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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1951.
Commonwealth Division's Fine Ringing Down The Curtain
Showing In Vicious REACTION Korea Fighting
Tokyo, Oct. 8.
TO STALIN Battle-hardened veterans of the 28th Brigade
spearheaded the British Commonwealth Division's
STATEMENT attack on the western Korean front, Ronald
Played Up By Red Newspaper
Moscow, Oct. 8. Pravda, the Soviet. Cum- manist Party newspaper Today devoted a full page to foreign Press reaction Marshal Stalin's statement on Saturday that Russia had
tested an atom bomb.
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Fast Pasropean comument als complasarett hat the statemend hart holstereit the maiale at thi "rang of the peace parasang and said that the Thalesi State had lost a powerful amatos af pressure and deskt
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Western capatals
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Batchelor, Reuter's correspondent at the western front, reported in a despatch tonight.
In six days of vicious fighting -some of the heaviest of the Korean campaign the Brigade alone has killed or wounded by head count about 1,000 Chinese and estimates that it has inflicted a minimum of 3,000 casualties all told.
These figures represent a casualty ratio of at least 10 to and the count of Chin- ese dead is still going on.
The Brigade had also taken 93 prisoners by Last night, とい battalion-sized
seized Wide tehing and ammunition dumyn. numerous
heavy medium und light maritine- gun, bazookas, heavy and light mortars and hundreds of rides and burp guns
The core of
the Chinese
defence system-the bill which
came le he known As the
Hellbox-held out for three days against the combined assaults of the Northumberlands and Australians and the cease- less pounding of New Zealand, Catiadjon and British guns,
It wa, the Australians in the frul phase who broke the hearts of the Chinese-a record of dogged determination ant skill which must rank among the binest feats of this incredibly tough and famous battalion.
ENEMY SLAUGHTERED They fought without sleep, with Httle or no water and food for three
under Jays, were
The Commander of the Com monwealth Divasin, Brigadier- Gentia
Kaid Taylor
"My trouas bave fought magnificent- ly through contry very much
e the Malayan pangle." Chinese troops fought intense aridiery re for almost ali ef 24 hours, and beat off four doggedly all day today behind their own artillery and inortar heavy counter-attacks. Bruges refusing to budge an unch of ground unless diven from their positions in hand- beband combat
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A Division spokesman Said The fighting was dirtier today 1 an yesterday There was greater volume of artillery nod merter Are, but the hund-to- hand lighting was far less."
On there aire days they sized a three-male ng ridge- line, a 100-f hill dominating de entire Communi defener Haughtered hun- svster!
attempting to reds of Chinese
filtrate and eclate them from the erst of the Brigade.
bare 'Those are the
facte. country of jungle- But in this
heart-breaking fort
be cungrot rectal of barr
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Thurs
The climax of the SIX-day battle broke last might when thes
Australians Unice Hun display, casured in
words.
With 1
Northumberland Fusiliers twice foreerd off the "Hellbox" alter assaults which
Osed their matchless combination of and courage and toughness by with- play
standing a nine-hour battalion- thesized aftuck against their pusink them to with sigh: of the
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The Vatican And Pakistan
Kazach, Or: $ Pukt and the Vat.com havi xange agreed to
diplomatic the Foreign Ministry missions Announced
i Chinese effort to hold their hili Chinese banker-type fort (as
fortress positions.
BITTER FIGHTING
threr heavy machine-guns doning the hil). the Aus- tralians worked their way round 10 the
north and captured a Brocky
of the spur--a hinge Every battalion in the Rude, phix a fourth (Northum- Chinese defence are
Yesterday the Australians berland Fusiliers) has been in-
close mortar repulsed three vicious counter- volved an bitter
have attacks preceded and followed Sabling as tough
throughout ever experienced. as one com- by heavy shelling
of the daylight hours. pany commander,
a veteran
the last war's desert Halian and Western Europe campaigns, de- scribed it.
of
of
"SHELLS LIKE RAIN"
Pinned down Unti almost Backed by 52-ton Centurion
isolated. they were unable to tanks, climbing like goats U
replenish their rapidly dwindling do wooded slopes The heavily
ammunition, which had to be last Chines- bunkes out
manhandled to their positions xistence with their 20-pounder
barrages all has been through artillery the Infantry gulis, able to scize a Be a formid- through last night. able in its way as the German and Japanese set defences the last war.
Brigadier-General Taylor to-
as superb described night. Bid ha: The uncement
of the Eighth they
the performance is ablish 1. gations
Hussars with tanks which they with the bject "main ing
have and further Strengthen og he
manoeuvred to positions to be impossible for friendly reasons already existing thought belwres Pakistan and e Holy any tracked or wheeled vehicle
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After more than 12 hours of ceaseless shelding-it fell like rain"-came the final Chinese attack, which was not smashed
Ill-Fated Plane 'Just Vanished'
It was then about 80 miles way here from The way on its
Malta.
On Festival Of Britain
RUSTLERS IN
NEW FOREST
Southampton, Oct. 7.
The Festival of Britain, on the South Bank of the Thames, officially closed on Sept. 30. Upper photo shows crowds watching the massed bands, drums and pipes of the Brigade of Guards beating the re- treat On the fairway. Lower picture portrays the floodlit scene as men of the Royal Fusiliers lowered the Union Jack and the Festival flags.
