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REDS CONVERGING ON HAMHUNG "Naval Vessels Lying Off Ready For Any Eventuality"
COMMENT
High hopes of an early cessation of Korean hosti- lities are receiving little by way of stimulation. It is difficult to disagree with Sir Benegal Rau's
insistence that the prime objective must be to effect
a truce, leaving the
details for subsequent negotiation. Once cease- fire orders had been
British Brigades Move To CHURCHILL
New Positions Near Parallel RUMOUR
Tokyo, Dec. 11 SCOTCHED
Chinese Communist forces estimated at nearly 100,000 the 15-mile Tobruk-like
men were today converging on
New York, Dec. 11. Mr Clement Attlee took off
perimeter around Hamhung and the port of Hungnam to from Idlewild airfield for Lon-
the south.
issued, a resumption of Paris Reds
the conflict would be most
unlikely.
Unfortunately, a degree of Clash
over-optimism appears to have prevailed in Lake
Success, and as a result With
was re-
Police
París, Dec. 11.
Communists, called out into
the streets to protest German rearmament on Monday, clashed with French police guarding the presidential palace.
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don at 2325 GMT today.
The Prime Minister went
It was being defended by the battered aboard the special British Over- American Third Division and two South Korean Divisions.
Meanwhile, North Korean.forces, which have been reported to be regrouping and reorganising for some weeks were now concentrating in the Sibyon sector, 20 miles north of the 38th Parallel, General MacArthur announced.
With
all
READY FOR ANYTHING
Hungnam, Dec. 12.
United Nations forces back in one large de- fence perimeter with the nerve centre at Hungnam, Tenth, Corps announcement said "im-
today, "our naval vessels lie off Korean coastal waters ready for any eventuality."
a sense of frustration is now emanating. It seems reasonably certain that General Wu, the chief Peking representative, en- couraged Sir Benegal to believe that the 13-nation appeal for a halt on the 38th Parallel ceiving earnest considera- tion by the Peking Government. Nothing was, however, promised and no assurances were given. And the impression grows that Peking
was merely
for probing
Pilots reported that powerful appeasement.
Communist forces moving south The British point of view is,
toward the concentration areas frem Manchuria of course, that the Indian
had still not initiative was helpful and
yet reached Pyongyang. constructive, and as our
The Air Force claimed to The demonstrators stopped to have only desire is to bring an
killed or wounded 1,900 hiss and boo in front of the Bri- Communists, end
the mainly in to the fighting as
tish embassy and the United north-west, in coastal attacks swiftly as possible, it was States Information Service on yesterday. Convoys were scat- encouraged. But when the way, but then went on. tered by night bombers.
There was no need for the police| Reuter Peking contributes. some- to use their clubs.-United Press. thing substantial to the negotiations, that will be time enough to talk in terms of peace.
The Allied Eighth Army, out of contact on its main front now for nearly a fortnight, was. believed to be very Scattered fist-fights broke out
near the Parallel in front of the palace between
separating the two more than 2,000 Communist de-Koreas if not actually below it.
Today's and monstrators
communique simply police and
said that United Nations de- security guards.
fence lines were being Four thousand French police
proved" were on duty around the palace, and 6,000 more on alert in case reserves were needed to stem Communist violence.
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seas Airways plane after mo- mentous conferences.
He termed reports that Mr.
a member of the Attlee govern-.
some emphasis,
Winston Churchill might become ment "perfectly ridiculous." He "There is no foundation for that at all. They don't understand how things are in England."
with added
He conferred for nearly an hour with leading British Labour Party leaders and with members. of the British delegation to the United Nations. He declined to reveal the contents of their dis-
cussion.
Asked whether he expected to make a report to the House of Commons on Tuesday, he said, "I can't say I will at present.”
The British Commonwealth Marines got more than 2,000 Twenty-Seventh and Twenty-trucks out of the Chosin trap A Foreign Office spokesman Fights broke out when the Ninth Divisions were maintain- along with the troops. They said, however, that he expected
herded chanting
ing new positions and patrolling left de-
nothing undestroyed police
for Mr Attlee to address the House monstrators off the fashionable
their sector without enemy con- the Communists, to capture and of Commons to answer questions Rue Faubourg St. Honore,
tact.
they claimed the destruction of concerning his mission to the three entire Moving down the Rue Fau-
Chinese Com- United States, Mr Attlee was munist divisions bourg St. Honoré, which
and runs
regiment each
one forced to return to New York of three other in front of the Elysee Palace,
divisions
on Monday when snow condi- the police, shoulder to shoulder,
which attacked them tions at Montreal disrupted his pushed the crowd back
since November blocks, where they began
Press. disperse.
three to
Europeans Killed In
Time for Unity Singapore Riots
There is complete agree- ment, says Mr. Attlee, between the British and
American peoples on the
Singapore, Dec. 11.
27.-United plans to board the special plane
there for London.-United Press.
Guerlain
Two Europeans were found dead and one
objectives of peace and injured some three and a half miles outside Singa- freedom for all men. None in the Western countries, pore tonight after the day of Moslem rioting in apart from Communist the city over the fate of "Jungle Girl" Bertha fellow-travellers, can fail Hertogh.
to support that view:
As Mr Attlee stated, "when
the ideals for which we
Twenty-five people-15 Europeans and Americans and 10 Asians-were in hospital. stand are threatened we At least three people react in the same.
were guard over the Convent during way known to have been killed. the rioting. instinctively." Mr Attlee Scores were posted as missing Tonight British security was speaking of the mem- and hundreds were injured troops were ready to help the bers of the Common during the 12 hours of bloody civil police and 300 men of the
rioting. wealth but his words
Malay Regiment keeping watch Troops and police were still for any further outbreak of also apply to the British patrolling the city's debris- trouble. and American nations. littered streets tonight, as 13- As the violence died down In time of crisis there is a year-old Bertha, central figure after nightfall, the authorities in the violent controversy, called in 30 armoured cars and closing of the ranks, and
slipped out under police escort two. battalions of crack Gurkha the few recriminatory from the Good Shepherd Con- troops to reinforce the soldiers tacks in Britain on vent where she has been awalt and police still patrolling the American conduct of the ing a final decision on her streets.
The reinforcements were re- only serve to future.
Radio Malaya the wider, emphasise
said that sheported to be on their way from had been taken to another Johore as the authorities check- basic unity between the place in Singapore". two peoples.
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A police riot squad had stood rioting late tonight-Reuter
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