'THE' HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1951.
ATTEMPT TO SLOW U.N. ADVANCE Chinese Communists Battle Stubbornly In Uijongbu Area Hand To Hand Fighting Fails
To Shift The Reds
Tokyo, Mar. 28.
Chinese Communist defenders battled stubbornly to slow the United Nations advance north of Uijongbu, on the westem front, today but the general lull of the past four days continued over the rest of the war zone.
NEW HINT
Stiff fighting northeast of the town continued undiminished throughout the day. By nightfall American troops, who had stormed the Chinese
the Communists.`
OF ATOMIC Communist positions repeatedly, had not shifted
ARTILLERY
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In hand-to-hand fighting the Américans used white phosphorous grenades in an attempt to dis-
London Declines
FAMINE
To Be Ruffled MENACE
"London, Mar, 28. Egyptian newspaper. re-
ports that a Parliamentary
nationalise the Suez Canal left official circles here unruffled today.
Bill has been submitted to
A Foreign Office spokes- man said that no ap. proach proposing this either officially or unoffi elally had come from the Egyptian
Government.
Shares of the Suez Canal Company on the London Stock Exchange were un- moted by the report. Renter.
lodge a Chinese Communist force which effectively Gambling
- On the eastern arm of the United Nations line, South Korean- troops continued their point five miles north of the advance without resistance to a Parallel and two miles inland from the coast.
Athens, Mar. 28. Professor Harold Urey, blocked the United Nations' northward advance United States atomic ex-on the western front. pert, said today that Ameri- can atomic "artillery" could Allied aircraft pounded the prevent the Russians from roads and Communist supply using mass armies
points to the rear of the Chinese in the Communist forces in an event of World War III deavour to isolate the defenders' en- He told a press conference, "I defence positions. am sure no important concen- trations of troops and supplies can be kept behind the front lines in future. I don't believe the Russians will be able to use any mass armies. Atomic bombs are the cheapest explosive we have, provided we wish to em-
But the United Nations) forces ploy large quantities of explo-patrolling the 50-mile "middle" sives in one place."
front met opposition in no more than platoon strength.
Cóm-
munist troops were again re-
On the central front ported to be digging into de- fence positions straddling the mountain ridges along the 38th Parallel
Dr Urey, professor of chemis- try at the University of Chicago The Eighth Army's evening and consultant to the United communique described the Com- States Atomic Energy
Communist opposition north of mission, is en route to Israel for Ujongbu as heavy but said that a lecture tour. He said: "Every-t had failed to halt the United body is making atomic bombs as
Nations advance entirely. fast as possible but I am not without hope.”
Asked about a statement by President Peron that Argentina had achieved liberation of atomic energy,
Dr Urey said, "We know enough to be very, very sceptical."--United Press.
War Criminals.
Fourteen
Tokyo, Mar. 28, former Japanese
CHINESE ARMOUR
RED PROBES
North
of Seoul, American,. South Korean and Turkish in- fantry met and repulsed small Communist probes during the night, Communist north of the city was firing from artillery positions five miles below the Parallel."
A Communist light
plane. equipped with flew along the
a loudspeaker United Nations line during the night, calling on frontline men to "surrender or die.'
The threats were made in
mention the three
Frontline reports did not broken English, which the men Chinese in their foxholes could hardly Communist battalions cut off understand.Reuter. three. miles northeast of. Ujongbu last night. These troops may have been involved in today's action.
Alleged
communique Interview
General Douglas MacArthur, in hris personal today,
that announced Communists in Korea were
the
On
With Juin
&
IN INDIA
New Delhi, Mar. 28, Near-famine conditions exist in several states of India. Officials. said today that no deaths have occurred as yet in the new food shortage, but added there were no signs of immediate improve- ment.
Reports from the United States indicate there will be a delay in the shipment of the long expected food-gift, dashing: hopes that the old ration of 12 ounces of food per adult per day. would be restored. The ration dropped to nine ounces im January
The situation was described as critical in Bihar, Bombay, Madras and Rajasthan. In
King Accused Bihat alone it was said the
+
one
meal
supply was more than 2,000,000 Kansas City, Mar. 28. tons short of needs because of
recent witness before the Kefau- were eating only
James J. Carroll, nationally-floods and drought. One report known St. Louis bookmaker and said, in several villages natives ver Committee, today was every other day. charged with failure to comply Food officials meeting here with provisions of the income said that to give the people a tax code.
