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Initial Successes In Korea Offensive

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NOVEMBER 25, 1950.

THREE TANK COLUMNS

Growing Unrest In China

Authorities Taking Drastic Action

The

Hongkong, Nov. 24.

Chinese Com- munists are resorting to drastic measures to

sup- press growing unrest and regain popular support, ac- cording to reports here.

Peking Radio announced the" execution of 17 persons in Shanghai and five in Peking well ns the imprisonment of 45 more on charges of sabotage, espionage And organising an anti-Red guerilla force. The

radio also

sentiment

police force.

the

disclosed anti-Red was spreading inte Two of were Shanghai police officers found guilty of harbouring saboteurs.

those shot

At the same time, the Reds, In an effort to regain waning popular support, announced the

cancellation summary

of ali landlord debts owed by ap- proximately 20,000,000 farmers. The edict, published in the Canton organ Namfong Daily News, affects all peasants the newly liberated areas" areas occupied within the past 18 months which covers most

The order

of the populous region of central and south China, affects only debts owed to land- lords before arrival liberator.**

of

the

WAGE INCREASES

DRIVE

US Proposal On Formosa

The

Washington, Nov. 24.

United States an- noticed on Friday it has proposed that the fate of Formosa be determined by the Pacifle Dig Four Dowers Russia, Great Britain, the United States

and Nationalist China.

The American proposal

Was

made in a circular memorandum to 12 coun- tries that may play a part In writing the Japanese peace treaty.

The United States sug- gested that if the Big Four powers could not agree on Formosa's future, the United Nationa General

should Assembly

decide what to do.

Busela promptly replied that the Cairo and Potsdam already have agreements

decided Formosa should be returned to China. Russians

challenged

The the

United States to explain what it meant with Ita latest plan for Formosa.—— United Press.

Seven-Point Jap Peace

Treaty Plan

TOWARD FRONTIER

Tokyo, Nov. 25.

United Nations forces, in a massive offensive to end the Korean conflict, drove three tank-tipped prongs on Friday to within 53 miles of the Man- churian border.

Enemy resistance was light although General Douglas MacArthur himself said "new Red armies"

reinforcements recent apparently deployed somewhere ahead of the advancing Allies.

--- were

In advances of up to eight miles on the northwest front, the onrushing columns had not yet run into the new defence line believed thrown up by 100,000 Chinese and Red Koreans in the snow-clad hills.

The Allies had 100,000 men on the northwest front for the drive that is pressing the enemy back toward United Nations the border. Fewer than half the troops were in action. The rest were in reserve ready to exploit any breakthrough.

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Will Of The Late Mr S.T. Williamson

On Dr

Lake Success, Nov. 24. The Communist Chinese delegation arrived at the United Nations on Friday.

Shortly before 4 p.m. four members of the Peking delegation arrived to pay a protocol call on Secretary-General Trygve Lic.

Led by General Wu Hsiu-chuan, the Chinese walked stone-facedly into the United Nationa temporary head- quarters, refusing to say anything to reporters except that they would see the Secretary-General. They went immediately to Mr Lie's offices on the second floor of the building and were closeted with him.

Word was passed however that they would see reporters Inter.

Meanwhile It was decided not to hold a meeting of the Council ол Satur-

Ales Bebler, Yugoslavia, Council president for November, had been eager to hold as many meetings an Formosa

Security day. Dr Quy

December 1

as possible before when Nationalist China's Tslong Ting-fu takes over the presidency.

With the Chinese Nationalist over

Munificent Bequests chief. delegate presiding

OUT FOR

BEVIN'S

BLOOD

Labour MPs Critical Of Foreign Policy

Shaw's Will Expected To Be A Masterpiece

London, Nov. 24. George Bernard Shaw'a 8,000-word will, when

published in full, is almost certain to be considered a literary masterpiece.

It may be months before it is rovealed, because the public trustees are faced with taxation problems on the playwright's large fortune.

The first of the two clauses published yesterday sald:

"I desire that my dead body shall be cremated and its ashes inseparably mixed with those of my late wife, now in the cus- tody of the Golders Green Cre- matorium, and in this

scattered condition

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garden of the house in Ayot St Law- rence where we lived together for 35 years, unless some other disposal of them should be, in the opinion of my trustee, more

eligible.

