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MADE.

COMMENT OF

THE DAY D

Same Old Attitude

HAT the Communists

Tave cynicaly thrown away another opportunity! of reaching an armistice agreement with the United Nations may be painful, but it is not surprising. The attitude adopted to the three alternative pro- posals advanced by the UN negotiatora for the disposal of the prisoner of war Isuse is typical of the in-| difference which the Reds have displayed all along to Allled attempts to work out an acceptable formula. If any serious study had been made during the Inst 10 days of the United Nations auggestions there Was nothing in the de- meanour and remarks of General Nam II and his associates at

Panmunjom

on Wednesday to indicato it. If the Communist dele- gates could. "see nothing now" in the proposals then It was because they did not wish to do so, and the mere fact that they advanced no alternative based on the principle of free-will re- patriation may be taken to mean that they themselves were quite prepared to re- cess the Panmunjom meet- ings indefinitely.

MR

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Britain May Explode White Horse Mountain Stranded On

Second Atom Bomb

.

(From Chapman Pincher)

London, Oct. 9. “

A second British atom bomb may be exploded in *Australla next month. The Government's three top atom men - Dr William Penney, Sir John Cockcroft and Sir Frederick Morgan - have made arrange- ments to fly to Australia early in November.

If a second bomb is fired'it is likely to be designed-

to prove that an atomic explosion can be. controlled.

It is believed that a new bomb mechanism, de- signed by Dr Penney will enable the heat and blast to be concentrated so that the weapon could be used tactically on the battlefield.

The three scientists are travelling in different aircraft possibly to minimise the lose in the event of an accident.

Dr Penney is still in Australia. He is due to return to report to the Prime Minister, Mr Churchill, next week.

Sir John Cockcroft, chief of the Harwell atom station and the Government's top defence scientist, is in the United States for secret defence talks.

Sir Frederick Morgan, who did not attend the first firing at the Monte Bellò Islands,' is Controller of Atomic Energy. - London Express Service,

Regained

By ROKS

HAND-TO-HAND FIGHTING

Seoul, Oct. 10. Rugged South Korean infantrymen bayoneted their way to the top of shell-torn White Horse Mountain today (Friday), hurling the Chinese back with cold steel, clubbed rifles, rocks and hand grenades.

The hand-to-hand fighting raged just over the crest but an Allied frontline officer reported the ROK Ninth Division soldiers won control of the top of the hill at 12.30 a.m.

Mr Butler

Butler Cannot

Cannot Promise

Britons An

Easy

Scarborough, Oct. 9.

Mr Richard Butler, the Chancellor of the Ex- chequer, told the Conservative Party conference here today he could not promise “an easy time". despite improvements in the nation's economic con-

MR Dean Acheson's dofence

of the UN delegates' de cision to break off negotia tions, until the Communists are prepared either to ac cept one of the three pro- posals for dealing with the dition. POW problem, or to ad-

Although the nation had reached a balance

vance a constructive and ac and even a small surplus in her overseas' account, captable alternative, has been well received by West- there were still many things to be put right, he

ern diplomats. The Secre-

tary of State insists that

said..

"Wa Mr Butler declared that Bri-

can only succeed in the United States will not tain's objectives were to re-saving the economy of this small be a party to trading in store her position in the world, Island, and not only of the lives of men for the sake expand home production and Commonwealth but of also the of concluding an armistice, maintain

competition

countries United, foreign the

es-markets.

and with Nations principle well

tablished that there shail

we

with free countries of Europe, in export collaboration with America in a spirit of friendship and gratitude particular,

to America," he said. must Improve our exports by com- be no forced repatriation of peting better with Germany and prisoners, his attitude is Japan, which are going the only justifiable

heavily into one.

the engineering The UN desire for a quick and textile markets." -end-to-hostilities. In Korea

Mr Butler said there.

zo

wero

SUPPORT PLEDGED

The conference passed resolu- tions pledging full support to the Government in any measures

is not a whit diminished algng that the country was dillecessary for the benefit of the

ús

nation.

and

by the decision to suspend living above its means despite

It also approved a resolution truce talks at Panmunjom, the fact that a good deal of in-

was 10- which said, the time but the flation had been cut out. and it requires

But he added: "As the year propriate for a renewed advance right gesture on the part

do not think we in Commonwealth unity goes on, I of the Communists to bring need take quite so pessimistic a development, including redis- the

have tribution critics some negotiatora together view again, with every prospect

Mr Butler and he would go of reaching a final agree- ment. It must be admitted, over the Budget estimates even more thoroughly than before, however, that signs of any but he did not think it was go- such gesture being made ing to be "an cusy year in which are, at the moment, non-to

promises" mke lush existent.

inyours to come.

done."

AH! ANDREX

rence

of

of population and closer economic integration.

Another resolution adopted Conservative reaffirmed the belief in Imperial preference and urged the Government to seek amendments in the General Agreement on Tarifts and Trade (GATT) which were injurious to Empire trade and develop mont.

