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7 THE MANCHESTER GUARDIAN, MONDAY, JUNE 26, 1950 EXPLOSION IN MILK BAR SIR O. FRANKS'S LETTER Poor U.S. Reports CONSULTATIONS IN PARIS M. Pleven Mentioned as Possible Successor to M. Bidault FINDING A LEADER OF THE NEAR-CENTRE From oar Correspondent Forty People Injured At least forty people, most of them "NO AID FOR N.

KOREA United Nations' Call INVASION BREACH OF THE CHARTER Lake Success, June 25. The United Nations Security U.N. CONDEMNS N. KOREA AS AGGRESSOR Ordered to Withdraw SOUTH APPEALS TO AMERICA FOR ARMS Supplies Being Sent from Japan? customers, were injured by an explosion, believed to have been caused by gas, in a milk bar at Green Lanes. Harrirtgay.

last night. A fleet of ambulances and private cars took the injured to hospitals in the North London area. Most of them were suffering from cuts and bruises, Mrs. Lilian Jack, wife of a chemist, who lives a few doors away, told a BRITISH OBLIGATIONS IGNORED From Alistalr Cooke New York, June 25. The exchange of letters- between Mr.

Hoffman and Sir Oliver Franks U.D.S.R.). and is at present Minister of National Defence Council to-day condemned the A factor which may once more foment nvasion of South Korea from the Paris, June 25. M. Bidault's Coalition Government fell yesterday afternoon after an adverse vote in the National Assembly of 352 to 230. The Prime Minister the majority is the presence in the North as an act of aggression, called wings of General de Gaulle's R.P.F.

At the movement's congress now being held for fighting to stop, and ordered the Northern forces back over the at Versailles much play has been made reporter It was a terrific explosion, like those we had during the war. The handed his resignation to the Presi by speakers of the R.P.F.'s successes in various by-elections in the cantons and tVX', border the thirty-eighth parallel. men me Davemem. ana on tne ruauway, dent of the Republic shortly afterwards. The Government had staked municipalities of France.

soviet Kussia, in continuance of her R.P.F. and the Communists each One man was shot across the road by the boycott of meetings attended by its existence on the Assembly's polled nearly three times as many votes Nationalist China, was not repre sented, and Yugoslavia abstained about the Schuman Plan was on the front pages this week-end in the New York and Washington press, but it evidently did nothing to relieve the disappointment of Congress, and convinced nobody but the converted, which at the time of writing seems to consist of a group of oneSecretary of State Dean Acheson. Mr. Acheson told a news conference on Friday that he was pleased with Sir Oliver's letter, which, he said, confirmed the United States Government's under as the Socialists and four limes those of the M.R.P. GENERAL ELECTION? acceptance of a measure relating to civil servants' salaries, according to which only such increases would be granted as were provided for in this from voting on all clauses except that me; luntr ui me cjijjiuaiuu.

The shop was full at the time, mostly with young people. There must have been quite a number of people standing and passing outside and they were caught by the blast. Some people were buried by the wreckage, but they were dug out later by the rescuers." calling for the cease-fire. Her year's revenue. M.

Petsche, the Minister of Finance, had categorically representative contended that the North Korea Government should be heard first. The nine other members refused to trespass upon next year Budget. It was on this issue that M. Bidault posed the question of As soon as he heard of M. Bidault's fall, M.

Soustelle, secretary general of the R.P.F., affirmed that a general election should immediately follow instead of trying to patch up a non-viable majority indefinitely." The general election is legally due in the autumn of 1951. Were, however, M. Bidault's successor also to fall on a vote of no confidence of the Security Council all voted for the complete resolution, nut bv the BLOWN INTO STREET The explosion blew out the entire United States. The Council will met again to-morrow. The Yugoslav proDOsal to rail a at any time before that date, his The Constitution of the Fourth Republic provides that, in the event of the question of a vote of confidence being put, an absolute majority of the House (at present 311 votes) is Northern Korean representative before front of the premises.

