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PLANES LEAVE, BUT DEFENCE Warspite is beached again

OF POHANG FIELD CONTINUES

Roadblocks cleared

With American Forces Iri Korea, August 13.

Counter-attacks by tho American 24th Division today ctrared all North Korean radblocks behind American Fines and re-opened the aup- ply routes between Yongsan and Miryang,

Supplies are now able to move to forward elements of the division. The Americana ctruck at daylight and drave forces from positions astride the supply routes. In the attack the Americans cap. tured two artillery ploces ---- Arcociated Press.

alrong

Australian Mustangs in action

Tokyo, August 13. Aircraft of the Australian Mustang squadron had a day of moderate activity over tar- gets in the South West sector in their first sorties over Korea

yesterday. General MucArthur's Headquarters un- nounced today.

Flights operating hi the vicinity of the Naktong River carried out bomb and rocket attacks and machine-gunned asseric targets with good results.

One flight destroyed a famou». finged vehicle add rocketed strated haystacks and other road targets belleved to be concealing

enemy maleripl.

Switching to the area East and West of

Yonggidong, the Aus- tralians, on their second mission, ket are to five vilinges.

Reds massing along Naktong River for new offensive

FRESH U.S. TROOPS IN BATTLE

Tokyo, August 13.

American ground crews and planes started evacuating Pohang air base in Eastern Korea today while frosh American troops were thrown into battle in the West to stem new Communist attacks on the Naktong River line.

A spokesman for General MacArthur said three and possibly five Com- munist divisions were massing along the Naktong for a new attack, with one division and an engineer regiment--possibly 15,000 men- already on the American side.

A spokesman for the Fifth Air Force said the evacuation of Pohang base storted at 0200 GMT (11 a.m. HK timo) after the Communists' at- tacked from all sides and began raining mortar, machine-gun and

to help wipe out the Cominunist bulge bridgehead which an Eighth Ariny communique said contains four Red regiments and some urtillery.

rifle fire on the airstrip. However, United Press. cor- respondent Robert Vermillion reported from Pohang base at 0200 GMT that the field was not yet under fire although Communist guerillas in the ridges around the airstrip had it under their sights.

Vermilion reported that the Air Force mechanics. armourers, clerter and cooks who had been anning foxholes in defence of the base for the past two nights were inaded into a fleet of trans- cort plencs and flown out to a

order for

into

Reminiscent of the famous painting of the fighting Tomora ire being towed to her fast berth In this photo of the 31.000 tons battleship Warspite being towed

Mounts Bay, Cornwall. Warspite was refloated from the racks on which she had bean Jammed at Prusale Cove since she ran aground in a gale three years ago while on her way to be broken up After refloating à leak was discovered and the veteran battleship was peached again In Mountral grade milsa from Prussia Cove,. (AP Photo)..

Malayan Reds Correspondents are

recruiting students

out of 10 tanks in this bridge- head were knocked out by air- ground action on Saturday after they crossed the river on an underwater candbag bridge.

Twenty more Lunks were on the West - bault on

Singapore, August 13. Saturday night and warplanes The Chinese-owned English roared out to blast them today. language "Malaya Tribune"

Pohang Front: Pohang airfield which had been Communist Party

Warplanes at said today that, the, Malayon

was trying Mr. flying from the threatened field to recruit teen-age terrorists Chinese high school

The fresh troops first attacked the three-mile long Communist-sighted road to the 24th Divi- blocked slon's main supply line to Pusan. The roadblock extended East from the village of Yongsan, 28 miles South of Taogu. In this area the fresh troops relieved the emer- geney

force of 24th Division all morning started to evacuate among

Fat 0200 GMT. The evacuation students in Singapore.

another

fire

that

buried with full military honours

Taegu, August 13. Ian Morrison of "The Times” and Mr. Christo- pher Buckley of the "Daily Telegraph", were buried here today in a small tree-shoded grave with full military honours.

correspondents were killed yesterday when o United Nations jeep, in which they were travelling was blown up by a land-mine in ⠀ the South Korean army sector, 12 miles North of Waegan,

· Tel. 21433.

INDIAN TRAIN DISASTER

New Delhi, August 13. Sabotage is suspected to have caused the derailment of a goods train into which a Calcutta-Delhi express crash- ed near Benares early today, kliling at least 23 passengers and injuring about 200.

