1950-12-29 — Page 1

CORRECT on all'occasions

VULCAIN

SWISS MADE

Fire Near Theatre

Three engines were sent by the Fire Brigade at 5.45 o'clock

this morning in

auswer to a fire call at No. 18 Chung San Lane, East On arrival they found a quantity of Chinese medi- clae ablaze but the flames extinguished

wcro

after

DC-

approximately 20 minutes.

The premises were cupled by = Chinese medicine shop and aro situated near the Ko Shing

Apparently em

Theatre.

ployees were in the proecas of bolling some medicine an open grate within the shop when the miles burst into flames.

on

of

There were no casualtica and the premises escaped major damage. Some the me llcinal stocks werd

destroyed

SHIP

FIRE

DRAMA:

ONE DEAD

Hamilton, Bermuda,

One crew

'Dec. 28.

hand

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CHINA

No. 34781

FRENCH DRIVEN FROM 2 POSTS

Saigon, December 28. Vietminh shock troops drove the French from two Chauson- the posts in Moncay defence line below the Chinese frontier today and attacked again in mountaineous salient near Hanoi.

1

A

A French military spokesman said the long awaited big new offensive by the Communist- led Vietminh rebels may have

24 The

hours next begun. should tell

Chauson itself was given up by the French, again shrinkingg a line they by several miles established after they were hammered from most of their frontier fortresses in the au- tumn, Chauson lies about 10

northwest of miles

a pivotal position at Tienyen, the base of "y" whose right arm leads to Moncay, on the Gulf of Tonkin. Casualties in the withdrawal were said to have been light.

OUTNUMBERED Between Tienyen and Mon- cay, waves of Vietminh troops

the fell upon

outnumbered. French garrison of Binhilcu and forced it out after a hard bat

French communique ost of the garrison relief Joined

CHOL scoped column. The relief column re- occupied

briefly and Binhleu

Vietmink then retired itself. losses were described as heavy. French shipping sources in said all French Singapore women and chlidren in Indo- China are to be evacuated soon on the advice of military au- thorities there and a half dozen ships, including the 10,000-ton luxury liner Le Conte de Lisle, will be used in the movement. A French government spokes- said man in

Parts, however, "nothing is known here" of such a plan.

said

member was dozen suffocated and crew members and Ameri-ile. A can volunteers were, over- while como by smoke fighting a fire in the hold Swedish freighter of the Thai today.

The ship, en route to Bombay from Houston, Texas, with a lond of maize, caught fire early today and mado it to St George's Harbour,

The second officer, Lallip Falkkoo, 32, of Sweden, was suffocated when he was trapped in the hold by two pieces of fallen timber. He was nounced dead

arrival on

King Edward Hospital.

pro-

ot

(The Coast Guard in New it had York announced that despatched a plane with rescue equipment from Elizabeth City,

North Carolina,

Including six

asbestos suits. Officials said the

the

plane should reach

about 8.30 o.m.;

scene at to

according the Coast Guard's information, the fire was well out of control and the equipment was quested to fight a blaze between the decks of the ship, which is moored in the harbour.)

rescuo

rc.

Falkkoo was taken from the hold after about one bour's and two efforts. He Kindley remen, wearing smoke the hold masks, had entered from the engine room to investi- gate the fire. The firemen were able to get back to the door of the hold, where they collapsed

to safety.- and were hauled United PressO.

mond

a

Army men say the issue In North Indo-Chion will be de-

cided in the Hanol-Haiphong delta area, already under Viet- minh siege, and not on the frontier line

North. to the Associated Press.

Rain-Making Project

After The Retreat

Established 1845

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1950.

Today's Worthers. Moderate or fresh Essierfy winds.

MAIK

"UN Forces"

This poignant picture comes from Korea, and it shows Marine Joe Macchiarole (left) aged 20, clasping the hand of his brother Tony, 21, also a Marine, upon locating him in the Northeast Korea beachhead aren after the retreat from the Changjin reservoir where both were fighting in the US 1st Marine Division. Tony was wounded in the shoulder.-AP Picture.

Palace Gun Fight: Eight Men Killed

British

To Lose Identity

NEW KOREA ORDER

By SELKIRK PANTON

Tokyo, Dec. 29.

The word "British" will not be heard any moro in the fighting

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POLICE ALLEGE MAN

CONFESSES

MURDER

Now York, Dec. 28.

Police alleged Thursday that after a night of questioning, a Swedish-born apple-picker broke down and admitted that he strangled Evelyn (Yvonne) Hughes, the former Ziegfield Follies star, who was found dead in a New York hotel, ·

Police quated the man, Birger Nordkvist, as saying that he blew his top" (lost his temper) when the woman resisted his advances in his Manhattan hotel room.

