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VOL. V NO. 101.

SHANGHAI IS STAGGERING

Singapore On

UNDER CONTROL

Edge OF COMMUNISTS

Singapore, Apr. 30,-

10

Bu baffled by a "wall of silence" thwarting their stterapiy

And the would-be assassin of tho' Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, the police la Sin- gapore tonight tensely pre- pared for possible" May Day trouble.

They checked the iden- rards of about 20,000 people Loday-double the normal daily rale.

Tonicht they described the allusion as "qulet."— Truter.

ON VERGE

OF GREAT

CALAMITY

Seven Hundred Refugees Aboard General Gordon

Aboard The ss General Gordon, Apr. 30.- More than 700 foreigner refugees sailed today aboard this luxury liner after nearly a year under the the Communist rule during which they saw once great city of Shanghai wither and all but die industrially.

This big white former troop transport sailed from Taku Bar off the North China port of Tien- tsin after nearly 20 hours of delay caused by bad weather and Communist red tape.

Most of the refugees, includ-] yelllance as any western travel- in 144 Americans, were from ler ever underwent in Rusla's satellie Shanghai city that is staggering Eastern

under Communist taxation, in-

countries.

Despite

European

the frequency of London, Apr. 30.--Amin, ondustrial depresion and the Na- of blockade. Many tionalist the verge of a great calamity. can be saved only by a religious the refugees hated the blockade checks they appeared to be no revival, this High Commisioner much as the Communists and more than a tight routine check

China by for Ceylon, Sir Oliver Gone-lined it, instead of the Cotton all foreigners carried out in teke, at here

fold he the all-

Himself Christian, Buddhista celebrating elent festival of Vesak that the time had come when Buddies in Asia must stive the lead to uther religions in a great effort to balance the forces existing In the world today.

sustented that Ilo Buddhist Congress, about to be held in Ceylon, should be the starting point not only for a Buddhist revivni but for are vival of all religions throughout the workl

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The service, celebrating on of the most significant dates in the Burddhist calcricing, was held In ព mall whitewashed hall in West London.

In

Д Derni-etrele, between pillars, sat about 70 men and women. On an improvised al- the decorated with fresh print

flowera were a shrine and figure of Buddhe, recently sent from Burma. Behind the altar sat dwo saffron-robed Burmese monks who conducted the ser Vice-Reuter

were

were

munist red tape, for their deiny

However, no China. Inving Commumist 113 They blamed R, too, for the death of their dict thriving business with losses in millions of dollars.

the

came last

MONDAY, MAY 1, 1950.

Only Two More Days

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Troops And Police Get Ready For

May Day Disturbances

Dachau Victims' Memorial

Dachau, Apr. 30-About 3,000 people, many of them Pachan survivors of the Nazi concentration camp, today

watched the laying of the foundation stone of a memorial to the 238,000 people who died in the gua chambers there,

The flags of 32 nations few where the mass graves of the Naxi victims Iny Inferred among the hills. Elght American planc flew overhead, saluting the victims-Reuter.

WORK ON

JAP PEACE

TREATY

London, Apr. 30.-Troops and police were standing by in potential trouble spots of the world tonight as millions of Communists prepared to cele- brate May Day tomorrow and millions more non- Communist workers planned rival demonstrations and parades,

In Johannesburg, South Africa, light tanks and armoured cars were standing by behind iron fences ready to enforce a Federal Government ban on "Freedom Day" celebrations in Transvaal Pro- vince.

African, Indian Andh Com- other end of the city, General miniat organisations In tho Charle de Gaulle's Rally of Transvaal had called for de- the French People will make a monstrations tomorrow analust rival bid for working class the Prime Minister, Mr Daniel support with a "fete of labour" Malan's, "racial" policy.

youth and sport. Declaring May Day as "Free- General de Gaulle, frequently dom Day," they appealed to | denounced by Muscow for workers to stay away from alleged

their jobs.

