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U.N. FORCES IN FULL RETREAT
Chinese Communists Mass Against Open Flank Cornerstones Of Defence Important Truman
Bulge Held Firmly
Until the Peking Govern- ment fully discloses its hand, how bitter will be the sequel to the launch- ing of a nakedly aggres- sive counter-offensive by the Chinese armies in Korea cannot readily be predicted. The gravity of the events, nonetheless, is
inescapable. Pretence, for ed
all practical purposes, has
North-West Korea, Nov. 29.
United Nations troops were in full retreat south of Chongchon River tonight as Chinese Communists mass- against their wide open right flank,
An army in retreat is always a depressing spectacle
been abandoned. Even and this was no exception. Mao Tse-tung could hard-
ly maintain that the
inland, to Sinanju, near the river mouth, and then 20 miles south-eastwards to Sunchon.
Kunuri was in Communist hands, but at nightfall Allied troops still held the other two cornerstones firmly.
As
..
New War Plan
Statement Coming
Washington. Nov. 29.
White House officials said today that President Truman will tell the United States tomorrow what the United States government is going to do to cope with the new threat to world peace raised by the Com- munist thrust into Korea,
An official said that' at · President Truman's press conference "the President definitely will have a state- ment on Korea, It will restate this country's Far Eastern policy." United Press.
In Korea Now PAT BEATS · Called For FOUR YEAR
OLD JINX
Reuter's correspondent Roy Macartney drove latest massive onslaught down both sides of the shrinking Eighth Army was organised by volun-
defence bulge which runs from Kunuri, 15 miles teer contingents. On her part, the United States has thrown down the challenge, a direct charge of aggression in the Security Council.
What is not so clear is how
far the Chinese Commu- the river line, with the sound headlights like phantoms.
Macartney drove along dusk into Macartney's jeep's
Washington Nov. 20. nists are prepared to pur- of guns booming in the distance,
Senator Millard Tho
Communist infiltration.
Tydings, sue the Moscow mission. I racing ambulances predomina-attacks had reduced the United Chairman of the Senate Armed
ted among the few vehicles still Nations forces' South
Services Committee, said today -sole operable Collapse of the
Sydney, Nov. 29. that a *mass heading northward.
Invasion by line of communications to the Korean divisions on the
Mrs Pat Brown, at her hundreds of thousands of train- Through the roadside dust de-
main west coast road runninged Chinese troops" central front jeopardised tachments
in Korca sixth attempt, has finally South Korean-from Sinanju south to Sukchon called for a complete new war managed to of
beat a four- the whole U. N. position, soldiers who had raced joyously and on to Pyongyang.
towards the Yalu River front British and Australian counter-
year-old forcing general retreat less than a month ago, plodded attacking troops
jinx and leave were busy
for Australia
America under relentless pressure. southward with heavy hearts. clearing secondary roads while Whether these operations
Most of them were
without wheeling into position to fill in a conference with Defence De- where she will join her hus-
band. mean exploitation by the weapons. The remnants of units the open right flank from a line partment officials.
drifted along in twos and threes. running roughly through Kunuri Chinese of the crash Occasionally an‹rganised body to Sunchon-Reuter. through, with the inten-of 100 or more South Korean tion of marking time im-troops, commanded mediately initial objec- tives have been gained, or whether the large force- still across the Yalu River will be thrown in re-
by officers and with their equipment still on their backs, filed down the road of retreat.
Refugees once more were the harbingers of the advancing Communists.
Helping to clog the roads were families leading their animals backs and heads.
In some villages anxious
householders stood at their doors watching the traffic swirl past. re- Overhead the air buzzed with United Nations planes, leaving vapour trails in the clear blue sky,
GLOOMY MEN
The comparative warmth of the day and the absence of Communist planes to harry the
forces.
plan. :
He made the statement after
Senator Tydings said that the Defence Department officials described the Korean situation
Peking Barter as "very grave" and added that
new war plans were being developed.
Later
I
Here is her record since she made her first, vain, bld to join him soon after the end of the
war,
1. Two days before sailing broke a leg;
.
