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Initial Successes In Korea Offensive
Established 1845
NOVEMBER 25, 1950.
THREE TANK COLUMNS
Growing Unrest In China
Authorities Taking Drastic Action
The
Hongkong, Nov. 24.
Chinese Com- munists are resorting to drastic measures to
sup- press growing unrest and regain popular support, ac- cording to reports here.
Peking Radio announced the" execution of 17 persons in Shanghai and five in Peking well ns the imprisonment of 45 more on charges of sabotage, espionage And organising an anti-Red guerilla force. The
radio also
sentiment
police force.
the
disclosed anti-Red was spreading inte Two of were Shanghai police officers found guilty of harbouring saboteurs.
those shot
At the same time, the Reds, In an effort to regain waning popular support, announced the
cancellation summary
of ali landlord debts owed by ap- proximately 20,000,000 farmers. The edict, published in the Canton organ Namfong Daily News, affects all peasants the newly liberated areas" areas occupied within the past 18 months which covers most
The order
of the populous region of central and south China, affects only debts owed to land- lords before arrival liberator.**
of
the
WAGE INCREASES
DRIVE
US Proposal On Formosa
The
Washington, Nov. 24.
United States an- noticed on Friday it has proposed that the fate of Formosa be determined by the Pacifle Dig Four Dowers Russia, Great Britain, the United States
and Nationalist China.
The American proposal
Was
made in a circular memorandum to 12 coun- tries that may play a part In writing the Japanese peace treaty.
The United States sug- gested that if the Big Four powers could not agree on Formosa's future, the United Nationa General
should Assembly
decide what to do.
Busela promptly replied that the Cairo and Potsdam already have agreements
decided Formosa should be returned to China. Russians
challenged
The the
United States to explain what it meant with Ita latest plan for Formosa.—— United Press.
Seven-Point Jap Peace
Treaty Plan
TOWARD FRONTIER
Tokyo, Nov. 25.
United Nations forces, in a massive offensive to end the Korean conflict, drove three tank-tipped prongs on Friday to within 53 miles of the Man- churian border.
Enemy resistance was light although General Douglas MacArthur himself said "new Red armies"
reinforcements recent apparently deployed somewhere ahead of the advancing Allies.
--- were
In advances of up to eight miles on the northwest front, the onrushing columns had not yet run into the new defence line believed thrown up by 100,000 Chinese and Red Koreans in the snow-clad hills.
The Allies had 100,000 men on the northwest front for the drive that is pressing the enemy back toward United Nations the border. Fewer than half the troops were in action. The rest were in reserve ready to exploit any breakthrough.
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Will Of The Late Mr S.T. Williamson
On Dr
Lake Success, Nov. 24. The Communist Chinese delegation arrived at the United Nations on Friday.
Shortly before 4 p.m. four members of the Peking delegation arrived to pay a protocol call on Secretary-General Trygve Lic.
Led by General Wu Hsiu-chuan, the Chinese walked stone-facedly into the United Nationa temporary head- quarters, refusing to say anything to reporters except that they would see the Secretary-General. They went immediately to Mr Lie's offices on the second floor of the building and were closeted with him.
Word was passed however that they would see reporters Inter.
Meanwhile It was decided not to hold a meeting of the Council ол Satur-
Ales Bebler, Yugoslavia, Council president for November, had been eager to hold as many meetings an Formosa
Security day. Dr Quy
December 1
as possible before when Nationalist China's Tslong Ting-fu takes over the presidency.
With the Chinese Nationalist over
Munificent Bequests chief. delegate presiding
OUT FOR
BEVIN'S
BLOOD
Labour MPs Critical Of Foreign Policy
Shaw's Will Expected To Be A Masterpiece
London, Nov. 24. George Bernard Shaw'a 8,000-word will, when
published in full, is almost certain to be considered a literary masterpiece.
It may be months before it is rovealed, because the public trustees are faced with taxation problems on the playwright's large fortune.
The first of the two clauses published yesterday sald:
"I desire that my dead body shall be cremated and its ashes inseparably mixed with those of my late wife, now in the cus- tody of the Golders Green Cre- matorium, and in this
scattered condition
파
garden of the house in Ayot St Law- rence where we lived together for 35 years, unless some other disposal of them should be, in the opinion of my trustee, more
eligible.
