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VOL. IV NO. 98

Signs Of Cold War Coming To An End

Moscow, Apr. 27-A feeling that Soviet Russia and the three Western their powers may be on way toward a new stago in postwar mutual relations prevailed on Wednesday in Moscow.

No one was going so for as to predlet settlements, beyond it'ng of the Berlin blockade. But informed diplomata bgreed this could be the stepping stone

to great events.

and with

Handied correctly hunile care by all sides, some sources said, this new state of affairs could lead to an ending

of the cold war.

(This dispatch passed through

The Moscow censorship. The

Well, They Said It!

Shanghal, Apr. 17 Harried correspondents Look time to smile today sympathetically and

derstandingly at the re- qulation No. 4. pro- mulgated by the Shanghai Garrison Command "except for news released Ly this headquarters. Chinese and English morn- Ing and evening news- papers and news agencies aro forbidden to publish other Inaccurate War

neww.—United Press,

S'hai Evacuation

Navy Will Give

All The

Help Possible

Shanghint, Apr. 28.-The Bri- copy receiver in the U.S. docslish Consul-General in Shang- not show what, if any, excisions hal, Mr R. W. Urquhart, assured

Britons here last night that de were made by the censor).

removal of British

The scepticism that hus usual-spite the

ly accompanied new moves in warships from Shanghai's bund the cold war was lacking into the mouth of the Yangtse off Woosup!! all pavol help for evacuation purposes will still be given,

Western quarters on Wednes

day,

"Something is cooking," said an American source. "At this point. it does not smell bad."

All Western quarters stressed and the situation was delicate agreed that new steps should be slow and cautious-backed by a great deal of thought.-Asso-a ciated Press.

STOP PRESS

RAF Ready For S'hai Airlift

The Royal Air Force has

for completed plans

airlift between emergency Shanghal and Hongkong to evacuate British nationalo from the northern port should the necessity arise.

Fuur Dakota aircraft are standing by at Kai Tak, and "other planes are reported-to

be standlug by al fore.

Singa-

KORKKATİNGLERAS DE

EDITORIAL

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other

THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1949.

Britain Accused Of Intervention In China Civil War

RED RADIO SAYS THE

BRITISH LION IS LIKE A PAPER TIGER

Shanghai, Apr, 28.—The Communist Peiping radio last night said four British warships shelled last week in the Yangtse were trying to intervene in the civil war.

The radio broadcast an article written by Ho Sze-ching, Pro- fessor and jurist. Ho-said the British Naval spokesman had not explained what the British ships were doing in the Yangtse on the day the Nationalist government had to accept or reject the Red peace terms.

The action of the British Navy, Ho said, clearly shows the British "will is to halt the People's Liberation Army and intervene in China's civil war."

aware

development was reported from Canton as Ceneralissimo Chiang. Kai-shek called upon China to resist the brutal forces of the "Communists who aru Bt-

lempting to make Ching a mill- lory base for world domination." General Pal's troops had now

I11 a statement released to-

Nationalist night, Me Urquhart said that orl-

The fact that the British received the permission of the ginal emergency plans have been altered by the attack

the government to sail the Amethyst upriver was interpreted by Ho to mean the

British wanted to halt the Reds crossing of the Yangtse. Amethysi.

"I must be recognised "that

which Daily Graphic lute evacuation

British foreign | the from the

said the waterfront to Hongkong with Ofer "admission" that Natlon-declared: naval assistance

"The In the

formist government approval was

guns of British ships received for the sailing "shows have delivered a warning" in originally planned cannot now be guaranteed and indeevi that the British Navy was well Asia and said the British Lio

"will show his roused, certain circumstances muy

that the people's Libera- when impossible. Accordingly

ad He said the British Lion is alternative arrangements have tion Army was at that moment teeth and, if needed, use them." preparing to eross the Yangtse teen examined," the state.host River and is a proof of the Brit-fake lion which is certainly said,

tah scheme to make the people's not fiercer than a paper tiger

sald the fteds are not Mr Urquhart emphasised once Liberation Army hall is crosle more that the peaceful charge-

Brilish Naval afraid even of real lions. of British ships on then before the

Ho admonished the British: Lec

"Those clearly in vessels."

who play with fire Yangtse was stated

British saliors Forty-three

con the House of Commons by Mi Clement

vere killed and more than 100 ore in danger of being Prima the

Communist attacks sumes in the flames." injured In

Another disposition to

Communis! lender Minister, but nsumerstand the ships object on the four ships-the cruiser

Communists Lontion, the destroyer Consort, was quoted by the Red radlo as will have made "adjustments" in the

the sloops Amethyst and Black saying the emergency evacuation

said "resist and vanquish the im Communists The recessary-Neuter.

they lost more than 250 dend perialists If they are so rable when the British returned are as to participate in the elvil war

of China." of the Red artillery.

