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Chinese Reds Have New Fighter Plane

Taipei, Formosa, Mar. 20. --Air Force headquarters revealed on Monday that, the Chinese Communists have fighter planes in the akles over Shanghai of type never possessed by the Nationalist government.

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The offices of Air General and Chief-of-Staff Chou Chi-Jou reported that Nationalist planes the reconnaissance over Lunghwa altfeld, Shanghai, on Monday morning encountered three fighters who came down from the sun, hended for the Nationalist pinnes, and then Nation- veered off before the

Planes

action.

could engage In

The pilots of the Nationallal planes described the Red air- craft as similar to the Japanese Zero fighter, but apparently not as fast. They said the planes are different from any Amer!- craft Canadian-made ever flown by the Nationalist sir-force...

can or

The announcement was the Arst official report that foreigne made Aghters are in the hands of the Chinese Reds. The Air Force headquarters report did not go so far as to claim that nes were Russian-made, the planes

definite impres- the

something the China.

.but

left

sion they are

Chinese Rods

FOL

The pilots of the Nationalist

reconnaissance

planca-Mus-

tangs enld, as soon as they spotted the Red fighters swoop-

For the workedne st

HONGKONG TELEGRAFZ, For wred on dehalf of

SOUTH CHERYLORNING POST, LIIL/

The

Today's weatheri Moderate or fresh east winds. Fair.

1018.7 zoba presszre, Noon Observations: Barome iria 30.08 in. Testpétature, 85.0 deg. F. Dew point, 83 dok. F. Ko- falive humidity, de % Wind direction, E by 6, Wind force, 23

knota

Low water: 3 fi, 1 în at 5.97 p.m. Higb waler 5. ft. 8 in at

11.20 p.m.

Hongkong Telegraph.

TUESDAY, MARCH 21, 1950.

Parisians Go By Lorry To Work

When Paris transport workers went on strike recently, shop and office. em- Parls and ployees had to go to work by trucks, as the above picture illustrates,

London, Express Service. other parts of France are still plagued with strikes,

Belgian Cabinet Crisis

Antwerp Strike Over Leopold

ATTEMPTS TO FORM A

NEW GOVERNMENT

Brussels, Mar. 20. —— The Belgian Cabinet crisis, caused by exiled King Leopold's demand for a Parliamentary decision on the question of his return to the throne, was still unsettled today.

Antwerp dockers today staged a lightning 24- hour strike against the King's return. Over 20,000 were involved and work on 128 ships was halted.

Dr Jessup Comes Under biggest union group in the country, was reported

Senator McCarthy's Fire

Washington, Mar. 20.--Repúblican Senator Joseph McCarthy today demanded a chance to cross-examine Dr Philip Jessup, Roving American Ambassador.

The Socialist General Labour Federation, the to be considering a "progressive strike" scheme, consisting of two days' stoppage next week and three days the next as a means of pressing for. King Leopold's abdication.

The Catholic Prime Minister, M. Gaston

Eyskens, today continued his efforts to form a new

government.

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Leopold's Unable To

Daughter

Maintain Security

Saigon Riots Expose Weakness Of Vietnamoso Govt.

Saigon, Mar. 20,--Tho week-end riots were viewed here on Monday as proof of the Vietnamese govern- ment's inability to maintain security and showing that the Communists are, even stronger in Saigon than has ocen estimated.

ALE

The disturbances are most embarrassing to the Vietnamese, who

recently took over the polley system, wherein former French executives were retained

navisers. only

Even the Vietnamezo police admitted that quick action by experienced police could have quelled the disturbances before becoming an uncontrolled riot. Some of the fifty police who answered the rlot call, arrived at the city hall without riot sticks to defend themselves.

The police claim they warned.

that Communist city officials manifestations were to be ex- This picture of Princesspected over the week-end, but Josephine Charlotte, 22-ald the mayor never approved

requests for extra security.

COULDN'T INTERFERE year-old daughter of King

The French here are making The Antwerp held-up was thej These rumours, which seem to Leopold, was taken after her first "stop Leopold" strike emanate from extremist Flemish arrival in Brussels recently no attempt to hide their satis- He also protested that questioning would be "worthless" unless the

circles, say by the trade Right-wing

that to vote in the plebiscite on faction over the riots, claiming bo an example of sub-committee opened up the government loyalty files on the Ambassador. tacitly approved

considerably lorry-loads of Flemish Royalists whether her father should would

tio Inability of the Vietnamese wns He challenged President Tru-

Provinces which plan to converge on Brusselà to The cross-examination

maintain Inw and order finally settled by having Senator man to open the files and force vote: 72 percent last week in impose the respect of the na-return to the

tion's democratically expressed at the commitice a "showdown" on his charc favour of the King's return.

