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UN FORCES FIFTY MILES FROM BORDER Record bag of prisoners taken in 24 hours
ORGANISED RESISTANCE ENDED
Tokyo, October 23.
The United Nations armies drove on through Northern Korea to within 50 miles of the Manchurian border today aftor bogging a record 26,000 prisoners in 24 hours.
All organised Communist resistance had ceased. The enemy's last 56,000 troops were in full flight, Six South Korean divisions led the pursuit. *They hoped to overtake the enemy and rescue missing American prisoners
· before the Reds can hord them across the frontier.
Military Governor for Pyongyang
Pyongyang, October 23. Colonel Marcel G. Crom- ber, Commander of the Fifth Cavalry Regiment, was today appointed Military Governär of Pyongyang. Flert Cavalry Division headquarters дп. nounced tonight:
He will take over the ad: ministration of the former Communiet capital until a more permanent government can be established.
The First Cavalry Division has also been ordered to set up an administration in the West coast port of Chinnam po, which the Seventh Cavalry- Regiment captured early to- Day, Major Ralph Gray of Division Headquarters, took over the duties of military governor tonight.-Reuter.
British strength in Malaya
was
are
HONG KONG, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1950.
Governor receives salute
Sir Alexander Grantham, the Governor, returned here after four months' furlough in America and the United King dom yesterday. Photo shows Sir Alexander receiving the ralute from the Guard of Honour at Queen's Pier. Mail" Photo.)
General Douglas MacArthur', Today the United Nations! ; forces
the last big Headquarters announced an all- crossed
the record bag of North Korean West coast river barrier below Manchuria at two points 30 id 20,000 prisoners taken in the
prisoners In a communique, - miles apart in a rec to free previous 34 hours hud boosted the surviving American war prl-war-long total to more than 120,- soners. Other Allied spear 100. Most were belleved taken hands drove North along the f the trap sprung Junction of East bank of the broad Chong the First Cavalry Division and the The 4000 chon River within 50 miles of
Sunchon and Sukchon
non above. The Manchurian border.
Pyongyang
The British Commonwealth 27th Brigade plunged across the Chongetion at Simanju natricie the West coast highway and railway to the new tled capital of Smut
**** | ou the Korean side of the Man- churia herder. Sanj Es 40
North of the old Red of Pyongyang and 72 alles South Last of the Man- churlan frontier. - ·
Sărultaneously, a task force of the South Korean First Division acize 530 miles stretch of the Fast bank
of the Chongchon North East. of Sinanju and hur- aled the river at Kulang, South Koreans swept rapidly 12 !miles beyond the Chongchon and entered Yongbran against light ited rearguard opposition. Yong- byon is as inlles South East of the frontier.
The
Still another Bouth Korem First Division task force drove Ayo miles beyond Huichon, 25 miles farther up the Fast bank of the Chongchon and only 50 qules from the Manchurian bor- It was hot on the heels of the than trenting Tyr forces believed headed for Kanggye, deep in the mountains of Northern Korea 37 miles North of Hulchon. The Reds are expected to nuke anal stand at Kanggye.
Aunerican paratroops
nea
Thousands mere were believe: to be in scattered packels North and South of Pyongyang. It was to these that the Americas turn
their attention while the Southcent
Koreans raced on to the North.
("China
North Koreans to pay for atrocities
Tokyo, October 23..
The North Koreans have murdorod, some 20,000 South Koreans and 300 American prisoners, according to evidence so for compiled, by General MacArthur's Judge Advocate-General. atrocities, committed for the most part by the invading Communists in South Korea, are included in 62 separate cases now under in- vestigation, Colonel George W. Hickman, Judge Advocate-General said today They do not include the re, crimes agalust police--as was done slaughter of American. at Nuremburg Tokyo-the and Koreans in the Pyongyang scope of the commissieu rules will be extended," Coltnel Hickman The military briefing spokes. Barea.
cold man said today there has been Colena Hickman also revealed
The commission members will no real organised enemy resistant General MineArthur's Unted be efforts or qualined civilians, of tance in Korea for the past 24 Nations Headpierters today ap- the Republic of Korea and the proved the legal machinery United Nations actually participa- hours.
which the guilty will be broughting it the Korean campaign. The The spokesman, sald Far East to justler under rules governing Kocom repubile has been recog Air Force fighters and bombers the fist United Nations
nied
by the United Nations bui were working over, fleeing Reds cr
imes
commission will confl
in histers so far is not a
memberse rules but their targets nve divindling
The commissions
Presently
under tlacinselves to
trying so-called American Dutch, Swedish, On a basis of what the briefing "conventional" war crimes.
