THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 1951.
Princess Her Family
ON LULL
A new picture just released from Clarence House of Princess Elizabeth, Prince Philip and their two children, Prince Charles and Princess Anne. Princess Elizabeth, who is now in Malta, will fly back to England on Jan, 20. She plans to return to Malta after the Mediterranean Fleet, in which her husband commands the 1,430-ton frigate Magpie, finishes its Spring cruise at the end of March.-London Express Service.
For Wheat
Irish Strike India Appealing
Deadlock Continuing
Partial Paralysis Of Trade
Dublin, Jan. 17. All bids to-break-dead- locks in the Irish rail and bank strikes have failed.
The rail stoppage entered its 33 day on Wednesday amid of trade and partial paralysis shortages of essential goods.
Meanwhile, the failure to end the strike of 0,000 bank officials through negotiation has depressed
businessmen,
Both disputes ore confined to
do not affect i the Republic ant
Northern Ireland.
Paris, Jan. 17.
KOREA FRONT
CONTINUES TO MYSTIFY UN Communists Gathering Big Force North Of Suwon
Tokyo, Jan. 18.
Allied raiders on Wednesday tested enemy strength along the Western front in Korea where a lull may soon be broken by a new Com- munist offensive.
The lack of Red pressure against Allied lines worried some United Nations field officers. One said the situation was very similar to that in late November when the Reds launched their Chongchon River offensive.
the Chinese Communists at the time pulled back as far as 20 miles from Allied front, built up a massive offensive force, turned the U.S. Eighth Army flank and sent Allied forces into retreat.
NEW STYLE EDUCATION
IN PEKING
Bombay, Jan. 17. Communist China has set up a new educational institution: the People's Revolutionary Acade
called the commonly my. "Change-Brain University."
About six thousand men and women between the ages of 30 and 30, and including former Kuomintang ofcials and techni-
have
cine, dove lended Peking's
Aerial observers reported bers of a Communist regiment it three Chinese armies with an surprised there, estimated strength
A United Nations recommnals- of 90,000 men gathering between Red-sance unit drove off a small Red held Seoul and the air base force near So-ri, 10 miles cast town of Suwon, 17 miles South, of Suwon after a 30-minute fre Another Chinese army in the fight in which two Communists Seoul area brought the total of were killed. massing Reds to 120,000.
Camouflaged Red supplies were detected 12 miles North and six miles Northwest of Suwon.
ol
MOVING AT NIGHT United Press correspondent quoting air William Burso, observers' reports, listed several Communist units sighted in the Suwon area, including artillery and mortar units.
The Alles sent out strong patrols along the Western front to keep the Communists balance and to take the cle-. ments of surprise out of nny
found area planned all-out Red offensive,
One tank-led United Nations troops under
of United Nations-held probing unit caught an estimated estimated 2,000 Reds eight miles 1,000 Chinese Reds near Suwon cast
with help from Allied Yongwol, railroad and highway warplanes, lehed trout half a long cast of Worl
Burson also reported that nir
the ele observers in
east central United Nations the firo of an
a Press Trust of India corres- them pondent who recently several weeks in Peking.
400
cr
Pilots claimed an estimated
killed Red troops Associated Press correspon wounded in snow-covered spent dent Jim Becker Feported that wo
and valleys mountains
and two Allied companies drove into
even in the comparatively The lecturers include mem- Suwon from different directions,
that the It appeared bers of the Politburo, the Com- caught Chinese troops in the fiat lands of the Osan-Suwon munist Party boss, Mr Liu Shao-open without guns, and mowed chi, and other leading figures of them down with machine-guns Communists were moving Ten Allled night as much as possible and Garand rifles, the new regimu.
The course lasts eight months
Area
at
tanks headed the Allied probing avoid air attacks United Press.
Indian
units. United
Sir Benegal Narsing Kau, the
chicl delegate to the Nations, said here tonight thai India had asked for about two million tons of wheat from various coun- including the United
irles
are
Ask Draft
Of Youths
(six days a week and 10 hours
a day) after which the graduates
are
The strike was so swift that
awarded diplomas which Allied casualties were light, entitle them to jobs in the After an hour of fighting the Government or to respectable UN. ground troops withdrew Jine 500 yards citizenship in the Communist to a defence Stale.
South of Suwon and called in Provincial revolutionary aca-planes-Associated Press, demies, affiliated to the Peking, Academy, are also run by the Administration in Nanking and Chungking.
are
closed, described the course he was taking as "sheer boredom.'
"It probably But, he added, makes me secure in my job and my people free from the pester- Ing security police."-Reuter.