Time

Governor's Plane Is Delayed

It was officially...an- nounced this morning that the BOAC plane on which DE the Governor, Sir

Alexander Grantham, and Lady Grantham travelling from Blugapore

har to Hongkong

beon - 'delayed at Balgon,

As a result Sir Alexander is expected to arrive at Kal Tak at 5 o'clock today,

HE and Lady Grantham will leave Kal Tak by launch at 5.10 and arrive at Queen's Pier at 5.45. They will leave Queen's. Pier for (jovernment House at 6.05.

SHIPS

REPORTED

SAFE

Evade Gunboat Off Foochow

L

Not since Heartbrook Ridge a year ago has there been such sustained and bloody fighting in Korea.

The weary ROK soldiers had been fighting for 78 hours with hardly a break at the time the crest was seized in a final all- out punch for the top.

The ROKs have been pushing dawn under Avago fire from

forward "foot by foot since

Red big guns and tanks..

The officer said groups of es many as 17 Red tanks were scen during the day and several long Targe exchanges with Allied tanks took place.

Eager Allled tankers rumbled "out"in' the "fatland in the East andi West Blanke of the hill in' hopes of enticing the Chinese The armour into a real battle, Red tankers never ventured out for moro than a Bhot.

quick

The bill was the scene of bursting theils and dead bodies. 1,200 Observers counted

Chinese bodies

on terrain visible from ROK outposts. Many more dead must rest on

the unobserved slopes,

Disaster:

Railway Nearly All Bodies Believed Recovered

Ice Cap

This picture shows the RAF Hasin plano which WER forced down on an Ive cap in Greenland and from where the members of the British North Greenland Expedition, lod by Commander Simpson, were eventually reacted. The above picture was taken from Д accend Hastings aircraft which dropped supplies to the stranded men. The photo- traph was taken in a tem- perature of 17 degrees Thirty-five hours after two expresses ploughed centrade. London Express.

Harrow, Oct. 9.

into a packed train in Harrow station in Britain's second worst railway disaster, an official said nearly all bodies had been recovered.

Official casualty Hats tonight stood at 94 dead re- covered and 176 injured and in hospital.

Ambush Plan

A British Railway extcutiv", There might be one or two more. That Did Not

Frank Abrahams, said: "I think and hope we have more or less reached the full total of dead

Police Mau

TOSHLIG

bodies to be recovered.” However, many workers did not agree with Abrahams. They-ld there might

another score of mutilated bodies packed in the

bo

Raid ughtly-knit hard core of the

Materialise

Singapore, Oct. 9. whare wreckage,

# 150-ton Malayan Communist terrorists locomotive finally halted after planned to ambush the Duchess Kent during her trip to ripping through three stationary

Kuala Kuba Bahru, 40 miles from Kuala Lumpur, last Tues- authorities day, the military revealed today.

Maucouches of the local train.

Initiation

of

of

The 30-foot-high tomb three wrecked trains has been roduced to a tangled, splintered

25

long, yards

burners sted girders

mness

release sald the watching the and road on which the Duchess was

As An Army cut terrorists began

Nairobi, Oct. 9. oxyacetylene Police swooped on a secret chassis, dremen tore the to travel ETI route to her

The ROKS have been battling Mau Mau initiation

ments.

through

cere.

coach

axes,

-each-

an estimated two Chinese regi- many early today, seizing cart of the wreck away, using inspection of the Royal West ropes and two 50-ton Kent Regiment several days A normal Chinese regt-40 initiates in the act of cran end of the wreckage. They Patrols of British troops and

ware at before she was due to pass. cranes. The cranes Hore taking the seven oaths of worked their way slowly

rmen found at trenchies and

ment is of 2,800 men

Fighting on White

Mountain far

action

battlefronts.

elsewhere along

the

to

overshadowed this terrorist secret society. wards each other by dragging The arrests were made only great chunits of the coaches 12 hours before the funeral of dear.

Kunga, Waruhlu Wa Chief murdered by the Mau Mau on As Tuesday.

and

Alled Sabre Jet pilots shot down two MIGA', today damaged three more but most air activities were centred over White Horse Mountain Last night dropping parachute Bares over the rubbled peak.

Chinese counter-attacks were almost certain to hit the weary ROKS who cized the peak,

An estimated Chinese force of The Royal Navy this two battalions were hugging the morning received a signal north slope Just over the crest from the ss Admiral Hardy and 200 more Chinese were on Mr Leopold Amery, & former (1,929 tons) and the ss Minister, Enld "Imperial pre- forence is the only practical Tefkros (1,972 tons) re- policy to ensure our recovery.porting they were safe and The two policies of Empire and proceeding on their voyage GATT are irreconcilable. We to their respective destina- of must choose one way or the tions. other."

