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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1951.
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Russia Ready To Meet Where The Pressure Is
British Troops Armed Men
Put Under Eisenhower's Command
London, Jan. 2, Britain today formally put all the troops she has thus far committed to the defence of West Europe under the command of Gen- cral Dwight Eisenhower.
A
A government spokesman re- ported that the Defence Mini- ler, Mr Emanuel Shinwell sent nole lo Belgian Foreign Minister Paul Van Zeeland de- tailing just what British troops Gen, Eisenhower can count on the moment he sets up his head- quarters in Paris next week,
More than three British Divisions are involved.
Raid Bamk
New Delhi, Jan. 2. Four armed men ralded the Gadodia Bank in Karol Baghi, Delhi suburb, as the bank was closing at lunch time today.
Frightening customers by firing in the air, the rob- bers seized 17,000 Rupeca (about £1,200) In east, and shot and seriously wound- ed a bank accountant who tried to intercept them. The robbers also fired at prople outside the bank as they drove off in a car,~~~ Associated Prena.
Big Three
REPLY TO NOTE
MADE PUBLIC
London, Jan. 2.
Russia tonight declared her readiness to enter
a preliminary Four-Power conference, but insisted that the demilitarisation of Germany be the "first and foremost" business.
a
The Moscow radio broadcast the text of Russian note of December 30 replying to proposals of the United States, Britain and France of
Philippines December 22 that an agenda, embracing all East-
Prepare
Measures for
West differences, be worked out for a full scale Council of Foreign Ministers.
On
a
reply of Do-
tha
four
basis of The text which Moscow chose, of Germany to broadcast was cf the note to equality between the East Zond Manila, Jan. 3.
twice the radio sald it and France, but the
ng populous immediate ac- lon on preparing Philippine was similar to the notes sent to Western Zones and withdrawal
of all occupation troops. Britain and the United States. economy and defence establish-
The Soviet reply sirendy had: The Western possible for R Mr Shinwell's note was sent menis
war drawn a mixed reaction on cember 22 proposed that after both the British Cabinet emergency were being discussed Monday among diplomats who representatives of the
President
this Quirino the by approved
hold don and Parlo pessimism in
1a preliminary meeting to agree over the morning with members of the had seen it in Washington, Lon-powers at Lake Success
hopefulness in on agenda that would not cheerfulness in Paris, his time are in West Germany.ordinary conference at Mala-O
stop with Germany, but take in sald
all questions that are creating
East between
and
and the King surrender of control
Con- troops involved. The troops at Council of State and
ressional leaders in an extra-
canan Palace.
Austria and Trieste.
Officials in
on
the Russian Washing the tension
*
"DOES NOT OBJECT"
The Foreign Secretary, Mr idea of a four-power confer west-Associated Press. British forces now in West
was
surrounded with Europe
Seventh Carlos Romulo, newly-returned ence Include the
which the United Armoured and the Second In-from the United Nations session restrictions
address States could not accept. fantry Divisions in Germany; at Lake Success, will
POSITIVE ASPECTS The 24th Infantry Brigade in the conference, giving the na- inside informe- Austria; and iwo Infantry lion's
tion"
ле on the world crisis reflected in UN activities and the views of leading statesmen with whom he came in contact there.
Battalions in Trieste.
in-
A THIRD DIVISION
Her force in Germany is to be reinforced soon by a third- Mr Romulo was expected also the 11th Armoured Division. to
of outline prospects
military Mr Shinwell planned to send creased financial and
aict from the United
States British note detailing which will off the
be sought by 'tho these arrangements to Mr Van pecic mission he will lead to Zeeland this afternoon. Its Washington in a few days. despatch reportedly was op- proved by the British Cabinet
which met this morning.
Gen. Eisenhower already has SEARCH FOR
of
The Kremin today said it "does not object" to such a Informed British sources said preliminary meeting, but em- the note hnd rome positive phasised that it still “consider- and was "not purely ed it essential to discues Arst aspects propaganda." The Russian and foremost the 'question ngreeableness to A meeting of the demilltarisation of Germany to work out on agendo as the most acute problem of Deputies in itself left the road open to Europe." riceting of tho Council Ministers, these scurces Bald.
