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No. 34899
Latest News From Korean War Fronts
AUDACIOUS ACTION BY
BRITISH TOMMIES
4
On The Korean Front, May 21.
an
Singing British tommies rode on American tanks today in audacious strike which carried them deep into a group of close-packed rugged hills swarming with Chinese.
During Sunday, the Second Division completed a spectacular that slammed shut
manoeuvre
The raid took them through one of the biggest minefields sown by the Com- munists in the Korean war and into the heart of Communist strength in their area,
A stendy drizzle of miin had, Communists, They had been turned hillsides into red, slip-Incinerated by a single napalm
But falling and bomb. pery slush.
wenring, the British soldiers tackled three different hills ful drove off the Chinese Communisty in some of the flerves arce for days.
in this Aghting seen
Many of the enemy had died in their foxholes, hiding from artery and small-arins fire.
The British also parsed along roads littered with Chinese Once again the Australians Communist dend who had been fught shoulder to shoulder | caught in the devastating with the British, but as they Allied artillery barrages laid did yesterday ulicy secured down by New Zealanders and their objective without Canadians-Reuter, opparition by midday toxlay They supported the British altack with medium machine- guru and mortars during the rest of the day.
The Australlong reported that on one ridge of their objective they counted 200 dead Chinese
THE
BRILLIANT MANOEUVRE
Tokyo, May 22, Field dispatches on Monday night reported closure of the final gap by a brilliant side- slipping manoeuvre.
This single American division killed or wounded 37,780 Chi- nese Reds in five days by con- estimate, the US Eighth Army announced.
MYSTERYservative
SOLVED
The Tenth Corps. of which the Second Division is a pari, cost the Chinese 48,341 casuaj- Portland, May.21.
ties, according to an estimate by The British Admiralty and Lieut-Gen. Edward M. Almond, the Danish Embassy set tele-Tenth Corps Commander, phone wires buzzing today to solve the mystery of reports last right that the Danish submarine Saelen hud truck rocks off the English south coast.
docked at Port- The Saglen Jand today completely un damaged.
The reports had sent a British destroyer racing out to sew after urgent recall messages to other erow had been flashed on to
cinema screens.
DS
Of this, General Almond mid 24,700 were inflicted on Sunday alone on the biggest one day toll of the war.
General Matthew B. Ridgway, UN Commander, declared that the US Second Division had in- ficted tosses "which, conserva- lively estimated, cxcced
times its own"
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the last hole through which the Reds had goured,
凸
FIRE CURTAIN
As the Second Division'shifted,
curtain of air, artillery
and
ground fire covered the troops and took a bloody toll of Coin- munists.
General Alatond told corres-
pondent Barnard that the Chinese were burying their dead all along a 2-mile vallzy,
Artillery. that cought the Chinese at this task accounted for much of Sunday's great loss, he said.
Gen. Almond warned that the Chinese "may be getting ready to strike again" but des clared; "If he does, we arc prepared to meet him."
"We have a line across the (Korean) peninsula and 4C are holding it.”
.
"We have a line of fire that operated day and night, rain or shine. Our capability of down instant Arc bringing
henever we sight these people 1s tremendous." Associated Press.
GALLANT DRIVER
On The Korean Front,
May 21. The driver of an Indlan Held ambulance was seriously wound- ed when it hit a mine today.
The semi-conscious driver, ambu- who is the Indian field lance unil's first casualty, smiled at British soldiers who rushed to help him from the smoulder- ing vehicle.
Established 1845
TUESDAY, MAY 22, 1951..
May Run For Presidency
General Eisenhower Is
Tipped As
Presidential Candidate
New York, May 21.
General Dwight Eisenhower probably would accept either the Republican or Democratic nomina- tion for President, and President Truman may be the man to place the General's name before the Democrats, General Eisenhower's former aide said on Monday.
Eisen- Captain Harry Butcher said General hower might run for President because he believes "the country has not been in such grave peril since the darkest days of the Civil War."
His message also lauded the South Korean First Division. It was the collapse of two uniden- Today,
the mystery was tified South Korean Divisions Folved. A 10-year-old boy, which opened a broad hole on Dennis Smale. had heard the right Bank, thus making an scraping noise" coming early gain of up to 25 miles, the submarine
she end with a large portion of the hed the rocks and had Second Division isolated, the approached warned coast-guardis.
