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ERNEST BÖREL
CHINA
No. 34732.
ESTABLISHED FOR MORE THAN 100 YEARS
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 31, 1950.
KOREAN REDS PUT UP Tellest man in the world?
STIFF RESISTANCE
Women ordered to front in bid to check UN forces
BRITONS REPEL
COUNTER-ATTACK
Tokyo, October 30.
Fanatical North Koreans today throw powerful counter-attacks at United Nations armour and infantry battering at their last mountain defence line in the North-West.
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The Communists' defence stiffened along the whole Northern strip as their leaders ordered wo men into the front lines in a final throw to stem the victorious South Korean, American and British forces.
But the counter-attacks were 'broken and Allied troops thrust forward slowly into strongly-propgred hill defences—going in with bayonets in some places to wipe out the desperate Northerners.
United Nations forces were inding it harder going draw- ing the lust Communist teeth than at any time since crossing of the 38th Parallel,
Bitter Nighting raged niong a Jine from the Ching arc where the Brito Brigade i advancing slowly-30 malies North Bent to Onjung.
Two Commulet regiments at- tacked from bills near Oujon but were repulsed shert of th town South Korean spokes-
A man admitted that the Sixth South Korean Division had løkt one-third of its effective strength in ughting around Onjong chice Thursday. Other
Communists attacked
Chinese Red regiment
in action
With The 10th Corpa, October 30, The American 10th Corps spokesman said tonight; "We have identined Chinese Communist regiment in aɔm- bat South of Chosin roadr. vole."
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The spokesman declined to elaborata on the statement, caying the Chinese regiment's
North of Unsan but were als number was known but will
hurled back and mendi ta released. He rald in-
Theugh the Aghting cuts serous their min supply route, the South Korean vunguarde which hit the Manchurian border near Chosa last week have not pulled back, a Tokyo spokesman said this after-
BLOG.
The British Belgado, which broke the Western end of the defence line yesterday, pushed acrown the amali river East of Chongju today after throwing back A Communist counter-at-
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The Brigade_is_about_00_road. miles from Sluiju, the temporary Communtat cuplial, where Com inunkt leaders have
every
battle.
formation Indicates an entire Chinees Rad regiment is in action,
He declined to comment on. Press reports that ROK foress worn being attacked by Chin- ece in strength greater than a single regiment.
This was the first official .confirmation of reports during the past wank that the Chin. Rodo had entered the Korean war.United Press.
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belleve they can do as much as ordered the men."
Ban-and woman--int›
roadcast from Sinuiju said: Rok advance on
Our Fatherland faces a serious
crisis. All North Korean young
men are being nobilised for the East Coast front line to fight against the enemy.
"North Korean women are also
On the East coast the South
going to the front Une as thos Koreans advanced suveral miles North of Songiln against niedler- realstaree, General MacArthur te announced.
King's speech approved
Other South Koreans attack! tewards, the Fusen reservoir area Against stubbarn Communist re- cistance, backed by mortars, ar- tillery and tanks.
An
London, October 30. The British Cabinet today the Communists suddenly brought Intelligence officer said that approved the King's speech
out more tanks and self-propelled disclosing new measures, in- guns but there was no indication cluding further nationalisation, whether they had come from which the Government will try ross the Chinese Communist bor- to enact during the next sc.
der or had been saved from tho from rout in the South. alon.
He said that the Communist force which attacked and moulert
Communist forces clli remain'n in North Koren is much greater than was estimated several day. ngo.
Fierce fighting continues in the Onjong area although an Amerl- can oficer this morning climated that the gluation was now less serious, But First ROK regiments attempting to drive North Eat from Unsan to. Onjong and North West from Unsan 13 Chongsan- jansi were this morning still held Communist up by stubborn formations.
A First Corps spokesman sald that the Communists were wel entrenched and camouflaged, and "would not retreat."
Ile added: "We have to get them with bagonets."
Thousands of Communists" were reported between Onjong Bad Chasan, town near the Yalu River reached last week br plements of the sixth ROK Divi- sion.
These clemonts have bech or Pered to withdraw but the Com- munists aro standing in their path.
Chinese Red
divisions
Two
Chinceo Communist divisions
then 28 were loss from Hambung today, accord. Ing to captured North Koreana officers and Chinese Communist
prisoners.
The South Korean First Corps end United States Marines on the front North of Hamhung braced them clves for the expected at- tack to implement ard which the Chinese prisoners said were Hurhung by sued to re-take November 1.
