Australians Eager To Get Jet Fighters
·FULFILMENT OF A PROMISE
Somewhere in South Korea, Jan. 2.
Pilots of Australia's 77 Fighter Squadron in Korea are itching to get their hands on the controls of Meteor jet fighters which were promised them last month.
Ever since the Australian Prime Minister,. Mr Robert G. Menzies statement on Decem- the Squadron 10, that
ber
would replace their trusty Mustang single-seater fighters with the British Metcor-VIII Jots, there has been fittle any other topic of conversation in Australian pliots' barrack-
roams and meashells.
ok
The Squadron's commander,
Flaundron
Croswell,
Leader Richard
aged 30,
of D
Valener Road, Glen Iris, Mcl-
bourne, sald: e
Ксса
are all dood
to get onto Metcore-r
greugdstaff and pilole alike.
"Everybody
wants to con-
vert to them. Then Dealty
ourselves.
Now
ba
we will
abie
to look after de that
We can with our good old Mus- tangs but the Meteors speed and manoeuvrability 30,000 feet is just
appreciate."
extra
at
what wo
Flight Licut Lan Olorenshaw, agod 30, of Renmark, South Australla, has already had fet experience on "Vampires."
tho
Ho said: "Although Vampires are hot, the Metcora should be hotter. They will have certain disadvantages but these will be far outweighed by the advantages. We will lose a bit of range but we will find rrain on speed and be less vul- nerable to enemy fire.
GETTING FASTER
Flying Officer Richard Wilt- man, aged 30, of Ramsey Road, Haberfield, Sydney, enid: "We want to By Jets because they of the future are the aircraft
and we want to fly Meteors be- cause they are the top fets. The air war is getting faster and we want to got faster with it."
"We followed some enemy troops' tracks in the snow north were at of Pyongyang. We about 500 feet when we came up on a couple of troop-carry- ing lorries. We went down to 50 feet and gave them a couple of bursts with Incendiary bullets.
"They caught fire and then exploded three or four times- they must have been carrying
and ammunition.
we planted a for rockets into pome big buildings right alongside. These started to blaze too. As we flew off there was a really royal tre. We could not find any mure targets round there, so we flew dawn near Pyongyang to somr Army barracks.
to
"Heavy tracer bullets started
come up at us. As I went in with all guns blazing they opened up with
The Missing Stone
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1951 J†
L
Turns Friar
UN ARMY IN NEW POSITIONS Former Premier Digging In On Fresh Defence Line North Of Seoul Planned Withdrawals From Imjin River Sector
Americans May Share Atomic Information
Washington, Jan. 2.
The United States indicated today that it an airerar might shortly exchange atomic information and fire. The first few shots were personnel with other States than Britain and wild, then they got my height.
Canada. They opened up with every- thing I licked the old kilo all
whether wo killed anybody. Or
That was lucky."--Reuter."
KASHMIR TO BE DISCUSSED
ence.
117-
Above is the Stone of Scone -- one of Britain's most precions symbols - which was stolen from Westminster Abbey оп Christmas Day and has not yet been recovered.
flat, The
rectangular stone, upon which British Kings have been crowned since the days of the Celts, was spirited out of the Abbey in the darkness of early morning, and the ancient wooden Coronation Throne, itself a priceless possession, slightly dam- the thieves aged when dragged the 336-lb stone from its shelf under the seat. Lower picture shows police officers at work dragging the Serpentine,
the in Hyde Park, for Stone. All they found was a chunk of concrete, old safe and an iron chair.AP Pictures.
дл
SURVEY
OF
USIS ACTIVITY
Manila, Jan. 2.
A five-member mission of the
Tokyo, Jan. 2.
United Nations troops, dug in on a new defence line north of Seoul, prepared tonight for what might be the fiercest battle of the Korean war. The Eighth Army had today completely abandoned the Imjin River defence line some 30 miles above the southern capital, the collapse of the First South Korean Division making their positions untenable.
Front line reports said that United Nations troopsy had abandoned Uibongju, 11 miles north of Seoul, and Chunchon, key junction in the centre of the United Nations defence line across the peninsula.