London Express Service. without French direction, How

added that McCarthy sit

ever they quickly to that there are 81 "bad security

The terles table and pass questions

of "warning" will to bring the King back to

they could not have interfered ator risks" in the State Department- Senator Republican member

na it was for key the throne." strikes

Such rumours, however, are

anyway, Bourke Hickenlooper who fired or other overnment agencies. centres throughout the country alonso spread today to four large Senator tle sald Dr Jessup's them at Dr Jessup. Hickenlooper uske Dr Jessup was "practically

In bi-lingual Industrial works about Owen professor

ing down, they pulled up and Cinema

peeled off, ready to engage "the the Red planes enemy, but verred off and scooted out of No shots were 07- -United Pres.

chinn

MORE PETROL FOR THE HOLIDAYS

allow the

EDITORIAL

bunus

Blaze

Causes Panic

Athens, Mar. 20-Screaming women with children in their

battled with police as a

stam-

has cnited a

Third Party Insurance

CORRESPONDENT has resurrected

Con-

unions to affect the Flemish

Brussels.

planned

throne.-

to

flotly rejected in responsible Gold Miners Vietnamese affair,

Catholic circles.

Likewise, rumours of King Leopold's sudden return before decision are the Parliament's denied in circles close to the

In King's Secretariat

Brus-

TWO-HOUR STOPPAGE Workers in one Brussels face tory stopped work for two hours sels." cant-

only in order to stage an anti- In the Leopold demonstration

Senator Hickenlooper asked Dr Jessup about a letter he and several others wrote to the New

the

streets.

Tramwaymen have 50 fay ignored bills in the depots calling on them to stop for 24 hours,

back

to

at Mons came out,

a world agreement to outlaw But 2,000 Iron workers at recalls him, regardless of patsi- atomic weapons. Dr Jessup rald Huy, near Liege, and quarrymen ble unrest-Reuter.

hat that represented his view four years 11:0 when hopes were high for international con- trol.

He added, "I certainly do not hold those views today,"

M. Eyskens was, meanwhile, trying form a new Catholic- Liberal Coalition Government to convoke a joint session of both Houses of Parliament and repeal the Regency Law which exites King Leopold.

Rumours

MPs' Concern

Tear Up

Main Street

Miners

were helpless

wherein to give military aid unless the Vietnamese quested them to do so. Vietnamese. realised that

on

their

The

part.

Euch a request

would show the world they

unable wernment.

to Jun

their

ht Associations with and showed only that the Am- Baltimore hassador was a "ntey guy and Lattimore,

Senator Me- made some whom

pra-ntal speeches,od anti-Commis-

McCarthy sald Fronter panic-stricken audience peded from a burning cinema

no more Dr Jessup denied emphatically would attend

Catholic circles, however, con- here last night.

that he asked Lattimore to ac-mittee nerslons because it was

firmed that there were "schools

French military cources be- Melbourne, Mar. 20-Gold lieved the events

showed the March 20.0

and one old company him on his diplomatica "waste of my time" unless London,

Seven women

of thought" among the Catholic the Far East last he was permitted to cross-

miners with picks and shovels visiting American navy men an Party. Minister of Fuel and Power,

month mun were found dead when the mission to

examine the witnesses.

for American aid, Mr Philip

One is reluctant to any brus- tore up the main street of Wed- neute need Noel-Baker,

anbanke ended.

McCarthy. pican-

miles northwest Senator

especially the need for und que mover which could plunge derburn, 120 nouneed in the House of Con-

ald administered Twenty-seven people, mainly while, made pubile a letter ad-

to Senator mons on Monday that the petrol

Millud

More than 250,000 workers in the country into a period of dis- of here, today after a grocery having such ration would be doubled for the women and children, were taken dressed

Tydings asserting that the goy York Times in 1946. Senator the French-speaking Walloon turbance-if not civil war. The clerk found a 1553,000 nugget.

Real estate officer and town by the French.

None doubted that the rioting other trend, mainly represented officinis prepared for a boom as Ales on Del

voted only three summer months of June,to hospital badly injured,

the latter Provinces, which Hickenlooper said

cave the leftist Viet-minh new Flames coming from the pro- ernment loyalty

for the King's by the Party's younger elements undreds of queries poured in propaganda ammunition for use August. This will

42.2 percent. July, and

That United States motorist jretion room seared the nudience Jessup and Lattimore, if thrown | 10 average

shock Proposed "jur and

went

think that the King should re- atomic bombs be "dumped into return,

wons tura immediately if Parliament 6-ounce nugget on Thursday.

to verify the finding of the against both the Americans and for today. enough fuel to drive 180 miles of 450 people who rushed the open, would

way for the occan" to pave

the Bao Dai regime. Commu- during

cach of the

main entrance, Ignoring extra even the most partisan"

Kressmen.

