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SHARP DEBATE IN PARLIAMENT ON SCHUMAN PLAN
London, June 26,
The Labour Government, defending itself against a combined Conservative-Liberal onslaught in Parliament today on its handling of the Schu- man coal-steel merger proposals, refused to budge from the decision which keeps it out of the current Paris talks.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir Stafford Cripps, gave this view when speaking in a crucial two-day debate which was opened by the former Conservative Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony Eden, now deputy leader of the Conservatives, who urged the Government to reconsider their attitude and join in the current six-power Paris talks on the Schuman Plan.
But Sir Stafford Cripps an- ! The debate will be continued the Conservs- swered fat Britain must awaitton,orrow when the results of the Paris meeting) ve leader, Me Winston Chur- before she could take any initia-chill, I expected to wind up
14 for the Opposition
the tive.
"În our view! Prime Minister, Mr Clement for the
Bedro rail: participation
federation limited
wint up political Attlee, will
It
Europe
to Western | Government. not 'compatible
WHE
The Governinent, by its dect. either with our Commonwealth on, was countering with on lies, our obligations un u mem-mendment
"|
welcoming the
that
Rohert Schuman's initiative
indleating
Britain but cakt not take part in the take cornmalties in advance to acerpt Supra-national "High Authority"
her of the wider Allante com French Foorelen Minister, Mr munity or as a world power.
In opening his attack on the Government, Mr Eden said he Felieved that if Britain did not try to make the Schuman Plan ucceed it would almost certains ly set a return 10 the narrowesl form of nationalism and would have far-reaching repercursions Western defence agamat
on
CommonA774.
and deadly,"
every
A
Mr MacDonald
Cuts Holiday
in the
The Government, however, asked Parliament to approve Its readiness to take part talis expressing the hope that it mig be able to asociate itself with the common effort. the Government I de tented tomorrow it would mean general election, but the odds tonight appeared on a narrow victory for Mr Alliee's slender majority Ministry.
Refugees Move House
TUESDAY, JUNE 27, 1950.
For
Reservations.
Price 20 Cents
CRITICAL HOURS IN S.
Refugees who had for some weeks past swarmed over the Mount Davis area, living in makeshift huls, were moved to Junk Bay yesterday. The refugees were mostly made up of Chinese Nationalist soldiers and their families who had drifted into the Colony after Communist successes in South China last year.
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Acheson Keeps Mum
On
America's
Intentions In East
Washington, June 26.
The Secretary of State, Dean Acheson, said today that it was up to President Truman to decide what to do about the situation in the Far East.
Mr Acheson told a closed meeting of the Senate Appropriations Committee that Mr Truman had instructed him not to talk about possible American actions in the Far East.
was
(Staff
Devastating Floods
West Talon, West
Virginia, June 26. At least 21 people were dead and 33 missing today THE the wake of sudden floods which swept Rix counties of West Virginia eatly yesterday.
The authoritie fered Gal the casualties would go auch higher yet. Reuter.
BRUTAL
SLAYINGS
Tel: 27880
KOREA
Confused Picture Of Heavy Fighting
FALL OF SEOUL IMMINENT
Seoul, June 27.
The Communist-led forces from North Korea were mass- ing in the suburbs of Seoul early today. Some Americans here believed the Communists would take over the capital of South Korea within hours.
South Korean Republican defences appeared to have collapsed in the Seoul area, leaving the city at the mercy of the Soviet-affiliated forces, which! in two days swept down from the border to the outskirts of Seoul, ignoring the United Nations' cease-fire order.
The Cabinet met in an emergency session and reports circulated that the government was about In Washington, diplomatic to flee southward. sources said the government would go to Tacjon, 90 miles south of Seoul.
Advance elements of that Communist armoured forces, 10 Russian tanks, which broke through north of Seoul and smashed into the cutlying area, were said to he relatively weak. During the early and middle part of the night, movement in the war subsided. Tacticians believed the Communist! vanguard was waiting for reinforcements.
Best information sible American quarters hero indleated that the invaders Singapore, June 20.
of Ave Chinese could move into the heart Guerillas killed
capital virtually at will. in various parts of Malaya tothe
Kluang area
Stretching of their communi- cations lines in their swift macch on Scout from the 38th Parallel appeared to have been a factor which checked the vanguard al the edite of the elty. Crippled jammed communicationa
by liate brought
word of the
situation outside the Seoul area, but it was made plain that there general breakdown of was a
defences Republican
entire arda. -
would 140 return to the partment after he had given it. the hands of the President for and forced her to watch whlie
his decision so far as the execu- they stabbed her husband to ported that a hundred bombers south of Seoul. of Europeanbvious" immediate passage of live branch is concerned."
