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VOL. V NO. 226
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1950.
Racing Hongkong Troops Capture Town Of Kumpyongdong
By "The Turf"
RACE 1
Happy Farmers
Maal Benusty Fearless Witness
Outsider-Midnight Express
Ringword
Damla
RACE 2
United Victory
Outsider-Thunderjet.
RACE 3
Farward View
Hle Fantale
Liberty Ship
Outsider Stratocruiser
RACE 4
Egyptian Field
World Peace
Amarant
Ontgite-Sentire.
The Tigres
RACE 5
Treasurer
Kimmer
Panda
Outsider-Count Star
RACE G
Ben Wyvip
Ha-hful eauty
Outsider High Speed.
RACE 7
Laberty Diamond
Ballerina
Wonderful Mure
Outrider-Stirling Castle
RACE 8
Robin Hood.
Prestwood
Corrib
Outsider Home Builder.
Battlefek
Flying Jib
RACE 9
Strathpeffer
Outsider-Hopper.
RACE TO
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Googiri
Outsider Debutante.
JETS TRY FOR
Two
RECORD
Washington, Sept. 22,
Thunderjet Amercian fighters took off from Maniton, Southeast Englanai, today in second attempt to fly about 3,500 to New York, mile, non-stop Air Force headquarters wanced,
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SMASH STIFF RESISTANCE
With The British Brigade In Korea, Sept. 23. British troops-men of the Middlesex Regiment and Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders-pushed west from their bridgehead over the Naktong River last night and captured the town of Kumpyongdong.
between
On the east cans, Third Divi-1 Supported by American, infantry and light tanks, sin troops, which finally hattea
yesterday half way they catered the town after funds and Catha, 13 intles overcoming stiff resistance math of Pobing, discovered that The Bath beachhead on the Red prepared hashly a Naklong is right milles south of defence line along a ridge - Whegwan,
mediately north of them, about | three miles south of Chongthast
The tanks, which ap
had been bypassed by Lurently
the rush northward! of one South Korean batalion, were doveret 500 yard, behint the
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Reinforcements for the Bris Hts fish forces advancing from the Naklong ling are being flown to the battle area In a steady stream frum Tukyo, according annonce Air Ministry ment in London today.
The
Ministry gid that the reinforcements were dying Hastings
carriers. troop Nearly 70 troops were landed American Air
Force at an transport base in Korea yester day and more tenups follow until the first phase et
the airlift was over.
would
the
ROK line last night. chuird bozona teams destroy them,
but they
Sherlock Failed To
Make Case
Arundel. Sussex, Sept. 22.
Magistrates here today sent decided that real-life Sherlock Holmes had failed to make out a good enough case to send Thomas Still- well, a labourer, to trial for
two-year-old murder. [
The South Korean's, who have In panie at the sight of Red tanks in the past, went looking for them this
morning. They believed that they had the tanks bottled up two miles south of
Private detective Tom kl Chonghn, where a blown bridge prevented the tanks from mov-pr probing the strangling of n librarian, Joan Woodhouse, 28. ing northward,
a wood
here after official TANKS NEAR KIGYE police had dropped the case.
Seventh The South Korean
Joan's father, who hired Jacks The war Office's second list of
hunt his daughter's killer, reported that patrols to Division casualties in Korea today listed seen tanks or self-propelled hasi Stilwell arrested on s two men killed, seven wounded and one missing between Sep-uns northeast of Kigye. Spot-private warrant the second
The British troops in Naktong area were last reported advancing to Kunichon with the American 24th Division,
CASUALTIES
fember 16 and 22.
casualties, All
except ohe wounded man of the Middlesex
In
planes searched for them this morning.
