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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1950.

Marines 4 Dead, 140 Injured

March Out Of Hills

A

U.S. Takes

BRILLIANT Action Against

WITHDRAWAL British

Tokyo, December 12.

A Headquarters release issued at 10.50 this morn- ing said that as the main Marine body of the First

Division marched out of the hills and on to Ham- hung plain yesterday, car rier-based Navy and Marine aircraft swarmed over the flanks and rear to insure safe passage for the

Singapore Riots

AMERICAN NEWSMEN

Trading Firm INJURED: MANY EUROPEAN

Washington, Dec. '11. The United States govern- ment today took action against a British trading firm and four of its officers

who arranged an illegal shipment of American molybdenum to Russia last

summer.

last elements to withdraw. Performing one of the many specialised tasks for which they

The Commerce Department's were specifically trained, Navy Office of International Trade re- and Marine pilots raked the voked the licence of the Indus- entire avenue of escape attrial Specialty Company, Ltd., tree-top level, blasting a total | London, to handle any conTM f 16 different troop concentra-trolled American exports 50 tions, killing an estimated long as the United States main- minimum of 500 Chinese Com-tains its present export licence munist troops,

restrictions.

Skyraiders, Corsairs and Pan- ther jets of Task Force 77 destroyed 30 tents and huts and 33 buildings used as hideouts by enemy troops. An additional 35 buildinga were damaged,

One tank and 12 vehicles were destroyed. One railroad car was destroyed.

NAVY STANDS BY

in The orier, which

effect cuts the frin off from business with American exporters

In

controlled categories of goods, also applies to four Industrial Specialty officials.

The OIT sald an investiga- tion showed that the company had trans-shipped 30 tons of scarce molybdenum from the United States to Russia via a British port last July.

com-

that the metal was for con-

VICTIMS OF VIOLENCE

Singapore, Dec. 12.

Widespread rioting swept Singapore all day on Monday, loaving at least four dead and more than 140 persons injured. The continuing riots grew out of Moslem wrath at a court decision returning a Moslem reared girl to her Dutch mother, a Roman Catholic.

The rioting ceased early this morning.

Larry Allen, Associated Press correspondent, who was missing for several hours was later found to have been admitted to hospital. He was in a conscious condition but the extent of his injuries, suffered at the hands of the rioters, was not immediately ascertained.

Allen's companion, Associated Press Chief of Bureau, Tom The car Masterson, suffered a broken leg and bodily injuries.

in which the two newsmen were touring the city was burned.

LESS RUBBER FOR US CARS

in

An Associated Press photo- grapher, George Scow, earller

The Moslems threw even their i wooden slippers at the police.

was dragged from a truck and Then began a wave of violence

his camera smashed.

ogalast all Europeans. More than tursed. Columas of smoke rese 50 cars and trucks were over-

s rialers set the vehicles afire.

With the rapidly dwindling number of targets remaining in the area south of the Chosin reservoir, carrier-based Marine Corsairs destroyed two tanks The British firm had ordered and damaged one, destroyed 100 tons of molybder.um from three buildings while damaging an American exporting

Most of the persons injured in two, and destroyed four trucks,

pany lust January claiming

Washington, Dec. 11.

yesterday's riots were Europeans. sumption in Englandi, accord- The Government today order- Others were Eurasians, Chinese One flight of Navy planes, ing to the omcial version here. ed a cut on the use of natural and Indians. Two dead Chinese Helmeted troops armed with : flying in deep support of the

Arriving in

in a British port the rubber

new automobile were picked up five miles from tear gas and rides were called in ground forces, pounded troop molybdenum was labelled "in tyres.

the city. They were belleved to when it appeared the thousands vehicles on the road

and running transit"

of Moslems might push through Wad then put

The National Production Au-

police lines to reach the threa- between Kanggre and Hulchon aboard a Russian freighter and thority announced that in Jan-have been Christians.

