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Hongkong Telegraph.
WEST GERMANY TAKES SEAT IN EUROPE COUNCIL
Strasbourg, Aug. 7.
The Belgian Socialist leader, M. Paul-Henri Spaak was tonight re-elected President of the Con- sultative Assembly of the Council of Europe in face of attacks by Catholic speakers against his part in the Belgian Royal crisis.
M. Spaak, fresh from his campaign to force King Leopold's abdication, was re-elected by 90 votes to 23, out of the Assembly's 125 representa- tives from 15 countries.
Dutch and Irish Catholles the representatives of all Ger-
He many" opposed his re-election.
was upported by the British
He added, "Although belong- Labour leader, Mr Hugh Daiton,ing to those nations which still Mr have no pesce treaty, we will the Conservative leader,
Churchill, and thevertheless co-operate with our
AL. best will and conscience." lender, Sadullst
Winston
French
Andre Philip
The Dutch representative, M. Drains Slot, and the Eire ro
MacEntee, presentative, Stan opposed M. Spank's re-election, arguing that the Belgian crisiz had been deelded by force and not by rule of law."
Eighteen representatives
of
the West German Federal Re- public altended today's opening!
A handshake
between Dr Puender and Mr Churchill, as entered the the German group
of the ΠΕΝ Assembly Holl
House of Europe" here, sym- bolized Germany's re-entry to the family of European nations.
Photographers rushed over the Buor of the Chamber to record their meeting,
NEW EUROPE
A 7-year-old Italian Senator,
as associate members of the Signor Antonio Boggiano Pico, i Council of Europe the first the oldest member of the As- time since the end of the warrembly who was Chairman until that Germans have taken part 1, Spaak's re-electlan, in a big-scale international con- comer! ference.
Wel
the Germans and the other new members of the Az- Their leader, De Puender, foldembly, Iceland and the Soar, the Assembly, "We are here as
Belgium
Calms Down
Brussels, Aug. 7. Parliament will meet today to act on King Leopold's decision to his to delegate his powers
the 19-year-old eldest Ro Crown Prince Baudouin, in the Arst step towards abdiention.
Of the Germans le declared, dreadful upheavals "After the
of a terrible war which was
foreed upon by unmeasured trued, they are now called upon to make a powerful contribuiton to the new Europe."
"They are here today with us in this free Europe. All of 13 are overjoyed by this gesture of co-operation by which 40,- on0,000 people join with us in to contribute to the the will
cause," Signor Plco common added.
Already in the kibbles repre sentatives were collecting skina- tures for various proposals they The bill authorizing the trans intend to put before the Assem- fer of the Royal prerogatives is bly during the next month.
British expected to be passed by the
The
Comervatives A motion calling and by the Senate on Wed for some form of British part-
uncompromising
the Schuman Pinn day. Several Flemish Social Christians Communist representatives prob- for pooling European coul and ably will oppose the bill, but steel.
House of Representatives today have drafted
Atlantic
Ambition
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HEAVY FIGHTING AT ALL VITAL POINTS ON KOREA FRONT Communist Thrust To Burst
Out Of Naktong Bridgehead MARINE PUSH SLOWED UP
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The ambition of Walter Monch, a Berlin mechanic,
is to cross the Atlantic to New York in a "sea-car" of his own design. His only problem is to find means to Our photo shows carry the petrol needed for the trip.
Monch cleaning a "porthole" of the sea-car in Berlin. (London Express Service).
British Army Increase
F
Tokyo, Aug. 8.
American Marines and infantry battled today to extend their gains of nearly two miles on the Chinju front west of Pusan in their first offensive of the Korean War,
Torrential Bank
Holiday
London, Aur. 7. England's biggest, busiest Bank Holiday since 1939 ended tonight with thun - torrential derstorm and
min in the North but sun- shine was stili bolding out in the South.
years,
The police reported the heaviest road traffle for 11 with motorists en- Joying their first postwar Holiday without petrol rationing.
Bank
Parts of Yorkshire ported their work thun- derstorms in years today.
At Bournemouth, Hamp- sire. a woman and child buried when were partly about 500 tons of cliff fell ito the beach, Both were rescued unhurt.-Reuter.
Pay Communist Designs In
To Attract Regulars W. Germany
and sipation in
This.
British clashing with Labour viewe,
gets flint a
its enactment is considered a foregone conclusion.
