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VOL. III NO. 163

London, July. 12. United States Navy Headquarters here was informed today that the crew of the 7,170-ton American steamship William Carson. had mutinied in the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Azores, and the ship had sent an urgent mes. sage for Immedinte ald.

The ship was reported to be out of control.

Rear-Admiral Richard Conolly, Commander-in-Chief of United

States Naval Forces in Europe and the Mediterranean, ordered senior officers aboard the ship nearest the Carton to investigate.

A Navy spokesman sald the Car- son's distress signal was sent from a location about 250 miles north- cast of the Azores, about 700 miles west of Oporto, Portugal.

"COME AT ONCE"

He sold the mesmge was picked up by Radio Valencia and relayed to Lloyds shipping office here. Lloyds informed the United States naval authorities.

According to Radio Valencia, the

said,

"Crew mutinous. Hampton Roads standing by. Come

The

message

at once,

message referred to the

American steamship Hampton Roads, 14,136 tone, of New York City.

The Carson is owned by the South Atlantic Steamship Line of Savan- nah, Georgia.

from

TUESDAY, JULY 13, 1948.

Guerillas Wreck

Malaya's Only Coal Mine

OPERATION IS SKILFULLY

CARRIED OUT

Singapore, July 12.-With machine-guns blazing, 170 guerillas swept into Malaya's only mining town of Batu Arang today and held it for 90 minutes while skilled saboteurs wrecked vital equipment.

The guerillas cut all communications to the town, pinned down the police and Europeans, including passengers in an arriving train, skilfully wrecked the mine and vanished again into the jungle before Gurkhas and police reinforce- ments could arrive.

They singled out five Chinese, including the general overseer of the mine, for deliberate murder.

issued at the Federal capital of Kuala Lumpur, 25 miles away,

A communique

said the police believed they killed one of the raidera.

rorists, 150 miles away, raided the Another group of 30 armed ter-

Sengang rubber estale today, Indian manager escaped through the rubber trees, leaving the attackers in control.

53 PUB- the station

rural area outside Singapore today, sengers on board Into

Plain clothes detectives raided a, the town and herded the

The the fourth large sweep in a week. master's office for an hour.

Twelve Chinese and two Malayans Another party attacked the police were detained.

station, pinning down 10 constabics with concentrated fire from behind

WELL PLANNED

In Singapore, a bill will be in- Royal Air Force Spitfires roared heaps of stones and rubble. A third troduced into the Legislative Coun-low over Batu Arang as the gueril-surrounded the European quarter, cil tomorrow giving the Governor, las, many of them in the green keeping the 22 people there indoors. Sir F. C. Gimson, blanket power to uniform at the former Malayan With the town thus in their con- suspend, supersede or suppress any People's Anti-Japanese Army, trol, another party, focluding ex- existing law as part of the com-

carried out their attack.→

perts who knew what they were denoa topaign against the Communists. The assault began af 7 am local doing, smashed the most vulnerable Nova Scotia after delivering a cargo- The bill extends lo two years time with the cutting of road and

the time a person can be detained telephone lines into the town. The machinery at the mine itself. without being charged, it was re-raiders then broke into groups. One ported.

-37 strong-held up a train entering

Sho was bound

of Marshall Plan coal.

UNDER CHARTER

(The Carson is operated under charter from the Marilime Com- mission. In New York, an oficial of the Company said no.report of mutiny had been received. He said the Carson carried between 39 and 44

men and was probably In ballast.

(In Savannab,

the operations office of the South Atlantic Com-

received pany salt & had that the ship was "in difficulty be-

Word cause of the crew." from Lloyds. The operators sald they had radloed the ship direct for detalls but had not received

- answer,)-United Press.

word

came

an

Falls To His Death Athens, July 12.--Major Clifford Coombes, 40, of the Royal Scots Fusiliers, today fell to his death from the third floor of a hotel in Athens, British authorities were said to The discount suicide since the liaison officer's morale was of the best and ne held a party last night. An in- vestigation will be made by the British military court.-United Press,

EDITORIAL

MORE BRITISH

TROOPS

FOR GERMANY HINTED

London, July 12.-General Sir Brian Robertson, the British Military Governor in Germany, is under- stood to have raised the question of reinforcing British troops in Germany during the period of the Berlin crisis when he conferred here today with the Chiefs of Staff.

