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Ship Breaks In Police SI On

Two

Crow Stranded On Rocks Waiting To

Be Rescued

Latest reports received here last night stated that| the Greek steamer Kostis Lemos which went aground at Geulous Point, Camiguin Island, north of Luzon on Sunday night had broken in two and is believed to be a complete loss.

the wrecked The crew of steamer had taken to lifebonts and had reached nearby rocks where they were stranded, pend- Ing their ship's rescue in answer to her SOS.

Because of heavy seas it was Impossible for the men to be taken off up to last night. The ship is still standing by.

The tugboat Louise Moller which was en route from Hong- kong to Manila and was diverted to the scene of the einking. later continued on her voyage when it was reported that the Japanese steamer was going to the ship's rescue..

The Kostis Lemos was on her way from Vancouver to Bombay.

The Navy here this morning confirmed the report and stated that there had been no further news from the Kasho

Maru

Grave Charge

On a charge of de- manding money with menaces, Robert Royston Jones, Sub-Inspector of Police, was remanded three days by Mr Winter at Kowloon yesterday for farther inquiries.

Jones, a junior sub- inspector, charged under Section 47 of Ordinance 32, 1935, was alleged to have demanded with menaces $200 with intent to steal from one Li Shu- teng, of 522 Canton Road, first floor, on December 31.

Detective

Sub-Inspec-

for D. S. Roberts, of Yaumati Police Station, Is in charge of the case.

Britain's

Blustery New Year

Civilian Evacuation Stopped

SITUATION EASES

IN TONKIN

Hanol, Jan. 1. General de Lattre do Tassigny, the new French

Commissioner High

in Indo-China, today an- nounced that he had stop- ped the evacuation of French wives and families from the rebel-attacked French Tonkin delta bridge- head.

French Army authorities sald there was pressure against the Ticnyen

the sector in north-cast coastal bridgehead | area beside the Tonkin Gulf.

On the Red River sector, 30 miles north and north-west of the Tankin capital of Hanoi, the rebels were officially re-

be still in active ported to

contact with French positions but a French Army com- munique added that the situa- tion had improved for the French.

DELTA BATTLE Meanwhile, a Paris message says that crack Vietminh batta- lions have been thrown into the battle in the Tonkin Delia, according 10 prisoners taken by the French, it was дли nounced by a French Army spokesman in Salgen today. London, Jan. 1.

According to the French Fog, snow, hail, rain and News Agency, he sakd that winds of gale force swept French troops were holding their positions against very large areas of Britain this

Vietminh SCVCre

pressure like and the stranded men are New Year's Day, and night-throughout the Tlenyen sectar belleved to be in no immediate like darkness descended on on the north-east coast, dunger.

London at midday.

The position of French- NZ DISASTER

Shipping in the Dover Straft Vietnamese forces north of the Auckland, New Zealand, Jan. 1.

before ron for shelter

a 60- Red River had improved since Six more bodies have been re-mile

gale. Planes arriving the "vigorous intervention" of covered from the passcoger from

and planes,. the abroad were diverted to naval units Iaunch Ranul, which was make

landings, includ- spokesman added. safe wrecked at the entrance of ing the which brought

one

Finnes bad bombed Vietminh Tauranga Harbour last Thurs- Canadian Prime Minister concentrations to the north. day, it was announced today.

St Laurent to attend An unspecified French post Thursday's

conference of Bri- in

There has been no loss of

Louis

This brought the list of iden-

South Vietnam resisted uned victims up to 18. Thetish Commonwealth premiers. violent attacks by Vietminh police said today that they were Sixteen persons were injured artillery which finally withdrew certain 23 persons were aboard in London and Reading in two under French Air Force bomb the launch when she was bus crashes due to the wea- attacks---Reuter. wrecked in a storm,

Three people were still miss

ing, they added. Rcuter.

QUINS BORN IN'

SIBERIA

London, Jan. 1.

Quintuplets-four boys and a

ther. In London a 20-minute midday snowfall put streets under

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Holiday Death Roll In US

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Abbey

The famous Scone Stone was stolen from West- minster Abbey on Christmas Day, and Scotland Yard are still trying to trace it, Plcture shows an official of the Abbey viewing the Coronation throne from where the stone was removed. Note the splintered left edge of the seat. This damage was caused when the stone was prised from beneath the seat.