One pair of fishplates, four bolls and soma screws were found to have been removed from a section of the track on the small bridge where the accident occur- red.

Police and rallway oficials Tator. found the fishplates and bolts under the bridge. The crash ne- ourred on the East Indla Rallway about' 40 miles East of Benared shortly after midnight.

· The Hallway' Ministry reporte wald that six wagons of a goods Irain were derailed just as the Caloutta-New Delhi expresa was approaching on the same track.

The partially derailed gooda trala had stopped on an embank- ment, by a small bridge, 20 miles East of Murħal-Bara junction when the express crashed Into its rear.

Two passenger coaches and a goods wagon were telescoped... the engine, four passenger roaches and two goods vans plunged 20 get down the embankment auto four feet of Bood water..

The engine and cight wagons of the goods trein-all empty- capsired on the opposite side of the track.

Early rescue parties, fncluding government celala, wailed fr darkness and drenching rain. through flooded paddy fields to give first aid. Railway doctors and Police squads, from · Benares followed. Reuter, 1

COMBINED AIR OPERATION IN MALAYA

*****) Singuport, August 13.

Lincoln't heavy, bombers, altho Royal Air Force and the Royal Australian Air Force in their first combined operation, by'night, :at= trciced

West

of

Hay, Aation the

early' to..

cools, clerks and military polica-was ordered after the Commun men thrown into the battle on

· Ther Communists were trying ists attacked the field from all to calist girls and buys between becaus Saturday

no other inen

sides, The planes were down to the ages of 13 and 19 in a richer Both few-bate. Despite the evacuation were vniinble.

Central much of the personnel, Vermillion sald, F-51 Mustang the First Cavalry Division Inunch-

TACKU

base and two South "ant-Tritish Singapore Students Frant: Ton

Troops of

Korean LST's were standing off-League" which threatens to kill were still operating from the fielded fresh attacks against the two shore to aid in the evacuation. uneo-operative teachers And with skeleton crows manning new Communist crossings of the

students, the newspaper reported. ground posts.

Multong. One was at Tuksong Under heavy

It said that the League hy noon on Monday, the last deng. 13 miles South West of

planned to organise strikes and airmen may be pulled out leav-Taegu where 500 to 800 Reds

politicat demonstrations int ing the strip in the hands of the crossed-on Saturday night under

schools le compel the Police to Colonel Únni Nayar, Indian conditions in the country he The operations. In support American Infantry unit sent herd cover of darkness.

Lake action ngainst students. I alternate delegate on the travelled over a large area by of the security forces operating three days ago to secure the base,"

possibly closing the schools and United Nations commission

any means available, two years | In the area—-Routéf. aid.

thus generating a persecution and military observer for

ago, including Kansu and Sin- A protective task force of complex.

Korea, killed at the wheel of keenness and enterprise, and his klang, Thai trip was typical of his tanka, artillery, Amorican

the jeep, was cremated, ac Negro Infantrymon and South Korean troops were stil dug Cinere high schools which had cording to Hindu rites this His ashes will be parimeter been closed for several weeks morning.. but were following the discovery there of flown back to India.

propaganda leaflets Fellow

were correspondents and

Dall-bearers for the two veterin Pollec Gfficers sold. thut British correspondents. similor

teen-age terrorist organi- Omciating at the service were

Salgon, sation was operating in

Plicts returning from Korea

The other was at Naktong-dong, today said that the Australians [40]

11 miles North West of Taegu. had come in for mara con. Vermillion said the Infantry Cavalrymen thero destroyed seven gratulations for the workman. command protecting the base out of 10 tanks, captured one and like

way in

attack against Po-killed more than 400 Communists. which they had launched un shot up targets susigned, to them hang sb miles to the North, at Northern Tuegu Front: The over the last couple of days.

0200 GMT. He said. "A force of Communists made another cross- South Koreans with a platoon of ing of the Naktong to reinforce Congratulations have also come American tanks inoved nut of the bridgehead in the South 10 three of the squadron's ground their beachhead Inar effort to Korean First División arca 20 Stalf for chopping an hour, off retake Pahang. American tanks milce North West of Tacgu. Nine their own record for an engine will not go all the way into the change.

Lown due to the weak bridize just The job, under normal con-

South of the town but will give ditions, usually takes thred days. | support

fire .tu the South Yesterday, the three mon car Karoans."

