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VOL. V NO. 230
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1950.
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West Germany Will Aid Close Shave U.S. VANGUARDS STRIKING
Defence Of Europe On
Mystery of The Her Own Terms
Blue Sun
London, Sept. 27, The mystery of the big blue Mon deepened today when it was
seen over
Scandinavia, Germany and Switzerland
Most people here thought that smoke was the cause yesterday when first the
nun
and the moon turned blue over Britain. But to- day volcanoes in Japan and Germany eval dust from
пр
were
conjured puzzled meteorologists in Europe as possible zakons, In Denmark, reports of the sun's colour ranged from yellow grey to azure biur.
Bonn, Sept. 27.
West Germany will contribute to the defence of Western Europe, as called for by the Atlantic Pact Foreign Ministers in New York yesterday, only on a basis of “absolute equality,” Government officials told Reuter today.
on
The Foreign Ministers asked their countries' Defence Ministers to make recommendations how to use German manpower and resources.
the
West Geron Government | The Ministers comprise the
K Comunica officials maintained that all the Defence by
chief political parties would give Northern Regional Group, which Government their support, may be merged with the other
groups under This attitude would automati- two
& Supreme cally mean German refusal to Commander whose appointment was forcenst by the Atlontie act either as lines of communien- tion troops in an European army Comelt yesterday.-Reuter, or as low level units", for in- stonee, as German battalions; under another country's com- !znane.
In America, where the blue sun was st Keest. there was still plenty of support for the first theory.
Reuter,
BRITISH
REPRISALS
IN BERLIN
Berlin, Sept. 27
Officials noted that an Ameri-] [
can
DEBATE ON
State Department spokes- INVITING
man last week spoke of Comman units. being included in na European army and not under the control of the Donn Govern- rakat.
While West Germany was always prepared to give up part of her sovereignty for European institutions, he would only do so in this case if the same was adopted as a framework for all other countries," they sold.
CHANGES IN BRITAIN? British armed military policr today necupied the West Berlin In consequence, there would West have to be a change of system Jocks anef, assisted by Berlin police, detained a total of in, for instance, Britain, where of 45 East German barges after Parliament kad ultimate contro meticulously checking documents, over the armed forces. and loads.
!
PEKING
Flushing Meadow, Sept. 27. The question of inviting the
Comumunists Chinese
to take Security Connel! pet 11 deliberations on the Formosun will be debated by the ins Connell when it meets tonight.
Mr Jacob Malik (Iussia) was for understood to have sited the meuling to force the issue
a vote. Was
here BOL kwa Whether the necessary seven votes could bu Goverinent quarters claimed favourable that American officials had "let obtained to permil participation They claimed insufficient it be know that the United i et the Peiping-representatives,
The sources said that if the documentation" UP "overweight States understood this German
of lend" as the reason for the donand for equality.
proposal was defeated, one
Council Getention.
While the Fecurity quamnter | slug non-pertanaco! in Berlin given by the New York Foreign; members would
propose that Political observers believed that the British action Ministers' conference was a big the Formoson issue be taken off
Chunell agenda and dia reprisal against step forward, it alone did not the was meant ng
protection for cursed by the General Assem- the repeated Soviet interference ferd matrial
bly. with inter-zonal barge traffe on Germany. the Elbe River,
The only alternative advanced!
Bonn politicians to this Under the pretext of insum-lay cient documentation or overload, demand for equality, obervers Soviet officera
have ordered gaul. here, came from rame several barges to unload their Social Demcerats who entisag-
ed German parithm cargoes and so far half a million Westmarks worth of scrap and event of aggression
East-Reater.
non-ferrous metal, which are in!
Short supply in Eastern Cier-
many, have thus been prized.
The Assembly cannot discuss i en tem on the Council's agetida,
Reuter.
iti
from
the the
South
LONDON TALKS
In
London, Sept. 25.
A few hours after the locks The Batish. Danish and Nor- were necupled by the British, westion Defence Ministers today
Africans
Japan
New York, Sept.27.
A South African Air Force unit arrived In Tokyo today.
of After a short period of training The Soviet authorities ordered discussed the recognisation Eart German barges on their the European regional groups of in Japan, the unit would be way to Berlin to turn back to the Allenfie
Reuter.
In Korea
One of the Leathernecks in the Inchon landing coup finds no shortage of assistants when he has a shave "somewhere in Koren.” Others look on while a Korean hoy holds a mirror for him. (London Express Service)
Franco-German Antagonism
Must Go: Schuman
Flushing Meadow, Sept. 27.
The French Foreign Minister, M. Robert Schuman, told the United Nations General As- sembly today that peace in Europe could not be secured until the old Franco-German antagonism had been removed.
