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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, JULY 8, 1952,
First eye-witness story of the raid the whole world is arguing about
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'To begin with, the Ack-Ack was thick, but then-
Marine
Several days of diploma- ing debris which they them- tic crisis in the world's selves created. capitals have passed since the Americans first bombed the Yalu river power plants, close to the border of Man- churia.
But amid all the discus- sion, hardly anything has been said of the operation liself.
What happened on that rald, and why did the mili-
minds consider necessary? Here is the first complete answer.
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stations, two at Fuson on two
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Killers Can't Escape Him
By: VICTOR SIMS
.
London. Reparling back he was in- STEELY-EYED; grey. formed that a bleycle had been haired man of 60 who, bike and sped along the quin Patolen, He leaped on his motor- has-hounded down 20 road to London. killera la preparing to leave. Ho anw the man he had 800n on a secret mission in mount from a bicycle outside a shadowed that morning dis- West Country village. Lovernat. Seven Kings. Ho But this time, Instead of caught the thief and brought uncovering facts to trap alm back to Chelmsford in less murderer, he secka than an houra feat beyond the
tellef of a startled superior. formation that may save a As a young detective: Totter- man from the gallows. dell was assigned to keep two
Euspects
Ho entered the his first as a private in-
door compartment and vestigator is Detective waited until the train moved Superintendent George Hen off, then clambered on to the ry Totterdell, chief of the running board of the train, and
| peered "inside. Essex C.I.D., who retires in
The man on the case train journey observal
a few days after 40 years
packed tight with adven- ture, which earned him the·
באסות
on B
"Everything was going well,"
title of "The Man Murdererse remembers, "until I saw that we were apprónching a narrow Cannot Escape.” -^
bridge, leaving me no time to scramble, back.”
Totterděli solved one big case in a neat manoeuvre that Scot- By squeezing himself against land Yard men still talk about: the side of the carriage he A beautiful woman was found escaped injury, but his clothing dead with her head in a gas was ripped. This did not deter oven. It appeared to be suleide, hii, from arresting the men. but at the mortuary marks. One of the most bafflinz round her throat were discover- cates to come my way--and ong led. The doctor found, that she that excited considerablo' in- died from strangulation--a blacks ferest was the Rayleigh Bath velvet ribbon she wore round Chair Murder" says Super- her neck had been pulled tight. Intendent Tobordell
ing here every player was
Each
during the game.
relative put the other
card. players in different posi-
lons.
When Tatterdell con-
fronted the six with this fact
A man was blown do bits by an explosion as he was being wheeled in a bath chair along a lonely country road by la nurse, who was badly injured. It was thought that an aircraft on exercise dropped the ex-
Under questioning, the BOR
Whether
like men
His recommendations to the · Her husband-they had been Lieutenant Dreis and his com- Washington, Chiefs of Staff and living apart was the obvious rades had returned from nok- State Department got nowhere. suspect, and the police found.
him staying with six relatives. and air force Jet tossed raids on the Red armies'
"They all swore that on the plosivo. Apprehensions of a Man- fighters including British-built Melcars-overed them, They rear areas asking
churlan "Incident" developing night the woman died, the hus A search of the blast sceno band was with them, playing' with mine detectors revealed waited in vain to be challenged "What's the USE of these proved too strong.
cards," Superintendent Totterdell tiny fragments of metal-pieces by Red MIGs, though these supply line raids if we are for-
recalls, were based 30 miles away.
mine, Gf a mi Totterdoll Then the tacties of the attack
Super bidden to hit the plants which
was not satisfied with their intendent
quickly Simultaneously, raids
revised. General were are pumping power back into were
Mark stories, and invited them; one discovered that the dead man's made
Clark, the new four other power the enemy's arteries?" on
United Nations by one, into a room. There he son had been trained in the the
C.-in-C., vetted them and asked each one to describe on a use of these mines in the Army They had seen a thousand and sought Washington approval to at
and that on Songchon river and
his discharge a Chosen on the Hungmin river, one cave workshops In North
mine was missing. aircraft were Korea fed by the Yalu's hydro- apply them. Not until the day
electric system. They knew before the raid was this ap that hundreds of wreckett trucks proval given. Lieutenant Drels told me and railcars were being pulled
ack-ack looked rough back into those caves, repaired, Such was the raid which in a one of thema woman-broke admitted: placing the explosive when the first planes went in to and got back on to the roads and few hours was to set the world down and confessed that there under the seat of his father's attack the plants, After their railways they
were constantly talking.
with the intention of had been a conspiracy to make hair runs there was nothing to it." hammering.
an alibi.
killing him, at The husband was charged with The lights may be out in other manslaughter
clearing race courses and sentenced to of cardsharpers, pickpockets and confidence trickstur or Superintendent Totterdell was smashing gangs of bank note Time and again they had far away as Mukden in Man- the first pollçeman in Essex to forgers, Tot'erdell" never. felt them unseathed." flown over the power plants and churia, or at the Sino-Soviet base of Port Arthur, or even at Admiral Briscoe, of the U.S., Siberia's Viadivostok. Navy, and Air Force General Weyland, studying their losses,' For that is how far the Yalu's both recommended that Sulho two-way flow of electricity ex-
-nal by any plecemeal method 3281, high, 3,000ft. long, creat-
The great dam-barrage is but in one big blow.