Attice,

a

scheme

Swan.

•

A "FAKE LION"

in face of the will drawn across the river. drive from the from Hankow Communist norths and

faced entrapment unless they could drive south working before the Communists.

could move with local guerillas.

ome 85 miles west from their Yongtse River crossing points,

The

mengré details only

were that railway available offeints said they did not know when the service might be re-

sumed.

Party rapidly Democratic

communica

NANKING REPORT RELIEFS ON WAY

Pent Tze-min, Chairman of

Radio, re- The Communist Liverpool, Apt. 27-Nearly

the Central Control Committee

011 conditions In porting 1,000 Royal Air Force and Royal

The Amethyst, the first ship of the China Peasants' and Nanking, said that order was Navy men, with 200 members of

restored" in the servicemen fuuhits left-here-fired upon, still is stranded on Workers' tonight in the troopship Devon the Yangise East of Nank made the declaration in an-April-rst three days of Communist

Communist The

professor 25 broadcast to overseas Chinese.

and Best occupation, shire for Hongkong. Singapore made light of the statement in Peng attacked the "traitorus tions between the city and the and Colombo.-Beater.

treaties which the Chiang Kai suburbs have been established. shek led Kuomintang had signed It said the people are goin with imperialistic powers, about business as usubi and especially the United States, and students are helping the troops sald the treaties were signed "at to explain Red Army policies the expense of national right in to the populace. exchange

High Level Settlement Needed

THE House of Commons debute on the shelling of the Amethyst, Consort, Black Swan and London which originally was to have been fiery, provocative and embarrassing for the Government finally levelled Itself off into a

are

in

for foreign aid to

the

Tension mounted in Shanghai wage the civil war."-Associa-with economie distintegration, ted Press.

greater immediate threat than Communist advancing

New Gold Yuan dollar armies. notes of 100,000, denomination were issued during the night.

The

evacuation of the city stepped up and the British Con- sulate General appeated In newspapers for evacuees to re-

Immediately port

with limited baggage and their own bedding. that The belief persisted'

011

REDS FANNING OUT Shanghai, Apr. 28.--Garri- Бол headquartere said the Communist forges

the West were fanning out from Soochow One column moved from Soochow

along the rali- WAX that leads to Shanghai. The Garrison asserted 5,000 Reds were killed at Soochow.

It said fighting still was in pro-Shanghai might collapse "ke gress.

rotten

Most

pumpkin. Other Red forces moved south foreigners believed that it would from Soochow along the high-lead to complete chaos with rice way toward Kashing, 50 miles riots and widespread southwest of Shanghai.

ance.

disturb-

An Obstinate Grey Mare

BOX

This is the cight-hour story of the grey mare that. was obstinate. It began at 6.30 am. and lasted unt 2.15.

The mare, a three-year- old, was being taken from Epping to Cornwall. For hours porters and an RSPCA ofielal teled to persuade her Into-a-motor-horse-bus at Waterloo. She defied all their efforts. Then they took her across the station to a rall van. But the grey mare, still opposed to travel, disilked the van as much as the horse-box.

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A bill was sent. for after

recommendation

by

veterinary surgeon. Bat suddenly, the mare decided to enter the van without any more trouble.. and she went off quietly in tho 2.50 train to Launceston.

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Imprisoned In

India To

Stay In C'wealth

London, Apr. 27-India is

to remain a "full and equa!" member

Common- of the wealth of Nations even though she becomes a re- public within the next few months, it was officially an- nounced here today at the conclusion of the secret six-

Room For 10 Years

Man's Ordeal

New York, Apr. 27.--- The Brooklyn police said today that they had re- scued, a 33-year old man, imprisoned in A scaled room for the past 10 years by his mother. The many » had a long beard, was "Filthy" and had apparent- ly had no change of cloth- ing in the past 10 years.

n

The police discovered him after the mother, Mrs Anna Makushak, had to enter hospital because of illness. She had told her friends about her son and they told the police.