GHOST ARMY
arny
Quirino
Withdraws Appointment
Her Back Matches Her Hairstyle
An unusual hairdressing competition was held in Berlin recently with the This girl mannequin has a silver and gold theme of "Fancy Dress Hairstyles." basket of flowers painted on her back to match her silver-gold hairstyle designed for fancy dress parties-London Express Service.
COMMONWEALTH RUNS
INTO SNAGS FRAMING JOINT
The shaping of foreign policy decisions by powers is becoming more and more involved as the develops.
IN POLICY
London, Jan. 17.
the non-Communist present world crisis
continue
to move
General Dwight Eisenhower's
questions Both the London Conference of Comr on- en German problems and related wealth Prime Ministers and President Truman'a atowly.
the greatest individual arst lightning visit to Europe New Year message to Congress illustrated the impossibility of even powers or groups of powers taking major de-as Commander-in-Chief of the cisions in isolation.
President Truman squarcly toltd the American public that they can no longer expect this luxury because the danger to the whole non-Communist world can only be met through energetic joint action by the United States and her allies in Europe and the Far East.
divergence
the between these due
of
INDIA'S ATTITUDE
The
North Atlantic armies and the talics in Bonn between the Federal Chancellor, Dr Konrad Adenauer, and the three Western High Commissioners on Ger- Western Europe are reminders many's role in the defence of that the Western Powere are not losing sight of problems of Europe,"
the defence
The dificulties which must be surmounted are still for- midable. But some officials belleve observers bere and
long-term that the
prospects German force of a re-created based on Ruhr industries are worrying enough to already Moscow to make her genuinely anxious to bring talks with the Western
intention
States.
"We have had difficult conditions In India, part- ly due to droughts, partly
Korea, Jun. 17. to floods and partly to
Front line fighting units draw carthquakes, so there has
The Commonwealth Premiers, | happens to be a big aggressor defence perimeter entirely been an immediate short- The Revolutionary Academy a
on "Marxism-around themselves at night for
Manila, Jan. 18. in their discussions of policy in and not a little one. of food
gives lectures grains this
Malacanan Palace has made the Far East, quickly discovered enemy year," he said. Reuter. Leninism-Stalinism" and offers protection against an
in training
the
which
stalks public a letter by President that any formulation of a joint ghost practical
Mr Claro Recto, "Thought of Mao Tse-tung." through the Soback mountains. Quirino to
In London, there has been no Details of the courses andi
Life among the snow-crusted former Justice of the Supreme Commonwealth polley bristled
the ice-bound Court, withdrawing Mr Recto's with difficulties, partly because hint that India has moved her shrouded in secrecy,
towards lectures
peales and in
views hasle attitudo but a young Chinese engineer, valleys of Central Korea is lice
Spain after
members who ideological struggle between the bassador to whose identity cannot be dis- that of the wagon train drivers appointment as Philippine Ara- of the
who bravod the dangers of latter declined the post
Both in India itself and in to the disapproval of loaders recognised the Peking Govern- Great Powers. the old American west
Nacionalista ment and those who did not, but
partly also because of a wide- London, there existed a school In daylight, American traffe of the Opposition
roads
mountain Party ased
of spread feeling that even a joint which expected that the rebuils German The
Opposition Party, crowds
while
patrols probe posses
But when which Mr Recto is a member, Commonwealth valleys and villages.
talls, vehicles and advised him to refuse the ap-seated darkness
an established pointment, on the grounds that Patrols pull into defence perimeter, and, like the the President had not had prior approach to a decision
with Nacionalista magnitude. their consultation pioneers
The task of the Common-policy of non-involvement in a circle, they throw leaders regarding the post. Mr wagons in
not Great Power disputes. up defences against enemy at- Recto's appointment already had
been approved by Madrid. tacks from all directions.
The President is now con Air reconnaissance is of little General Marshal.
the United States memorandum ing another man but has not in- simplified by the circulation of More money is also the spur
Manila, Jan 19.
help among these snow-covered in the bunkmen's dispute, Talks draft of 18-year-olds
The motor ship Herpalion, peaks, some of which tower divated who may be named, Mr to end the bank stoppage under quired by "a world situation of
The well-equipped Quirino told Mr Recto his re-calling for condemnation High
such unpre- which arrived here from Cal- 4,000 feet. Court
were such ravity and Duplices
sanctions against the world situation which must baulked when strikers refused dictability that we must be pre-cutto, was put under quarantine North Koreans wear remarkable fection of the post showed he China Inside the United Nations, China's new role in Asia, how- white snow capes which, when preferred to take the advice of as an aggressor, the Imposition ever unpalatable, is a factor in action, after doctors discovered a case
held over their heads, make his Party "over the call of the of coonomic a bank demand that they return pared to work as
a preliminary to whether the challenge comes of smallpox aboard the vessel.
with the speed of sound or is Peter Brake, 17, a member of them invisible from any dis- consitutional representatives of her and the withdrawal of re-be recognised."
to Suntance. After they silp through your people, int said it was ap- Government if it did not ac← | negotiations on Tuesday,
the crew, was taken delayed for a lifetime."
