1948-07-20 — Page 8

United States Building Up South Korean Army

FORMED AS A CONSTABULARY

Seoul, July 19.-The United States is quictly building a native army in South Korea. Its size is secret. But any casual observer can see that the force is growing rapidly.........

Green-uniformed troops can be seen drilling on the countryside. Small units move in and out of Seoul, marching on the double and singing.

The organisation is known

as the Korean Con-

stabulary. But nobody can tell it from an army. has American Garand rifles that have robuilt.

Three Czech Generals

Escape

It

been newly

An occasional American revolver also is to be seen in the hands of the constabulary: men. Nobody is say- Ing whether they yet have mortars and artillery.

The constabulary, however, openly bonris that when the United States Army clears out of Southern Korea it will leave its equipment behind. This is a possibility because United States is pledged to help set up Korea as a going nation, and that requires a Korean army.

the

Frankfurt. July 19. Top

The United Nailons Generat As- Czechoslovak Generals, who

sembly, in planning Korean future, escaped recently to Germany, specified that the new Korean were expected tonight to pro-government must have its "own vide vital Information national security forces." Under this clause the United States can give the Russia's

European strategy, constabulary all the advice—and focussing on the Berlin crisis,

perhaps nil the arms that it chooses.

on

Threo Generals, two of Cabinet rank, stayed at their posts for some monhts after the February - Com- munist coup, when several other top, ground and air force officern led a large-scale exodus.

TWO YEARS OLD

The nucleus of the constabulary was formed two years ago but only recently has the force taken on n vigour that might make it capable of Alling the defensive needs of the new South Korean government that is about to be set up under United Nations sponsorship.

from

The three Generals are Bohumil Liska, commander of the Czecho- slovak ground forces on the Western front during World War II; Mikuas Felnejlk, Secretary of State for The constabulary would be called

attack Defence and lator Commissioner of upon to resist any the Interior in Slovakia: Antonin North Korea, which Russian troops from Hasal, military adviser to Presidentare occupying. Any attack

North Korea probably would be car Belics,

ried out by Koreans trained by the Omeers who accompanied

the Russians. third Generals disclosed mafor purge" was "under way after

that

The North Korean army is said to the "Soviètiking" of Czechoslovakia. well trained and well armed.

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1948.

BLAST TURNS OVER TANK CAR

This tank car (left), standing on a nearby track was overturned by a blast One person is that wrecked a Seattle. vitamin extraction plant, kißing two persona.

missing. Jumbled wreckage of plant is in background-AP Picture.

MORE ERP

ALLOTMENTS

ANNOUNCED

Washington, July 19.-Econo- mic Co-operation Administrator, Mr Paul Hoffman, announced today tentative ECA allotments totalling $1,118,800,000 to parti- cipating ERP countries for the July and September quarter.

Allotments include both loans and outright grants of aid.

Of the 12 countries participating in the now allotment. Britain with $335,000,000, lends the field.

France is second with $251,000,000 and Italy third with

ECA said three

Moscow had ordered a speed-up in fnumber up to 200,000 men. They

are Switzerland

and Par

RELIEVED OF COMMAND

is

The South Korean soldiers log behind in number, training and equipment. But volunteers are flow- They reported: 1. General Boing to the colours and morale humll Docek, Army Chief of Staff high. and top officer after the Minister of Defence (General Ludvik Svoboda), had been relieved of his command and placed under surveillance.

2. General Svoboda himself had been reduced to a Bigürchend and sent on leave after being found guilty officers stated of "protecting" many for purging.

3. taken

'Some of their leaders

arc

ex- One high ranking perlenced men. officer-now an ardent anti-Commu- nist-served with the army of Man- chukuo. He figured that he knew the Communist tactics so well that he could lick the North Korean Reds,

United Press.

