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THE HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, AUGUST 15, 1950

BRADLEY'S TASK FORCE AWAITS RELIEF ON POHANG AIRSTRIP

British Sovereigns Worth More Than Dollars In Korea

By SYDNEY SMITH

Pusan, Aug. 14.

the

Task Force Bradley, on its fourth day cut off on Pohang airstrip on the Eastern end of the, American front, today saw its rescue forces through field glasses. They were forward patrols of nearly 10,000 South Korean troops-five regiments- fighting their way to the relief of the Task Force, and an assault on Pohang-Dong's port and town.

over Korea

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A small light observation plane circling over, grown

money. the leading columns of the rescue forces gave the At the dinner table an Ameri- first clue to their whereabouts. The second was can Service Club Mustang pilot

slon pulled

handful the slowly advancing line of shell and mortar fresh back from his 42nd mis- lils pocket. bursts, pluming and fading along the mountain sovereigns from

They looked as though they had ridges from the southwest towards the town and been freshly minted. He rolled me. On it was the heavy footsteps of an angry battle crunching one towards

the head of King Edward V slowly forward from peak to peal.

and the date was 1011. Sald

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We saw the first signs of the "Things have been too quiet the pilot: "We're Issued with advance fighting nearly six today-the Communists should these on soild gold samples of the reward any Korean wil afternoon. show their handa tomorTOW--- miles away in the

to safety freecive for delivery It was Just before dusk the South and we're ready. Koscans were four and a half quiet last night the silence kept of a shokdown airman." miles away-a thin line shoot- waking me up-that won't last One American Mustang plat was shot down today and sceni inst its way ahead towards the nuen tonger."

mountain town and our airstrip citadel Back at the American fighter baling out near his

base tonight I learned thet Korea target. As North Korean forces beyond it..

is one place where English so-closed it on him his equndren and nod vereigns are worth more than diverted all its cannon American dollars.

rockels to cover his line of operational air escape. He was last seen run- inlo the mountainside crew or tinkling British gold ning sovereigns in their pockets. forest. Tonight he is one of the

become

to spend his Sovereigos

♫ service first men ready to all operational ale overelgas in Korea.

As the South Korean forces advanced Tark Force Bradley's tanks

and artillery and air force softened the Communists in Poliang-Dong, with three- hour all-out offensive of high explosives, shrapnel, incendiary bombs, rockets and · cannon shells--which may be decisiva in the expected battle for the town.

With General Joseph Bradley and his task force offers I watched Only nerve-shattering! bl listing of Communist positions

dileh just

from

Quishic

Pohung-Don). As utillery-

Bring thrapnel

airbursts rent-

tered the Comunists-and we could ice thou like pale yellowi insects running

from their

Qug* in position: above the town Alustangs went down cannon-shelled them. And an

incendiaries

fast as Mustangs, rockets and petrol jelly-burni

to Communist village set Are

shrapnel nests,

artillery Onl chased them over the hill.

American

Mr Trygve Lie Not

Pessimistic

Oslo, Aug. 14.

Dedication Of United Nations Votes To Aid

New Hangars

Guests are shown inspecting the planes inside one of the thres new hangars dedicated at New York's International Airport. Planes owned by various companies will occupy the hangars, and the three shown in the photo are owned by as many different air lines. (Acme),

Reaction

In U.S. Big Strike

By American Aircraft

To Churchill's Unified Europe

not

"Ger-

that

Washington, Aug. 14,

west

moving in daylight,

Eden,

Civil

Population

On Korean Fronts

Geneva, Aug. 14.

The United Nations Economic and Social Council today unanimously adopted a resolution for assistance to the civil population of Korea, declaring its readiness to provide such aid as the Unified Command in Korea may request.

The resolution said that the Council would not close its present session when the agenda had been disposed of but would adjourn temporarily authorising the. President of the Council to recon- vené the Council whenever necessary.

