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FRIDAY, AUGUST 4, 1950.

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ON A HUGE SCALE

London, Aug. 3.

Britain told the United States today that she was' ready to boost defence spend- ing to £3,400,000,000 over the next three years, if America can give her "substantial assistance."

A memorandum, handed to the American Am- bassador, Mr Lewis Douglas, by the Prime Minis ter, Mr Clement Attlee, said that Britain was willing to increase her defence expenditures from eight percent of her national income to ten percent.

The plan, which, the Government said, would slow down British recovery and entail "real and substantial sacrifices by the British people," was announced after Britain called for volunteers to fight alongside the American troops in Korea.

memorandum was expenditures will inevitably

the post-war sent in response to President slow down

covery of the United Kingdom's Truman's request for peonomy, which is already fully estimate of European de-stretched. fence needs and aims. It

The

It-

But It Is anxious to make this

without

gave the following picture effort as k contribution to of Britain's defence effort. the defence of the free world Defence Budget:-Dritain is in the present threatening situa- ention. It is the largest pro- now spending £780,000,000 defence annually. Parliament grammar practicable within the has been asked to appropriate period envisaged and additional

£100,000,000, to be restoring the direction of labour, spread over several years. With requisitioning of factories, or American aristance, the Gov-embarking on the slow progress ernment is willing to rate this of budding and equipping new 10 a three-year tal of £2-inditstrial capnelty, which could 440,000,000 te £3,400,000,000. not have rapid rents."

that The British Nole sait This would be an increase of £160,000,000 over a three-year the stepped-up three-year de-

fence programme of £3,400, period.

Army:-Compulsory military 000.000 would entall very heavy services have been maintained costs in payment of necessary ther imports, a since the war. About 1,000,000 dollar

men have been trained since lows of exports, and a reduction VE-Day, mu!

since June of essential home investments.

1949, and those who have rom- pleted refr training must enter the

Reserve services atmorandum said: "There therefore a tubetantini

The

Dires

Steady increase in the refun of young trahed

klition to the remin

HEAVY BURDEN

acted: "Thi burden would be so heavy that it would be imposible to carry out the Programme without sub-

United States Maria! army receive and more than 4,000,000 mer, in addition to completion clace men, whe received mill- tary training in the last war." Arn-Britain's "most urgent need in for hereal produe t'on of defewer equipment,

of the European recovery pro-

50,

Cramme, Essen will entail real and substantial sacrifices by the Pritish people.

Majesty's Govenment does! nut, therefore, feel a dertake, consistent with the one FULLY STRETCHED The memorandum ait: "Injective indicated by the United

kis States Government so fully. this decision, reaching

rnation is con- diversion of Majesty's Government seins that an addition of this sourets to defence parpor es am-

(Contd. on Paer 5, Col, 1} size to its already high defence |

EDITORIAL

Malik's

Together

John "Cats-Eye" Canningham, famous de Havilland test pilot, examining a magnificent model of the Vam- pire jet fighter flown at the Hertfordshire model rally ten days ago,

Malik's

Menacing

Sharp Rebuff

At Lake Success

Lake Success, Aug. 3. Russia appealed today to "the United Nations and the Security Council to with- draw its support from the aggression of the United States in Korea, and embark with firm step on the road to peace and its preservation."

FOR DECISIVE BATTLE North Korean Drive Stopped 39 Miles From Pusan YONGDOK RECAPTURED

Korca, Aug. 3.

The North Korean drivo on the southern front was halted; today about 39 miles west of the vital supply port of Pusan.

American troops of the 24th Division, fighting with tank support on an arc about 12 miles westward round Masan, on the southern coastal road, were confident that Communist forces would not get much closer to the port but the big battle was still in preparation.

Just A Shade

Too Far

London, Aug. 3. Nineteen thousand Bri. tish doctors were told 10- day not to write prescrip- tions for free shaving soap and bath salts under the national health programinc. The Joini subcommittee of the General Pracil. Advisory Com- tioners' mittees in England, Scot. land and Wales ruled in a report on borderline cases that prescriptions for free tollet articles carried things 100 far. United

Press,

ན

The Girls Want

To Go Too

Wishin British

London, Aug. 8.

an hour of the Army, Navy and Air Force Canteen Service asking for volunteers serve with the British con- ingent in Korea, a special telephone line had to be reserved at its Headquar ters here to cope with calls. The appeal was for men only, but many of the volunteers were girls who formerly served Ln warloc uniformed

men's branch of the Can- teen Service--tho Navy, Army and Air Force In stitute.

But girls are not ut pre- sent accepted-Reuter.

On the central sector, defending the ap proaches to Taegu, American troops blew up three steel bridges sky high when they retreated east of LEOPOLD the Naktong River at Waegwan, 18 miles north- west of Taegu.

The Americans in this sector, which has be- come the northern wing of the line, have retreated. 48 miles in four days to "tidy up the line."

