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VOL. V NO. 259

HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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SOUTH CHINA MOENING POSI

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Hongkong Telegraph.

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1950.

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CHINA'S KOREA INTERVENTION

Political Implications Check American Comment

COMMENT

Times

change and the newspapers with

them.

The public has long been

of the

#ware

notable

British newspaper mer- ger, effective as from to- day, and it is our privilege to be first in the field to demonstrate the new motif. The marked change in

our

own appearance calls for little comment. It speaks for itself and to the busy business man, searching for the high lights of the world's news when sit- ting at the tiffin table, it will assuredly be greeted as a change to be appre- ciated.

Many of the features asso-

ciated with the Hong- kong Telegraph prior to today have disappeared. They will be incorporated into the revitalised China Mail which will today make its first appearance as an afternoon, news- paper since December, after- 1941, in time for noon tea. What has not keen disappeared is sense of public spirit and,

a

Bitter Fighting Near To

Manchurian

Frontier

Tokyo, Oct. 31.

MISSING

$100,000 MYSTERY

Hongkong Police were

Case gating the

United Nations forces, checked by suddenly strengthened busy this morning investi- resistance, today rolled forward again towards the Manchurian border.

American reinforcements, rushed up to help the mauled South Korean spearheads, today captured Sunchon, about 35 miles south of Sinuiju, the new North Korean capital.

Probably Made

Him Wriggle

car on

Munich, October 31. Somebody stole a sack and a big cardboard box from a parked Tuesday. ~Two-hours later the polico issued a city-wide alarm.

The two parcels contain- cd 80 deadly South Ameridan snakes-United Press,

we believe in all modesty. Earl

.news values.

PeelTM

Heavily Fined

Liverpool, Oct. 31.

Another American spearhead captured Ku- song, 20 miles inland from Sunchon, and about 35 miles south of the Yalu River, the border between

North Korea and Manchuria.

Five days of rumours and reports that the Chinese Communists had crossed the border to help the shattered North Koreans reached a climax when a spokesman in Tokyo confirmed today that 10-Chinese Communist soldiers had been taken prisoner.

Missing $100,000. of the

And

they told a Telegraph re- porter, "What exactly hap- pened isn't at all clear. In fact, there's a big mix-up."

Mr T. R. Richards, assistant manager of the American. Ex- Press Company, said this morn- ing that his company wasn't at all concerned about it. "We've got the $100,000 we went out to get yesterday, so if there is any mystery it's in the Hongkong

Bank building, not here." shroff from the American press Company took a cheque was given a slip and, as usual, told to call back for the monoy

The mystery started when a Ex-

to the bank in the afternoon. He

later.

When he and a senior shroff went back an hour later they The spokesman refused to 1 The force which captured! found the bank in a minor con- say whether an organised force | Sunchon "leap-frogged" the Bri- | fusion. The bank said the of Chinese under their own or tish and Australian Brigade, money had already been paid, North Koreans Command had which yesterday took Chongju, but later, when American Ex- intervened in Korea. But the now about 30 miles behind the press officials assured them that increasing weight of evidence front. from the front suggested that force had entered

some new the war.

Before Kusong was taken, American planes rained bombs town to reduce the rC-

columns.

they hadn't received the $100,- .000, the bank paid out the

money.

to make."

We have no statement

A large party of Police were Our purpose will be to pre-

"Last Friday the United Na- on the

bank questioning accounts

employees. tions troops were finishing off a sistance and strafed Communist at the bank until later last night of the sent

victorious six-week offensive

Said the bank this morning, most vital events of the

with a final drive to the Mah- The American 1st Cavalry "We don't know what hap- day to our readers as

Division Earl Peel, Lord Lieutenant of churian border.

has gone to the aid pened. quickly

they ran headlong

(Continued on Page 8 Col. 1) was fined £25,000 Suddenly newspaper Lancashire, technique permits, and to here today for spending £17,000 into a series of strong counter- launched by well- present the news in, at on alterations to his home with-attacks

held trained troops which all times, readily assimil- Seven others, including archl- their advance. able form. If times tects and building contractors, were fined sums varying from change, we march with

them.

18

A Warning

out a Government licence.

work,

up

AIR STRAFING 2500 to £1,500 for doing the Elements of the American 24th Division cut through the Com- In addition

in a surprise to his fine the munist defences 49-year-old Earl was ordered to night attack and made a light- ning 15-mile advance to take pay up to £2,000 costs.

Judge Lynsky said that if he Sunchon.

the fine he would Another regiment of the same

Division took Kusong after be and left thejing held up 2,000 yards outside

the town yesterday.

The latest report of the did not pay

United Nations observers have to go to prison for a year, in the Balkans is a warn-But he did pay ing to the complacent.

They find that Commu-

nist are

Court-Reuter.

infiltrating into Greece Serious

from Albania and Poland.

Evidence that Greek gueril-

las

are

being trained,

Hitch Over

Atlantic Army

99

Washington, Oct. 31.

equipped and dispatched to the border from as far away as Poland, and that hundreds of Greece's It was authoritatively learned tonight that missing children are in the appointment of a Supreme Commander for Polish and East German the new integrated North Atlantic Army is camps, indicates that the

almost certain to be postponed because of dif- plot to conquer Greece has not been abandoned ferences between the French Defence Minister, and that all the Soviet M. Jules Moch and the rest of the North Atlantic states are involved in it. Ministers over the structure of the new army and To imagine that any one Germany's contribution to it.

setback will divert the supreme plotters their inflexible purpose is an illusion that fools only those who grasp at excuses for resting their oara. We are not fighting moves in the old game of power politics. We

on

the combined

from Delegation members said that) organisation of

this would delay the organising army.

American of a supreme headquarters for As a result, the the force.

proposals submitted to the North Atlantic Counell∙last The 12- Defence Ministers met month and the French pro- tonight for what was expected posals will be referred to the to be their last session, `

Military Committee and possibly Usually reliable sources said to the Council of Deputies. that the present series of meetThey will seek to produce are fighting an tags would probly end to report on the technical aspects insidious, persistent and night without reaching agres-of the French proposals and ment on either the American | work out sone compromise for- octopuslike conspiracy. or the French proposals for the mula.-Reuter;

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