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No. 34763

The Truman, Piracy Off

Attlee Talks Go On

General Agreement Said To Bo Reached

Washington, Dec. 5. President Harry Truman engaged in a second round of grave Wilr crisis talks with the British Prime Minister, Mr Clement Att- lee, today as reports flew

that UN forces may face a "Dunkirk" withdrawal from Korea.

It was emphasised, however, that such a step would come only as a last resort.

After their meeting, Mr Tru- man and Mr Attlee announced late today only that they had discussed the situation and would meet again on Wednes- day.

The While House issued the following statements;

"The President and the Prime Minister had their second meet- ing this afternoon aboard the Williamsburg.

"They resumed their discus- Bions of the situation in Korea and of the steps to be taken to meet it.

Castle Peak

Pirates boarded a fishing Junk off Lung Ku Ton Point, near Castle Peak, last night, tied up the Junk's crew and stole tho Cargo.

The Junk was bringing 15 bundles of cellophane from Canton, At about 10.30

two Hoklo-type bosta came Alongside in the narrow chaunel and four men, one of them armed with D revolver, boarded the junk.

The people on board the Junk were tied up and the Hokto boats made off

towards one of the islands.

The jonk erow, none of whom was hurt, managed to get themselves free and reported the incident Castle Peak Police Station carly this morning.

FRENCH

GUNS IN

ACTION

to

Established 1845

WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1950,

Sea Evacuation

Of UN Forces

A Possibility

TROOPS STILL

30,000 TROOPS

GRAVELY IMPERILLED

Tokyo, Dec. 6.

Vanguards of 1,000,000 Chinese Communist soldiers on Tuesday returned the Red flag to Pyongyang under scorching air attack and lunged for the 'kill" against possibly 30,000 US troops trapped in northeast Korea.

As the hard pressed Allied army battled to set up a defence line somewhere south of the North Korean capital, General Omar N. Bradley was reported to have told Senators in Washington that the withdrawal had made possible a giant evacuation of Korea by sea if necessary. ⠀

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Canada's UN Delegate Calls For

Saigon, Dec. 5. The French Army is "There will be a further pounding with artillery firs on and bombs new concentra.

A Defence Department spokesman said that on the northeast front A Cease-Fire In the itions al

of Communist-led Vietminh forces north of the Chinese Reds pushed a spearhead castward and cut the main highway Hanoi, an Army spokes between the two major east coast ports of Hungnam and Wonsan. man said today.

meeting at 11.30 a.m., Wednesday morning White House"

GENERAL AGREEMENT

Presidental Secretary Charles Ross refused to elaborate on

the statement except to gay

tions

with

a

that today's scusion Lasted one hour and fifty minutes.

President Truman had sche- duled a meeting of bis Cabinet at 6 p.m. and there were indica-

that

be broke off the talks

All French women and child- Mir Attice only so that he

ren were ordered out of North could meet with his Cabinet,

Chairman Tom Connally of Indo-China on Monday in view the Senate Foreign Relations of the tense world shluation and Committee told newsmen that because of mounting attacks he been informed that Mr from the Vietminh, sold to be Headquarters reported Truman and Mr Attice have equipped and trained in Com- on munist China-Associated Press. reached general agreement all major polley questions,

Senator Contrally

covered

Wonsan is headquarters of more Chinese Red divisions tacked a 30 mile long convey The spokesman said the al- the US Tenth Corps and Hung-were ready to reinforce the north of Changlin reservoir in tacks were aimed, at the build-nam

while farther port for the Industrial seven divisions already smash- the northeast, up of Ho Chi-minh forces near city of Hamhung, Is about 50 Ing through Korea's frigid north they hit a large body of the towns of Phy Lo and De air miles north of Wonsan. It northeast lecbox.

troops hauling guns and sup. Phuc on one of the main roads serves as the supply centre for This swelled the total number plies. Into Hanol.

segments the of Chinese Reds in the northeast chopped-up US First Marine Division and to about 100,000 men. Infantry Division, General Seventh making a fighting withdrawal summary spoke ominously of a some 50 miles to the northwest. "rising tempo" of road and all behind the Chinese General Douglas MacArthur's movements

three lines in Koren, US planes at-

Korea.

sald the

problems British

by Allied reverses in:

Although Senator Comelly's

statement indicated

may be

the talks

nearing a21 end, Mr

Producing

Farmers More

London, Dec. 5. British farmers are now con- Attlee is expected to remain in tributing 25 percent more home Washington until Friday-As-crown meat than a year ago to the weekly ration, Mr C. N. Thornton-Kemsley, Conserva-

sociated Press.