New State Will Have 2 Capitals
Bengazi, Oct. 8. Independent Libya is going to have tau capitals-Tripo}} and Bengazti
This was decided on Sunday Constituent Assembly by the
laying the groundwork for the new United Nations-sponsored State
which gets its indepen- dence next January 1.
There has been sharp debate for months
over location
of
the capital.
King El Senussi, who is
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be ruler of the new State. from Cyrenaica. Its capital
always has been Bengüz!.
But the new will include
Japs Refused Hearing
United Libya Cyrenaica, Tri- A gang of rustlers have beepolitana and the Fezzan. trapping wild ponies in the
Tripol site of a big U.S. Forest Air Force 229-square mile New
base, will be the near here and selling them to largest city in all Libya, and blackmarket horse slaughterers. there has been a strong move- So far the gang has eluded ment to make it the capital.— Nicosia, Oct. 8.
Now police patrols.
squads of Associated Press. Dakola until just before dawn today.
men, who live in hamlets in An Indian Air Force Major Jack Gerke, of Perth,
crashed On the the Forest, go out every night, Western Australia, commander plane which
coast on Satur-armed with cudgels and shot.
five lives
to protect guns
ponies. the of the Australian defence force, South Turkish
the con- But have been unable to
they reported after the action: day with the loss of
before catch any members of the gang, were sick and tired of counting was in contact with enemy
dead." which litlered rol tower here shortly
who use torrles and vans to 2 pm. on Saturday when it was their positions on of sides.
take
the ponies. away Fifteen minutes
que to land.
Washington, Oct. 9. heavy of
The slaughterers have several
The United States Supreme shelling and coloured Verey
markets among cafe, restaurant Court on lights heralded the attack.
and hotel owners in London hearing to a group
Monday refused
of about Chinese, abandoning their nor- The wireless operator asked and South of England towns. 4,000
ready
of persons
Japanese mal practice of blowing bugle
weather and shouting,
ancestry residing on the West crept through for
Nicosia. This was the long grass and scrub ta
they are United charge the Diggers positions given by the control at Nicosia months old in the blackmarket. Coast who seek official declara-
but it was not clear whether The ponies are easy to catch. tions that with burp guns blazing.
All of the group Wave after
hit the the plane picked up the report. Many of them are so tame that States citizens.
were born Directly afterwards
they go up to cars and almost
in-this country. While held in Australians and were drei-
ceased and the plane simply beg for food.--Reuter,
relocation
during centrea mated.
World War II, they signed The Chinese, cloaked by vanished, blown northwards by
30-knot southern wind.
renunciations of American heavy mists, were able to reach
In citizenship. and, in some cases, penetrate
The Japanese Americans company positions.
contended they did this under-
from pressure
nationalistic elements in the relocation centres. Associated Press.
The
wave
SHOW MERCY
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Lact
report
over
immediately
all con-
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Manoeuvres
The Med.
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When an R.A.F. search over a wide area of the sea-lane between Cyprus arad Turkey yield- ed no result Turkish Air Force assistance was asked for.
Naples, Oct. 8. Forty-four units of the United Australian troops
This was readily given and it that they heard Chinese wound-was actually a Turkish aircraft States 6th Fleet in the Mediter- near rancan dropped anchor here ed moaning in the close scrab which spotted the wreck
Anamur, a few minutes before today. Six Dutch warships round their positions.
by Commodore Characteristically, the Aus-4 pm. on Sunday. Until this commanded
R.A.F Information Burghard will join the Ameri- tralians showed mercy. After afternoon
and down broke they held their was that the plane carried a can ships in submarine
warfare and ire and allowed Chinese crew of geven of whom five anti-submarine stretcher bearers to carry oway had been killed and two in- convoy escort operations in the conduct electricity from Sweden
jured.-Router. their wounded,
Throughout the attack the Australians had the support of the entire Divisional artillery. A stream of 25-pounder shells from the massed gums coverod their positions for most of the night iron curtain:
flaming steel that the d their utmost to
plerce.
of
On their flank, companies of
the King's Own Scottish Border-
Taxi-Driver's
Queer Hobby
Eastbourne, Oct. 8.
ers and the King's Shropshire Taxi-driver Reg Carmen, of
Light Infantry poured heavy Eastbourne, machine-gun fire down on the matches,
collects spent.
With them he began making
Chinese troops as they tried to models of boats and cars. Then reinforce the attackers.
made a scale model of the and no. Finally the attack broke and
Queen Elizabeth, 2ft. Gin. long. the Chinese fled.
fak
matches and 12,000 That Heavy air And artillery bon-
four months to
malce bandmenta continued to blast the Chinese rear poslijone through motor and now sails it on the He led it with electric out the day and Thortly before take at Princes Park dusk the Fusiliers advanced to Then he made four facto wine this rimaining Communist with They took haya
anistiain's frit Con
Common Wall
of Tower Bridret
bandh katha wohinese have
Giant Cable Laid Copenhagen, Oct. 8. A giant cable, which will❘
to Denmark, has been hid Mediterrancan
under the water which divides Mode in The Dutch ships Include the the two countries. Tight
crudser Tromp, three des Denmark, It is three miles long." troyer escorts and two sub- the largest of its kind in the marines-Reuter,
world-Router.
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