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KOREA INVASION UNDER King Raises AMERICAN TROOPS TAKING
SUSPICION AS
MOSCOW FEINT
Congress Likely To Step Up
Defence Expenditure
Washington, July 2.
Fearful that the Korean crisis may explode into World War III, Congress may forget economy and give the Defence Department all the funds it requested this year.
Informed sources said today that the Senate Appropriations sub-Committee already has recom- mended restoring House cuts in the 1950-51. mili- tary budget and that the full Committee may sup- port it perhaps this week.
The chairman of the Senate | fargets were Yugoslavia, Grecce Armed Services Commitire, ant ratele and oil-rich Iran, Senator Millard Tydings, sald Semtor Tydings sald Where United States military plantiota | won a disposition to “μπόνο were aware that the Communist rondy in Koren but not to thrust into South Kore may commit nurselves too greatly be only a "feint" nad were on until we ca se just what the the alert believing the real Red situation a going to be on a
broader canvas".
Surprise Appointment By Queuille
Paris, July 2.
M. Henri Ququille (Radion]} formed France's 13th Cabinet
President Truman, who I would face fateful new deel. those fears wero
out, returned to Washing- } ton late this afternoon from A weekend cruise.
Ir Congress does Liep up military spending, it would be another Indication of its near- unanimous decision to back administration to the hilt in n the Red thrust.
Mr
ly
The
already has signed the law rushed through Con- In addition, last week, #ress sire the war, with the surprise the House
is expected to act appointment of an anti-Com-
Inext week on the Senate-
inunist, M. Paul Reynaul as approved US$1,222,500,000 for Minister responsible for polley el arms ald bill.
in the Far East.
the
DEFENCE VOTES M. Reynaud, a former Pre- inter, is known as a resolute Senate Puurees said advocate of energetic co-opera- Appropriationa sub-Committes recommended canis defence out- tion with Britain and America
M. Queuille, who is 68, formed as this year tot 1ing $13.200,- the Cabinet it record time 00,000, abunt $380,400,000 more
House vated, under the preasure of the crisis than the
plu it: Korea.
nearly $1,000,000,000 in contract Politici riretes here inter-authority. This would bring the
preted the inclusion of M, Rɛy- United States' total
total military biti
naud as
an outward symbe, for the treat year ending: “June of the French Government's de 30, 1951 to well above $14,000.- termination to play its full part 000,000 and this chees not meique in the Atlantic Pact and in sups money which may have to bu porting
Nations in Lovided the United
of the as a result Korea.
Korean fighting. While military M. Reynaud resigned in Jung, teaders refused to speculate 1040, when
France collapsed, what the Korean campaign may and was succeeded by Murshad
they pointed out th He was a Philippe Petam.
modern Warfare chews up ex-
and later deported to Germany, ment at an ularning --Reuter,
His Hat
Raising his hat to the Headmaster of Harrow School at the roll call parade of the speech day cere mony is King Feisal of Iraq, a pupil at the school.- (London Express Service).
Chiang's Offer Of Troops For
Korea By-Passed
Washington, July 2
T
UP BATTLE POSITIONS
Superforts Strike Heavily
At North Korea Airfield
SITUATION "NOT SO GOOD"
Tokyo, July 2.
American B29 Superforts struck heavily at an airfield in North Korea last night, leaving the entire target area in billow- ing smoke columns, General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced tonight.
The first American soldiers rushed to Japan were simul- taneously taking up battle positions in the South across a vital main road.
Raid
Thieves
Cathedral
Exeter, July 2 Thieves last night stole
dia-
a five-foot, one hundred- weight Balld silver, mond kludded cre s from the Allar ut Exeter Cathedral. A Cathedral door was forced.
The
cross
WOM found -this morning 14 miles away lu a field near Hont- ton, on the road to Lan- don. The diamonds had been removed, Its valute was estimated at £20,000. -Reuter.
EGYPTIANS
ACCUSE
Fourteen Australian Mustang fighters flew
Coal Board Jibs At Wage Increase
London, July 2
National Coal Board, which operates the socialised coal mines. of Britain, has rejected A calm from the National Union of Mineworkers for waro increases to 400,000 lower-pald workers.
The Union had claimed Increases of about 15 shillings
# week for workers whose carnings
are in the region of £5 a week,
The annual Conference of the Mingworkers Union opens tomorrow at Llan- dudno, North Wales. Reuter.
over Korca for the first time yesterday, covering GENUINE
B29's and B26 bombers, General MacArthur an- nounced.
Four Yak fighters bearing Russian-style Red REVIVAL Star insigna, today strafed wreck-littered Suwon airstrip. American advance base reoccupied by the South Koreans yesterday, according to frontline reports.
Tokyo headquarters ́an- nounced that American war- planes heavily Inshed the Communist-occupied Seoul
aren yesterday with bombs and guns.
