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Today's Weather:
Light southerly winds. Pinc,
, Noon Observations: Barometric pressure, 1012.6 mba, +29.91 in. Temperature, 84 deg. F. Dew point, 77 deg. F. Be lative humidity, 81%. Wind dir ection, E by 8. Wind force, 2 knots.
Low water: I f. §. In al 6,10 p.m.
Thongkong Telegraph.
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST, 30,
1950.
MIDDLESEX AND ARGYLLS | Ready For
GIVEN A ROYAL PUSAN WELCOME
From LIONEL CRANE, Daily Express
Pusan, Aug. 29.
Flowers and songs, brass bands and cheers greeted the two battalions of British troops when they landed at Pusan.
They were cheered and applauded again when they went to the station to begin their journey north over the rickety Korean railway and there were more cheers and flag-waving at every halt along the line.
It won la klod of welcome! that is trually kept for home- coming vletors and the British
The officer saluteri, Korean and dock Government officinis workers stood bare-headed side by sice. When the ringing
youngsters, must in theft lernender the Britons on the ships or early twenties, were a clapped and cheered. over-nwed.
While this was going on the Cruiser Ceylon, carrying the the angel and Sutherland Highlan-
The men of the Mihelion ex Kogit. traveling
carrier Unicorn, had the fist ders, slipped into
Pr
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For
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Reservations
Price 20 Cents
Tel: 27880
KIGYE RECAPTURED IN
Seafire aircraft ranged on the deck of HMS Triumph during operations in Korean They have done a first-class job in recent weeks. (London Express Service)
waters. the opposite The bands, singers of-..
blast of it. The peat ship was all one hundred yards out fromcials and the little girls in m
dock when a South Karan navy dis
Land end restrain
carrying paper Korean
patience ne luster and crie lied whole et une repeat the Wolves Rampage
out a Sonz March,
At the other end of the denj
• band of enlowed American |-
troops played To Stars and
Stripes." They were led by
performance.
LOVED IT
But this time all the show
the hure.
coloured drum mudor who put as not on
The
as much rhythm into his hips and Argyll, wearing kilts arif piem. the awning' formas elinsted on the cruiters
he dic
Arizo
of his shaft.
THE SCHOOL GIRLS
tear gun ferret and move thej Korenis am G.I their first! taste of the bagpipes.
They loved It had them doppitus and cheering Be a schent girls, any of them recup Bhat crowd.
Behled us a choir of Korean
With all
ren ahore.
the Kerruns heard fur!
fugees from Seoul, chewed puni to keep their throats moist for their great moment, They had the gune to sing "God King".
They had learned the from a hymn their
"God
the
of the
CH
first time Save the lot!
and duty order: finish NCO As the
10 thr dack sheets) melody marched
school cants with bristlang mur
aclies reared at them to keep. Re-
itstep. The fine brake lavat of Brigadier
Tests Coud writ the words in Eng the habnailed Bastil
Korent necustomed to the saf
book called
fuge. They
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Near
Rome
Rome, Aug. 29. Famished wolves were today reported to have at- tacked flocks of sheep in the mountains near Frost- none, about 35 miles from Kome.
During the past few days they have carried of 45 sheep, live goats and a horse in the area routte Segni, Local peasants have organised wolf-tunt.—
* Reuter.
Training Plane Crash
Balore. Aug 29, Two men were killed when „
Pete, Prentice training air-
Security Council
Begins To Discuss
POHANG BATTLE
American Tanks Thrown Into Action Against Road Block
in
Tokyo, Aug. 30.
General MacArthur's midnight communique reported that United Nations forces early yesterday afternoon recaptured Kigye in the east coast sector. The Communists withdrew to high ground north of the town, the communique said.
A later frontline despatch from Renter's correspondent, Alex Valentine, said that the Com-
Queen's Own For munists were still holding Kigye township late last
Hongkong
Singapore, Aur. 39. The Queen's Own Hus- sary unit will be rana- ferred to Hongkong to strengthen the carrison here, weakened when the first British ground forces. were seal to Korra, tell- able Source sald today. Thi Hussars have been Sghting bandits in Malaya for two years.Untled Press
Formosa Question Army To
Lake Success, Aug, 29.
The United Nations Security Council tonight agreed to discuss the Formosa question.
The wording of the item on the agenda, sug- gested by India and accepted by the Council, was "Complaint of armed invasion of Taiwán (For mosa)."