United Nations troops, fortifying their new positions,
Not Quite
had no rellable indication of the Communist strength What They
actually opposing them.
and
tho
warplanes been extremely heavy."--Reu-
Korcanter. offensive. PLANNED WITHDRAWAL
every snow-
The
Expected
United Nations yesterday awept sklen in an all-out
mashing and pounding
Tokyo, Jan. 3.
Cincinnati, Ohio, Jan. 2. target visible along the
withdrawing Eighth The Women's Christian Tem- covered battlefront.
Army forces abandoned Uljong-perance Union, which has been everything up bu, 11 miles north of Seoul, on Pilots, flying to the latest F-84 Thunder jets, Wednesday and it was believed hammered troops, guns, build that the town has been occupied ings, supply and fuel dumps by Chinese troops.
transport in 406 sorties.
United Press correspondent They had raided 74 enemy- Gene Symonds
reported from accounted for Scoul that Uljongbu, which lies towns and held more than 300 Communist along the highway to the South capital leading from troops by mid-day. Fires blazed Korean in battered Chorwon, a Com-Yonchon, has been given up to munist concentration centre Communist forces according to north of the Parallel.
plan. Fighters were out in record Symonds cald It was highly numbers, giving close support probable that Chinese forces
forces. ground
while occupied the town during the Sobre
world's fastest night which would place them the North- only 11 miles from the rapidly West for Intruders. None was seen.
United Press,
to the
Løvere, Norila Itair, Jan. 7.
A former Malleso Ad- puty Prime Minister, Mr Arthur Colombo, #god 45, pledged himself to a Life of complete poverty and humillly when he became a Capuchin friar here to- day,
*
ott
The Ceremony Franciscan Monastery the shores of the Lake of Inco follown a year spent
a novice. A Doctor of Medicine, he plans when ho has finished his theo- logical studies to work in a hospital at a Capuchin Mision in Jhanal, India.
The Capuchin Order aro devoted to presching and missionary W L-Reuter.
Legislative Battle In Washington
do
to
VITAL DEBATE IN CONGRESS
on
sending fruit juices to Koren in
Washington, Jan. 2. an attempt to wean the boldiers
The 82nd United States from beer, reported on Tuesday it has received the following Congress will meet for the letter from Korea;
first time tomorrow to faco a momentous debate "Dear Indies, "We men of the 76th Engineers foreign policy and plans
really combat battalion
build up the military appreciate the fruit juices you
the overscas are sending here in place
of strength of beer. It does not quite take the Allies. place of beer, but you can get better booze with it We just Despite reduced majorities in odd a little yeast and sugar to it, both Houses of Representatives heat it on a stove, and get some and the Senat the Adminis of the finest wine ever brewed. tration Demoe is are confident over here, we would appreciate President Truman
weapon Jets Communist emptying South Korean capital. As yeast and sugar are scarce that the new Lngress will back
The second day of the great Gir offensive began in clear weather at dawn after a night
NEW ATTACK With 24th Division, Jan. 3. Communist troops hit the 24th
tration.
in mosi
I very much if you would send major foreign policy adminis some with the next shipment. Thank you very much, and keep the juices coming this way."
Mrs
Ann Brammer, the local
immediately apparent whether shipment of juices had not been
American
concentration on
of bombing attacks against Infantry Division's new defence
The recent speech by the former targets flluminated with flares,ne in two places just before president of the WCTU, charged Mr Herbert Hoover, advocating Republican President, as far north as the Manchurinn dawn on Wednesday. It was not sabotage. She said the first border.
More than 30 Communist vehicle convoys were damaged. this was the beginning of an received in Korea and when it Western hemisphere defence, is
neither expected to set off a The cast flank of the United allout offensive comparative to arrives it will contain
New Year's Eve attack-United yeast пог sugar. United foreign policy fight, Nations defence line was TC-
ported tonight to be falling Press.
back under heavy pressure, but details were blacked out by the censors.
Communist forces
known
were
the
attacking to be Chunchoa area, some 10 miles below the 38th Parallel, where they had earlier been reported to have made some penetra-
tions.
An Eighth Army spokesman described the situation at both ends of the front as serious, but not critical.