It la probable the world offers no other single target of such ing a 40-mile long reservoir.
General Ridgway, the former complex range. United Nations Commander-in- Generating capacity of the Chief, agreed.
-{London Expreas Service) · to the west, 36 Skyraider plant was boasted by Soviet dive-bombers took off. Pilot-
from 400,000 kllo=" technicians watts to 600,000. Now its ing one was Lieutenant Tom switch-yards, transformer yards, Dreis, of Chicago, who later and turbine buildings are blasted described the raid to me. and ruptured.
From Ralph Walling
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Sulho, the keystone of the Tactics Changed places in Asia. It is possible three years;
Yalu's Mammoth hydro-electric system, has a chequered story.
Tokyo. in 1037 and completed in 1041. It was built by the Japanese HE clouds lay heavy It cost nearly £30,000,000 and In the sultry sky is the fourth largest plant in over the Japan Sea, the world,
Off the north-east
TH
that they have been dimmed as
const of Korea steamed the 40-Mile Stretch and other plants should be hit twis
U.S. aircraft-carriers Boxer, Princeton, Philippine Sea, Bon Homme, and Richard.
Swiftly, their course set
So began the most im- Before the raid a Japanese portant air mission of the engineer in charge at Suino in Koren war-the bombing of the Yalu river power plants.
planners.
逗
use.
own a motor vehicle in those short of thrills. During the war drawn two-wheeled carts and sabotage and found it necessary. days pollee patrolled in horse he investigo'ed a case of alleged
in a few weeks the fresh-faced to test the time taken to ex- police constable put it to good ploda a French 75 shell by
heat from Bre All one morning I had been "A fuse mistimed and caused shadowing
a suspicious-looking a premature explosion," he man," he told me ‘at” his ¡trim, › says,' Toterdell was blown rose-covered house In' daklen several feet in the air and
Chelmsford, "but Avenue,
I landed on barbed wire. couldn't make out what he was
case book isn't closed up to. So I gave up and went ye" he says. "Crime is always home for lunch."
round the corner,"
Myיי
Dawson sells up PARIS NEWSLETTER
Paris.
1937 was consulted by the raid TOME goes the exile-
HOME goes the ex of
"Sulho is built to withstand trouble. George Dawson,
to live in London
of four nationalities are still
That afternoon they put out the lights in North Korea. bombing," he said. So it was, from Brixton, who has prob- Involving Dawson and his It is something Dawson finds the Louvre. After Paris we plan
in his day. But the mighty ably made more money rivals. A dozen Dawson lawyers great dilleulty in understand to visit Belgium." For 200 miles the Sky- bombs of 1052 crumpled it. more quickly than any man kept busy. raiders flew west, almost Here are the verdicts on the alive in recent years, is clipping the mountain tops raid
to get below the Communist radar warning screens.
At fixed. points U.S. Fifth
Air
Force fighter- .bombers .from South Korean airfielda joined them.
Together they swung in along the Yalu river bank opposite Man- churia, and climbed into
the clouds.
selling his Riviera villa and General Mark Clark, Ameri-his, £100,000 yacht. can Supreme Commander in
Korea:
The
He is going to live in a 14. attack contribut-roomed house he has bought ed materially to overlooking Wimbledon
"Concerning Panmun- 1om Wise afan he say "Never in the field of human conversation has so little been said in SO many words.?"-7
Easton ExpÁRU SOTELOR.
the reduction of
Common.
the enemy's war- making poten-
tink
Dawson made his money
General Wey-by applying the technique land, US. Air of used car salesmen to the Force: "Nothing, vast field of war surplus not a single de- material scattered tall went astray."
Admiral Bris-Europe after the war. coo::"Everything од
out
with-
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Through it all Dawson retains the clear blue eyes," the rosy checks, the unlined face, and the ebullient energy of on- surdly healthy schoolboy.
