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Free world
now prepared.
Washington, October 23. The Secretary of State, Mr. Dean Acheson, In a United Nations Day radio message to the United States armed forces in Korea, sald today that in the event of any new Communist aggression the free world as a whole will be pre- pared.
He was sure that many of the American troops wonder-
od
I why they had to bear such large part of the burden in Korea. The burden foll on
the United States because It alone had the forces which
could be brought to bear quickly.
"I am glad to report to you that the United Nations to now working urgently to In- oure that if there Π next war the frce world as a whole will be prepared," sald Mr. Acheson United Press.
Mystery signals from stars
Holmes Chapel,
THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER -25, 1850.
HANOI STIRRING WITH
A NEW UNEASINESS
Hanoi, October 24. This city of quiet lakos`and ancient pagodas stirs
with a now uncasiness. For the French, before, it was somewhat exciting but never too worrisome to be on the fringe of hostile Vietminh country and in the shadow of Red China. Danger to isolated Hanoi was something to chat about in pavement cafes, and it gave an air of adventure to a slow- moving, provincial city.
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Russian view of Korea
Recent staggering reverses for 000 persons is a jumble of tightly the French army in the frontier cramped shops and houses, The region 1,000 miles to the North district is powdered -with dlust have quickly transformed the and bare of foliage. tone of conversation, Talk hos Buddhist and Confucian ten taken on a lower pitch-hushed ples and pagdas spot the city word of high casualiles and whis-ilke displaced segments of combined pered rumourn of plans for re- | Peking. treat. Sometimes talk is loud and
Moscow, October 22, Sergel Borzensko, the "Pravda" correspondent in Korea, wrote to- day that Pyongyang "continues to fight the hated enemles of the Korean people."
He wrote in the Communist of the many Party newspaper: "As a result battles in the forward areas, the days of stubborn
American-British- Japanese invaders, with the sup- Quict terror
part of Syngman Rhee bands, Security within Hanoi has im- succeeded in breaking through to proved in the past year although British mechanised in-
the city. quiet sort of terror sull grips the city.
મ little hystorical. And the sub- ject of evacuation comes up,
The French Commissioner has quietly started to register depen-a dants of French business people. The army has ordered wives and children of servicemen out of North Vietnam. A few others are parking and leaving. The rest are sitting it out.
in
If you are one of the 1,600 French civilians in town or one of the 20-odd Western for- eigners, you don't wander far from the brightly lighted French quarter at night. Ven- ilmits turing outside the city
fantry captured the bridge, crossed to the right bank of the river and started battles in the centre of the city.
"Following the British exccu- toners, units of Japanese Sam- ural crossed the river.
"Bitter fighting is taking place In the central streets and in the aren of Mount Moranbon. En- tire familles defend their streets and their houses, arms in hand," the correspondent said.
"Thousands of familles left their native town where they come were born, had lived and worked.
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They hang on in a colonial city that appears to be a small French suburb transplanted to the Orient.
after dark would be sulclde. Now that oppressive
It is safer here than in Saigon Summer
where Vietminh nationalists toss monsoons are over, there is a glan:ttle suspicion of coolness, and
a couple of grenades every night, even the weather is a Uttie like people reassuro themselves. They point out that incidents in Hanoi autumn in France.
Brick pavements It has "ears"
Hanoi'r are rare. Residents have French quarter are us wide ns to accept their condned life and Day and night the American streets in other cities. Expansive, the unsurchess that comes from planes strafed and bombed the shaded boulevards are lined with knowing the city is honey-combed living stream of Korean civilians.
a Vietminh underground Factories, massive concrete homes and bust that can count thousands of sym- ministries, and State Institutions hospitals, embassies, ness buildings. They are ornate but shabby. Their yellow paint
pathisers.
moved North. It is has dissolved and become streak-
Fearing the arrival of fresh force that keeps peace inside reinforcements of the People's ed with tropical mould.
Hanoi. The French have a Burete Army the Americans flung an air Vietnamese coolle women hun of plain-clothes men and a large landing party North of the city, ALSO LATEST UNIVERSAL-INTERNATIONAL NEWSREEL shed over repairing the took out of place in their black corps of military police, The which cut the last road. Pyjamas and broad, cone-shaped ment has its own separate police the capital found themselves en- French-urned Vielnam Govern-
The courageous defenders of
Cheshire, October 22. Mysterious "signals" given off by the stars are being studied from Britain's radio-telescope here.
The telescope has more than the normal sights. too, Scientists listen in to the strange waves which radiate across the sky-the "talk" of the stars,
Professor Beroord-Lovell, who is in charge of the telescope, suit: about our "There is no secret work. We are studying the radio which originate depths of space and reneh the earth after travelling on their journey with the speed of light for 100,000 years.
