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University Daily Kansan
Friday, May 18, 1962
News Briefs British Act to Halt Oldster Leads Chinese Influx 11 to Freedom
HONG KONG — (UPI) — The government of this British colony announced last night that a new and larger fence will be built along its border with Communist China to stop the growing exodus of illegal refugees from China.
An estimated 4,000 Chinese refugees were reported to have crossed the border yesterday. Police figures show 30,000 have fled China since May 1. Hong Kong authorities have been sending back all who do not enter the colony through legal channels. The British enclave in the China mainland already is overcrowded with refugees living in shanty towns and in the open.
The government announcement said the new barricade "is designed to stop all those attempting to enter Hong Kong territory except through the regular check points."
It said the new fence will be "greater in both height and depth" than the present one marking off the border.
Observers said there was no indication that Chinese Communist border guards were making any serious effort to prevent the refugees from leaving.
The increasing number of Chinese leaving the country is believed caused by widespread food shortages in many parts of mainland China.
OAS Threatens Salan Trial Judges
PARIS — (UPI) — The Secret Army Organization (OAS) threatened today to kill the judges and prosecutor in the trial of former Gen. Raoul Salan for his role as leader of the OAS if they condemn him to death.
Court President Charles Bornet announced that all the judges of the special court had received letters from the OAS threatening their lives if a sentence of death is passed on Salan.
State Prosecutor Andre Gavala first told the court that he had received a letter from OAS leader ex-Col. Yves Godard threatening him with death if Salan and ex-Gen. Edmond Jouhair are executed.
In another development the court ordered former Premier Michel Debre to appear to give evidence tomorrow afternoon.
Gavalda later said the letter was headed "OAS High Command, Paris—Section Dauphin 4" and was dated May 16. It said:
"Monsieur — we are giving you a warning: If Salan is sentenced to capital punishment you will answer for his life.
"Truly, we will have no pity and you will be shot down like a dog if the promoter of French Algeria and(ex-Gen. Edmond) Jouhaud lose their heads."
"Take cognizance of your responsibilities. If Salan falls, you fall. We are everywhere and we know everything about you."
The letter was signed "OAS Section Dauphin 4 under the orders of Col. Goddard. (G. Lemarque.)"
Indonesians Admit Plane Was Shot Down
JAKARTA — (UPI) — An Indonesian government spokesman confirmed today that an Indonesian plane was shot down by the Dutch off New Guinea yesterday.
(Dutch officials in Hollandia said yesterday that an Indonesian plane carrying paratroopers for a landing on west New Guinea was shot down by Dutch defense forces near Fak Fak, where Dutch troops have been fighting other Indonesians since Monday.)
Maj. Gen. Achmad Jani said an air force C47 was brought down by a Dutch Neptune patrol bomber while on a "routine flight."
Jani charged that the plane incident was evidence of Dutch failure to respect Indonesian territory.
The Dutch government information service said "the total number of crack Indonesian troops landed in New Guinea now stands at 150."
BERLIN — (UPI) — An 81-year-old man led 11 other East German refugees to freedom in West Berlin through a 30-yard-long tunnel under the barricaded border, it was announced today.
The refugees — eight men and four women — fled safely May 5 after secretly digging the tunnel for 16 days. They dug the tunnel from the Soviet zone town of Glienice to the French sector district of Reinickendorf in West Berlin.
The escape was disclosed at a news conference here today after discovery of the tunnel by the Communists made its further use impossible.
The secret of the tunnel was so well-kept that Communist police did not discover it until May 10, five days after the mass flight.
The refugees — three of them in their 70s and one a 16-year-old boy — started the tunnel inside a chicken coop belonging to 81-year-old Max Thomas in a country area on the border. It was in the same suburban district that 28 persons fled through another tunnel last Jan. 24.
Dort Is New Editor
Wakefield Dort, Jr., associate professor of geology, is the editor of a new publication,"Directory of Geoscience Films," published by the American Geological Institute.
The directory includes film reviews for use in geology or earth science classes from the grade school to post-graduate level.
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