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LULL IN KOREA CONTINUING Chinese Believed Preparing For New Year Strike
COMMENT
However strong or weak the ties between Russia and the Peking regime may eventually prove to "be, they would seem to be at least as strong as those between Germany and Italy in 1939. There- fore a war against one of them must, we may as- sume, involve in due course a war against the other. In this still lie the
Nations forces in Korea
de-
and the Chinese Commu- nist armies were to velop..
·
Not Yet Across 38th Parallel In Major Force
Tokyo, Dec. 28.
The ominous lull along most of the battle front was unbroken throughout the last 24 hours, but General MacArthur's Intelligence Section said today that 150,000 Chinese Communists
.
were
past several-
Peking Seizure Of US Assets
London, Dec. 28.
The New China News Agency reported on Thurs- day that Communist China had seized all American · assets in her territory, and frozen American deposits in Chinese banks, in retalia- tion for the American em- bargo on shipments to Chinese ports.
The agency, in a broad- cast monitored here, said the Feking regime ordered an inventory of all Ameri- can assets from the day of the proclamation of the United States embargo order last Dec. 16.
The broadcast said the United States embargo was an aggressive and hostile act and that the Central People's Government took the measure "in order to prevent the United States Government from engaging in economic disruption within the country and endangering the Interests of the people of the coun- try."-United Press.
SHIP FIRE
DRAMA: ONE DEAD
Hamilton, Bermuda,
Dec. 28. One crew
member was suffocated and a dozen crew members and Ameri- can volunteers were over- come by smoke while fighting a fire in the hold of the Swedish freighter Thai today,...
The ship, en route to Bombay from Houston, Texas, with a load of maize, caught fire early today and made it to St George's Harbour.
on
pro- arrival at
poised for a strike at the Eighth Army across the most dangerous possibili- 38th Parallel on New Year's Day or soon after. ties if a major entangle- Reuter's correspondent, John Colless, report- ment between the United, ed that the Eighth Army Headquarters spokesman had denied he had announced that troops, tenta- tively identified as Chinese Communists, had al- ready crossed the Parallel in force. General MacArthur's re- A report that Chinese Communists had al- port to the United Na- ready swarmed over the Parallel said that they tions
The on the military had already occupied undefended Kaesong. operations in Korea as-spokesman commented: "All we know is that serts that the Chinese Chinese Communist troops have been reported in Communists have
the ap- the vicinity of Kaesong for parently taken over days." direct responsibility for
The spokesman the whole of the North MacArthur's Headquarters knew but emphasised that the Press tonight or tomorrow, Korean front. Significant nothing about the massed report was premature as far as
San Francisco, Dec, 28. ly perhaps, .a simul- Chinese Communists crossing was known.
Peking Radio reported tonight though field reports would Heavy taneous release from the
Communist patrol that industrial enterprises in probably have been in by now activity was reported-but not Central-South China had com- General's headquarters if there had been a show of confirmed by the Eighth Army in Tokyo assesses total strength.
on the east coast just below pleted their plans for 1950.
Plants There have
under the Communist strength
Central in
been many re- the Parallel, where the South ports in the Korea at
last few over 400,000,
days Koreans are manning the de- South China Industrial Depart- about a small Chinese
ment's Com-fence line.
control. had, by the and total Communist munist invasion of the South. The South Korean Army middle of December, surpassed forces in Korea and Man-
The Tokyo spokesman said spokesman was reported to their targets in such products Kindley firemen, wearing smoke churia, oren route, at
crossing might have said that the Communist as non-ferrous metals, cement
forces in this. area were de-and electric appliances. some 1,300,000.
gate the fire. The firemen were finitely a flanking threat to the At the end of November the able to get back to the door of output of tin for 1950 had been the hold, where they collapsed surpassed by 39 percent, the and were hauled to safety.--
United Press,
The figures are formidable
that
a mass
at General } come even
indeed and emphasise the NEW PEACE
difficulty confronting the United Nations. China
can reinforce her troops EFFORT
in Korea with ease; the
vast sea distances which
United Nations line.-Reuter.
BY positions of
separate the battle areas ASIA BLOC
BAN EXTENDED
Seoul, Dec. 28. A new censorship ban on dis- all divisions and independent brigades in the United Nations forces in Korea was announced officially here today.
Under the ban units will be referred to only as units of the Lake Success, Dec. 28.
Eighth Army and there will be The Asian-Arab bloc at no specific mention of any the United Nations held an
Corps headquarters.
Announcing the ban in a urgent meeting late on
memo to all correspondents, Thursday to work out a Major Mell Vorhees said: new attempt at settling "Effective: now and until further the Far Eastern crisis. notice, the order of battle in-
next week of
their
formation will not be cleared Delegation sources confirmed for transmission. Specifically no that the 12-nation group tenta- mention will be made of units tively planned to press for lower in echelon than the adoption by the General As-Eighth Army." sembly
Prior to the ban, mention of previously sidetracked proposal specific divisions was permissi- for peace parleys on Korea and ble once the division had con- a broad range of other Far tacted the enemy, except in Eastern issues.
special circumstances.Reuter.
TANKS BOMBED
from the main United Nations base present the dis- UN at a maximum advantage. The superior fire power of the United Nations forces, combined with their quasi-superiority in the air, are, to be sure, compensatory factors but the most likely develop- ment in the future course of
Korean the
war, should -the- Chinese launch a large-scale offensive, is that it will result in a prolonged This resolution was originally stalemate, with all the put forward at the same time as consequent dangers that the 12 nations plus the Philip- pines proposed that a three- this would entail, To continue indefinitely a arrange a Korean cease-fire,
man cease-fire team try first to
major land war in Korea The Asian-Arab group met at would be the height of five p.m, at the Fifth Avenue folly for the United Na-apartment of India's Sir Benegal tions.
The need is Rau, a member of the cease-fire team and the guiding spirit of greater than ever for a
the Asian-Arab peace efforts. reasonable compromise
The new attempt to push with the Chinese. If the through the peace parley scheme war with the Chinese has been spurred by Peking's were to spread further, rejection of the cease-fire pro- it is not in Korea but in posal,
Philippines refused to Indo-China that the sponsor the companion peace Allies would need to de-parley resolution, and have not ploy what soldiers they been invited to the new series could afford.
The
of sessions-United Press,
Tokyo, 'Dec. 28. American aircraft flying over Korea today discovered seven hidden Communist tanks north of the 38th Parallel.
The tanks were covered with white canvas to blend with the snow
Bombs were dropped and rockets fired, but the nature of the terrain made immediate observation of the results im- possible.
Pilots claimed that about 100 Communist troope were killed on the ground.
Fifty-nine Communist-held towns or villages, 275 buildings and 34 vehicles were also claimed to have been damaged or destroyed in other raids
Reuter.
Plans
Completed
Radio said-Reuter,
The second officer, Lallip Falkkoo, 32, of Sweden, was. suffocated when he was trapped in the hold by two pieces of fallen timber. He was nounced dead King Edward Hospital,
(The Coast Guard in New York announced that it had despatched a plane with rescue equipment from Elizabeth City, North Carolina, including six asbestos sults. Officials said the plane should reach the scene at about 8.30 D.;
according to the Coast Guard's information, the fire was well out of control and the equipment quested to fight a blaze between the decks of the ship, which is moored in the harbour.)
Falkkoo was taken from the about one hour's hold, after
efforts. He and two rescue
masks, had entered the hold from the engine room to investi-
was
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