"The telescope collects these from small region of space, an addition to the steadily accumulating store of knowledge
waves
waves
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huts.
A half-dozen
streets
with
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an overwhelming
police
and
to
supplies. Warfare had octtled down to a tiring statomato with Vietminh guerillas attacking only apasmodically, using hit- and-run thruste.
circled but they continue Hotols crowded
Nobody can tell how many uni-battle steadfastly," he added. several smaller ones are crowded, are. The French and Vietnamese
The old Metropole Hotel and formed and secret police
there Reuter
French mostly with which one day may tell us exact people. Five theatres do a big their numbers, it is said. Tough military don't even inform each other of ly where these signals' come business with French and Ameri-police methods-spying, mass ar- f:om."
Scientists first
cufes rests, long-delayed hearings learned about can Alms. the "language of the stars" during ments have become social cen- the French and local Vietnam with chairs spread on to the pave- sometimes torture-have enabled German rocket attacks on Britain
ing French businessmen, Foreign hand but have produced a terror tres, clustered with bridge-play- Government to keep an Upper
seldom any Vietnamese. Legionnaires, 11 Jew women, of their own. Both Vietnamese and French are afraid to talk A single Chinese night club is freely. Many have a phobia of the city's only hotspot. Its stand being watched and followed. by drink, cognac, costs 35 plas-
in the war, They picked out the sounds while listening to the radar echoes given off by the rockets. Reuter.
FORMER MP CLEARED OF
London, October 23. Sir John Mayhew, 60, was com- pletely cleared by a divorce court judge on Monday of accusations that he committed adultery with his own son's wife.
Lifeline to sea
from
But with backdoor aid from the real army along the China border Chinese, the Vietminh hatched a and have rolled the French back from a string of frontier outposts. No secret
Chinese aid, Ho
With more Feople in Hanol are accustom- tres a shot, but moneyed people ed to looking over their shoulders Chi-minh might turn his army Jam the place-foreign consular uncasily. Now, though, they also into a mobile force, repair the officials, soldiers and black look North toward a vast moun-roads in his territory and strike ADULTERY CHARGE marketers, A Filipino band plays tain region. They have been jar- toward Hanoi from any one of
"American style" and taxi girls red into new awareness
several directions. As about four months of dry weather are ahead, are Hong Kong Imports. The that direction, club's have been triple the initial in-
profits In
the time is right for an offensive three months
It is no secret that France's From Hanol, on a clear day, military force in North Vietnam- vestment, people will tell you,
75,000 regulars, Legion- Hanoi's shops miss the big-you see the blue rim of moun- some Mr. Justice Charlton Hodgson lean toward luxury goods. French
city glitter of Saigon's but still tains that rise from the rice lands naires, Africans and local parti- North of the city. The craigs sans--are mostly pinned down in made it clear he was personally
for Hoforts to hold the delta South of convinced that Sir John, who wines and perfumes are stacked form a natural fortress
Chi-minh's: main forces. served 14 years in the House of high. Elegant leather goods, tex Communist leader's.
The Hanol, and French equipment is Commons, was blameless in what tiles and Jewellery and
territory old and often insufficient for the fine
reaches to within 25 miles of job required of it cameras can be had at astronomi-Hanol on the North and spreads the Judge called "horrible" and
The unanswered questions are "Althy" accusations.
cal prices. No American or Bri
out behind the city in the shape those about Ho Chi-minh's Sir John's 41-year-old son, tish goods are on sale. John Mayhew, had filed suit for
Boulevards extend
of a fan all the way to the China shadowy forces, hidden behind
The area's depth is the mountain walls border. divorce against his wife, Peggy, centre of the city toward the roughly 100 miles. It sweeps in stronghold. Is the strength of his of his vast
37, naming his father as cor "citadel", a suburban district of respondent. His wife did not army contest the divorce, but instead gave evidence for her husband, "confessing" adultery with Sir John.United Press.
from the
barracks, hospitals and Government buildings.
Across a small lake from the
French quarter, the Vietnamese and Chinese section of about 200,-
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regular army 50,000 or 300,000? South and East of Hanoi, the How much help has he received French have fortresses spotted from China. Could he rally great over the rich Red river delta and support from the people of North maintain part-time control of the Vietnam
effort in supreme populous rice country. With a against
the French? Can he tight chain of forts, they keep seriously attempt driving the open a 70-miles lifeline, a railway French from Hanol, or, perhaps. track and parallel road, from all of North Vietnam? Would Hanol to its seaport, Haiphong. he dare try?
The French used to feel that they had the Vietminh effective
French on the spot, worried and apprehensive, wait for the
ly hammed In and cut off from answers -Associated Press,
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