CORRECT on all occasions
VULCAIN
SWISS MADE
7 DIE
IN AIR CRASH
Heroic Stewardess Rescues 10 People Philadelphia, Jan. 14.
A four engine commer- and cial airliner crashed burst into flames at Inter-
Airport today,
national
killing
noven
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The Middlesex Say "Thanks Tense Top-Level Talks In
For The Parcels"
The thanks of the 1st Baft, the Middlesex Regiment, now serving in Korea, for letters. newspapers and parcels received from Hongkong residents are contained in a letter to the China Mall from the Commanding Officer, Licut-Col. Andrew M. Man. He wriica:
WII you permit me space in your columns to express to the residents of Hongkong the gratitude of all ranks in my baitalion for parcels which we have received from them this Christmas.
persons in GUNBATTLE
cluding a heroic stewardess
who rescued
sengers planc.
from
The National DC-4 skidded
ten раз- the firey
Airline's on un Ice sheathed runway, smashed through a picket fence and roared into flames, spraying burning gasoline over a 200 yards area.
An official at the morgue sald the victims were Ave women and two infants.
An eyewitness said fire broke out 15 seconds after the plane hit the ditch, Some of the 24 passengers and three crewmen
jumped through windows
safety.
When conditions are bad-such as they have been out here, and still are though to a lesser degree-li is easy to think that nobody cares. That is not, however, the case with Un, for the news.
our letters, papers,
and parcels such as those from Hongkong prove to us that our fellow countrymen, not only in Hongkong, whence we came, but also at home and elsewhere, have taken a very real interest.
ON BERLIN
BORDER
Goettingen, Germany, Jan. 14.
Two West German customs officials were involved in a 20- minute gun battle with three Soviet zone People's Pellermen nt the nearby Soviet zone bor- der
today, West German authorities reported.
They said the West German officials were unhurt.
It was not known whether the Communist policemen had any casualties.
Customs
authorities sald the to two West Gerinam officials
were checking
a couple of
The stewardess, MIST F. ilegal border crossers in a Housley, rave her life in rescu- forest in the British zone about ing oth is. A sailor who 100 yards from the zonal bor- jumped through a window told
der
to omoly
a People's Police and two guards appeared the border and yelled "Hards up".
a reporter "I watched the stewardess lead 10 persons
then go back into the on safety burning plane. She never ever come out."* It wos dim and dark as the plane came in for
Light snow a landing.
was falling on the ice glazed run- way. The Chief of the Faila- delphia Aeronautical
said the plane runway.
When the West Germans re- fused, the Communist policemen opened are with their rides
Bureau mana overshot the
Several of the passengers who escaped were treated for burns, but none was injured serious- 1y-Associated Press.
TO BE INVESTIGATED
Washington, Jan. 14.
immediate
stated that
After exchanging shots for about 20 minutes the West Ger-
retreated with the two border crosscra
The authorities the Soviet policemen mado ao attempt to follow.
No further details were im- mediately available.-Associated Pross,
The Civil Aeronautics Board FATAL COLLISION today ordered
investigation of the Nationa Airlines plane cmsh at Philadelphia. Officials sa con trol tower recorda and other data pertaining to the wrecked plane had been impounded foc publle hearings which may be- gin in about 10 days-United
Press,
The British here,
With that knowledge, we shall continue to do our best out here to further the cause of world peace— which we all desire--and, with God's help, we will win through. win
parcels
The Hongkong were a
very great con- tribution to our enjoyment of Christmas amid the Korean snow and in the 1981 be a open; may peaceful and happy year for us all.
Andrew M. Man, Lieut- Colonel,
Commanding
1st Batt the Middlesex Regt.
SHIP SINKING
IN ATLANTIC
St. Nazaire, Jan. 14. The 1,412-ton Norwegian ship Ringos is sinking in the Atlantic just 80 miles off Cape Ortegal in Spain, radio distress
from
said the ship signal
The
vessel gave its today. position as 42 degrees 10 mins north latitude and seven degrees 55 West longitude. It said it had sprung leak and asked other shpis to come to lis. nasis- tance.
4
Tokyo Today
UN TO QUIT
OR STAY IN MAY BE DECIDED
KOREA MAY
Chiefs Of Staff
Foregather
(By SELKIRK PANTON)
Tokyo, Jan. 15.
Secret top-level talks will open in Tokyo today between key United States military leaders from Washington and General MacArthur and his staff which may decide the question “Are the United Nations forces to stay in Korea or get out?"
General J. Lawton Collins, U.S. Army Chief of Staff, and General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force Chief of Staff flew into Tokyo late last night. There they joined U.S. M.I.5. chiefs Lt.-Gen. Bedell Smith, former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow and now Chief of the Central Intelligence Agency, and Maj. Gen. Alexander Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff of the United States Military Intelligence.