Soine

timo In 1939, the

mother locked her son in a third floor bedroom and scaled the door of the room with" plaster and bricks, the police said. She had done this to prevent her

being son from conscripted to

vices.

the armed ser-

MENTALLY ILL

The son was fed through an opening in the bedroom ceiling, which led to, the roof.....of the

third-storey residence.

A doctor who examined the

inan said ho was apparently mentally ill. The room in which he had been held was described by the police as being in "a

state," terrible

Tho man's clothing was "hithy," they said. The only sleeping place was a floor mat.

There was a small radio,

with earphones, equipped

lamp and a table, and "innum- erable bo

books."

#

The man's father, 62-year-old Peter Makushak, a tailor, told

the police that he had not scen His his son for 10 or 11 years. wife told him that he had gone to Canada. Reuter..

Spiritualists' Frightening Experience

London, Apr. 27-Five! day conference of Dominion London spiritualist mediums Prime Ministers.

urge The

to

today had an Covernment of India strangle themselves to death have agreed to accept the king with their own hands. The as the symbolle head of

"free

this

association of independent impulse came over them as members."

they donned a little black The eight Commonwealth jacket belonging to the leaders sald in a communique wardrobe of the London that the totes had as their

play:

"The Queen Came

Historical background "the traditionat capacity of the Com-By." monwealth to strengthen its The sinister Jacket had been unity of

while adapting sent to the spiritualists after purpose Its organisation and procedures actresses had complained that invisible fingers grabbed them to changing circumstances."

the round the throat every time. Joint declaration, United Kingdom, Canada, Aus- they put it on.

The mediums themselves said New

Zealand, South

and it was even worse than that. Pakistan

and

they feel the

In a

the Amethyst could make her trip down the river without fear of attack suggests att ingenuousness not usually associated and their political with naval chiefs

But if an error advisers in Whitehall.

committed in des. judgment were

that particular patching the stoop at time, that does not free the Communists from the responsibility and blame. for whose attacking

warships neutral missions were entirely divorced from And this is hostility and provocation, the issue which eventually must be taker up with the Communists when they are

Kashing's fall would cut the

HANCCHOW PRESSURE deal with Cureign a position to

railway to Hangchew, fortified

There were indications that a elty, another 30 miles down the relations

diplomatie Ines. on normal

major baltio was line.

shaping up Furthermore, if the Reds are to become

where The Garrison

"crack southwest of Shanghai Suid

the,

apparently the central authority in China, one of

Communists government troops" had been the first questions to be settled is the

sent northwest

the were exerting their pressure-to- to moet

ward Hangchow to drive future rights and privileges of British

second Red column advancing

wedge between Shanghai and on Shanghal. This column is ap South Chinn. and other foreign men-of-war in Chinese territorial waters. The Yangtse incident parently headed toward Talt-

Reports today said that the miles northwest of song, 23

had Communists our ships position of and

captured the future

Shanghai.

Kwangteh, 53 airline miles Killed When along the river and other Chinese waters

Three ships landed with northwest of Hangchow, and Nationalist soldiers, their decks Changcheng, 25 miles ean only be deelded on high levels, and

to the the

crowded with trucks and planes cast. This this is accomplished the Hooner

would place the Jeft Shanghai, presumably, for Communiste some 65 to 70 'road

One of the mediums, besides after tho Commonwealth better for, our relations with the Com

Formosa. It is on. this island miles from Hangchow.

lenders had officially advised trying on the jacket, and being munists. Naturally there is sympathy

tlist Nationalist China may The Communist radio, in

the King

of their agreement, nearly strangled and drowned, Mr. Churchill's. demand that

make Its last stand.

Snid that India had informed also fell into a trance, and sold The withdrawal of foreigners claiming new victories south of

The Yangise,

sald the Communist

the other Governments of her that, while in that state, she was another. from threatened Shanghai con- forces captured Liyang on the

that yel tinued. The U.S.

Intention to become a "sovereign convinced President Nanking-Hangchow highway 35 Culcutta, Apr 27-Seven

under garment in the play's wardrobe Wilson in

to sail today miles north of Kwongteh. The people due

were reported to have independent Republic"

was being influenced by a spirit, her new constitution.

