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CHINA MAIL
No. 34795
Established 1845
TUESDAY, JANUARY 16, 1951.
PEKING STUDYING UN PEACE PLAN Leaves For UN
Hint Of Acceptance, Not Guilty Pleas To
But
With Certaim Reservations
London, Jan, 15.
Informed quarters said today that there are indications that Communist China may accept the United Nations proposals for a settlement in Korea with "certain reservations."
The Indian ambassador in Peking is under- stood to have advised the Prime Minister, Mr Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru, in London that Red China will consent to four-power talks, providing the troops were not expected to withdraw from their present positions in Korea,
The Chinese are apparently willing to accept the pro- posals from the United Nations Political Committee itself, but not from the three-man cease-fire committee which Peking maintains is not "representative."
SOEKARNO
OFFERS
TO RESIGN
Indian advices from Peking Indicate that Red China rea- lises that rejection of the pro- talks for four-power Dosals would weaken her hopes for u seat in the United Nations and for pushing her claim to For-
racsa,
It is said, be-
Murder Charge
Manila, Jan. 16.
Two suspects pleaded Innocent to charges of killing Seattle businessmen John P. Herber in a holdup Inst November,
Carlos Santiaguel and Juan Gonzales, Indleted as no- complices in the crime, were arraigned before Cavite City Judge Jose Bernabe,
Cavite Province Fiscal Damaso 8. Tengco charged Santiaguel and Gonzales were members of a bandit gang which ambushed a parts of sightseers in the road 15 miles south of Manila last November 19,
Bandiis took US$450 from the party. When a Cos- stabulary patrol appeared on the scene they thot Mr Her- ber and Alexander Krivenko, Manila businessman, in the stomach. Mr Herber, an exporter-importer here business visit, died within an hour.
on
on charges of Four others who have been indicted participating in the robbery -murder are still at large.
Trial of Santiaguel and Gonzales was set for Febru- ary 19.-Associated Press,
Battle For Hanoi
Reaches
Climax
Hanoi, Jan. 15.
A major battle for Hanoi along a 75 mile front neared its climax tonight.
Tokyo
Sir
Lieutenant-General Rebert Mansergh commander of British forces in Hongkong left this morning for Japan by BOAC to visit General MacArthur's Headquarters,
General Mansergli, who will later visit the British 27th and 20th Infantry Brigades in from Korea will be away
Hongkong for about 10 days.
Vietminh rebel forces, estimated at 35 to 40 bat- The Kashmir field army for daylight battle in open country on Monday. Question talions, took the unprecedented action of deploying as a (A battalion normally is about 1,000 men, but Vietminh| battalions may be smaller).
The Chinese, lieve that while the United Na- tions forces remain somewhere bargaining Korea, their in Djakarta, Jan. 15.
the United Nations troops were President Soekarno offer-position would be better than it to resign if the forced into the sea-a develop ed tonig
which would leave the in no mood people demand it as a result ment
Western powers for talking. of his failure to make good Dutch
It was understood a pledge to obtain
But assuming his continuation
in office, the Indonesian leader told a correspondents' dinner:
"Our new aim must be to get Irian (the Indonesian word for
for
last
cease-fire
that the
of
Chinese
Disagreement
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FORCES FIGHT BACK HARD
Electrified By Gen. Lawton Collins' Declaration Of Faith
(By SELKIRK PANTON)
Tokyo, Jan. 16. British and other United Nations forces in Korea are tonight living made by the "We will certainly stay. and fight" up to the promise US Chief of Staff, Gen. Lawton Collins, in Korea yesterday and are fight- ing back hard.
www.
On the Western front United Nations forces are thrusting up along the road to Seoul and have recaptured Osan, left without a fight a week ago, against "scattered opposition."
The move northwards was made by strong patrols "in force" backed by tanks which felt their way forward to probe the Chinese and North Korean Red strength in this sector.
und
The weakness of opposition killed or wounded in yesterday's suggests that the Chinese Reds strikes, the majority of them
troops over being in the area north may have swung to the central front in an t-south of Suwon where the tempt bo hammer way heaviest force of the Fifth Alr through in Wonju, the danger Force attack was delivered.
area along the whole 140-mile During the night B-205 of the
front. There the United States 2nd Division with French and Dutch
troops are holding firm. But Communists are seeping
he edge
bus the
to
out
that 20 of them were
Mysterious Fire At Meat Plant
Third Bomb Wing flew 35 Bortles over enemy-held territory and spotted about 500 vehicles moving over the enemy's supply of the Wonju routes. Sweeping down between bastion and are driving holes in an overcast, the night Buenos Aires, Jan. 15.
of Idinese"
southeast. If intruders attacked about 120
A mysterious fire destroy. North and
Korcan these vehicles and observed teed part of the big American Communist armies succeed in
approximately 20 Ironing the bulge and
or destroyed Vehicles owned International Packer, southward making
deep LI
hit in the vicinity of Wonaan Ltd. meat packing_plant at dent in their turn at Wonju blew up with great explosions. Perisse, 20 miles South of the way will be open to them The airfield at Wonson was hit. to thrust against the vital life-
Many of the enemy troops Buenos Aires today. line and
route of all were attacked in the area east escape United Nations forces in the of Seoul,- A train was attacked west.
with unobserved results north of Seoul.
