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Third Atom Bomb Miss 1951 Puzzling Campaign
Exploded In Nevada
Las Vegas, Nevada, Jan. 28.
The third atomic blast in four days jolted this desert gambling town early today as atomic scien- tists apparently continued "tickling the dragon's tail."
Everybody who felt today's blast agreed it was the strongest of the three.
The Atomic Energy Commission continued to say nothing about its experiment. But earlier in the month the Commission was authorised by President Harry Tru- man to use the Nevada range for test work.
The Commission announced at tonation for the development of the time the tests would "in-atomic bombs so called A clude experimental euclear de bombs-carried out under con-
trolled conditions."
Yachting Disaster
14 MEN FEARED DROWNED
Sydney, Jan. 28. Fourteen New Zealand sportsmen were believed to
Although the Commission pre- served a studied silence today about the blast, residents of Las Vegas and vicinity did not keep quict.
Some were rather irked.
The explosion this morning oc curred about 6 am. (Pacific Standard Time).
THUNDERCLAPS
It was described as resembling two great thunderclaps.
Hundreds of witnesses saw a tremendous white flash in the
sky, followed closely by another
day to have drowned in the flash, orange in colour and net country's worst yachtings bright disaster, climax to a storm
The blast presumably tools wrecked ocean race.
-} place well
within the huge Their three yee's fourdered testing range, which is about In mountainous seas iter
40 miles from Las Vegas. ail
The AEC merely confirmed ing with seventeen other craft
detonation had at a nuclear
on January 23 from Wellington for Lyttelton.
of onc craft,
occurred.
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War-Time Air
Ace Killed
Washington, Jan. 28.
Captain Don' 8. Gentile, famed US World War II ace In Europe, once called "Captain Courageous by President Franklin Roose- vell, wae killed in the crash of his jet plane to- day at nearby Forestville, Maryland,
Captain Gentilo had taken off just 20 minutes carlier from Andrews Alr Force Base on a route
with one passenger. nicials said they had no idea yel of the cause the crash.
of
Illa plane, a T-33 fet trainer, piled into a tree.
Captain Gentile 1723 credited with downing 20 German planes in the alr in World War II and six more on the ground,
In three years' service in the British Royal Alr
Force and the US Air Force he flew 182
combat mla- sions over Europe,—Asso- clated FresSS,
Bases Too Close For Safety
Berlin, Jan. 23. - The Western Allies have decided their main supply ports of Hamburg and Bre- men are to close to the Rus- sians for safety.
Therefore, a new supply line through France is being created to feed the growing forces that will ninke up General Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atlantic pact bastion against aggression, from the East.
US authorities disclosed the The move was decided upon at a conference held in Fontainbleau, attended by military experts of the US,
Two previous tests had taken Only one of the 20, competing In race that was part of place, one on Wednesday night Christchurch's Centenary Cele- and another early yesterday bration, completed the 175 mile The two seemed to be build. journey.
ups or the Sunday punca
It aroused Wreckage
nearly everybody Hurky, manned by a crew of arcund here. four,
wa's washed
Many persons slept through change today. ashere at Ohire Bay
in Wellington har- the other two tests. on Saturday. Two other | The police handled a flood of yachts, the Argo and the Hope, telephone calls, four a minute. both of Wellington,
still are after this morning's blast. missing.
Royal New Zealand Air Force planes planned to aardon their search of the East Coast area between the capital and Lyttel ton, original settlement of "Canterbury pilgrims", on Mon- homes. day nothing
other is sighted further Most of the
competing yachts scurried for shelter before the suddenly whipped-up storm.
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The citizens were annoyed. One woman said she was angry because the blast nearly broke her windows. Some feared the detonations would damage the foundations of their
France and the Benelux
The new plan calls for the British to be fed сп over- land routes from Antwerp and the Americans by rail and road from the French port of Bor dieaux,
Festival
Here is lovely, gracious "Miss Festival 1951" being helped out of a "coconut" by Mr Herbert Morrison during the celebration by the Showmen's Guild of Great Britain of their annual dinner and dance held recently in London, "Miss Festival 1951” is Misa Bemil Twiggs, aged 21, of Highgate, who was chosen for the role for her grace, polsē and charm.