The text added that the So- A high level source in Paris viet government was willing to where German rearmament discuss "other questions also, a bitter pill and any sign pertaining to Germany, which that it can be safely delayed corresponds with
the position
is
of
is welcome took a similar of the Soviet government ex- view The reply is good pounded in the note of Novem sign," the source said. "It is ber, 8 und with the Prague one more proof that war be- statement of eight co
countries. tween the East and West is not The note concluded with the
Department out
-who Germany
been promised three DSTONE GOES ON inevitable."
by France as soon as he sets up
his headquarters. He will take
over
3000.
command of American'
Council of Deputies which
US The
Sinte
of
vers
Being Applied
SOUTH KOREA
STATVIE
NORTH
- KOREA
TSUSHIMA
Is It An
An All-Out Offensive?
(FROM JOHN SHAW)
North of Seoul, Jan. 2. Nobody knows yet whether an all-out Chinese offensive over the 38th Farallel has really 'begun or not. What is certain is that the Chinese are among the forces that made the New Year's drive over the Imjin River directly north of Seoul.
Stanley Is
statement that failure to carry Ordered To
the
demitarisation
"cannol but also
create serious difficulties in the Go On Trial
the
solution of all problems which have to be discussed by Council of Foreign Ministers."
British quarters said come of this phraseology suggested that Russia could be induced to enter day into a broad discussion of prob- star lems beyond Germany.
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Assault Against
Seoul
CHINESE DRIVE WITHIN
8 MILES OF CITY
Tokyo, Jan. 3.
Chinese Communists opened a new assault upon Seoul from the northwest on Wednesday, driving through American and British forces to within eight miles of the South Korean capital and bringing the city within the range of heavy artillery.
The withdrawing UN forces abandoned Uijongbu, 11 miles north of Seoul on the Seoul- Yonchon highway, the historical invasion route. into South Korea from the north.
President Syngman Rhee and his Cabinet de cided to evacuate their capital in favour of a safer site further south, and made hasty preparations to take official records and 200 remaining officials out of the frightened city.
There was no recent
report
the
United Press correspondent Robert Vermillion reported that concerning action on the new Chinese attack came eastern Bank of the 140-mile from the northwest along the UN defence line, now torn apart highway which leads to Seoul in at least half a dozen places.. from Kaesong.
Iron-clad censorship prevented the disclosure of the progress The Chinese troops, taking of heavy battles being fought advantage D a beavy fog, somewhere south of the Parallel which hampered aerial obser- in the general area between vation and efforts of Air Force Wonjo and Hongchon and the fighters to crack the attackers Parallel.
with napalm bombs and ma-
chinegun fire, discarded their A camouflage and swarmed over pondent sald late
United Press corres-
yesterday
the hills on both sides of the that it was his impression that highway.
the situation on the east front at that time was even moro
They ignored terrible losses serious than that in the Seou from the United Nations artil-arca-United Press,
lery and mortar Üre and cap- tured the town of Koyang, just cast of the Seoul-Kasseng high- way and less than 10 miles northwest of Sequl.
A company of British troops was surrounded shortly after 3 a.m. when the enemy attack bogan, A spokesman for un Chinese soldiers, well equip American division in that area ped with quilted anti-cold reported that the company had uniforms" and "calf-length' fur | not reported alice, boots, are among the prisoners we have captured.
The enemy has made a deep penetration towards Uljongbu and to, avold being outflanked the United Nations forces on cach side of the wedge have withdrawn,
But since yesterday there has been no actual contact with the enemy.
Paris, Jan. 2. A French judge ruled to that Sidney Stanley,
witness in the Lyn- secret that few
Tho new
A
Chinese Troops
In Indo-China
New Delhi, Jan. 2 Chinese troops. hayo occupied two frontier outposts, Langson and Cacbang, which were ovd- United Press corresport-cunted · by Vietnainese Livo dent reported that gressure was months ago, Dr Nguyen Duy increasing at $ a.m. against an- Thank lender of the Vietnamese other American division.
Information Mission to, India sald here today.
+
MAY BE THE START
He told a Fress conference A high ranking frontline offi-that Ho Chi-minh’s succèsa cer said, "This may be the in Indo-China is F dany start of the fight for Seoul." ger to India and he appealca to The correspondent said the India to zecognise Bho Dat's defences of the American divi-government,
com-
Glasgow. Jan. 2. said the Three Powers forces in West Europe. Canada, The search for the stolen f took seven weeks to get to too, will be sending a force over Stone of Scone centred here together on their reply to the
Soviet day as police investigated the original
proposal of a former November 3 for a Four-Power The Supreme Commander will recent activities
conference--would start consul- Glasgow University student. come to London before going on
on another reply The ex-student is one of five tations to Paris. Aside from meeting
Elon he was with were holding defence line is so up against the Red attack for British government leaders het suspected by Scotland Yard soon.
