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Vietminh gueras, after oc- cupying flic French frontier fortress of Dong Danz, were reported to be massing today for an attack on Langson, chief rentalnfug French past cuarding the China road.

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The French evacuation the 7-year-old stone fortsen of Dung Dang, the 4th bas tion to be abandoned within a month, har jeft the way open a direct attack on Lahon, 10 miles away.

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have

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divilian relidenta

bren evacunted

and the French were not ex-

pected to huli It.

M. Icon Pirnon, the French ti

Commis loner Indo-

Chiun. today Informed the French Conncil of Ministers of the latert ritontion

the

Northem State of Tonkin, 1. Albert Cazler, the Minister of Information, ald In Parts.

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Hongkong Telegraph

VOL. V NO. 248

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1950

For

Reservations

REDS DEFEND PYONGYANG Heading For

Terrorists Strike Again

Singapore, Oct, 18. Terrorists killed 'ane railwayman and Injured three when they derailed the Kuala Lumpur-Singa- bore mall train tonight at Senal, In Johere State.

A detonator placed on the line threw the locomo tive and at least three carriages off the Imack, according to reports reach- Ing here.

A

railwayne, train carrying

Jeft

and troops Singapore finmed

ately for the scene. The north-bound mall iral

hold up at Johorr Bahru, 15 miles south of Senal-Reuter.

was

UN Troops

Run Into Stiff

Resistance

With Eighth Army Headquarters,

Oct. 19 (7. a.m.)

United Nations spearheads ran into the first heavy resistance in three days eight to 10 miles south and east of Pyongyang on Wednesday and were reported to have stalled at sundown in a race for the Red capital.

An Eighth Army report issued at 5.30 p.m. on Wednesday said the First Cavalry division hit the Communist defence BRIGGS' PLAN machinegun, mortar and anti-tank gun fire and line guarded by heavy

The French High Command was proceedit with a methodi- cal withdrawal of its Isolatest farces on the Northern border with China with the aim of re-an grouping them and

Occupying positions protected apalust encirclement, he added.

PROPOSAL REJECTED

Informed

Paris circles raid that the 80.000 members of the French Union force in the ares were now expeeled to dig in about 60 miles routh of the mountainous

frontler region, defending a line at one point only about 20 miles north or Hañol, the capital itself.

SUCCEEDING

ters have

mines around Chunghwa on the main north-south highway into Pyongyang.

The report said that the foot slogging First ROK, Division encountered "heavy resistance" on C lino eight to 10 miles east of the city.

rcored

#rea,

with

Capital

American Marine tanks rumble through war-torn territory in the present pile-driver attack in North Korea. Destination is Pyongyang, the North Koreans'

capital-London Express Service.

But-numbered Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy

Kuala Lumpur, Oct. 18. Lieutenant-General Sir Harold Briggs, Director

of Operationa Malaya, raid here today that rmation of the Puran radio North Koreans battling furious-

There was no oficial con- | tonight, the Communists would begin to claim that the ROK troups hady In Stune places and giving crack after the "bulk rette-entered Pyongyang. However, way In others, according to ment" of Chinese squatters it was recalled here that Pusan Ironitine

reports. Throughout the country.

rodio announced the liberation. A Pusan Radio report sald of Seoul more than A week at South Korean vanguards The back of this resettlement before it occurred.

had crossed the Tacdong River! programmine should early next year, he said.

be broken

Borth of Pyongyang, capturing The United Nationa also the capital's airtel, and then

important galus. Anime Thousands of Chinese squat lebih Amy report said there to enter the main city

British Commonwealth Brigade and sent to

been rounded

Eighty percent of Pyongyang eached Tacong, some 15 mileshes on the north-west bank of terelement areas routhwest of Pyongyang, against 117 River. because the guerillas depended "negligible resistance."

