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COMMENT

THE DA

CHINA

No. 35224

Established 1845

TUESDAY, JUNE 10, 1952,

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Reports

NE of the minor tribula- tions which Hongkong nas to bear at the present time in its use as a basa for the dissemination of inspired and speculative politleni stories and propaganda emanating the from alternately Communist-controlled main- land and Nationalist-held Formusa. All of these so- called official releases or storick quoting "spokes- men" require to be treated with suspicion. Too many of them are the producis of imaginative minds and are frequently without factual basis. Often they seek to perturb the public mind by references to deep plota

within the Colony, and by suggesting that the welfare and security of Hongkong is being insidiously under- mined by politieul groups working in secret, and undetected by the Authori- ties. It is well, therefore, that when the public has such reports presented to them that "they should be properly evalued.

ONE

come

NE of the latest specula-

live statements to from Taipeh deuls with alleged plane by the Chinese Communists 10 strengthen underground operations in Hongkong, 1 niakes plausible reading, but N8 an nuthentie appraisal of proposed new Communist activities in the Colony it loses much of its appeal by virtue of at least one misstatement of fact. The China Union Press, quoted as the source of the report, declares that the "Red lender In South China, Fang Fang" has been requested by Peking "to Infiltrate into Hongkong and organise more com- pactly the pro-Red workers there," and the report then adds that "Fang Fang was one of the first Communists to be deported by the Hongkong Authorities." In fact, this particular Com-

30 Reds, One GI Killed

PRISONERS USE

SPEARS

Koje Island, June 10.

American paratroopers stormed the notorious Compound-76 this morning, killed at least 30 fana- tic prisoners in a wild pitched battle, captured the kidnappers of Brigadier-General Francis Dodd and herded its 6,400 inmates into new compounds. One paratrooper wus killed and 14 were wounded.

Eighty-four prisoners and 13 American soldiers were injured.'

**

The Camp Commandant, Brigadier-Gen. Haydon Boatner, said. he believed the prisoner re- sistance was broken at 7 a.m., one hour and a half after 1,000 tank-supported American paratroopers in full battle gear entered the compound.

The defiant Communists who have been illegally building up a stockpile of crude hand-made weapons were dug in in trenches and battled UN Faiders with spears.

United Nations soldiers flanked by tanks and armour- ed cars swept into the compound firing flame-throwers, tear gas and rifle grenades.

They moved in after Gon. Boatner gave the Red compound leader, Leo Hak-hoo.

an Britain, America

ultimatum lo assemble the prisoners in the compound centre or fate forcible action. And Korea Fifteen minutes after the dead- fine,

Gen. Boatner gave the order to start the ruid,

Aincrican soldiers wearing full battle kit moved Into the compound to begin Gen. Dont- her'a campalan itu split 6,400 prisoners up into smaller and more manageable groups. When the Reds

refused to obey his order to assemble the prisoners peacefully, Gen. Boatner barked munist has never. been.out. theaftuck.order.. to -1,000 deported from the Colony, veteran paratroopers of the 18th He left here of his own Regimental Combat Team. volition

free and

will,

Acheson To

Have Talks In London

"London," "June 9.

The United States Secre- tary of State, Mr Dean Acheson, is going to London drilled outside their compound for top level talks later this in preparation for the drive month on Anglo-American

The

troops

deßantly faced bristling differences over the stray of the Ailled mechanised tion in Kores. :

force.

Fanatical Retis who dug although it ts readily trenches

the 11.9

UN conceded that his departure did not cause any great regrets. The paint worth noting, however, is that n report which claims to be authentic, contains a false- hood. One can hardly, therefore, place much reliance on or give credence to the rest of the story which, in any evont, is wholly tendentious.

Restitution

FOR second time, the

n

After 40 minutes of battle, A Foreign Office spokesman

some 1,500 POWs in groups of announced here today that Mr 160 have been moved do a Acheson will interrupt his pro- nearby nely organised com-jected journey to Berlin for pound.

two-day talks with the Foreign

KILL EACH OTHER Gen. Boatner sald some of their leaders killed

prisoners with to when they tried

the Red Own fellow spears surrender,

JUMP!

