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VOL. VI NO. 4

KONCHEONG TELIGRAD

SOUTH CHINA MORNING.PO

The

Hongkong Telegraph.

MONDAY, JANUARY 8, 1951.

WONJU STILL BEING

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HELD

Savage Communist Attacks On Key Rail Town

Red Infiltrations Wiped Out:

COMMENT

General Eisenhower is back in Europe. That he was chosen as Supreme Commander of the At- lantic Union forces fitly underlined the urgency

of the danger in which Europe stands.

The General is. remember ed by European soldiers as the head of a brother hood in arms whose cam- paigning was conducted in a harmony and mutual understanding

unsur-

passed in the history of

Trap Not Sprung

Tokyo, Jan. 7.

Communist forces, racing to get between the United Nations forces and the road south to Taegu, attacked savagely today around Wonju, key road and rail town in the centre of the United Nations 150-mile line across Korea.

The United States Eighth Army said tonight that the Allies still held Wonju after wiping out Communist infiltrations. This contradicted earlier unconfirmed frontline reports that Wonju had fallen.

An estimated 200,000 Chinese Communists and North Koreans were either already fighting or ready to pounce in the bitter battle now being waged down the centre of the peninsula.

Coronation Stone BIG NEW

Glue Found

London, Jan. 7. Scotland Yard have found a new clue in their two weeks' search for the missing Coronation Stone small oak plaque believed to have been attached to the bottom of the Coronation Chair in Westminster Abbey.

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The plaque was found on Saturday afternoon in a bombed site in West- minster, only a short dis- tance from the Abbey. It bears 211 inscription recounting the history of the 1,100-year-old Corona- tion Stone, which dis- appeared from the Abbey Onl Christmas Day.. --Reuter.

AMERICAN

AID PLAN

Washington, Jan. 7. Administration officials were today reported to have almost completed plans for laying before Congress a new multi- million dollar aid, and mill- tary assistance programme.

Economic and military assis- tance proposals this year will be welded in

pro- a single gramme and President Truman will present to Congress: one cost total covering the whole undertaking, it was understood. Informed officials said that this figure had not been final- ly determined but on the milk- side alone it was to exceed the appropriations granted for the present fiscal year:

Tibet Envoy To expected

Lake Success

alliances.

General Eisenhower has something more than the ability to induce a large and heterogeneous body of staff officers to forget their different nationaii- Pushing ahead in the offensive have scored two more successes ties in working together which they began on New Year's on each side of the main fight-

In addition the programme He Day, the Communists were ex-ing area. end.

economic to a common

Gangtok, Sikkim, Jan. 7" would provide for pected to strike westwards from

Tibet's Near the west coast they have has more even than the Wonju in an attempt to trap big occupied Suwon, a road junc- Tsepon

Foreign

aid to European countries and Secretary, Shakabos, and two

for help to under-developed rare capacity to diffuse United Nations forces with-

tion 15 miles south of Seoul, | Tibetan officials, passed through areas of the world. men drawing south of Seoul, the while on the east coast United here today on among millions of

their way to The Administration was pre- that confidence, in their fallen South Korean capital.

Nations troops have yielded Yatung, om: the Sikkim-Tibet pared to argue that both were Observers regard the threat of their last foothold north of the border.

directly. necessary to the Commander-in-Chief મ break-through down the

38th Parallel Reuter,

rearmament. of the free world.. which means so much to peninsula's mountainous spine

The 16-year-old Dalai Lama, It would contend that the spirit of an army. He as the most serious development STREET FIGHTING the spiritual head of the Tibe-Europe's ability to produce

since General MacArthur's

de- can exert, always pro-Home by Christmas" offensive

tans, is now camping at Yatungarns at a maximum rate Tokyo, Jan, 8, with a suite and followers to-pended on its economic health perly and always dutiful- was "rolled back by the first

Allied troops were pulling out talling 300. The officials are and that the production of raw ly, a like influence in the Chinese Communist flank at of the key transport hub of members of the proposed materials in Africa and Asia counsels of statesmen tack.

