COMMUNIST-LED RIOTERS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST U.S. IN SAIGON AREA -
'Hydrogen bomb fast" proposed
Bexhill, England, March 19.
A Church of England Pastor laid down last night the 'rules for his proposed "hydrogen bomb fast" for the two weeks between March 26 and Easter Sunday.
Saigon, Fronch Indo-China, March 19. Thousands of Communist-led rioters demonstrated against the United States today and word quelled only after a two-hour battle with police and troops during which the Amoricon flag was torn down and the market place destroy- by fire. Scores of persons were hurt, including 18 police-
men. Some were reported to be in serious condition. Three rioters were admitted to hos- pitals but the police believed that dozens of others were wounded and were "afraid" to go to hospitals.,
No Americans were hit, The Vietminh rebel Government police could not confirm reports agitators who turned it into fur- that several persons were killed. ther anti-American demonstra- Martial law was declared in the tions. riot hrens where a thick blanket
It will mean "no food for 12 hours during the day, except for light breakfast and light even- ing meal," he said. "Water ani fruit juice will be permitted but as the fast continues it will being wreekage where an estimated come more severe."
of smoke hung over the smoulder-
$250,000 damage was done. Or- der was restored by late Sunday after the police * tear against the rioters' stones 'and
The call went out Inst Satur- day from the Reverend R. S. S. Waterson, He
He urged Britons to stop work
brieks. and begin-a-solemn- fart next Sunday unless a ilonai committee" is formed demand negotiations on atomle weapons between the U. S. and
Russia.
fasting
"-
to
The French commander was knifed three times and his contil-
tion Was serious. Six demon- strators were arrested. Several students shot at the police. The
Police approved
dos.
The poilca approved the atu- dent march to nearby Cholon | to rebulld native houaca troyed by fire two weeks ago bul-en-route-harranguing Com munist sympathisers took over the parade and led it to the city hall to protest against the visit of the American ships.
se!
the
in, they tore down the American, French and Vietnam flags, Then. the mob started toward the river- front where the American ships were tied up. When blocked by the police they split into groups hendes by Communist terrorists. The terrorists led pillaging and burning expeditions troughout the market
The Vicar sald last night he police estimated that 3,000 They demanded 19 was more than encouraged by students and 1,000 workers par-Mayor and when told he was not the response to his appeat in Engelpated in the demonstration land, It has also drawn at- which turned into a fighting and tention in America, he said. shouting melee after the police
"It is not a hunger strike but tried to push them back. more in the nature of the tradi- The crowd was benten back to tional way we meet t crisis that is, by
special the market place where it irled and to stop the police with hastily prayer," the Reverend Waterson constructed barricade of vegetable
trucks. The idea of the fast
Native police called in caine to local French troops as fire spread him during
a sleepless night from cars and stalls to while he worried about the inter-buildings. The crowd
nearby national situation and the publi-persed with the help of the French was dis- elsed potential horrors of atomic troops and the fire was brought
under control
Following the
sald,
war.
his in
will
Own
this
outbreak.
The Reverend Waterson lead the fasting parish, the Church of St. Augus-spokesman of the Victon Gov- that force would ernment said be used to prevent future oul- bursts. French sources said the native police did not fre on the demonstrations in retallation,
tines with St. Andrew in Sussex coast town.
In London, meanwhile, the In- ternational Arbitration Association passed a resolution urging an in- fernational agreement "to reduce nationni armaments to police re- quirements"
as a step toward averting a world atomie race.-Associated Press.
Immediate
measures
promised
brins
Parls, March 18.
U.S. navy visit
ren.
Hlots broke out simultaneously
well planned. One
THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, MARCH 21; 1950,
A young Berliner prezanta -place-of-candy-to-Grock; world-famed Bwike clown, no he arrives at Berlin's Gatow airport from Hamburg-Associated Prose Photo,
More cold water on Acheson's proposals
The Russians throw more cold water today on the
Moscow, March 19..
U.S. Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson's peace proposals to and the cold war.
parently throughout the city and were ap- Soviet commentator Y. Viktorov, writing in "Prav- started the dock area near the Amerienn ships-300
students shouting anti-American slogans. The police broke up this group and the rioters hurled bricks and bottles at steel-helmeted patrol- men.
da," organ of the Communist Party, ridiculed Mr. Acheson's seven suggestions for Russia to follow in ending the tension between the USSR and the U.S.
Acheson's utterances,”
aimed at unleashing a new war is causing acute alarm among a wide strata of the American people."
(Mr. Acheson, who outlined his Other rioters brake into shops seven-point programme in a and torn down American Bags speech on Thursday at Berkeley, flown by the stores honouring sald at the time he did not be- Americans, Shopkeepers tried lieve Russia would accept the
"the Sovevery year," he added, frantically to save their goods Proposals,).
Government puts forward The anti-American slots were from flames by loading them
inta
Mr.
proposals aimed at supporting wrote touched off by the visit here of taxicabs and rickshaws. The fire-
Viktorov, "prove one and and consolidating peace and the U.S. destroyers, Richard B.
the were not able to control
same thing: That he has no men
capable of ensuring the security concrete Anderson and Stickell, bringing quickly the spreading flames in
proposals whatsoever of the nations and universat which Vice-Admiral Russell Berkey the market area. All police re-
are almed at supporting peace."-Associated Press, consolidating of 'peace." the con Commander of the U.S. Seventh serves were called out, armoured
Acheson's proposals (Mr. Flect on a courtesy visit to Das cars went into action and trucks
cks cluded Soviet
co-operation Dai, head of the French-spon-1oaded with troops rushed Into
writing peace treaties with Ger- lored. Vietnam Government. troubled
many, Austria and Japan, loss Soviet obstructionism United Nations, withdrawal
at the
Russian troops from satellite states of Eastern Europe, effec- tive control of atomic energy
and
areas.
