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VOL. V NO. 161

MONDAY, JULY 10, 1950.

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RUSSIA MOVES TO Invasion of U.S. AIRMEN GIVING OUT TERRIFIC

STREAMLINE STOOGES' ARMIES

London, July 9. Russia was reported today to be hastening streamlining of her satellite armies in Western Europe as Western attention was focussed on the Far East.

Reports reaching diplomatic quarters here said that 35 or more divisions contained in the satellite armies were being standardised, re- equipped and unified under Soviet-controlled com- munds.

production of Preceded by a series of purites imies for faster

Soviet tech- fuge amont top-level heavy equipment. affteers, the speed-up was inter-nicians and "experts" are known preted by military experts here to he in Warsaw directing the as part of a Savet master plata construction of Fastern Europe's to get ostern Europe "ready" biggest new

steel plants

for any energency or intensi-Southern Poland. Hed cold war telies.

Renewed action in the military

theld

uto paralleled by

Wis tajd

more

bu to Moscow

THE PATTERN

in

Sovietisation of the satellite

diction of her satellite econo-armues, according to reports, is

ANOTHER

FRENCH AIR

DISASTER

Casablanca, July 0. A Bite Earle Airlines DC-3 bound for Daftar crashed in

proceeding along this pattern:

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1. Proletarisation of the off-

drawing corps by

candidates from peasants

on and

an agricultural

Industrial

| workers' groups.

2. Adoption

regulations for

Amy of Soviet

training arıd

educational purposes.

3. Political

Cu-

lucation of annies with a specific view to

"spírit of stilling. operation. friendship brotherhood of arms with Soviet *.

Standardization

the

of arr3

flames here today seconds after of Die satellite armies with aking off. Company officials add 20 persons were killed and those of the Soviet Army,

rine, including a mother and and her baby, injured.

The Soviet

drive began

to

South Korea |

Taken in Korea during the battle for Seoul, this photo shows South Korean troops who had dug themselves in on the defence line. The area was overwhelmed by a heavy attack of Russian-built tanks shortly after the picture was taken.

Thousands of Troops Conscription In

Ready To Intervene

In London Strike

London, July 9. Thousands of soldiers and airmen were become apparent Earlier the drafted to London today, ready to man essential year when Russian and

defence European

and Army transport services if 30,000 lorry drivers stop work The lief met In Budapest in eath toll for the binckest month April during Hungary's "libera. in a threatened strike.

It was the fifth major French eir dimer in 7 days.

Eastern

in French aviation history was 113.

tion eclebrations."

pest meeting decided

The Budn- on Co-br-

One of the plane's motors

The stoppage, called by unofficial leaders in nation of defence plans and support of higher pay demands, is aimed at all forms of road haulage, including food, coal and burst into fire when at was on re-equipnicat of the satellite

petrol, but not buses or trams.

The

bare 300 feet in the air. plane, carrying 25 passengers and a crew of four, faltered. then plummeted to the ground, eyewitnestes said.

armies during 1950.

CONTINUED PURCE

A bridal couple was on the officer airlines. The bridegroom was reportes" saved, but the bride perished working

Some

to

now

the of

by

Last week's use of troops at It has been condemned

the weekend the Smithfield saved

eight for

million In Poland, 85 percent of the Communist inspired

Secretary

Transportrations ате candidates

Mr Arthur Deakin, Londoners. The latest strike, come from the Union,

of n fanner whose lieutenants were busy all an extension of the meat mar- and woall

day today in an effort to per-ket stoppage in support Czechoslovakia,

23 10 shillings the demand for In as the crash. All but one of elaszett,

weekly increase, threatens the the survivors were said to be offelals gurd a May Day ordersuade the drivers to Ignore

vegetable and th markets were formally instructing the Army wildcat order. badly

itself burned.

the Soviet to mochel

More than 15,000 troops were plane pluted into a The

Army. The same principles encamped in a London park. A

adopted in Romania,

Heel Lative village. There huts were art being

of 200 Service vehicles destroyed, but their inhabitants; Hungary and Bulgaria.

were ready for them. miraculously ereaped. Five One further feature In the persons were arrested for at-continured purge of "hesitants" from the fempthus to loot the baggage and "unrealiable

Army-United Press,

eriously

hurt.

United Prens.

EDITORIAL

cn

Special trains brought hin- dreds of airmen into the capt- tal.

