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The
Hongkong Telegraph.
VOL. V NO. 237
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1950.
BEVIN BACKS PEKING REGIME
Chinese Communists' Entry Into UN
London
THANKS TO TYPHOON
Water
Gas Strike Restrictions
Το End
MEN'S DECISION
London. Get. 5.
Lifted
11
The heavy rainfall
wake of the typhoon which had been threatening the Colony for the past two London's gas strikers todays has filled all the reser- night decided to go back to Yoirs on both the Island and · work on Monday and end Mainland, and as a restrit the 21-lay-old strike, which the Water Authority has lifted recent restrictions,
arents.
has rit off supplies to manly and, starting today, & con- stant supply of water will sebe supplied from 6 a.m. to
11 p.m. It was
emphasised, however, that as soon as the overflow In
The 1,400 maintenance four of the city's mom works decirled to call off their trike, which was fog an extra 3d an hour. Ten leaders of the
nofficial gas strikers were rn, tered today to a moth in pl fee makerdusly" breaking their contracta,
The end of the strike" call was supported by a majsity at mevtin, held by the after their comrades had been sentenced at a City Court earlier in the day,
sankers
Claude Berridge,
London district secretary of
the reservoirs crases, restrictions will be re-imposed unless there
is further rainfall,
Between midnight
tast night
TE-
out relock this morning, 2.27 inches of rain fell, bringing the total for the year to 78,19 inches. Since widright Wednesday, therefore, .15 laches of rain has taken over the Colony. there are prospects
Further main is forecast, but their union, said "a substantial weather improving
of minority" had urged that the
The Royal Observatory Atrike should go on,
"But," he added, "I em fairly | Ported that at 3 am today the confident that the decaion will phoon was situated within 30 miles of 21.7 derece North. meeting ahl
1121 degrees East, moving west The Pe decision was conditional on the eight knots. This places, the storm, or west-north-west at five to withdrawal of the sallers from which is rapidly filling up, about atas-work, on surance 120 mile wedsouth-west fit there would be no victimi- | Hongkorat porten, and the start of Legoun- |
The typhon is expected to mor: kr a bonus scheme for the completely me as soon as it workers
enters the evand. RELEASED ON BAIL
be
the
that t
of
POLICY APPLAUDED AT
LABOUR
PARTY'S
CONFERENCE
Margate, Kent, Oct. 5.
The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bovin, said today it was better to "usher Communist China into the comity of nations"
-the United Nations-than to "make her fight her way in."
Applause greeted this remark, made at the Labour Party's annual conference which afterwards endorsed his foreign policy by a vote of six to one,
aggression and upset the show again if there is a little patience shown "I have no doubt that if the statesmen of China do not indulge in and events are handled carefully that ere long the new China will find herself associated with the rest of us in trying to build a new world," Mr Bevin declared.
Pakistan, Ceylon and Indonesia
They did not look up on Asia as "purely. Indin, and the rest," he
said.
A
"These countries are like patchwork with different hues of a whole pattern. But Asia as Asin is emerging."
the be peaceably
The question was how? Could led without being the victim of revolution and war?
China who “a great country", Mr Devin continued,
Was
11, realled What India had "thrown ber weight against agension," adding. Serry India could not quite sponsor all of Hi
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50,000 Berliners Have Water Supplies Cut
Turn
North Korean Forces
Round And Fight
Tokyo, Oct. 5, North Korean forces stood and fought today for first time since the tions as an independent country South Korean forces Bevin cald that and crossed the 38th, Parallel. They gave battle at a
Welcoming the acceptance of the tudonesia into the United Na-
Mir
had risen to the occasion.
north of the Parallet, according
tonight's air cominunique. reported today, that Communist American intelligence officers guerillas, operating in groups of from 10 to 1,000 "men," had in- Creased their activity in the last 48 hours.
