1951-01-15 — Page 5

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MONDAY,

JANUARY 15, 1951.

GEN. BEDELL

BEDELL SMITH IN TOKYO Surprise Visit By US Intelligence Service Chief

IT'S AN ILL WIND-Although winter has brought suffering and misery to UN troops and natives in Korea, it brings the thrill of the year to some of the children. These youngsters are shown skating on a frozen rice paddy and, at the moment, war doesn't mean a thing to them.

Patrol

Gurkha

In Action

Singapore, Jan. 14.

A heavily out-numbered Gurkha army patrol fought 2 one-hour battle against more than 80 terrorists in the Kluang area of Johore -until the band broke

and fled, it was officially announced today.

the

The guerillas Gurkhas

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attacked

frem pre-

pared positions last Friday, but the latter fought back tenaciously.

One Gurkha scout, who was leading the patrol, was killed,

This particular gang is believed to have carried out numerous attacks food lorries in the Johore area lately.Reuter.

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Philadelphia, Jan. 14,

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persons. seriously.

The bodies of five adults and two children were received at the city morgue, but a police officer at the secne of the crash

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Army & Air Force Chiefs of Staff Also In Japan

Tokyo, Jan. 14.

Lieutenant-General Walter Bedell Smith, former American Ambassador to Moscow and now Chief of the United States Central Intelligence Agency, arrived in the Far East Command tonight, General Douglas MacArthur's Headquarters announced.

He was accompanied by Major-General Alexander Bolling, Assistant Chief of Staff.

The announcement said that they were on a staff visit in response to a long standing invitation from General MacArthur to get a personal briefing on the current situa- tion.

not

The announcernent did say whether Lieutenant-General Bedell Smith had yet conferred with General MacArthur.

Staff cars were formed in two lines cutside General Mac- Arthur's Headquarters here throughout the evening as the military chiefs conferred. General MacArthur left the building just before midnight after meeting the officers from Washington, whose arrival--was

SENATOR

PRAISES

BRITAIN

Washington, Jan, 14. Senator Paul Douglas (De- a closely guarded secret until mocrat) today defended the the official announcement late British and French rearmament last night.

efforts and said that, on a re- The presence of the American lative basis, these countries had Intelligence chiefs indicated, "done substantially as much as observers believed, that we". Washington was secking first- hand information on the strength of the Chinese Communists in combat against the United Nations forces in Korea,

more

The United Nations with- drawals during the last month are facing the Command more and

urgently with the need for overall decisions, they added,

General Bedell Smith was ap pointed Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in August last year.

The Agency super-

Senator Douglas declared in 2 comparison of the armed strength of the Allies: "It 19 not a question of absolute num- bers under arms. It is a ques- tion of relative proportions who are under arms.

"Last year, out of every 1,000 in population we had 14 men men under arms under arms,

Britain had 16 and France of Merch of this year, all three had 16 men under arms. As of these nations will be on an equality-18 men

1,000 population.

per

have

vises all American Intelligence. Its job is to gather and analyse to "So, on a relative basis, up and other sources,

now hese countries reports from diplomatic, military done substantially as much as

we."

sent time

the

Scores of Japanese gathered

Senator arrivals and departures of men in the frosty night to watch the

Douglas point- ed out that at the pre- who may have to decide whether States was spending 8.7 per cent United it would be worth holding the of the national income for de- Taegu beachhead in Korea in fence, the United Kingdom 6.4, view of the possible sacrifices France 7.3.

GENERAL COLLINS Meanwhile, the United States- Headquarters in

He added:

-"But

The airliner was en route to hold off the powerful Chinese Britain and France, in budgets. from Newark, New Jersey, to Communist armies. Norfolk, Virgina, when

which they just passed, raised crashed. The bodies were

the proportions to eight and 9.7 moved from the charred Defence

per cent respectively." wreckage after firemen had Washington disclosed that Gen-American

Senator Douglas urged that cooled down the hot metal with eral J.

foroes be sent over- fire hoses.

Lawton Collins, the seas but said the President Army Chief of Staff, and Gen- should seek approval from the eral Hoyt Vandenberg, the Air Senate because there is divi- Force Chief of Staff, arrived sion in the country today in Tokyo.

issue-United Fress. Their

Witnesses said the stewardess, Mary Frances Housley of Jack-

sonville, Florida, was trapped in the flaming plans after she had helped some passengers out and then returned for others.

visit coincided with that by Lieutenant-General Bedell Smith and Major-Gen- eral Bolling.

The plane skided and crashed A Headquarters spokesman at the end of the mile-long run. and that the two Chiefs. of way after it bad landed on the Staff "simply went out to get siush-covered asphalt of the air-first-hand information as is port.

An airport guard, Charles customary when an operation.

is going on." run

Rogers, who was almost down by the plane, said it skid- ded off the end of the runway,.

a

crashed. through fence and bounced through an eight-foot- ditch.

Flames broke out with in 15 seconds of the crash.

He added that General Bedell Smith had been planning such a visit for six or eight weeks.

In spite of these indications that the visits were routine, it was taken

for granted in Washington that the gathering The heroism of the stewardess of high Command and Intel- was revealed by a sailor, Robert ligence representatives was for Clim, 18, who escaped uninjured. something out of the ordinary. Clim was seated in the left side Reuter of the plane near the door.

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