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Pope's Order To BRITAIN
Bishops
Vatican City, Dec. 18.
Pope Plus
has XII ordered all Catholic bishops throughout ..the world not to leave their posts during the current perlod of crisis, usually well Informed Vatican circles reported tonight..
This was not inter- preted as meaning expecta- tion in the Vatican of im- mediate war but rather as part of the Pope's
mobilise the paign to world's 400,000,000 Catholics in intensive devotions for peace.
cam-
The next high point in this campaign will be the exceptional midnight mass in all to be celebrated Catholic churches through- New out the world Year's Eve.-Reuter.
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In
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Strafing Korea
'Korea, Dec, 18. Royal Australian Air Force Mustangs roared low over snow- covered Pyongyang this morning to strafe and napalm Chinese Communist troops, vehicles and gun emplacements.
LOOKS George Marshall
FOR A NEW
DEFENCE
BASE
London, Dec. 18.
British defence experts are already looking for alternatives to the Suez Canal base in anticipa- tion of the British withdrawal from that area when the Anglo-Egyptian treaty expires in 1956.
Well-informed sources said today that it was being borne in mind that the next six years would be comparatively short notice for the preparation of alternative bases which must be found and got ready before any withdrawal from the Canal Zone could be undertaken.
of
LESSONS OF WAR -
This study of alternative portion of its forces in the Canal bases was said to be connected Zone and so show readiness to with the visit to London of meet the Egyptian demands for General Sir Brian Robertson, withdrawal of the British forces, Middle East Commander-in- Chief, It was pointed out that General Robertson recently It was also pointed out that toured the capitals of all defence experts nowadays were Middle Eastern countries and not inclined to place great his arrival in Londen coincided emphasis on the Canal Zone with the Anglo-Egyptian talks from the viewpoint of Middle on Egypt's demand for revision East defences as a whole. In- of the 1936 treaty.
formed quarters said: Informed sources said study
"The last war showed that alternative bases in the troops in the Canal Zone were
East Middle
was actually there primarily to defend the started before General Robert-Canal itself and they could not son made his tour,
be counted on to take part in "But it can be assumed that the defence of areas such as the his visit to London at this junc-Persian oil centres, which are a
would probably be con- 1,000 miles distant." ture
Informed nected, in an advisory capacity
sources added that on the decision to prepare other the new strategic concept tend-
ed to place great emphasis bases," they added.
the heart of the could be Turkey as Also, they said, it
Middle Eastern defences and assumed that if satisfactory
in was finding be this alternative bases could
approval be creasing
by the there would established,
States' defence ex- perts. The Middle Eastern American jets today claimed reason to suppose Britain would United the destruction of four locomo-be ready to withdraw
strategic scene was studied to day in terms of Iran becoming a. Russian invasion route, with the aim of assuming control of the fountainhead of the West's strategic supplies,
Australian pilots halted a loco- motive just north of the city with bursts from their 50-calibre machine-guns and then struck again with napalm to complete the destruction of the engine.
Mustangs also destroyed a the bridge pontoon
across Taedong River, south of the city, Fifth Air Force headquarters announced,
PHOTOGRAPHS tives near Chunghwa, about 10
Copies
of photographs taken by the South China Morning Post, South China
miles south of Pyongyang. By midday, until a
semi-
snowstorm limited operations,
or
the Fifth Air Force claimed 300
troops killed Communist
and 11 villages wounded damaged or destroyed.-Reuter,
Sunday Post-Herald, China Gandhi Memorial
Mail and Hong Kong Tele- graph Staff Photographers are on view in the Morning Post Building.
ORDERS BOOKED
SHOP AT
Ahmedabad, Dec. 18. The private house at Kochrab, near here,
Mahatma
where
Gandhi lived after his return
as a
from South Africa in 1915, is to be acquired
national memorial.
Sabarmati Ashram, from where Gandhi launched his civil disobedience movement in 1930, acquired.-- has already been Reuter.
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WRECKAGE
OF PLANE
FOUND
Coimbatore, South India,
Dec.-18. Parts of a plane have been. found 60 miles north-east of here, where an Air India Dakota is believed to have come down last Wednesday with 20 people on board, including four Britons and two Americans.
A military search party has left here for the area, the Nilgiri Ranges on the Mysore border.
Air India officials could not confirm whether the plane was the missing Dakota, but they said it was quite likely that the plane had lost its bearings in heavy fog and flown northwards off its course.