1.- British on them for food and Informa- The French National Assem-

Eighth ROK Division troops, advancing swiftly from bly's Defence Committee today

tien.

broke through the resistance the south against silftening op- rejected a Communist proposat

had been stalling Its position, were also expected in which Most of the squatters the Government that

who advance on Pyongyang down fir eis

city tonight. with open talks

greatly Dr Ifo Chincreased

during the the main cast-west highway 42

The Amerlean Seventh Minth, the leader of the Russian Japanese occupation, are remi-miles east of the capital. Cavalry Regiment, vanguard of Nomadie. "The "Bring Man" A spokesman said the retreat-the southern advance, were last is aimed at settling them per-in Communist troops from the ported 10 milles short of the jmanently and giving them battlefields

and with ample are

cast of Pyongyour capital. They had taken tie moving directly

north from the fast moving Dri- rather than falling back on the ish Commonwealth brigade. capital-United Press.

Communists are Today tanks and gums to defend part CONFUSED FIGHTING

jot Pycntyang's outer perimeter Tokyo, Oct. 18. Confused Bighting

jagainst an overwhelming United raged and around the sprawling Com-

onslaught. of Pyongyang Souths munirt capital

France's

Vietminh Government. lending

should

Anrur-

military

strategist, General Alphonse Sake in the

Juin

and

protection.

Apart from

"week-end ter the bar Care of gorillas Jat the jungle still! isumbered Between 3,000

M. Jean Letourneau. the Minister for Associated States, who flew into Saigon rori:[" yesterday, continued their falls into

the early morning there today on the worsening border 5,000, Sir Harold Brings wald,

Ruation.

EDITORIAL

Reater.

The

Mr Truman Makes It

E real meaning of the Wake island conference between President Tru man and General MacArthur is made more apparent by the President's brundenst to the United States. The issues of worki pence or war are at stake and it was within such a framework that Mr Truman conducted his talks with MacArthur. Korca, and the rest of Asia, pose this. problem of world peace or war-bring the issue into sharper focus and make the whole question more and more urgent. Therefore, whatever the detals of the Truman-MacArthur conference mny have been, the basic considera- tion Wax global in Perspective. President Truman's challenging appeal to Soviet Russia became a natural corollary, pin-pointing the conviction that wherever else in the Far East or in Europe conflict broke out, its origins would be traceable to the machinations of the Kremlin. Mr Truman has never addressed himself so directly and firmly to Soviet Russia as in this broadenst. His words were weighty and his sentiments wholly reflective of the minds of the people who comprise the Western democracies. The strength of President Truman's speech resis in the fact that he made no attempt to be oratorical, even less rhetorical. He spoke for the common man in the Innguage of the common man. Of Soviet Russia, Mr Truman asked four things: that Russia live up to the principles of the United Nations Charter; that she join the rest of the United Nations in calling on the North Koreans to surrender immediately; that she lift the Iron Curtain and permit the free exchange of Information and ideas with the Western world; that she join the efforts of the United Nations to establish a workable system of collective security. And President Truman's conception of collective security is that it permits the elimination of the atomic bomb and the drastic reduction and regulation of all other arms and armed forces. Nothing in

Clear

these four requirements can be construed as inimical or Machiavellian, but they contrast very sharply with Mr Vyshinsky's appeal-that. the United States should ceane its "tough" policy so that she and Russia and the rest of the wartime allies can once again "get together" and rench agreements to mutual benefit. If, in the mind of Mr Stalin and his Kremlin colleagues, the United States policy on International affairs has become tough, it is because America has rejected the idea of appeasing a nation which has com- mitted itself deliberately to a mailed tist and obstructionist policy. Moreover, Russia has carried that policy to a point where, using Korea as the guinea-pig. she has experimented with challenging the authority of the United Nations. The result to Russia has been disastrous; to the United Nations, vindication. This is no time for Russia to make demands for

Th

incrful

"new policy" on the part of the democracies, but the moment has arrived (or a demand that Russia change her attitude and actions in the Beld of Inter- national relations, This is the feeling of all the nations who genuinely desire world pence, and President Truman, in his broadcast, was merely expressing this conviction on their behalf. Moreover, in nasociating his talks with MacArthur with the message he delivered to the Kremlin, Mr Truman was emphasising that the United Nations did not intend, in the future, for any nation to impose its expansionist designs on small countries. Korea la the warning to Russin, or to any other nation which may harbour aimilar. plans for the promotion of colonial imperialism. The alternatives to Russia are obvious: either she associates herself unreservedly with the principles and aims of the United Nations, or she makes her- self an outcast-a self-confessed opponent to world peace. This Is the meaning of President Truman's broadcast.

