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Probe of children’s deaths in

missionary orphana ges 3 shocks China

Five thousand Chinese children states the China Information
ave died in three missionary or- Bureau. - “When the mothers dis-
Phanages, one in Canton and two covered the People’s govern-

m Nanking, according to investi-
Sations conducted by the Chinese
€ople’s government,

ment’s concern for the welfare of
the nation’s children they lodg-
ed their complaints with govern-
ment organizations, A thorough
investigation was promptly car-
ried out and the result shocked
the nation.”

What the investigators found in
the orphanage at Canton, run by

the Mission of the Immaculate
Conception, led to charges being

laid against a number of Cana-
dian nuns,

“Only 48 of 2126 children re.
ceived between January 1950 and
¥ebruary 195] remained alive,”
Says the statement, “They were
found in a serious state of emaci-
ation. . .. Lice crawled over their
bodies, mosquito bites covered

their faces. . :

- Living quarters
of the children were sordid, damp,

unlit and befouled while the food
Was rotten and stank.

' “Even the most : rudimentary
hygienic rules were neglected.
There was only one milk bottle to
g§0 around and sick babies were
not separated from the POS

“Three death pits .. . were dis-
covered in the compound of the

China denounces
embargo as move
to extend war

A Chinese ministry“of foreign affairs statement, issued here on May
22, Points out that the American-dictated illegal resolution of May 18,
“Manding an embargo on shipments to the People’s Republics of China
and Korea “js j i i
8overnment in its attempt to extend the aggressive war,” but it “cannot
Affect to the slightest degree the victorious struggle waged by the peoples
ud China and Korea against the American aggressor.”
om Should not be overlooked, the
ftnm

NEW DELHI

American attempts at a block-
ade of the China coast with par-
ticipation of a majority of UN
members are being watched very
closely in India, according to in-
formation from parliamentary
circles of the National Congress

party.

Brajeswar Prasad, parliamentary
deputy from Bihar province, has
condemned these attempts as a
measure directed not only against
; : - |China, but also against India. The
Mtrigye tt be vigilant against this | 1, < government, Prasad said, is in

Woot the U.S.” this way attempting to increase its
eoigs Unitea Nations has already indirect pressure on India to force
Chines Y alienated itself from the/the Indian government to accept

emby People since the’ General American “food aid” under condi-
*ohution ilegally adopted the re- tions favorable to the U.S.

lepn; “Ut is making use of this il-
eee resolution for the so-called
KqetBo on shipments to China and
re] + for disrupting the normal
for ions in the world market and
certar® down the market prices of
Secy, YAW materials in order to
rie Monopoly of these raw
tion 28 for the American muni-
tro) (erchants as well as to con.
Coun, 1€ economic life-line of the
terians °S Producing these raw ma-
tej, All independent and soy-
Cannot States that are peace-loving

Brege, 8 Ndering China as ag-

°r, the i te-|_ Prasad pointed out that the U.S.
ht Teo, etal oa cee {House of Representatives had at
Thi one time refused to discuss the

by the Second resolution submitted
that he's. “only proves once more
Dore ee United Nations has been
tht Mely irrevocably converted

age, oStrument for extending
the i Bressive war in the service of
S» Perialigt bloc headed by the

“food aid” pill simply because
Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru
had refused to accept foreign as-
sistance with any political conces-
sions attached to it, This, Prasad
said, occurred at a time when So-
viet and Chinese assistance to In-
dia, to which no political strings
were attached was increasing
every day. .

The U.S. State Department's
haste in pressing for the China
trade embargo, Prasad continued,
could be explained by its appre-
hensions over widespread apprecia-
tion in India of the Chinese and
Soviet aid. A discontinuation of
Chinese rice deliveries to India,
caused by the embargo, could, in
Prasad’s opinion, serve the state

resolution,” the
ron, Continues, “undisguisedly
wtiey; Stes that, with a view to
€ disastrous defeats
Y suffered by
8

( t ‘S. government is

ag, Stakes” “Ccomplices to put high-
Aings K. ‘nto the aggressive war

tip, The 2T& and China.”

aut Minigi ese People,” the for-

ep, (eter tY Statement concludes,

tybal ang wnedly opposed to this

i forcing

iT Unj Shameful resolution of department as a means of

nist the? Nations, and fully con-|India to accept American aid a
to .Y will be able to re-|der conditions favorable to the US.

lle em ei: ent

lugs Dig ; the same

dee tion Shameful and illegal re-| These conditions would at the 8

eatin ith the fact of crushingly| time amount to the loss of mavens!
t merican aggressor.” sovereignty for India, Prasad said.