In Germany, Italy

"Fascist" tendencies, will make what hia Parly and termed "a very important specchi France the Western countries addressed particularly to the. most split between the Com workers of France."

munist and

non-Communist

forces-precautions were being

INDIFFERENT

In Italy, the five million- Communist-led General strong

taken to provent, clashes be- tween rival demonstrators

In Western Berlin, the entire Confederation of Labour police force of 11,000 have been nounced that all trains

for 15 minutca

demonstrate bring main square of cities and towns. But the independent Railway-

more

to

on the

an-

will

whilo In

the

Landon, Apr, 30-The Com-warned to stand by to prevent slop

in rival demon-workers disturbances monwealth Working Party on

strations expected the Japanese peace treaty necta

than 1,000,000 here tomorrow but the discus- Malta.

slons are being held without the streets

British troops will surround men's Union has ordered mem- bera to boycott the stoppage, assistance of an American draft

the palatial Soviet War Memorl-

declaring it could not permit in the British sector-onlyuch deliento public servicos treaty and still without any agreements

from the Russian 100 yards from the square In to bo halted for indifferent and the Chinese Governments front of the Reichstag, which insist that treaty negotia- the Western demonstration will reason." tions must take

only be held. place

Sixteen-Year-Old Boy Confesses To

where

through the Foreign Ministers' More troops will be nearby

Communists. Russian inspectors

Our scent,

document examined from 19 to 15 times. The customs officers and police vent through our bag. gure at least six times. Communist levirs made heavy The Communista also carried inroads into private capital and

body Fearche out thorough

Our few busines could stand thorough but not severe. the burden

as their

feetortes Journey to Tientsin from Shang- were closed for lack of raw hal once would have taken a materials and thousands of any but we travelled by barges workers became unemployed. and trains for 50 hours under

Svine businessmen cabled warlike conditions. their governments that the Some refugees have been try- Communist insistence that they ing to leave for ng much as six the continue to pay constantly fr months and many blamed creasing salaries based on in- Nationalist government and

ionary prices was the chief blockade for their pligot. Their cause of their economic plight.biggest zadneho

The Anal departure of the month when an evacuation al- Gordon the refugees was delayed. by tempt by the General

RED FLACS Communists TC- painstaking Communist Inspec failed. The

up to

o dale Commonwealth plans fused to let the refugees travel tion of their papers, luggage

the

Thirteen Red flags aboard the Yangisu

for down

future peace with and their persons-a search re

Japan-was last given detailed today from the top of the Bran-Sunday peated many times during their American landing craft to Join ob-

study by the Commonwealth denburger Tor, which forms the that the Australian Communist the British Party planned to promote the day trip to the Gordon off the shore, hale

at Canberra in boundary between jecting to the "naval status of

"greatest Industrial upheaval Tientsin from Shanghai,

Knoxville, Tennessee, Apr. 30. The beer-Government

1947. The general review of and Soviet sectors of Berlin.

British The refugees were led by 75 the vessels,

Zonu in Shipples officials alta said

In Hamburg, crazed nephew of a policeman shot a mild-the Japanese problem at Colom- Americnu

and Con-

reiterated that they doubted that the Na- from

mannered young hitch-hiker through the heart be last January did not include pollee tionalists have really mined the

detailed revision work on the would use all possible means to Zone police "just for curiosity" today.

Canberra proposals.

prevent Soviet last 1 Yongtso and that the British and

Discussions Amerleau governments should

The victim, 16-year-old Carl Woodward, died

will be opened from crossing the border afternoon have taken this into account.--

Day celebrations. at the May Du

Inter-zonal in the middle of a street teeming with post-tomorrow United Press.

British Cabinet offices by the His assailant, George King, also commonwealth Relations Minis that both midnight traffic.

"Free Gordon-Walker, 16, roared off in a car filled with six other teen-ter, Mr Patrick Gordon the intended to enter the British were Most

two and

sular

Nandag

their

the

and Shanghat and dependents, Phone Strike In American officials in China.

America

New York, Apr. 30-Striking telephon engineers will plcker phone exchanges throughout the country tomorrow in an effort strike ra to halt gervice, the announced here today,

Installation

On

strike a

engineers week ago, sought the support of other

telephone workers.

ment

mediators opened

talks

tony in a bid to end the alg pute,Reuter.

