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VOL. V NO. 268

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WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1950.

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SUPERFORTS BATTLE WITH JETS Two Compelled To Crash Land With Major Damage COMMENT Organised Guerilla Activity

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Rejection by the Attlee Government of proposals for a European Army and European Defence Minister came as a shock, if not altogether a sur- prise. Behind the deci- sion there is much sound reasoning. French en- thusiasm for the creation of a supra-national or- ganisation cannot easily be shared.

Behind Korea Lines

Tokyo, Nov. 14.

Increasing Communist guerilla activities behind the Allied front showed "a considerable degree of organisation," a spokes- man of General MacArthur's Headquarters said today. They appear to be partly directed by Northern radio.

The latest incidents reported today included a clash between units of the American 1st Marine

Division and a Communist raiding force in the No Air Crash Majonni area, about 15 miles south-west of Wonsan, the east coast port.

...About 60 miles further south, other Com- munist bands were engaged and cleared by the American. 25th Infantry Division in the Choriwon district.

Special South Korean anti- were in action guerilla troops

in the same

Much can be said, too, for the argument propound- ed by Mr Ernest Davies that. the Council of Europe can .hold no monopoly of European co-operation. Its assist ance would be given warm welcome, but it could not be given powers of au- thority over the countries participating. Similarly, it is obvious that Britain has already undertaken commitments on a far wider basis than that implied by an Army of Europe, as a signatory night four miles north-west of to the North Atlantic Seoul, killing one soldier and Treaty. Nevertheless, refusal

to

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around region.

Another South Korean regi- ment was tackling a large Com- munist force at Sunchong, 150 miles south of Seoul, the Southern capital.

Guerillas also attacked Turkish troop train on Monday

wounding two others.

In North-west Korea, British and American troops in Arctic weather probed forward cau- tiously today, testing increased Communist strength.

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bolster the idea of an Army of Europe, setting General Eisenhower in

American Marines at supreme command, will

other end of the continuous line provoke a storm of criti- across the neck of the peninsula four cism in Europe, and prob- were last reported only

from the vital Choshin ably from the United miles

Reservoir. States. The Cabinet's ob-

Patrols of the American 7th jections to what arose Infantry Division reached the initially in the fertile east side of the neighbouring brain of Mr Churchill Fusen Reservoir.

South Koreans, aided by eight- the United guns from

can be justified, up to a inch point, the point being, States heavy cruiser Rochester from this distance, the knocked out three Northern absence of any evidence tanks attempting to

attack the Orangchun river on

of a serious endeavour to secure modifications con-

the cast coast.

counter-

South Korean units were

forming to the British reported at Hapsu, some 20 viewpoint.

an

miles north of the 41st Parallel,

coast.

BRIDGES ATTACKED

Superfortressen American dropped 140 more tons of bombs on the remaining bridges over the Yalu River, between Korea and Manchuria.

The British Commonwealth Brigade, after a lull of three

advanced days,

two miles against light enemy resistance in the Pakchon area nine miles north of their Chong- chon River bridgehead on the west coast.

Assisted by elements of the

Tokchon area, claiming 125 enemy troops killed and a vast amount of equipment, including guns, fuels, dumps and com- munition lorries destroyed.

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AIR COMBAT Two United States Superfort bombers crash-landed on Korcan airfield after sustaining major damage in aerial combat. The planes had battled with six Russian-built MIG-15 jet fighters which tangled with the Superfcas and American Shooting Star jet fighters near the international boundary be- tween Korea and Manchuria.

No American or Communist planes were lost.

Combat Cargo Command flow in more than 1,000 tons of am- munition and supplies today. Winter clothing was high priority, especially for the eastern troops fighting in the mountains above Hamhung.

The British troopship, Empire Fowey, arrived off Pusan In the far South-West with 1,500 men of the British 29th Independent Infantry Brigade. They expect to disembark Reuter.

tomorrow. —

Pickets And

Police Clash

Philadelphia, Nov. 14.