It was on a flight from
Madras to Trivandrum, on the
south-west coast of India.
Searchers in the dense jungle have had only two clues
The plane is re- guide them.
to
ported to have radioed 10 min-
utes before it was due to land
at Coimbatore; and forest
guards in the Nilgiris reported that they had heard a crash on Wednesday morning.
idea
on
"Today there is no pressing need to defend the Canal to ensure oil-supplies, which can now be piped to the Mediter-
To Retire.
Washingon, Dec. 18. President Truman was reported by a White House source today to be con- sidering Mr W. Stuart Symington for the post of Defence Secretary when General George Marshali decides to vacate it. Mr Symington is Chairman of the National Security Re- sources Board.
The White House source said that the President felt he could not ask the General, whom he called out of retirement, to con tinue indefinitely the heavy duties of the Defence post. General Marshall will be 70 on December 31.-Renter,
Rhee Regime
Attacked In Oslo
Oslo, Dec. 18. A protest against the "terror regime" in South Korea was made, today by the independent Oslo daily, Verdens Gang, as matter which concerned the whole free world."
а
The paper urged the Nor- wegian Foreign Minister, Dr Halvard Lange, now attending the North Atlantic Pact talks in Brussels, to take the initiative officially and powerfully.
Referring to the reported kill-
trial by
South ing without Korean guards of women and children suspected of Communist sympathies, the newspaper said: "It is easy to say that war is war, but this is happening in a
where country
the United Nations have special obligations.
"The South Korean authori- ties' lawless methods, therefore, cannot be regarded as an inter- nal matter but as a matter which concerns the whole free world." -Reuter.
ranean," they continued, "but Smuggling Into PI
it is necessary to have bases for the defence of the centre of
Manila, Dec. 18.
supplies both in Iran and The Philippine Government Iraq. It would be outmoded is seeking the co-operation of strategy to assume the defence the British authorities in Borneo forces in the Canal Zone could to halt the large-scale smuggling play any part in such strategy of contraband goods, including and this is the main reason for American cigarettes and opium, looking for alternative bases." from British North Bornea to United. Press.
the Philippines,--Reuter,
Strange
NE Korea
Quiet On
Front
(By William Chapman)
Hungnam Beachhead, Korea, Dec. 18.
After less than 15 minutes' walk from the Hungnam waterfront, I stood on a high ridge on Monday and looked down on all the territory held by the United Nations in north-east Korea.
..
In the distance, plainly visible in the bright sunlight, the Red-held city of Hungnam smoulders quietly. The crack of rifles and the quick staccato of 50-calibre heavy machine-guns sounds close by.
A
STRANGE SIGHT.MAK
The British passengers were The rim of smoke towers trücks and heavy equipment C. G. Marshall, Mrs H. Thein, marks the American defence swirl up clouds of dust on the and Mr and Mrs R. D. Robey, arc, set up around this area of roads that were a sea of mud The Americans were Professor the Japan Sea port. They ex- only a few days ago. Bulldozers Abraham Wald, of Columbia tend on the left past the once work at carving new perimeter University, and his wife who active United Nations air base defence positions out of the were travelling to Trivandrum of Yongpo, in the centre, almost frozen, earth.
was to into Hamhung, and on the where the Professor lecture at the University, right into the hills which creep Also on board was Mr W. F. close to the waterfront on the north-east rim of the perimeter. Saille, a Swiss-Reuter.
At the base of one hill lies a command post. On the other side two 155-millimetre howit zers pump shells at a moderate rate of fire into enemy territory, The explosions of their shells throw new smoke pillars up in hung. the valley east of Hambung.
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The Hamhung-Hungnam plain. bordering on the Tongsongchon river, is almost devoid of move- ment beyond the United Nations lines. But, an occassional white flare-usually a bad omen when it comes from the Communist lines-arches over distant Ham---
It is a strangely pacific sight A lonely L-5 observation to be a battleground. One G.I plane flies low over the ridges standing in a foxhole atop the beyond Hamhung, spotting tar-ridge shakes his head wearlly. gets for the big guns. Fighter He says: "I've been through bombers from Navy carriers World War II in Germany. But standing offshore come by in I never say anything like this waves, breaking out for different so-called war. I reckon they sectors of Red territory in con- are out there. But I don't see tinuous search for targets. anybody. It's just not right,"
the side perimeter big | United Press.
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