NORTH KOREA USES RUSSIAN LANGUAGE FOR PROTEST NOTE

Greymouth Evening Star, 4 July 1950, Page 5

NORTH KOREA USES RUSSIAN LANGUAGE FOR PROTEST NOTE

NEW YORK, July 4 .(Rec. 2 p.m.). —North Korea protested to the United Nations .today against American armed intervention in Korea and the “barbarous bombardment of Korean towns and villages.” A'long Note from Pak Hen Nen, North Korea’s Foreign Minister, was received in the Russian language.

It said that American airmen were “brutally bombing our peaceful population, flying over Pyongyang, other points in North Korea and the liberated' cities of South Korea, attacking units of the people’s army with the purpose of hindering .their victorious advance southward.” Most of the Note was filled with the usual Communist attacks on United States policies. FOREIGN SUBMARINES OFF PHILIPPINES MANILA, July 3 (Rec 10 a.m.). — The Philippines Defence Department announced today that foreign submarines had surfaced yesterday 1 40 miles from Manila. The spokesman declined to give the number, but said “more than one.” The markings on the craft were not distinguishable. South Africans Seek To Volunteer LONDON, July 3 (Rec. 11 a.m.).— The Associated Press Cape Town correspondent reports that South African ex-servicemen are calling at the United States Consulate in Durban to volunteer for service with the United States forces in Korea. The consul has asked the American State Department for details of the latest American recruiting regulations. Officials of the South African Department of the Interior say that South African nationals are not debarred from service with foreign units. Religious Persecution In North Korea > SEOUL.—The North Korean Communist Government has prohibited Catholic missionary work and thrown into prison or concentration camp 67 German Benedictine priests, brothers or sisters, according to refugees arriving here. The Benedictine Monastery at Tokwon near the East Coast and the Maryknoll Convent at Sawpo in the West of North Korea are reported to have been seized.

Bishop Sauer, who led the Benedictines to Korea over 40 years ago, was last “reported imprisoned in Pyongyang gaol with six priests. Refugees say his death is rumoured. The remainder of the 67 Germans are believed to be working in mines and fields from a concentration camp in the north-western corner of Chagang Province. —Reuter. CHINESE COMMUNIST TROOPS GO NORTH NEW YORK, July 3.—According to a Chinese press report from Canton, General Lin Piao, the Communist conqueror of Hainan Island, is deploying 20,000 troops to Manchuria. General Lin’s men have already arrived at Koong-Moon on the West river, and' are awaiting transport to Canton.

Reports said that General Lin has been given 40 days to move troops from Canton to the north.

Link Between MacArthur And U.N. Is Sought

OTTAWA, July 2.—Canada, having offered military aid, w r as sharing in talks about the need for a United Nations establishment to direct international forces aimed against the North Korean aggressors, official sources in Ottawa said last night. They said Canada was satisfied to have General MacArthur continue as commander-in-chief of the forces taking part in the United Nations police action on behalf of South Korea. The question now to be resolved was the link to be forged between General MacArthur’s Tokio headquarters- and the United Nations headquarters in a way that would establish the united international character of that action. Enemy Vessels Sunk TOKIO, July 3 (Rec. 1 p.m.).— General MacArthur announced that a United States Navy light cruiser, operating in Korean waters, sank an additional six North Korean naval vessels. This brought to 11 the total of enemy vessels sunk by the same cruiser in two days. The Navy previously announced that five motor torpedo-boats were sunk.