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BITTER BATTLE
BATTLE RAGING IN ANOTHER Beauty contest feels SCOTTISH
Achievements of RAAF in Korean war
Canberra, September 0.
The Air Miniator, Mr. T, W. White broadcast today that the RAAF 87 Squadron in Korea has flown 1,100 forties, destroyed 38 tanka, 103 trucks, 40 vehicles, seven fuaf
άμπερε, 12 bridges besides damaging numerous other tanka, trucks and bridgoa
The Squadron's rolo had been mainly in close support of the ground trope,
He said the record vindi Gatos
the high opinion in which it in held by the Amaricans. He said the RAAF nlongside the
WEB
flying United States Fifth Air Force with the
Ideals of вата mutual respect as In World War (—United Press.
Peking bars UN probe of raid charges
The Chinese People's Gov- ernment yesterday made it clear that facilities will not be given to any United Na- Bons mission appointed to in- vestigate Its charges that American aircraft violated Chinese territory by flying over and strafing Antung last month, reports Reuter.
The Peking Radio, Chinese-language broadenst yes- terday afternoon, quoted the New
THE KYONGJU SECTOR
Red thrust endangers
vital transport centre
CIVILIANS ORDERED OUT OF MASAN
.
Tokyo, September 8,
North Korean troops and tanks smashed in force at the North East corner of the allied beachhead again today, plunging spear. heads to the area of Kyongju and across the trunk highway.a few miles North West of that big traffic centre.
A
Communist detachment with two tanks struck into Yongchon, another
transport hub 20 miles East of Taegu, but was driven out after short and bitter fighting with the South Korean defenders.
South Korean defences in some sectors below Pohang crumbled under
Communist hammer blows. The whole Allied position from tho Kyongju sector to the Pohang area was ondangorod.
Troops of the United States five Twenty-Fourth Division
miles North 10 seven
Kyongju caught the impact of the Communist rusi
after 11
had carried through the South Korean positions.
the
QUAD
DIES
The eldest of the Colony'a first set of quadruplets on re- cord, born on August 30 to a quarry worker's wife, died a about 11.30 am. yesterday- the second ono to meet his death.
The condition of the mother, 33-year-old Lau Fai-kec, had in the past few days deteriorated. Suffering from heart and kidney trouble resulting from under- nourishment, she is at present lying seriously ill at the Kow loon Hospital.
The woman gave birth to three boys and a girl at the Kwong Wal Hospital. One of the boys-the third-born-dled three days later, exactly a week ago.
It was then decided to move the mother and the babies to the WAB Kowloon Hospital. This done on Monday last.
Yesterday's casualty was also a
boy.
effects of cold war
Rimini, Italy, September, 8.
Europe's beauty queens-mixing a bit into the cold war turned thumbs down on "Miss Gormany" but oponed the door to "Miss Western Germany" pro- vided neither sho nor her family bears a Nazi tainti
The pretty and shapely "missas“ of 12' countrias from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, who will compote for the title of Miss Europe, 1950, here to morrow, made thoir decision in plenary session, it was announced today..
The representatives of Belgium, France and Nor- way, who by their obfactions in 1948 and 1949 kept a German beauty from competing, proposed the condi- tions for competition this year.
The announcement stated their motion was ap- provod by the majority. Undor the ruling, if a "Miss Western Germany" competes and wins and later it is provod according to the rules laid down "by the Inter- national of Nuramberg," that she bears a 'Naxi, taint, then the decision of the judgos is annulled.
"Mistos" from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Holland, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Franco, Turkey, Denmark, Portugal and the tiny republic of San Marino uro hero for judging tomorrow, — Associated Press,
Work stoppage RAF plane ditched
by London
printers
in Harbour; all aboard are rescued
London newspapers have not been affected. A spokesman for The the British Federation of Master compositors Printers said 3,500
belonging to the London Com-
volved, positors Society (Union) were in- Among the suspensions was the
weekly, illustrated
"Sphere," known to British readers through- out the world.
London, September 7. An eight-day-old work stop- page of printers today forced Naktong against their position their defence lines two to three 60 periodicals to suspend pub- anchored between the Amori- miles North and East of Yongchon. lication or appear in reduced
the South East the form. But to Division on can Second of
South and the First Calavry break-through force of Red tank Division
near and lufantry tightened their hald to the North
on the Yongchon-Kyeneju road. Waegwan.
