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Hongkong Telegraph
THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1950.
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EARTHQUAKE HAVOC IN Reporting TEN TOWNS BURN AFTER
NORTH INDIA
Thousands Homeless: Rest Cut Off
London, Aug. 16.
Though seismologists in many parts of the world claimed that last night's Far Eastern earth- quake was one of the worst ever, by tonight-24 hours later-only four deaths had been reported.
Heavy damage has been reported and a late radio message placed the most severely affected area as the Upper Brahmaputra Valley in North- Eastern India.
killed and
According to the New Delhi1990 people were Observatory, the quake-which have was caused over an area rocked the Assamy Bengal and of 100,000 square miles.
scismologists sald Bihar regions for over hours-origluated in the noun- was one of the worst six ever
recorded. tains of Fastern Tibet.
two Other
An Indian expert compared
it with the Queita (Baluchis lan) quake of 1935 when 25,-
Infuriated Moslems In Serious Riot
n
10
put out the Bames threatened
which
it
com-
*There was no news from Tibet, which is almost pletely cut off from the outside world.
Neither was there any record
Lieutenant Funchess post "somewhere in Korea."
in Rangoon, Burma, where the Parisian
uhock was
meteorologient
relanographs.
felt,
Rangoon's
office 1ins 110
The first news of a casualty came tonight from Dibrugarth,
Designer
a commercial town in Upper In Trouble
Aram, where one man was re- ported to have been killed and 20 were injured when a house collapsed.
Nice, Aug. 10.
The Paris fashion designer,
The town is about 100 miles Ela Schiaparelli, was arrested
Indian-Burmeset Nice airport today Just be- 1 the
VIOLENT OSCILLATIONS
fore she was to fly to Tunis.
Police said he had in her
The shock was fell on instru-turer. to spread. Police charged the mob with bamboo ments in Europe. Australia, the
resorted to United clubs, and finally
In
searched
Back
(foreground) and Sergeant Mixon report from a field Foxholes today are a feature of all the battlefronts.— (London Expresss Service).
Attlee Refuses To
Give To
Way Pressure
London, Aug. 16.
MASS AIR ATTACK
Scattered Korean Divisions Attempting To Re-group ANOTHER DANGER SPOT
Tokyo, Aug. 17..
The Communists were attempting to reorganise their massive preparations for a full-scale assault on Taegu today after the American Air Force mass air raid yesterday in which about a thousand tons of bombs were dropped.
An estimated 40,000 to 60,000 North Korean troops were counting wrecked tanks, vehicles and artillery pieces after 101 Super-fortresses dropped 500-lb general purpose bombs on the rectangle northwest of Taegu where they had mounted an assault.
First Cavalry Division patrols returned from]
three miles into enemy territory on the west side
of
the Naktong river yesterday, without reaching Burning
the area which the B-29 raid plastered. They re-
ported that the bombing was too deep behind the Plane Flown
Red front line for them to reach,
and Air reconnaissance and shed bridgeheads north
south of Wacgwan. fighter planes were
Communist troops were re-
.
NOTHING MOVING
.
over
skeller os
200 Miles
in preparation
*...
the bombed area this mort-ported to be fanning out through Airbase in Japan, Aug. 16.
Captain Vern F. Peterson ing for another check on the their bridgehead hits in pre- North Korean activity-paration for a sirike south-cast is not a man to let a burn- at Taegu and its well metalled ing aeroplane to keep him Karachi, August 16.
United Press,
road corridor running south to from his daughter's third The City. Government on
General MacArthur's principal Wednesday banned meetings of
birthday party. supply harbour ut Puspn. more than five persons and the from
Reconnaissance, pilots reported Peterson's F-60 was hit by The Prime Minister, Mr-Clement Attlee, to- carrying of weapons, after a border.
