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Graphic Eye-Witness Story Of Drive By US Marines
(From LIONEL CRANE. "Dally_Express"")
Korea, Sopt. 25.
This story is being written on a hill-top in Seoul, Below in the avoning sun the city of half a million people lies open before us, By sunset the American marines already over one mile towards the heart of the city.
were
On our right the blue and broad Han River winds between Seoul and Yongdongpo, connecting Seoul with the south that looks within strolling distance. The span in the road bridge blown up when the Americans were fleeing from the city still hangs sadly in the river.
Almost the first shop 1 saw in Seoul was a barber's. Inside a Korean was getting a haircut ignoring completely shots and shell and armoured vehicles roaring past the door.
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Down in the valley ahead of 31 is now expected that us groups of elly people ploud (three
Prong squeeze betwren
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the
LUB-
in the streets talking and smok-two Marine forces and
Beyond 1 79, the far-farmy who wilt make another thermost point the marines have jerossing
result in will already becupied, two thick plefe occupation of the city columns of smoke rose from the tomorrow. The guard of honour city centre.
brought over with the invasion force tonight is polising had On our left planes dive with
cleaning reudy
welcome to wicked Accuracy irz nemy General
MacArthur, when he tanks blocking the main road in makes his victory ride Into from the west. whistle
Sniper bullets Seoul. Coluncl
overhead. "Cheaty" Puller, veteran marine fighter who led the first porer Into the city, slood on top of the hill comtemptuous of the
EVERY TRICK
Reds are The
using every Arc. trick learned from the Japanese,
A bunch of cigars stack out of Chinese and Rudits to save the top pocket of his dirty fad-the eity. Shattering artillery ed fatigus uniform. His hinharrages !er nus! move them was grished but be looked sur- from the hits. They have been prisingly fresh after a nine day hiding 10
LOVER and march from Inchon beach.
tunnels. As soon as gun crews
replacements killed Curbed in from another ride of
lite hill.
PINNED DOWN
Arc
fre
Colonel Puller's martius and pn. of the American ariny
They have held thear freuntil 140chot the south bank opposite was most useful. It has been Set yesterday. They were a
must deadily and accurate ret te gruas the river beyond the he
iinide Americans have had to faer un brugehend when
in Korea. night
decision at Corps Heng- quarters changed the plan. marwes who made
American
General
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1950.
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HAND GRENADE BATTLES IN SEOUL STREETS Marines Closing In On Centre But Casualties High
The scene as weary mud-bespattered American troops file along either side of the road as they press on, exploiting their successes in the attempt to bring the Korean campaign swiftly to an end-(London Express Service),
RAPID ADVANCES IN SOUTH
Tokyo, Sept. 25.
Three United States Marine Corps spearheads carried their flaming assault to within 24 blocks of the heart of Seoul today against resistanco so stiff that the Allies fear that they might have to destroy the city to win it.
The Marines broke into the city after smashing a Com- munist defence force on the city limits in hand-to-hand combat and hand grenade battles.
As the Marines fought furious house-to-house action through Seoul's ancient narrow-winding WEIRD RED streets, two iron jaws of the United Nations nutcracker assault from the north and south were within only 57 miles of clamping a door on 100,000
PEKING MAY GET Scramble To Buy fleeing Reds.
VOICE HEARD IN
UNITED NATIONS
Flushing, Sept. 24.
The Chinese Communists may get their long sought chance this week to send a delegation to the United Nations-but on a strictly temporary basis.
The Security Council has been summoned to a meeting on Tuesday and the first item on the locket is the Formosa problem. The Russians have demanded that Mao Tse-tung's Communist regime be invited to send envoys to state its case at Lake Success.
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Peking
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On
In U.S.
New York, Sept. 24. The
spending Boom which hit America at the outbreak of the Karcan war rocketed department store sales to nearly 50
• percent over last year's figures, it was stated here
today.
An malyals made by the National Industrial Con- ference Board, a private business firms'
organisa- the
tion, mported that "scramble to buy" began to diminish at the begin ning of Angust
The analysis also showed that motor car sales in the United States increased in July a rate
lo a
of eight million cars a year.
In the fint part of the year car les were run-
ning at 5,400,000
a year compared with neatly 5,000,000 in 1949.-Reater.
Berlin Battle Of The Barrier
HAZE OVER
Southwestern
The task force moving up from the southern ONTARIO beachhead had reached a point about 20 miles northeast of Taejon late on Sunday. When last) heard from the United States Seventh Division, a unit moving down the west coast from Seoul had entered Osan, 25 miles south of the capital.
cover
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Toronto, Sept. 24.
Ontario Wak
a reddish haze that turned day into night.
sections of, Toronto that street and
to be house lights had turned on.
blanketed today In
it was reported so dark in some
Cars were stalled on high- ways with drivers fearing to go through the dense rod mist eveni with their lights on.