Soviet Union, uary and February, manufac- The ships of England, New shipped to the

The baltered body of a Briton tened convent. It was then that the authorities decided to re= Zealand,

turers must reduce the con- Netherlands according to the OIT the

was nearby.

move the girl to a safer place. The OIT

of natural rubber withheld the name sumption Canada, Australia and the Re-

November exporter on by 28 percent from public of Korea continued with of the American

levels. on the west | the grounds that there was no patrol operations court and stood by to render gun evidence that he know or had The cutback in natural rub- the ber allotments will be made up to fre support

suspect that of the ground reason forces, The United Nations molybdenum was destined by additional supplies of sy

thetle rubber.-Associated Press. Naval forces operating on the Russia, United Press. west coast are under the com- mand of Vice-Admiral W. G. Andrews, who dies his flog In the British carrier, Thescus, Naval vessels of Thailand were out on patrol. The French sloop, La Grandiere, after a long tour of patrol and general support duty in Korean waters, is visit- ing the Japanese coast,

United States Navy ships deployed along the east coast ntinued to provide harassing support of the ground forces, United Press,

Kashmir Demand

for

Nepal Statement

All Europeans were warned to The mob had been stirred up stay indoors through the night.) when the Moslem priest at the British and colonial troops bol-big Sultan Mosque told listeners stered the Police in their at- that the court's decision had tempt to quell the rioting. seriously affronted their religon.

But late last night, Singapore's radio broadcast a message from the High Priest calling for the Moslems to stop the carnage and declaring the religious leaders were not responsible Island-wide outbreak.

The 13 year-old girl whose case touched off the disturbances is Maria Bertha Hertogh. The London, Dec. 11. court, in turning the girl over to

for Secretary, Mr her mother last week, annulled

to muke

teacher. aher marriage to a Moslem school

on

Damascus, Dec. 11. The Foreign Forty-five of the 105 de- Ernest Bevin, is puties in the Syrian Parliament statement on Nepal as soon as today cabled the United No-Sir Ester Dening's report tiona asking for a "popular his mission there has been re- plebiscite" in Kashmir under cclved. Unked Nations supervision as soon as possible.

The Under-Secretary tor Foreign Affairs, Mr Ernest They also expressed support Davies, told the House of Com- for Pakistan in the dispute mons this today, In reply to a Router.

question. — Reuter.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Displaying H.K.

H.K. Products

THE Chinese Manufacturers Union

satisfaction from the fact that, despite early difficulties and doubts, it has once again succeeded in organising an exhibition of Hongkong products. The annual show has become an important characteristic of the Colony's publicity. mindedness. Moreover it provides delight for thousands of residents who have a chance of seeing, arrayed in attractive form, the progress being made by our own manufacturers in a wide and varied line of commodities. Additionally, the exhibition enables overseas buyers and their representa- tives to judge on the spot the worthiness and marketability of our products-a method of salesmanship which has proved its value time and again here and elsewhere in the world. The Chinese Manufacturers Union exhibition of Hongkong products is, in fact, miniature British Industries Fair, and because of this similarity it is of some consolation to know that Hong- Long's manufacturing ability will be pore accurately represented at the

THE

Salisbury Road site during the coming three weeks than it was at the BIF this year. For Hongkong visitors to the BIF at Earl's Court the three features of the Hongkong exhibition were (a) the indifferent selection of local products on display, (b) the somewhat inferior quality of the goods, and (c) their unattractive presentation. We do not wish to be carping in offering this criticism of Hongkong at the 1950 BIF, but to many who had seen how local products can be temptingly arrayed, as at the Chinese Manufacturers Union exhibition, the BIF effort was some- thing of a disappointment. We believe the Hongkong exhibitors at Earl's Court did some very useful business, but we believe our show there could have been more successful if the best even

of our products had been displayed in a more artistic manner. This year's |' CMU exhibition is on just as ambitious a scale as in the past. It deserves to be well supported by the general public and, we feel sure, will merit the enthusiastic patronage of overseas buyers from many parts of the world.

