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U.N. FORCES RETREAT 9 MILES
First Setback Since Break-Out From Pusan
COMMENT
The mounting evidences of mass murders of Ameri- can prisoners and other savage atrocities by the North Koreans will cause no surprise. Every- where that Communists have been in active operation, in Greece, in Indo-China, Malaya, and in China, the story has been much the same. They prate of liberation and reform and resort im- mediately to the blood- bath.
Probably there is a close
North Koreans Mount Heavy Threat To Right Flank
Tokyo, Nov. 2.
United Nations troops fall back nine miles before fierce Communist counter-attacks in northwest Korea today. Ameri- can and South Korean advance units withdrew from Unsan, hotly disputed keystone of the northern defences, under heavy out-flanking infiltration attacks.
They abandoned some weapons and ammuni- tion which were later reported being used against
connection between ideo- STOP PRESS them.
logy and behaviour. The Korean Communists, like their ilk elsewhere, have lived under a drum- fire of indoctrination that
puts a miserably low Heavy
Heavy Korean
value on human life, and
no value at all upon such bourgeoise
things as
human dignity and human decency.
Advance elements of the United States 24th Division which had pushed along the coast to
Red Cavalry Slashed
Eusak, Nov. 2.
on
A North Korean Cavalry unit was slashed to pieces when it attempted to at- tack American tanks the Unsan front, according to a report from the First Corps tonight. Tank guns, moving in wide arcs, slaughtered dozens of men and horses, the report sald.-Reuter.
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within 14 miles of the Yalu river border, pulled Neighbours back with them.
to-
The Allied forces were night trying to establish a new
running
line Threat
Tokyo, Nov. 3
The North Koreans were
almost
a
The parallel between the mounting a threat to the United sort of thinking which Nations right flank in north- insists on "liquidating" western Korea today opposition and that of the before Allied forces had com-
withdrawal to Nazi malefactors is close. pleted the
shorter line below Unsan, ac- The Nazis dreamed up a cording to frontline reports. thesis of the "master American intelligence re-
said that two race" that made it quite ports
enemy columns of undetermined justifiable to exterminate
strength were moving towards "inferiors." The Com-
the new front-one from south munists have their dogma of Huichon and the other from of the infallible, an idea scuth of Onjong. It was be- ~which can be used to lieved that these columns were aimed at the Kujangdong area justify the massacre of on the eastern end of the Allied any group in any way defence are protecting the revealing resistance to strategic
where the corner subservience.
Pyongyang highway turns west towards Sinuiju.
Part of the restoration in Korea, as far as can be judged from the grimly repetitive discovery of mass graves, will have to be the re-establishment of moral values.
In
Trygve Lie
Air reports coming in to the First Corps last night said that there was considerable move- ment all the way back to the
Manchurian frontier.
of
A valuable framework roads and several jumping off points for the Manchurian bor- der have been recaptured by the Communists,
No one has yet had time to count losses of equipment but it is believed that they must be considerable,
Reuter.
a cynical degree, it is
An estimated three enemy amusing that Mr Trygve
divisions, with an unknown Lie should be re-elected number of reserve units be- Secretary-General of the hind them, is facing the new U.N. over the irate op- Allied front south of Unsan. position of the Soviet Union and her satellites. In a more practical sense,
With First Corps, Nov. 3. it is highly significant
Units of the 24th Division that outside the Iron Cur-
withdrawals began largescale tain, the vote was virtual- last night in the face of heavy ly unanimous, 46 to five. Communist attacks. Some units A few months ago when Mr pulled back more than 50 miles Trygve Lie made a com-made by Task Force Stevens, mendable endeavour to which had driven to within 14 patch up differences be- miles of Sinulja ön the Man- tween the Big Three and churian border-United Press. the Kremlin, to end the
cold war, he was de-....... nounced in the United States as a Communist, at least a fellow-traveller. Communists, on their side,
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accuse Mr Lie of being a State, Department stooge. Of course, he is neither He has just been doing an excellent job, sincerely and patiently.
The biggest withdrawal was
AN APOLOGY
The Hongkong Telegraph regrets the lateness of its ́appearance on the street to.. day.. The cause was ! serious power failure at a critical period: 'during the morning.
from Chongju, Red
coastal
town
taken
by the British a few days ago, and through Techon to Kujanglong, 15 miles below Unsan
The United States 5th Army Air Force threw 124 fighter- bombers into action on the eastern flank to help the severely tried ground forces to "stabilise the fluid situation," it was officially announced,
Pilots reported fierce fighting in the area with "readily avail- able targots".
The United States Air Force sent 228 fighter-bombers over the fighting zone today. They clairned that two Yak-type planes were destroyed besides 55 vehicles, 13 tanks, 25 am- munition carts, supplies and ten buildings, housing troops.
NO CLARIFICATION Headquarters still made no clarification today of reports of "Chinese troops" in action in Korea and were equally reticent about reports of jet acroplane "dog-fights".
A South Korean unit which had earlier penetrated to the Yalu river frontier, was reported to be withdrawing towards the main United Nations forces without contacting, the enemy. On the East Coast leading elements of the American 7th Infantry Division were today attacking northern forces several miles northwest of Pungsan,
Two battallons of a regiment of the American 1st Cavalry Division, earlier surrounded to the southwest of Unsan, fought their way out of the, Communist trap.
"A LITTLE BRIGHTER" A third battalion was still reported to be surrounded though troops sent to their rescue, after being halted by artillery fire, resumed their drive this afternoon and a First
suation tonight Brighter."
Corps spokesman described the as "a little
According to unconfirmed. -reports, a Chinese orisoner cap- tured on this front yesterday, said that about. 3,000 Chinese troops accompanied by 300 Korean Interpreters were in
on against the out off battalion.
A spokesman at the 1st Corps headquarters said earlier today that two American pilots had observed Chinese troops, wearing Chinese uniforms, moving south In large numbers on the road from Chongan,' on the Yalu river border, towards the Unsan
In
Intrigue Austria
Washington, Nov. 2. The United States today ac- cused Russia of interference with Austrian police officials in flagrant violation of the four- Power occupation agreement
A State Department statement said that continued Interference could not but "lead to a serious deterioration of the Austrian situation.”
New York, Nov. 2. The slum neighbourhood from which Oscar Collazo set out to try
to kill President Truman has disowned him.
Neighbours in the scarred five-storey tenement building claim they knew the 37-year-old Puerto Rican only by sight. Most of them fearfully add: "He is not one of us." The corner grocer hastily said: "He didn't know him."
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The Collazo apartment, though small, is tidy and comfortable, in contrast to the dank hallways with Russian-chipped plaster walls covered
scrawled obscenities leading to it.
It is in the centre of a raucous slum area. The dwellings over- flow with a mixture of negoes and Spanish Americans. Policemen call it "A tough dis- trict." Outsiders are warned not to walk alone on the street at night. United Press.
The Department's complaint was based on Russia's rejection of
2n Austrian Government demand that five Austrian Com- munist police chiefs in the Rus- sian zone be dismissed.-Reuter
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