THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,, TUESDAY, JUNE 27,; 1950,
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KOREA: THE AID SHE NEEDS; THE P.I. ATTITUDE
All the East
can
is say
"wait and see
Manila, June 26.
99
The Korean war put the United States Far Eastern policy under the microscope of little South-East Asia states on the edge of the Com- munist belt.
Independent countries such as the Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand, which have good reason to fear Communist aggression, adopted a "wait and see" attitude today in respect to the fight between North and South Korea.
CRITICAL HOURS IN
SOUTH KOREA
(Continued from Taze.1.) Korea in this situation are being
the
Co-
of
They ald Butte ofically but it was clear that they wanted to know whether United States help could rave South Korea. The Philippine Secretary National Defence, Mr Ruperto Kangleon, expressed the general feeling in these small coun- tries when he told the United Press? "If the United States backs out, that will mean an. other failure in Asta."
He added that if the United States Rol involved sa would the Philippines.
President. Quirino was known tay demonstrateri
to lie worried over the Korean operative action of American
although ut press personnel in Korea as well as by situation
conference Qis evening he leps taken to expedite and
nursted Filipin not to become quitment assistance of the type being
the unduly alarmed. furnished under mutual defence Psistance prosj granen," the President said in a formal statement issued at the White House.
"Time responsible for this act of aggression must realize how Berinusly the Government of the United States virwa ruch freals to the peace of the world," Mr Truman raid.
CANNOT BE TOLERATED
"Witful dieregant of the obli- etion to keep the peace cannot be tolerated by nation that support 150 United Nations Chart, the President added,
the attit of United Stap is piced with the spel
att.termination with which für United Badious Security Conuri ariel, tos utiler awitieinwa of the invading! free to pains morth of the 4th 15dte!,
with the arcerat.mce repolution 118 17181 Sveury Council, the Dalted States will vigorously suppit the effort of the Chuner to 1.minate this serien brucis of the peace."
011
anted that at no Ob ervres point dil the President'e state- ment ay directs whether
America would end 2017- aint
Korea If the ford to cd United Nations asked for them to tuck up its empre the order. BITTER CRITICISM
Secretary of Defence, faced bitter Republican criticism over the Kreu Itention al a meeting of the Senate Ap propriation Committee.
Mr Quirino said: "We must collect ourselves and get about with enim and awall develop-
nients."
Exerelsing The
Minisub
A photograph taken on a recent exercise with the midget submarines of the Royal Navy known as X.E. craft. These small vessels carried out many during raids on enemy shipping and harbours during the war-the best known being the attack on the "Tirpitz" and the sinking of a Jap cruiser in Singapore harbour. Here the XE craft is being steered by a helmsman in his all-weather suit.
MONEY FOR ASIA
IS STRETCHED
Lake Success, June 26. External aid in the form of capital invest- The Indonesian govenunent aled a statement saying that ment, loans and technical help, coupled with more
watch- the new republic was
effective mobilisation of domestic resources is still mut Korean developments "with
interest
the key to the economie rehabilitation of Asia and atxi utritos! etorely but would not
the Far East, according to a United Nations econo- Afcler.
mie survey just issued here.
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ke
"COLD WAR POWERS" The Indon sinn statement re- flected fear that the Kercan war mhht grow into a bigger con-
and commeful hd it the power, Apam and th
Talking peace to
Aid too little REDS WILL
-and too late
San Francisco, June 26.
A spokesman for the South Korean govern-| ment said today that American aid “is too little and too late.”
Clarence Rhee, public in- formation officer, sald Presi dont Syngman Rhee, is greatly disappointed with American nid." Dr Rhee was heard in a broadcast over Seoul Radio, which was monitored by the United Press in San Francisco.
Ho sald: "As late nit 13, It is very difficult to save any- thlog. We have nothing to stop the North Korean gang's tank. [although our soldiers are very brave, they sacrifice themselves to attack tanks,
Kerea is very hard up because ald was slow m coming It is tou tle and len Into."
NOT SO GOOD
Dr Rhee cald he dla not mean to say it looked like failure for | South Koren. He sakl: "On the
Western front we
Abdullah's
Position
Manchester, June 20. The Manchester Guardian maid today thic position of King Abdullah of Jordan was "almost
fortuitous."
הני
IGNORE U.N.
ORDER
Lake Succona, June 26.
