

Air France plane from Saigon crashes into Persian Gulf

Paris, June 13.

Five persons were killed today and 39 are miss- ing in a plunge of an Air France Skymastor into the Persian Gulf off Bahrain Island. Official reports to Air France headquarters said six persons had been rescued and five bodies recovered.

The four-engined airliner, flying from Saigon to Parls,

43 carried

and passengers

ported. They said all aboard were French one dis-

Guerilla

He said the Government ine grain, paying taxes and buy-seven crewmen, officials T must reduce the onerous taxes ing bonds.

"lighten the burden of the | people"-quit spending So much money and provide some rellef against the growing un- employment.

note: "Duing, the summer, tu- placed person and none was successes in

He castigated "blindness and anarchy in the economic field" and pointedly remarked that three-fifths of the population were still living in a dis- organised state,

In his first major specch since his return

from Moscow four months ago, Mr. Mao listed three prerequlates to stability:

Agrarian reform;

2. "Proper re-adjustment" of cumvierce and industr

tumn and winter of 1930 the ent tire party-roust carry out large- gente ideological remoulding by reading documents, reviewing their work, analysing the situa- tion and develop self criticism

The party must conquer pride, complacency, bureaucracy, thoritarianism and strengthen the links between the party and the people."

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of international prominence.

South China

the French National Airlines said Reports to the headquarters of

the plane was going in for a landing at Bahrein early today

Taipch, June 13. when it fell into the gulf. Early reports gave no clue to tho Despatches claimed further successes by an estimated cause of the mishap,

Just before the big ship went 70,000 Nationalist guerillas down the pilot radioed that ho engaged in a drive against the was coming in for a landing. Reds in the border, region · of,

Helicoptera were

Capitalistic system have joined small surface vessels Hunan and Kwangei West of

Mr. Mac sald Ching will not

abolish immediately what, re- mains of the capitalhatic sys tem in that country and replace it with Socialism, [adde Assoo|-- ated Press.

3. Brustic cuts in Government spending.

Mr

Mao said the Governmant must stop seizing the property "Some people (Communists) of rich peasants. which is think this is possible," he was hampering farm productivity, qunted by the radio, "but such and Also begin reducing the thinking is wrong and not fitting greatly over-manned army. He in the current Chinese situation. Rufd-

-the-Rede-must-cease-being | "Chin-will-have to go through exclusive and attempt to mobi a controlled economy in order to lise all closses of people toward achieve resuscitation and the de- Implementation of the commen velopment of social economy."

United Press and Associated Press.

programme.

Ho sald there are still 400.000 bandits ranging the country who must be ruthlessly exterminated.

Mr. Man sald the Communist are winning the cold war against the democracies which are being torn by dissension and bickering among themselves. He admitted the Chinese feds are encounter.

recent

in

Japs detained Communist China

searching bodies.

for

survivors

Voteran pilot

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TEA-TIME SHOOTING IN

THE GRIPPS;

WOMAN HIT TWICE BY GUNMAN

One of the most sansational shooting affairs in the annals of Hong Kong crimos occurred at 4.30 yesterday afternoon when a Chinese man wearing a raincoat fired three shots of a Chinese woman in the Gripps, Hong Kong Hotol, where more than 100 patrons were tak- ing too at the tima.

The woman, whose name was given as Tong Yick-

chun, is about 40 years old and was wear- ing a pair of slacks and a Hawaiian shirt. She was felled by two shots after the first one had missed her.

Wounded in the shoulder the woman was taken to the Queen Mary Hospital whore her con- dition was reported not serious. Patrons in the frat floor Cochrane and Inspector G. Mar- dining room at the time were th soon arrived and the police in thrown into confusion and ran

vestigation began. They sent the for cover when the first shot woman to the Queen Mary Hos was fired. Expetly how many pilal where up to a late hour last night her condition was reported persons werd. In the dining

fair. room was unknown but it was estimated that at least 100 were having tea there at the

time.

The gunman, escaped by 'one of the fire escupost.

in the mist of confusion two Eropean women "altended the wounded wontan unfl the ambul- ance and the police rame.

Eye-witness account

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According to an ayı witness, Mr. Y. J. Gha, Master of the Dah Han, who was having tea at the time, the wounded woman was sitting with a wo man companion on the long sofe at the North and of the room..Mr. She was sitting atone behind a piller next to the

women.

He said that at first,, about 15 minutes to four. he saw the wo men at another tabla at the South end, but later they moved to the Korth end...

SAFETY. FIRST

A clerk of the Hong Kong Hotel Yaparted that” most of the mora than" 100′ `patrons left the Gripps 'without pay. ing their bills during the wild scramble to get out.

