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No. 34902
Established 1845
· FRIDAY, · MAY 25, 1951.
TASK FORCES STRIVE TO Youngest
CUT OFF RED LINE OF RETREAT
Bold Stroke By Almond
With The Eighth Army, Korea, May 25. United Nations troops lanced the Com- munists' collapsing defences along the central Korean front last night to seize Chunchon while to the east other Allied units advanced into North! Korea.
The defeated Chinese Communists hurried their retreat all across the peninsula.
North of Seoul, American, British and Cana- dian troops made gains up to within seven miles of the Parallel while armoured spearheads reached out to within five miles of the line.
Allied units wolkel Inito Jim Becker that the Chinese hod Chunchon without a fight. Olher abundoned their offensive and groups. advanced four miles | were withdrawing their mala north of Kapyong and falled to forces on the Central front. ineet organised resistance. However, desperate rearguard Powerful' Allied urmoured units were trying unsuccessfully, task forces lunged North across to bolt the U.N. forces. the 38th parullel yesterday and
split Commist forces deeing back in defeat in East central Korea.
Red vehicles
Allied air observers reported; from Chorwon
moving by night |
to Chunchon across the Central front and well above the 38th parallet; Other Red vehicles were again streaming Southward from "the: Manchurian border into North
The daring armoured thrust mashed to the banks of the Choyang River, Field disputches promptly labelled it one of the boldest strokes of the Korean | Korea.
war,
fron
While the powerful armada in "I expect great things of this tanks and vehleles carried U.N. troops into Red Korea for the effort," said
a message Lieutenant Generat Edward M. Third time in the War, the Almond, U. S. 10th Corps Com-Allied units were pushing back
Chunchon. mander, who ordered the swift Into
was the It seventh time that battered road attack. This was the only can- Armed crossing of the 38th centre. changed hands. paralle! along the entire 120-mile front. But other units of the U. S. Eighth Army closed to within one to four miles of the old political boundary along the front as the Chinese, and North Koreans fell back North at a dog-trot pace,
HOT PURSUIT
Units entering Chunchou re- ported capturing "more enemy than we could handle." The number of prisoners leted by censors..
was de.
CUT TO BITS
Groups who refused to sur- render south of Chunchon, on Lieutenant-General Junes A. the central front, were tonight Van Fleet, Elghth Army Com- | being mander, said the enemy
com-
"eut to bits," could munique said. Communists hud not prevent his victorious troops | disappeared from the Brea from maintaining the initiative | south and southeast of the and Inflicting the maximum Imjin River and armoured number of casualties on the forces moving north of Communists.
Uijongbu found few of them. The Reds withdrew rapidly in the castern front the with U.N. forcer in hot pursuit. Allies advanced rapidly, meet- One frontline officer told Ing nothing more than rifle Associated Press-correspondent | fire-Reuler.
COMMENT OF THE DAY
Baby In Zoo
“Liesel," a 13-foot high giraffe at Hamburg Zoo, seen with her baby, "Trinchen,” born ten days earlier. The youngster, taken a week ugo, is almost six feel high- -(Associated Press).
Reds Instal Radar System
Taipeh, May 24,
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The Chinese Canununists have installed radar trans- milters and receivers most of the tall buildings of Shanghai In a drive to strengthen the city's anti- aircraft defences, nocording to the Hongkong corres- pondent of Formosa's only English langvego paper, the "China News."
The radar net was in- stalled by Chinese workiar under the supervision of Soviet technical advisers.
further Indication of the air preparedness of the Communists, the corres- the pondent said, nightly blaze of search. llahts raking the skies over Shanghal-Router.