General MacArthur's GHQ censorship clamped down a tight news black- out on the arrival of the two Chiefs of Staff. All mention of it was banned - until the censors were told that the news
was already on the Voice America broadcast beamed to Moscow.
of
Despite Washington dia- claimers that the visit of top- ranking US. afleers is "only routine the gathering of such numbers and runk indicates that in the fateful "Stay in get out" phase of battle, for the decision of · far- Teaching importance on future operations will be taken in Tokyu in the next few days.
"Momentous Blunder"
By MacArthur, Accuses Journalist
of
New York, Jan. 14. General Douglas MacArthur "unsound deployment of the United Nations forces
WILD accused
and a momentous blunder" by an American war cor- respondent in this week's Look inagazine.
Homer Bigart of the New York Herald Tribune, who has been reporting the war in Kores, wrote that. a blunder by the United Nations Commander "helped insure the success of the enemy's strategy."
10
Later the Dutch ship Willy Lueneburg, Germany,
One of the main points under Ruls reported ·it was near the
"It is a great tragedy 'that 'a's Jan. 14.
area and was already on its way discussion will be the future of un
who served his country Commander of the to help.
Earlier the 9,197-ton General Chiang Kal-shek's
nobly should be hounded frontier
unit Dutch vessel control
Volendam, with 600,000 strong Chinese Nation- Major Breft,
in the and his
disparaged
final military personnel and civilians alist Army now
"neutralised" and were killed when their en route from Indonesia to
on the island of Formosa.
hours of his carcer," the was hit by a train on a Holland, reported it was trying Chiang has repeatedly plead article sold. level crossing in Lower Saxony to reich the Ringas. Uniteded with United States leaders last night-Reuter.
to allow him either to strike But that is one of the oc- against the Chinese Communist cupational hazards of being A mainland itself
wlic
COMMENT OF THE DAY
Press.
Health Insurance Scheme THE health insurance · scheme for
Hongkong schoolchildren, which awaita Government's approval, is a fine illustration of the increasingly keener interests which officialdom is taking in the welfare of the community. First credit for the health scheme goes to Dr Newton, the Director of Medical Ser- vices, and, as to be expected, it received during the past year the fullest sup- port of Mr Rowell the late Director of Education. Obviously much time and thought has been devoted to the pro- ject which, in its detailed form, gives the appearance of being wholly practic- able, and therefore workable. Parents and guardians cannot but help appreciate the advantages which the scheme offers for the continuous pro- tection of the health of their children during school years, and it is not sur- prising that the sponsors have obtained the necessary support to guarantee that the scheme can be financially safeguarded. To begin with, 20,000 schoolchildren will come under the scheme immediately it has been launched, but the final objective is to bring the local schoolchildren population of 160,000 within its orbit." The pro- ject as conceived possesses
many obvious merits, one of them being that it is contributory and therefore not a complete charge on public funds. It is
.
probable its costs will call for a Govern- ment subsidy, but a good deal of the expenses connected with the scheme will be met by payments made by parents and guardians on behalf of the children. These contributions are valu- able from another point of view; they prevent the project from being rated as charity and they entitle the payees to air grievances if they feel it is not. being applied to general satisfaction. The benefits' to the children are numerous, including medical examina- tion upon entering a school; routine medical examinations when a child reaches certain ages; hospital, and clínic treatment; examinations for eye defects and where necessary free spectacles prescribed; dental work; hospital accommod: ion and treatment where this is consluered necessary. In effect a parent or guardian, for the nomina. fee of $15 a year, can have his child receive regular medical attention from the time he first attends school until he leaves. The scheme, therefore, is a first-class economic proposition so far as the children are concerned, but it is much more than that: it means that the general health of the children will be adequately protected, and, in consequence improved. For this reagon alone it is ♫ project worthy of commendation.
Peking Gives A Sign ACCORDING to New Delhi reports,
the Peking Government has given its first sign of being interested in a peaceful settlement of the Korea prob lem. The announcement, is interestingi timed to coincide with the extremely mild objection which Mr Malik, the Soviet representative, raised against the five-point plan for a Far Eastern settlement which received the approval of the United Nations Political Com mittce on Saturday: The Poking objec- tion to the UN plan is centred solely on the question of the position which a cease-Aro occupies in the time-tablo for achieving a complete settlement of the Korca dispute. The UN proposes a. step-by-step time table, but Mao Tse- tung wants other questions dealt with simultaneously with a cease-fire. Just why, tho Poking regime does not make clear. "It does not seem feasible to. I
expect negotiations to be possible in
a correct atmosphere of mutual good- will until and unless the present fighting has been called to a halt. "Dolegates representing opposite sides can hardly, be expected to discuss, impasafonately, differences of opinion and ways of Bottling those differences if their own soldiers are still fighting. A cease-firo. is the logical first stop, followed: im- mediately by negotiations. If Mao Tse- tung is prepared to go so far as accepting the rest of the UN proposals, wo cannot aco why ho should not be willing to agree to a cease-fire before anything else is attempted. But it in encouraging to find, for the first time, that the Feking Government. Is pré.'- pared to relax, to some extent its adamant attitude to United Nations proposals, about -Korea"
anti-Communist
BA
or throw his general. General MacArthur army against grossly miscalcuated the "Inten- the Chinese and North Korean ons, strength and capabilities Reds Korca.
