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No. 34698.
ESTABLISHED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS
HONG KONG, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1950.
MARINES MAKE HEADWAY IN
S. Koreans land at Samchok
Washington, Septembar 20,
South Korean Marines have landed and established
A
beachhead at Samchok, 105 miles North of Pohang on the Korean East coast, a military. spokesman salu today.
General MacArthur's Hard- quarters so far have not sent any detalla of the landing, the spokesman told reporters ata. Press briefing.
Samchok
across the
Korean peninsula from in. chen
the U.8. First whare Maries and the Seventh army divisions landed and pounding to Seoul, South Korean capite).
Bamchok in connected with both Seoul and Pahang by highways and with Seoul by `rallway.—United Press.
British repel Red attack
Tokyo, September 30. British units operating with the American First Corps. r pulsed # Commünist attack without loss of ground on Tuesday. General MacArthur's headquarters announced today
A British military spokesman with General MacArthur's Hend- quarters sald today the British brigade was holding firmly the section of their line covering the left flank of the American First Cavalry Division in their advance on Whewan.
The Bellich were alsɔ contain- ing the Communist bridgehead in their sector and, with a South Korean police force, had success
eliminated number of
groups.
fully
Communist
On' the Inchon-Scowl front, 14 Beltish Commandos
were ready
for
DRIVE ON SEOUL
Han River crossed in force; Red defenders in flight
S. KOREANS RECAPTURE POHANG
Tokyo, September 20..
Victorious tank led United States Marines drove four milos be. yond their Han River crossing. to within four miles of Scoul today with disorganised Communist defenders fleeing before thom.
Scores of North Koreans surrendered at the sight of the long columns of Marine amphibious tanks and ducks pouring across the Han delta from the crossing eight miles North West of the former South Korean capital.
Marinos cut the main railway running between Seoul and Pyongyang, capital of Communist North Korea, only half an hour after crossing the Hon. They also seized several commonding", heights, then swung South East toward Seoul itself.
At midday they still were advancing steadily. delayed
They moved to their Arst ob-
only by the necessity of test- AT GATEWAYS situated on and around a small
ing roads ahead for mines.
General visited the front as the Marines
Douglas swarmed across the Han,
MacArthur OF
Some officers predicted the Marines would enter Scout late today while others sald the city would be in American hands be- fore the week-end.
An underground agent who left Seoul yesterday told the Americans that the South Korean underground In the former capital had begun ́a res volt but this was not supported by any source:
Currler Plancs
strated and bombed enemy
columns fleeing North and East out of the capital. a special assignment."
But reconnaissanée pilots reported Vice-Admiral Arthur Dewey other Red troops were moving Struble, commander of the into Seoul from the South along Joint
task force Boven today secondary roads. announced the names of the Men
United of the
Slates British ships who "participater Seventh Division were striking significantly in the early South East along the Inchon sido phases
amphibious
the DI
operation at Inchon.
Long range batteries
of the
the
SEOUL
Tokyo, September 20. General MacArthur's Head- quarters announced late to. night that American armour- ed.actumns in strength are at
of Broul. gataways Marines
force have in
South East moved stondily astride the Han river, and on the South bank have enterad the suburb of Yongdongpo. which had previously been ocoupled by, advance, unità.
The advance là being mrinde againet stiffening realatando, the communique sald.—Also - elated Press.
Reds holding
of the Hah in an attempt to cut at Kigye
cruiser's Kenya and Jamaica wer river bank
ter.
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Filipino troops for Korea French rout
The 10th Battalion combat team infantry of the Philippine Commonwealth Army, dos. tined for service with United Nations forces in Koras, march in rovlaw before some 50.000 par- son in Rizal football stadium in Manila. The troops have now arrived in Kares. (AP Photo).
Caduceus returns
returns after
seven months' detention
With an imcompleto crow of 57, including four British officers, the 4,445-ton British freight- or Caducous returned to port yesterday after being under Nationalist detention at Takao, Formosa, for seven months since February 16, 10 crew members who failed to return with the ship included the cargo supervisor Ying Yen-ming, 38, who was executed on July 27 on a charge of being a Communist attempt- ing to infiltrate into Formosa. The other nino crew
beachhead had been wor and as wave after wave of am- The trucks ploughed their way cross muddy waters of the Ilun the beachhead rapidly widened width and depth. By 8 am, the river battalion was across the
Was
WESEL
in
mem Armed guards wore placed on bars were sentenced to impri-tho-chip as well as on the wharf sonment ranging from one to while a Nationalist officer de 10 years, on charges of affills manded that the seamen's certif-
to be checked. tion with the Chinese Comcates of the crew members had The Nationalists. were very munists or of being engaged
Well guarded
weake
the second battalion moving to the river with thio, ob jective of reaching the main road and
"railway, running North from Sebul, preparatory to an advance on the city,
of Marines Another baitalion was also to make a crossing this to go in as morning
reserve in smuggling for the Chinese rough in every aspect. They took South Korean Marines who have| Communists.