NO SURVIVORS

The UN Commander sald "maximum effort" was under-

Korea

Lake Success, Dec. 5.

Canada's Lester B. Pearson called today for

Women kneel in' prayer whilst police and soldiers persuade them to ovacuate to a place of safety as the advancing lava (in background) nears their homes in the hamlets built around Mount Etna. This plc- ture was taken last month a day after the eruption began-AP Picture.

a cease-fire in Korea and for negotiation on Korean and other Far Eastern problems, with Winston Communist China taking part. He spoke shortly. after the UN Steering Committee sent to the

Korea

:

MacArthur's war way to resupply and reinforce Assembly the case of Communist aggression in Leaving It

Pyongyang Becomes City Of Terror!

From Lionel Crand

Seoul, Dec. 5.

the already mammoth Chinese forces committed to battle.

NEW POSITIONS

To PM

He said the talks should begin recognised Red China but this A field dispatch said the US if and when the military situa- is the first direct contact of such Eighth Army was pulling back ton is stabilised in Korea. He high officinis of the two govern.

London, Dec. 5. to new positions south of the

poke in a Canadian broadcastments. 98th Parallel-within 30 air

-Na Pearson said nothing Mr Winston Churchil as Indis and other countries should be left undone to achieve told the House of Commons miles of Scoul The dispatch

especially Asia's, worked des did not pinpoint the location perately to

peaceful And some way to an honourable and

today that Prime Minister settlement in Korea. ended but said the retreat

stop the there,

Those Ehting Immediately.

*If for example, providing the Clement Attlee, has the full were the rapid fire

UN: military situation de stablised, support of the Conservative. Allied aircraft struck heavy developments in the

1. The full Assembly was them could be a 1. concentrated at points like "a vast crowd "leaving a football

mes," one pilot said, Fifth Air Force jets swooped

101-

blows at the massed Chin called into an emergency, stsalon Towed by- negotiasta opposition, in his Korean-

for Wednesday to deal with the covering more subjects than eriais talks with President

in which the Steering Committee recommen-Korea-in Six hours after the last British soldier left

dation. The Soviet bloc is ex- Communists would parties, Harry Truman.

reathing. sucht & settles we important discussions now tak tive-National Liberal MP sald Pyongyang today Chinese Communists walked low on the northern approaches pected to fight the Committee here ill might be hop, Metent do take a back seat in the

Pearson said. "At

into the city.

Teheran, Dec. 5. today.

The buildup of home meat Ambulances left for a nearby

They began swarming down the road from the north snow-clad mountain today to production would have been return the

"for the bodies of six per- greater but

governas soon as the 29th British Brigade moved south over the sons killed on Thursday when a ment's failure to secure for our Taedong River. They were there in time to fire at the

Airways producers a fair share of avall last planes leaving the airfield. two-engined Iranian plane crashed into the peak and able feeding stuffs," he told the burned. There were no Fur-Guild of Agricultural Journalists, vivors. United Press.

-Associated Press,

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Col. Jack Price, commander

of the field, said his plane was

Important Singapore Conference

THAT Hongkong is to be represent-

of

ed by His Excellency the Governor at this week's highly important Singa- pore conference called by Mr Malcolm Macdonald is becoming and gives cause these for satisfaction. Ordinarily meetings British Ambassadors, Ministers and Governors serving in Boutheast Asin

are routine, but the current conclave is of a special nature, called together to consider the whole of the Far East problem at present aggravated by the situation in Korea. This accounts for the presence in Singapore of Sir Esler Dening, British Ambassador-at-Large, as well

as Sir Alvary Gascoigne, head of the British Liaison Mission in Japan. It will not be within the scope of the conference to deal with questions of policy in the Far East; those directions must come from a higher level. But the various British diplomats and administrators assembled in Singapore are certain to have on their agenda urgent considera- tion of integrated action in the event ・of new developments in this part of the world. The interests of Hongkong and Malays are inextricably tied to events in the Far East and it is neces- sary at this time to evaluate those in-

terests in the light of existing condi- tions and possible political changes in neighbouring countries. Malaya is al- ready plagued with militant Commu- nism which seeks to undermine the legitimate administration of the coun- try and to create

of state 4 chaos which might enable Communist agents to achieve a coup d'etat. No such problem confronts Hongkong at the moment. Nevertheless, we are conscious of active anti-British cle ments within our boundaries whom we know would seize the slightest oppor- tunity of exploiting themselves at the expense of the Colony. We are also aware that should relations between

