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| Chinese list 87
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An “incomplete list” ot 87
China between August 27 and

by the Chinese foreign ministry

PEKING
U.S. air-raids over Northeast
November 10 has been issued
here to substantiate Chinese

charees that the U.S. “has invaded Chinese territory, has in-

iringed upon China’s sovereignty

Security.”
The statement continues: |
“The Chinese people have every

reason to indict the United States

Sovernment for its provocations

and aggression against China, which

are daily becoming more brutal
and cruel, Filled with righteous
indignation, the Chinese people are
voluntarily assisting the Korean

People to resist American aggres-

sion—their actions are reasonable

and just.”

A typical section of the long list
of U.S. air attacks and violations
compiled by the Chinese foreign
tninistry reads:

“At 9.59 hours on November 3,
three American planes circled and
reconnoitered over Chian county.

“At 10.02 hours on November
3, three American planes circled
and reconnoitered over Shang-
huolungkaitsu village in Chian
county, 5

“At 15.30 hours on November 3,
four American planes strafed and
dropped 22 bombs over Molukou
village near Pataokou in Chang-
Pai county; 55 houses were des-
troyed with heavy losses to res!-
dents’ property.

“At 15.50 hours on November 3,
One American plane strafed over
Tatungkou in Antung city.”

The list includes no less than 18
attacks and violations on the one
day, November 3, alone.

A majority of the 87 incidents
listed mention neither — civilian
Casualties nor property damage.

Some of the attacks, however,
Were carried out by large numbers
®f American planes, such as the
bombing of Changtienhokou in
Kwantien county on November 9,
“by 17 or 18 American planes,
Which destroyed more than : 500
houses and caused an undetermined
humber of civilian casualties.

Pact opens Ceylon fo
Yankee penetration

COLOMBO
Under a U.S. “aid” agreement
Just concluded, Ceylon is supposed
to be open to American penetration
and influence.
Commenting on the agreement,
“which will enable U.S. technicians
to carry out development programs,
the U.S, state department observed
that since 1948 Ceylon had “begun

to look to the U.S.”—rather than
Britain,

and has threatened China’s

In three attacks on August 27,

long before General MacArthur’s
headquarters made mention of
Ameri-

Chinese volunteers in Korea,
can planes shot up a train at Tal-
itsu, wounding the engineer and a
passenger, and strafed Antung air
field, killing three workers and
wounding 19 others.

indignation over the
repeated attacks has been in-
creased by American action in
publishing a map entitled “Bomb-
ing net of U.S, air force in North
Korea.” The map, issued by U.S.
Information Service in its Korean
War Pictorial of October 14, em-

braces large areas of Chinese ter-
ritory, including Antung city.

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Gold Coast people's
party wins landslide
in municipal election

Landslide was hardly the word
for the victory won by the
People’ Convention party (CPP)
in recent municipal elections at
Kumasi Ashanti on the Gold
Coast. The CPP received 6257
votes against 50 for all others. .

Reporting the result to the
British colonial office, Sir Charles
Arden Clarke, governor of the
Gold Coast, whose administration
has striven by intimidation and.
persecution to check the CPP.

In London, a spokesman for the

people had “at last found a party
| whose only aim is to fight for the
! working people and their rights.”

APU

LONDON ,

CPP, declared that the Gold Coast ‘

Rome by Christmas?

When this picture was taken, U.S. troops were nearing the

Chinese border
“home by Christmas.”
observer cynically remarked this
mas after all.”

and MacArthur was predicting

they would be

Now they are in full retreat and, as one

week, “may be home by Christ_

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AMERICAN STATEMENTS CONTRADICTED BY ACTIONS

Chinese mistrust US ‘pledge’ to respect border

PEKING

American offers to guarantee the
Manchurian border have failed to
convince any one in this Chinese
capital. One reason 1s the Ameri-
can policy of restoring Japanese
military power under U.S. direc-
tion and control, freeing Japanese
war criminals and suppressing
Japanese civil rights. "The Chin.
ese people, who fought Japanese
aggression from 1931 to 1945, rea-
on that resurgent Japanese mili-
tarism, under American direction,
will be aimed at the new free
peoples of Asia and first and fore-
most against themselves.