A Plan To Help Humanity
HE United Nations economists who THE
have devised a plan to produce enormous capital investment in under- developed countries are not utopians. What they demonstrated was that a vast proportion of the world's popula tion are greatly in need of economic aid and could be greatly helped if con- ditions were favourable. In a 108-page document these eminent scholars take account of the difficulties as well as the opportunities. The great obstacle is that there is no sure peace in the world and that consequently the free countries must spend on armament many billions of dollars that could otherwise be released for constructive foreign invest- ment. This pressure for expenditures for defence is caused by the aggressive activities of a nation which represents itself as the friend of the common man. The U. N. experts did not suggest that the equivalent of US$19,000,000,000 a year be poured out without question by the United Nations or by Governments
or
sum
by private investors. What is actually needed seems to be about -US$10,000,000,000 a year of capital Imports into the underdeveloped coun- tries, of which about 80 per cent should go to countries of South Central Asia and the Far East. The total amounts to somewhat less than 3 per cent of the annual incomes of the nations of Western Europe, Australasia, the United States and Canada. Or course the United States through one agency or another would be the largest investor. The economists face up to some of the inherent difficulties of such Investments. No country can got ahead economically unless its people are willing to make the necessary sacrifices -which is not always the case. As the report says: "Ancient philosophies have to be scrapped; old social institu- tions have to disintegrate; bonds of caste, creed and race have to be burst; ^
Was
and large numbers of persons who can- not keep up with. progress have to have their expectations of a comfortable life frustrated." The economists dared to Buggest that rapid progress 'in some countries cannot take place "until a social revolution has effected a shift in the distribution of income and power." a peaceful We take it they mean- revolution such as generally takes place when there is a great technological advance. They may also believe- though they do not explicitly say so that the fake reforms of communism will have to be counteracted by real .reforms encouraged by the democracies.. The task will not be too easy. For one thing, 08 the report says, "the technology of developed countries cannot simply be transferred." The new methods of production must be adapted to the customs and temperament of the people who are to use them, On one point the economists are refreshingly optimistic. They believe that under favourable circumstances production can keep ahead of population. They do not suggest that we allow people to die of unnecessary diseases because there is danger that they will be undernourished if they remain alive. It will be a long time before any programme like this can get into stride, assuming that it is accepted by the Economic and Social Council
the and implemented, as economista suggest, by such agencias as the Export-Import Bank of the United States and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Develop ment. But the obstacles are political, and psychological, not material.” If wo could have assured peace, or even an Indefinitely prolonged truce, tho principles laid down in this report might be used to bring about an enormous spread of well-being and of freedom in areas contiguous to this part of the world.
Output Expansion May Cause Chaos
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"Certain People Intriguing To Negotiate With Britain"
CABINET CLASH IN PERSIA OVER BRITISH OFFER Parachute Brigade Likely
Be Flown To Middle
To
East
London, May 24. The British government will announce soon, probably within 24 hours, the departure of the 16th Independent Para- chute Brigade Group from England for somewhere in the Middle East.
Chinese
Soccerites
In Law Suit
The Brigade has been alerted for more than one week because of the Iranian crisis, and started a 72-hour "embarkation leave” on Wednesday.
The Brigade, numbering 4,000 to 5,000 men,
Closer Relations
Urgent
London, May 24,
Mr Anthony Eden called tonight for an urgent re- VIVA! of "intimate and friendly" relations WIN the United States na added Insurance against
aggressive · Rumian alexa:
In a speech, Mr Eden also predicted that The "appaling losaca" suffered
by Red China
would awaken the Chinese to the burden with which Russia had saddled them.com United Press.
will not go to Iran but will go into what the British LORD HALL
RESIGNS ADMIRALTY
call the "pipeline" of troops that extends from here to the Middle East, to South-east Asia and to Korea.
There was no indication that few days was being seriously Britain intends to use troops in discussed in Influential clrcles. The China National Amateur Iran at this time.
The nowspaper Atish, which Athletic Federation, Hongkong The decision
to move the supported Dr Mossades, stated branch, were defendants in an parachute brigade out of Britain today: "Certain people are in- action brought before Mr and into the Middle East came triguing to re-start negotiations Justice Scholes at the Supreme amid these developments:
with the British, but we can Court this morning.
