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No. 34724.

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HONG KONG, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1950.

U.S. PARACHUTE TROOPS LAND

PYONGYANG CAPTURED

IN A DAY

Pyongyang, October 20. The Communist capital of North Korea was ocoupled by United Nations forces today-- almost exactly 24 hours after troops of the American lat Cavalry Division broke into the city-according to nouncemente at EUSAK.

Major General Chúng

An

Kwan, chief of the Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, in announcing the occupation of the oily, le Lued statement today de- claring: "It is desired that leaders of the Communist in vaders should be cleaned up", According to reports quoted by Reuters correspondent, the Communist military authori ties have retreated to .Sun. chon.

An 8th Army spokesman said all organised resistance in the Eastern eactor of Pyongyang had ended by 6 a.m. (local time), The British Commonwealth Brigade were in at the kill and entered the city from the West early this norning.

yongyang's two airstrips be in use today, the spokesman said. The United States Alr Force hopes to Airlift about 400 tons of up- piles daily into the city. Fleuter.

U.S. troops killed in death march

Pyongyang, Korea,

October 20. The first three American prisoners of war liberated in captured Pyongyang shid

NORTH OF PYONGYANG MacArthur directs aerial

campaign to cut off Reds

"CLOSING THE TRAP"

Tokyo, October 20.

Thousands of American parachute troops leaped to the kill in

North Korea today.

E

General Douglas MacArthur, who directed the spectacular aerial climax in o 15-hour, on-the-spot flight, said on his return: "The war is very definitely coming to an end today,"

Less than 24 hours after United Nations troops seized the Rød heart of North Korea-Pyongyang-the U.S. parachute battlors were writing the final pages of the UN historic first armed polico action.

The aerlal miles South of the Munchurian

operation--86 | »

border refuge for strangling

Red remnants-was virtually unopposed. The American sealed off two highway ami two railroad escape routes.

Cruising over the area. General MacArthur puffed on his corn cob plpe and told correspondents; "Closing the trup should be the end of all organised resistance."

(The AP's Tokyo bureau chief. Russell Brines, accompanied Muc- [Arthur.)

U.S. casualties in Korea wär

Washington, October 20.

The announced total of American dead in the Korean fighting hae rizen to 4,036, and total casualties to 20,083. in making the announce- ment Department day, the Defence

bor .13. troopers were

The parachute moving by that time-toward the towns of Sukchon and Sunchon, 23 miles North of

don't set any non," he

said, "It looks like it was a com- plete surprise."

This was the apparent climax

United of the historic

Nations campaign, born in blood with the of the June 25 Red invasion Korean Republic.

North Korean Reds had beaten Govt flees

and murdered dozens of U.S. troops in a forced death march from Scout to Pyongyang.

Only a few stray shots echo- ed in the rubbled streets of the former Red Korean capital to- nikit

as American and South Korean troops 'moved into the city proper to complete its oc- cupation.

The Soviet

satellite North

Bald the figures reprouent casualties reported to xt of kin through Octo. The total does not reflect all casualties suffered

of up to that time, because time consumed collecting and checking the

the reports.

1,020 The casually total, fargar than that announced a week

Included previously,

and 4.333 17.711 wounded missing in action. Of the mlasing. 365 since have re- -turned- to

*miliærgencóntrol, aird 107 are listed, na capturod or interned by the enemy.m Associated Press.

make their way North Korean regime had fiod. The Pyongyang.

from

The U.8, First Cavalry knifed Into Pyongyang from the South at 11.02 a.m. yesterday. Advance armoured, units of the South

Division Korean First entered from the East 18 mins. later,

Both forces swept through the Cant industrial district, across the Taedong River and Into the busi ness section last night.

Lightning thrust

While they cleaned out resist. ing Reds in West side streets, the South Korean Division drove into the capital from the North. It seized Kim II Sung University, and then aided the other two divisions in the cleaning-up.

Elements of the Allied British Commonwealth brigade also poured into the city. They had tean recalled from their operă- tion yesterday along the Kyo. mpla Chinnampo road to the South.

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law

Canberra, 'October 20.

The government's bill outlawing the Australian Communist Party became law today when the Governor-General, Mr. William J. McKell gave it his consent.

