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AMERICANS FALL BACK TO King honours Guards CLOVERLOCK
RAAF pilots' field day
Tokyo, July 12.
it was officially announced that Austration Mustang fighter piloto hud n field day today with tun highest num. ber of chicja; kills since they went into action 10 days ago, Including elphic tanks.
Meanwhile, pilots of the Firth Air Force, returning from inalons over Kargo, reported on Wednesday that their five-Inch rockets were Ineffective against the 6-ton tanks of the North forces.United Press.
Когтар
Export of petrol to Red China
A total of 3,400,000 gallons! of petrol was exported fram Hong Kong to the China main- land in May, said le nacular "Sing Tao Man Po" yesterday.
ver.
it' wider that the figure for June is not available but that it has been estrated at 3,000,000 gullons by reliably gottrees,
NEW DEFENCE LINE
Withdraw across the Kum
River, North of Taejon
CHOCHIWON IN NORTH KOREAN HANDS
Tokyo, July 12. American troops battered by Communist tanks and great forces of infantry, hava fallen back across the Kum River defence line protecting the temporary South Korean capital at Tasjon, General Douglas MacArthur announced today.
The Americans, who were caught in a North Korean avalanche of troops spearheaded by 80 tanks, rushed back across the Kum river to make a new stand there.
The Kum rivar is the last natural barrier of any consequence between the Communists and Taojon, which is less than 15 miles South of the river.
Korean war as they began North Korean ́
In his afternoon commun!-
retreating. que. General MacArthur said the South Koreans had also withdrawn to a new position.
Taejon, now only 12 to 14 miles
Their casualties in the Chochlwon battle were not heavy. duclosed. Presumably they were
Reports from the battle line
The newspaper sald that at present flere le a wide rernuble in Hong Kong by agents of the Kew Chinese regime for petrol Lehind the lust American defence They are buying up every drop line on the Kum, is the tempor-sald the Reds again were using Pralinbls in the market.
It said that in the past in daysary capital of the South Korean the Russian built tanks which
goverment which was driven out suceeded in Seoul carller by the headlong shipples out some 2.000.000 gallons Communist thrust. And that ensiderable accumulat
There was no immediate fa-
the
agents have
spearheaded their Invasion South Korea, shattered the South of
Korean army in the Bret shock of battle, and forced the Ameri cans steadily back in a gamely preparing to flee from Taejon fought delaying action. (although front reports snit the Communists were already blast.
ed stocks are awaiting transport station that the government was
to the China rainland.
Yak fighters with Russian markings
Tokyo. July 12. Two Yak fighters which at-
ing the highway to Tation with New defence
arily fire across the Kum.
Kum position
A spokesman aald the Ame- -icans had mined the bridges in, anticipation of the withdrawal behind the 200. yard wide rivar described so s "natural tank bartier."
News of the American retreat,
disclosed Wax
simultaneously with An announcement from
They
tacked a slow flying American 10
Takro that the commanding Baison plane over the Korean generals of the American army
and air battlefront on Tuesday, borr
force will arrived in Janan tomorrow for conferences! red stars with no other mark-
with General MacArthur. ings, according to a pilot in- terviewed by the Scripps Howard writer, Clyde Farns- worth, at the U.S. advance Reds capture ·
headquarters in Korea.
The North Korean planes
normally carry a red star on
I arrive at Haneda airport at bout, 8 'n.m.
white background white Russian Chochiwon
planes normally carry only the red star.
The Americans had set up a new defence position Gouth of Chochiwan, They were pre- pared to continus harassing of the Reda 1 they ontinue to push Bouth,
Chochiwon was
deadly silent
this morning. Only a few Koreans walked its empty streets.
On the main street, one mud and wood building was fattened as if by a glant's heel.
claims
Pyongyang radio, monitored by United Presa in Toko at 8 p.m. today, claimed that North Korean troops killed more than 700 American soldiers and captured more than 500 in the Area Bouth of Chochiwon.