U.S. MAY GO

rio allotment'

nent for the quarter. Allotments for Turkey, and the United States and British zone of: Trieste will be made as "soon as sufficient Information is received from them" the announcement sald. RATIFICATION AWAITED

The Belgium and Luxembourg allotment will be made following ratification of the bilateral agree- ment with the United States such as other countries signed to quality for ECA ald.

participating nations Moscow-trained

General Svoboda's job will be

by over Rudolf Sabinsky. Secretary General | of the Czech Communist Party.

4. Because the all-out purge of

ON RATIONS

States and oth

Insurgents Isolated

Rome, July 19.-Thousands of Italian paratroops and in- fantry, with tanks, armoured cars and military spotting

tonight had planes,

almost isolated nearly 400 ex-partisans in the Tuscan hills, near Abbadla-bui had not Jet spotted the main body.

ACCUSED OF

KILLING

FOUR PEOPLE

MPS Indignant Over Sale Of Surplus Machine Tools

London, July 19. The Minister of Supply, Mr George. Strauss, told the House of Commons today that a recent British sale of surplus lend-lease machine tools to Poland was arranged by the United States.

...

He denied that the tools included agreement that the Poles should be Mr rifling machines used in gun manus allowed to buy this material," facture,

Strauss replied.

an

of

These fools were sold to the When asked by the Conservative Poles following a private agreement MP. Mr Oliver Lyttleton, for between the American and Polish assurance that the Minister authorities," he said. "No rifling Bupply would forbid the sale of machine was sold on this occasion munition making tools to Soviet

Countries,

Mr Strauss answered. to the Poles."

Mr Strauss was replying to write "that is an entirely different ques ten questions submitted by Major tion. Guy Lloyd and Col. F. J. Errol, Conservative members of Parlia- ment.

at the

Maj. Lloyd said there were "howls of Indignation"

auction where the tools were sold and British buyers shouted "another one for Stalin.".

POLISH IMITATIVE

sphore

Maj. Lloyd pressed the Minister to any whether permission for the sale of war potential machine tools to a country within the Soviet was given "at the request or sug- gestion

of your Ministry other British Government depart- ment or entirely on the initiative the American Government alone."

or any

"On the Initiative of the Polish Government, who approached the American Government and got an

The Consul Was

Misreported

London, July 19-The Foreign

Mr July 19 - Under-Secretary,

Christopher Nancy, France, Delog

Santos Salvador, 40, Mayhow, denied in the House of Brilish Filipino ex-GI, will go on trial Commons today, that a

Consul in the United States said the hero tomorrow (Tuesday) for the murder of four persoNS. „insur-

The Communist-led gents fled to their mountains after last week's riots in which they tried to seise a telephone cable station controlling com- munications between Kome and northern Italy,

Troops used artillery to blast their way through road blocks left by the fleeing ex-partisans and tenight. swung their own armoured cats aeroso routes to

the cave-riddled hills.

Fresh troops were still pour- ing into the district tonight and 24-hour patrois

started.-- Renter.

MOB KILLS.

AMERICAN.

Labour Party won the 1045 General Election because its econo- Salvador is said to have shot and mie policy is better than the Con- killed his wife, Gabrielle, 21, ils sonservatives.

Mr Mayhew sald that the local Jackio, six months, and his wife's parents, Mr and Mrs Georgea Sohn, press misquoted a speech made by last December during the Christmas Mr E. A. Clough, British Consul- celebrations at the Sohn home here. General for Texas and Now Mexico He said The prosecution announced that it hefore the Kiwanis Club. would ask the death penalty.

that a report from the British Em- Salvador, met Gabriella Sohn bassy in Washington, made it clear during the war, when he was a meme that Mr Clough did not express any ber of the Seventh Army.. After his

personal opinions, discharge, he returned to France and married her. They lived with her parents.

