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No. 34718.
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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1950.
NAVAL TASK FORCE BLASTS
Theft of papers from Buckingham Palace
London, October 13.
Scotland Yard's ace detec: tives moved into Buckingham Palace on Friday and ques tioned the Royal household staff in a search for the thief who stole a diplomatic case full of official correspondence and threw it away in a gar bage can,
The diplomatic case, created with the Royal Seal of King George VI, was found by a man rummaging in a garbage bin near the palace on Friday morning. It contained cor- respondence of Major General A. G. Salisbury-Jones, Mar- shal of the Diplomatic Corps, who works in the well-guard- ed palaco.
Scotland Yard said ne vital state secrets wore among the papers, and no papers
were missing from the box.
In
The Royal family were not the palace when the theft occurred. They are present-
ty, t Balmoral Castle. In Scotland United Prons.
Peking attack on Britain
London, October 13, Communist China today uc- cused the British in Mulay of a policy of murder and per scention against the Chinese
inhabitants.
NORTH KOREAN COAST Prolonged bombardment
gives rise to speculation
TROOPS CONTINUE ADVANCE
Tokyo, October 13,
A mighty 37-ship armada spearheaded by the United States battle- ship Missouri blasted and burned a 105-mile stretch of the North Korean coast just South of the Soviet border for the second straight day today.
The prolonged bombardment spurred speculation that General MacArthur may be preparing a new amphibious landing to speed the collapse of Communist North Korea. His nutcracker ground offensive from the South is already well underway.
The United Nations columns today rammed to within 65 miles South and 87 miles East of Pyongyang, the Communist capital. Altogether five divisions are marching on the capital. A sixth United Nations divi- sion is mopping up at Wonsan,
The biggest Allied fleel as-mies North of the 38th Parallel sembled off the Korean East fronter. coast since the start of the war hit
"Task Force Lynch," etmmand- ed by Lieutenant Colonel James Lynch, raced
to Hanpo over secondary roads West of Kum- chou. The task force first won fame for its spectaculas dash at rosa Southern Koren last month. to link up the Puspa and Seoul beachheats.
military targets today along the shore from burning Chongjin. 49 miles from the Soviet frontier, to Tanchon, 105 miles farther South West. on The "Mighty Mo" whose 16- the theme put out in Finch guns yesterday strewed death
the officini Communist news
China News and destruction through Chengjin agency--the New Altenes were received in Lon-shifted its sights today to Tan-Reds hold out
Three simultaneous reports
don.
Culontal
chen, another important
rail
'The first, heuded "British centre on the enemy's main supply
Persocution Against routes Overseas Chinese in Matayo," churia.
from. Russia and Man- in pillboxes
Then
For more said that the "Chinese people would not tolerate these nets and Missouri rained shells the British
hour the the Оп
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Bunderland Blying boats of the Royal Ale Force have been maintaining constant patrols off the coast of Korea. Above photo shows, a Sunderland, In the loe of its operation control ship, beginning Its take-off run over the smooth waters of the Iwakuni roads.
French abandon key frontier post at Thatkhe
Saigon, October 13,
The French today announced the abandonment of
the key bastion of Thatkhe, causing another. gap in their weakening defence line along the China-Indo-China frontier. was the third frontier post abandoned or lost by
the French within a month.
At the same time planes of the Far East Air Force ranged over all North Korea, blasting artit. lery positions, war traffic, tanks It and supply dumps. Airmen re- postea South Korean forces have driven to the vicinity of Tchon, 34 miles North of the 38th Parallel and 13 miles beyond their las reported positions.
General Douglas MacArthur.
United Nations farcer
Tibet "invasion" reports
Tel. 21488.
Truman
flying to Hawaii
Fairfield-Suisun Air Force
Base, California,
October 13. President Truman, flying out to the Pacific for an island rendezvous. West of Hawall with General Douglas Mac- Arthur took off at 0813 GMT today. for the 2,000-mile over- water flight to. Hickam Field, Honolulu.
