THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950,
KOREAN SITUATION "SERIOUS" Arthur Spokesman Reveals That More Troops Cross River Riddle Of Peking Intentions Expected To Be Solved Soon
Tokyo, Dec. 12.
The potentiality of the Communist forces now in Korea was "enormous" and the situation was, "to say the least, serious," General MacArthur's spokesman said today.
The enemy was now in a position to throw in "certain naval and air forces."
Allied Headquarters had announced earlier that 27 Chinese Communist divisions, including two of tough Mongol cavalry, now faced the United Nations forces.
American and small British forces contained in the Hung- nam perimeter stood firm with their backs to the sea, waiting for the covering Communist force of nearly 100,000 men to close in around them.
More troops in Manchuria | Over, the east coast, the ware ready to cross the Yalu River to reinforce the present Communist armies numbering over a greater part of million men, the communique added.
The main United Nations forces in North-West Korea were tonight just below the 38th Parallel separating North
from South Korea: They were, waiting at their guns for a Communist possible Chinese
and North Korean attack on their defence arc covering Seoul, the Southern capital 30 miles south of the Parallel.
An armada of United Nations warships stood by -offshore for * possible evacuation- which some unconfirmed frontline re- ports said had already be-
gun.
United Nations bombers and 600-mile an hour fighters resumed their round-the.. for the converging Communist in the North-West, switching. the full weight of their attacks to this front after covering the
The Communists were known to be massing division on división in a great concentration around Koksan, 50 miles to the north, building up supplies by camel and horse train and moving at night to avoid air | Anglo-American withdrawal attack,
from the Chosin Reservoir area in the North-East-Reuter.
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The riddle of their intentions was expected to be solved soon. Formations up to divisional strength sparred briefly between the two main forces just along the Parallel today, but no sustained action was reported.
CLASH WITH KOREANS
American troops clashed with North Koreans at two places in the centre of the peninsula. This added weight to American in-tails telligence reports that the Chinese Communists themselves would not cross into South Korea in face of the United Nations demands but might let the rebuilt North Korean Army invade the South again.
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Coals To
Newcastle Vote In House
Diagnosis By Radio
Johannesburg, Dec. 12.
Over an amateur trans- mitting radio a doctor near here diagnosed acute ap- pendicitis in a boy 75 miles away and directed an African medical orderly on the spot to inject penicillin.
an
The boy, aged nine, be- came ill at a lonely saw- mill near the Zambesi River 75 miles from Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia. The boy's father, a radio amateur, sent out emergency call for medical aid. Later other amateur radio "hams" sent messages to listeners in Livingstone asking for a doctor to go by air am- bulance to the sawmill tọ-
day. Reuter.
Perhaps the sun wasn't really strong enough, Perhaps the parasol was only there in case of a threatening shower, but Natasha Parry didn't mind taking the sunshine straight between the eyes as she paused in an up-river jaunt. Natasha is filming "Man Detained" and should detain quite a few!
Franco's Brother
BID FOR CEASE-FIRE Calls On Pope
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a process would be necessary in any case even if we made a re- commendation for a cease-fire immediately because such de-
as the hours and date would require some preliminary exploration.
States, Soviet Russia, Egypt and India.
Nations' objectives must be to
Vatican City, Dec 12, explore all avenues of stopping Pope Pius XII today received for priority, the Byelo-Russian in
Despite Sir Ber.egal's request aggression, of discouraging it in audience Nicola Franco, the
future relegate was given the floor and fighting in time to limit began a long accusation against area of the conflict.
and ending the Spanish Ambassador to Por- the tugal and brother of General Francisco Franco, the Spanish: "American aggression.""
Mr T. F. Tsiang (Nationalist Chief of State.-Reuter. This delegate, Mr Kuzma Kisi-China) said that the resolu- lev, described General Mac- tions would be achieve more
tion previously before -Committee.
the
"No time would, therefore, be| Arthur as "United States than the sx-Power resolu- wAAAAAAAACANARYANT really lost by having-an-ex-gauleiter." ploration first and the actual cease-fire order afterwards.”
Referring again to his talks with General Wu, Sir Benegal said "In the course of my con.. versations, which
"DOCUMENTS"
to
pro-
He alleged that documents proved that the United States planned
invade China "throughout the Vladivostock area, across extended to
the Yalu River and by the landing of Chiang Korea and other issues, the re-
Kai-shek's troops from Formosa, presentatives of Peking asked me what I thought of the For-
on the eastern shores of China." Dr Tadilla Nervo (Mexico). mosa question.
supported the 13-nation "I told them frankly, the In-posal because the principal aim dian position, namely, that the of the United Nations was to declarations of Cairo and Pots-revent a new war. Ham should be carried out.