In particular, General Robertson is understood to have raised the ques- tion of increasing the air lift of emergency supplies to Berlin,

A War Office spokesman, however, categorically denied pross reports that Britain had already decidet. to reinforce the British Zong of Ger- many or Berlin. Political quarters here consider that the despatch of additional troops would not be ua- dertaken without Cabinet approval.

We're Doing Our Part

ETHER the China Economist

cannot, or for reasons best known to itself, will not be convinced that! Hongkong playing its full part in the pre- vention of smuggling between the Colony and China. Instead the paper continues to advance aley, unsubstantiated · Inuendoes about Hongkong's failure 10 implement the Anti-Smugglig Agreement.. We challenge the China Economist to support theat charres with facts, in the way that Bir Hilmsworth backs -his- caso- with facts. These facts prove beyond doubt or further argument that Hongkong is fully Implementing the anti-smuggling agreement. By that wo.mean it is-operative-in this Colony so far the Government's commit- ments under the pact are corned. It is

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is true the agreement fus not yet become legislation. the China Economist, who

bat

claims to be so fully knows why! Informed on if is not due to any obstruction on the part of Hongkong. China Economist persists in harp. Ing on the economie Indivisiblilty!

Hongkong and Chios, warning

the subject, probably knows

The

smoothly-running and

it

services,

efficient Dubllo

adequately rationed essential food supplies and a well-

organised administra- Uve machine. China, and especially

city, such Shanghai, has nano of theso assots: wherefore

things sland, China and lfongkong can- not be integrally bound by a common economio factor. Nor is China truc,

the despite Economist's inference, that Itong- keng's favourable economale and financial position is due to smug- allur. It is the reward of clear- sighted administration in which free enterprise and ometal con- trul have been judiciously mixed; of en- duo also to the pirit BEAYORK

and self-help latent throughout the community since the

:Smugeling reoccupation. there has been: smuggling ther still is; but neither in the past, and certainly not at the present In such a volume as to bring about

the Colony's prosperity at the expense of her

sof her neighbour, The position mast be stated bluntly: banned leakage

today of commodiiles from China be- cause the Chinese authorities are, either not capable or are unwill ing to prevent the

They fired shots in water pumps and · compressors of

of eight trailers and seriously damaged three main excavatora. "They forced the driver of one excavator to run over the edge into un open cút.

VAIN REQUEST

The manager of the mine was re- ported to have asked for milltary protection a fortnight ago, but all troops were tied up elsewhere.

damage

Goat Struts On Two Legs

Two-leared billy goat owned by farmer Henry Dorroh at Kuttawa, Ky, struts around the barnyard- on his front legs, his head down and his body up in, the air. The goat's hind logs were frozen shortly after he was born, then a cow stepped on his lega, severing both near the knees. About four weeks later the goal- was performing like a gymnast-AP Picture.

Jews Striking Out For Big Water Supply Base

Tel-Aviv July 12.-Jewish troops, capitalising on the capture of Lydda and Ramle, swiftly developed

three. their offensive and seized Majdal Yaba, only miles from the great water supply base of Ras ol Ain.

The American delegation consi- followders the Pulestine situation of such urgency that it is prepared to sub- port a night meeting of the Socu- rity Council It Count Bernadotte

Mr J. W. Ellot, the..General. Manager of the Batu Arong colliery, said tonight that the terrorists' sabo-

It was believed that the capture of tage will not affect the production

itself would Immediately but may do

so in a Ras el Aln month or two if the damage is within a few days and that thereby irreparable.