The
Militarily, two Eighth Army sent one task
to open to the Chinese Communists weat force driving within 63 miles of Sinulju, either to resist strongly or fall bomb-shattered city the back across the Yalu River.
of River frontier.
General This
MacArthur's stoff US Twenty-officers believed that the Com- from the fourth Division was clanking
ing munists cannot hold the United quests to Hongkong resi-munist delegation at the United to the three motions critical of desire that no pubile
Yolu force
up
to the cast
headed for the great Sujho power plant on the Yalu, about 00 miles north of its lead elements.
the
Many
To Hongkong
Residents
substantia!
unless Mr Mau
sends across con-
be- rival of the
headquarters, dents are contained in the Nations
siderably more men and equlp-Williamson, former
ment here.
than
they already have shipping magnate.
to
on grounds that Washington, Nov, 24.
|
The United States has pro posed to a dozen other govern- ments a seven-point Japanese US penco treaty plan.
protect
the flank
proposal that Shanghal newspapers report-Americand perhaps other thrust ed the authorities are granting forces" assume post-treaty res workers in all industries official wage increase
ponsibility for Japanese Securi- because, it is dalmed,
business improved., the State Department re-driving spearhead, But this claim was refuted by vealed today,
arrival hare.
in
REASON FOR ACTION
Seoul, Nov. 24, General Douglas MacArthur's
close tu
WANTS QUICK DECISION
other-either to
The
to undertake wage' negotiations The Department else peleas | with employers, designed to
ed a memorandum from Mos- "offset losses resulting from the
cow which raised the question falling price of rice."
of. whether the United States intended to go ahead with Industrial wages
are based
Japanese
treaty with peace on a cost of living index con-
if the Soviet re-newly-launched mass offensive out Russia of com. sisting of a number
accept the American in North-Western Korea should, modities of which the principal fused to
in the opinion of observers here, item is rice. Since the Goverti- plan.
memorandum said that bring a quick answer to the ment
Britain, Russia, China puzzle of just how far Com controls the rice price, this is obviously a deliberatė
and the United States fail to munist China is willing to 80 move to increase wages.
to the within in military opposition
A on Formoga alter the peace treaty United Nations,
It is generally believed here and into effect, the United
General Assembly, that it was mainly to find this in- should decide what to do with answer that General MacArthurį
launched his new drive. Formosa-Reuter.
At
The
should
Barce
the same time, however, Tear production is falling due to H. came
shortage of raw cotton, which Nations
is Shanghai's principal dustry.-United Press.
He also
with
force the
HK$10,000 HK$30,000,
maintenance
ESTATE DIVIDED
on
the
the
1
com-
its
benchers.
be-
I
monu- or in-
BOAC Cancel Services
me
0
and less maintenance was complete. almost
"Personally I prefer the gar- den to the clolster." the Council, it might prove
London, Nov. 24. The other passage read: "As embarrassing to have the
A number of British news-my religious convictions and Peking delegates in on the de bate of the Formosa issue, it papers today gave prominence scientific views cannot at pre- to the reported alarm caused sent be more specifically de- was thought.
in Government quarters by the fined than as those of a Almost coincident with
Chinese Com-growing number of signatures llever in creative evolution,
Mr Ernest
Bevin's
of art foreign ment or work the same road on which it Nations forces penetrated to within 14 miles Tse-tung, the Chinese Commun will of the late Mr S. T. General Assembly's Political policy tabled by Labour back-scription or sermon. ritual
or ist leader,
service commemorating of the border four weeks ago.
local Committee agreed unanimously Korcan division The South
shall suggest Signatures up to last
that I accepted on postpone action
night just
Salvador's demand that Tibet's were reported to have reached the tenets peculiar to any es- tablished Church or denomina- In doing this, the Chinese
tion nor take the form of The Conservative newspaper, He left HK$50,000 each to Mr complaint of aggression by Com- 81 in number. Communist lender would risk T. Ramsay and Mr M. H. munist China be placed on the
agenda.