EDITORIAL

I number of

The officials, totalling: 93 with their families, have been trying to leave China since January when the State Department

to close ordered them affices.

STATELESS JEWS

their

they

Indian Holy Year Pilgrims

and

Press.

Beer-Crazed Murder

agers.

later confessed the King shooting and was placed in a Juvenile home and charged with murder.

Council.

ready for action The task of the Common- | necessary, wealth Working Party-to bring

first meeting.

Soviet Youths In Peking

It considered

fluttered

Apart from Communist cete- three ceparato 'non- brations, Communist organisations, com- prising several milog Italian workers, plan separate May Day celebrations.

In Sydney, Australla, today a newspaper reported

for

Australian history an its "swan song."

The report followed the in troduction of legislation to out- law the

Party by the Prime Minister, Mr Robert G. Men-

The

quietest world centres

police reported in Parliament last week,

police" and

on the evo Youth" groups

Geople's

Saviet

of May Day, a. tonight's reports, border at Communist-governed Eastern

European countries.

"DEFENCE OF PEACE"

were foscow and the capitals

Enyone

Here the

o Strand police forces have been watch tomorrow parades, and

where 100,000 people are pected to demonstrate.

-X3

highest Govern- ment and Party leaders will

to stand by in Hamburg. weikera have a paid holiday. The key to the celebrations In

and Russia

the Communist world was given in one of the principal slogans issued by the Central Committee of the So viet Communist Party: "Work- (Contd. on Pare 5, Col. 2)

In Paris, the Communists will march-log and banners flying from the Place de la Nation to the Place do la Bastille, while

In the Bois de Boulogne, at the

demonstrate. Zone to Zone police said the The delegations will in each

would

be

to open The boys were rounded up playing pool. Bunch said they

the High There are also more than 200

in London, but wishing to cross in either diree- Jewish

Comunissioner "stateless"

refugees

Lisbon, Apr. 30-Twenty-six after 14-year-old Bill Easterly, left several minutes past mid-cape be headed by

most of the went aboard sponsored by the Inter- Indian

Year pilgrims standing over the body of his lidt, carrying five bottles of Holy

work is expected on. and direeling traffic beer: he cald King drank three

to be done on the official level. and national Refugee Organisation. arrived by plane from Rome friend

Heenco before the shooting. the

Reuter, Before the refugees reached yesterday. They plan to con-around it, noted

Journey number of the car. Govern the long sought haven of the tinue their homeward

As they

drove Inte lown, American Bated Clordon theyoday, flying by way of London,

they passed a group of five Geneva-United were serutinised at every stop. Paris

hitch-hikers who yelled for a They underwent as much sur-

The driver, Owenby. ride. stopped the car and King got out, carrying a pistol, and asked Carl Woodward: officer,

Apr. What in hell do

30. San Francisco, A Homicide Bunch, sald King "showed no you mean hollering at us?" Twenty-four members of the emotion about what he had

Woodward replied: "We were Soviet Youth Movement arrived Peking, the Chinese Com- done." King was in a car with only asking for a ride." Bernard Waggoner, 18, son

King then declared: "I'in gomunist capital, tonight to take the city's newly-appointed de- ing to whip you just for curio-part in anniversary celebrations lective chief; Emerson Owenby, sity."

of the Chinese Communist "New However.

Youth he got back into Democratle

League," 20, nephew of a city pairolman,

Radlo reported In A. Owenby: and five other hoys the car. Owenby drove around Peking

the block Ind camo up the broadenst heard here. King's uncle is a patrolman.