The

Militarily, two Eighth Army sent one task

to open to the Chinese Communists weat force driving within 63 miles of Sinulju, either to resist strongly or fall bomb-shattered city the back across the Yalu River.

of River frontier.

General This

MacArthur's stoff US Twenty-officers believed that the Com- from the fourth Division was clanking

ing munists cannot hold the United quests to Hongkong resi-munist delegation at the United to the three motions critical of desire that no pubile

Yolu force

up

to the cast

headed for the great Sujho power plant on the Yalu, about 00 miles north of its lead elements.

the

Many

To Hongkong

Residents

substantia!

unless Mr Mau

sends across con-

be- rival of the

headquarters, dents are contained in the Nations

siderably more men and equlp-Williamson, former

ment here.

than

they already have shipping magnate.

to

on grounds that Washington, Nov, 24.

|

The United States has pro posed to a dozen other govern- ments a seven-point Japanese US penco treaty plan.

protect

the flank

proposal that Shanghal newspapers report-Americand perhaps other thrust ed the authorities are granting forces" assume post-treaty res workers in all industries official wage increase

ponsibility for Japanese Securi- because, it is dalmed,

business improved., the State Department re-driving spearhead, But this claim was refuted by vealed today,

arrival hare.

in

REASON FOR ACTION

Seoul, Nov. 24, General Douglas MacArthur's

close tu

WANTS QUICK DECISION

other-either to

The

to undertake wage' negotiations The Department else peleas | with employers, designed to

ed a memorandum from Mos- "offset losses resulting from the

cow which raised the question falling price of rice."

of. whether the United States intended to go ahead with Industrial wages

are based

Japanese

treaty with peace on a cost of living index con-

if the Soviet re-newly-launched mass offensive out Russia of com. sisting of a number

accept the American in North-Western Korea should, modities of which the principal fused to

in the opinion of observers here, item is rice. Since the Goverti- plan.

memorandum said that bring a quick answer to the ment

Britain, Russia, China puzzle of just how far Com controls the rice price, this is obviously a deliberatė

and the United States fail to munist China is willing to 80 move to increase wages.

to the within in military opposition

A on Formoga alter the peace treaty United Nations,

It is generally believed here and into effect, the United

General Assembly, that it was mainly to find this in- should decide what to do with answer that General MacArthurį

launched his new drive. Formosa-Reuter.

At

The

should

Barce

the same time, however, Tear production is falling due to H. came

shortage of raw cotton, which Nations

is Shanghai's principal dustry.-United Press.

He also

with

force the

HK$10,000 HK$30,000,

maintenance

ESTATE DIVIDED

on

the

the

1

com-

its

benchers.

be-

I

monu- or in-

BOAC Cancel Services

me

0

and less maintenance was complete. almost

"Personally I prefer the gar- den to the clolster." the Council, it might prove

London, Nov. 24. The other passage read: "As embarrassing to have the

A number of British news-my religious convictions and Peking delegates in on the de bate of the Formosa issue, it papers today gave prominence scientific views cannot at pre- to the reported alarm caused sent be more specifically de- was thought.

in Government quarters by the fined than as those of a Almost coincident with

Chinese Com-growing number of signatures llever in creative evolution,

Mr Ernest

Bevin's

of art foreign ment or work the same road on which it Nations forces penetrated to within 14 miles Tse-tung, the Chinese Commun will of the late Mr S. T. General Assembly's Political policy tabled by Labour back-scription or sermon. ritual

or ist leader,

service commemorating of the border four weeks ago.

local Committee agreed unanimously Korcan division The South

shall suggest Signatures up to last

that I accepted on postpone action

night just

Salvador's demand that Tibet's were reported to have reached the tenets peculiar to any es- tablished Church or denomina- In doing this, the Chinese

tion nor take the form of The Conservative newspaper, He left HK$50,000 each to Mr complaint of aggression by Com- 81 in number. Communist lender would risk T. Ramsay and Mr M. H. munist China be placed on the

agenda.

