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VOL. V NO. 234

Seoul's People Streaming Back

From The Hills

(By JACK JAMES)

Seoul, Oct. 2.

Bloodied but unbeaten the people of Scoul streamed back on Monday from the hills to the south.

They shuffled through the town with enormous bundles tripping over snaked coils of downed telephone wire and stopping en route to cook a handful of rice.

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Packs of hungry children, The country normally products besieged Army mess hall for more than enough to feed itself, scraps. Residenta whore homes and the war has fortunately not were blasted to shells of rubble : destroyed the crop. eing to the botlef that some- how someone would provide for Um.

PRESIDENT LUCKY President thee la one of the luckier citizens. He found his? "What I'd like to do in to hire officiat dence only lightly a top-flight city planner," Pre- looted because the Commnutst ment Syngman Thee said after tenants had earmarked it viewing the city, which was occupation by the North Korean two-thirds destroyed.

premier, Kim Il-sung. When city nests rice; it needs they

Redz not only

The

water,

Creed

and

ded, the

for

it needs fuel, failed to take the furnishings, There are almed to undam-but left behind two cases of

modern buildings in the vodlen and Russian champagne, businers districts. Banka The glazed-brick Rheo beurs destroyed; the post office is a shell; the four depart ment stores have been burned

city's

sidence, in the northeast corner

of Seoul, suffered only damage to its windows on one side-from

out; most of the communication American bombs.

and transportation system has i -President Rhee said: "But been destroyed or damaged.

they stole all my clothes and a

| rilver-framed picture of Pre- Many workers have been ident Truman, and they cut up cunscripted into the Commu-rome priceless tapestrica to nist army or fed tho city-make black-out curtains, and Prisoner of the Communists they flooded the bathroom." ure believed to include most of the business and professional lenders in the city.

The one big bright spot is that Keren has a bumper rice crop.

Hamburg Red

Leader Arrested

But the President and Mrs Rhee did not complain because thuy have romething more valuable than their art objects-- their aged spaniel "Happy," who took to the hills and re- mained hidden there until the Rhee returned.

HIDE-AND-SEEK

Ryun Dong-wan, 51, Secretary of the Seoul YMCA, also remain- Ird hidden from the Commun- ist-but in Seoul. He remain- ed under cover by day and ate by night. His face pale and

Hamburg. Oct. 2. The polies announced tonight this mouth twitching, Hyun dr. that they had arrested Friedrich (seribed how his wife and his Deltmann, the leader of the 14-year-old son played bile- Commununist faction in the Ham-and-reek with the Cornmunists burg Parliament, on suspicion of while they searched for him. having partielpated in inciting "I often hid under the floor of a friend's house." Byun said. Herr Delimann, a member of 1 couldn't leave Seoul because the local Communist Party Exc-of my responsibility to the colive, is alleged to have assisted | YMCA and its 3,000 members. In organising yesterday's "peace | I also had to protect my son demonstrations" in which 10 from the Red "voluntary army police were injured.--Reuter. conscription."-United Press.

public disorder.

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BITTER LAST-DITCH DEFENCE ON

Brigadier B. A. Coad, commander of the Brilish troops in Korea, bows with

a smile as he accepts a bouquet of flowers from a young South Korean girl in one of the villages in the battlefront area. British troops are still near Taegu.

Trains Express Crash Head-On

att

Prague, Oel, 2. Seven railway and post offer employees were kill- cd And

undisclosed number of other persons were Injured when two express trains, travelling between Prague and Bruno, crashed head-on At Svitavy, in Moravia, this nurning, according to the trade union organ Prace.

The newspaper sald that responsibility for the erash Jiad beatl established following

Immediate Investigallon on the spot. -Reuler. -

an

Victory Must Not Escape

UNLESS the Kremlin intervenes

directly, or by a directive to the Peking Government bringing the Chinese Communists into action, General Mac- Arthur's band strokes since the Inchon landing have ended the Korea conflict for all practical purposes. A swift drive-into

the downing Pyongyang, and

of arms demanded by the United Nations Com. mander must come in a matter of days. For some period after the Seoul operations began. the stubbornness of resistance by

Korean the North

and their fanatical courage did not diminish. Every endcavear was made to make ndjustments to the new factor which had turned the tide effec tively, and the liberation of Seoul was costly to both sides. Once the city fell, however, the United Nations forces were able to offer a substantial interdic- tlon, 10 any important Communist move- ment of men or supplies from north to south, and the laking at Suwon of the First Cavalry and the Seventh Division doomed the aggressor units in the South. West. Until realisation of the scope of the U. N. victories impressed itself on the units in the leld, there was no sign of But cracking in the Communist morale. the commencement of reirent with abandonment of the slightest hope ut reaching their proclaimed objectives had its inevitable consequences and dissipa. tion of lighting spirit has in the Inst few days gone to a stage beyond expecta- tlona. Voluntary surrender of large unlla has become almost an hourly episode, and where that has not appealed, the forces have disintegrated by shedding of arms and uniforms and dispersing. To bring fighting to an end, however, it is essential for the United Nations army to pursue the campaign at least into the Norther Final victor cannot be

allowed to escape.

