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Aid to Chinese Rpds By Russia Reported Shown in Documents By th« Auociatcd fr•» LAKE SUCCESS, April 23 — Britain's intelligence service was 'reported to have received copies of captured orders and papers showing that the Soviet Union is aiding the Chinese Communists. A British source who would not permit identification said these papers showed dear co-ordination between the Moscow government and the Chinese Communists. He gave no details. The Chinese delegation to the United Nations heard these re ports with interest. There was no official word of any course of ac tion, but some U. N. sources said If the documents were backed with sufficient evidence they could be the basis for a complaint by the Chinese Nationalist government j against Soviet Russia in the U. N Security Council. The Chinese delegation held an extraordinary caucus today at which the reports were discussed. There was no sign, however, of any change in the policy of “wait and see” adopted by the delega tion. ' . U. N. sources said China con sidered bringing up the Chinese situation last fall during the Prfris Assembly to charge that Russia had not fully complied with her treaty obligations. But this plan was abandoned and it has been noted since that Russia has fol lowed a most correct course in re gard to the Nationalist govern ment, theae sources added. On the basis of present infor mation, U. N. observers pointed out, there is nothing that can be done in the U, N. about the war In China. China has not presented a com plaint. Secretary General Trygve Lie made it clear during the past winter that he plans not to in tervene as a mediator. No other member of the U. N. has shown any sign of bringing up the Chinese situation. Western delegates say privately, however, that the incidents in volving British war vessels on the Yangtze River undoubtedly will cause Britain and the United States to re-examine their whole policy toward China. Dr. V. K. Wellington Koo, Chinese ambassador to the United States, is chiet delegate for China at the U. N. Assembly. Dr. T. F. Tsiang, China's permanent dele gate to the U. N. and the Chinese member of the Security Council, is second in command of the dele gation. ICommunist * Areas ol Control VLADIVOSTOK Sea ol !r Japan ,Genzan PEIPING*^§* or .. JKORIA I Ap AM *Jm!s99a62s!? ^* ■"^[kSUCHOW ^^DfC.3*48 V ^TwoT11 Nagasaki p ML f SHANGHAI ^•(CHUNGKING * ft ,Changjha+^'/ •*.* %; tfWenchow A ) - = > > \ Naha* OKINAWA .■^Kweiyang CHINAS£f~*~ . ^tw -fktw a**" j§:Q/^i^^fOmOS;0 3qo HONGKONG STATUTI MILIS TIMETABLE OF COMMUNIST TRIUMPHS IN CHINA-This map details the succession of Chinese Communist victories that have carried the Red armies from Manchuria to Nanking in six months. Nanking, the capital of Nationalist China, was abandoned emment as the Red Assault breached the Yangtze river barrier. Shaded areas show the terri , tory controlled by the Chinese Communists, with arrows locating the manddves on Nation alists’ Yangtze defenses. Soviet Russian territory and areas in control of the Ylfp^U'ephoto! black. ______1 Tq Reds. Fears More Looting ; By Seymour Tottjifcfl, kuaoatMl Pri» Fbf«i*n CMMpndcnt Ranking! Sunday,Illril 24.— In, a dingy backroom i* Nanking’s dilapidated Cairo Hot^-sits a weary old matt whose is. to hand over this Nationalist capital to the? victorious iCommunlsts. fte is SQ-year-old pen. Ma Chingr-yuan, * a former; fllvisianal commander who is chairman of Nanking’s Emergency Peace Pres ervation Committe. A telephone call aroused him shortly after midnight yesterday morning. It was Gen. Chang Yao-ming, garrison commander, who told Ma hastily that his troops were evacuating the city. Chang asked Ma to take charge during the transition period and promised him enough police and security detachments for the job. "Don’t Have Enough Troops.” Ma Ching-yuan bitterly re called that conversation as he sat ©n: the edge of his chair this moniing, his hands folded be tween his keens, ^nd shaking his head as he repeated: “We don’t have enough troops. We don’t have enough troops to protect the city against looters." T Rifle shots in the street under lined his fears. In the old city gpotion of Futzemiao. looters al ready had done their Work. In the new part of town, with Its embassies and large homes, only the mayor’s house and that of Premier Ho Ying-chin. acting (resident Li Tsung-Jen, and other vwgh officials had been stripped Mod looted. fAfter dawn today, said Ma Ching-yuan, his committee will a delegation out through the West Gate to Shang Hain Ho. Ybe Reds landed there last night, three miles west of the wall, pre wed to march into Nanking. sE(arlier. i had seen Ma's com Bjjttee at work in the broken <&wn. dowdy. Nanking hotel. In t&e dining room they sat around Aill tables, composing welcome for the Communists—to be posted and printed in the *§1^Nanking hotel was the nerve enter of the few men which