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VOL. V NO. 216

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1950,

SOUTH AFRICA'S GREATEST An Elder

STATESMAN. JAN SMUTS, PASSES

Pretoria, Sept. 11.

General Jan Christian Smuts, soldier states- man, scholar and man of vision, died at his farm near here tonight at the age of 80.

General Smuts, a towering figure in the affairs of his country and of the world, was a flim frioul of the British he fought half a century ago.

He had been di since May 29 "bly prired constant stream last when His lortz mdeed of ballers seeking advice or him to bed with what seemed jublance, debating matters.

to fin A jernpien of triatles. (agment, secalling the past and But by the

of the month ipfimout for the future. Aw y preaquia developed and from i

Irm robtient and

then ward, thearch be put up i party duties be allowell shelt a frequencion. But, he had sur-ja Et le puter. Be

wart!

er solves relaty es, which left him an indefatigable traveller, using

Cameraft whenever possible, always weber.

fle Cave up Payliaarnary lender.hip of the Tinited Partyi when it breame lygions that be!

GREAT STRAIN

But the celebrations last May

would never completely recover ziurkin his 20th Birth from his nere,

--perhaps the greatest moment

Bymbol of the great partnerf his arse-taposed a gest ahip of the Bratkh Commen wealth of Nations - phras

he himself ended General Smuts shaped

trains on the mata,

On

day Johannesburg the freedom of the

i was on he 16 hours on end, fert almost Commentoring twles the 30 miles to wealth in two world conflicts,

from Pretoria, making Immediately after the defend

and meeting of his United Party by lengthy greches

countless friends d'adines Nationalist Daniel Malan's

The thousands who acclaimed Affilmers m the 1948 General Election, he launched an feless as he leave f an sipen ear sive rempalge to get back into through the streets that day fremmented on his ruddy com- plexion and robust appearance,

the destiny offered

South Africa and led it on the tin him balf of the Beltins

power.

Ile made countless speeches and Kolated in eilles, villages

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"He never seema 10 grow oller," one were heard to any.

farms, often driving milen over And that night, when he rough ronds to reach his plat-

Jspolo at elvie banquet, he forin, Sometimes he would adhowed that he hurt lost nothing dress two or three meetings in

u duy, many of them in the apen atr, his and shading fus eyes from the bright South African sundish!

Juting obstinately tufted chin forwani.

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narrow,

silver

LITTLE RELAXATION Yet he always found time for

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HEAVY RED ASSAULT ON

TAEGU FRONT

General Jan Christian Smuts, the outstanding figure in South Africa's his- This tory, who died last evening of a sudden heart collapse at the age of 80. picture shows the General standing to stir his breakfast porridge, which he always

Vote On

For

With

did.

Hearing Casualties_To

Peking Ends

Rejection

Lake Success, Sept. 11.

H repeated is appeal of 1910-when he pleaded at Ver-

The Security Council convened today under jailles for magnanimity towards the presidency of Sir Gladwyn Jebh.

The

otherwise its decisions

pre

Refeated

Germany-aid came

Dr States, first speaker was Jout Squarely for the entry of

Western

Into the Tg-the Triang of China, who, would be mall and void. Germany

radio Laid Foreign Hugopean remity Fatig

Hursian rugges-Peking Contested the comrules of

Note who a chat with the

listened to his, on that Communist China be Minister, Chou En-lal, cabled

in the Mir Trygve Lie and the to participate lecture on word: that night three wars, or to

could have invited relence or philosophy to learned imagined that they were to see debate on Peking's charges that sident of the Security Council, planes bombed Sir 'Gladwyn Jeb, regarding gatherings.

the last of him in public. The United States

the Augul 31 decision which cloved who acclaimed him and strafed a Manchurian town.

inced upo11 the agendo

4 C Knew that they were not to

Dr Triang ruin the Russian Chinese Communist eeu aftou) were saying farewell,

that American planes strated" Four days later he was order motive was to double her vowe

the Commeil

Manchurian towns. was na baad vote in ttle relaxa-ed to be that was

| destined to leave aguio.

proclaim to the peoples of the

the Pek zaid ta particularly

the

covernment, in General Sante

the was born on World. in Parlin- His appearartée a

than May 24, 1870,

10:0 Relbeck peoples of Asia, that Asia in al- ment weve es frequen: In previous years, that when West Village Clapetro-mechty in his world". he spoke both Covernment and wince.

