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TENSION INCREASES IN INDO-CHINA Terrorist activities stepped up by rebels
GENERAL MOBILISATION
Saigon, March 11.
Tension mounted in Indo-China today, following last night's do- cree by Ho Chi-minh, Communist insurgent leader, mobilising all Vietnamese between 18 and 45. Terrorist activity grew in Saigon last night and four people were killed or wounded when. Communists threw six grenades from a taxi into pave- ment cafes. On the city outskirts, police holding up the gunmen's car, were fired on by tommy-guns.
Hope to end French strike
dwindles
Paris, March 11. Chances of an early solution -to The nation-wide French strike dwindled tonight when Parisian foundry owners told the National Conciliation Cam mission that they would not agree to wage rises of more than five per cent.
like
The terrorist activity was believed here to be intend-
ed to demonstrate Communist strength to the American economic mission now negotiating with the Vietnam-loader, ex-omperor-Bao Dai~~- It was confirmed today that Bao Dal's Government had asked the mission to grant them aid ex- clusively a procedure opposed by the regional governments of Cambodia and Laps; which are associate states with Vietnam within the French Union.
Diplomalle circles suggested that the French were pressing for military guarantees as well as economic ald.
also approve, although he had re- ceived no official details of the proposed pact from Australia.- Reuter.
Bao Dal and regional govern- ment officials declined to com- aid. It was believed that they ment on the question of military considered this question might embarrass the fanatically nation- alist elements in influential youth groups. owners
Parisian steel-workers, the rest of the 300,000 to 350,000 French steel-workers on strike, were asking for a rise of 3,000 francs-that is, between 10 and 27 per cent.
Provincial
foundry were expected to back up their Paris colleagues in fighting the wage claims inch by inch.
Bui strike tension was con- siderably less in Paris today with the return to normalcy of tran- sport services and with clec- tricity services adequate. Bug and underground workers accep ted the five per cent, offer with slightly higher rate for un- skilled Inbour.
National
The
Employers' Council is recommending ita members not to offer more than five per cent,
clay.
Arms arriving
Pact
arms
military drivers
first French
The Communist radio today reiterated In four languages: "Death to Bao Dai and the French collaborators" and gave detailed instructions for the mo- bliisation order, which all except those with aged or infiem rela- tives were told they must obey or be punished.
Ruth Khama barred from
tribal meet
THE CHINA NAIL, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1950.
Cairo meeting concludes
Cairo, March. 11. The five-day conference of U.G. diplomats in the
Near
East ended today with littl official onfightenment on what happened behind the closed doors which ware closely guarded by American_ Bacurity
officers. Ambassador Jaffarson Caffery laued communique which was couched in general torms, and rofused to discuss the meat. Ing further.
.
The communique indicated that the United States Wat anxious to ald Near Eastern countries, but only if they wanted help. That would in- clude almost every country in this area. United Press.
Austria invites Big Four
LI TSUNG-JEN BRANDS REDS, GENERALISSIMO
New York, March 11.
The Chinese-poople are going to rise up soon and overthrow not only the Communists but the Chiang Kai-shek regime as well, the deposed Acting President, Li Tsung-jon said today. "The Chinese Communists were able to come to power, not because of the merit of Commun- ism, but because the regime of Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was rotten to the core," Mr. -Li said in an interview.
"The Generalissimo," Mr. L said, "Is hoping for a third World War to save him. The lant world war saved him from the Japanese and now he is hoping for a war between Russia and the United States so that he will be saved from the Communists."
The small, sickly man whom the Generalissimo tassed out o office last week simply by an- nouncing he was reruming the Presidency says reports of Chi- nese guerilla uprisings in China are according to plan.