Some of the customers were blown fifteen to twenty feet out of the milk bar to the pavement. Police put a cordon round the area and would not allow smoking. The proprietor, Mr. George Condon, Government would have the constitu tne council was deleated by six to one, with Norway. India, and Egypt abstain tional right to dissolve the National Assembly, after which an election ing.

would follow within thirty days. who lives in a flat above the snack bar, The final resolution, slightly amended in uie ouuiiuii 01 suiue uuservcis, "ie narl nt tlirw1nnv hni riincf was on the suggestion of other Council members, was question of the Schuman Plan has been umnjured but shaken. His wife, stated 'The Securitv CounMl rorallino (ho the cause of an inner discord within the Government. It seems, however, standing of British policy. But Senator Alexander Smith, Republican, of New Jersey who first suggested seeking the Embassy's explanation, spoke for the majority in finding that the letter does not go further than any other British statement that I have seen in the direction of co-operation between the British and the Western European nations." Mr.

Smith took the lead for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in asking Mr. Hoffman to get an informal explanation of British policy from the British Ambassador (although the Embassy insisted that Sir Oliver was speaking for himself, it is not possible for a British Ambassador in the United States to speak for himself on anything if he spealts at all, on anything from economics to hamburgers, he is irrevocably giving the official British opinion). The Senate Committee is at present considering the conditions of continuing Marshall aid and the bill to authorise findings ol the General Assembly in its resolution of October 31. 1949, that the Government of the Republic of (South) Korea is a lawfully established Government, having effective control and juris- to be suffering from shock, was taken io hospital Mr. Condon said later The force of the explosion threw me on to the counter.

The injured were lying around and I knew every one of them, my kids as I called them, by their names. They that there is no likelihood at all of any interruption of the conversations on the pool. Nor can there be any question of a reversal of the French Government's The United Nations Security Council last evening passed a tesolution, moved by the United States, which called the Northern Korea Government an aggressor and demanded that the advance into Southern Korea (begun early yesterday) should stop, and that the aggressors should -withdraw inside their frontiers. It also urged all nations not to send aid to the North. The Government of South Korea yesterday appealed to the United States for arms and this was considered last night at a joint conference of the State and Defence Departments.

Jt is understood that the conference decided to tell General MacArthur to send all arms possible from Japan, which is only about a hundred miles from Southern Korea. It is believed that some have already been sent. President Truman decided to cut short his week-end in Missouri and flew back to Wash ington last evening. North Korean troops have overrun the Ongjin peninsula, north-west of Seoul, and last night crossed the River Imjin, the last natural barrier before Seoul, with ninety tanks. Another force was advancing due south from the frontier towards Seoul and was reported to be within twelve miles, having captured a railway junction.

It is doubtful whether the North has made a declaration of war. A Northern Korea wireless station spoke of one, even giving the exact hour, but the President of Southern Korea said he did not regard this as an official declaration. The Northern Korean Government yesterday accused the south of being the aggressor and claimed that the north was fighting a defensive battle. original commitment to pool sovereignty over coal and steel. The present crisis cannot, indeed, be considered as a crisis were regular customers.

tstreaKed with dust and grime, Mr. Condon helped in work. Early this morning many relatives uicuun over uiai part or rtorea where the United Nations temporary commission on Korea was able to observe and consult, and where the great majority of the Korean people reside, and that this Government is based upon elections which were a valid expression bf the free will of the electorate required for a Governmental defeat, Yesterday's alliance of Communists, Socialists, and Gaullists, in company with certain Radicals and Right-wing deputies, was therefore easily sufficient to sink M. Bidault's ship. The President of the Republic is at present engaged in conversations with party leaders.

To-day he has already seen MM. Queuille. Moch, Marie, and Rene Mayer before attending the season's most important horse race, the Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp. It is expected that the negotiations will continue for some days. (The last Ministerial crisis in October, 1949, took some three weeks to resolve.

After M. Queuille's departure two Prime Ministers were invested by the National Assembly but failed to secure a working majority and fell before M. Bidault could finally muster sufficient support to govern.) PROBLEM OF COALITION The problem, as always in contemporary France, is to construct a coalition were trying to trace the injured in North London hospitals. Workmen were repairing mains running from the BREACH OF THE PEACE shop Mindful of the concern expressed bv of European or world policy. It was announced yesterday from M.