The B-283 were lighted to many of their targets by C-475 Snow showers and overcast which dropped, fres
most of four
General De Lattre De Tas-ald funds for arming
About 30,000 of with Chief who flew from Saigon to them fled to Indo-China in De- 1040 when General- held New Guines for Indo-latest advices from Peking to signy, French Commander in Nationalists.
Mr Nehru did not dral
ofissimo Chiang Kai-shek's forces this capital the United Nations resolution take personal charge of the cember, nesia by January 1, 1951-
the mainland. but were defenco
declared collapsed on northern Indo-China,
and now disarmed firm They are answers to Mr Nehru's request
French were standing the week for clarification of the battle entered its third interned at Nau Trang, near Dalat in southern Indo-China, details in previous D right
But that battle has not yet certain
London, Jan 15.
And General Prime been decided. The Commonwealth West New Guinea) bacit before advices on the Chinese attitude,ough the French and their and on the island of Phu.Quoci Vietnam alles were heavily in the Gulf of Slam, Paris 10-
Ministers here narrowed points Collins with his firm declaration SIMULTANEOUS MOVES outnumbered, they held the formants satd...
Rellable Paris sources sald disagreement in the three of faith.m the United Nations advantage la artillery and air
"there is fear in official quarters year-old dispute between India to fight on in Korea has given gical
the dawn of January 1, 1912",
President Soekarno plainly
showed his chagrin
failure of the
over the New
recent
Gutnea conference in Hollanti.
Associated Press,
Reds Release Americans
Berlin, Jan. 16. The Soviet authorities today released three American soldiers German arrested by the East police when they entered the inadvertently yes-
the borr hunting in the Ameri sector district of Lichtenrade.
Soviet Zone terday.
crossed
-United Press.
said
Flames also swept one secilor of the Perisso plant of the Swift. Company of La Plata.
The police arrested an undis
number of persons for closed
a rumour of sabotage spread. questioning as
Swift's is the largest of the foreign-owned packing
Indian Government quarters suetminh forces, coming out that this charge is the psycholo- and Pakistan over Kashmir but an electrifying booster to "the were predicted for
spadework for Chinese] agreement was not reached in morale of both the troops and Karea on Tuesday as the United loal supplier of meat for
New Delhi, Jan. 15.
they belleve today that Communist China will demand that any cease-fire in Korea should coincide with the open- ing of the Big Four talks on Formosa and Korea,
silenced
In the Argentine, and the
по
export.
The authorities
gave estimate of the damage except to say that it is in millions of pesos. Five thousand tons of meat valued at 075,000 Pesos ( £37,000) is reported a total loss and addi- been tional stock may have damaged by smoke.
Swift oficials said other see- of the plant are working tions on a limited basis and that in-slaughtering is proceeding as
as usual.
Stales Far East Air Forces pre Into the open for the first time,
their discussions here, it was the United Nations command.
not He has
the rared to continue the pounding provided a tremendous target intervention in Indo-China."
announced tonight.
parrot-like "We will have to of Communists opposing the and surely their losses were Lattre said.
Some French sources in Paris
from get out" chorus of the defeatist United Nations ground elementa, great," General Do
A communique issued
444 BORTIES French official circles in Paris said they were apprehensive that
British Prime Minister's but even they are effected by
Fifth Air Forces planes flew a general aif of relief: "Thank An official Indian spokesman were described as "somewhat the latest Vietminh offensive the said the only evidence available alarmed" by charges in Pravda, might force "at least a partial Once tonight said, "The Prime the gene
evacuation" of Hanoi. The Ministers of the United Kingdom, goodness, now at last we know total of 444 soles on Monday as they smashed at the enemy Moscow Communist newspaper.
ordered is that the United Nations plan
the Canada, Australia, New Zca- where we are."
While General Collins is on along the battleline and ranged careful considera- that France and the United French recently
evacuation of French is receiving
Chinese
non land and Ceylon have had in-
tour in Korea, deep in enemy territory on in arc arming Govern States tion by the Chinese
formal meetings with the Prime his two-day Indo-China.combatants from the city, Nationalists In
General De Lattre cancelled the Ministers of India and Pakistan secret top-level talks between terdiction missions. were ment.
fellow
travellers from
In addition to the nearly order early this month. Asso Moscow diplomats also
disturbed by the
on the Kashmir problem.
