THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, APRIL 27,~1951.
BRITISH TROOPS WIN A GREAT Turkey Plugs
VICTORY ON THE WESTERN FLANK
(From EDWARD HEWAT);
Front Line in Kores, Apr. 26.
British troops in Korea have fought for 80 hours without a break and have not given a yard of ground. They have won a mighty, but bloody, victory.
The Gloucester Regiment was cut off for three days. Every hour it was attacked by wave after wave of fresh Chinese.
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Denial
Paris, Apr. 20. Prince Air Khan sald today that illa Hayworth has said nothing to him about divorce, and Aiy's lawyer added the divorce reports were "stuplu." "scandalous" and "ridicu lous,"
Prince Aly told reporters last night: "I have no Intention of divorce.
like my wife, She bas not said anything to me about divorce. I am very 1. happy."-United Press,
Mr. Morrison's
Paris Trip
attend to
London, Apr. 20. Mr Herbert Morrison, For- eign Secretary, left for Paris today
tomorrow's meeting of the Council for the Organisation for European Eco- nomie Co-operation (OEEC). He hopes to return on Saturday.
Asked about
Suggestion that he would visit Washington to discuss Anglo-American ro- lations with Mr Dean Acheson, Secretary of State, Mr Morrison said that nothing had yet been Axed.
The Regiment was ordered to hold its hill instead of fighting its way out, and did. And only last evening did the order come to fight its way back. By the end only remnants of the Battalion were left.
The
Both British brigades were in key places in '
took the 29th the United Nations line, brunt of the main Chinese attack in _the_west;
The re- the Empire Brigade was thrown in, too. treat was in front of the main drive in the centre.
And both held their posi- tions, slaughtering at least 5,000 Chinese and steadying the United Nations line.
What happened to the 20th is written in terse Brigade military language in the
This is what
it Brigade log.
started The Chinese stated:
Brigade position the wide Imjin River, along north of Seoul, at dusk on Sun- A few hours later Chinese day. infantry came in blowing bugles and fring machine-guns.
shelling the
The Northumberland Fusiliers and Belgian unit-which was the Brigade--were the ached to
first. It was tacked
real action and Belgians' first
the they were in position on north bank of the River.
Within an hour the Belgians were cut off. The Chinese got behind them and
small force of the Royal Ulster Rifles who were guarding a bridge acros the River-the Belgians' line of escape.
It was on Monday night that the Gloucesters were cut off on
the left. They were surrounded as they perched on top of a 2,- 000-foot hill on the south bank of the River. And there they were to stay.
They were in radio with the Brigade and orders were, "Hold on,"
touch their
DEAD PILED UP
All Tuesday the Gloucesters were attacked, Chinese waves came at them every few minutes and they killed so many they to run short of am- started munition
rolled The
dead Chinese down the hill and lay in heaps fresh Waves so that
of the enemy had to climb over them.
On Tuesday night the got right into the Chinese Brigade area. atlacked a
cutting off the Battalion from Headquarters. Headquarters was shot up with rifies and light machine-guns.
Even the gunners were at- 11 depended, he added, on the
In the early hours of Mon-tacked. present meeting of the Foreign
The tho Gloucesters
Chinese established Ministers' deputies in Paris day morning
acrosa the road "If it comes off I shall probably on the left of the Northumber-themselves be going to Washington but we lond Fusiliers wez attacked, down which the Battalions must too. Between them the Glouces come if they were ordered out, have got to get over this one
That order came yesterday. ters and Fusillers were holding "he said. first,
along the The Brigade was told to give Mr Morrison did not expect a seven-mile front
up the ground it had fought so "any high drama” to result Imlin.
hard to hold. from the talks. He did not in- tend to take part in the meet- of the "Big Four" Foreign Ings Ministers' deputies, who ure working, on the agenda for
on full-scale conference between East and West on world prob- Terms.
The principal business at to- morrow's OEEC meeting would be the election of officers for the coming year and considera- tion of a Swedish proposal for "the closer association and even
tual amalgamation of the CEEC and the Council
of Europe. Reuter.