Another reason is the record of
American statements of intention
in Korea, all of which have been
cynically contradicted by Ameri-
ean actions.

In view of the record, observers
in Peking place no faith in Presi-
dent Truman’s statement, made to
: erence on November
16, that the United States would
respect China’s territorial integ-
rity. They draw far more pro-
round eonclusions from Senator

d’s_ revealing observation,
ree a neutral zone 10 miles
north of the Yalu River?” and an
earlier remark, “The war cannot
stop at the Yalu® River. .

This. is the record, compiled
from American sources, as the
Chinese read its :

On June 27, two days after oe
preak of war in Korea, the Unite

a‘ press conf

Press quoted a U.S. army spokes.
man in Washington as saying there
was no intention of sending “eith-
er U.S. army troops or marines
into Korea to fight on the ground.”

The following day, a UP dis.
patch from Tokyo reported: “First
American ground troops have been
assigned to the Korean war.”
on June 27, the UP
quoted a “high military spokes_
man: in Tokyo” as saying that
U.S. planes would not bomb north
of the 38th parallel. But on June
30, U.S. Information Service quot-
ed Preisdent Truman as having
authorised the U.S. air force to
bomb “specific targets” in North
Korea.

A series of contradictory state-

Similarly,

ments, designed to confuse and
paralyze the peace movement
throughout the world, preceded

the actual crossing of fhe 38th
parallel by American forces.

On July 19, the UP reported a
U.S. army spokesman as opining
that “if we were at the 38th par.
allel now we would stop and we
would stop the South Koreans.”

Another UP dispatch on the
same day stated:

“American government officials
pointed out that for victory-bound
armies to halt at the 38th paral-
lel would be most unrealistic’ from
the military viewpoint.”

While official statements con-
tradicted each other MacArthur
sent his armies rolling across the

388th parallel,

On October 16 the UP quoted
“informed sources” as denying
that Truman had instructed Mac.
Arthur to halt his troops 150 miles
north of the 38th parallel. And
on the same day, Reuters news
agency reported: “Truman told
MacArthur the joint chiefs of
staff shad decided U.S. troops
should stop about 150 miles north
of the 38th parallel,

On October 19 the Associated
Press reported that South Korean
troops would proceed to the Chin-

| ese frontier while U.S. troops halt-

ed short of the border, referring
to the British foreign office as a

source of this information. Six
days later, on October 25, this
yreport, obviously intended to plac.

ate British public opinion, was
contradicted,
“The American First Corps

spokesman said orders had been
|received from general headquart-
lers to use whatever forces may be
| necessary to reach the Manchur-
jan borcer.”

New Guinea trusteeship
scored by UN commission

LAKE SUCCESS

The scandalous conditions pre-
vailing in Australian New Guinea
are revealed in a report presented
to the current United Nations
General Assembly by the Trus_
teeship Council, from which a de-
legation recently visited the ter-
ritory.

In general, states the report,
“conditions in New Guinea were
less satisfactory than in any other
trust territory.”

' It states that the average cash
Wage of the workers is 17 shil.
lings and sixpence monthly ($2.45)
Part of the worker’s wages is

paid in food, commodities and
work equipment which is debited
at the company stores.

There are no unions and no
labor legislation of any kind, says
the report, which also deplores
the inadequacy of the existing
educational and medical services.

The report points out that cor-
poral punishment and _ indefinite
imprisonment are both applicable
under the Australian rule.

The Iraqui delegate on the In-
vestigating Commission complain
ed that there is “no suffrage, law
or electoral system of any kind
in the territory.” e ‘

Now MacArthur want

« to destroy Chinese cities

This is what American
done to Korean cities, to
Arthur and his supporters

“saturation
and villages, .
are, qulowed gp, pave, elt

bombing” has
and, if Mac-

way, will attempt to do to “Chinese cities and towns.
“Saturation”. bombing has caused thousands of civilian
casualties but it has not been able to crush the Korean

people any more than it will be able to crush the
Chinese people. The answer to the demand of the
world’s peoples for peace lies in halting American ag-
gression, not extending it.

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