The Radlo said that the party Mihailov, was led by N. A. The boys had been to a subur street behind the hitch-hikers. Bunch said King shot Wood- ban pool hall, whose proprietor ward as they drove by.United General Secretary of the Soviel already had been cited in court

Press,

Youth Movement-Reuter. for luring high school trade into tho place." Tennessee law prohibits persons under 21

Unifying Indonesia

HE two major military revolts and n in minar disturbances Indonesia in recent weeks should not be ascribed solely to the difficulties of a young and relatively wenk Government in keeping order. The weakness of the Government has been a factor, no doubt, but paradoxically, it is the strength of some elements that has invited trouble. There is a very rent political basis for some of the things that are happening. The agreement that set up an independent United States of Indonesia was based on the concept of a federation of sixteen component parts. The Dutch nuthorities insisted that some such government struc. ture was necessary because of the widely diverse elements in the archipelago and "the fact that many areas and population groups were not willing to come under the rule of the Republic, centred in Java. The Republic Insisted on a unitury Govern- under is control, but eventually ment, agreed to the federal iden. The Republic was to be thie Jargest single component in the federation. Since the transfer sovereignty the Republic has systemati cally and progressively dynamited the federation iden. By a series of decrees the federal Government has attached state after late to the Republic until the original sixteen components have already been reduced to four. It was against the strongest of these four, East Indonesia, that the latest drive was made. Naturally, there is spirit of resistance and the Macassar strife and the Ambon "with- drawal" from the Federation Are not surprising. The disorder, possibly, is not

of

to be regarded as serious. Indonesin is extremely young, in its present form, and growing pains are inevitable. Because of that, however, the leaders in Djakarta It is might find it profitable in reflect.

that in the long rua quite possible unitary, centralised Government will be the best thing for Indonesia. It la by no means established that this is the case at present. Moreover, it was in the first instance agreed that the federal iden should be tried out as a means of getting consent representative government by throughout the archipelago. The Republic after having given nominal consent to this experiment, has gone forward with precisely the programme of centralisation that it agreed to lay aside. This may or may not be bad faith, but it has some elements of bad judgment, Indonesia is desperately in need of further foreign loans. Those loans may not be forth- coming unless the country is a reasonably good security risk. People overseas, watching events and judging thereby, are likely to demand safeguards if duplication of the Macassar episode is likely, and it Is. In other words, a discreet word of ndvice in the cars of Indonesia's rampont Republicans, might do a lot of good. They could be told that it would be wiser not to push their cause by force if they want the

attitude towards most favourable them. If the federal experiment is to succeed, readiness for compromise at the outset, and after that practical example, will accomplish far more than the move- ment of troops.

Comet Sets

New Record

انه

Khartoum, Apr. 30.--Britain's Haviland Comet jet air-

Naliobl flew from

to today in 3 hrs. 10

De liner

Khartoum

mins,,

the fastest time for a fight between the two citles.

Jolin Cun- Havilland's chief

.

Britain's Liberals Refuse To Die

London, Apr. 30-The Liberal Party, ap- parently killed off during the recent General Elec-1 tion, refuses to die.

A recent Liberal handout maintains that the nine Liberal members of Parliament "are the most important members in the House."

Tho

The

Liberala draw attention

Group

Captain Bingham, Do

reason is not that they "Like the King's friends In they pilot

raid he had not been nearly hold the balance of the days of George III, making any special attempt to power, Bays the Party, but were there not to express their.

"because sat up a record.

they are the only own opinions but to see that declared of both The Comet made the flight of members left in the House who their master's views prevailed,"

can still exercise the right of the Liberals miles at Independent judgment"

Labour and Tories. approximately 1,300

The about 420 miles an hour.

only freedom left in After a Ave-day stay for to the debate on Sereise Khama, Parliament, said the Liberals, Is of the Bamang-exercised by the ning Liberal tropical

tests in Nairobi the exiled chief

If Tories and The closure was ap-members. Comet has come to Khartoum wato,

Pled after only 80 minutes Socialists continue to impose for further trials.

on discipline stringent

theis airliner reached Africa of debate, and the Whips put.

debates and divisions members, deb ago after a record-on,

"Only Alght from London

seven (Labour mem-(votes) "will be merely part of averaging 430 miles bers) had the courage to vote the gun

as they believed, and appar-like slamming the door in the It bad already mado test ently it has been made clear face of Black Rod or searching fights to Tripolitania, Rome to them that they must never the cellars at the beginning of and Copenhagen, setting up re-do such a thing again," sald ilte cach Parliamentary session."—

United Pros, Liberala. corda each time--Router.

Tho six days breaking to Cairo, na bout.

the quaint old world ceremonial,

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