Camera catches the man who says he will retire at 40

WAGE STEEL TALKS FAIL

Washington, June 9. The steel wage talks col- Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, lapsed abruptly tonight and talks will begin about June 23. and high ranking officials. The the CIO President, Philip Murray, announced that the weeklong strike would con- The eltuation in Korea-in-

tinue.. cluding Koje prison camp-will, negotiations between the

is understood, occupy top Mr John Steelman, assistant West German Government Compound-70, headquarters" place on an agenda of a broad to President Truman, said the

of the Insurgent review of the current inter-two sides, and Israel over the claims for leaders of restitution for the Reds throughout the island,

national scene, criminal treatment of the

was the sume one whose and held Jows under Hitler have prisoners captured

captive the former Koje ended in a breakdown mandant, Brigadier-Gen. Israel has claimed US$1,000 Colonel) Francis Dodd. million, not 18

restitution, but

practical measure

full

Com

(row

were

"completely deadlocked" after five days of negotiations that had produced Britain is increasingly wor-widespread hopes for an end to over the, future of the the six-month-old contract dis- armistice talks in Panmunjom pute.

The deadlock resulted largely

ricu

and the latest moves of Pre- from the steel industry's refusal # Gen. Boatner, lough successor sident Syngman Rhee against to grant union demands for

of to Col. Dodd, had put his men on opposition in his own camp,

standby basis to go into the notorious compound

componention. It is the estimated cost of the re-

with force if nettlement of the Jews. The Accessary and establish then con- amount offered by the Westro over the turbulent island.

GROWING CONCERN

unton shop..

Mr Murray issued a state- ment saying his union had as- Mr Acheson and Mr Eden sured the government of its

produc The rugged American general met earlier this month in Bonn tion of military (equipment)

co-operation "ssuring German Cabinet was a little directed the operation personally for the signing of the treaty essential to our forces engaged over two-thirds of this. I from A post overlooking the with the Federal German Rc-

In combatting Communist This, it is argued, repre-compound. He issued Instruction public and later had a brief aggression"-United Press, sents the real coat of re- to the Reds over a loudspeaker discussion chiefly on European settlement, and in any case and when they ignored him, the and Middie Eastern problems. the debt to the Jaws must troops were ordered to march.

be considered together with Germany's other external

debts, which are the nub-

This was in Paris on the oc outcomen or the signing of the six- nation European Defence Cam munity treaty.

Three tanks led the way and 12 more were assembled gide the fence. At the first show of force, some of the Red

ject of another conference, prisoners broke away from the It is agreed by third parties concrete building

Grave Textile Unemployment

A `GOING, ... GOING... blazing man leaps from a height of 80ft, into a tank of water 6ft. deep....and pro- vides a cameraman' with sensational action shot.

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That is how Stan Bonds, now making a three-shows-a- at the appearance night

Gardens, Battersea Pleasure carns his living.

But one night last week there was no second leap. He had strained his back and retired in intense pain...

Btunt-man Bonda 1 31: hopes to go on around 40 to 45.

DOW

And

In the ploture below." Hold everything! he is getting éfoser, closer to the tank and that dramailo / Swish:

Storm Ruins Millions

Of Banana Trees

Guatemala City, Juno 9.

Inside the

Since then, the British Govern-

that Germany may well be

compound and ran to the mainment has thown growing concern

London, June 9.7" over developments, in Korea, uni

Britain's gate

Unemployment in trying to surrender.

the Far Eait - In unable to pay the full-

general. This

industry last amount demanded, but to

"Hot dog, look at them run," has resulted in the decision of hard-hit textile Gen. Basinar yelled.

rose to more than "I think the Prime Minister, Mr Winston month lump what the German

one in Churchill, to send the Defence 100,000, we've got them licked."

every six Government has called its

Field-Marchal Lord workers, the Ministry of Labour But the main body of prisoners Minister, obligation to make moral began massing Inside the bar-Alexander, and the Minister of The Textile mills are facing

announced tonight. and material amends" to the racks across the compound and State for Foreign Affairs, Mr

their

biggest postwar slump be Jews with its commercial when UN troops began pushing Selwyn Lloyd, to the scene. cause foreign buyers have con* And other foreign debts is them back at bayonot point, „British Press reports today called orders and Brians have erificibod na leas than they defiantly sang and shouted. claimed the mining of new and cut their spending generous. But both parties Prisoners, inside the barracks powerful force on the North Unemployment in all in have shown courage in whole and supplies Korean front which officials have dustries, was 107,000, a drop of

which

they and hoarded and a taking on theso, negotia huge pall of black smoke and deny, while week-end reports affected

so far been unable to confirm or 400 on the previous month, and 2.2 per cent of the

The United Fruit Company similar storm Inst September, tions and it would · be a

recurrent explosions rocked the state that Syngman Rhee had working population," Of these, bas lost 600,000 banana treed the Company Bald. great pity if the goodwill compound. Both sides had made rebuffed Britain's representallen 137,000, were without work for on one plantation alone, all Several small vessels vero. shown by both oldes gous elaborate preparations for no against his movement to stile more than eight week that remained after millions of wrecked at Champerico but no for nothing mana

attack United. Prom.

