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`HONG KONG, SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1950.
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AGAINST GOVERNMENT
Protest over purge of Communist leaders
POTSDAM DECLARATION CITED
Tokyo, June 162
Japan's Communist Party this afternoon filed a suit against the National Government for carrying out General MacArthur's
order purging 41 top Communists from public life.
Trawlers make
contact with KMT warship
The sult was filed on the party's behalf in the Tokyo district Court by Communist Eischi Iwata, former Tokyo assemblyman.
The
Australia, who larisation of
to make things easy for the Unit-
Iwata, who himself is not among the purgcos, claimed that the Government action was a violation of the Potsdam Declaration.
Attorney General's Commonwealth, who oppose sopa- treaties with Japan Office predicted the sult would rate peace
opposes remill- Taipeh, June 10. be thrown out on the ground
Japan; and other Press reports claimed three that Japanese courts do nor Commonwealth countries who trawlers, which left Hong have authority to judge Get-have complicated economic rela- Kong early this week, had feral MacArthur's directives,
tions with Japan are "not likely made radio contact with a Na- tionalist worship.
The trawlers defected to Communists several months ago, Their departure from Hong Intentions. Some reports said the trowlers were heading for Japan. Others claimed they were bound for Keelung port of Talpch, to was no basis for barring them public life under the terms rejoin the Nationalists
Terteer for Rehabilitation Af.nf the Occupation's purge of mil
rista and ultra-nationalist, Meanwhile, Pramler
the
The suit claimed that six named in the purge of the party orgen, el States to push through poll-
were not on the "rted Fing."
eles concerning Japan,"-United paper's staff at the time and one Press. other had nothing to editorial policy. It said all the 24
do with
Kong was made with undisclosed embers of the party's Central (ASYLUM OFFERS TO
not quite clear hare whether three or four were involved-- bolonged to BOYRA (8əsrd of Trusiece for Rehabilitation AT: Fairs).
Committee were ardent Oghters against militarism and that there
forced Stats Minister Ban Hignito resign his Cabinet.post In charge of police affairs after he disclosed secret government plans for expending and con- tralising the Japanese nationai poiles to cope with future Com. munist-Instigated violence. Higal, repeatedly, has called for If the trawlers rejoin the Na-the strengthening of the present 32,000-man national police and
BOTRA was formed to handle couiproent and funds transferted from UNRRA, the United Nations organisation which terminated Its activities in China at the end
of 1047.
scelated Press.
RECONSTRUCTION PROJECTS IN
[tem,
In Nagoya today, public
WESTERLING
Schiphol, Holland, June 16. Three countries have offered asylum to rebel leader, Captain "Turco" Westerling in case he is Thiessen, a Dutch defence wit- deported, nccording to Mr. John
ness, who will appear on June 21 before the Singaport: Court hearing Indonesia'a application.
extradition
Captain Westerling led an up- rising last January against the Indonesian Government in West Java and acized the town of Bandoeng-Reuter.
Britain to send military aid to Indo-China
Washington, June 16. Usually rollablo sources said today Britain has agreed to bend military ald to Indo- China to complement, similar assistance by the United States.
These sources said the Bri- tish declalan' hea„caused con- ciderable satisfaction here since it le regarded as show- ing Britain's determination to help crush the Communist
it in
In South East Asia. It la ba-
menace wharaver
Gov.
loved that the British ernment onelders Indo China 4 key. to Malaya's security, so that military help to Indo-China would benefit Malaya United Press.
U.S. chemist arrested
on espionage charges
Syracuse, NY, June 15.
tionalists it will be an important partial return to the old centra propaganda feather in Talpeh.ised control which was abolished But at the moment, it is by no in an early MacArthur reform, means certain that this is their
His resignation spotlighted the intention.
The Nationalists, howover, were, disagreement within the Govern expected to make every effortment over the need for a bigger possible to win them over-As era! has stated that, the Govern
police force. The Attorney Gen-
ment does not need more 'polier, to handle the Communist prob.