EDITORIAL
will
London, Aug. 7.
strikes
Au-
Service pay would be buik a "sufficient body of raised to enable Britain to trained men" in its regular!
forces.
its
growing
War Experts Disagree
New Orleans, Aur. 7; The police today accused Edward Kennedy, 24- years-old veteran of the Marine Corps, of stabbing his brother Thomas three times in an argument over General MacArthur's strategy in Korea, Thomas, 22. is ex-Navy. Edward opposed laoArthur's strategy while Thomas do- fended the general
United Press,
The United States Eighth Ariny announced that a reinforced Marine regiment and two Army U.S. Marines regimental combat teams rolled up advances of 3,000 yards along the broad front on the south coast.
To the north, late field dispatches reported
Mobilising
that the Communists attacked last night in a bid All Reserves
to burst out of their bridgehead on the east side
The
Washington, Aug. 1.
Marines United States
wha to mobilise all its 80,000
of the Naktong River 25 miles southwest of Taegu.
Running down a small mountain in their east Corps announced today that it banks bridgehead, the Communist infantrymen volunteer reserver. overran an advance American unit and rushed on toward the southeast. American reinforcements in out to about 50,000 om- were being moved in to meet the attack.
A spokesman sald orders were
cers and men who would report for netive duty between August 15 and October 31,
The Marine Corps announced that it was niso calling up more units. were Some of these units were sum-
Air Reserve organised
Small infiltration patrola road junction commanding roads of the North Koreans made leading to Chinju and Sachou.
Despatches sald that the fore- new crossings all along the most American patrols Naktong River. But the stopped 200 yards east of the moned to active duty about
by Communist rond three weeks ago, main enemy effort was made Junction
blocks and that à United States
The Corps has already called at the bridgehead across the Marine platoon, seeking its fra all its organised ground roservo Naktong southwest of fight in the Korean war, was cut units to active duty, A spokes Tuegu. The bridgehead was off on a mountain top.
man said that no date had been reported to be about five
set for the call-up of about 30,- While General MacArthur'a miles wide at a bend in the headquarters announced
reserves who that 400 volunteer
included in the river near Pugong-ni. In there would be no midnight would not be the pocket were believed to commualque (Monday-Tuesday) The mobilisation of the will bring be several hundred Com-cause there was no "new in-
formation," Reuter despatches volunteer reserves munists.
had the Marines' strength to about Said that North Koreanis
drst summons.
At dust yesterday, North penetrated 12 miles behind the 200,000.
Guard The American Coast Korean shock troops charged "last" Naktong River defence
has also started a campaign to down the hillside and broke line north of Tacgu.
re-rnlist former Guardsmen through the rim of their poc-
The Communists on this and reservists, Including ket. Dispatches did not in-
northern sector
zald to women, in its volunteer rezerve. dicale how far the
wedge 4,000-Router. cald A communique
were
rush
the
have driven yards.
wide through
-
South
Chances. Slight Of Military Aid To Tibet
Berlin, Aug. 7. The East German Communist carried,
infantry In the Korean forces, gaining heights (SED) today called on West Marines and The Defence Minister, Mr Emanuel Shinwell, dominated Socialist Unity Party
The Tacgu. said today that Britain will increase its ground German workers to cripple by south met strong resistance and around Pin, 30 miles north of
HANDS FULL any attempts to "resume Inflicted heavy casualties.
G00 to 800 North Koreans- vote Sub-Commitire of the Counell forces immediately to back up the nation's new re-armament production or import Americans claimed they killed
South
this Koreans American weapons.' The Communiata
to a battalion-
northern against the bill since they have of Europe's Committee of Min-armament campaign.
The official SED bulletin based almost equal
section of the front
Washington, Aug. 7. alleged in Monday's advance in the the on gune on record as favouring asters should control the pool's
appeal
were getting reinforcements last south sector.
State Department omelals, proposed supra-National
documents in uublication "people's democracy" Instead of
thority-Reuter,
night but commanders on their As the two-pronged American a monarchy-United Press.
flanks were described as having studying the possibility of a Western Germany,
"These measures, designed to offensive in the south probed
the forward,
24th Division their "hands full" as spearheads Chinese Communist invation of Mr Shinwell's announcement re-militarise Western Germany,
to contain the
of ut
Communit! Tibet, do not belleve that mill- least three underscored
Western must be met by a national resis tops fought
Communist steadily building
divisions pressed forward in uery aid could be given to the
Tibetan Government, fears that even larger bodies tance, which can however only gehend on the east bank of three-pronged drive over an are The week-end statement by
the Naktong River-United of 45 miles. of trained infantrymen will be he realized by the joint nellon
General Liu Po-chen, Chairman of Communists, Social Democrats Press. Com- necessary to forestall
Two other Communist forces of the Southwest China Miliary belier and trade unionists," the SED
HEAT EXHAUSTION
were reported digging in on the Affairs Commission, that Com- munist aggression-
said.