The United Nations Com- mission in Korea- Informed the United Nations today that there was "danger" that the North Korean forces may complete their conquest of the Southern Korean Republic "in a mnt- ter of days."
In a cable from Seoul, the Security Commissioni sald the Council resolution ordering the. fire and pull back to the border North Korean forces to ceaso
may "prove academie."
editorial Commenting in an
The commission said it was of Kins convinced the the publication
edited by Korean
attacking Norih Abdullah's memoirs
Conmurdatk would Guardist Philip Graves, the
frmere both the Counell resolu- the sa
position
of King on and the commission's t- Abdulloh
in the
world Arab
tempts lo intervene in tho be might
to compared
the
fighting. position of the House of L- caster in medieval England.
The UN watchdog group maid,
bald: "His ancestral home is in its cable addressed to the not Amman but Miceen, of which Secretary General, Trygve Lie, his father was in Emir under that it would stand by in the Turks and which he himcit Seoul, 11 added: The North are doing used to reprezent in the Turkish Korean advances have created well.
We tegist Guerillas Parlament. And la connee- #3 dangerous situation. with operating there, and how wetion with Merca gave his family possibilities of rapid deteriora- ste noving up towards Kacson special standing in the eyes of tion. It is impossible to ești- and the Communist Army there orthodox Mostems." -- United Į mate the situation which is retreating.
"Oth
the Eastern front, the enemy is very near Seoul and that is considered as not so
wage war Food." Ife safel General Douglas
MacArthur's release of 10 fighter, planes to the South Korean
first
must
San Francisco, June 26.
| cuverument "would have been a Moscow WHA "talking
treat help earlier
"flut. be pointed out, the peace as a means of waging war," the United States Korcan plats Atomic Energy
Taniliarize themselves with the Commis- sioner, Mr Gordon Dean, them in battle,
aircraft before they could fy said today.
"We need ibens and lots more Mr Dean told the Ameri- now," he added.--United Press,
Medical Association that people who had signed peace peti- pawns of the
The present financial resources of the Econo- mic Commission for Asia and the Far East region "are being stretched to the limit" and internal an i. the war The Indonesian government
No. been can fut reveally not to anturonite Rain. whel
Korean situation,
strife and political instability imposed heavy the Stockholm Emergency
burdens upon the under-developed economies of tion were the region, the report said.
Russians.
Stockle-fra The
Who the population had beca romewhat surealitie
rerplution ub Veto ils appleation for
intereas, agricultural produc-in the past, het been reviewed Aniket Mations murale rakip.
nd completely more the wide! tion was sitt eight percent bew Fige soort pourerie, in 1919 Bangkok That band":
workable uwr pre-war and food way
Patil Patrest in the United Mation.tence on really
international control. Pouncil of Minister Belda!
40) the bonde won!"
of the region. [potpan le 1 pro tramme of m "Withoart Tartar all-day meeting to die th
capital In- tane and in the United States
"Moscow can well afford to A core vemment in articulture, inspre ante on airi tas leun vory
zel
be- n campaign does to Premier Phillum Song- teg, frame port and ofh y pubic
entre it can do po harm, and grim haud the Thai government Entities and conciderable
in Jael does come good to ill It was redised that without military position," he said. was waiting to one how far the penditure in social services, no United States will go to sup- there in the tandard of live in at increare in nvtment bert mall untions against Reding of the people" is po,sible," there could be neither adequa'e
pretium,
The nut declared." A regardt: F
Than
tions of Arla.
which
-0.3
the region.
RECOVERY SURVEY
the times
all ever
uress
1 Far
DEVALUED CURRENCY
Called
By E.C.A.
lomal control of atomic energy. Korean
up
and
Washington, June 26. The Economic Co-opiration Administratien late today placed. "The resolution does not call its Korean old programme On rehabilitation nor mpiù proures, for the destruction of existing an emergency basis" and nu- American observer did not
and and agricultur 1 and industrial
bozuba. It does not
for prohibitecunced a five-point plan like the Korean affair becausa mitre pal production. the retton penituction would not be able to their continued use.
senting non-millary supplies it looked like a difficult situa- showed "marked improvement catch up with the population "And most significant of all, to the besieged peninsula."
ea for the United States to despite a fall in the textile pro-inversames,
it completely ignores the 40- ECA said it was taking im- intain prestige
"In the "Farthelion in India and a decting
action to back nation Insistence upon a really mediate Kat
under most categories in China."