Leaflets
day
over
were
a
capital.
Pilots reported previous B29 raid on Pyongyang Int
Jenst reven
OF
American
the troops entercu fighting area.
He could not give any timate of the present condition cluded: of the South Korean Army.
U.N.
New York, July 2 The New York Times today reviewed events of the week at es-the United Nations, and con
"There has been a Kenuine rebirth of the United Nations, a reaffirmation of high There was some bellef, he purpose and a renaissance of added, that the North Korean falth that will give a new unity spear-heads advancing south of effort." words from Seoul may have been slowed up by the difficulty
Tho cditorial recalled the of supplies and malutenance, deepening frustration and creep-
North Korean tanks which ng prarlysts afflicting the or crossed the Han River north of adding: "That climate of emollon ganisation in recent months, Bison were believed to have and opinion has been changed in user temporary wooden bridges a few stirring days. A
strong which American Superfortresses wind of resolution has blown attacked with undetermined away the miasma of despair."-
DIRECT HITS
Two Communist fighters with Red Star markings were reported to have Been shot down.
dropped yes- Pyongyang ntr- outside the North Korean
that In
Bircraft were left burning and many more damaged. There was generat
Times reviewed the swift widespread destruction of in-
events of the past week, and stallations at the feld, the
An Air Force Epokesman re-every move.....
noted the free world supported ------- Tel-Aviv, July 2.
ported that a B-29 Superfortress A An Israeli Army spokesman
spokesman Generated bombed a marshalling yard the Egypilna MacArthur's headquarters said allegations that Israeli troops at that two. Northern columns tacked an Arab village Rafah on Friday.
near trying to outflank Suwon down
parallel roads had advanced 10 mlics. Israeli routine patrol
STILL CLEAR tion line by mistake was fired
spokesman by Eyplans,""
he salu.
ISRAELIS
The State Department said today that the Chinese Nationalists had offered to send an army tightened of about 33,000 "seasoned" troops for the defence of South Korca but that the Department's reply, while expressing "deep appreciation," said that "An Yested by the Vichy Government Live manstion and equis preparations to meet a threat to Formosa should
EDITORIAL
United Press,
Kate.
have priority.
Senate Swings To Action
NE of the results of the battle in
Ohoren, where the situation remains
critical and where American forces are being committed to q.ion far beyond the scale originally contemplated, has been rapid passage through the Senate of the foreign' arms aid bill, appropriating $1,222,500,000 for that purpose. Hnd the International situation not sharply altered, the feud of numerous Republican politicians with the Truman Adminis. tration would have resulted in much bickering, if it had not produced zume cheeseparing. On Friday, the Senate approved President Truman'a request by unanimous vote, 66 to 0, and, changing the attitude completely, some of the Senators insisted on the necessity for stepping up the amount allotted. Already there la a move nfoot to supplement the total by US$200,000,000 to be devoted to bolstering the anti-Communist forces in South-East Asia. Bulk of the funils already approved is to provide arms and armament equipment for the North Atlantic community as the power centre of the free world. Divergence of immediate attention from Europe to the Гаг East has not affected the urgent necessity of stiffening the defence system of the free nations of Western Europe. It is significant, Indeed, that the Koren tangle, inspired if not actually directed by Moscow, has been followed by intensifi- ention of cold war taelles in the Berlin Meanwhile, the North Atlantic
area.
Pact communities are concentrating effort on a system of mutual defence, with the emphasis on collective security. The original programme called for An Integrated defence organisation which could still mean integration of balanced national forces. But a realistic appraisal of the magnitude of the meance con- fronting them, given frësh point by the ́naked aggression of the North Koreans
under Politburo direction, has convinced all the Pact nations that any attempt by each indivídual nation to create a military force balanced In all urmis would either impair its national economy or would keep each arm so weak as to leave not collec- tive strength, but the integration of collective weakness. It was in consequence of this realisation that the partners in the North Atlantic Pact decided
on an overall balance. What is to be established, in effect, will be an international army, based on a division of labour and military functions among the countries Involved, according to their manpower and capacity, the whole organisation being co-ordinated by the so-called High Command, which functions permanently. Both in the United Stutes and in Europe it is emphasised that the purpose behind the effort is peace, not war, just as Âmerica's Intervention in the Kurean confllet was prompted by anxiety to preserve pence. It has to be made plain to Russla, however, that the peace sought is not appeasement, nor the hopeless pence of surrender, but peace with freedom. Such a pence is to- day threatened by Soviet Russin, which, in the grim words of Mr Truman, stalks the earth to destroy democracy and to make the whole world slave.