A South Korean intelligence ofl. British carrier planes destroyed cer sald the Communist 15th Divi- The Yankts und the North
six camouflaged 80-ton
motor slon has switched from the attack Koreans were fighting a bitter ships near Makpo on the South-
on Yongchon in the centre of the battle late tonight on the ap
ern coast on September 6. It was Northern battle line to support of prouches to the big transport announced today.
South Korean the Red Fifth and 12th Divisions China News Agency as saying base which commands the that as long as Peking is not re- fences of the broad valley leading aflixits, two 30-ton motor boats
Navy ships sank two troop-alled driving on Kyongju from the
North on the Security Cour-due South to Pusan, presentert or
only eit the Government estat no
and destroyed three smaller craft miles below Kyongju. cept Mr. Warven Austin's sug
A United States military ad-in the same general area. gestion that the Counell appoint viser described the situation in
committee to investigate the that sector as "very serious charges on the spot.
this time." The United Nations Sora - }
I was a lightning reversal o tary General, Mr. Trygvo Lie four hours after the break-off of said yesterday that he will ask the Communist push and expres the U. B. Government to par stons of confidence that the East mit a Chinese Communist de- wing of the beachhead defences legation 10
enter the United had been stabilised, States M CATE
CASE" the United Nations General Assembly Quate the Chinego Nationalist delegation, adds United Press
A report from Laka Bucetas. Mr. Lie, who is anxious to settle the dispute whether the. Nationallels
Communists should speak for Chilm the United Nations, notified the Red regime in Peking on Thursday night of his plan. În a cablegram 10 Mr. Chou En-la, Chinese Communist Foreign Minister, Mr. Lie said he would ask the United States
of the to permit entry Peking delegation to attend the General Assembly session open- Ing. on September 10 "in case of acceptance by the General As sembly of your delegation as re- presentative of the Republic of Chinia."
The United States ban on entry of acknowledged Communists has prevented Chinese Reds from entering the country. But if they hre granted diplomatie reengni- tion the United States is bound to grant them access to the United Nations. — Reuter and United Prese.
FORMOSA KEEPS THE HOME FIRES BURNING
The
Taipeh, September 0. Nationalists today took
- action to protect their servicemen
from the fickleness of wonien.
The provincial Formosa
may in
Kovernment of led that no
Epouse future seck á divorce from a serviceman on active duty. a fiance break off an nor may o engagement with one.
The ruling followed a com- plaint by Private Hsich Lien-yi that during his absence on duly his, we sought and obtained a divorce from him. Press,
As95cintod
47
Another leading news-picture |
magazine, the "Illustrated Lon- the
General MacArthur's spokes-
indications are man sald at
Reds are building up for a purh from the South West. Cavalry A First
regiment jumped off this morning in an The attack designed to drive
010 from a dominating
North of Taegu, their closest point of important penetration.
Mauan, Bouth coast port 27 atriing miles West of the main Allied port of Pusan, was order- ed evacuated of non-essential civilians, Astaciated Press re- ports.
Reds milles
seven
were
On the North West corner of the United Natlong beachhoad the First Cavalry Division gave up an attempt to seize HI 87 Just South of Kawan, which would have afforded the.atrang. est defensive position on the new line seven to, eight miles: North of Taogu.....
zeven or
a
Royal Air Force Beaufightor aircraft made a forced landing in the Harbour opposito Holt's Wharf at about 110 p.m. yesterday. pilot of the twin-engined aircraft was forced to "ditch" his plane due to engine trouble which, the aircraft experienced while flying over the Harbour, The aircraft sank about
MINERS TRAPPED
wero
Glasgow, September 7. One hundred and twenty- right Scottish miners trapped 720 feet underground today when the surface of the carth above them sank down In a river of cozing mud.
Peaty soll softened into mush by torrential rains broke through the mine shaft shortly before mid- night last night, filling a portion the men of the shaft in which were at work.
Telephone communications with the pithead were not broken and the men replied early this morn- Ing that they had stopped the flood of mud before It could.choko off their air spplies.
They said there was a six-inch vent between the mud river and the top of the shaft letting air through.
In
A Coal Board spokesman saldi "We believe all the 128 men the pit are alive." The mino Castla Is the Knockshinnoch
Naw Cumrock, colliery near Ayrshire, one of
most tho modern coal, workings In the land:
As thousands of men, women and children kept grim vigil at the surface, rescue squads laid equipment to clear gas from on at old working. They must got the men through 40 feet of solid coal. They hoped to cut a way out for the enlombed men through an abandoned gallery but first and suction had to lay cables fans two miles underground to pump out denso gua. pockets- Reuter.
