1951-01-04 — Page 4

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 1951.

Morris, Australia's opening left-hander, is well caught in the slips by Hutton off Bedser during Australia's first innings in the second Test Match at Melbourne.--Central Press.

Chinese Reds May

Enter

Dead

BIGGEST FREEZE IN

*

WESTERN EUROPE SINCE END OF WAR

Thaw brought landslides, flooding and railway Europe today after the biggest freeze since the war. reported to be icy and dangerous.

London, Jan. 3. holdups to Western Roads were still

Thawing snow blocked railway lines throughout South and East Belgium. Ice breakers were operating to open the national Canal system to navigation. One barge, carrying 300 tons of coal, sank near Ostend after running into a block of ice. Icy roads caused several accidents.

Chinese Aid For Vietminh

Saigon, Jan. 3. The military agreement signed between the Viet- minh leader, Dr Ho Chi- mình and Communist China last year is believed by generally well-informed circles here to relate to *Chinese military aid for the Vietminh forces in Indo-China.

Aid would be given where Vietminh forces suffered military reverses. The same sources in- dicated that the text of the agreement was in the hands

of the French authorities.-Reuter,

FATEFUL

May TWO-YEAR City CONGRESS

Of Seoul To-day

By GENE SYMONDS

Seoul, Jan. 4, 1.40 a.m. This is a dead city. The Chinese Communists may be here later on Thursday, and rich and poor, old and young, healthy and infirm are fleeing southward.

The wail of children who have lost parents mingles with the roar of trucks, United Nations army withdraws from the of South Korea,

their

as the capital

[of it. The remaining members of the United Nations Korean Commission left on Wednesday afternoon. On Wednesday night

A serious epidemic of three- day flu was reported through- out Belgium.

of

In Germany thawing snow filled cable shafts at one Frankfurt's biggest transformer stations, causing a four-hour power cut throughout the busi- sess centre.

In France, herons roosting for the past few days on Notre Dame Cathedral flew off today -a sign, according to Parisians, .of coming warmer weather.

In Italy there was again heavy snow in the northern part of the country after violent snow- storms during the night.

The rain-swollen Rano River washed over one of its bridges in the Florence area,

were

In Russia the greater pait of the country.

was still frost- bound and snow-storms raging in Siberia, But Spring weather had already reached the southern areas of the coun- try with warm rains turnng the fields green.

Island Invaders' Taken Off

Bonn, Jan. 3r The British authorities will take no action against the 24 Germans who were taken off Heligoland today, the Allied High Commis- sion announced here to- night,

But future offenders will be prosecuted.

The British patrol boat, Eileen, brought to Cux- haven the 16 Germans who have been "occupying" the island, Prince Hubertus of Loowenstein, the

right- wing German politician led the "Invasion," told Reuter that more demons- trators would land on Heligoland as soon as the British resumed their bombing practice-Reuter.

French Beat

Back Red

Assault

In Britain, overnight frost, after a partial thaw, made roads treacherous throughout the country and caused the worst traffic chaos this winter. Weather

experts forecast an end of the long cold spell;

In America, freezing rain, sleet and snow pelted wide Washington, Jan. 3.

areas of the Middle West, de- The 82nd Congress began power services. Comparatively laying traffic and disrupting its fateful two-year term mild weather was reported in on Wednesday with a the Eastern and Southern

Saigon, Jan. 3. prayer, a presidential States.

French forces at the China Sea promise of higher taxes, metres of snow

A total of more than 2.5 port of Tienyen were reported

had fallen in on against isolationism.

Wednesday to have beaten a democratic blast Houghton, Northern Michigan,

back a powerful Vietminh Com- in the past 46 days.-Reuter.

munist attack after four days of bitter fighting.

and

Speaker Sam Rayburn sound- ed one keynote of the great

foreign policy debate that will

dominate the

coming months.

