1950-12-28 — Page 2

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1950.

SHOWING

TO-DAY

King's

At 2.30, 5.15,

7.20 & 9,30 P.M.

Home Sweet Home

雁来南

A Chinese Picture with

Mandarin Dialogue

KING'S MAJESTIC

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Walt Disney's

PRESENTATION OF Robert Louis Stevenson's

Treasure

Island

Colorby

TECHNICOLOR

with

BOBBY DRISCOLL • ROBERT NEWTON • BASIL SYDNEY

Produced by PERCE PEARCE » Directed by BYRON HASKIN + Screenplay by LAWRENCE E. WATKIN Distributed by RKO Radio Pictures, Inc.

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MAJESTIC

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OPERATION: COIFFURE-Blonde tresses shorn from the heads of pretty girls like Nona Granville are used in the production of humidity controls. Nona is up to her neck in ground apricot pits which help smooth plastic parts also needed in the automatic controls.

CONCERTED OFFENSIVE OPENED BY VIETMINH NORTH OF HANOI

Hanoi, Dec. 27. Vietnamese insurgent forces today launched a concerted attack on French outposts in the Phyouyen Phulo area about 50 miles north of Tonkin, the capital of Hanoi.

French troops, battling 25 miles farther south, recaptured Daphue, a Northern outpost taken by the Vietminh forces 24 hours earlier.

border with The French here are defend-, the Indo-Chinese ing a 350-mile line in front of Communist China. However the Hanoi and facing China.. French recaptured the position

Meanwhile in the North-East, on Wednesday. ja column of French troops,

the with moving

up to reinforce fortress of Binhlieu, about 20 miles from the Chinese frontier, had met with no resistance from the insurgents.

The French military spokes- man announced today that am munition was parachuted yes- terday to the beleaguered post, which has been under constant attack for three days.

He said that four or five

The rebel offensive coincided Border Shooting In Yugoslavia

а French drive into Communist-held country areas west of Saigon, The French jumped off on Tuesday from near the French stronghold of Sontay, about 25 miles north- west of Saigon, and engaged the Communists, between the Claire and Dai rivers.

The spokesman said reports from the contested area in- dicated that the French inflicted

“BASKETBALL HEADLINERS OF 1950" Vietminh battalions had been heavy losses on the Reds. French

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ON THE TOWN

Commencing To-morrow: USINGING GUNS”

troops sustained only wounds in the heavy fighting.

in the concentrated

triangle surrounding Binhlieu formed by Tienyen, Moncay and Dinhlap.

The new rebel drive threaten- The French were maintaining operational reserves in the zone ed three French posts along the on the northern to face up to all Vietminh at- defence are tacks against any French posts edge of the Red River delta. The in this sector.

spokesman said one of the posts The French yesterday launch-was encircled for a while, but Communists have been ed an attack between the rivers the Claire and Dai northwest of driven off after furious combat. Hanoi French losses were re-

(United Press correspondent.

Belgrade, Dec. 27. Yugoslav frontier guards today shot and killed a "person in a Rumanian uniform" 600 yards inside Yugoslavia's frontier with Rumania near the village of Kadojevo, It was officially announced here by the Yugoslav Foreign

Ministry,

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It said that it had cabled. its Embassy in Bucharest to lodge a protest to Rumania over the incident. -Reuter,

ponted to be severe while Viet- Sol Sanders reported that what Ethel Roosevelt minh losses could not be es may have been resistance to an timated.-Reuter.

LARGE LOSSES

an-

Saigon, Dec. 27. French headquarters

that nounced on Wednesday large loses were inflicted on Communiet Vietminh forces in severe fighting under way for the French defence perimeter north of Hanoi..

attempt to crack the rebel lines, failed early on. Wednesday morning when the French threw mobile reinforcements into the of line 25 miles directly north Hanoi).-United Press.

Jap Gets US Post

Married

Wilmington, Delaware, Dec. 27.

Ethel Dupont Roosevelt, for- wife of Franklin D. mer Roosevelt, Jr., and Benjamin attorney, wère Warren, an married today.

Ethel Roosevelt and the late President's son were divorced in Nevada on May 21, 1949, after New York, Dec. 27. 12 years of marriage. They Dr Hideo Yukawa, the have two sons, Franklin D. A French spokesman said the rebels captured a French post Japanese scientist who won the Roosevelt, 11, and Christopher, 8. in Physics, Warren, 38, was divorced from 25 miles north of Hanoi a few 1949 Nobel Prize hours after the Communists on has decided to remain in this the former Ritchey Farrels of Tuesday launched their biggest country and has been appoint-Nashville, Tennessee, in Nevada Professor of last September. He is a mem- campaign since they wrested ed a full-time from the French all but Physics at Columbia Univerer of a Detroit law

United Press. fragments of the positions along sity.Reuter.