Washington and General Mac-
1,400 troop casualties ciated Press. seriously
are and his GHQ slai "The subject was
flicted. the pilots claimed discussed Arthur charge.
Tokyo
Police said three watchmen PRAVDA ALLEGATION
freely and frankly, suggestions continuing in It
out
These coincide with similar destroyed 430 buildings, housing
and supplies, 14 ore being held for questioning.--- troops were put forward for its solu-British defence talks in Hong-vehicles, a fuel dump. 57 sup- Associated Press,
KODE
giving the firm Impression
that not in Tokyo
on
was
pointed
that
bu!
the times when the various steps ed to use Korea as a base for FLU EPIDEMIC on and the points of disagree-
an
He said: "The only question they have been insisting on se that the cease-fire and far consultations
issues other should proceed side by side. The present solution does not specify charges that Americans intend- attack on Red Chira pre- have to be taken."
Government quarters added caded Communist China's inter- The delay in securing their
Insist on vention in that war. The Pravda release was due to the fact that the Chinese would
the article said Indo-China was moves, but were simultaneous the Russians yesterday celebrating their New Year's spokesman said "The Govern-most important base for attack Pravda said $600,000 bad Day-and simply left their tele- ment of India does not know the on China by the Americans phones off the hook," an Ameri-final reaction of the Chinese
been earmarked from American can Army officer said-Reuter. Government."-United Press.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
A Creditable Decision
NENERAL Collins, United States
anyone
Chief of Staff has announced that there is no intention of incontinently pulling United Nations forces out of Korea in face of pressure from the Chinese Communist and North Korean armies. On the contrary, says General Collins, reinforcements are going to be sent to bolster the Eighth Army. This is good news, not because wishes to see the fighting in Korea last a minute longer than can be avoided, but because the decision does credit to the honour and prestige of the United Nations in its stand against wanton aggression. Moreover, to concede, by default, the rest of Korea to the Com- 'munist troops would present the with an intolerable Chinese Reds bargaining position when it comes to a question of deciding, by negotiation, the future of Korea. Nor is there a the purely discernible reason, from military tactical point of view, why the United Nations army should not be able to provide for itself a sufficiently strong beachhead from which it could defy any successfully. not only onslaught, but which would present opportunities for dealing punishing blows, to the enemy's over-extended lines of supply. Such a situation is' probably appreciated by the Chinese Communist military leaders and may well provide one reason why the Peking Government in showing elf to bo rather more amenable to the idea of bringing hostilities to an end in Korea. Manifestly. Poking's reception of the latest UN proposals, which in effect are the product of the Commonwealth con ference in London, is giving cause for
and renewed
qualified satisfaction hopes at Lake Success. The policy of peace by negotiation without appease- ment, which the majority of the United Nations members have to patiently advocated, may yet be vindicated. It all rests on Soviet Russia and Com- munist China. For all practical purposes no further proposals can be made. "The Soviet bloc which has persistently voted against and vetoed the various plans for a cease-fire and a negotiated settlement has not offered any positive alternative proposals. Its attitude has been con- ventionally negative and obstructive- "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." There are faint indientions that the Communist clique are begin- ning even themselves to weary of this policy and are considering seriously the latest "end hostilities" proposals. from the United Nations, The Pelding Government has not yet officially acknowledged the proposals and its reply is still awaited. It may not be disclosed for several days, but the fact that Peking has not rejected the plan. out of hand lends belief to the sugges tion that the reply, when it is made, will be more favourable than anything which has yet come from the Chinese There ja Communist government. satisfaction to be derived from the knowledge that the United Nations do not intend to allow any opportunity for a settlement by negotiation to pass. by and this intention should be but another inducement to the Peking regime to accept the current proposala which, go far as the Interests of Chirin are concerned, are the most far reaching offered to date,
ASSESSED
Geneva, Jan, 15.
ment were narrowed although
were made in the course of
his
PRINCESS SEES DISPLAY
and 50 only the ply carts, one tank agreement has not been reached. Chinese and Russians are pack animals,
Listed as damaged were 470 "The other Prime Ministers, bestirring themselves in the For
supply buildings, 24 vehicles, one impressed with the need for an East.
fucl dump, 12 railroad cars, The present influenza epidemie early settlement of the problem
CHINA EXPERT in Europe. cannot be compared
That is why the main interest four tanks a bulldozer and two
Malta, Jan. 10. here centres round the im- bridges,
During the day a fleet of
Princess Elizabeth this evening of two men, either in spread or in severity hope that the suggestions which fo the seriour epidemics in the
B-20
hit light, bombers Bedell Smith, now suwon
the was accompanied by the Duke of Maj-Gen. carly part of the century, the their talks will be given the mediato future,
by the
US Intelligence destruction
claiming the Edinburgh when she boarded the World Health Organisation said fullest consideration
Chief of the Prime Ministers of India and
of 22 today.
supply cruiser Phoebe and watched a Service who flew
from In Pakistan"-Reuter.
