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WHAT WON
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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1953.
Nationalist Admiral In America
Vice-Admiral Ma Chi-chuang, bead of the Chinese Nationalist Navy, shown on arrival in New York, The Admiral is on a fortnight's tour of U.8. Navy installations, and is
here grocied by a well-water-Express Photo.
Holland
Still Engaged In
Battle With The Sea
The Hague, Mar. 11.
Holland, reeling after her worst flood disaster for 400 years, is buckling to the gigantic task of rebuilding shattered sea defences and restoring inundated land to cultivation.
R.N. Airmen Honoured
London, Mar, 11, British naval airmen who tackled and shot down a Husslan MIG Jet Alzhter over Korea last year today received the award for the best British aviation perfor- mance of the year.
They destroyed the fast Communist fighter in their comparatively slow pro- pellor-driven fighters whea operating from the Royal Nayy aircraft carriet Ocean,
The wo squadrons honoured, 862 and 825, flow 8,000 sorties in Korran service.-Reutér,
FAROUK
REFUSES
TO TALK
Narriman.
11.
Alrendy, many of the hundredsly seeps underground of dyke breaches have been threatens soil fertility. Alled and large siretches of devasted countryside reclaimed. Bul officials agree that the task has hardly begun.
With every tide, surging sca water still pours unhindered through broad gaps, bringing tons of sand and salt to polson rich agricultural soil. Every day, the scouring currents widen the brenches and carve deep channels, making the work t closure more difficult and more expensive.
Three weeks after the disas- trous storm of January 31 to February 1, the Government set up on expert Commission to plan and supervise the entire operation.
ted a tall, scholarly-look-
by a Ing engineer, Mr A, G. Maris, Director-General of Sinte Waterways, the Commission has to plan on two levels, short term and long term.
The short-term need is to restore the dykes as soon as possible to their original state, The long-term plans are aimed of making sure, as far as is
humanly and economically
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Vietminh
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Offensive Expected
Saigon, Mar. "11. General -Salan, Com- mander-in-Chief of the
in French forces
Indo China, said today that all sigris point to a very violent Vietminh offensive in Laos and the Thai country soon. Gen. Salan said in an inter- view that Vietminh General Vo Nguyen Glop has given up the idea of carrying out frontal attack on the Torkin 'delta.
that
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launch an attack ogninst L609 and Thai Στι Northern Indo-Chino, they will encounter a lot of trouble be cause they will have to uver- exiond their lines of com-
munications.
General Salon said the Viet- minh troops would not be able to live off the land in this area.
The French Commander re- calloti that the Vietminh last December had to call off their offensive in the same arca be- cause they could not supply their and attacking forces with rice Ammunition.
NEW BATTALIONS Gen. Salan predicted an all- out offensive against the Viet- minh by 1955 if the 64 Viet- namese battalions are raised to supplement French force.
Union
He recalled that the decision to raise the 54 Vietnamese battalions to help fight the Vietminh was made
recently
at a meeting of high military authorities at Dalat.
The General added that every- thing will depend, however, on the creation of the Vietnamese
The Transport and Waterways Minister, Mr J. Algern,, sald re-army. cently that the alternative to
If the Vietnamese anny i shortening the coastline in this raised, he said, Cochin-China way was the no less mammoth would be entirely liberated from task of raising the height of the Vietminh forces this year. 1000 kilometres (800 miles) of Then the largest part of the dykes in the affected area by at Vietnam army could be trans- feast three feet,
ferred to Tonkin next year to fight in the Tonkin Zelta- Associated Press.
This latter alternative would protect the threatened area from new flood diensters, but the dykes would have to be kept in constant repair and they would not solve the satt problem,
Another disadvantage is that many of the dykes which would have to be raised have houses bullt upon them.
NON-STOP TASK
These are the long-term alter- natives which Holland's new expert Commission is studying.
TOKYO TO
ACCEPT RED TERMS
Tokyo, Mar. 11. Meanwhile, the non-stop taskunomcially decided to accept the The Japanese Government has of plugging the breaches goes on. stift terms laid down by Red Sondbags, clay, stones, tunber.
even emall ships and barges, China for the return of some are being used in this battle 30,000 Japanese stranded there against the water.
since World War II, Kyodo News Agency said.
possible, that such a disaster The famous Delft hydrological will never again befall this low-laboratory is making a model of lying country.
IMAGINATIVE
the affected area to test the effects of tides and currents on dyke breaches.
