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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, "TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1950.
"MAO'S
GHOST
3.
ARMY" Queen's
British Brigades Bewildered By Lack Of Action Most Of Twenty-Ninth Units ILSE KOCH Have Yet To Fire A Shot FEIGNING
With the British Forces in Korea, Dec. 11, *
The British troops in North Korea, bewildered by the almost complete lack of enemy pressure against the Eighth Army in its withdrawal towards the 38th Parallel, have dubbed the Chinese Communists "Mao's Ghost Army."
MOSCOW
TURNS ON
FINLAND
For the last week men of the 27th and 29th Brigades have neither seen nor heard anything of the masses of Chinese Communist troops reported to have poured across.the Chongchon River and to be moving south towards the Parallel.
Apart from the Northumberland Fusiliers, who were in action against guerillas earlier this month, the bulk of the 29th Brigade have still to fire a shot.
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London, Dec. 11. Radio Moscow today switched its cold war offensive against British staff officers franky Finland, accusing that little confessed that they were puz- country of attempts to "wreckled by the way the United normal relations with the Soviet Nations withdrawal has Union".
moves
The broadcast charged that were under way in Helsinki to convert Finland into "willing tool of aggressive Anglo-American circles".
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The charges were based on the efforts of the Agrarian Party Premier, Urho Kekkonen, to broaden the basis of his government and to include 'mem- bers of the Social Democratic Party in his Cabinet.
Quoting a report from the
been Austrian
conducted. They believe a firm line, defended by well-trained stubborn troops, might
have been established around Pyong- yang and Chinnampo, which could have wrested the initia- tive from the Communists.
MADNESS
Augsberg, Dec. 11.
Ilse Koch, 43-year-old "Red Witch of Buchenwald" concen- tration camp, who is believed now to be feigning madness, trial here today for the murder of 36 camp inmates.
was absent from her resumed
German doctors told the Court how Koch, who is also accused of complicity
in another 145 mirders, and one attempted murder, flew into a frenzy in
her cell last night.
She broke the furniture, shouted obscenities, skipped like a child and spoke of her "mortai sins," The German doctors, however, said that she reacted normally to questions and had asked: "Will you send me to the madhouse?"
Dr Rudolf Englert, said that she was very subject to, psychic conditions and had induced this breakdown to sabotage
her
Treaty Talks trial. She would be fit to attend
Washington, Dec. 11. The State Department today
again after a short rest, he said. -Reuter,
welcomed the announcement French Retake
that the Austrian Treaty De- puties would meet in London en Friday:
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The tacit admission resulting from the Allied withdrawal Communists that the Chinese are too powerful, too numerous and too aggressive for the But some informants, in touch United Nations forces has pro- with the position, expressed the duced the fatalistic attitude of belief that
there "we have had it" among
was little the ground for hoping that Russia
Treaty.
Delta Post
Hanoi, Dec. 11. Halu, a small post in the centre of the Tonkin Delta
bridgehead, has been recaptured
Soviet news agency in Helsinki, Allied troops, the officers said. and the West could agree on the from Vietminh forces, a French
Moscow Radio said this was a sinister move on the part of re- actionary circles to bring to the 'fore the former Socialist leader, Vaino Tanner, "mortal enemy of the USSR and a war criminal."
Diplomatic quarters here con- sidered Moscow was "using a shallow pretext" to revive threats against the Scandina- vians' Northern outpost.--United Press.
Final Plan
For Europe To Be Shaped
London, Bec. 11. Military Chiefs of the Atlan- tic Pact countries will shape their final plans for the de- fence of Western Europe at al meeting here tomorrow.
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But the British are extreme- ly confident that they handle almost anything that the Communists can throw them.
yang.
VERY CRITICAL
-Trained
at
The date for the meeting was named by the Russian delegate, Mr Zarubin, who will preside at Friday's meeting.
Army' communique announced tonight.
The communique said that, besides Halu, three other posts were harassed in the same area, Labout. 15 miles south-east of Haiduong. Haiduong is a half- way town on the main road in the bridgehead linking Hanoj, the capital of Tonkin Province, with the main Delta port of Haiphong.
The Deputies, when they last met in September, agreed, to British officers are very cri-meet in the middle of December tical of the way in which and the calling of Friday's thousands. of dollars worth of meeting was no surprise, officials military equipment, rations, said: here.. ammunition and petrol were One of them said, "We are A French Army spokesman destroyed in and around Pyong-very glad to sit down and try said
tonight that a French to reach. agreement on the patrol near the China border in a hard school treaty. Its early conclusion is outpost of Dinhlap had met where stores and equipment one of our principal hopes."-will strong Vietminh resistance. have always been issued spar-Reuter, ingly and taught to preserve even the smallest nut and bolt, the sight of thousands of gallons' of petrol going up in flames, thousands of tons of ammuni- tion being blown up, railway trucks crammed with clothing, spare parts and rations set alight and destroyed, jeeps and trucks has dismayed them.--- Reuter.
BRITISH SURPRISE
These plans will be dove- tailed on Thursday into
London, Dec. 11.. political and non-military as-
Authoritative British military. pects of the organisation at
sources today expressed surprise at the joint conference of the Chiefs
Chinese Communists' of Staff and the deputies of failure to follow up their drive the Foreign Ministers.
down the west coast of Korea Later this month the Desouth of Pyongyang. fence Ministers of the member This failure to pursue, they nations will meet here to ap- that,. for the time being, the said, suggested the possibility prove the recommendations which will then go for final Communists may be planning to decisions to the Atlantic Pact halt along the 38th Parallel. Council, comprised of Foreign Ministers:
the
Alternatively, they may have been held up by the intensive. United Nations bombing effort, The Defence Ministers are by problems of supply, and by likely to announce the appoint-, the unexpected resistance
in
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.on
ment of General
Dwight the ground. Eisenhower as the Atlantic Pact Supreme Commander.
The highest admiration for Gerpan participation
the Turkish Brigade in Korea Western European defence will
is being expressed in British be one of the main topics at
military circles, It is consider- tomorrow's meeting
ed that their magnificent stand of the military chiefs.
was a most important factor in slowing down a portion of the They will work on the as- Communist advance. sumption that the German Particular interest has been contribution should not exceed shown because military leaders one-fifth
of the total Western here had had no opportunity of defence force and that German judging the fighting qualities of formations may comprise up to the Turks since their deter a brigade group in strength of mined defence of Gallipoli about 6,000 men.
against British " troops in the
The Military Committee wil 1914 to 1918 War, meet without one of its Ley The latest reports reaching figures-General Omar Bradley, here suggest that the heroism of Chairman of the United States the Turkish Brigade, about Joint Chiefs of Staff Com-5,000 strong, has cost them very mittee. The Korean crisis has heavy casualties, possibly prevented him from coming to amounting to one-fifth of their London-Renter,
total strengh-Reuter.
-Reuter,
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