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Hongkong Telegraph

MONDAY, JULY 24, 1950.

BOMB EXPLOSIONS BREACH O On Blitzed

CALM FOLLOWING LEOPOLD RETURN Palace Heavily Guarded

Brussels, July 23.

King Leopold III, back in the throne after six years' exile, but ruling a divided people, was to- night the world's most heavily guarded monarch. Black-helmeted gendarmes with. rifles, Sten guns and revolvers, stood at 20 yards' intervals round the wall enclosing the vast Royal park at Lacken Palace, maintaining a 24-hour patrol.

Belgian alr force troops tion near a viaduct at Charle- patrolled the worded Brands | voi. industrial centro in anil- arouret the remainsure-style | Lespeld Wallonta,

Batare to which the 49-year-old Some Belgian observers at- king returneri yesterday midtributed the unexpected natio the uneasy calm of his people, with quiet the fact that op-

King Leopold's

of The supporters ponents

king were left no doubt of the warmth of

having second thoughts about the vigorous action with which they planned to force his abdl- |ention.

their welcome.

Frean early mning crowitz flocked to Laeken to acclaim him, coming by inotor-roach, eur, motorcycle cycle and on foot.

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Belgians, they nakel, were hesitating before endangering their social and economic re- Throughout the country there covery by resorting to blood- wan en nenny, baffling calm. hed and violence.

Belgians could aut be

But others believed that whether this was the lull before King Leopold could not patch the storm, forecast by inil-up the Party differences Leopold leader who threatened which have rent the nation a relentless wave of unrest if since the Warthe Social the king returned, or a sign that Christians theso Infiammatory speeches g had not reflected popular feel-Liberals oppoalert and

Parliament became deadlocked, he might well step down the thr

throne.

ing

DID NOT BUDGE

back

(Catholics),

Socialists and

him with

from

King Leopold, coming home That could lead to a restored after six years' exile with an national unity, these observers appeal to the people for "con-said, round Prince Baudouin on spent the night at the the throne as the Ofth King of cord" Royal painee, turned into an the Belgians,

armed

did

eamp. And today he

TROUBLE IN STORE

had

not budge from the palace. King Leopold has dire difficul-

The only close-up Belgians have co far had of the king they had not seen for years

the

was when, before he went into pain yesterday, they spotted him in uniform and with his two sons-at 120 yards. and through Iron ralilags and a three-deep Fercen of gend- urmes

While the king stayed art home, his popular 10-year old

n taste of embarrassing ties that are in store for him.

Rubble

The desert has blossomed into garden under the shaclow of St Paul's as the result of the efforts of clerks and typists from nearby publishlar house.

It a likely to become permanent.

Torrential Rain In London Clears

"Peace" Gathering

London, July 23.

A peace demonstration in Trafalgar Square An elder statesman, M. Hubert today drew several thousand people. Torrential Pierlot, head of the Belglans rain, however, drove away the bulk of the crowd exiled government in London during the war and awarded the just after Ilya Ehrenburg, the Soviet writer, had titles of Count and Minister of State by the retired

Herent, spoken. Prince Charles. "declined" an

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U.S. CAVALRY DIVISION SHATTERS TANK ATTACK Korean Reds Mounting All-Out Offensive In Taejon Zone

BITTER BATTLE

LOOMS

Tokyo, July 24.

North Korean forces unleashed artillery and rifle fire to- day into advanced American positions on the Tacjon front where yesterday the U. S. First Cavalry troops shattered a tank-led, attack by 6,000 Communists.

The North Koreanis opened a barrage of mortar and artillery fire at 1a.m. and kept it going steadily throughout the night. As dawn broke the Americans grimly held their front line positions in expectation of a fresh assault in what may be a decisive battle.