Some groups of well-equip-
She made the great decision strategic point 80 miles ped Northern troops up to
The British Government had taken the line that she should be Incorporated in the United Nations and helped to make her contribution, She was part of the "great Asian emergence"
Some did not agree with Bri- thin about China at the begin-efforts mat but world public opinion point of view, he declared,
nn Britain made it over India. north of the fine. Reviewing the failure of his In the central
Bide
2,000 strong were reported still roaming the Southern country- sector, to Ket understanding where General MacArthur to the north.
trying to break through was now working round to that declared, "Russia can sit down was assembling his main with Soviet Russia, Mr Devin
The decision narrowly averted Coal Mine Disaster an independent Korea with the
a threatened extension of the:
trike to 5,000 production me!
ad the works- for the stup
pare has been continet la maja-
right to be treated as
But
rifles
of most
the feeing
jat a table with us tomorrow. We forces, North Koreans were Northerners were without even Du Korra, Mr Bevin mid he ¦ will forget the past. Flut
We reported to be manning their belleved in the unification of have a
The American Eighth Army, uld positions a few miles in its first honest peopic."
communique sce above the Parallel.
Uctober 2..rald today that its KEYSTONE OF POLICY British infantry
were down nits had been regrouping for | north to just below the Parallel pact low days.. The Defence Minister, Mering the day, while the est
Communications were being Emanuel Shinwell, opened to of the British Commonwealth established and long supply day's debate by introducing brigade in Korea-which
thes were gradually catching up report by the Executive Com
with their organisations, the mittee of the Party on the inter-sis of two British battalions none Trited Nations,, he challenged national situation, This assertret and are Australian-movet upununiaque said.
Communist forces south of u by rond. that collective security through
Observers believed that this ne running through Seoul, the United Nations was the keystone of the Labour Covers-ty and expansive trovement Tacion, Taega and Pusan were belleved to be "completely in- ment's foreign policy, and that helicated
uffective."-Reuter,
Sartago, Chet. 5. Thirr Bus tenance men.
expicion tutay at the cond Scent
ballots were to have rungs in Leja, alibost 496 mile. whether to extend th of Santing, the Minstry bres taken We strike, following the im-of thr prument of the 10 me on Fr
(Conlloged on Page 5 Col. 4)
EDITORIAL
MORE
11:4
# were injured Reuter.
United Nations as gustodian until the country
not on
lis , feet, and with United Wobiog
troops available until law and order could be established.
Calling for support for the British initiative on this in the
his critics to produce Cor more just proposal.
A Snee
Mr Attlee's Worries
even
TORE than ordinary Interest attaches to this year's annual conference of the British Labour Party now being held at Margate, for from it will emerge the broad outlines of the Socialists' platform for the next General Election, thought by many observers in Britain, to be not far away. Moreover, the conference finds the government's wage-freeze and allied economic policies being challenged by the rank and file of the Party, and in such a manner us to suggest that Sir Stafford Cripps will be forced to modify his arbitrary dictum regarding profits as well wages. The Cabinet hardly dore upenly defy the majority opinion of its Party members on wage-freezing though it believes that to allow wages to find an unfettered level means serious nggravation of the problem of inflation. The printe difficulty confronting Me Attlee and his colleagues, however, is to con- vince the ordinary worker that the dangers of inflation are more important of consideration than bully pay envelope which will provide the worker with a weekly margin enabling him to enjoy the improved standards of living to which the government gives vo much emphasis. Those in Britain on the basic salary or Just above it are having a trying time endeavouring to make ends meet. The low purchasing power of the Pound is hitting them hard and their problem is not made easter by the persistent fendency for prices to rise. Buots and shoes, as well as repair work, are
soon to cost more, and so niso, in the London area, in transportation. Tens of thousands of housewives are viewing the approach of winter with grave apprehensions, afraid they will be unable to budget for the daily essentials, The
government's wage- freezing polley may have made its contri- bution to the economic recovery of the nation, but to many classes of wage