Great Honour Won In Defeat

United Nations forces have suffered a military defeat in North Korea, but in so doing no army has For won greater honour. And it is

BomQ comfort that General Arthur, their commander-in-chief, report that although "wo are being orced to give ground our. fighting capacity has suffered little impairment." The brilliant manner in which the UN: forces fought through the encircling Chineão traps will, in due course, become, classic military history.

lerolam; almost beyond human concep

on, huis beon displayed by American,

British and other allied soldiers and not once during the last three tragic weeks has there been any thought on the part of any of the UN troops of surrendering to the vastly outnumbering Chinese. General MacArthur believes the UN command in Korea is now relatively secure which means, presumably, that the United Nations forces are now in a position to form a doforisive line capable of successfully resisting farther offensives by the Chinese. It is a military situation that could help considerably the present diplomatic moves to bring about a settlement in Koron

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In Long Trail

Is Ended

The organised mass Immigration of Jews from China to Israel has come to a close with the arrival in Haifa of the vessels Negba and Kommomiut. Photo shows some of the elderly and sick refugees being taken ashore from the Negba in Haifa harbour. --- London Express Service.

Death

Man Shot To

In His Bed At Diamond Hill

Another Commits Suicide

Tel. 21433.

American Pilot's Daring Rescue

FROM LIONEL CRANE

Seoul, Dec. 11. An American Jet pilot who parachuted into Chin- ese lines after the engine of his plane had exploded outside Pyongyang WAS rescued today by another American airman who land- ed his light plane on a frozen field.

They took off over 150 yards

of ice with bullets flying around them, It was the most daring rescue of the Korea

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It was dark when the two men got back to Kumpo Bir- Bold. Lieut. Tracy Mathew-

son, the jet pilot, said to Lleut. Donald Michaelis, who rescued him: "I haven't seen your face yet, but you are my friend for life.

They walked off the airfield arm in arm.

Mathewson had been straf-

ing the Red capital when he Baw two Yait planes flying in He was

the opposite direction, watching them when his en- gine exploded and fell out.

FELL OUT OF PLANE

"I don't know whether I was' hit by another Yaker my engine just exploded," he said. He was left sliting in the cockpit with nothing in front of him. There was no time to use the mechanical ojector. He fell out of the plane and pulled his parachute cord,

He landed near the plane's. engine and hid behind it.

"I could see Chinese soldiers 100 yards away," he said,

American fightero circled round and kept the Chinese pinned down with machine guns. Michaelis who said he had been

"having a look

round," flying a single-engined plane similar

wag

Auster,

Ho

happened and

get

+

to the British

· hac-~~- saw what waggled his wings to show he was going to land,

He tried to

into the tiny field three times and made it at the fourth attempt. He kept hla engine racing while Mathewson sprinted towards him. He said, "Are you ready?" Mathewson said, "Let's go. And the plane took off right over the beads of the Chinese-London Express

A northern Chinese around 20 who can only Service. Thousands of suburb dwellers be identified at the moment as a Mr Lei had four British authorities last night of friends and relatives in the he was still in bed at 195a Ha Yuen Liang, Diamond homes slugs pumped into his back and was killed while

were marooned in the

spirited her from a convent to a city last night. a secret hiding place, heavily guarded.

The Moslem rioters had threatened to storm the convent in an effort to obtain the girl and return her to the husband mother or the Malayan foster who had reared her for eight years.

ROAD BLOCKS SET UP

Moslems controlled the

arca

Hill at 9.30 a.m. this morning.

In front of Kallang air terminal. Another northerner of the same age, said to be The government Royal Air Force regiment to de- the shooting, was chased by villagers

moved in a one of the two men who broke into the house to do fend the airport.

and he eventually entered a house and shot himself through The rioters vowed Mrs Her- the head. The other killer made his

escape in the togh would not be permitted to her daughter home to

to nearby hills.

take Holland, with her.

The child The man who was killed isthe house belonging to the during the legal battle avowed reported to be an ex-Chinese | landlady. her hatred for her mother and Air Force officer.

