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CHINESE

FIRE ON AMERICAN PLANES

Wonson Air Field,

Korea, October 24.

A U.S. Marine Corps spoken- man sald today that Chinese

Communist anti-aircraft," guns fired across the Manchurian border late yesterday or American planes. The planes were operating inside Koren near the border.

The Marine spokesman said the Red fired at least 40 rounds of envy anti-aircraft shells, ap. patently ruder-controlled, on two Marine planer. The US. plnen e nylig a reconnaissance mis Lon

Manpojin, Korcan over trenghold

he border.

few milfun South of

The pilots, Lieutenant-Colonel aul Fontana and Major Samuel hards, described the flak as avy and to accurate for com-

U.S. holding Russians in Pyongyang

CHINA MAIL

No. 34727.

Seoul, Dotober 24.

Four Ruslans, belleved to be traders, are in protective custody of the American, au- thorities In the captured North Korean capital Pyongyang tonight.

Thren men and one woman, they

dressed were

elvilian

of

clothes when brought in to the Americans by North anti-Communist uns

yang.

ound fighters in Pyong-

An American acntry at the gale of the American_Presby. ferian Mission in Pyongyang would not admit Reuter's cor- respondent to see the de. tainees but confirmed that the Ruslans were inside, Reutar.

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PRESIDENT TRUMAN'S APPEAL FOR NAVAL WORLD DISARMAMENT A Prince at play

Only means of staving

off a third world war

Flushing, October 24.

President Truman called today for a fool-proof worldwide disarma: ment pact to stave off a third world war, and warned the United States and her Western Allies not to be fulled into laying down their arms by paper promises of peace and disarmament.

Death of Al Jolson

San Francisco, October 24. The jazz singer, Al Jolson, dled of a heart attack last night in his suite at the St. Francis Hotel. He was 04.

The President spoke before a special plenary ses- sion of the General Assembly at the fifth an- niversary of the founding of the United No- ⚫tions. With the representatives of the Soviet

But

Union and its satellite Communist States in. his audience, President Truman avoided. naming Russia as the cause of the world's war jitters.

The two Marine Corsale pilota

Tokyo, October 24. were flying a reecivansance, uver

Peking Rudlo said today

he left no doubt in the minds of his 'listonors Afanpoj In extreme Northern korea. They were never closer that the Foreign Minister. than three milles to the Yalu River Chou En-lol, had nominated

that he regards international Communism as bus guns from

three emplace one of the Chinese Reds' rank. Death came quietly 10 the the chief threat to world poaco. ments on the Chinese side of the|ing diplomats to attend the Intsical comedy and film star

red about 40 rounds of Security Council debate

"Disarmament is a course mest, terrible, war whose nanio became synonymous which

in history, river ack-ck them. Neither plane Chinese

the United with Communist

"Mammy,"

States Those who drew up the Charter the

song vus bil.

he moaned

York would be prepared to take. really had less to do with the at the Now Fontana and Richards in their lons of alleged American ag-

Winter Garden and in the first But unlil effective world dis- creation of the United Nations report said they were lying agression In Formosa.

picture in the United States with armament is established...the than millions who fought and The broadcast salti Mr. Chou sound. about 8090 feet when fired on.

died in that war. only course which peace-lov- "We who work to carry out itst Vistullity was unlimited and they cabted the UN Secretary-General. could plainly see three un em Trygve Lle, advisor of the ap-

At the time he was stricken hing nations can take in the

great principles should always plivenients on the Chinese side of pointment of

remember, that this organisation Pine-mar delega was playing gin rummy with twa present situation is to create lton headed by Wu Shan-chun, friends, Jolson excused himself armaments needed to make owes ita existence to the bloo the river.

chief of the divisien of Eastern saying he felt unwell. He lay the world secure against agann sacrifice of millions of men

Affairs

gression."

and women. It`ls bulls out of Mr. Truman envisaged in the their hopes for peace and justice. wake of real disarmament a sort

The anti-aircraft flee follow. ed them as they turned for home and continued until they were at Camist Foreign

least five milles from the fron.

Fontana said "It looks as though the city of Manpolin will be re- ceiving anti-alremst protection from emplacement we can't even thent back at"

** The pllata exid the black pulls vers close enough to them to be considered adurai-Associated Press ard United Pieš--

FRENCH RETAKE FRONTIER POST.