13 crow members ashore, locked "There was absolutely no legal up 50 on the ship, and placed the been given the task of holding the Leathernecks left flank and
rearon to justify the detention of four Europeans under cabin ar- preventing, Communist reinforce the ship for seven months and It rest. ments breaking through from the was a gloring case of flaunting were also assembled to international law." declared Cap- North
ol Hay Conway o across the river,
tain Ronald Hurstville, Dressed
New South Wales. Austraila, when interviewed by vessel the Press on board his yesterday,
The Nationalists
were bever able to produce any evidence zo against his support the charges
sel, Captain Conway sald, For vessel, instance, he added, the ship was alleged to be engaged in smug-
Chinese gling for the
Commun- ists, but no necusation had beer made against him, no contrabanu goods had been shown to him and no fine hart been imposed on the vessel.
Marine in American uniforms and carrying American equipment. they were in great pirit. For many of them. Seoul is home and they are eager to get there. United Press and Reuter.
Two U.S. Navy planes crash killing 33
A
During the first two after the seizure of the ship. the Nationallėtų mobilized 20 to guard the armed soldiers
on board the thur Europeana yeseci,
During the subsequent four months, guards for the -Europeans were reduced to two gendarmes and two members of the PORCO Preservation Boven weeks after the Corps. arrect of the vessel, the Euro-
were
20 allowed
* peans shore under armed escort. The Nationalists tried to justify the arrest of the vessel by saying that the chip was not British
istered, Captain: Conway re- On the fate of the 10 creW
"But we had every docu- members falling to return with ment to prove that the ship had
Conwayment the
vesel, Captain
been registered. in Newcastle complained that neither he nor een
and the vessel has
off Scoul
South. Other from units mopping up Marine
Korean The South
Capitol Seoul, .cap. opposite
advanced only 1,000 used Tertively to silence Com-Lured Yungwairi, only two miles Division
bridge yards today to reach a position manist chore batteries on Wolm from the wrecked main
about une and a calf to two miles -------------- jøders -- tnd-Cominunist--artillery into the capital.
in Inehon.
As
South and South East of Kigye. Marines closed the The light
Red troops entrenched on top of aircraft carrie. Scout reconnaissance plots re high ridges just South of Kigye Triumph also performed a num- ported the Communists were re- her of important missions in sup- treating all around the 130-mile were staying there despite re- peated air strikes and heavy porting the amphibious operation
of the Allied beachheast shelling by South Korean artil- perimeter of Admiral Struble declared.Reubnsed on Pasan in the South East |
Lory. corner of Kores.
Spotter planes were looking this The enemy left rearguards be-
afternoon for two Red tanks hind at the key places around the which the South Koreans claimed benchhead while they tried to pull their main forces out from they had sighted in the Kigye
nica.
Pearl Harbour, between the closing jaws of the
The South Korean Eighth Divi- massive United Nations offensive.
Northward to the
September 20. sion pushed town of Kijon, 18 miles North of U.S. Navy four-engin Yongchon and about half way to transport plane plunged inte Andong, a vital point along the the sea off 'Kwajalein Island Red supply line from Seoul to yesterday and exploded, kill- the North front.
ing all 26 Navy personing! Other Eighth Division troops
South East had aboard, the U.S. Navy an- fighting to the The U.S. Second Division is been slowed almost to
standatilinounced. firing between revocably shattered the enemy's by heavy enemy Naktong Alver line in the South | the towns of Chunghyo-dong and East beachhead
by seizing Susong-dong. An enemy regiment #ith American bridgehead on of unknown size was believed on the West bank within two apposing the South Koreans in days. Man of the Second are this sector.