Monnet's headquarters that, on Monday, the delegations to the six-Power conference would return to their capitals in order to acquaint their Governments and national associations with the contents a document already handed to them by M. Monnet. This paper, so it was stated, was not a draft treaty for the establishment of the High Authority to control steel and coal, but a "working document" embodying the opinions of the French delegation as a result of the last week's exchange of views. A summary of this the General Assembly in its resolutions of December 12, 1948, and October 21, 1949, as to the consequences which might follow unless member States rpfrain prejudicing the measures recommended by FEARS FOR LONE YACHTSMAN Boat Found Abandoned Osiend, June 25. mc uuucu nauuiis TO Driller ahmit th and unity of complete independence Korea and.

a second year of military aid to the Western Allies. But the Senate Committee was anxious to know if there was some pressing and undisclosed reason for the Labour Government's reluctance. COMMONWEALTH OMITTED Sir Oliver's letter implies there is none. But unfortunately his valuable restatement of Britain's obligations to the Commonwealth and the sterling area was overlooked in the Washington dispatches. Neither the New York Times nor the New York Herald-Tribune published the full text of his reply, and if the interested newspaper reader knows about Britain's initiative in the "Taking into account that the report of ii i umina nauun! commission on K.orea trench proposal will be published to-morrow.

of parties ruled from somewhere near the Centre. The essential elements of A yacht which was found drifting and jv.coacs grave concern tor the invasion of the Republic of Korea bv armed forces from North Korea, determines that this action constitutes a breach of the peace abandoned near the Cross Sand lightship off Ramsgate and towed to Ostend by a Belgian trawler last night bore the name this majority are, inevitably, the Socialists, M.R.P., and Radicals. Two immediate economic problems will confront any Cabinet the reerad- 1 Calls for th immMiata saco EFFECT OF KOREA Paris. June 25. M.

Marcel Plaisant, Radioal president of the Foreign Affairs Commission of the Senate, said to-night that M. Aurlol, the French President, may form a Government of national union if THREEFOLD ADVANCE TOWARDS SEOUL South Claims Sinking of Russian Ship Raffee, Hull. ing of civil servants' salaries and also non oi nostmties b) calls on the authoriUes oi North Korea to withdraw their armed forces to the thirty-eighth Raffee is the name of a 20-foot 3-ton the raising of Service men's pensions (Five thousand ex-Servfce men. includ sloop in which Captain Tom Eastwood, 2. Requests the United Nninni Cnrr, aged 71, set off from England last week in an attempt to sail alone cross ine mission on Korea (a) to communicate fully their consideration on the situation with Atlantic.

A port official here said to-day that the yacht had enough food aboard Overcast weather is believed to have prevented the Northern forces from uie least possioie delay; (b) to keen the Security Council Informed on the execution of this resolution. for a cruise of several months. The master of the trawler Rockal, international situation worsens. M. Auriol discussed the war in Korea with the presidents of the Parliamentary Foreign Affairs Commissions.

Reuter. "I AM READY," SAYS GENERAL DE GAULLE Elections First making much use ol aircraft, but to-night the sky was clearing. The Organisation for European Economic Co-operation, and Britain's great contributions in loans and raw materials to the defence and the economy of Europe, this is something he would know for himself, without enlightenment from the papers. What the papers printed and commented on was the gist of Sir Oliver's letter, or rather his editorial conclusions on essential facts that had gone before. What most Americans read was the following two paragraphs Britain is a Power with world-wide interests, responsibilities, and commitments.

Just as co-operation with her ing many seriously wounded, demon-started yesterday in the Place de l'Opera. One party bore a placard with the words M. le Ministre des Finances, excusez nous de n'etre pas encore Doubtless M. Bidault preferred, if the choice had to be made, to depart over the claims of the civil servants rather than over those of the ex-Service men. For M.

Petsche's stand on the principle of the balanced Budget can hardly but be followed by any successor, should there be a fresh candidate for his office. which brought in the Raffee, said the occupant of the sloop might have A Calls upon all members to render every assistance to the United Nations in the execution of this resolution and to country is not well suited to tank boarded another vessel alter a minor warfare, but the country between Seoul to the i en dir. irum giving assistance rvorih Korean authorities." collision with it. He said the sloop was ana tne irontier is about as flat as any slightly damaged on its starboard side. i.ne United States complaint of Korea is a country of high moun Seoul, June 25.

