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Pre-War”
Glory
SOUNDED ABOUT
SCHUMAN PLAN
Strasbourg, Aug. 14.
Representatives of four of the six countries subscribing to the Schuman Plan sounded warning notes in the European Assembly here today on one or other aspect of the French scheme to pool Europe's coal and steel.
Speaker after speaker in the Consultative Assembly of the Council put the Schuman proposals under the microscope when the 125 representatives of 15 nations began their debate on economic affairs.
Today there Wan no French "We ask that in this process; Spreken. mael
expected the interess of the Africans that M. Paul Reynas), Chur- should not be sacrificed," tie 111 I the Assembly's Beo- added.
munic
Committee and known
for the Schmita 3 Maurer Ed. Anatı, British Plan, will put the Frengh puni Labour member, Kiving a per- of view when the debate is re-sonal view of the British Gov. subteri tomorrow afternoon.
content's objections to the Plan, declared that no country Str
Facles. Butih pendr David
much on Iron und Cmaervative inernber,
Price : Belain did. of the As-
tank at is absolutely un- Committee, Just that certain people whose challenged French insistence uneconomy does not in fact de-1 a supra-National Authority of; prend un steel should censure
soring the report sembly's Economie
experts
in the coal anditain for not putting in 3c0-
steel andtastries of Europe.
partly the whole of cur
ecommny," he said.
02-
hes in Britain steel is cur
Those two industriis," saul. "me so vital to the he,
of the murdern slate this once inly be," Mr Edelman sald.
He
with that they are effectively taken out
nced
the
of the handa of a national Korean war brinting the ques
tion of defence to the fore il government,
I governarent must prizes the servant to war mere necessary than ever whatever authorsty or institu- that governments and not some should plan ton it may be to which thes.remole authority heavy industries have Ucen transferred,"
INFLUENCE OF EXPERTS
the barie Industries.
Air Edelman said. that hi personal view of what WAS needed was a coal and steel or ganisation representing trade
TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1950.
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U.S. DIVISION PRESSING ATTACK
For the Best time since the war, a battleship is acting as guardship at Cowes for the an- na yachting week, and she is being illuminated at night bringing back much of the pre- war glory to Cowes.(Central Press).
Malik Denounced
For Shocking Impudence
Lake Success, Aug. 11.
The Security Council of the United Nations
junious, employers and govern- tonight heard M. Jean Chauvel, chlef French dele- plan gate, describe the Soviet claim that the United
Declaring that It was possible
which price for
ents
would
to pay too high a economic integration, Mr Eccles Europe's heavy industries not! added, "My friends and 1 di- by arbitrary decree but by con- States had furnished the Korean Republic with like the growing influence of ex-sent.
perts on our daily lives.
"There are plenty of experts!
1 „Einope today. What we are
COUNTER PLAN
arms for aggression as “shocking impudence."
A little earlier, Mr Antonio Guevadg (Ecua-
M. Piet Semarens, (Nether-dor) denied Soviet accusations that the United hort of today is goud Muu-Hands Callotic Party) said that Nations was being used as an instrument of United
measures for pofextum ding the f
ters,"
1
Air Factos questioned whether tere of th workers under States aggression in Korea.
Welr
there were adequate safeguards (the Schman 13: against the Schuman Plan deve Mały płutely essentiall
"Nobody will believe that 53 ; Finch translatkan of Mr Malik's loping into a cartel.
in the United Nation: perch
over
Insti If the plan went through the nations
from faced are at the merry and comic week. The French North African enat and steel workers
13.21 everal speakers Deputy, M. Gusmane Diop Seco the propert of
hementious of the United Slate" ne des Were helbing themselves ready declared that the fate of Africa sacrifices."
to chilenge the charges #L might nvolve glared. was intimately bound up with, whole ale
by Air Malik at th. dast session. unemployment and the Schuman Plan, because with the transfer of labour.
PARALYSIS BY SOVIET
Was
Connel 331
meetin vaus under the Presidency bi
the drying up of other world To therefore nutreed with e, Mr Jacob Malik; the Soviet de- markets Africa was the only provision # the Brith Con- territory open to European deve-servative count replic, for trade lopment.
