THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, MARCH 27, 1951.
CHINESE COMMUNISTS PREPARE TO MAKE STAND ON PARALLEL Rita Hayworth Strong Forces Moving Up To SYRIAN
Speculation
Le Havre, Mar. 26. Rita Hayworth and her two children sailed secret. ly aboard the liner De Grasse for New York Saturday night, shipping
officials revealed today,
Officials said neither-her husband, Prince Aly Khan, nor anyone else the dock to see her off.
was on
The screen glamour girl's sudden departure for the United States followed repeated rumours that she and the Prince were separating.
Beth have denied the rumours.—United Press.
FLEW 9,000 MILES TO SEE SON
Tokyo, Mar. 26. A father, who had travelled 9,000 miles from New York to see his son, embraced him at the airfield outside Tokyo today and shed tears of joy.
United Nations Lines POLITICAL
Tokyo, Mar. 26.
Frontline reports from Korea tonight indicated that the Chinese Communists are preparing to make a stand on the general line of the 38th Parallel.
:
The withdrawal process, which has been going on for the past month, appeared to have ended.
Along the 50-mile long central front strong Communist groups were reported to be moving
towards the United Nations lines. It was believed Peron Tries
that the Communists might attempt to establish
a line in this area, northeast and northwest of To Chunchon, which fell to the United Nations last week.
Pull
Chinese Communist combat groups were Atomic Bluff filtering southwards during the day to take pos- session of the ridges and peaks immediately below the Parallel.
CRISIS
Damascus, Mar. 26.
The Syrian- Defence Ministry tonight. Issued 17 denial of rumours that the Syrian Army was 'interfering in the country's policy.
The denial followed the failure last night of Nazli el Kudsi Bey to form a new Cabinet when Colonel Fawzi Seld, nominated as Defence Minister, was reported to have. refused to co-operate. He held the same post in the old Gov- ernment.
for the
The Defence Ministry's state- ment warned the public against Rio de Janeiro, Mar. 26.
arising misleading rumours" A Brazilian newspaper, attributed to responsible people, from "ambiguous statements". Diario da Noitre, today de-alleging that it was impossible enemy groups were reported to scribed Argentina's claim to to reveal the reasons be moving towards the Allied have discovered a new way present political crisis
The Syrian Government re- PROBING THE POCKETS to produce atomic energy as
Allied
signed on March 9 after report- tanks and infantry an atomic bluff on the eveed differences within the Coali- patrols fanned north. of the of the elections." main line, probing the Com- munist hills.
The South Korean Army an nounced tonight that. it had seized the small town of lines. Younpori, on the east coast, three miles north of the 38th Parallel. There was hardly any opposition.
General quiet prevailed 'else- where in Korea today.
pockets hidden in the
0. Globo, another news- paper, said that the announce- ment was regarded here as a political move of doubtful scientific background.
tion Cabinet over the control of the police and gendarmerie.
The statement said that the rumours were designed to weaken national confidence in the army and to corivince the public that the army's policy was inspired by a foreign coun-
It
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It was the first
time that South Korean forces had crossed the Parallel IN strength- Tank patrols clashed briefly For Robert Strasser, 52, and apparently with
the intention north and east of Chunchon with Theodore Strasser, 23-year-old of making sure of holding the camouflaged Communist outposts holding the bunker-type posi- combat veteran of Korea, the ground already seized.
tions. Other Allied reunion after five-year parting The patrols which entered
patrols Observers generally inter try (France). further east 'flushed proved that the "Army has
a North Korea over.
out and preted the announcement as an the week-
scattered small-sized Communist attempt to divert attention of Syrian
denied rumours that the heart."
and had withdrawn following blocking forces from high ground the
army had objected to The father flew at his own brief clashes with the Com-overlooking the main
people of the American the nationalisation of foreign highway continent from the expense after getting permission munists.
disagree-companies north of Hangye.
in Syria as being from Army officials to "go out
able effects of the banning of harmful to the countries -con- In widespread raids on North the there and see my boy." The son
independent Argentine cerned. Korea, Superforts dropped 180 newspaper, La Prenza. was flown out of the Korean American troops, striking tons of bombs
It also denied that the army Communist on battle zone for the meeting.
