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French Extend NORTH KOREANS STRIKE BACK

Compulsory Service

Paris, Oct. 27. :

The French National Assembly today pro- longed the length of the compulsory military ser- vice from one year to 18 months and abolished the exemptions from service hitherto granted to about 72,000 young men every year,

The clause of the Bill extending military ser- vice was voted by a show of hands, the Commun- ists alone voting against it.

A Communist deputy,

Plane Presumed To Have Crashed

New Orleans, Oct. 27.

four men on board "is presumed to have crashed" A twin-engined navigation training plane with into Lake Pontchartrain, on the northern edge of New Orleans, in a heavy fog early today, the Air Force announced tonight.

The plane took off at 8 am, GMT for Craig Air Force base at Selma, Alabama.

on

The Public Informatión Office of Kessler Air Force buse sald that one landing light had been His pre- found and the plane Defending the Bill In the

Mumed to have crashed." absence of the Defence Minister, | Pierre Villon, who ranks as one First reports from civillan M. Jules, Moch, who is at pre-af the "military experts" of the sources placed sight men rent in New York for the At-Party, said that it was absurd board the plane, but Minjor Jan: Pact' talka on German to try to determine the length James Percy, at the Scott Air rearmament, the Prime Minister, of service in France by that Base, Belleville, linols, M. Rene

Pleven,

asted the adopted in forcism countries home base of the plane, Assembly to reject all the

the with such totally different con- later quoted as saying: that

of ditions as for example, France there were in. armaments

only four men on favour exemptions for family reasons. Spain or Tito Yugoslavia.

board. There were 35 to 40 amend- sort, some of ments of this which provided NOW reasons for exemptions,

EXEMPTION REASONS

M. Pleven revealed since the end of the Second

The

The

Ung

Comman

Clocks Back British Troops The Odd

Tonight

Do not forget to

put your clocks

one

Tibet: India Peking

BACK hour tonight

Warms Regime

Lake Success, Oct. 27. India has warned the Chinese Communist Government that any military invasion of Tibet would make it difficult for India to support the Chinese cause in the United Nations, a usually reliable source stated here today.

The Indian representative in Peking, Sardar Panikkar, was understood to have been In-

Soviel Ruscio, he said, bad An Air Training less soldiers per square mile

Air Base pokesmon at Scott national territory than France. rold that the mistog plane was

al, Pierre

Henri Telgen, a believed to be a twin Beechcraft former Minister of National Dakota that was on its way Delince and a Popular He-from Scott to Cruig Field, Al- publican deputy, cald he was lomu. thatshed that the Commu-

Heavy fog hampered alat- nists, who were conducting a tempts at rescue, World War one-third of each campaign against the ex

Civil Aeronautics Ad. year's generation of young men of service to 18 months, zhould ministration Air Trafic Con- had been exempted from mid-tail to seize an opportunity for trol Tower sald that it had re-structed to ask for full details reporta that Communist ceived a report that the plane of tary service.

took off st 8.00 am. GMT and forces had invaded Tibet. that shortly afterwards a splash Pont-

Ho was also instructed was heard from Lake

Inform the Peking authorities chartrain.-Reuter,

that chould there reports be confirmed, India would have to reconsider it present THODO for Communist China's claim to United be admitted into the Nations

These exemptions

rc-

reducing it eventually.

Various subsidiary articles of consisted of 50,000 for family

the Military Service Bill reasons, namely eldest Fons of war mained to be discussed tonight widows ckiest cons of families and the substantive vote on the

Bill is a whole was expect

of slx or more, eldest sons of orphans,

Furthermore,

BQmC

ed to take place at a later hour, Radar Expert

but the essential clause extend- 16,000

ing amary service exempted because and suppressing a mass of ex- they had special occupations, cnptions was already adopted. such a miners or because theyiteter

men were

resided abroad.

The aumber of men exemp-

ted as physically unfit totailed

on an average $2,000.

Assembly

yoles

these

LO

ASSAULT BY

SEAMAN

Missing

Frankfurt, Oct. 27. The Frankfurt Abendpost re- ported today that Walter Zim mermann, A West German rocket and madar expert, has been missing for three weeks It hinted that he may have been abducted by agents of a foreign power, presumably Rus

that Zim- The paper d

for had worked at mermann

several years in a research in

to

The

The Indian Government called 'he Peking Government's promise that the question of Tibet would be solved by ne- gotiation and peaceful means and not by a resort to force.

Meanwhile, after Korea

and

I

Round-Up Of NY Hoodlums

CRIMINAL GANG

CHIEF HELD ·

Meet Resistance

Tokyo, Oct. 27.

SpoE Of Odd

The Liars' Cla controlled Tempe is in stress. been transferred With blegor and their predcessors fnd.

