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Hongkong Telegraph

FBI TRACED NEW SPY SUSPECT TO MEXICO CITY

Washington, Aug. 18.

The Justice Department today announced the arrest of a former United States Navy civilian en- gineer on charges of giving national defence secrets to Russia.

The Department said that Federal Bureau of Investigation agents took Morton Sobell, 33-year- old New York electrical engineer, into custody at Laredo, Texas, this morning.

Secret Court Martial

Colchester, Essex,

Aug. 18.

A secret court marital of three British soldiers wan ordered here today, willi BII-5 officers in attendance and American oficers and

sergeants landing by

give evidence,

Lo

Bellain's No. 2 officer at the War Office responsible for operational

strategy

and planning, personally applied for evidence to be taken in secret.

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The decision to do was reached after Brigadier E. 8. Lindsay, Deputy Director of Military Opera- Hons at the War Offee, hind said; "From the security point of view I consider that the evidence should not be given in public."- Reuter.

Won't Handle Russian Furs

New York, Aug. 18. Dock workern refused today to unload Russian

Jurs which arrived on the British Cunard liner, Mauretanin.

He is the eighth person arrested in a round-up of Americans accused of chan- nelling atom bomb data and other secret information to a Soviet spy ring.

Mr Edgar Hoover, the Director of the FBI, raid that Sobell fed the United States in June to avold arrest but was de- Mexico, Sobell ported from was employed on restricted work for the Navy at the General Electric plant in New York from 1042 to 1942

As he is accured of toplanage conspiracy in wartime, Sobell; Jaren a possible deală penalty.

The authorities would not di close how Sobell was deported from Mexico or the details of the arrest.

They said Sobel flew to Mexico City a few days after the arrest en June 10 of David, Greenglars, a former Arm man charged with getting atom bomb. secrets for the Kussjars.

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Anti-Sub MARINES SMASH NAKTONG

Plane

Two Of Quads Born Safely As Doctors

Worry

Bellingen, New South Wales, Aug. 18.

Sara's

compact

RIVER BULGE

Crack North Korean Division Routed

SAVAGE 2-DAY FIGHTING

Tokyo, Aug. 19.

United States Marines and infantrymen have smashed the Communists' dangerous Naktong River bulge, and United Nations troops are pushing the North Koreans back on the cast

coast.

Earlier, frontline dis- patches said the United Na tions forces also had thrown Korean back the North offensive on the provisional capital of Taegu.

in Korea Communist frontline

horough working aver," General MacArthur's head- quarters announced,

Twice the Japanese-based Achters refuelled and raloacled at Korean bases to carry out their misslon,

their 24 sortles In

they

Troops of the First Marine Brigade and the 24th Infantry pleutered the troop-filled town Division ended a savage two-day of Lizong, 33 miles attack on the Caramunt Taegu, with bridgehead across the Naktong

Capable of storage aboard an air- craft carrier, Britain's new Fairey 17 anti-submarinenear Changnyong with mopping- plane flies over Malden- head, England, with full wingspread of 54 feet, 4 inches In three séc. tions, the wings can be 20 feet. folded intu

(Acme).

Belgian Communist Leader Shot Dead

operallons. They had routed în pani

Inic the Communist crock ground was littered with the Fourth Division, and the battle- bodies of 1,000 to 1,600 enemy troops

who had been mowed down by serial strafing, artillery and rifles.

The victory eased the North Koreans two-pronged threat on Tegu, to the northeast, and the vital port of Pusan, to the south- cast. United Press.

FLANK TURNED General MacArthur's Head- quarters For Korea, Aug. 19.

Units of the 24th Infantry Division and the First Marine Division are steady pushing In back North Korean forces

Changnyong the

bridgehead Naktong River, of the carl

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ה

north 600-pound bombu

REPORT. OF AUSSIE LANDING

Tokyo, Aug. 19. Unconfirmed reports here this morning stat- ed that about 4,000- Australian troops had landed at Inchon, 20 miles west of Seoul, the Communist-held capital

of South Korea.

No confirmation of the reports was avail- able here -Reuter.

ANOTHER BRITISH CARRIER COMING

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Portsmouth, Aug. 18. Another British aircraft carrier, the 13,350-ton War- rior. will leave here Sunday to reinforce the Bri- tish Far Eastern Fleet.

of the Warrior, Sister ship the Theseus, left here today for duty of Korea with the United Nations blockade forces. Theseus alled on time despile the du covery of suspected sabotage a few days ago when gyro com- past electrical tends were cut.

Warrior was refitted last year with on experimental flexible been rubberised deck, and has used in trials with carrier-berne jet aircraft nitted with skids- Reuter.

Senator

BRITAIN'S OFFER

Washington, Aug. 18.

Scott Lucas, the leader. announced least today that Britain had offered round forces with at least

Democratic

Mr Hoover said that Sobell, who was recently employed at

A British war bride, 29-year-old Betty Sara, who is the Reever Instrument Com-

New York City. pany in

did expecting quads; today gave birth to the second of the not report for work after Green- children, a boy. The first, a girl, was born last night.

hours and glass Wan

the arrested, but FBI traced him to Mexico City.