Weather offeials sald the haza
The Marinca fighting in made the most spectacular Seoul had suffered heavy advance, moving 50 miles
days to enter Chinju. casualties,
according to two, front reports and reinforce- MARINE ADVANCE ments were being rushed to
Marines, moving under the the front.
fire of artillery
and
caused by forest fires in bamba, battled furiously to
War The South Korean radio at within a mile and a half of the
Manitoba. Trans-Canada Altm Pusan announced that u crack centre of Seoul. One unit was
line pilots reported that the sun, unit of the South Korean less than a mile from the rail- was shining brightly at 15,000 Marines had landed at Inchon rond marshalling yards in the
feet, but below that it was liko and was advancing on Scout.
heying into the night. section of the city. southern The broadcast also said that
from Hamilton, had advanced Another
sald thousands force had landed at Jaju Day fore it was stymied by herce people panicked when the weird astride the 38th parallel on the
red haze settled over the city. Radio stations and newspapers. were down
flooded with calls from were
residenta, some EVEN
more
lla South Korzan Naval Command than Ave miles into the clly be illari
coast. west
It did not say whether the South Koreans had
the
resistance.
United Press,
of
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Reinforcements pierced the 38th parallel and into the Inchon-Seoul beachhead tous
U.N. attack on from the United States. Ele arking if u third world war had
corking made the firs
of the 11th Airborne ments North Korea,
**** | sturted. Division arrived at Inchon air-
The The Allies went Into
red smoke bank-with west of Seoul, and were Dert
darkness fourth month of the war, waging rushed from the field to pro- ported to be rolling slowly inte
behind it-wng an offensive that had the Com-pare to join the Marines attack-
Toronto front munists on the run throughouting Seoul and the United States
the Southwest --- South Korea. On the east coast Seventh Division moving down
he attacking Republican forces the west coast. could not keep up with
The stubbom Communist de- leeing Ileds,
On the south coast, the Com-fence of the old capital, perhaps
to give the troops run- Planned munists apparently were
chance to
Burnham-on-Sea, ning out of ammunition, Bring has doomed Seoul to the same escape, apparently
Somerset, Sept. 24. D11 the Americans with only heavy destruction that wiped Phoebe Halleti, the only con- ritles instead of the usual mol-out two-thirds of Inchon and tenarian in thle district, died tars and ariflery pieces.
left only the hull of suburban here today, ngei 102 Three Yongdungpo standing.
immer widowed, she leaves no (Continued on Page 5 Col. 3) family.-Reutes,
END IN SIGHT
the
And it appeared that against Israel and the India- WAR the
that would Pakistan dispute over Kashmir. manage to produce the neckled | je von votes in the Couneti Lo 1 it does get to Formuza,
Communists the Council must take up
one hand the Suviet charges nearing.
at the United States is quilty Seoul was only taken because
While trennically they would of aggression by rending l the dest crossing of the Han Puller's forces sut-Handed them welerme only for the dura-Seventh Feet to Formos, and Rover and who were expected to the hills.
tion of the Formosa debate, the on the other hand on American be the first in Seoul were stuk
consensu was that that ap- į proposaj for a full investiga-; panied down by Beds Bunting The American Marines pakearance of the Peking envoyston of the issue. Both sides fanatically in the bilis on them (bE prices for SUCCTARES.
would prove an opening wedge also have put the crucial issue ront,
Cusunttles were so heavy in the in the process that would bring before the current General regiment which made the first he
Chinere
with Reds Into full Assembly,
the United Edward Almen, river crossing that come com- Commander,
that the 50-na- United Nations membership in States urging erdered panles are now commanded by
body work out a solution Puller to pull back and cross the Fizz Lieutenants. On our hill-the comding months,
of the island's future status.
Berlin, Sept. 24. river right into the western top this evening we could hear How ver, it was possible that
"The Battle of the Barrier" Curbs of Seoul.
| 11. yound ol church bells the Council would again post-i
LAST APPEARANCE? entered its ifth day today with The crusting was musfe proce-comtnik over the battlefek.
armed Itpone the opening of the inevit
British and Russian move Te Chinese Nationalist troops glueing across a candy- instead to Azab emplaista delegate. Dr
In other sectors, trucks were Ting-fu Tsiang, striped pole at one another from whose
Rovernment has been fortified positions,
abandoned with found
empty rhded for the long-heralded
gas tanks and huge piles of wea- Peking assault
The troops spent their fourth pons have Its Island.
been left behind. will take the rostrum on Tursight in the words on the cold My offers believed that the day for what many observers damp ground in a comer of the end to the fighting, which started belleve
will be
the on June 25, might his govern. British, sevtor hard by
bc #ight. ment's fast appearance In an Bussinn Zone, each side on the Two weeks ago the United Assembly general debate.