AP Picturo.

America's Sources Of Strength

Washington, Jan. 1.

Secretary of State Dean Acheson said on Sun day "we have power to retaliate against any aggressor who attacks us and our friends, and that power cannot be overlooked."

"We expect to make ourselves respected and to deter aggression," Acheson declared in a radio interview.

The nation's great need now) army

We

nucleus have the

BIG ASSAULT

New Thrust From North Of Seoul To East Coast

Tokyo, Jan. 1. Chinese Communist troops were today attacking the United Nations line right across Korea from north of Seoul to the oast coast.

A new Communist thrust—against the United Nations' eastern front-could gravely affect the whole tine across the peninsula. At least one division has been flung in in this

sector.

The significance of the action is heightened by the iden- tification of two Chinese Communist regiments engaged in the It is now known that in addition to the Chinese Com- fighting. munist Fourth Field Army of 19 divisions, concentrating mainly along the west and central sectors, some formations of the Chinese Communists' Third Field Army have moved down from Hungnam, freed by the evacuation of the United Nations' 10th Corps.

In the extreme west the United Nations' left

flank is now faced with the probable need to pull Russia

back.

The Eighth Army tonight admitted that the

Communist assault, which began on the front north Replies To

and north-east of Seoul, had now developed into a general offensive,

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Allies

LENGTHY NOTE

Eighth Army troops had been moment to launch a major forced to mako limited with offensive against the United drawals but the spokesman Nations forecs."

Areas would not specify the

General MacArthur described the attack where the withdrawals occurred.

on' the eastern entre

Frontline

sector-where the Communist forces were reported to be 12 year of miles below the border as a with

"idealip" which was probably reply 期 diversionary movement."

Chinese Camis said that!

London, Jan. 1.

Russia started the fateful

of 1951 and North

Korean formations north Seoul bad pierced the United Nations' Injin River line to a

THREE ARMIES

on MondayTM

a lengthy ten-point

to the Western

depth of several miles and were

An Eighth Army ofleer sald powers' proposal for a Big miles from the less than 20

it would be falso to describe ss. Four conference on the capital.

Car major breakthrough" - une causes of friction between in what was

was officially called

confirmed reports that the Co-East and West. one of the biggest air operations munists had deeply pierced one of the whole Korean campaign, part of the line.

A British Foreign Office claimed 1,500 the Air Force

spokesman said Russia handed Communist casualties from to- day's air strikes.

An Eighth Army spokesman to reply to the British, French

American this tonight said that three Chinge and

embassies, in Army sources said that

and was only about a quarter of the Communist armles

nino Moscow as the bells tolled in the casualties. estimated

reconstituted North Korean divi new year in Moscow at mid-

had

been No communist air activity was slons

tentatively night. identified facing the strong 20- reported."

The nature of the reply was mile United Nations perimeter DAWN ATTACK ---

not disclosed immediately, but above

Seoul, their expected attacks as down The Communists, launching

The armics were the sath informed sources said the length broke on a bitterly cold Now Chines

of the Note suggested Rusele has Army, south of Kuhwari, the 38th south west's suggestions for

made "counter-proposals to the #inst Year's Day, were reported to have advanced 10 miles south of Yonchon, and the 68th in the chance" global peace talks.

Changamal area, of the Imjin River to within The Communists. were xx- -The Russians naked in Novem- 20 miles of the city.

Their advance was still con-pected to attempt a daxking ber for a Big Four: parley on

movement aimed at enveloping Germany. tonight

The West replied in tinuing

and United

Seoul in the same way as they December that it did not wish Nations waits on the flanks were had captured Pyongyang, the to discuss Germany alone but folling back,

four weeks would gladly room over the en- tire field of international, ten- slons.