LULL PREDICTED
United States State, Department United Nations troops, fortify-
masses.
Aslan
Canada has Mrs Pandit To
See Nehru
Allied
in the general offen-
was not
Press.
Solution Of Mystery
Of Cosmic Ray Origin
May
Be In Sight
Washington, Jan. 2.
If this is confirmed it means that in addition
of the
of millions
of
to atomic
DI
cosmic
Berco
A conservative, "isolationist” bloc of Republicans in Congress is supporting Mr Hoover's Ideas which have already come under attack by Democrat spokesmen.
It is believed that under the pressure of the vast defence plans, the new Congress will be inclined to cut foreign economic ald programmes like the Mar- shall Plan.
Democrats are also pessimistic about the prospects of much of Ute Fair Deal" domestic pro- gramme which had a
rough handling in the last Congress where
larger
the Democrats hnd a majority.
Their Senato majority has
House rose,
Anti-Huk Drive To Be Preɛ ed
"Our
Spanked A King
ence Simultaneously, radar receivers Burt at Corncil University's.
radio high intensity in Saarequentines, East France, the top of the "at-ul observatory recorded the radio signals which emanate con- dinually from the min-United of
Presa
of International news and pub-ing their new positions, had no The mystery of where cosmic rays come from been cut from 12 to two and lications division arrived in reliable indication of the Com- Manila today by air in the munist strength actually oppos-may be solved.. The National Geographic Society their House majority from 03 course of a survey of United ing them and it was still not reported strong evidence that the energy packed to 30,
The 81st Congress adjourned States Information Service acti-clear from front-line reports vities in Southeast Ania. whether the offensive was being particles originate not in the far reaches of the tonight when the
Head of the mission, Mr led by Chinese Communists or outer space, as previously supposed, but in the The ate had risen carlier. Charles Arnot, assistant chief of North Koreans,
An Eighth Army spokesman sun. the division's information pro- gramme, said the purpose of the had said earlier that the troops.
engaged. to bring "proper co- ordination, adjustment and co-ove were predominantly Chinese to being the nuclear power house that supplies the
ast Communists.
earth with heat and light, the sun also is a gigantic among all Southeast
Military sources here pre- Asian USIS offices by means of
there the press, radio
might be arsenal of sub-atomic projectiles which bombard and moving dicted that
several days' lull all along the
Manila, Jan. 2. Mr Gordon Dean, Chairman of the United picture facilities.
Brig-General Calixtö Duque, The mission's survey was be-western front while the Com- the earth in a never ending barrage.
The These projectiles apparently
National Geographic newly-appointed acting Army over the slcy and then I was ou States Atomic Energy Commission, said that loved aimed at broadening and munists brought suneteat men of range. We came back ana
fragments are
atems added, "Others had them hurt- Chief of Staff who will servD River.
sun's ung from the vast void of in- during the absence in Washing- dismembered by Communist Information cam- pumped a couple more rockets legislation would be placed before Congress in unifying the United States anti- and equipment across the Imjin into the barracks, I cannot say about two months' time to change conditions for palgn
A second Communist column, terrific heat and Southeast in
hurled into finity. A third belief is, they ton of Maj-General · Meriano at chergics
running might be generated by the In-Castanede, has initiated an ex- was said to space
of terplay of magnetic fields exist tensive revamping of military fed drive to check the spread of the north-east, there were no holes in the plane and other Allies where this is to America's advan-Bedlam among the discontented have swept through Kapyong, 35 eletron volts. not. When I got back I found the exchange of such information with Britain countries as part of the intenst moving on deserted Seoul from
ing in the stars and nebulae." miles from the city.
But data recorded by his high commands in the all-out drive Retreating United tage.
Nations The mission expects to stay
The origin of cosmic rays, soaring instruments, Pomerantz against the Huks.