Dramatic Rescue
Efforts In Mountainous Seas
London, Jan. 28.
Five vessels battled against mountainous seas off the north-west coast of Spain tonight in desperate attempts to rescue the crew of the 9,720- ton tanker Janko which had broken in two.
In
UN
Korea
Patrols
Cautiously Move Northward
From CYRIL AYNSLEY
With the Forces in Korea, Jan. 28.
Mr. Bevin Much
Better
London, Jan, 28.
The
Britiali Foreign Secretary. Mr Ernost Bevin, who has been ill with pneumanla sinco Tuesday, was much better tonight.
A Foreign Office spokes- man said that Mr Bevin's temperature was now nor-
and
condition "satisfactory."-Beuter.
Tant
ملط
ACCORDING TO
If the enemy is as puzzled as some of us are DREW PEARSON: here tonight he must be very, very puzzled.
Last week we were dug in on a defence line ready to withstand a big attack. Tonight we were pushing cautiously northwards on the Western sector and picking out enemy nests in an -area south of Seoul.
Army headquarters are using careful terms and state officially: "United Nations forces con- tinued their limited objective attack on the Western Front as enemy resistance stiffened."
Greeks and Turks are engaged with Ameri- cans in this present probe. So far no Britons have been called in.
COUNTER-ATTACK
Tokyo, Jan, 20.
Red China
Withdraws From War
Washington, Jan. 28. The radio commentator, Drew Pearson, said tonight that the It is too early to draw conclu-
Indian. Am- sions but certainly the present
bassador to Red China had moves
have strengthened Firing was heard on the out-cabled hia
government: skirts weakening confidence,
of Suwon this morning "Red China has withdrawn There is an air of briskeness as the Chinese
Communists here tonight. Aeroplanes are launched the heaviest counter-from the war and will not parachuting supplies to forward attack since the Eighth Army's fight again below the 38th areas, Smail enemy pockets are five-day-old limited offensive. wilting under artillery barrages The Chinese infiltrated during and air strikes.
the night, mined roads, set up and sent sneak road-bit
into the walled city. United Nations forces called break the road- out tanks to blocks.
On the other hand it is being asked whether the enemy is lay- ing a trap or whether, with Oriental patience, he is walling for the Spring thaw which will turn the present iron-hard roads
into a
to a quagmire. Meanwhile,
at
Several miles to the north enet Chinese Communist forces,
the
Parallel."
In his weekly radio broadcast, Pearson said the Swedish Am bassador to Peking also cabled this same report" to his gov- ernment Lis Stockholm. He added, "That is why the Arab- Asialle nations do not want to brand China án aggTESST."
defence
Red
among ruined ranging in size from a company villages in the valleys and on to a battalion, struck at Ameri- Pearson predicted that Gen-
units steap anountain sides the cautious can
during the smalleral Eisenhower would tell Con- advance continues. London hours of the morning, but the gress this week that he bas attacks were contained in fight-found a firm will to resist Com- Express Service.
REDS' FIGHT BACK ing which raged ll daylight. munism in every one, of the Tokyo, Jan. 29. An Eighth Army spokesman Atlantic Paot countries and Chinose Communist
United Nations that it will be possible to build forces, today quoted at bay on the approaches
that 80,000 | 4
against the to source as munists Seoul, turned and fought bang massed between
Chinese
were Army' today carly
advancing
western United Nations troops within frontline and the Hon River. According to the commenta- 11 afr miles south of that Chinese Communists also at-tor. Gentral Eisenhower will
tacked Turkish troops
also say that though the poli- A fold dispatch
from the smaller scale west from Suwon cal situation 18 extremely Korean Western front said the and other United Nations forces grave there will
be no full-- · Reds hit back with battalion all the attacks, which were up to
in the Suwon-Inchon area, but scale war in Western Europe in
the immediate future. strength counter-attacles—up- wards of 1,000 men.
battalion strength, were repuls- Associated
correspon-ed with the help of artillery dent Stan Swinton, in a dis- and air poundings.—Reuter. patch med I a.m. sald fighting was continuing.