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emphasised
was
flows just
British Empire Get Together Proposals
The
Adelaide, June 20.
Australian Primo
Mr Iluberi Muster,
G. Menzies, suggested today that a committee to study Imperial foreign polley be Kent up in London, to be attended by the Forelen Minister of the United Kingdom and the Com- monwealth High Commla- stoners.
It
and
should sit regularly its work should be recarded as of major im- portance, he added. also Mr Menzies posed the acting up of STA}] *British Empire Secretariata" in each Do- minion capital-euler.
American Plane Shoots
pro-
He claimed that if the sug-
bud *omo gestion
from bloc of Staves the Socialist
ASCOM FIGHTING British Government "would have struned
A diplomalle source reported nerve to and influence
that fighting
on at is going in and iry are situation from the inside."
Ascom city, ten miles south- in respon-west of Seoul on the road to The French Initiative was
MR EDEN'S ARGUMENT
Inchon, the port for Seoul, fundamentally a movement for
where the Mr Eden altacked the
This indicated that the Com- peace in a world
The Secretary testided before $16,000,000 for uld in the gen- ot.tude is hamellute Government's
to the
The im- threat to peace
munists had crossed the Han the Cornmittee on the administral area of China. tails in a packed House of Com-
these obtaining or
of The suggestion was heard fre- river, the main stream crossing
niid mons, tense and sombre with tration's request for US$1,222,-portance
South Korea
the best. military aid. funds need not be underlined.day in the the news from war-torn Korea. 500,000 foreig
that they would do so "All matters relating to U.S.Johore they tied the wife of aqu
quently
natural defence line in the A breakdown
testimony the Schu- is prepared
the State De-ald in- the Far East are now in Chinese rubber lapper to a tree this (Tuesday) afternoon.
The man talks, Mr Eden asserted, made public by
North Korean radio re-south. The Hau
that it
The Aghting at Accom would narrowest form
were waiting to raid Scout this
Authoritative sources indicate that Seoul has been pallonalism1.
"Under Uese circumstances,
Guerillas ambushed and kill-morning.
In the outflankedUnited Press. appropriation was
of no bombers Knewy und at his direction, I shall noi
Mir John Muccio, United Air Force, and North Korean talk about possible courses ofed a Chinese tin mine foreman, his wife and their nine-year-
States Ambassador in Korea, "The situation In the Far
Inust be action in that area. It
old
wounded his put the report down as a pro and
of told Reuter by telephone at in the war
An American Air Force it would East was never more than obvious that immediate pasteven-year-old daughter,
near paganda blow
5.30 . local time loday that F-82 twin Mustang fighter day fail and be
a matter of the gravest
bill, with the funds
nerves. ul this this government,"
"The bill which it will provide
Lin mine a Perok the
Chinese before the Commitice provides the Far East and
bility which it contains, is of guerilla band killed a
engine driver. the greatest importance...
Guerillas also fred on both If objective in peace. "Our
and Scuth-bound mail we are to have peace, the free North nations of the world must be trains passing through Segamat
night. There strong. This programme will last ald them in achievement of that casualties.-Reuter, strength, which will discourage aggression and promote peace."
United Press.
Singapore, June 28.
Air Malcolm MacDonald, High He thought
Commissioner in Malaya, is cut-right"
"absolutely
overall the
it say that it Britain needed. ting short his trip to. Indo-China did not try to make the Schu- to return here for consultationsman Plann
on the Korean situations.
success
almost certainly Air MacDonald left for Saigon replaced by a Franco-German concern to on June 19 for a two-week hofi-cartel which would be a dangerrald
tay visitUnitel Press
to British interests-Reuter,
EDITORIAL
Mr Acheson.
Soviet's Challenge To U.S.A.