He announced that the gop The original Soviet proposal
people know the moment except in one uh-ernment of India today. accepted will confer with the Atlantic of engineering the theft of the
stone was that the Foreign Ministers centuries-old Coronation is
disclosed spot where a
Indo-China's gift of 100 tons of Abbey to from
on of the four powers meet to dis- Other quarters, however, have key Tribunal investigation where it is.
of political corruption in
rice and is negotiating the pur of read into the note these cou 1948, will have to stand Ujongbu on the north road out
towards pany was overrun. morning. Th
the The police ouss
demilitarisation
chase of 30,000 tons of Siameso Actial observers refused to Identify the suspects Germany, using as a basis the clusions:
brought rice in return for jute-Asso- 1. Russla is not willing to trial in Paris for allegedly of Seoul looking for our troops. bade the grim news that heavy ciated Press. except to say that they were Prague declaration. Russia and
was enemy activity unt sending threatening letters. Streaming southwards to Washington for talks after he il graduates of Scottish unther East European satellites take up
notfeed group of weary-looking ROK north of has rande o
they were declared in Prague that quick preliminary versilles and that
the present fighting they she gets an agreement from the
troops who have been tramping front, indicating that the enemy. in have met
a would not tolemite the rearma- Western powers to give up their swing through most of the capi-known
two days Abbey on ment
from their Western Germany. plans to incorporate Germace
river positions. They said the bold daylight drive for Seoul of
overrun may be planning to make. A In Europe. Associated Press. Christmas Eve-United Press. They demanded the unification Western European
Chinese were just beyond hill today, regardless of the terri-received no on Red 2. She wo
Insist on would China being represented in any discussion on Far Eastern ques
now devoting its attention rearmament questions and raw material problems.
Gen. Eisenhower will go back
Chri. Westminster
to
tals of the Atlantic Past nations restaurant near the
COMMENT OF THE DAY
Russia And The West
THE proposal for holding a meeting THE
of the Council of Foreign Ministers could provide an opportunity for an easing in 1951 of the international ten- times near sion which seemed at breaking point in 1950. But that could be so only if the proposal is accepted, and accepted in the spirit in which it has been made. Another meeting of the Council after the pattern of those held in Moscow and London in 1947 would serve little purpose. On each of those occasions Mr Molotov opened the conference with a salvo of accusations against his allies, hurled charges across the table which he made no attempt to aubatantiate, and continued, through dreary controversial weeks to use the Council simply as an instrument of propaganda
Western against the Powers. These were meetings which effectively destroyed what goodwill had Burvived from the days of the alliance. They were, for the Russians, part of the operation of doclaring the cold war. They linked Molotov's withdrawal from
Marshall Aid the
conference, with Zhdanov's formulation of the doctrine of the two camps and with the attempt to drive the Western Powers out of Berlin by the blockade. To repent those performances would at the boat be a waste of me. Everything, in: fact, depends upon the mood and pur- pose with which the Soviet government would approach such a conference. And there is little sign of any change olther of mood, or purposo. There is no Indication of any alteration in what the Big Threo call "the general attitude of the Soviet government since the war," or any modification in the. Russlan doctrim of inevitable confilot between
the "two camps." Russia has expressed a willingness to discuss an agenda for a session of the Council of Foreign Ministers, but the remainder of her reply to the Big Three note is far from Morcover there is the encouraging. danger of the Kremlin interpreting the willingness of the West to confer as a of weakness of revelation
the irresolution and of a desire to purchase There is appeasement by concession. the recollection of Stalin's attempt in. the Moscow talks of.1948 to extort a price for the lifting of the Berlin blockade, to induce the Western Powers to abandon the political reorganisation of Western Germany in return for a temporary easing of the tension in Berlin. It would be very characteristic of him to try and repeat that manoeuvre: to offer a somewhat vague easing of tension in return for substan- tial concessions to Russia in Europe, to China in the Far East, above all in return for some relaxation or post- ponement of the work of building up the defence system of the free world. For these reasons Soviet acceptance of the Three-Power proposals must be greeted with cautious satisfaction rather than enthusiasm. It would be folly to expect miracles from the mero decision to hold a meeting of the Coun- cil of Foreign Ministers. But that does not mean that the alternativo to a miracle is a catastrophe. As one writer recently expressed it, "We must reckon on the most favourable assumptions that the cold war will go on indefinitely." That appears to strike a realistic if somewhat dopressing mean between unjustified optimiam ⠀⠀ and equally unjustified pessimiam,
into
other problems
110
The first hearing was set for January 22. The offerers a maximum penalty of five years
In prison,
Stanley let France by our
tions. The note said Russia had some weeks ago for Israel. not proposed to consult
various questiona" but precise-
Today I drove
range, half a mile ahead,
NO SIGN OF WAR
Wis
NO CONFIRMATION
Paris, Jan. k The French government has -"official informá- ble losses he may suffer frem tion" on reports that Chineso Communist troops have occupied United Nations warplanes.
