Show WORLD NEWS TODAY Chiang Forces Split Communist Drive 1 i Compiled ComplIed From AP UP and INS Reports Chinese Communist troops moving down the tho coast toward Shanghai Shang Shang- hai hat have been split by a surprise government attack Chinese press dispatches hes said Saturday The g government lifted a news blackout which had concealed the tense situation to permit pem t publication of ot the victory reports The dispatches said the Communist force w was s cut into two segments segments seg seg- ments when resurgent Nationalist troops recaptured about miles northwest of Shanghai 1 is on the main highway leading down the center of I Kiang su province to across the Yangtze northwest of Shanghai j Russ Allow U U. U S. S Consuls in Dairen Russia unexpectedly granted American consular personnel visas to enter Dairen The he northeast China port was seized by the Russians at the wars war's end and all but a few foreigners have been denied entry Consular Con Con- sular lular officials have been waiting at Sh Shanghai for months for visas The visas came on the thc eve of ot the departure of a special U. U S. S tate department chartered ship for Dairen The ship was was to try to toland toland toland land the consular personnel and brin bring out the vice consul and his family y Vho are there here The consul general here canceled the thc ship Hodge Says Soviets Cut Korea Power Lt LL Gen John Hodge American occupation c commander in Korea accused the Russi Russians ns of attempting to bludgeon the people into surrender surrenderS to Communist domination by cutting off electric power coming Into southern Korea from from the thc north Southern Korea has been getting its electric power from rom emergency emergency emer emer- gency ncy generators set up by the Americans since noon Friday when the S S Soviet puppet upp t. t government of northern Korea cut ot off the power I Greeks Ex Execute cute 1320 1 for Treason Greek k Press P-ess Minister Alia os says 1320 persons sentenced by coUrts courts martial 1 for high treason have been executed in Greece ince ce June 1946 This Thi was the first official disclosure of ot total figures on military executions The British French and Soviet governments have expressed expressed ex ex- pressed concern over infliction of the death penalty llanos statement said the military executions were for neither political nor civil crimes It termed amazing the way the international international international inter national press has related the executions to political crimes The statement said persons sentenced by civilian courts I were put to death during the same period for common law crimes German Communists Defy Western Powers The Russian backed backed German Communists defied the authority of ot the western occupying powers power to prohibit a sponsored Communist peoples people's referendum on Germanys Germany's unification The Tho Communist press challenged a ban against the referendum ordered by the French commandant for his sector of Berlin and appeal appealed d to Germans living there to choose between freedom and suppression Cn Fr French authorities ruled that the referendum is illegal in Berlin beca because e it has not been authorized by the power four-power allied kom kom- atura The rhe Communist press declared that this was suppression sion zion o of democracy and claimed that the referendum will be carried carried car car- ried ned through ugh also in the west France Averts Government Crisis France ranc narrowly averted a grave government crisis today when Pre Premier ier Ro Robert rt Schumann agreed to a Socialist measure abolishing religious education in 28 government schools S Schumann um nn a a. member of the Catholic Popular Republic party part pe personally favored religious training g in the schools in question But ut hi the road cabinet depends depends' on So Socialist support to remain e am in power |