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ACCELERATED REARMAMENT FOR EUROPE
London, Aug. 20.
Mr Charles Spofford, American Chairman of the North Atlantic Pact Deputies, suid on arrival here tonight that America was prepared "to do its full part in the speedy build-up of the defences of the North Atlantic area."
Mr Spofford, who arrived to preside at Tues- day's North Atlantic Pact meeting, said that there was great determination on the part of the United States to do everything they could, based on the confidence that the other members of the Atlantic Treaty were prepared to do their full part also.
Be aided that he hoped that Werdem. European countries.
the w
Council session The United Staten asked for a Tueday further concrete revision of ornament DTO- and runstrictive steps" wondd grammes after the outbreak of
war in Korea.
be tak
Mr Spofford's retum to Mr Spoffort was today un.
follows the true-minderstood lo be bringing with } olen to Washington of the newhim Washington's reaction
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defence
tu
of
plans drawn up by the West European member states proposals so that plans tarci.
FRONTIER
FRICTION
NOT SOLVED
Gorizia, Aug. 20.
Ten thousand people telny anxiously lined both sides of the Balo-Yugoslav frontier near here vainly waiting to be lawed to mert their relations and friends scross the frontier,
counter-piima could be
discussed on Tuesday.
meeting is expected to
open with a discussion of means to resolve what has been culted the crisis of confidence".
Observers here my they ap: prociate that the Unlied States. jawakened by the experience of Korea, has seen a sudden new urgency for Western Europe to improve its defences,
-
URGENT NEED
But the West European men bera of the Atlante Council, observing the difficulty Ameri-;
arm! have experienced against the Communist forces b The crowds gathered by ear Koren say they see n similar and on foot from towns on urgent arent to either side of the frontier, ex- United States to increase inani- perstatte the pecting a fting of the
rigkl
cial and military aid to Europe. Yugoslav regulations against ap-
Diplomatic sources here have proaching the frontier.
strongly discounted reports from
Last Sunday the regulations | Washington that MẸ Spofford it were abated for a few hours | charged with the task of berat- and five thousand people from | ing the Western European states the Yugoslav side but across for tardiness irl developing into stronger defences. He is, in Italion
little over fart, expected to make recom one and a hulf miles away, for mendations for further and
the frontier to
201
Gorizin
"
God for
2171 orgy of buying. At the imm.diate switches of factories same time, hundreds of famile wartime production. lies, separated by the postwar the inabilisation of mire men frontier line, were reunited in into uniform as the prerequisite the streets ot Gorizia,
for the additional dollar id. The bigger crowds which i The British member my ex- gathered today were informed pert the United
States that the frontier administration | urge sane greater effort in the had failed to reach an agrees United Kingdom while del ment en repetition of last gates from Continental Europe, Sunday's lifting of the regulas at the same time, ask Britain tions. It was mildert, however, for more contributions in arm that egotiation- were con- and
111 112 Europe's land tinti.-- Neuter.
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INFANTRY BEING SENT TO KOREA
Hundreds of people standing in the approaches to Clarence House for news the birth of Princess Elizabeth's second child.—(London Express Service).
Communists Probing Along Masan Zone: Expected
To Divert Attack To South
Tokyo, Aug. 21.
In one of a series of probing attacks, possibly preliminary to a new drive on Pusan, an upwards of 2,000 North Koreans-
FROM HONGKONG
Likely To Embark For Warfront In Six Or Seven Days REPLACEMENTS COMING
London, Aug. 20.
It was officially announced today that Britain was sending infantry forces to Korea from Hongkong.
An Army press release said: "In response to a request by the commander in chief of the United Nations forces in Korea for the dispatch of reinforcements without delay, the United Kingdom Government has decided to send infantry forces from Hongkong to Korea immediately.”
Nehru Invited
To China
New Delhi, Aug. 20.. The Indian Prime Minis- 1er. Pandit Nehru, had been invited to visli China in a letter from Madame Sun Yat-sen, wife of the I founder of the Chinese
Republic.
The announcement said Gurkha units under- going training in Malaya and the Fifth Battalion Wiltshire Regiment en route from Britain would replace units sent from Hongkong. It said one armoured car group also was being sent from Malaya to Hongkong and replacements would reach Hongkong in the first half of September,
There was no mention of, the first half of September by the size of the force going the Wilshire Regiment now en
[route to Korea.
from Unitedt Kingdom ard by certain ·Gurkha units Britain took speedy action of fully trained fighting men Ehe la one of the Vice-
after United States officials con- now inklergoing Engineer Presidents
ferred with high government training in Malaya. of the Peking Government and Ita eficials here and General Mac-
Armoured car squadron known Pandit Nehru for
Arthur called for reinforce is also being sent from Malaya several years.--Reuter.