American troops were dig-] early morning Korean communi- ging in east of the Naktong.que would not be issued today because "there has been no Demolition squads were chungo

in tho situation.". rond from Reuter. busy on the Kumchion, blowing bridges,

HEAVY AIR RAIDS

Tokyo, Aug. United States war planes re

and blocking passes.

North Korean guerillas, and

night fighting tactics obviously

U.S. LOAN TO reported tonight to be pressing hour

| AUSTRALIA

LIKELY

Washington, Aug. 3.

ind

American

*.

The

to

SNUBS

THE BARON

Brussels, Aug. 3.

King Leopold's Omen today disowned an appeal for unity around his con, Prince Daudouin, Issued by the "King's Party" leader, Baron Van Der Straten Waillet,

An argument between the

have the Americans harried, duced scores of villages behind Klag and the Baron, whose On the east coast, the South the North Korean lines to fam-party brought Leopold back to his throne, came to light as Kereans have

recaptured the Ing ruins today in preparation the party faced a split over

decisive battle.. port of Yongdole, north of the for the

the "Quit the Throno advice and were battle may start at almost any given to the King to avert a Pohang beachhead,

and may turn into

anthrenlened elvil war. to the norib.

counter offensive Earlier

The Baron appealed last night today, a spokesman which will end any Communit

to Belgians "who consider the General MacArthur's head- at Ge

Pasential" to raily The tough First Marine Divi- monarchy quarters said that South Korean hope for victory.

American

were troops

Prince,

to whom and Leopold agreed to transfer his failing back on a new southern son in the front along with the round the

Infantry Division Second line along the const defence

the Army's Fifth Regimental powers perading is abdication. Naktong River,

team combat

were ready

The King's Office stated that The River's delta Hes only strike.

the King "did not instruct the about eight miles west of Pusall The Australian Prime Mints-

harbour, though ils

Under orders to wipe out al Baror. to make any communica- upper

areas tion."—Reuter, ter, Mr Robert G. Menzies, sald

courre runs miles to the weal places in the front line Bare today that he expected and takes in the Targu-Pusan that might provide concealment Australia 10

"perhaps send

Communist lanks e triangle based on for between

3,000 side of 2.000 and

Pusam

and and Pohangt,

11 volunteers to Korea,

retaken Yongdok. Ele declared that he was "The United Malik warned in stern tones:

BATTLE FOR TIME rocket-bomb attack behind the highly Gn'istied

the -with Nations has two alternative courses, one leads economic talks at Washington,

The feeling here was that enemy lines

and South whleh an agreement hari American the other tolt to peace,

forces are winning matters of een reached on

principle. was taken here to fore- sizeable dollar loan the Australian Government. Mr Menzies

said

that the lunteers would form part of joint Australian-New Zealand fighting force which he estimated would be brigate of about

said that he

Mr Malik's Pattern

only nutable

divergence

Mfrom what was expected by way of

or

งาน

tactical manoeuvres designed to frustrate

obstruct

in smooth working

the Security Council has, hitherte, been i change to methods neither subile nor adroit. Any minor success attributable to closely following a sel pattern reflects not Sovlet astuteness but the unrulled patience of delegates of the calibre of Mir Warren Austin and Sir Gladwyn Jebh. lender's Must remarkable of the Soviet essitys Into the grotesque was audacious initial venture, an attempt to rule from his presidential chair that Dr Tsinng, from the exile Nationalist Govern- ment of China, could not Hit as the

of representative

Chinn. Such arbitrary ruling, without precedence in United Nations assemblies, was autrügeous bluff and while he gained the support of India and Yugoslavia, it was naturally called. The attitude adopted by India was curlour. Belief in the potential value of a gesture to the People's Government of China on the reasoning that the Peking regime is best fitted to mediate in the Korean conflict and might agree to inter- vene diplomatically given international recognition IM ane thing. Bul sup-

Malik in those ctreum- port for Mr

a blunder of the first stances was order. Slr Benegaul Rau was probably India must under the impression that demonstrate her consistency, but second thoughts would have been better. Subsequent mennderings-the Council members are quarrelling over the items on the agenda instead of gelting down to work-revealed an interesting switch In Sovlet argument, deliberate or not. When the Kremlin was urged by the United States and Grent Britain to use its good offlees to persuade the North Koreans to call off the hounds and obtain compliance with United Nations cease-fire, resolution,

to

The retort was that the Korean affair was strictly a domestic matter and the righteous policy of Moscow was one of untamed non- interference, in coul rost of course, the "imperialistic“ intentions of the United States. Now it would appear from Mr Malik's programme at Lake Success that Russia In anxious to Jen her influence in securing a peaceful settlemen! but first the Peking tiovernment shoute be accepted as a member of the Security Council. Manifestly if the Soviet Union can stop the Korenn hostilities f`and when Communist China gains a seal, the Soviet Union could stop the lighting before that takes place and could have prevented the outbreak in the first place, That, of course, has been well-known ant understood in the free countries of the globe, but has not before been quile so openly admitted by-mcow's key-men. It fa thus apparent that the Korean "civil war" from a Soviet point of view is a device to impose a unilateral decision upon the United Nations. The six-months* boycott, NO unexpectedly ended for Bussin's own purposes, was likewise mich an altempt. The question of the admission of Communist Chìng to inter- national councils and North Korean aggression against the Republic are in no way related. The association has been manufactured by the Kremlin an blatantly- the Korean war. It is quite possible for an ardent idealist like the Pandit Nehru, and for that matter, Sir Benegaul Rau, to feel that the solution of one Soviet dissatisfaction might facilitate a belter approach to the Korean question, though n scrutiny of the record of Soviet obstructionlum In the United Nations, in the past, and la the last two days, offers little ground for optimism. The link of unrelated issues lo blackmall and intimidation nad has to be treated appropriately.