Salvador's mother-in-law turned him out of the house after a disputo a few weeks before the shooting. He returned on Christmas Eve, his arms londed with toys for the two chil- dren

When Mre Sohn refused to allow him in the house, he allegedly pulled out a revolver and shot the whole family, with the exception of Washington, July 19, The his elder son, Daniel, aged two, who Basic allotments including

both State Department today an-hld under a bed. United Press. grants and loans totalled $1,017-nounced that the mob at Cairo

tho 800,000 and may be spent as

killed an American citizen yes- deem ad-

afternoon. Memorial Stamps (Sunday) visable. But most of it will pre- terday. sumably be spent In the United The victim was identified as

western hem Stephen Haas, 53, of Philadel- Manila, July 10-The first set of phia, a naturalised American the Roxas memorial stamp Issued by

the Bureau of Fasts, has been pre--- "Supplementary allotments totalling citizen born in Hungary.

sented to Mrs Trinidad de Leon New York, July 19-Congress $100,000.000

required to

The Department sald the Ameri- Roxas, widow of the late President, areas, and a Communist militia was men will propose rationing for the spent among participating Marshall

can charge d'affaires at Calro had by the Philippine Philatelic Club, it being forced in towns and villages. United States when Congress meca Plan countries. Participating coun-made strong representations to the was reported on Sunday.

of the SND (Na- next Monday in the special session tries needing commodities 5,

living the first Roxas is Mrs Government over the douth Regiments

President Truman tlonal) troops were now standing called by

Filipino woman whose picture, ap- and tackle.. among other issues, the

death

in were pears

the current stamps.-- by along the German frontior

Details of Haas' another 45,000 in Bohemia-Moravia growing threat of inflation.

However, officials said he Reuter. Meat prices have been reaching to purchase such supplies from other had been alerted for border duty.

record heights in New York and participating countries which have meagre, -United Press.

surplus of these commodities," was killed by flying stones when he many other large cities

and his wife were attacked by a Coat and coke, prices have advanced the announcement explained-Asob near the Citadel in the business between 50 cents and one dollar sociated Press.

section of Cairo:

wrecked the officer group, and troops wero

police

used in critical

Japs Permitted

To Travel

and 25 cents a ton.

recently.

Even the lowly hamburger, made

from

affected.

chopped stenk, has been A big New York chain of

shops increased its hamburger.

prices from 20 to 23 cents.

Besides the President's own anti-

Washington, July 19--Informest, Inflation proposals, Representative sources said today that

the Far Jacob Eastern Commission would normally accept the SCAP polley permitting Japanese to travel to international meetings and in the United States.

These sources said, however, that the Commission would urge SCAP to make a most careful check

ny Japanese allowed forth.

Javily (Republican, New

arc

bo

terial for their economic recovery of will use supplementary allotments

or maas."

--་་--

China Monetary Reform

BRITONS INJURED

A British family was also injured in the melee, officials added,

Mra Hans was reported to have been "roughed up" but not badly hurt, Egyptian

•

Heas were badly hupanions with Ometals said there had been in- York) will propose plan-reject- Shanghai, July 20-Dr O. K. Yul creasing evidence of strong feeling ed at the last session, whereby Governor of the Central Bank of against the Americans In Egypt in the President could set up meat, China, told the press yesterday connection with the Palestine altus- rationing, but Congress could end evening that a currency reform had tion. Some Americans in Egypt been under consideration by the have been accused of helping the The repeal of Federal taxes on Government for the past four years, Jewish air force during air raids on been Americans have last but that such defeated margarine - also

n move would ro Cairo and Thou- session-will be suggested.

violating blackouts by careful preparations,

accused of quire sands of families

lights, officials sold can no longer He pointed out that the Govern furning on

ment has drawn up an over-all United Press, afford butter-Reuter.

plan for minimising Indation and stabilising commodity prices.

it.

on

to venture

Observers noted, however, that the Commission's decision was made after. SCAP had gone ahead with the policy of

Stated

and

to visit the Parting Japanese international conferences.

tion.