KOREA

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All United Nations members and organisations were invited "lo assist in developlag ang thepeoples of the world tho fullest understanding of and support for the action of the United Nations in Korea,"

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The resolution also requesied (Continued From Page 1) the Secretary-General of the

United Nations to render close selge since Pohang Itself gress reports to the Council on fell to the Communists on Fraction taken under, the resolu-

Immediately north beleaguered airfield, South as may be heal for the соль Korean - troops wero reported sideration of longer-terin men- to be counter-attacking fron sures for econoinic and social veveral eldes against the Comeassistance to the people of munist force that swept down Korea." through unguarded hills and Introducing the resolution,

ton, "and to include such other the information, and observationa

to

oppase

the

cverran Kigye and

burlag Senor Hernan Santa Cruz, the Pohong

of Communist elements Chilenn President

the were attempting to cut off the Economic and Social Council, Southern Third Division below recalled that the United Com. Yongdek to the north.

mand in Korea is the first In- On the Louthern cousi, Ameri-ternational army can forces were bogged down in armed aggression. zens of mud and under harns-

of "The

propaganda sing fire by Communist troops aggressor is to be found at this who have broken out of pockets time in a campaign of leg and well to the rear of American falschoots against the United positions along the Nam River, Nations action in Korea," he a few miles cast of Chloju,

whole

MAJOR THREAT

and air strafing attacks.

DRIVE REPULSED

caid,

cam-

United

DIO

the aggress01. le been repelled, the United Na- flons could help Korea

to re- "They are getting desperate

build its Economy un a.more to: supplies and are forced to

A few miles to the north, progressive and sounder basis move during the day," he said.

Amiral Hoskins said the air- South Korean troops announced for social conditions.

He concluded: "I should like to Force had that they had repulsed a Com- of the Tack

drive on Waegwan-pay tribute to the United States their biggest single day of the anist Korean war on Sunday, Pan-ured at Taegn-and trapped at America, whose men

raring the hunt of the strug- North Korean battalion. ther

jets, corsairs

North Koreangle against the

aggressors and Yak The repulsed ave destroyed Raiders

life and to be a have already given Dighton, desimyed at least six thrust was believed

imminent assault | blood." lecomotives, set fire to ammuni- Teeler for an

The representatives of the tion dumps, warehouses, and on the Taegu sector by 60,000

Union. Poland and railway

strafed Communists still on the west Soviet yards and the numerous reap concentrations. bank of the Naktong, but there Czechoslovakin, who have been

was no indication that the mala absent for -United Press.

altack had started.

Schuman Plan Warnings

and Sky

"All members and astdciallons of the United Nations, whether An American Eighth On Korea. Aur 14.

Aring in their own spheres or colles- communique Issued Jale silvely, must give their complete Rear Admiral John Hoskins, tactical air commander of Tarknight sald that there were 12,000

this totalitarian l'orce 77, sald today that his Communists In the Changnyangupport to the United Nations

Bridgehead north of Maran-to stop

destroy the Some American officials feel that the proper carrier planes had stopped 35

supply roads paign to Korean major threat to

Nations." formula for the creation of a stronger Germany percent of the North

from Supplies

thening north and west out of reaching

FUTURE AID front during the lusthe main American supply har

Senor [bour of Pusan on the south-west

declarru Sont Cruz may have been delineated at the last proposal of ghung

that it was the great concem of Mr Winston Churchill for unified European ap- week.

"There is question that tip of the peninsula.

The 24th Division's counter the Economic and Social Council proach to the problem of North Atlantic defence. we have hul them badly," he

against the bridgehead that backward ørene chould be "our troops have been assault Mr Churchill's motion at Strasbourg for the sid

the fully developed, "This derives able to hold during the week de "some progress' over

BTC of the bridgehead from our conviction," he added. The Secretary-General of the United Nations, creation of a European army under a European and the critical perlox is over." front in a battle that beitan at that such development would

Rear Admiral Eddie

not only be for the betterment Mr Trygve Lie, declared here today that he still Defence Ministry is regarded among cross affairs

who files his fine from a nearby dawn, the communique said:

Beuter's correspondent Lionel

also to believed that no responsible statesman would take experts as possibly one of the keys so long sought carrier, reported that highways

tries but

strengthen battle, said he saw many dead

world pence." and south of Seoul were North Koreaus doating in mid- by the Allies in their efforts to unlock the strong-between Inchon and Suwon, Hudson, who watched the river of the economy of these coun- steps which would lead to a third world war.

