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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950.

BIG TWO TALKS IN FINAL STAGE Finishing Touches Put To Programme To Deal With Korea Possibility Of Blockade Of Red China To Be Discussed

Washington, Dec. 7.

President Truman and Mr Clement Attlee, today put the finishing touches to a military and political programme to deal with the Korean crisis.

Authoritative sources said that the two leaders' re- view of the world tensions created by Chinese Communist intervention in the Korean war had reached the final stages.

Strong Enough To

Officials had already begun drafting the final communique to announce the decisions made by them since the talks started last Monday.

The two leaders held their fifth meeting to- day and afterwards Mr Attlee was attending a conference on Western European defence with

Keep Peace? the President's special aide, Mr W. Averell Harri-

Berlin, Dec. 7.

tu

Dr Ralph Bunche, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, said today that the next few weeks might provide the answer the "big question' whether the United Nations is strong enough to keep the peace and save the world from catastrophe.

man, and the Secretary of Defence, General George C. Marshall.

The last meeting between the two leaders

was tentatively scheduled tomorrow.

for

4 p.m. G.M.T.

Still to be discussed at these final meetings were the follow- ang:

(1) The appointment of a supreme commander "very

army

in

Western

There Europe.

United

(2) Further action in the Nations regarding Chinese Communist intervention in the Korean war.

In a recorded broadcast over shortly" for the proposed North the American forces network Atlantic here, Dr Bunche said, is only one way to secure peace in the world and that is through the United Nations."

Although Dr Bunche did not draw any parallels between the Palestine negotiations, which he led, and

sanctions.

to

(3) The possibility of 4 United Nations blockade of the current attempts Communist China and economic to negotiate a truce in Korea, some of his problems in stop-

(4) Recommendations from ping the Arab-Jowish war were

economic experts for plans strikingly similār to those

stop up British and American Korea.

armament production, current shortages of raw ma- terials and co-ordinate in terms of equality of sacrifice the economic controls

in the two countries required by

Reviewing the results of UN mediation in Palestine in the light of later developments, Dr Bunche said, "I have no doubt the armistice will stand up.”

of

there

ment.

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Dr Bunche said the dif- ferences "are really. quite few" and cited as the most If all goes well, Mr Attlee is Emportant the 750,000 Arab now planning to leave Washing- refugees and the status

ton on Friday, to meet United Jerusalem. He said

Nations leaders on Friday night might be local incidents, "but and to fly to Ottawa on Satur- we certainly do not anticipate

day morning. any resumption of hostilities between the Arab states and Israel on any

large scale."--. United Fress.

BITTER FIGHTING

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He plans to return to London

on Sunday night.

Tonight's meeting ended at

10.10 p.m. G.M.T. It had lasted one hour and 40 minutes.

Mr Attlee replied "Okay" when correspondents asked him, as he was modestly slipping out of the White House. "How are things going, Mr Prime Minister?"

The two leaders' talks are moving into the crucial phase, with a final decision required on the action to be taken if the Chinese Communists continued their intervention in Korea.

They were turning their at- tention to the Far East again after having spent two sessions yesterday discussing the West's

at least two Communist jets in a clash with six other MIG-15 jets northwest of Sinanju.

Twenty Yak-type planes were strafed on the Simulju Airfield at the mouth of the Yalu River, Three more were claimed. hit in | defence needs, a raid on the airfield at Pyong- yang.

Australian and South African Mustangs took part in today's air operations,

EXPERT AID

General Omar Bradley, Chair- man of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mr Averell Harriman, President Truman's foreign affairs adviser, Mr Stuart Stymington, the Chair- man of the National Resources Security Board, Dr Philip Jes- sup, Ambassador-at-Large, Mr George Perkins, Assistant Secretary of State for Euro- pean affairs; Sir Oliver Franks, the British Ambassador, Field- Marshal

Sir William Slim, chief of the British Imperial General Staff, and Lord Ted- der, Marshal of the Royal Air Force. Reuter,

Medical attendants attached to the U.S. Marines, now under severe pressure and surrounded in North- East Korea, administer blood plasma to one of the wounded. Navy planes are evacuating the wounded to an aircraft-carrier lying off the coast, (Acme).