Sergeant Dona sident, sald Wat

Lieutenant Jaira

News

Berlin, Oct. T of the America

of airbase best fars

and new membed

better los t

Pool, Club Pr the best ex

airlift to Berl Porter w

D.

Remnants of the North Korcan Army, their backs to the Manchurian border, hit back stub-based on th bornly along the advancing United Nations line prize this year with today.

it knew exact

about a plane that Kot so ulod the same tip between Frankðu and Berlin that

"Once the pla "The fice went

plane stayed-as

caught fire as

Communist troops, well dug in on high ground what to do. and supported by tanks and self-propelled guns, the crew had to halted the British Commonwealth Brigade on the crow west coast while others were fighting hard further it made the rad inland and over in the north-east.

The North Koreans were reported to be re- organising in Communist Manchuria across the icy Yalu River which marks the frontier.

Sale out," he sai -out shortly aft abandoned ship, but th

Course for Berl

trips haults before anyone noticed the crew was Mng."—Router.

Smote-OI

cort

tanbul Oct. 17. All Baai, kot gardener an Istanbul suburb, bought in tins of petrol at

market.. IDEIG them on his do=key.

set uff for toune.

got t

Unconfirmed reports here said that 40,000 Chinese had been thrown in to help them hold there did not noice that the de River's great power plants feeding Manchuria's forging upwed pool over alm. war industries.

British forces ran into

very heavy resistance about two miles west of Kazan

On the road from Pakchon to the Manchurian .northern border Sinuiju.

United States Firth Army Air) Force planes, called in to tacklo the enemy, holding good defen Alve posts in hilly country knocked GIFTIVÖ tanks, bui full results were not yet know, The South Korean Sixth Division,

which

thrust

Other

one

Governorship

For

Former

Colony ADC

at

not proper

peated so tha every now and en the donkey

Presently, All vez anted a cigarett He crouched down · in

sadd

to shield the matars from the wine

An hour later he under treatment.

burns.-Router.

Schoolin

Tarragona..

Fathers who do

children to school

Ar fospit for severe bod

Father

Spain, Oct. 27.

not end will be fined to

b

a first offence Jo Locked up Sundays for manquent offende under & DON I

here.

Dan-Franaladie, the Cei Governor of Taroma, har decrosi the punishment a

gainst absentwolaam

part of a driy "from" schools... The lock-Up patod will rang turn days, accordin The offence. Thi

from two to five

to the gravity of

fathers will only.

to Mam.

E

Abentoelen pro

this agriculi

farmers are greatly-

faleased to g

schools is rosti

I area. What tempted to keej

their children worsetag on the fami instead of reing. school-Beuter.

hình thật to l

Lower Francony, a hüce

spearhead unopposed to tho Yalu River yesterday, were to day Aghting of attacks from three sides in mountain snow New York, Oct. 27.

further cast at Onjong, 30 miles) from the frontlar

London, Oct. 27. The police struck pay-

Aide-de-Camp American aircraft also flew in

to the dirt on Friday in the pre-to help- M. Pleven said that if these

them and the South Governor of Hongkong from npari

Dressed For Part ·· exemptions,

from the

clection round-up of known Korean First Divialen, grappling 1921 to 1926, Major-General Wuerzburg, Bavaria. Oct. 27. physically unft, were maintain-

hoodlums, bagging the al-with a Communist division at Robert Arthur Ross Neville,

bir . M. Brocca, the America, is the big ed, the length of military ser-

Paris, Oct. 27.

Indo-China, Tibet

dow miles to the

resident_officer: Lar the district o story of Communist moves in leged head of the dread in-west vics would in a year have to A Greek seaman, Georges

cia.

invited his Ger Asia" in the American press to-ernational criminal gang forces were hurrynig to their Governor and Commander- Southern CBE, has been appointed

man employees to be extended to two years.

Georlden, today arsaulted 蘊 The

When they. turmeet up, Mr Brook fireek

day. consular official agreed

known as the Mafia,

plus reitet.

in-Chief of the Bahamas, in was the only me wearing genuin abolkh

exemptions by Neuilly police headquarters, a

Newspaper reports have for the former "muscleman” of STIFF OPPOSITION

llaverian-style

Costum

com 385

succession to the late. Sir piete with leathe against

106, the Greek Embassy spokesman said stitute under the auspices of some time been drawing atten-

he deported vice king, In the north-east, the South latter @gures including 14 non- fodiny.

the Soviet Millary Administrator to the danger of a Peking Lucky** Luciano.