Reds than failed both to held The Shelen's crew explained the trap intact and to explolt with their sister submarine, their advantage, So many were that Storen, they hat!
errived off slaughtered that they had to Portland ahend of schedule case off Saturday. while ca exercises in the Eng- The Chinese tried to set their lish Channel. The "loud scrap-offensive in mullen again Sunday Ing noise" was the rumble of night. It was folled when their | Another Indian ambulance their-anchor-being-dropped-for assembly points were hammered took him-to-hospital for further sweep him into olde
the night-Reuter.
Although dazed and bleeding, he told the soldiers, "Help any- body else who was hurt." But no one else was in the vehicle and he was the only one injured. Although his left leg was so badly injured that it had to be amputated
later, the triver calmly
British directed the soldiers as they gave him fest ald, telling them how to ad- minister-morphine and how to dress the wound.
by night falding Supertoris. treatment--Reuter.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
An Object Lesson In Korea Wapparently intermining hearings
in Washington
on the dismissal of General MacArthur continue, amid a new international debate on foreign policies in general and the question of how to end the Korean war in particular, the forces of the United Nations appear to be writing most effectively part of the answer on the battlefield. As yet, that answer is The neither complete nor conclusive. fortunes of war are notoriously fickle. But the results of the gearing of the Eighth Army to meet a massive Chinese onslaught gives ground for high encouragement., The Chinese offensive appears to have broken against withering fire power at all strategically important points along the extended line, their armies have suffered, appalling casualties and have turned into what, in other circum- stances, might easily be converted into a disastrous rout. The second debaclo in three weeks of what was heralded as the most ambitious Communist offensive since Peking built up impres- sively large striking forces in Kores has been severe enough to compel pause. There is expectation of a third- bid to discover a weak spot in the UN defence system, but as Reds count the cost, there is growing doubt that the offensive spirit can persist without committing, in desperation, far greater forces that the Command has hitherto been in a position to deploy. Indications, indeed, are that realisation has been bloodily forced upon the Communists, that lacking adequate air support, further offensives can end only, in grim punishment, and that Moscow. is not prepared to pay the piper. Hints of
reminders to the Red commanders in the field-of the emptiness of Soviet promises. If the day comes that the futility of throwing ill-equipped men against the machinery of modern war penetratos Peking councils, there may be a new chance for a cease-fire and a round-table conference to end the war on terms that involve no appeasement nor reward for aggression, and in con- formity with UN objectives. The rea- sons for UN successes cannot be magnified.. They lie in the superiority of UN forces in fire-power and strategy, to which must be added unchallenged command of sea and air. Modern weapons have shot to pieces the tactics of the "human sen"; the constant if cautious probings of the Eighth Army have kept the Reds off balance, and finally contributed to the smashing of each Communist offensive. as it is staged. At the same time, there is no blinking the fact that UN troops are engaged to the limit of their endurance. The Gloucesters provided one epic illustration. The American 2nd Division needed all the determination they could command to wreck the attack, designed to break them. These troops in the field are entitled to both rein- forcement and relief. Yet it is evident that in view of the worldwide danger, the countries chiefly concerned are un- able to do so much in that direction as they would desire, and that the prospects of bringing virtual stalemate to an early end depend largely on in- flicting such severe punishment on the Chinese "volunteers" that Peking will perforce decide to call it a day. And what are the chances! The meaning of sudden interest by Pravda in Senator
Peking dissatisfaction could be pure.Johnson's armistice suggestions, Booking propaganda, but they may also be: straws in the wind. In any caso they provide an interesting background to the mass slaughter inflicted on the Chinese Beds, and General Ridgway's
an agreed mark-time on the 88th Parallel, must not be over-rated, but as the flat ovart sign" of a step in the right direction, neither can it be lightly dismissed.
Writing In the current lasue of Look magazine, General Else hower's World War II alde said: the General was nominated by either the Republicans or the people would Democrats,
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SINGAPORE BANS RUBBER EXPORTS Official Announcement This Morning
Singapore, May 22,
The Singapore Government on Tuesday imposed a ban on exports
of rubber to Red China either directly or through Hongkong.