earners
II
It has been a grim restriction
and one with which the people are fast losing any tolerance. The Cabinet will have to give way and sacrifice to some ex-
upun
tent this fenture of its national economic policy, and if it does so with good grace it may be rewarded by increased produc- lion which, according to Sir Stafford Cripps, is the one and only justifiention for any freeing of wage levels. For ills, lowever, the government must depend the goodwill of the people, and there is not a great deal of it visible in the country today, or Attlee has other worries, not the lenst being dissension
his colleagues in the among
House of Commons, Mr Aneurin Bevan has pro mised "unity on the battlefield of the elections" but the Prime Minister, grati fied though he may be with his gesture, cannot easily forget the unofficial revolt #f certain back-benchera during past months, and more particularly when the Steel Nationalisation mensure came before the House recently for a decisive vote, Only unqualified approval for his policies from the Margate conference can wholly reassure Mr Attlee as to his position na leader of the Parliamentary Labour Party and provide him with the necessary power deal effectively with his recalcitrant Socialist MP's. Nor is it discounted 'in London that the presence of these "rebels" in the House may prompt Mr Attlee to nominato an early election date. On domestic issues the Socinlistu might just as well go to the country now as to wait until next year, and if the
Party
succeeded aguin In appeal to represent the nation, It would offer Mr Attlee the perfect opportunity for a Cabinet reshuffle which, many observers believe, he has long wanted to effect. Additionally, It has been made quite clear that Mr Attlee is anything but happy trying to govern with a handful 8f majority votes at his disposal. There are, in fact many reasons why an etection will come before Christrans, not the least being that the country self would welcome the chance of bringing to an end the present stalo. mate by the further use of its franchisé.
to
Labour
Its
that General
con-
Mac-
In Korea United Nations action Arthur was planning to order had immensely strengthened its composite force over the
201th-South Korean authority and prestige.
border soon.
These would include the The critics of tise Den British Commonwealth troops, leadership included Mr Larold American
--་་ ་ forces already re- Davies. Member of Parliament, grouped near the Parallel and i who moved the rebel wolu- Filip.na Stony. Mr Ian Mikardu,
Ronald Chamberlain,
10 Buried
shortly. In HK
troops who are ex-L Mpected to be moved up Member STRONG POSITION of Parlament, and Mr Fmıy The North Koreans, who Hughes, Member of Parliament,
put up Butle Most of them
opposition urged that now to the South Koreans" Britai should be closely tied advance
into their territory, picked a point three miles north
in the United States,
he had.
have
Landslide
with
belleved
In his address Mr Bevin sald of Changjon to stand and fight Seven Feared Dead that from the day he took office Įtoday.
ali 107, he had tried to be
At this pot the east coast triends with Russi
NODOGY
road is skirted by the sea and
Seven people are La nat more insulte
from high mountains
and the North killed as A result of a huge Molotov and Vyshinsky than Koreans had strong deep de-landslide above Sing Wo
fente positions behind it.
lead. Happy Valley, about Frontline reports spid that 6 o'clock this morning. One about 2,250 Communists gave body, that of a six-year-old ground on the cast coast, has since been recovered, Turkey going to attack road io Wonsan. though the and the Fire Brigade is ni- Russia?
has she been Southerners brought up Why
rein tempting to extricate the other compelled to bear the cost of forcements and called in power buried victims. mobilisation all this time?" ful air strikes. Mr Bevin wanted to know,
Why, he asked, had a sma Country like Turkey to endure
nye yvarx-of a nerve warr
no
Three others The South Koreans
were injured were and have been sent to Queen Why, he continued, was them blocked by road mincs and Mary Hospital. .continual conflict in
barbed wire in front of an in- Ilo believed that President tricate network of trenches In Truman had prevented
Greece?
world depth.
struggle in the Middle East. If The North Koreans
that conflict has started
ade
At
д.т.
The casualties were all squat. tera living in buts built on were the hillside helow the Hong they gliting bitterly. alght have seen the whole ot
kong Jockey Club Stables. The Southern Thin Divi- the Middle East right down
approximately cosion, which yesterday captured today, the earth on the hillside india go.