Albert Smith, who dug up the mist propagandists are expected safety doorways-Reuter months.-United Press.

other muggel. competed with

to clarion the claim that they minera in an effort to locate the "drave the Americans out of reef of gold which they believe town." All United States naval runo under the town, lisrupted traffic on the town's leaves were cancelled early on Sunday night, and the American woin.

WILSON thoroughfare,

few hours destroyers left a Avenue.

later.

U.S. NAVY UNHAPPY United States Navy spokes- men, who for obvious reasons chose

to remain unidentified, were unhappy over the whole

they thing. The sald

didn't want to come here in the first Jessup replied that in Liberal Senators, after meeting

New York, Mar. 20.-Valen-place, but followed State many countries, the man in the Parly Ministers and the Party Questions In House

tine Gubltchev, 33-year-old con-partment directives which said street is not able to distinguish Chairman, 11. Rogert

London, Mar. 20. Mr vieled Russian rpy, sailed for the French had requested between official policy state today. declared their "deter-

to buck ments of the State Department mind will to see the present William Tecling. Conserva- Russia today with orders "never how of strength

Tegime.

The Bao Dai to come back." and charges made by Individual crisis resolved by a solution of tive, nggerted in Parliament

Stroon squads of Federal and Navy's efforts to create national concord, Office holders.

York

Police guarded the will were obviously outclassed After: #1 He sald foreign countries get

meeting of its Central today that Russia and Com- New

agitation beat the Communet munist China were "on the dock when Gubitchey, in hand-by Communist

that the "wrong impression that the Committee,

on board theon convincing the people United States is not interested Party, asked the Socialists to point of asking Japan for a cuffs, was put

Pulish Hiner Batory.

the visit was a show of force combatting Communism." join them in a common front to

Gubitches, a former United by the imperialist Americans Dr

recalled Jessup

Kao that bar the way to King Leopold peace treaty."

The Under-Secretary for Nations officials, was sentenced supporting their puppet, Aslatle countries

during World Liege Socialist unions are re-

Foreign Affairs, Mr Ernest to 10 years Imprisonment for Dal War II received crroneous imported to be planning a link-up Davies, cald that his chief, Mr explonage, which was suspended There are undisputed in- pressions and "thought we were with the "Free Wallonia" move Ernest Bevin, had no informa-if he left the country. He elect-stances of sullen native shov- Hicked and that Japan was ment, the most extreme Walloon

tion to that effect.

Jed to return to Russia-Reuler. (Contd. on Page 5, Col. d) Asia. They were separatist organisation.

Mr Teeling, with other Con- wrong. If anybody now thinks "Free Wallonia" is composed

ven had been urging the that the United States is licked of a. Socialist-Liberal majority

to prezz East) they (in the Far

are and a Communist minority. pace treaty with Japan. wrong again."-United Press.

A

motor

1

it

We

an uld subject-compulsory third party insurance In Hongkong. It is timely reminder because more than two years have passed since it was Inst publicly mentioned-an all-too charac- teristic example of Hongkong's faissez faire towards matters of Importance. In October, 1947, the

Advisory Traffic Committee, which had already gone useful way towards ensing the city's traffic problems, recommended, amongst should other things, that Government

third compulsary introduce

party vehicles, The insurance for suggestion was thrown back at the Com- mittee with the request that it should consult the insurance companies on the The Comimiliter, having proposition.

form of satisfled itself that this Insurance was necessary in Hongkong, not unnaturally "paised the buck" back again to Government, and there, so far as know, the situation remains to this day. In brief, nothing definite has been done about the Introduction of compulsory third party Insurance In this Colony. The subject has never been brought before Legislative Council, and, it must be presumed, the Advisory Committee's recommendation has been pigeon-holed. Just why, a lot of ordinary people in Apart Hongkong would like to know.

Traffic from any other argument, a

been Advisory Committee, which has

express purpose

of created for the dealing with problems affecting vehicles and pedestrians, is not going to make a recommendation to Government unless it in the seriously considered it Interests of the general public. Given that, there is a sound reason for asking Government why it has gone to sleep on (to this suggestion. The advisability put it at its lowest) of this type of Insurance is more obvious today than ever before in Hongkong. The Colony's