New York, Jan, 1. The New Year holiday death

The Golden Jubilee began in is to produce more, Acheson around which we can build a girl-have been born in Siberin, roll in the United States rose to an uneasy atmosphere reflecting said, adding:

Communist Chinese real Aghting force."-Associated according to a Tass agency mes-294 today. Road accidents lill- the world crisis. Critics objected sage received in London taday. ed 207 people, including five in to the celebration

"The prescription which wa Press. even before need today is a prescription The mother was Elena Skom-one accident in Maryland.

of the ap-which Mr Churchill gave to kina,

it began, because wife of a collective farmer The National Safety Council)propriation of A £80,000

England in 1940-blood and toll, at Spenko, near Barnaul, in the Altai Region,

They were born had estimated that 330 people finance it. Some persons said just before the

money should have been weat and tears and I may add, New Year. would be killed on the country's the

our country, Mother and children were sald roads between 6 pm, on Friday used to bolster defence.-United faith that the great task before to be well-Reuter.

and midnight, tonight.-Reuter. Press.

us can be done and that it will

COMMENT OF THE DAY

Opportunity For New Methods

THE making of New Year resolutions

THE

has gone somewhat out of fashion, for and not perhapa surprisingly, when expressed they often represent an emotional rather than a rational in- tention, and are, in consequence, soon forgotten. Yet this is not so in every caso and it gives a sense of satisfaction to know that quite a lot of people have genuinely made promises to themselves to bring about desirable changes in their daily thoughts and actions; people who intend to try and fulfi those resolutions. We do not believe that the custom of making New Year resolutions, though

old possibly fashioned, should be scoffed at or dis- couraged. On the contrary, not only. Individuals, but governments and other representatives of the people should make a definite contribution towards helping the custom to survive and to give it real meaning. Our own adminis- tration could do so with possibly beno- ficial results all round. For example we should like to sea Government in this now year resolve to tako the public a little more into ita confidence before making long-term decisions, especially where those decisions affect the public purse and the future interests of the Colony. There has been a welcome move In that direction during the past twelve months, as for instance the appoint- ment of a Harbour Ferry Services Advisory Committee tò probe public re- actions to new services; also Govern ment's willingness to lond an ear to tho City Hall Committee bofore committing Dftself and the Colony, to any irrevocablo Achemo for building a civic centre. There is still room for closer relations between Government and the public in matters. affecting polley as well as development. And in this respect. it would seem that Legislative Council.

are

faith faith

be done."

In

Ho

asked what bo Was thought of remarks that the present is "America's darkest hour,"

that,"

Prisoners Haltered By Neck

Another Chinese Communist Northern capital,

at reported

divisiono, force,

Pilots from the United States strength, was attacking south aircraft carrier Leyte inflicted

The spokesman said a pre- of the Parallel in the east about 10,000 casualties Here, too, United Nations troops Chinese Communist and North viet reply arrived in London and eliminary translation of the So- were believed to be retreating Korean troops in the last was being studied. but the position was described days of 1950, it was oficially

The United States, Britain and ac fluid.

France proposed to Russia that announced today..

They destroyed or damaged the four powers appoint deputies 694 tanks and hit 10 bridges, 27 to try to draw up an agenda for fuel and ammunition dumps and a new meeting of the Council of 658 military buildings during Foreign Ministers United more than 3,600 sorties.-Neuter. Preps.

Acheson said that any nation's

Seoul, Jan. 1. darkest hour comes when its

Several hundred Korean men citizens lose their will and their and womg, haltered together

As the Communists, oblivious courage

neck to neck like cattle, were of heavy lossen, stormed acros barbed wired and snow- "Americans have never dono marched frough the streets of the

" he said

Serul today on their way to pri- covered minefields, United Na- THE FOUR SOURCES Bor on charges of "collaborations war planes roared over- "Other people thought that, tion."

head in another savage counter- nido yourg ago, the night of

The suspects were the latest attack behind the battle-front. Pearl

Harbour was our darkest batch of several thousand people Taking advantage of the clear

Americans who have been rounded up in weather they

never

but again

lost their, will and they the countryside north of Seoul | concentra Pounded enemy

be-

"First, we have the tremendous source of strength that our cause is right. We are on the side of freedorn and on the side of the great spiritual values which have created our country,

"Second, We have

increased sharply as the hour of emplacement" bridges and gun

attacks

In 548 effective never lost their courage. And by Korean police in the last sorties, hitting more than 1,500 they faced up to the challenge few days.

troops, 63

63 towns, 500 bulldings which that event brought

The tempo of the arrests has and tanks, fore them."

