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VOL. IV NO. 145

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1949.

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BLACK SWAN ORDERED TO PROTECT

Treasure BRITISH SHIPPING

Ship Located

Point Pleasant, N. J., June 21.-Two young deep sca divers saw a 13 year old dream of finding $250,000 in sunken gold treasure coming true to day. Floyd Sharp, 31, and William Conway, 25, re ported they had found the S1 year-old wreck of the liner as Delaware, believed to have a quarter million dollars worth of gold on board, and they have been exploring it.

"We

found some signs of Hold on board, but we will have more to say about that next week,"

Бай Conway

Hc refused to elaborate.

Sharp explained that his in- terest in the wreck began in 1036, when Simon Lake, inven- tor of the submarine, led an ex- pedition to recover the treasure before but ran out of funds Iocating t

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BECAME A DIVER

Sharp, who was then 13, dreamed of Anding the treasure sume day for himself. He He- gon to collect all the information ho could about the sinking, and resolved to become a deep peo diver. Ho verified that the De- laware had on board $230,000 in gold when she sank on July 9, 1098, and found five men alive in Point Pleasant who remem bered witnessing the sinking. From them ho got bearings from which he made a chart.

DR

Will Take Action Outside Of The Whangpoo River

FACTO EVATT ADVOCATES DE RECOGNITION OF THE REDS

London, June 21.-Britain on Tuesday ordered a war- ship--the Black Swan-at the mouth of the Yangtse River in China' "to intervene to protect British shipping there from interference.”

The orders wore sent out just after the British mor- chant ship Anchises was bombed and machinegunned by a Chinese Nationalist plane on the Whangpoo river at Com- munist-held Shanghai.

Four crew members were wounded in the attack, which the Foreign Under-Secretary, Mr Christopher Mayhew described as "absolutely unwarranted."

Later a spokesman for the Admiralty said in a statement: "The present instructions to the British warship which is stationed off the mouth of the Yangtse are that she is to intervene to protect British shipping there from interference.

"At Shanghai itself and in the Whangpoo river, the protecting property is presum- ably the responsibility of the

authorities, Communist

who forces there for the purpose.

"There is much to be gained

He did not say what form the

by trying to maintain, practical task of "intervention" would take.

a working relations with local After Tuesday's incident,

spokesman sald authority in de facto control, Foreign Office

those rein- that Mr A. P. Coghill, British We should foster

and Embassy representative at Can-tions through commerce ton, had lodged an official pro- trade. Established. British and

Divers

To Examine

Anchises

Shanghai. Divers wil

June 22 probably he

sent down to ascertain the exact extent of the damago suffered by the 8,200-ton Blue Funnet ner Anchises In yesterday'o attack by a Nationalist plane, It was reported today.

marod

rcom

io

with vessel,

Ils seriously at present beached in the Whangpoo River opposite Gough Island where the Shell OU Installation burnt for many hours yesterday.

The master of the Anchises, Captain J. E. Watson, said that the ship was hit below the water- line-by-bomb-which- descended at an angle. It the water- exploded at

almost Uno and

wreck

the engine room,

This was followed by

a machine-gun silack by the plane.

When the ship was found to be sinking slowly sho Wes beached,

All Dally

China

ад

the North

New sald on the subject today was that the Anchises met with accident on her way into morning port. yesterday, according to information rebelved in Shanghai” and hard been briched off Gough Island-Neuter.

CROSS-CHANNEL SHIP STRIKES MINE

Five Members Of Crew Missing

Dunkirk, June 21.-Five of the crew were missing tonight from the Belgian Cross- Channel steamer, Prinses Astrid, which struck a mine and sank today in 45 minutes three miles off Dunkirk.

It was reported that a number of the crew of. 55 and of the 218 passengers were seriously hurt. to Dunkirk The passengers and crew were taken

by the French steamer. Cap Hadid, and by Dunkirk tugs.

