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Today's Worther: Moderate SW winds. Cloudy with isplat. od showers and brighi intervals.

Noon Observations: Barometrio pressure, 1002.4 mbs., 29.60 in Temperature, BL8 der. F. Dew point, 27 der. F. Re- lative humidity, $0%. Wind direction, BTV. Wind force, 12. knots.

Low water: 3 km, at 5.30 p.m. Righ water: 4 (L. 0 in. at 11.56 p.m.

Hongkong Telegraph

MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 1950.

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CHURCHILL SEEKS The Smiling] ANOTHER DAY OF GIVE AND TAKE

EARLIER MEETING

OF PARLIAMENT

"Sept. 12 Too Remote"

London, Aug. 13.

Mr Winston Churchill, leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons, today! asked the Prime Minister, Mr Clement! Attlee, to consider recalling Parliament "in a week or 10 days" instead of September 12, the date annouriced.

Mr Churchill, in a letter published today, sug- gested to Mr Atlee that the date September 12 was "altogether too remote and bears no relation to the crisis and the new facts which are before us.” Mr Attlee, who had announced the recall of Parliament to discuss defence matters, replied by letter suggesting that Mr Churchill should see him "to explain why you think that this is necessary."

He said he would then be for the recall of Parliament, gal to consider what Mr Woulet stand unless the Govern Churchill had to say.

ment itself found petuation Justifyin Parliament adjourned

chauer of mind. July 28 and was not duc freet until October 17,

Tin

cartier revali was announced on Friday.

The Liberal

leader, Mr Ch.

ment Davies, also "wrote

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Bet another

Downing Strent sources bug- all that a sudden new call te. Parliament would create an

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of exaggerated

tnxit threats are taken

Air Atle supporUng! Mr

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earlet recall.

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Churchill's demand

an early meeting of Parlament came only

few hours after he Bew back to London from Franco where in the Consulta- live Apsenibly of the Comer; of Еноре

be cont

riously bug the Government Concerned that economic Corogress should not Ptely cried to put Brinin back immediately on a economy.

Wardine the sources said, OVERTURES 'The Fatement

tronaudited nicetint at Strasbourg 10 days age to Washington ex-

on Friday He made his call=|plaining that Britain plans to endorsed by the Assembly--for | mersane ber defrire expendi- i

European army.

CHURCHILL PROMISE

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turo £3,400,600,000 over the

xt three years riven United State sad. sprettiendly

protaaled thejahut

Asembly that all its resolutions

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that Mutan should not allow melf to Tom stampeded into over hudy me-

ton.

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Labour Parlamentarians ex- pressed the opinion that Sep- tember 12, the new gilrial date

EDITORIAL

Trading

Me After, therefore, tephen to the overture; of Mr Churchill ; tl Mr Dwele. by a bit them torbate more preencly their

wanting

Princess

A new happy photograph of H.R.II. Princess Elizabeth, taken a fortnight ago. The Princess was expecting the birth of her second child last week, but yesterday lanched with the King and Queen ut Buckingham Palace. She was driven by her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, and returned to Clarence House in the afternoon

Minister

Foreign

Trying To Form Belgian Cabinet

Brussels, Aug. 13.

ALONG KOREA FRONTS

Twelve Thousand Reds Cross Thesous Speeding

Naktong River

River In North

TAEGU BATTLE IMMINENT

Korea, Aug. 13.

A major throat to the United Nations forcos holding grimly to their foothold in Korea was today developing in the north-west corner of the battleline whore 12,000 North Koreans are estimated to have crossed the Naktong.

Fourteen Communist tanks have been sighted in this area since yesterday but several had been knocked out.

HEIRS TO

MILLIONS

KILLED ON MOUNTAIN

Lone Pine, Calif., Aug. 13. A search party today located the bodies of two 17-year-ola

Mount

The river line was more stable in the First

For Far East

Portsmouth. Aug, 13, Dockyard workers put In overtime today to speed sailing date of the British Hght fleet cattles HMS

the

Theseus for servico

in the Far East. Tho 17,720-ton warship orizin. ally Wag scheduled все Trave In September, but under later orders will leave Portsmouth thia month for trials and, if the trials prove satisfactory, she wilt Jeave for the Far East 011 Friday-Unlied Press.

RESCUE

Cavalry sector towards the south, with the Ameri-INCIDENT cans fast mopping up North Koreans who had in- filtrated through.

Korea, Aug. 13. Second Lieutenant Doyle

the soldier of the week today.

It was another day of give and take along the Cole, Marine fighter pilot, was string of battlefronts that surrounded this south-e was rescued by a general east corner of Korea.

jhe mistook for a suriteant.

Facing a build-up of five Communist divisions already spearheading towards Taegu, the South shut down on a strating mission. Koreans in the north-west corner had withdrawn about four miles to a shorter defence line.