in
Now that may of the forces against him.
first will
be
decided.
come the
the future
But
decision concerning
"And no nation in the spot
writer
was on that
EPIDEMICS MENACE ENGLAND
Smallpox And Flu
London, Jan. 14.
British health authorities,
Police SI Fabulous Charged With New US
Corruption
When
Robert Поулі Jones, Sub-Inspector of
Police,
came
before ME
d'Almada at Kowloon this morning the
prosecution
brought another charto agolast
him.
In this new count he was of corruption it
accused
being alleged that he re- ceived $200 at 8522, Canton
first floor, on De
Road,
Ward
cember 31, 1950, as a ro- Κατ forebearing to prosecuto Teng Li-heu for keeping an
unlicensed massage establishment.
Jones was remanded for two days on the_applica. tion of Det-Sub-Insp F.. Roberts,
The accused altogether faces five charges one being for demanding money with menaces and three for obtaining goods from three Indian zilk stores by false pretences.
Taxation
Indicated
Washington, Jan. 14. Americans in all walks of life faced a tax increase of more than $15,000,000,000: today as President Truman prepared to lay before the..." Congress a budget of about $70,000,000,000 for the next' fiscal year.
His message will be rend to the House and Senate at 6.30% pm. GMT Monday and he is certain do ask for huge sums to build planes, tanks, guns, atomle bombs and all other military Items the United States and Western Europe need to guard against Russia.
Without awaiting the Pre-. sidcht'e tax proposals,
House Republican leader Joseph W.
Island Shaken Martin issued blistering stalo,
and
By Quakes
Lisbon, Jan. 14. Another severe earthquake six lesser ones shoot the Azores laland of Terceira last night and today.
was slightly hurt and dlight damage was caused, reports reaching here said.
One man
The Island, about 233 miles square, was first rocked on Friday by a strong shock which damaged,several houses injured no one.
The
but
ment accusing Fresident Truman his "socialist planners" of and his ansierin Americ trying
to
Into
a completely socialist economy,
Representative Martin said the average American is already paying more than 25 percent of his income in federal, state and local taxes.
THE SOCIALIST GOAL Ho said, "Additional stagger- ing increases" to be proposed will mean that they must pay one-third to one half, of all they car to the government. He added, "This can only lead to leas independence for the individual and more independence on the government-exactly the socialist goal."
48,000 population, atül unnerved, rushed into the Congressional sources said in streets in a panic and slept in advance of President Truman's public gardens last night, message that he will estimate afraid to return to their homes, the Federal spending in the
Most affected was the fiscal yea 1952 at more capital, Angra Do Heroismo,
$70,000,000,000, Present which was plunged into dark-
then
taxes
only about $55,000,000,000 ness when power cables broke, annually. The Treasury is now chimneys fell, Many residents trying to draft a tax structure Jeft for the country, reports that would overcome the defcit. sald.
It is considering national sales
Experts said that the epicentre Lex but
but has reached no conchi- of the latest quakes
was slons, several hundred miles from the island Reuter,
to
Japanese Seek Liberty Ships
In an economic report, Mr Truman said that taxes must be raised "very much more
He did not than last
year. mention the general sales tax
and
a report by his top economic advisers indicated opposition: But Administration officials be- lieve that it would be difcult for the Congress to raise even an additional $8-$10,000,000,000 without the sales tax-United Press,
of United Nations we are now in can string along forces now awaiting a fresh Red with a leader whose ill-com- onslaught
along the 140-mile skiered decision to launch the already wrestling with one frant in Horca
offensive of November 24 pre of the worst flu epidemics
Tokyo, Jan. 15. The great Far Eastern "Bat- cipitated and
of the
magnified the
The Japanese Prime Minis- Bulge" is this swift disaster”.
In history, took urgent steps ter, Mr Shigeru Yoshids, will morning, for the fifth day, still raging round Wonju, the
Bigart said it rail
today against an even more negotiate in the near future with General MacArthur's and road hub on the central one decision that General Mac dreaded menace-smallpox.
headquarters for permission to front and pivot of the United Arthur must be criticised. Nations defence line across. the
Twenty-eight cases now have
charter 100 Liberly ships and The
PRODUCTION UP Import $300,000,000 worth of peninsula.
sakd General been reported in the South of
essential materials for stock- But north of the snow-
MacArthur misinterpretted England and the death toll from sling.