ไปร battle-weary to Hongkong. troops. Britain was reported to have 25,000 seasoned soldiers, most of them veterans of the Pacille war, on duty in Hong would koni.
two reinforced battalions, yesterday attacked the United States Dried Up
25th Infantry line 13 milos west of the port of Masan on the southern front.
The enemy troops drove the Americans back 1,000 yards.
River Bursts
United States air and artillery support was called for. The guns Into Flood
and planes pinned down the enemy force. A 25th Division spokesman said that more than 1,000 North Koreans were kill- ed and the two battalions were virtually destroyed.
The South Koreans, meanwhile, in an on Tongyong amphibious operation, landed peninsula, 25 miles southeast of Masan and drove northward toward Kosong preparing to join the left flank of the American forces.
Not Wasted
American victory in the Battle of the Bulge, shattering the North Korean Fourth Division and hurling them across the Naktong River, the determined attuck which retleved
immediate pressure on The
Taegu ant successes on the east const, give some evidence that while it runy he some time hefare roles are completely reversed, the day is past when all the initiative is with the invader. Prior to the arrival of the Minrines and the Second Division, often. sive operations would have been. impossible, or, nthesd, could not have been afforded 45
enlculated risk. Obviously the Communists will not be defented by a static battlefront. Mere defence, however redoubtable and effectively built-up. will not be enaugh. strength The positions of comparative will have to be so established that a successful United Nations counter-offen- sive can be mounted and keep the Reds moving until they are over the 38th Parallel. For the time being counter- attacks are likely to be limited to such operations as the Battle of the Bulge. restoring n dangerous siuntion and Afting a threat. They have the value of throwing the North Koreans off balance and of providing information about the strength of enemy concentrations. They should not be confused, however, with n genuine counter-offensive. The United Nations are still short of the necessary preponderance of fire power and man- power required. The operations will continue to be holding operations for somie time, the infliction of casualties In men and material on the Reds, and it might be regarded na injudicious to greet limited counter-attacks with unlimited enthusiasm
with and
over-confidence. Meanwhile the firming of the defence lines glves greater power to the attritional aspect. It
is becoming increasingly difficult for the Communists to maintain the edge in armour, with its essential fuel supply, as The ground defence and the mounting weight of air attacks have their cumula- tive effect. The pace of attack Jany already been noticeably dowed and the time must come when it will he brought abruptly to a halt. But yet more grim encounters are ahead before that phase can be regarded as reached. - The time that has been gained in recent werks has not been wasted. Some strong reinforce- ment has been doing valiant deeds, With- drawals that have been forced have been orderly and the net effect has been n stronger, rather than a wenker, position, Also of importance has been the use of the time in regrouping and reactivating the South Korean Army, Tribute has to be paid to the combat resourcefulness onl delermination of the South Koreans who have gone back into netlon. This aspect of the struggle is important since it is necessary to meet the card that the South Koreans would not fight because of political considerations. That, nuturully, is-the Communist line. It is part of Soviet propaganda themes that
Tuy democratic group will be defeated because of its "deendence" or the "corruption" of its leadership. The resolute fighting of the South Koreans should puncture that sort of falsehood, just as the infiint defeat suffered by Americans did much to expose ita humbug. Meanwhile, much more remains to be done. One of them is the mobilisation of a genuine United Nations force and not merely a United States and South Korean forec neilng on behalf of the United Nations. It la na obligation to defend a free country from naked aggression and it needs to be honoured without undue delay.
Freighter Shattered By
Hurricane
ments for
The
Ung
ABOUT 1,500, INVOLVED Approximately
1,500 men be Involved, according to sin Army spokesman in announcement added: Hongkong this morning, The "Replacementa for units
com-two rosing this force will shortly 1st Ba.
battalions affected are the arrive in Hongkong."
Middlesex Regiment
and the 1st B Argyll and It was believed replacementa Sutherland Highlanders. for the Hongkong garrison The units are preparing now would number Bo more than for the Korea Dattlefront, and 2,000 men, sn Britain would be will be sent north as soon as temporarily cutting its force in passible." that strategic tolony, bordering on Communist China, by some
Gauhati, Assam, Aug, 20 Hlaing flood waters of a tri- butary of the Brahmaputra -500. day threatened the earthquake metaced district of Postpat, | 300 miles north-cast of here.
Some 3,000 people live in the low-lying district.
in
by
next
They will be under the com- mand of Brigadier B. A. Cosel, [These figures are not con- who is in the Colony. firmed
It is more by ofleint sources
than likely that they will proceed to Pusan by a Hongkong.
If shipping is avaliable at chartered steamer, although a Hongkong, the British reinforce-regular troopship bringing the A Wireless merage from mentr might be available to Wiltshires, is due in the Colony Parignal tonight paid that the General MacArthur
in the first part of September, river, which had dried up after week.-United Prem.