WAS

highways are cluttered with all sorts and conditions of vehicles in the hands of a

secure

fairly wide range of drivera-from the expert. to the prudent dangerous tyro

of course,

carry third Many of them, party insurance for their own protection, that numbers of but it is well known them do not, Our road accident rate to be which is hardly remains high,

of avoided in view congestion of our

from

record highways resulting number of vehicles using them and the swollen pedestrian population. The need, therefore, for protection both of drivers and pedestrians when accidents occur is too obvious to require emphasis. It may be argued that if compulsory third party risk were to be applied in Hongkong t would encourage the desperately morese Chinese deliberately to involve himself in an accident in order to obtain financial compensation. It is a macabre thought, but not to be taken seriously inasmuch

attempt to that any wilful monetary solatium in this manner would quickly be rejected by a court of law. The principal contention for compulsory, third party Insurance is that it is a necessary safeguard in a place like Hongkong, just as it is regarded so in other parts of the world, including England. The time has long past for Government to introduce legislation covering the subject. If it is not prepared to do so, it should officially tell the public why, and at least throw the matter open for discussion and further consideration. We are open to be con vinced that compulsory third party in- the general would not be in interests, but until then we strongly urge that it len subject that should be brought before Legislative Council for debate, and especially to find out why the Trale Advisory Committee's recommendation of nearly two and a half years ago has not been adopted and implemented.

surance

U.S. NOT LICKED Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green asked Dr Jersup

were clrculating

that a Cabinet of Catholies and to elaborate on the effect pro-Leupold dissident Liberais Senator McCarthy's charges had would be formed tonight.

in Asia.

Dr

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master of

SHIP IN

DISTRESS

LIBERALS' RESOLVE

as a provocation".

ONE FORMULA

Moth,

Japanese

Over Peace

Treaty

prace

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for ú

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earliest

would

The owner of the Wedderburn Hotel beran digging in his fron yard today and said he already had unearthed one mnall nugget -United Press.

GUBITCHEV SAILS

the

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up

Shanghai Reds Stop Mass

Evacuation Of Americans

Washington, Mar. 20.-The State Department anid today that the Chinese Communists had blocked a mass evacuation of Americans and other foreigners from China by à last minute refusal to let two landing craft reach Shanghai.

Lives Press

Its Council met yesterday un-advised the Minister to "take

of Mare that der the Chairmanship

the United States Francois Van Belle, Socialist H Vice-President of the Chamber does not find itself in an in- vidious position and we left to £ Deputies.

follow the United States." A communique Issued follow-

Mr Davies gave an assurance ing the meeting said, "The that that

the Government would Council arms that Wallonia huve exploratory talks with the will never accept a king forced Unite

al the possible moment. Talpei, Formosa, Mar. 20-A upon her by a Flemish diktat". United States

Tho "FCO Wallonia" also also Chinese Nationalist rescue ship

inin und the Dominious reported on Monday that it had warned the Government that if so that the views of Bel-

Local American representa- seized American Consular pro- contacted the distressed vessel Flemish troops and police are ceived full consideration,

have been instructed to perly there. sent into Wallonia to maintain

Mr Anthony Nutting, Conser- Indentifying

for a reconsideration, an Itself as Miranda, order this "would be considered vative, said that at the Conberma

Apparently, the Communit nt 45 miles off Formos.

announcement said.

authorities at Shanghai had conference some two years ago Chinese ship, a navy

unwarranted apprehensions” the delegates representing Dri-

Meanwhile, the landing craft that the landing craft were not tel craft;

not say Some leading Liberals, in-tain and the Empire countries have been ordered to repala at commercial vessels, the State whether it was taking men off

involved expressed the hopesca and the American liner, the Department said. which had the Miranda,

recluding several members of the

that publicly that a Japanese pence ported in a

Gordon, was told to distress message outgoing Cabinet, Inslat

It said that they were strictly that it was in danger of sink the only formula acceptable is treaty would be signed at the retnaia at Hongkong.

commercial craft, -

over turned by Ing. The Miranda did not one which would provide for latest

longer was this Nearly

the 2,000 foreigners, in-to

American President 310 specify what type of a vessel the King's return on the under

Americans, had Lines. They were to be used she was or how many men were standing that he should abdicate matter going to be allowed to eluding

he drag on, when his

planned on board.

naked? 10-year-old son,

to leave, probably to-to ferry the foreigners to the Mir Davies replied that there night, in the first such general liner because the north chan- the age of Lloyd's register of shipping Baudouin, attaina

mel on the Yangtse River · has had been certain developments evacuation since just autumn. Bats a 270-ton Greek-owned 21.

to have been The United Stoles ordered all been reported aleam trawler

growing agitation by and changes since then. Every The vessel gave its position as Walloon separatists led to un effort was being made to bring remaining American diplomats mined by the Chinese Nation 45 milca cast-north-eart of confirmed reports of a possible about, as early as possible, dis- and Consuls out of the countryalists as part of the Nationalist Keelung port in the north-east | "Flemish march against Brus-cussions on the peace treaty-two months ago after the Com- blockade against the Commu

Reuter.

munist authorities at Pekingi nist-held mainland-Reuter. tip of Formosa-United Preca.sels".

of that name.

The

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General