The latest Lloyds messages said that members of the crew had been taken from the fore part of battered Red held capital. callers
the ship, including one dead, as well as from the after part.
No damage was reported any-
Hamburg is only 25 miles from the Soviet zone of Ger- where, however, and Richard Elliott of
AEC Public many, where the Red Army has Relations staff said a radiological maintained upwards of a quar
million troops, equipped thousand tanics of yesterday's second explosion. and some jet planes. Bremen The Andings: No radioactivity is equally vilnerable.-Asso- Associated Press.
ciated Pressi.
rescu trawler on Saturday survey team had surveyed the ter
six men from one drifing yacht, but abandoned the craft when towlines broke. Associated Press.
area within a 150 mile radius with several
COMMENT OF THE DAY
Condemnation Of Peking
HE weekend deliberations at Lake
Success give rise to hopes that the United Nations are moving towards a compromise of divergent views which will eventually lead to morally just and practicably honourable treatment of Communist China's intervention in Korea and the question of bringing about an end to the hostilities in that country and a negotiated settlement concerning its future. Mr Warren Austin, the American delegate, has relieved the apprehensions of his Western colleagues by giving an assurance that the United States will not press for the application of sanctions against China at this time. This is of first importance because it is the conviction of Britain and her Commonwealth partners that any such action must destroy all possible hopes of negotiations on the Korea problem. On the moral issue of whether Communist. China should be declared an aggressor a growing unanimity of view is descernible; in fact only the Arab. Asian group and, of course the Soviet bloc, are now displaying any disinclina- tion to make the indictment. And even. these two factions are not prompted in their attitude by the same motives. The Arab-Asian group honestly believe that a resolution branding the Peking Government as an aggressor would have the effect of stiffening the Chinese Communists' resistance to negotiations. The Soviet bloc, on the other hand, will have no truck with such a resolution solely because it happens to be proposed by the United States and supported by some of the Democratic Powers. It is, therefore, probable that when a vote is taken on the motion Russia and her satellites will vote against it while the Arab-Asian countries will abstain, thus making it clear that they do not share any sympathy with the Soviet attitude of negation and obstruction. It is
ST?
unfortunate that on this issue, which is purely and simply a moral judgment, there should be disagreement between two important sections of the United Nations who, in all other respects, are one. The Peking regime would undoubtedly be more impressed if the Arab-Asian countries associated them- selves with the resolution naming Com- munist China an aggressor, for it would seem Mao Tse-tung is not insensitive to the influence of Nehru or to his views on what represents morally proper and improper behaviour by a nation's rulers. What appears now to be certain is that the United States will obtain an im- pressive majority vote for the resolution condemning Communist China, and that thereafter further vigorous efforts will be made to find a formula, satisfactory to everyone, for settling the immediate problem-ending hostilities in Korea and tackling the political issues concerning the future of the country. There is, of course, tho possibility that Poking will react violently to the "aggressor" resolution and will signify that she is no longer interested in taking part in
The British motor vessel Tahsinin (5,080 tons) gave the irst report that the Janko was in trouble. Her stern was out of the water and her boats could not be lowered in the rough
Get
Then the Janko split in two, The Norwegian ship Venus
(6,172 tons) which had answered
Conspirators Sentenced
Damascus, January 28.
against
Pregg
an
Burma Attacks.
Repulsed
д
He also said he believed General Elsenhower would tell President Truman privately, "At least three countries-Britain,
Belgium and the Netherlands
must be tol to increase their rearmament or else."
American troops, supported by Puerto Rican and Greek units, advanced on Sunday on average of three miles along a
Rangoon, Jan. 28.