Departure of the two bat- last Tresday's earthquake, lo- An officia) communique is-talons will leave the Hongkong The South Korean Head-i
day burst into high floods sued this maming in Hongkong garrison consisting of
tour quarters announced that the
Reconnaissance partles to slated:-In response to n
of re-Lattaliona
infantry. 6x marooned areas have been quest by Republic forces had driven
the C-in-C United regiments artillery and one tank Norfolk, Virginia, Aug. 20. nown from Gounati and the Nations Forces in Korcis for the reniment, but this will be rein- 16 miles up the east coast
of reinforcements forced next month by the The 7.000-ton freight South Government Is directing reliefdespatch from the recaptured port of Bend Victory, its engines dis-operations.
without delay, the United King-t 13n, Wiltshires which Pohang by Sunday morning abled and is lifeboats smashed,
dom have decided to despatch already en route, as well as by New
Delhi's meteorological an infantry force from Hong-Gurkling and Fourth Hustard and
nd-wallowed hu hurricane-whipped | cîntre again reported an chith- continued their
fran Malaya. seas 300 miles southeast of Cape quake shock of sligh; Intensity,og to Korea Immediately. vance.
Henry. Virginia,
Units despatched from long- The Wildres and the epicentre of which was 460 kong will he
ure aboard General Douglas MacArthur three hips sped to its aid,
today
replaced during the Empire Trooper. toile away at dawn today.- reported that the North Kore ins were building up new streurth The Coast Guard cutter Men-Reuter, ou the southern front and pre-Norfolk and two
dolla was dh patched from MILLIONS OF TONS
Gauhati, Aug. 20. mine layers # new drive on
were en Toute to the disabled Arrangements have been slips. United Press.
here to completed buildups
evacuale Ches
also were
Washington, Aut 20. in the Hyongunst
people and drop food from the The Weather Buren today air to the flood-threatened dis- bridgehead on the river on the
that the reported
powerful trict of Pasigpat, Division First Cavalry
300 miles line
Tropical hurricane roaring north-east of here. northwest at Tacgu.
northward 110 longer
It is believed that the floods posed a
for
upper
in the
He
cease immediately alt atrocities tinued for high tides and gales."/chee of the river in Tibel,
carthquake
Gen. MacArthur has addressed threat to Allartle coastal areas are due to "millions of tone of a personal warning: to Premier routh of New York but it said: water," blocked
of North Korea to "Precautions Kim
should be Sunk of
con-
their overwhelming in treating war
barriers prisoners.
The storm, with winds up to after the the atrocitics 120 miles an hour, was about down to the plains said that unless
to rush were stopped Kim Il Sung and 200 miles east of Norfolk, Vir-
The dark, sulphur-smelling his corps and division comman-ginia, moving about 25 miles an Brahmaputra River ders will be held "criminally tour in a northeasterly tree-full of thousands of logs and responsible."United Press.
BRIDGEHEAD GONE
Tokyo, Aug. 21.
west over the Naklong River, of Yongsan. out, according to a release, on the Korean war issued
The North Korean bridgehead
lian-United Press
.
Greek Diplomat
has been wiped Fatally Injured
from
Athens. Aug. 20.
was today
trees uprooted from unknown Himalayan forests last week- Reuter
Murder Stirs Socialists
Liege, Aug. 20,
General Douglas MacArthur's M. Alexander Dalletos. the Hendgarlers.
Greek Liaison Officer with the All ground cast of the United Nations Special Com- Naklong River In that sector mittee on the Balkans, died to- has been recaptured by ele-day from injuries which he re- ments of the 24th Division and ceived in a molor-car accident Julien Lahaut, the Chairman of the 1st Marine Brigade.
three days ago in the suburb of the Belginn Communist Party, tote at the was today lying in ctate red-draped hall of the Com-
news
The body of 66-year-old M
All units had consolidated Kissin, the Athens organised positions. Moppingency reported tonight. up operation against small From 1945 until last year he raunist Party Headquarters here. Hsolated pockels was continuing, was the Greek Minister
the release ania.
This operation produced very heavy North Korean casualties
and a considerable amount of weapons and equipment.
Yugoslavia.-Reuter.
i
Train Off
An emply
to
Rails
He was shot dead on his door- step at Seraing, near Liege, on Friday and will be buried on Tuesday in his native town.
Socialist trade unions here (94 day warned the Government That unless Lahaut's murderers
discovered and severely! (South Korean) 1st Division, arriving to pick up British punished workers organisations reinforced by United States tourists for Paris and Switzer will take Justice into their own Army units, advanced yester-land, ran off the rails today henda "to prevent the installa- doy to a line running generni- outside Calais Station.
tion of Fascist and itlerite.
The sector remained quiet today.
Atlacking forces of the ROK
Calais, Aug. 20. passenger train,
are
ly north-east through "a point Two railway employees were | mediods in this country."-Beu-
(Contd. on Page 5 Col. 6) Injured-Reuter,
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