In Seoul Itself, United Press two abandoned Indo-Chinese There was no sign of the war. correspondent Gene Symonds frontier posts NAI
He hed Aled complaints No shots were fired. It was a reported he did not know how Arofficial spokesman said only, ly "lo examine question per- against Haruch Silverstein and peaceful Christmas card scenolong telephone communication "We have heard nothing up to intning to the competence of the his son, Sidoel, for Hidnapping of mow and tree-lined ley out of that fearful city, would now." He refused all further. Council of Foreign Ministers" They fled counter-complaints streams,
hold up.
comment Associated Press, China is not a member of the charging that he had sent them Council.
3. She still insists that the Prague declaration be taken 'as a basis of discussion on Ger- many.
SOVIET CHARGE
The note
threatening letters.
Two miles farther back were American tanks and three jeeps Today, Judge Leon Zoussman on reconnaissance patrol trying and to find out, how for the enemy cleared the Silversteins ordered Stanley to be tried.
had got.
On the way down the road
At the office of his lawyers, Andre Blumel, it was said that ROK troops straggled back in charged that the Stanley la still in Israel and twos and threes mingling with United States, Britain and will certainly not appear." An the refugees filing towards the Franco are creating a "re-associate of Blumel's said that city. Foot-sore soldiers had left gular army in Western Ger- Stanley had sent letters asking their boots by the roadside and many, and are negotiating with the Silversteins
their feat. to settle actifd, rage, round
Those who had lost their gloves the Bonn government "on the counts with him. number of German divisions to
wrapped newspapers round their
be formed and their armament, Stanley fled his complaint hands to protect them from the including tanks and heavy artil-against the Silversteins on Debling north wind. It was the pember 20, 1949. He said they same on the other roads coming lery."
had taken money and jewellery into Seoul from the north. Tired belonging to him, after kidnap-soldiers were filing back through fresh troops waiting to check the ping him in April.
enemy advance.-
many
110
Only few miles behind, tho new front, where guns wero throwing over 25 lb. shells, troops were kicking a football around" to keep them warm. Others clustered around fres fuciled with wood from build- wrecked in battles during
mouths, ago.
It declared these attempts were not necessary because "no body has threatened" the Unit ed States, Britain or France,
EXTORTION COMPLAINT and that references to the re militarisation of Eastern Ger- Their complaint said he had
werd invented from tried
to extort 25,000 from beginning to end."
them, and threatened the Although the note, accopted with death. They also charged the idea of a preliminary meet him with defamation of charac- ing, it rejected Lake Success as iter. the suggested placo, Moscow,
Stanley appeared before the Paris or London would be more mining Magistrate here
the advance northwards three convenient for all, the note June 12 and asked for a delay to sald.---Associated Press.
collect documents and witnesses low, because at black-out fires They had a cold night to fol- He sold at that time that the had to be put out. Silversteins had offered him
commander issued the
to fils PIT DISASTER 1.000.000 Francs (about £1,000) order of the day
to withdraw his complaint, but sang, We have nothing be- that he had refused.
.. tween us and the Chinese. Budapest, Jan. 2.
thave
Intention that Wo Eighty-one miners were kili- Blumel's associato said today should retire unless ordered by ed in a pit explosion, in Tata- that Stanley would not appear higher authority
In ordea
to banya, Western Hungary, on because the court had not allow conform
with December 31, the Hungarian ed him long enough to prepare movement.
Feneral It, you meet the Ministry of Mining and Energy his cond
enomy you are to knock disclosed today.
hell out of him with heavy explosion was dus He was to have gone before The to reasons which are not yet November, but did not do so. It ive ground, on my order."
the magistrato again In mid-you, fiaya got. You are fully cleared up," the briet
was learned that he find... left; That communique, reverted,
France shortly before, when the in ime. Bakl one, of then, "It Fourteen minera were relauiboriiles refused to renew his suits jaw. If the bona fusta, that sound, the announcement sald, residence" permitir, Associated wax about it so do we feare --Amociated Pres
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