Opening the Commeil'; session,, this mouth's Ivesilent, Me Jacoli Nahk (Ruesa) amouneed th 1 he was including on the axemi: crashed by Chin: Connubist Govern
aceting fixe of the rubber-uled and burn dean about 20. at statement
int States of aggression in
Farmova
Uh for them and by the tine! was another new sound for the craft on a let light
the first ship was in they had Beau, thom phoneically,
Immediately the two
ban
mused for breath they started:
As
vers
Americans.
from
...
the
time
Battle For Captive Bride
The
was
night though fighting was going on in the outskirts.
North of Pohang the United Nations forces made slow progress against constant Communist resistance. An attack by a Communist force esti- mated at platoon strength succeeded in cutting the road between Pohang and Angang-Ni.
But other South Koreanļabout 15 miles south-west of units in the east coast sector Maran. An American regiment gained up to 2,000 yards recaptured positions lost to the Communists this morning. An- against light Communist re-other
regiment reconnolicred sistance, the communique nearly two and a half miles said.
west without meeting resict-
Elements of the South Koreanance, -*
that
Eighth Division met with strong An Eighth Army communi➡ Communist resistance when they que said that the South Korean tried to regain ground lost on Capital Division recaptured Monday in the vicinity of Chi | Kigye, though Communist forces ton about 10 miles north-west stil! held helghts to the north. of Kinye.
Intelligence officers identifed was two more North Korean regi A Communist battalion reported to be attacking in the ments reinforcing the Commu- vicinity
25 miles in Fifth and Twelfth Divi- of Vilung, north of Taegu in the Second stons in the battle for Polung. Heraklion, Aug. 20.
South Koreas Corps' area but
UIHUNG BATTLE resistance army which there was no other Communit
Forty miles. further_west, acht against Iller in World-ctivity in the same rector, War II was "reactivated today considerable Communist activity northern
communique sald
about half-way
along the side of the United to free Cite's "captive bride,"
"defenco box," the this is not
or the despite her protests that he is was reported by patrols from Nations"
the American 25th Division In South Korean Sixth Division occasion for a discussion of the willing prisoner of love.
fie nouth-west front area who came under fierce
attack four Beatiful, ravenhaired Tagoula w of that question"
fought an engagement
with miles south of Ulhung. The "There are territories which Petratcogeorgi
off rome Communist forces late yesterday attackers there were driving have had to be changed as a where on a honeymoon with her out 15 miles south-west of for the centre of the Pohang→
abductor. result of this war--for example, daring
Contas Minsan.
Tacgu supply road at Yongchon, Furtern Germany, the Kurile faloughiorsis, but their folks tam brie today,
FRONT LINE POSITIONS
Pyongyang (Communist) Thing
Sakhalin Islands," at me are still fighting aver Islands, the Edwd W. Todi,
Com- Reuter despatches from Korea Radio claimed that the the match. The Brisa morchil from a 09-year-old American, and
Dr Tsiang added, The ecmplant was cohled by
give these frontline dispositions: munists in this sector killed 1,200 station in Piper alege Katil, of the
"Withord going into the de- Muolls Badouva, a friend of ** 13
Communi: Forci. tits of all those questions, the the bride's
East Coast:- to sint. The effect was dramente te deka e the
South Koreans United Nations troops, colume of My trea
An Free.
father, rounded up were forced 10 make minor Along the American-held the putted of their sweet leurs
legal title of my Government to his wartime army and issued an with drawals north of Pohang West Wall" line of the Naktong ong the mint tume! way they parsed the only Todd, out of several Ameri. Mutister, Mr Chou En-las.
Un.on Jack on the dock. Tem emptored by the Hindus Form
Fae banks à States objected to
the island is certainly not less ultimatum to the bridegroom to A Communist read-block on the tiver, United Nutions forces drifted actus, the water every-¦
Be
factory, was
isaac complete than the title of those release the girl within 48 hours Pohang-Taegu The Gl: 4741
road, dealt with small groups of Com- hotly As
It Buttered from the omet of Ahcraft
supply under the brakes of "Attornevernments which have In Balonva said should his de three mlics couth-west of munists trying to cross the derk the Batch oldier: the car belonging to Mr Sydney Piperaft refcrimal ihr and nete
ans Fir denens
be rejected, he woul! Pohang, was cleared by Ameri-River, but there was no major and sailors on the ship, eane Faithful, Brit Minister in in cheer tat t
march up fabled Mount Ida andin a wife and child.--Ruter,
tanks and Infantry and attack, to attention.
get her.