San Francisco, Nov. 29.. Exchange of goods between China and Bast Germany Senator Tydings said he as-
2. Stowed away because she would be started im sumed the tentative plans in- couldn't get a passage but was mediately and the first cargo of cluded the possible use of the
discovered and sent back Chinese goods would be shipped atom bomb in Korea.
from Manila; 3. Booked sumed that all possible military taxi taking her to the drome by plane but the broadcast tonight.
strategy was being considered: cision as to the use of artillery, ship was to sail, contracted Senator Tydings said a de- crashed and she broke her arm; 4. A few days before her, next manpower or the atomic bomb measles and lost her medical and
was not one for the Senate to China
1 ex- Committee or Congress, but for
clearance; change for various 'Chinese raw | the. Executive Department- materials.-Reuter.
Reuter.
Under a trade agreement for
1951. signed on October 10 this year, East Germany would ex port heavy machinery equipment
Pleven Calls For
Vote Of Confidence
mains a matter of pure and carrying bundles on their shortly, according to a Peking he revised that to say he as- conjecture. The question involves less their cap- abilities-and it is almost certain the U.N grouping along રી new defence line will bring them to 21 halt than whether they plan to try. Anxiety expressed both in' Tokyo and Washington is not without warrant. retreating columns were the MacArthur has thrown only consolation to the gloomy of the United Nations the issue to the United men Nations, leaving no room
"Only when he arrived at for doubt as to his mean- Yongyang, former North Korean ing his hands are tied capital, did we learn that the unless his authority in-road we had taken had been under fire an hour before," re- cludes "coventration" of ports Macartney who added that Manchurian bases. And this emphasised the fluidity and
of uncertainty the battle. the Soviet has a mutual defence pact with Peking.
HEAVY LOSSES The dilemma is obvious. North of the ice-choked We are nearer to an ex-Chongchon River the American tension of the conflict 25th and Second Divisions, with the Turkish Brigade to the east, ever before. have suffered heavy casualties. Strenuous will be the Helicopters were busy aiding
find effort to
of evacuation દી way in the
wounded. We through the morass.
On the roads steel helmeted are not ready to be-American military police direct- lieve that Russia ised the one-way traffe through
narrow bottlenecks. more prepared to pre- They said that only the
than
cipitate
ધૈ war than is the United Kingdom. China's aggression may have as its real purpose
the
Sinanju - Sukchon - Pyongyang axis remained freely open to the south.
Big fires blazed in many vil ages, with groups of South a stronger talking-point Korean soldiers clustering round at Lake Success... But them for warmth.
South Koreans, still marching statesmanship has a south in cotton-padded helmet heavy task
and ear pads, flashed out of the
Paris, Nov. 29.
5. Booked on another plane, she was taken to hospital for a sericus abdominal operation a few. days before the aircraft took off.
6. A few days before her plane left on her last attempt a baby tore her ticket up. Although it was replaced she nearly missed the plane by over- sleeping.
held for her aboard, she
never
The plane was and, she hurried gasped to friends:
husband will. believe all this. He's a marine."
"My The Prime Minister, M. Rene Pleven, today asked the National Assembly for a vote of con-Reuter. fidence.
His action followed last night's refusal by
the French President, M. Vincent Auriol, to ac- Red Delegates cept the resignation of M. Pleven's government | after a vote of censure on the Socialist Defence Incommunicado Minister, M. Jules Moch.
of
New York, Nov. 29. The vote cannot be taken un- committed in the exercise
Communist China's délegates' til tomorrow, under the French his functions while Minister of to the United Nations have constitution.
the Interior."
maintained .a maximum. of These arose in the "affair of privacy since their arrival in President Auriol presided at the generals" which involved the the United States. a meeting of the Council of disclosure that two senior army
They have done, no sight- Ministers carlier today which
the officers had allowed top secrets seeing and have spurned authorised the Prime Minister to put the question of confidence to reach the Indo-Chinese in- luxurious dining rooms of the
surgents...
Waldorf Astoria, having their to the Assembly, "on the com-
After the vote, five Socialist meals sent to their rooms : in-. position and policy of the go- vernment".
ministers withdrew from the stead.
A special lift is held in In a secret voto yesterday, the Cabinet in protest, and the Primo, Assembly by 235 to 20336p-Minister then offered his govern- reserve for them at the hotel. proved a Communist motion to ment's resignation to the Presi- A room at each card of their
suito is kept vacant indict M. Moch before the High dent who refused to accept it possible cavesdroppers,--Reu- to foll
Court of Justice for^ "Crimes [Reuter. --
ter.
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