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Today's Weather: Misderate Northeasterly winds becoming Southeasterly this ́afternoon. Fair or fine,
Noon Observations: Barometric pressure, 1907.3 mbe, 29.74 Im Temperature, #7 der. F Dew point, 73 dek. F. Re lativa humidliy; 61%. Wind direction, WSW. Wind foro, 8 kuota.
High water: 4 ft. § in at 4.19 p.m. Low water; 4' ft. 2 in al 7.16 p.L.
Hongkong Telegraph
GRIM PICTURE OF INCHON AFTER
THE
STORM
(FROM FRANK GOLDSWORTHY),
Inchon, Sept. 16.
I went into Inchon today with Vice Admiral Arthur Struble, Commander of the Seventh Fleet. He was seeking means of speeding up further land- ing of supplies and reinforcements already keeping well to schedule in the amphibious operation.
Inchon received a heavy battering following! firing of fragmentation shells over transports at gun positions in the city.
The town presented the worry) Korean spectacles
families Heaven
we were familiar knows where they were yester- with in England nine and ten day afternoon-stood in broken
Around the port doorways watching the
years
ago.
milf- and landing areas cores ef tary trucks go by surging up buildings were still smoking hd out of town towards Seoul. shells: no-body seemed to be Children were inventing new
Kames
the AtHong
rubble. doing anything about the Bres.
were giving food to a Two old
The houses which still stood ttle girl,
were often nothing but jumblemen wheeled in body of a young masses of fallen beams inside.
woman partly wrapped in a sheet and somehow hunched bogey made for
Telegraph wires and
cables
head shell-pitted
drooped streets.
ENGINEER
-1-ANG
acron
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Silent rewood.
KILLED
IN
FRACAS
.
New York, Sept. 17. The captain of the Norwegian Hope radioed 110 vessel Elin Coast Guard today that one of his crew was dead and another critically Injured after a fight in the engine room,
He said the second vngineer, Sigurd Dahle, 49, hit the third engineer, Fina Wold, 44, (both
kilird.
The Const Guard picked the ship,
Across the road a woman and Bardughter giggled as a young inaria took their picture b- they were the Arat
14
K - he had seen, THE RITZ
Ch. the balcony of a house with empty window frames and the doors three marines lounged the doorway chairs hove
4
un "The Bitz."
were
A group of women Icooking on the pavement [I great steaming pan of rice and doing it out in their neighbours. At the innding jetty North
softlern Korran
and South lay side by civilians Korean
American side, with wouded marines awaiting attention of the landing craft atted out as floating medical aid station.
In Chinese-populated zones
up by
the first time
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1950.
Twins Go MARINES
On Duty
Eric and Dennis Thompson are twins, joined the Royal Horse Guards on the same day, do everything together, take leave at the same time and go on duty in Whitehall together. They are shown above before
taking over a spell of duty.
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CLOSING IN SLOWLY
TO SEIZE SEOUL
He Was Left Dumbfounded
Food
Tokyo, Sept. 17. Twenty choru girls were getting D night's sleep before head- Ing out on a cross-country
tour.
They were awakened by a man who demanded they strip off all their night clothes. They did. Ife looked and iben de. parted without saying word United Press.
MacARTHUR
WATCHES
BATTLE
Inchon. Sept. 11.
General Douglas MacArthur,
personally
supervising the
United Nations offensive, today
Meet Heavy Resistance After Capturing Kimpo Airport OFFENSIVES IN
SOUTH
Tokyo, Sept. 18. With the well-equipped airport of Kimpo in their hands, United Nations forward troops were this morning reported to be fighting grimly in the suburbs of Seoul after driving in from the coast.
They met some of the heaviest resistance since General MacArthur launched his mass ve assault at the South Korean capital after pouring Marines ashore at Inchon on Friday.