The President's plane, the In- dependenco, arrived at this West coast airbase at 0314 GMT today from St. Louis,
Warships were staged at In tervals along the air route 1 Hawaii and B-20s of the Air Ser Rescue squadron from Hamilton Field ware aloft as a precaution
MACARTHUR LEAVING TODAY
General
Tokyo, October 13.
wilt MacArthur leave here in the next faw. hours for his historio Pacific conference with President! Truman.14
Reliable sources aid - the' five-star General will take off. from Tokyo's Haneda airport at 8 am. Tokyo time tomor
row.
New Delhi, October 13. Tibet's Finance Secretary, Tsopon. Shakabpa, said here today that he believed the rc- ports of a Chinese Communist against any eventuality on th "Invasion" of Tibet were "be long ght. The President's plan Is due at Hickam Field abou lated accounts brought by traders of a minor incident 1830 GMT today. which occurred four months
ago." The withdrawal
left some 300 miles of the frontier open to the Vietminh guerillas of Communist leader Ma Chị Minh.
A military spokesman said | 180.000. U.S. arms and money
From there,. ho will proced Westward to a thus far unname meeting place to talks over £} The Finance. Secretary, leader Far Eastern situation with Ger of the Tibetan delegation, which eral MacArthur, Wake hes bed
mentioned as the probable re hopes to have talks with Die dezvous point. If it is the one
Government on Tibet: which the President is flying, th future, said: "We do not believ
we have re- of Tibet because ceived no information from ou Government."
Peking
In his summary of the fighting the' Thatkhe garrison withdrew have alrendy started flowing into the reports of a Chinese luvasion will mean....a. better than. 2,000
Bald
French prisoners
were advancing an all fronts from the post on Tuesday Indo-China.) and had captured another 400 Red prisoners, bringing to rear
Cco.the.
total of prisoners an far in the warg A Headquarters air unnounce-
1 60.000 captured an
night toward Langson, French frontier headquarters fortress 59 miles to the South East:------ Elements of the retreating gar
reached rison have alrendy
Government must own. The bombardınen was be- đácking Kumchou frontally reaclient and B-20's attacked' Namsi-Nachata a French post midway|
bean full responsibility for them and the consequences arising from them."
Other First Cavalry units at- leved equalled to that on Chong-e a point just South
dong. of the
He said he had received Vietminh forces In Ind
report of a minor border in China claimed yesterday.
cident" from his government have captured, 2,000 French
at the time, but not in detalls treapa, Including a Colonel andi a Lieutenant-Colonel, in the
"An account of the incident ap- recent fighting near the Chinese peared sometime ago in the Press in which it stated that a portable The claim by. a Vietminh wireless set was captured by the pokesman was broadcast, by the Peking Radio and heard in Paris.
Reds," he said,
spokesman, According to the
frontier.
mile journey beyond t Havollan island.
Brief. conforence
The President's take-off fro herd was preceded by a br conference with General-Om Bradley, chairman of the Jol Chiefs of Staff and other men bers of the official party. maj
M The Presidential Secretary, Charles G. Ross, dinclosed - the site of the widely herald meeting with General MacArth will be made known to reporte today, probably for publication
The meeting will nctions in Korea, including: s nd rehabilitation that war-torn country,**
counter increasi strategy to Communist threats in the F
the menace East, including Indo-China.-Associated Press.
19 miles from the Man between Thatke and Langson churlan border in North West
ho added, in yesterday when the battleship city yesterday and hoped to en-
Other Superforts But
Keren today. they were
withdrawals by feed more than 100,000 pounds of ter It today.
The frontier Sohort. also Samgut-am, and hit
the French began after the Viet- it claimed that the Britian shells in a similar period. Pre- slowed by flere mortar
and other minh in mid-September overran had adopted a policy of "econo.liminary reports Indiented "good small arms fire from Communist Kunuri, Jujang-dong
the post of Dongkhe, 60 miles mile plunder" and "resorted to results were achieved at Tan troops in concrete pillboxes with North Korean targets.