of the South resistance Setting out the "encouraging" workable, enforceable Interna- the U.S. DILEMMA
people in their herole The report said that Japanese aspects of the recovery made in torchinery observer. explained
export to
1919. the report afd that That the U.S.S.R. does not struggle to maintain their in- loses the ECAFE countries 10 that if South Korea
Its delegates refuse to dependence." mineral and industrial predus want. backed what they were in 1948-were on had improved. So also had discuss truly citactive control." Dr Edger Julmon, director In Washington texay, Mr United States,
and Japan was
Dean said that it was im- of ECA's Korean programme, Denn Arteen, the Secretary of the Repable of Kor every significant
・3མཛོདĖམཉྫཱ with gradually replacing the United import and, le a lesser degree,
portant
realise that the nounced: "Primary emphasis State, and Mr Is Joan, the of the
arm would suffer not only States as a primary supplier of agricultural production.
"Devaluation of most of the Stockholm resolution did not is being placed on the setting ton of face but loud of
eurreneles of the region exerted brand as a war criminal the up of machinery for prompt aperation by other amali n-
a favourable influence, although tuation which first committed on procurement of "upplies it is too early to trace the full act of aggression.
equipment that can be shipped 1o Korea from Japan or the effects,"
“Japanese produetion of such
U.S."
The decision was made after top-level Conference among "excorded" that of all
Mr Johnson said that under ECAFE countries taken together of the Western Powers should ease, it would be hand to con- melled of economie
the invasion by
action" one to 6.5 times," the report attempt to break
pro- vince other countries Dat the open to the region,
and retaliate with the atomiche "Immediate
switch ECA would Kramine United States etarl help them
De P. S. Loknathan, Execu-in,
Japan's increased trade with bomb the nation so retaliating,
to an "emergency procurement fht
United juve Secretary of the Economie ECAFE countries wat gradual- and not the original aggressor basis" and give priority to Continiom --
Cmmission for Asia and they replacing the United States becomes the wor criminal" he
casential commodities, including Par East, a preface to the as a primary supplier of the sold.
petroleum and foodstuffs, in- stead of the normal peaceline five years I would
exports such as raw cotton and the available
fertiliser.United Press. Chines Nationalist
maintain naval region graft engaged in marudio actions levels of production and con- With the Communiste in water bumption." just outside the Colony today, i The report wi that plas Peak re idents said they could for the econora development for Asia and the Far East, which
Earlier, Mr Style Bridner, Republican Senator, was asked by reporters if he would dis- es with Mr Acheson and
the developments in
|_ Their feeling
wan
that the United States wis unable 1. The 300-page report is in two
review of the econo bel up is support of South Park
development Korea with the kind of military i
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"Ten million Ruslans equip- the items as electricity, iron, steel, Prd with tanks, artillery, bomba and bombers might be over-
help which might be necessary | ECAFE region during the past cement, machinery and chem-winning the world, but if on?]ECA OMelals. Mr to win the civil war. 11 that year and an appraisal Of the cul
Jolin. Koren.
"You are darn right we wilt."
he replied, "and we are going
to roll them over."
i alat time we began asking questions about one In- telligence
head.d.
A Senator who came out of! the Committee room hut an hour after the meeting
were
1uday
told reporters that numbers The Korean Poing infa
"Very Thoraighty" question with Mr Ache on.
To all questions about Korea, that re- Me Ach replied commendations had been made f
President
Truman.
10
whoi
would answer in the next few daya-Reuter,
"NOT HOPELESS"
Washington, Jun 26.
A U.S. Army pokesman said late today at the situation of
Korean forces the South
to predlet.
121 the
"not hapelves" but he declined the eventual out- of come the Korean fighting.
lie said the situation was 20 fluid any prediellon would
ball,
He made crystal statements at a briefing of re- the Korean combat porters on situation ns deined in official dispatches to Army Intelligence. -United Press.
CADETS VISIT JAPAN
Tokyo, June 26. Twenty-five West Point codeta, on tour of the Far East Command, arrived here yester- day to luck themaiver next to a Bhooting war in
door Korea.
The group, accompanied by Colonel Richard C. Boys and Lieutenant Colonel John S. Hartnell, associate professors at the Military Academy, will re- main in Japan for three weeks.
