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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10, 1951.
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COMMENT
It is easier to subscribe to the Pandit Nehru's depre- cation of war hysteria, to join with him in roundly condemning a fatalistic mood, "bowing to the inevitable," than it is to discover a healthy cor- rective.
The fault lies not with the
forces striving for peace and understanding in the world. Facing the grim reality, what lacks is the slightest indication
that an element of reason holds sway in Peking or in Moscow.
But for that the realistic Bevin Plan for easing the. tension and solving im- mediate problems would compel more attention. The Bevin proposals are,
Severe Losses Being Inflicted
On Communists
Tokyo, Jan. 9.
United Nations forces, backed by jet planes and fighter-bombers, were hitting back hard as they retreated towards the 37th Parallel in Korea tonight.
The two-pronged Communist drive south was last reported 13 miles south-east of Osan in the west and a few miles southwest of Wonju in the centre.
General MacArthur's men, holding the main Chinese Communist and North Korean drive below Wonju, in the centre, were counter-attacking fiercely.
BEHIND
however, hinged on the AMERICAN
supposition that good-
will can be made to pre-
vail on both sides and
sides and ADVICE IN
takes as its keypoint (presumably
as
an
inducement) the need for HONGKONG
recognition of Com-
munist China and its Washington, Jan. 9.
The US State Depart- ment said today that the decision to advise Ameri- cans in Hongkong to evacuate their dependants and effects was taken on the initiative of the Ameri- can Consul General there.
representation in the United councils of the Nations. For all its appeal on the score of adjust- ment to the facts, that, unhappily, is also the breaking point. The insistence of Mr Bevin and Mr Nehru that the
The Department agreed with world cannot afford to the Consul-General, Mr Walter play ostrich any longer McConaughy, that the advice has logic and sound should be given, a spokesman motive. Three months said. He denied that the Con- sul-General issued his circular ago, before Peking had because either he or the State committed itself to active Department believed the Korean intervention in Korea, conflict was about to spread. the purpose might have All United States missions been achieved. Today, abroad had long prepared when United Nations emergency plans to meet even- forces are bitterly con- tualities, he added.
evacuate
testing a large-scale The State. Department em- Chinese incursion in phasised that the advice to Korea, hardly presents
dependants applied the moment most oppor- areas in South-East Asia.
only to Hongkong and not to tune to convince hesitant
members of the British that Commonwealth, much
or
One battalion slaughtered 350 Communists caught sleeping in a field while another, attacking in the mountainous area west of the town, claimed to have an-
nihilated a North Korean bat- talion, including the command- ing officer and all his staff.
es-
The Communists were timated have suffered 1,650 killed and wounded in today's
attacks.
Canada Planning
No Action
Ottawa, Jan. §. Canada is planning no further evacuation warn- ing at present to Canadians in the Far East, the Ex- ternal Affairs Department said today.
An official here said that there were few Cana- dians in Hengkong. Those who were in the vicinity of China knew. that they were there at their own risk.
Canadians iri China were warned more than a year ago to consider evacuation, but there were still
more Canadians, missionaries and others, in Communist China-Reuter.
200
or
TAXED UNTIL
IT HURTS
AUSTIN ON AMERICAN PLANS
Atlantic City, Jan. 9. The United States' chief delegate to the United Na tions said tonight that the United States had no inten- tion of invading the Chinese mainland.
Mr Warren Austin said that the United States was deter- mined to stand by the prin- ciples for which it sent forces to Korea last June, but he made it clear the US would continue to welcome an honourable, peaceful settlement and that "100 responsible authority pro- poses to march into the morass of the China mainland."
He urged this prograar ne:- 1. A United Nations decision branding Peking an "aggressor”. 2. Demand that the Chinese Communist troops leave and that all United Nations members
refrain from assisting aggression...
3. Call to each member to support action decided upon by the United Nations in proportion
ability.
Washington, Jan. 9. President Truman said today that the United States must be taxed "until it hurts" to arm the free world against the "men- ace of Communist aggression."
Any hope that large new Fed-to its ab eral deficits could be avoided by nation Collective Measures Com- 4. A delegation of the 14- increased taxes appeared to be
to consider means of
fading as members of the new Congress sized up the probable
outlay.
mittee
meeting and resisting aggression and of preventing aggression.
United Press.
The Communists, making an all-out attempt to break through the middle of the United Nations line, were attacking ceaselessly round Wonju, which fell yes that the Government would need ing in a letter to Senator Harry They came to the conclusion terday.
They forced back United somewhere in the region of Byrd (Democrat, Virginia), who Nations regiment about a mile $75,000,000,000 in the coming made
year. That at a place six miles southwest fiscal of the town but a counter-million more than the record | possible national retail sales tax, attack partially restored the old $50,000 million collected this or other forms of taxation on all position.
year.
The it public today. is $25,000 letter at once aroused talk of a
or most of the nation's
In the West Eighth Army The President gave his warn-merce.-Reuter. familiar route of last July's re- troops withdrawing along the treat were holding the Com-
munists with mortar and artillery barrages.
North Korean. and Chinese Communist forces continued to build up their strength around Suwon and Osan, 18 and 24 miles south of Seoul, the abandoned South Korean capital. Reuter.
TOKYO SPECULATION
Tokyo, Jan. 9. The fate of the United Nations expedition to Korea is still in doubt, and the best information available here right now in- dicates that no decision has yet been made on the question of a withdrawal.
At the moment the question of pulling out seems to be side. tracked in favour of a "wait The State Department added would mean, military and poli- and see" programme. This Do instruction
tical leaders in Korea, Japan, authorisation mentioned by and the sorely tried the Consul-General
Washington want to see originated what will happen when the United States, that world in Washington. The primary Chinese Communist forces have interests would be served aim of the circular was to fully extended their supply lines
less
PRECEDENT
certain to plague them with in- creasing fury,
draw attention to possible - and have had to solve the large by accepting an aggrés- térference with transport number of problems that are sive Communist China services in Hongkong. into the comity of honourable nations. Nevertheless, it is, grati
fying that America's precipitant mood, loss of patience, demanding an open breach with Peking has, for the time being, phase of the fighting. been stalled. Chances of
Meanwhile the United Nations The spokesman
forces, overwhelmingly outnum- said that similar evacuation plans were to the old Fusan beachhead.
bered, are pulling back closer, recommended immediately be-
fore the Greek civil war broke out and before Seoul, the capital of South Korea, fell to the North Koreans in the first
men out here, including General
Probably only a handful of
MacArthur and General Ridg way, know where the next stand-if there is to be one- will be made, The presenti At the same time, the actions on the Korean front on success may be slim. General Services Administration the part of the United Nations Prevailing is more e hope denied published reports here forces appear largely of a rear- than optimism. But no that it had told employees of guard nature. effort must be spared to United States rubber companies to evacuate their depen nts snatch the brand from
from Singapore,
cok, the burning.
Malaya and Indopecia
Reuter.
Many observers believe that General MacArthur may have some trick up his sleeve And (Continued on Paro 4 Col 1)
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