Efforts will be mode to per- Americana aboard, Communiste ao claimed

killed by gunshol and the been

It added that the other seven

of firm, though rather valaspiring statement by Mr Attlee, and n few bulldog-like growls from Mr Winston Churchill, leaving the Impression that, despite a lot of words, the situation, so far as righting British wrong is concerned Is unchanged. And, under the prevailing circumstances R could scarcely be atherwise. We are all deeply hurt and indignant that British warships on peaceful missions should be badly damaged and many valuable lives lost in an action provoked by Chinese, partisans: but the attack was made by the Communists who have no diplomatic status with foreign powers, who conscious of this and whn, apparently, do not yet desire any such contacts, Wherefore, satisfaction concerning the diplomatic Yangtse tragedy through channels must await clarification and consolidation of the Communists as an acceptable instrument of government In China.As Mr Attice expressed it: The position is still fuld. By and large the. Government came reasonably well out of the debate, though there were discernible Minister's the Prime weaknesses in explanation of why the Amethyst, in the Brst place, was ever permitted to be in the region of the. Communist forces Just about the time they were due to strike Air Встонн the river. According to Attlee, the Reds were not due to stage their offensive until 24 hours after the Amethyst,

a penceful (had it enjoyed

destination. trip) had arrived nt-her This information, however, was not basedl en direct assurances from the Communist leaders, but through press, radio and Nationalist sources. That these should be taken as a sufficient guarantee that

the

· British Government should face "this. matter in a robusi spirit and make sure that the British Ang is respected."

will be

general Furthermore there approval of the Government's decision to reinforce the China Fleet: this is T token of our determination not to be ridden over rough-shod by any aggre- gation of politicians and militarists who happen to be in an aggressive mood. Nevertheless, taking the long-term view, relations with the Chinese Com- munists cannot be reasonably determined by a clash of arms, and it was perhaps, recognition of this on both sides of the House of Commens which removed much of the anticipated acrimony from the debate on the Yangtse incident.

our

with

230

closed

RAILWAY EXPLOSION Shanghal, Apr. 27--An

London Express Service.

traka,

Africa.

Indio,

Ceylon declared

mained united

"as free

that they re-Not only did

and impulse to strangle themselves, equat members in the Common- but they also felt that they wealth of Nations,

freely were being drowned in murky was .co-operating in the pursuit of waters, Their conclusion

the once that

como person, peace, liberty and progress,"

owner of the jacket, must have been half-strangled and then drowned by some

KINC INFORMED The declaration, issued from drow

Police Break No. 10 Downing Street, London, persons unknown.

Up Procession

banned Communist procession today in Calcutta's Bow Bazaar area.

person br

membership of the Common- get out and let the play go on.- wealth is not hereby changed-Reuter. accepted and recognised Indin's continuing membership of the five Commonwealth.

means that

Triplots Include Siamese Twins

cutting the American colony capture of a number of smaller bomb splinters when the police countries "the basis of whose sunde the troublesome porn to here to nbout 1,000. Other Americans

were leaving by towns and said they took 5,000 fired on a

prisoners at Anking. plane. The U.S. Navy

The defence of Shanghai was its fleet post office-Associated

set up along a 30-mile line run- Nine people were injured and Press,

ning from Kunshan to Taichang, the

included casualties

Twenty-seven arresis Kunshan is about midway be pol

polleemen.

Tho agreement

Paris, Apr, 27.-Triplels, two ex-tween Communist-occupied Soo- were made. The police opened though the King will have a

twins, were, plosion on the Conton-Hankow chow and Shanghal, Talchang is Are after making lathi (staves) symbolic status recognised by of them Slamese

have no con-hern at Valenciennes, Northern Indla, he will railway which disrupted traffe 20 airline mites northwest

charges and using tear-gas on the demonstrators,

so. far as France, Agence France stitutional functions may have cut the escape route woosung. of 350,000 Covernment troops in

WOOSUNG AREA

Crude hand-grenades were India is concerned. The future reported today. The Central China, It was feared

There was no indication yel thrown at the police when they head of republican Indla her boys, with only one heart, one tonight.

the procession. self will be an elected president. Uver and two kidneys between Reports indicated that the whether the Red forces would intercepted

or which came out in defiance of who will express the sovereign them did not live,

The mother and the other troops under the Hankow Com- drive directly on Shanghai

will of the people and exercise mander, General Pal Chung-hst on Woosung. However, the pre-u police ban. Later, the de

Communists In monstrators tried to hold up the functions hitherto performed (child, a girl, were doing well

Reuter. were threatened with encircle- sence of the

by the King-Reuter, Be traffic. Reuter. (Continue on Paro 5) ment by the Communists. Tho

of

Presse

twins-