BOTRA trawlers for Japan

Four of the five mechanised trawlers formerly belonging to the Board of Trustees for Rehabilitation Affairs, have left the Colony for Tokyo after obtaining clearance from the local authorities, unconfirmed reports stated

The woman was reported te have told the police before she was removed to the hospital that last evening. she did not know her assailant.

The firm responsible for this By the time the police arriv-Aret mission of the vessels, which ed almost all the patrons, who flew the Chinese Communist flag wore witnesses to the shooting after the defection of the crew to had left. Tong's woman com- the Communist Government in panton, who was reported to be China in March, was belleved to about 20 years of age and be American-controlled. well-dremed, ales (had, left.

on

Certain authorities + concerned The police found one bullet

the with the movement of the floor near the South West trawlers declined to say anything corner of the room under the when approached yesterday. sofa. On the window all above Unconfirmed reports also stated have authorities the sofa where the women were that certain

authorities local sitting they found a bullet hole. approached the

the fifth Apparently the bullet after hit for the detention of

sill ricochetted to the trawler, the Ballard Pride, still ting the cor revolver, presumed to anchored inside the Mong Kok fying the Communist flag and

have been used in the mauit, Typhoon Shelter yesterday. was faund on the oase near the lifto leading down to the main floor, Three shots had been firad while

bullet one

Fracas over flag

The vessels which cleared port remainer on Monday were the Elray. No. lodged in the barrel. This fed 905 and No: 668 while the fourth one which left yesterday was the the police to Bellove that the North

Carolina. intended to

to fire at feast Asaliant another shot at his victim. Eve-witnesses, were questioned by the police and photographs of

the dining room and the blood-by stains were taken.

The palled last night could advance no theory for the shoot-

first

The departure of the three vessels on Monday was reported to have been preceded fracas involving the pro- "Nationalist { group;and;the proj

Comedhist wominchist group among the orew whan the Communist flage"

Chauled down

the

were

inccording to a report Tung ls North Caroline was hauled down

The Communist.. flat on

yesterday nOGU

the

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GENERAL SMUTS

SINGAPORE RUBBER DROP.

Singapore, June 13.

The rubber market hore suffer- ed a severe setback today with a fall of 11 cents per pound, follow- ing yesterday's sharp break of over seven conts.

and the Hunan Kwangel railroad.

The guerillas, the despatches Mr. Louis Pontlier, Director said, had captured several more

widow of Major-General Mok General of Air France in Egypt, districts

expanding

Yu-shek, who was sent to tha how of tPANART srow mem❤ without any Colony as Chinese Military Com-bere vessel without left Cairo for Bahrein today to their holdings every day."

Nationalist guerillas were also investigate the crash.

Mr. Sha continued that at exi

missioner soon after the war.

Yesterday a police launch was overrun The plane

went down about stated to have

Tong's address was given as 193 Chinese' man actly 4.30 ́p.m. (0) thrée miles North East of districts in Southern Kwangtung about five fect six

Street, recond floor, Kow anchored near the Ballard Pride inches in

and the North Carolina, the notably around

towns Df Bahrein.

Kalping and Enping, South West height of dark complexion and loon, and that she was living with

wearing a raincoat, entered relatives.

No arrest was reported made Captain Jean Sladek, termed of Canton,

through the West door. He came one of the company's veteran Many Chinese living abroad across the dining room, around last night. Inspector Cochrane is pilois, was in command of the come from these areas.

the pillar where Mr. Sha was in charge of investigations.. Indo-China-border---- ship, adds Associated Press.

Litting and stood before the wo- The company said Captain The guerilla sucesses in the men. Sladek had logged 10,500 hours three provinces were partly as- Mr. Sha

taw, the man." then of flying time. In addition to the cribed to the alleged concentra- whip out a revolver, point it at pilot, the eight-member crew tion of 600,000 Communist troops the woman and pull the trigger. Included ca-pilot. two radio on the Indo-China border a At first, - "he said she thought it operators, two mechanics, a hos-gure which could well err on the was a joke,sed the woman General .condition of 80-year-old Less and steward.

Air France said it was slii

correspondents with and she got up and began to run seriously ill following an attack hoped other survivors, would bo the Nationalist Navy again re- toward the other end of the of pneumonia. remained found.

on an preparations for assault room. The gunman, followed and changed today, his doctors ported

rubber within The company said first news of

on Communist holdings In the red another shot when she had ported.