Lazaro
Hospital suffering from the United Nations lines, they Although there is plenty of cash in circulation, cattle deajera He promised that none of the the disease. Quarantine officials disappear.
taking a In the city markets on Wednes-youths would be sent into com- | said a report had been received hosts are found very much made it difficult for you and me cept a cease-fire in Korea,"
Washington, Jan. 17, The
Secretary, Defence mil strike, which 1m- The
Marshall, sent General George mobilises the State-run transport network, was called by the Irish to Congress late today legisla- Transport Union, claiming aton to permit the calling up of B1 18-year-old 7,500 membership, in support of all physically wage claims for a Bat increase males for 27 months of military of 22 shillings weekly.
they cannot cash.
Provincial corporations have callel on the Dafl to meet before ita, scheduled
assembly
on
service,
(or
effective
said
the was re-
Smallpox Case Aboard Ship
Press.
alive.
who
parked
BULL'S EYES
some dyes,
The
consider-
wealth
cognition
Naval the
policy
repre- to New Delhi of the Chinese in Tibet and the in- action too incomplete Д.П
expart- undisguised creasingly of this sionist Intentions of Peking in South-East Asia might bring a .the Indian modification in
Wis Conferenco
of
from the Peking
But Pandit Nehru, at least in his public declarations, con- that the line tinues to take
ter.
of
about direct West, despite
a
disclaimers of any re-creating national army.-Reu-
ATTEMPT ON “IKE
DENIED
Vierna, Jan. 17. Rumours that there had been One piece of indirect evidence
to assassinate that Chica's expansion is un- an attempt
kely to stop in Korea is seen General Dwight D. Eisenhower Occasionally
the parent that "other interests have
here by sortic experienced were so strong in Vienna today Titis American desire to see observers in the recent Moscow that the evening newspaper, the addressed to Weltpresse, published a denial Unually they are hiding to carry out our honest inten
Арреа, tons, establishing a very poor
China proclaimed radi day had to draft cheques on the bat untu they were 19 "except that smallpox was
minorities throughout of them. backs of envelopes. But many in a dire emergency."-United heavy toll in Calcutta--United in daylight in a mud-hut village precedent, to the great an- Communist
which was deserted long ago by
an aggressor before any pos- Chb se barrassment of our Government."
News agencies and newspaper Arms are becoining chary of Press.
fleeing refugees,
-United Pros.
sibility of a total United Na- Sou h-East Asia.
This, observers Icel; repre- offices were pestered by tele accepting further cheques which
tions withdrawal from Korea is
who wanted to an important departure phone callers imminent, cut sharply across sents
Commonwealth view that from the former Moscow line of know if the rumoure were true. General Eisenhower, the North nothing hasty should be done to trying to enlist the forces of
Atlantic Supreme Commander, slam the door on the admitted- local nationallam in Asian coun-
Rome left Lisbon by air for ly remate chance of a negotiated triess on their side. settlement in which China would
It, as a price of Chinese in- tonight after a rushed day of with Portuguese take part
tervention in Korea, the Krem-defence talks
and military Un has agreed, as it is reported Goverment
that China Pradera. to have agreed,
The smlling General told should be given a free hand in South-East Aslo, this would
Journalists surrounding his plane certainly explain the shift in that he had "a wonderful day emplads
by the represented
Everything In Portugal. Moscow radio appeal.
perfect."
Feb, 14 to discuss the strikes.- Associated Press,
Pakistan
Statement
Surprises
Wellington, Jan. 17.
Minister,
Mr Sidney Holland, in London
American Talks Om
Toutine assembly
Diplomatic
Near East
Washington, Jan. 17.
Chance harassment by friend-
has flushed ly artillery
accidental bull's wilh Since the villages obviously are giving shelter to the enemy, the High Command has orderedi the troops to burn them Air strikes with nopalm have also been ordered on villages in re-of mote rear areas where the ghost army might be hiding. Every possible step is being taken to
REDS ATTACK
Pakistan
Visit
Melbourne, Jan. 17. Sir Dallas Brooks, Governor
Victoria, today called Washington certainly under- neially on the Pakistan Navy stands the desire of many United
Shamsher and Sind, Nations powers to avoid preci-So frigates,
pitating an extension which arrived here yesterday.