cross or any other instrument Telegraph's, The Dally
political A third spearhead was aimed precipitating a conflict of
Turner, H$30,000 to E. Micholl, Assembly's
sacrifice." directly northward оп
larger nature than the present, HK$15,000 to James Jally Jr. Salvadorean delegate, Mr Hector correspondent said: "Mr Bevia of torture or symbol of blood road to Chosan, where the Korean war. And he would also son of the Director of Marine, Cavite Castro, made a 45-minute will be facing a personal crisis the item when he opens the two-day de
Mr Wyndham Hurst said South Korean Sixth Division take the risk that General Mac- and HK$10,000 to Kwan Lamp-plea for the inclusion
bate on foreign affairs in the after the United
yesterday's ceremony House of Commons next Wed- that the question of a reached the border last month Arthur might pick up the gauti sun who also receives under the
West- Thistlet thus thrown down.
# and then retreated. spearhead was made up of two
nerday terms of the will, a. further $400 Nations must deal with
minster Abbey burial, had been Political
plaints of aggression whenever sources
The Dally Express' Paulin- carefully considered. But In they arise. Twenty-fifth Division General MacArthur believe that a month during his life time.
mentary correspondent, in aview of the declarations
in Other the Supreme Commander is
benificiaries who ap columns led by tanks.
Russia's Jacob Mallk insisted | front-page articio under the Shaw's will, and the views EX- Other Eighth Army forces unwilling to wait any longer for pear in the will are: Mrs M.ML the march of Chinese Com-Lander headline: "Ministers pressed in many of his writings.
northeastward
HK$50,000, the what he regards as a doubtful Mullion
Roderick
munist forces into Tibet was an Cancel Trips," said that the it was thought that churchmen Chongchon River valley to possibility of a political salution Mullion. HK$25,000, Mrs
internal matter affecting only Cabinet had last night ordered would be offended if the eccle- M. Mrs Harrison HK$30,000 of border at Lake Success,
HK$50,000, Mrs Do China since, he argued, Tibet is all Ministers to cancel trips. piastical authorities Begdon
made any And at the same time-holoty1260 1114325,000 Mi-recommised as a part of Chion,abroad be a precaution against move to allow the ashes to be On the northeast front, Bouthooting to leave seven Amerihael Deane HK$10,000, tlet-United Press.
developments in next week's buried in any religious national. Kerean troops
roops seized hills over can divisions committed on this bert Staart Carpenter HK325-
foreign affairs debate. MALIK'S DEMAND
shrine.-Reuter, The secret memorandum was looking the port of Chonglin peninsula indefinitely for what, 000,, Erica Groom published arter
Dr A. Bebler, of Yugoslavia, the MOSCOVE 55 miles south of the Siberian militarily speaking, is a small-Marjory
SNAP VOTE POSSIBLE · The Sin Wen Dally News said | press published
Buckle
President of the United Nations exchange Korean border. The gain was
for: NovemI- Security Council the Shanghal General
Nellie Hiller HK$30,000.
He added: "It is believed that Labout between the United States and overshadowed, however, by the scale war.
ber, hoped to see the Peking Mr Bevin will not be nuts to Union which is Government the Soviet Union on the pro-appearance of two new Chinese
In other words it is believed
early A legacy of NZ£10,000 was delegates controlled-netined its affiliates posed treaty.
Friday atisfy the Socialist critics and Communist Divisions од the
that General MacArthur wants, bequeathed, to the late Me Wil-afternoon to see if they were there is a possibility, that a anap northeast front. -Associated
Council vote a quick decision-one way or llamson's mother, Mrs A. M. ready to attend the
will be forced on the Prese.
Williamson and a similar num to meeting on Saturday to argue formal motion for the adjourn
London, Nov. 24. the United
British Korean war to a conclusion or his sister, Miss Magdalene T. their case against
Overeens Airways. to force the Chinese Communists Williamson "as a token of the States, the specifc reason for cat on which the debate is to
be held."
