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Indo-China
T does not seem that any
conclusion were reached at the recent Washington conference on the subject of Indo-Chinn, but it is interesting to observe that the new plani for finishing the war pro- pounded by General Navarre has been hailed in unofficial quarters in America as the solution to the problem. General Navarre's con- ception has
be yot, to espoused by the French Government, but one essential element in it would be the realisation of the Independence outlined in the Note to the Associated States last month, which ference of the remaining powers still reserved by France to the three Govern- ments. Talks aru shortly to
would mean the Aronu-
be held on this subject. General Navarre expects that independence will bring full engagement of the States in the war and of the Vietminh in so far as its supporters are merely
take away the raison d'etro
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MONDAY, AUGUST 3, 1953.
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NEW RIOTS IN E. GERMANY
GOVT BUILDINGS
SET ON FIRE
Anti-Reds Clash With Police
Berlin, Aug. 2.
East Germans revolted again against their Communist government tonight after the Com- munists had clamped down a road and rail block- ade of Berlin for 18,000,000 Soviet Zone residents seeking gift food parcels.
In towns through East Germany, furious anti- Communists set fire to government buildings, fought with police and called strikes in a new effort to overthrow the Soviet-backed government.
The revolt began in Chemnitz, Merseburg and Potsdam and spread to other cities and
towns like wildfire, according to reports given by East Germans who managed to run the Communist blockade and get
to Berlin.
Nationalists. But to make this possible 1 greater effort by the French would be needed in Indo-China meanwhile, and there is no prospect of a quick can- clusion.
Vietmiali The
Before retuming to West Ger- many, Dn Conant declared: can think of no more flagrant example of the callous disregard by the Communists of the wel- fare of the people of their zone. than their deliberate effort to prevent hungry people from get-
In Potsdam, the East Germans said, police fired on thousands of East Germans who attacked police blocking the railway station and their way to West Berlin.
In Chemnitz, massen of East Germans overpowered police and det afire government buildings forces are now stronger and government-run food stores, than ever. There is no the East Germans said. Workers question of Inter-at the vast Leuna chemical plant nationalising the war or in Merseburg went on strike to removing ita conduct from enforce demands for the resignaling food they need, which har
the government and French hands, but obviously tion of
workers at other plants also been made available to them in plan would require increased military aid from planned strikes, the reports said. West Berlin Red Cross officials America. This would
conarmed reports of clashes certainly be forthcoming.
between police
East but the objections to the Germans
Potsdam. The plan in France are natural officials said the police opened and cogent.
Are continuously on Germans attacking the railway station. The number of casualties was not known.
the
IF France is now according to the States all and more than the Vietminh asked for in the first place, what is
mean
not scom
and
at
who had attempted
to carry through their hunger march
to Berlin despite the Communist blockade.
way to Berlin
West Berlin."-Routen
Majlis Speaker
Resigns
Belgian National Day Feted
Polygamous Village Becomes Ghost
Town
Short Creek, Arizona, Aug. 2.
The polygamous village of Short Creek whose male population was whisked off to prison 400
Marching lines of troops in the Place des Pakala, Brussels, where King Baudouin of the Belgians took the salute, during the National Bel glan Fete held last month,
London Express.
Kikuyus
miles away a week ago was also emptied of its Drive Off
women and children over the weekend.
.
Today the remote village - which a week ago was
a community of 37 men, 86 women, and 263 children
ta a ghost towns The only remaining inhabitants are eight teenage boys permitted to stay behind to milk the village cows.
Yesterday the last 157 children and 30 mothers were londed into buses by state officials to begin a 500 mile journey to the state capital of Phoenix.
be
of
Terrorists
Nairobi, Aug. 3.
