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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1950.

STEADY ADVANCE BY UN IN KOREA Light Resistance As British And American Troops Probe Line Remaining Bridges Over Yalu River Crippled By Bombs

Tokyo, Nov. 13.

United Nations troops, against light enemy resistance, today advanced an average of a mile and a half in North- West Korea.

LABOUR

SHOCKS

COMMONS

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from the European economy, Mr

Davies stated,

Mr Duncan Sandys (Conser- vative) demanded a European army within the framework of a North Atlantic force,

He asked the Government to reconsider its decision to oppose such an army.

CONSTERNATION

Mr Sandys, who is Chairman of the International Executive of the European Movement, said that Mr Davies' speech would be read with consternation in Free Europe.'

He said that the Government had lost progressively and now finally, the sympathy and friend- ship of the continental Socialist maries".

He said, "It is clear that the Government dislike the Council of Europe. It came into being despite every effort they could make to prevent it."

Mr Sandys said that the Op- position claimed no monopoly of European co-operation.

"But very soon we shall find that. the Government have gained a position where they have a monopoly of European destruction", he added.

He said, "No one on this side (the Opposition) has seriously

that recommended

federal system should be instituted in Europe and that we should join

it.

"There is no idea of the As- sembly being a supra-national parliament."

Mr

it

The Communists, estimated to include 60,000 Chinese Communist troops were reported to be building up strong defence nearer the Yalu River frontier.

Most of the Communist resistance came from mortar and artillery fire as the United States divisions above the Chongchon River probed for- ward to form an almost straight line from the west coast with the British Commonwealth Brigade outside Pakchon, and the South Koreans further east outside Tokchon.

Headquarters announced.

Then the line, which linked yesterday, General MacArthur's up over the weekend. swung north-eastwards towards the vital reservoir district and on to Sinpo, on the west coast just north of the 40th Parallel.

In the west the United States 1st Cavalry Division, driving forward from the Chongchon River towards Yongbyon, ad- vanced two miles without meeting resistance.

The South Koreans, who re- treated two miles yesterday in the face of furious counter- attacks, today reported "every-

Pilots reported seeing fires and explosions.

Marine Corsairs and Sky- raider dive-bombers attacked the Yalu bridges, aiming at the southern spans.-Reuter.

Archbishop

Indifferent

thing under control South On Freedom

Tokchon."

New York, Nov. 13.

Two visitors from Nigeria, the Olowo of Owa and his wife, were among the many people from over- seas who attended the State Opening of Parliament on

October 31. (Central Press). –

Archbishop Stepinac of PLEIL

told a New York Zagreb has

correspondent in art Interview that he is completely

American Marines thrust back small forces of Northern troops above Kotori, just south of the Chosin Reservoir on themes east side, while the South Korean Capitol Division, after dropping back to avoid encircle- ment, counter-attacked and forced the Communists to dig

in,

Allied planes of all types, frim Superfortresses to dive bombers, continued to attack Communist supply centres, troop concentrations and vital supply bridges across the Yalu River.

BRIDGES CRIPPLED

that Sandys said.

About

Communist 1,000 should aim to become a joint troops were shot up moving to- consultative committee through wards Tokchon on the western which the parliaments

of front

and only five inferior Europe could discuss problems bridges were reported to be still capable of carrying heavy

of common concern.

IMMEDIATE THREAT

the

traffic over the Yalu River—- will freeze over in

The proposal for a European but it army, he continued, was de- December. signed to meet not only immediate threat from Russia,

More than 40 B-29 Superforts but equally, the less immediate dropped 250 tons of incendiary danger of a revival of German bombs on supply dumps at militarism. People

the Sakchu, five miles south of the Continent looked with almost Yalu River, and on Namsi, just as much apprehension on the north of Chongju,

second as on the first.

on

"If the Government opposes They also crippled the re- this plan of a European army it maining bridges at Sinuiju, the is probable that it will come to Northern headquarters, and two nothing," he said, adding that if bridges further up-river the Government supported the plan, the European army would come into being.

Mr Fred Bellenger, former Labour Minister of War, said he did not believe. in "claptrap about a European army with a few battalions recruited from Germany."

**If you want a few battalions

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indifferent whether or not he is freed from prison, where he has been for four years, con- victed of war crimes, the paper said today.