Corporation cancelled three- to show the extent to which regard and esteem for her un-which the unamiling Chinese
and attention to led by
The Dally Express discussed services from London tonight as General Ww they are willing to intervene in selfish love
His-the Foreign Secretary's position result of the unofficial strike our mother in the evening of chuan, top side to Mao TEC- Kores.
in its main editorial It said: of 130 olectricians at London her life."
sung's chief general, came to Three separate motions, each Airport. Supreme Commander
the United Nations. was undoubtedly unwilling to To the Trustees are bequeath- accept the Chinese Communist ed an annuity of NZ £2,000 to his demand for the Peking ro tabled by Socialist Members
made implicitly critical of Air Bevin's Russia's Jacob Mallk
foreign
A Corporation polley, have now been
spokesman statement that they are main-be applied to the
of announced suspension of the the the House of Commons. soon as *** presentatives as
Argonaut land-plone services ly concerned
defending and benefit of his mother during Political Committee began the Yalu
"What the Foreign Secre- to the Far East, Persian Gulf River power plants her life time and another an- discussion of the Chinese Com-tary used to describe somewhat and the east coast of South with a possible vio:ation nuity of A£1,500 to be applied munist complaint. The Soviet conventionally as a "stab lo the America as BOAC insisted that of the Manchurian frontier. towards the maintenance and
apparently refuses beneft of his wife, Mrs Clarice Proposal to invite the Chincke back has now developed into the machines must not fly un-
Communists brought immediate something so deliberate tu accept the solution tacitly |Louise. Williamson during her objection from Dr Talang Ting- systematle that it offered by
might the Communists life time.
The strike followed a dispute fu, Nationalist China's chief be called a major operation over the employment of "two here to leave a strip of Com- munist-held
the without anaesthetic. territory between.
delegate, who contended
non-union electricians. the United Nations forces and
Feking Government "has new-
"The intention is clearly to The will directed that Mirther legal competence to lodge remove from the Socialist Gov- the Manchurian border,
estate a complaint Williamson's residuary The behaviour
or make any ucernment one of its most respect- of the Com- munist fleld commanders here be divided into two parts, and cusutton on behalf of my coun-ed figures and certainly its
the income from the first part try, nor has it moral author-most Impressive personality services were operating nor¬ the past two weeks has pointed to their willingness to be given to his sister curing ty to speak for China.”
her life time and on her death Chile's Dr Hernan Sant accept such a solution.
They
have made two major the part was to be halved. One Cruz declared Russia "can not
half was
the to go to recognised interpret the wishes of withdrawals-under no pressure
Communist Govern- positions out cichorities in Hongkong provided Chinese -to take up reach of the United Nations that the Trustees considered the ment" in demanding represen-
Colony to be under British con-tation for them. forces,
The
Income from the Recent small-scale American trc.
Mr Malik Immediately cited and British attacks have met other half was to go-to-Mrs two-messages to the United only defensive action in which Margot Marie Mulllon, wife of Nations from Mr Chou En-lal, her the Foreign Minister of the the Communists showed no in- Mr J. R. Mullion, and on
dated Septem- clination to do other than keep death the share outright to go Peking regime,
Roderick Mullion, 01 his bor 29 and 30, in which the their lines intact-Reuter.
reaching 21..
Chinese Communists demand.
right to participate in the It the Trustees held that discussions. Mr Malik said: Hongkong was under other than The demand of the Chinese British control the share would People's Government is well- New York, Nov. 24. go to recognised charities in founded. The Chinese people The Govezuar of New York New Zealand.
have every reason to prefer State, Mr Thomas E. Dewey, If Roderick Mullion did not charge
against
the United said today that preliminary reach the age of 21, the whole States,"
"AGGEESSIVE WAR” evidence indicated that "a hu- of that share would be paid to man failure" was the cause of recognised charities in Hong. Mr Malik continued: "As t the Long Island railway smash kong unless it were under other well known, immediately after in which 77 died on Wednesday than British control, in which the onset of the aggressive war night.
case the share would go to in Karen, the United States sent
Its navy to He said, "The engineer of the charities in New Zealand.
belongs to though express, Benjamin Pokornyey (killed in the crash) passed `one
The income arising from the China. Subsequently the United second
air States pant of the residuary warning signal and one stop
force
repeat signal at the full speed of 65 estate is to go to Mrs Mullion viointed the air-space of
and on her death to Roderick cast China and subjected It to miles per hour."-Routar.