Korean Capitol

George Ritchio Sandford.... Division ré- Communists. But the Govern- The seaman called nt the tiert und later fted to the Bri-drive in the direction of Lhasa,

ported stiff resistance at a polol

A Rǝyǝ! Marine since leaving

1914, ment accepted an amendment Consulate

impression that to renew his pass-tish

zenc.

the

40 miles above Hungnarn on tha Those were among the frst const

the

Governor new There had been rumours that Tibet could be

rerved providing that Parliament would

port and was told that the

the one of

and Inland north of be given an opportunity of re- Consulate could

had previously reasons why India was deter- "important“ only sanction Soviel agents

the Pukchon.

during the Inst war at the Ad-em carted a rucsack-lieutor. ducing the military service Isls return to Greece,

failed to abduct him, it said.mined to remain on good terms police les swept in by th

miralty as Assistant Director of Organised forces still-opposing Naval Intelligence, Combined

Concord, Now Howevpishiro, Oct; 2 from the eight months voted He then explained that he Reuler.

haodium round-cup which has the United Nations In the

Mr George D. Faniry has submit- today if any European coun→ was in trouble with the French

ted to the Secretum-cy of Blate, Mi nearly 400 suspected north were estimated at 20,000. Operations, and in the Mediter-

Dean, Acheson, 'tirm following So far, American newsp per: nolshed

ra- try not represented In the police. The official accompanied

Another 10,000 cut off by the Council of

any hard criminals and lester police char- Allied advance were believed of Colonel in 1945 and the rank Representative: have rot rublished

aulted report on Zxis expenses as Europe should re him to the police healquarters

October 27.

Republican cand sa te fur ows that an invasion of Tibet acters on "vagrancy" charges.

Stato and, during, discussiona A teething ring was Kiven

has actually taken place, but

Pusiano 15

(about a shla- various Indirect Police rated the official,

ing) for five laters, Commissioner Thomas Forts from

No travel, by his fellow penskiners for

either by foot or y car, I export He was arrested and will be the third set of teeth hc

described nurces are being put together Murphy

person so light mad lazy ought to repatriated to Greece.--Router. growing-United Press.

lose his election,

duce its may low this limit.

Whitchurch, England,

service be- the pollee, Geerides ost aff-year-old Charlie Crump

The am ndment was adopted by 411 votes against 176 Com- munist vore

EDITORIAL

Riding A Tiger

NHE seriousness of the

situation in

Tindo-Chinn is now patent to all. The

French are withdrawing from their major frontier posts under heavz Vietminh pressure and at high cost: The rebel drive. confirms to sonie extent the fears that

were entertained all summer when experts .predicted that after the monsoons ended Indo-China could be expected to become "a second Korea." The resemblance to Korea lies in the fact that this la part of the same expansionist drive of the Com- munist bloc to get control of all of Asia, especially Southeast Asin. It would be very serious indeed if Indo-China were lost to the democracies. Slam, Burma and later Malaya and 'Indonesia would be endangered, and a rich rice-growing area would be cut off from the rest of South- easi Asin, ・ This is no time to cry over spilt milk or to indulge in recriminations over what the French might or might not have done to avold this crisis. The fact remains that the alternative to the French and their wenk' choice for a ruler-the Emperor Bao Dalis Communism under Ho Chi-minh. The logical policy is one of preferring a regime that can be changed by democratic processes, and that, will certainly lead te genuine national independence some day, to one that will have a firm Communist lid put upea It. American material, ald is now arriving and it will bo stepped up. It la to be hoped the French will recoiva nii the arms they need or can handle. Their chief difficulty, however, is manpower. The French, though they nre receiving、 Bome help from Vietnamese troops, are not getting enough, There ought to be

The French

many more such troops. obviously have not won the populace to their side, nur have they convinced enough people that they really intend to grant independence, or the equivalent, to the country. Yet the South Koreans have shown how Asians can and will tight ngainst Communism when their own cause can be identified with their national as- pirations. It does not seem as if anything more can be done now than to bolster the French with American and British arms and trust that the vital areas of the country can be held. France has about 150,000 well-trained troops there, mostly Foreign Legion and Moroccans, with French officers. These ought to be enough to stabilise a line north of the Red River, thus permitting the Tongkin delta with its rice-growing terral to be held. On the political side the French feel that they are giving the Vietnamese as much inde- pendence as they can handle at present, under the agreement made last March 8. Strictly speaking, this may well be truc, but it does look as if this were not enough. The

situation scema to call for a "calculated risk”,The way out of the Indo-Chinese mess is to combine military defence with swift political progress. Tho alternative is an ever more costly and fruitless holding operation. The French position in terribly difficult. There is an old Chinese proverb that fits the Indo- Chinese situation perfectly: "He who rides a tiger is afraid to dismount." One ¦ › understands French fears, but France.

would do well to consider the predica ¿ment of the man if he never dismounted.

with Communist China,

nemes

on

to

rancan.