cross or any other instrument Telegraph's, The Dally

political A third spearhead was aimed precipitating a conflict of

Turner, H$30,000 to E. Micholl, Assembly's

sacrifice." directly northward оп

larger nature than the present, HK$15,000 to James Jally Jr. Salvadorean delegate, Mr Hector correspondent said: "Mr Bevia of torture or symbol of blood road to Chosan, where the Korean war. And he would also son of the Director of Marine, Cavite Castro, made a 45-minute will be facing a personal crisis the item when he opens the two-day de

Mr Wyndham Hurst said South Korean Sixth Division take the risk that General Mac- and HK$10,000 to Kwan Lamp-plea for the inclusion

bate on foreign affairs in the after the United

yesterday's ceremony House of Commons next Wed- that the question of a reached the border last month Arthur might pick up the gauti sun who also receives under the

West- Thistlet thus thrown down.

# and then retreated. spearhead was made up of two

nerday terms of the will, a. further $400 Nations must deal with

minster Abbey burial, had been Political

plaints of aggression whenever sources

The Dally Express' Paulin- carefully considered. But In they arise. Twenty-fifth Division General MacArthur believe that a month during his life time.

mentary correspondent, in aview of the declarations

in Other the Supreme Commander is

benificiaries who ap columns led by tanks.

Russia's Jacob Mallk insisted | front-page articio under the Shaw's will, and the views EX- Other Eighth Army forces unwilling to wait any longer for pear in the will are: Mrs M.ML the march of Chinese Com-Lander headline: "Ministers pressed in many of his writings.

northeastward

HK$50,000, the what he regards as a doubtful Mullion

Roderick

munist forces into Tibet was an Cancel Trips," said that the it was thought that churchmen Chongchon River valley to possibility of a political salution Mullion. HK$25,000, Mrs

internal matter affecting only Cabinet had last night ordered would be offended if the eccle- M. Mrs Harrison HK$30,000 of border at Lake Success,

HK$50,000, Mrs Do China since, he argued, Tibet is all Ministers to cancel trips. piastical authorities Begdon

made any And at the same time-holoty1260 1114325,000 Mi-recommised as a part of Chion,abroad be a precaution against move to allow the ashes to be On the northeast front, Bouthooting to leave seven Amerihael Deane HK$10,000, tlet-United Press.

developments in next week's buried in any religious national. Kerean troops

roops seized hills over can divisions committed on this bert Staart Carpenter HK325-

foreign affairs debate. MALIK'S DEMAND

shrine.-Reuter, The secret memorandum was looking the port of Chonglin peninsula indefinitely for what, 000,, Erica Groom published arter

Dr A. Bebler, of Yugoslavia, the MOSCOVE 55 miles south of the Siberian militarily speaking, is a small-Marjory

SNAP VOTE POSSIBLE · The Sin Wen Dally News said | press published

Buckle

President of the United Nations exchange Korean border. The gain was

for: NovemI- Security Council the Shanghal General

Nellie Hiller HK$30,000.

He added: "It is believed that Labout between the United States and overshadowed, however, by the scale war.

ber, hoped to see the Peking Mr Bevin will not be nuts to Union which is Government the Soviet Union on the pro-appearance of two new Chinese

In other words it is believed

early A legacy of NZ£10,000 was delegates controlled-netined its affiliates posed treaty.

Friday atisfy the Socialist critics and Communist Divisions од the

that General MacArthur wants, bequeathed, to the late Me Wil-afternoon to see if they were there is a possibility, that a anap northeast front. -Associated

Council vote a quick decision-one way or llamson's mother, Mrs A. M. ready to attend the

will be forced on the Prese.

Williamson and a similar num to meeting on Saturday to argue formal motion for the adjourn

London, Nov. 24. the United

British Korean war to a conclusion or his sister, Miss Magdalene T. their case against

Overeens Airways. to force the Chinese Communists Williamson "as a token of the States, the specifc reason for cat on which the debate is to

be held."