The Communist radio said the
King George VI presents new colours to a knasiing colour bearer of the 3rd Battalion, the Goldstrean' Quards during ceremonies at the Horan Guarda Parado marking the 300th anniversary of the formation of the unit. The kneeling man at right holds the old colour. A. P. photo.
Lie asks
asks Koreans
►
to avoid atrocities
Lake Success, July 12.
Reds South of Chockiwon sur- Mr. Trygve Lio, the Secretary-General of the Unit-
rounded an American infantry unit, defeated it, broke through the American defence lines and wure now advancing Southwarde
SHELLED BY NATIONALISTS
The 800-ton: British coaster Cloverlock was sholl- ed by Chinese Nationalist shore batteries at Kinmon Island on July 7 whilo she was about to enter. Amoy, and was pursued and shot!- ed again by two Nationalist warships in in- ternational waters off. Amoy the noxt morn- ing while she was heading for Swatow on her return trip hero..
No hit was scored on the vessel and none aboard the ship was hurt. The Cloverlock returned to Hong Kong unscathed yesterday morning.
Relating the incident, crew members of the British vessel said that Nationalist shore batteries at Kinmen Island fred more than a dozen rounds at the vessel without the lightest warning while 'she was about to enter Amoy at about 10 p.m. on July 10,
All the holls missed their target and dropped into the sea, they said.
After discharging her cargo at Amoy, the Cloverlock left the Communist port before day-break on July 8.
KMT worships
·
When she entered internationat waters off Amoy, two Nationalist warships were sighted on each
side of the British coaster.
The warships flashed signals to the British veszel, telling her to
Master of CMSN ship executed
Chang Pel-llen; master of the CMEN ship, Hat Shun, was executed at Taipeh on Tuesday for attempting to sail the ship to a Chinese Communist-held port Yen Teng, chief wireless operator of the ship, was also shot.
Both men had tren chorged with conspiring on two occasions to defect to the Chinese Com- when the vessel was munists-Arst in December last л! Као- hslung and then in January last Jap- when, the ship was In anese port.
stop. As these were ignored, the. On both occasions the crew re- warships lifted anchors and began fused to join the proposed de-
to pursue the Cloverlock which
was then salling at top speed to-fection, sald the "Sing Tao Jih Pao" in a report from Talpch wards the South,
yesterday.
ក. the
meantime, the warships bagan firing on the fleeing ves sel with their guns.
The pursuit continued for about two hours but the warships did not succeed in catching up with the coaster.
Eventually the warships aban- doned their pursuit of the Clover-
ed Nations, today appealed to both North and South Korea to apply the international treatiostock which safely.reached Swatow which bar atrocities against soldiers and civilians.
damaged 16 Mr. Lic's appeal made no mention of the report-
The broadcast said in the flight the Communists American tanks and five armour- ed cars and captured four tanks and other war booty.
Russian correspondents claimed today that North Korean forces have advanced almost to Pusan, the main American supply port on the South East coast of Korea, adds Associated Press in a des- patch from Moscow,
ed murders of Americon troops by North. Koreans or reports of maltreatment by South Koreans.
both sides.
Mr. Lie asked tives of the International Red however, to allow representa-
Cross Info the country to see that wounded soldiers, prison- (General MacArthur has FC- ers and civilians were protect- Front the North came an oc-ported several amphious landings ed against abuses. casional rumble of artillery fire" by the Communist invaders on
The International Red Cross mostly American guns belching. the East coast of South Korea, had already asked both North and Then the Reds opened up. Soon including one attempt last week South Korea to allow them to mortar shells were dropping at at Pohang,
80
In the evening of July 8.
Nationalist guerillas on mainland
Talrch. July 12. More than 300,000, armed querillas fighting under the Nationalist flag stand ready on the mainland of China to strike if the Chinese Reds movc Northward Into Manchuria or North Korean, the United Press
who have been armed, equipped learned today.