At home, on his fan er Pretoria, he would tend flowers in the garden or play with his Brand-children But there

tion.

Opposition fully.

listened

reprel-j

But through the door of his office in the House of Assem.

EDITORIAL

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fogd guvernment of China wou the initiator of the arcuation...

Be Flown Home

Singapore,

war

British

Sept. 11.

casualties England

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are unlikely to be- further ser- come fit for vice in the troples, it was sanounced here today. Sick troous from parts of the Far East will also be eligible for a new air evacuation service. Starting

Wednesday, 011

when à fits! plane-load of stretcher cases will leave for home.

A

Royal Air Force spokesman sald that the evacuation of casualties- from all three Services- could be carried out from the mest renute Jungic rlearing, isolated Airstripa Ar almost direct from the battlefield.--Reuter.

China' Communist govern-agalust the United States, murt THIGH

Dutch far. Invent

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His father wan

it representative be permitted to send its repre- audrier one-time jtuar k a.tend the Security senjative to state the Chinese

-cussion on its AC- aber of the olt Cape Lenis- Cormeil

cusations against the United Continurd on Page 5 Cul. 3)

Peking And United Nations

WHILE it would seem, as a result of the complication furnished by the Koren conflict, that

atmosphere favouring the admission of the Pekt regine to the cocnells of the United Nations was less easy to create fodny than it might have been two month ago, there have been straws in the wind. The chances of an abrupt change of attitude, turning the scales, are of course negli- gible. With her heavy responsibilities in Korea on behalf of the United Nations. the United States could be pardoned for 10 the resistance. even stiffening her exercise of the velo. Nevertheless, the majority vote in the Security Council Inst week-end on Russia's molion Insisting on priority for a discussion on whether the Chinese Communists be invited to viutations debate on förder Join the alleged against United Nations alreraft, seems to point the trend. Mr Acheson's personal references to the Peking Com- munist Parly's place in the sun, warning them against the folly of bowing to Marcow pressure and intervening in the Korean batile,

parallel. runs closely The U.S. Secretary of State affirmed his beller, shared by Muny competent students of

Chinese Chinn and the

broom people, that despite the new Sweepings to be expected In the first fleshes of revolutionary success, that the Chinese are going to be Chinese before they are going to be Communists. That statement commlis Mr Acheson to nothing In particular, but it la significant as re- America's mind is not vealing that Holidly made up against the established Communist government on the Chinese mainland, in favour of obduracy on Ideological grounds alone. Mr Acheson was at pains to reiterate, as did Mr Tru- man on Saturday, that the neutralisation of Formosa offered no challenge to the

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Chinese people, that the issue would never have arisen but for the necessity of protecting the United Nations' lett Bank during the Korean lighting. On the other side, we have America's announced Intention of opposing any invitation to Peking to participate in debates on sub- jects with which the regime is closely concernel. Those who have recognised the Peking Government, including Bri- tain, India and Norway, are certain to the other way-noi because of failure to understand the Amerienn view- point, or to respect it, but because the first important concession to what we would call a realistic approach to the problem of status would open the way, when a Korean settlement is imposed, tu more general recognition of the fait ae- compli. Egypt has already indicated that she will follow the United States' line and small is the likelihood of an Invitation at Russia's behest. It is unfortunate in

Mr Devin's gesture January, offering to enter into diploma- tic relations, has not prospered, but the motive whe sound enough, It was a de- monstration that the free nations of the world, as Mr Acheson has also insisted, are inherently friends of the Chinese, and the purpose was to Inspire second thoughts in Peking should there develop any tendency to surrender to Moscow Ulandishments and sink into the role of satellite. No such mood is clearly tectable yet, albeit the Kremlin influence is high by comparison with any other, but it might be thought, reasonably, that any step dealgned to modify auspicious, distrustful reintions, could do no harm. moment. could do much good. At this prejudices prevall. Eventually, however. we have to get down to brass tucks, and the paving of the way should be at. tempted sooner rather than later.

some

wayn.

in

case when the proceedings open. Otherwise, he said, any decision would be letal and not bind-

gupan China.-United Press ||

OPERATION

The Soviet delegate. Mr dace ON G.B.S.