THE grim significance of The Soviet } a vast area, vitally important to Western Tinspired and directed invasion
of A
in- world economy, under Communist fluence and control. Should the Soviets get away with it, it will give the fullest encouragement to the next stage of the programme-an attack on Formosa and emulation of the Japanese tactics in Indo-China and
brought Siam which Malaya. Burma und Indonesia under a Japanese military regime for three years the Korean or more. In
flare-up, the United States has been quick to net, with- out a guarantee of adequacy. General· MacArthur was ordered to rush all avail- Japan to nile military equipment in Korea, to strengthen the Southern Army's of resistance. Eight hundred Americans,
women and many of them children, have been evacuated to Jaj.un. What more can be done will be decided, of course, in Washington, with the like. lihood that any decisions reached will be disclosed when they are translated to nction. Meanwhile, the Security Council of the United Nations, in the absence of a Suvlet delegate, has roundly condemned the attack' as striking at the fundamental purpose of the Organisation and us open- Demand has ly flouting UN authority. been made for a cease fire order and with- drawal of the North Korean forces to behind the border. Chances of of n
Southern Korea cannot be escaped. totally unprovoked act of aggression, it hus been launched by puppet sotillery, armed with Russian tanks, aircraft and ships, and while Soviet Russia may pretend to le quietly in the background. no confusion is possible: the Sovlet's re- sponsibility must be assessed at precisely me hundred percent. Wint the final out- come will be of such blatant flagrant challenge to world peace and decency is not easy, in this initial stage, to foresee. Every democratic effort will be made to prevent warlike operations from spread- ing to other spheres and involving other nations, but the gravity of the situation is such that it permits of no miscon ception. The dangers are there, and they are not reduced by knowledge that an attempt to sweep all Koren behind tho Iron Curtain was not entirely unexpected. Russia had the intention of mounting an offensive from the moment that she com- menced rigorous training of Korean troops north of the 38th Parallel. Her timing alone was unpredictable. In other werds, n stap in the face of the United States was certain to come but when, was in doubt. No other interpretation of these hostilities is the known facts, and the Immediato results, cancellation holiday trip by President Truman, anxious conferences in the State Department and the offices of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and French haste to solve their political crisis, denote swift recognition of the im- plications. This is Russia's first real test in the Far East of declared American polley to stop Communist adventures, to provide a studled estimate of how far the United States is likely to go in calling Russian bluff. It might be regarded as a crucial stage in Moscow's aspirations to subjugate. South-East Asta and bring
power
com-
pliance, In the circumstances, appear re- mote indeed. Soviet organised, the in- vasion must have been well prepared, to bid for sweeping success, and the puppets cannot withdraw without Moscow's con- to the sent. Reliance, if speedy end campaign is sought, must be placed on the South's capacity to halt the aggressors. Progrese is far from well defined, but the defenders are
resisting with spirit and with some success. Beating off the at- tack would be the best possible riposte to the Sovlet's sorry show.
death.
for use flexi-
Perak. Ipoh, AL
were
а
no
New Speedboat prently had
Record
Scattle, June 20.
North Korean forces were at
present
Down Yak
Kimpo, Koren, June 27.
held Just north of plane shot down a North Suizak, seven miles from Korean Russian-made Yak
Division
their
Six
in
Oghter-
AIRPORT RUMOURS Reports circulated lacking Seoul, confirmation in the hurry and They were also held south fighter over Kimpo airport confusion-that the Communists ng Ullongbo, 12 miles north of at 8.15 a.m. today (Tues-
day). had encircled Kimpe airport Senut. just outside Scoul. The U.S.
ile declared,
American The situation
transport Ambassador, John Muccio, was depends on how the boys pull planes carrying 180-190 Ameri
cans to İlezüket Dirbase taking events as they came and themselves together."
not fixed the SECOND CRACKED
Kyushu, or possibly to Tokyo, course for Embarry attaches in
The South Korean Seventhook of safely.
At 6.30 am, three North were holding ense the government left Seoul.
Korean single-engine The American mission burned line, but the Second Division,
dropped their bomb- dipolmatic documents and eva-witch moved
up to stop the bombers
line on Seoul's out- drive women | Communist
southward load in a
skirts.
There was no mass The speedboat "Slo-Mo-Shun suated southward its
inumbers who had not taken from Uljongbu, had had no
evacuation of Scoul today broke Sir Malcolm Camp-advantage of the Sunday eva- time to co-ordinate and cracked. bell's water spred record for the cuation movement.
Koreans.
About 200 measured mile by roaring over 160.8325 Lake Washington at miles an hour.
