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FBI TRACED NEW SPY SUSPECT TO MEXICO CITY
Washington, Aug. 18.
The Justice Department today announced the arrest of a former United States Navy civilian en- gineer on charges of giving national defence secrets to Russia.
The Department said that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took Morton Sobell, 33-year- old New York electrical engineer, into custody at Laredo, Texas, this morning.
Secret Court Martial
Colchester, Essex,
Aug. 18.
A secret court marital of three British soldiers wan ordered here today, willi BII-5 officers in attendance and American oficers and
sergeants landing by
give evidence,
Lo
Bellain's No. 2 officer at the War Office responsible for operational
strategy
and planning, personally applied for evidence to be taken in secret.
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The decision to do was reached after Brigadier E. 8. Lindsay, Deputy Director of Military Opera- Hons at the War Offee, hind said; "From the security point of view I consider that the evidence should not be given in public."- Reuter.
Won't Handle Russian Furs
New York, Aug. 18. Dock workern refused today to unload Russian
Jurs which arrived on the British Cunard liner, Mauretanin.
He is the eighth person arrested in a round-up of Americans accused of chan- nelling atom bomb data and other secret information to a Soviet spy ring.
Mr Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI, raid that Sobell fed the United States in June to avold arrest but was de- Mexico, Sobell ported from was employed on restricted work for the Navy at the General Electric plant in New York from 1042 to 1942
As he is accured of toplanage conspiracy in wartime, Sobell; Jaren a possible deală penalty.
The authorities would not di close how Sobell was deported from Mexico or the details of the arrest.
They said Sobel flew to Mexico City a few days after the arrest en June 10 of David, Greenglars, a former Arm man charged with getting atom bomb. secrets for the Kussjars.
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Anti-Sub MARINES SMASH NAKTONG
Plane
Two Of Quads Born Safely As Doctors
Worry
Bellingen, New South Wales, Aug. 18.
Sara's
compact
RIVER BULGE
Crack North Korean Division Routed
SAVAGE 2-DAY FIGHTING
Tokyo, Aug. 19.
United States Marines and infantrymen have smashed the Communists' dangerous Naktong River bulge, and United Nations troops are pushing the North Koreans back on the cast
coast.
Earlier, frontline dis- patches said the United Na tions forces also had thrown Korean back the North offensive on the provisional capital of Taegu.
in Korea Communist frontline
horough working aver," General MacArthur's head- quarters announced,
Twice the Japanese-based Achters refuelled and raloacled at Korean bases to carry out their misslon,
their 24 sortles In
they
Troops of the First Marine Brigade and the 24th Infantry pleutered the troop-filled town Division ended a savage two-day of Lizong, 33 miles attack on the Caramunt Taegu, with bridgehead across the Naktong
Capable of storage aboard an air- craft carrier, Britain's new Fairey 17 anti-submarinenear Changnyong with mopping- plane flies over Malden- head, England, with full wingspread of 54 feet, 4 inches In three séc. tions, the wings can be 20 feet. folded intu
(Acme).
Belgian Communist Leader Shot Dead
operallons. They had routed în pani
Inic the Communist crock ground was littered with the Fourth Division, and the battle- bodies of 1,000 to 1,600 enemy troops
who had been mowed down by serial strafing, artillery and rifles.
The victory eased the North Koreans two-pronged threat on Tegu, to the northeast, and the vital port of Pusan, to the south- cast. United Press.
FLANK TURNED General MacArthur's Head- quarters For Korea, Aug. 19.
Units of the 24th Infantry Division and the First Marine Division are steady pushing In back North Korean forces
Changnyong the
bridgehead Naktong River, of the carl
com
ה
north 600-pound bombu
REPORT. OF AUSSIE LANDING
Tokyo, Aug. 19. Unconfirmed reports here this morning stat- ed that about 4,000- Australian troops had landed at Inchon, 20 miles west of Seoul, the Communist-held capital
of South Korea.
No confirmation of the reports was avail- able here -Reuter.
ANOTHER BRITISH CARRIER COMING
от
Portsmouth, Aug. 18. Another British aircraft carrier, the 13,350-ton War- rior. will leave here Sunday to reinforce the Bri- tish Far Eastern Fleet.
of the Warrior, Sister ship the Theseus, left here today for duty of Korea with the United Nations blockade forces. Theseus alled on time despile the du covery of suspected sabotage a few days ago when gyro com- past electrical tends were cut.
Warrior was refitted last year with on experimental flexible been rubberised deck, and has used in trials with carrier-berne jet aircraft nitted with skids- Reuter.
Senator
BRITAIN'S OFFER
Washington, Aug. 18.
Scott Lucas, the leader. announced least today that Britain had offered round forces with at least
Democratic
Mr Hoover said that Sobell, who was recently employed at
A British war bride, 29-year-old Betty Sara, who is the Reever Instrument Com-
New York City. pany in
did expecting quads; today gave birth to the second of the not report for work after Green- children, a boy. The first, a girl, was born last night.
hours and glass Wan
the arrested, but FBI traced him to Mexico City.