The Frigates are visiting Aus-Korean war. tralia for the celebration of the Commonwealth's Jubilee this
cas
of the
GERMAN PROBLEM
4
Wha
The Commonwealth powers the
During the day. General certainly appreciate
contained in the
Elscahower and, separate talks Saflors, who were given shore also Tokyo, January 17. leave soon after their ships argument
Meanwhile, with the limelight with the Prime Minister, Dr
the und
Foreign rushed to American circular, and repeated Communist troops today jab-berthed yesterday, bed at United Nations ince en city department stores to buy in the Truman message, appeal on the East, negotiations for a Salazar,
Britain and also had talks with the Defence the western and central fronts souvenirs. The ships' companies ing for a firm rejection by the resumption of direct talks be- Minister, Dr Paulo Cunha. Ho
China because the France and the Sovice Union Minister-Reuter. and one small Red patrol reach- will march through Melbourne United Nations of any hint of tween America, ed the Osan area as the Allies on Friday, Jan. 19-Reuter. braced themselves for an attack
lize
appeasing
MANDRAKE. THE MAGICIAN
The State Department said today that Mr make a real ghost of an elusive George McGhee, Assistant Secretary of State formy-United Press, Near Eastern Affairs, would preside at a week-long conference at Istanbul during Feb. 14-21, of United The statement by the Pakia-States Ambassadors assigned to the Near East. tan Prime Minister, Mr Liaquat
The Department spokesman | Soviet gains. In that strategic All Khan, yesterday that Aus- tralia and New Zealand might described the conference as the and oil-rich nation.
of
The State Department in expected after China had re- have sent their forces, to Kast-periodie
Istanbul con-fused to ecoso Bre. mir surprised most official United States diplomats to dis-sisted that the
Aerial reconnaissance indicat- quarters here today.
cuss all phases of American ference had not been called as
thated that, a massive Red army Any discussions which might cultural, economic and politicat a result of a "crisis" in
with nations of the area.
may be moving into position for have taken place between the relations
Near East.
Amiral Robert Carney, pom-an attack pomowhere along the New Zealand Prime.
United United Nations defence of
AS NARDA TRIES TO CONCENTRATE -- across the Korean peninsula United mander-in-chief -to the In addition
the riaval forces in
from the Oson-Suwen area in and his Government, here on
chiefs in tho States the subject was evidently high-States mission
Eastern Atlantic and Mediter Greece, Arab States, Israel,
YOUR FOREHEAD, HARDAS in the cast. The peninsula is ly confidential.
Turkey and Iran, Mr Ely Pal- rancan area, would participate the west to an undisclosed point WHY ARE YOU PRESSING
In the Istanbul tallen
140 miles wide at this area just; HAVE YOU AHEADACHET There has been no suggestion mer, American member of the close to the United Nations Palestine Con-
Mr. McGhee will be accori-north of the 37th Parallel
large Communist among sources
Thus far, no large Government here that such a ellation Commission, will par-panted to Istanbul by Mr. Lewis
elpate in the talka."
Jones, director of the State units were discovered, but many propobal was afoot.
Department's Office of Neat small group were noen moving The Minister for Extemal M, Palmer's presence would Burt Affairs, and Mr south and several slipped into
lines. Affairs, Mr Frederick Doidge in there will be Routes, director of the De-United Nations
Wighth Army declined to coinment on
partment's Office of Iranion or
that one patrol was observed in Pakistan Premier's statement discussion, of the uneasy armis-
the-Cenzi early on Wedoo today. New Zealand has a very ice agreements between Israel
miles south of amall regule Arnly and no and the Arab States. Like
It was not certain whether day. Con la nins forces readily avaliable for wise, the presence of Mr. security duty overmons Opecial Henry Grady prongen thorough Mr Mecines would tour the Suwoy from which an America wohnteer forces had to be caland exploration of United States Middle East in connection with tank and infantry forces with
trip to Turkey United drew on Tuesday night setas,
Willing an estimated 800 mRES” for service in Korea and coupe relations with Iran, with per- hiệ blog duties in Japan Beuter, Ni ticular, emphasis on recent | ProME,
the
Affal
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FING
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I'M GLAD YOU'RE FINE. I WANT YOU TO BE HAPPYBlah. Blah
HOW CAN CONCENTRATE
ON MANDRAKE
WITH ALL THIS TALKI
By Leo Fulk and Phil Davis
US STILL OFF TELE-STUFF BEAMY,
WILL YOU GO AWAY AND MY WORD! LEAVE ME ALONE PT
YES, WE'RE STUCK UNTIL REACH NARDA AGAIN!