Egyptian Prince

Badly Hurt

Milen, July 23. Prince Mohammed Mounir, 20-year-old cousin of King Farouk of Egypt, was among four persona

In an automobile geeldeni on the Turin-Milan highway Saturday,

The police sald Prince Mounir drove at high speed Into a

truck parked on the highway, with a flat tyre. The Prince and two friends and woman were thrown 25

mediately caught fre

à

feet from the car, which im-

Heavy firing from the Communist front in- dicated that the North Koreans were massing for a new attack after suffering what may have been

Japanese Hit At Foreigners

The

Tokyo, July 23.

Гаранско Lower Houso yesterday passed by a majority vote the con- troversial local Tax Law Revision Bill which pro- vides for a revision of the Government's present. plans to tax foreigners up to 55 percent of their' Incomes.

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The Bit was previously passed in this House but

defented in sub- Acatent

tho Voting in House of Councillors-lanı Upper

the House. Now Will EX again to the House of Coun- cillors, where a vote will be taken on July 30.

Observers predlet rough

for the Bill

Bil!

going

Reuter.

the biggest single setback of the war on Sunday. Crossing The

The United States First Cavalry Division shattered a tank-led attack by 6,000 North Korean Atlantic Communist troops on the Taejon front in what ap- peared to be the opening phase of a decisive battle.

In

backs,

In A Jeep!

Front advices also in- the lines tonight after having dicated that the North fought superler enemy troops

Halifax, July 23. on three sides and after having

An Australian war veteran. an attempt to forded a river at their Seriously Injured Koreans, in

Ben Carlin, and his smash the First Cavalry in They left a few wounded on Major

radio later wife. Elinoro, flashed a on its first big battle in Korea, the field but volunteers

message to the Canadian main- might throw up to 10,000 wam back and rescued them.

General MacArthur, awalling their daring attempt to cross land saying "all well" in attack-if

detailed troops into this

official reports from the the Atlantie in an amphibious they could get organised in Eighth Army Headquarters in Jeep.

011 Sunday's time.

fighting

The message was picked up decided not to issue bila usual the recond American

amateur radio

operators tonight by victory in one day, troops at midnight communique

fresh reports here. Carlin reperled he was There were no 25th Infantry Division

the westem end of the 60 miles north of Sable Island smashed an enemy tank attack Korean front where the Com- and expected to be 130 miles the Homchang-Sangju area munists were driving down off the island on Monday when east of the First Division's Ines from the west

he reports. The In the day's two battles and Chon, 40 miles southwest of crossing the Atlantic at thro

knots in thetr in aerial action elsewhere the Taejon.

cramped craft, Communiets lost an estimated

were confident they would be There WDA no trech news 14 tanks or more destroyed and

the first to go round the world either 14 damaged.

from the east

coast

one vehicle by land and where Gen, MacArthur reported ca. Their first scheduled atop UNIT FIGHTS BACK

today that the North Koreans was the Azores, which Carlin Unofficial advices indiented recaptured Yongdek, 20 miles said he hoped to reach fluit the total of enemy tanks north of Pusan.

three weeks.-Undled Press, knocked out permanently might) The American and South reach

the

the

laer

of State

organisations.

is a Mounir, who student at Oxford University, was making a tour of Italy at the time of the accident.

Identifled two The demonstration was organised as part of The police ravitation to attend an Informal the British Peace Committee's weekend conference. Price companions as buss Diana Windsor, 22, of South of Crown

пл and the Communists were very prominent, on the platform Africa, Palace yesterday All son, Prince Haudonin presided Sucialist and Liberal Ministers and off it, but also present were members of other student named Wright.-United

Prince

in

of

Press

Britain's New Jet Plane

today at coremony in the

heart of the capital.

With his brother, 16-year-old Iteuter.