BH WIN

war.

"

Malik launched the third day of the propaganda-laden procedural battle in the Security Council with re-

peated and vicious attempts to bel the United States as the force of aggression in the Far East.

Carefully avoiding reference

"ATHL

000 men.

Me

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the

Menzies

to the 52 nations which supports not yet familiar with the tails but he thought that most ed the United Nations sanction: resolution, and the growing list of the training of the Australian would take place in of nations sending dghting aid to Korea, Malik charged that Japan.

The volunteers will train with the Korean war was begun on

Australian Occupation direct orders from General

roops in Japan before leaving Douglas MacArthur,

Malik

declared that John for the Korean battle front. Foster Dulles,

Republican ad-ruler, viser to the United States State Department, was "one of the main inciters of the war," and produced photographo showing Dulles with the Amer- ican ambassador, John Mucciu, and United States and South Korean military men in South Korean trenches. He succred: "I doubt that any menther will contend that Dulles and Mucelo were picking violets."

that the Council adopt his

Belgian

and

south of troops, fighter opened plages

bomber merciles

LAST NIGHT'S

Kurcan The the batlle ley time, Dough losing space.

Koreans

illo

the

BLACK-OUT

An official statement by

the

Sayя

the II. K. Electric on the black-out

at 4,23 p.m.

control board and

North

big forces trom moving north and West agniust In terms of defensive success, Allied Naktong line for what of the island last night Allied forces now have a shorter may be their last bid for vic- that roughly ine and more men to hold It tory. But with the Marines, fault developed on the generat against the day when a counter-Second Infantry and the Army's ing station ofensive can be launched. Fifth Regimental combat team without warning, the generator Frontline despatches said that in the lines and the Allied supply was thrown off. In ap

minutes, tho the American counter-attacking font shortened and strengthened promixately 20

the Company had southern

hat the situation in Korea seemed engineers of knocked out two North Korean likely to change radically for corrected the fault and the ser-

vice was restored. he better.-United Press. vehicles, two anti-tank guns and three machine guns.

an

the

front

But they lost two of their own five lacks spearheading the at- tuck, as anti-tank guus opened up on them.

The Americans almost resched Chinju before they were thrown back.

General MacArthur's spokes- aid here that the usual

Ministers

Pelted With Eggs

Brussels, Aug. 3.

Malik, pressing his demand! Belgium's Catholic controlled government agenda, which provides for the moved swiftly tonight to end the constitutional consideration of the admission crisis before King Leopold's dichard followers car- of Communist China before the ried through their threats to keep the monarch on

problem of a Korean peace can

be discussed, appeared to hit his throne with a show of force. strongly that Russia would re- sume is walkout if it did not get its own way..

INSISTENT

Angry young Royalists had strong objections to the bill by raembers, it hurled rotten eggs and tomatoes several Catholle at Catholic Cabinet Ministers, was a foregone conclusion that whom they necused of "selling it would pass both Houses of Malik said: "We must insist out" the King, and resentment Parliament.

by the govern- Swift action upon the immediate recognition Ingainst the government was still

means that Leopold the representative of the strong among Catholic Members ment

Baide on- Chinese People's Government." of Parliament despite Leopold's probably will step

Tuesday, when Prince Baudouin Slapping the council table, he plea for Party unity. added: "I this decision to The Prime Minister, Jean will take the traditional con- ignored, any decision adopted by Duvieusart, Introduced in Par-stitutional oath of allegiance,

However, the Catholic Party any group of the Security Coun-liament an "urgent" bill which eil will be illegal"

would authorise King Leopold its still split on the issue. At o

CAUCUS his constitutional Party

carller today, "The U.S.S.R, to appealing to to "transfer the United Nations and the prerogatives" to Crown Prince several members demanded the

resign, 11 Securly Council to withdraw Baudouin, Parliamentary sources government

Cablact to a while

Ministers were support of the United predicted It would com

going to the miceting that they Stales aggression in Korea and vote tomorrow.

its

was

by young men and faithful to Leopold.

to embark with firm step.on the A special 23-man comraliter, were palted with eggs and to road to pence and its preserva-in which the Catholics.command.matoes tion. Only by such action willin one-vote, majority, was named women

(Contd. on Page 5 Col, 8) to consider the bill. Despite United Press.

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