Russian-born jet scientist
three minutes after she hit the surface of the convicted in U.S.
water but the three crew members escaped. from the plane without injury.
Los Angeles, September 8. A Russian-born jet propul- Dr. Sidney *Blon scientist, According to eyewitnesses, in tow by a Naval Boom Defener Weinbaum was today convict don News," appeared on schedule. the plane, was first sighted vessel, biter a diver had recuroded of perjury for denying he Mewas di reember of the Com- The wookly "Radio Timaying about 100 feet above the low ropa
"The Lenafighter 1st twin munist Party RAMA Harbour at about eigh engined all-purpose aircraft which A Federal Court convicted Dr. by published
the British
As usined murts prominence during Weinbaum of perjuring himself Broadcasting Corporation with minutes after one o'clock.
he told a Government a circulation of 8,000,000, nett. she flew on an Easterly course, the war. Originally a night-figh wheh fled its readers it ould not she lost altitude and about ter, the Beaufighter was develop board that he had never been a appear. Its companion maga two minutes later settled on ed into a torpedo and rocket car- Communit
rler and served with distinction zine. "The Listener," also,s -the surface. pended.
to
Until last year, Dr. Weinbaum. research engineer at
ברטמן
The cavalrymen dug in through- out the rainy day along a ne which leaves the Naktong River
By this time the pilot of the in several theatres of war. The 52, was Correspondent MacBeth reported three intes South of Waegwan
one of the several which have jet propulsion laboratory, where, Publishers of both the "Specta-aircraft had shut off the motors aircraft which crashed today is California Institute of Technology
and one by one the crew mem-
been employed in target-towing, Government witnesses, said, he infiltrating Reds mined the main and fellows a series of ridges 10 road from Taegu to the battle- miles North West to
tor" and the "Economist" said bers escaped from the plane. front
10 miter these weekly journals of opinion Three American eight miles North to area.
A few minutes after the plane duties and, with its long dengue had access to classified material, becn a familar including some listed top secret, knocked out by
North vehicles
East of Taegu.
would appear tomorrow (Friday)
settled
the water's surface uttnched, nas on.
Dr. Weinbaum faces a maxi- The order was Issued when a
the explosives bofore Yank en-
on schedule. The left-wing "New she began
rink. Hed inflirators blew up
nic. nose first sight over the Colony.
sentence of 10 years in Communist build-up West of the
behind the Statesman and Nation" published within three minutes the entire
prison and a $10,000 fine-A519- elty was noted, and UN forces Elcers moved in for demolition. bridge and culvert
American and South Korean Cavalry positions along the main an eight-page edition by phate aircraft was submerged.
SHIPPING FIRMS clated Press.`- were warned that 100 Red agents
lines were thrown across a main South road above Targu today typewriting in place of its usual infiltrated the city to stir up-road-about-five-miles North of und-attempted to cut the road 32-pages.
-MOVING-FROM trouble. About 5,000 of the Kyongju in an area where swirl with anti-tank and small arms
The Federation of Master
BISHOPS RESIGN. torntal 75,000 population were
ing battles in "layer cake" con- Arc. Division officers did not con- Printers spokesman zald 3,500
HK TO FORMOSA
IN PROTEST OVER moved out in the first batch.
fusion were described by an Eighth sidder the threat serious.
members of the Compositors So- The heaviest
Taipeh, September 8. fighting of the Army spokesman as typical of
ciety were dismisced on August
of RED RESTRICTIONS
· The Nationalist Ministry. 24-hour period up to noon today the entire battle zone.
30 when they refused to give up
Communications stated here yes-
London, September 8. was in the South West.
union restrictions which
All European Anglican Bishops ployers cold slowed output," Shortly afterwards, the number terday that 10 Chinese commer
naval clal shipping companies formerly in China have resigned in protest effective
Polke These became,
on nine
lunch, a
seeking
refuge. In Hong Kong against Communist restrictions, to an Iaunch and an RAF launch ar-
moving to the Church's Missionary Society August 22, in addition earlier ban on overtime work. rived at the scene and the airmen are contemplating
sold yesterday. No direct demands for woge were transferred to the RAF Formosa.
Rubber dinghies which Increases have been involved in craft.
But the Red attacks there, on the central front, and along the East coast were halted as rain down on the battle.
drummed
olds.