Evacuation of ricu

out a complete change in

the base avacun seven houra,

ordered by Major General Earle The performance gains adried, Portridge, Fifth Air Force Com- grounds that the merit from the fact that in their mander, on

fighter grote can operate inore Arst rush job the engine had been effectively at a safer pince. The dismounted for, the Australians

been doing double by an American ground crow in crews had South Korea.

ruly on planes and in the fux- Yesterday they did

the dis. holes.

nounting

of the old engine and

the replacement job themselves

Reuter.

DEATH OF SOVIET GENERAL

Moscow, August 13.

The death was announced to- day of Colonel-General Vynches- DAV Dmitriyevich. Teevatayev, who

was chief of the Boviet Union's highest war college. Ho was 67 years old.

Ile started his military career In 1918, participated in the civil war and battled against Allied troops in the Murmansk area. He later commanded largat Turkestan,

New Naktong

Crossings

was

In

the defence around the fold under heavy fire.

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Reported attack

on U.S.

Navy plane near Amoy

Pearl Harbour, August 12." Members of a U.S. Navy squadron which has been patrolling waters off the China coast between Taiwan and Okinawa, reported today that one of their planes was attacked by two and

The Goveniment recently an nounced the re-opening of two

Communist

“documents.

courage. His personal friends On other pages

and all who came to know him well through his activities correspondent,, will remember him with affection because of his great sincerity--of- character and his personal charm, Few correspoŃ- dents knew South East Asia and¦ ¦ China

for he had spent better, for

all these countries- problems

age:2

Porsonality Parade Correspondence

∙his page 3

in, the French-sponsored Indo: three Americans,--the Rev Eh Chinese State of

Vietnam, Inward Adams and the Rev. Archi-considerable amount or time in tries reporting on girl was gaoled recently for posterlan Mission in Taosu, and ressing Communist documents and Lieutenant- a hand grenade, Reuter.

Pahang a 16-year-old high school bald- Campbell of the Presby | choir avmpathy whit be felt for

Singapore Police guard

Much Samar Mrs. Morrison and the children, first Cavalry Divi

ant-Colonel

Overstreets,

sion Chaplain.

The fourth

who are in Singapore, and for his brother Colin, who lata well- passenger in thkrown official in the Government Jeen.

# South Korean captain of Hong Kong. rissigned · gulde * the... · · party. through a South Korean mine

to

fleld, was pleo, killed.inda

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Finance and Commerce

Mr. Christopher Buckley, who was in the Jeep with: Mr. Ian | Page: 10, Morrison, and shared his foto, Hong Kong Waterfront Mrs. Buckley is at present in vas one of the outstanding foreigs Page 11 Tokyo. Mrs. Morrison is living in correspondents of the ““Dally Air, Shipping movements" Singapore.

Telegraph," and was also wall Page 12 known, in-this park of the world.

possibly four Communist fighters, which they Peking envoy Merival at Tanjon, from

presumed to be Chinese planes with North Korean markings.

Mr. Morrison had not left Korea,

Singapore, August 13. Singapore in the first week of The plane contmander,,ours" while оп forward duty Communist China's first am-July. He had covered the fighting Rober! Kirschner, said his about two weeks ago. On two baseador to Indonesia, a former continuously ever since..

chance to see Nationalist forces, Wanz Jen Woo, was protectively about the same time in company, which he said would "make a guarded by plain clothes Police of "Picture Port's" Mr. Stephen. good showing". in event of at- when he passed through Singa Simmons who was subsequently tack.

pore this week-end to assume his killed in an aircraft while on route from Tokyo to Korea, Mr. new post ot Djakarta."

Buckley, except for a brief fight The Police kept a watchful eye to

to clear copy, also coni- Japan lo Ambassador, and his party tinuously on the

the any frontline coumo... ranking United Status attache guard them

eventualities."