and United State:

American

and

Korean reinforcements came up modn after nightfall to pport spearheade altackle the Communist defencer. More were streaming up all the main

New York, Oct. 18. David Greenglass, 28- year-old former Army ser- geant, pleaded guilty to- day in the Federal Court to a charge of conspiracy In time of war to convey secret Government de- fence Information to Rus-

-defendant had worked on the atom bomb project at Los Alanios, New Mexico.

ori.

Kid The

Greenclass was Atually Indicted in New Mexico and was named in

a superseding indictment Jere last week with four others, Including Anatolin Yakovlev, a former Rus- *lan Vice-Consul In New York,

Because of his pleas, it was expected that Green- ries would turn Govern- ment witness and thereby cscape the death penalty. -Router.

roads to the capital. Between i VICIOUS

75,000 and 100,000 Allied tronpa

IM now moving against the

Northerners' last Important HURRICANE

rentre.

MANY, PRISONERS

Many retreating

Northern!

!

Ex - Ambassador

Leakage War-Time Secrets

Blamed For

MR BEVIN'S

Of

DISCLOSURES

London, Oct. 18.

Price

U

Victo

U

Lake Suce The United Political Co proved and General AssØ American pro armed forces: Assembly for Inggressors Wi blocks emerge the Security. In a section- on the resoluti the United Stat sponsors. the mittee

voted 4 six abstentions that all UN mnes units of their ni forces which cou action by the A

a resolution

The

had still to be v pusage was assi marked the and of Committee d Russla

•rojected

Am

part of the except the clablishment patrol." This upproved by along with all o the resolution, v

FIVE MAI 1. Authorlee Assembly into en on 24 hours' no of my seven n Security Counci

a majority of U

Jany onse where

be a threat to p peace or act of

2. Establish a valion commisalo observe any are allona I tension crupt into war Assembly boycotted Little position to act. Security

The Foreign Secretary, Mr Ernest Bevin, to- day blamed Britain's wartime Ambassador to Tur-the key, Sir Hughe Knatchbull-Hugesson, for letting some of the biggest secrets of World War II fall into the hands of the Germans.

Counc

3. Recommend within its nation members that e elements

ma

He confirmed in Parliament the most extraordinary spy story of the war the photographing of top-secret

50 tra documents by the Ambassador's valet, who sold the films and equipped to the Germans.

promptly be accordance with Ameng the secret, were A Member asked why

constitutic references to "Operation Over-details of highly secret military for service as U lord"--the Allied invasion ut operations

submitted to Nurth-West Europe,

bassadors in

taken

were ve

What happened to "Cicero". after he left his job with the

AT

known.

measurem comm

of the An-direction countries keel or General A Until today doubt had been Turkes Bir Bevin did not re- 4. Establish thrown on the story, which was ply. told last mouth in a book named Moyaisch wrote that the spy-methods, includin "Operation Cicero" by Ludwel valet way ап Albanian which "might be Aloyzisch, a Viennese who whose real name the Germans in

fund strength worked in the German Embassy never knew. They gave him el peace and sec in Ankara

the coue name "Cicero."

f. Urge all A Conservative Member, Mr

respect ful Witam Shepherd, asiced

17 CO-OF- Bevin today it an inquiry hat £300,000 paid by Berlin is not the UN to

place into the Ineldent

univer sued to prevent such

Moyzisch wrote that aimate

for and

observa and what instruction: had been the German leaders took a long rights and

‚ fund a thing time to decide that his informa doms and happening again.

tion was genuine and

Intens never and collective eff Mr Bevin plied

looks advantage of it. that the Details of the Teheran Con- and social progTE conditions of eco Ambassador's valet succeeded inference and of photographing highly secrel

aid to Russia through developm documents and selling the tms were passed to the Germans, dovoloped countri

the Germans. through to

He

he wrote.-Reuter. auded:

-United Press. "He would not have been able crape-to do this if the Ambassador today after it had conformed to regulations

lafured governing secret documents,

NOT STOLEN

troops have been at off by the Hundreds of Families speed of the United Nations advance from taking part in the city's defence.