He added that under the agreement Britain was bound to treat the Commonwealth a foreigners Reuter,

Demoralising Army, Plan

captured. Associated Press, the hill top when It was re-

The police made their raid on

to

openinga were made in the jammed wrock, fremen

up moved

individually the edge of a European coffee crawl in and search by flash-

bodies plantation near Kiambu, the light for possible Kikuyu reserve 15 miles north When the latest body was of here, where Chief Waruhlu recovered, was burled.

Rushing three straw-thatched African huts, they not only caught the men and women in volved but captured one of the most complete collections of Mau Mau initiation apparatus yet seen outside the ceremonies. It included part of the stem of a banana tree hollowed out with in the form of a trough Seoul, Oct. 10.

seven pegged thorns at one end Rugged South Korean

and sheep's and goals' eyes each fantrymen lost and then recap- pegged to the stem by two other Last evening the as Hin Sang,

tured bloody White Hors thorns. of Jartline, Matheson, picked up Mountain early today (Friday)

GOATS BLOOD

LOST AND REWON

in-

a message from these two ships in a free-for-all hand-to-hand Goat's blood, used to to the effect that an unidentified fighting.

them

the

Homage t

gourds, one of them containing the blood of an animal and the other containing seven mud balls, zeven grass rings, two sticks on which seven sodom appies had been impoled and a collec tion of bracelets, bangles

from The buckles stripped

anoint the initiates, was still in the gunboat near Ma-tsu Island of The sturdy South Korean trough when it was shown to Foochow was trying to intercept soldiers of the Republic of Reuter's correspondent,

Korea Ninth Division seized The police also found half The Hin Sang at once relayed the rubbled peak for the second bottle of goat's blood and two

to the Royal Navy in time since midnight with a vicious bayonet charge just after Apparently the Admiral Hardy dawa. and the Tafkros managed to

An officer at the front describ- ovade the gunboot, according toed the fighting on the crest as a latest information.

The Admiral Hardy called from "tree for all with bayonets, Hongkong on October 1 for Foo- grenades and fists. French officials announced to-chow. This ship, owned by the The ROKs first retook the day that in raids on Communist Stanley Shipping Company, was peak just after midnight but offices polles had discovered detained by a Nationalist gunboal four hours later a Chinese bat- evidence of a general plan for off White Dog Island in carly talion swept up the north slope demoralization of the army. September, and had general and the ROKs were pressed

The officials said the plan, cargo of 813 tours removed. She back about 20 yards from the carried out, told Reuter, "nopa of us know if our own personal along with detailed instructions retummed to the Colony on the South Korean soldiers servants

And houseboys' aro for carrying it out, was seized September 23. in offices of the Union of Repub-

held fast at a slight knob about loyal any longer. Mau Mau has into the 20 yards from the top and re- been creeping fast grouped, **,

Parla, Oct. 8,

The Telkros left Hongkong on Hean Youth of France: They July 22.

Indicated the seized documents would permit them to take ection against Communist higher

пра

Police announced they were seeking six Communists, includ❤

CYCLES ACROSS CHANNEL

Dover, Oct. 9.

and

initiat Clin Ellis, manager of a coffee estate adjoining the settlement where the raid was

ves and hearts

At 6.50 a.m. they surged back people." Neuter.

up the peak under withering

cover from Allied big guns and

anashetti the Chinese back. Wife Sentenced

own" against

"a" member of the converted motorcycle attached the height Reds are, on

theso

As last reports came in the Tho French motor cyclo South Korean ing Alain de Leap, Secretary champion, George Monneret, to holding their

soldiers were For Manslaughter General of the Communist and

Munich, oct. 0.. Labour Federations: Others be day landed on Dover: beach; massed Chinese counter-attacks

Mrs Maria J. Wage, 10- ing sought

Andro after crossing the channel on a An estimated - are:

in on the year old mother of two baby Bougieres,

northern slope, 'floats.

daughters, was sentenced by an Communist Party Contral Comto mittee; Jean Christian Messor Entering the water at 7,05 ani. The courageous ROE soldiers American court today to 30 Robert Gubert; Jean Pietro GMT at Calais today, Monneret, have now been fighting almost monthat imprisonment, for the Morut and Robert Gelly, all au- crossed. In six hours and then continuously on. White Horse for mandaughter of der husband, a

{ssociated || Unitéd: States Air cials of the Youth Union, Asso-sot off for London by road, more than 64 hours.". cinted Prass..

Bergant-Router,

Router.

Force

more

rescue workers said they could see four victims, trapped in the twisted debris. It was presumed they were dead-United Press,

obecrvation posta during tho weekend and the release sald these were used as cover for the bandits.

During the Duchess' visit,' troops and police patrolled both sides of the road leading from Kuala Lumpur to Kuala Kubu Bahru and fighter bombers of the RAF qw overhead.

The Royal' party travelled in the centre of a heavily-armed. convoy-United Press

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