Of his polley on the anti- about six troopa left scorched earth be
many of them individually reported strongly suggest that rebellion campaign, General Recommendations had not of plutonlum, essential muclear in the Philippines
weeks. Others in the party are hind them, burning every house
vastly more energetic than the the sun may be the source of yet been crystallised on this fuel, for the forseeable future,
atoms exploding Buter, audio-visual and all supplies and equipment
atom virtually Mr Ralph
all cosmic radiation Duque sald there would be no point, he told a press confer-
bomba, has puzzled The pile will be built at the specialist, Mr Marvin Seridin, They ayon knocked down the
sclenco reaching the earth" Pomerantz respite in the pursuit of Huka, the gardens since their discovery early
boya will scour Government's atomic energy editor of the press division of walls of houses and
violent cup countryside continuously to pre- discovered that In answer to a question. Mr establishment at Chalk River, the Voice of America pro-
which might afford cover.
artillery this century. Though too dif- tion which marred Nationa
the sun'a vest dissidents from reassemb- United Dean said, "Russia does have"
fuse to be detected on earth Ontario, and construction is ex
face
1049, was on May 10, the atomic bomb.
after the with-fuse
sendfive instru- pected to start inte this summer gramines, Miss Dorothy Boyce,
editor, and Mr Robert Clarke, shelled Uljongbu
followed 19 hours later by a 16 ling," be mid-United Press. drawal but it Exchange of atomic informa-
known except
Cosmic The new atomic furnace will writer.--United Press.
TOYO whether the Communists had science with clues
number provide percent increase in the tion between the United States
the particles in moved in or by-passed the town. structure which
alumnicly earth's atmosphere at and Britain was restricted after enable Canada to continue
at altitudes ADDITIONAL THREAT Lake Success, Jan. 2.
to the mastery between 85,000 and 100,000 feet. Once passage of the McMahon Act in interrupted production of radio-
active isotopes.
rear-guards threatened may contribute
OL nuclear energy. Evidence Senor Antonio Quevedo of 1040. This placed atomle con-
bation fell back throughout the
Chinese Communist penc
that they come from, the Ecuador, January President of trol under the civilian authority dane no direct work on atomic
research the Security Council, said today of the Atomic Energy Commis weapons since the end of World
day but no official information was found in a
ducted "at that the Kashmir question would slon instead of under the mili-War II.
If, in their research on peace-
was yet available on the extent duet
In Canada by the go before the Council for discus-tary as before,
mosphere" applications Mr Dean said that he did not time
of atomic
of the withdrawal.
National Geographic and The firs: Communist armour Bartol Research Fundation think that the proposed legis-energy the Canadians should
New York, Jan. 2.
the offensive began en Pandit, suice no plans for a lation would deal only with the stumble on knowledge useful in
Vijayalakshmi
Franklin: In- Philadelphia's Mrs information the matter before United Kingdom and Canada.
turned over to the Indian Ambassador to the Uni- New Year's Eve was reported
who destroyed two stitute. It was possible to draft legla- would Jan, 15 because the chief Indian
lation giving
"rather wide United States
and Britain under ted States, left by air today for by pilots delegate, Sir Benegal Rau, was
three-power atomic co London She will confer there tanks.
General MacArthur stated directed by Dr. Martin Pumer- the Com- discretion" to exchange informa. the scheduled to attend
her brother, the Indian Intion where it was to the ad-operation treaty.", conference
use Prime Minister, Mr Jawaharlal that an additional threat faced antz, Bartol physicist, stat an The new furnace
United
forces Nations
balloona London
instrument carrying Sanor vantage of the United States, ho
than
was decorated by heavy water to slow activity to Nehru, who will be in
20 miles into the shy it would added,
The Blat, Congress cloned up many former European over- on mandgeable speeds United for the British Commonwealth following indications that the
great Chinese Communist forces above the Hudson Bay outport Ho sald
on the improper to
that the Legislation begin
conference.
Other shop today. after ramming cigns who travelled discussion of the quodfon In Sie might also provide for the ex-Press.
