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INCHON WITHDRAWAL BEGINS Giant Allied Armada Standing Off Seoul's Port

COMMENT

General MacArthur's sug-

gestion that Japan be been rearmed has followed, as might have been expected, by re- from actions varying unqualified approval to lukewarmness to forth right criticism. After five years of military occupation Washington decided that a peace treaty was overdue, To- ward the end of October Mr Dulles discussed the matter with Mr Malik and gave him a confiden- 'tial memorandum outlin- ing American ideas for a treaty.

UN Forces Occupy

New Defence Line

Tokyo, Jan. 4.

United Nations forces defending the port of Inchon began to evacuate by sea tonight, according to frontline reports.

They included troops who had been guarding the coast approaches to the South Korean capital of Seoul while it was evacuated by the main United Nations forces.

The great Allied withdrawal from the blazing capital -which has now changed hands three times in six months-was completed almost without a hitch.

The American, British and South Korean troops took up positions on a new secret defence line to the south.

Small forces of Communists blown. up were reported to be moving engineer, Robson. - through Seoul late tonight pursuit of the retreat of United

Nations troops.

in

by a British army Sergeant William

500 Killed In

Cyclone

Paris, Jan. 4. Reports reaching here on Thursday said 500 per- sons were killed by 3 tropical cyclone which swept the Comores archipelago, a French pos- session in the Indian Ocean.

Forty thousand people

left homeless. United Press,

were

BRITISH

REPLY TO MOSCOW

Denial of Breach

2

Of Alliance

London, Jan. 4. Britain's reply to the Soviet note of middle December which alleged that Britain's occupation policy in Western Ger- many was a breach of the 1942 Anglo-Soviet alliance will be delivered in Mos- cow very shortly,

it is The Third Test: believed in usually well-

STOP PRESS

England Batting informed quarters here.

The Eighth Army officially announced today, "The city of

Sydney, Jan. 4. successfully Navy Seoul has been of

Freddie Brown won the toss evacuated by all United Na- this morning and put England

have by tions troops who

with in to bat on a perfect wicket drawn as planned to their next for the opening of the third defensive position.".

Test against Australia. The new defence plan re-

month later, with typical discourtesy, the Russians published the American

A giant armada note and their own transports and chartered mer-

chant ships was standing sharp reply. In it they

off Inchon in case It is needed insisted that, in accor-for evacuation. dance with the Cairo de- The transports were protect- claration, Formosa anded by American, Canadian, Bri-mained a closely guarded secret, tish and Dutch and Australian but Tokyo observers speculated line of a on the possibility cruisers and destroyers.

Elsewhere, the advancing through. Suwon, 18 miles below Chinese Communists continued Seoul, or Osan, another their southward drive, plunging miles to the south--Reuter. down among the mountains in

TOKYO STATEMENT

the Pescadores must go to China" (meaning Pek- ing); in accordance with Yalta, Sakhalin and the Kuriles should remain the centre of Korea and threa- under Russian control, tening to split the United Na- and in accordance with tions army in two.

One army Potsdam,

nine

The British reply, like the French reply to a similar note alleging a breach of the Anglo- French treaty of 1944, is ex- pected to reject the view that Britain has broken the terms of the alliance.

In diplomatic quarters here it Brown changed his patting is thought that the first order from the Brisbane and exchanges between Britain, Melbourne Tests, sending in France and the United States Hutton and Washbrook instead on their reply to the latest of Simpson and Washbrook.

Soviet note have indicated that none of the three Governments ENGLAND 23 FOR O see any objection to exploratory

four-power, talks to Tokyo, Jan. 5.

possible agenda.. Washbrook and Hutton open- An official spokesman at the

of the Ryukyu

headquarters the Uniteded confidently and in 20 minutes States naval forces in the Far had scored 23 runs, Washbrook however, it is felt here; suggests not out and Hutton that an agreement on substance being 16 on Friday that

with the Soviet Government is East denied

seven. of United Nations

Seven runs were scored off a

possibility. very evacuation troops was under way at Inchon. Lindwall's first over.

Reuter. Referring to reports published

the

of about 200,000 Communist troops. was reported to be thrusting deep below the 38th Parallel towards the key road junction of Wonju, gale- way to the south.

The move would leave United

The other main Communist-

|

and

were

fix a

The tone of the Soviet note,.

Guerlain

and Bonin islands should remain Japanese. This was followed by a

statement from Chinese Communist Pre- Nations forces isolated on the in the United States, the official mier, Chou En-lai, sup-east and west coasts.

said, "facts apparently have been porting

exaggerated," the Rússian The capture of this strategic distorted

town would enable them to Civilian refugees and possibly position and insisting on

wounded soldiers command the highway to Pusan, some participating in the "pre- main supply port in the south being taken aboard the ships,

there is but, that

no large paration, drafting and east. signing" of

redeployment by sea. a Japanese FLANKING THREAT

The spokesman said, "There' peace treaty. Japan, of course, was to be "de-force, swiftly following up the is no redeployment of any troops Eighth Army's retreat. from by sea from the Inchon area at mocratised" and the

blazing Seoul, tne southern the present time. Of course, United States forces capital, and its airfield of Kimpu, some wounded, soldiers are being withdrawn.

trying to outflank the taken aboard hospital ships, Meanwhile, the Russians United Nations forces falling Consistent

back through streams of re policy of assisting the civilian and Chinese Reds, have

fugees towards Inchon, the West

populace many thousands of been claiming that coast port.

civilians are being taken aboard America is rearming the

ships for passage to safe areas. But there is absolutely no basis Japanese and using Ja-

for the reports that evacuation panese troops in Korea.

of the United Nations military Finally, it is to be noted

(Continued on Page 8, Col. 4) that Peking and Moscow Thousands of refugees tried have a treaty of alliance to board shore transports as the

the warships big guns of agreeing to

resist "ag-

miles away poured salvoes into gression" either by Japan the front line moving forward or by any State allied to from the fire-covered inferno Japan.

Put these jigsaw pieces to-

was

United Nations warships were west coast standing off the ready, if necessary, to re- deploy" the retreating troops by

sea.

of abandoned Seoul..

18

United Nations warplanes

Com-

retreat

the

gether and we get a grim roared overhead, covering

and hitting the picture which,

in turn, munist with bombs and guns. fits into a much larger Of burning Seoul itself, now picture. We must

re- totally evacuated by all United one pilot said, member that Japan is the Nations forces, only industrial nation of "It was like watching an ant

were on fire. Refugees hill Asia and the only one streaming in every

direction, with a highly skilled la-| even northward." bour force.

Japan is without the slight-

SECRET PLANS

The British 29th Brigade, the last troops to leave the city,

with the

P & O Ship Abandoned

a

Brisbane, Jan, 4. The 11,063 ton British cargo liner Palana, which struck rock in the Great Barrier Reef Australia to the northeast of last night, was abandoned today. Shipping authorities here be- lieved that if the weather holds, the Palana will remain afloat until tugs with pumps can beach her, probably on Saturday.

The Dutch freighter Sinakep, which was close by, took aboard

est question of doubt the primary objective of fought doggedly through a Captain Spurr of the Palana, his Russia in the East, just Chinese ambush in the north-officers and crew, and the only board--Mrs M. A, suburbs, suffering woman on as the Ruhr must be in western

Trenfield, wife of the Chief casualties. the West. The storm

The last pontoon bridge Officer.

The Palana was bound from signals are clear; we have across the frozen Han River, been warned.

running through the city, was Brisbane to England-Reuter.

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