Singapore newspapers

The Coirmunists made three plane was attacked on July 23 trips to Taiwan he also had a Singapore school teacher, Mr. Mr. Buckley arrived at Tarjon)|

Reports unfounded Meanwhile, in 'Tulpeh, Rear Admiral Harry B. Jarrett,

In Talpett of af branches of

"to

from

the services, said today that a Mr. Wang and his stat far as ho knew. reports that s

foun.i

Korean

Yesterday's tragedy brought the

total of correspondent casualties fight in the Korean war thus far to 12 9. Seventh Flest plane w that questions put to the party coners and two missing-Router lipped and one newspaper said with eight known dead, two pri- fired on by Chinese Red fighters near this

the

new_crossings of the Naktong | by two F-51 type fighters on Saturday night against the marked by a five pointed star First Cavalry and South Korean surrounded by a blue circle. Divisions protecting the approThis is the same marking as aches to Taegu.

that carried by North Korcan General MacArthur's spokesmen | planes, Squadron Commander Identified the Division in the Charles Skuzinski sald. : changnyong bulge as the Red He said the attackers were tos curth Division. Fie bald three far South to be North Koreans more Red Divisions were messing but the possibility was not ruled along the 20-mile front North and out that they might have been units in South of Waceyan. 13 miler fown from China to join

North West of Taogu,with two North Korean air force at the He was a prominent deld come and possibly three more in re-time of affack. He bald mander during World War II | servp; battles against Germany-United North of the Fourth Division seemed to be the first attack on an American Navy plane of the

Admiral Jarrett said

firstter. Tress.

he Communia: 14th and Third Chitin const since the start of the information he had was

when Divisions are stabbing at the Korean nellon,

*****tho United Press queried, him for Hver line with the Second. 13th

Kirschner suld the

the attack confirmation on a report publish

ed in the

in the English language "China. game about 12 - miles off the China coast, North East of News" this morning, saying. that Amoy... The

planes, made two Bilplane on a Formask Strail passes, firing machineguns for patrol was attacked by: Chinto

four miles North, a a total of thres minutes The Red Ogüters four Navy Privateer will hot hit Admiral mado a,

The weather and 13th Divisions moving un to

river. The Red First Divi❤ zion algo was believed to br rear moving forward from the area..

"AI 0610 GMT (8 9.EL, TIKS7) 88 4xter aire, and well developed trough of low „Pressure“ eklends Esstwards from China

The spokesman sald an all-out “Geross the Ipochoos and thence "Mis wands attack on the Naklong line was

cross the Paside to the Alesias expreted, hefore next Tuesday- Depressions are ventred (rithle"-smash to which is the fifth anniversary,, of- the 8 and of Japan, & rides of high the liberation of Karen from the presate covers' 17' Japan J

Today's Phyvent immainderats a winds. Fapaliese which the Communists

Oloudy with showers: malol during the would like to celebrate with the

| capture of Tàsgu.:

Yesterday's Weather by a figye Maximum: 30.0 Ver., Pal Minimum 74.2 der. FAMĀLUMS

On the other fronts a a battalion

19° "were received with stiff nor

pletely unfoury word come and a shrug of alioulders,”—Rey-

Tho

double Ho (ald that before the attack he sighted two strange, fightern check and said there was nothing below him, but the attack came in any of the reports to his om

omfeq Incident. have allint to that shot To Admiral Jarrett added that have cilated that fast. This lad to the hellar there might

Coptain Charles

Skuzina have been four planes instead named in the report as squadrah lender-and in another, might purpose of

Abe required

Thu

two.

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ANADA in Navot | commander-woud. of Communist horse cavalry siriking: through the hills out. Hanked the South Korenn forces patrol is to keep tabs on the to report and clear through his

Furuhashi sets another

record

In

Regret in HK

The news of the tragic, dentfi of Mr. Ian Morrison, correspon- dent" of ""The Timer" in South- Eost Asia, was received with great regret by his many friends here

Hot

***Kong. Mr. Morrison was here for sona six weeks In the Spring, covering development

here and, in China, and then re- -turned-to - his headquarters zbi Singapore. He came through again on his way to Japan and | Korensoon after tho> Korean

Tokyo, August 13. The "dying fish, of Fujiyama," frunoshin Furuhashi, tonight conditt broke out, and since then deemed himself by beating the has been covering the fighting American high school star. Ford in the Peninsuns Roano, in the 000 yards

free

Mr. Ian Morrison, was a worthy style event at Oraks

son of his famous father "Mor zurufu khi but we now world's iron of Peking." who gave up hord for sur Zevent in 400 Sard medicine for journalism and was

of the greatest.

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concentration, of 2146,000, planes on pairolina daysen organised, competition by, booting Viralty arid, nigh, vindechin The following the altuation along the coast, plug 05 decort Admiral Jarrett Tald he had no the Japancay ago) by two yard in His despaboties & ware

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