from the northwest today, marshalling yards and supply
had The
objected to Syria taking sergeant, who steppedlinked up with other American centres. They attacked storage nouncement
They alleged that the an-part in the Arab League's out of a plane from Korea, units north of Uijongbu, on the areas at Pyongyang and Anju, in incide with the opening of the
was timed to có- moves over French Morocco, said later, "It was the last thing western front. This linkup the west, and at Hamhung, in American
It further denied that the I expected." He had not known north of Seoul, South Korea's the east. A flight of Superforts Consultative
Foreign Ministers'
army had interfered to impose that his father was in Tokyo. capital,
meeting > indicated
at Haeju, in Washington all also hit targets.
a specific policy on measures. Veteran of the battles
- today, where the to defend Middle Eastern coun at organised Communist resistance Western Korea.
freedom of the Argentine press tries so that there were secret Hagaru and Kotori, the ser- in this area had withdrawn The Fifth Air Force Head- might be raised.
agréements between Syrian Professor Costa Ribeiro,. a army officers' and foreign Brazilian nuclear scientist, said agents. *: that the announcement should be authors of such rumours of The statement accused treated with a "great reserve." serving anti-national and anti- "It was very strange that the Arab interests.-Reuter. names of eminent Argentine scientists were not associated with the research," he said.
geant had been told on Sunday to report to Tokyo for five days of temporary duty. His father said, "There are few times in your life you cry for joy. This is one of those times."-United Press.
that
north of the Imjin River de-quarters in Korea reported that a spite Allied anticipation that flight of 12 F-80 Shooting Star the Chinese Communists would jets rocketed and shelled Son- make a delaying fight of it. chon's railway marshalling yards,
scoring 35 "good hits."-Reuter.
The Communist withdrawals appeared to have halted along the 50-mile front and strong
Bomb Damage
Queuille Cabinet In To Legation
Mood For Early General Election
Paris, March 26.
Reliable sources said tonight that Premier Queuille's government, harassed by high living costs and threatened by a huge deficit in the 1951 budget, plans to ask for dissolution of the National Assembly and nationwide general elections on June 10.
Washington, Mar. 26.
The State Department today
estimated that the bomb which States exploded at the United Legation residence in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday caused at least $20,000 damage.
The Minister, Mr Cavendish of the explosion and no Ameri- Cannon, was away at the time cans were hurt. Mr Cannon reported to the
State Depart- ment that several men climbed
over the wall around the gar- and placed
den at the Legation residence a bomb against a wall of the house. The explo-
The government, formed only penditures that threatened
to sion, in addition to causing on March 10, is said
to have tear a gaping hole in the record-severe damage to the residence, come to the conclusion that in high 1951 national budget of brake windows 200 yards away. the pre-electoral fever gripping2,612,000,000,000 francs which The Syrian government has France, it is impossible for it to still has neither been balanced expressed profound regret at formulate any long-term econo- not approved by the National the incident.-United Press. mic or labour policy.
Assembly. Preliminary calcula- ijon showed that the budget de- The Premier himself is said to feit might run as high as 200,- have told a cabinet meeting on 000,000,000 or about US$571,- Sunday night that the only 000,000.
"honest",solution was to agree
With elections less than three on the berest minimum of mea- months oft, no French deputy or sures necessary to carry the party is ready to commit country through the next three months and then to quit to allow political hara-kiri by suggesting
new taxes. general elections.
France's worst labour conflict
--
The Government faces dismal future, which is the chief reason it agrees the best can do is to toss in the sponge and let its post-election take over most of
Air Search Still Continues
sea
London, Mar. 20. Hampered by thick grey clouds and cold rain, one of his- tory's greatest air and a
searches failed again today to find a trace of the United States Globemaster, which crashed in the Atlantic four days ago with 53. Americans aboard. But the search will continue throughout the night, although hope for the lives' of the missing airmen was virtually abandoned. - United
in more than two years last week forced the Government it to capitulate with a promise of nationwide wage boosts ranging successor from 11.5 to 15 per cent. But the headaches. these wage hikes only partially Meanwhile, the Paris subway satisfied. France's workers, and and bus workers' strike went they confronted the Govern-into its
eleventh day.-United ment with vast additional ex- Press:
Press.
at
He thought the réports received here were of an "undisguisable political character and lacked the objectivity and accuracy which should mark all informa- tion. of a technical or scientific nature."-Reuter.
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