Jerusalem's long-interrupted water The sabotage was carried out by supply would be restored. Answering a question in the House out," he said, for two cases of major armour and

men who "obviously knew the lay-

Jewish forces, well-equipped with supported by planes, of Commons, Mr Christopher May-dama

curred two miles apart. hew, Under-Secretary for Foreign

are attacking along a front of nearly A

girl in the attack Affairs, refused to give any under-

15 miles froin Ilamle to Majdal.. WOS 17-year-old Chinese who taking that Britain would make no walked calmly through the passon- further military commitments until

A Halfa dispatch reported that platform to take 2,000 Arab troops were trapped at a train's first aid box,

box, apparently for Tira, five miles south of Haife on the the guerillas.

highway. Halfa-Tel-Aviv coastal In the attack on the Sengang Arab

children were women and state, na

near Ipoh, the terrorists, fleeing the town. Mr Chinese

Chinese, drove manager and

Parliament has had a chanco gers on

on the Fallway

any.

was

to

not

сол-

any such proposals. discuss any

Mr Mayhew

said this required by any established stitutional practice and he could not bind the Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin, to

such

under inking.

General Robertson, who is on a two-day crisis visit to London, gave the Foreign and Defence Ministries first hand accounts of the Berlin blockade, as the Foreign Secretary, Mr Bevin, reported to the Cabinet, General Robertson, who returns to besieged Berlin tomorrow, to sume on the spot command, will talk over the situation with Mr Bevin ngnin tonight-Heutér.

SOVIET PROPOSITION

Berlin, July .12.-Traffe linos be- tween Berlin and the Western Zones would be reopened only when the Western powers "find their way back to Fotsdam" and agreed to a round-table conference

Gor- many as a whole, the Soviet- licensed newspaper, Vorwaerts, sald today.

the cl

on

30

estate, but the

armed heavily off the estate's two special con-

factory

CAIRO COMMUNIQUE stables, firing 300 shots at them as In Cairo, it was announced that they crossed a river while escaping. Egyptian troops had occupied two Troops Zater reoccupied the villages two miles southwest of bulldings Jerusalem. They were said to have were reported to have been ruzed blown up a number of Jewish to the ground.

positions, causing heavy casualties.

Egyptian planes. bombed which Yahudiya and Wilhelmina, Jewish troops had captured in the Lydda-Ramle offensive, the

It was announced in Singapore today that the Volunteer Corps will be reformed. Reuter.

Pedicab Driver munique, said.

Dies After

Being Hit

com-

planes Egyptian heavy bomber

Tel-Aviv, made à night attack on to according

the: communiquo, hitting steel mills, the Ford, motor car company and water tanks.

It was also asserted that fres were enused United Press,

BERNADOTTE IN NY

Lake Success, July 12.-Tho United States delegation has naked the United Nations Security Coun- no possible cit. to meet as soon following the arrival in New York of the Palestine mediator, Count Bernadotte.

No Savvy' Leads

my opinion quite clear, he told a incident was the result of a mise To Fatal Shooting

and

Shanghai, July 13-Harold William Allen, 28, of: Dayton, Dr Ferdinand Friedensburg, the Ohio, pleaded Innocent In the Deputy Mayor of Berlin, disclosed District Court to a charge of today that the city's administration assault resulting in the death of had asked the Indian Government to forward an appeal for help to the a pedicab driver on May 29. United Nations, but this had proved Allen told the court he did not coolic Inten- impossible "for reasons outside our strike the Chinese

tionally. He said he was just trying; competente","

the coolle The only solution now was for all to ward him off, but four occupying powers to evacuate stubbornly followed him.

The prosecution told the court the he said, "I want to make

Berlin What understanding between Allen press conference in Berlin is now going through is final Sun Chu-hsien, the pedicab coolic.

Shanghai, July 13.-A railway proof that the policies of the occupy- The coolle failed to take Allen to in powers hava, led to an absurd his destination and a quarrel fol- policeman shot and killed

lowed over payment of the fare. Cantonese private, the police said, :0 misunderstanding us that unless we sacrifice overy-

Dr Friedensburg declared that the smuggling:

The court said that judgment will following air lift which was feeding the be announced next Monday... to understand each other's dialects,

through fallure of the two Chinese. thing

and illegal traffic of commodilles for the Enancial and In

weklarn sectors of the city was not Court attaches said relatives of dustrial regeneration our

of the fato

1110 China is spain due to

4 a solution to the Barin problem, ni-! the coolle and Allen had reached on The police sald the policeman, the we shall and

