South Korean Leader Says Entire Border Will Be Reached By Christmas

Wanganui Chronicle, 20 November 1950, Page 5

South Korean Leader Says Entire Border Will Be Reached By Christmas

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TOKIO, November (Reed. 6 p.m.).—The South Korean aetingI’linie Minister (Sung Mo Sihn), fresh from conferences with General MacArthur, predicted today that the war in Korea will end in six weeks. He said he felt that the United Nations forces will reach the entire length of the frontier with Manchuria and Siberia

by Christmas. He indicated that General Mac-1 Arthur shared this view. Sung | rejected the British idea of a; buffer state south of the Yalu i River. “If anybody wants a buffer State I they can make it on the northern side of the Yalu River,” he said. He ( implied that General MacArthur also shared this view. Sung said Korea would be willing to discuss the matter of the Yalu ’ River electric power supply with : China, and would be willing to sell i power to China. “If they pay for it, I and if there is enough to sell.” , Torrential rain following sub-zero | temperatures earlier this week gave i British Commonwealth troops yester- j day the second taste of the terrible winter conditions which must soon !: be expected in Northern Korea.l Roads and tracks, which had thawed j' after *he cold spell, turtied to quagmires. Pakchon, on the east bank of the I

Taeryong River quickly took on something of the aspect of front-line towns in France in the First World War. Trucks and jeeps splashed through the narrow streets and Argyll, Middlesex and Australian soldiers squelched through the mud.