Corporation cancelled three- to show the extent to which regard and esteem for her un-which the unamiling Chinese

and attention to led by

The Dally Express discussed services from London tonight as General Ww they are willing to intervene in selfish love

His-the Foreign Secretary's position result of the unofficial strike our mother in the evening of chuan, top side to Mao TEC- Kores.

in its main editorial It said: of 130 olectricians at London her life."

sung's chief general, came to Three separate motions, each Airport. Supreme Commander

the United Nations. was undoubtedly unwilling to To the Trustees are bequeath- accept the Chinese Communist ed an annuity of NZ £2,000 to his demand for the Peking ro tabled by Socialist Members

made implicitly critical of Air Bevin's Russia's Jacob Mallk

foreign

A Corporation polley, have now been

spokesman statement that they are main-be applied to the

of announced suspension of the the the House of Commons. soon as *** presentatives as

Argonaut land-plone services ly concerned

defending and benefit of his mother during Political Committee began the Yalu

"What the Foreign Secre- to the Far East, Persian Gulf River power plants her life time and another an- discussion of the Chinese Com-tary used to describe somewhat and the east coast of South with a possible vio:ation nuity of A£1,500 to be applied munist complaint. The Soviet conventionally as a "stab lo the America as BOAC insisted that of the Manchurian frontier. towards the maintenance and

apparently refuses beneft of his wife, Mrs Clarice Proposal to invite the Chincke back has now developed into the machines must not fly un-

Communists brought immediate something so deliberate tu accept the solution tacitly |Louise. Williamson during her objection from Dr Talang Ting- systematle that it offered by

might the Communists life time.

The strike followed a dispute fu, Nationalist China's chief be called a major operation over the employment of "two here to leave a strip of Com- munist-held

the without anaesthetic. territory between.

delegate, who contended

non-union electricians. the United Nations forces and

Feking Government "has new-

"The intention is clearly to The will directed that Mirther legal competence to lodge remove from the Socialist Gov- the Manchurian border,

estate a complaint Williamson's residuary The behaviour

or make any ucernment one of its most respect- of the Com- munist fleld commanders here be divided into two parts, and cusutton on behalf of my coun-ed figures and certainly its

the income from the first part try, nor has it moral author-most Impressive personality services were operating nor¬ the past two weeks has pointed to their willingness to be given to his sister curing ty to speak for China.”

her life time and on her death Chile's Dr Hernan Sant accept such a solution.

They

have made two major the part was to be halved. One Cruz declared Russia "can not

half was

the to go to recognised interpret the wishes of withdrawals-under no pressure

Communist Govern- positions out cichorities in Hongkong provided Chinese -to take up reach of the United Nations that the Trustees considered the ment" in demanding represen-

Colony to be under British con-tation for them. forces,

The

Income from the Recent small-scale American trc.

Mr Malik Immediately cited and British attacks have met other half was to go-to-Mrs two-messages to the United only defensive action in which Margot Marie Mulllon, wife of Nations from Mr Chou En-lal, her the Foreign Minister of the the Communists showed no in- Mr J. R. Mullion, and on

dated Septem- clination to do other than keep death the share outright to go Peking regime,

Roderick Mullion, 01 his bor 29 and 30, in which the their lines intact-Reuter.

reaching 21..

Chinese Communists demand.

right to participate in the It the Trustees held that discussions. Mr Malik said: Hongkong was under other than The demand of the Chinese British control the share would People's Government is well- New York, Nov. 24. go to recognised charities in founded. The Chinese people The Govezuar of New York New Zealand.

have every reason to prefer State, Mr Thomas E. Dewey, If Roderick Mullion did not charge

against

the United said today that preliminary reach the age of 21, the whole States,"

"AGGEESSIVE WAR” evidence indicated that "a hu- of that share would be paid to man failure" was the cause of recognised charities in Hong. Mr Malik continued: "As t the Long Island railway smash kong unless it were under other well known, immediately after in which 77 died on Wednesday than British control, in which the onset of the aggressive war night.

case the share would go to in Karen, the United States sent

Its navy to He said, "The engineer of the charities in New Zealand.

belongs to though express, Benjamin Pokornyey (killed in the crash) passed `one

The income arising from the China. Subsequently the United second

air States pant of the residuary warning signal and one stop

force

repeat signal at the full speed of 65 estate is to go to Mrs Mullion viointed the air-space of

and on her death to Roderick cast China and subjected It to miles per hour."-Routar.