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Manila

raid on Reds

Manila, October 20, Headquarters of the nation defence forces announced th arrest of a foreign affairs, off cer at the Foreign Office, ar of 104 others, including women and seven children.

The arrests were made in series of city-wide .raidst Army intelligence agents whld broke what was believed to t the "Politburo" of the Com munist Party and Huk o ganisation here.

Among those arrested wer six members of the Secretarií of the research and pro paganda section, of which th foreign affairs officer, Ang Baking, was chief. Also take in the raids were U.S.$21,00 in cash, printing equipme quantities of ---- propagand material, jewellery Includin 30 watches, and assorted fire

arms.

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Two Government men wounded when Intelligence oper tives and police staged simultan ous raids on suspected Hak hid da outs all over Manila two ngo. A score of military intell gence units took part in raide at least five Manila district Suspects were tuken to Arm headquarters at Camp Murphy 10 screening.

Communist Part The local secretariat, belloved smashed wit the arrests, was engaged in direc Ing and coordinating all diaridë) activities throughout. the Phili pines.

Nows withhold

Two of the alleged members the Red secretariat were said .. have confessed and implicate the National · Defend others in Department, headquarters · said.

The Defence Secretary, M that th Magsaysay, announced The Communists almost immediately lodged an

Army Judge Advocate's office a application in the High Court for an injunc-preparing charge of rebellio against those whose Comment tion against the Commonwealth Government.

activities had been proved.

J The application, made by | revolutiennry movement, engaged The section of Queen's Road the Party's Federal President, in espionage, sabotage, treason- The lightning thrusts of the UN. Central between Ice House Mr. Ralph Siward Gibson, and able or subversive netivites

Publication of news of th Writs were also lodged by i forces prevented the Reds from Street and Pedder Street will the Secretary, Mr. Ernest Wil-

ralds had been withheld for tw number of the Communist-do- making an anticipated fight to the be raised shortly to the pre-am Campbell, seeks to resminated trade unions-Heuter. days by the Manila newspapë. Red Premier, Kim Il Sung, and 2. To cut off the highway and death stand. Some 6,200 surren

sent level of the pavement train the Government from

at the request of the dafang his government were bellevedrall line running through Sun dered. That boosted the UN total outside Edinburgh House, said doing anything to implement

authorities, who had hapod. either in far North Korea, Man-chon. Captured Reds said the of North Korean prisoners to a Government spokesman yes- the act.

bag moro Huk suspects in fu churla or Soviet Siberia. Some North Korean military headquar- 20,000.. About 5,900 were taken

terday.

The Communist application to-

ther swoops. The story aplasti prisoners said he was in Hulters had been moved to Sunchon. In the US. 24th Division's ad-

ed in the papers this mornin day carle before Justice Sir Owen phon, 20 miles North of Pyong- 3. To release any UN soldiersvance to near Chinnanpo, port Work has already begun on the Dixin, former United Nations

London, October 20. 27 miles South West the Reds may have been holding | city

examination of the yang.

The Ministry of Labour an- gas mains, mediator In

To facilitato screening of su the Kashmir. in the area,

Pyongyang.

and all utility companies, the adjourned the hearing unt to-

nounced last night (hut Britain's |pects, 40 lawyers in Army servic Before the parachute troops

Waterworks omca, The drop was made in ideal

and the morrow.

retail prices index had risen a took off for combat, General Mac-terrain on flatlands ringing a U.S. Intelligence officers cald 12 Drainage Office will start similar

were called to the camp to aæxl The bill, passed by the Senate point as of September 12- In the questioning----

The figur

on that date was Arthur landed in Pyongyang at base of ridges running North from enemy units totalling a possible

Lieutenant-Colonel Carmel last right without F division, an airstrip in the centre of the Pyongyang 1 was commanded 28,000 soldiers still might be it. Work, Hong

with 113 on August Barbero. information officer compared The Hong Kong Electric Com- gives the Government sweeping city.

