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THE ULSTER RIFLES IN ACTION Sharp Engagement Near Seoul Against Guerilla Force
COMMENT Battle For World Icy
Revival of the controversy over, the desecration of Statue Square, the con- version (or should it be perversion?) of
green lawns into a tarmac car park, inevitably stirs in- terest in the fate of the Abercrombie Plan. Nothing is more certain than that · Sir Patrick would have heartily con- demned the Square infil- tration. If there was a point of strong emphasis in his preliminary report it concerned sirability of seizing every opportunity for creating additional open spaces in the city area, encouraging health and beauty.
the
de-
De-
struction of one of the -few-existing-points of pleasant environment
Peace Is On
London, Nov. 5. Field Marshal Viscount to- Montgomery declared night that the "battle for world peace" was on and the nations were "group- ing themselves for what might come.”
Lord Montgomery, Chairman of the Western Union Commander-in- Chiefs Committee, was addressing the Anglo- Brazilian Society's annual
dinner in London.
is
"The trouble today that the world is split by two conflicting ideological doctrines or moral codes," he said. ""The dividing Une in the West TILES through the middle of Germany and cuts Europe In
The two
question arises whether Europe, and Germany, can remain thus' divided indefinitely." -Reuter.
would have been anathe Home
ma to the Town Planner.
Guard
Siberian Blasts May
Paralyse
Battlefront
Tokyo, Nov. 15.
Most of the serious fighting in Korea today consisted of increasing guerilla attacks behind the United Nations line just north of Seoul, the capital of South Korea, where Royal Ulster Rifles battalion was engaged.
.
Guerillas also engaged a considerable number of other troops, including the recently arrived Turkish and Philippines contingents.
Staff officers predicted tonight that the guerillas would become more active as the cold- weather set in. "They will begin coming down from the hills more frequently in search of food and shelter," one officer said.
In North Korea the United Nations troops fighting on the North-West front prepared for what may be their last battle before Arctic winter conditions bring, fighting to a standstill.
Hints have been dropped Being Revived he is running short for the
that the
car
park
London, Nov. 15...
tween Queen's Building" and the Cenotaph may Britain is to revive the Home not be irrevocable, that it Guard, the spare-time civilian may be restored to
army raised to protect Britain its
from invaders during the war. former dignity. The sug-
Defence Minister, Mr The gestion appears to De Emanuel Shinwell, announced
It seemed almost certain that only one more major effort will be possible before snow and ice stop large-scale operations.
United Nations troops, who are beginning to feel the effects of the cold weather, which is not yet at its bitterest.
of
United Europe
With Or Without UK
Paris, Nov. 15. The French National Assem- bly voted 393 to 184 on Wednes day for increased powers and authority for the 15-nation Council of Europe.
Historic Gandhi
Letters
New Delhi, Nov. 15. Letters from Mahatras Gandhi in His own hand to Count Leo Tolstoy and
General Jan Smuts STO shortly to be filmed here on microfilm brought from America.-Reuter,
BLIZZARD RAGES IN
N.E. KOREA
of
The temperature in Seoul
U.S.S. Missouri, Nov. 15.- dropped today to 13 degrees
The "Mighty Mo," its deck covered with degrees Fahrenheit - 19
three inches Korean winter
off now snow, refueled
the frost-as the began to set in.
Korean north-east coast on Wednesday in a raging 35-mile- per-hour..... blizzard that cut visibility to 200 yards.
Reports said that further north, on the battlefront, tem- peratures were several degrees
An icy wind from the Man- churian mountains swept down on American, British, Australian and South Korean troops dug
in
this today. that when the new
Plans are going ahead immc- Praya reclamation schemo diately, though he force will not
before an
actual gets properly under way, be enrolled new space for cars pro-emergency arises, he told the lower.
House of Commons. vided there will permit the Mr Shinwell said that the rehabilitation of Statue first stops towards planning the Square. Those who sur- new Home Guard would be the vey today's scene with a appointment of a Home Guard adviser in each Army Com- shudder would like more mand to ensure that a substan- definite assurance.
tial force could be enrolled, or- Past experience does
notganised and armed within a few
weeks.-Reuter, automatically inspire con- fidence that when van- dalistic instincts get their way, there remains hope for recovery.
Express Hits
One reason for doubt could At Full Speed
Oslo, Nov. 15.
on their new defence line about 10 miles north of the Chongchon River.