The text of the communique North
Оп West of Langson, up to eight feet thick, cuch acto of savagery as arbi-chon, a despatch from the Mis uils
Kumchon was the key bastion follows:
October 3 the French abandone trary arrests and imprisonment, suuri stid.
"Fighters and bombers of the Caobang, anolher major outpost the Vietminh took nine days to New Delhi awaiting a reply. from! Anal phases of United Natio In the meantime the United in North Korea's pre-war border torture and large-scale mur- The sdepad report, on the al-turned to Chongiln to work over strengthener by 1,000 Red troops | Litiued to take advantage-of-good 100 miles North West of Langson. involved. Among the officers.cap: a suggestion by the Chinese Ain- ¡ construction und
States-heavy cruiser Heleno-re- defence line and its garrison was U.S. For Lost Air Force
der."
leged
con-
Korea Lodny
closing down of two any targets that might have been who fell back South from Hanpo weather in North
She yesterday.
with a slzcable air offensive in Chinese-run newspapers and the missed by the Missouri.
text of their managements, sald. found huge fires still burning in On the First Cavalry's right support of the advancing United The hostile attitude
Jank still another American Notions ground forces. the the centre of the port and rali-) of Colonial authorities hus aroused way centre.
-column is nearing. Changja, 12 widespread and serious protests." 1, the third report, an excerp
an article
In the Party
newspaper.
ommit "Prover," said: "The British Co. lonial authorifles in Malava have soy turned there fury against the Chiese in Malaya.
"In the past few months over- sens Chinese have been the sub- feet of persecution and retaliation
miles North of the frontler and The United States light 12 miles East of Kumchan. orulser Worcester hit Songjin. 20 miles North of Tanchon and; the British cruiser Ceylon Jaln-i
destruction ed in the
with a bombardment of Sangpodong.
Naval planes
by the British Colonial author-in action
des
These high-handled methods al
tia British colonialists have filled
and
THAI TROOPS ARRIVE IN JAPAN
Tokyo, October 13. General MacArthur's Head. quarters announced today that
Three South Korean divisionn the First, Eighth and Sixth ara pounding North above the 38th Parallel along a front
miles to stretching 40
the North East. They advanced up
to 12 miles in the post 24 hours against scattered enemy resist.
anca.
Coast to coast attacks
"Fifth air force fighters light bombers concentrated
The Tibetan delegation is in the Tibeton capitol of Lhasa t bugador here that negotiations might be conducted in Peking.
"How can there be any inva sion when both China and Tibe. a peaceful e hoping to have
defeat the two French column The garrison withdrawing fron
were Colone LePage Lieutenant Colone Caobung and a screening column tured, he said, from Thatkhe were caught in mountainous country by Vietminh Charton, ideniffed as the "puppet governor of Caobang Province," forces and most of the
3,500 French and Colonial, troops were and their entire staff.
The Vietminh Insurgent gov-settlement the Finance Ministe lost. Since then, observers had
ernment In Indo-China is sand. Gald. fourod
'Thaikh un attuck on
ing back 176 East Europaan might result in a similarly dizas-
prisoners to their countries of trots withdrawal.
origin, according to usually ra
French sources. Hable
adda Fleuter.
The spokesman said he had no information that the withdraw- anding Thaikhe garrison was belur The movement began last month
al-harassed by Vietminh guerillas through China and Russia, the
Baid.
"
OFFICER KILLED
cover
GENERAL HO RECALLED
Taipeh, October 13 Nationalist China's bead of mission, in Tokyo, General Sat-lál, ls to be recalled, to T peh on October 14, Chinese nav inform
IN MALAYA
Singapore, October 13, nost entirely along the Western but said he believed the weather sources natriates" were believed signal Offer, Malayn · Heid papers. sold, quoting.