alert,
Nations forces were squeezed into a
a beachhead of only 3,000. The imparte started when the The Nationalists and Com-
square miles. Today. the munists agree on one thing that Russians suddenly threw a pale Ailled territory has swelled to
diaconally across a narrow road about 7,000 square miles. Formosa belongs to China-and it may be that Tslang will op Two
the British sector. just inside
letters to the Russian pose the American proposal to authorities from Maj-General
ve the Assembly thrash qul Geoffrey Bourne, British Formosa's future status. The demandant i Berlin, have noi cision by the powerful Steering produced results, Committee to put the issue onj the Assembly business sheet was] twice postponed, because Dragon today, with about 100 Tsinng had not yet received In-Tommies," well-armed Bud
ully this mining in cucks «na trifed Christian Koreans to the able Foamsa debate and amphibious vehicles,
Sumlay evening worship,
EDITORIAL
į
Needs Of South-East Asia
W the struggle
THEN reduced. to its simplest terms against Communist
expansionism in Asia is a struggle for the support of the peasant. In South-East Asin, Indo-China, Siam, Burma, and Indonesia, economies are governed over- whelmingly by agriculture and in that agrarian economy, the pensat lives at n depressingly low standard. Hence, when the Communist indoctrinators begin to infiltrate, promising land and all that goes with it to the peasants they start with a grent advantage. Surveying the scene, in fact, it cannot be overlonked that the major successes of modern Communism from its origins in the Russian Revolution to the upheaval in China huve all occurred in predominantly agrarian countries, with the exception of Czechoslovakia. It is to draw the moral that the anti- ensy Communist forces must win over the peasants by proving that they have more to gain from democrncy than from Com- muniem: It is harder to say how this con be done. One of the most hopeful steps la that direction gets a new impetus to- day when representatives' of the British Commonwealth meet in London for con- ferences together and with the interested countries on the so-called Spender Plan. It was feat January at a Commonwealth conference in Colombo, attended by Mr Bevin, that the Australian Minister for External Affairs, Mr Percy Spender, proposed six-year programme of
economic development for South-East Asia, to be financed mainly from Common- wealth resources. The objective was to rnise the standard of living in Indonesia, Indo-China, Burma and Siam and thereby reduce the misery and discontent that breed communism. Each Commonwenlidi member has been drawing up plans, sug- gestions and reports of needs and resources which will be discussed, starting today,
The on
basis of technical reports. Luter the Commonwealth Finance Ministers will study the results, and next week representatives of the South-East Asian countries will be called in. This is the sort or enlightened ald plus self-help that it has been United Nations policy to encourage. The Common- wealth is not by itself going to relieve Asia's infinite poverty, but it has been proved since the war that a great dent of good can be accomplished with surprisingly tle help. A man who is starving and sees his family starve wants food-just food. He can think about independence. democracy
uther and "luxuries" once he is fed. His response to Communism is not ideological; it is an escape from misery, a rebellion against his fate. The Spender Plan is wisely aimed at the root of Asian distress, and one hopes that something soild and practical will come of the conferences that open In London today.
on
com-
British troops went on duty
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The task force of the 25th Division on the southern coast
Naafi
Girl
structions from Taipeh-United backed, by fighting vehicles, on Injured By
Press.
William
Sir Hornell
Passes
Nottingham, Sept. 21, Sir William Woodward Hor. nell, Vice Chancellor. of Hongkong University for 33 years, died hero today. He was 172.
of
the alert
Four of them stood virtually face to face with an equal num-
ber of Russian soldiers. Terrorist
Russians had their tommyguns cocked; the British carried theirs uncocked but ready.
Meanwhile, the last of 20 West sector policemen held by the East Berlin authorities was Pic aset-United Presa.
New Political
Chief
Singapore, Sept. 24.
A woman who gave her name da Townsend, understood
to be working as a civilian fór the British ÑAAFI in Singa- pore, was Injured here
today by a splinter from a grenade frown by.
Chinese,
The Chinese, who was on blcycle, tried to throw the grenade. Into the Stamford Cafe [in the centre of the city within
hundred
yards of
Raffles Hotel.
One
Sir William was Director Publié
in Bengal Instruction
Bruscels, Scnt. 24. frotn 1913 to 1024 and went M. Theodore Lefevre, Catho The bomb, aimed at an open. from thero to the post hefe member of the Chumber of door, hit a signboard and fon held at Hongkong until his re- Deputies, was elected President on the pavement, where 11. ex-
of the Belgian Social Christian ploded. tirement In 1937,
splinter flew (Catholle) Party today.
through a whidow, injuring the Three years ago, he was de- He was elected by 020 votes woman as she was, dining with corded the Chinese Govern-against 507 at an extraordinary triends. ment's decoration of the Bril- | congrets his
of
Party, M Pollco immediately, cordoned ant Star with Special Cravat | Lefevrð, nged 40, succeeds Baron of the area and axrested a in recognilion, of valuable ser- | Francis Van Der Btracten spect "The, woman, was ad- vices to China-United Fress, | Walllel-Router
mitted to hospital--Router.
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