A United Iress reporter watched the police with linked arms stand- ing from across the street while several hundred youths armed themselves with bricks and rocks and prepared to charge the police
The American airemft carrier, Boxer, unable to negotiate the winding river from South China Sca, lay offshore and her planes flew over Indo-China carller this The Vietnamese Prime Min-week in demonstration of the line. The group was broken up hurled tear gas grenades sending The student demaration was ing bystanders scurrying for also directed against the French shelter. The police said the de- and against the anti-Communist monstration was expected and their reserves were standing by but that spontaneousness of the
in- in
of
Goa Congress supports Nehru
ister, Nguyen Phan Long, today | American sympathy to the Com- when the police the excited mill- 1 son's references to "total diplo. Prime Minister, Pandit Nehru,
announced that his Government munist-threatened
and
Spring fair opens in
Pago:
Frankfurt HENNESSY
Frankfurt, March 10. Western Germany today opened a spring fair that point- edly avoided the political trappings of the Soviet zone's recent Leipzig fair.
Spectators found no Western counterpart to Leipsig's red stora and flags and printed quotations from Josef Stalin,
Only the horizontally striped black, red and gold Bag of the Federal Republic flew on top of the tallest exposition hall.
The U. S. High Commissioner, Mr. John J. McCloy, opening the fair
the
with Federal President Theodor Heuss, Iauded absence of political propaganda and "paraphenalia",
The Frankfurt fair, largest in Germany since the war, attracted 4,154 exhibitors, 1,139 from ab- road.
Italy had the largest foreign display with 303 exhibits follow- ed by Yugoslavla with France with 191,
Switzerland with 128, Belgium with 95 and and the Netherlands with 63.
Other exhibitors
Included Sweden and Denmark for the "first time since the war, and Bri- tain, Austria and Saar and the United Stated.
Post-war inventions
A number of exhibits described as post-war Inventions included former U. S. Army jeeps adapted as passenger cors and fight
trucks.
Other
exhibits ranged from collapsible skis to a veterinarian instrument to ald birth deliveries by large animals.
The building trades displayed
new model air conditioners and bulldozers for cable and ditch digging work.
A hydraulle barrel lifter and a noiseless midget crane for weights up to 300 pounds were shown by the marine industry,
The radio Industry offered
- office Inter
radio telephone equipment.
Stainless chromium tables were feature of the furniture exhibits.
4
Fair oficials estimated that 90,000 persons visited the grounds in the first three boura.—Asso- clated Press.
INDO-JAPANESE
RADIO LINK
New Delhi, March 19.
It was offelally stated today the that negotiations to reopen
wireless link between India and Japan have been completed, except for the question of rates, which are under consideration
by the Government of India and SCAP.
Bombay, March 19.
The link was suspended during The Goa National Congress the war. Other countries con- an end to international Commuting here today unanimous nected with India by wireless are nism.).
ly passed a resolution "pledging | Afghanistan, Australia, Burma,
to Viktorov described Mr. Ache- unqualified support the China, the United Kingdom and the United States.-United Press. macy" as " diplomacy relying on
in his declaration that Gon will sheer force
and
resorting to undoubtedly join India." methods of pressure and intim:- dation, the method of threats." Не asserted "total diplomacy" did not differ from "atomie di- plomacy."
had taken immediate energetic measures to ensure security and order in the Vietnam Government. capital after today's market-
Crudely printed pamphlets call- place, incidents in Saigon, theet for "Down with American Im-riots caught them unawares. Agence France Presse reported. perialism and French Colonisa United Press.
Vietnamese security services, he ston-and-asked-for-"Death-to sald, had been ordered to arrest Bao Dai." Some slogans declar- "extremist elements" who haded that the United States hás led and incited the student de- been "defeated in China monstrators. He also sold that will be defeated in French Indo- parents of students who
were China." They asked, "What is minora were responsible for the the fleet doing here?" students' acts.
Other anti-American demon- Vietnamese child was knock-strations occurred
Washington, March 19. ed down by a lorry used by the week. A bomb
carller thia Former screen stor Gloria was thrown in Swanson urged Senators to triple demonstrators.
downtown Saigon narrowly miss spending next year to Six people were arrested, in-
combat cluding a woman said to haveing American sailors, and a hand heart diseases. been caught for raiding, and a grenade exploded in front of the
"This Is to justification for student, said to have fred at the building where the American mis-spending all the money we do for police,
sion had been staying,
defence when heart trouble has French ofcinis sald the peace- | killed more people than the ful demonstration by some 3,000 most bloody war in history," she students was taken over today by said, Associated Press.
The Pravda writer said the Acheson speech showed that total diplomacy signifies and CALL TO COMBAT only the continuation but
HEART DISEASES
A
There were no fresh incidents this afternoon, the French Agen- cy report added.-Reuter.
AIR-CONDITIONING
the
not even intensification of the aggres- sive line in United States foreign policy.# Viktorov
Bald Mr. Ache- son had been unsuccessful in at tempting to present U, S. policy as a peace policy.
Viktorov said what Mr. Ache- son's speech really showed is that "the aggressive, adventurous course of U.S. foreign policy
Another resolution of the Con- gress declared that "Goans will not tolerate the presence of a foreign power in the homeland any longer. Goa is not part of Portugal in any shape or form. Goans are Indians and Portugal can never lay claim to their birthright."
The Congress Was addressed by the President of the Indian Cricket Board of Control, Mr. Anthony de Mello, who appealed to the Portuguese Premier, Dr. Salazar, to form a caretaker Gov- ernment composed of the best men of the Goan community for Goa prior to the transfer to India. -Reuter.
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