Lt. Cole ditched his Corsair in enemy water after he was

lle was spotted helicopter

carrying Drigadier Generad Edward Craig, First Brigade Commander.

by Marine

From a point on the Nak-1 August 15 is a signideant day As the helicopter pliot, Gus of Luendeke, jockeyed the craft heirs to millionaire estates who tong River about seven miles in Korea-the anniversary

had plunged 10

the liberation and the Com-into position, Gen, Craig helped north of Wacgwan the line munists might want to celebrate to haul Lt. Cole aboard. Think- ran in an are to the north by rome important victory. ing Gen. Craig was a sergeant, and passing south of Kunwj.

L. Cole clapped hint on the The whole of the Naklong back and shouted,

Thanks American advisers with the

conference was under Mac, you sure did a great job." Scuth Koreans told! Lionel Hect-River

Pressure Anday When the son that the Communists north tremendous

helicopter landell, of Kuw) had withdrawn in though the

Communists were Lt. Cole discovered the identity the face of strong Southern only across the river in strength of his rescuer. The general said

st one place west of Yongan, United Press.

he was glad to be of service.-- pressure yesterday.

apparently death

scaling While Whitney.

The youth Were Steven Wasserman, son of a millionaire New York broker, and Chris- topher Steven Reynolds, son of the actress Libby Holman and the late tobacco heir A. Smith willed his SOM Reynolds, who $4,000,000.

But early today, when the miles north-west of Musan. Elsewhere along the ne con- The youths had been missing Southerners were beginning to

wastinumus probing went on though pull back. re they went out to sende the

one battalion

attempts the Northerners two Heer East side of the nation's innbushed by

who had apparently doubled Wawan yesterday were un- tallest mountain one week ago.

teeremoniously teased back to Russell and Kenneth Dot, who ceturtied

west bank by American South Korean forces. from the <inp search party,

YONGSAN SALIENT

bark on their line of reizent.

Half of the battalion was he-the the level to live been lost.

Pine today 11 L

to withdraw

with the

nd

M. Paul van Zeeland, Foreign Minister in Bel.lent 200 feet up when a huge, enemy. Communist parols tried orean Fourth gium's outgoing all-Catholic government, today face of the cliff-United Sonherners fell back. argent autre slach the Gover agreed to try to form a new all-Catholic adminis-

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THE swift American recovery from the | from bullets. What is more, though

The

Communist Junges at Pohang-dong and Berass the main supply route between Pusan and Thega does not mean that further surprises are beyond the bounds of possibility. The big test hus still to come, the heavy massing of troops in the Taegu aren is ominous, and while the magnificent resource of the Eighth Army commander und the dogged determination of the defence will make progress highly costly for the Korean armies, it is more than likely that more ground will have fo be conceded before the inilfative changes hands. The main reason for the speelnele of the United Nations forces being com pelled to trade space for time is clear enough. Between them, General Mac- Arthur and President Truman have done a first-class job under severe handicaps. The greatest, of course, has been inability up to the present to match strength with strength in Korea. The overwhelming numerical superiority of the aggressors enables them to maintain ceaseless prot- sure and the extensive nid in personnel and equipment which they have received and are apparently still receiving from outside sources, menning Soviet Russia and Communist China, Is an incalculable factor. But there is at least a contri- and this is that the butory renson, American forces, who now bear the brunt of the battle, are lighting a strange war The In a strange country, which adds usuni. hozards and terrors of any war. For they are battling against a faceless enemy who is often invisible and some times indistinguishable from a friend-a foo who fights with a blend of Asiatic fatalism and Communist fanaticism and knows no respect for life, who observes ΠΟ rules of war or humanity, who massacres the wounded and drives women and children in front of him to shield him

American intelligence has identified at least seven Commúnist divisions and various other units, nothing is known about their communiers, who remain Jameless. What is known is that the titular head of the North korean jippet regime nul ostensible commander of the North Korean armies is Kim Il Sung, a 38-year-old gimt from South boren. where he is wanted as a fugitive from Justice. His real name is supposed to be Kim Sung Chu, but he has renamed him- self after 20 legendary korean revolutionary hero whose explolis against the Japanese have made the name of Kim 11 Sung celebrated, and many korcuns apparently still believe that it is their "original" hero and not an imposter who rules in North Korea. But the real ruler of North Korea Is almost certainly General T. F. Shtikov, a Soviet Army expert disguised as ambassador who wIUS also The Soviet delegate to the Joint American-Soviet Commission on Koren, whose abortive altempts at unification he in now attempting to complete In a different manner. Furthermore, North Korean prisoners now confirm not only that the Soviets have provided both equipment and military “nuvisers" to the North Koreans but also that the nucleus of the North Korean armies ls formed by Korean veterans of the Chinese Com munist armies. Many of these alem from Korean exiles or deportecs settled In Manchuria or Asintic Russia, and some of them have also received training In the Soviet armies. Finally, It is also clear that the North Korean armies, like the Russian, live on the land, whleh reduces their supply problems. It is this enemy which the United Nations faces, and it is these characteristics which make the task of beating him long and expensive.

} Prince Baudouin, Del

gium's 19-year-old Chief of State, called on him tại

undertake the task after

ment.