That new totalitarianism knows no compassion for weakness, which only tempts it to new aggression. It does respect power. The only way to hold it in check is to create such moral and military power in the free world that the Soviets will not dare to test it. In that effort, no free nation dare stay neutral, for any serious outbreak anywhere Inevitably affects all 'nations. This applies with special furco to the United States, which is the primary target of the Soviets. For that reason foreign military ald to South Korea becomes part of foreign policy and an investment In security which cannot be withheld.
which crossed the Israeli-Egyp
communique added.
The
at
announced
"Peoples of
the free world
north of Seoul on July 20, want the United Nations to be hitting a train and destroying strong, to be the defender of some of its wagons. The same liberty.The Security Coun. bember also
cil in proving it and will act reported scoring hits on a two direct
North whether the Kremlin likes it or (Keream"
convoy containing about not and the free world is pro- viding it with support for such e dozen camouflaged tanks,
General MacArthur's
ad- | action."-United Press. Trejon, Koren, reported that American Aghters today strafed four
to six hundred marching North Mrs Roosevelt Visits
Queen Mary
The offer Wis mnde
vanced headquarters, by "They realised that they were that the Seoul-Suwon road was Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's on the wrong side of the lines clear of Northern forces. Nationalist Government in two
Another column, said to have alde memoire delivered to the re-crossed into Israeli ter-
ritory."
to pieces of motorland artillery State Department on June 20
Korean infantrymen advancing The spokesman said that there and seven ox-drawn anti-tank
on Ichan, 35 miles south-east und 30.
were no casualties on either side guns, were reported making for It sold the Troops were described the incident as Kunyangiang, 30 milea routh-
of Scoul. "suitable for operations ia "minor,"
cact
American Bghter planes des- of Seoul.
London, July 2. pilnius or hilly terrain."
Mra Eleanor Roosveli, on a An Egyptian
troyed one North Korean tank A United States Army spokes- complaint will
In private virit here, visited 83- troops
carry the best equip figure on the agenda of the mixed man said here today he believed and "probably" five others
Seoul-Suwon battle rpent at China's #isposal."
Armistice Commission's next that scattered units
area year-old Queen Mary for tea (Contd. on Page 6, Col. 1) They could be ready for em- meeting, It was understood,-- | South Korean
today-Reuter. Army would barkation in five days."
Reuter,
ap reorganised
"These
The Nationalists offered air- craft to transport the troops to Karea and "n moderate amount of naval escort."
The United States" reply, made yesterday, did not atly reject the offer of assistance.
it zaid: "It is the view of the Government of the United States of Amerien that it would be desirable for representatives of General MacArthur's Head- quarters to hold
discussion with the Chinese military nu-
quickly bo
of the
the
East German Troops present
For
Korea?
Berlin, July 2.
The American authorities took a serious view
thariiles on Talwan (Formosa) of strained East-West relations in Berlin today as concerning the plan for the the official Russian newspaper here warned that defence of the Island against the danger of war was as great in Europe as in
the transfer of
The newspaper, the Taegliche Rundschau, Russia's "voice" in Germany, said, however, that a third World War must be prevented.
Invasion prior to any final decision on the wisdom of re-the Far East. ducing the defence forces on Auwan by troops to Korea."
A State Department spokes- man, Mr Lincoln that the United States Defence Department concurred in the State Department's reply to the Chinese Nationalists.
White, sald
"The danger of war in Evrope | dropping_potato bugs on Rus- East Germany. created by the imperialists is as sien-occupied Creat Est
for the Far East," said specifically naming cities
in a outside the three air corridors the Tegliche Rundschau
Inking West Germany and
The alde memoire Bald that the Chinese Republic was front-page editorial. willing to send land troops for Another Rundschau editorial | Berlin.
accused President Truman of the purpose of helping in the defence of South Korea-Reuter.co
acts of war" "commending open by
Amerkan troops Bending to fight the Communist invaders "He wants in Korea. It sald:
Nations over his open acts of war and in that way hide the first phase of his Korean plan uch an attempt ot aggression. *
Austria Bans to fly the flag of the United
Right Wingers
Air Forco authorities denied the accusations, but said the note might heruld now Russian
10 ntlempts
throttle
the Western air corridors to the
German former
A. capital. high diplomalle source said would have
to be considered "warlike.”
Vienna, July 2
It called on "peace fighters" Tho anti-Communist now The Austrian Ministry of the rally behind the Communist-paper Telograf reported that Interior has shut down the Aus- sponsored "Peace Front." It 1,000 crack troops of the East trian provincial organisation of sold: "The hour to stand the German police army were the extremo right wing party, test has come for the great posted near Potsdam, apparent- the "League of Independents," world peace front in all parts being readied to fly to tho which had its headquarters in of the globe. The third World aid of North Korea Western Graz, and had confiscated Its War planted by Wall Street military authorities could not newspaper.
must be prevented."
confirm the report and diplo The League has 18 seats in the The Soviet, in a formal note, matle officials belleve it im- present Parliament.-Reuter. charged the United States with (probablo-United Press.
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