He told the House soon after it convened, the United States "cannot wrap two oceans around

itself and stay safe and free." That was an obvious answer to

former President Hoover's plan

quarters, U.S. Defence

Production

for concentrating the country's Administration

oceans. defence efforts behind the two

came a move to carry out part From the Republican side

The French military head- which clamped a security blackout on the fighting in the Monkay-Tiengen sector near the Chinese Communist border after announcing that several Red Battalions were closing in, announced on Wednesday night, "The situation has improved."

I am writing this story by the headlights of a jeep in front of a bonfire on the south bank of the Han river. Streaming past me is a pitiful procession. Old the only persons left in Seam of the Hoover plana resolution Administration", tying together were shelling the Reds in the

+

Washington. Jan. 3.

It was the first official word

up a new "Defence Production said French warplanes and ships

President Truman, today set

that large-scale fighting had been in progress. A spokesman

emergency production agencies. the Government's scattered

The new Administration is to

be headed troops overseas "without the

-men hobble along on two sticks were tens of thousands of re-to send no more United States that would call on the President with blankets thrown over their fugees. Now they too are flee- shoulders. Children seven oring ahead of the oncoming Red eight years old, walk hand in army. hand searching the faces of the adults to find their parents. Babies whose faces are red with the freezing cold, wail endlessly,

The South Korean govern- ment pulled out of Seoul with out making any announcement

Stop that Cough

with

Their escape route leads across the main highway and then over the highway only when there is a dry riverbed. They can cross

mauled

prior consent of Congress." This was offered by Republican re- presentative Frederic Coudert. It was one of dozens of proposals United Press. tossed into the House agenda

by Mr William H.

Harrison, chief of the National Production Authority.

Tienyen area,-United Press.

Search For Heir

To Estate

told

Under Mr Truman's executive, Mr Harrison, Will have authority over

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Jan. 3. a break in the line of military

industrial out- MAJOR PROBLEM

put, transportation, fuel, miner-

A British naval veteran, be- trucks. They stand patiently as

Washington, Jan. 3.

als and power.

lieved to be the heir to a the trucks roar by, and then,

Senator Robert Taft (Repub- The order does not place sought in Nova Scotia today.

wealthy English estate, was when there is a break, they lican, Ohio), who is almost food under Mr. Harrison's con- move in a steady stream across certain to be elected Chairman trol, but it provides that if don, Surrey, who left his home

William Robertson the highway.

of Croy- of the Republican Policy Com- food supplies are insufficient, 15 years ago, was believed to South Korean soldiers, badly Senate, said

mittee in the United States Mr Harrison and the Secretary be in the Halifax area. His re- by the Communists, major problem

today that the of Agriculture, Mr Charles mingle with the refugees. They Congress would be to

latives were oif the new Brannan, "shall jointly deter- would be divided among his the estate carry their rifles and packs and about a determination of mili- of the available supply,"

"bring mine the division to be made mother's three grandsons if he seem to be looking for their units so that they can re-form tary and foreign policies." between industrial

were not found within two needs and and get back into the war.

"The President's military food for human and

years. animal policies

Robertson's mother, of his consumption.-Reuter.

Mrs many foreign policies are hidden in

Annie Robertson, died in Lon- darkness now," he told a

don last October.-United Press. porter. "Congress

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Germany's Part In Western Defence

a

spokesman of the Foreign Office

to Western defence,

said today,

Senator Taft foresaw ConTM The World Federalists called

London, Jan. 3. of all types ex stock tion with the issues of rearm the nations of the world today will begin talks as scheduled on

The Bonn Government gress' almost complete absorp-on the. chiefs of state of all the Allied High Commissioners and

ing against the threat of to proclaim emergencies and Monday on Germany's contribu- tions Soviet aggression--such ques- order their parliaments to elect tion

as military appropria- delegates to write a global con- tions, new taxes, economic constitution, trols and changes in the draft G. B. Devos, Belgian delegate, law.

He denied a London press introduced a resolution contain report from Bonn that instruc- ing this proclamation at the first tions would be sent to the Allied Constituent Assembly called by High Commission following the the People's World Convention new Soviet note on four-power United Press;

peace talks-Reuter

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He gave little chance for legislation to expand Federal, health, welfare and education activities. Reuter..