| Show r f World Wor News To Today at Bandit Gang Gets 2 Million in Gold r f- f Compiled From AP UP and INS Reports Siamese police sid said id they had uncovered uncovered clues indicating t. t ble implication of arm army armr personnel in the hijacking of ot a OO gold shipment 4 I I The gang of about 20 to 30 men swooped down m on the shipment thIp- thIp ship hip t ment Wednesday while it was en route to a customs house in Bangkok Bangkok Bangkok Bang Bang- kok Siam About worth of ot the gold was recovered t L. L The criminal investigation division said the passenger bus which I c- c carried the bandits was found abandoned near the Seventh infantry battalion headquarters in suburban Witnesses told police the bandits wore Siamese army and air force uniforms At least six persons are b bIng held for questioning including five customs officers officers' who failed tailed to put up p resistance although they were armed with machine guns Police refused to confirm reports that three of the bandits were captured if k Chinas China's Armies Get New Chief of Staff I Chinas China's battered armies have a new chief of staff whose outi outstanding out out- f. f standing attribute appears to be unquestioned loyalty to Generalissimo Generalis Generalis- i limo simo Chiang Kai Kal He Ho is s 55 year Gen den den Ku iu tung Chu-tung who succeeds Gen ChenI Chen I Cheng who retired beca because se of or ill health i Ku is better known in China ra fas a a friend of ot Chiang than as a aI aL I L brilliant soldier He Be is a member of the old war lord group and has hu hasa a wide following among the military clique which supported Dr t Bun Sun sens sen's re ol revolution tf on Mutineers Seize Korean Patrol Ship U. U S. S occupation army headquarters in Korea pursued an Inquiry in inquiry inquiry in- in into the disappearance of ot a south Korean patrol vessel seized by mutinous crew members who were believed to have sailed the hip ship to Soviet held north Korea The vessels vessel's wireless operator managed to get a message through stating the ships ship's captain and executive officer were killed by two dishonorably dis discharged ha south Korean coast guardsmen who had smuggled themselves aboard The message stated that the two men killed the officers while the r rest st of ot the crew was below decks then took command of the vessel and headed it t ward a north Korean port Pro-Americans Pro Lead in Korean Vote Pro American Dr Rhees Rhee's followers captured at least 61 of ot the seats in in south Koreas Korea's constituent assembly Dr Rhees Rhee's party part the Society for the Rapid realization of ot Korean Korean Ko Ko- orean o- o rean Independence won von 50 seats and the friendly Dai Dong Youth party part carried 11 11 more Dr Rhee favors the American merican form of government goy goy- emment for hi his co country c Tabulators completed the count from of ot the precincts t that voted in Mondays Monday's turbulent election to set up self l The Korean Kornn De Democratic party won 27 seats miscellaneous groups 6 won 12 and nonaffiliated candidates took 82 Eighteen seats are still to be filled Russ Take Top Place in Czech Trade Russia has climbed into first place in Czechoslovakia's foreign trade the authoritative weekly Prague Economist reports The paper says Yugoslavia was in ih second place and the United t States down to ninth in for foreign trade during the first quarter of or 1948 The quarter showed an unfavorable trade balance for Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia Czecho Czecho- slovakia of 72 the Russian figure alone accounting for Russia's rise to the top mirrored the beginning of oC the workings of ot a new year five trade pact signed in Moscow last November |