Worried doctors, who de-terday. Twenty-six

two minutes lat.r the boy ar- The entire group was charged livered the first two babies ved. He was cald to be slightly Both with working with Harry Gold, 26 hours apart, did not know smaller than his sister. the the Philadelphia The men, members of

and reported "progressing not- mally. American Federation of Labour is alleged to chemist who exactly when the rest of the are in a specially heated crib International Longshoremen's American contact for Dr Klaus quartet could be expected,

Doctors late, today said they

General MacArthur's Brussels, Aug. 18. Drugs from a Sydney hospital not to Fuchs, the Brition atomic selen- Association, also voled

rockels and left at Bellingend not expect further births Irvingt a

The Belgian Communist munique announced shortly af- and a 24-years' are being flown to handle any goods from Russia ist

sentence prison

five large fires blazin mighly ij 6,000 men to start with" In the for selling to be given intravenously to during the night,

Julien ter midnight. former airman Party leader, M. in the near future.

They Riso scored In her trength Mira Sara

Mrs

The communique disclosed The furs aboard the laureatomic secrets to Russia.

Perey The arugs are due at hwband,

Sam, pad Lahnut, was assassinated at that

Marines apparently effective" hils on Krangju, an- Korean fighting. the

She

ordered all had also tanla were valued at US$138,- Sobell was born in New York orient.

nervously along the verandah who daybreak.

his house at Seraing near having overcome earlier "ex- other enemy-held town.

things: naval forces in Japanese waters 000. They were expected to be City of Russian parents.

The Arr qand in taking outside his wite's bedroom,

They also did these tonight. MI. M.tremely stubborn" resistance-

to alto take part in the struggle. to Britain like the are naturalised Americans. He

doing so throughout Liege returned

the Navy during clucose from a "dropper" feed-and bien

Thirteen nations had offered Russian crab-reat which dock worked for

the night, chain-smoking all the Lahaut, who was a member succeeded in turning the North bombed the entrance apparatus,

Koreans' southern war in the Generni NT

flank into strategic road tunnel northwest workers refused to handle ently the last

of the Chamber of Deputies, The baby girl, weighing 1.7 time.

The path of American 24th of Waegwan to seal it; attacked direct military aid to the United secret Corporation's

Norway hnd mada four Nations. it had arrived Electric

(hree and thre.- ANXIOUS

merchant MOMENTS

was killed by two men.

"several Mellon-Heu-kilogramus

Division units who engaged them vehicles in Poksongdong,

of available research liner Furthla-radar

A prisoner

and a half miles northwest quarter pounds) was born yes-

during the war,

and a vigorously. The moaned: "I have had plenty

Wacgwan, leaving large build-chips"-Reuter,

The State Department toxiny mements, including [of anxious

formal accept- ing blazing; gave Senoju, seven being shot down over Germany,

miles southwest of Waegwan, announced the

with ance of Turkey's offer to send but have never known any-

"thorough working over"

machine-4,500 troops to Korca. If the births

on the thing like this.

bombs, rockets and

Com- Further discussions and

blasted are very far apart I will be

gun fire, munist gun positions in villages despatch of the force were now nervous wreck."

north of Youngeson, fr the under way in Ankara,

staled-Reuler. Naktong River bulge.-Router.

this work after

on the British Reuter.

EDITORIAL

ter.

Interplay Of Ideas

X7ITH attention so closely engaged by and In such manner thal delegates con-

W the

erilicnt

stages

of

the

Koren conflict, today developing rapidly Inwards what will later

hy military experts

the decision,

be regarded

as the battle of Interesting profoundly

among delegates of meeting Biteen European nationalities,

exchange of views

at Strasbourg in the Counell of Europr.

has probably not made

pression that otherwise

to

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Cull-

against supine tinuously bulls formity to orders from abave. It has to be recognised, however, that the climate is not yet ripe for any drastic measures In the cause of unity. It is one thing to any that the Western European countries United States of Europe. must create a Tedernte er perish, give up national in. dependence the deep im-

supranational it must have

authority-the hugbear of the Schuman Plan-and the like. The fact remains that done. Nothing concrete has been achieveck

The the people of Europe are not yet ready. of by reason

the constitution.

The aftermath of war and the mentice consultative body, โล #L Assembly

from behind the Iron Curtain has not resirleted some say hamstrung-hy the

cultivated the appeal of democratic directives of the Committee of Ministers,

Internationalism,

obviously, and, quite Decisions are outside the Assembly's

diMculties of evolving a the practical province, and the delegates can offer

scheme

all to acceptable federation only guidance, by a reasonably free

This does not members are colossal. From that angie, the interplay of ideas.

and Co mean that a closer harmony second annual session of the Consulin.