Appointment

In addition, he asserted, United

could States aid supplies

be used as capital for boosting production as

"

Making Profit At Last

So far, most of use Japanese London, July 10 The Colonial a means of self-help travellers in the United States have Office announced today appointment Referring to the flight of capital) London, July 10.-The National had Church or Rockefeller Founda- of F. M. Boland, Second Pulse to Hongkong, Dr Yul said the coat Board, announced tonight that

Those going to interratorship.

academic or church/Judge of Britisli 'Gulana; to be Chief | Ministry of Foreign Affairg had it had made an estimated profit of

en the matter Justice of British Honduras, sue- taken tha:

up with the Hong more than £500,000 on the opera- meetings in countries other than

re-kong Government, the United States are looked on as ceeding Sir Carleton Langley,

tired

He also revealed that the Central ton of the nationalised coal industry during the first quarter of this year. nominal SCAP observers.

Mr Boland was born in Trinidad Bank has drawn up a set of con-

The announcement came, a fow Recent discussions between the

Department In 1691 and was educated in London.crete-measures to encourage over days after the disclosure that the Army and the State had laid the groundwork for a large He practised law and served as a seas remittances and exports. These industry had lost £23,250,000 during

Inagistrate in Trinidad montures will be enforced as soon the first year of nationalisation. influx of Japanese visitors into the Colonial

appointment in as they have been approved by, the Reuter. United States. Including medical until his Gulana

Government, he added-Reuter meh United Press.

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1043.-Associated Press.

British Nationality Bill Passed

Trade Relations Report

Manila, July 19-The Govern-

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The Bill provides a now method Bir Hartley Shawcross, the At-ment committee on trade relations The London, July 19. — House of Commons tonight of giving effect to the principle that torney General, sald Lord Hinching with Japan will submit their res

had betrayed his ig-port to President Quirino in people of self-governing: countries brooke passed the British Nationality in the Commonwealth are citizens norance about the purpose of this near future, it was rollably learned Bill which provides for the of their own countries and have a Bill by speaking about the position to committee recently conduct- establishment of a common common status as members of the of Burma, not caring that Burma is

ed a series of public hearings not affected in the slightest degree the question, which, it is under- citizenship for the people of Commonwealth.

stood, will serve as a basis for the the United Kingdom and the Lord Hinchingbrooke, Conserva- by any provision In the Bill, colonics.

tive, asked whether the representa He thought this Bill was intro-port-Reuter. I will now go back to the House Lives of India, Pakistan and Ceylon

Manila, July 10-The Philippine of Lords for reconsideration. The fat ladicated that, if this Bill were duced in the hope of promoting House of Lords, objecting 'to tho passed, they would remain iniba Republicanlim. In the British Con Ambassador to the United States, It is utterly. Senor Joaquin B. Elizalde, will re- word "ellizen"

of fla Empire a long or shorter time. Was monwealt. He thought wrong it

untrue to suggest that the Bill interturn to Manila as soon as he has CK, FRANKLIN for and on behalf of mako it more he thought at all.

*for sal Republican flavour, had earlier the Bill designed to

foros. In the slightest degree with concluded negotiations affered it to "British subject," but liticult or easier to ledvo Die flouse of Commons last week Empire?

Camp the existing alatus, of Briush US$175,000,000 power, loan in the South China Morning Post Limited rejected this and restored the But Would it stave off the communien- subject or the allegiance of Bridah United Billes, Foreign Ofdce sources at 1-3 Wyndham Street, City of Victoria in the Colony of Hongkong. disclosed today muftauler, subjects to the King Reuter, to its original form.

tion of BurEAT

because

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HONGKONG.

Printed and published by FREDERICK

Mr John Boyd Carpenter, Con- servative, called Mr Mayhew's at tention to the speech and asked that to desist Mr Cleugh be required from "Indulging in English Party polities."-United Press.

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Mr. Strauss also declined to say what guidance had been given by the British service ministries pro- ceding the sale of British mada jet aeroplane engines to Russia soveral months ago Associated Press.

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