British law history that such thing has happened in a mur- der case, Five
all
The Third Division captured
magistrates, including Hunghoe 59 prisoners in the
women, had listened Regiment, were members of the area on Friday. One said he two Argyll and Sutherland High-ren 15 Russian advisers In Week to the evidence of 35 wit
anders-Heater,
Kigyo Jale in August, shortlyers in a 17th century enurt-
100m here, ROK OFFENSIVE
before the Reds made their un-
Through the windows they On The successful all-out September
Could we
of US- the Lucrets offensive an Northern Front, September 23.
seat of The
South Korean troops The Third Division's objec-tone Arundel Castle,
the Duke of Norfolk, in whose jumped off at dawn today in the tive was Yongdiok. coastal an
shadow Joan was raped and He said that the two simple sccond day of a major offensive chor of the main North Korran
they hope will carry supply hoe from Seoul through then strangled. shrined planes refuelled over which
crowded the Spectators in Andong. Prestwick, Scotland, and hoped them to the 38th parallel.
courtroom stood. clapping and Initial
which yesterday Irland within
The Capitol Division,
Kirve on
Friday, cheering on the cirirman of the vanger from three to 10 miles, recaptured The dirbt, if successful, would and the South Koreans hoped to attacked northward today in a manistrates etrcharged Suwen. be the flast non-stop jet plane better the marks today, How-drive which they hoped would crying that he and his colleagues
wire indications move fast enough to permit an crossing of the Atlantic, the jever, there longest single-enging jet fight that the Communist forces, in at envelopment of the Red forces not enough evidence to justify a
either flank. ; tri J.-Reuter. :11
London-New least a few places, planard to trying to fee on the fastest
Fright delayang actions,
United Press. York trip ever made.--Reuter,
to
reach Long eight TE,
EDITORIAL
advances
The Big Three's Decisions
THE most
Trucial meetings
valuable results of the of the g Vree Foreign Ministers are to be regarder s more caneraler than revented in the fiant is, however, communiques. Enough disclosed to endorse the claim that the main ubject WAN lu find a means of preventing war and a formula for peace. The state of war with Germany is to be ended, the Occupation Statute will be Eavour of the completely revised in Ademnuer Government, clear warning hins been given that an attack on Western Germany will he treated as an attack on the Big Three, and while no independent army will be permitted the Teutons, the "unexpected hurry call to the British and its French Defence Ministers has as primary purpose the creation of an integrated North Atlantic defence force- Mr Churchill's European Army-and the Incorporation of German contingents. Bearing in mind Britain's intention of ballding up her Occupation forces to three fully manned divisions
and the of of the announcement
despatch Hubstantial reinforcements from the United States, the advance Is striking. the These steps, adding manpower billions of dollars poured into Europe's economic and military restoration, should go far to overcome the fears and hesita- Lions which have tended to hamper the West's own rearmament. They proclaim, indeed, that despite their heavy commit- menti in Korea, Malaya and Indo-China, the Big Three regard Western Europe as thele mala cancers, and the border zone between East and Western Germany 58′′* the first line of defence. It should.. ktimulate the other participants in the North Atlantic Council to activity in their
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own behnit and Thus strengthen the defensive barriers behind which Western its resources and Europe can build up increase is security. The principat aim of all the enormous military expenditures The contemplated by
United States, Britain and France is, of course. the maintenance of peace. What thrent exists comis from behind the Iron Curtain; the rearmament of Western Europe
Cumulative threatens none.
over the last three
years, experiences particularly the cynical Soviet aggression has Korean stooges. through North convinced the democratic world that pence cannot be maintained by weakness, but only by strength. This calls for the carllest possible creation of the integrated and lends high im. European Army portance to the Marshall-Shinwell-Moch consultations in New York. Britain's
additional plan to dispatch
troops to divisions Germany and to add two new to the Army in the British Isles when dilleulty was experienced in marshalling infantry and Commandes for reinforcing the United Nations contingents in Koven might seem a little odd except for the expectation that the generous increase of pay will speed recruitment, and the knowledge that the increase of six months in the training. of conscripts will make 70,000 men available. Like that of the United States, the British defence pro- as an example to gramme la intended partners in the Atlantic Pact. The Big Three will help to the utmost of their capacity those who are prepared to help themselves." That calls for effort and sacrifice to prohibit a more disastrous sacrifice, loss of the liberty of the subject.
we unanimous that there was
BERLIN DISPUTE UNSOLVED
At Braemar · Games
The King and Queen with Princess Margaret in happy mood as they stand in the royal pavilion to watch the Braemar Games held in the Princess Royal Park, Braemar, Scotland. Over 30,000 people gave them a tremendous reception. (Central Press).