Mr Lie, who is on a holiday visit to his home box of German industrial and manpower potential nered with the wreckage of stream and live groups huddled Senor Santa Cruz declared

"If the world survives this while, at the same time, avoiding the dangerous cemy trucks and Jeeps caught on the far bank under artillery that once The co-ordination and, timing country, added: of the artillery and air attack critical situation created by the Korean war, if political obstacles surrounding approval of progres- was so finely mensured that the the principles of justice are triumphant over the sive and economic concessions to Western Germany trajectory of our shells passed

as such. through the slip-stream of the principles of might, then the cause of peace will with only stand stronger than at any time in recent years." attacking Mustangs

It is believed that such con- spare. about three seconds to

cessions in future will be given Referring to his 10-point peace Addressing a press conference, The Task Force's airstrip that

which has been inercasingly

11 Europeans." was evacuated down to the last Mr Lle said of the problem of programme,

but mans" in the place on the agenda of the representation 9 o'clock lasi Chinese paper clip by

Observers here maintain night was to thoroughly cleared United Nations: "I still-hope for butumn General Assembly, Mr of snipers by midday that the result which will ensure the Trygve Lie said that it, by then, implementation of such a policy Chinese population of 450.000,- the Korean conflict had been will the Germany's future as a air force went back.

nation closely to the future of I arrived in on the first plane 000 an effective representation solved, "or has come to close to

European unity and to the ex- tent it may make Western Ger- bringing ammunition and de-in the United Nations, to which a wlution that it is possible to tak up the many other vital they have a right."

strongest the mans Bring fence troupe. As we

advocaleg f such unity. But the Korean confilet had tasks which await us, 1 hope for

M. Roger Mots (Belgium, 1roin our plane the only fire fr

However, while there is wide made the solution of this quesa fruitful debate." ing round us was our own.

Asked what would happen

Libern Senator) declared bla tion extremely deult, he add

Mr agreement that Churchill's

ut the objectives to the United Nations if the

support of ed.

States were

propels may provide of tear the Plan but Soviet

to resign,

added. "If the Asked whether he thought Mrr Lie said that there was no

part of the answer to the prob-

Plan Schuman

were applied airstrip snipers left--Communist Jacob Malik, the Russian dele sign of this at present. But ir lem of Girman co-operation in rapidly and without safeguards

economie) nte, could keep things going" did happen, there [10

defence, there

Would a European desperadoes--who chance of getting back into the in the Security Council for the chance that certain States night some who feel proper peacetime catastrophe for Belgium.

Their total bag today pering of his chainmanship dur-reconsider their membership. relationship between Germany Bills.

"B

Gull for NO CARTEL WANTED and neighbours is "I find it quite natural that was one air corps truck driver in August, Mr Lie said:

Two German speakers gave shot dead 200 yards from the tonks as though he could keep United Nations members enter from assured In the present

qualified support for the Plon. into such bilateral or multi- arstrip well within

tgoing for another fortnight."

ideas of "united" Euro

Erich Noclting (So-

New York, August 14 Mr lines late this afternoon.

Lie reafirmed that he lateral defence agreements

United Professar For example, some

The "Herald Tribune" warned But rown of blazing villages, would stand for re-election later as they and necessary to ensure States experts disagree with the clalist) said that his party need-

ed three conditions that the today against considering the event that give this year as Secretary-General, mutual aid in the

contention occasionally heard Plan should not become auts or anything

but added that he did not want aggression,"

Trygve Lie here that merging of German style cartel to protect capitallal and Mr

rearmament of Western Europe cover were by this evening a

the federation of Western ñery quarantee of the ruthless, to comment further on the sub-zuid.

and French Industrial machinery profits, that Germany should be Europe as a single problem. but essential, extermination of

Ject.