12-ounce ration next month, In
preparing information the stockpile would have to be dusted off a section of the code stocks are only three-fourths of against Carroll, the government 4,000,000 tons, while existing which has been used only in that. rare instances previously and One hope of relief was des- in recent years. not, according to investigators, troyed on Tuesday when tor- rential rain followed by a hail- One information charges Car-storm wrecked Toll on 24 counts with failure to Punjab
crops in the and file a form reporting payments (former United Province) areas. Uttar Pradesh on gambling winnings or com-United Press. missions paid if they amounted to more than $600. Senate Crime Committee that his betting operations throughout the country amounted to "more than $20,000,000 a year" with a profit of "about $750,000.”--- United Press.
4.
Carroll recently told the BITTER WAGE
WAR LIKELY
Paris, Mar. 28. A prolonged and bitter struggle between the Govern ment and the Paris underground
'Advice' To Burma and bus workers seemed prob-
Ridiculed
Rangoon, Mar. 28.
able tonight as the strike com- mittee flaily turned down an offer to increase wages by 12-1⁄2 per cent.
As the 13th day of a busless
The Embassy described the re-ployees Port, which had come from the newspaper's London office, as "entirely false."
em
The American Embassy here Army officers and Servicemen still trying to distribute armour
Said today that there was "no and trainless Paris drew to a returned to Japan today from
foundation" of a Calcutta news close, the strike committee in- to the battle area despite heavy -the Philippines.
paper report that, the United Sisted that it "would fight to The group included former losses from Allied attacks.
States Ambassador to Burma, the end" to gain a 25 per cent Gendarme Lieutenant-Colonel The Far Eastern Comman-
Cairo, Mar. 28.
Mr David McKendree, had sugrise. Hidekazu Matsuzaki and others der's statement
Continuing was based
his Moroccan Sested the enlistment of Chinese whose sentences as war, crimin- the observations of
At the same time consider- United articles, Alahram
Nationalist troops and Chinese able "agitation" Mahmoud als had either been served or Nations pilots sent to report on Azmi today described an inter-
volunteers into the Burmese among the civil service unions, was reported had been reduced..
the new Chinese Communist View with General Alphonse Army. The group
including the Post Office disembarked at massing on the central front Juin, former French Governor- Kobe. Reuter.
just north of the 38th Parallel, General, in which General Juin declared he had never attempted to dethrone the Sultan but only warned that the Moroccan people were the point of dethroning him.
General Juin attributed the crisis to the methods of the Istiqlal Party, causing friction. between the. Sultan and Glawi Pasha, the powerful Governor of Marakesh. The writer quoted Juin as saying: "I haven't the power to dethrone the Sultan. Under the treaty I am obliged to
Senator McCarthy Again On Warpath
Senator
Washington, March 28.
Joseph McCarthy (Republican) protect the Sultan." charged the Administration today with planning a "phony defence" of Europe.
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Referring to Istiqlal, General Juin was reported to have said, "I understand perfectly that the Moroccans desire independence,
Mr McCarthy urged a con- planning for a phony defence previously issued a statement gressional "mandate" to bring of Europe built around the saying, 'If I had been a North Spain, Western Germany; Tur-closed corporation of the Atlan-African, I would have been an 'key and Greece into the Attic pact nations."
extreme nationalist.' What I lantic pact army and demanded "Unless other nations are in-object to is the Istiqlal method." that the Administration free|cluded, the drain on American General MacArthur's hand in manpower and dollars might be Korea and permit him to use so great as to destroy the United Chinese Nationalist troops States as effectively as though against the Communists.
were overpowered
it
General Juin said the Istiqlal attempted to spread dissension among the followers of Glawi Pasha, whereupon the latter asked the Sultan to curb mem- bers of the Party, and a dispute He disclosed that when the crisis neared its climax, he summoned, the Palace Minister, informed him that the Sultan.
by a Senator McGarthy circulated Russian army." his proposed amendments to The
arose. Senator also claimed the Troops for Europe resolu-Europe could not be defended
the tions, as
Semte's "Big without using the manpower of Three" Republican leaders Spain and Western Germany united in a bid to push the "two great, untapped wells of was "about to be dathroned by resolutions back to the com- anti-Communist manpower." He his people" and gave him a Imittee stage and substitute said, without such steps and statement disavowing the instead a "real law.".
United which he asked the Sultan's. better, said the Administration States would be "dumping signature, He also asked the should be notified that the American manpower into a Sultan to sign 14 other decrees Senate recognises and e-bottomless pit of death and and the Sultan signed on Feb, pudlates the present dangerous shivery"--United Press.
25.-United Press.
new efforts to combat
Mr McCarthy, in a covering munism in Asia, the Com. "methods of a certain party" for
K
The report said that the Am- bassador also suggested that an American should command the Burmese Army.--Reuter.
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