The jump was attributed the Defence Department, said the by Colonel W. S. Bowen of the the Pyongyang area-including a He ordered Lieutenant General 187th Regiment of the 11th Air- serri-circle of about 15 to 20 miles i pans

will start laying a new powers to remove Communists chiefly to increases in the prices some of the suspects. who he The handful of Communist walton H. Walker, the American borne Division. The Division was in radius West, 'North and East, system of cables. in this rection from public and trade union posts, of butter and bacon, some types been cleared by military intell

Eighth Army commander, to sund the first to enter Japan.

of Queen's Road Central, in the of the city-Associated Press.

It empowers the first week of November, in con- General to name Individuals and of clothing and coal and in mogenice, would be released.

tion plcture theatre admission. One of the places The three bearded, long-hair- South Korean troops to the Man-

nection with their new sub-eta- organizations considered by Associated Press.

Manila Tobacco Corporation in tion. at Tricity House.

Government to be engaged in

hea building on Escolta in the The footpaths in front of Ein- tivities prejudicial to the national

of of law.

the maintenance, of

business section—" wi Wone defence or burgh Houre, and from

A "declared”

allegedly a "drop centre" of Hing Building to Pedder Street Adedi

person has to dis new levels, but all prove minister, Mr. Rebert the allegations against him. are at the

Communists, a place where lette The

London, October 20.,

were picked up and forwarded, other footpaths will have to be

the Menzies today announced:

The death of Vice Admiral V. Defence Department spokesma raised to suit the new carriage names of a committee of live. G. Gurner British Commodore in said. In this offee, the raide way levels.

The levels of Duddel! Street which would examine the list of charge of Hong Kong from 1818 nabbed 12 men, including a Manji and scavenging lanes leading into names submitted by the law and to 1020, was announced here to lawyer and several businessnes Queen's Read will also have to security departments as suspect day. He was #1-Reuter. be adjusted, added the spokes-ed Communists.

The Anish of the occupation accomplished against only light opposition.

The Reds abandoned their cupital, politically and

militarily, practically without a Oght.

roops left behind were surren ́dering singly or ly groups.

ed Americans were found walk-churian border as fast as they can

Ing along

PAir

Force

the mah street here. move.

Staff officers sald conclusion of They are:

Captain William organised Oghting would be fol- Locko, aged 30, un F-51 pilot lowed by an extensive tropping. whose wife. Ronda, and nine-up campaign until a resistance

is gone. month-old daughter, Karon, were

American troops at Yokoda al base la Japan

will remain when he crashed in North Korean in Korea until that time, But territory near Wacgwan on apparently neither they nor Bri August 17.

Army Lieutenant

tish Commonwealth soldiers will Alexander go to the border, leaving the

Speculation on Pacific alliance

Washington, October 19.

Makuroumis, aged 27, captured politically sensitive areas to ROK Australian and Philippine hopes for creation of a

...near

ear Hadung on July 27,

Army Sergeant Takashi Kum- dal, of Honolulu, captured on July 20 when the Reds took Kne- song--Associated Press,

SPECIAL VISA for INDO-CHINA

Paris, October 20.

troops,

The Red capital was practically secure. U.S. First Cavalry Divi- sion troopers and South Koreans had only a mopping-up job in the bomb blackened city of 700.- 100.

MacArthur has indicated he

Pacific pact against Communism may get support from an unexpected quarter if the United States has difficulty in getting its wartime allies to agree on the terms for the Japanese peace treaty.

will keep these troops short of American officials in their discussions with other

the politically explosive

Man-

ehurlan and Siberlan boundaries. South Korean forces will operate The French Government an-here, he has indicated, whenever nounced that as from today civi- resistance may crop up. Hans will not be permitted to

travel to Indo-China without special visn.

An

which

omelat

announcement, described the measure as a temporary one, said: It was be Ing applied because of the neces sity for reserving all available means of transport. for the' arm- ed forces. Associated Press.

Mortars silenced

ix-

of

ed off Australian' and Philippine

man.

The opening of trenches and the depositing of all may make it necessary to close this section of the road for two to three months but the position will be reviewed from day to day, and single line trufc. at least, win be re-introduéed as soon as pos-i sible, said the spokesman..

Russia's warning

on Germany

offorts to start things going to-O

ward Pacific pact by contend. lag that basis for a 'voting alliance did not exist in that, Arda.