Saigon, October 24.

thin

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of the Chinese down on the bed and asked for post, Mr. W

Office. As doctor.

ac-

holder #f that companied Mao Tse-lung ኒ Moscow in February and helpot to negotiate Sino-Soviot treatles.

Mr. W was formerly Chief of Staff

of Lin Puo's Manchuria Army. Other members consist of one adviser and seven assistants. Mr. Chbu said the group would pick up ions in

ions in Prague na routa the United States, and he asked the Secretary-General' to arrange dipl mulle privileges.

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While lying on the bed Jolson of world wide Marshall plan in No faltering

Jolson returned from an over-

which all nations could join in e greatly enlarged programme of mutual aid.

* Thle photo of two-year-old Prince Charles at play with his mother was made by Crell Beaton in the grounds of Clarence House, London home of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh,(AP Photo),

was joking and smiling. Then said "I'm going, l'in going." The he died, ending a career in show

Governments may sometiment business that began when he rop President Turman said that in falter in their support of the away from home to join a circus. that way money now being United Nations but the peoples of Dr. Walter Beck Immediately spent on arms could be used for the world do not falter. The de- notified. Jolson's wife at her E-medicing and to develop under-

mard of men and woncu through- sino, California, home, y

E developed-areas.

deeper world for international While Mr. Truman's address

one of the strongest forces in these

troubled times. vas a detailed restatement of seas tour in Korea a week ago United States foreign policy, that fact in Koren.

We saw a vivid demonstration of Owen on October 2 following pear on Bing Crosby show. The San Francisco Inst week when, of Koren was a direct challenge

was more conciliatory than at

"The invasion of the Republic greement to hear the performance was to have been after his Wake Island meeting Reds version of the charges, due recorded today. to be aired in the middle

with

General MacArthur, l. November, Observers here believe

Jolson was born Asa Yoetson challenged the Russians to tear Mr. Wụ was nominated because son of a cantor in St. Petersburg, down the iran curiam and prove he would be able to work in Russia, on May 26, 1880. During their peaceful intentions by ned close co-ordination with the So- his childhood his family moved tion. This time the President viat bloc at Lake Success.—Inii- to Washington, D.C. — United suggested three basic principles

Mr. Lle cabled an invitation to and was in San Francisco to ap-

The French authorities In do-China announced. today hat they had retaken

of Chued Press. hina frontier post aisan, which fell to Vietminh surgent forces last Saturday. French warplanes struck burd day_nt. Langanu, the big border. rtress abandoned by French

ops last Wednesday,

of

Press.

UN TO ADVANCE

A French, military spokesman digni

id the plates hit pétrol and oll nks which the withdrawing troops had not been able to des-

troy

TO

Ammunition and food stocky left behind by the French also were ton bed to keep. Vietminh troop: ef Moscow-trailed Ho Chl-A minh from using them:

The French spokesman reported that Vietminh attacks are atli under woy

the vicinity of

Iri

Ticayen, koy French post and The supply centre in the middle of a

new 100-mile frontier defened Unc.

THE BORDER

Allied 10th Corps HQ,

Wonson, October 24. reliable source said today that South Korean troops would drive Northward all the way to the Manchuria border...

informant, whose identity cannot be disclosed, said no buffer area would be left unoccupied. There had been unconflrm- Several French posts guarding

that Flegyen have been hurtssed by ed. reports

a 50-mile Vietminh units.-Reuter and As-bufter stretch would be left sociated Press.

[between, the Manchitiria border and United Nations troops. Lo nvold possible incidents with Red China.

United Nations troops proached the Manchurian border

LANA TURNER'S MISCARRIAGE

Hollywood, October 23. Glamorous Lana Turber,' ‚ox- recting a child In January, suffered miscarriage today when she slipped and foll'on a pellchey floor at her home,

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They were reported about 30 to 35 miles from Red Manchuria. A new UN warplane beb line was drawn in an are 12 miles South of the Chinese border. The lovely screen actrere, whThe Allied bomb line is usually lost another child by miscarriage 20 miles ahead of forward foot carly last year, was taken to St. soldiers, John's Hospital in Santa Monica Koreans. where she was reported resting comfortably.

in this

casc,

South

be Sketchy battlefront reports showed the South Korea North- ward drive had lost some of its momentum." A build-up was in

