SHIPS DETAINED IN CHINA

Press, Volume LXXXVI, Issue 26120, 24 May 1950, Page 7

SHIPS DETAINED IN CHINA

reported moves for RELEASE (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) HONG KONG. May 23. According to reliable sources, the Chinese Nationalist Government has a-r.?ed to release the British freighter laichungshan. which was detained by the Nationalist Navy near Amoy oh Aiarch 25. The Nationalists are a'so prepared to re-ease the Caduceus. the Cloverlock, £dg the Singhing, “if British owner-|f-!P.is provided." These ships are all Entish-registered. They were inter|cej'ted and detained on the China Coast Gurmg the last two months by Nationalist blockade patrols. MINISTERS LEAVE FOR MALAYA <Rec. 7 p.m.) LONDON. Mav 23. Die Secretary of Stale for War (Mr J vvi Strachey) and the Colonial Sec’■•f.ry (Mr James Griffiths) left Lonc n by air yesterday for a three Weeks' visit to Malaya. CUZCO EARTHQUAKE LIMA (Peru). Mav 22. Forty bodies have been found in Cuzco, where an earthquake shattered hundreds of buildings yesterday t , The authorities feared to-day that Uie death-roll would be considerably Higher when all the wreckage had ceen searched. A total of 114 persons Were seriously injured. Many people camped in the open squares of Cuzco last night. Others n&d the city in fear of another earthquake. The authorities reported that 20 to "0 per cent, of the buildings were destroyed. while another 40 per cent, ’-’ere damaged. .Work crews laboured filling in the Jide cracks in the Cuzco airport, so that doctors, nurses, medicines, and kilk could be brought in from Lima. Cuzco was founded 900 years ago by he first of the Incas, and for a long une it was the capital of the Inca ivilisation.