Multion. If both die the share bombing, barbarously slaughter- is to go to New Zealand and Ing Chinese citizens and causing |Hongkong charitica.

devastation and destruction, Wo should note that the Security Any portion of the residuary Council did take' a 'decision/ou Lake Success, Nov. 24. estate not disposed of in the will the proposal of Ecuador, to in- Tho United Nations today is to be bequeathed to the Uni-vite representatives of the postponed indefinitely considera-versity of Hongkong for the Chinese People's Republic flon of the Chinese Communist advancement of medicine and participate In the discussion

Hongkong here. invasion of Tibet after pain engineering pro

provided and India and they understood is under

"The Chinese people's dalegas to to Wellington tion arrived in New York to Tibet and China had a chatice wise it is control, other- of reaching on-the-spot: agres Hospital, New Zealand. ment.Associatéd: Press.

The will also directed the day to participate in the discus- sions in the Security Council, Directors of Williamson and Co Therefore, there already is a Lid and the Trustee to make valid precedent which this com provisions for retiring gratuitico mitee should fallaw.or or allowances to soy employee: The Assembly's 15-member Six Malay police were killed of the late Mr Williamson at

commities:" will decide Budkling the on in Atwo attacks, yesterdaymoon his office at P&

· afternoon whether | lorries carrying sectric forces amounts da be of the alacre the complainouslats abou

of-aggression · by direptors on the

be considered--United Press.

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COMMENT OF THE DAY

MacArthur's Dramatic Stroke

HERE has been nothing more the Korea conflict than General Mac- Arthur's announcement that he has ordered a general assault in North Korca, involving 100,000 United Nations troops, for the express pur pose of "bringing the war to an end." The action, especially if it be success- ful, leaves stone cold so many pre- vious arguments as to how the United Nationa

with was going to deal Chinese Communist intervention in the Korea. MacArthur has taken soldier's attitude, to which, of course, he is fully entitled as commander-in- chief of UN forces in Korea, but whe- ther it dovetails with the politicians' -" and "diplomata' viewpoints is, at first sight, problematical. General Mac- Arthur, who has always carefully cal culated his military campaigns strikes a completely confident note in his first communique. He clearly believes that ma this time he and his forces can really.

bring the war to an end by a master- stroke of strategy and tactica. His. The confidence is boosted by the knowledge that he has absolute air superiority and in consequence is able to deny the > enemy reinforcement of men, weapons and supplics. And it is well to remem- ber that this was one decisive 'factor' in the astonishing UN offensive which MacArthur-mounted from "Inchon to drive, the North Koreans far ncross the 88th parallél. Quick and outright success in this latest assault, however, la, even more important than in the Inchon campaign. For this time tho' asnited Nations troops have to beat tho weather they must achieve their, tar-

Tdramatic connected with

get before the winter really sets in. Nevertheless, the most imponderable factor is the willingness or otherwise of the Chinese and Korean Communists to offer resistance to this latest drive. Initial gains must not be taken as irre- futable evidence that the enemy will retreat helter skelter across the Man- churian border or meekly surrender themselves in divisional strength. The Communists may still consider that the Yalu River reservoirs and hydro- electric power plants are worth fight- ing for and will, when their lines have been sufficiently shortened, make a determined attempt to defeat the UN offensive. General MacArthur's appre- ciation of the situation is that the enemy cannot offer effective opposition because his supply routes can be made untenable by UN air attacks, and he evidently considers the Communista have a similar, appreciation. There is another consideration which offers hope for a rapid liquidation of the war in Korea. It is that the Chinese Com- munists, in addition to recognising a very difficult, possibly hopeless mill- tary situation in North Korea, are prepared to accept the assurances of Britain and America that the United Nations intends fully to respect China's special interests in that part of the world, and that, as á result, the Peking government will instruct its "volunteers" in Korea to return home as quickly as possible. Such a decision would be sensible' and 'becoming, and would make relatively easy a satisfac tory settlement of the Korca problem, The next 48 hours should provido the

answer.

PASSED "STOP"

SIGNAL

INDEFINITELY POSTPONED

Policemen Slain. Singapore, Nov. 24,

bo

closed today --Reuter Brian tributose.

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Reuter.

The Corporation, which em- ploys about 150 electricians at London Airport, said that other

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