Tokyo, Jan. 10. to the covered town in 25 degree of mysterious Chinese withdrawals smallpox mounted to eight last Jananean press today.
Japanese production of rayon yarn and staple fibro frost Chinese and North Korean and thought they were the
re night. Red armies are massing against sult of demoralisation by fir
Agency further
was 1.5 and 2.5 times More than
said that the the United States 2nd Division and artillery bombardment.
2,700 men et a
materials which tively of 1949, the Kyodo Nowe Royal Air Force camp at Pad- Japan wanted to import for Agency reported today. troops and French and Dutch He said
were nickel or European soldiers vres by Communist forces
stealthy manoeu- gate were vaccinated adter it stockpiling units. These
Last year's rayon output was special steel, rubber, oll, mer- 103,221,000 lbs. while was found that one recruit was cury, cobalt, molybdenum, raw staple fibre was 140,877,000 lbs. who have gone at the Reds with Korea were no more novel then
that of the brother of fixed bayonets have aroused the tactics of
44 smallpox American
victim, admiration
men against the British on the troops.
road back from Lexington 1775,
df the American
STORM CLOUDS ›
over on the Western
in
minute
After 21 grocery clerk in Brighton contracted the disease,
the
And
the Ministry of Health ordered front, south of the charred "The harsh and unassailable
shop closed and cold all South Korean capital, Seoul,
fact of the Korean campaign is foodstuffs which had been es
a fine where only patrol acuity has that
American army destroyed.
posed to any rick would be been reported for over a week, Air Force and Navy, was
powerfully supported by the great storm clouds, of mounting
All ration books linked with Red offensive are gathering.
feated by an enemy that had the shop also were destroyed.
WA
armour or
is reported officially this to navy, virtually no air force
scarcely any morning that the 38th and 50th and Chinese Communist armies were artillery," Bigort sald-As- polsed for attack 30 miles south sociated Press.
of Seoul while elements of four other armies are moving south from the 38th Parallel border
Brea.
LURID REPORTS
Meanwhile, Britain's POTISK tional Sunday Press carried all DIV. CHIEF RELIEVED
sorts of stories about the fu epidemic, with estimated death Tokyo, Jan, 14. Major General Robert E. Mc-
tella ruzining into thousands. Danger threatens the horse-Clure, commander of the U.S. shoe Wonju bulge, also as Red Second Division
These estimates ran
counter which took to offical Ministry of Health forces have by-passed it to reach a point five miles east of Tas-art is the billant defensive reports which gave total deaths 03-24 458 for the work ending yang 35 miles southeast of stand against Communtet
raults at Wonju, has been re- January Wonde.
d in the 120 "great Yongwel village, further to the levad of his command, it was towns in which almost hatt cast, has been taken by the Redsounced today by Second of Britain's population lives.
Division.
who are seaping down between Hondu and the -cast coast threatening the escape routes action, in a vispatch cleared by No reason was given for tha south for the Wonju defenders Eighth Army censorship. should the bulge be breached and the Reds pour southwards like a food through a broken dyke London, Express Service.
American experts on
Gen, McClure, onb of the top China, during
the war was. deputy Chief of Staff & Generalizimo Chiang Kai-shek, Ho was high- ly regarded by the Division
Disastrous Fire officers and correspondents.
No Inter official figures were available tonight.
Lurid reports in the Press told of burials at night, extra grave- diggers called in, people waiting to claim housing accommodations of du viotims and other stories in similar vein. -
sait export goods were piling up Some reports from Liverpool on dooks and ships were being held up because of illness among tongaboremed.
Ho will be succeeded by Manila, January 18,
Major Gen Clark L. Ruffner, A fre fanned by strong formerly Calef of Staff of the breezes yesterday burned 200 10th Corps. homes to the ground. In the town of Lupao, Nueva Ecija General MacArthur's Hend-for Province, resulting in the death quarters gave no reason for the
JO STELIOLII
One fact in the speculation was that the claima Ministry aleknoes benefits running more than twico of one woman. An estimated replacement of General Me what they were just your,
been 1,000 persons have
· mondo Clure, who has won praizo
The Health Ministry's com- hornoless.
during the Koverty. campaign, ment was: Lack of fire fighting equip-10 ok command of the pluktha doones who ment impaired efforts of towns ion alx wanks wo, acto, after mila in form, though highly in Tolk
and police to put out the the Kumuri battle in North-West Fuellous, and the deaths, with fite Arefore most of the Hut - korony fira, which it fought its very few exceptions, eccurred ott be edex AWD YOUR AUS PARSE U Reute
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