Wonju on Monday in a street- Tibetan delegation to Lake could be substantially increased drive suc-by-street fighting retreat

thosé and so

as Success, where they would pre-by providing funds for withdrawal Communist hordes surged south-sent Tibet's case against under-developed areas.Reu- tions.

to Taegu-ward in Korea and closed in on "Chinese aggression."-Reuter. ter. and with it the old Pusan the city from three sides, Fierce for There is much room

beachhead-would be endan- seesaw battles raged in the rail this gift and quality in

and highway centre, between the task on which he is

STEADY PRESSURE

Communist advance patrols and rearguard United Nations troops. now engaged. The new

The United Nations right i

One night attack through a Supreme Commander has flank on the east was also falling blinding snowstorm was thrown

under steady Com- come back to the military back

back by the Allied forces, but munist pressure, terrain on which he won

no con- the city 45 miles south of the tact with the enemy Was 38th Paralle was expected to his fame.

reported today.

fall to the Communists at any The Communists had practical-time. Whether he will be unhap-

Wonju is only 25 miles ly encircled Wonju yesterday, north of the major transporta- pily required to display but Eighth Army troops were tion centre of Chungju, which his strategic mastery reported battling with them 19 controls highways and railroads again in active operations miles southeast of the town in (Continued on Page 8, Col. 1)

to keep open the depends upon his suc-an attempt

last escape route to the south. cess, against the per- The Eighth Army said today sisting efforts of doubt that furious fighting was conTM and delay and indecision, tinuing in the in calling forth the peninsula, but the Communists forces of the Western

upon whole na-

If the Communist

ceeds, the Ailled route from Taejon

world for the preserva-

gered.

but

centre of the

tion of peace and in STOP PRESS

welding them quickly

into a single instrument

of visible power.

TEST LATEST

Royal Navy

Has A New Super-Sub

Growing Talk Of Coalition Cabinet In Britain

London, Jan. 7. World tension is reflecting itself here in grow-

ing talk of a coalition government.

Groups of Socialist members The champions of a coalition of Parliament and some of Mr, argue that it would strengthen

Conser-the Government's hand

Winston Churchill's

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vatives as well clearly feel that carrying through its present Party warfare- complicates the strenuous economic and rearma- task of meeting the defence and ment programme. economic problems of the pro- sent crisis.

To this, Labour Ministers rë- tort that the Governmentį. Speculation on the possibility which retained office nearly Washington, Jan. 7.

a national administration Britain has a submarine that of

year ago with a majority af Mr Churchill describes

only Sydney, Jan. 8. can stay submerged indefinitely was ventilated today in several

seven, has successfully General Eisenhower as

Archer After

and Hassett and the United States is work-Sunday newspapers.

resisted every challenge to its One mass-circulation popular authority and carried through "a man who has proved had added 12 runs this morning ing on a similar one, an Ameri-

certain even the bitterly controversial not only his capacity to in 15 minutes, Archer lost his can Navy spokesman said here.journal declared itself

The spokesman, Captain Roy that there would be a coalition nationalisation of steel. organise and regulate wicket being caught by Evans

submarine expert in within six months.

Ranked against the coali- But the idea has had no en- tionists are the movements of armies behind the stump off Betiser Benson,

Department, said

influential sections for 48. Hassett was then 70 the Defence

American sub-couragement so far either from on both sides of politics who but to stir men's hearts, not out and the score 122 for that the new

do the Prime Minister, Mr Attlee, strongly marine conceivably would

oppose a peacetime and who has shown a two wickets.

26 knots underwater and 30 on and his Cabinet colleagues on "National" government. capacity for making

the surface, great nations march to- gether more truly united than they have ever been before."

Upon General Eisenhower

HASSETT OUT

Sydney, Jan. 8. With no addition to the score repeating these achieve of 122 for 2, Hassett was out, caught by Bedser off Brown ments the hope of a for 70. Score, 122 for 3. peaceful settlement in Europe rests.

the one hand, or from the Con- Among the Conservatives, for there are those who The new submarine would servative "Shadow" cabinet on example,

see in Labour talk of a coalition: be able to stay submerged by the other. pen

Both Mr Attlee and

Mr a hope that Mr Churchill's getting oxygen from inside it- self, although it might have a Churchill repudiated it quite Party will "pull the Socialist

recently.

chestnuts out of the fire", Snorkel device too.

under- The Snorkel is an

The impression remains in On the Labour side, the coall- breathing apparatus parliamentary circles that tionista reckon without a power- which allows a submarine to nothing short of an emergency ful element which would prefer submerge or cruise underwater in other words war is likely to see its Party out of without surfacing to re-charge to bring Socialists and Con- than in peacetime partner. its batteries-Reuter.

servatives together.

with the Tories. Reute

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