Bialik, amated that any discus- slun of Peking's charges without partielpation of a Chinese Com- munist was illegal.

He declared that Artlet: 32 of

First Cavalry Gives Ground In See-Saw Battle

Tokyo, Sept. 12.

American forcos yesterday lost half a mile of ground on the northern approaches to Taogu.

Keeping up steady pressure on the north, the Communists had last night shifted the weight of their effort to take the embattled city and were attacking over the Naktong River from the south-west.

They pushed forward on the left flank of British forces on the Naktong line just below Taegu but their attempts to break through were broken up by American Second Division artillery.

Dutch Couple

The British, sandwiched between the Ameri- Offered To can First Cavalry Division around Taegu and the

Second Division to the south, spent a relatively Adopt Quads.

quiet day but rounded up 50 Koreans who had slipped through the line during the night.

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offered were made Gen. Gay 4ld there was no Holland to defend Taegu street by doubt that the main Communist foster parents of Hongkong's drive for Taegu Wat belna quadruplets before it was known street.

pusited by three divisions that the Hongkong Goverment East of the

Office would Taegu sector, against the First Cavalry_front Social Welfare the north face north and northeast of Taegu,ussume responsibility for them. midway along of the Urilled Nations' defence

This morning's stift arüllery

Reading news of the quads” hox, South Korean troops lift-durl was between the Arst ed the immediate threat to the Cavalry's 105mm and

birth in the newspaper "De 155mm Yongchun-Kynju front.

and of the guns and the smaller but more Stem." of Breda, the momentum of ศ

mother's offer to give them mobile 70mm guns of the Com-away, Mr and Mrs Van Dongen, counter-attack berun yesterday, mursisis. they pushed

of 21. Moostraat, forward another

Glize, near two miles and were digging in The Communists dugged the Breda, wrote to the paper's five miles north of the Yong-Americans with 169 and mor- editor that they were willing to chon-Kyonju highway.

tars which they kept in action become foster parents. Southern forces reported

as long as there was no Ameri-

"De Stem" telegraphed to the gains in their efforts to close a CAA aircraft overhend. As coon

"Dally Express" in London, gap between the South Korean as their positions were spotted Third und

informed its Capital Divisions, they tried to remove them to which has just

corresponclent in Hongkong of defending Lc ngan-Ni Pa- } the lung section

the Van Dongen offer.

front.

near emplacements.

of the northern United Press.

On the comparatively in- active southern front the Ameri- cans repulsed an assault around the port of Mason.

and

Hritish, Americans and South Koreans got full air suppor! again today as fighters fight tumbeis ranted up down the trout.

ROCKET ATTACK

HEAVY FIGHTING

North of Targy it was difficult today to tell who was attacking

whom.

Both skies fought viciously with American artillery pasting and North Kurean positions, and the retaliating with Northerners heavy mortar fre.

Americans The

China Prices Stable

to-

San Francisco, Sept. 11. Peking Radio reported night that the prices of major commodities remained constant throughout August

citles south of leading Great Wall

all the

attacked Australian Mustangs carried against heavy resistance, and out a rocket attack an tanks there were Bee-saw netlons up along the Naklong. They were und down severni important unable to check the results im- | hilts, mediately,

It was only a 20-minute jeep Here, in Japan, the Australian ride from Tregu to on American | airlift of 500 volunteers for forward command post, which

Price Indices released by Korea was almost complete and was under silpers' fre Di

the Ministry of Trade showed was expected that the Third sporadic selling.

that the average price WIS Australian Battalion would go During the 10 minules

lower by 0.1 percent. un August into battle soon.

Reuter's correspondent Llonel 31 as compared with that on71 General MacArthur's head-Hudson was there, a hotly-dis- July 31,

Luton, Sept. 11.