India Takes Initiative

E renewal of attempts to persunde the United States to recognise the Communist Government in China and end the deadlock over the admission of Peking's delegates to the councils of the United Nations is less concerned with Ching than with ending the excuse for the Soviet boycott of the Security Council and forcing the Kremlin into the open. No indication has been given of any change in Amerienn policy, despite growing conviction that the issue nust be settled Hoon if the United Nations organisation is to survive on its present basis. but British pressure has not been relaxed and India has in the last week taken the initiative. by direct appeal to Washington, and an effort to persunde Egypt to cast her vote in favour of the Chinese Communists. Whether further approaches to Washington by advocates of this method of seeking relaxing inter- national tension are worth while is has questionable. The United States repeatedly declared her willingness to abide by majority rule and that she would not exercise the right of veto. It has been made clear that no inclination to recog-- nise Peking has developed as the result of recent events, but non-recognition will not be made a basis for impeding a seven- vote decision in the Security Council

while it Apart from that,

Ja highly desirable to got the United Nations back on the rails, it may be doubted that the process Buggested will achieve its pur- pose. The implication could be that the world

Soviet either yield to

studied demonstrations dictation-hor that Russia will not participate unless Red China is permitted to do so or sea the International organisation go on the racks. Something of the same purport has been conveyed by the public state-

must

well.

New

York

New York, July 9. Conscription boards in New York have been asked to classify all men between 18 and 26 immediately.

The intention is to pro- duce a large pool of able- bodied men ready for con- Armed scription into the Forces, the boards were told yesterday.

local By today the G8 boards had classified 240,- 000 of the 600,000 sted the five boroughs men in of the city. Or these, 60,- 000 were placed in the A-I category pending physical examination-Reuter,

Trip To Talk Defence

Sydney, July 0.

Mr Prime Minister, The Robert Menzies. accompanied It was still uncertain today by Service chiefs, left by air for whether the unofelal, leaders] London today on a trip to four had much support should the nations to discuss defence. strike develop.

visit the Mr Menzies will The Cablgct meeting tumor-United States, Canada and New Britain. to decide Zealand after leaving would have whether to order the troops to le sald he also would discuss take over the food lorries, most immigration and certain finan-

operated by the nacial problems." tlonulised Road Haulage Execu tive.

row

of them

PROMISES TO STAY Transport Union officials, af- ter visiting depots to address drivers' meetings, reported that drivers of milk, petrol, oil and four Jorries had promised to stay at work,

Pleven Makes

Headway With Socialists

Paris, July 0.

ments of Mr Trygve Lie, the Secretary- General of the UN, before and after his "pence mission" to Moscow. There is, unhappily, no assurance that surrender

The unofficial leaders, deny- to Russian blackmail at this point will

ing the Union's charge that they make the UN sounder or more effective

were Communist-controll- ed, also on with its

sent delegates to talki enable it to get or will

to the men. They claimed essential tasks with Soviet co-operation.

between. 4,000 und 5,000 drivers had The United Notions has functioned up to

already responded to their strike call-Reuter. now not because of Soviet representation, hut in spite of it. Sessions have been used as a sounding board for Moscow propaganda, but little constructive work can be credited either to the Russians or to their satellites. The boycott arising from disagreement over the status of the Peking regime has been spectacular, but it has been no more significant in the lung run than the persistent Soviet stay-out, and

as all the veto operations, as far constructive activities of the United Nations are concerned. Admission of Peking to the Security Council is unlikely to facilitate the Kremlin's acceptance of international control of atomle weapons. It is unlikely to modify her position resisting the establishment of an inter- national police force to support Security Council resolutions. It is unlikely contribute effectively to a settlement of technical the Korean imbroglio. The

the United survival of of the issue Nations in its present form may be at stake in demanding acknowledgment of the Communists as in control of Chian. The real living growth of the organisation will not be affected one way or the other. Moreover, experience does not indicate that a response to Soviet coercion today would be the last surrender. On the con- trary, it is more logical to expect that a concession giving the impression to the Sovlet that

dividends obduracy pays would encourage steeper demands.

to

The

Premier-designate, M. Rene Pleven, today seemed to lave a good chance of solving

PUNISHMENT

But North Korean Divisions Still Pressing On

U.S. TANKS GET IN ACTION

Tokyo, July 10,

!

General MacArthur today threw American tanks into the battle for Korea for the first time, according to reports from the battlefront late last night. American armour was, however, not yet in battle in any great strength,

RIGHT WING GAINS IN

SCHLESWIG.

Klel. July 9..

United States Superforts, on what Army men

called their most effective action yet, roared in at

only two thousand feet to unload their bombs on a long line of reinforcements moving up in support of Communist troops, last reported in Chochiwon, important road and rail junction 20 miles north of Tacjon.

In spite of terrific air punishment by bomb, bullet, and rocket the North Koreans pushed on along the main road towards Tuejon, past thinly northernmost held American outposts,

First results of today's state

elections In Schleswig Holstein, West Germany's

State, tonight and

poorest foreshadowed the downfall of

The Superforts out today headquarters-usually 24 hours the Social Democrate Govern circled and dived, heavy behind events which said that Lother forward United States machine guna blazing, to troops were trying to smash the

ment.

con-

Early counts showed niderable going for the moderate join jet fighters riddling the Communist ring from the out- Right-wing parties of the Bonn remnants of the tank and side.