Chinese authorities

though every Berliner was grateful out-of-court settlement of the civil thought the Cantonese, Lee Tre- selves eventually in the

unable to make use of the op-

to the Western powers for their at- mult wherein Allen has agreed to twan, was trying to board & train sinking ship. This faɛan example portunities afforded them to catch

tempt to of distorted thinking", and argu-

the smugglers under the anti- ment. Normally, by which we'

penses smuggling pact. It behoves

Inke mean when the condition of China

Chinesa Government to is hormal, the

more active steps toward imple- economy of the two

related,

·Anti-smuggling. places is closely

·That

menting the cannot be claimed at the present agreement concluded: between this moment because of fundamental Crown Colony and China. ff: It ¿lifercucos, Hongkong han # desires to pen the pict opetailng stable-currency) no, labour garest, effectively.

hinterland,

same

belny

capitaleviate suffering in the phy C 400,000,

to

for funeral ex- to escape conscription into the army, In addition, Allen agreed, | Actually, Les and two.companions. We must make it clear that the the attaches sald, that within one were lost in Shanghai and were

by the court air lift only prolongs the breathing month after his release

their ship. Leo's companions said space

which a solution must be he would pay CN12,283, multipladying to and their way back

by. found,

More than ·· 200 4. British Aplores the workers' cost of living indox, they mal no one who could under- The fidex last month was: 710,000 stand Cantonese dialect when the brought food and essential ·kupplies Troiatives of the coolle asked the policeman arrived and irled to arrest into the besieged city of Berlin in the court to impose a Talent sentence them. They said Lee pulled out a 24 hours up to noon today, despite upon. Allen Lt the latter con-and-grenade and the policeman the bad weather conditions. Reuter, victedAssociated Press,

nhot him-Associated Press.

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BEA Cancels Air Services To France

Security Workers Go On Strike

Trris, July 12, Thủ British European Airways were

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ported tonight to have cancelled all services into strike-bound

France tomorrow because of s stoppage by nir security workers.

A company official made the an- Bouncement, as the air security s vices, in which the Communist controlled General Confederation of Labour claims dbout 1,200 members

work out of 1,500, were stopping for in unlimited period from 9 a.m. local time tonight.

All planes in the air tonight will be taken care of by the security. services.

The BEA manager In France, Culonel F. G. Carr, said: "The strike to begin is, expected

at p.. (local Ume) tonight. It affects the men who look after the security of planes in light. As a result, we have

ave cancelled all incoming services

aro

io France during tomorrow.

ΤΟΠΟΣΙΟΥ afternoon Wo meeting the French Ministry of Alr and we hope that arrangements will to take be made for the military over the security work and allow a service fo restricted emergenzy begin on Wednesday."

LAST PLANE LEAVES Colonel Carr sald BEA was can- celling the last plane out trom Landon tonight, but the last plane out from Paris would leave.

The Istanbul service from London, which

leaves there at midnight, han been cancelled as the plage normally lands at Marseilles on the first stage of its fight.

Tho Madrid service from Londan tomorrow will not be cancelled.

Air France services from London aro also affected. An official of Transworld Airways at Orly Airport said the strike would not affect their Mights

relief ET emergency security service would be in opera-

tion tion.

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British Overseas Airways long- distance Bying boats, flying vis Marseilles, are being re-routed and plans are being made to re-route the London-Calro service-Reuter.

agrees, it wan learned today. LEANING TOWER

Americans have been holding principally with the British delego-A consultalions with other delegations, FALLING DOWN lion, all day today,

Pisa.

July

famous

12--The It is not yet certain whether the leaning Tower of Plan will collapss United States will present a resolt in the next four centuries, engineers of Pla tion, or whether the taske will be and architects Association left to the British. The question said today.

The 13th century tower, already now is whether after hearing Count Bernadotte the principal delega- leans over 10 feet to one side and tions. And there is.&-prima-aloit leur Bureau of Monuments malo- case to declare a "threat peace".

that the concrete A majority of the Council members tains however, consider that the time has come Injections at the base of the tower for stronger action on the Council's will hold it at the present inclide part. Much will depend on Count for all eternity or at least for another

1,000 years. United Press, Bernadotte's report-Reuter..

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