North Korean troops to-night crossed trie River Imjin and captured the town of Musan, 23 miles north of Seoul, the Southern capital. A South Korean official report to Tokio said about a thousand men and ninety tanks had crossed the river and that the defenders had put ten of the tanks out of action. The Southerners fell hack to the Imjin, the last natural barrier before Captain Eastwood, a former North tains, gorges, and rapid, shallow rivers. Sea pilot, left Hull on June 17 and Paris, June 25. Yarmouth on June 18 and was last From the White Mountains in the North a range runs continuously south, nearer to the east than the r- pvrnn nrrAm, aggression against the Government of (South) by North Korean forces was the only item before the specially summoned Council, and the chairman, Sir Benegal N.

Rau of India, first called tho rvmnr-il'c ocai uc uau amu ly-y oiohtcv. t(lp Pfnlk mast nn 21 Western neighbours and the vigorous pro- congress ol his rtignt-wing rtaJiy oi tne when the British steamer motion of unity in Europe is a vital LLLkivKAi, nuuiun Behind the immediate problems west coast. Between the lateral ranges i rench that his movement was Richmond Queen said all was well. He said before prepared to assume power following a are plains, none of them very extensive but enough to grow rice, barley, cotton necessity for Britain, so her associations in the Commonwealth and in the Atlantic community are also vital. The foreign policy of Britain restr.

leaving that he expected to be at sea attention to a 1948 General Assembly general election which, he said, could and other crops, and to allow for a fair for about eighty days but he had made provision for at least one hundred days. not be delayed much longer. It he were returned to power France would get railway network. The Raffee was built in seven weeKs 1. A strone State headed bv a President resolution asking the United Nations Korean Commission to report to the United Nations developments which might lead to military complications in Korea.

The commission was also called upon to give interim reports, and The railways centre on Seoul, once the capital of all Korea and now the under Captain Eastwood's own super with real executive power, elected directly vision. His son and nis orotner neipea by the people and not liable lu be him to build it. The yacht has no radio overthrown by Parliamentary party Zonal Frontier U.S S.R Miles I and no auxiliary motor. Captain stands the weighty question of electoral reform of which the Radicals are the main protagonists. The M.R.P.

and the Communists, who owe much of their strength to the actual system of proportional representation, are against reform. Nor are the Socialists very keen. During the last week, however, there has been a certain move by all parties, except the Communists, in favour of a change to some kind of majority system, but one tempered with proportional representation on a second round that is, where no party has an absolute majority in a Department the seats should be distributed propor manoeuvres iic aea ivir. lrygve Lie. the United Nations secretary general, whether he 2.

Separation the executive, judiciary, Eastwood retired from the British Merchant Navy last July, after being 20O NTiauivmi and legislative oowers and. naa received, any such reports. Seoul, earlier to-day when the invaders overran the narrow territory to the west of it the Ongjin peninsula. Apart from Ongjin itself the largest town captured by the Northern forces is Kaesung, a railway junction just south of the frontier along the 38th parallel. Another attack, due south, is reported to have brought the Northern troops to within twelve miles of Seoul where they have been checked.

The American Military Advisory Croup announced at nine o'clock (local time) that the enemy is employing one at sea for nearly sixty years. Keuter. 3. A strong Senate, representing local government authorities as well as MR. LIE'S VERDICT economic, social, moral, and intellectual upon and draws strength from these vital relationships with Europe, the Coramon-wenllh.

and the Atlantic community, it is the aim of British policy so to reconcile these relationships that they perpetually reinforce each other and by their complementary strengths add vigour and resources to the free world." Inevitably, the Congress and the papers saw in thifc another way of saving in the words of the New York Herald Tribune's headline Britain Puts World Policy Ahead of Pool." And it was this sentiment, rather than the precarious efluipoise of Britain's international economy, that the Congress is reacting to. Very few Americans have ever heard of the Statute of Westminster or reallv credit the independence of the Dominions, and the word "common sections of the country life. Mr. Lie replied that when he had Of the North Atlantic Pact, he told heard reports of the conflict to-dav he Hat Mays Pyongyang Se WOMAN DIES AFTER YACHT EXPLOSION People on the cliffs at Gara Point, France's friends, and particularly the had sent telegrams to the United Nations mission in Korea, and had received a tionally to the votes. Many possible Americans," that France wanted to I stand on her own feet from a defence variations nave Deen proposed.

