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Hongkong Telegraph.

VOL. V NO. 215

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1950.

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GERMAN REDS IN Not On The COMMUNIST SHOCK TROOPS IN

COLLISION WITH BERLIN POLICE

Berlin, Sept. 10.

German Communists demonstrating "for peace" today clashed with West Berlin police on the borders of the American and Soviet sectors of Berlin.

Truncheon-swinging West Berlin police tried to break up a parade of 600 German "peace fighters" who attempted to march into the Soviet sector of Berlin following a placard demonstration through the American sector.

POLICE IN

FOUR-HOUR

:

Patien re furcernents were

ut in truck to the trouble

ot and must people were

arted, Tha

ang them.

The glasbe

WOITATI beinst

-ACCUTTER at

several points along the Soviet- American sector boundary, an

FREE FIGHT itu, stated,

Four

Tokyo, Sept. 10.

West Berlin police were Indred police wed; ordered to prevent an organised atel across the sector baun-

pi dols and tear gas bones in a

four-hour battle with 20,000 dary, which is legal under moting per atm?

raght

Bicycle at i

City West Berlin

ordinance. ritcy in Naru, near Kobe, hast The East German news agency. ADN, reported that West Berlin 16-year-old pole "clubbed"

of the Com- user, a member when a long shot" won one of munist-led Mass Youth organi- the races. They threw stones,pation in East Germany. smading 500 panes at the busk-

Thr

spectator wewe

rig bolia nath, twice Ired to

ret fire to the stadiian.

The girl collapsed 1

bleeding

but later recovered, the agency

One police officer and threed. She was given an ova-

tien by 100,000 East Berliners

ticke: sales girls were seriously who Fok part today in a mas. injured,

parade East Berlin's Lust- The crowd hunted: (Yank) Go

Hotne

The police opened fire with arten. their postols and threw

two "Ami tear gas bomb into the crowd. I when the girl steppad mini dr than

POLICE DENIAL

were 11-

Warpath

An unusual scene on a British warship, Indians glylag a display of their traditional dance on board IIMS Glasgow, watched by the crew, during a recent

visit to Montreal.-(London Express Service).

Battle-Trained US Plane's Glide

Troops To Europe In

Go To Spring

Frankfurt, Sept. 10.

Battle-trained reinforcements would soon reach Europe from the United States before this spring, General Mark Clark, the United States Army Field Forces Commander, said here today.

General Genera; Staff, General Clark, who arrived į perial

Washington Sir Wiliam Slim, to co-dinate here

by air from

and discus

ut tari ration American

To Safety

Mauzion, Kent, Sept, 10.

A plane without a pro- peller landed safely here today with its pilot and unhurt. two passengers The propeller came off mid-air and astonished the inhabitants as it killed small town of over the Birchington and barled It- helf in a local park.

The plane shuddered, Araightened out and then air- to the llded down

from a few miles Birchington.-Reuter,

sell

this afternoon "In vilt overgear the latu. Kurcin batur ADMIRALTY

alence

“ኣ

further equipment

of the free platform. After four hours fight the podien dispersed the rister,

Japanese news agency

Thi West Berlin Pulier 150 they made reported that

Headquarters deturd that any Arrests.

The races had been ananged of the demonstrators

clubs. After then town and report on the com- to raise fub for the relief of ured by police

the bat scattera d

rundiness of the parade was thes suffering from the veint

in groups troops,"

for Weston Union defence. typhoon Jan which killed marcher, continued

the Lastgarten and then wok not be much delay in sending to and left

He told corrt.pondents that 2.250,000 200 peopl

Europe the increasist part in a memorial parade or Western hommeler in Kobe and Chaka D

canisert by

Commnunit-

American forces which Presidentamediately after the beginning 18. Korean war, pecial week ago.-itcuter.

dominated

Nuzt 2

Truman promised yesterday.

the "ychological Tinting for Victim

The fruits of America's all-out

United The slogan of the march-past production drive for the latest hardening up" of the was "We will snatch the weapon jar erguipment would be avail-

Quake In France

Paris, Sept. 10,

“Leagur

" said that there would

KUTELEM BEGA General Clark i

ist.

MIDNIGHT ATTACK Heavy Offensive Against Taegu

Launched After

After Barrage

GET

WITHIN SIX MILES

Tokyo, Sept. 11. Communist shock troops early this morning swept down on American forces defending the north approach to the key city of Tacgu.

Two divisions were behind this assault which American Eighth Army headquarters expected to be "the biggest offensive of which the Communists are capable."

The attack began shortly past midnight in the wake of a two-hour artillery barrage which had

Wicked And severed American front line communications and

Venomous

supplies.

At 1 a.m. fierce fighting was reported to be in progress about eight miles north of Taegu,

Dundee, Sept 10.

