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HEAVY BOMBER EXPLOSION
CREATES HAVOC
Fairfield, California, Aug. 6,
A Superfortress homber, laden with 8,000 gallons of petrol, crashed soon after taking off from here late last night, killing at least 20 men and injuring 60 other people in an explosion which was felt 35 miles away.
The plane, which also carried a number of 500-pound demolition bombs, was said to be on a "long training mission."
A Air Force spokesman) also believed to have been kill- denied that the Superfortress, ed,
had been bound for the Korean Colonel Cochrane said that the plane carried number of 500-pound demolition bombs, as
war zone,
Brigadier General Robert F well as the heavy load of Travis, Commander of the petrol. Ninth Heavy Bomber Wing, and of
BIG EXPLOSIONS
the bass here, was amont
Flight fire-fighting vehicles those who died in the plane,
were burned black and damaged which hurled ning petrol
Fragments ver trallers housing Air Force by the explosion.
et the big bomber were hurled families.
Hundreds
Jards lo
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Army
ده
all
a
The trailer area was seared directions,
barracks, and and riddled, as well as a neigh- bouring Army barracks, but a nearby area where 48 privately brief interval between the crash owned trailers housed Air Force and the big permalited Air families, were seared and rid Force police to evacuate all re-jaled.
Colonel Cochrane rald most
added.
prea
sidents, including many women and children, it was announced. of the injured were spectators,
Four of there on board the he
Colonel The big bomber crashed 00 aircraft escaped alive,
11 trailer who took vards from J. Cochrane. Carlow over command of the air bare housing about 72 Air Force when General Travis was kill-tamilies. The explosion spewed ed, stated today. Two of the burning petrol throughout the The trailers were flat- survivors were the pilot and the urea. co-pilat
not closed.
In-
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The names were toned by the explosion,
Air Base Publle The Three frozen who rushed to formation ameer kald later that The spot when the plane crashed 10 prople were Injured in the were killed in the terrific blast explosion and fire which spread
OnalInto the housing aren, Inisutra Later. il Low other unidentited person
was
Atom Scientist
Arrested
Today
1
The explosion, which seat tal of fire hundreds of feet the air, hurled flaming into !peiro! over a wide area. Cleaning up operations
in progress tonight curity precautions were forced.
were
and en-
HUGE CRATER The known dead included 10 Berlin, Aug. 6,
of the 20 men on board the West Berlin police
Two others aboard are 3:6714 threw a cordon round
ming. Seven other coffee house In the American
recovered were believed to be sector of the city and arrested those
of Air Yant atomic the Soviet
budies Fores fremen ht in the explosion, which crater 200 yards across and ix feet deep.
search scientist, Professor Robinsted a bert Havemann.
MONDAY, AUGUST 7, 1950.
It Was A NAKTONG
Bridge
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At the
For
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Reservations
Price 20 Cents
RIVER LINE
Thick smoke rolls skyward like a dark fleecy cloud and another bridge over the Kum River has been destroyed.
To The Family
Harriman Sent To
Repair
MacArthur Damage
President Truman sent
Washington, Aug. 6.
Ambassador W. Averell Harriman to Tokyo to confer with General MacArthur on doubts created in Asia about the political implications of his recent trip to Formosa, Administration sources said today.
Mr Harriman, President Truman's special as- sistant on foreign affairs, flew to Japan on Friday with instructions to emphasise that the United
Needs A Bus
Hull, Aug. 0.
A full docker, 69-year-
old Horace lartley. of Beechraft Street, chartered a bus to lake la famliy of 18 to the sea today,
The family came to his home by taxi, bleycle, on fool and In perambulators. The five daughters, three husbands and Rens, their wires, and 22 grandchildren nearded the bus and started on a 12-hour excursion to Bearborough, a Yorkshire east resori.-Reuter,
States political attitude toward the Chinese Na-Air Force
tionalist regime must be kept carefully separated" from the purely military matter of defending Formosa.
He
dispatched. WAS
The coffee house was serving An eyewitnes said:" was to camouflage an illegal meet-about 100 yards from the plane Administration oficials decide: Cinere mainland.
ing of Communist "Peace Ap as it fired low down. Sud- out, straightened It denly peal leaders, the police said.
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FORCED
AT TWO POINTS
Four Korean Divisions Massed For Thrust At Pusan PROBING FOR SOFT SPOT
Korca, Aug. 7.
Communist troops in battalion and regimental strength have forced the Naktong Rivor, the last natural defence line of Allied forces in South Korea, at two points.
General MacArthur's midnight communique said that a full North Korean battalion got across near Changyong, 25 miles north of Masan, left flank base on the south coast of the American lines holding the approaches to the bridgehead supply port of Pusan.
Up and down this line the Communists were believed to have massed four full divisions and part of a fifth in a full weight thrust at the only big harbour left in American hands.
the Naktong, a North Korean regiment crossed
Barrier
East of Sangju, along the upper reaches of Gates Burned the River and late last night two of its battalions On Frontier
were still in raging battle with South Korean de- fenders.
were
Korean fighters weIT The force that got over at North
nine others heavily en-destroyed, Changyong
probably destroyed, and five gaged by elements of the were damaged in American air ot Communist bases American 24th Division late strikes into the night-was backed yesterday.