The question of electoral reform division with heavy artillery in an effort repiy irom tne commission, which had point of view." This, he said, would South Devon, on Saturday night heard not prevent her loining In a common an explosion on the yacht Edford, two strategic system which would, how makes Radical leadership of the next Cabinet rather difficult. Nor are the Socialists likely to offer a Prime hundred yards away, and saw the start ever, be a bad one if it did not give of. a fire which led to the death of the France serious guarantees of being pro Minister, although, formally, the Presi vachlsman's wife. Mrs. H.

E. Shore, of uten circulated to Council members. Mr. Lie said the report from the commission made it plain that military actions had been undertaken by Northern Korea in direct violation of the General Assembly resolution and also in violation of the principles of the United Nations Charter. In his opinion it was the duty of the Security Council to take steps to re-establish to a no dent of the Republic should call upon them to do so, since they provoked the tected against atomic destruction or against invasion" and "if the French forces had to be scattered in a State-' Ministerial crisis.

In these circum less mechanism." stances, much mention is being made of M. Rene Pleven as a possible candidate to take Chunchon. One reinforced fiiemy battalion has succeeded in capturing Ingu and is continuing toward Chuminjim." It also said that four sroups of enemy guerrillas and armoured troops had been landed at widely separated points along the east toast. A Government spokesman later announced that the position on the East cuast was secure." He said 1,000 invaders had been, surrounded near Sam chock, a coastal town 20 miles inside South Korea. Chunchon, near East coast 60 miles from Seoul, is surrounded by a northern division with heavy artillery.

The general also called for practical agreement between ranee and Lrer- for the Prime Ministership. M. Pleven many as the basis for European unity. deputy for C6tes-du-Nord, Brittany, British United Press. belongs to a small Centre party (the wealth is understood nowadays as a post-war euphemism invented to soften the harsher overtones of Empire." NEED FOR PROPAGANDA The propaganda job that Britain has still to do in this country is therefore more fundamental than explaining the day-to-day complexity of Britain's balance of trade.

Such explanations carry little weight unless they can be appreciated as current illustrations of the continuing theme the unique political association from which Britain has her being and her solvency. The Republicans would naturally like to feel that there is in the House of Dartmouth. Major Shore, suffering from face burns, managed to reach the sands in a dinghy and gasp to Save my wife." Meanwhile the yacht had burned to the water's edge. The coastguards. Jack Shepherd and John Stltson, righted the upturned dinghy, and using the bottom boards as paddles the oars were lost made their way to the wreck.

About two hundred yards from the shore they found the body of Mrs. Shore. It appeared that she had jumped overboard when the vessel caught fire. The Plymouth lifeboat, which covered Ave miles in less than 20 minutes, took on board the two coastguards and the body of the woman, and raced back to Plymouth in the hope that Mrs. Shore THE WHEEL FOR Mr.

Ernest Gross (United States) then put forward his Government's resolution. The invasion by the North Koreans was, he said. a whollv illegal and unprovoked attack." It strikes at the fundamental purpose of the United Nations Charter and openly flouts the authority of the United Nations." BRITAIN SUPPORTS U.S. Mr. Chang, of South Korea, described VETERAN DRIVER AT 23 HOURS 50 MINUTES chief city of the south.

Chunchon, some 65 miles north-east of Seoul, stands on a railway line leading towards the east COUNTER ATTACK American officials confirmed that the coast. Kaesong. the city nearly on the French and British Cars Sweep Board at Le Mans border forty miles north-west ot beoul stands just east of a junction where one line branches westwards to Ongjin and Commons a clean break between the five cars broke down and limped into Le Mans, June 25. France and Great Britain swept the isolationism of the Labour party and the pits. Southern troops had captured Haeju, live miles inside North Korea, near the west coast, which the Northern troops had apparently left lightly defended.