Sydney Without Lights

Power Cuts Caused

By Floods

Sydney, June 21, Sydney was blacked out tonight ex- cept for a few street lights and flickering candles after power cuts had been inten-

Four or five of the injured aro in Dunkirk hosiljals and the other survivors have been taken to a Dunkirk hotel. According 10 port officials. the Prinsca Astrid is lying completely sub- merged about five miles west of. Dunkirk,

BOUND FOR DOVER Ambulances waited af the quayside to rush the injured to hospital. A Dunkirk port offelal caid that several of the crew explosion

were burned by the

Astrid

"Our warships' have not been test with the Nationalist govern- United States business houses act of service to the China Bifled because of the floods had said that the ship was

up the Whangpoo since the ment and reserved the right to in China, Communists seized control of claim compensation.-Adsociated the area.

And he went into partnership with his friend Conway, to pur- chase $4,000 worth of salvage. equipment. Several months ago they began working with dragger in the vicinity which witnesses pointed out, and on June 10 found the wreck lying "After In 68 feet of water, just off the coust.

"We have been diving almost every day since," Sharp said. The hull la rotten and there is only about 100 feet of the 200 -foot-vessel süll intact. The rest of the ship is spread around the

hottam,"United Press,

EDITORIAL

THE

Ca be a'

great

The

Intelligence

Mrs Quezon's Slayer Dead?

Makils. June 21.-Tho American-owned Monila Bulletin reported today that the killer of Mrs Aurora Quezon was bo- lieved to have been slain

in an encounter wills Con Habulary forces.

Ita

Quoting a dispatch from

correspondient

Cabamtuan. capital

10

of

Nueva Ecija Province, the paper said that Alexander Viernes. a Colonel of the

Hukbala Communist-led

Ꭰ

Japs, renerally believed to for tho responsible Quezon ambusonde, was re ported to have been either killed or wounded,

Three others, the report sald, were definitely stain In three separate encout- tera on Sunday night with Constabulary units. The encounters took place three different nisces in tha Iluk-infested Province, 60 miles-north of Manila- -Realer.

Modern

Robinson

Crusoe

and that some passengerB, WETO Injured, though none seriously.

ninjured passengers were being; transferred to the Dunkirk- Dover forry boot leaving tonight.

The Prinses

(2.950 tons), owned by the Belgian Government, was bound, trom Ostend to-Dover, First reports LIVES 9 YEARS ON

PACIFIC ISLAND carrying 1,200 passengers, and the miners' strike, which Communists with

efforts,

Lloyds shipping

21, The force in the present money and material we have ex. has been threatened for next reported in London that the Cap Oslo, June

Hadid had begun taking passen family of pended to fight Communism in Monday.

A

a Norwegian gers off the Prinses Astrid. other parts of the world?

"The question will be asked: The Good waters in New British Railway statement said seaman, who had not been.

were dis-heard from since the begin- disastrous If the Western How can we consistcally grant. South Wales receded today but that all passengers

before the Prinses The democracter failed to maintain Marshall Aid to Great Britain 20,000 people were homeless and embarked

learned that he is alive External Affairs Minister, Dr contact in Chins at every pos- as an ally in our fight against the dealt roll ruse to eight in Astrid retted on a sandbank ning of the war, have just

slblo point. At present only the Communism and at the same the most dimstrous food in the Reuter.

after living like Robinson Herbert V. Evalt on Tuesday Nationalist government

time give tacit acquiescence to central coastal advocated Western de facto recognised. It KOVETTIS South

Crusoe ̋on a Pacific island cognition of the Chinese Com China The

British co-operation with Com-years. Communists

are munist forces. In China?"— munist government.

now in control of vast North and Associated Press. Speaking in the Australian

Central regions, including the House of Representatives, Dr cities of Nanking, Shanghai and Evatt said:

Prees.

WOR

the Anchisea bombed, HMS Black Swan moved up the Yangtse river to assist her, but Anding her inside the Whangpoo river, she considered she could not help.

"It the Communists cannot protect the approaches to their own city. I suppose the polley

will be reconsidered".

RECOGNITION URGED Canberra, June 21.