Korca, Aug. 1. cast bank of the Noktong along munist China would march on Korean strengthened by
According to the West Ger-
who American Marines
got
which American commanders on Tibet soon was not received war,
iman news agency, DPA, Rudolf their baptism of fire in a 3,000-Sunday said that they would with any alarm hero.
Omelas sald the attitude of on the South have to hold or "take to the Mr
Anthony Eden, deputy Hernnstadt, chief editor of the vani advance
lodny re- beaches,' the Conservative SED organ, Neues Deutschland, Kreon were
the Peking authorities towards of leader
slowed given the task of purted to have been has been
One of theso Northern Tibet had been well publicised. Party, whleh has been critical
P creating
smooth working down more by heat exhaustion the government's defence espionage network in the three and their own heavy equipment
than Ly Communist gun-fire. mtusures, gave the Opposition's Western Zones,
As in the Soviet Zone, these The Marines, pushing west- support to Mr Skinwell's pro-
Communist ward West German
Communist-held on prosal,
bc will
officially Chinju, were
D'Medient
minny
Attack On Tuberculosis
CO
RA. S. Moodle's brond outline of the Department's plans for a more concentrated attack on tuberculosis in the Colony made excellent reading.
deserves public Nothing better operation, encouragement and support. The incidence of the disease in these days of shocking overcrowding in ill-ventilated appallingly high. Actual tenements figures are not available simply because
sufferers do of the
not seek European treatment and their cases are not notified, but the official recorda revent a grave enough situation. Last werk eleven out of every thirteen persons who died in the Colony were victims of tuber. culosis, and of it total of 201 new cuses of the various notifinisle diseases, no less than 137 were freshly diagnosed carriers of tuberculosis infection. One of the grimmest fentures, which does not exhibit itself in the weekly returns, is to be found in Dr Moodie's disclosure of the heavy tell of T.B. among children. Twenty-five percent of deaths from acute consump tion relate to children under the age of five years, as many as twenty each week, Ind more than a thousand in a year! this goes on in spite of the splendid voluntary efforts of the Anti-Tuberculosis Association, of the establishment of special clinics by the Government and of the vallant work of the medical profession. The battle against the ailment goes on unceasingly, hut, while it is no respecter of persuns, rich or poor, the attempt to compete with the deplorable living con- ditions of more than eighty percent of the community since Hongkong became the baven of refuge for those fleeing from the
foils
Ite. Redu,
desperately. examination of the problem by experts,
programme culminating in the
now
mapped out by the Government, promises more comforting expectations. Two main
lines of attack are visualised, the most Impressive being the intention to make extensive use of the resistance vaccing known as "B.C.G." Cautiously, Dr Moodle is at this moment engaged on a tour of centres active in combatting tuberculosis, Denmark, Sweden and the British Isles with his primary purpose to test less the is being of the drug, which elliency
sometimes than whether widely used, deleterious reactions have to be watched for. I may fairly be assumed that his conclusions will result in instructions for its use in an all-out campaign lighting TU. in Hongkong, The conservative medical lenders of Britain are still in an
and are
not yet experimental mood prepared to give an unhesitating recom
bul
Americans (ho
and mendulion, Scandinavians are convinced that B.C.G. an immense value in building up has resistance. The drug is not a cure, but preventative conferring immunity on most of those treated for approximately five years, reducing the virulence f Infection does occur, and fiding contacts over perhaps a dangerous period. The scheme for its employment in Hongkong is practical and offers assurance of steady Kuccess. Every newborn babe is to be seten vaccinated by health visitors; hundred and fifty children doomed to die of tuberculosis in the absence of B.C.G. That is the commendable will survive. main objective of the Medical Department, the young. The the preservation of campaign, too, is likely to be consolidated by the other line of approach to the prob lem, the removal of youngsters from con- tact with members of their families in an advanced stage of T.B. by the creation of a special institution capable of handling 400 children annually. This is tacking the problem rationally and the Medical Department earns congratulations.