"I remember taking my handkerchief, putting it around her neck and pulling it tight," he was reported as saying.

"I remember putting a scarf in her mouth."— Associated Press.

from the Korean battle to

front. Soldiers from the

United Kingdom and Com-

Warns His People

monwealth, now expecting Cominform Plotting

Red onslaught at any

future

moment, will in fight under cloak of anonymity. So will all other soldiers who have come from the corners of the five continents to battlo

men

"Swallow"

Marshal

To

Yugoslavia

Belgrade, Dec. 28.

his

Defence

US Rubber Now Under Control Of

Government

Washington, Dec. 28.

The Government today,, U took over the purchase and distribution of all natural rubber to meet increased military requirements and assure fair distribution of civilian supplica.

The gation, taken under the Defence Production Act, wan announced jointly by the Pro- duation Administrator, William Harrison, and Jess Larson, head of the General Services Ad-» It was the first ministration. commodity to be brought com- pletely under Federal control..

Under the order, the General Services Administration "be- comes the sole importer of all crude natural rubber Bad natural rubber latex into the United States, its territories and possessions."

The GSA will also be charg- ed with doling out available

supplies on a priority basla into Some of them will go government stockpiles as an in- surance agalasi shortages later, and some will be resold to the

the basis of NPA. Industry on allocations

FLAN NECESSARY Mr Harrison and Mr Larson

Wes-ap-- said the programme proved

National Security Recources Board found

after the

that an exclusive buying plan is necessary to safeguard the

that it is distributed and utilized supply of rubber and to assure most advantageously to national defence,"

ech

Premier Marshal Tito told the Yugoslav for the United Nations Parliament and people tonight that the Soviet principles.

Union and its Cominform satellites are plotting to Tough Lt.-Gen. Matthew B. "gwallow" this country. Ridgway, now commander of tha

Deputy Tite declared that 1 years United States 8th Army and as auch Commander in Chief of Yugoslavia's borders were direct- Minister delivered this address,

The Premier-Marshal declared all United Nations forces la ly mensood by armies totalling Korea, decreed this in an order around 660,000 men in neigh that Yugoslavia ardently destres which reached Tokyo at 12.30 bouring Cominform states. He peace, but he accused Russia of waging aggressive this morning.

appealed to the people of these deceitfully Fifty-dve-year-ol Lt.-Gen. countries to make their leaders Ridgway, who dropped with his "abandon your threats of war policies under the cloak of peace

during the

The Cominform," he said, "is Normandy and return to the past of friend propaganda. Innding, banned the use of any ly co-operation." national term in referring to Ho declared that armed do- constantly waging hostile provo- cations against Yugoslavia and men under his command. It is fence against this threat of ag has permitted 1,397 incidents on our borders from July, 1948, expected that even the use of gression demanded great scri-

Mr Larson immediately pro- until the middle of December the term "8th Army" may be fices from all the people.

ANTI-APPEASEMENT

hibited all new contracts for banned.

"We want pence," Premier this year.

"In the face of this hostile the importation of rubber, Then only "United Nations

do not

Mr Larson maid ho fully forces" will be permitted in re-Tito asserted, "but we

the want peace at any price be- attitude, however, the Soviet

government'a Д ridiculous recognises conducts ports from the front,

But when responsibilities to the rubber cause that means enslavement Union

that rubber peace propaganda. Tito declared against appenso..

list clotnited 'Stand ment of aggression and asserted they (the Russians) say peace, industry and asked they actually mean:

of their requirements, including brought real peace but only en-

"And if one does not agree the types and gradeg needed, an alavement of the weak by the

with them and prepares to do far in advance as possible. strong."

He said that all rubber. fur- fend one's self, Tito continued, the then one is branded an aggres-nished by the government to the that the trouble started during Korean Red leaders already Yugoslav Parliament as it took sor and a major danger to the the absence from his country of know roughly, if not exactly, up consideration of the 1951 Soviet Union."

at ports It will be up to the Sultan Sir Salih el Quaiti

dispositions of the

ILLEGAL ARMIES buyer to take delivery and budget which proposes a record United Nations forces awaiting military spending. The pro-

The Premier said that under arrange transportation, Mr Lar The Nationalist Party was re- their attack. And any reshuffling jected defence

the direction appropriation, Russian

East on promised that the existing ported to have made certain of units along the 140 mile de

countries facilities of the rubber industry satellite dinārs (£207,-European demands which the Sultan re-fence line across the peninsula 357,100) is 16.9 percent of the have created largo illegal will be utilised, to the maximum

the under unlikely 18 very

armies. He said that Hungary possible extent.-United Press.

[See Also Page 113 threat of a massed attack by total national budget.