The Governor, Sir Franklin Gimson, announced the Government's decision at a Legislative Council meeting this morning.
It was learned authoritatively that the decision was made by the Executive Council last Tuesday but that for some "good reasons" the announcement was delayed until this morning.
It was understood a committee would be formed to determine what will be fair prices whereat all rubber contracted before destinational con- trols were imposed may be taken over.
Bolting Japan's Back Door To
Communism
(From Selkirk Panton)'
Tokyo, May. 22.
08
Meanwhile no definite decision The Stato Department was taken on the 730 tons of officials recalled that alt North rubber aboard the Panamanian | Atlantic treaty countries ship Norbay which is now de well as West Germany have al- tained in Singapore harbour,
auch exports conceded that Jirge
moving from
on the
The
and the 3,700 tons carried our dy outlawed Nancy Moller which is expected quantities of war materials to return here on Wednesday have morning. It was understood West European nations to Com- however that shippers will be munist destinations. But since allowed the option of unloading this is illielt, the question the rubber here or face requisi- there is one of enforcement of tioning.
the existing laws, according to these officials.
An official spokesman pointed On the principle of supply- out that the Norbay had not ap-ing Communist nation with piled for clearance from Sing war materials which the Con- apore and apparently was await- gross passed on Monday, these ing instructions from its agents nations are in a good standing, In Hongkong. The Nancy Mol-officials said.-United Press. ler was forced by a Royal
American security officers destroyer to return to so
today started
1
renewed
Instructions from on
drive to bolt Japan's back and it has not yet been deter 22 Die From
A
door to Communist infiltra-
on from Soviet Russia through Hokkaido, second largest of Japan's four alanda
They
zined whether ship and the cargo will be sent to the United Kingdom or remain in Sing- opore.
through-bilis
of
A
Starvation
passage across the Red sea in
an Arab dhow. The skipper of the dhow landed them on a
Kovernment spokesman burayana si grig polated out that the Blingupüre
Amara, May 20, control only are alarmed by the Government have
Four survivors of a party of over rubber milled and process-20 Moslem pilgrims reached growth of Red spy and fifth ed in Malaya, but have no juris-Massawa recently to tell how column activity in the northerndlotion over rubber in transit on" they watched 22 companions die mist-shrouded Island, which is
inding. The of starvation an a
Red a constant threat to the rest of spokesman said however a Bri-Sea jalan.
tish ship carrying rubber to The pilgrims were from a vil- à diversion Japan, elther as
Communist China may be re-lage in”
Central Ethiopia, aiming. He during the Korean war or an quisitioned.
emphasised for Mecca. On reaching the cll-out Red revolution, quite that only British vessels may be Eritrean
ean coast, they pooled their from feeding milliary requisitioned.-United Fress."
mengre savings to apart
pay their information to their master.
US AID TO GO ON ..
Washington, May 21. this Communist Trojan State Department Officinio small island in-the-Dhalac that the action of archipelago, telling them they in Japan is recruited said today
tha Congress against war had reached the Arabian coast, local Reds as well DS
materials exports to Communist and left them marooned on a Japanese who have been countries from the
West ap-lonely island with little food and prisoners in Soviet Russia and parently will not affect Ameri- no water.
Death began to claim the pll- Russian agents. They also know con alti to the North Atlantic
countries or Western grims until only four remained, several .of Japan's top renty
Germany.
a man, a woman, a boy and a girl. A Communists who escaped last
passing dhow sighted their this are on
Japanese The Congress wrote into the distress signals and took the island on the doorstep of appropriations bill today a pro- emaciated pilgrims aboard and
visitor that further American) on to Massawa,
off from economic aid be cut
After the police had visited nations which fall to cratify the island and found 22 skale- that shipments of war useful tons, the skipper of the dhow goods are banned to Russia or and his assistant were arrested, other Iron Curtain countries, -United Press.
United States security, men, know horse from
if his conscientiously refuse country were in such serious situation that his peculiar quali- fleations for leadership patently would be of beneilt to the na- tion. When I last saw him be fore he took off for his new post, Captain Butcher added: "It Is he said he had told President
do not inconceivable 10 me that Truman he would do his darn
dest for President Truman himself might
months. 19.