South Koreans were tackling On the south coast an Ameri- The tempest started last week Communists entrenched on hill-un regiment counter-attacked ma".
faring the as the when Kefiloughianis kidnapped sides Mr Malik, speaking
road, Kigye and re-took positions lost to the Tlas was the third item ou!
the girl as the left 6 movie township is still in Communist Communists during the moming. the provisional agenda Mr Malin Soviet delegate,
theatre. He carried her oft to hands though the South Koreans Patrols of another regiment futro:uced. The others were the Council was not considering
a cave on Mount Ida-the home are now fightly in its southern reconnoitered nearly two and a adoption of the agenda and the the question of Formosa but
half miles west of its frontline Eurenn conflict.
the question of armed invasion of Zeus, the mythical king of outskirts,
Northern Sector:-The South without encountering any Com- Observers here had predleted by the armed forcer of the the Greek gods and threatened
to kill himself if he could not Korean Sixth Division was un-munists.-Reuter. that M Malik would seek to United States of the inalienable make her his own.
der attack four miles south of Chinese territory of Taiwan, | direuss the Formosa Issue.
(Formosa)
The xiri's father, a govern- Uihung Stront Communist The Chinese Nationalist dele-
rieputy, refused to np-patrole trying to cross the Nak-
Kefaleughlanis belongs to
were repulsed, wording for the arrenda item. rival political party.
He declared that
The Naktong no further
River Linea alon bers of Costas family Small Communist groups rational greenente
con- were said the sweethearts were mar-tinue trying to cross the Nak- the status of red an
Saturday white forces tong west of Yongsan and re-
Gauhati, Assam, Aug. 20, spotted ap
Troops and police in motor proaching the Hyonpung bridge-launches
today
rescued 1,000 people marooned on the Ananda Coast: American tea estate on the flooded Suban- reported "considerable siri River, tributary of tho
and Bruhmaputra near north Lak forces himpur.
Nearly 200,000 people in this division aro homeless, Largo areas of paddy-land are silted and thousands of head of catile have died.
EDITORIAL
10 schl
3'.na.
Liberation Day
conte
WAH
TVE years ago today, a British feel led by Anson and Indomitable thrust its way through Lyemun Pass into the harbour of Hongkong and litted the We weight of years from many minds. had been liberated. That the great day would
known, Japan. had capitulated unconditionally stateen days before, but It needed the sight of a British battleship ploughing proudly through the water and of bluejackets bustling ashore
the heart palpitating and t insti! full renlisation that the terrible conflict was over, the future was enrs to command. At least, on thal historic day which the Colony is celebrating today, we thought it was. In the five years since that hour of rejoicing many judgments have been modified. Things have not
precisely in
fashion happened
the expected. Restoration and rehabilitation progressed a rapidly that surveying the scene today we can reflect with a feeling of pride and satisfaction on the resource resolution which stimulated the and ploneers of the B.M.A. days and those wito succeeded them. Commercial and indus- trial prosperity developed on a scale which would have seemed fanciful, if not preposterous, to those who en August 30. 1945 gave thought to Hongkong's destiny. Again, tribute is due to the enterprise and energy of those principally responsi ble. If business activity cannol now be reckoned in heyday terms, the fault does not lie in Hongkong. Five years ago, we had visions of a Far. East entering upon an era of peace and plenty, first licking the wounds that Japanese savagery had Inẞleted
and enornious area, gradually witnessing social
4
and psychological revelation elevating back- ward countries into something more skin to a modern state. Instead, the period that has elapsed has been one of almost
on an
Reflections
uninterrupted warfare, culminating in the brutal aggression of the North Korenn Communists, involving not
only the United States but lifty-three members or the United Nations, on which the world And placed its hopes of international co-operation for the common good. Hladi it been that the rest of the picture was pleasing, Hongkong would probabsy have regarded the Koren attock light;y. but in China the corrupt Nationalist Govern- ment collapsed miserably against the wel disciplined Communist armes. Lever that Chiang Kai-shek and Mao Tse-tung could get together with the establishment of peace
and that a free, united and democratic Chinu could emerge with the best brains working for the people, were disappointed. The civil war was ou, the Nationalists created another danger spol by withdrawing a powerful army from the mainland and installing it in Formosu, and in China Proper we are confronted with a nation enslaved, divided and to nif intents and purposes, dismembered, It is, for the most part, a Chinn in which everything that democracy means in ofleinlly anathema. In Indo-China, relentless war between the French and the rebel Viet-Bình group offers prospect of an early end. Malayn engages 100,000 British troops in Jungle warfare, long and burdensome. Burma Is torn asunder by rebellion. If Indonesia shows signs of recovery, her troubles have been heavy and a long rond les ahead. To crown fl, troops have had to be sent from Hongkong to Korea to join the United Nations forces fighting the grim_battle'to preserve by resort to arms the liberty of the Korean people. Five years after the Liberation of Hongkong, the task of creating conditions for peace in the Far East is far from ended. It has yet to hein,
no
its
in by the United Stales", but gorporated East Germany, the ati I
that it was prepared to Kurile and Sakhalin islands." debate It if it were called
routely
MALIK'S STAND
"eumplaint concerning
cicclared that
ment
Lat: objected to the item on the to the Unitet) defeate plected prove of the marriage because tong River north of Wogan Flood Havoc
grounds that his Government "knows of no aggression by the United States and that I had 1.0 complaint.