vi
Eaun
was
war.
the
agents
more
than
In a speech at Warwick, Mr comouflaged as "prople's cor-ndequete to the North Koreans warned that manpower respondents," the agency sald, for a face-to-face frontal as- main tack will be to sault but were stopped by en- not the only weapon Their
output
high post- and note the Alading fire from nteessary to hall aggression. He gauge
in West
flanks of their German tions on the caned on the Western nations to technique
Communist main pusti along the Masan- increase ground and air forces plants, and extend to meet the "great" danger of contarts with the man in the Chinly highway.
Forted to fan out over water- street.
East German newspaper staffs less ridges and up steep, rocky heat of the to be purged of "journalistic hillsides in the
sun, many of them old-timers" who will be replaced Korean
and "people's correspondents."--
dropped from exhaustion others stripped off their gear to et down to man and he gun equally with North Korean in- fantry:
As if in reply to Mr Eden, Mr Shinwell said in a speech at Crandon: "I must make it clear there is no use providing equip-Beuter. iment unless al the same time We produce a sufcient body of can be 10 trained men. There dejay, This is a time of anxiety, but there is no reason to pante." lle alo salt he doubted Russia wanted to provoke third World War, but Warrad that a
Accession of incidents like Когда could fead
-Unit:d "serious
trouble." Press.
Polio Epidemic
A
In Malta
A
Canada Plans
Korea Brigade
worse
with Southsidered in the formulation of heavily engaged
roups in battalion strength was Tibet had always been con Korean troops 10 miles north of polley on Chins, the officials Waegwan after a crossing of the landed..
Naktong made two days ago in But one of them. sold that ing approaches to Taegu, second to let events there take their on effort to breach the line hold-the United States would have
(Continued on Pago & Col, 3 course.Reuter,
French Large-Scale Rearmament Plan
Paris, Aug. 7.
M. Herbe Alphand, French representative to The Marines, who had been the Atlantic Pact's Permanent Council in London, through the South Pacifle cam- paigns of the last war, said that said today that most of the land and air forces the Korean fighting was far requested by France for Western Europe must be
The North Koreans wear light based in Western Germany. rubber shoes and capo-po steel Ottawa, Aug. 7. Usually reliable sources sald helmets and carry
of equipment and minimum lodays that Canada was likely
ratioce. te recruit special ground forces
They swarm. over mountains for service in Korea.
They said that the Cobinet with seeming ease,
The near with which the agreement today
found
a bare
French mentary sum must come largely, Commenting on the army memorandum to Washing-from foreign aid. "
M. Alphand announced that ton e declined to disclose the strength of the ualis requested the next meeting of the Terma- nent Council would take place by France.
os August, 20. Becret," he "I is a military Neither France nor any other
had reached that
Canada should tend a Morites are inden for outweigh said.
the Australians brigade group conslating of what
curry RCTOSS the
arms
The Council (Foreign Minis- tern) for the Atlantic Pact Mr Charles Spofford, Chair- three battalions with supporting possible to
question of German participa-
of the Council of Atlantio of about 5,000 Owen Stanley ranges of New nation, he added, had raised the would meet on Septeraber 16. Valetta, Aug. 7.
a total
man tion in the new Atiantic defense Pact Deputies, who last night British naval officer has men to fight with the United Guinea,
PLATOON CUT OFF pinn and arms pool.
received a
a copy of the French wave of Infantile Nations forces. in a died
M. Alphand said that the An Eighth Army communique The Canadian Prime Minister,
franes needed memorandum, today had talks paralysis sweeping Malta. total of 19 enses was reported Mr Louis St Laurent, told issued late on Monday claimed 2,000,000,000,000 by today. Uniis in Cyrenaica, a press conference that ho ax- an advance of about 3,000 yards for rearmament over the next with the French Prime Minis where Malta-based alterat pected to announce a number on a broad front, but Reuter three years was in addition to ter, M. Rene Floven, the be
500,000,000,000 and other Minister and kor operated during the recent exer- of Cabinet decisions in a broad- frontline despatches contradicted the current military budget of fence Minister, M. Julo Roch cizes, were taking precautions-cast to the country tonight earlier reports that the Ameri-approximately
cans had taken at important francs 1:1991. Tais, supple-lecida Router, Reuter.
Reuter.