Kosong, 65 miles north of the above the hute began to move, Turbing 10 Germany, Mr Parallel, almost unresisted, had giving first warning of the slide Bevin recalled the Berlin block-expected a Communist stand to follow. Some of the inmates and said, have not another 30 miles on at Wonsan, of the huts managed to get out heard one fellow traveller who one of the few major towns, olin time, but the others were condemned the efforts to starve Northern Korea. two and a half million peo-
trapped beneathi 100 tons of ple."
DIGGING IN
earth which come crashing down. The Inain forces of the South Switching to Korca Mr Beyin Korean Capital Division, nd- sold that the State was created vancing
Two appliances were rushed into Norhern Korea to the scene by the United
by the Nations and further inland, reported fighting Brigade, which also despatched guaranteed by. the Nations.
United a pucket of 1,200 Northerners an ambulance and the emer-
left behind in the The tanks the North Koreans over the border..
quick dash-gency rescue tender. used were not made in Korca.
Police were also 'sent out fa In the centre of the Parallel,strength. They were sent there to wipe pilots of the American Fifth Airin
and they assisted the
CUC operations
Fire
cut South Korea and present the Forte reported that the Northwhile keeping crowds of curious Ted Nations with д tait Koreans were trying to occupy sightseers away from the danger accompli.
the positions from which they area, one time there was launched their Juno offensive possibility of two struggles going late the South and were digging the body of the little girl wo
After digging for some time, on simultaneously-in Germany in
found. She was dead.'; and in the Far East, Air Devin These positions stretch fron went on
According to Fire Brigada Haelu in the west to Hwachon, officials, three adults and throa Defending the Government's about 50 miles from the cast children are still buried behealh ronmament poller beaked coast, on a line running between the mass of earth. why had Eastors Germany been 10 and 20 miles from the border. Rescue operations were con granted 100,000 police who were The Fifth Air Force continued, tinuing at the time of going to *{(Contiased on Para E Col 1) to tammer. Northeza forças just pres
A
SEOUL BADLY SMASHED UP
Mr
London, Oct. 5.
Gaze TWOTAHUN, first member of the United Nations Commission in Heres to re-enter · Seoul after its recapture by the Americans, sald in London, today that only about 10 of the decent sized bulld- gs in the city were left
was preity well
He
said, "We
drove
past completely
burned out
Housewives of West Berlin who are without water be- cause of the Ruslan sector's shutdown of water supplies. carry out the weekly wash in, the street while a boy stands by to 911 buckets with a hoses pipe. About 50,000 Deople are affected by the water cat which Western officials had not anticipated. Russian- licensed quick to use the shortage as a propaganda weapon. They zald Enstern Berlin had re- peatedly offered to provide water and electric power to Western Berlin, but the om- clals had refused to sign a trade
newspapers
wero
Arcement, Londofa Express Service.
CONSULATE
EMPLOYEES
apartments ON TRIAL
stores and office buildings found tho Duktsco
and
Patzce.
in which the United Nations Commis. sian had been quartered, a blackened
sheil.
Mir Movalzon, Informa- tion
Ofker attacheil 10 the Commission, was in- terviewed when he arrived In London by air on his way to Lake Succes.
was in Seoul with press correspondents when the firing teased on Thurs. day morning of last week.“
he said.
He said that the Com- mission's advanced party
moved back Into Sesul on Friday And preparations were being made when he left for the frumediate return to the elty of the whole
Beuter.
Commission.
Four
Prague, Oct. 5. Carchoslovaks, former employees of the United States, Consulate here. wert tried neerelly before a Prague State Court today,
to
They were a young clerk, Sykorai Josef Polak, believed be 3 chauffeur. und two young girl clerks, Helena Duronova and Milena Machac-
kova.
The four felt the service of the American Consulate in June after the Ctech Government had
demanded
a two-third - reduction In Consular and Em-
bassy staffs,
According to reports, they wero atresied a few weeks later near the German frontler. They were alleged to have been about to try to escape into the American Zons of Germany. Reuter.
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