American aircraft flow Over The War Minister, Mr John the Battlefeld despite the dark- Strachey, today condemned as a

ness and strated the Communist and venemous lines. wirked "mast

aufgestion" a question haply. Tacyu, blacked out for the ing a political motive for the Arst time, had been expecting recent execution of three Bri- the new Communist onslaught Wish soldiers for the murder of for six hours. an Egyptian,

Mr

main

Freighter

Sinking In Path Of Gale

Spearheads of the Com munists were within six miles The questioner at a pubile

of the city last night and on- "Can asked meeting

uther threat was reported from Strachey deny that the

the north-west where n Com- the imprecedented munist battalion was moving reason for

three Briti act of hanging soldiers for the death of Egypilan was to appease weo the Egyptian police Gov-United Nations ground forces, was sinking 200 miles east of

anc

and

ernment

and to obaly a mom ber fur the Aliantle Powers?"

Mr Strachey replied: three

The

men were convicted be

con- enuse cach made full feston to a very horrible mur-

READY FOR der

SQUALLS

The

3

"You would not suggest that I made it any less terrible

the inen murdered crime that Was an Egyptian rafher than a British subject or some other

Walker,

New York, Sept. 10. The 2,360-ton Dansal freighter, down the road from Waerwan.

Lieutenant-General Walton H.Paris, reported today that her sho dead and Commander of the englers were

said, "We are not in

much Cape Fear, off the North Caro- danger but we are going to get lina coast. Fame more bloods noses because

Coast Guard Headquarters the Communists have too many here rald It was believed that Usts."

curving a hurricane was In the British-held sector of ward the sinking ship

and the Naktong River front a com-

might strike her tonight. All pany of the Middlesex Regiment ships nearby had been asked combed a vest hilly area behind to rush to her old, the Coast their lines for a reported cou-Gund said. centration of 1,000 unidentified Koreans

The who might or

Parls hait reported carller that her engine room not be "friendly"."

By late afternoon they had was flooding. found nothing.

might

10.

Closest to the scene was the

Amerleun tanker,

Sint forers was staned.

nationality?" London, Sept. 10. This involved streamined

Admiralty

issued

Mr Strachey, whore speech The Communist forces facing! A Blight earth tremor was out of the hands of the Ameri-"able for the troops In Europe

ue-reboot raining with live

interrupted, the Britons across the River were 14,151-ton Tell" "Taung respuberean mass murderers.

mant and artillers traders for the preparation of 180

added: "I think it la ghostly to severely punished from the air Amtank, which rushed to the naval verols in die first line of was repeatedly Western France. A deep sutr

East Germans at the demon- General Clock will visit the utes which could turn

tor service reserve Fleet

that some political by rocketing and strafing Aus-old of the 2 he heard while window

RUESEST ble was

Itration raised three rhters for, American forces in Germany.nly-trained

- within 14 days of an emergency, consideration

came into the tralian Mustang fghters. panes and crockery rattled.

victory

The of

North Atria and Tricote and will weden, provided it had

minds of the court-martial a: "the The trenor was felt in

then go to London at the re-structing force of 3,000 train-formed quarters said today.

has ordered which tried this care. I utterly The Adiniralty radius of about 10 miles-Res- Koreans, over the American in-

ed ellieers and men per dm- quest of the Chief of the in- vader."Realer.

rorts from officers to ensure repudiate that as a most wick on.kuter.

that vessels in Category A of

ter.

EDITORIAL

Malik Obstructionism

TO rebuke or rebuif, and there have

Nbeen many shree Russia's decision 19

return, for her own purposes, to the Coun. ell of the United Nations, seems to cause any modification of Mr Malik's tactics, His latest, submitted with typical Com munist persistence, is the demand that in General making its report 10 the Assembly of the United Nations, meeting In a few days, the Security Counell must omit nny reference to the most important decision that it has ever made-namely, the resolutions calling on all members of the UN to join in military mensures to Korea. suppress naked aggression in Justification for this absurd suggestion Is offered in the quibble that the decisions of the Security Counell were illegal because they were taken in the absence of Soviet Russia and Communist China. Such an argument can only be characterised ns the

of arrogance ideological dictatorship which mistakes the United Nations for one of its stooges and proposes to make it kow-tow to the great Khan in Moscow. Were the Council to necede to such a demand it would in effect signify R agreement with the preposterous Soviet stand. It would not only have convicted itself of having geted "legally" in ordering the defence of South Korea but would also deprive the operating in Korea of the United Nations mandate and the UN. flag. For though on grimly to the the troops holding defence lines would still be acting within United Nations the framework of the Charter, which provides for individual and collective self-defence, they would then represent not the United Nations as such but only their respective individual nations. This would mean the collapse of the first attempt by the United Nations to carry out the primary funellon for which it was created-namely,

forces

now

after

oul a

division ir

2

Air Attacks On Malaya Reds

Heuter.

the reserve Fleet can be brought and venomous suggestion." up to their full war complement rt officers and men and stocked with ammunition and food with a fortnight's warning.