There should be no hesitation about the crossing of the 38th Parallel and technlenily and politically,

it should not be left to the resources of the South Korean divisions. It is not merely n Communist army that has to be forced to admit defeat in Korea. The idea of aggression itself must also be defented. Thus for the idea could offer the nitractive fuende of viciory in the fell. It will be less attractive when it is demonstrated that the forces of free- dom are the ones that represent the real strength. The breakdown of the Communist army nears completion, but General MacArthur must be permitted to be unrelenting in pressure, and not be frustrated by LIT artificial frontier barrier. The reasons are plain enough. The Communists have made general withdrawals from the south, particularly on the cast const, where live divisions disengaged a rapidly that the

were

South Korean forces, advancing 20 miles daily, were unable to maintain confàct. Unless disorganised troups are kept on the run, it In quite pusalble that re- grouping will find them capable of protracting the fighting for two or three months. Morcover, the quicker the campaign is over, the more valuable its effect, Abject surrender in the next few days would go for towards laying the ground for A united democratic Koren since there is ample evidence that free cholce on the part of the people would give the Communists short shrift. Many of the thousanda who have died on the battlefield

"recruited" by ТУСТО press-gangs. Civilian casualties have, too, been severe from air bombing and the grim tusele street-by-street through Seoul. Dependents and relatives are not likely soon to forget.

Typhoon Wreaks Havoc Across Northern Luzon

Manila, Oct. 3.

The Pacific typhoon which roared across Northern Larzon into the China Sea yesterday cut a swath of destruction and flooded a large area of rice lands.

Incomplete reports trickling into Manila to- day told of destroyed bridges and cut communica- tion lines, flooded farms and disruption of normal activities in Central and Northern Luzon.

of

ULJONGBU ROAD

Reds Fight Savagely All Day Inflicting Heavy Losses

S. KOREANS

PRESSING

North of Seoul, Oct. 2.

Two tank-supported American Marino battalions attacked

up the shortest route to the 38th Parallel at dawn today.

But withering machine-gun and mortar fire from a group of last-ditch "Communists holding Second Warship border, pinned down their advance to a few hun- Uijongbu, a key supply town 20 miles from the

Hits Mine

Washington, Ort. 2.

A second Americao do. stroyerthe · Mansfield — la struck

talhe of North Korea. Seven men wero Injured.

The Defence Department nald ibat the Mansfield hit the mine on Baturday about 30 to 48 miles north of the 38th Paralle! aff the east coast of Korea Dear

the elty of Chang-

joll

On Wednesday the de. kiroyer Brush hit a mine uff Korea and nino men were killed, 10 were hurt and Üve were missing. The ship managed to reach Japan.

reached

The Mansfield

the Japanese port of Sase- bo under her own power, It was stated-Reuter.

Prague Professors Purged

Prague, Oct. 2.

ac

dred yards.

This rearguard, dug in behind boulders and scrub on both sides of a wooded valley, fought savagely all day long, holding up the First Marine Division's drive northward from Seoul.

ሊ mile behind regimental headquarters peasants worked the fields gathering in the nice harvest and rout vegetables, | Refiners with bundles of clothing and household belong- ags trudged wearily back to capital from which they tad fled during the Last weeks of battle,

the

Russian Mines

In Korea Waters

Washington, Oct. 2. Admiral Forrest Sherman sold With the Marines crouching today that United States Navy down in the fields and beneath ships off Koren have found “a neugerows, the tanks rolled for great many floating mines" of ward to clear a village. They the Russian type. were forced back by a minefield

Admiral, Sherman, United ami fire from an auti-tank gun States Chief of Navy Operations, Then American medium told the House of Representa artillery pounded the slopes of tives Armed Services Commit- the hills. But the Communists tea, that an examination of re- died in their foxholes, refusing covered mines to yield an inch,

HAND TO HAND

indicated that they had been "reccatly laid and not long out of the store-house". To break their defence the covered were the

He said that the mines re-

Marines had to go right Husslan mine

# "rather their positions and kill them at standard type" and containing point blank range.

enough explosives to damage

all chips.--Reuter.