Ma bad to keep order In this sprawl flap city of a million people, S ; Police Look Frightened. ll||is few hundred soldiers, vol VB'teer militia, and ponce could not handle the Job if serious rioting broke ou,t. His police, with their White arm bands, huddled near their stations, flying the white ljj* of the committee. They l&faed frightened by toe artillery {inaudible on the south. ^Beyond the south edge of town on. Blue ^Dragon HU1 two,-bat talions of Nationalist arjtoery were firing at Red forces <*mhe north bank of the Yangtze. A member of Ma’s committee said they were firing aimlessly and -without effect, in an effort to cover the retreat of govern he was debating what to do about the small airfield inside the city walls. He was looking for enough men and trucks to take away the gasoline stored there. He said his committee was afraid the Nationalists would bomb it and destroy all installations there. Hrff Dozen Planes Burninr. He mad heard that all dumps had been blown up at the mili tary field outside the city wall and had heard the explosions be ginning at 9 o’clock last night. He wasn’t reassured when Bill Kuan of Agence Prance Presse and I told him we had driven over It and found It deserted, ex cept for half a dozen planes burn ing on the field. “You were lucky,” he said. “The air force left time bombs on that field, just as they did along the water front.” He said his committee had tried to send a man across the river to contact the Reds and offer to surrender but that the man was PIANOS to RENT 'of Low Rotes phont REpublie 6212 If you buy tutor, money paid os rental and de livery charge will bo de ducted from purchase price. Your choice of spinets and consoles of excellent makes. (maximum rental deductiam, 6 months) KITTS 1330 G Street N.W. 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We said we had to turn off to go to the Nanking Hotel. They climbed off reluctantly. Their sergeantsad they were the 1** gentries to leave the Yangtt* wfcterfront. Paper Marks 100th Year With 420-Page Edition ST. gSjffiBC! V^'T. The St. Pful Pioneer observe its 100th annivertgy to morrow by. publishing » 400-page edition, the largest published in the Nation since the boom days of the 20s. Only paper to exceed the cur rent edition of the Pioneer Press was the Miami Daily News which on July 26. 1925. published a 504 paper. i Fifteen sections make up the I Pioneer Press' centennial edition ! which recounts the growth of the 1 State which is concurrently sele brating its territorial centennial. r** ■ •' * aSP - ^ f. . #£' r ? .. SAVE up to 30% Regular Pricb on beautiful New, Floor Sample , and Return-from-Rental pianos SPINETS CONSOLES GRANDS APARTMENT UPRIGHTS Now you con buy o piano at o big money saving— of o price 'way below what it will be when this sole is. over! 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A British Foreign Office spokes man in London indignantly denied this, statins the Amethyst and the others which vainly tiled to rescue her "only fired in self-defense and did not fire until fired upon." This spokesman also said one of the British ships, the 10.009 ton cruiser London, was fired on by Nationalists as well as Com munist artillery. He did not elab orate on this. British sources in Shanghai previously had denied rumors of Nationalist firing Reds Suffer 252 Casualties. I The death toll aboard the foul British ships was officially put today at 43. instead of the previous 44. More than 80 British seamen were wounded, some of them crit ically. The Communists said they ! themselves suffered 252 casual ties and damage to their posiMons The 1,375-ton Amethyst, first fired on Wednesday morning as she sought to reach Nanking to supply and protect British em bassy personnel, was still pinned in the river about 50 miles east of Nanking. The destroyer Con sort. the cruiser London and the sloop Black Swan all were hit and had to withdraw when they tried to aid her. The Communists now hold both banks and have fired on the little vessel every time she moves in either direction. She was badly | crippled by the fire but still has power. What the British intend to do next to help her was not made clear. Naval authorities said a Royal Air Force flying boat flew over the Amethyst yesterday but did not alight. 1 In Safe Position. British Consul General R. W. Urquhart. In a St. George s Day radio address, declared: ,, “Officers and men on board the Amethyst are in good heart but naturally exhausted. They are in as safe a position as can be found f«y them. furally every possible mesajs suing them either *by an on or a cease-firi dMer wSQ in.