The capture of Seoul, a vital hub for the Com- disregarded officem advice and munist columns supplying their beleaguered forces
insisted on going forward to
watch a tank battle from ain the south, would enable the United Nations to ridge overlooking the Kimpe cut the North Korean army in half. valley
"White-clad Korean villagers,
Unofficial reports placed the United Nations many of whom lost their homes forward elements in the outlying suburb of Yong- in the nighting, were apathetic
as the General drove forward dung and preparing for street fighting. under the rumble of gunfire.
Few of them recognised him.
1
General
MacArthur's head-tillery pounding of Communist
Later, General MacArthur quarters said that Kimpo, nine positions. climbed
to an miles north-west of Seoul, had South Korean troops drove steep hill
against light forward for nine miles to cut of captured American observation post. He been
malnor only showed remarkable stamina.
Communist supply roule from resistance
Kunwil, north of Taegu, One Korean villager, making losses.
the
with
most of the presence of The Communista were still G.I's, had ect up a soap box reeling from the swift advance
In
tub. cigarette counter on the
made by the United Nationa
Inchon landing, ble of what had been his mud- since the
were Northerners walled home.
which the said to have lost 1,000 inca
com General MacArdur's
Com- that the munique said munists had not yet recovered from the sufficient equilibrium
Meanwhile his family search- ed the ruins for their personal possessions.--Reuter.
Lashing Rallying
London, Sept. 17.
Tory Forces
to organise more than #poradic defences",
ย
General Lemuel Shepherd,
Marine Commander in the Pool- sold that hla Men pushed and reached the from Kimpo
River six miles above the Han capital while other poarheads. driving up the main road from Inchon, were within seven and
half miles of it
bad
Al-
10 the battle-Chief of Staff, belleve that the re- Communists will need eight
Compton's Wife Seeking Divorce
London, Sept. 17.
Mr Denis Compton, wife of the England cricketer now on his way to Australia with the Test team, said today that sho was taking proceedings for divorce.
"I instructed my solicitors t serve the petition on my hus bond before he sailed last week," she said. Mrs Compton, who is staying with her parenta In Buffolk, has her eight-year- old son with her, Mr and Mrs Compton were married 10 years ago. Reuter..
KNEE GIVING TROUBLE
Aboard the Strathoden
al Sea, Sept. 17. Compton's knee bas
Denis riven trouble again ́ ́ but ́im--- mediate treatment has mlalmised the trouble, although it would be foolish to take coloured view of this situation.
A
rose- latest
SNIPER FIRE Salper fire from the Banics Lack of co-ordination was owed the Marines advance.
but
they overran a stretch of Lending 10 quito "piecemeal
road where heavy Corsair hia various destruction of
#ghtora today caught inforcemento."
destroyed alx Communist tanks of Norway) fracturing Wold's Chinese Nationalists flags-red
American Marines were 16- rushed from Seoul to bolster skull. Then Dable apparently with the ren in blue quarter
Gales swept the coasts of Britain last night
London, Sept. 17.
swarmed onto the Northerners' defences. ported to have fell or jumped 15 feet down were flying for
Sir George Harvie-Wail, a room from since the North Korean Con and continued today, causing small ships to race!
vital strategic the Jrfeld,
Edward Major-General inter the engine
Conservative Member of Parlia-; the for shelter. The 27,000-ton motor vessel, Georgic.ment, today left the 23.732-ton base covering a Communist mood, General MacArthur's the manoeuvre platform and was imunists swarmed over the 38th
Parallel.
Admiral Struble was greeted with American tourists on board, was also delayed liner, Stratheden, at Gibraltar approaches
to fly back to London to attend field, while South Korean Won Yil of Guard Dicked the South Korean Ny and the by gale winds, which held up shipping making for vote in the House of ports said that the airfleld had days to march their forces baht heen captured by paratroopers.from the south-eastern defence Commous at the request of the of Ambrose Light, and
took General commanding the South Liverpool, carly this morning.
box to deal with the American Opposition lender, Mr Winston
SOUTHERN ATTACKS the injured man to the Marine Korean marines given the task
Invasion In the Straits of Dover, thentongside the pier were holf- Churchill. Hospitat on Staten Island. Tae uf
The southern
We did our utmost to pre- front, where
Within a few hours of Comp- Sir George Harvie-Watt, who wind reneted a velocity of led by waves that broke over
Nations Parliamentary
troops
tou coming aboard at Tilbury ship, which was carrying gen-tself.