Frontline despatches from the up by steadily increasing
held by the American Communist concentrations sector
First Cavalry Division, on the of men and armour on the
upper reaches of the Nakiong, south and centre of the 120-reported that an American com mile bridgehead defence line. bat patrol sent over the River e prisoner-seizing mission, North Korean movements In was knocked back twice,
១. further massing dicated
The patrol got over on its forces for a fulty expected two-third attempt only after artillery pronged jab, in the centre at backing from the east bank had Tuegu, and at the supply road laid down a creeping barrage running south-lo cut the de- to clear a bridgehead. fenders in two between Taegu and Pusan.
PIN-PRICKING
BITTER FIGHTING
Battle punitions, according to Reuter cables, were ណ
unchanged
on
Weller, Aug. Ô, Showing "Europe in here," students of many nationalities converged
this Franco- German frontler post from both sides of the burder today, smashed down the barrier cates and bumed them in a bonfire as
looked Customs officers helplessly.
од
WAS Inter
The demonstration
by the organised University Federal Union, an international student body" sup- porting the aims of European union.
tho
In the well-amanged protest against national barriers, students approached the frontier from both sides near the forest of Hagenau, the scene of bitter fighting between the Germans and the Allied in 1945.
While
a
German
The possibility of "penetra- after fighting the Communists on the
tion" north of the Taegu sector, late where
Americas commanders follows:
The frontier guards did not. criticism There
North: Positions political the #at
American
Interfere say they must hold out against London. Aug, 0.
and there were no General's talks with about the aims in the Far East have been
casualties. purely
said today the massed weight of three Com-In the past 24 hours, though Informe sources by General Chinng severely damaged
youth Under
President that Royal Air Force security munist divisions or "take to the bitter fighting continued north The meeting was dispersed, veiled and smashed
MacArthur's recent conferences rounds.
Truman's
June 27 order to efficers were Investigating beaches", still exists, the com- of and inland from Yongdok on
wielding a heavy log smashed Generalissimo but no other arrests were mode, wing to the ground.
the east coast. Chlang
Formosa and Na-widespread suspected sabotage munique said.
the red lamps on the frontier Professor Havemann, who is
with
trick by statements neutralise
Centre: North Koreans have tionalists' attacks on the China of planes and equipment ear-
students from each side of post, edurer at the East Berlin plane and walked around in a Kaj-sek
General MacArthur innrked for the Far East and
crossed the Naktong River, east
the border picked up the barriers Humbolt Univerzity, is to be dard condition. I helped him 15sued by Nationalist officials
Dr Wellington mainland, Chiang and
battalions re- Der overseas points.
of Sangju. Two
and carried them to the bon- charged with holding an un-get away from the fire.
defences and establish-
Stirred up by the combat
engaged with They said the largest single
mained bitterly
fire. "I could hear men shooting Koo, Nationalist Ambassador to acted logically in checking licensed political meeting.
probing of American and South South Korean forces late last United States, Indicated'Fland's
with the patrolling of aabolage occurred at
The demonstration had forces, which Under the Alled regulations. Lets get out of here, there are the
MacArthur's visiting alson Jofler Gen, In West tombs in there"."
night (Sunday). Seventh United States Fleet. Salford in Lancashire, where Korean political meetings
evidently been well planned in the United States Was
South: A North Korean bat- Berlin have to be licensed by Fairi: la Suisun Air Base is that
UNFORTUNATE
uralreds of airplane wings Arthur's headquartem yesterday said was keeping the Com-
tello
fourcod
advance. Tho students camped the Naktong What
overnight on both sides of the WAS unfortunate, of vere ripped,
of miles north defences 25 The planes already had been murists "off balance", the North
border, these on the French side cials pointed out, was the rise
Koreans were plu-pricking and
aloar the entire Masan and at a late hour was
nearly of idea in Asia that the Unitedick in crates, labelled for
every when the infiltrating
under attack by elements of the comprising Slates was using General Mac- Far East shipment,
in the 24th American
Division nationality represented Arthur's visit as the first move taletage was accidentally found,
Council of Europa-Reuter. was said. toward
southern Reuter. major rapprochement was
Omeers of the RAF special flank. where the battle line lies with Chiang's government,
branch investigation
were roughly 40 miles west of Pusan to be investigating reported
ther instances
the City Administration.-Reu-about 35 miles from San Fran- ing to modify its decision to
i keep ler.
EDITORIAL
│cisco,--Reuter.