The Yugoslav Commander- had an army of 105,000 the enemy Reds.

Cairo, Dec, 28.

Eight Nationalist Party members were killed and five members of the Palace Guard wounded in a gun battle in the palace. of the Sultan, of el Quaiti, state of Mukalla in the southern part

News Agency of Saudi Arabia, the Arab Thursday.

Martial law has bech pro-

claimed in the isolated Arab state in the Eastern Aden pro- tectorate after the palace attack yesterday, the agency dispatch from Aden added.

the

said

The British-owned ANA said

•

Washington, Dec. 28. The United States may pay $10,000 to make rain in Greece. The ECA sald Thursday it is

The trouble

in this protec-ceived on his return Wednes- that for studying a request

three days after

day. of amount to pay for the rala pro- torate came

.the life attempt on ject.

B. W. Seager, British

The fighting broke out when The ECA said that no decl- Major

got out sion has yet been made, but an Agent for the Western Aden Nationalist "followers

troke into going protectorate. Seager was stab- of hand and American company ahead with plans because the bed in the chest and shoulder palace," ANA added. weather is now very favourable allegedly by a former Arab for such a project-Associated magistrato and flown to Aden

for medical treatment. Press.

COMMENT OF THE DAY

We Are Doing

are

con-

HERE seems to be a tendency on the part of our friends in the United States and elsewhere to forget that control of exports of strategic

materials is being exercised in Hong- kong according to the wishes and in- structions of the Imperial Government,

very The local authorities scious of their responsibilities in this direction and it is but a further point in favour of embargoes against Hong- kong being at least partially lifted: We believe, too, that much of the criticism levelled against Hongkong is based on misconceptions. The interpre-

or what is not tation of what is strategic material varies from country to country and person to person, and because of this the Hongkong Govern- ment bas accepted the advice of the British Government on what should be considered strategic materials from the point of being a prohibited export. The Colony's critics of Hong- kong as being the one important gap through which Communist China can obtain vital materials point to our mounting trade figures as proof posi- tive; but they are apt to forget that these trade returns are stated in terms. of valua and the fact that prices have steadily increased since the outbreak of the Korean war is only too well known. It has to be admitted, of course, that it is difficult to apply physical control of the movement of goods in Hongkong, partly owing to its peculiar terrain, partly because of the Chinese adeptuspa at smuggling. Nevertheless, the export prohibitions which have been applied during recent months: ara: belke effectively, ostried some 4,200 Iteme,

fa

Our Part

needs to ba

machinery, and other important chemicals and chemical equipment, electrical instruments, certain types of non-ferrous metals, transportation and marine equipment, aircraft, explosives and so on, are now being denied the Chinese Reds through Hongkong. Here is a contribution being made by the Colony to the general scheme for deny- ing the Peking regime genuinely strategical materials which we believe the American public should be told about, lest they continue to harbour the impression that Hongkong is cxist- ing today only as a source of supply to Communist China, China, it is true, is grabbing all the war. potential she can lay hands on, but she also has overy day domestic economy served, requiring commodities which cannot under any circumstances be used for war, Hongkong, as we have several times noted, also has her domestic economy at stake and that is why we must regard the present em- bargo in a serious light. Hongkong has accepted a dislocation of its vast trade as a result of controls at source as inevitable, but at the same time it fears that too great a reduction will lead to widespread misery, especially for the 25,000 textile workers and the thousands of other factory hands whose employment depends on the availability of raw materials. Thus, in rappating the plea for more siderate treatment by the Amorican. authorities in permitting us to import essential commodities for our own needs, we would also emphasise that the Colony in well aware of the neces sity of preventing strategie materials from reaching Communist China and it is, in fact, doing everything possible in that direction

con- .

as a surprise to Tokyo that "no Munich settlement over and wait for us to swallow consumers submit a

TOKYO SURPRISED Unofficial news of the order came from Gen. Ridgway's Korean Headquarters,

The reason for it is not clear the Chinese and North as

the

Premier Tito addressed

820,100,000,000

теп

industry will be made available

out may be amended to permit the creased defence appropriations by is peace treaty. Rumania, Varsity

tag

Meeting

It is possible that the order in-Chief declared that these in- Instead of the 78,000 allowed "Somewhere in Korea." Then were necessary because of the he said, had 300,000 men under

Rangoon, Dec. 28. people back home in 12 dif- war preparations of Yugoslavia's arms, while Bulgaria had raised

Fourteen, Vice-Chancellors of Cominform neigh-jits forces to 195,000 or roughly ferent countries now represented Soviet-led

what its peace Indian Universities arrived three times The Sultan chief of the Eastern Aden pro- near how their men are faring

is the leading the front might be able to bours.