Prisoners were negligible. Mustangs and wheeled overhead in

*

Lesa

Corsairs cloud- sky, screaming down the

of

vaikey in half rolls to plute STOP PRESS

the Communist

Five professors and four rockets, lecturers in philosophy Prague University have dismissed,

it was feuned to ality at the start of the new

University term.

No

been given but the reason

of

positions with

napalm

Navy

dive-bombers spread a naming mass of been jellied petrols)

the ridges, and a heavy artillery bombs along

barrage on the lower slopes enveloped the hill in stroke

But even then the

Marines were able to advance only 1,000

must get but when

There have been no reports of were wrecked and submerged in loss of life in the path of the Nueva Ecija Province, where the Minister siarm, but in Manila, 180 miler damage was expected to tolal at Science and Aris, that Czecho-They lifted more than 40 mines from the typhoon's centre, one least 1,000,000 pesos.

slovak universities man was killed and his two com.

The seriously hurt when panions

crushed under they were

the typhoon debris of a 25-foot wall, blown Province, down by gusts of wind circlingmunications about the typhoon and which Perty damage. whipped the city for 20 hours from Sunday evening to Monday highest

Com-

THE TYPHOON

Thet

Kales

in

ported at 11 a.ms. today:

Royal Observatory re- AL a.m. local time this morning, the typhoon was centred about 300 iniles S.E. official explanation has

moving N.W. or W.N.W. ut 8-to- of Hongkong. for yards in reven hours,

10 knots, this action is undoubtedly

HEAVY PRICE

If it continues on to be found in a recent statement

its present course at this slow by Professor

Engineers worked under sinal rate of travel, Zdenek Nejedly, arms fire to clear a path through

It will pars to the south of the Colony to- Education, a minefield spanning a highway. morrow. Even if it accelerates,

are not expected the lanky went up Hongkong before midnight to- rid of the "aristocratic spirit they were forced back by anti-night. outer fringe the which has become' rooted in tank fire and 45 millimetre guns

also

Map showing struck Leyte them."*

the approxi- i which fired at every disrupting

valilelo mate course of the typhoon will (Continued on Page 5 Col. 3) and causing pro-

In a proclamation issued to-

be found in Page Five. day, on the occasion of the netv University term, the State Violent winds which, at the University Commifier stressed,

point, rached 100 the role of the universities in miles per hour

velocity and building up socialism

and quoted rain caused con-downpours caused

heavy da-Czechoslovakia siderable damage in the metro-mage to property and farm statement by the President Dr politan area of Manila. Shop which was the first to fect the people must educate their own e.ops in Isabela Province, Gottwald, that the working signs wore demolished,

brunt of the storm roaring in intelligentsia, coming from from the ocean. Traffic in them and connected with them Die Isabela towlands was through class afilution and

Schools paralyzed.

and gov-idcologically." Two salvaged Japanese sips were wrenched from their crument offices were closed.

the typhoon cut Deross moorings in Manila Bay and mountain provinces and Ilocos the main

The proclamation blown ashore off Luneta Park. Sur on Monday evening

and logical PROVINCE FLOODED

pfternoon.

Wind and

acacia trees blown over

or up- rooted, electric wire tom loose

low-lying rections

and dated.

The

In

sold that task was the "laco- transformation of the China Sea) science and arts on the basis of In a northwesterly direction, Idlutectical and historical

teriallem."-Reuter,

blew out into

Americans Not To

A barge was swept from its United Press. anchorage and dashed againat the seawall along Dewey Doule- vard. Many vessels anchored in Manila Bay rode out the storm, which cent white-capped seas crashing against the hulla for hours. Two sailings of foreign ships were cancelled Philippina Airlines suspended three lights to North Luzon.

Two thirds ΟΙ Pampanga Province in Central Luzon were reported under water. Bridges

U.S. Weather

Contrasts

Cross Parallel-Yet

(From SYDNEY SMITH, "Daily Express")

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Seoul, Oct. 2. American forces in Korea have been ordered to stop until further orders 20 miles from the 38th Parallel and to hand over their mopping up task to the South Korean Army.

into

New York, Oct. 2.. Snow plied 18 Inches deep

The American fiat marine in Seoul that the South Koreans to some areas of the Rocky division units on the main road have received orders to carry Mountains today but New York north of Seoul are due to be on beyond the Parulicl went into its second day of re- leap-frogged by South Korean North Korea. cord-breaking October heat, forces within the next, 24 hours. Frank Goldsworthy also in

The New York temperaturo

Sequl any

the 7th Marines of:88. degrees Fahrenheit gester-

The South Koreans will take reported tonight only a three day was the highest ever re- over the - merides front lines hundred yards". advance - on, the corded officially for October 1, and -continue the drive to - the| Seoul-Lafongby-highway?" band] Reuter.

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