The South Korean Government announced to-day that one of its Coastguard vessels had sunk a Russian ship olE Chumunjin, on the East Coast. The Southern gunboat Bakdusan reported the Europeanism of the Conservatives. the invasion as an all-out attack to destroy our Government and to bring our country under the control of a Communist-dominated, despotic regime He appealed to the Security Council to order the North Korean authorities to cease fire and withdraw from South Korean territory. Sir Terence Shone. suDDortiiw thp rcn- board in the Le Mans 24-hour road race another runs north to Pyongyang, the North Korean capital and centre of the Northern railway network.

Since the final group of 25,000 was still alive. Meanwhile, Major Shore, with two coastguards, went by car to Plymouth to meet the lifeboat. At the Prince of Wales Hospital, he learned that she was dead. But they hear to their dismay that many which ended here to-day. The veteran French driver, Louis Rosier, driving American occupation troops left South Rosier and his son in their Talbot covered the 256 laps in 23hr.

54min. 2.2sec. Meyrat and Mairesse completed 255 laps in 23hr. 55min. 4.7sec.

The Allard covered 251 laps in 23hr. 58min. 52.5sec. Other placing were 4. fBrLtlflfcl driven by A R.

Holt fcnff J. Hamilton laps, 23m. 54mln. 30.1aec.). 5 Ailon Martin iBrltlatiJ O.

Abbtcusj ud I. Macilin (249 lpis, ZSlir. SSmai. 11.3ac.). Korea at the end of June last year non-stop for all but ten minutes of lution for Great Britain, said the council leaving behind 500 advisers border incidents have been irequent.

must lose no time. It should take as soon as possible every proper action to prevent an aggravation of the sitnatinn Skirmishes, sometimes involving more than 1,000 troops and heavy artillery. have been launched from both side3. it is aiso right and essential that the council should not take action whirh Russian occupation troops withdrew TWO STEELWORKS TO BE CLOSED 900 Workers Affected Two Government-owned steel-making from North Korea in December, 1948. goes beyond the bounds of evidence placed before it by its own commission Reuter, Associated Press, and British United Press.

in ivorea. Keuter. the race, handled his 4i-Iitre laloot superbly to win by about nine miles. He smashed the lap record at 165.49 kilometres (102.82 miles) an hour and covered 256 laps, a distance 2,152.94 miles, a new record for the race. On his tail came another Talbot, driven by Pierre Meyrat and G.

Mairesse, who had covered 255 laps when the flag came down. And then it was very nearly all Britain. British cars occupied six of the first ten placings, and of the 16 British starters only two retired. Sidney Allard and Tom Cole, driving an Allard for hours in top gear the rest had failed, put up a magnificent performance to Set third place, cover-ins 251 laus. Allard's determination that it encountered another Soviet ship of about Ave hundred tons on the East Coast, north of Pusan, and chased it northward.

The 173ft. Bakdusan is the largest vessel of the South Korean Navy. A Government spokesman said eight additional vessels were moving southward and were being engaged by South Korean ships. He did not give their nationality. Yak fighters, a Russian make, without markings.

Mew over Kimpo airport, SeouL this morning and one of them attacked a grounded American 54 aircraft and ten South Korean Air Force training 'planes. The Acting Premier, Sinn Sung-mo, who is also Defence Minister of South Korea, estimated that the invaders totalled 50,000. He said the Northern Armv had a total oi 183,000 trained men. 6. Aston -MArlin LMrHLsnj tt I'uneu ana v.

BrscHmturj 1244 laps. 23hr. 57mln. 14.7oc.). 7 Delace (France A.

LouvtAu and Jotct (241 laps, 23hr. 59mln. 16 8. BenUor (BrlfjSil X. ft Ball and O.

Cfcrte (236 laps. 23hr. lO Ssec 9. Praler-Naan (Britlah). H.

and W. EL Alrlnetcm (235 laps 23hr. 5Bmln. 7soc 10. Cadillac ID M.

ami Oollier (233 laps. 23or. 56mlo 54.5aoc). 11. Cadillac (U.S.

B. Cunxdncbam and P. Walker (232 laps, 23JU. 54m In. 42.7MC Other British cars finished as follows 12.

Joffuar (P. Clark and J. Claean 230 laps: 14. Bolls Benlley (Mr and Mrs. H.

6. F. Kali. 225 laps; 15. Jaguar Whitehead and R.

i. C. Marshalll 22i laps: 16. Jowelt Javelin (T. H.