But prosecutor Selta Fukul said the Alfred Slack, a chemist who did wartime work on RED CHINA
exieung force would be "totally Inadequate" if the Government Private construction companies outlawed the Communist Party. in Shanghal have banded together te sald if the Communists were In a joint corporation to mobilise suppressed they certainly would their "equipment and technlen) 20 underground am the 95,000 personnel for reconstruction pro- ity police and 30,000 national Įjects in the interior, a roport sald, nolico could, not cope with their
The report sald 121 private subversive activities.
formed the corporation, In Tokyo. police chief Eilcht which is known as the Joint Cor- Tanaka promised 'casing of thr poration of Shanghai Private Con-10-day old ban on masa inectings. struction Companies. It will un- | But in Nagave the police fasund dertake work on aviation, rallway, a decree prohibiting fall paradox, highway, water, sewage, dredging, demonstrations and rallies Inde- shinging and harbour projects.inftely. United Press.
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RED LEADER SHOT Poster War
IN BURMA
Rangoon, June. 16.
the
These slim, silver Gloucester Meteor planes of Famed 222 (Natal) Squadron flash over Forth Bridge, Scotland, during operational exercises. These planes, the fastest operational fighter planes in the world, replace tho Typhoons with which the squadron created much havoc among German: transport as they shot rocket after rocket along the roads leading to the Second Front a few years ago. The aquadron, named after the South African province which made a gift of money sumfelent to completely aquip it with fighters for the Battle of Britain, blazed the name Natal across the skies of Southern England when their eight-gun 'spitfires accounted for nearly 50 enemy. aircraft. Today they have again the world's fastest fighter planes. Pliots, strapped tightly to their seats, wear no more than underwear beneath their thin flying sulte-hart In the „cabina le supplied by air-friction at the' plane's 'terrifia,sposde.. The traps hold the pilot still when he uses an airbrake that {AP cuts down speòd as quickly as the footbrake of a car, Photo).
Racketeers behind
air crashes, Paris newspaper charges
Paris, June 16.
Open charges that two men killed in the Skymaster crashes at Bahrein, in the Persian Gulf this wock, died because they know too much about racketeers in Indo-China, were made by the newspaper "Franc Tirour" today.
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Adventures of British ship told by Master
Nationalist warships fired on and took in custody
a British merchant ship on the high seas, Captain Bathurst said in Hong Kong last night,
Captain Bathurst, Master of the ss. Tal Chung Shan, said that his ship was stopped 11 miles from Chinese territorial waters off Amoy on March 25, and taken by a Nationalist war- ship to their naval base at Quemoy.
4.
She was in Nationalist custody
tor 15 days before her release on June, 15.
The 1,100-ton Tal Chung Shinn, Iwas hit four times by Nationalist bullets which were red without
·warning."
None of the officers or were injured.
crew
Captain, Bathurst said that after the Nationalists detained his ship 20 days in Quemoy, a naval aseuri took the ship to Talkow in Talwan.
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Guerilla activity in China
Tolpch, June 10. Nationallat guerillas in the South China provirice of
Nationalist officials in Taikow took more than 1,000 tons of high grade cargo off the British mer- chantman on June 4-before re- Kwangtung were reported In- lensing the ship to come to Hongcreasingly active in the past
two weeks. Kong,
that Captain Bathurst sald
Despatches published here to his ship was en route to Amoy
guerrilion on June 4 from day sald on March 28, 11 miles
bound for without ambushed a train Chapel Island, whan warning, a Nationalist warship Canton from Hong-Kong.
Munitions aboard the traini began firing 30-calibre 'maphine
were blown up and miscellaneous gun bullets at his ship. He added. "Though this action cargo, which. Included alrpland the reports of the Nationalist parts, was destroyed, on the part
than claimed. navy Was nothing less piracy, I stopped my ship to pre- vent further damage and to save lives."
Taken to Quemoy
Nationalist amcers boarded the
took her to
Other reports spoke of ('tn- creasing Nationalist guerilia so- tivity in.Bouthern Shend, North China provines, in which the former Red capital of Venanja Altuntab
Towards the end of May, the
usk convoy was ambushed al- most wltun sight of Slan, tho in Shenal trucks biggest and most Important city
Twenty-three
londod with food were said to have con captured after a clash in which Co. Red soldiers, were killed and 11 others taken prisoner. In ad- dilon, a large quantity of arms and ammunition was seized-As- sociated Press.
Tel Chung Shan, and after seal-reports claimed, a big Communist ing the radio, Quemoy.
Both in Quemoy, and later ih Talkow, the crew and officers ro ceived one bowl of rice a day for food and of cents a day for main tenance from the Nationalist navy. Only two cooky from the ship were allowed to leave the ship to buy supplies all others remained on the ship under guard for more than 75 days detention.
kept the ship under guard, and
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