Just what he meant by this time limit then suggest his name to the Demo- cratic Convention, and of course I do now key the Republicans have been He said, perhaps the General struggling so hard to get back just hoped the job would last 18 into power that they are desmonths, or perhaps he was pre-
that candidate who dicting that he might run for perate 'for 'a
President. United Press. can win
Butcher said he was Captain one of the General's first callers in 1947 when General Elsen- hower made public two letters in which he rejected Republican and Democratic bids to nominate
he
More Trouble
him. Captain Butcher sald Expected In
"thought General Elsenhower's rejection had a loophole." He
said: "No man, General Elsen- Utah Prison
one
hower, insisted, especially who had been educated at the expense of the government to serve in its armed forces, could
STOP PRESS
Reds In Full
The
Retreat
Point Of The Mountain, Utah,
May 20.
All Utah State Highway patrolment lale today were alerted for possible new trouble at the Utah State Penitentiary, where corridors are still littered with debris from Sunday's five- hour riot,
year
Russia.
Hokkaido, whicti is an ob- vious Invasion route for Japan from the north is only the width of the English Channel from Soviet-occupied Sakhallen and it is less than half that from the former Japanese- occupied Kurlle islands which would act as stepping-stones for an invasion.
Object of the new drive is to And the main Red healers and then to prevent mons landing and to stop any Red chic's still free in Hokkaido from Inunci ing out in the mist across the
The 17 Sodent. Joseph Dudler six-mile straits and landing on
of
Patrol put out n call, apparently at the request of prison officials.
At the time only regular guards were on duty at the Penitentiary, which is 20 mes south Salt Laice City
The assistant warden, James Davis, admitted that all inside guards were being pulled out "slowly so as not to arouse the suspicions of the men'. He added: "It looks very dark."
p.m. the
Hondhu, the main Japanese i5- land contalexing Tokyo.
But the main reason is an at- tempt to stop the leakage of vital military information, is known that the Chinese are more than they ought. getting Latest report is that a Chinese Red prisoner had a detailed plan of the United States 2nd Division'a exact position Korea. London Express vice.
Mobilisation Complaint
Ser
int
Tokyo, May 21. beaten Chinese army began a general retreat toward the 38th Farallel on Monday, the second phase of its spring offensive drowned in the blood of its 70,000 killed or wounded,
was felt trouble might (The Department of Defence Meials In. Washington an- come because of the dissatisfac nounced that the great victory tion of many of the prison's Inmates with the progress wan-won at a cost of only 1,018 533
the convict Allied casunities 204 dead and being made by
wounded. 1,414
American negotiating committee that is State officials, losses were 134 killed and 820 conferring with wounded; the South Koreans The commited. at 3.20 suffered 48 killed and 405
in session was
with wounded: other United Nations Governor and merabers of the
London, May 20: forces lost 22 killed and 01 State Board of Correction in The Yugoslav deputy Defence
prison wounded. This did not include the
administration | Minister, Colonel General Goma- the missing:)
building, Members of the group jak, charged today that Bulgarin, troppa planned to return to the cell Rumania and Hungary were further mobilising on the Yugoslav rammed a new counteroffen blocks shortly for a alve into the heart of the conference with Inmates, but border and making the area enemy's western forces in word from inside the prison ready for war." Korea and pushed forward all indicated expectation of now. Ho doclared in a speech in across the 120-mile front after trouble,
Belgrado, who
commemorating the More than 400 convicts the fleeing Communista. The
ninth anniversary, of the Yugo- Allios / recaptured the enemy riotod on Sunday night have slav Air Force, "Mobilisation- stronghold of Mundan, 21 miles been back in their calls since preparations are being intensi- northwest of Beoul, and Uljong- 9 : pan, while trustles cleaned ned in Liss countries, territory bu, j11mlica north of the damage edused by the die capita, In drives remiovo turbance, but the atmosphere direct, throats to the / ancient at the prison has been extreme- city, United Press,
For pensel tod, Press,
United Nationa
to
is being made ready, for, war, territory more specifically the Yugoslav border-United FEDER
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