They will observe amphibious landing exercises on the beaches and will visit of Sugami Bay air, army and naval installations before returning home via Oki. Guam and the Philip- pines-United Prem.
nawa,
Pret
heur au fize this mornitut.
SIDE GLANCES
recovery
take all
present
TRADE DEFICIT
moved."
labelled
JUST WHERE?
ירזיות
Radio Hongkong
Man Shan Islands report, said that for the next region.
Gunfire
Japan's share in the Imports resources of the
from the region had increased Discussing Russian assertions from 2.4 percent in 1048 to 3,6) that it atomle Cheriy pro- percent in 1940 while the name was devoted to peace- United States' share hel re-ful user, Me Dean sald, "If a Its country in really devoting mancil steady at 24.0 percent.
ECAFE countries in 1949 in-atomic energy effort to such H.K.T. parted from Japan 10 times as peacetime projects onc would 12.30.
Kong Calling→→→ much
In 1948 think, since no security problems Presented by John T. Fore machinery
1.32, Jazz Programming Summary; that the world
man 10BCTS); 12.45, Light Variety; By Galbraith whereas the corresponding in-lare involved,
crease in machinery imports might told just which_river|1a5, Nows, Weather Report and from
the United States
and has changed its course and Junt Announcementa: 125 Interlude; Britain were 11 and 13 per- which mountain has been 130, London Studia Melodie Atelachry Orchestra (IBCTS); cent respectively.
2. Clorn Down. Between Ave and ten percent
Calling"-Pro 6,"long Kong United State atomic remme Sunary: 0.02, fantovan As a whole the ECAFE re- the
programme could be and is Orchestra with Vocal; 622, Bon (excluding China. Nepal energy
Organ Solo: 6.30, Cantonese by as purely peacetime-Given by Mins Lee Wal Lan k and British Bornco) had a
S. K. Lee (Studio); 0.50, Orchestrat more could be de. Selections; 7.15, A Talk from the DC London Helay); 1.30. "Bixty "purely weapons,'
Yeats of Song-Presented by 70 percent, could Alleen Woods (Studle); 0, World year.
Eighty percent of the trade yield weapons for war or power fewn and News Analysis (Lontine "Box 200* Dert for peacetime uses.
Relay): 0.15, defelt in 1948 and 85 percent In 1040
Mr Dean added, "The world Gillette at the Hammond Organ: were Increased by
8.30, "Gilbert and Sullivan" Exterois know that our must
Jury": "From great from **Tial by the Philippines, stocks of fissionable India, Japan,
mat rial, the Editorials" (Landon Relay); Korea, the magnitude of the deftelts being in the order can be readily turned to peace-Indies (London Relay): 30, Plann now fabricated into weapons 10. Westier Report; 911. Interlude: 115, Text Match-England v Wexl given.
time uses when We know Recital by Leno Yuen (Studio); The report declared that with not by faise words, but by af- 350, Peter Yorke and Hs Concer American ald to Japan, the firmative action, that peace is written & narrated by Mar- Orchestra 10, *The Forgotten Philippines and Korea, British Sterling releases to India, Pakistan and Ceylon, and French and Dutch ald to Indo- China and Indonesio, it was pussible for these countried balance their International ae- counts and arrest the course of postwar inflation.-Reuter,
$4
„COME, 1942 BY KITA BRAVICE, ING. T. M. KEQ, U. 3. PAT, OFT.
"Remember Rox Hathaway, that dreamboat chap you used to tell me you should have married? He dropped in at the office today and sold me a candy bar!"
trace deficit of $1,707,000,000 effort, he said.
Slightly to compared $1,242,000,000 in the previous limated
in 1910
and
13
to
STAFF MEETING
34
and about
really wanted."-Reuter.
MEDIATION
OFFER
Geneva, June 20. Washington, June 20. The International Committee The United Staten Joint of the Red Cross announced fo- |
It had offered Its Chiefs of Staff were meeting night that this afternoon.
cervices as mediator Department governments of North apokesman raid that the meet. South Korea. It cald
Ing
A Defence
to the
and
both
It. ad- date was fixed a month dressed telcomma 10 jogo, though the conference capitals.
Its Hongkon
would provide an opportunity The Red Cross akto anounced for the Chiefs to discuss the that it had ordered its special
| representative Korean situation.
The spokesman insisted that Alfred Viere that was not the purpose of the mediately meeting-Reuter.
Press.
to proceed, im,
to
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