Colonel E.C. Thompson, Chief and Centrul fronts while FEAF was good and the French Air The
Superforts Force, in strength, was covering to include 50 Germans who bo- quasters, was killed on Wednes
quarters here today. Bomber Command
the delicate and urgent with longed to the French Foreign day when the scout car in which
The papers did not know wi ranged for North of ground posi tions striking targets from coust to drawal opération.
Legion. There were nisoi coast in a continuous. Interdiction
lovaks and Poles Czechos he was travelling to Kuala Lum- ther General Ho would return The operation, ha wald, was
the trip would be a routine d programine to halt supplies and
The Germans were understood pur from Pahang, ran off the road Japan but expressed the opin similar 15 the withdrawing to be going to East Germany, and
into a ravine. reintorcements.
movement of the Caobang gar they may have arrived already driver were injured in the ab-
Another Army officer and the visit." "Some B-29 flights went as fot
Geneal Ho, is the son of the North Western tip v ripon, which resulted" .. ..
Róbert Tung-Reuter. by the trans-Siberian railway-cident-Reuler. disastrous encirclement for the Associated Press and Router. French. This time, however the terrain le ieas difficult, the spokesman added.'.
The First Division pushed the enemy back four miles near So- nan Mountain while the Eighth rolled ahead 12 miles to the out- both the people in Malaya While naval guns fired across skirts of Ichon, 70 miles South
fast navul these, outskie with Indignation."the beaches,
planes East of Fyongyang and 34 miles Reuter.
from the American carriers North of the frontier.
Thers Philippine Sen and Valley Forge were ro late reports on the pro. Up swept farther up and down the gress of the Sixth Division far-Korca as Namsi-dong where rai and highways were struck by coast and inland. In their initial titer East miles North of the general purpose bombs with ax sorties from the Valley Forge Some E0 yesterday carrier planes sank an frontter the South Korean Third cellent results.
"About 30 B-20's flew during enemy corvette atid silenced shore Division attacked along the main
A security Eilence blanketé:" batteries near Shindo, miles from the Soviet from read running West toward Fyong daylight to dusk interäletion as
sung from the East coast port of sault. Two East coast secondary the details of the Thatkhe with- advance elements of the Thai
The two-day bombardment Wonsan. It advanced three miles marshalling yards at Samgun-am drawal. The French did not re- Sohe-ri were effectively veal the strength of the gorrison expeditionary force to Korua marked the closest yet that Allied in the first few houts av me and
or what forces might be coveting The bombed while another flight con- warships have sailed to the Soviet only mederate resistance arrived in Japan yesterday.
the retreat, frontier. Chonglin Hes only 120 South Korean Cupitol División centrated on the West coast hit- The announcement sald 12
The spokesman said, however, omeers and 30 enlisted men, com- Vladivostok.
miles from the big Soviet base at which joined the Third in cap-ting marshalling yards at Kunu»
to pass the garrison had "turing Wonsan on' Tuesday is ri and. Kujang-dong, North that manded by Major Suzaki) Maya-
several dangerous points at which the Spearheading
ground still mopping up the city and ils
Pyongyang.. Ingo, arrived from Bangkok he
"Today's B-20 bombing was the terrain was ideal for ambush thrust toward Pyongyang "Task adjacent airfield ale at Haneda airport and went
carried out under good weather The most critical spot on th of the 'United 'Force Lynch” to the
Japan
conditions with excellent restalls withdrawal route is at the mout and only one returning crew ro- tain pass of Lunghai, 10 mile struck North along the
Again North West of Nacham highway from Seoul after, cap.
immediately
placement
training
.centre
Camp Drake near Tokyo.
by
Je
at
Major. Mayatarp was givoted
· Lieutenant-Colonel
States First Cavalry Division British raid
main
Chinnampo
turing Hampo, 86 miles South of Aldon
Intch, his former Instructor at Fork Bill, Oklahoma, artillery school-United Press.
the Red capital in a flanking, movement yesterday.