Private Undied
have serve on element of surprise," eral cargo and 12 passengers, Sald the South Korean Ad-from 60 to 70 miles an hour them.
his right knee rose visibly and from be explained, according to a Snow covered c upper Secretary to Mr Churchill dur- been trying to break out
Wog Macarincy, pronceded to dock in Brooklyn, Jmiral: "Inchon has paid a high during the night. Yachts were
him to painful, causing Its liberation but I tom from their moorings at ranges
of Italy's Sqund detectives and price for
northerning the last world war, received the defence bux around Taegu message from Roy
advice of the the Alpine Bureau of Inves- lean tell you that despite that Bridlington, Yorkshire, on
frontier today after the request by cable. The vote to link up with the offensive in Rouler's correspondent in the limp. On the the Federal
ship's doctor he spent Friday coast, last
storm night, violent
swept in the House of Commons will the north, American tanks and invasion area. had thethe people are happy you are north-east fication.
The Americans made elaborate in bed are investigating
and after four-hourly driving on Wacgwan ihe vessels tied-up neross here."
country, causing be on the Labour Government's infantry cuse.United Press.
deaths and damage.
controversial Steel Nationalisa- atlackcul incessantly but made attempts to deceive the Norther-fementations the swelling almost Ile was little headway,
Hers about the area chosen for completely vanlied. Snow
from tion Bill. reported many regions above 4,000 feet. Sir Georite was on his way to They were met by stubborn the assault. Despite these pre- able to get out and about again, resistance despite air and cautions, the Communist Radio though spending his time in a reaching a depth of four inches New Zealand.-Reuter.
(Continued on Page 5 Col. 2) rleck chair reading-Reuter.
Harbour
EDITORIAL
Unified
the elly aren mopping up
Other
large
Defence Scheme
THE cautious note of certain members Tr the North Atinntle t'ouncil, in- cluding Britain and France, an the sub- ject of the rearming of Germans bas not prevented marked progress towards an agreement. Britain, for instance, has accepted the principle of the participation of German military force in a unified North Atlantic Command, eventually, but requires that a joint army be first created. M. Schuman takes somewhat the same line.
uf because of the value
ex- tending the defence line as far east s pussible, but is hesitant about the revival of German military power. All that seems to be required is the endorsement of Mr Winston Churchill's idea of a European army, which he proclaimed in of the recent Strasbourg session the Council of Europe and in Parliament Insi week during the defence debate. 11 is not that such an army can be expected to spring into being overnight. The Impor tance of the mood of the moment a n the sign of growing neceptance of the value at a European defensive force. Should it emerge as a definite objective from the New York gathering of the twelve North Atlantic Powers it would rive vital psychological uplift to Western Europe. The countries first in line of any possible aggressive nftack must be given confidence and it will not be entirely confident until there I rensan able certainly that, with the United States throwing all her
in, that resources Atlantic Pact participants can rely upon their own unified strength. The key to effective defence, as Koren has taught, IN Innel forces and that is the chief deficiency In Furries today. Belglum. Holland, Den-
smoll mark and Norway have very standing armles. Italy is relatively better off but numbers are restricted by peace Treaty terms. France is relying on conscripts with 18 months of training which is not universally regarded as enough to sing thoroughly trained aggres sar truops. The Communist forces, as Mr. Churchill pointed out at Strasbourg. oul number the Western Union forces by at lenst six or seven to one, and most Tory crities in the defence debate regarded the additional decision to send only one division was inadequate. These policies nt least have had the good feature of driving France into more friendly co- operation with Germany. The French ate showing a more ready disposition to see Western Germany sirengthened militarily. The Germans, to be sure, still have to be convinced. Herr Von Brentano, speaking nt Strasbourg for Chancellor Adenauer, said that widle Germany considers it "her right and duty" to contribute to European defence, she would first require the creation of a supra-national body, "a under A European European Army
of political authority." Paul Reynaud France introduced a resolution to that effect but it was voted down. Nevertheless, the Consultative Assembly, which will meet again in November, gave Impressive evidence of vitality and idealism. Repre-, sentatives of fifteen nations deliberated and voted as Europeans, not as nationals. When the Assembly votes for a European Army one can feel that the people of Europe desire such a defence force, and this
is a gratifying thought in thera dangerous days: It may not be long before. governments fall into step, ~;.