TOWARDS BORDER
Pockets Of Resistance In Seoul Still Fight Stubbornly CUTTING ESCAPE ROUTES
Seoul, Sept. 27.
American vanguards today probed out from this recaptured capital to within 18 miles south of the 38th Parallel which divided North and South Korea when the war began three months ago.
Away at the eastern end of the fluid United Nations front South Korean troops had pushed to within 60 miles of, the same Parallel.
The northernmost point of the American ad- vance in the west was a point on the road to Chun- chon where two Communist escape routes to the north bottleneck together.
American heavy tanks had advanced up to 15 miles east of Seoul in a bid to cut the escape corri- dor for scores of thousands of disorganised Com- munist troops.
Unofficial
estimates sold last
The clinin
south- running night's dramatic link-up be-cast-north-west must be suf- tween American troopa from fened up to a solid line. the north and south lind cut eft
Something like 30,000 Com- 50,000 Communists, Whot munisto from four divisions are happens to them depends upon checked behind the link-up. soon the Alles can con-plus elements of three mere solidate the lak-up on.
divisions trapped in the extreme south to the west, of the Nam River.
how
ing,
CONSERVING IN EAST
Those irying to flee from the captured southern copiial were being Blaughtered al road blocks cast of the city which was almost destruyed in An American army spokes- three days' bitter street fight-man said that there are no Communist forces of divisional The British, French and strength or above operating American embassies were oc- "etfectively" south of Seoul. cupied today.
But
in the cast, where the Isolated Communist forma-] South Koreans are advancing tions have begun suicide to easily, the Northerners Arc faelis in the extreme south to believed to have conserved draw off American troops and their fighting strength. ease pressure on their retreat- Ing comrades.
The Communists have been moving north since Seoul came under direct threat more than
Canadian Units May Go To Europe
Ottawa, Sept. 27.
The advance of Ameri- can troops in Korea has raised the possibility that Canada's special Army force may go to Western Europe Instead of there.
Official quarters said to.
that this possibility probably discussed in New York among the
day
WEA
Foreign Ministers of the North Atlantic Treaty 123=' tions and that rolaht come up at next month's meeting of their Defenon Ministers-Reuter,
MPs Escape
Ambush
Thr-o Members
Singapore, Sept. 27. minutos saved .... alx. of Parliament from
for
IN CENTRE
a week ago, travelling day and Though the capital was of night. They may lose some a guerilla ambush in Malaya--
them ago strength if conscripted South, among 24 hours
Lord Listowel, cially captured
youths desert as the former Minister of State it took seven reach the centre of the city.
more hours to Korean
chance occurs.
the Colonies. Strong resistance in the south The United Nations' line ran
deliberate They passed a spot in Central
where three cast, attempt
United Nations forces as pos- later a police constable way
and so help the with-shot dead
forces of the Allied
PULLING OUT
Lo
roughly from Seoul out through is Interpreted as a
engage' as meny then south to Taejon-still in
the high ground to the
Communist
M. Schuman, referring to his plan for the pool- ing of coal and steel production, declared, "The Pact, expected to assigned to the Fifth Air Force countries associated in this ambitious but es-northward bent back to striks drawal of Communist vold detention in West Berlin, follow the decision to set up un tactical wing in Korea.-United sentially peaceful task will no longer be tempted to the east
Indeed, war between them will have wage war. become unthinkable and impracticable.
EDITORIAL
ESPONSE
integrated defence force.
I'ress.
Educational Planning
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the Director of
seeking enlightenment on the number of children between the ages of 5 and 12 who - have tried and failed to get accommodů. tion la our over-taxed schools, was sur- on the prisingly mild. Expert opinion scale of frustration varied between 30,00 and 80,600, while the names registered totalled only 22,000. Whether that can be regarded as offering a true picture of the
need for insistent
expansion of educational facilities, It is difficult to say. Either the task of absorption presents n lesser problem than had been feared- the sort of thing when the introduction of the subject is in itself multicient to make Financial Secretarles shudder-or other factors operated to give a slightly false impression. The truth probably Bes roughly in between, and in any case, the Director cannot plan for the future on behalf of parents who decline to take a step to help themselves. The problem is weighty enough as it is, and the real value of the registration experiment.
Was its disclosure of the points from which it can most profitably be atincked. Such facts, for instance, as the districts in which the need for new schools is greatest and as the extent of demand for primary schools ns against secondary, might perhaps be guessed by those responsible for keeping
situation the
under
but survey, could only be accurately pin-pointed by this particular device, In short, Mr Rowell will have excellent material to support his memorandum' to Government recommending the provision of additional facilities and stressing the areas with the strongest claims to preferential treatment. And the Director will proceed more con-
REducation's invitation to parents.