Vienna, March 11. The Austrlan
Chancellor, Leopold Figi,
today invited President Harry Truman, Mar- through his interpreter, Dr. Ya
"A few weeks ago," Mr. Li said shal Josef Stalin, the Prime Chich-hou-sent message to Minister, Mr. Cleinent Attlee, very loyal and
very able and Premier Georges Bidaul
porter, General Chang Fa-kwel. to meet in Vienna and settle to set off, underground activities outstanding differences
In Canton." bc- tween East and West.
"A meeting of the responsible leaders of the big powers would certainly lead to a declded re- laxation in the strained interna- tional situation," Dr. Fig) said.
With great foy the Austrian Federal Government would wel-
sup-
Fred Hampson wrote from Hong Associated Press correspondent Kong on Thursday quoting a Na- tionalist report that some troops had gone over to the guerillas in Canton.
Red
'Mr. Li said General Chang Fo-
Communism is so foreign to Chinese nature, it can thrive,"
Never
Mr. Li said the Chinese peo- ple, after seeing the despotism of Generallasimo Chiang Kai-shick overthrown, are now struggling with the despotism-of-the-Com- munists. The country, is now rendy for a really liberal and de- mocratic leadership."
Mr., who was Vice-President when Generalissimo Chiang "re- and rose to Acting President tired," sai
said he
plans to rally the liberal and democratie forces of China behind him.
Ho said he would begin by or- anising the
Overseas Chinese, especially in Asia. In South East Asia," Mr. Li said,
"There are
are millions of Chinese who need leadership. The only leaders among them how are the already thrown out the followers Communists, because they have of Chiang Kai-shek."
After organising Chinese e- tivities
overseas, Mr. Ll plans on using this force.to
vald the guerillas.
and literature for propa- ganda," Mr. Li declared.
At any rate, he is not planning on returning to Talwan fa the very near future.
come the the four great men of kwel, former Commander of field lie will get them arms, sup the world in its capitol."
The Chancellor said that Vien-headquarters in the Canton sec na would be the most suitable tor, told him on March 6 that he alte for such a meeting.
had met with several hundred "Occupation troops of the four guerilla leaders in Hong Kong and Here none of the big four would powers are stationed in Austria. be in a foreign land."
at another meeting in Macao.
Johannesburg, March 11. Ruth Khama, London-born wife of the exiled chief Seretse Khame of the Bamungwato, has been barred from attend- ing Monday's tribal gathering If the Chancellor's invitation is Koolla at which Si Evelyn accepted the Austrian Govern- Baring, British High Commis- ment will offer the famous Con- sioner, will tell the tribe of the gress room in the Chancellory to British Government's decision.
the visiting heads of State.. It As preparations for the gather-gress of Vienna was held in the was in this room that thee Con- ing were under way today, with Winter of 1814-1815. The Con- mounted police in a day-long re-
gress produced the "Holy Al- the privacy of her bungalow near 60 years of peace. Scrowe,
Other possible meeting places More and more pollee re-in Vienna include the Austrian inforcements are being drafted in A Communist radio commen to keep the
Parliament and Schoenbrum peace. tator asserted that all American come from
They have Castle, either of which could be bs for distant as made available.-Associated Press arms would fall eventually into Rhodesin and the other two Pro- the hands of Ho Cht minh. tectorates of Swaziland and Unofficial reports said that Ha] Basutoland, hundreds of miles thi minh
preparing a to the East across the Union of general offensive for March 18 South Africa.
Offensive planned
In
Reds panicky
"There is panic among the Communists," Mr. L1 said, "bs- | cause General Chang Fa-kwe' and his men are following our plans." Communism found sympathisers
Chiang, Li asserted.
·
J
hearsal, Mrs. Khama retired to Hance" and gave war-torn Europe in China becouse of Generalissimo
U.S.-strike
back at Reds propaganda
of
"After Generalissims Chiang Kai-shek." Mr. Li said, "It was thought any change was for the better. But after one year trial, the people found out that whereas Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek was interested in money and in depriving the people of their material well-being, the Communists alm at depriving
them of their soul."
and
However, Mr. Li says he be lieves the Chinese Army, Navy and Air Force will rise up throw over the Chiang Kai-shek regime on Taiwan at a word from him
Taiwan is not important eco- nomically, Mr. El said. It would be good for Chinese morale to save Taiwan, but that is its only value-Associated Press.