5.000

Made Homeless

Miami, October 18,

Over

were reported captured in the past 24 hours- total of 70,000 since the fight-

A small vicious hurricane began and others

northward were rippet being swept in "in droves". Florida's orange

Pyongyang Radio, whleb hat fruit country carlier called on the people t

Killed the city to "ght to the last drop

[1210

and

Derson,

of blood" and to "sland up scores of others and blasted a tonight the defensive battle" $5,000,000 damage on Mami went off the air suddenly this Gold Coast, altemoon.

were

"New Instructions have been issued to all concerned and, other measures Inken to prevent such a recurrence."

Pilots

supporting General Hundreds of homes MacArthur's ground forces severely damaged or destroyed, kara at the time was Sir Hughe (Britain's Ambassador In An-

of families were Knatchbull-Hugesson, now re-

thousands were tired). left without electricity.

reported 3 heavy two-way hundreds movement of lorries and carts homeless and on all roads north out of the capitul

They also said that Austra- lians, riding tanks and lorries

Mr

Shepherd then, asked: It is the case the Overlord The storm, whose winds plans were not solen, why did

Mr Bevin answered:

"The

Wer

not

up the highways from the south, ached 125 miles an hour over not the Foreign Office issue a were receiving a "big fat well was packing 75 miles an

Miami shortly after midalght, dental?" conie" from villagers On the 7% way. Hundreds Koreansour or higher winds at mid- actuani documents handed

them

bouquets .and day as I moved up the middle stolen, but I admitted that apples and waved South Korean

of the Florida peninsula, strik-photographs were taken, which ing As as they passed.

glancing but damaging is just the same thing.""" blows at the Indian River and One pliot who flew over the Ridge Cirus districts. front saw rows of abandoned trenches every half mile across

KILLS the malo road between Chung-families homeless in

The winds left nearly 500 EXPLOSION won and Pyongyang.

Beach and Hollywood, Florida,

TWO SOLDIERS

Superfortresses were out again

today

Miami

dropping hundreds of The Red Cross reported that thousands of surrender leaftets 125 homea on Pyongyoug and other

Northern cilles,

were

Two

were

Como, Italy, Oct. 18, Italian soldiers severely damaged or destroyed in South killed and 10 wounded by the Broward County where Holly-explosion of a mortar, bomb wood is located and where one in the Como area yesterday. person was killed and 25 were

were clearing intelligence injured by a hurricane-spawned ploded ammunition after a fort- olicer it that the Communist hard core of the Northern Army fornado.

night's manoeuvre-Reuter,

DETERMINED FIGHTERS

One

American

was determined to fight to the The hurricane and

end,

They

unox-

its ac- Plane Crash Inquiry

as indleated by 17 cases companying squalls, dumped up of men blowing themselves to to six Inches of rain on 13,080 pieces with grenades rather acres of winter vegetables in the than fall into captivity.

rich Lake Olterchobee area. Other officers suggested that

London, Oct. 18.

The Minister for Civil Avia- tion, Lord Pakenham, announ-

the Koreans were leaving com- The Red Cross reported that insed today that there would be puratively

unseasoned forces Atlami alone eight puses were a public inquiry into the crash extimatet ut between 25,000 destroyed, 474 badly damaged, of a Dakoja airliner in North- and 30,000, to defend Pyongyang | 4,500 damaged, 7,700

received Weat London yesterday,

and were moving their more superficial damage. The survey which 28 people died. seasoned men Into the northern was not completed at Miami An Inquest⠀⠀ was opened to-

(Corinned on Page 5 CoL 1)Beach-United Press.

| day.—Reuter.

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