Red claim

Governor-

ac

The Communista" application claimed that the act was beyond the powers of the Common- wealth Government. It was not of the security necessary for the defence of Austraila.or for the maintenance of the consti- tution that the Party er ita affiliations should be dissolved. the application said.

It claimed, that the party had been recognised a political party, since 1920, and that, ils methods wore democratie, aiming twin the support of the ina

people. jority of the Australian

It denied that the party's ac tivities were designed to over- throty or dislocate the establish

system of government, that 13 attained it ends by force, viol- ence, Intimidation or fraudulen practices, or that it was an into- gral part of a world Communis

countries concerning the Japanese peace con- ference have found some nations fearful lest the lenient attitude of the United States lead to a resurgence of Japanese militarism which might threaten all Asia. Australia, the Philippines and The big paratrooper Jump New Zealand 'In particular have started at 2 p.m. after a

expressed concern over the fact Hour, delay .bacause of bad that the American draft for that

London, October 20 weather. The landad without

contains treaty

ne prohibition opposition, except for acattered against Japanese rearmament to

Russia has warned the West mortar fire during the first half any extent. They have expressed

she will hot tolerate revival hour they were on the ground, their views on this subject to Mrr the Australian

There is a difference between of a German army in West- John Foster Dulles, the Secretary

and Philippines ern Germany, Moscow Hadió of State, Dean

adviser who would have to be reconciled. The reported today.

President, talking over

Elpidio The broadenst, heard here, said Quirino, envisages o pact to in- that the warning was conveyed Page 2

notes are under- clude Pacific powers and nations in identical

to Britain, Personalia. American

France and the United States. Pago 8 Australia's Foreign Minister,

.to They replied

Western Heminders.

South East Asian nations from German police was in reality: a

-India-the only one of them cap. The Russian notes

The weather The Red mortars were silenced

American artillery dropped by lear, forelga Cron's Repub- approaches to the question which At 0800 GMT (8 p.m, HEST)' a depres air in the first combat attack in the United Nation.co creaty o5/ Philippine

ision is, centred W of Honshu tavla volving the parachuting of such AUENE TÀ, typhoon" centred of Ibila

irring. NNE at 10 knoja Pes equipment

be

On other pages

as heavy 105-ml- 8130d towards the possi- of South East Asig. new la low over the A Chipol Ben; while notre..howitzers, opened up on hilly of counter regional al Percy Spender, would exclude charges that the Soviet zone East Page 4

the, N China Bon Vie In A Fresh Parterly the Reds right

winds, ` ́Beenming. Imme ́settleik,with necHE

away.

Major General Edward Eby proposing

this concern.

ing Japan, would he not only a

Today's Forecast --Modorato Pasterly | Almond; the, liberator of Scoulance of Pacific nations, includ such a pet on the grounds that military organisat accused the

of all #terrent to the spread of Coal- abla uf niaking'aby desnite con- Western powers, of using this VC Fuccond."

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UN foregs in North East Koren, nurism but would enable tribution-deca no want to join charge in an attempt to cover where South Korean troops were participants, who are fearful of continuing to drive the Reda to Japan, to keep an eye on her ne- and the rest of the countries of up their own attempts to revive ward Russia's. Siberian border.

tlons through an Interlocking that area could

effective

the German regular army. ;:"| Page 3 South Korean

**They replied (ROK) units command arrangement such es i contribution.

to potes sent to Motoring Pago. fanned out in three

threp West- Page Atlantle Pact na Mr. Spender would confine eighs the Kremlin by from the key North East ICorean

"Coutaining absolutely: signatories to Pacifte powers' such ern

Gan, Iddon's Diary, ab Britain Americans decided to as the Lolted States, Harmbung. They drove 20 miles Bouth

of the

the Manchurian

the German British Undusindon does not disen China.o order posing an arrangement which they lla, New Zealand, the Fhilippines democratic The immediate purpose of the and previously rejected, de coa possibly Indonesia as well as charge the lust police functions Pan

Canada Mexico and the West and is of a failliery nature,”, the parachuters, was three-fold:

Mr. Achoran and President constinations of South America broadcast heard in Yondon ex-

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