Coming Of Age
IVING expressina to the challenge of the chylised world to the Soviet- sponsored brench of international peace than fifty and recurity in Korea, more members of the United Nations and one prospective member, Italy, have lined themselves up in support of the Security force to use armed Council's decision #gainst the
nations invaders. These represent every continent and every race and include, in particular, such nations as India and Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines. All have pledged themselves tu do everything within their power to back up the Council's precedent-breaking palley. This rallying around the United Nations banner has been a welcome and uf international Impressive display solidarity in the face of new oggression. 11 is also the most effective refutation of the Suvlet propaganda charges that the Koren war was started by the Republic of Kuren at the instigation of “American Imperialisin." But one thing remains to be done to translate this solidarity into and that is to co-ordinate action, and organise the various offers of aid into a composite whole. Thus the U.N. would not only make the best possible use of the resources of the supporting nations but also demonstrate beyond any chance the military of misrepresentation that support now being extended to South Koren l, Indeed, a United Nations action of the undertaken solely in defence principles of the Charter, and not for any #ellsh gain. This obviously calls for a special United Nations body to organise and direct the whole Unlied Nations war effort in Koren-n body to which all the supporting nations can submit their
the Nationalists
from
offers of specific
ail and which, in can mobilise representative particular, forces from South-East Asia to nip in the had not only Communist propaganda bul also any remaining suspicions regarding "white" imperialism. Under the Charter, this directing body should be the Military Staff Committee, consisting of the Chiefs of Staff of the permanent members of the. Security Council and representatives of other nutions participating in its work. That committee is charged with advising and assisting the Security Council on all questions relating to Is military require. ments and the employment and commARU of forces placed at its disposal. But due to Soviet obstruction the committee broke down completely two years ago, and it would be obviously absurd to permit a Søvlet representative to participate in the United Nations war effort at this time. For that reason the United Nations have appointed a Co-ordinating Committee, or War Council, to direct both the military and economic efforts necessary to cope with the present emergency. The Com- mittee has approved the appointment of General MacArthur, direcling the military operations in Koren, ns commander of the combined United Nations forces and are channelling to him whatever additional ald is available. No doubt, each national contingent will still want to fight under is own fing, but side by side with the national banners will also fly the blue and white banner of the United Nations to demonstrate that the United Nations has at last come of age and la meeting the responsibilities' imposed on it.
If the United States political and military sluts on Forms (Contd. on Page 5 Col. 3)
front.
the On
extreme
Mac-
of suspected arbour, MacArthur's communi- subotage in England and Scot-que said that the Communists were.il actively probing for a d. The disclosure came us security officials were investi- 15ott spot put all their efforts to
infiltrate have been repulsed. caling other suspected cases of naval vessela
STOP PRESS Sabotage aboard
and in the new House of Com-
nons-United Press,
U.S. OFFENSIVE Bombing Of
Tokyo, Aug. 7.
The United States Marines and Infantrymen openedi the first major American offensive of the war today against three Communist divisions at the southern end of the Allied front.
Moscow-With
Food-Urged
A
On the northern flank, held by the South Koreans, Com- munist pressure was reported to be fieavy, and north of recap- tured Yongdok, intense fighting continued with positions charged in the last 24 hours.
un-
Yongdok and villages along the coast to the north have been blasted and gutted by the and guns of American cruisers !destroyers employed in artillery
of South support
Korena troops.
London, Aug. 0, Marines from the First Divi-
In addition to their grouping good-humoured xmall, for the slon went into action
Trafalgar of heavy armour fur an im- first time since their landing Srowd in London's
assault on the Nalsteng In Korea. It was the eighth Square today applauded a sug-minent
Restion that Britain should River, the Communists are re- anniversary of their landing on
with food par-ported to be insslag new. bomb Moscow Guadalcanal,
strength at Acids behind The United States counter, ceh,
Extra police, mounted and on unes. attack started at 6.30 um on fest, mingled with the crowd in
the front west of the Masin- the heat of an August bank
air
the
AIR STRIKES
to
paul
the ale
Nine
The American today | Chindong area.
weekend to hear Dr to stop fighting men seeking
Melbodist But their failure Soper, the Communist drove
on the Donald
mialater, speak in defence of fighter planes into vital port of Pusan_were mem-
statement that hengainst American bombers bas bers of the "Task Force Kean" his recent
would rather see Britain oc- resulted in heavy losses. 3001 and Fifth Regimental
ihan cupled by Communiste combat teams and a reinforced have a third world war. regiment of the Third Marine Brigade.
Dr
the
Goods Train Sabotaged
Soper, speaking on In addition to halt the Com att anniversary of the drop
ping of the atom bomb ort munist push against Pusan, the
Hiroshima, Bald that an American counter-offensive' was
Christian and 1 pacifist he designed to relieve the mount- ing pressure against the Allied thought war was a sin.
"If we started to bombard
Berlin, Aug. 0. Troops to the north.
Moscow with food parcels, I do
Polish boleurs derailed a The ussault
reinforced by
even the Iron goods
machine train carrying preceded not think that American troops was
prevent the or- tools sled as reparations for by heavy artillery bombardment Curtain could to clear the path for the initial dinary people of Moscow think: Russia and destroyed most of
there was Ing
a now spirit the cargo the Northwest Ger. drivo. Allled fighters roared overhead to pound enemy post abroad in the world," he said-man Radio reported tonight...
Bon-United Press.
Beuter.
Reuter.
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