On the West coast, British The fall of Ibnpo cut off an estimated 1,600 to 2,000 enemy carrier, bared planck blasted tar- troops still 'holding out of the Fola at Chinntimpo, port high way centre of Kumchen, five Pyongyang. for the third straight
The weatherndes to the South. Harpo is 16 day
Java 1600 UNT (BP HKHT!" D
tropical etoran is now centred about 270 milies B by W of the Colony tieving NNW as I knots. It was intended and winge Taf B0 knots are ropurled 'pear the cente.
Pressure is, highest over the Yellow Bet Vand appears to be falling over SW China
Today's Forecast (--Mojlereto; Eʻly "winda. probably · (reshanika "considerably during At 'Uid day, cloudy with drissie de licht {"palchte, "becoming main]{"sznekød.'?_ Georges Kenierday's, Weatherbangali
Big Maximum 1'20,1 view; fat
of
Woman, five children dead
in Australian tragedy
Perth, October · 13, " A woman and five of her alx children were found, dendij with their, throats cut in' thoir'] house 'at Collie early today?
They Were Mrs. Blato Armanas co, nged about 35,; and her child 202,179,12 sininen, Loreti, 13, Raymond, 12 Franels Philip and Annetta. The Inat, three were younger than
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friends
Pollos foursd the body Armansion on a bus and
bodies of the thres youngest children "on the floor
nearby with a bad prend.
was in the woshhouse and Loretta's body in the bathroom
Police are searching the wild country near Collie for the father haymond: Armanasco, agod about
ported anti-aircraft Ar
no enemy Aghters were sighted.
"Fighter support of friendly ground forces continued today with F-80 jets and F-51 Mustang prominent on all fronts, Roya Australian Air Force F-31's con tinued their contribution to the overall objective, that of entash- ing the enemy wherever he could be found,"United Press.
OPIUM SMUGGLER SHOT IN TAIPEH
Tulpeh, October, 13.. An oplum muggler was ecuted by a firing rquad and an opium ad let was sentenced to five seats in prison.
Fears
Hanoi
MORE BRITISH TROOPS LEAVE UK FOR KOREA
Liverpool, October, 12. Another 800 British Yoops ng- companied by 12 nurses left for Korea tonight to join the battling United Nations forces. They sail- ed' in the
Lancashire. troopship, the fourth vessel to take Brilons to Korea from the United King- dem this month: This brought to
4,200 thơ number of British troops to leave hero under the, Govern- ment's programme to aid UN forces-United Press.
the
Transformation of the Vlat: minha guerillas into a powerfir regular army has forced the French to take precautions tr satoguard Hans, croat tradin centro in Northern Indo-Chini and former seat of the Franch | Pago 2 Governor General,
The idity Correspondence capital of Tonkin and major Page 3 Ma Franch base," la-only about 4 Squatter, acen1ta' be miles from Thal Nguyen, which Paga. 4.
On other pages
the French havo now evacuat-
....... Barotay, onion Page 5
ances
| Tha relatively weak frontlag Optimism in Spain
positions remaining In French Page hands ará constantly, exposed to Britain secka" - Husalan ; masuE- attack by overwhelming numbers
Clotrinh of well-equipped
troops. Pags B Paxtonds to Motoring, The dangu - even Fit Yuyuinn, who was low Langson nway on the Panamanion sleamór
Authoritative sources in Pa
Parle Ada Ante from the Philippines was executed yesterday, Tuswald Bald Trance.urrently wants. Inore Page caught when the ship docked and faster Amoroan, military, nis
on June 0 with nearly u. Indo-Chiny but that there are: Pag $13,000
grammes of herein in bugs prove
cecarter "who has boon Kaohsiungenesief opfúm and 400 i hu present..
Bouth
The kidlo, Huang Chination there from fan the severa reverede, zeg
Mach, Copalaland Viet. Pas
United
• troops, are estimated fat Karl
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