operation is not essential. On the ideni, tive Assembly has been stimulating and

agreement. The Illuminating, even when the observer

there is widesprend inconsistency in the Conservative Party in the British Isles 18 deteels a certain

more amenable to the project, curiously altitude of, sny, Mr Ronald MacKay, a Labour M. P. who supports Mr Attlee's enough, than the Sociallst Government. The Labour Party has always been repugnance to agree to commit Britnin to

the almost hostile as aceptical and participation in the Schuman steel and

proved, Unity" pamphlet "European coal merger plan and, at the same time,

Jargely because of fears that Common. would surrender national sovereignty to a far greater extent by setting up a wealth partnership would be injured or hampered: They are right in insisting European Parliament, able to pass Acts countries. Mir

achieved that

cannot be member

unification binding on MacKay's

sound appeared motives

overnight; the process must go on step the bottom enough and, looking into the future, his.

by step, working up from More and not building n roof before the commonsense. · arguments made

foundations are laid. This nutlous important, perhaps, was the fact that

attitude may not amuse the Consultative they drew generous applause from the

Assembly, but their task is to influence rest of the Assembly. For the value of

public opinion. Frank talks at Stras. the Assembly on the basis of the limited

bourg. like those creating. a highly assignment authorised by the Ministers

satisfactory atmosphere this week, enable rests on its steady confirmation that it

them to pursue that job from a good. represents the most hopeful of all

stort. organisations seeking European unity

July

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His attackers drove up to his The communique sald that in home in Liego Province, Eastern the American First Cavalry Belgium, In a car.

Division's sector the situation was still. "unchanged."

But the South Korean First Division

unlts had regained from half to all of the ground lost in Thursday's attack and were holding firm in the face of the present main Communist

A virulent opponent of King Leopold, M. Lähaut, aged 85, caused an uproar last week when he yelled "Vive La Re- they have a publique" while

Bau- Prince

hief of State.

effort.

The

Saras were married 1945, and four-year-old son.

Many of Bellingen's 1,500 in- was being sworn in a habitants stayed up all night

called M. Labiaut

for the

With the South Korean re- waiting for something to hap pen. They jamined the hospital eldleation of King Leopold as cupture of Pohang and Kigye on the east coast, the defence switchboard with demands for early as July 1945,

lines in this area were stated Hotel

weat proprietors M. Lahaut was defeated in to be running generally an invasion

these two points, parliamentary voto for Vice- und between

United Doctors have no re- Pridenty of the Chamber of while

Nations forces North Denulica

pushing several cord of surviving quadruplets in

shirt Korean regiments there from the whole of Australia.

necessary.

for

DR a

of

TiO VER shot his

were

REFUGEES RETURN

A plane is standing by to take sleeven at the door of his house the south and west-Reuter. Mrs Sore to hospital in the, as he answered the knocks of if two men. Their car was left larger town of Newcastle

with engine running. Four

One hit 17. With MacArthur's Head- She is now in a small leather shots were Bred.

three in quarters For Korea, Aug. 10. hospital

hilltop Lohaut in the head, board

then the body, The two men

News of the successful push on overlooking Bellingen.

Tocgu main front before hushand rushed to their car and escaped. the told her Mrs Sara

M. Lahout stumbled for 10 coincided with a mass exodus loday: "I had a bit of a shock when they told me I was going steps before dying in his wife's from the threatened town after Allied proclamation allowed to have four babies, although arms. I suspected something like this happening."Reuter

Danes' Hospital Ship Offer

Copenhagen, Aug. 18. The Danish Government to- day .offered the 13,104-ion motorship Jutland as a hospital ship in the Korean fighting. The offer, made in a telegram to the United Nations, includes a full crow, doctors and xurses.

Reuter.

Favourable Vote For Pholien

Brussels, Aug. 18.

Blood fron head and

wounds

AM

in his Korean civilians to leave.

his chest stained

But later, as tens of thousands wife's dress as she clutched him. of southern-bound refugees

The police rushed up street to burst into his home within minutes of the assassing way, planes dropped leaflets on them urging them to return. escape.-Reuter.

Most of them did,

Fire Aboard Freighter

theclogged the vital military high-

The South Koran Govern- menit left Tacgu for Pusan, butj Cabinet Ministers directly con- the wor effort cerned with

stayed beatha behind. From

is reported Tregu it is that American forces today cap- Miami, Aug. 18. tured alx flusalan made artillery

Guard Three Const

cutters pleces and chells dated 1050,

According to Moscow Radio, were today racing to the aid

of an American freighter, the the withdrawal of Soviet occu 7.247-ton Russel IL Jones,pation armies from Koroo way reported to be on fire in the completed by January 1, 1949. Atlantic about 400 miles east- noribieart of Miami.

MUSTANGS', WORK

The guns and ammunition were found in a tunnel on the Waegwan front, about 13 miles The ship bad already ridden northwest of Tacqu-Router........ The all-Catholle Goverment through the centre of a hurri- of Premier Joseph Phollen tocane, but the storm, it was re- day obtained a vote of 'coti-ported, was repentedly changing

Lize ita course and

Whip'n' fidence: from the Berata

The vote was 88-fer and offlsen bestod that it would aghirst, and one Senator overtake die vorsól, againe abstained-Reuter cand

Reuter, lapT

With MacArthur's Hond” quarters For Kords, Aug/10. Australian Mustangy today

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