Arabs' Decision
The Centurions burst their The Royal Ulster Rifles were sent to help the Fusiliers whe way in the road to the Ulsters had had one company badly hit, and the Fusiliers, To get to The officer in charge of this the Gloucesters was out of the although they had company was wounded in the question foot, thigh and head but stayed tried.
with his men.
RESCUE BID
more
WORST YET
As no ground forces could reach the Gloucesters, hover planes were sent to their hill to in food and water and lake
But bring out the wounded. the Chinese fire was too thick for the pliots to get down. So a Dakota plane was sent over. It
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Britain Urged To Accept Iran Oil Nationalisation
London, Apr. 26.
It was learned today that the United States urged Britain to accept nationalisation of Iran's oil fields and strike the best possible bargain with the Iranian Government to continue receiving oil.
Of A largely nwmed by but an
the
· and
The Americans have been very careful not to give the impression that they are intervening in the Iranian question, but it was known they were consulting very closely with the British on a solution.
The American view was said ¦ techniciańs
managers to be that nationalisation of stayed in their positions. Iran's fields was already a Last accompli but did not necessarily British acceptance on that mean that the
in doubt. Anglo-Iranian vlowpoint was still
British authoritative Government, would source acknowledged that the be squeezed out. It was felt Government would consider a the patriotic fervour behind the plan which goes further than of Iranian trouble would be re- the proposed 50-60 sharing moved if the people felt they all revenue between the ASOC Iranian Government. owned their industry. But at and the the same time, a deal could This plea was said to envisage be worked out whereby British creation of a nationalised com-
within pany
fran
would Which handle the job of getting oil out of the ground and selling it in the crude stage.
AIOC would continue refinery processes and marketing of the Anished pro- duct.
DEFENCE CHIEF'S WARNING
However,
that idea did not Americans
At dusk a Task Force of and some of Centurion tanks the Uisters went to try and rescue llie Belgians who were still surrounded.
The Task Force crossed the River and was for Belgians when Headin mbushed from all sides, had ammunition but no fosters
The Task Force fought for withdrawal down the road un- two hours before it got away
der tank cover was their worst Domascus, Apr. 26.
time yet, Incidents are remem- The Arab League has agreed cross the bridge again,
lieutenant-colonel, This left the Belgland alone bored: to a Syrian request for the in-
they were climbing into a jeep once of the
and
to definite postponement
report Arab League Council, scheduled ordered to get away as best to the brigader, being killed for April 28. The Secretariat of they could. They struck to the by grenades before he went 200 the seven-nation League insight and reached another Uni-yards; wounded and dead to- formed Syria of the member ted Nations unit and safety,gether on the same jorries; men went round running to the bills to avoid nations decision in a cable to Immediately they
and joined the Brigade, day--Reuter.
road blocks; wounded Fusiller Mr Charles Wilson, direct not be getting full control of their industry. The Overall rolling against the
exhaust of tor of Defence Mobilisation, situation in Iran was sald_to the tank and being burned 10
warned tonight that infla-have eased, death. All horrible, was what
but that tion is wiping out American andke at the great Abadan ake- Later
dinery hud ended and restless- battalions tanka, planes and guns more ness in the country quieted. collected, il was found that effectively than the Com-Informed sources did not put
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New York, Apr. 26..
go
as far as the would suggest and thre
serious question whether the Iranians would accept it,
the
When the
those who took to the bills fared better than those who murists in Korea and if left too went on the tanks. Usually only unchecked will mean five men arrived back alive on ter."
the back of any Centurion.
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on
grounds that they would
meanwhile. The
much significance in the recently reported visit of Russian all experts to Iran. There
Was no sign that the Soviet
Union was malking a
While tho Fusillers and In a review of the United serious attempt to intervene in Ulstery wore getting out, a radio | States' defence effort, Mr Wilson | the situation there.United signal went to the Gloucesters spoke optimistically of arms Press
at last, "Fight your sway out as production, saying that in two best you can."
years the nation will have built
At 5 o'clock yesterday the its armed might to a point that Gloucesters' radio went off the | world peace should be assured. air_forever.
The men started to move off the hill. Behind them they had to leave their dead and some wounded.
COLONEL STAYS The colonel decided to stay _with_din_wounded.
