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Digging In On Fresh Defence Line North Of Seoul
COMMENT
a
hough Mr Attlee has described the gathering of Commonwealth states- men which opens in Lon- don tomorrow as meeting, and not a con- ference thereby denot ing the informality of the proceedings the meeting comes at a time of grave emergency when, in Mr Nehru's Ware in the world, and words, big issues are at
indeed, the fate of humanity itself is in the balance..
is a pity, therefore, that differences should have arisen over the Kashmir issue. It has come to be
an
unwritten rule
of
Planned Withdrawals From QUAKES
Imjin River Sector RAVAGE
Tokyo, Jan. 2.
United Nations troops, dug in on a new defence line north of Seoul, prepared tonight for what might be the fiercest battle of the Korean war. The Eighth Army had today completely abandoned the Imjin River defence line some 30 miles above the southern capital, the collapse of the First South Korean Division making their positions untenable.
Front line reports said that United Nations troops Chunchon, key junction in the centre of the United had abandoned Uibongju, 11 miles north of Seoul, and
Nations defence line across the peninsula.
United Nations troops, fortifying their new positions, had no reliable indication of the Communist strength actually opposing them.
every
Fighters were out in record
re-
LEEWARDS
Severe Damage Done
Port Of Spain, Jan. 2.
An extended violent earthshocks the Leeward Island's caused heavy destruction in the
of
Europe In Grip isles of St. Kitts and Nevis,
Of Winter
a
London, Jan. 2. Winter held much of North-Western Europe in grip of ice and snow again today while Central the greater Europe and part of the United States
unseasonable enjoyed were
warmth.
Nations defence line was ported tonight be falling back under heavy pressure, but details were blacked out by the censors. Communist
forces known to be attacking the Chunchon area, some 10 miles below the 38th Parallel, where they had earlier been reported to have made some penetra- tions.
An Eighth Army spokesman described the situation at both ends of the front as serious, but not critical.
LULL PREDICTED United Nations troops, fortify-
numbers, giving close supporting their new positions, had no to the ground forces. Sabre jets the world's fastest weapon-roamed the North- West for possible Communist intruders. None were seen.
while reliable indication of the Com-
munist strength actually oppos ing them and it was still not clear from front-line reports whether the offensive was being led by Chinese Communists or North Koreans,
United Nations warplanes yesterday swept the Korean skies in an all-out offensive, smashing and pounding target visible along the snow- Commonwealth meetings covered battlefront. that disputes between Pilots, flying everything up members are not discuss-to the latest F-84 Thunder jets, ed in formal session. Yet hammered troops, guns, build- ings, supply and fuel dumps from the moment when and transport in 496 sorties. the meeting was! an- They had raided 74 enemy- nounced it was hard to held towns and accounted for more than 300 Communist see how some discussion
troops by mid-day. Fires blazed of Indo-Pakistan prob-in battered Chorwon, a Com- lems could be avoided. munist concentration centre The statesmen gather at a north of the Parallel.
time of
unprecedented danger for all their coun- tries, and as soon as they turn to examine the dan- gers threatening southern Asia, and the efforts which all members of the Commonwealth can make in the face of these dan- gers, they are confronted with the knowledge that neither India nor Pakis- tan can serve the joint security to the full until they compose their own dispute. Kashmir still lies at the root of their differences, and it is not surprising that the Pakis- tan Premier should want the statesmen, as they review their common in- terests, to recognise that one of the greatest in- terests is in helping, if at all possible, to bring
arer a solution for
mir.
nent over Kashmir
4 not solve all mat- of dispute between
two Commonwealth countries, but until agreement over Kashmir is reached-or until it is on the way to attainment little progress can be made in any other field. – Kashmir is not to be dis- cussed formally it can at least be discussed infor- What is certain is hat if the Kashmir dis- ute is entirely Ignored
London it will go once before the Security
of the
where att
The second day of the great air offensive began in clear weather at dawn after a night of bombing attacks against targets illuminated with flares, as far north as the Manchurian border.
More than 30 Communist vehicle convoys were damaged. The east flank of the United
Peking
An Eighth Army spokesman had said earlier that the troops engaged in the general offen→ sive were predominantly Chinese Communists.
Military sources
here pre- dicted that there might be (Continued on Page 4 Col. 3)
Sees Korea
As US Manoeuvre
Washington, Jan. 2.
Communist China considers the intervention of the United Nations in Korea not representative of the world organisation but a "manoeuvre en- gineered by the United States."
That is the word which the Indian Ambas- sador in Peking, Mr K. Pannikar, conveyed to his Government which in turn gave it to the State Department.
Authoritative sources 'said the United States, and her that Mr Fannikar was told in assistants have been in frequent Peking that Communist China consultation with the Depart- considered the United Nations ment on the problem of finding action in Korea "something de- some understanding with signed by the United States Peking. with the acquiescence of 20 or
on
30 votes which it always con- However, informed sources said that so far they have trols."
found no basis
which some understanding could be reached.
Indian officials felt that
in the ques sent
These appeared to be an obvious reference to the fact that Latin-American nations normally side with the United States on controversial tions
Indian sources here.
of an
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In the United States snow and freezing rain pelted the central States of Montana and Dakota, But the weather was com- paratively mild from Texas and the Gulf coast north- ' eastward to. the Great Lakes and elsewhere. Reuter.
according to reports re- ceived today.
The reports said the build- ings housing the local branches of Barclay's Bank of London · and the Royal Bank of Canada were destroyed at Basseterre and public utilities suffered severe damage.
They added that St. John's Parish Church in Nevis,
was in ruins. A late report by Captain John Sweeney, head of the American disaster relief mission, to his headquarters at San Juan, Puerto Rico, tonight said that every stone building in Nevis was cracked ог damaged and those still standing were com pletely unsafe or a shambles.
Washington, Jan. 2.
There were only a few English The 81st Congress closed up and no Americans on `Nevis, shop today after ramming where the native population is through three major bills to about 15,000. bolster the United States' armed might and prepare the home front for a possible atomic at- tack.
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