French "It authority on a higher poll-Zealand, per al practical pupuses lient level decides to try Narth Thai, Canadian and ROK officers
for
charges of organised resistance by the North Korean Kureau Communist forces has waging or aggressive ceased.
fost.
up
The spokesman said that the States First Cavalry United Division, which is mopping
Chin- around Pyongyang and pampo, was capturing large num- berg of prisoners and enemy entiment.
leaders
war or
Chinese Reds' campaign against U.S.
Taipeh, October 23.
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Governor
returns to Colony
The Governor, Sir Alexan- der
the offeer
Hanol, October 23.
Insurgent Vietminh forces have made new harass- ing attacks on the Indo-China frontier region Ground Tionyon, the French authorities announced today.
Tienyen is on the coast, South East of the fortress of Langson, the evacuation of which was officially stated yesterday to have been com pleted.
also
French forces The announced today that they had abandoned Loc Binh, seventh frontier outpost lost within a month. It is in the same area as Tlenyen
to Saigon today after day tour of Tonkin.
Bitco
The Tonkin front today Gapi peared to have stabilised with the French forces in position for any Vietminh assault.
The
Lady Grantham, and Granthum returned to the Colony yesterday morning by the RMS Corfu, after spending four months leave in the United Kingdom.
French regrouping · hui They were met on board by: French alreraft and mobile are given the rebels about 60 miles o Administering the tillers went into action in areas damaged road and railway run Government. Mr. J.F.Nicoll, and ranging from rubber plantations ning down through the mountain. the General Officer Commanding in the jungle above Saigon to the from China's Kwangsi Province In Chief. Lieutenant-General Bir swamps 140 miles to the South through the evacuated fortresse
West Robert Mansergh, who.necon=
and as for West
of Dong Dang and Langson; to panied them To Queen's Pier in Canbodian border, according to ward Phu Lang Thuong-abou
a Frengh milliary headquarters 30 miles North East of Hanoi, the Governor's barge.
minouncement, ades United Press, The :pɔkezman described Com- not operalloss as "sporadic" and said they were mainly cou- centrated Gullying positions.
A 17-gun salute was fired upon
landlig at Queen's Pier at their 8.55 a.m.
Honour
where
us the
French
been
The new French-held zone ha
が cleared
Infiltrating Vietminh guerillos.
M. Pignon, discussing the situa on today, said: "The days" ard aver in Tonkin when singl French Uniou battalions will re nrmy sist Vietminh attacks. **
several
an
we ar
Leading Government officials, Service chiefs, members of the Executive and Legislative Coun- cils, and their ladies, as well as Red frees attucked
citizens, gathered at the stuckades, ambushed leading Fier to welcome Sir Alexander convoy, and assaulted a rubber
"We are building what the and Lady Grantham.
plantation
they were Americans call combat teams o Outside the pier a Guard of driven off by combined air and three or four battalions that wil
drawn from the first gro
reluforcements, Bround
The be highly mobile. When, Buttalion, the Wiltshire Regiment, | spokesman said the wives undrendy the offensive will begin.” ⠀ was drawn up. The Regimental families of rubber planters, would
Before they left for Saigon to- Band was also in attendance. be given ralillary :cert to safely day General Juin and M. Latour- The Band struck up "God Save if there were signs of plantations neau drove nearly 40 miles in the King"
the Governor being seriously menacet.
jeep
through monsoon rains alon emerged from the
pier. After inspecting the Guard of Honour, Sir Alexander, accom. panied by Lady Grantham, drove to Government House.
Ju statement to the Press. Sir Alexander said that he was glad to be back in the Colony
to that everything was He added that he had been on going to well, holiday during most of his ab- sence but said that he had had several talks with the Secretary of State for the ·Colonies and mainly on routine maiters con- officials of the Colonial Ofee
cerning Hong Kong..
Chiang's UN day
.
statement
Taipeh, October 23. Generalissimo Chiang Kai- vers now are only scratchi-shek today urged support of ing the surface of evidence and no date has been sot for the free the United Nations, declaring the threat of war is omni- present."
trial.
In Saigon Itself the pollera pot-holed road to feet | thể have ordered strengthened Foreign Legion vanguard coming security precautions laaide the back from Langson.
Letourneau declared "France will definitely hold thi Tonkin_Delta."
city where it is believed th Communists, may attemp!' vio lence on United Nations Day on Tuesday:
The spokesman said there had
Lect "some continuing activity in the Northern frontier region the French had
where
M.
The bearded Foreign Legion naires of a dozen rintionalities
who comprised the vanguard the evacuees, said: "It was heart been breaking to have to pack up ant driven back from a 110-mile line leave our posts without havin a chance to hit back at the met ut border during the last month.