Exact figures and exact positions
resistance groups of organised and their loaders specially train-
MAO AGAIN IN MOSCOW?
Talpch, July 12, "These reports of barbaric Communists certainly ought to be ing Moscow, according to a press The Chinese Communiat leader shooting of our boys by Korean Mr. Mao Tze-tung is again visit- a lesson to those who used to report here, which has not been claim the Korean and the Chin- oficially confirmed.. ese Communists were merely
However, observers speculated cd, cannot be given for reasons simple agrarian reformers," that Mac may now be in Moscow of military security. But the Communists kndw they exist, Senator
Bridges said.
conferrnig with master minds in of war always has been one of the Chinese Reds can co-ordinate "Proper treatment of prisoners the Kremlin on where and when
have already felt the weight of -their-numbers--and -power- and, so far, havo been powerless to the most
Interna with their comrades in Korea by he said. "We and striking at other fronts.Asso reduce the numbers, the United
Nations should be clated Press. vigorously protesting."
The State Department said yes-. terday the whole
question of atrocities is under consideration
Associated Press.
mlies North Csend representatives to superviso tional wamental
although nelther
the Northern edge of the cityPusan, but there has been no sending
Conventions. into the great fountains of red dust official word from U.S. forces of the carrying out of the Geneva any serious threat to the supply aide is party to those Conven- A machine-gun chattered.
tions.
air.
port.)
The pilot, Lieutenant John Tank-lel North Korean troops, Stanton of Exeter, Missouri, lold plunging Southward under a Red Farnsworth that two
Yaks at-mortar and artillery barrage. tocked his tiny unarmed L-17 smashed into US. forces today
A jeep roared down the lonely over Timesong but failed to hit and drove them from Chochlwon, North road Into the city, talled hin
then passed out 30 feet reports Associated Press corres- by a growing funnel of dust nem his plane in echeton.
ondent Tom Lambert, from the Across the back of the bounding Lieutenant Stanton told Farns-front.
machine a badly wounded man worth, "They were marked with The Communists began their ley on a litter. the red star insignia. It was just assault on the city. eight alr The mortar sholls came closer. a plan red star. No circles or miles North of the Kum River, In a short tune they were slam- anything elre."
in mid-morning departure ining into the elty. An officer's Itself." He said he was at 3000 feet from their usual dawn offensive, jeep parked outside a command The despatch also claimed re-
But the remainder of the Red post was riddled by shell frag-volls had broken out in the "most tone." alinck was in the now familiar | ment.
Southern extremity" of and
when he heard shots and saw the planes. Farnsworth dfd noti Enecify whether the Yaks were the jet type which General MacArthur reported in Tuesday's communique-United Press,
DUTCH DESTROYER
IN HARBOUR
The first Dutch naval vessel to enter Ilong Kang in more than
21
"In
The Literary "Gazette" pub- Mr. Lic's telegram said: shed the report in a despatch view of the gravely disturbing from Its correspondents In Pyong-slew yang, North Korea. The despatch reports of the shooting of pel-y the government-Router and sald North Korean
soners and other landing
actions.con- parties had been put ashore in trary to humanitarian principles. force along the East coast and I urge you most strongly in ae- had advanced "almost to Pusan cept the International Red Croar
Mer and follow strictly the pri rinies of
the Geneva Conven-
Mr. Lie declared that the Re of avelding" atrocities.
MacArthur's warning
the
deadly pattern-Banking The American exodus began, Korean peninsula.-United Press | Cross 'offer wrá "he best means and Infitration. The Redo In- Lambert's despatch concludes. and Associated Press, filtrated heavily along the left flank of the American positions, exposing the city to attack, The Northern Invaders opened:
with mortars and artillery Their tanks proceeded down the chway lending Into Chochlwort Just ahead of the Red Infantry,"
a year arrived in harbour yes- ing fire. Lerday.
She tx INMS Evertsen, der rover.