'His oppelite Is his gargantuan, capacity for drinks Homeric,
from SAM WHITE.
vainly
ing-just as he dnds it hord understand why certain Gov- craments should disapprove of his methods of doing business. Quotes
المي
Tranquil French
WHO said the French were
an excitable people? At Longchamp the other day thousands of punters queued up, trying to recoup their losses on on the beaten favourite,
Auriban. - what. being asked
ho They found: tho thought about during the Tour supply which
electricity
TYCLIST Jean Hobic,
lucky
is used for
do France cyclo ruce: My wife Longchamp totalisators had 'fall- "A normal day and children and the.
ed and no bets.could be placed will start on his people who pre following the for the rest of the meeting.. yacht
with his race in cars. chief engineer interest
trying .to over Hence
him a his business correspon-
during a champagne....... drinking marathon.
5 a.m; breakfast
went
His claasic operation - to de- quiro-bugo, car parks of tech- hitch," Vice Admiralnically wrecked vehicles for a
recondition.STHEN peppercom price,
Clark
to the terrace of a signalled and resell them for hard Swiss Canines hotel, where he is "Well done" to currency, to South American likely all hands
and republics, to Israel and the added: "It was Arab States,
like old times."
Now
what is The tax bill
the story behind
lo order a bottle
W
A French ́actitar's defnition of an ideal husband: A man who thinks he is married to the fiel wife. ⠀
Steking refuge from the sweltering heat in the race course bars, they found that ali champagne, beer and soft drink supplies had run outs) - There was some whisky--but no water. The water supply had failed.
Surveying
the serne an Princess's holiday Australion visitor said: "I just
cannot bellove my eyes... · Hera
PRINCESS ALEXANDRA 10- Is everybody behaving perfectly whisky and gin'" ("It saves a year-old daughter of the Peaceably. In Australia' they time), Home to lunch about Duchess of Kent, Is, spending would have (orn down the four, where the butler will pre-week sightseeing in Paris grandstands by now." duce a mammoth meal. Some She is staying at the British this zaid? OnHE Korean
Dance partners war dealt the telephone calls to London, Embassy. what
grounds Grst big blow to Dawson's Paris and Genova over the did the Ameri- fortunes. What was until then brandy and cigars, Another Mini Constance Rheem, daughter Duchess of Windsor has made Her companfon is 10-year-old DANCING at a new Paris. can high com considered "scrap" was trans-
visit, to the yacht: mand Justify it formed overnight into des.
of a wealthy Californian indus- fathionable: Edta: 4 military perately needed military trans-
Ciano with necessity?
lato trialist. The girls are being Brazillan port
Twenty-five thousand
millionaire Jorgo and chaperoned by the Countess de
125-
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A
Guinise,
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club
which tho
At 300- milesan- hour they dived with extended brake flaps.
The first bomb fell on the mighty Suiho plant at one minute To understand that I must tell vehicles and 10,000 spare parts dinner. A night club paat four in the afternoon. you the story of the "cave which Dawson had bought in 5 am. bacon-and-bgg, break. Belialgue, an old friend of the
› workshops,"
Germany wero Impounded by fast Down Hominates any Royal family, who has settled in Sackod? "Never! One-ton bombs ripped
the U.S. military authentics. gathering by his self-assurance, the United States, Allied alt operations designed Dawson was barred from the Re pays a tribute to what he
MARSHAL JUIN, whose in. holes in the concrete roofs. to, strangle the Red armies
D.S. zone of Germany, 07
During the war the counters, a discreet speeches created 4 calls "the advantages of educa~ Delayed-action bomba ex aupply lines were not succeeding Blow number two followed on by having an occasional Frenchwoman, lived in Bucking furore, is now known as o ploded, and through' thứ because Arst-class repairs were
with a recorti 180,000 tax Old Elonlon or two on his stat ham Palace, and taught French Marshal with the baton between
This teeth." blasted windows came black being done at workchops in
Med to the Queen und Princess. aracsament brought by the d smoke and cherry red in North Korea. The sources of French Inland Royenuo ogainat 3 One who win. be most pleated
The Matchel explain
explained. power for these workshops Dawson
friends (who At the move to Wimbledon is Margaret. flames.
promptly passed were the Yolu river plants other blows: the fallure of a barn wlic, Olgn. She is here the usual things that schoolgirls could not be macked, could hot Dawson's attractive Russian She told me: "We are doing it on to newsaper reporters). SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST For 90 minutes the raid: The plants also supplied major deal in Greece through by the lonelines Riviera. No like on a vult to Paris-visiting resign und was, euperior in that as, 6 Marshal of France, he
*rethe: mob-riddan went on, the bombera un. power to the Red air basca in the Greek Government's
Manchurin, which are immune fusal to deal with Dawson and number of Dior frocks can chafawiux, churches and art status to all Ministers, except molested except for the fly from bombing.
a welter of expensive ligation change her boredom
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