To adopt the procedure pro- "I also
toid them as I un-posed in the resolution derstood it, that the position not mean that the United Na- The Government won a of the United States as set out tions would be yielding any of 14-vote victory over Mr by President Truman was
the principles for which it went into Korea, he said. Winston Churchill's Conser-similar. vatives in the House of Commons tonight.
a
London, Dec. 12.
would
the
The
THE RESOLUTONS The
two resolutions
in- troduced today were as fol- lows;
The first,
sponsored by Afghanistan, Burma, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, the Philippines, Saúdi
Arabia, Syria and the Yemen declared:
"The General Assembly,tish Possessions and other viewing with grave concern the
tries. $1.10 per month. situation in the Far East, anxious that immediate steps should be taken to put an end to the fighting in Korea itself and that further steps should then be taken for a peaceful settlement of existing issues in. accordance with
the purposes and principles of the Nations.
"Requests the President of
constitute
Gèneral Assembly to a group of third powers, including himself, to determine the basis upon which a satisfactory cease-fire iri Korea can be arranged. and to General Assembly as soon as make recommendations to the
possible."
The second resolution
was St. John's sponsored by the same countries,. except for the Philippines.
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"That position was tem.
The procedure proposed was porarily modified in June but one which could be used with the President made it clear on advantage at any moment dur- August 31 that
ing a conflict. the United Statés
"We are at a grave and peri- ] Seventh Fleet would 1ous moment in the world and the be, withdrawn from Formosa we must consider the problem when the Korean conflict was on its merits", he added. settled.
"As
no statement to the SOLUTION POSSIBLE contrary was made since then.
Faris Bey el Khoury (Syria), it was to be assumed that this was still the position of the background of the Korean con- one of the sponsors, said that the United States."
By 298 to 224 votes it defeated Conservative. motion con- demning the National Board which runs the State-owned coal industry and demanding an
its independent inquiry into failure to get more coal,
The nine Liberals did not vote, Their spokesman,
Mr Edgar Granville, said that they ob-. jected to Parliament's being "turned into an annex of the Tory Central Office. for electioneering purposes" at time of international crisis,
Later, a Government amend ment was approved, also by 298 to 284 votes. This rejected These the proposed inquiry as likely to divert the Board and indus- try from their urgent task of increasing output,
The Fuel Minister, Philip
Noel-Baker, said
second
.
flict was such that stage a peaceful possible.
even at this solution was
of General
Introducing the resolution, sponsored by 12 powers, Sir Benegal said that
A committee consisting aonly point left open was the the President of the
membership of the proposed Assembly and two colleagues soup (for the carrying out of chosen by him, he said, would the cease-fire negotiations).
had been left un- the
be the most practical mans in
present circumstances.
of
specified, the idea being that finding a reasonable basis for they should be determined by negotiations that could be a the Political Committee itself. ceptable to both sides.
tative of the Chinese People's parties concerned without delay Republic,
Uniteci
NOTICE
THE SEVENTEENTH ANNUAL GENERAL
MEETING
of THE HONGKONG SOCIETY
PROTECTION OF CHILDREN FOR THE
will be held in
Cathedral Hall
It says: "The General Assem- Thursday, bly, viewing with grave concern the situation in the Far East, considering that the continuance
on
December 14 at 5.30 p.m. All interested in
Child
of this situation is likely to en-Welfare are cordially invited world peace and security, re danger the maintenance of the to attend. commends that the representa-
Sir Benegal said that in his As he understood it, Mr Etives of the following govern- view one of the members of Khoury said, this committee that Britain the group should be a represen-would is to import 1,200,000 tons of
get in touch with the
coal from the United States.
and make recommendations. Altogether, Britain intends to Another suggestion was that Supporting buy about 2,000,000 tous of the group should include plan, Mr Austin foreign coal-Reuter
France, Britain, the United States) said that
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and published by ments, namely and make recommendations for Morning Post Limited at 1-3
"Shall as soon as possible meet on behalf
William Alick Grinham for and of South China the peaceful settlement of exist- Wyndham Street, City the cease-fire ing issues in accordance with the Victoria in the Colony of Hong-
(United purposes and principles of the kong. the United United Nations. Reuter,
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