Ted Evans, 20-years-old, I belleved to be the tallest man In the world. He is riding his specially-built reinforced bleycla with one of the kiddles at his home town of Englefield Green, Burrey. Tad was born in Williamethorpa, Derbyshire,. nor mas 7-pound 9-ounce baby, and was of normal height until he of Then he began to grow. At the age was. 16 years old. 171⁄2 he outgrow the bulldozer he used to drive on airfield con. struction, and joined the "would you belleve it" show run by of Scottish showinan Peto Colline. All of Ted's family are. normal size, but Tod will not stop growing until ho is thirty. His weight doctors say. Hla height now is 9-fect 3-Inches." 32-atone; neck 22-inches; chest, 2 inches: length of hand 11/2- Inches, length of foot 15-Inches. His suits cost 245 each; his boote 10-(AP Photo).
Daring robbery
of Chinese bank in Central District
About $20,000 in cash was snatched by three,
Price: 20 Cantu:"-
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CHINESE RED INVADERS WELL INSIDE TIBET
New Delhi, October 30.
A Chinese Communist army, possibly 10,000 strong, hos plunged across the borders of Tibet and advanced to within 10 days march of Lhasa, its capital, the Indian Government reported today.
The Dalai Lama, 15-year-old priestly ruler of the tiny mountain nation, was reported preparing to flee to India.
The Indian announcement said Rod spearheads were within 200 miles of Lhasa, advancing `stoodily against meagra resistance.
reporte
The boy Lama, spiritual and Pamba Go to Lhasa usually re- but could be temporal leader of the 4,000quired a month 000 people of the "roaf in the made in two weeks.
Earlier, the Kalimpong corres world," was expected to seck pondent of the Calcutta - news shiter in the Indian barder! puper. The Stato man." province of Sikkim.
the Chinese. Commurists wen The official announcement believed planning a three-pron confrmed earlier reports of drive on Luasa, from both th the Communist invasion of North East and, South East, Tbet whlin had been circulat. well as other advances into, Fat ed here for six weeks. Tarn Tibe: and into-the North
'he recte Himalayan Lama- Culcutta
*The newspaper
ruled “country, Stateeman" said the invade
The Indian Government spokes were accompanied by a small min added that Tibet has ask "Tibetan libcration force" India for any diplomatic assist commanded by Chago Tobduh, ance it could give--"pecifically for a bandit who for several yeaks the "eontinuance of the goo has been the terror of Easters which India has made crn Tibet's trade routes. The available in lie.
notaa The spokesman Tobden had newspaper såld
what as Iztance India planny but denied that the Tibetan MARKAND
Included a peaumé en mutny pokladonna 'on that, th Chinese Invasion: be brought before the United Nations. Inata has alredy sent a note to, the Chinese Communist Goy ernment in Peking expressing ro
ret find surprise at Red order to invade Tibet. The avokorman' sald- no' answer had been received to,
been appointed "vice governor' cf Sikang province as well as commander.
the of
token Tibetan. Iurce.
Tibetans retreat Tibetan troops were reporte! today to have retreated in the face of Chinese, Communist. in vaders to within 200 miles of the of mountain country's capital Lhasa adds Associated Press
India's representative at Lhara hi te
Delhi that the abandoned
dvised his: Govending troops
past."
Wounded Britons from Korea in HK
Four officers and 53 other ranks of the British Brigade
In Kerss, wounded during the fighting thero, arrived In Hong
Kong yesterday board
hospital
on ship/
Manded men word
Tha
The
on · arrival - by | 20 sral: Bir Robert Mansorgn Major-Genera
gro... Lieutenant Gen..
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and Commodore L. N. Brown- flaid, who went out to meet the hospital thlo as the camo through Lyamun,
The Maine docked along elde the North Arm of the Royal Naval Do-kvard, where the men were transferred to * feet of ambu'ancês)'and taken to da General Hospital, Kowloon,
Farewell to Canadian UN force
Quebec, October :30, In New Tibetan delegation
"Québec bade farewell, yas He added that according to terday to the 1,000 Atron Lho Dzong (Lolung-atest reports the Tibetan delega- Second Battalion of the Roy hung) on October 22 and Sho-13 which has been negotiatin
und
relativ
shado on Ontober::
er: 27 and fell back with the Chinese Communist 22nd Regiment, part of Cana to Pemba Go
Ambassador, stil planned to go to da's special brigade recruit Peroba Go is 200 arilne miles
for further talks.