Confession of Fuchs may
be a trap
Washington, March 11.
A member of the Joint Con-
be a
Elaborating on what Commun-gressional Atomic Energy Com- Ism was
doing to the Chinese mittee suid today that Dr. Klaus
Fuchs' confession may people, Mr. Li declared:
trap to trick America into be traying further secrets,
countryl
1:
As the first arrivals of At- lantic Pact arma shipments from America neared, Com- In the Salgon area, to distract Ruth still affirms her intention tederation of Labour (CGT) French attention from Chinose to stay in the Bamangwato ter- leaders turned their spotlight Infiltration across the northern | "itory, but local opinion is that on the ports.
frantier.
it will only be a matter of time Cherbourg, the
The French today oflelally re-before she has to leave to join metropolitan port to expect At-ported, that "pacification" actions her husband. lantic
ahipments, continued
the successfully
Her own
opinion is that had looked like n garrison town to Hanoi region with Spitßres dis-she not been an expectant mother
Washington, March 11. "For more than 4,000 years the persing rebel concentrations near "I would have been
The United States struck out kicked out today at Chinese
Chinese people were knitted to- Engineers have cordoned off Kan Bang, 30 miles from the already."
Communist gether by a moral code, apart
written the armaments depot and closed Chinese frontier.
Seretse, already exlled for five propaganda efforts to place from a common
language, entrances. to the military Reports from usually reliable years from his home in Bechu- responsibility on this
the same blood strain and a cul- area of the port.
sources indicated that the Com-analand and permanently barred for Chinese Nationalist bomb-
heritage. The code of Infantry and companies of munists, reinforced by Chinese from both South Africa andings of Red-held cities. morals expounded by Confucius
have been crossing the Western frontier, Southern Rhodesia, is not wanted denied any connection.
and the rest of our sages is the station repres of gendarmes were beginning a slim-furms-Roy-Welensky, leader-of-th-that there Dept, ces precs er people-and-as-a-country. This
near the harbour
slow movement in Northern Rhodesia
State Department belleves
only reason Chinese exist as a and Republican Security Guards frontier.
elected European White members good will for the drafted into the town.
United States Meanwhile, M. Leon Pignon, of the North Rhodesian Legis-
nese from other people by de- Cherbourg's dockors are stand-igh Commissionss in lative Council, suld today in Chinn and that the U.S. should fining the correct relationship be ing by their decision not to strike Vietnam, said tonight that the consulting his colleagues that its friendship for
develop them by demonstrating tween parents and children, hus- when the first army shipments withdrawal of French forces from concrete action will be taken by
band and wife, brother and sister, arrive.
Indo-China would
That
teacher and student and was part of the reasoning
friend assured the dockers of the An-
President Harry Truman's
and friend. He told ancial support of fellow workers
press conference here
Other territories such as Kenya, states in the active defence of
Code ruled out....... in other ports if they refused to that France would honour her
Vietnam with Its White settlers, would Taiwan against a potential Com- to obligations to unload Atlantic Pact shipments.
-But the dockers today posted even though it entailed a great also object to having Seretse munist attack,
and his wife live among them.- bills on the city's walls saying acrifice in men and money.
Indo-China needed military ald Associated Press.
In recent months the Chinese Nationalist Air Force, under the more than economic assistance,
direction of the he said.
government on Taiwan and using American sup- plied planes, has been bombing such population centres as Shang- Canton and Taingtao. The Communists have seized on this a new propaganda weapon' against the United States even though the American
Government
the Chineso
The CGT is reported to have country into a blood unge the whites there. If Seretse makes people.
any attempt to settle with his blog i to involve the United
that they would not change their decision not to strike, Reuter.