The

Include Iwa

QUAD BULLETIN

to Mrs

venncis

The condition of the remain- users, three fast mine-layers,

destroyers, 28 submarlucs, 43 ing quad (a boy) born! frigates and 35 minesweepers. Lo Wai-hin on August 30, was to be morning one out for reported this Singapore, Sept. 10. Order: also have

of the stale of still the some and "not very Royal Air Force bombers to improvement

conditon of the Com-reservation of all reserve craft good." The attacked suspected day

aunist camps

Jchorej now

"mothballs"-Uniled inother, however, las deinitely improved. jungle of Malaya for the second | Fress, day in succession,

in the

Tuday "Brigands" roared in

to the attack.

In Perak villagers rushed oul with their knives to dive alt Communist ralders. It was the second Lime In a week that villagers have defended than- selves against attack. Two per sons were reported to have been injurea.

In

Famous Racing Driver Killed In Grand Prix

Toulouse, Sept. 10.

A British soldier, who Wha The well known French racing driver, Ray- seriously wounded during a fight with terrorists in Johore, onmond Sommer, was killed today as he was partici- Tuesday,

died pating in the Grand Prix of the Haute Garonne, Reuzer.

near here.

Luce

failure of all attempts at peaceful settic. ment, to stop armed aggression by the use of armed force. Such a collapse could to the collapse of the whole well tend United Nations. And it would provide further arguments for the Soviet lie that it is the United States which is the aggressor in the Far East. The fraudulent

of the nature

Soviet stand is mude particularly glaring by the fact that the Soviet delegate was until the end of August himself presiding over, and asking decisions from, a Council seylon without Chinese Communist representation,, which thereby, by his own thesis, was "illegal" Furthermore, were that thesis to prevail, the Council, though charged to organise Itself

in a manner. permitting it to function continuously, could never take n "legal" netion while the Chinese Com- munists remolaed absent or whenever the Soviet delegate chose to step outside. The Sovlet delegate has threatened to veto any Security Council report of which he does not approve. If he does, and he might be able to do so by use of the double veto,

Inst Silverstone, England, reported that at the great majority of the Council can still

straightening month. uphold the integrity of the Comel and or

the other He was at the wheel when the the United Nations by Insisting on a full

deputy leader of the Conserva car, Sommer appeared to lose the BRM broke down on and then submaltting to the

The starting grid. report

uve Opposition in the House of control over his Cooper.

Gay and debonair, Sommer. Cemmons, sald here today that General Assembly nà individual states.

turned lurile and crashed car

Sommer was was one of the best Ilked men Austrians would be more line into a ditch. delegate con.inues its It the Soviet

racing. obstruction, they might also consider pressed by the American state- catapulted from his scat against in Grand Prix

In the tree.

One of the organisers of the. on the increase removing the whole Korean issue from

Grand Prix told Reuter that forcea they would the agenda and transferring it to the

The accident occurred in the just before Sommer began to Europe than by

"academie ony

ninth Jap of the 25-lap race overtake the other car, a race rearmament programme.” Assembly for whatever further action it

Mr Eden in loving by nie for Conditions were perfect with a steward signalled him that one may find advisable. There is no veto in

London tomorrow. He told Bri-warm sun shining down on the of his back wheels was wob- the Assembly, and since the legal basis

bing. ush correspondents tonich! that road.- for the present United Nations netion in Korea is already been established, the Assembly, which represents all the fifty- alne members of the United Nations, Is an oven better forum for mobilising world opinion than the smaller Counell.

Austrians

Worried

Vienna, Sept. 10. Mr Anthony Eden, Britain's

The accident occurred as Sommer, who was maintaining an easy lead driving a British Cooper 1,100-ce racing car, was overtaking another car that had slipped two laps behind the other com- petitors.

Eye-witnesses

afler panning

wartime Foreign Secretary and suddenly, while

out

ment

tion.

..send

he was greatly impressed by the The Grand Prix of the Haute "Immediately after overtak- the other competitor, Austrian efforts at reconstrue-Garonne takes place at Cadours, ing

appeared to glance about 10 miles from here. 6om-Sommier He had, he said, found: the mer,

a wealthy 44-year-old over his shoulder at his back Austrian leaders worried, "They sportsman and Champion racing wheel," the official said. want to know what. Is going to driver of France, was chosen taiwan in that split second that he BRM racing appeared to lose control over cannot irlve the British happen. I certainly answer that," he said-Reuter, car in its first public appearance[his car,” he added-Router.

"IL

STOPPED IN TRACKS Further downstream Nakiong

stricken freighter.

Guard plano A Coast

earlier been

had

sent from Eliza- beth City, North Carolina, and

in the the Coast Guard cutter, Chero- "buite" arcu thekee, was also rushing to help. Other ships which responded North Koreans attacked in re- gimental strength west of to the call were the tankers Shreveport and Esso Changayong but the American Esso defenders stopped them in their Worcester and the tug Eugenia

Moran, tracks.

On the south coast, held by

American 25th the

Division, the Paris (Continued on Page & Col. 4)

The number of men on board

was not known.-

Reuter,

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