(Contourd on Pare 5, Cal. 5)
EDITORIAL
I
Recklessness On
“NDIVIDUAL complaints of reckless driving by those entrusted with military vehicles, particularly on the scure of excessive speed Imperilling other read- users, pedestrian or in curs of their own, have been made so frequenily of late that the Idea of disciplinary or other measures by the military authorities to ensure im- proved controi hus much to commend it. At least, It would be appropriate for officers competent to judge, soundly to examine the existing system, carry out few discreet checks on the ronds, and 19 make recommendations kely to diminish the heart-burning uf others. riding the roads with a good deal of trepidation. How many accidents have occurred over, say, the lust six months, it is difficult to determine. The main reason for that is the clamping down on infor mation in Service channels, possibly un a security basis, possibly to avoid drawing additional attention to the tendency to- wards recklessness
harum-seurum driving. When no other car but a rullltary jeep or lorry is involved, this naturally follows, if the will is there. Leakages veeur when ensualties have tu he rushed to hospital, and even then details of serious accidents are difllcult to obtain. In short, the proportion of actual mishaps to those reaching the public ear is belleved to be relatively "small, By and large, there is reason to believe that the victims of accidents in military vehicles, or caused by army drivers, are prepon- derately
that Servicemen, and
the numbers are not notably light. When a Jorry goes over a sleep embankment with a contingent of men proceeding to Kowloon or returning to camp from leave, the casualty list tends to be high. The menace to people walking along the rond was demonstrated at an inquest inst week when i was disclosed that a man was killed by a trailer which had broken loose from a Jeep because the safety
Owing to the Council's rules. he meeting began with a long:
N.T. Roads
Mo
nf
locking device had been rendered 13- operative. No accusation was made carelessness by the soldier, who unde the attachment, but it was very cieurly implied that he was not aequainted with the principles rendering it Tool-proof. What is the answer? It is not enough for a commanding officer to issue a U nít Order covering such a contingency, nor for the inclusion of provisions concerning tocking devices into the traffic safety regulations of the Colony. #ts enough to suggest that men pinced in charge of army vehicles should be sub mitted to the driving tests of the Hong- kong traffic police. That, in fact, might be regarded as far too much! Neverthe less, stricter control should be exercised by the authorities chiefly responsible- the Karrisun command. Except vn occasions when special tests arc necessary. In exercises for instance, definite speed limits should be enforced, coupled with very clear instructions regarding behaviour at dangerous points mong the route. Why certain people are niwoys in a hurry seems strange të ʼn lover of the countryside, particularly as there Is seldom cause for condemnation in built-up areas. But the New Territories provide much benuty and variety. affords magnificent scenic attractions not ordinary to any part of the world. In a nutshell, the urge should be there to take things easily and not to try and get anywhere in the shortest possible space of time. The temptation to pack 25 miles into 30 minutes should be excluded by the delights of the landscape-nat by the full realisation that the roads of Hongkong with their sweeping curves can be extremely dangerous, both to a motorist and to the fool around the corner. But when neither achieves the desired effect. some drastic alternative would appear to be in order.
It
made
in the cour of his address, M. Chnovel analysed the effect of the Soviet return In Council.
the
altempt to break
the
the
Ali The Croc Found Dead
Lausanne, Aug. 14. All, the cruendite which meared into the lake of Grieva fast werk, has bren found dend on the shore near the town of Thonon, About 13 miles
the ACTORY
Lake from kapsanne.
The replie's body hai a large gash in its luc. This Is believed to have been caused by the pro- peller of a motorboat.
All ercaped from 1
M. Andre Wobler, owner,
wich Lausanne. took it out of lin arlificfal pvol to see its reactions in
natural "Bure
surround- Ines, but the repille be- came scared and swam off. -Reuter,
PIN-PRICK
BLOCKADE
REOPENED
ON BRIDGEHEAD
Heavy Fighting At Danger Spot
On Naktong River
River Front
BRACED FOR BIG ASSAULT
Tokyo, Aug. 15.
American troops battled anew today at the Communist bridgehead on the Naktong River southwest of Taegu after driving halfway through it on the first day of a determined attack.
Meanwhile, Communist troops thrust a new bridgehead across the Naktong River less than
Over Formosa
two miles above the bulgebattle where the Ameri-Britain Anxious can attackers sought to smash an enemy force of 10,000 men. An estimated 2,000 North Koreans made the crossing 20 miles southwest of Taegu in predawn darkness. American reinforcements | rushed to meet the new throat.
The crossing was the only one reported up to Sam, along the winding Naktong where the Allied forces were braced for a general assault expected today Korean Independence Day and second anniversary of the founding of the South Korean Republic.
