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at-whether they want to try to
expell the consulate staff in dis
grace" or are seeking a basis
for keeping it's members there in
definitely.
The Communist radio pictured
the Mukden population as aroused
by the accounts of savage and
brutal act perpetrated by Ameri-
can imperialists."
The Red account said that Sep
tember ~. Mr.. Ward told an en-
ploye, Chi Yu-heng. to do some
work he couldn't do. and there
upon ridiculed the workman. FL
nally he fired the Chinese and re-
fused him severance pay in addi-
ton to wages. it was related.
Chi came back October 10 to
demand the extra money and was
beaten in the consulate. together
with his brother, the Communists
said. It's description Of injuries
mentioned only bruises and a
small cut but it described Chi as
bleeding profusely when police
found him.
Red Aim to Whip Up Storm.
The department described two
Of those arrested as Ralph c..
Rehberg of Rochester, N. Y. a
consulate clerk; Shiro Tatsurni,
an American-born japanese, and
two men holding European citizen
ship.
officials here said they had the
impression that the Communists
were trying to whip up a storm
of popular passion over this mat
ter against the five accused men.
In all, State Department off,
cials said. there are 13 Americans
at the Mukden consulate, in
cluding Mrs. Ward. But officials
were unable to provide a COM
plete list.
During the many months they
have been detained by the Com
munists, Mr.. Ward and his staff
have several times been assured
they were about to be given trans
portation from the city to some
place where they could establish
contact with other American au-
thorities but this has never worked
out.
The department sent urgent
orders to the American representa-
tive in Peiping, Consul General
o. Edmund Club, to try to OBJ
tain Mr.. Wards release from the
highest Chinese Communist au-
thorities." Mr.. Club was also IN
structed to seek a full report
direct from Mr.. Ward. whose oi,ly
channels of communication with
the outside world are Commu-
nist-controlled.
The Red moves against Amer1-
can diplomats in East and West
appear to be tailored to condi-
tions.
The accusation of spying has
become the most familiar of the
charges brought against Ameri-
can representatives in Eastern
European countries-for the pur-
pose, State Department officials
believe, of cutting more and more
ties between those countries and
the West.
In Communist China, however
American officials say the pat
tern of Communist charges has
fitted more into the tradition of
arousing anti foreign hatred
among the Chinese people. Shang-
hal, for example, has seen several
incidents tending to put Ameri-
cans under the stigma of refusing
to pay Chinese what they owe
them in wages.
Conflict on For Year.
In the case of Mr.. Ward the
conflict with the Chinese Com
munists has been going on in
tensively for a year. One of the
Communists first moves when
they captured Mukden last No.
vember was to deny him the free
use of his radio.
On October "a, yesterday
State Department release said, {
message was sent from Mukder
by one of Mr.. Wards other stat
members saying that the consu
general and his four employee
had been removed by the polic'
for two or three days." The Stat
Department interpreted this tx
mean that they had been arrested
on October "a with indication
from the police that they probabl,
would not be away from the consu
late for more than two or tlret
days.
That is all the department wa
heard directly from Mukden from
American sources.