Nevertheless, Pyongyang air- dinner in Mr Lie's honour that

of

He indicated also he is ́ ́çòz-

Mr Raymond Blackburn, In- suggested that dependent, had the Conservative leader, should be participating in the Attion- Truman talks.

of Pyongyang and killed on action vigorously.

2. The Secretary-General, Mr. would have done our best and ing place in Washington. estimated 2,000 Reds on Tues- day as they crossed the ley Trygve Lie, who has talked the responsibility for failure twice with Mr Wu Halu-chuan could be placed where it would Taedong.

Communist of Communist China, said at a belong." troops

He said he iew the polley. field at 10 am, on Tuesday, sold the nations must

Geek every he suggested would be called an Eighth Army spokesman, honourable means to keep the petcement" but it is not fired at by Chinese riflemen as This was only eight and a half confilet from spreading, to bring he circled over the city after hours after the last US combat an end to the Aghting, and to appeasement. He said it is an attempt through diplomacy to Laking off. Some of the bullets cargo command plane flew out renew negotiations on the wider reach a way of life with the

issues that divide the world went through the fuselago af for Seoul. his plane but nobody inside was hit.

American fighter pilots who saw large numbers of Chinese on the roads attacked them with rockets and machine-guns. They caught

of 200 a party

river yeding through a small

d idilled them all. Others were attacked

But Mr Churchill' intervened to state: "We approve of the

taken by the · govern»- and ment".

course

US forces were rolling south Lie said he was certain it would Asian Communist world across the 38th Parallel as fast not be the fault of the UN if the declared that General Douglas

MacArthur, UN Commander. Later Deputy Prime Minister аз their convoys could move over dust-

bumper-to-bumper peaceful effort fails.

had

himself turned back to Herbert Morrison; commenting: 3. India and other Asian obscured roads, Associated countries

diplomacy the task of deciding on Mr Blackburn's suggestion, were considering Preat.

what to do in Korca. At the voiced the government's "grati- ^ whether to appeal to both ddca same time, Mr Pearson called for tudo for the support given bys CHINESE PUSH ON

in Korea for An immediate

free the Conservatives in the debate. stronger defences in the cease-fire. It was said these world. Tokyo, Dec. 6.

an foreign offairs last week. Chinese trense cavalry led a countries would not issue an up- drive southward from Pyong-peal if it were certain to be sending the, Korean problem to "would not feel it right to ask The Steering Committee in But, he said, the government in the yang becay on the heels of the rejected.

retreating Alfed any of north-

the Assembly disregarded a loud the opposition to share in the streets of Pyongyang. When

west Korea now more than 20

Jebb 4. Sir Gladwyn

had Russian blast against the United responsibilities with the governí they

Into houses pilots miles below the fallco Com-lunch in his home with Mr Wu States and heeded instead atment for the decisions that may

1,000lb. munist and dropped 500lb.

capital. bombs on

und his advisers. It was a fol- | Australian warning that "there have to be taken during the “ them. It was the The United States First Corps

Washington -Asso- first time the residential section | announced the first contact with low-up of a dinner given by Mr is a state of war going on."—As- | talka ot

Twen

FIRST CONTACT

Mr sociated Press. Lie on Monday night for

of Pyongyang had beon bomb- the enemy south of Pyongyang Wu and details of tre talks were

ed.

Bonfos were also dropped on American supply dumps which

there had been no time to dos- troy,

EXECUTIONS

and at the came time confirmed kept top secret. Britain has at the Allied flank already belf field reports of Communist jabs way from Pyongyang to Seoul. A First Corps spokesman re- ported that a patrol of

26th Division, lagging was us

PLANE FEARED LOST

Rotterdam, Dec. 5.

