1950-11-28 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1950.

TESTING HOUR IN KOREA CLASH Speculation On Whether Chinese Troops Will Again Halt U.S. Eighth Army Manning No Meddling Probe Into US

Chongchon River Line

Seoul, Nov. 27.

The fierce Communist counter-offensive on the Chong

chon River tonight gave General Douglas MacArthur part of the answer to the puzzle of how the Chinese Communists advance în would react to the United Nations' effort to force on the Manchurian border.

major

But it has still left unanswered the part of the puzzle-were the Chinese interested

only in keeping their border clear of American Guerillas'

troops or did they intend to attempt to drive the

United Nations forces clear out of North Korea? Commander

It seemed probable that the answer to this

part of the question would come soon, too.

at-

Raports from the battle-fronts appear that they were, in fact, tonight showed nothing short of mainly concerned with the crea- a, miracle-and these have been tion of a "buffer strip" between and the United notoriously scarce in this war their border could keep the hard-pressed Nations forces.

drove If they United Nations armies from fall- ing back on to the Chongchon tempted to do

widen the scope River.

General tervention into here that Walton H. Walker formed his defence line across the neck of the peninsula almost four weeks ago

It

was

on-or so-it would of their in- an attempt to clear the United Nations troops out of North Korea completely.

Identified

Korcan.

Company

By India In Nepal-Nehru Stock Sales

New Delhi, Nov. 27.

Jawa- The Prime Minister, harlal Nehru, sald today that India would not meddle in the internal affairs of lis tiny mountain neighbour, Nepal.

Delaware

:

Josiah

Albany, New York, Nov. 27. New York State Attorney- General Goldstein is to investi- gate the sale of stock by the Uranium American-Canadian Company Ltd., a prospecting and mining corporation headed Mr Nehru was previously re-

by the former United States ported as saying in a speech Ambassador to the Philippines, that India would not recognise Mr Paul V. McNutt, Nepal's boy king, Gyanendra, placed

the on the throne by

Attorney Nepali Prime Minister, Mohun Marvel, Junior, former Am- Shumsher Rana recently, during bassador to Denmark, is Vice- a 10-day political unheaval, President of the company.

On his return here from

said the com- Mr Goldstein Jamshedpur, Mr Nehru denied pany went ahead with plans to to the reports of his speech and added: advertise stock offered "The question of recognition or public for $1,750,000 despite his

of the non-recognition

boy warning that he would investi- and gate is

big king

one

stock the offering. The inter-offered to the public represents has grave national and national complications. When only a 17 percent interest in the it is decided, naturally a state-firm, while "insiders" who are

putting up only $92,089,

of the remaining control percent, he alleged.

a

Seoul, Nov. 27. military sources Identified the here tonight

of somo 12,000 comunander Communist guerillas behind the United Nations lines as Comment will be made."

did The Indian Government munist Brigadier-General Kim

in not desire to interfere

the Chaik,

affairs of Nepal, but internal

be geographical facts could not

United Press, ignored. —

These sources said that Kim was Deputy Commander of one of the North Korean divisions which was scattered when the United Nations troops rolled up to the 38th Parallel in Septem-

that But this did not mean

would be a course

BARGAINING CARD when the Chinese Com-

Speculation here tonight, down from munists swooped

though divided on these two Manchuria and frustrated the

possibilities - leaned slightly swift advance to the frontier.

the Com-in favour of a Communist halt On that occasion, munists, having accomplished on the Chongchon this, drew back. Then, for three weeks, they sat on the other such side of an eight-mile wide No-motivated only by the Chinese Man's-Land, showing no aggres concern about the frontier and

the power plants. sive intentions except Nations patrols United too near.

Communists still The

held their line for the first day of the new United Nations, offen- sive, allowing the Eighth Army to come close up before striking

'back,

when came

CHONGCHON THE TEST

Up to this point the actions Communists -of the Chinese

It was believed here that by the halting on the river line

Communists would Chinese avold the risk of provoking the West into open conflict, would keep the United Nations mem- bers engaged in what is rapidly becoming an embarrassing and, perhaps the most important of all, retain a bargaining card for the discussions at Lake Success.

Reuter

ber.

They said he is in charge of all guerilla activities north of the Parallel.

area

:

It is believed that Kim's head- quarters are somewhere in the

East of

Central Ichon Korea, the centre of much of the that the These sounces said

still recent guerilla activities.

of

Courtesy

Cops For Britain

London, Nov. 27... Britain's traffic experts be-

military authorities were lieve that a gentle hint to a

of

not certain of the identity another Communist commander rash driver may do more good leading about the same number than a police court charge.

in South-West guerilla's

Alarmed by the growing Korea. Reuter.

death toll-there

nearly 300,000 accidents a year-the Royal Society for the Preven- tion of Accidents is to start a "courtesy" campaign.

Three Million More

could be reconciled with their repeated déclarations that they were concerned only with safe- plants on guarding the power

London, Nov. 27. River the Yalu

and the

of cycling in The revival integrity of their frontier.

here Britain has reached a post-war It seemed to observers tonight that the strength of the peak, with three million more in Chinese Communist assertions cyclists on the roads than

1 would be determined on the 1939.

The Cyclists Touring Club Chongchon. If they drove back the United Nations troops to this said: "We have already added point, then stopped, it would! 3,500 new members to our 1949

battal -gar

Cyclists

arc

total of 53,000 and with new

They will urge the appoint applications reaching us by the

of "courtesy cops" score cach day, we shall soon be ment

would give away copies of the reaching our all-time record of smooth-talking, policemen who 60,000."

The average price of the or-highway code instead of hand-

ing out summonses. dinary roadster in Britain today ranges between £15 and £17.— Reuter.

Modern machinery makes up the bulk of the open-air exhibit on the exhibi- Solie-tion grounds of the mammoth West-Berlin Industrial Fair in the British sector.

Stationed at strategic frame points, they would stop erring drivers-or Jay-walkers--and Drivers give friendly advice. would be told to let pede. strinns pass first, and pede strlans urged to wait for a moment before the traffic had gone by. Summonses would bo issued only as a last resort.

Courtesy cops' were ap pointed in Lancashire before the war, but the system lapsed because of the falling strength in the police force. Reuter.

own

hold

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The Company's

pro- spectus emphasised the firm had commercial found no proven ore deposits in the areas it plans to exploit in Saskatche- wan province, Canada, he said, adding that some of the prac- tices of the company bear close study-United Press.

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