Evening star., 1950-12-12
Death Toll in Riotinq
Over Dutch Girl Rises
To 10 in Singapore
BY the Assoeioted Press

clamped duSk-to-dawn curfew
on riot-torn Singapore tonight.
The toll from two days of fighting
over the fate of Moslem-reared
Dutch girl rose to IA dead and
more than 140 injured.
Soldiers fired at a charging mob
in the Eastern section of the
island tonight and four Chinese
were reported killed. Efforts were
being made by Moslem leaders,
however, to calm their followers.
Meanwhile, the British colony's
supreme court ruled today that
the girls Catholic Dutch mother
could take 13-year-old Maria
Bertha Hertogh back to Holland
with her.
Thousands of fanatic Moslems
in two days of bitter rioting have
tried to kidnap the child and re-
turn her to the Malay woman who
for eight years reared her, and
TO the Moslem school teacher
Maria Bertha married last sum-
mer.
Four Britons Killed.
The dead included four Britons,
two Eurasians and one Indian.
Three other bodies were unidenti-
fed. Among the injured were two
American newsmen, SO Europeans
and So Chinese. The rest were
Indians, Malays and Eurasians.
There were unconfirmed reports
that seven Eurasians had been
murdered by Moslem mobs in the
eastern part of the island.
Fighting. which began with a
mob attack yesterday on the Su-
preme Court Building, continued
ir the city's 2-mile-square Moslem
quarter. It was cordoned off by
bayonet-wielding police and
British troops and armored cars
Elsewhere in the city violence
was subsiding, but demonstrators
made a new small-scale attempt
today to rush the court building
as the tribunal denied a Malay
appeal to halt Maria Bertha's
transfer to Holland Troops and
police drove off the Moslems with
bayonet charges and tear gas
bombs.
Two Correspondents Hurt.
Two Associated Press CORE
spondents, Bureau Chief Tom
MaSterson and Pulitzer Prize
Winner Larry Allen, were injured
when a mob burned their car last
night.
Mr.. Masterson suffered a frac-
tured hip and body injuries. Mr.. |
Allen, who spent the night after
the attack in a Chinese home. had
head injuries and a broken wrist.
Hospital authorities said neither
was in a critical condition.
As Europeans, major targets of
the enraged Malays and Indians, /
remained locked in their homes,
strong police and military patrols
roamed the streets.
(Mr. Allen began his news
paper career on the Baltimore Is
News in 1926. Later he wroked A,
for the Washington Herald his
Huntington (W. Va.) Eveninastr
Herald and the Charleston Dail -
Mail. He joined the ASSOC :
ated Press as State editor in u
Charleston bureau in 1888 !
two years later began a -
year tour in the Washinn T
Associated Press office. HS a I
native of Mount Savage, a. 4
Hospitals Filled. I
Civilian hospitals wei filled a
with injured from the ric Many .
victims were admitted tdnlhtafy X
hospitals. Urgent callSere Is Y
sued for blood donors. \
British authorities st ngnC /
rushed the Hertogh CHI and her },
mother from the convet IN Ynlcn Z
they had been stayinfo a ecret +
hiding place under raVy luaro' z
Though permitted by poays
court ruling to go tgHollatd, the
child must be retuAed toelnga-
pore next March i'd hefing on
another appeal bpughtpy her
foster mother and lusoano
against the court decree nnulllng
her marriage and retuilng her
to her Dutch family.
Mrs. Hertogh lost he epaughter
during the japanese fcupatlon
of Java. The Malay Ynan, Che
Animal, had reared fr as her
own daughter since fn.
Moslem priests ster ay
spurred the rioters Tn charges