"No more retreats” who killed Our comrades
plst, General Alphonse
Frince's leading inlithry strute Dongkhe.
"But we believe, in Juln;
our com arove almost 40 miles in a manders, and we will be back "Jeep" in monsoon" "rali to" mAUEA OS
men marched out of th the colure of men withdrawing" from Loe Binh and Lanson, con- citadel of Lenggon and fodic thre routes-back-to-the-next Franc tinues Reuter....
post. Two groups followed jungl trails due South and after sligh about 25 miles away. skirmishing.
runched Cao Nhất
....
Ile told them: "There will be no more French retreats. I am confident of the niliorystu
The third, group marched Sout East along the border road, col lecting a garrison at Loc Binh about 12 miles away.
The French High Commissioner, M. Leon Pignon, said here today that lie could neither confirm nor deny reports that 15,000 Chinese Communist troops. hud the frontier Info Indo-Chinn to picked up in their 70-mile jour Join the Vietminh (insurgent) ney by French lorries-Reute forces.
crossed
All the groups wore oventúälf;
and United Press.
On other pages
"We have exactly three sus
In a statement for United Na- M. Pignon and M. Letourneau, pects in custody." said Lieuten- anti-Colene William Smoak, Sr. Hons Day tomorrow, the Pre-] the French Minister for the Indo- chief of the war crimes alvision | silent of Nationalist China called China Associated States, both "Two of them are being held for on all pence-loving members of told correspondents today that Hill 303 massacre of 36 First the UN for more determinallor they had given orders that news
censorship would. in future be Page 2 confined to military security,
we will catch" more of
He said dig airborne wills
were
the which
dropped in Stinchon and Sukchon areas had | sticcessfully blocked the move The Chinese Reds ordered linen neur Waegwan in than ever, to defend its charte
meal of Communists' attempting an underground campaign to escape to the North. On Sun- against the United States August. But as we go further and fly organisation.
declared Nationalis Chiang The British and South day three or four companies of almos! Immediately after
China is doing Its utmost to fight Koreans are under orders Berik ran lato the airborne blok Japan's World War II collapse, try to overtake and save hun-hiork and were eliminated.-
Nationalist China's top Con- that insofar as application the to subjugale: us and to brea! Uroda, If not thousand, • United Press.
munist prisoner charged today. UN commissions would follow down the United Nations." American war prisoners bein
he said, woa the Geneva Convention on the The campaign, Manchuria by
reponsible for the agitation in treatment of prisonera of war, for which was drawn up but not Shanghal and other cities American forces le get out of retliled In August, 1940. China.
torded toward
-the retrosting Rede. Two South Divltion taik First Korean farcen were rushing North on A specific arcignment to fine and save
merleán prí-. 150 soners who were taken by trali from Sunchón, 20 miles North of Pyongyang last week.ond.
Malay leader reiterates his charge
The prisoner muking these
charges was Hung Kuv-shib, who
Fantastic Canton statement, European YMCA meeting.
nant-Colonel -Smoak said back the brutal forces which seek matters only in so far as they | Page 4
Each commission will consist of at least five members, Includ
accused notification
ing one law nionber. Before the
Singapore, October 23. Britain has thrown nearly 20,000 British and Gurkha troops into a drive to smash Malayan Lerrorlem, it carned authoritatively today.
A reliable milltury source, såld i ese forges are belig alded by 100 Maluyang und 1,000 locally flisted personnel. This brings the tul Bivolved in the carpelin to
out 40,000--against the ethni ed Communist forces of 3,000 to 200.
said The sources
there ,000 regular British troops, and .000, Gurkhas; (the British
Red
Cross delegate who inay zurc is understood to inehy
salect n defence couns in uddl ,000 men in regular formationN -many of the indivütual, ... of
designated by Hung said he headed a grouption to the one Dato Onn Bin Jaafar, Presl-
of the United urse, are National Service men). train on Friday near Sunchon and dent of the United Malaya Father Intelligence and try to
whose specifle Instructions were the Comanander
Nations forces-General Douglas The informant added that nos acred by their Convaunist
MacArthur. No death sentence Malaya may get even more
organise a fifth column to support will be carried out until six troops through the possible di guards without warning as they National
Prime former sat waiting for their promised
Communist invasion of For Wi version here
months after notification of sen- of Barne 'forces
oree meal. Twenty-one prisoners sur Johore State. originally earmarked for Korce, viked the muss murders and told Britoin to be "really sincere
tenecUnited Press. Of the total of 40,000 troops the story to Allied, troops who towards the people of Malaya ere. 10 to 15 per cent are aining and most locally enlisted
reached, the area on Saturday and and reiterated his charge of crsonnel work
British distrust of the Malayat. orderlies. Sunday.
people.