Multion. If both die the share bombing, barbarously slaughter- is to go to New Zealand and Ing Chinese citizens and causing |Hongkong charitica.
devastation and destruction, Wo should note that the Security Any portion of the residuary Council did take' a 'decision/ou Lake Success, Nov. 24. estate not disposed of in the will the proposal of Ecuador, to in- Tho United Nations today is to be bequeathed to the Uni-vite representatives of the postponed indefinitely considera-versity of Hongkong for the Chinese People's Republic flon of the Chinese Communist advancement of medicine and participate In the discussion
Hongkong here. invasion of Tibet after pain engineering pro
provided and India and they understood is under
"The Chinese people's dalegas to to Wellington tion arrived in New York to Tibet and China had a chatice wise it is control, other- of reaching on-the-spot: agres Hospital, New Zealand. ment.Associatéd: Press.
The will also directed the day to participate in the discus- sions in the Security Council, Directors of Williamson and Co Therefore, there already is a Lid and the Trustee to make valid precedent which this com provisions for retiring gratuitico mitee should fallaw.or or allowances to soy employee: The Assembly's 15-member Six Malay police were killed of the late Mr Williamson at
commities:" will decide Budkling the on in Atwo attacks, yesterdaymoon his office at P&
· afternoon whether | lorries carrying sectric forces amounts da be of the alacre the complainouslats abou
of-aggression · by direptors on the
be considered--United Press.
i)
COMMENT OF THE DAY
MacArthur's Dramatic Stroke
HERE has been nothing more the Korea conflict than General Mac- Arthur's announcement that he has ordered a general assault in North Korca, involving 100,000 United Nations troops, for the express pur pose of "bringing the war to an end." The action, especially if it be success- ful, leaves stone cold so many pre- vious arguments as to how the United Nationa
with was going to deal Chinese Communist intervention in the Korea. MacArthur has taken soldier's attitude, to which, of course, he is fully entitled as commander-in- chief of UN forces in Korea, but whe- ther it dovetails with the politicians' -" and "diplomata' viewpoints is, at first sight, problematical. General Mac- Arthur, who has always carefully cal culated his military campaigns strikes a completely confident note in his first communique. He clearly believes that ma this time he and his forces can really.
bring the war to an end by a master- stroke of strategy and tactica. His. The confidence is boosted by the knowledge that he has absolute air superiority and in consequence is able to deny the > enemy reinforcement of men, weapons and supplics. And it is well to remem- ber that this was one decisive 'factor' in the astonishing UN offensive which MacArthur-mounted from "Inchon to drive, the North Koreans far ncross the 88th parallél. Quick and outright success in this latest assault, however, la, even more important than in the Inchon campaign. For this time tho' asnited Nations troops have to beat tho weather they must achieve their, tar-
Tdramatic connected with
get before the winter really sets in. Nevertheless, the most imponderable factor is the willingness or otherwise of the Chinese and Korean Communists to offer resistance to this latest drive. Initial gains must not be taken as irre- futable evidence that the enemy will retreat helter skelter across the Man- churian border or meekly surrender themselves in divisional strength. The Communists may still consider that the Yalu River reservoirs and hydro- electric power plants are worth fight- ing for and will, when their lines have been sufficiently shortened, make a determined attempt to defeat the UN offensive. General MacArthur's appre- ciation of the situation is that the enemy cannot offer effective opposition because his supply routes can be made untenable by UN air attacks, and he evidently considers the Communista have a similar, appreciation. There is another consideration which offers hope for a rapid liquidation of the war in Korea. It is that the Chinese Com- munists, in addition to recognising a very difficult, possibly hopeless mill- tary situation in North Korea, are prepared to accept the assurances of Britain and America that the United Nations intends fully to respect China's special interests in that part of the world, and that, as á result, the Peking government will instruct its "volunteers" in Korea to return home as quickly as possible. Such a decision would be sensible' and 'becoming, and would make relatively easy a satisfac tory settlement of the Korca problem, The next 48 hours should provido the
answer.
PASSED "STOP"
SIGNAL
INDEFINITELY POSTPONED
Policemen Slain. Singapore, Nov. 24,
bo
closed today --Reuter Brian tributose.
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Reuter.
The Corporation, which em- ploys about 150 electricians at London Airport, said that other
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