—'* $ did hot explain, but to “operation" could only mean force under the circumstances. I “It was not clear, whether he referred only to the men or to the ship as well. However, the Amettyst.was able fl***h*,ail BRITISH CAPTAIN INJURED —CapC P, O. tj. Casalet, com manding officer of the British ctuiser London, who was in jured by shcspnel from Chi nese Communist shore .but teries on the Yangixe when the cruiser went to the aid of the British sloop Amethyst. —AP Wirephoto. her wounded to Shanghai by train Friday, to presumably the men still aboard remained voluntarily »To let the ship fall into Communist possession or even to lose it by scuttling would entail a tremendous loss of face and is unlikely to be done if any other steps are possi ble > Aid far Amethyst 1 nrertain. A British naval spokesman in Shanghai said it was not yet defi nite what would be done to free the Amethyst. The Communist radio charted that on Wednesday ' two enemy war vessels'* suddenly opened fire on Communist positions on the north bank. It said the Communists "re turned the flre*and hit one of the vessels, which subsequently sank, while the other steamed westward and was half sunk near Chin kiang. Then another enemy war vessel, steaming eastward from Chinklang. reached the spot and opened fire." (This reference to a vessel sunk was obscure. Four Brit ish shigs were damaged but none was sunk. There has been no indication that there was any other ship with the Amethyst when she was at tacked.) The Communist broadcast was the first Red reference to the af-: fair. It continued that in all. on Wednesday and Thursday, “five enemy ships'* were engaged and that “several other vessels nearby also took part in the battle.' It said that it was not until Thursday night, 36 hours after* the first encounter, that the Cam manM troop* learned four of the ship* ware British It then applied to the British the feauUer l*ne. annuls rweened for the United State*. charging aa impenahauc pica aim the Ctunee* Nationalist*. n Boned With Meemre. In Shanghai, mown*hut 23 ol tha Bnuafe dead were buried tn Bung Jao cemetery with fuii m„_i tar? honor*. British and American seamen and Marine* stood at attenuor. while tape was sounded and Bnush sailors fired rifle volley* ©w the gratae. Hundreds of foreign reprrarou usa* and civilian* jammed the floral-banked site Con»picuoip emonc the mourn er* was the London * Cajx P O L. Css*lei leaning on s cane Hr aas wounded in the attack The bodies of the Amethyst * captain Lt Goendr B M Bfcinner and one Amethyst rating who died of wounds are to be buried later at sea. the British navy repeated They thus mould be given the same sort of burial a* their 1# comrades, who had to be buried in the mer. Marc Connelly Leads Lloyd Lewis Rites •y Mb* AMOta<M ***** LIBERTYVILLK 111 April 23 — Friends of Lloyd Lewis historian and newspaperman bade him farewell today tn an open au funeral sen tee led by Marc Con* nelly, the playwright. Mr. Lewis 37 died Thursday of a heart ensure in hrs rambling home on a wooded bank of the Desplames River here. Hu funeral was held on the giassy expanse outside hu door Hundreds of persons sought out the secluded glade. They came from far—Mr Con nelly from New York and Cfcrl Sandburg, the poet, author and historian from Flat Rock. N C . and they came from close by. as did Gov. Adlai Stevenson of Illi nois, Mr. Lewis' neighbor of • stone s throw distance. Standing beside Mr. Lewis cas ket, Mr. Connelly, who wrote the Pulllaer Prise-winning play. Green Pastures." called his dead friend "the moat successful nun • I ever knew.” This success. Mr Connelly said j was measured "In the warmth of friendship felt by everyone he knew and In the gift of his talents left as a tax-free inheritance for everyone In his books " Gov. Stevenson said Mr Lewis was rich "in gentleness, wisdom and wit—a very good neighbor quick in time of misfortune, and present in times of mirth and happiness." Mr. Lewis began his newspaper caraeer at Philadelphia in 1113 after his graduation from Swarth more College. Two years later, he came to Chicago where he worked for the old Record-Herald.! and later, the Dally H*wa. IB 1H6. he retired from active newspaper work because of a! strong urge to devote himself to historical writing. Two of his works. "Sherman. Fighting Prophet." and "Myth* After Lin coln.” arc said by Mr. Sandburg "fatad to be classics." British MPs! Ponfi May Be Less Shiny • * *• mp <h»» LONDON — The WHO of •r.UUi ®«»Sn Of POif ISBBWBi WiB to that? rntwn Uw Hmm* of Com* mom a «>Sui'JL Thoi • Uw pot*?* two of Uw Shoe *fjd IwoUw? In dustry Muum (Mtoeuei no UW wot* to bo tfwtoJod ss Uw two Meuar T*w Commons wot «* nuwyod by * tomb du-t»* Uw w» tad Uw Housr no* boro B**wU»* u» Uw House of 80 VOX « hod toonwd top** » wiii to s**od on Uw rw* two to so stood of Uw uodUUwwi rod touv. Uw «>o<ooaw odttod Nothin* toad* bkv* (tuwiUy to mot* Uw wot* of UBon.’k otuny Uion an ting on tosuwr owwcioUy if Uw title: happen* to to fidgety." * Wt oro ikto »-*«*»u:w * Uw moaourw ho*uiy added, Uw! uw OCUVUMt of Uw BWtBtort of r* • Uoasriu ho** ru> oibM iwswita than •tuny bxMuot mu—but tor Uw most of Uw ubw Uw memtot* o-o tuua*. 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