He said that General Elsen- 40-mile front south and south-
Burmese Government troopshower, also would recommend the distress signals, tried to get nounced sentence in the case of
A military court today pro- cast of Seou Red resistance
until. France. "cracked repulsed an attack by 800 Com-that during the day had been rescuc lines abroad the fore the
today on munists
a military down" on the Communists in "conspiracy
first outpost scattered. This was the part. But the lines fell short.
the
30 mitca south of its own army, BO military Some of the men clinging to the occupied public opinion
country's
security which has reference to Greek troops in Mandalay. A Government com Secrets
since action. The censor would per-
bo entrusted to the wrock jumped into the Gen.
munique said that the Com French, September 8. Ten people
mit are no elaboration, The Venus launched her boats implicated,
munists suffered heavy casualtica including Deputy The Allied advance to try and pick them up.
in the in another engagement in the Mounir Alan Lieutenant | West came during a personal | Bassein sector, west. of Ran- Colonel Baheej Kallos The
and inspection of the front by goon. Panamanian tanker Major Hassan Elkhayyer. Caprella reported that she had
General MacArthur — his ninth The defenders of the military since the got a line onto the after part
WBT begah seven outpost, situated at Sagaing, They were charged with con- months agohiming to his Tokyo ed 15 Communiats, it was
along the Irrawaddy coast, kill and 13 men had swung them-spiring in Hashemite Jordan to Before selves over to safety.
undertake a new military coup Headquarters, the UN Supreme added. Reuter. in Syria with a view to uniting Commander conferred The
Caprella fred fourSyria with Jordan. rockets onto the fore part but the heavy line could not be drawn on board.
Later, the Venus made con- tact and took seven men off. One was dead.
with Lieutenant General Matthew B. Ridgway, Eighth
Army The court acquitted for in-leader, rode in a jeep to a for- sufficient evidence Colonel Kal-ward observation post North of las. Deputy Ajhni and Major Suwon, Elkhayyer.
Four others were condemned, Rashid Kalins, and. Mouhiddiné
and flew over Seoul. Fighters escorted his personal plane, the "SCAP",
CHINESE LOSSES General Ridgway told General
The Venus was making for Moured to five years imprison-MacArthur that losses of the Southampton with the vivors.
father,
January 1 conservatively were. estimated at 40,000 dead and wounded the equival- ent of about 20 Red divisions.
120,000
SHOULD BE LIVE Courtney
sur-ment, and Rashid's Tac British
Lieutenant Kallas to 18 months. Chinese Communists alone since steamer Hartle-- Associated Press, pool (5,532 tons) was standing by with the Tahsinia tonight and the Admiralty tug Bustler was on her way to the scene.
The Norwegian motor vessel Bursa (3,913 tons) was also there.
The Janko was on its way from Jordan to Gothenburg.— Reuter.
Singapore Black Market
Singapore, Jan. 28.
the UN Command,
tag
Secretary of
General MacArthurny-
cinred thesc
de-
"disaster pr casualties approach
"While aghting flared anew on the Western front, the Eighth Army announced in a special A shortage of shipping is communique that Allied forces DULLES TO GO market for British automo- under-strength
helping to create a black had cut off elements of five
Korean Com munist divisions in East-Central
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tion to mitigate against any such attitude: Communist China is almost certainly wearying of the, Korean, campaign, which has brought her no practical gain and which, while it con- tinuca, makes impossible any move to satisfy her aspirations towards obtain- ing a seat in the United Nations, or consideration of Poking's position regarding Formosa. These are impor tant subjects for the Peking Govern- ment about which Mao Tusting của look for no progress until and unless he shows willingness to meet the United Nations on reasonable terins to discuss "-aettlement of the Korea problemi, vy
An
pros
Greater
On the problem of German rearmament,
he said, "He (Elsenhower) will recommend that the West go ahead and arm, torgetting about German troops. they have been left out and will Then the Germans will think
olamour to join."-United Press.
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