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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1953.
Ploughing · Through Ice
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The British Commonwealth Fleet in Korean waters
Is the been meeting a seasoțiat hazard fields of fee. It third Winter I which patrol, blockade and bombardment bariditions, Picturė weda have been carried out in these taken fron the bridge of the Canadian destroyer Athabaskan.
Express Photo.
Press Gangs In South Korea Hard At Work
Seoul, Feb. 26,
Recruiting officers, finding it difficult to keep up the flow of men into the expanding South Korean Army, are using press gangs to fill their district quotas.
Periodically, they roam the streets of cities and towns "snatching" men for military services.
Young men of military age in over-taxed Korea, although they may be rellet.
United Nations
"AMBUSH
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Fighting In Paddy-Fields
Hanoi, Feb. 25.
A motor trip from Hanoi to the first sector of the Big rice bowl taken over by the newly forinçü Vietnam Army shows how narrow is the margin by which this area is held away from the rebel Vietminh forces.
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The command post of the sector given over to the new Nationalist Army is Hung Yen, 30 miles Southwest of Hanoi, in the heart of the Red River Delta. The direct route from Hanoi to Hung Yen ++++|+||▬▬▬▬÷ has been cut. To get there a convoy gots first along National Highway No. 6 toward Haiphong ADDED : for 15 miles, then swings Southward on a secondary | road.
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I made this trip with a French- villages.controlled by the rebel Vicinara convoy, and the moment we left Highway G, we were in the flaturbing atmosphere of the Ambush war,
I made the trip in a convoy protected by two machine-gun
trucks and two armed cars. The whole road is guarded by little
Colonel Vielminh.
Phan han three battalions "{10}d"
to area about 25 miles square. These are mlpported by D group
of French machine-gun trucks and our of Spaniards
A colourful body
the Foreign Legluti also
groups ol Wichitr soldiers, works with Colonel Phan, Each organised In machine-gun strongpoints. For nearly a mile evening these Spaniards gather a picture of on either side of the rond, evers in the Cimpel with a village has been levelled out to
Franco overhead Generalissimo
hear a and
hellfire sermon eliminate
from cover for ambush parties. Pensants
their leader, Fallier Aragon, working In
the rice fields are forbidden to And after the sermon they-go come nearer tlun 200 metres in out ou expeditions which have the read. From time to time the made the bearded Father Aragon lieutenant fred a machine-gun
and his company known burzt in the al: to warn pea- sants who came too close.
over the delta,
all
Facing Colonel Phan is an Six miles from Hung Yen, a elite regiment of Vietminh re- sergeant on patrol stopped the bols plus five companies of convoy, Only
a few minutes provincial militia and a band of curlier, a whole Vietnam patrol guerillos, all expert in rice- had been overpowered by a paddy Aghting. Assocluted Vietminh party which hur Press.
rushed from a rice paddy and bad hustled the prisoners off the direction of village two miles away.
Promptly the armoured con- voy fred into the vilinge with 37 mi cannon and sprayed the next three villages with machine-gun fire.
TAKING NO CHANCES
"AIL these villages Are Vietminh," said the ileutenant In command of the convoy. "We don't have enough troops here to go after them."
old people. They all flattened
Japanese Expedition
To Go On
pedition
Tokyo, Feb. 25.
to the Arafura
Sea,
In the rice paddies at either The Japanese Government's side of the road, hundreds of pokesman today ruled out the peasants were bent over working posibility that Japan might call in mud men, women, children, off the proposed pearling ex- out at the sound of the shooting north of Australia. Were they really workers, or The Foreign Office's spokes- perhaps guerillas? Nobody man, Mr Mitsuo Tanaka, fold a
foreign Press conference, knows,
"We can't take a chance," the don't think that the Government fleutenant said, "A few days will order the expedition to set ago a military truck was attack-back its departure date un a ed by a group of Vietminh dis- fisheries pact has been negotiat-
ed with Austraila," exempt for good reasons, keep The South Korcan Govern- culed as women."
Colanet
The Dương Quy Phan
Australian Government off the streets when they know
no provision for commands the Vietnam soctor had requested a postponemen! that a reinforcement draft for the maintenance of the families of Hung Yen, setting up his and had proposed that fisherles the Korean Army has to be of soldiers. They are left to get headquarters in a building talk begin in April in Can-
along as hest they can.
housing a school for young Berro. This often means that when Catfiolle peleats. It was the only
Einbassy the men go off to war, their concrete building within 13
the re- was still being dis- women and children are forced miles. About a hundred priests spokesman said that lo-abandon farms which have continued to use the building,
cussed. been in the family for genera- About 5.30 each morning bells
that the Mr Tanaka sald At present, the South Korean ormed forces
lons and seek shelter in crowded for morn rumber
Mass about
morning
begin ring- Australian Government would Camps.
ing for 600,000 with a heavily-armed refugee
the priesthood students, be notified of the departure of police force of 00,000. In addi- Dependents cannot hope to but soon these are drowned the 25-ship feet and its move- The out tion, there is the Korean Service exist on a soldier's pay.
by the roar of convey ments. Corps numbering about 300,000 private's fond for a day repair the roads which are cut probably accede
of 35 cents a month
motors. The first convoy bas to He addett that Japan would which does all the back would not
to the Aus- for fisheries
Alled.
South Korea is a little coun- try with a big emmy, and almost
no reserves..
ment makes
labouring for his family.
breaking
almost every night, and road work for the United Service Corps labourers are From the terrace
not paki
They paid anything at all.
carrying,
Nations forces.
of
Australian AR
iralian proposa the talks with some changes.—
The population of this coun- are supposed to be happy with Catholle seminary can be seen United Press. try is 22.000,000. Yet it has food, clothing and accommoda- nearly 1,000,000 of its men in tion provided.
the services.
Tals figure is
the
between
Milllary service in South particularly Korea is compulsory high for a country like Korea, the ages of 17 and 30, although where
primitive economy there are supposed to be liberal turns on manual labour.
xemptions, These include Civilian officers estimate to provisions for exemption when day that nearly every time a mmbre than two men in a farmily recruit is pressed into service, a | are in the army or where family has to go on the already man is the sole support of his
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But in practice these *x- emplions do not exist.
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If the army frets a man, the chances are that the Korean Service Corps will take him, leaving the family without
support.
Recently, when the press gangs were out in Seoul, they took a
| young man who had just secured In two-year exemption because he was the sold support of his widowed mother.
The youth is still in the ating and is not likely to get out.
When the word goes round that the press gungs are out, the effect in Koreans working for elec- eivilian organisations in trical. On the last occasion, a driver for some newspaper cor- respondents in Seoul, who had a family of three children, dis- appeared for a week until the danger was over.-Reuter.
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