Israeli envoy in London found dead
London, March 11. The Israeli Minister to Lon- don, Dr. Mordeca Eliash, was ⚫found dead by police in Hamp- stead, North West London, to- nlight.
defend
"Insecurity is the cause of the economic crisis in Vietnam, a crisis which can only be relieved by military action," he continued. "Vietminh (Dr. Ho Chi- minh's autonomist movement) did, not exist Indo-China would now be the richest country in Asia,"
Aid Issuo
white wife.
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CAUSE FOR DULL WOOL MARKET
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proposal could not be negotiated. The "Bulley's review adds! "Imports of apparel wests mounted to 83,208,000 pounds at three ports for eight weeks to February 24."
Boston, March 1, has protested the bombings when Federal Government plans tsever American lives and property liquidate Commodity Credit Cor-Were endangered. Associated porations holdings of wool exert Press. Asked whether the Uniteded a restricting influence in States would ald France or the dull wool market this week. Bao Dal regimp Indo-China, The "Commercial Bulletin M. Pignon replied, "Francs la
described responsible for conducting the bath to the wool and goods mar- potentially upsetting campaign against the Comkets the corporation's request to munists, and American aid for handlers for bids on all lots of France constitutes ald for Indo 10,000 pounds and less of 1947 China which France is defon and earlier wools. ding." China cost France 108,000,000,000 Military operations in Indo- North West London,
Treath was believed to be due to reports, that sum did not absorb francs Inst year. But contrary to thrombosis,
Dr. Ellash, formerly a Jerusalem the whole of Marshall Aid to
France.
07, was
Dr. Ellash, who was found lying on the floor of a ground floor sitting room at Netherhalt Gardens, Hampstead. His home was in Avenue Road,
lawyer, became Israet's
Minister to Britain nearly
months
jago,
. first
M. Pignon declined to reveal 12 French casualties last year or to confirm whether Indo-China ir
He belonged to no political bases were being prepared for use
party but was deeply religious by
Anglo American bomber
and maintained the Orthodox squadrons... Jewisli, traditions in his home,
M. Pignon considered that
He was a widower with two economic aid should be allocated children.
Moshe was hisyear-old son, where it was most needed those
personal post, mywith-Ho-|Chin-minh's forces. 32-year-old daughter, "American financial aid: "la" im- Rachel, who was trained as a portant for the stabiliation of teacher in New
recently the currency, but" "rollitur, aid Jained her father-
will.
stabilising
then, hat
it have a
effect on the new M. Pignon
Dr. Klash-had been staying said
He said he was confident that KATEHEREN Bule "hotel in the Bo Dal regime was capablo- Gardenis Howa of taking part in the family, of nations to question pul to clotting of the him after the conference, 24. In answer to he vein and Piron maid & that's her personally
enters the would welcome
of Dr. Spender las Australia
FAVODAYAR AMairs Minister. He believed that Reuter. the French Government it would
The "Bulletin" eald handlers sent a deputation to Washington to see if some modification of the
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"Offerings are light, it appears, large part on direct mifli busi- with dominion wools moving in ness," the "Bulletin" added-A- sociated Press.
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One of the Committee members --who rarely permit reporters to use their names when they dis- salomie energy-said it is ob- vious that the United States can
kept secret from them. now disclose to its citizens many facts which have hitherto...been
"We should at least let. Ameri- cana know as much as the Rus- sians know," he said."
He was challenged by another member who sald there is no way of showing how much of Dr Fuchs confession genuine. "How do we know thai Dr Fuchs The
did not load his confession with Communial system information he has been unable rules But this moral code: it to send to Russia? After all the turns the Chiesa society topsy man admittedly betrayed Ameri- turvy. A Chinêsä čif jose his ca and England and I see no rea wealth, but he cannot lose the son to trust him now."- United value of those social relations. Press.
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