Worried doctors, who de-terday. Twenty-six
two minutes lat.r the boy ar- The entire group was charged livered the first two babies ved. He was cald to be slightly Both with working with Harry Gold, 26 hours apart, did not know smaller than his sister. the the Philadelphia The men, members of
and reported "progressing not- mally. American Federation of Labour is alleged to chemist who exactly when the rest of the are in a specially heated crib International Longshoremen's American contact for Dr Klaus quartet could be expected,
Doctors late, today said they
General MacArthur's Brussels, Aug. 18. Drugs from a Sydney hospital not to Fuchs, the Brition atomic selen- Association, also voled
rockels and left at Bellingend not expect further births Irvingt a
The Belgian Communist munique announced shortly af- and a 24-years' are being flown to handle any goods from Russia ist
sentence prison
five large fires blazin mighly ij 6,000 men to start with" In the for selling to be given intravenously to during the night,
Julien ter midnight. former airman Party leader, M. in the near future.
They Riso scored In her trength Mira Sara
Mrs
The communique disclosed The furs aboard the laureatomic secrets to Russia.
Perey The arugs are due at hwband,
Sam, pad Lahnut, was assassinated at that
Marines apparently effective" hils on Krangju, an- Korean fighting. the
She
ordered all had also tanla were valued at US$138,- Sobell was born in New York orient.
nervously along the verandah who daybreak.
his house at Seraing near having overcome earlier "ex- other enemy-held town.
things: naval forces in Japanese waters 000. They were expected to be City of Russian parents.
The Arr qand in taking outside his wite's bedroom,
They also did these tonight. MI. M.tremely stubborn" resistance-
to alto take part in the struggle. to Britain like the are naturalised Americans. He
doing so throughout Liege returned
the Navy during clucose from a "dropper" feed-and bien
Thirteen nations had offered Russian crab-reat which dock worked for
the night, chain-smoking all the Lahaut, who was a member succeeded in turning the North bombed the entrance apparatus,
Koreans' southern war in the Generni NT
flank into strategic road tunnel northwest workers refused to handle ently the last
of the Chamber of Deputies, The baby girl, weighing 1.7 time.
The path of American 24th of Waegwan to seal it; attacked direct military aid to the United secret Corporation's
Norway hnd mada four Nations. it had arrived Electric
(hree and thre.- ANXIOUS
merchant MOMENTS
was killed by two men.
"several Mellon-Heu-kilogramus
Division units who engaged them vehicles in Poksongdong,
of available research liner Furthla-radar
A prisoner
and a half miles northwest quarter pounds) was born yes-
during the war,
and a vigorously. The moaned: "I have had plenty
Wacgwan, leaving large build-chips"-Reuter,
The State Department toxiny mements, including [of anxious
formal accept- ing blazing; gave Senoju, seven being shot down over Germany,
miles southwest of Waegwan, announced the
with ance of Turkey's offer to send but have never known any-
"thorough working over"
machine-4,500 troops to Korca. If the births
on the thing like this.
bombs, rockets and
Com- Further discussions and
blasted are very far apart I will be
gun fire, munist gun positions in villages despatch of the force were now nervous wreck."
north of Youngeson, fr the under way in Ankara,
staled-Reuler. Naktong River bulge.-Router.
this work after
on the British Reuter.
EDITORIAL
ter.
Interplay Of Ideas
X7ITH attention so closely engaged by and In such manner thal delegates con-
W the
erilicnt
stages
of
the
Koren conflict, today developing rapidly Inwards what will later
hy military experts
the decision,
be regarded
as the battle of Interesting profoundly
among delegates of meeting Biteen European nationalities,
exchange of views
at Strasbourg in the Counell of Europr.
has probably not made
pression that otherwise
to
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Cull-
against supine tinuously bulls formity to orders from abave. It has to be recognised, however, that the climate is not yet ripe for any drastic measures In the cause of unity. It is one thing to any that the Western European countries United States of Europe. must create a Tedernte er perish, give up national in. dependence the deep im-
supranational it must have
authority-the hugbear of the Schuman Plan-and the like. The fact remains that done. Nothing concrete has been achieveck
The the people of Europe are not yet ready. of by reason
the constitution.
The aftermath of war and the mentice consultative body, โล #L Assembly
from behind the Iron Curtain has not resirleted some say hamstrung-hy the
cultivated the appeal of democratic directives of the Committee of Ministers,
Internationalism,
obviously, and, quite Decisions are outside the Assembly's
diMculties of evolving a the practical province, and the delegates can offer
scheme
all to acceptable federation only guidance, by a reasonably free
This does not members are colossal. From that angie, the interplay of ideas.
and Co mean that a closer harmony second annual session of the Consulin.