In a despatch from Zagreb, the New York Times correspon- dent wrote that the Archbishop, the leading Catholic prolate in Yugoslavia, had told him that setting him frec the Pope.

MURDER

TRIAL

Brunswick, Nov. 13. Rudolf Pleil "mmurder 18 today refuted depended on my hobby"

the State Prosecutor's alle-

The New York Times said

that the interview was arranged gations that he had killed to at the request of the correspon rob by saying: "I never de- dent, who had applied to Mar-sired anything but sexual shal Tito, the Yugoslav Prime satisfaction.' Minister.

He made this statement after The Archbishop told the cor- respondent that he was also the Prosecutor had asked the

indifferent to completely

whether he went to a monastery, German Court to sentence him remained in prison or whatever and his two alleged accomplices might happen to him.

to life imprisonment each for "Such things do not depend murder in connection with

They de-

robbery. upon Marshal Tito. pend on the Holy Father," the Archbishop said. He added that he was getting plenty food.-Reuter.

Britain's

of

Д

This is the highest sentence West German can impose. The death sentence is abolished under the West German Con- stitution.

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NOTICE-

THE HONGKONG, CANTON & MACAO STEAMBOAT COMPANY, LIMITED. Notice To Shareholders.

Notice is hereby given that Pleil, a 26-year-old former the ONE HUNDRED and soldier, sailor and policeman, is TWENTY SIXTH

Shooting Stars and Mustangs Newest Plane reported by the police to have Meeting of Shareholders in

Manpojin.

operating amid snow flurries dropped 30,480 incendiaryT bombs on three supply centres

In Accident

confessed to 22 murders. He the Company will be held at is charged with nine and with the Office of the Company, one attempted murder,

Queen's Building, Victoria,

British Trawler Airspeed Ambassador, lost its rad Schuessler, aged 22, a lean,n Report of the Directors, te

or brigade groups you can get Fined By Reds

them in Germany by voluntary recruitment without Dr Adenau- er's (West German Chancellor's) permission," he said.

Moscow, Nov. 13.

Karl Hoffman, aged 36, Pleil's Hong Kong, on Monday, 20th London, Nov. 13. alleged accomplice, is charged November, 1950, at 11.30 a.m. Britain's newest airliner, the with seven murders, and Kon-for the purpose of receiving

two engines during a heavy haggard former French Foreign gether with a Statement of landing in tests at Christchurch. Legionnaire, with 10 murders Hampshire, today.

and Re-electing Accounts, and one attempted murder, It bounded into the air again,

Directors and Auditors. touched down on the runway Pleil's Defence Counsel asked

By: Order of the Board | and ran along some distance be- the Court to order another in-

fore coming to

of Directors. a stop. The vestigation of Plell's responsibl-

H. da LUZ, engines hit the ground as the lity for his actions, since Plell plane landed and then fell off. was not a beast is the press ro-

Secretary. The test pilot and crew climb-ported but just a human being. Hong Kong, 7th Nov., 1950, ed out, slightly shaken.

The Soviet, Government noti- "They would come willingly," fied the British Embassy here he added.

Mr Bellenger said he did not today that the British trawler, Lacennio, had been fined for believe that the French Army ashing inside Soviet waters in éculd produce six real fighting the White Sea. divisions able to stand up to an The Embassy was paying the

Omcials said that the aircraft Schuessler's Defence Counsel i-rush from the East.

was carrying out centre of asked for a sentence, not for Strasbourg was not the inune today, after which the ves-

Printed and publisked sel was to be mleased. The gravity loading tests, which murder, but for serious bodily strument for. prganising peace; neither was the Schuman Plan. Lacennia was the fourth British meant that most of the load was injury. Soldiers fought best under their trawler detained during the in the forward part of the plane. The Ambassador is a 47-scater national leaders and when they past six months on charges of aircraft. It is on order for the understood their national cause. illegal fishing In the White Sea.

European Airways, he said-Beuters

Reuter, na

British Reuter.

WILLIAMÁLICK GENHAM for and on behalf of South Ching The Court's decision on the Morning Post Limited - ́mt 1-3 Defence, motions, and possibly Wyndham, Streetzy City the verdict, is expected next Victoria, in the Colony Friday.---Reuter.

Hongkong.