Agreement. At Long Last

Paris Conference of the Big Four Foreign Ministers has ended, and while. It did not produce the desired results, it made considerably more progress than any previous meeting.. Most satisfactory feature was the agreement reached on the Austrian peace treaty, The Foreign Ministers settled on general terms which can be said to represent a nice study in compromise: and from Austria's point of view the general conditions laid. down cannot be considered harsh. Austria will regain her 1938 frontiers; will not have to pay reparations (although Russia insists upon receiving $150,000,000 in convertible currency in the course of six years); Austria is to get all property rights or interests claimed as German war assets, and Immovable property claimed by the Allles as war booty (which more than effects the payments to be rondéred to Russin). On the debit side, Austria must. concede to Yugoslavia.full rights to seize or liquidate Austrian property within Yugoslav territory, and the oil nasota and Danube. Shipping Company property claimed by Russla are to be transferred to the Soviet without charges or claims. Finally it has been greed that." Austria -must provide nority rights for Croate and Slovenes. It Is on this basis that the Foreign Ministers' deputies will sit at a round table to draft out the complete trenty between now and the end of August. Austrin, It is certain, will protest against. some of the conditions. She will probably declare that the Western Powers have sold her out to Bavict avarice and that they have given into pressure from the Communist bloc. But, in fact, the Western Powers have finally wrung from

."

the Soviets the previous conferences fundamental conces. sions upon which between the Foreign Ministers' deputies had}""broken" "down? • They

that

Austria's frontiers shall return to those. existing before the 1938 Anschluss, and that no reparations be exacted from the country. As long ago as July, 1948, the their Russians had agreed to reduce demand of $200,000,000 in convertible currency to be paid within two years to the amount now embodied in the general

1.c., $150,000,000 conditions,

payable within ніх

the years. Furthermore, Western Powers have prevented Yugo. :slavia from making territorial claims, although, under the clause that permits Yugoslavia to seize or liquidate Austriaṇ property within Yugoslav territory, she virtually obtains reparations. If, in some respects, the general terms of, the pro- posed peace treaty appear to place Austria at some disadvantage, the fact that the way la now cleared for the trenty to be written and ratified is some thing for which the people of Austria must feel profoundly thankful. For, as the Austrians have emphasised time and again, continued occupation of the country converts it into four zones and hinders economic reconstruction. The political implications of the proposed treaty can- - not be overlooked." Russin, by gaining. roll and shipping rights is thus placed in a position where she can exercise pro found influence over future political' developments within Austrin, and it is this aspect which makes one hesitate to proffer full approval of the treaty terms finally worked out by the four Foreign.:. Ministers.. In the light of her past record, it is improbable that Rasela will be content to allow Austela to work out hor own destiny in the way she chooses. The Insidious operations of the Cominform are inevitable and Austria will have to bo very aware of this danger if she is not,... eventually, to fall, a victim to Soviet Infiltration.

Dr

said it might prove

Pelping

18 TO-

REJECTS ASSUMPTION

1

UNCERTAIN FUTURE.

for 04

district

New South Wales Go

.

The vernment today announced transport cuts--for-the-coming,

Shanghai, June 22-Whether weckend and the State Hospitals

the Western powers will recog Commission has instructed hos- niso the Chinese Nationalists'

for nine years. sist

He is the son of Mr and Mrs of Lenavia, athy on Trondheim fishing hamlet

Japan Typhoon Toll, 100 Dead Tokyo, June 21,-Govern- Fjord, who believed him to be ment reports today put the dead. Dr Evatt added: "If we give proclaimed blockade on June 20 pitals to accept only emergency

typhoon-lashed the Communists any grounds for or not, the immediate future of cases.

Other reports

Last Saturday, they received shipping in

In Victoria, the Government death toll In Shanghal is NOT- 'thinking they can never expect | 200

announced that from midnight Japan at 100."

a letter from their son, Georg, co-operation, we might lead tain,

centre passed dated New York, June 5, telling The bombing and strafing of tomorrow night gas would be said 563 were missing. them, to sever all contact with

available for only two meal The storm

the northward over

Sea of how, at the beginning of the democracy. It would be tragic, the British ship Anchises in a

Japan after buffeling Kyushu war, the freighter he served on In South Australia, there will with 93 mile an if through any failure of the raid yesterday has already re- periods a day.

sulled

in cancellations of many

hour winds was torpedoed in the Pacific.* democracies, China's long asso-ship movements to Shanghai and be only one cooking period a

rain, and heavy

It ciation with

He said that, after 15 days In freedom loving shippers are afraid Insurance day after Friday.

