Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 24 November 1949 — Page 3

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today to speed up arranggments for the departure of American Consul General Angus Ward and his entire consulate

staff. _... Jt asked the Communists immediately and to arrange Tientsin, the nearest seaport, so the group can leave by A Mukden “People’s Court” yesterday convicted My, Ward and four of his aids on what this country calls a “trumped up” charge of beating a Chinese consulate employee. The Communists ordered them to get out at once or be slapped in jail again to serve long sentences. U. 8. Acts Swittly

The United States moved promptly to have the entire con-| sulate staff accompany the five on their forced departure. Offictals here were confident that the Communists, faced by rising U. 8. resentment and strong diplomatic pressure from other Western nations, would agree. Mr. Ward and his staff. have been under house arrest a full| year, ever since the victorious Commu.:st troops occupied Mukden. The United States, hopeful that East-West tension throughout China will ease, made a contribution to smoother relations between the Communists and the West. It dropped its prosecution of Amtorg, the Soviet trading company, and six of its officers on charges that they failed to register as foreign agents. Amtorg and the officers complied with the law after their Nov. 21 indictment. : Move ‘Coincidental’ The United States still could ns as

the a harassment of the in but decided against it. The decision was reached at high-level conferences between the State and Justice Departments. Officials insisted that the move

ng /Only minor damage reported. didnot result from Mr. Ward's The 11s were confined “to

release and was purely “coincidental.”

Jailed. Some always have that Mos-

| All religious crelics were re-| muved Srom; the Giureh. and none

in Mukden to issue exit visas! :

railway transportation to for the time being. His residence here recently was renovated. An unconfirmed report said he has applied for an American visa. Chinese Communist forces drove into Kwangs{ province, bordering French Indo-China, from three directions in an apparent attempt to split the large Nationalist defending army.

captured Kwellin, the provincial capital, toward Pinglo, 60 miles to the south. Another, driving west from Kwangtung, captured {Chunghshan, 50 miles east of {Pinglo. A third column, moving up from the south, entered the border city of Wuchow, 115 miles west of Canton.

Lake Success

United Nations delegates, taking no heed of the Thanksgiving Day holiday, today were scheduled to begin a new debate on the perennial problem of Palestine, While the General Assembly debates administrative and budgetary matters at Flushing Meadow, its special political committee will start discussion here on the only major matters outstanding two years after the UN promulgated the partition ‘plan that led to the end of the Palestine war. These were: ONE: The internationalization

places of three faiths, THREE: The problem of an estimated 751,000 Arab refugees from the Holy Land war.

Jerusalem

A fire in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, one of Christendom’s holiest shrines, was brought under control today with

wooden blocks in the dome of the church, which was built on the

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An investigation to determine the cause was ordered. King Abdullah of Hashemite Jordan left Amman to inspect the damage.

up a new government four days ago reported the capital under control today. They broke up a student pro-

of machine-gun bullets and tear gas bombs that wounded six persons. Heavily armed, steel - helmeted police fired Sudtllade 2 after fusillade into. the blacked-out buildings of ‘Panama National University, directly across Fourth of July Ave. from America’s Panama Canal Zone. Hundreds of students who had massed in the university to draft

of a “police state” in Panama fled

around them and tear gas fumes spread through the buildings. Screaming hysterically, many dashed across the street to the safety of the Canal Zone. There they cringed behind palm trees on the lawn of the U. B. district court.

All traffic along the Fourth of Seoul

July Ave., was detoured by Amer-| ican police. Police reinforcements guarded the border area. None of the six casualties was a student. Two were women, and the others included a police leu: tenant who was shot in the eye. : il Manila The government today scorned a cease-fire proposal and -alerted air force fighters and bombers * for action ainst guerrillas entrenched in the Batangas coastal hills south of Manila. The cease-fire was suggested by Batangas provincial and municipal officials to permit an atattempt at peaceful settlement and allow farmers cadght in the crossfire of Battle to evacuate. But Brig. Gen. Alberto Ramos, chief of the constabulary, said the government would not agree ations. proposals to suspend oper- |

“That would be a sign of weak-

ee ae government (MIS. Roosevelt strong,” he said. “We can only| NEW YORK, Nov. 2¢ (UP)—

to a suspension If Presi-

agree dent (E} dio) Quirino so orders.” Park today to place a wreath

d fighters and bombers ra based at Lipa City, 15 niles north Upon the gave of the late Presi

of Batangas, would support four|iunch with Mrs. Eleanor Roose-

and one army com-

Paris

Fifty carloads of French police raided offices of Polish organizations today, seizing at least a dozen Poles and large quantities of documents. - The raids were regarded as the French answer to Poland's arrest of a French diplomat and expulsion of two others on espionage charges. In addition, the French arrested a secretary to the Polish

day.

Prague Czechoslovakia disclosed last night that it has protested to Yugoslavia against the arrest and torture of the director of a Czech trade agency in Belgrade. The Czech embassy in Bel-

slav foreign office protesting the treatment of Frantisek Husa, a Yugoslav citizen who it said was about to become a naturalized Czech.

| North Korean Premier Kim Il Soong said today in a radio broadcast heard here that hostile elements led by “South Korean reactfonaries” were bending every effort to “obstruct industrial development by sabotage and destruction.” id

London The governing Labor Party has scrapped its plan to nationalize British life insurance companies. Instead, if returped to power in the 1950 general election, it will convert them into mutual benefit societies owned by the pdlicyholders, This was disclosed in a communique issued by the Labor Party national executive after a stormy three and one-half hour meeting yesterday.

Shah to Call on

The. Shah of Iran goes. to Hyde

Roosevelts’ instigation, produced a Big Three agreement

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grade handed a note to the Yugo-|

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