1950-12-18 — Page 3

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 1959.

HAMHUNG BEACHHEAD NARROWS No Real Fighting On Seoul Front For Eighteen Days Anti-Chinese Naval Guns Pounding At

China Red Positions

Scenes In United States

Washington, Dec. 17. The Chinese (Nationalist)

Tokyo, Dec. 17.

Pope Conducts

Mass

Vatican City, Dec. 17.

The Pope today conducted Mass for 40,000 Romans in the Basilica of St Peter's and for side for lack of space, who many thousands of others qut- Comstened to the Mass through

The big guns of Allied warships roared into action across Hungnam -Bay today, pounding the Chinese Embassy today issued a public munist forces pressing heavily on the last beleaguered

United Nations garrison in North-East Korea.

The Communists, after their capture yester-

statement. deploring the alleged anti Chinese demonstrations which it said have token place in the United States since Red China invaded Korea,

The Embassy said the Chinese residents in the United

States are strongly anti-Com- sociated with "violent actions" of the Chinese Communists in

munist and should not be as-

China and Korea.

The statement said the. Em- bassy had received reports that Chinese nationals in the United States have "been sub- jected to uncivil remarks and maltreated in other ways

and some of their shops have been stoned by American citizens who apparently sought to express their feelings in protest against the Chinese Communist aggression Korea.

day of the key town of Hamhung, 10 miles inland, were now reported to be attacking the shrinking Allied perimeter at points only four miles north- east and seven miles northwest of the east coast port.

On

the

'But the men of the American Yongpyong, almost 10th Corps, with their backs to the sea and fortified by the barrages from their own war- ships, were resisting stubbornly the four-day-old Communist onslaught.

Parallel itself, where artillery was in action against 2,000 Communist troops.

An Allied spokesman said that there were indications of a considerable Communist buildup in this area,

Albania Keeps Up Protests

London, Dec. 17. The Albanian Foreign Office has sent to Mr Trygve Lie, Secretary-general of the United Nations, a protest against four new alleged infringements of Albanian air space and territory by, Greece, Tirana Radio said today.

The protest sald that the The great Chinese Communist

Greeks were incited by their forces poised along the 38th General MacArthur's after Anglo- American masters." Parallel in the North-West had noon communique today spoke | Reuter. still made no attempt to cross only in general terms into South Korea, apparently activity in Korea. in

waiting for the outcome of the United Nations moves.

"Such manifestations, how- ever natural and excusable, are unfortunate and regrettable because the Chinese residents in this hospitable country have been known as a whole to be faw-abiding and anti-Com- munist and

to cherish the American way

of life. They strongly deprecate the anti-

American propaganda and de- monstrations on the mainland of China officially sponsored by the Communist regime and the armed attacks by the Chinese Communist troops against the United States and other United Nations forces in Korea."United Press.

The American Eighth Army, stretched below the Parallel in a defence arc covering Seoul, the Southern capital, had so far had to deal only with guerillas and North Koreans.

Rebuilt North Korean forces attacked both ends of the line, forcing small withdrawals.

Driving down the west coast from Haeju, they were report- ed fighting around Yonan, eight miles south of the Parallel and moving On Paekchon and Kaesong, further inland, only 40 miles from Seoul,

Mysore Grows Flax Koreans

into

of the

It said that ground action in the North-East was limited to a series of short exchanges of fire in the Ham- hung area, Reuter.

SHIFTING GROUND

Tokyo, Dec, 18. William Chapman reported from inside the defence peri- mieter that the Chinese are believed to be shifting their main force to the north and northeast for a great attack down the mountain ridges that stab into the heart of the Hung- nam beachhead.

A prisoner captured by the Third Division revealed that his commanders had ordered up CHUNCHON CLASH

artillery reinforcements to soften up the beachhead area but no South Korean troops were

Communist artillery fire was re- counter-attacking the North ported up to early this morning. on the right flank The Chinese are believed to in an attempt to straight-have from 10 to 12 divisions en a mile-deep salient driven

100,000 to 120,000 men-ready the United Nations lines for an attack on the Hungnam northwest of Chunchon.

beachhead Further east

a new and today fighting was taking place around Yonchon,

Chinese division-the 74th-was Mysore is the leading silk- an important road and railway, identified on the western side of producing state in India-junction just north of the the defence perimeter. Reuter.

Parallel and in the area of A communique from Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters said a Communist force "succeeded in penetrating the defence peri- meter" on Sunday but that the American forcés counter. attacked, capturing 50 prisoners.

Mysore, Dec. 17. Flax is to be grown for the first time on a commercial scale in the South Indian industrial State of Mysore.

One of Britain's leading table tennis players, Pergy Franks, of Kent, seen in play during the *nglish" Open championships at Wembley. (Central-

The communique said that later an attack from the north was repulsed and another 50 Chinese Communists were cap- tured.-United Press.

Peking's Retaliation

New York, Det. 17. Informed sources said the re-

ban the

ported Chinese export probably would force United States to spend more money to sustain the Japanese economy, heretofore partly de- pendent on trade with the Chinese mainland.

.

The chief Chinese shipments to the United States have been tung oil and hog bristles used for paints and brushes and tin, tungsten and antimony.

Informed officials said the loss of tung oil and hog bristles shipments undoubtedly will affect the U.S. civilian industry because there are really no suitable substitutes." "We'd certainly like that stuff but it is not going to throw the American economy into a tail- spin," one official remarked. He added that the US. has not been getting "great quantities" of tin, tungsten and antimony from Red China and is "not dependent" on shipments from the Orient. There fmmmediate indication of whether the United States would take any further steps in via:"63] the Chinese Comintinist exporti Ban.--United-Press:

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