A crowd of 150 pickets battled the police for 45 minutes today but failed to prevent operators from returning to their jobs at the strike-bound Bell Telephone Company exchange.

Eleven pickets were arrested and will be given hearings to- morrow on charges of inciting to riot.

The thin line of 25 policemen broke twice but held against the third surge by massed pickets to halt 13 operators to enter the building for work.

When Mr Duncan Sandys and 45 miles inland from the

asserted that rejection of the plan for a European army would cause con- sternation in Free Europe, he was not guilty of

over - statement. Conceivably, the interest- ed countries of Europe can proceed without Bri- tain when they adjust. themselves to this bomb- shell. For the moment, however, it is all too like- ly to cause a setback to

The Company said the pickets organisation of an effec-

were dispersed. The battle was tive defence force able to

mostly a push-and-shove affair. American 1st Cavalry The policemen did not wield stand up to the first wave Division to their right battled clubs. United Press. of aggression.

for 48 hours to seize command-

south ground Numerous factors, we caning high

well believe, dictated the Yongbyon, where the Commu-

nists were digging in. Government's inability to The South Korean Ch and 7th accept the Plan as spon-Divisions gained several miles sored by the Pleven Go-north of the Kunuri-Tokchou vernment, but a flat re-road in the centre of the line and the 8th Division to their fusal will not increase right again patrolled strongly European belief in Bri-the northern banks of the Tae- "tish sincerity. The issue dong, river.

might have been further

in Rod

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American 24th Division, they took 42 prisoners but reported no casualties.

The

of

American fighters and 'bomb- ers gave close support to battle ing South Koreans in the central

TRAIN SMASH

Naples, Nov. 14. About 50 people were injured, many seriously, tonight when a on the main train running Naples-Rome line crushed into the back of a stationary train.

The crash occurred about four and a half miles from Naples,-- {Reuter,

Survivor

Grenoble, Nov. 14. Rescuers groping through snow and fog today reached the remains of the Canadian "Pil- grim airliner" which crashed last night in the French Alps.

All the 58 people aboard, mostly pilgrims returning from a Holy Year visit to were dead.

Rome,

Record Pool Prize

London, Nov. 14.

A British football pool firm today pald a national

·record dividend of 2104,- 417 to a man who invested sixpence and forecast eight drawn games in last Satur- day's fixturòs,

The man, who lives in London, requested

publicity.—Reuter,

SIBERIAN

WINTER

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HITS KOREA

From Bernard Wicksteed

Korea, Nov. 14. Siberian winter suddenly came to the North Korean front today.

Without warning, the wind shifted to the north during the

driving night,

temperatures below zero upon all exposed hilltops.

round a Tonight, gathered

Where I camped within the warm 'stove in a village, the

lines, it was registering 21 de- chief rescuer said, "We had the grees of frost inside the tent impression that the aircraft despite an oilstove. had hit the rocks and crashed Shallow

sodden rivers and with full four-engine impact." paddyflelds froze solid.

There has been no show be- From a pocket of his rain-cause of clear skies 'which in- soaked tunic, the mountain creased the cold until the sun guide took out a bundle of rose, making life possible again American dollars he had found for those sheltered from the

wicked wind. in the snow-Reuter,

Central

Cooling

No doubt some earnest persons have from time to

time devised a formula for the measurement of thirst. They might, for instance, multiply the temperature (in degrees centigrade) by the humidity (in degrees of discomfort) and divide by the energy expended in the game in progress or in strokes per hole, goals per chukka, runs per- - over. But whatever the variables involved, the answer remains constant. Take a long glass of Rose's Lime Juice with a couple of ice-cubes floating; hold it to the light and gloat over its pale translucent greenness, rock it gently until

the ice-cubes tinkle. Then put your self outside it.

ROSE'S

juice

—MAKES THIRST WORTH WHILE

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