oppositionUnited Press.

trees, were destroyed in a loss of life is reportedt-Reuter,

·Reuter,

A tropical storm that hit Guatemala's Pacific coast yesterday has left millions of banana trees ruined and:

reported today. the ports of San Jose and Champerico battered, it was

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Fails In Its Mission

Fort Guernsey, June 9. An eight-year-old boy. John Nicholas, died in kospital hero today after a plave had failed to break through dense fog to get scrum to

him British

European Air- ways plano, with 10 passengers aboard, circled Guernsey airport for half an hour before the pilot decided that the passen gera

lives would be on- dangered if he tried land.

to

The boy auffering from

lock-law, died just as the weather began to clear,

The plane carried a sup- ply of a special type of Serum from London Reuter,

Daring Flight To Save

Victim Of Meningitis

Tol: 21433

Authorities Lift Siege

In Berlin

Berlin, June 9. 'British authorities today told Soviet officials in East Berlin they intend to re- move the barbed wire bar- rior around the Soviet- controlled Radio Berlin, in the British sector.

At the same time they said that as from June 12, Germans wishing to enter the building must show passes to be issued by the West Berlin authorities.

Cyell

The British Commandant in Berlin, fajor-General F. C. Coleman, informed hla Soviet opposite

number, Mr Sergei Dengin, of the British decision in a note sent to him this afternoon.

The week-old ban on entering the building is expected to be lifted on Tuesday morning,

General Coleman wrote to Mr Dengin that he had noted the withdrawal of Soviet interfer- enco in Eiskcller, une of the disputed enclaves which British officials claim is within their

on

the

Goose Bay, Labrador, sector.

June 0.

-ARTICLE QUOTED Doctors operated today to save the life of a delirious basis of an article printed-lust

He also assumed, meningitis victim Saturday In the Soviet-control- spinal flown out of Sagrek Bay inled newspaper Taeglische Rund- what the Air Force called schou, that the Soviet authorities "one of the biggest gambles no longer intended to impede free travel between the various ever taken in Northern fly-enclaves, Bround the Western ing."

sector's perimeter and the city

over 400 miles of cold, barren

A flying boat, declared "lem- proper. porarily unserviceable" because The article, which was laken of mechanical defects, sputtered by British officials to be in-

spired by the Soviet. Control;- Mission, said that Nobody planning

attack on Thesa The inhabitants have enclaves. The every opportunity to pers hindered over the elty boundary of Berlin to West Bearded

Russian soldiers who

marshinezi, landed on

on the only open patch of water in Sagres Buy and few back in darkness to complete the mercy mission.

AnAir Force spokesman said that the a

the dight was

all

the bad breaks possible.

The unidentified

spinal

by

men East Berlin Radio will not have to present passes on enterinkt

lngitis patient, was rushed back

to a United States

Air Force

hospital here. Doctors said that the building under the British his condition was "critical." regulation. But

ail Germans

ses will be issued

Passca

Residents of Sagrek Bay, 400 entering the building will have miles north-west of here, sent to do so. 100 calls on

the

behalf of by West Berlin city authorities. When the barbed wire lanes on Thursday. Tho

Tuesday, British

mercy flight was delayed until are lifted, Ora

To

Saturday

because

of Himpor- troops and military police will also be withdrawn, West Bor- sible" landing conditions,

Fight Lieutenant James Bar.in police wil take over the job

passes low, Royal Air Force Exchange of checking the

Germans entering the building. pliot, born in Ireland's County

-Reuter Down

- decided on Saturday that the flight could be delayed no

alers hurried the lumber-"

IN SOVIET HANDS"

Berlin, June 0- The Soviets are holding miara

ing plane over marshland and than 100 Americans and Britons, set down before dusk. Darkness including many soldiers, in a closed in as they picked up the special community in East Ger

many, it was reported here today. pagent,"

The "Fighting Group Against bills ringing the bay and Inhumanity",

3 West Berlin Boating ice alinost prevented a

organisation devoted to gathering take-off but Flight Lieutenant information about East Germany, Barlow and his mates decided said the Soviets had established that they could not walt.

tho community in Bautzen

southeastern

Fot

They airborne by means in the of JATO take-off equipment of the Soviet Zone near the which operates on the principle Czech border, The group sald of jet propulsion but which many of the men were soldiers considered extremely hazardous who had deserted from the when attempted in darkness, British and American armies. United Press.

United Press.

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4/6d gal.

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47.3

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