THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 11, 1951.
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U.S. AND FRENCH STRIKE BACK First Counter-Blow Of Any Size Since Seoul Fell Wonju, Yoju
Yoju And Inchon Empty Of Red Troops
With Eighth Army HQ in Korea, Jan. 10.
The United States 2nd Division and French troops struck back today on the central front of Korea within two miles of Wonju, which was evacuated by United Nations troops over the week-end.
The Allied attack-the first counter-blow of any size made by the Eighth Army since the fall
of Seoul nearly a week ago was made against Mme. Curie
two enemy regiments four miles southwest of. Wonju.
The Communist troops fell back under the initial weight of the attack but later launched a fierce drive against the left flank of the United Nations positions.
The result of this counter-attack was not yet known. The position also remained vague in the main fighting area southeast of Wonju, where the big Chinese Communist and North Korean push against the middle of the United Nations line had taken them to within 80 air
miles of Taegu-the king-pin of last summer's perimeter around Pusan, in the southeast.
Netherlands infantry battalion below Wonju before dawn on Thursday and the United Nations forces braced them- selves for an all-out Red drive for Chungju.
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Dropped
Paris, Jan. 10.
The French Council of Minis- ters today decided to drop Madame Irene Joliot-Curie from the French Atomic Com- mission.
Madame Joliot-Curie is the wife of Professor Frederic Joliot-Curie, who was dismissed last April from the post of High Commissioner of Atomic Energy because of his pro-Russian pro-
nouncements.
Near zero visibility and blinding snow and sleet storms have deprived the Second Division--a combination of striking forces of the American, French and Dutch-of air sup- port and hanipered supply lines.
The Council appointed M. During the night and early Francois Perrin as
the High morning only scattered shooting Commissioner of Atomic Energy A patrol of the United States broke the silence as the weary and a new nine-member Com- 2nd Division had earlier re-foxhole brigade carried entered Wonju and reported no Major General Robert McClure's scientists and representatives of out mission, including civil servants, Communist troops in the town. command to "kill everything private industry.
These forces threatened to cut off the Eighth Army troops retreating on the west coast from Seoul.
Activity on the western sector. of the United Nations line was limited today to brief skirmishes with Chinese Com- munist patrols in the hills six miles north of Ansong on the 37th Parallel.
General MacArthur warned. today that over a quarter of a million Chinese Communists. capable of mounting a power- ful offensive, were poised on 70-mile line from Wonju Osan,! in the west.
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North Korean corps were
ready on the extreme western
that moves," About 5 a.m. the Dutch troops were hit with heavy small arms and mortar fire.
"This may be it," General McClure said. United Press.
Today's Council meeting im- plemented the decisions taken last week to purge Communist elements from the Atomic Energy Commission.-Reuter.
Acheson Dodges Offer By Taft
Washington, Jan. 10.
Mr Dean Acheson, the United States Secre- end of the line while a division tary of State, said today that he was always ready of Mongolian cavalry and ato discuss foreign policy with Republican Party
Chinese Communist artillery leaders.
division was
be in the area.
also believed to
Ample reserves
were avail- able to support any Communist forward thrust.
But he avoided positive ac-members of the Republican ceptance of the offer made by Party. Senator Robert Taft yester-
Asked if he had any plans The centre for this new build- day to discuss the drafting offor calling in Senator Taft to up of Communist forces on the an agreed policy with Ad-discuss foreign policy matters, Mr Acheson replied that he had United Nations left flank appear-ministration leaders.
north of the 37th Parallel.
United
the
ed to be above Yoju, 18 miles Mr Acheson was questioned nothing specific in mind. west of Wonju and 20 miles throughout his weekly Press
UN'S FUTURE conference today about this
When he was asked about Nations troops still informal
suggestion for a dis- Senator Taft's charge that the fighting in this area had thrust cussion put forward by Senator United Nations had become baok one Communist counter- Taft in a speech yesterday merely a debating society, Mr attack and yesterday entered following his attack and that Acheson replied that that was
former Yoju itself and Inchon, 12 miles of
Republican exactly
one of the United further west.
President, Mr Herbert Hoover, Nations' functions. Like Wonju, both were empty on American foreign policy,
He recalled that great hopes and in particular on United
were held when the United Air activity today was States commitments in Western
Nations was founded that it restricted by bad weather but Europe.
could settle differences by. Superforts unloaded 180 tons of bombs on Pyongyang, the Northern capital, and on supply and communication centres and other targets---Reuter.
of Communist troops.
that
Mr Acheson said that Gov-peaceful means.
leaders were always ernment
Asked if he considered ready to discuss foreign policy the future of the United Nations matters with anybody but there was endangered by its continu- was the question of following ing failure to reach a peaceful accepted procedure.
settlement in Korea, Mr Acheson Outside the normal machinery said that the United Nations' for consultation between Con- failure to solve any great North Korean Com-gress and the Government he problem diminished its prestige. munists started jabbing the was willing to talk with any Reuter.
The
REDS ATTACK With Second Division,
Jan. 11.
NANCY Let's Face It
THAT'LL MAKE A SWELL
JACK-0-LANTERN
LET'S HAVE HIM SCOWLING
NO---LET'S HAVE HIM SMILING
SCOWLING
SMILING
YOU'RE DRIVING ME CRAZY! Seaman Ted Richard- son, of Glasgow, may be playing a happy tune on the bagpipes, but it isn't having that effect on nine-month- old Lynn Mecchin. But Cynthia Jennings, 12, and Nigel Emmins, two, who were visiting their fathers aboard the cruiser H.M.S. Glasgow, in Portsmouth, don't seem to object to the music.
Heart Re-Started Twice
London, Jan. 10.
A 36-year-old Indian, Abbas Meah, twice had his heart re-started while undergoing an operation, it was disclosed at 題 London coroner's court today.
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A verdict of death by misadventure was record- ed on the man, who died during an abdominal
in а operation
London hospital.
surgeon said that soon after the operation began, his heart stopped for three minutes. then re-started again after 2 cardiac massage.
Two minutes later it stopped again, but once more re- sponded to massage.
The operation quickly completed, the inan died dressing-Reuter,
was but
during
By Ernie Bushmiller
Action Against Civil Servants
Paris, Jan. 10. The French Government to- civil day decided to suspend servants who took part in yes- terday's "patriotic strikes" call- ed by the Communists to pro- test against the arrival of General Dwight Eisenhower in Paris.
The small number of civil servants affected will later ap- pear before disciplinary comm
mittees.
The Council of Ministers also decided to expel from France immediately all foreigners who took Dart in demonstrations- outside the Hotel Astoria, tem- porary headquarters of General Eisenhower-Reuter.
Caesarian Birth Of Quads
Pontiac, Michigan, Jan. 10. A stonemason's wife, 34, gave
to birth
quadruplets by Caesarian operation today. The attending physician said the mother and children were "do- ing fine."United Press,
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my fist!
bif
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