at 6,500 feet.
The storms
the Arst hit Mafian Riviera, after several duyn of exceptional heat, rip- p off roofs, uprooting, trees and flooring river valleys.
was
the
A 5-year-old woman killed near Ventimiglia, French-Italian Riviera frontier!
which town, when a cliff on the lived Five way and she fell into a raging torrent below, where she was drowned.
10day Italion meteorologists predicted a very hard winter, 10! after
the exceptionally summer-Reuter.
New force
was
Sharp Criticism Of Archbishop
London, Sept. 17.
The mass-circulation Sunday Express today accused the Church of England of subjecting Queen Elizabeth to "intolerable humiliation" by interfering in the arrangements for yesterday's wedding of her niece, Lady Anson, to Prince George of Denmark.
·
100 MPH GALES
London, Sept. 17. Gales reaching 100 miles a hour played havoc in Britain to- day. The tall end of a cyclone
Because an earlier marriage of Lady Anson that battered shipping off York a week ago, the
had been dissolved, the Church forbade any of its winds were subsiding tonight.
Steel plates were torn out of clergy to officiate. the bow of 0.000 Biscoe-0, formerly
The Queen attended the re-castle-upon-Tyne. The arrange- tuguese liner Colonial. She was ception, but walled in another ments had provided for Canon Scot Rorison of the being towed from Lisbon to the part of her family home, Glamisi. G.
Scotland, while
Episcopal Church, the tal Clyde for breaking up when she Castle,
was being take the service. But last week was watched from her tus and wedding ceremony
the Church, which is dashed on
concluded in the Chapel, the rocks,
amunion with the Church of Campbeltown, Scotland.
The Sunday Express, in
Its England, announced that the Her skeleton crew of eight leading article, signed by
of St. Andrew's, the editor, Mr John Gordon, said shop were rescued by breechen buoy.
of Bey
Arnold Brian Burr Wert, the result lils was In the normally pluckd waters that
mere
Incr Por- the
near
Lake nad
of the Lake at hormoorings, for the second time. The last Up was 55 years ago Reuter.
of
to
In com-
of Bealty Spot, Lake Winder- advice to the Queen, tanto- had forbidden any of his priests Canon couple. marry the In the northwest
mount to orders, from the Aren-to
Horison, however, was able to district, gales swamped
The article said: "Not so very attend the service. sank the veteran steamer Lady bishop of Canterbury.
of NOT UNDER ORDERS long
ngo ar Archbishop
Church While the Episcopal Canterbury helped to push a British King off the Throne. Is in
communion with the Yesterday another Archbishop Church of England it does not Canterbury subjected the come under the orders of the Queen to an intolerable public Archbishop of Canterbury.
The article painted out that The article cold that the in Presbyterian Scotland
WHA "presump-Established Church allowed in Archbishop
nocent parties in divorce cases tuolis."
For yesterday's wedding the to remarry church.
In
Aa omelating minister was Pastor King, King George attended the Church services Mogens Buch, of the Danish Presbyterian Church, from a Mission at New-in Scotland.--Reuter,
Death Of Governor Of Bahamas Nassau, Bahamas, Sept, 17. Mr. George Ritchie Sandford, aged 38, the Governor of the Bahamas, died at Government House here today..
He had been Governor ainee Linst February Reuter
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