Shaw quarters George Bernard underwent an operation

the Chart obliged the Council is broken thigh tonight to bear bath parties to a dispute, and the official bulletin said

Mr Malik dealed that Russia

his condition was "satisfac- insisted in Chinese Coinimimist participation to enhance her own Tory." prestige in the Far East,

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claimed 2,630 Computed ridge o alle to the north munists killed or wounded with- was being criss-crossed by rifle August also saw the continued in 24 hours up to noon today. and machine-gun Are, pounded increase In transactiona of many of these on the Second by artillery and biusted by rice and cotton goods, sho Division's Naktong Diver front. fighter-bombers-Reuter.

Superfortresses were strength, hitting at communica- tíone 0 north and centrat Korea,

baitle

out in

The feint hospital state- Air Malik muid that It was

George Bir- their sacred duty to hear both said: "Me

AFTER-DARK RAID parties to a dispute in Kashmarnard Shaw has had an operation surfaces of

Last night wasto juln the breken

positions discussions. No mediator

the neck of the thigh bone to were as follows: appointed until the views

Continued on Page 5. Cal, 5) gether. Although a fraclure of North: MacArthur's fighters 'n nature in a mana or and bombers used flares for Shaw's age must be regarded "s an after-dark attack on the serious, his condition at present Communist base at Tabu-Deng. West:-Communists attacked Mr Shaw, Britain's greatest along the Naktong in an effort dramatist since Shakespeare, Second Divialon for an assault to break through the American 04. He fell in the garden of

Britain's New

Divisions For Germany

is satisfactory."

his home at Ayot St Lawrence, on Taegu from the south-west but were hurled back by heavy yesterday, and was rushed the Luton and Dunstable Hos-artillery fire.

East:-South piti 10day.

Korean troops

of ground gained two miles Typical of the man who north of Kyangehon and Kyong- wrote "Mon And Superman", and close to the east coast The Prime Minister, Mr Cle- "Pygmation," and "S. Joan," battled to close a gap between ment Attlee, is expected to tell was that when he went to hos the South Korean Third and

he insisted on talking Capital Divisions. Parliament tomorrow that Bri-pital tain will send at least another small library with him. three divisions to strengthen her forces In Germany.

London, Sept. 11.

Villagers at Ayol

One of these will be armour-rence,

The Buncement, kely to be made in the speech with

troops

South-American troops of St. Lawthe 25th Division repulsex! Com- in the Masan all of whom venerate munat assaultz

Tokyo, Sept. 12. od. Already, there are two Bri-Show, waited anxiously during area during the night-Reuter.

the day for news, tish divisions in Germany.

Aled warplanes flew a re- Shaw, the vegetarian, has, la cord of 670 sorties on Monday, recent year, done all the Air Force disclosed today whleh Mr Attlee will begin writings in a specially-designed as fighter bombers roared away Parliament's three-day defence revolving sun-itut In his village from Japan bases to blast and

the fry

Communist rebate tomorrow, comes on top serden. of President Truman's state- de-

ment that America is to send Shaw slipped on loose earth reported to be withdrawing on

three fronts in le garden and tell heavily. mare troops to Europe.

· HEAVY BARRACE The debate, for which Mem-lie was helped into the house called. He was hers of Parliament have been and a doctor

Communist artillery opened summoned back from holiday, taken to hospital by ambulance

bombardmorit flerce may disclose detalls of the now today when it was found that another

th10 First ormy planned under Britain's hic had not improved overnight, this morning

Recently he had been working Cavalry positions seven and a revised defence programme,

Military experts forecast that on a new comedy called "Why half miles north of Taegu,

Major Gen. Hobart Gay, the new ory would have 4 She Would Not." ratio of an armoured division to cach two of infantry, with strengthened paratroop force fleuter.

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He said of it recently, "SoFirst Cavalry Commander, said. far it is the merent trifle and. "We are receiving four times I am not sure I shall not burn the artillery that we are used It."-Reuter and United Press. to from them."

Radio added.-Reuter.

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