The for service with United Nati Cast of Lhean, on a main caravan Tunton, he said, had gone to forces, fe route to Chambo. an important Kalimpong, near the India-Tibet Sofie 3.000 parents, East" Tibetan- defence centro.
A Government spokesman hare rontier, to pick up their baggage cald the caravan Journey from and planned to leave for Peking, and friends watched para
at the vn Hong Kong.
.of.the.
grey autumn sklog Cont under and streamers showered ant Brst week in November..
The Indian spokesman said big trang from winding the Government's representative in Pupted near the stands whe
Primh
Afinister Loula St. Laure Thasa ato reported considerable and other guests, of honour we Communist Infiltration Into the
posted country. He added that pamphlets were being distributed in Kan Hert to spread distalisfaction among the Tibetan".
Dutch, USI
armed men in a raid on the Nam Young Com-troops clash
mercial Bank located at the second floor of 167 Des Voeux Road Central at about 3.45. p.m. yesterday.
More than 100 police from almost every district in the Colony turned ont on the scene after two police constables on their beat in that particu- lar district reported the crime. However, no one was arrested.
at which
stirs.
At about 9 o'clock last night. was made bit the police through the police called for a press their loudspeakers urged the men
out of three to come
the premises conference police senior officers attended. However, no one came down the
They were: Mr. J. Johnston,
A second request was made by Director of Criminal Investiga.
the police a few minutes later, Hon, Mr. H. Hea This too, received no respons, but manding Offer of Police in
a slip of paper Boated down to Mr. C. Dowman, and Kong Hong
the street below from the build- Assistant Director of Criminating's third floor. On the slip was Investigation.
the police to watch the back en- According to the police, Ibres written in Chinere a warning for me, all saf to be armed with
trance. revolvers, gained entrance into the bank's premises aftor disorm- sleeping conditions although thering an Indian watchman who was standing guard on the stairway
Sixteen Chinese prisoners said The morale of the Chinese army
clements in Korea was very po breause of the bad food An"
were well clothed,
the Bank's premises.
Tear-gas
Was
in Jakarta
Jakarta, Indonesia.
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a
no
The correspondret -mid the antrary to popular boiler, the prosent weather le considered suitable for military operations,
The battalion was recrutal f service in Korea. The date debatture and its destination We
or announced.
.. A' daremo spokesman mild: < Onturday the bricads, will nun ber elate to 11,000 man in
"An advance un't of, 435 nüleg and men, is already en routeni oren eboard a.US transport,
i with snowfalls licht and river "repare the way for arrival of t
Associated Press.
VERY LATEST
The Kalimpong correspondant for "The Statesman" sold the in- October 30.
vaders were reported well beyon Dutch Army troops and In the Yangtse river.. - Chlña has donesian soldiers clashed in a never formay recognised th five-hour rifle battle-in-the-river as the boundary-ling wit business district of Jakarta Tibet though a 1914 convention Tibet
spokesman said the brf participated in by China. - early today:
ade, at present split up in trakt Two Dutch.
werend Britain fixed the Yangis ng groups at seven camps acro soldiers wounded in the clash. Some 70 the boundary. China
Canida, nov numbers, 9,800) 1 Dutch troops involved included ratify the convention. sight Ambainese soldiers, whose
cluding 264 officers, home leland in the South Moluc- cas has been under siege by In- donesian Government forces for the past month.
It was, not known. however,
A levels. low due to freezing atin. body of the briefe, whi what provoked the clash.
their, sourcne.
is still officially destined for Kor The Dutch colder, ·firing Tibetans were not expected to in net four china have alren with carbines and rifles, were fight pltched battles unless at been allocated to take the brien surrounded In's two-story bare tacked but, to resort to Ruerilla to Korea, with embarkation six racks by a battallen of Indons- tactics as in previous wars, boned for some time in m'd-Nov-t
coast
port extween China and Tibet.--United ber from West alank.. After a five-hour change of shots, the Dutch Press and Associated Press, barefooted, and, in pyjamas camo, but surrendered to By that time the police, gavo a
Islan They were taken to Indonesian warning that If the rehbors dimillary police headquarters but not come out of the building, the ware later released. Upon return police would won'teur-gas bombsng to their barracks, they dis After this polles warning cane covered most of their personal be- another, ellp of paper telling the
Longitis ztaten police to ring a certain teleption
Fear of an outbrooke by An number.