Prince

Then

corner

over crowd

One of the organisers of the

they showered rally said that it was the largest their

of the crowd seen in Trafalgar Square yellow leaflets bearing the im- in years, "Perhaps," she said, print of the Unien Movement, "because everyone is interested run by Sir Oswald Masley, the

Black fermer

Shirt Fascist la pence,"

leader. On Extra police were on duty,

absent.-— were also

Helmeted police rushed to the Albert, the Crown

le Place Brouckere in Brussels Prince drove through Brussels this afternoon to quell a Com- to present decorations for bravery to Belgians, Including:munist demonstration demand

the that the King renounce the six coloured men from Consto.

throne. Flags were draped in black mourning banners in anti- Leopold Wallonia 123 protest against the monarch.

Socialist sources. Falit they but, there was disorder, and words: "Russia Threatens War glimpse expected a call for a mass and only one interruption, when-Korea Today, Britain Leopold demonstration in divi- | Ehrenburg was speaking. Amorrow." eci Brussels this week. They ruction of the

TWO BOMBS

have Two bomb explosions made the cply violent brenches In the calm throughout the country since the king's return. Yesterday, saboteurs blew up + railway line at Anvning. About midnight a bomb caused minor damage to a power, sta-

EDITORIAL

the

leaflets

were

the

The

American

on

toward

next

to the Long Talks Over

Kashmir

New Delhi, July 29. The Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan and the United

anchored Artillery, super-Korean line is now bazooka rocket launchers and in the mountains south and Air Force rocket planes blasted southeast of Tasjon.

The line the enemy

armour throughout extends northeastward the day,

Sangju area thence northeast- Artilleryment of tho 25th ward to the area of Yechon and Division destroyed four of the eastward to the coast at Yong- five tanks and killed an esti-dok. rnated 400 infantrymen in the Arucks. Allied planes destroy- ed one tank and one armoured Major General Hobart Gay Nations Mediator, Sr Owen car in the enemy rear.

commanding the First Cavalry Dixon, continued their disast→ Division and his fellow officerations on the Kashmir situation were jubilant over Sunday's for the fourth day today. victory.

They conferred for three anică Gen. Gay himself made a tour a half hours in two sessions .. of the front line during which and will resume tho talks (Contd. on Face 5, Col. D tomorrow afternoon-Reuter,

London, July 23,

had its first public

of Britain's newest To Inster than sound jet fighter, P1031, when if the Hawker

paces was put through its crowd on the The speakers on the platform over London airport today. A part of the 25th Division nino said a general strike would terrace overlooking the Square included France's pro-Com- The

I had been forced experimental Pioni

back in this | be called when the time was sudden ly started chanting:munist Abbe Bouller and Ar-

still on the secret lii, ชง sector previously and one unit r:pe-United Press.

"Down with Communism."

thur Horner, the Communist first mention was permitled har been cut off for 30 hours. Secretary-General of the British only this week.-Unlied Press. Men of this unit got back to Miners' Union.

An Idea On WHILE rapid progress is being made

towards thrashing out the organisa- tional details required to put the Schuman steel and coal merger plan into operation, little has been heard recently of the further plan for Europe's economic Integration proposed by the Government of the Netherlands. This does not mean that the so-called Stikker Plan has been pigeon-holed. On the contrary, it is tho subject of close study, both in the Benelux countries and the British Isles. This pro- ject fits neatly into the Schuman scheme for pooling the heavy industries, but It designed to expand its scope to Include other vital industries and to facilitate its realisation The Dutch plan, put forward by the Foreign Minister, Dr Stikker, who is also the "political conciliator" of the --European Marshall Plan organisation, calla for the creation of a' European Integration fund to remove some of the obstacles to integration discovered in the Benelux Union project, and to create what Dr.Stikker calls a balanced collective economy analogous to the balanced collec- tive milltary fortes being organised fur the defence of the North Atlantic Pact participants. The Dutch economic pro- posal proceeds from the idea that Integration, which must be based on the reduction or elimination of trade barriers, in bound to have, at least initinfly, some Jisintegration aspects as well. Many industries bullt up under the protection of the existing import and exporty con- trola, would either lose their economic basis or be unable to compete with more efficient.. - units in other countries and