Wisdom and T. Wlael. 220 laps: 17. Riley (R. Iwrl aul a Bettsonl.

213 lam: IS. U.O. (O. factories at Monk Bridge, near Leeds, CONFIDENCE IN U.S. and at Paisley are to be closed on THE OTHER VERSION Sudden Attack on North December 31, 1950, the Ministry of Norfolk.

Virginia, Jitnt; 25. Supply announced yesterday. Mr. Louis Johnson, Secretary of Both were used to meet war require Defence, to-day expressed confidence ments, and they have been kept in pro conservatives also look on the bchuman Plan as a pig in a poke, and that if Mr. Churchill mobilises his eloquence again in an assault on the Labour party's recent manifesto, it may not be that he loves Europe more but that he loves a seat on the Opposition benches less.

Another obstacle that stands in the way of a good bout of moral indignation here is the news from Paris that the co-operating delegations have been taken aback at the severity of the French proposals and are a week after the British Labour party reacting to the Schuman Plan with a delayed double -take." It would be bitter fodder indeed, for the Republicans autumn election campaign, if the free enterprise Benelux countries decided that they too insist on a shred of sovereignty in which to wrap their nakedness. Sovereignty would then be seen to be a universal instinct and not an exclusive perversion of doctrinaire Socialists. For their peace of mind the Republicans would nave to fall back on the old bromide about the incurable quarrelsomeness of old, sick Europe." If that happened, much more than steel and coal would be at stake. There would be the strongest pressure to cut the British appropriation as well as those of the European allies. TWO SIDES OF THE LABOUR PROFILE Mr.

Hoffman's Distinction that South Korea would defeat the Defensive Battle The North Korean Ministry of the duction under the management of steel Northern Communist force unless North firms which have acted as agents for the Ministry, said the statement, but their Korea got substantial help from out side. Interior announced yesterday that the puppet national defence army of South operation was uneconomic, and the losses were borne by public funds, Witb 173 tanks, 173 military aircraft, and 32 naval vessels. Mr. Sthn ordered the Korean Embassy In Washington to Mr. Johnson made the statement in a speech on the carrier Midway ta an and fearless driving captured the imagination of the huge crowd.

The high-pitched whine of his engine earned him the nickname of The hissing madman." ITALIANS' FAILURE The biggest surprise of the race was the total eclipse of the Italian Ferraris, tne present expansion in steel output and the further increase in prospect the stop-gap task of the two factories audience which included sixty civilian leaders who were attending a Defence appeal to President Truman for 'planes, tanks. stiIds, and suns. He also asked Korea launched a surprise attack along the entire front of the 38th parallel." According to a New China News Agency message, the communique said would be completed. Department conference, high naval the United States Ambassador to appeal officers, and the carrier's crew. He for American 'planes from Japan and Okinawa.

He said South Korea had said Enemy troops intruded one to two kilo Pnillppi and Wlaterbottom i 208 laps. 19, Heater (N H. Mann and J. Qoodall) 203 laps; 20. Praxer-Nesh (N.

R. Culpan and 8. Wilson). 201 la pa The two American Cadillacs a normal-bodied car and the specially designed machine driven by the millionaire Briggs Cunningham made a spectacular recovery in the later stages of the race, climbing to tenth and eleventh positions Cunningham drove Into a sandbank twice during the night, but escaped unhurt. Abbecassfs and Macklin (Aston Martin) and De Montremy and Hennard, driving a French Monopole, tied for first place in the performance classification.

This grouping takes into account the relative position at the finish and the size of the car. Third place went to Brackenbury and Parnell (Aston Martin). Reuter and Associated Press. sixtv trained pilots who could fly them. At Monk Bridge 430 workers will become redundant and at Paisley 540.

A Ministry spokesman said to-day The long notice given is to ensure that the employees will be reabsorbed into industry" metres Into North Korea from three places the western part of Hai Chu district, the President Svneman Rhee. of South Kim Chen district in Hwang Hai Korea, telephoned to General MacArthur SuDreme Allied Commander in Japan, province, and the Chel Won district in Kang Won province. In South Koiea there has been developed a nucleus for a force, which in the absence of substantial external aggression, should assure the security of that country. The effect of the present attack by North Korean forces will not be known for several days. If South Korea fails to come through It will be evidence of outside assistance.