Strewn In the midst of the investi- Road Blocks were set up to her desire to

stay with her around the room in the midst gations by the police, a police prevent Moslems from march-Moslem husband. But after of his belongings were his cap whistle was blown and it was ing on the convent of the Good

discovered that a young Chinese her mar-badges and uniform. Shepherd, four miles outside the the court annulled city, where Maria Bertha stayed riage, she turned suddenly and Two unidentiaed Chinese Kiri

had had $50 snatched from with her mother, Mrs Adeline went to her mother's arms.

На entered No. 195a,

Yuen her hands while watching the After half an commotion. The snatcher was Hertogh, until they were moved

Llang at 9 a.m. In the hospital, Mr Master-hour neighours by the authorities.

heard fou quickly, apprehended by

the son said the police were giving shots and upon knocking at taken to the station.

detectives on the spot and The mob had threatened to directions "when all of a sud- the closed doors

of the house kidnap the girl, kill the mother there was none in sight." He two men dash out with

the police scattered and from where the shots came, saw den, and burn down the convent.

guns Truckloads of rioters raced recalled being hit on the head. In their hands.

He last deserted through the

Baw Alien streets

running down the street in screaming "Allah" and shouting the mob.-Associated Press.

front of Maria Bertha's adopted Mosiem name, "Nadra."

The violence began on Mon-

day morning when an Appe Big Loss To

late Tribunal opened to decide whether Mrs Hertogh should take her daughter to Holland before an appeal by the child's foster mother and husband is heard. The Malayan

nurse Che Aminah, the school teacher husband, Inche Mansoor Abadi, sought

reversal of the Supreme Court's decision to give the child back to her Dutch parents who lost her eight years ago during the Japanese occupation of Java.

That order had ellmaxed a two-year fight by Mrs Hertegh to win custody of the daughter she claimed was kidnapped by Cho Aminali, The elderly Ma- layan woman has maintained that Mrs Heriogh gave Maria Bertha to her. A court charged Che Aminah with marrying the girl of in a manoeuvre to halt the mother's legal battle.

Polled attempted to disperso the crowd around the Supremo Court building, where the Ap. pollate Court was in scasion. The crowd grew rapidly to a scothing mass of stone-hurling and bottle-wielding fanatics.

When the hearing was journed until tomorrow, (Wed. nowday) lawyers, Dutch British omsiale were forced to and barricade themselves behind the building'iron staton while Police, carrying end-riot shields on their arms, tried to drivi

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They separated on being chas- ed by village guards and villag- ers. One of the robbers who seemed to know his way around the village made for the nearby wooded hills and escaped. The other made his way into the network of narrow lanes and backstreets and, finding himself trapped,

entered No.

327c occupied by a man and his wife and shot himself in the parlour with a mauser..

Sub-Inspector A. J. Xavier of the Immigration Department who was on his way to work shooting. was informed of the He was taken to the house where the man had shot himself. but was in time only to see him

die dashed to the house where the shooting first took place and found a man in bed, shot four times through the back. Lying near him was a 22 Browning | platol.

the

Villoge guards informed

of the incident and in police very short while a contingent of EU and the CID was on the spot under ADCI T. Cashman,

im- the

HILLS COMBED.

Small parties of police mediately began to comb hills for the escaped killer. A cordon wan thrown around the area and everybody, found near the scene was held and tioned.

From the woman who owns was killed it was learned that the house where the man Lel

he moved in only about 10 days. ero. He gave his name as Mr Kol and had two miltene S

STOP PRESS

TO CALL FOR CEASE FIRE

Loke Success, Dec. 11, The Asian-Arab bloc agreed tonight to propose formally to- morrow a Korean cease Dre and # pcacc conference on Far Eastern problems.

The cease fire resolution was approved unanimously by the 13 Asian and Arab nations that inst week appealed to Peking to halt its offensive at the 38th Parallel. The companion Σάν solution recommending a peace barley was approved by 12 of the 13.-United' Press.

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