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therefore any prospect of their Ilquidation is certain to provoke strenuous opposition not only from the industries directly involved, but also from the labour unions visualising increasing unemployment. The Schuman plan also recognises this prob Iem, and proposes to deal with it by transitional mèusurces involving an invest- ment plan, a mechanism for equallsing prices, and a reconversion fund to pro- mote modemisation cand rationalisation of production, The Duich plan would ex- pand the same idea to other basic indus tries, to agriculture, and to certain specialised processing industries providing credits from the "Integration fund" to permit eltkier modernisation of Incœefent plants, or the creation of more suitable industries in depressed areas, or, if necessary, re-educzation and renilecation of labour. In short, the Dutch recognises that European Integration involves a tremendotzs industria) readjust- ment for all participating countries and proposes what seems to be a fensible method of casing the burdens involved.' The details of such a readjustment would be worked out by technical commission for the industries concerned, and the final

by

the

Behind them, on the plinth of

the Nelson Column, was A

huge yellow and blue banner:

the People went Peace,

there will be no War."

It was announced that 823,- 000 people had signed the peace petition in Britain.

"CONSCIENCE"

Refusal Of Chiang Request Likely

Washington, July 23.

Ilya Ehrenburn, who had come to Britain specially for The United States is expected to reject the conference. appealed to the British people to ban the atomic Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's appeal for per- bumb.

He said that the Soviet mission for his Nationalist forces on Formosa to People wanted pente,

If the

Russians had carry the war to the Chinese Communists, diploma- sent their troops into Korca os tic officials said today. the Americans would be war now.

редсе.

only

there

He said he that the conscience of Britain!

The Government's position will be outlined in could not belleve a reply being drafted by the State Department to could be on the Chicago Stock Chiang's request for clarification of the order Exchange or sold by auction in issued on June 27 by President Truman.

New York.”

At the final indoor pession of

was

оп

The order instructed the U. S. and not the small islands close the conference today, a resolu-Seventh Fleet to protect For- to the China const There is tion

carried condemning masa trom Invasion.

nothing in the American order the United Nations action over The reply which thould be that bars Nationalist defence in Korea and calling

the British delivered soon

the Nailonalist may be kept the event f

either Government to instal" on an secret for military reasons. But forces plan

are attacked Immediate Security Count, ut of the the Department is expected to side of the American patrol line.

with the in-emphasise that the second part

will This government clusion of China.

of President Truman's order force against elther, however, The conference was attended which prohibited Nationalist if the Nationalists or Com by 1,301 delegates from different attacks against the Reds still unista start major Invasion "Peace Movements" in various sinnds. countries--Reuter,

al-

decision would be left to the European Heavy Week-Endop of the order came into to the Kercon fighting fronts,

In

Marshall Plan Council, acting by a three- fourth majority. But the fund Itsell would be raised by the European nations alone, without Amexican dollar ald. that respect the Dutch plan represents welcome measure for European sell-help. It is also, and especially, another demon. stration that the idea of European integration is on the march.

Downpour

tho

The heavy downpour

2.43 week-end brought

Over

Island

near

Attempt of the mainland or The Nationalists have urged Formosa. that President Trumon's order The Blate Department be modified to permit them to ready rejected Chiang's offer to uttack the China mainland. The zend ground troops and planes

question when the Chinese By keeping the Communists Communists were thelling and Nationalists from cach | Ingen

and the other's throats in Korea China const

United States Formon the State Department Oficials de hopes it can confine the fight- inches of rain, making this clined to any whether the Navy Ing to Kerea.

· and year's total 44.33 inches, which, would be ordered-to-intervene The President's order according to 60-year-ol records if the islands held by the No the forthcoming reply to Tas- of American al- is still below the average, tionalists were invaded, But.11 peh are part

The Royal Observatory ro-was made clear that the order forts to stabilise a line against corded 2.43 inches from mid-covers only Formon and the Commubiam in the Far East-E night Saturday to 9 am, today. Islande guarding is approaches United Press.

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