THE HONGKONG ́ TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, JANUARY 12, 1981.
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REPEATED ATTACKS BY REDS Believed To Be Start Of Strategic Campaign
American, French And Dutch Troops In "Are Of Steel"
Tokyo, Jan. 11.
Communist troops driving down Central Korea today launched repeated attacks which the Eighth Army believed might be the start of a cam- paign to control the strategic Sobaek mountains near Wonju.
Americans, French and Dutch were dug in in the snow-covered hills below the town in an "are of steel" down to nine miles south-west and some 19 miles south-east of the town.
Anti-Hoarding Measure
Washington, Jan. 11.
The United States today made it illegal to hoard supplies of natural or synthetic rubber.
The National Production authority added rubber to the materials subject to anti-hoarding provisions.
Other items were: in- dustrial ethyl, alcohol, chlorine, zine dust and oxides and these textile materials:-burlap (hes- sian), cotton pulp, high tenacity rayon yarn and nylon staple and nylon filament yarn.-Reuter.
Communists slipping down a nine-mile wide RECALL OF
corridor on the eastern flank were pushing for
Tanyang below the 37th Parallel and only 78 miles ATOM BOMB from the bastion of Taegu.
American infantrymen yesterday hurled back PLANES
a bitter seven-hour attack by 7,000 North Koreans.
Today the bodies 2,000 Communists lay battlefield...
of
over of Seoul and 300 elsewhere. One on the pilot said he found the roads below Seoul "so crowded that we finally ran out of ammuni- tion."-United Press.
Frontline reports said that the Communists had tanks and planes in reserve but these had apparently not yet been thrown
in.
The primary objective of any new Communist push was ex- pected to be the Taejon-Taegu road-main escape route the retreating Eighth men in the west,
for
Army
There were indications that
Anti-Red
has
Washington, Jan. 11. The United States Congress been asked to give the Chief-of- American Air Force staff, "clear authority" to re- call atom bomb planes before they reach their targets if, "last demands minute information"
it.
The move was planned as a the use of safeguard against
Campaign In atom bombs already being flown
the Chinese were stopping the U.S. Unions
great flight of refugees to the south-possibly in preparation for a new assault against the United Nations Ilne,
New York, Jan. 11. The Presidential adviser, Mr John Steelman, declared tonight re-that American labour has been purged of the Communist man- States ace, and urged United labour organications and indi- vidual workers to join in a cam- to-paign to free European unions from Communist influence.
South Korean civilians ported that the Chinese had set up check points at Ichon, 30 the main road miles along south-east from Seoul.
With improving weather day, Fifth Air Force fighters claimed more than 1,400 Con-
munists as killed or wounded.
Such a campaign that would include letter-writing by work- ers to their European friends Superforts blasted four supply and relatives which would be a and communications centres. "vital factor in exposing
to enemy targets when informa- tion available "only in Washing- ton," might indicate that they could be withheld.
The plea was made jointly by Mr Thomas K. Finletter. Secre- tary of the Air Force, and Gen- eral Hoyt Vanderberg, its present chief-of-staff, at a House Re- Services presentatives Armed Committee hearing on a new bill to give the Air Force the same statutory standing as the army and navy.
General Vandenberg said that with the authority requested, "an hour or a half hour" might enable him to call off "the des- truction of something only
know So- Washington would
no longer necessary."-Reuter.
A Superfort claimed the viet propaganda, its subtle tricks "probable destruction" of one of to delude and it's attempts to en-
working intercepting Russian-type slave jet fighters.-Reuter,
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SLICING THROUGH
Tokyo, Jan, 12.
women."
men and
Mr Steelman also urged work- ers to make a "Herculean ei- fort to build up American de- fences to meet Communist
was
Director Found Not Guilty
London, Jan, 11.
British radio
not guilty was found
An Eighth Army report said that a "large number" of Com-Presents Credentials the munists was found by patrols near Tanyang, 70 miles south
Bonn, Jan. 11. Senhor Joao de Barros Ferrara
shows, in the
Communist troops slicing aggression. He said, "They will
Korea through South
drove prove again as they always Roy Speer, director of many through the centre of the penin-have-that labour working in top sula halfway to the old Pusan full co-operation with the man- beachhead on Thursday, while agement can always lead stave Central Criminal Court today other forces began swarming on labour in the production of all of obtaining bribes from a scrip- the highway below Seoul,
goods."-United Press.
writer. He was discharged,
Speer, thirty-eight, had denied he had allegations that
£80 from corruptly received
He said the Albert Parker. of the 38th Parallel and 70 miles da Fonseca, Minister Plenipoten-loan made to Parker in India money was the repayment of a north of the old Pusan beach-tiary and head of the Portuguese head line above Taegu,
during the war, mission to Germany, presented Parker said he had repaid this Spearheads of another 25 his letters of credence. to the
loan and that the £80 was to Communist divisions had reached Allied High Commissioners in
be a gift to Speer, who was two miles south of Osan, 25 a short ceremony at the Peters- miles south of Seoul, while high-burg Palace, the High
Com- "hard up". ways behind them were clogged | mission's
Speer had asked here headquarters with war traffic.
write the scripts of two B.B.C. shows, one of which had already been started by another writer, -Reuter.
today.
Allied planes blasted the Reds Afterwards, he was the guest in a raging blizzard. They of the Allied High Commis- killed or wounded 1,100 south'sioners at lunch.-Reuter.
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ALONG FOR THE RIDE-Thomas Miller sits in the customs area at Southampton with his stowaway wife and five children on their arrival from New York. Bound for a new job, Miller had kissed his family good- bye, intending to send for them later. But they stayed aboard and made the trip right along with him.
Gen.
May
Eisenhower Visit Spain
Madrid, Jan. 11. Political circles here said today that the Atlantic Pact Commander, General Eisenhower, might visit Spain in his tour of Europe.
As Spain is not a member of the Atlantic Pact
he would not normally include Madrid in his visits to capitals.
General Eisenhower is due to from The Hague today on the visit Lisbon about January 17 fourth leg of his tour of West and the suggestion here is that European capitals. he might call On General Franco on his way.
The Copenhagen police were Alternatively, it is suggested
busy during the afternoon that if France
Communist and General removing
posters Eisenhower do not meet then which had appeared on walls the Portuguese Prime Minis-overnight,
No arrests ter, Dr Salazar, might mediate
were made, the between the Atlantic Pact police said.-Reuter. Powers and Spain.
Franco feels that Spain should The impression here is that
be openly invited to collabor- ate if her help is needed but would not be willing to leave Spain to meet General Eisen- hower.-Reuter.
Military Mission
Washington, Jan. 11. The United States and Liberia on Thursday signed an agree- ment under which the United IN COPENHAGEN
States will furnish a military training mission to increase the Copenhagen, Jan. 11. General Eisenhower, Com-efficiency of the Liberian armed
of the Atlantic Pact forces, it was officially 230- mander Army, flew into Copenhagen 'nounced today-United Press.
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