Milsa Turner, wife of milton- aire Bob Tapping, loạt a child in↑

The Britch

Commonwealth 27th Brigade killed 800 North Korean troops in a, skirmish with Communist rearguards just South of Anju. American tanks were rushing North to join the final sweep up the coastal highway to the border town of Sinulju, be lieved to be the new provisional North Korean capital.—Associated Press and United Press.

for a disarmament plan:

All weapons

1. The plan must include, all kinds of weapons, Including atomic bombs,

2. The plan must be based on unanimous consent. No plan could work unless it included every nation having substantial armed forces,

3. The plan must be fool- proof. Paper promises are not enough,

He proposed that disarmament be policed continuously and tho roughly with free and open in- ter-change of information nerost national borders,

Snap meeting of Cabinet

London, October 24. The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, · summoned hip Cabinet unexpectedly_.to- day for a meeting at which, it' was, belloved, the case of the missing British atom colentiel, ., Professor Bruno Pontecorvo, was informally discussed.

A full dossier on Ponte. corvo, who (vanithad with his wife and children after ar- riving In Finland,, had been prepared for the Cabinet, „There' was, understood to be no indication, in - It that the scientist ever revealed Com. "munist leanings Router.

The entire tenor of Me Truž man's address contrasted mar 1o the principles of the United with last week's Brisiting Nations. That challenge was mot kedly speech at Зал Francisco in by overwhelming response of the which he doncanced the Boviet people of almost every member Union and its colonial satellites uk which mupported the de for maintaining large armed cision of the Security Council to forces to Intimidate other inest this aggression with force. countries,

Fow in cur time hove me

acts Here is a condensed taxt of with such widespread approval. '' President Truman's speech: "Uniting to crush aggression in Korea, these member uations have have done no more than the Charter calls for. But the important thing they have don Is that'

done it and have done it.

"The United Nations was born out of the agony of war the

Yoshida's hint on Japan's ambitions

Tokyo, October 24.

New York on January 13, 1950, progress for the final thrust to Japan earnestly desires that a poace troáty bo.com/

after entering a hospital there for what" "officials, termed a igutine check-up-United Fres

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destroy Red Korean remnants.

Advancing ROK troops in the

past 48 hours captured 23 tanks. PER A All needed only minor repairs.

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cluded at the earliest date and Japan be ad- mitted into the community of peace-loving nations of the world and eventually become o member of the United Nations.

LATTIMORE ON ASIA'S FUTURE

Wellesley, Massachusetts, October 24. Lattimore, Far Eastern' export and John Hopkins University professor, said last night that democratic freedom in Asia is still pos sible despite the rise of Communism,

Speaking at the third quadrennial institute on the

Far East at Wellesley College, Mr. Lattimore declared: "We face a long and difficulf future, in Asia as in the rest of the world. But there is no reason why we should let real- ism degenerate into pessimism.

OFFICER'S HEROISM

An Iriah Rugger Inter-/ rational, Surgeon-Lieutenant Stanley Walsh, whose home is at. Limerick, Eire, dived from the deck of his ship, HMS Constance, to rescue a Naval rating who had fallen over- board from the "British light: ficet carrier Theseus during operations off: Korea.

During a strike a Sea-Fury unshipped a rocket when land- ing on the carrier. The 80-lbs. weight missile hurtled along the deck at 00 miles an hour. An officer jumped inboard out of its way as it siverved to the port side of the deck. Ernest Leonard aged 25, of Nowcastle-

airman, Jump

cd

way and fell do

yue, a feet into the Yellow

The Marine sentry threw.

'him

4.

but

Lindsay was carried past it. As he passed the destroyer ustern, Surgeon-Lieutenant Walsh that the rating was itx difculties

BRW

and dived in, swam to him and supported him for several minutes until the

•Sub-ra boat arrived.

C. T. B. Carne RN of Falmouth also jumped in to help

Lieutenant Walsh Lindsay Into the boat. was unhurt and,

Lindsay

after a rest while his clothing dried, was re- turned to Theseus by bosun's chair.

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said.

a fair swimmer," Lindsay afterwards. "hut the unexpected drop knocked the wind out of me and I was very alad when the doctor came in to Join me. I felt awfully lonely As the

only swimmer in the Yellow Sea.5.