ÍRAQI
ÍRAQI DEMANDS
London, Apr. 20. Top representatives of the British-operated Iraq Petroleum Company are leaving for Bagh- dad over the week-end to dis- for higher cuss Iraqi demantle revenue and increased oil out- put
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British Industrialists who re- turned from initial alics in Baghdad Last-wosic-am triding back new proposals cimsigned to meef, at least some of Iraq's demands for. better terms for thoir atl. United Press.
But he added sombrely that inflation threatens to destroy Our conomic strength? and make the defence programme "too expensive for us to bear," In a speech to the American Newspaper Publishers Associa tion at the Waldorf Astoria The anis led the survivors Hotel, Mr Wilson, former head to the Allied Headquarters, Bri- of General Electric Company, fish trucks a warded by tank, said: rudio were Uliers to treat them.
"Inflation is the enemy which "This morning -an all-too-small
band rejoined the Brigade.
wipes out our tanks, our guns, our planes as ruthlessly as any Many were too tired to walk, Chinese or North Korean army almost too tired to talk. They wipes them auf, Already were caked with dust, their casualties inflicted by this dread eyes were sunk deep in their enemy can be numbered in heads, they had thick stubble on thousands of tanks, guna and their faces and their clothes planes. For every $10,000,000,- The police here are preparing Ware faltered and uscles,
by Congress an indictment against For Ed- 000 appropriated
Wo have los vard Danielsen, 33-year-old Back in Bouul today a long for reanmament,
of Wed-Construit son of Norway's line of refugeen, carrying all $2,000,000,000 worth
Commander-in-Chief, their belongings, were patiently pans of defenen through India-Noval waiting, to cross the Han River ion of costs. That is a caualty who was arronted last week on bridges to the potatha pak
A loss of 20 per cent."
suspicion of conspiring with
foreig représentatives,
Our
Oslo Scandal
A Korean stonemason worked Mewoon also warned that power
Osto, Apr. 20,
in his yard. With horne-made taxes to meet dezence costs Danielsen: Wis arrested while tools he was chladding mana would take a larger part of the talking, so an unidentified dip. abalisk if marble. And the ire fasion's total income than the lomat
at a from eltoliqia, Just scription was "In memory of last war He praised Fresident ouide Oslo. tas Britlali troops who died in Truman's wilianges to Congress a member of the Communial, Happy Valley on Jamarya and antinko fortsatension of the Party worked in the Nor 10+ 4 Happy Valley is just ninn. defines
To Stop Communism
KEY TO WHOLE MEDITERRANEAN
Philadelphia, Apr. 26. Mr Feridun Cemal Erkin, Turkish Ambassador to the United States, said today that it was not possible to defend the Western Medi- terranean unless defence of the Eastern Mediterranean la integrated into the general defence system of Europe.
"Turkey is the vital key of the whole Mediterranean-the plug which stops Communism from rolling towards the South," Mr.Erkin tota a Joitri Junctiéon meeting of the' World Affairs. Courell and Chamber of. Commerce in Philadelphia,
"The collapse
Turkey would mean collapse of the Mediterranean. It is needless to mention the adverse effects of such a situation on European and American security."
The Atlantic Pack, which Turkey seeks to join; had only partly rectifie the artificial situation of free Europe which formed the basis for the Wes- tern European Union.
"In my reason
opinion, the main Turkey and Greece have not been admitted to the Atlantic Pact up to this date may be described to the original spirit
of exclusivism which con- tinues to prevati in the struc ture of the Western European Union.'
Korca constituted a test of United Nations vitality gres only
a limited number of nations was actively supporting the UN objectives there. warned that the Korean indi- dent could repeat itself any- whero any time and served to vermind that the United Nations could not wait to improvise a collective force until aggression has taken place.
Mr Erkin's appearance here marked the opening of "Turkish Week" in Philadelphia. --- United Prex,
Press Visit To Britain
Londas, Apr, 26. The Indian and Ceylonese Frees delegation, here for a month ad the guests of the Commonwealth Relations Office, have now approved a program- me of travelling and sldrtweeing which will take them as far
Thunder.
The
party in addition to visiting the Festival of Britain and the British Industries Fair, will attend session at the House of Camutoffs, see Scottish hydro-electric saberes stud a Clyde shipyard, and Inspect motor, rubber and toa-blending factories up and down the country-Reuter."
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