Dr. Ralph Bunche Awarded Nobel Peace Prize
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BAO DAI DENIES REPORTS OF
HIS NON-RETURN
London, Sept. 23. Emperor Bao Dai, head of the French supported Vietnam Republic, at present sojourn ing in Cannes, Southern France, today denied re ports that he was not likely to return to Indo China.
Bao Dai came to France at the head of hi country's delegation to the inter-State conference between France and the three states of Indo China
which Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam began at Pau, Southwest France, on June 29. The conference was de- Infuntry are poised on signed to regulate the reln-ighway and jungle and moun tain traila to begin the nev tions between France
and battle for Donghke. But BC the three autonomous states far the Communists have not within the French Union struck at other key towns, such and also inter-State reins Canbang, near Langson.
It is still believed that the tions like Customs and cur- Communists have around 30,-
the
000 iroopa trained in Red rency.
There have been persistent China, but they have not been and committed to battle in majos reports recently in Paris elsewhere that In view of force. "disappointing results" of the conference, Bao Dai likely to return
try.
was un- General
Marcel Carpentier, to his coun- the French commander-in-chief
said on Thursday he considered
understood to be pressing
of Indo-China's control
Bao Dai was, in particular, ie Donghke attack a purely for local affair," and events seemed full
bear him out. Thero has 19 foreign affairs, complete con- teen no sertai support of the trol of the national army and Vietminh attack, and the largest complete management of Viet-weapons they have are believed nam's internal affairs including to be 105-millimeter mortars administration of foreign ald. The assault on Donghke was
move since it was The French are said to feel "revenge" strongly that the ultimate the town which the French re- Bnancial and military control captured inst
May after the must remain in their hands, Rods had held it for only 13
the neces-hours. while recognising
sity of making concessions to 5:0 Dal to strengthen his hands and counter Vietminh
•
"CHANGING SIDES
propaganda that he is A Reports reaching Salgon said "French puppet."
12
Bao
an increasing number of the
Dal denied these reports native population in the Vinh the course of a special state-region, 150 miles south of Hanoi, Dr Ralph Bunche, who was acting United Na-ment to Reuter, whose represen- were going over to the govern- Intive submitted a number of ment side. The area previously had been considered a strong- tions Mediator in Palestine after the assassination of
questions to him.
move- He was asked if there was hold of the Communist Count Folke Bernadotte, was today awarded the
reports that he ment of Ho Chi-minh. any basis for Nobel Peace Prize.
It was reported that 13 junks might not return to Indo-China. loaded with 120 former rebels
Bao Dal's reply was "I have
Wednesday at П never tried to find out what is arrived on
French-held village In the the basis of these speculations
battle area
and volunteered to which are being indulged in"ght with the French. Fugl- tives sald 30 more junks were en route toward the French zone.
Dr Bunche was the first Negro ever awarded the Peace Prize. Grandson of an American slave, Dr after Bunche took over the job of Palestine Mediator Count Bernadotte of Sweden had been murdered September 1948.
He negotiated three i armistices between the Jews and the Arabs and won uni- versal acclaim for his efforts in securing peace in the Holy Band.
the
Anti-Red Bill Vetoed
By Truman
to : United! He returned States in April 1949 a resuine
s post as a Director of Cuited
Trusteeship Nationa
from which Commission,
ad been an assistant to Count! He narutte until the Swedish Red Cross thief's astusination. recently declared Dr Bunche
that fighting thought Palestine was over for good.
He was awarded
U
in
Washington, Sept. 22. President Truman today vetoed the subversive Con- tntrol Bill, directed against
si
the Nobel Communist organisations.