SEURA KA CANDID' STERN
fidently as the result of the 22,000 gure. When it is recalled that each year since 1916 new schools and the rehabilitation of the old has made it possible la eduenie an annual average of 20,000 pupils more than the previous year, by raising Hong- kong's capacity to 160,000 compared with 100,000 in 1911, the further increase is hardly frightening in its magnitude. It is a matter concerning the revenue povillen more than the resource and for- ward looking policy of the educational authorities, of which there is no doubt. The tribute paid by Sir Christopher Cox to the progress made by the Department in the face of the exceptional diMculties thrust upon the Colony by the ravages of war has been richly deserved. While the Department is engaged, however, in surveying the scene exposed by the regis tration, it might beneficially be linked with further review of school regulations. We have in mind particularly the futility of persevering with youths who fall abjectly in successive examinations and stay in echools up to the age of seventeen or elghteen without the slightest prospect of passing beyond the standard of Form Four or Class Three: After that, they proceed to the Technical College and train to be a radio operator! This la but one of many similar instances where heavy expensé In endeavouring to instl·l physics, Latin and the pons asinorum into a dullard is quite unwarranted and his earlier introduction to tapping a key or to a carpenter's tools would be of greater benefit. In the broad field of education as an art, it is possibly a minor point, but when in Hongkong the pressure on school space is so immense as to create a serious problem, it demands consideration.
"We express the hope that suck organs, and to resort only the experiment of an indepen- to such forms of dent Supra-National Authority and complaint wit
uppatible with
go forwards, opening hitherto unseen prospects for the peace of Europe."
On the
American proposal
املة
propaganda are com- free democracy any the secure existence of the State itself.”
Paralic
Reuter.
sible hands-then in const near the 27th north
General MacArthur wrote off the North Korean armles in the South-West Koren pocket early today in personal munique saying that their fate was sealed, but they are not in the prisoners' cake yet.
1
com.
The big push by the South Koreans on the east flank set Until all nations conformed to the whole front on the move to strengthen the General As-
but yesterday's sembly as an effective weapon the spirit and principles of the again today, against aggression, M. Schuman (United Nations Charter, agree-link-up between the American said that this was a prospectinents would be a snare and a armies is so far more dramalle
declusion. Reuter, for the future,
for
"Meanwhile, our Govern- ments, belug responsible Peace and security, could not and cannot be resigned to the passive expectation of future reforms, not be sattalled with a form u! collective protection which is more theoretical than real.
UD
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"The Charter itself authorises and encourages the setting of regional groups, as well any other Initiative for the im- plementation of legitimate col- lective defence,"
SNARE AND DELUSION Continuing, M, Schuman, ask- ed, "Is it possible to speak sincerely
peare while, at the same time, maintaining organs of which the scially admitted purpose is to promote and main-
i
than effective.
Demonstrations
Over
Austria
All
over
Vienna, Sept. 27. Strikers staged demonstrations all Austria today following yesterday's cost of living riots in Vienna.
Vienna itself was quieter today except for an attempt by workers in one district of the Russian sector to disrupt the tram service.
At Linz 1,000 workers marched to the Cham- fain violent agitation and civil ber of Labour, and demanded that the Govern- war in other countries?"
He declared that negotiationsment abandon its new wage-price agreement,
All publle transport in Linz | solution of protest against the
would be sterile unless all nations were prepared to "re- nounce such action, to dissolva stopped at noon.
STOP PRESS
were
new wage price agreement sanc- tioned by yesterday's meeting The countrywide protests be of the Austrian Cabinet, gan after the Austrian Cabinet
The Chancellor promised to yesterday approved new scales granting wage increases which bring the resolution before the
Cabinet. the Communist and their sup-
Police reinforcements porters claim are not enough stationed around the Federal to cover rising costs of food, Chancellery in Vienna. fuel, clothing and other goods. Crowds of people bought up Communist sources said that goods likely to go up in price
were on strike through Lower Austria in the when the new wage-price pan takes effect on October 1. There WAS A widespread black-market The Austrian Federal Chan-in commodities such as ficar, Charles defenled Joe Louis in cellor Dr Leopold Figl, re- semolina and sigar, Clothes and their fight in New York lastceived today a daingation. of textiles rose by - 25 percea
werkers who sibonitad, nɛre= Reuter-> | pight United Press.
CHARLES WINS 50,000 workers
DECISION
Ruszlin zone.
Une
"Tokyo, Sept. 28.
Johor
minutes
After visiting two estates on Monday morning, the Member of Parlament cancelled their to a latex rubber installa- trip
ilma tion in the afternoon as was short. according to the A Tenth Corps communique Malaya Tribune, Issued at 5.13 this morning såld
If they had not done so, they that the First Marine Division would most likely have passed raised
the United the ambush ading over
point after the States Consulate as the Tenth
guerillas had
takes up (Continued an Page 5 Col. 1)
positions-Reuter,
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