SEA ALOR ALALevRRUeNeKeLeueeNeE

Socialist women MP’s
demand Gl's support
‘occupation babies’

Peace pact in
Indonesia gefs

. BERLIN
uqe Suppor A motion to make American
and other Western occupation

JAKARTA

A “peace train” which traversed
the length of Java from the cap-
ital, Jakarta, to Surabaya, collect-
ing Signatures to the appeal for a
Five-Power peace pact on the Way,
is one of the means by which the
signature campaign is being pop-
ularized in Indonesia. The train

Soldiers contribute to support of
the “occupation babies” they have
fathered in Germany since the
war's end has been introduced in
the Bonn parliament by 14 Social-
ist women members. Estimates
of the number of illegitimate
children fathered by American
and other occupation treops in

cil Bureau, who attended both the

Session of the council, has been in-
vited. to address many meetings
since his return to Indonesia, He
Was one of the chief speakers at
the 500,000-strong May Day de-
monstration in Jakarta.

ment, including right wing and na-
tionalist MP's,
Five-Power Pact appeal. The chair- that the setting up of one division
man of the Indonesian Nationa} |alone Will cost 2,500 million,

party (PNI), one of the two main
parties participating in the present} million taxpayers in Western Ger-
has signed and SO/many, this would amount to an ex-|
have the right wing minister of Penditure of 2,675 marks per tax-
labor, Tedjashmana, and the vice- Payer, the average annual income
chairman ' of the right wing Na-|of a West German Wage earner.
tionalist
Noor.

government,

Was decorated with peace banners,
slogans and Picasso’s dove.

Western Germany range from
30,000 to 250,000.

German newspapers and peri-
Odicals express concern over re-
fusal of occupation authorities to
recognize the responsibility of
the occupation soldier fathers for
these children, The magazine
Revue sarcastically suggests that
if Anglo-Americans want a new
German army “they need only
put uniforms on the army they
have created here.”

The train began its journey on
May Day and was given a send-off
by a big meeting sponsored by the
progressive trade union congress
(SOBSI) and the National Peace
Committee. The meeting conclud-
ed by singing Shostakovich’'s “Song
of Peace”—an action unprecedent-
ed in Indonesia where police sup-
pression has prevented public sing-
ing of Soviet songs and similar
demonstrations. :

ti it ten

LU tt |

Dr. Tjoa Sik Ien, Indonesian

or Berea ower’ reece cou-/G@rmMaN army cost
equal fo income
of wage earners

BERLIN

The 15 divisions of the West
German mercenary army, recently
Proposed by the Bonn government
b of parlia-|to the Western powers, would cost

Dozens of mem sing 3 37,500 million marks, according to

Warsaw Congress and the Berlin

have signed the furter Allgemeine, Experts estimate

As there are approximately 14

Party (PIR), « Tadjudin However, the 37,500 million does
i not inelude occupation expenses,

Even the chairman of the For- According to the paper Stuttgarter
eign Affairs Committee of the Zeitung, a single soldier of the oc-
Indonesian )Parliament, Sunarjo, Cupation army costs 9,750 marks
has put his signature to the ap- | annually, 3,687 marks for

peal, saying that he would sign housing accommodations,
does not include Weapons and other

such an appeal for peace no mat-
ter from what quarter it came, equipment,

orphanage last March. When the
trap door of one still in use was
opened, a blood-curdling scene
came to view — layer upon layer
of dead bodies of little chil-

Pictures here show two stunt-
ed girls who carried the chil-
dren’s bodies to the death pits,
the death pit itself, and some of
the doctors and nurses who con-
ducted the investigation.

South Africans
defy Malan in
profes! march

CAPE TOWN

Thousands of South Africans,
colored and white, marched on the
House of Parliament May 28, brav-
ing police violence in a mighty de-
monstration against the Malan
sovernment’s move to disfranchise
colored voters.

. An estimated 50,000 marchers,
eight abreast, paraded past the par-—
liament building shouting slogans:
against legislation to deprive col
ored voters of the right to elect
their own representatives,

The reactionary Malan govern-
ment called out all its police re-

Violence broke out when the Police

tried to prevent demonstrators:
from entering parliament building
to visit legislators and lobby

against the disfranchisement meas-
ures,

Scores of marchers were hurt by
the police, who were armed with

with
stones, sticks and flaming torches
which they had been Carrying in
their ‘Procession,

In complete defiance of the white
supremacy laws rigidly enforced by
the Malan regime, the demonstrat-
ors, African and Indian, colored

“jand white, Marched arm in arm,

Among the demonstrators were
hundreds of white trade unionists
and ‘servicemen, some

came from as far as Johannesburg
and Durban to join the parade.

French ousted from

Since its formation last year,
e Cambodian National United

£unizations in

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