"Althoiufh we have given military aid winners last year and generally expected to be among the first three this year. Thev began the race at a sizzling pace, and" one of them, lapping at over a hundred miles an hour, smashed the 1939 record of 96.69 miles per hour, but then his dynamo failed and he was forced tc retire. The speed the Ferraris set in the first few hours yesterday was their undoing one after another the early to-day appealing for aid. A South Korean spokesman said that his Government regarded the situation as The Ministry of the Interior of the END OF LONDON'S TAXI STRIKE Korean Democratic People's Republic has desperate and needed rifles and ammunition and aircraft. General ordered the garrison troops of the Republic to repulse tne enemy wno intruded into areas norm oi tne tnirty-eignw parauei.

to South Korea for only a comparatively short time those in a position to know London's taxi strike, which had lasted MacArthur immediately called a two-hour conference of his senior officers with Mr. John Foster Dulles, Adviser to feel that It has been auite effective and At present the garrison troops of the Republic are resisting the enemy In a fleece defensive battle. The Government of the Korean Democratic People's Republic has instructed the State Department, who has Just mat men army nas maae sucstanuai progress in providing for a proper defence." three weeks, ended last night when the Cab Proprietors' Association and the Cab Section of the Transport and visited Korea. EVACUATION OF AMERICANS General Workers' Union agreed on an immediate resumption of work. the Ministry of the Interior to warn tot South Korean Puppet Government that the Korean Democratic People's Republic The evacuation of American women and children from South Korea has been The drivers, at a meeting yesterday, called by the union, voted heavily in favour of ending the strike by accepting recommendations made during Friday's ordered to-morrow.

About 1,000 people Washington, June 25. The Economic Co-operation administrator Mr. Paul Hoffman, said in a broadcast yesterday that he interpreted Britain's reluctance to enter the steel and coal pool in Europe as evidence of a policy of "friendly watching and waiting He nevertheless stood by his recent statement that the attitude of the Labour party was "deplorably isolationist" but said the phrase applied only to statements of the political Pfrty- not to the record and action of the British Government in questions of European unity. "In this maltT nf unity the record of Ore? Britain is good to date." Associated. Presi, 15 DIE IN NEW SOUTH WALES FLOODS 'Planes Aid Homeless Sydney, June 25.

Ten thousand people are homeless and fifteen deaths have so far been reported in northern New South Wales, where floods cover hundreds of square miles of rich farmland. Royal Australian Air Force Dakota transport 'planes and Army Dukws are rushing help to the homeless in the worst floods on record in Australia. Reuter. CZECHS DISMISS DR. HORAKOVA'S APPEAL Four Sentenced to Die From oar own Correspondent Vienna, June 25.

The appeals of the woman doctor, Milada Horakova, and three other leaders of the Czechoslovak anti-Communist underground movement, against sentence of death passed fortnight ago, have been dismissed. mostly in Seoul will be affected. The derision was taken after a conference talks that the men should receive Hi Speaking of America's general security situation without attaching it directly to the Korean invasion, Mr. Johnson said the joint Chiefs of Staff had evolved plans for defence and military unification had now reached a point that if the worst overtakes us we are ready to go without delay working on plans already approved. The Army.

Navy, and Air Force are all alert and in a better condition than they were a year ago." British United Press and Associated Press. Commission report on tho fighting, pag 10 per cent commission on the takings vaiun Qnntti Kiiicsii Defence officials, shown on the taxi meter. They had demanded 40 per cent. will adopt decisive counter-measures against the enemy if the South Korean Puppet Government does not halt its adventurous attacks towards areas north of the 38th parallel. At the same time the South Korean Puppet Government must bear the whole responsibility of all serious consequence that arise from this adventurous attack." la message on page 10 a DiplnmaHr kthvi th rclatioju of th two Koreas the American Ambassador, Mr.

John Muceio, and members of the American Later the owners met at a private meeting in the club room of a block of Military Advisory Group, unconnrmea rnnrti stated that women and children flats in St. jorin wooa. men iouowea tirniiU tfn hv Imrv QfiH hue to IncfaOP. the the meeting between union and owners, South Korean port, 18 miles west of SeouL, lor evacuation py sea..