Korea, Aug. 17.
that Communist tanks and self- flak over Korea and flames bo
from a hole in mob of 1,000 infuriated Moslems Seismologists in Oslo, Norway,
fell possession some of the jewels night rejected Opposition demands for an early re-
Ten townships were burning
He climbed for stormed the City Hall and at-urised when the needle
and jettisoned the tempted to set it on fire.
miles" on the west bank of the 10 back the already numerically the right wing. off one of their recording instru- he had reported stolen in a
superior North Korean forces altitude The mois et are to office re-ments, raid it was the biggest sensational Riviera robbery two call of Parliament to discuss Britain's defence and not a thing was moving for propelled guns were moving up gan spurting
held for plans.
for a Naktong River after the 100-striking for Targu-on air base choops cords and furniture to protest a qunke ever registered. Record-weeks ago. She was
After a 90-minute meeting with the Conserva-ton saturation bombing raid, and second largest elty still in bail out. up to 17 centi-questioning and later released. ings measured"
last
Flam:s covered City order authorising the dis-
the entire South Korean hands. mantling of a temporary mos-netres (6,693 Inches). Nonnally The police said ther
right.
wing and licked towards the que, creeted on City property. two centimetres (0.787 inches) her age and wound part of tive lender, Mr Winston Churchill, and the Liberal server plot reported
she had reported
but Peterson flew 200 American Infantry, with tank | fuselage, pilots, returning Mustang are regarded as considerable for the jewela
US$70,000 jewe! leader, Mr Clement Davies, àt No. 10 Downing
bil stolen Armed polico were called to
attacked
day miles and made a belly landing disperse the mob, and the elty an Indian quake.
robbery on August 5 at the Street this evening, Mr Attlee announced that fres mopping up raids, sal support.
"scattered yesterday and, just before dusk, in time for the candle lighting. they strafed
Peterson sald: villa of Mes Noman Winston,
"The wing hall of the capital city became
wife of an American manufae Parliament would be recalled on September 12, the that battleground, Firemen Bought
bunches of North Koreans run- forced a North Korean column
a mile and a burned out Inside and the con- of high ground ; around helter date originally fixed by the Cabinet.
trol cables were burned through. half north-east of Wnegyan. though dazed.",
The Northemers' withdrawal My wingman stayed with me But Secretary, Mr Western European defence in
40 miles to the south
hastened by a gruelling on the way in and alerted the forces Ernest Bevin, was with Mr the Face of increased threat, of! Communist bridgehead
air rescue service so I was not American artillery barrage. Attlee during the talks with Mr Communist aggression.
too worried about leaving tho threatened to crack the Amerl- A British gelanological stron Customs officials said legal nc-
Government spokesmen have
South Korean defenders north lane." reported that the oscillations on ton would be taken for infrac Churchill and Mr Davies, The
scalor American officer of Waerwan were reported to The mission was Peterson's currency regulation. deputy Opposition leader, Mr pellet out that Britain in preen defence line wide open. After the lot, the City nd-its instruments were so violent ton of
she Anthony Eden, wartime Ferdigs ared to to to something Just said that they and redoubled be fighting aggressively, but they 45th over Korea. became too Police raid she told them
Flying ministration Invoked Section 144 that the recoils
of wartime economy to their strength in 24 hours, and faced another threal on their Distinguished tort foundl
after re Secretary, also attended, the jewelry
Ary strength. of the City Code, which bars the blurred for accurate reading.
Ал oficial
were attacking savagely "with right fank from the Communist for rescuing a B-20 crew under it stolen and had not
announcement build up her military porting
while he flre tron Reyoud that. It was felt, there assembly of more than Ave per-
nid that the Prime Minister
Japanese gun success" eastwards seme
force which captured Kunwi. Yongian, economie collapse And
carrying of forer of B.4 points-only 1-3/52ol around to notifying them-
their "bulge" had found himself unable to danger of
On the south east, the Com-served with the air rescue unit United Press. (Contd. on Page 5 Cul, 6)
the south weapons.--United Press.
accept the reasons advanced by would lay the country open to
arly 20 miles from
munist Sixth Division was re-nt Iwo Jima in the last war,- Arth columin the Opposition leaders for an Communist
Const.
ported to have "withdrawn United Press. carlier recall of Parliament. It es.-Reuter.
Frontline despatches reporting from contact with the Ameri on the Superfortress rald-the
largest ground support stake can Marines cast of Chinju, But they were believed to be re- since the Normandy battles of ey World War I-sal that hard grouping for an attack,
other sectors On the casi coast, where pressed Gis on
troops. striking were calling for more of the Communist
through unguarded hill country last week
Pohnng, South Korean and American
tear gas to clear the building. | America, Several municipal workers were injured.
Song
EDITORIAL
A
Some
The police eald a search of discloset States und South the luckgr n1s
declared. 5:,500 she had
centres
recorded
i!