Stanley S. Snyren broke the previous record which was set o! Malcolm Campbell, The 10 members of the crew by Sir of the ss. Argos I, who were cat Britnin-Reuter. accused of combinleg together to disobey the command their master, Capt. 5. H. Malleti, by refusing to put the vessel to sea on June 8, were found not Rully and were discharged by this Kowloon at Mr Wicks morning.
Argos Hill Crew Found Not Guilty
ot
In his judgment given in favour of the seamen, Mr Wicks said that good faith was a neces- sary element and seamen were entitled
lo form their decision upon such
General information 0s was at their disposal.
"The prosecution do not con- tend that an attack on Tsingtao is not possible today," said Mr
Wicks. It is unnecessary for the numerous me to refer to
Th
by the
American
atca
Router. Telephoned reports reaching, of opinion conschaus
that Uijungbo, 12 jaro left in Seoul.-United Press. Tokyo said Among responsible
American miles north of Seoul, was cap urces here was that the Com-red and that the spearhead of
munis could march into the the "blitzkreig" Communist Soviet To
centre of Seoul when they were invasion was already in the funtly.
Protest Strike
Paralyses Port
Johannesburg, June 26.
outskirts of the capital.
Meantime, Washington, Re- publican Senators have agreed unanimously that
the Com- munist attack on South Korea should not be allowed To in- volve America in war.
Stay Neutral!
15
BA
take
never
a legal body-
Moscow, June 21,", The Soviet government is Eugche
to Milkin,expected
a "neutral Senator Colorado, Chairman of the con- non-intervention position" - ference of all Republican Sena-carding Korea's civil war, ae- tors, said that the members cording to observers here. Tho considered purely agreed in a caveus that America | fichung should provide military supplies on internal affair of the Korean
nation.
Moscow has made its position "But i was the unanimous Thousands of non-Europeans staying away and other aid for South Korea.
in the past from work in protest against the South African opinion that we have no obliga- clear many times Government's racial policy and Anti-Communist ton to go to war and that this that it did not consider itself incident should not be allowed bound by any rulings taken by
to Korea, which it has Bill, dislocated business at Port Elizabeth today. to involve us in war," Senator the United Nations Commission
The Republicans Only nine of the hundreds employed at the Milikin told reporters. criticised regarded
They the military establishment and United Press, other itetas of general informa harbour arrived for work this morning.
the State Department for what tion submitted for there can be were told to go home again.
they said was a fallure of the only one answer. the risk in-
About
Children
way to intelligence cervices on their three-quarters of the
America that the Russian- volved in a voyage to a port in which merchant shlus have less non-European members of the school this morning were turn-
months
North Korea four
before railway staff went on strike. Jed back In some cates by non-trained and equipped forces of were ready to bombed
and
Perth, Australia, June 20. strafed. Railways managed to keep to Europeans in the streets.
Threats to burn down schools strike,
were Twenty-seven people The position today approximat-rchedule with depleted staffs.
TRUMAN STATEMENT Ing to that at the time of the In the Johannesburg aren, and were also reported.
President Truman today feared to have perished tonight Australian National attock, cannot be considered other parts of the Union com-
The entire Witwater and trued a riatement in which he when an a normal paratively few people obsyes
ullaald that commercial risk In
States Airways Skymaster caught fire force was on duty
the United police trading voyage. The voyages the summons to keep today an
day, ready for any possible would vigorously support the und erashed in bust country 30 thic Articles contemplated in
"national day of mourning." 0
and an array unit efforts of the Security Council minutes after leaving Guildford Agreement signed by the
A few Incidents were reported violence,
breach of Airport. Was standing by here to sup-to end the "serious trading from the Johannesburg area normal accused were
The pluno, which carried 27 the peace" in Korca: and none from the other parts port the police if called upon.
"Our concern over the lawless passengers and a crow of Ave, vryages."
The "national day of mourn The
to crew refused Eall of the Union, until they had acquired de- A Chine shop in the African Ing" was called by the African bellon taken by the forces from had not been found by late to talled Information regarding in-township of Newelare was et National Congress. It appeared orth Korea and our sympathy night but officials of the nire covering the ship's on fire and damaged early in to have been observed mostly and support for the people of port near Hire 'hell out little surance
(Contd. on Part 5. Col. 1) hope for its occupante-Reuter, Lihe day.
by Indiana-Reuter,; .personnel.
than been
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