bolnese troops still with the The request on the pojar
Dutch Army Continued, to uroise but no ong como,
tu ens doncsian, capital. Chief buildin paglio "AL length, after a
last warning and Important intersections are the police used their tear-gas.
beavily guarded. Ausbelate Press. bomb which drove all the
Deccons from the building, :Nëne of) thị ormed man was, however, among The tellor, hesitated a little In those who came from the bulld A U.S. Tenth Corps spokesman
Thay his response to the armed mag'o
fog
hnd-left premise yesterday disclosed for the first dameid, and as a „rpauft, the.
a shore win
before the polle troops
fired a
Beirut, October, 30. armed 'man. time that same Chineze
shot that
arrivedol
General: Sami Hinnawi, who had been captured at the time of
wounded the teller in his left: the Inchon landing last Septem- hang
organised a coup d'etat in Syria lost, two, ahots was that as the fast year. was photo reed et a ber 16, adds Associated Press, As the Ull was opened the man armed men prepared to make a
The spokesman dimissed in-shoved his hund lote the till that vetaway, tenants living on a floor tramway stop here today. created fenqusht reperta et Chin- ese captured since then as "not extracted from it a handful of frem
banknotes, TX
to police attention." particularly significant.”
"The Chinese have been doing After this, the trio inmediately trata, on Dos. Vocus Rot
left
tud promisce. They were
temporarily pre-
a littlelover an hyur aptured saine of Inchon. They said to have remained in the pre The major problem was there real Chinese, of course. They mites for about four minutes.
Shortly after the armaşı mier frequent assassination of newly have never been in Korea before entered the bank, two police con- appointed „Civil.. Government and spoke only. Chinca****
Miolais
North cooupled
"It does not mean large scale stables who were on their routin's
rout nearby:
aliot Chinese intervention,"
by, heard a " the spokes Korea In
One of theta rushed to
to the place. Strong Commuilst forces, well-man concluded. He explained: armed and determined, were, to- The Chinese undoubtedly where the list came from and Tha
other immediately called for po day reported all present in or- would not commit big land forces Hee (desilinnco-athủy ganised formations among the without hitting us from the air made to the police,
thoprak Hilla of Western North Korea. BAL: the same time: uuaily re- dan, Ivy|lable.spurces reported that strong Encinas | Chiusa Communist forces were Finvembled on the Manchurian vido of the frontier. But thero wne sip evidence of any?
Alcéremonial opening, of the new the week-end was believed to he North of Hambung. An estimated|ed a coupler, broke the glassen carried out by the general uncasinçss;hfre in the In-
commanded by a general.
the regimental. spearhead at ply put between Human and Faeramusan, South of Fusen Re-
Tellar wounded
Air reconnaissance could fine no sign of the reported Chinese When the armed men entered Red divisions but United Nation the banks, there were roughly 100 officers pointed out the mountain persons in the premises including terrain we members of the staff and cus- 211 and timbered istent for hiding from observa- tomers.. tion.
Two of the three robbers held The speech, which is prepared
Meanwhile, a South Korean re-watch at the entrance and over by the Cabluct, will be read by the United States Marine. Force part said Red unita Infiltrated the people whereas the third man King Georgo at tomorrow in Kajo, South of Wonsan, over
Cehind the advanced. ROK units with a revolver in hand approach sassion.
1,500 unidentified Reds were be-, partition and forced a feller ite Political quarters forecast that
They wiped put two Marin leved to have cut the main sup- open at till.. the programme would be com~ named to give the elastically outposts on Friday, thers attackext Government again the into Kojo it- the initiative if it decides to force colf, over-running a Commoni an carly goneral election.
being halted. belare Conservatives
will dok
cor- The total Communist force was fight the proposal to believed to be around 2.000 men.
British beat ougar
Koreans along the East coast, 3.production. The programme between Jolo and the 38th Paral, sikely to include a measure to lel, made many appeals to the nationalise water supplies and United. Nallens forces for protec-
toniporary fam to reform condon recently, the tions under which property is officer added.
intelligence leased-Reuter.
He sold that there had been many cares of losting, murder, yurning and rape, by wandering
Aliles lines.
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and not from, a couple of pri- soners-If they do come into this word oro Chinazo prihod
two pallcengers: beard, two thote gun thank 12 By this time, police reinforcements, part arrived and moro
the entire district was cordones wero, captured, on sundayan b South Korean Third Blyton Ecause of the last th 24-7000 baronitulo North Morad troops the paptive card: they the polles hoista the
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