An Idea Worth Study
NY suggestion offering even a remote possibility of cutting short the crisis created by the grim clash between Com- munism and the United Nations in Korea is not to be arbitrarily dismissed. Whether the Security to Indian delegate the Council has the slightest ground for believing that success could attend his
come The important proposal is immaterial. thing is that any fresh line of approach deserves examination, and support pre- suming there is no Impediment definitely roling out the scheme as impractical or unbelitting. It matters not how a solution is found as long it is 'done, and as long the United the principles guiding
Яs
Nations in challenging a coldly calculated net of aggression and insisting on an un- conditional withdrawal are not by a shade transgressed. Sir Benegal Ruu's declared objective is to prevent further deteriora. tion of international relations and at the same time advance the cause of peace and he has suggested that the whole field of possible action should be explored by a. special committee of the Security Council the Bix composed of
non-permanent members, presenting recommendations to the Council by some specified date. It has special appeal for two reasons. In the first place, something constructivo might be done at once by six members of the Council, instead of compelling them to witness the deliberate saboinging by the Sovlet delegate of all attempts by other members of Council to get down lo serious.
a committee business. Secondly, such would be composed of the representatives of dations who could not be accused any or of being expansionist ambitions inspired by special interests outside the cultivation of peace and harmony. The basic requirement of such a committee, that it directs Its activities towards fulfilment of the June 27 resolution in Korea and calling for a cease-fire
to
nol
A
withdrawal of the North Korean hordes, is unreservedly accepted. The American delegate gave cautious approval to the iden, promising sympathetic consideration, and Sir Gladwyn Febby has sought a directive from the Foreign Office, but it is difficult to conceive that harm could of the attempt along the lines proposed. Whether good would be necom- plished is more problematical. The position on the battlefront itself tends no encotiragement to hopes that the North Koreans can be induced partially to redeem themselves by voluntarily ngreeing, to heed the June 27 demand from Lake Success, They are girded for amushing offensive on a scale for greater than
несп anything hitherto
in the struggle for mastery, they are un- doubtedly well directed, and on all-out bld is imminent. Pusan - capture Mediation, in these circumstances, would certainly be treated with scant respect. Unless perchance the Soviela lind it expedient to exercise their Influence which of course means; Are they wliling to call The nuisance-value the whole thing off? inetles of Mallk promute Hike hope of a marked change of attitude in Kremlin quarter, quite the reverse. But while it cannot be regarded as probable, there is Just a cliance that the Indian proposal will be seized upon as a grateful get-out of an awkward situation, without loss of she Russia soon learned what -face.
sought to discover-how the free world would react to an isolated switch from "cold war" to open hostilities. Except for the Kremlin, the response was refreshing. For the Kremlin, it has been an object lesson. For that reason, it is Just possible that, using the Indian initiative, they might try to make the best of a bad Job. It would do no harm to put it to the test.
The Foreign
The dale
alrency
more suitable.
fixed was
The demand for the recall of
Lac-
STOP PRESS
Parliament in a week or 10, days was made by Mr Chur- chill and Mr Davies last week on the grounds that the Jato chosen by the Government bore "no relation to the crisis."
Huge crowds flocked to No. 10 Downing Street to watch the Cabinet arrival of Ministers to a meeting prior to the
with the political leads Vesting!
CONCORD FIRED ON
near
WAEGWAN TUSSLE
Wax
overran
He holds tho Coss
Swiss To Join Payments Union
London, Aug. 16. Tho Swiss Federal Couricit troopy seized high ground north
its delegation.. today authorised Jirst routh of the bomb-batter Chidong and Kigye,
General MacArthur's head to the Organisation for Euro- ed urea, the town of Waegwan changed hands twice in the last quarters said that light bombers nean Economic Co-operation to payments scored hits on a Sub-siga the European 24 hours. The Americans will merged Naktong River
cause agreement. The agreement will The police reported that de The British destroyer, HLM.S.drew yesterday and Communist
And way over which the Communists apply to Switzerland after op- (LI. 13 d:ep-wasi Concord | crowd-standing
Cindr. D. patrols held the deserted-
town
this have been driving armour and proval by Parliament and mif- unul the biggest since the
burni war, McLachlan, DSC, RN,) \was half
Into their flcation by the Federal Council."
