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PUZZLING CHINESE RETREAT United Nations Probing Units Fail To Make Contact
COMMENT
Acid Test In
Korea
Whether or not it was General MacArthur's in- tention, the Supreme Commander's grim
sur-
Solid Defence Line Built
After Bitter Fighting
Seoul, Nov. 6.
Up
Communist troops, faced with a stiffening United Nations defence line in North-West Korea, unexpectedly broke off con- tact tonight and retreated to the North.
The exact extent of the sudden withdrawal was not known by American Army officers, who also said that they were puzzled of the sudden incursion in by the reason for the Communist action.
vey of the consequences
Korea of Chinese Com- munist divisions forces the issue. Chinese Reds are not directly referred to - MacArthur defines them as aliens but the realities are not glossed over, no punches were pulled.
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Britain Cautioned
Not To Reject Red Note Out Of Hand
London, Nov. 6.
Mr Ernest Bevin, the Foreign Secretary, attended today's Cabinet meeting on the Soviet proposal for a four-power conference on
many.
Ger-
before
Officials here indicated that Mr Bevin would try to secure a test of Soviet good faith agreeing to a conference.
The British- Press today adopted, in the main, a cau trous attitude to Russia's note which called for meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers on Germany.
There was, nevertheless, a tendency to warn the Westem Powers against rejecting the Russian note.
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The Communists broke off. I contact late in the evening after a strong counter-attack- ing movement by the Ameri- 24th Division had recouped about 1,200 yards of 'ground lost' ́when the North Koreans and Chinese swarmed In a heavy dawn attack.
United Nations units all along the line repórted tonight that despite aggressive" patrolling they could not make contact with the Communists.
American field officers said that they were still trying to.
probe the Communist positions to find out whether they were
digging in to fight off á renew- cd American advance towards the Manchurian border, or re- grouping for a fresh onslaught
on the vital. Anju beachhead across the Chongchon River.
United Nations troops, after four days of bitter fighting, had today established a solid de-i fence line in North-West Korea
Bid To Save along the Chongchon River.
Wounded
Tire London Times suggested Constable
Soviet Being
Cynical?
Lake Success, Nov. G.
con-
The Soviet Government today presented to the United Nations Political Committee a formal TC- solution which would de- clare that in the event of the mobilisation or -centration of another State of considerable": armed forces near its frontier, the threatened State had the right to take requisite -- measures of 2 military nature, but without cross- Ing the frontier.
No attacks by one State on another, the Soviet resolution : said, could be Justified by arguments of น "political, strategic or economlo nature."
In particular, States could not use as Justifica- flon the backwardness of any nation, alleged short- --comings of its administra-
tion, "апу
revolution- ary: óf counter-revolution- ary movement, civil war, disorders or strikes," or the State's ・・・ economic or social system.Reuter.
TRUMAN &
ACHESON
CONFER
Kansas City, Nov. 6. President Truman had a
IMPROVED · GREATLY Interference from the, rein- forced enemy, whose forces in- long telephone discussion clude Chinese, had died down
but the Tokyo spokesman ad- today with the Secretary mitted that the United Nations of *State, Mr Dean troops were on the defensive. Acheson, on the situation
An American Eighth Army in Korea.
that the
The thrust over the Yalu River is accurately de- scribed as one of the most offensive acts of inter- national lawlessness in the historic record. The naked aggression of the smashed North Korean urmy might, on a split of hairs, be interpreted as an internal revolutionary drive. For the Chinese, no possible excuse available.
MacArthur's pointed re-
ference to the absence of any notice of belligerency permits
to escape members of the United Nations, no avoidance of the issue. Some dis- position to keep eyes
PC 4784, Sit Wal-kwal, who spokesman here sald
The
President's associates in a wounded closed to
shooting situation had "improved, great-
Mr. said that some extent.
was
Truman Swas lastly in the past 24 hours. with the laudable pur-
affray in Kowloon Tong
over American and South Korean deeply concerned troops battled all night with movement of Chinese pose of preventing the
night, is still in a critical con-
Pak munist troops into North Korea broadening of the field of
The Conservative Yorkshire In response to a call, many of infiltrating units in the the flare-up, remains, but Post declared that it was poss-, his comrades were streaming to chon area before falling back from Manchuria.