She said she was going to con- released by the evacuation of of Fort Churchill
North-East,vestigators have theorised that through three major bills to Orient Express. He once spank- of personnel, adding,
Hungnam, in the fer with her brother about the
been moved to the the sub-atomic particles which bolster the United Stator armed ed King Boris, of Bulgaria. may want to exchange
usual questions much as Indian- had now
crash night and central front.
day into the might and prepare the home The King-then aged eight well as tion Informally with the heads materials as
Informa "Communistic To American relations,
Mrs Pandit was asked if the He said that the initial Com-earth's atmosphere might be front for a posible atomic at persisted in leaning sist of the window. In the corridor and We are rather rigidly.com-
by in the Pacific munist attack against Sequl was "the result of a cosmic cataclysm tack present events
which OZIJ universo The now 82nd Congress takes was corrected and pulled in 1 trolled at. present
by tho
constituted threat to the pressed. "with a complete dis- from
_a
Annear-Reuter. over tomorrow.--Unlted Press, Despite Pakistan's insistence, McMahos) Act and there are
security of
regard for his losses, which have ultimately emerged." India the Council falled to take up the altuations in which it would be
She said that from what sho The Congress, probably the had learned "my Government problem la December because to the advantage of
of the United
world's most talkative body, wis several delegations felt that con- states to exchange." tact between the Indian” and] Mr Dean declined to give any
asked today to make legislation does not consider what is hap- that a citizen cannot be made to poning in the Pacile any im- Pakistani Prime Ministers at the guros or indication of the num-
India" medlate threat listen to
to things ho not want Commonwealth conferesco might ber of bomba In the United
Reuter,- to her. smooth out Council discussions. States stockpile.
The proposal was However, the failure of the Reports Predica the United
made by the National Citizens him to say Committee against forced listen- to cudo whether be conference, to date Kashmir on the agenda dolor states had sufficient atom bomba ing which was organised to inined Pakistan's boycott of the for use on strategic targets.
for legal bars against campaign parley United Pres.
He replied, "If we worry, de ta musle, on bud and streetcars.
It sadd that Democrats and hot about the number of bombs Republicans in the Congres
Washington Jan. 2. we have, but how, we can got
Richard should join in pressing a bili de- more."Reuter.
Reynolds "Jr. Pro that it in clowing
"tyrannicul, un-sident of Reynolds Metals Com- ATOMIO ENERGY PILE
American and Communistle to pany, sald today that civilians +5
R1 Ottawa, Jan. 2. the cure to make people listen will get no aluminium Government
1
maid, in democracy no person duction goal of 3,500,000,000 provod, the coment today ap to things against their will It unless the nation raises its pro
has attained adulthood pounds yearly, s 30,000,000 atomile energy pile who
He added that oven with im- will magn a fronty, of friendship designed to heyally more should over be compelled to how on Wednesday pledging powerful than the two other laten to anything or to read porta frun Canada there
anything that he does not corra not be very much for civilian and verlasting amity Candda already has
Eti-United aztec, miiltary onders are filled, SELEKTORA KOTHe giant furnace will assure to listen to or reed”.
In the latter part of aion
There were
meeting on the
London on Thursday.
bo
Quevedo sald 然
the
Bonegal's abionet. Meanwhile, change
he Intearled to discuss the ques
"We
delegations, to".
of other Council hoping for a decision Jan. 15.
around
PL And Pakistan
Washington, Ja The PhilUppipes and Pastor, Both of whom wanna stos de dependence since the last rar,
Th
armament,
will
The Core"
Washington, Jan. 2.
dood
with
to
Civilians May Go Without
ot
Last year and this, acientista.
moro
MANDRAKE THE MAGICIAN
ARE YOU THINKING WE'RE MANIACS, HERE REST YOUR MIND. WE'RE NOT. OF COURSE, MR. JAYSA BIT ECCEN TRIC CONCERNING HIS HOBBY--
|--BUT WHO ISN'T ABOUT ONES
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Defence Bills
Passed
Washington, Jan. 2.
HOW SOON CAN I LEAVE THIS PLACE
AGAIN!!
Jan. 2. Adolphe Anneser, the train- chief of the Orient Expros; which ran from Paris to Con- stantinople during the "great of 1898 to 1914, has yours" dlad near here at the "gge of 73.
Anneser
By Leo Faik and Phil Davis}
LEAVET BEAUTIFUL OBJECTS ARRIVE HERE ALMOST DAILY
BUT IN MY FIFTEEN YEARS OF EMPLOYMENT HERE, I'VE NEVER KNOWN ONE TO LEAVE. NEVER!