In a long speech he described
Chinese
People'n Govern- munt as "puppets of Moscow d hat the cable concem ng: Formers "did not deserve
ric consideration",
VOICE OF MOSCOW The Nationalist delegate, Dr.
Formosa.
.
Beered to decide
Taiwan has been returned and against the match mass-inforcements were
on the mountain and an inalienable part settled by
of China threatened
18 International gree- Trojan
warte a modern ments
war, and International
Two thousand bead.
South de- troops are
searching for elsions taken during and after brklegroom. whose
rols capture would
bring a reward of $2,- Communit The Potsdam Declaration and 000-United Press.
the war,"
T. F. Triang, asked the Council; the terms of the Japanese air- not to pay any attention to any render had decided that communication from the Chi- Formosa was Chinese territory. arse Communists. He formally! "The United States threatens obreted to the inclusion of the ppen armed force to hinder and Piking Government's complaint hamper the only Tepal govern- ngalast alleged American ment of China to approach this
ression In Formosa.
Irland which is an integral part Tsiang said that there Chinese territory." was not the "imalust evidence" Erlier, Sir Gladwyn Jebb to warrant Council considera (Britain) supported the United tion of the Communist com- States" formulation of plaint.
wording for the agendu.
The debate continues.—Rou-
n
Though the necusations had jerme, to the United Nations inter. cable from Mr Chau Eu-lai, "nar who calls himself (té Fereistes Minister of the People's |
the
the
nelivity" engaged North Korcan
Not Guilty In Top
Secret
Trial
Colchester, Aug. 29.
In Assam
Meanwhile, nearly, 200 mallea north-east of Gauhati anoller tributary of the Brahmaputra threatened to wash away the town of Pasighat, Soveral buildings were already swept away and residents were boing moved to safety.
Elephants
and rhinoceroses
A British Army parachutist, Sergeant Francis were awash in the swift waters. Arthur Elliott, was found not guilty of "top secret"| charges at a Court Martial behind closed doors a heavy toll of wild Ufe.-Reu-
Republic of China, the voice is Should Stay In here today.
the voice of Moscow. nothing but
puppet regime," Dr Talang said.
The Chinese
Nationalist Government. De Talang said, was complete control of Formose and had received no demands from the United States for any kind of privileges.
NO CASE
Own Field
Forest Department officials fear that the floods have liken
ter.
Two
other Britli soldiers
Sergeant Elliott, of the Somer who appeared in a separate HMS Warrior. In
Malta
Valetta, Aug. 20, The 12,300-ton British alremfi
He was released.
|re Light Infantry, was tried in trial before the same Court last Washington, Aug, 20.
reasons aceret "for
the of State week and charged under The Speaker of the House of security".
same Act, were found guilty of Representalives, Mr Sam Ray-
The nature of the charges an undisclosed Joint charge. burn, ald today that General against him was not disclosed.
One of them, Rifleman Eric MacArthur was not. responsible He was charged under Section Smith, was also found guilty of carrier, Warrior, entered the for the conduct of United 41 of the Army Act which deals two other undisclosed charges Grand Harbour of Malta today Dr Talang told the Council States foreign policy.
alleged breaches of civil and sentenced to three years on her In a statement that before It took up any com-
referring to
Imprisonment and scharged aircraft to the Far East plaint the complainant should General MacArthur's statement at last have some vestige of a on Formosa, Mr Rayburn mald, Ha trial began last week but with ignominy from the Ser- She entered the harbour with prima facia cogo.
"'I think that Général Mac after the first day wIL ad-vica
crated aircraft piled i on her. other Rifleman, John fight deck and of-loaded 15 There was no such case in Arthur has a great job to do it journed until yesterday.
The decision to acquit him Connolly, was sentenced to aircraft here. The Communist complaint about | he stays in his own field, and
› was reported to
to be leaving Formosa. There had been dis does not try to run the foreign was announced in open Court nine months' detention. cussion concerning the juridical palley of United States"-Beu- by Brigadier H. D. Sitwell, Pro- Both sentences are subject to tomorrow for Fort Bald eleu- statis. of Formoso, he said, "but|ter.
sident of the Court
confirmation-Router.
tor...
with
law
The
way
with stores ind