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LEE Liberly
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THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1050.
UNEASINESS IN
IN SAIGON AS FRENCHMEN WATCH GROWING
Uneasiness is increasing hore
RED THREAT
Saigon, August 28. Frenchmon watch the developing Communist throat on Indo-China's. frontier with China and the 'city's cautious street cafe customers over morning aperitifs local headlines on Korea's war
The big question they are asking is "Can a North Korean pattern attack or an Oriental 'hepped up' campaign send already guerilla-torn Indo- China up in flames ?"
Most say reluctantly it is only a matter of time.
What they want to know is "When?”.
text
of a captured "probable" copy of
their
Arms smuggling
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eagerly scan
tually to 25 to help deal realls- tically with the situation,
.
her
the
Divers search hospital ship wreck
San Francisco, August 27. U.S. Navy divers searched
around the submerged hulk of tite rammed hospital ship Benevolence today, but report- ed finding no additional vic- tims or tappings to Indicate signs of c aboard the vessel.
At 7.30 p.m. Pacific Coast time the Navy said that the list of known survivors stood at 47 and the death toll at 18, including a navy nurse.
The Navy authorities said that To help France and her asso-it was a "near miracle'! that so clated states in their "arms race" few persons died when the hos- against China and the Vietminh. cital ship was rammed in a pea❤ the United States is reported to soup fog by the freighter Mary milos c the have promised all France's initial Luckenbach four military old requests will be sup- Golden Gate. The Benevolencą plied by Novembor.
rank within 30 minutes. The French authorities, nursing a startling military alliance re-
But
ob. many Independent
As nightfall drow near the Indo-China's three new French ported to have been signed
servers havo-sald that there is no Coast Guard halted a search for Union associated states of Viet June 10.
certainty a Vietminh attack will pussible additional victims but to- and Loos nam, Cambodia
The alliance is reported
come about then. One Ameri- Fannounced that small boats and wards a non-Communist brand of pledge Communist China to sup- Independence, have given at least ply five divisions (nbut $0.009 can said recently: "If the Comaircraft will resume operations as munist sirategy is as good as soon as visibility permits Sunday force a part answer to the time ques-men) with supporting air
think it is the Vietminh guerillas morning-United Press. tion.
and navy to help the 100,000
will just go on arming and watch of They have capped a long series guerillas Russian-recognised
Valled States Бар French of unometal statements on Com-Vietminh if the
Union the
REFUGEES FROM strongholds strength in military aldi program. munist China's inliitary co-oper-forces attack ntion with the "enemy within" near the frontier or the Vietminh mes both in the East and
VIETMINH West." (Vietminh insurrectionary Gov-begin a counter-attack.
Others have pointed to I
Paris; August 26, erament) by releasing the
"softer" South-East Asion under-
More than 43,000 Vietnamese belly on Durma's China frontier: refugees crossed the lines over to
Some military experts think the Vietnam State last cald Earlier --reports
that
month, the Vietminh guerillas would not China was co-operating on A
this bringing the total population un-
der the "general plan" of smuggling be strong enough at least arms to Vietminh and to be year for any large-scale offensive 7,000,000 an official
the Vietnam Government to Vietnamese brigade Dr training and equipping 20,000 on
Government communique_an- quartiles
Infantry "trock, strength.
nounced today,
to an according troop" tactics and in the use
Agence France Sufficient forces -
Press report. of American and Russian art.
The total population under the lery. Some disguised Chinese
They think that, though the Government totalled only 1,500,- soldiers had already joined the Franch strength,le spreading [000 last year, the communique
out on the delta In guerillas in tndo-China.
one-kito- said. The Increase in population From these report: many metre apart fortress-like posl was largely due to the latest Frenchmen in official places have
tions to maintain daytime come "pacification operations" in the deduced a Moscow or Peking munications and check querilla Red River delta, according to the order for a Vietminh general
activity In their "pacified offensive might be expected an zones," they could quickly Northern Indo-China's French
muster aufficient forces to re- Unlon-held Tonkin delta "rice-
pulso any tocailsed Vietminh bowl" about November OF Des
attacks. cember, when the "dry" season sets in and the rice cropa are rendy for harvestin
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The guerillas, contained by the 150,000 French Union forces In the barren Northern mountains, are suffering a food shortage and serious molarla casualisos, these
divisional
Qa
of
for
It has been characteristic the Vietminh operations, that they lack lendership
quall- ties to defeat numerically smaller French units.
|communique.—Reuter,
To avert a mauling, they c-At plain, the Vietminh guerillas are now adopting "hit and run" tac- ties, leaving further resistance Most of the guerillas are from when they quickly quit a cap- the delta country and are feeling tured French position to Iocol the pangs of nostalgia. It is onlyfth columnists,
Botirces. Say,
precisely the difficulty of the French Union forces if they be- gin an offensive,
a matter of time before Vietminh And this, they believe, will be must attack, if only for prestige or propaganda.reasons.
The French-reported ominous calm along the delta's "frogt- line" ricc-fields, swamps and Jungle-covered foothills is also electrified by unconfirmed reports that the Freach themselves will try to bite off new pieces of guerilla-held territory when the current "wet" season спас in little more than two months.
Other
U.S. opinion
unconfirmed reports
Gelling to grips with the guerillas has been the main prob- lem facing both French and Bri- tish tacticians in Indo-China and Malaya.--Reuter.
BEVIN GOING TO THE U.S.
London, August 27, The Foreign Secretary, say that the United Statos, now Ernest Bevin, for the first beginning supply steady since his lness and return stream of arms, planes
and duly seven weeks ago, will go to tanks across the Pacific to the the United States for Important French forces, would favour a talks before he leads the British French offensive and
Mr.
Hime
to
active dele the United Nations
Commando patrola Into the Vietminh-held mountains.
10.
opening on September
In Salgon recently former 1st He will take part in British, Marine Division Commander. French and American talks bo- General Graves B. Erskine, de- puty leader of a visiting Ameri-ginning on September 13 and in the Atlantic Pact Council meeting can military mission, told re on September 15. porters: "There is only one way
Owing
of to pressure
work,
to beat Communism. That is to Mr. Bevin will have to return to get in and beat the hell out of England on September 28. The these guerillas,"
Some of America's military gation to the United Nations As- leadership of the British dele- Vietnam | 3 State Government battalions now.
sembly will then be taken over being expanded to 12 and even-by Mr. Kenneth Younger, Minis
ter of State-Reuter.
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