A patrol bomber, a crash bouted man, was suppored to have had been taken ashore on March now marces the river at thres Halfway between Angang-nl
und patrol craft reacted the been smuggled into Formosa bur 5, the European officers had to. places along a nine-mile front and Pohang troops of the South
scene minutes after the explo- this was not the case. The man do everything by themselves until Bouth West of Taegu. Advance! Korean Third Division were halt-
slon a Navy spokesman said, had been legally signed on with they were allowed to employ a Second Division units, including ed by an estimated 1,000 Reds, rdding, "All we found were two his name plainly featured on the cook. tanks, had driven five miles The Communist counter-attack empty liferafts and debris, drift ships articles of agreement, Cap- Life on board the ship for
had gone nearly 2,000 yards being nearby," Farther up the river, victorious fore OK troops managed to noldį Cannes, September 20. First Cavalry Division troops and it. Mr. Myers Hyman, 53, a Bri-lanks poured through newly cap- tish textile manufacturer, dled tured Wacgwan on the early today a few minutes after Tacgu-Seoul highway in hot pur- winning 100,000 francs (US$),- suit of the retreating enemy. 100) trum King Farouk of Egypt Front reports said the Americans described
had driven three miles North of Waegwan on the East bank of the. Naktong
dectured today he does not get Chough porridge with his break- fast. He asked for a double helping tomorow,
The hospital said the 94-year- old playwright, who broke his left thigh bone in a fall, was Fasting confortably. He is ex- pected to be in the hospital for four or five days mora, United Press.
DIES AFTER WINNING FROM KING FAROUK
at cards.—Associated Press.
The weather
At ongo GMT (8 pm, 2KST) a wide diffus trough of low pressure Eastwarde moross the Chipa Ben to a
Wast of the river.
main Han crossing
Infantry of the 34th Division points South of Waegwan yester- who crossed tho Naktong at two day advanced four miles up the West bank to wilhin two miles of Waegwan in a drive to cut
retreat to the
Troops of the Bouth Korean Third
Now depression of Lusen: thenee units route of Nwards to a deepening degression which has developed BE of Tulon-Pressure, de relkilenir, klah over B. and BN China,
Today's Forecast:-Moderate NK w Lida, Clovly...
Yesterday's Weatherto
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M{vīnisma T4,9 deg. Mh. Sunghiusi 13 hours. " 50
Rainfall: 5.4 mm=ðakvip, „Tatal blnes
Kemirst un average of 38719 mm.= 12.10 In
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Division regar
recaptured Po.
hang today, but another division trying to rataka Kigye meeting Intense enomy opposi“,
was
Routers Correspondent with the U. 6. First' Marine Division
Rescue planes and boots zont
British
Consular officials at slace 1027 Telpon were represented at the been travelling all around the trial. Nor, had the British au world under this registration for the master thorities bean notified of the the past 23 years,"
{said.. Court's finding, he added.
Officers of the Caduccus had been held incommunicado with the outside world, until March 11 and Captain Conway made his to see the first trip to Taipch
20 British Consul there on March under armed escort.
After the entire Chinese crow
Executed mon Saying that he learned of the from Kwajaleln reported tlar iclal and the sentences afterwards Press In no survivors were picked up only from the local Four bodies were found in the Formosa, Captain Conway adied
that Ying Yeo-ming, the execut
water.
Privateer crash
the
tam Conway said.
Europeans was tough, but it was Chinese As the other "converted even tougher for the men who were alleged to have crew, half of whom had spent been in Chinese Communist ter- most of the time in jail, while the A Navy four-engine. Privateer ritories, it has been a well-known plane with seven, aboard crashed fact that at least 50 per cent of Into Puget Sound, off Waldbey the Chinese seamen engaged on Island near Seattle yesterday, ships from Hong Kong had been and searchers found no sur vivors.
thatpong.. the past year in Chinese
• Han River crossing operation two miles offshire in Saratoga wont without a hitch. As dawn Passage. broke,
American and,
The Privateer was on a train- naval vessels In Indhon haring mission-Associated Press, bour poured deadly 15-
minute barrage into the 1,000
stretch of the river's
land.
"MIGHTY MO“ OFF INCHON
On other pages
mlased. Page 4
Barclay on Bridge. Pago-5
West German decision to sack
Rady.
the Australian master gold. Page 2 The Nayy reported
Correspondency, searching boats found an ell As far as the Caduceus was con-
cerned, Keelung and Takao were Page 3 wreckage reported that this morning's pafch littered with
the first Chinese parts ever called Kennedy-Bkipton's action dis upon by the ship which paid Its Grst visit to the Far East when called at Hong Kong from sho Europe fon December 27,
amber 27, 1949. Captain Conway said.