The House of Representatives Peace Prize by a special comi-!
by the Nor-j si the Bill this week on a m.ttee elected wegian
Parliament, the Stort-1312 to 20 vote and the Seunte
Ly 51 Seven, to in.
In both cases the margins Berlin, Sept. 22.
OFFER DECLINED
were well beyond the two- British and Soviet troops |
After the conclusion of his
to cyerride still stared at one another
mission in Palestine, President thirds vote needed
Prezidential objections. across three yards of No Truman offered Dr Bunche an
The Bill is designed to mark Man's Land at the Western appointment as Assistant Secre-
forced regis- entrance to Berlin tonight tary of State. This would have the reverest attack yet on Com- afler negotiations had fail-Riven Dr Banche, nt the age of munum through a
one of the highest Ameritralen of Communist organisa- 144. cd to solve the dispute over can Government posts ever al- tions and their Ironts,
also
in provided barrier moved by tained by a Negro. This offer
emergency for camps for suspect Soviet troops late on Tues-was turned down by Bunche,
Dr Bunche started life, in his cubversive clements. day 150 yards inside British own words, "on the wrong side The President sent a long veto territory,
of the tracks." As a boy hentessage to the House. fathered beards in his father's Detroit barber shop.
a zone
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He called the Bill a measure While British experts studied
which would "give ald and com- the terms of a Russian "no" to
He won a scholarship to the fort to those who would destroy n_British protest, British Army
ot California and us." officers tried on-the-spot talks University
later went on to Harvard Unt- Criticising the message port tonight, but without success.
Soviet sector "People's" police versity with another scholarship by part, Mr Truman' said that registration of the Communist tonight escorted 26 captive West and took his Master's Degree, Berlin policemen to the sector He travelled widely In Africa, (Continued on Page 16 Col. 8) boundary so they could return gathering material on subject home, ending a "police war" peoples-still its favourlie sub- which excited the people
days.
HANDED OVER
inject and returned to Harvard Concentration Of
Sea Power
both halves of the city three to write as thesis on the deve- lopment of backward areas, which won him his Doctor's De. On the British side of the gree and a prize for the best boundary, near the Branden- thesis of the year. burg Gate, West Berlin police representatives were waiting
He also collaborated with the with six East German People's Swedish cociologist, Gunnar pallermen who were then hand-
THREE CHILDREN
Peace
London, Sept. 22. Fifty-two United States war- ships were in the Mediterranean area today--the largest concen- tration of American sea power
World War. ed over to the Soviet sector Myrdal, in preparing a book on sembled there since the second
American Negros,
Admiral Richard Conolly, tho police.
This
year's Nobel
the Commander-in-Chief East and West sector police Prize will be worth 104,303 United States Naval Forces in officials shook hands and
Swedish kroners (about £8,900) the Eastern Atlantie and Medi- solemnly counted the released to Dr Buncho, who has a wife terranean, sald that the force policemen as they walked across and three children. He worked of 40 combatant vessels and six the boundary in each direction, cheerfully waving at each other, for the United States Office of doet auxillaries included the Berlin Strategic Services during the 45,000-ton aircraft carriers Mid- Relatives of West
climbed on war on native administration way and Coral Bos, and the policemen joyfully
erufears Salem, Wess police lorries to accom-in North Africa and holds the 17,500-for
Science at Albany Des Moines and Colon- pany their sons and fathers Chair, of Political home-Reuter
Harvard University.----Reuter,
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Router,
NO NEW MOVE
Saigon, Sept. 22. Foreign Legionnaires, striking The French were moving into back towards the Communist-combat positions against "seats.
stin realstance, captur: fortress were credited
thwarting
but
of Donghke, tered 1onight with United Press
Red Korea-type
ussault. in Indo-China,
French troops nr advancing foot by fuct against guerilla resistance towards the Jungle military Fources outpost, and said Red fallurs to follow up their initial success with attacks
Countess Tatiana Tolstoy 'Dead
Countess
Rome, Sept. 22.
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