But first efforts to reach the coalition, and the new Refugee truck convoys on the pitted But

swamped battalion had failed, Party,

the formed by destitute dirt road.

communique added. refugtes who have arrived from

Coincirling with the main

The blackout coincided with drive on Tacos-gateway to a peak effort by General Mac- East Germany since 1945,

Voting was orderly and un-south-east Korea second Arthur, using inadequate port eventful. Many people walting Communist sweep further east facilities and a run-down rull- outside polling booths in Kiel threatened to trap all American

to Way,

get American armour ari

other towns carried bathing ground forces north of Taelon, and supplies to his Borcly | mults,

night, American troops pressed, forward troops. of the were

100 miles battling over

Korean troops, re- State's electorate, was said to routh of the frontier which was grouped after successive defcata North blunted a temporarily exactly a

were fighting hold ground the rugged green hills down. while their tanks and reinforce the centre of the peninsula. ments race to the front.

Dgo.

South

About 72 percent

have voted,

Since 1946 the Social Demo. Crossed by the North Koreans in the early days of the war, The rtnight Americans Korean advance just west of cratic

Party

of Dr Kurst Schumacher, Opposition leader In the Bonn Federal Parliament, nad held 13 of the 09 seats in

State Parliament,

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The last official news about FRONTAL ATTACK

The frontal Communist attack They were opposed today by them was that one battalion had powerful Right-wing coal been cut off near Choun, key down the road was reported.

from tion of the Federal Chancellor, rail town which fell to the vic-only 25 miles

Tacjon, North Koreans Dr Konrad Adenauer's Christiantorious

which guards a railway pass Democratic Party, Free Demo Saturday.

-the hills Into south- through and the Nationalist

-complete east Korea, There was almost erats

"blackout" on reports from cor-| Northern spearheads German Party---Reuter,

Korca today, said to have entered the town respondents in Though using

Tho only natural defence the military post-line in

front of Tacjon now the Kum River. Ls

A spokesman

tele-of Chonul. the radio

Murder Suspect phone to Tokyo, they made no

Investigations by the C.I.D. In mention of

Into thic

alleged tion.

A headquarters ofcial would Kowloon

urder of Chou Ping-lung, 41.

of a Hung Hom only say, "Telephone communi- a foreman

in. the arrest cations with Korea have been

most difficult today." quarry, resulted of a suspect this morning

Chou was found bludgeoned

FIRST EFFORT FAILS The news that an American

were

at General MacArthur's advanced head- reported before the quarters "blackout" that mounting sup-. ply problems were slowing the Northerners.

The Prime Minister described to death in the workers quar-

at the quarry on Sunday battalion had been cut off was his trip as a "tough journey". ters

Elven in a communique at 1Russian-built morning.

time from Tokyo H.m. local United Press.

Aggressive Moves On

Yugoslav

Border

London, July 9. Belgrade Radio today quoted Yugoslav Army reports that Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania hud begun manoeuvres of “a provocative and aggres- sive character" on the Yugoslav frontier.

Quoting the Yugoslav Army newspaper,|

Karodny Armija, it referred to the recent Bul

garian night attacks on Yugoslav frontier posts; Hungary's moving the Yugoslav minority from the border region to the interior; the Rumanian measures against Yugoslave; and the parading of Soviet-made tanks and armoured cars along the Yugoslav frontier by all these countries.

France's fortnight-old Cabinet crisis with the hope that the these Socialists may join his Govern ment.

The

No- Socialist Party's tional Council has been called for an extraordinary meeting

vote in favour before

of

The newspaper added: "All Similar measures were taken at

will manoeuvres

not the same time in Rumania and frighten Yugoslav into accep- Bulgaria. ting the status of a colony

FILLED WITH TROOPS the Soviet Union as the other "The evacuated villages were satellites did."

filled with troops, como of The Conservative Svenska whion

were billeted in sur tomorrow. The Council must Dagbladet, widely considered

rounding farms." the to be Sweden's most influential

added: Socialists who left the Centre newspaper, also said today that, "During the past few days con- Coalition

can according

а to in inet.

Hungarian siderable numbers of military jake office in a

source, Bulgaria, Rumania and agreed to Hungary M. Pleven, who

were concentrating aircraft with full crews

Airport become Premier-designate late

along troops

the Yugoslav prrived at Timismara

In Rumania and at Fees, Vest- last night, was expected to ap-frontier. pear before the National As- It

added that citizens of the prem and Nagykanizsa nirfelds sembly on Tuesday to ask for three countries could not enter in west and south Hungary

These planes came from the

a vota investing him as Primo the frontier Minister,

If elected, it was said that he Intended to form

permission.

The

newspaper

have

without speciat

east and bore no nationality Hungary the authorities markings.

"Russian milliary experts, a Coalition have evacuated over 3,000 people Cabinet including the Socialists, from

Into Including several generals and and the frontier Popular Republicans, Radicals, the Interior," the newspaper colonels, have been attached to Rumanian own near-Radical group entd. They were given only the Bulgarian and and the Moderates-Reuter.

hours to prepare to leave, armies Reuter.

his

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He said that a North Koreaa light bomber (Continued on Page 3 Col. 3)

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