Fadio - Marselites tonight . re-

Friendly Koreans fleeing from mind the Eighth Army, already the city reported that immedi- more than a score of miles be ately the Chinese entered they low Pyongyang, ran into είναι began shooting the citizens who platoons of Chinese horse caval- frad been friendly to United Na-y five miles south of the former quested search for a Wellington Lions' troops.

Communist capital. Whether the aircraft enroute to Gibraltar Gis and the Chinese horsemen which is believed to havo They tore down poaicas and clashed was not disclosed. The crashed into the sea or on the flags welcoming the American patrol apparently sell back when const forces and trampled on them. It found itself outmatched by The Marselles report, moni....

platoom.

tored by Dirkwagers Shipping spokerman reported that Agency, gave the aircraft's Last of terror and that most people a road block party of the Ninth positions 40.10 North and

01.45 "in"Corps, part of the Eighth Army, or

East-between Majorcu mountains outside the town. was ambushed on a road, be- and the Spanish mainland-As-

Several thousand Chinese tween Singe, 50 miles southeast sociated Press were been moving southeast of cf Pyongyang and 88 miles

In the streets.

They said Pyongyang is a city

V

Communist China and the Western world further deteriorate, Hongkong would have to be prepared for reper- cussions, possibly of an unpleasant nature. Recognition of these contin- gencies quite naturally help to give the Singaporo conference an aura of urgency and importance. Sir Alexan- der Grantham has more. than once quoted the slogan, “Hope for the best, and prepare for the worst," and wo have little

Pyongyang and it is this out northwest of Seoul, and nearby doubt that Mr Malcolm

flanking movement that is caus- Yull. One Americon officer was The Princess Macdonald had this in mind when ho decided to call this week's conference.

In Athens

Press Censorship In Korea GENERAL Sir Horaco Robertson

thinks a press censorship should be applied in Korea, though his grounds for such an absurd suggestion. are extremely vague. He seems to nurse the Idea that front-line despatches (which, incidentally, arrive hours late on the newspaper editor's dosk), aro giving away valuable intel- «ligence to the enemy. To us, this seems to be a grave underestimation of the ability of the enemy in Korea to dia- "cover for himwolf, and on the spot, precisely" what he wishes to know about the movements of UN forces

because it has been offl-

cially admitted by SCAP that thou- sands of Red Korean guorillas have been, and still are operating behind and among the United Nationa lines. Surely one could hardly look for a better intelligence servico; certainly one that must be far and away superior to the accidental intelligence which General Robertson imagines in served up to the enemy through the newspapers. Our own feeling le. that if some of the loquacious fald com- mandera and their henchmen back in Seoul and Tokyo were to ba lens, free. with their opinious it would do more to help the UN cause in Kores than censorship of the Press,

Be

were hiding in collars

They have not

Ing the greatest concern to the reported killed in the am- retreating United Nations forces. bush believed to be by a small Chinese since they out the band of guerilian although Chong-carlier reports had said that Idver line. A senior chon

8th

had been Army officer said tonight that Chinese outridere

arca-United will

ave to continue all spotted in that retreat

time tire cast Banks are threatened. He also said that future plans will depend on Orders from UNO.

Akpo

Press

Alhena, Dec. 6. Princess Elizabeth (arrived in Phaleron Bay, Athens, on board HMS Surprise this evening.

She will spend the night on boaril and disembark tomorrow morning for the six-day visib

'Good Chance Of she and the Duke of Edinburgh

Avoiding War

Berlin, Dec. 6.

Dr Ralph Bunche, winner of

will make to Greece as guests of King Paul and Queen Frederika, ----Associated Press,

It is known that General! Walker's main concern is to save the men of the 8th Army which he commands. He and General Collins, Chiof-of-Staff of the Ankatcan Army, went month to this day to watch the troops coming Peace, sald

year'a Nobel Prize for JUDITH COPLON down the road and to select

. today that “ thero | - -

WINS APPEAL suitable positions for any defen- was a "good chance" of avoid- sive stand that may be ordered, ing war with China as well as Future planning will certainly a world condict in, which view be affected by the fact that the four mould, b Inchoni port, wrest of Seoul, can|aļther side....... bundle dva thotaisi tons of The former Unlied Nations viction of the former govern, pikes daily while Fusen, in Palestine angdiatos arrijed, kere ment, employee, jush copton, the Chrome south, can do a wild en route to Oslo, where he wit on elplomino conspifogy, charges,

Now York, Dec. 8. The United States Court, or

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