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to

cross acar

STOP PRESS

U.S. TROOPS HIT BACK

American forces

* 13

Two South Korean Justiatlona said the searchers had located the youths bodies on had the difficult job of corrying!

which they out their orders Lo nawbank,

from while stil

engaged parently had plunged

the contact chunk of granite broke off the to maintain

The Fifth Air Force claimed Prost.

tongth that

30 Communist guns, spolled in an orchard six miles north of Waegwan, had been destroyed by Mustangs.

HEAVY CONCENTRATION

Five Communist wer. massed today the Naklong River for the bi-san on the road to Miryang were perd drive of the Korcon war though G.1s had "taken netion" roadblocks down the natural corridor lead-to smash them. A small parket astride the main supply line to

to Tregu.

cf Communists at Namjiri, the The Northerni Sixth Divisionį (Contd. on Page 5, Col. 4) may now be witching to the Wargwn area which is the heart of the concentration of at

men along inlle front.

An Americun stait

The whole of the crack North Division-three

Koren, Aug. 14, infantry r. piments, one engineer

renewed in regiment and supporting artillery heavy rain this morning their was flanly holding its salient counter-offensive against regi-

North Koreans who of Yongsan against every-ments of

the United States 24th have been trying to turn their could throw in. But beachhead on the southern flank Amerienne still held the of the Naklong river line into high ground commanding the a major break-through. river which they reemplared two Soldiers crawled out of mud- days ago. Communist guerillas dy foxholes attack at dawn

to command of two Were still in

a two-day lul in the along rond blocks routh-east of Yong-bulge battle while reserve forces cleaning out Communist

"Borrowed”

divisions

the Catholic Minister of

Aibach, Bavaria. Aug, 13. | State, M. Auguste

det

A two-engined Czech trans Schryver, had refused to at-

peet plane with four passen~ tempt to form a new govern-pers-p married comple

their two cans, aboard landed on a field near here last night After M. de Schryver's e-the West German news mency fusal, Prince Baudouin, invested PA, sald today. two days ago in succession to

The report said it was be-lenst 19,000 This father, King Leopold, con- Tiewer! the passengers forced

ferred with M. Jean Duricusar, the erw to ly to Germany. outgoing premler, and Batang

The Czech Consulate-General Fald that despite the difficulties Francis van der Straeten Wai- in Munich said the phone came caused by incessant air attack- Jet, Callintie Party chairman. etown because of lack of petrol. the Communist were boldly

Last night after two inter-The plane which was

not moving in daylight "Indicating

a 20-

offlter

vals with M. Duvicusari, the damaged, is being guarded by the urgency with which The young Chief of Stata, drove to German and American military | Nosh Korean High Command Lacken Palace to dine with aistice.-R.uter.

Iviews the situation." father.

M. Duvieusari'a all-Cathoile: government which recalled King Leopold to the throne | three weeks ago, resigned on Friday three hours after the king win formally replaced an Delgium's ruler by his shy 10- year-old son.

But I agreed to carry on 48,4) caretaker government until the Prince found a politician ready! to take M. Duvieusart's place.

ENDLESS STREAM

Mr Menzies Greeted

By

Gen.

MacArthur

Tokyo. Aug. 14.

Australia's Prime Minister, Mr R. G. Merzies,| arrived in Tokyo early today and was met at the airport by General MacArthur.

All day yesterday, guards out- side the royal palace presented arms to a seemingly endless. As Mr Menzles entered a cur Mr Menzies plans to remain was in Japan at least until Friday. stream of political leaders, mum- with Gen. MacArthur he moned by Prince Baudouin to asked. "Do you intend to go to Gen. MacArthur is giving him a help him solve his first state Kuren?" He repiled, "I wish I formal luncheon this afternoon. crisis,

On Tuesday he will go to inspect an British Commonwealth sources southern Japan to The young prince had his first; point blank refusal from the previously had reported that Australian fighter plane squad- Catholic Communications Minis-General MacArthur had turned ron

knew."

to

which has long been in:

ter, M. Paul Segers, who, "for down an advance request by Korean action. personal reasons" declined to ac-Mr. Menzies for permission cept a mission to form a govern-vialt the Korean war zone. ment, Reuter.

THREE REFUSALS

On Wednesday. he insperts other British occupation forces. Diplomatic observem believed, Ho plans tore conferences however, that it Mr. Menzies with General MacArthur usked Gen. MacArthur directly Thursday,

an

his request probably would be Both have declined to say Brussels, Aug. 13, granted and many. British Com-what they will discuss but it is Tic acting premier, Jean monwealth gources felt the same believed, certain that the Aus- Duvicusart, has thrice refused, a way.

tralian participation in the request by Prince Baudouin

the United Nations defence of Korea

Gen. MacArthur greeted

to continue In office with his Prime Ministar as he stepped jond-- Prelle defences in general ali-Socialist Christian Cabinet, down from the plane, "Well, against CommunistsEgression to avert a. prolonged govern- Me Prime Minister, welcome to will play a prominent role

(Contd. on Pare 5, Col. 3) Tokyo. -Glad to have you here." | their talks---Uglied Press,

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