A Kikuyu chief and 21 Kikuyu guards drove off a terrorist gang which at- tacked their Kikuyu guard camp on the southern slopes of Mt Kenya before dawn
comp.
on
Only some 50 miles from Ber- tin, police fought and routed
In the past few weeks squads the war about? The answer, several hundred workers from
of police moved into the area, to the Leuna chemical works which does
The purpose of their movements was a carefully disguised secret, hold much water in French | Merseburg
But when they struck at dawn opinjon, is that this is one
most of the villagers were Teheran, Aug. 2, of the main battlefronts in
The decision to move every-waiting for them, assembled in yesterday. Dr Moazami, a supporter
Creek was the schoolyard,
At least eight raiders were out of 'Short onc the world struggle against
"We're Ured East Berlin, centre of the June of Dr Mohammed Mos-takers after Sheriff Frank Porter Communism. But if it is
running" killed. But Erst
About forty terrorists, armed permissible to negotiate 17 revolt, was quiet,
Prime sald he overheard some of the sald one of the leaders of the sadegh, Persian the
take
cult their polygamy
with Bren plotting to
guns, rifica today resigned men with the enemy in Koren, Berliners may still cross
o camp This was the third police ne- pistols, frod families away from the village office the
of why not in Indo-China? Mr open East-West border to get Minister,
food
packages. Today's ban on both
when they were released on bail..tion against the Colony. Two perimeter but were beaten back Dulles does not look at it railway travel applied only to Speaker and his member- this way, and it appears residents of East Germany. From ship of the Majlis (Parlia-
Judge Lorna Lockwood who others, in 1835 anii 1944, re- by rifle fire
Chief Stephen, who led the that the idea of a negotiated all corners of the Soviet Zone
onement).
had been in this "Fundament-sulted in the arrests of several alist religious community since men and light sentences being defence himself, stopped many of the attackere breaching the anll-Communist peace with the Vietminh is came reports of
first descended fraposed on them.
The cost to the State of barbed wire perimeter by burl-, most unwelcome in Washing demonstrations, attacks on gov- The resignation of Dr Moazami the authorities
and clashes leaves only Opposition Deputies on it in force a week 080 Arizona
of feeding the Short ing hand grenades at them as ton. If the war were inter- crnment buildings
women and Creek women and children is they tried to climb into the the assembled the nationalised,
would with police after workers found retaining their seats in this
children
the schoolhouse estimated to in for food Majlis.
US$30,000 that American
United Press,
yesterday and told them that (£10,714) a month. →→ China As they withdrow, members of generala would participate
that angry reports
Vans packed with Government all the children were to be taken Mall Special
the gang were seen dragging and supporters in its conduct, and foreign crowds of 50,000 shouted
rounded comrades with them drovo through to Phoenix.
Into the forest. contingents might be added demonstrated on the station at Teheran this evening appealing
The mothers could remain to the French Unton forces, Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, to the people through loud-
them. But their to vote for the dis behind she told The French are probably Oranienburg in the north, and speakers
solution of the Majlis in Monthey could accompany
wished. Not right in thinking that this Staaken in the west.
chlidren if they Only Cory
few hundred East day's referendum. would bring China in on
one mother remained behind. the other side, M. Bidault Germans managed to cross the
to tell the story.
"Tomorrow the people will
OWN WAY OF LIFE digu has pressed for considera-
They said many East Germans give the order for the tion of Indo-China at the boarded trains in for off East colution of the Majlis," the loud- The villagers who lived their own way of life in their remote political conference follow- German cities last night before speakers blared.
This, statement was taken by Isolated village in the northern ing a Korean truce beenusea Railway Ministry announce-
desert state were: the edge of this he fears that China may meat became known banning many to switch her forces. There does not seem to be any immediate danger of this, M. Bidault is also understood to have told Mr Dulles how strong the feeling is in France for negoflation of
some Bort,
од
of
mean
OPPOSITION
that
Separate Talks Denied
aimed at
None of the Kikuyu guards was injured. They captured a Bren gun magazine, knives, clothing, binoculars, and a quan- tity of ameminition,
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CAUSES POLITICAL STIR
London, Aug. 3.
Sir Winston Churchill caused a political stir last night by paying a visit to Queen Elizabeth at Royal Lodge, Windsor.
The Prime Minister went by car to Windsor from Chequers, his Buckinghamshire official re sidence about 25 miles distant and had a 45 minutes' audience with the Sovereign.
The audience announced in the official Court cir cular immediately provoked surpriss and speculation as to whether it portended any new political develop
mont.
Sir Winston, who on doctors' orders has been resting for over a month, has not seen the Queen since visiting her al Buckingham Palace on Juno: 22. In the interval there has been a welter of newspaper speculation on the Prime Minister's future-and the possibility of his retirement.