"We have not obtained that ng proposed under the Schuman allowed to produc: above the "In the Consultative Assembly

ould necessarily The problem of Tibet looks peace we hopest for in 1945 and all infiltration aids.

make existing limit of 11,100,000 tons (of the Council of Europe) wo After I left

on the plane like being a very dimeult jul the question of the International

war between the two countries of steel a year and that tende often see federation and rear- evacualing four sniper casualties dical question," Mr Le said. "Imitation of armaments cannot impossible, There is a dis-unions should be represented at

mament troaled as if they were General Bradley summed up the have been unable so far to be considered until it has been position to point out the fact |ail states. latest situation like this:

tain any defuite information possible to establish conditions

closely related. But about Tibet's judicial status as of mutual international con-

are the moment they u nation."

tidence."--Reuter,

stepped

FEW SNIPERS LEFT Now there are

Icw Just a

have

Our own

Famous Plane

The

Crashes

a

Tucson, Aug, 14.

B-20. Superfortress which made the first non-stop flight round the world, was

In

crash badly damaged

Desert landing in the Arizona yesterday.

Only one of the 11-man crew was injured. The Air Force bomber, "Lucky Lady Eleven," made lis world flight in 1940, It crathed in the desert about 1wo miles southeast of Davis Montban Field whlic on ú routine test fight. The powię failed as the aircraft approached the field for a landing-Reuter.

Textile Strike In Bomby

Somo

Dombay, August 14. 54,000 of

100,000 textile

Bombay's

workers went

on strike on Monday, demand-

ing a three-month bonus.

The

Indian Industrial irl- the workers

bunal ruled thint

are milled, to a two-month bonus only.

The strike. closed down half' of the city's texile Industry, the Bombay Mill Owners' Ad-

sociation said. The strike was. called by the Socialist-controlled Mazdood Sanhu mill workers' union and the Communist-led Gimi Kangar union,

The strike was peaceful, ex- copt for a few furries of stone Heights between strikers and suz in non-litiken Väited PNIS

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Plan would

Europe.

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Federation

& Rearmament Distinct

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that under the press of prezent Professor Noelting would not essential parts of one problem, common danger something near- agree to the Plan being brought They are

y close to union of industrial under the Council of Europe, distinct, and the shorter time we and military facilities in Western and the intrusion of the Com-have to prepare, the more din Europe may

be accomplished,mittee of Ministers would be tinet they are. but

its muccessful preservation "even worse," he declared.

in line of peace is expected to be difficult.

RIVALRIES ARISE

It is pointed

De Hermann Schaefer (Frez "It is by no means clear that Deroveral), Deputy President of there will be time to federate the Bonn Bundestag, sakd that

tefore adequate mobileguon he and his friends welcomed

can be achieved, nor is it by any out that even the Schuman Plan as "a realistic means clear that prior to federo- within the closest partnerships, stage on the road to develoption one war minister could ful- rivalries arise and national am-

ment of European unity."

functions that would be as- He welcomed the Freneh bitions

are not and Interests

him. Air

Churchill signed to suggestion of a European eco- likely to be lost sight of whenomic parliament as the demo- rost. It would be hard dre said he would not accept the true peace returns to Europe-

particularly since peace implies cratle foundation for the coal-

end to artificial industrial sicel Authority, Reuter.

an cha

stimulus afforded by war and

preparations for war and con-

sequent sharpening of economie Radio Hongkong

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The Hague, Aug. 14. Hallet, London Philharmonic Or the Germans purely as a result

chestra: 1.13. "Worth American Dock strikes held up worlt in of of their large industrial re- Commentary" (London Helay); Holland's two big ports

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were demanding double wages 830. "Ray's A Laugh“. A Variety

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as a result of a strike by brick- [to meet with. German opposi- | Dekker. Lon Starbuck.

layers and "brick unloaders," Ition. Germen caution in this Hudson.

Mester: Question

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(Studio): 4 munist-Inspired, is for bo Norman

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