1. Britain has asked France, not turn back."
The Shah is following de- the Admiralty, has resigned and Lid, of India, Pakistan, Iraq and Tur-
to help negotiate an Anglo-velopments closely and observers will be replaced by Lord Paken- 04. Lloyd's Road, Singapore, Iranian settlement of the oil though that he might yet play ham, at present Minister of Civil and they claimed $5,071 being dispute because they
have a prominent part in a settle- Aviation, it was officially an balance of money due and pay- big-scale "interest" in
a ment of the dispute..
nounced here tonight. oble by the defendants foot-negotiated settlement.
Government's six-day ball team which played at 2. Emergency
Go" preparations "Help or
Viscount Hall, who is 09, told ultimatum went Singapore for the "Ho
have Ho been made for the evacua- to the Anglo-Iranian On Com- the Prime Minister in a lettor
tion Biscuit Trophy".
British families from Iran pay in a letter signed by
that he was resigning to make
Plaintiffs were the Enter-
tainment Enterprises
son and Grist, represented the plaintiffs.
trouble.
are
It
Dr
London, May 24, Viscount Hall, First Lord of
Mr A.K.W. Lui of Lo and by the Anglo-Iranian Oll Com- | Mohamed All Varastch, the way for a younger person. Lo, appeared for the Federation pany and British Overseas Air- Finance Minister.
Corporation in case of while Mr Peter Mo, of Wilkin-ways
3. Officials
extremely worried, that the present govern- ment of Premier Mohammed Mossadeg
may collapse touch of rioting and chaos
BRITISH OFFER
The action was adjourned
for one week.
man of President Truman's Big Four Go
International Development Board, warned today that renewed dollar shortage In Europe and economic chaos in under-developed
areas may occur after the current emergency, unless 1 Co- ordinated world development programme is put into mo- tion now.
Mr Rockefeller, addressing extemporaneously a Juncheon In connection with the World Trade Week, said that if the danger is to be avoided, steps must be
taken to keep world production
on a proportionate level with the planned expansion in the United States, Otherwise, he warned, the world economy would be more unbalanced than ever after the termination of emergency.
Mr Rockefeller recalled that Mr Aneurin Bevan, in his re- signation speech to the House of Commons, salt that the 20 per cent
production expansion planned by the United States in the next two years will be greater than Britain's entire pro- duction for civilian and military needs and will require greater and greater amounts of scarce raw materials.
on
"If the emergency is at end what will the 20 per cent increased production be used for? We can's close plants and dismiss workers. The answer is necessarily in foreign trade."
In order to have these foreign
Through Ritual
Paris, May 24.
and
"
Viscount Hall had been First Lord of the Admiralty sinči October, 1948.
Political correspondents' to-
siderable feadjustments in the night did not anticipate any con Government as a result of. Viz- count Hall's retirement-Router.
He had no disagreement with was addressed to Mr the Government's polley, Richard Seddon, described as "the representative of the Lord Hall has not been in former Anglo-Iranian oil com- good health for several months. pany.
It referred to the
The Prime
Mr Minister, Minister's letter of May 20,
Clement Attlee, in accepting the inviting the company to pregnation, described Viscount point representatives immediate. Britain has defnitely offered for implementing the nation Hall as "the most loyal and un- to accept Persie's desire for oil nationalisation
alisation law, and added: "As selfish of colleagues,”* *- as a basis for up to now you have not in- the negotiations which she still hopes will be
troduced your representatives with opened
.order to arrange for the *) in Persia, it was understood
execution of the law for the well-informed quarters. offer was made verbally nationalisation of oil, I have to The deputies of the Big Four by the British Ambassador, Sir state that I am available every Foreign Ministers had another Francis Shepherd, when he day in the Finance Ministry to short meeting today." As
at handed over the latest British see your representatives.
"NO ALTERNATIVE" yesterday's meeting, no one had note to Persia in Teheran inst "Should you fall to nominate puties parted, for the 50th time, Teheran told Router that serious within anything to say and the de-weekend.
Usually reliable sources in and send your representatives one week, that is by after a formal five-minute ex consideration was being given May 30, the Government will have no alternative- but to act to the British offer to send a mission to discuss the pro-according to its legal duties, as
nationalisation posed
of the prescribed in the laws of March Anglo-Iranian Oil Company.