Surgeon-Lieutenant Walsh, who has played Rugger for the Nay and the United Services, as well as for Ireland, sald learned my swimming in the sea of the South of Ireland. I think I pre- fer it to the Yellow Sea"!

"His 'wife" is at present living with her parents in Dublin.

THAILAND FORCE OFF TO KOREA

- Bangkok, October 24. Thailand's Пrst fighting unit to join the United Nations foreca has called for Korca.“

.

On orders of the Ministry of Defence the leave-taking. was made a millltory - sceret."

The fcreo of 1,200, which lefe on the naval transport Angthong expects to arrive Pusan abotit October 29.

The Navy gunboats Bangpakong and Pravne, with 700 men in their crews, are accompanylig tho tratisport and wili join the

com bined United Nations Beet.

Thailand decided several weeks ago to send 4,000 troeps to Kurda.

"There is no reason why we [vative than our policy in the rest should accept the Communist of Asia....And their confidence doctrine of inevitability. It is was undermined by the suspicion-Associated Press.........** not true that the rise of Com- that we were more likely to pull back into munism has inevitably block our policy in China

line with that of the rest of éd the road to development of Asia." democratic freedom in Asla."

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HK-BOUND CRAFT STOPPED BY REDS view is that the The master of the trading ves- sel So Chan on arrival in Hong policy we attempted to carry Mr. Lattimore said "The most out in Chinn was the right one," Kong late yesterday afternoon dangerous weakness of our posi he said, "It might have succeeded reported, that his vessel wa tion in Asia is the spread of the it we had

at the same time stopped by Communist soldier that America is a country favoured and promoted a more at Charm Customs at about that tries to stop people in Asia rapid rate of change in the rest "2.p.. yesterday. from doing at least some of what of Asia-if the policy In China Several soldiers boarded hi they want to do.

had been part of a uniform and vessel and after a search lef rapid evolutionary process of the vessel talking with them' two

In colonial, change

Asia," rifles and, about 200 rounds of Associated Press.

ammunition.

idea

Can

"

"Nolther Europe nor America slow down the process of change (in Asia) very much for very long. Still less can European.

American policy completely put a stop to change, or throw it into reverse

or

Any effort to resist change,* Mr. Lattimore warned, "is likely to precipitate uncontrollable.crises unless backed with power to pre- vent change.

"The major opportunity for American policy in Asia is to help

have given dramattally, "They: /on-Communist Asia get as much

the Charterba

freedoin as possible, nefast works. They have possible, without altempting is proved that the Charter is a liv-impose either European fir

instrument

backed by the American Ideas of what material and moral strength of stitutes freedom short af Com-

ing

hors, largo; and small,'.

the

man who laid down their

for the United Nations in Korea will have a place in our riemory, andy In the memory of

erder that the asciares

world-10 cycled in tras as 3 resulton.

munism.".

Cause of failure`

con.

He blamed our failure In China" on the Chinese people' Jack of conviction, that we their

really meant to follow throug the Crited Nations to

In encouraging reform," dax

Is stronger then it has even Mrintiimore pointed been before to

Tachys it is better able that Chinese "could see that our than évér

fulfill the

out

cald 20 Ruslan-made T:34: The Japanese Prime Minis | anc-e'pence treaty, the. Prime hopes that men have placed in it Polley in China was less, conser

war seized yesterday.

Dear

Minister stated.

belleve the people of the. Hulchen, Northermost fargeter and concurrently. Foreign

the United Nationa town overrun by ROK troops Minister, Mr. Shigeru Yoshida.. Ho olted, in particular, are world rely on

to help them achieve two great * aldent Truman's recent ráfar, Three tanks were captured on stated this today in a United Bunday near Kunu, k

Nations Day address:

ence to Japanese peace treaty purposes. They look to the UN to lielp them Improve ecditions following his historie Wake under which they live, and they HOK troops also,

seized 50 The address was read by a Island" mesting with

tely chitto,ful their pro- buscars of ammunition on the rall proxy at 'n United Nations Day Douglas MacArthur

celebration meating in Tokyo, "Since the outbreak

ormed found longing for peace, It was the duptured by an Allied unit in a Arsuciation of Japan. #am

have been interested in the Unite Mr. Yoshidn's address stressed ed. Nations in a growing

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