MISSING SURVEY SHIP

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26848, 29 September 1952, Page 8

MISSING SURVEY SHIP

WRECKAGE FOUND NEAR VOLCANO (N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) ‘Rec. 7 pjn.) TOKYO, September 27. A lifebelt bearing the name Kaiyo Maru and other easily identifiable parts of the missing survey ship from Japan were found today. Searching vessels found the wreckage 21 miles south of the volcanic Myojin Reef which scientists aboard the Kaiyo Maru were investigating when she disappeared last Wednesday. Maritime authorities in Tokyo, said I today that it was now almost certain that nine scientists and the crew of 22 lost their lives when the Myojin Reef erupted and engulfed the Kaiyo Maru.

SOVIET TROOPS IN KOREA

CLAIM* BY ENEMY DESERTER

(Rec. 8 p.m.) SEOUL, September 27. A surrendered North Korean security officer said today that he had seen Soviet troops at an airfield south of the Yalu river in North Korea.

The officer, Lieutenant Lee Dong Yup, said he saw about 20 Russians dressed in Chinese Communist uniforms at the Sinuiju airfield in June, 1951. He Understood that they installed anti-aircraft guns at the airfield but he did not know whether they

The lieutenant was Communist security officer at the Panmunjon armistice talks until he deserted on September 5, 1952. He spoke to Allied correspondents through an interpreter at United States Eighth Army headquarters and calmly answered questions during a 90-minute conference.

Lieutenant Lee said he had heard of a Soviet pilot flying Communist jets in June, 1951. He had also heard of two other similar incidents last spring. He said he had been told that Soviet advisers were attached to a North Korean Army officers’ school and ware sent to various Government ministries in North Korea after the outbreak of war.

He had heard that Communist forces had received supplies of the Sovietmade Katusha rocket gun. Most of the arms and ammunition used by North Korean forces were Russian-made and about half of the arms used by the Chinese Communists came from the Soviet Union.

JET PRODUCTION IN U.S.

“Targets In Soviet Could Be Hit”

T NEW YORK, September 26. Jet bombers, flying from United States-opera ted airflelds abroad and refuelling in the air. could now attack targets in the Soviet Union Mr Rosewall Gilpatric. the United States Undersecretary of the Air Force, said today. to a Prepared speech to the Seattle Chamber of Commerce, also said: The Boeing 847 jet bomber, the highest performance medium jet bomber in volume production today anywhere in the world, was coming off the assembly line at the rate of better than one a day from one _5 actor y- Two more factories would start producing the bomber later. The combined output of Republic Aircraft, making the FB4 jet fighter, and North American Aviation, producing the FB6 interceptor, now was about 250 monthly. Two years ago the total monthly production was about 55. Two manufacturers between them were producing about 60 jet engines daily, compared with 17 daily two . years ago. “Practically 100 per cent” of fighter units were now equipped with jet aircraft. • Gilpatric said that the switch to jet fighters and bombers had cost a heavy price in loss of r'.nge, but the use of tanker aeroplanes to refuel fighters and bombers in the air had compensated for some of this. “we have developed a complex of advance bases—some to the north and west of us. such as Alaska and Okinawa, others in the north-east, such as those m New Foundland, Greenland, and Iceland, and still others in the United Kingdom. North Africa, and elsewhere in the Mediterranean area. “From these advance bases we could, if compelled to by iSoviet make retaliatory counterattacks with jet aeroplanes which, even though they have less range than the pistonpowered 8295. could reach the targets by virtue of these forward take-off points.’’

U.S. DIPLOMAT ATTACKED

Moscow Newspaper Criticism

MOSCOW, September 26. (Tne Communist Party newspaper. today called the Aunerican Ambassador to Moscow (Mr George Kennan) “a man unable to restrain his malicious hostility towards the Soviet 'Jaion. artlcie in “Pravda” was entitled *Slanderer in Disguise of Diplomat.” It attacked a recent statement by Mr Kennan in Berlin in which “Mr Kennan heaped one slander on top of another on the Soviet.” “Pravda” said that Mr Kennan used the occasion “to strangle American-Soviet relations.” It described as “a foul blow against the Soviet Union,” a reported remark by Mr Kennan when he compared his stay in Moscow with his internment in Berlin 10 years ago by the Nazis. Mr Kennan is now in London for a a conference of American diplomats. .Observers in London consider Pravda’s” attack a serious denunciation, raising the question of Mr Kennan’s continuation in Moscow. Mr Kennan was appointed Ambassador in April.. He was one of the authors of America’s policy of “peaceful containment” of Russia. In Washington today the Secretary of State (Mr Dean Acheson) said that the .“Pravda” attack was wholly unjustified and improper.

NAVAL FORCES IN ATLANTIC

ADMIRAL COMMENTS ON ADEQUACY

. , OSLO, September 26. Admiral Lynde McCormick, the Supreme Commander of the Atlantic, said in Oslo today that ne needed more forces. “I have a job tc do, and I am very concerned about having the tools to carry it out” he told a press conference at the end of the eightnation North Atlantic Treaty Organisation “Exercise Mainbrace.” He declared that he was not entirely happy in view of the forces needed for controlling the Atlantic. Admiral McCormick warned naval correspondents not to get a misconception through the size of the forces which had been operating in one small corner of his command in the recent Scandinavian exercise. “Although we have been talking in terms of the largest exercise and other superlatives, we have a very large ocean,” he said. He joined the British Admiral. Sir Patrick Brind. the N.A.T.O. North European commander, who directed “Mainbrace.” in expressing great satisfaction with the exercise, which involved more than 160 warships and hundreds of aircraft. .