15 and 20 and April 30, 1951."
Taramo, May 24. It was on the basis of these This was apparently delaying
Four Italian workmen were the North Atlantic Treaty does the Persian reply to the British
three laws that the oil industry lined and nine injured by an was nationalised and, according explosion not yet foreshadow the ppsel-note of fast weekend. The Per-
here today In the to Dr Varasteh, "the Persian 6.300-ton bility of a breakdown in the Gian Prime Minister, Dr
Panamanian, tanker discursions on a Foreign Minis- Mohammed Mossatler, is be Government is bound to under-Springwater. ters' agenda, observers here beloved to be resolutely against tice, expat in explost, refine hieve.
[any such mission proposal These observers say that both Hussein Maki, the Secretary rides are intent on a meeting of of the Oil Nationalisation Board the Ministers, The question is and his right-hand man, is be- whether the issue of the Northloved to approve the idea. Atlantic Treaty can be solved.
CABINET CRISIS?
change.
Yesterday's meeting lasted only half a minute. They are mecting again tomorrow,
The persistent deadlock over
but
+
The Western Powers have made Talks persisted in Teheran it clear that they will not dis-today of the Prime Minister cuss the North Atlantic Treaty losing ground and the possibl- in any form.---Reuter,
lity of a Cabinet crisis in a
Not Too Sure Which
Is Danger Spot
Washington, May 24.
General Omar Bradley, chairman of the Joint markets, he added, the United Chiefs of Staff, said today that he was "not too sure States must start now to Russia is going to start something in Iran before strengthen the economy of the world's free countries-United they start it somewhere else."
Press,
Peronistas Tongue-Tied
Buenos Aires, May 24. Prezident. Foron'a Press Office today declined to make any official statement on a Rio de
•
General Bradley's remarks, in the last six months. Yugo- (in the Senato Inquiry) were slavia, for example, was, very prompted by a question from mach In the limelight two or Senator Alexander Wiley (Re-three months ago and it is still publican) who suld
a danger point.
"Iran always has been one "Yesterday you did not seem and right now it to feel very sure whether or melight because of the dispute not the Iranian situation was
LET
the
la in the
actually more critical than, let over oil between Great Britain Bay; the possibility "of a and the government of Iran, So satellite invasion of Yugoslavia.
far as I am concerned, I think from the British point of view "The British seem to regard to
probably the
they look on this as Iranian éituation as the most dangerous point right
tor: Wiley. Senator
for as I am concerned, "Ac- now,
I am not too sure the Russians they may 4130 parachute are going to wart something in Iran before they, start it some Romid Richter, the Austrian trooms in order to prevent the where else, and that was the oll-folds from falling into un- born atom expert.
friendly hands. I wonder,
Janeiro newspaper report the more mortant," -con-
the President hat given orders cording to reports,
bo ready for the arrest of Professor
An official, who did not wish
to be named described the re
porins "malicious" and said ihat it did not warrant ́s-reply,
square" your
to
basis of my statement "yester- therefore, how you would day" |
asked comments, which Senator Wiley then
there had been any seem to understate the case as whether ogalat the reports
discus- of Great Joint Anglo-American Britain, which seem to point'
Iran: General": Bradley:
The Rio newspaper report at tremendous dangers there Vention intive to mallilary Inter-
**Thord
figli skid" that Prodent Peron Involved. ordered the "Professor's arrest
General Bradley: "There Have
Have have been no military dis-" after· Anny" experts had do-- "been many places in which cussions, I don't know whether nounced biri, lama 5 fake” there has been threatened ag- or not anybody, che hai nad Router.
gression of threatened trouble"] any."--United Press
and sources."
from
re-in
OIL TANKER
EXPLOSION
The Springwater was 'moored in harbour after being rented locally. The casualiles belonged So far the company has not to
who were A shere party replied to Dr. Varasteh's letter working in one of the vessel's of May 20, which also asserted tanks. that the nationalisation of the An enquiry has been opened,
(Continued on Page 10 Cat, 4) -Reuter.
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on choise,
HILLMAN
Minx GILMANS
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