Relating his tough and un comfortable experience during Page 6
Tory censure motion defeated, the past seven months, Captain Conway sold the Caduceus called Page 7
Motion to Best Peking I UN 31 from Hong Kong on January
ja valested.' with 1800 tons of cargo, mostly page 9 soya bean cakes, for Keelung and
Big Three guarantees to Ger another 1.100 tons of cargo for
Takae under
under sisign Page 10 and ment/ of Jardine
Matheson and
Engineering Pe lastdargo had been Quick action needed in Europe. Pago 12 Abr and the page 14 DAN
yard
Northern bank where ... the Marince were to
· Marine artillery on the South-
tion, United Press correspondent ern side of the Han followed up.
with a further. 18-minute bartREG.
and when the smoke and dust
Aboard Flagship of Joint Task Force. 7, September 20. Robert Bennyhoff reported: from
The battleship Missouri, only United States warship of its size the Northern front. Third Division troops drove the from explosions cleared, Marine in active service, went into ag- the ECA In
started over the tion off Inchon today. remaining Reds out of the North- assault waves ern outskirts of Pohang carly this river in their versatile amphibious Vice-Admiral Arthur Dower afternoon and then moved into tracker
After the fast.
Struble announced the arrival of Ass Com Ba... return; Finance and Commerce,
high ground about one mile North the first wave Bivs am, "mighty bio,*:
25.00 WHAT inches of the city, Other Third Division tracks each carrying more than Her 10-inch guns will continus
forces were fighting. « their way
· Equale
Bel, Stumidity
74
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"? Wind Dirwtion
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ship) oluaradi
| blowly on ridges which' dominate on to the muddy.. shoals on the Seoul, The Missouri bombardedikasi FeDELAR ANTAero 2koarded the Pano 1000 ml KARN
20, men climbed out of the river, support.
Pohang to the North and North West
of troops · allacking Northern-bank, only, sporedio firm the East coast of Gamthon last greeted them.
WE WOOK-Associated. Frues.
aparty of Nav Air, Shipping, indvements. Perpeliat a pure, the next day," "Sportar
tionallet
rest were "indpetrinated" inje so-called reformatory school. Captain Conway continueri,
Reds in Indo-China
་
Saigon, September 20. French troops.. battling what may ·bỏ. a large scala Communist attempt to seizo control of Indo-China, cut down a battailon of Commun- ist troops today "inin "slaught=" er house" attack, and sent enemy units fleeing toward the nearby Communist border.
The Aghting took place near Communiat-held Dongkhe on the border. between Indo-China: and- Communist Chinn, French sources call the fortress down will pro- bably be recaptured tonight or tomorrow.
OMolais
Franch cauld column of und faciéand-strength caught Vietminh battalion by surprise batween: Langgan and Dongkh, riddling 'it with ar
fire and infilcting "severe
French reconnaissance pilots who now over Dongkho said the fortress appeared abandoned by the rebels in fuce of the French counter-attack.
Com Their reports said the munists had Bod with the arms which they had captured. There was no mention of the fate of the French garrison' which wes cap- tured by the Communists when they staged a sudden attack on the town. French sources, feared they were killel-United Press
Students taken to border
Conditions in camp Conditions in the camp were as dreadful as one could imagine, *ne crew member told the "China Moll reporter. "In this concentration camp where several hundred inmates were interned and Indoctrinated on San Min Chu YI and other anti-Com- runist doctrines, food was so scarce that it was, almost in Chinese students returning. sufficient for n men in subst. tom the United States by the nald. With their hands sPrealdent. Wilson left the
ho
One. Huridred and eleven
shaved, procedure which was ship by launches and boarded the first action to be taken when a train at Tilmshatsui Station ene was sent into the camp, the yesterday afternoon for the lumo tes were just walking
detained
skeletons," the informant added: border on their way to China.
The Imprisoned or
Three special carriages were men were successively released after several months, with 12 ro- prepared by the Kowloon-Canton who Icared on May 28, 23 on August Hallway for the students D. 16 on September 12 and two, travelled the whole way to the on September 13,
border under Folloc escort Captain Conway continued his even after he Aght for justice had been notified by the Brite Consul in Tulpeh on September 11 that the Caduceus had been released.
When they arrived in. Lo Wu, the area was temporarily. cordon
d off for the students to pass to Chinese territory where a repfos sentative of the Kwangling Edu- He wrote to Mr. K. C. Wu, cational Department and other Governor of Formosa and con- Communist offelals were present currently the Commander of to meet the students adde Peace Preasrvation Headquar- ters for the island, that with a When these students arrived by view to have the
position the ss. President Wilson on Wod Jegally cleared, he would like to nesday, they were not allowed be officially notified of the land in Hong Kong in accord reason why le vousel had been ance with Immigration regulà- foralbly detained for the past tions.. seven months. In the same let, ter. Captate Conway also rei quested that the Court Ending against his crew members bé made known to him. This letter was never answered by Governor K.-C. Wu.
(Continued On Page 2)
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