Members of the Smuts family two days to lose over 10 Bouth one (about 20 feot, He pumped Wanghans

cents (Ladrones) the crash had been received from Calcuttu. Those already sáved)

another. bullet into her as she said the veteran alatesman ap- pound. excha have been taken to Bahrein, the

and peared to be "brighter" after Only lust, week, the market rosé company announcement said.

Twelve additional warships and staggered another 30 feet 2.000

spending a quiet, night-United to a new peak of 97 cents, the collapsed. marines, they said, had been

Another eye-witness Heald that Press.

highest since 1920-Reuter-AAF, mustered for this purpose.

The Red supply line to those as the first shot rang out, Tong islands of the Wanshans

was heard to stout in Cantonese: which what are you doing? What are they control wan described as completely eut.-Associated Press.

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It was still hoped Air France headquarters that thera would be other survivora

Love Shines side.

Tokyo, June 13. According to dala compiled

West of Hong Kong, Pakistating considerable opposition among by the Malzuru repatriation troops started removing cattle the Chinese people and haller the offer, there are at least 107,000

retreats from extreme and timber from the village of Gulabrah, some 100 yards insidio economic policies although he Japanese men and women still the Indian zone. They reported warned it will be three to five detained in all parts of Com

China, reported the years before real economle stahl- munis! that when the Pakistants

newspaper "Yomluri Shimbun" rescue boats were likely to re challenged by an Indian border ty will become evident.

turn to different spots-along the The Chinese Communist tearter today. patrut they immediately opened

Persian Gulf, says Reuter. Officials stated that of this Dre with their rifles, killing a disclosed that membership in the

Among the passenger was a number about 62,400 are serving Indian officer. Five other Indland party is now 4,500,000,

French well-known

journalist, with the Communist urmies. were killed and one injured and

the Jean Francols Armerin, of Paris Left-wing paper "Franc- tireur." who was returning from a reporting tour in Indo-China..

at least 15 Pakistants were killed Reviews world

In a Berce skirmish that follow-

ed. the Indian reports sald.

The battle ended abruptly

wach United Nations observers situation

reached the scene..

An official version is awaited of

the incident which the Indian Mr. Mao started with a review authortdes termed a "clear viola- hon" of the United Nations cease

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Fifteen thousand are in infan- try, 43,000 in medical corps, in cluiling 20,000

4,000 in artillery, 200 in the air force 100 in the tank corps and 100 in the motor-car corps.

The newspaper added that a re- cent Moscow broadcast beamed to Poland revealed that about 35.000 Japanese would be repatriated shortly from Communist China while n Japanese inngusge broad. cast from Moscow announce Mao

Madagascar crash -

Sixty persons wore feared dead toliny in two French air disastere in the Persian Gulf and, the wilds of Madagascar.

MOVEMENT OF FOOD IN PERAK

The shot missed

time the place war By this thrown into confusion, reme were fint on iltele stomach,, while others made for the exits, and women were screaming. Through- out the confusion two. European women nursed the wounded WD-

Singapore, Juna 13. Another important phase in man. the "Briggs plan" aimed at breaking the back of Communist

Police arriva terrorisin in Malaya, was officially announced in Kusla Lumpur Members of the Emergency Unit and the Flying Squad under A French military plane, with It was disclosed that the Detective

A. F. Inspector 16 aboard, has been missing since movement in Perak of all food- Monday morning on a routine 300- stuffs is being controlled under kilometre flight from Tananarive emergency, regulations. A permit

today,

of the world situation which hr termed "favourable to us." Itc re agreement that has been ini seld the world Communist move- fores since January, 1949.

ment. headed by the

Soviet The United Nations Mediator. Unloh, is more powerful than it Sir Owen Dixon, later today will was last year while "contradic Tse-tung's Intention to return to Tamatava. Madagascar. French is needed to transport food by

the region where the tions between the Imperialis 25,000 Japanese this year. Reu-

Ar over

clush occurred. Sir Owen is at countries, especially the United ter present conducting an investiga-States and Britain, have develop- tion into coinlicting Indian and ed." He, sald quarrels also have

Pakistan claims to the princely increased among the varlour Governor and

Kate of Kashmir-United Press. British and American Internal

The Weather.

groups while "especially note- Lady Grantham

worthy is the mass movement of the German and Japanese peoples which have arisen against the American occupation.”"

Mr. Mao conceded the possibi- lity of a third world war still AL 6800 GMT (3°0.m, IKAT) the trough | exists but can be thwarted by pecelats fruin & Chirim serpes & Formoss the unity of Communist parties lu Eastern Japan. Pressure has fallen E throughout the world.

of the Philippines, and ofer, China,,

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