13
Eighty of their companions were removed from the prison
erks, messengers or supply ser-
British cross
cas.
Alr, Jorce personnel are
are estim
adial 3,000 to 5,000. These are
be supplemented next month the Chongchon
ith
thei
arrival of jet planes
Britalo. The Jat alreraft
11 be combat plune, under tro
al conditions but it is thought likely that the planes would be ective, for strikes against Com- unlat Jungle hideoutz-Asso Ated Press.
Singapore, October 23.
Organisation
and Minister of today asked
Dato Onn hud made this charge nf distrust originally in 'Landon lust month when he said that a first class. Malayan army could be recruited easily but "there is
Added
Deserted he wag sent lo Fornos trial of any
in December last year by the
Central Committee of the Chinese Cominumist Purly.
14090.
Life spared
Hung was arrested on February 28 this year but, ba- cnuce te disclosed everything 'he knew, was given the statul of a Communist who had ro ponted, surrendered and con fecusd, which meant; his fifi was sparad.
Security emeinls said the in- formation he gave led to the
Nationalist
will be given to the International
'U.S.agents' arrested in China
He added: "We will continue: this fight until freedom is restored to the Chinese people on the mainland."-Associated Press.
Brazilian farm workers clash with police
:
Rio de Janeiro, October 23. Seven people were shot daud and seven others were seriously injured in an armed clash, be- tween Brazilan police and farm private workers who invaded lands. " in Parana State, South Brazil, the Meridional JoWx agency reported here today.
The news agency sald that the workers, infidenced by the Com- munist Agrarian League, Illegally seized large trucks of privately- owned land around the town of Porecatu, Armed
with revolvers and shotguns, they seriously wound- seven of the 80 military polter rent to expel them. A farm tore man guiding the police was, killed outright.
The police finally overpowered the Innd-grabbers: after killing
COMMUNIST.
The weather The Seventh Cavalry Regiment officera were recruited for service in changed a number two to tion in Peknig which expose HEADQUARTERS IN
o inline BE of Japan chailand tumors
Lowly NE or FINE.
SYDNEY RAIDED
London October 23. 30 The British 27ih Common- disinclination on the part of the complete rmashing of the Com The Moscow Radio sald wealth Brigade aimultaneously British Government to trust. the munist underground in Tulpeh. struck North along the West teen people."
Hung told the Associated Press today that: Communist China coast and crossed the Chengcher at Sinanjut while the U.S. Firs Date Ona sald today that he would during World War II was headed during 1940.
On his return to Singapore, today that the Communist under- had arrested: 20.000 agents of
ground in
China American military Intelligence Cavalry Division turned- back South to help 4,000 paratraops would not take back one word
stand by this statement and by Tuig Five now Deputy The broadcast quoted a des-ix of themReuter. nop up. thousands of by-passed of what he had snid. Dato Onn Premier of the Chinese : Com-patch from Peking to "Pravds," Communists
amela! newspaper, of the Russian that too many British mundt Government in Peking.
Tung served part of the war Communist Party, on an exhibi- roized Chinnampo, Went AY:9500 GMT (5 pm. IIRST) the anti- port for Pyongyang, without re-
in Malaya and little or no ep the present Communist Premier the schemes of American Im clone: dominates China, Japani nod the slatence on Sunday,
portunity whs given to local and Foreign Minister, Chou En- perialism in China. Credentials Jäcont sens." "The typhoon centret, about On the East coast, the South men.
Dato Onn had participated in tal, who then headed the Red curried by the alleged spies were
Sydney, October 23, Korean Capitol Division' captured London talks on Commonwealth mission In the wartime capital. said to be on display at the ex-
The first rald by the Australian Pukchong, 105 miles South West ald to south East Asla ng an Chinese delogation to the Son of the Soviet frontier and 80
Tuny was a member of the hilt,
Government authorities under the The "Pravda" despatch alsc
now anti-Communist „Act was
: South of
Manchurian observer
Frantire conference at whieh said 2,000 recret radio stations Federation Reuter.
made, today on the Communist the United Nations was formed all labelled "Made in USA, hed Party headquarters here. Com- five years agoAssociated Press, been formed in China. In 1949.
monwealth investigation officers Tlic "Pravda" correspondent
questioned the employces while told of electrical gadgets which ERROL FLYNN WEDS he would had been used to shock uniformed police stood guard
crowds vietime shaking hands with the entrances.
watched the fals
Fale, Large PATRICIA WYMORE "splo" He added:
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Moncay rumours
No-confirmation
was avalt.
able here today of reports that
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Pago
Civil Government for Nort
Korea.
French forces were withdraw; | Page 10
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