Officially, however, the Pre- it is going before the ible that the Russian Govern- the Kowloon Hospital early this one mile today.. They were to-
day holding' Armly five miles sident maintained silence ment was "genuinely anxious" | morning to donate blood, Security Council and the
to reach a settlement on the
PC Sit Wai-kwal was shot in north of the Anju bridgehead, this development, as well as on the main approach to the General Douglas MacArthur's situation requires to be
but stressed the back by an armed robber South, and the apparent objec- communique which denounced it German problem, faced in its true colours.
ว was searching that If the Western Powers when he
tive of the new reinforced as "one of the most offensive negotiated with Russia they suspect' last night. -
Communist drive.
acts of lawlessness" in history. What the outcome will be must do so in the knowledge PC 4721, Wong Ngai-man,
"Heavy, attacks against the The President's Press Secre- remains a matter of con-
that the negotiations may come later shot and wounded a suspect British Commonwealth Brigade tary, Mr Charles G. Ross, said
who was running away ignoring in the same area and against that to nothing.
Mr Truman had been jecture, speculation. But
Another Conservative news-
a challenge. there can be no evasion.
The condition of the suspect, other South Korean units fur- "Alled in on the whole situa- paper, the Daily Mail, argued General MacArthur that the "shadow of a hint" of found lying on the road some-ther to the right were held off tion" in his talk with Mr Ache-
without loss of ground. settlement must not be time after, was this morning minces no words when he
the critical,
Control of Anju would give) but advised
President Truman arrived in bt
He Improving.. insists
He is that potential ignored,
Powers to continue is suffering
from two wounds, the Communists the opportunity Kansas City yesterday. Western
to threaten United Nations due to vote at his home town large-scale reinforcement building up the "united front" L the right side of the chest
troops in the Kunuri area to of Independence, Missouri, in of the Chinese forces in the East and West.
and the scalp.
the east and would force the Tuesday's Congressional' 'elec- already committed on a
Americans to evacuate their tion.--Reuter, "volunteer" basis can be regarded as a matter of the gravest international significance.
A disastrous military re-
that the Western Governments should ask for more information
Moscow from
and that they should then make their own proposals for an agreement on Germany more plain.
a
The Communist Daily Worker claimed that "once again" the Soviet Union had pointed out the way to peace and accused
dition.
the United States Government STOP PRESS
of mad alms of world. quest-Reuter.
con-
Jogjakarta, Nov. 6.
A Sunday newspaper here ran a contest in which readers
were used to predict whether
the third child of the Indonesian President and Mrs Soekarno
verse of the U.N. forces The Girls Had It has been avoided. Never- theless, unless Peking calls off the hounds, the time permitting parrying will be overs The puzzling withdrawal of the Chinese Communists last night tells nothing - certainly not that the acid test has been survived.
would be a hoy or a girl..
Some 3,00 readers predicted 3,534
Bri E girl, while
erred. forecasting a boy. The girl has been named Dyah Promana Rhahmawati Sukarnaputri. —— Reuter.
British China
Policy
London, Nov. 6. The Government said to night that it is giving close and urgent attention to the "'intervention of Chinese Communist forces in Kored.
Informed sources said the government has no inten- tion of withdrawing recog+ nition of the Communist rogime at least for the time being.-United Press.
frontline fighter airflelds at
Sinanju. It would also open up |
son.
the approaches to Pyongyang, Korean
the North Korean capital.
the Com-
Relief
on
STILL CROSSING Runs Into Snags
reinforce-
Lake Success. Nov. 6.
A Tokyo spokesman said to- day that alien" ments for the Communists were The United Nations pro.. still crossing the Yalu River gramme for relief and rehabili- from Manchuria
in
fair tation in Korea ran into its first strength."..
snag today when France, Bel- The spokesman would not go glum, and Pakistan vigorously beyond: General MacArthur's opposed an Arnerican plan to general communique last night ask member nations to finance saying that "new alien forces the programme. were in the war," but hat Mr. Amlad. All of Pakistan specifically naming the Chinese said that his country already Communista.
had strained its resources to
THE *~ Communist attack" | "the","limit" "In the flood relief against the United Nations lines programme and in caring for on" the^ "Chongchon River had thousands of refugees from
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