operation is not essential. On the ideni, tive Assembly has been stimulating and
agreement. The Illuminating, even when the observer
there is widesprend inconsistency in the Conservative Party in the British Isles 18 deteels a certain
more amenable to the project, curiously altitude of, sny, Mr Ronald MacKay, a Labour M. P. who supports Mr Attlee's enough, than the Sociallst Government. The Labour Party has always been repugnance to agree to commit Britnin to
the almost hostile as aceptical and participation in the Schuman steel and
proved, Unity" pamphlet "European coal merger plan and, at the same time,
Jargely because of fears that Common. would surrender national sovereignty to a far greater extent by setting up a wealth partnership would be injured or hampered: They are right in insisting European Parliament, able to pass Acts countries. Mir
achieved that
cannot be member
unification binding on MacKay's
sound appeared motives
overnight; the process must go on step the bottom enough and, looking into the future, his.
by step, working up from More and not building n roof before the commonsense. · arguments made
foundations are laid. This nutlous important, perhaps, was the fact that
attitude may not amuse the Consultative they drew generous applause from the
Assembly, but their task is to influence rest of the Assembly. For the value of
public opinion. Frank talks at Stras. the Assembly on the basis of the limited
bourg. like those creating. a highly assignment authorised by the Ministers
satisfactory atmosphere this week, enable rests on its steady confirmation that it
them to pursue that job from a good. represents the most hopeful of all
stort. organisations seeking European unity
July
ilc
His attackers drove up to his The communique sald that in home in Liego Province, Eastern the American First Cavalry Belgium, In a car.
Division's sector the situation was still. "unchanged."
But the South Korean First Division
unlts had regained from half to all of the ground lost in Thursday's attack and were holding firm in the face of the present main Communist
A virulent opponent of King Leopold, M. Lähaut, aged 85, caused an uproar last week when he yelled "Vive La Re- they have a publique" while
Bau- Prince
hief of State.
effort.
The
Saras were married 1945, and four-year-old son.
Many of Bellingen's 1,500 in- was being sworn in a habitants stayed up all night
called M. Labiaut
for the
With the South Korean re- waiting for something to hap pen. They jamined the hospital eldleation of King Leopold as cupture of Pohang and Kigye on the east coast, the defence switchboard with demands for early as July 1945,
lines in this area were stated Hotel
weat proprietors M. Lahaut was defeated in to be running generally an invasion
these two points, parliamentary voto for Vice- und between
United Doctors have no re- Pridenty of the Chamber of while
Nations forces North Denulica
pushing several cord of surviving quadruplets in
shirt Korean regiments there from the whole of Australia.
necessary.
for
DR a
of
TiO VER shot his
were
REFUGEES RETURN
A plane is standing by to take sleeven at the door of his house the south and west-Reuter. Mrs Sore to hospital in the, as he answered the knocks of if two men. Their car was left larger town of Newcastle
with engine running. Four
One hit 17. With MacArthur's Head- She is now in a small leather shots were Bred.
three in quarters For Korea, Aug. 10. hospital
hilltop Lohaut in the head, board
then the body, The two men
News of the successful push on overlooking Bellingen.
Tocgu main front before hushand rushed to their car and escaped. the told her Mrs Sara
M. Lahout stumbled for 10 coincided with a mass exodus loday: "I had a bit of a shock when they told me I was going steps before dying in his wife's from the threatened town after Allied proclamation allowed to have four babies, although arms. I suspected something like this happening."Reuter
Danes' Hospital Ship Offer
Copenhagen, Aug. 18. The Danish Government to- day .offered the 13,104-ion motorship Jutland as a hospital ship in the Korean fighting. The offer, made in a telegram to the United Nations, includes a full crow, doctors and xurses.
Reuter.
Favourable Vote For Pholien
Brussels, Aug. 18.
Blood fron head and
wounds
AM
in his Korean civilians to leave.
his chest stained
But later, as tens of thousands wife's dress as she clutched him. of southern-bound refugees
The police rushed up street to burst into his home within minutes of the assassing way, planes dropped leaflets on them urging them to return. escape.-Reuter.
Most of them did,
Fire Aboard Freighter
theclogged the vital military high-
The South Koran Govern- menit left Tacgu for Pusan, butj Cabinet Ministers directly con- the wor effort cerned with
stayed beatha behind. From
is reported Tregu it is that American forces today cap- Miami, Aug. 18. tured alx flusalan made artillery
Guard Three Const
cutters pleces and chells dated 1050,
According to Moscow Radio, were today racing to the aid
of an American freighter, the the withdrawal of Soviet occu 7.247-ton Russel IL Jones,pation armies from Koroo way reported to be on fire in the completed by January 1, 1949. Atlantic about 400 miles east- noribieart of Miami.
MUSTANGS', WORK
The guns and ammunition were found in a tunnel on the Waegwan front, about 13 miles The ship bad already ridden northwest of Tacqu-Router........ The all-Catholle Goverment through the centre of a hurri- of Premier Joseph Phollen tocane, but the storm, it was re- day obtained a vote of 'coti-ported, was repentedly changing
Lize ita course and
Whip'n' fidence: from the Berata
The vote was 88-fer and offlsen bestod that it would aghirst, and one Senator overtake die vorsól, againe abstained-Reuter cand
Reuter, lapT
With MacArthur's Hond” quarters For Kords, Aug/10. Australian Mustangy today
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