Though she is operating under naval security, it is thought she is one of the three Dutch fight- ing ships which the Dutch Gov crament hus offered to General MacArthur for the North Korean campaign.
when the to leave Hong
It is not known Evertsen is due
Kong for Korean waters.
The weather
Ace
AL 5000 UT (3.p.in, LKST) proderita
weak.' Low
pressure
STAJE
Gaver
China, Indo-China and the recte to the
E of the Philippines. Pressure remaine relatively high over the China Ben.
Today's Forernati-Light' variable, be coming moderate BW'ly, winds, aw showers mainly during the grains, perleds durinjt the afternoÓNA
Youterday's Weather-
'Maritom: 01.1 deg. Fad,.. Mfalmum 80 % deg, „Falc,' Bunadinet 108.ho.
Survivors of battle relate experiences
With American Forces
in Korea, July 12,
Ing another American outst. The unit moved up and dug in.
"We stayed there until mid- night," said Llautenant Edward James. "Then wo withdrew to idea of fooling them." our 'original' positions with the
..
Meanwhile General MacArthur's Headquarters in Tokyo today declared that four US soldiers
Posthumous award for U.S. Colonel
Tokyo, July 12. General Douglas MacArthur has approved, the posthumous award of the first Distinguish- ed Service Cross of the Korean war to Colonel Robert R.,Mar- tin, of Toledo, Ohlo, it was had been murdered on the battle announced today. field and warned that those guilty Colonel Martin was killed, on of such "barbarity" face death if July 8 as he led a rocket and caught, adds Associatedl Press grenade attack on Communist ... tanks and, Infantry...nt ranges Headquarters Insured 'a ́apeofa!" communique saying proof had of between 10 and 20 yards. been received of barbarity and murder" perpetrated by North
Korean soldiers. “
Field despatches, cross checked
By 1.30 p.m. they had the city 20 air miles North of the key centre of Tecjon, under a blister- |
The Reds flanked one major
He died while "single-handedly A bitter, beaten little band American unit command post and
of American soldiers sprawied
attacking an enemy tank 15 shelled it from the city.
yards away with a rocket fring for the South and the Kum. Soon Korean hillside this afternoon
American vehicles pulled out in exhaustion on a
sunny
bazooka," the cliation said, they mingled with refugees clog-weary survivors of one of
In an attempt to weed out dup- by Major-General William F. The award was, recommended
ging the ronds. Thaso Korean civilians had taken to the by Americans in the Korean South the most savage battles fought
But the alert Rads who had Hications, have put the number of Dean, Commander of the United
alain at 18. A ronds earlier
Prisoners: heon mortering the unit's pool ·
States army in Koran. It was in the morning war,
said the proof was be presented to Colonel Martin's tion had a' trīak, too. writes Associated Press apparently sensing another com-
their mortars hammered the in the form of official photo-son, who is n West Point cade minist thrust.
correspondent Tom Lambert.
Red'
graphs showing four. Americans during Americans,
nillitary Infantrymeh
academy U.S. ground forces thus went
sneaked Into the American lins. with their hands tied behind ceremonyUnited Press. into their second, week
their
books.
} When the. Yanks returned, to
They were shot their original position they had through the head. to fight Communilate in the dark The bodies were found when for their own - foxholes
counter-attacks on back, tem porarily the ground where the soldiers were slain.
the
Their bitterness was more pro- of the nounced than their exhaustion, which was almost complete. Thay talked of encirclements and in- filtrations.
Indian Reds released
from prison
Bombay, July 12.
A mimy, bowhiskered, officer gritted his teeth:
U.S.
White
The Red assault began foday at "You don't fight two- tank- | about 5:30 um. The Communists equipped divisions with 30 call- rode ghostlike out of a deep
The communique said Caneral MacArthur was "astounded by
bre carbines. I never saw much ground for. Their first shot these barbaric acts and holds the weless damped war in all my clipped the echoes of a hugle call leadership of the North Koreans
which' signalled their attack ja
responsible."^
Bitter though they warn, this The fog shrouded everything
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