He was promoted to the rank

rucksack,

The Germa

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theca, fashionable sers, and brightl kan neckties "and

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ris-style trou coloured Amer None g MOCK,

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be taking part in harassing of Major-General two ycars minor actions in the south.

ago. Anthony Major-General Yujne Heunt,

From 1940 to 1948 he was o emphasise the seriousness of Rice! 37. arrested on Thursday Second Corps,

the South Korean; commanding Position for the remole on a Brooklyn street corner, as according to frontline

today, ADC to the King.

"P.B.I did.—Rater. He will be 54 years of age. In reports, "noun'alu late and to neigh, the top boss in the Mada, an acco

December. Our Cornmunists bouring areas.

тор

TIATE

Itan

stated

WES

Own Cor- secret soclety with that 40,000 Chinese |strong criminal connections in had been thrown into the North respondent.

*Major-General Neville was PEKING HONEYMOON - The United States. Known also Korean battle to protect vilal

ADC to Sir Reginald Stubbs, as "Dig Tony Goebbels," Ricci Valu River power plants.

who

Governor Love

of thr high has also been described as an He said they were taking part | KCMG. Himalayan region in its rela- Important link between Frank in the

at Unisan, 45 from 1910 to 1925, Aghting tion to India, Burma and Thai-Costello, of New York, and the miles south-east of the frontier. land are being published and old Al the conclusion is drawn in the Chicago, New York Times that the in- vacion, If true, could be "a dismaying one to the Nehry Government" which has been "on something of a diplomatic honeymoon with Peking."

Capone syndicate

of

the

The South Koreans intended, tc cupture these electricily; I plants and particularly

Sako dam which pumps power

as well as Manchuri to Siberin Also brought in was Samuel and Korea, he added.

This dam, 40 miles upstream. "Red" Levine, 47, described as

BIGGEST "FISH"

a one-time Luclino henchman, from Antung on the Munchurl; had Joseph Bernaba, 51, pos-an side of the River, was According to reports pubilch- cessor of a criminal career built by the Japanese in 1937 cd in New York from unofficial

caling back to 1018.

with switches on the Korean Communist sources, the Com-

Ricc. Its loss would cripple- Second Field

The police considered Ricel industry munist Chinese

Manchurian in the and Bernaba twa of the big-elles of Dairen and Mukden. Army has been directed to ad-

those i vest "fish" caught so far in the Tibel which

The South Korean authori vance on

enlist re- to sources described as "still under rive by acting Mayor Vincenttles have begun

imperia Impelliteri to scrub the

the the city servists between

ages of yoke of foreign lism".

clean by election day, Novem-17 and 47, according to Pusan ber 7.

Radio today,

Reservists were Both Ricci and Bernaba were register

Levine was arrested with 35

ordered

to

by October 30 or be

Other reports from Com- munist sources backgrounding the military development released on bail for hearings on "everely pinished."-Reuter.

November 9, alleged that Tibet's status quo rendered it a possible "spring- board" for aggression against men in a special pickup at the the People's Republic of China Jamaica race track and held in and that such a situation only gaat overnight. served the interests of The United States.

of the

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Nottingham, Oct. 27. In another phase

Retired police inspector T. A

The reason given by these 254

cleanup drive the police Issued Doldy, digging in his new gars

den, uncovered a subpoenas Communist scurces for the in suspected

for persons containing £1,050. of fraudulent vasion was "United States and gistration United Pross. British intrigues,"

But explained.

these were not further

Side by alde with reports on the Tibetan developments, newa- papers alzo

published offlelal

TC-

The money was claimed by Eric Briggs, 40-year-old grocer, who said he buried the money In December, 1944, and forgot not belleva.in banks. - Valted Press.

about it. Briggs said he does

The First Snow

Duke Of Windsor To Visit London

and unofficial reaction from

London, Oct. 27. India and sald that India had The Duke of Windsor, now Informed Peking of its "sur-In France, is to viali London to

London, Oct. 27. prize and regret" at the report-, attend to private affairs next Britain's firal reported snow ed. Invasion.

week: WNY TAS-C501 216 of the winter fell on high ground today. Bear. Bath, Somerset,

Sp far therobas been no He, is expected to arrive on Early morning frost - was...TO editorial ¿omment- but from Monday and will stay at ported on the East Coast from headlines to news stories. the Marlborough House, the home Croydon, in the South to Scol "invasion, Mitrúe, 1x. "scen as of his mother, Queen Mary, landas: Rain fall win the West

compromising / Nabru's-j-Antan | leaving for

Franco

again The, ground in the Lonción, urma policoreuler...

on Wednesday ---Zouter

|was, white with · frost-Boutér,i

Chimney Tragedy

Locarno, Swilze--Land. Oct. 27. A housewife, 12 adame Alfonsine Mordasini, WAS, Haaretzarad ...to death when her clothes -caught fire while

trying

το clean the chimney of her

house here. Resler.

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