-Reuter. Wangwan bridgehead.-Router. Mounted police cleared a nor-red to by tasteries of guns morning, when the G.L. drove self-propelled guns rew pathway to the doorway of mounted on Tai Ta Mi, Punti them out again. No. 10. Shouts of "Good Win-ind Lingting Islands as she was
Mr nie" geeted
Churchill's approaching Hongkong nrrival and departure.
INEVITABLE CIGAR
waters
ever-
Reuter's cUL- Lionel Hudson,
that #zalel respondent there. at 8.30 this morning.
neither the Americans, nor the North Korears appeared to be HIM.S. Concord returned the keer about holding the town 14-
[kely Mr Churchill, with the inevit. Are from the batteries on Ling-self becaum.it is on the bank of able cigas in his mouth, looked ting Island in self defence.
the Naktong River and Krim as he came out of No. 10,
In a statement announcing looked by hills all round. briefly in He waved his hand
the Last night, heavy fighting acknowledgment of the cheers the attack on the ship
Weegwan- Naval authorities in Hongkong raged in the entire
river of the and drove off quickly.
minor Taegu prea ensi Mr Churchill had been asking tald that although anc
casually
nowhere, despite the devastating
miles only a few
nway.
the Government for months to large war done to the vessel old
was Gustained,
give details of what he cons which is now safely back in about 20 North ders the grave state of Britain's. defence, her back of men and
equipment.
Mr Attlee's
was expected.
Paritamentary
decision today
Fources zaid
that Britain's new rearmoment
harbour.
programme had only just been NEW ATTACK
announced and until it began to take a
At The Yongsan Front
more definite shine! Government felt that it would
August 17. have Insumcient data to place i The Americans launched their before Parliament before next second counter-offensive month,
morning when elements of Decisions to iperense pay in 24th Division and the armed forces to attract Marine Brigade attacked more recruits and to extend Changnyang bridgehead. conscription from 18 months to two years wore believed to This was the first public
that
the
Serious Threat In
Taegu Sector
Washington, Aug. 16.
A United States Air Force spokesman said Korcan innks here today that 101 B-29 Superfortresses took part- swarmed through the two estab-
in today's "saturation” raid on the Naktong River, front in Korea.
Safe Conduct 0-pound
Request
were used Each of them dropped forty which the B.29's
general purpose for close support was 'not one bombs, he added.
of impending disaster" but It The announcement was made was "very very serious."
North Korean attack as a correction to a communique which said that 00 bombers took which had been expected in the before the part and dropped 3,800 bombe. Wegwan
The
area
Moscow, Aug. 14.
Referring to reports that the Superfortresses' bombing was Tire Soviet Foreign Ministry attack was simber to the World the most serious threat that this ho
pnated on to the North War II rald in Normandy which existed in the Korean theatre the Korean authorities Brish enabled American troopa toho stated. First request for a safe conduct to break out at St. Le, the mookes-
If the Communists were the China for Captain Vyvyan Holt, man declared, "It was nothing
British Minister in Seoul, the like the concentration at St. Lo, forced by: the raid to re-group dis-Deputy Foreign Minister, M. but we hope it will do some and reorganise delaying their
Alexander Bogomolov, has in- good."
attack, the bombing would be have been taken at the Cabinet closure
Marines of the
More than 1,500 planes took considered offlcsily to have meeting prior to Mr Attlee's First Brigade had been shifted formed the British Ambasador
part in the St Lo raid, dropping been successful Laika with Mr Churchill
to meet the Communist threat her.
tons of borabs in an An Embassy spokesman rald 3,400
A Communist attack in this In the bulge. CRITICS SILENCED
tonight that M. Bogomolov had area 7,000 yards long and 250
The area bombed vital sector would threalm, the and written to the Ambassador, Sir yards wide, Carrier-based The Government believe that
tell him that in Korea today, was seven and important communications, cabe theso.muamares, coupled with Air Force F-1s and F-80 Jets David Kelly, Itd rearmament - drive, will zuvo close air support.
the Ministry had communicated a half miles long and three and the at Taegu, If not sodosd, silence eritien at home and It was preceded by an intense his request of two weeks agy a half miles wide, what it might but the United Nations abroad who have declared thet artillery, and bombing-often-to the North Korean authori Britain bus Inspired behind in tog up" attack United Press. ties. Reuter.
Corsairs
4
As Army spokowman said forces in two and thresion that that the Korean nation in with envelopes LE