Holsted four sourcea of the threatened Communist

Superfortresses dropped 170 American strength;

general offensive grew nearer, tons of

explosives. The Home Minister, Dr Chough EXCELLENT RESULTS Pyong Ok, has apparently been Pilots reported excellent re- anxious to remove all possible suits from bornbing, zocketting Communist sympathisers from and machine gunning areas which might be reoccupied on troops moving south along by the Chinese Communists and the road from Yonchon, the North Koreans,

malo

concentration con- enemy who believe in the same valuta The exact details of the tro just north of the Parallel, that we believe and this is a "collaboration"

The Communists opened their great source of strength,

assault with six-hour artillery ("Third, we and our friends

barrage just as midnight heral the greatest industrial have

Mass trialk

ded the New Year. are held In capacity in the world which in secret with death sentences As dawn broke they attacked turn can make us and

at our being, imposed on most of the two points, forcing the

Imjin River friends strong.

Executions frozen "Fourth, we have not merely are alco held secretly in groups Kaesong and below the 38th Korangpori, 15 miles cast of potential strength but we have of 89, ta 40 condemned people.. strength in being since we have often with as few 1.B six Parallel, and further west just

friends

could be made much more of a forum than it is today. The House of Com- mons system of Question Time should be encouraged, where, not only written questions and answers provided, but supplementary questions permitted which allow for a much wider treat- ment of subjects of the day. We feel too, that Government would be making a progressive step if it decided in future to make more generous alloca- tions to revenue-producing departmenta whose work up to the present has been cramped and hampered by insufficient funds. We have in mind particularly Radio Hongkong which has to exist on a shoe-string although it is making a handsome contribution to gentral revenue. We also consider the sugges- tion made by our morning contemporary that a sort of King's Speech should be delivered by the Governor of the open- ing of a new financial year is worthy of serious contemplation, for it would enable the public to gain some idea of Government's general policy and inten- tions for, the following twelve months. None of these proposals is revolu- tionary, nor, so far as we know, unconstitutional, and if they achieved nothing else but make the general public feel they were a little more than proviously an integral part of the Colony, they would be fully justifled. And for the citizens of Hongkong, on their part, they too can make and fry honestly to full one resolution-to show a more livoly and practical interest in local affairs which must of necessity affect them. In so doing they will demonstrato to the Administration: that they deserve to receive more fully the confidences of the government and the Colony can then take a definite forward move towards that measure of delf-government for which it has longan adicial announcement la clamoured.

charges

by

have

the

not been revealed Government.

"dollaborators."

a first class navy and we have riflemen-Reuter.

a strong air force, and in our!

Pakistan's New Demand

Karachi, Jan. 1.

*,

below Youchon.

near

British troops werd ordered into defence positions.

South Korean units felt the main_wolght of the opening YOUTH KILLED thrusts north of the Imjin IN COLLISION the first few hours.

River, and fall back 10 miles in

The Communists dragged Easton, Pennsylvania, Jan. 1, light artillery with them over

A collision between a car the rivar, The Pakistan Cabinet in two and a bus here today killed persions today approved Premier one youth and seriously injured sald

General Douglas MacArthur Liaquat All Khan's stand on another. Their

in a communique, issued the Com- papore indi- oarly today that demanding Inclusion of the Kaatunir question In the sada catod that they were realdents muntets, in a "determined at- Toberan attending the tempt bad "sticcooded of the Commonwealth cop University of

Initially in penetrating friend- Iprence in London. Tin decision to

"Papers", they

carrion Abstain from

ty positions" in the Korangpur their

ก Morteza 2. area. the conference was also a Khaje Nouri (killed)

and Despite the dimeulues proved. It has now been finally triedoun Vassol, 31, poverely caused by the United Nations decided that Flaquat will not injured in the cheatstone air offensive, the Chinese the youths www riding skidded their major supply problems. to London,

Police falt the car id which Communlety, having solved expected tonight

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