American and Australian planes knocked out 12 North Korean trucks on the road along the South coast plus another XIX
Sabotage
troop-laden On Theseus
trucks in the Chinju area to the northwest.
The United States and South Korean troops counter-attacked in 1e Pohang area in a bid to isolate the Communists who seized the cast const port. The nearby nirfield WIN
In friendly hands.
CLEANING UP POCKETS
Suspected
London. Aug. 14.
London, Aug. 14.
The United States Am7~ bassador, Mr Lewis Dour- las. and the Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, conferred with the Prime Minister, Mr Attlee, at No. 10 Downing Street today.
The question of Formosa, Bellain and Upon which
the United States do not
ser kare to eye, was re-
ported unofficially to be toplo in a The principal general review of the Far Eastern situation,
Bellain, who has re- cognbed the Chinese Com- munkt rovernment, Wie sald to be disturbed by the American guarantees to General Chikar Kai-shek to protect Formosa against invasion.-United Press.
Portsmouth naval authori-MISSION
ties were today probing the possibility of sabotage
aboard the British aircraft IN MALAYA
carrier Theseus due to leave for Korea on Friday.
Dainage was discovered in the IMPRESSED
of the
ship's
Tokyo, Aug, 15. General MacArthur's Korcan electrical leads r.lease issued at 1 a.m. localBro-compass.
that operation time today, said
The Theseus was sailing from Kean forces in the south conso- the Portsmouth naval base to lidated positions along the high day for trials.
J
Kuala Lumpur, Aug. 14.
Mr John F. Melby, head of the United States Survey Mia- slon to South-East Asia, said
1 "specific request"
A naval spokesman confirmed
He declined to specify the ald today that defects had been dis- covered during a rouline exami- asked for. nation of installation.
The defects were easily re-
the
gyro-compass
The Mission, he mid, was im- pressed by the way the Malayan Government and the British
round four miles east of Chinju A naval spokesman Indirated here today that the Mission had while rear elements continued to that the damage was slight and received clear out pockets of Communist that the ship's programme would from Britain for American aid He said, "The paralysis of the
Berlin, Aug, 14, troops by-passed in the offen- not be affected.
In the fight against Malayan Council, assistance Riven Eu the North Korean
Wist Berlin postal authorities ¦ zive.
Communists. aggressors.alleged today that Russian
the order officials had coniscalesi An estimated 1,000 troops re- solidarity of the Council andi more than 1,000 parcels from
under attack 1
in these attacks
against
United States, these are
inter-zonal trains and demanded pockets. to date thepiral action by the Western Although the CIGANY Is still effects of the return of the Alles.
actus reluforcements moving Soviet tel.gation among 119.
The officials Gald that the Naktong River south-west of
of parable with the ship's resources, Army was tackling the guerilla
problem. "It is necessary to under Russians at Marrienborn, check- Changnyong to reinforce
he said. the
that he Disclesing line that the effects are purety point on the Soviet side of the
in Korean waters the Theseus North Korean Fourth Division,
security force negative"
was to were Americata troops
join H.M,S, zonal border,
attacked and
Triumph Companied
Jungle patrol, Mr Melby ald, turn of the Soviet Union had restrict mail facilities
in action. One enemy mately 1,000 yards. raised in my
higout of Berlin." places
The Theseus was completed
cast bank in this sector,
German
M. Canuvel said that the re-renewing efforts "deliberately 10 pushed the Fourth back approxi- whose aircraft have already becait was lough golng".
in a
had oc
The Mission, which Includes an olivinus lank has been reported on the in 1016 and bas a romplement / Major-G:neral G. A. Erskine, Commander of the First Marino of 85 men, excluding airmen Division, arrived in Malaya on "In the east coast sector the She is capable of 25 knots and August 7 from Saigon to "survey O.C, combined American and Re- Jcarries 40 aircraft,
the nature and extent of United
i hopes. Many thought that the They said it was
Saviet
Government
had attempt 10
teopen the "pin- measured the inconveniences of brick blockade" and embarrass a six months' absence and vi
he Alling.
work.