Panic Sweeps Seoul On 'Secret' Warming To Head

South

Seoul, Dec. 7.

Near panic swept through the South Korean capital today as news leaked out that the Govern- ment had secretly warned members of the National Assembly to send their families to the south coast.

Attack On Acheson Begins Openly

Washington, Dec. 7. Representative Hugh

Scott, Jr., former chairman of the Re- publican National Committee, introduced a resolution in the House today asking President Truman to fre the Secretary of State, Mr Dean Acheson-Unit- ed Press.

The

Thongkong Telegraph

Morning Post Building, Hongkong. Published daily (Mid-Day) except

An authoritative source told Reuter that the saturdays & Sundays. Government warning was given by the Defence Minister, Mr Shin Sung Mo, at an emergency secret session of the National Assembly today.

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MEETING of

THE HONGKONG SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF CHILDREN will be held in

Mr Mo said that it was "ad-{ The visable"

prices of furniture minent

that familles of pro- dropped to 10 percent of last civil servants should week's prices also be sent to Pusan. He added householders flooded the market as the jittery that in the event of the Com- with household goods that they munist armies recrossing south could not carry with them. of the 38th Parallel the As- sembly

Jewellery and the Government double last week's levels.

prices rose .to would immediately transfer to Pusan.

In Seoul's main market this A few hours after the secret be bought for about half the evening, a grand piano could Among those with President Assembly session, Korean mill-

second-hand wrist Truman and Mr Attlee at this tary police opened the barriers Price of a

that afternoon's meeting

watch of indifferent quality. prevented Mr were

civilians Dean Acheson, the Secretary Han River, which runs through nent

crossing southward over the Reassurances from prom!- GUERILLA ACTIVITY

of State, Mr George C. Mar- the southern suburbs.

citizens that the shall, the Secretary of De-

vancing Communists would North Korean guerillas who fence, Mr John Snyder, the The Government action stop at the 38th Parallel went have been inactive in the 38th Secretary of the Treasury, brought into the open the thinly unheeded by the million citi- Parallel area for the past month

disguised fear that has lain zens of the capital, who bit-

St. John's Cathedral Hall renewed their activities today,

over Seoul since Pyongyang, terly recalled similar assuran- leading to reports that themonwealth field

commanders the North Korean capital, was ces of last June.

December Chinese armies had reached the to be voiced with more weight recaptured by the Communists vital line.

than is possible at present.

on Tuesday.

at 5.30 p.m. At the same time, the two Many wealthy families have leave immediately began to All interested 'in Brigadiers here--Brigadier Tom

evacuated from send their young sons of mili-Welfare are cordially invited already been

Child Brodie, commanding the 20th

Seoul. The trickle of refugees tary ago into the hills to es- Brigade and Brigadier Bakil began to swell today as

the

to attend. rapidly the capo

widening Coad, commanding the 27th poorer people joined the flight.

draft net. would be freed from much'ud- The prices of truck and bus Pharmacies ministrative matter and allowed seats from Secul to Pusan rose

reported what probably epitomised, as clear- William Alick Grinham for and Printed and published by to concentrate

from on field probabruptly

60,000 won military lems.

ly as anything else, the (US$15) to one million

of a city living anxiously un-Morning Post Limited won

behalf of South China The South Korean Govern- | (US$250), One million won der the shadow of reoccupa- Wyndham

at 1-3 would thus be com-

ment today reimposed martial represents a year and a half'stion by the Communists--they Victoria in the Colony of Hong- Street, City of by a Major General, law over all South Korea. Reu-earnings for the average Korean were being flooded with de-kong.

the views of Com-ter.

workman.

mands for poison.-Reuter,

The 20,000 British and Aus- tralian troops, now in Korea, plus further British reinforce ments and the first Canadian contingent, expected soon, may soon be banded together into one Commonwealth divi- sion,' an informed source said today.

manded

They

enabling

Some families who could not

Thursday,

Lear

un

on

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