Kyodo said the Government has decided to let the repatria Lion proceed despite severn! provisions which the Govern- ment does not like in the ngree-
Rome, Mar
Though vast tracts of the Work on the great Zuider Zeement negotiated between a 13- man Japanese group and Red Ex-king Farouk today de Netherlands le below sea level, reclamation-project-has-been China.
suspended to free clined to talk with newsmen only the vulnerable South-West, temporarily
The Japanese group, composed following reports about his the Rhine-Scheldt delta area dredgere, bergers, floating cranes the ather essential
of representatives of the Japan separating Irom bis wife comprising the islands, coastline and all
Red Cross and two Leftist and river banks of Zeeland, paraphernalia of dyke-building
organisations, returned to Tokyo South Holland and North
on Tuesday night Some of the gaps are enormous.
fern Hong- kong. Schouwen-Duiveland island, is
The first Japanese repatriation aren 250 metres (just over 270 yards) ship is due to arrive at Shanghai de-long and roughly 30 metres (Just before March 20 and bring home fences stood firm is all but over 32-yards) deep.
rome 5,000 Japanese. few minor instances.
"We shall be very glad if we One great imaginative plan,į close it before next winter", was drawn
up many years ago but the comment of a Transport and Italian policemen
their pigeon - -holed by
Ministry successive Waterways usual posts around the villa's governments has now
come Reuter. walls refused to permit news- very much to the fore. It is to
shorten men to enter.
the much indenfod coastline of this delia area by Asked by telephone. whom damming off the broad estuary Damello had called to see, mouths. Farouk's secretary replied. "He has come out to pay me a visit."
But speculation that all was Drabant, gives cause for coll-One alone, at Schelphock, on not well within the Villa Dus me! increased 1ste todny
when Carlo Damello, a Rome today. lawyer who has handled legal affairs for Farouk in the past, went inside for a long con-
ference.
A spokesman of Farouk had carlier sald: "There is no basis to reports of a divorce or separa- tion."
Asked to comment on a cable reported to have been sent to Chiro by Madame Sadek, he said, "It is not up to her
to
make any announcements. I
there is anything to announce, Prince Farouk or Princess Narri- man will make it. But there is nothing to announce."
19 the devastated
Elsewhere the sea
Only the
New Waterway channel leading to Rotterdam, and Antwerp's gateway of the Scheidt, would be left open.
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Other ships will follow until the 30,000 are brought hone.
The Government is paying officialmost of the bills,
Jews Protest Exclusion
The cost would be enormous. One lending engineer saya:
New York, Mar. 11. You can Bny
thousand The American Jewish Coa- million guilders (roughly gross as protested against, the exclusion from the United States £100,000,000 sterling) for a start." This expert, calculated of Mr Sydney Silverman. British that two years would be needed Labour member of Parliament. for preliminary study, and' per- because “we consider him to be haps twelve more for the actual a man deeply dedicated to the work.
Democratic system."
THE ALTERNATIVE
Mr Silverman was refused a visa under the McCarran Im- But the effect would be to migration Act to visit America render redundant hundreds of in connection with appeals for One reporter was allowed to kilometres of dykes, all expen- clemency for Julius and Ethel enter the villa's gates late this sive in upkeep and liable to Rosenberg. convicted atom spice afternoon and sent in his card burst when pounded by exter-awaiting execution. to Farouk. The ex-monarch de- tional storms and spring titles. clined to receive him, sending Not Jess Important," It would
The Jewish organisation såld out word that he had nothing save these low-lying areas from today Its protest was not con- to add to the many statements the insidious and expensive in- | nected with the Rosenberg dp- already made-United Press. cursions of salt which continual- ' peals.—Neuter.
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Nevertheless, Red China re- fused to allow Government re- presentatives aboard the ships and even refused to give passen- ger lists to the Government.- Associated Press.
Secret Radar For Europe
Atlantic Alles
Ottawa, Mar. 11. Canada has agreed to send about 300 new mobile radar units still on the secret list to her, North under mutual aid.
Some of these units, valued st about £32,000 cach, have already
and gono
the mainder will bo sent before
In addition, Canadia has other European Allica with six agreed to provide Britain and
new minesivéepers.
next January,
TO-
Control over the distribution will be in
of this equipment
the hands of NATO quarters,Reuter.
head-
TITO PASSES
GIBRALTAR
Gibraltar, Mar. 11. The Yugoslav, frigulo Caleb, carrying Marshal Tito to Britain for a five-day omelat visit, went through Gibraltar tonight. Strong easterly winds had delayed her during the day.
As she approached Gibraltar, the British destroyers Chiefinin and
which
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