the
the inere:sed dangers which According to the officials, publie ul Korea forces for A vessel of 18,000 tons, she | States military and economic || weighed on the security of the Soviet officers and East German engaging what is believed to be is one of the most modern assistance required, priorities
Polics" "People's
confiscated
North Korean Twelfth British
carrier aircraft
and for milliary ald programines the parcels from traing running Division west of Pohang. MEN OF GOODWILL
after service in the Pacific was and the nature
of advisory West Germany and "The mirteld near Pohang is attached to the Home Fleet. "Many had looked forward to between
groups needed in the arca." a renewal of international colla- Berlin during
the last three! Bill in friendly hands, although Her "posting" to Karen was i Members of the Mission are boration, evidenced first of all day without giving any reason. the
is held town
by
few days ago. having talks with army and 200 made publle a ! During July Soviet oficiais
Communist by extinguishing a loent fire in
civil chlofa in Malaya.-Reuter. troops Reuter, one-week mail Uniformed the Korean peninsula and after-imposed
undetermined number cituation in wards, perhaps by the examina blockade in which 28 waggons and an
et guerillas.. The were detained. 19 tion of vaster questions,
WRS The East German authorities the vicinity of Yongdok prelude to wider settlements.
the time complained et changed. men of goodwill t
of Jare "A recond bridge is believed alleged smuggling“ counted as the goodwill
quantities of Soviet zene goods cro the Naktong north of and they cannot but feet from West Berlin to West Ger- Wacgwan,"
cor
These
others
of
11
an immense disappointment If many-Reuter.
Is shown that in the mind of the Soviet Government, the first step in the Korean affair
Thust
be not settlement but liquida- tion: liquidation not only of United Nations action but, I fear, liquidation also of the prin-; ciples of the Charter."
M. Chauvet sald--Reuter.
Czech Family's
Flight
Duke's
Hunch
Was Mistaken
MUD AND RAIN
The American 24th Division, slogging through mud and rai
Two Britons Shot
Dead
In Ambush
Rangoon, Aug. 14.
Saw Ba U Gyi, the Oxford-educated Karen
yesterday, shed the face of "underground” chief, who was killed in battle be- the North Korean Chungayangtween Karen and Government forces near the bridgehead for a depth or more Siamese border, was about to flee the country than
mile.
In the same central arca, just
north of Wacgwan, Southhiding place.
of
London, Aug. 14. The Duke of Edinburgh left
About 40 miles north, the by elephant. his cricket match early and sped back to Clarence House today American First Cavalry Division
This Was stated by eye-iglon, 15 milen north because he had a lunch that his wiped out a force of 800 Cem-
who this Elizabeth, was munjets
morning witnesses who have returned to Motirnein. wife, Princess
the nearest big Naktong River, Moulmein,
Barnese Government forces about to have her arcond baby. breaufied the
surrounded his but, called on brought over an town, with his body, But Royal household zources with tanks
They declared that several him to surrender, but Ba U Gył rock-and-sandbug Sald the birth expected last underwater
elephants ready to travel were opened fire with a carbine. The Wednesday was "at least several i causeway.
discovered
Gyl's troops replied, hours away."-United Press.
Fear Ba U Killed alongside B U Gyi in Da Gyi was still
living Korean troops repulsed a driva
two when the hut was entered, Ho by North Koreans who were the jungle ambush were under orders to take Taegu to-Britons-Captain David Vivian, drank a glass of water and died. The two Englishmen made a Brilish former
Army officer, London, Aug 14.
day.
and an adviser to the Karen dash for freedom and were shot Britain today ordered ali
Late despatches said that Alf leader named "Baker, who was dead with two orderlies and an Czech youths barn between July 1 and Force ground crews, tanks and not further identified.
aide-de-camy. Alono of the manufacturer, his wife and their September 30, 1932, to register infantry still hold the major Saw Ba U Gyl was discover-occupants of the hut, Ba U Gyi's, two sons, admitted the threat, Tor military service on Septemn-American airbase six miles ed when loyal Karens told the cook was captured aliya. but added that they had only aber 2nd under the quarterly south-east of Poliang-now, use- Government forces that he was The Burniese troops found knife, the West German news programmer of the National (less_to_fighter pilots and under hiding in the villege of Taka-photographs, weapons agency DPA said-Beuter. Service Act.-United Press.
(Canta, on Fage 5, Col. 7)
wako, in the Kawkarein re-i muniflon near the hut---Router,
Augsburg, Aug. 14. The plot of a Czech plane which gule a forced landing near here on Saturday said to- day that his passengers, a family of four, threatened to shoot him if he did not fly them to Ger- many.
The passengers, A
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