Mern Hon-·| countries would be broken.”

of the crew afeboat, some rates will climb so high as a re-

The power cuts, which be-scheduled to hit

ahu 'today. Dr Evatt said he would not

Japanese reached a tiny island, where, four

report from workmen wears Ministry gave this toll: they lived for nine years. One accept the assumption of some sult of the bombing and the gan on Monday, have already that the coonomy of Communist blockade threat that shipping made one in or threatened

100 deaths,

the letter, they 00 injured, 45 day, sald that of the Sevlet bloc and that Proposhal will be a losing alther jobless China will be Integrated with|

with unemployment within 48 hores destroyed and 2,803 succeeded in attracting the at- damaged. Most of the deaths tention of an American plane hours.Reuter.

were attributed to drowning in which flow over the island. It flooded rivers thot hurled landed and tools. tho, mento through towns and villages. New York, where Georg now:

Job ashore-Reuter.

into

They China would withdraw from

point out that even contact with the Western de- without any unusual obstruction,

DROUGHTS IN U.S. shipping into and out of Shang mocracies,

The External Affairs Minister hal is already a borderline pro-

Now York, June 31.-Droughts

Bastern mado no specile prediction that position economically.

states with Australia

Agents for

big in the North extend ro- would

ships

of the U.S.- entered their fourth cognition to Communist China, cargoes for Shanghai which aro

week today and, with no relief It was assured that Australia already in Eastern waters are

stales of Mas- would follow Britain and the reluctant to cancel them since in sight. The United States moves.Asso-. It is always costly to divert and sachusetts, Maine; New Hamp ciated Press.

slore cargoes.

But the alacrity shire and Vermont Closed their forests owing to the danger of SENATOR'S QUERY, with which many agents can- Washington, June 21. Senator celled their local calls yesterday Are

tonnago Agricultural losses ran to mil- Styles Bridges, New Hampshire Indicated that cargo

wasn't lions of dollars as crops and Republican. asked in the U.S. was trivial and there Senato

whether much to be made in calling here. pastures withered for want of on Tuesday "the British already are working Associated Press. with the Communists and arc

getting ready munist.

Ho

cally recognise Cora- |

✡

The Lightning

Refloated

rain.

Meanwhile, the thermometer in New York soared to 92.1 do- second grees Fathronheit, the hoticst reading this year-As sociated Press.

GBS Sells Some. Possessions

attention to Shanghai dispatch in the New York Times of June 17 which said one British and one U.S. river pilot were attempting to

Manila, June 22. The 10,000 sweep the Yangtod river channel of mi

mines. The inference in the ton freighter Lightning of the story was that both pilots were Pacific For East Lines, carrying civilians, but it said one make, five elephants and smaller ani-

London, Juns 21-Au auction ahift minesweper was a British mals to the United States, was on which the hit by a typhoon while anchored Communist flag had been raised, in Buckner, Bay in Okinawa on of soms of Mr George Bernard

Show's furniture and poster Juno: 20. Senator Bridges told the

realised less than £500-hers on a sandbar and took

consular vessel

Sonate:

"The printed report states ground was temporarily day: Mr Shaw,' has sold' •h[# }

he considers it too large, Some that just one week after the eight inches of water in the main Whitehall, London, flat because alleged mining of the Yangtse engine room when plates of the of its contents were sold at the

tult river mouth, one British and forward

buckled, Tug ono United States river pilots boats and Navy craft at with Two makeshift mine gave assistance in

sweepers undertook to clear the the water and the L

now

The

Tus auction.

told Router: The auctioneer put out "Though some of the articles went for slightly higher prices channel and open to shipping is

is reported, Boating free.

Thethan if they had belonged to Agente expect the vessel

-famous cise than the the world's largest elty under local agents

anyone con- Souvenir hunters," sa

There were 40-lots in the was in co-operation with theThere was no confirmation auction, among them an old Communist Shanghal Military. bara of reports, that there was grandfather, clock, an upright Control Committees, sales considerable dom of monkeys plano and a dining room table. He went on:""How can we and smaller animala, Amociated The clock fotched one of the reconellosuch a quasi-military Press.

@highest prices/- £20)—Routersg

the Communist flag would go to

to drydock, probably in playwright, there were few Senator Beldges quoted the Japais, for survey dispatchsaying the action tinuing her voyage.

before

im

Associated Press.

the

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