Washington for the
buildings and a fuel dump and scorchlight tattoo by the ship's present Tokyo tallen, and Mad-Gen. Inflicting several troop casualties. officers, and men. Robert McClure who, on Sun- Another wave of light bombers
relieved of the com- hit day of the 2nd mand now d bulgo
At the same time, the WHO warned that the epidemics' two main centres in Northern Europe and in Spain appear to be "on the point of joining RCTOSS France."
TRAMS COLLIDE
wag
ател,
targets, largely
The Phoebe is leaving Malte supply in mid-February and is recom US Division buildings, Between Prongyang missioning at Chatham.-Asso-
alated Press. in the Wonju and Sariwon-United Press.
Gen. Bedell Smith was Gen- oral Eisenhower's wartime Chief of Staff and later US Ambassador to Russia.
Goteborg, Sweden, Jan. 15. "So far," the WHO report Three passengers were killed said, "complications are care and 23 injured when a set of and the mortality rate remains tramcars rushed downhill here very low. It is true, on the today with brakes out of order other hand, that influenza, how- and crashed into another tram ever mild, may be fatal for the at the foot of the h
It was the worst tram ac- Deputy Chiang Kai-thek, now aged or for people suffering from heart discase."-Associated dont on record in the city. Preas.
Associated Press.
WHAT FOLLY IS THIS!
Gen. McCluro is a veteran
acted China
expert who
23 Chief of Staff to Gen-)
Jealously nursing Xia 600,000 strong Chinese Nationalist Army locked up in Formosa by President Truman's "neutralisa-
policy.
tion"
FREMLINS REAL BEER
AT LAST
FREMLINS
the
Observers here believe that both US generals are car-mark- Mr Ronald Mackay, So- Under British rule vast sumsed for new jobs-and they hint permission for for Reading of money have been poured into at the possible cialist MP
Malaya to develop her resources, the Nationalist Chinese Inter- North, in a speech last week giving the peoples of the country
vention in Korea to moot the urged the Government to a far higher standard of living Chinese, Red threat of massed carry the break-up of the than they would otherwise have rese known.
And Hongkong would manpower.
They believe that if fur-have remained a barren Island British Empire still ther. Speaking in his con- of rock if the British had mot Dghting in Korea is to go on for stituency he said: "Britain raised it to the position of the any length of time it is essen-
tial that
that the Chinese Nationalists has no right to be in Hong-leading port on the Chlua coast, should be brought in to balance
course this country has kong and Malaya.”
in the sales, beacfts great
Chiang benefits which Social- Generalissimo The following day the Lonists are very ready to sacrifice repeatedly pressed his offer of don Evening Standard edi-without
oxplaining the cast. pending some of his stalemated torialised on Mr Mackay's Malaya brings strategie raw army into battle against their
speech, in which it said:
drawn exchange,
an raaterials and Dow of
Ju
hus
enormous Red enemies in Korca, And now
10 dollars What mad foily is this! Dis-sterling area: Both Singapore coming-with
the that permission may be forth- Gen. Bedell putes con always be started
milltary Smith or Gen. McClure or both about the rights and wrongs of and Hongkong are
autposts of great importance any international title deeds, to the defence of the Empire. Playing major parts in the new United Nations strategy in the concern whole Are all these whether they
things to bo
Far East-London Express blow? countries, porta or just a corona- surrendered without a
Service. tion stone. But on one point The Empire Premiers now
BOMBERS STRIKĖ there can bo no dispute: Briment
will read meeting in London
Fifth Air Force Head- dion tain has a far better right to of this
suggestion with
quarters, January 10. rule in Hongkong and Malay quiet. Mr. Attlee
is prealding
of enemy Hundreda
troops than the allies of the Soviet over -their-
Ho conference. who are now working to gain should assure his colleagues
ucs moving north from the 'Suwon their control,· <
that the Mackay and those area were killed or wounded Certainly Mr Mochoy erta who think on similar lirios, de venterday by fighter bombers grosaly If he believes that the not speak for the Government, and light bombers of the Fifth Force, Major-General streat moes of the Malayan If he cannot give that assur-Air peoples and the Inhabitants of anco, then he should give the Earie E. Partridge said in a Hongkong would be glad to, co voters a chance to chooon a morning summary.
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