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The task of Mr Attlee and President Truman-to get the Chinese intervention armies out of Korea with- out getting dragged into a vast and useless war on the continent of Asia-is an unenviable one. Three weeks ago,

solution might not have been difficult, but today every retreat by the United Nations forces adds complication. Britain's aim has been a "Cease fire" agreement involving the creation of a buffer zone. Those ideas were ripening when the

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offensive was ordered and was met with a shatter- ing counter-stroke, the Chinese intervention with overwhelming weight of numbers.

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The reason was that neither of them considered this to be a practical proposition at this

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Agreement With Pres. Truman On European Priority

Washington, Dec. 5.

Faced with the prospect of a Far Eastern “Dunkirk”, Britain's Prime Minister, Mr Clement Attlee, and his top advisers discussed at a meeting at the British Embassy to- day all the aspects and consequences of a possible-with- drawal of the United Nations forces from Korea.

As the outnumbered United Nations forces retreated before an estimated million Chinese Communists, the de- teriorating military situation reported by General Omar Brad- ley, the Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Truman-Attlee conference yesterday, necessitated a revision of the many proposals which Mr Attlee brought

with him from London.

Truman Aide

The proposals for giving practical assurances Sudden Death Of of the United Nations' non-aggressive intentions towards Manchuria and of buffer zones between Manchuria and Korea have become outdated by military events.

Washington, Dec. 5. Mr Charles Ross, 65, Pre- sident Truman's Press Secre-

clusion.

Even talks of permanently stabilising a de-tary, died today of coronary oc- fence line in Korea has inevitably given way to plans for forming temporary defence lines behind which the evacuation operation can take place.

An approach to China prior

Washington, Dec. 5. to that may have been

Usually reliable sources fruitless, but it was worth said that the atomic bomb trying. Proposals along was not discussed on Mon- those lines have been day or Tuesday by Presi- called appeasement but at dent

Truman and that time, how could they Attlee. be? The United Nations would have made their

President Truman and Mr offer as victors.

Attlee continue their review of Today, the whole com- time,

the military situation and the plexion

political problems arising from has altered. The sources stressed that Mr

it at a luncheon and afternoon Neither. Mr Attlee nor Truman and Mr Attlee agreed conference with their top mili- Truman, that a larger conflict must be tary advisers on board the Pre- S. S. Wil- as they are to lavoided at this time. but that sident's yacht, the

there was a point of forbearance iamsburg,

the on

Potomac avoid the grave risk of a beyond which they could not River today. general conflict, can go.

Informed quarters here were pessimistic about the chances contemplate making ad- vances to Peking from the

of the Chinese Communist ad- vance stopping at the 38th for that angle of fear

Parallel boundary between would be appeasement.

North and South Korea to per-

the peace The dilemma is inescapable.

mit

negotiations, possibly through the mediation To decide to fight on and

The talks are still in the stage of India, on the Korean ques- fight to

win, meaning of review and consequently no

tion. a decision to pour into decisions have been taken but Korea many thousands a very full briefing was given

beat

today's conference on the more troops would

grave situation in Korea, The playing Russia's game.

whole situation in the Far East General Omar Bradley,

was discussed

on the yacht the U.S. Chief of Staff said recently:

"It is 2 bruising and

Mr Attlee was well satisfied that President Truman regards

Western Europe as the world's most important strategical area and that the United States will see that this area is consider ably strengthened.

Williamsburg, and this included Indo-China, Malaya and Hong- kong.

REPORT DISCOUNTED Officials here today said that the United Nations leaders had no intention of writing off the United Nations' Korea mission but discounted reports from London that. President Truman. and Mr Attlee specifically agreed that the United Nations forces should re-invade Korea

after withdrawal.

They said Mr Attlee continued shocking fact that when to maintain the British view America committed her-point on recognition of Com-

There is every sign here of dotermination of the self in Korea, she was left (munist China and its admission the

to the United Nations under United States leaders that, without an adequate mar-

certain conditions, but this had whatever happens in Korea, gin of military strength not in any way prevented over-the United States will con'inue to face an enemy at any all agreement of views on the its Far Eastern policy. other specific point." Far Eastern situation.--United That reveals how ominous

Press.

It is also expected that the United States Seventh Fleet will continue its neutralising defence of Formosa, although

the state of affairs ap-

It FACTORY FIRE there appears to be no ques-

pears to the expert.

ion of accepting the Chinese Nationalists' offer of assistance

means that if the demo. IN KOWLOON in the Korean war itself.

cracies enter into a long, dragging war against Chinese Communists their resources will continue to be drained away from Europe. That explains, of course, Mr Attlee's sud- den journey to Washing- ton. A satisfactory answer will not be easy to find, but at least Britain and the United States have to get together and devise a common policy to be pur sued unfalteringly.

At the same time, both Pre- Part of an electric torch fac-sident Truman and Mr Attlee tory in To Kwa Wan Road are obviously in agreement Kowloon City, was severely that the No. 1 threat of Com- damaged by a fire which broke munism is still in Europe and factory's buffing|not in Asia, and that urgent out in the room in the early hours of this steps must be taken to build morning.

up the North Atlantic defences Five appliances from Kow-in Western Europe. loon Fire Brigade were called to the blaze at 24 minutes past midnight. They found the Meanwhile, General Brad- building, belonging to the Chiat ley, the Chairman óf Hua Company, well alight.

The fire spread from the buffing room to a cuckloft be- fore the brigade extinguished Fit just after 1 a.m.

“OPTIMISTIC”.

the

United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, testified on the military situation today at a closed door meeting of

the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

desk when he collapsed,

Mr Ross was sitting at his He died a moment or two later. He had just finished briefing nearly 50 reporters on the Truman-Attlee conference and they had begun making a re- cording for the radio network when he collapsed.

Mrs

Ross was immediately brought to the White House in One Senator, who asked not an official limousine. She' ar- to be quoted by name, said that rived 17 minutes after her hus-

(Continued on Page 8 Col. 1) band's death.-United Press.

Some of those who heard him said that he gave the Senators a much more optimistic picture of the situation in Korea than they had received at previous briefings.

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