U.S. Eighth Army spokes
During the past 24 hours, the largest reported Communist as- faults have been concentrated in the South Western sector West ot Mason.
Allied supply
troops road cut
fourth man in Korea said the Communist effort to drive Ameri- can and South Korean Into the sen had "petered out."
He also told Associated Press Correspondent Jack MacBeth: "We believe they are running out ammunition, supplies, men and other things necessary to press an attack."
10
Driving rains cut the Air Force Bix ground support sorties, perhaps the smallest since the war, began,
Britons repel
Red thrusts
British troops turned back Rad probing thrusts across the
B-29's raid Songjin
A CHQ release said B-20 Super- fortresses struck the important magnesium and rall town of East Songlin along the North coast of Korra today after warn- ing the civilians to leave town before the bombings.
em-
Police launch No. B. which --was on-patrol.nrar...the scane Immediately rushed to the wreckage. Led by Bub-Inspec tor H. G. Jorrat, the arew of the launch rendered necessary ald in helping the three BAF airmen from the water,
it was claimed, was
Nationalist with a
In
Vacancies in the Kwangsl, Hu-. nan, Nanking and Klafigs areas the dispute, this spokesman said, were abandoned by the escaping.compliance
The Minister of Labour Mr. alemen when they were picked by Government. directive lesued last were alled by the elevation of George Isaacs, ordered an in- the police were recovered by the month urging all Chinese private former, assistant Blahops, all Chi- move to ness. Other vacancies wilt de quiry into the labour dispute RAP launch which took the trio chipping
before the end of led by Chinese, churchmat- after negotiations between the to Kat Tok airport.
Associated Press. August. Reuter.
committee failed
The release, issued at 7.30 p.m., for the second consecutive said day B-295 of the USFEAF Bomber A battalion of North Koreana Command went for up the strate-/ Compositors Society and an em cut the Allied supply road (be.
East coast of ployer's tween Yongshen and Kyongju gically important today and
Press. Korea and dropped a large num“ pushed down the road toward ber of bombs on the magnesium the rear of the American task plant and rall centre at Songjin forco North West of Kyongju. (Joshin). adda United Press.
..(
three Rad
tanks
Ex
Today's target is located miles below Chonglin (Selshin) The Americans-elements of where a key industrial steel and the 24th Division-were attack-
iron producing plant was struck ing to plug the gap in the Allled yesterday. The citizens of Song- Northern defence line between in were warned by leaflets on Yongchon and Angang-ni, 10 August 18 to more away from
fles North of Kyongju.
military targets which were sub- The South Koreans drove, 50fect to attack. Infitrating Communist troops out of Yongchen last night and held
(Continued On Page 3)
Irish priest is hero of GI battalion
On the Central Naktong
Front; September 8. Father Frank Woods, a car. bine-carrying Irish priest, from The weather Dunleer. County Louth, shout- ed a few well chosen words A 0600 GMT 18. 5.7. HRAT) the in Korean across a rice floid typhoon la:contre) 'about 190 miles to tie West of Changnyong this week.
NNW of Guarn, and is moving NNW..at a speed of ten knota. A depression in
centred over the French Indo-China cosas near Tourass. A tidre of high pressure from the Pacids anll-cyclone severa Japan.
post, surrendered
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to
break the deadlock-Associated
BOẶC AUGMENTS LONDON-S'PORE SERVICE
Routine flight According to Informatio:{ rathered at the Kei Tak airport, the twin-engined all purpose alr- croft left the alport at about 11 a.m. apparently on a routing flight. The Public Relations Office re- leased a statement on the Harbour accident shortly after the plane was "tched" into the waters,
The statement read as follows:- Soon after. mid-dav (Friday, London, September 7. September 8), a Royal Air Force A British Overseas Airways Beaufighter, from RAF Station, Corporation announcement sale Kai Tak, experienced engine today
that an additional Ar trouble whist over Hong Kong gonaut airline service betweer
Harbour and the pilot was forced London and Singapore. flying
ta ditch his aircraft opposite Holt'u cach In pace a week
direction
Wharf. will be introduced on Sunday. "The crow of three were un- The Corporation: anid that the hurt and were pleked up by a new service was being put on tc Police faunch and taken to Kat meet the increased demand for Tak. The wreckage of the air- air passages between the United craft, which sank • shortly after the crew had got: out, was taken aKingdom and the Far East.
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