GAINS CONSOLIDATED
the
The United Nations forces consolidated their slight gains of the past week, enlarging their defence perimeter. They are now firmly established around Anju bridgehead, a vital supply crossing from the south. Communist troops had again withdrawn slightly and· ap- peared to be digging in nearer the Chinese frontier about two
line.
be the absence as far as the ordinary citizen is concerned of Sir Patrick Oslo's "Lightning Express" Abercrombie's Final Re- hit a goods wagon at full speed miles from the United Nations
on the main Norwegian South port. The preliminary re-Coast line at Hjukseboe today,
United Nations troops, shiver- port was given the killing at least nine passengers widest publicity more and seriously injuring 30 to 40 ing with cold, were regrouping und reorganising for a fresh than twelve months ago. others.
drive and
slowly convoys The express was practically The considered findings
picked their way up the main cut in two by the impact, eye-route to the North with supplies. of the expert, which witnesses reported.
were still Rescue workers
But whether any new attack presumably carried very
wreckage to-would be limited or would aim definite recommendations, searching the
#t reaching the Manchurian night. They said that it was has yet to be released for still possible that more victims border was
doubtful depen public study. Sometime, would be found.
ding mainly on the extent of somewhere what is plan The wreckage was strewn all the Chinese ned for the future de-over the line. The passengers' vention,
private belongings lay scatter-
Communist inter-
British Commonwealth and velopment of the Colony ed about. Among them were American patrols pushed fox- on scientific lines appears an overcoat a hat and a man-ward three and four miles with- to have slipped into a gled doll.-Reuter. pigeonhole.
When Sir Patrick visualised
methodical translation of Hongkong into a modern model city over a period the iden of fifty years,
Was that in A.D. 2000 Other task would be com- fun depleted, not the round of
Girl Born
To Princess
out resistance on the left of the North-Western sector-finding in some places well-placea camouflaged positions abandoned by the enemy.
The vote came after two former French premiers, Georges Bidault and Paul Reynaud, warned of the "rgency of creat- ing a United Europe without delay, with or without British support.
The Missouri and other Seventh Fleet units nuzzled two at a time at the sides of oil tankers pitching in 12-foot seas, while mail, personnel, ammu- nition and provisions were also transferred.
Winds of. 55 miles per hour de- and temperatures of four grees below zero failed to halt air operations aboard the carrier north in the same waters. Philippine Seas, cruising farther
The vote was taken at the end of the debate on the 51 recom- mendations made by the Coun- cil's Assembly in Strasbourg. Most of the recommendations were ignored by the Council's Committee of Ministers in Rome.
Eight jets and 15 Skyraiders earlier this month, but the As- and Corsairs soared off the sembly's vote amounted to a
carrier's rolling decks to blast request to the French Govern- the
Yalu steel and concrete ment to continue to push for river bridges at Hyesinjin.- their adoption,-United Press. United Press.__
Soviet Attempt To
Blackmail
Britain
London, Nov. 15.
Russia has refused to release two Britons held under detention in Germany until the British authorities hand over a Soviet officer who had sought asylum with them, a Foreign Office spokes- man stated today.
The Foreign Office spokesman asylum with the British authori- said that Sir David Kelly, the tles..
Driver British Ambassador, in Moscow, Flight Lieutenant had made representations with force-landed In the Soviet Zone of bad Russia against the detention of of Germany: because a Royal Air Force officer, Flight weather when piloting a fighter on the Lieutenant John Driver, and a aircraft from "Britain DEFENCE LINE
private soldier, Sapper John night of September 5.
Sopper Bennett, a guard on a be General MacArthur's briefing William Bennett, by the Soviet
military good, train from the Princess Anne of Rumania, officer said today that the Chin-nuthorities in Germany.
British Zone to Berlin, was ac- wife of ex-King Michael, today ese Communists-belleved now
He said the return of the men cidentally left behind when the coturitional on train Halted in the Soviet Zone gave birth to a girl at 6.45 p.m. to total 100,000-were The baby weighed 10 pounds at atructing strong defence post- had been made birth. Both the mother and tions further northwest with the handing over of a Red Army on the night of September 6/7.
had sought-Reuter. child are doing well-Reuter. ~(Continued on Pago 12 Col. 17 Houtenant who
Lausanne, Nov. 15.
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