here today for treaty permits.

three-day He accused these countries

At the Chiefs and

conclusion of his inter-University Board meeting. tribal tectorate.

in Koren.

chiefly Rumanía and Hungary-

criticised Tilo leaders in this area have profec-

the beginning tomorrow. relatives of of maintaining ""border" armies speech, Even American tive treaty relationships with

them is Among world's the United States of more than 660,009 mem in

great powers Capitalist

the Britain.Associated Press.

the men in

well

Communist-for Huss £13

Mohta, 10th Corps who escaped at gross violation

peace as

having "wasted valuable time Chancellor of Barola Univer- Christmas

from the Chinese treaties,

Tito's address was the fifth in trap at Hungnamn Beachhead will the of them in hear no news

by a

He urged the whole Yugoslav Wa

STOP PRESS hout line despatches, in future major speech

kaz

Chinese Launch

Attack

Overrun 3 Towns Below The 38th

Tokyo, Dec. 20. Chinese troops poured into

of their

For the 10th Corps has been leader in the last week warning that it must be swallowed up by the 8th Army the nation.

vigilant and ready to defend it and it too will be nameless.

The flurry of excitement in self in a world threatened by Tokyo over Gen. Bldgway's new general war, order was preceded by lac dally "Wolf, wolf" cry from the front hat the long expected Red offensive had been launched.

that the A report claimed Chinare Reds had crossed the 38th Parallel "in force" to in- vade South Korea. But the 8th sald Army Headquarters "Nothing was known hero"

BUILD-UP REVEALED

And Gon, Michydur, in hig

stated that

TAKING GRAVE VIEW Tito's decision to deliver the defence budget speech himself emphasised the grave view- the take of Yugoslav leaders present world situation. In past

New Peace

South Korea today and attacked nightly communiquo,unist 4th Effort By

Cola Chinco

Asia Bloc

with one only 28 miles from the New Year, though "limited at-ASIO

menaced capital.

on

the Imjin river defence Une the above Seoul, overrunning three Army of 19 divisions would not all-out offensivo ten days of the key towns below the border, be ready for until the first

Lake Success, Dec. 28. tacks in lessor strength could bol launched at any time."

The Asian-Arab bloc at The Cornmunist Invaders

The Supreme Commander's inched forward under blistering Intelligences

Staff today opened the United Nations held an

top-secret war urgent meeting late air attacks for a showdown with the the United States Eighth Army map files to reveal the Chinco Thursday to work out a now attempt at settling dug in along the Imlin for the Reds build-up for their offen

alve. defence of Seoul.

The figures show that two the Far Eastern crisis.

Delegation sources confirmed In some nectors only the days ago the Chinese Communist

forces in Koren numbered 277,- that the 12-nation group tents- for to press narrow sluggish river separated 000 with over a million more tively planned the two armies poised for battle, poised at the Yalu River border adoption by the General As

noxt werk of their with Manchuria or on the way sembly The enemy advance engulfedere for the drive southwards. previously aldotrackod proposal Kacsong, big rail and highway with over

North for peace parleys on Korea and

hub near the coast northwest of Korean troops this00

s. would give a broad range of other For

in Korea an Eastern suos

Scoul; Chujon, a few miles to the Red Armies

of roughly two to This resolution was originally the cast; and Korangpo on the advantage

the United Nations put forward at the same time ta bank of the Imjka 20 miles and over north of Seoul and 10 miles forces in the coming struggle. the 12 iations plus the Philip

-London Express, Survico, cast of Kacsong.

The Communist occupation of Dalai Lama Fless Kacsong, the first big South Korean town to fall to the Chinese In their advance to- ward, the river bariter, was un-Lama opposed, aground. But warms Lhata, and was last reported to

·Calcutta, Dec. 20 The 17-year-old Tibetan Daisi has left la, capitel,

pines proposed that ' a three- man cease-fire team try, first to arango a Korean crego-fire.

The now attempt to push through the peace parley scheme has boom spurred by Peking's election of the sense-fire pro-

| of. Ailled planés ripped Inio' the'? Po at Cygnise,noer the Indo 2 Pilippines refussii (0)

Tibetan border, about 190.

cpeuty mass in and around milga from Elias the Blaten pop

the town; and wall along withe SMCORPERANGAN 82107 i been

the companion," pasion. solution," and have not

MR. VICO

fruitless quarrela since the sity of Pakistan

war."

The Burmese ·Minister world to get together and works universities are not attending. incarely for a real peace, my-

ing that this would be Yugosla-Education, U. Traa Aung, will vin's course-Associated Press preside at tomorrow's inaugural

session-Reuter. (Other referenota on Pare 2]

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