According to authoritative quarters his visit to the Queen Inst night had no political significance.
Normally, the Prime Minister and Queen Elizabeth met week- ly. That has been impossible recently and as the Queen leaves for Scotland tomorrow, for a long holiday it was desirable that they should have a talk before her departure.
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The Sovereign often spends up to six weeks in Balmoral Scotland
the
summer- autumn holiday. If Sir Winston had not met the Queen yester- day or foday there might there- fore" have been the abnormal pop
58,
O'Brien Arrives In Cyprus
Nicosia, Aug. 3. Michael 'Patrick O'Brien, who apent eleven months shuttling between Bongkong and Macao in ferryboat unable to land at either end because he was stateless and without papers, was aboard a plane- fond of 49 refugees: from China who arrived here br air yesterday on the first stare of
of a voyage to Brazil.
Haggard and unabaven. O'Brien, whose birthplace was given as Tacom8, « Washington, refused to give any details about himself." Reuter
of nearly three months DEATH OF
between their personal talks,
The Prime Minister was ac companied to Windsor by Mr Colville, his principal John secretary. They were received at 6 o'clock. After the audience to Chequers in they returned
dianer with Mc
timo
for
Anthony Eden, the "Foreign Secretary,
Eden, Mrs
Lord Sallsbury the acting Foreign
who until tomorrow.
“PIRATE”
Los Angeles, Aug. 2.
Secretary and Lady Salisbury Count Charles Zanardi- are there as his guests Landi, who has died here aged 77, claimed to be the ---Mr-Eden-is-now-making last person convicted on a satisfactory recovery after three piracy charge in England.
• for gall-bladder operations trouble-the last at Boston, Mas- sachusetts.
He will leave Britain shortly for a continental holiday and is not expected back at work before September
The Count, a Venetian, who was the father of the lato netress and novelist, Elissa Landi, was a wealthy retired operator of a British ship alvaging firm."
war
Since the second world The Prime Minister's audience he had made his home here. Ho nover tired of recounting the of the Queen coincided with new speculation sungosting his retire-piracy episode which gave him ment but quarters close to Sir his nickname "PI". Winstons say firmly it had nothing
After the first World War he to do with this or with Govern-said, when the firm was engaged ment reconstruction.
members
in salvaging British and French Troops of the 5th Battalion, King's African Rifles and a
The political correspondent of ships sunk by the Germans. ho the detachment of police ses off in
Conservative Sunday became involved in a disputo Chronicle pursuit of the gang.
Bald
of with another salvage company Vienna, Aug. 2.
Another gang
began their over rights to the ship Falerninn. about 30 strong, Parliament who The Austrian Interior Minis-
Count Land' finally seized the Helmer, today re- raided a European farm on the holiday this weekend are con- all sales of tickets to Berlin, Dequiescence of the Shah, whose "Fundamentalists" who clung to ter, Oscar
after again on October 20 Eden wil Vessel in the Mediterranean sea East German police on the prerogative it has been hitherto the now discarded polygamous jected a suggestion that Austria odge of the forest in the North vinced that when they meet
and ran up his own dug. Ho dissolve Parlament, is. no practices of the Mormons, mem had held separate talks with the Kinangop area shortly
They placed armed have succeeded Sir Winston as
was charged with piracy, tried stations were armed with rifles to and pistols,
|longer necessary,
bera of the "Church of the Late Soviet Union on an Austrian midnight,
guards round the farmhouse and Prime Minister,
and convicted. Only a few hundred arrived
Polling in
The court ordered him to the referendum ter Day Saints a religious sect. State treaty.
drove of eleven head of cattle. and
He said, the changes wero ex- the distribution
OVET today at 13 food
Security forces Addressing a Socialist meet- begins at 8 am, on Monday and with followers in Utah hundreds where centres
neighbouring Arizona,
ing at Krems (Lower Austria), week-end destroyed a number pected to take place in early return the ship and pay all ex- thousands of East Germans had will continue until about noon.
State authorities said all the Herr Helmer mid the Austrian of hideouts and food stores in October so that Mr Eden might penses of the trial. Later an present his new Government to out of court settlement was queued every morning in the
adult population of the village, memorandum to Husada of June forest areas-Reuter.
tho Conservative Party con- mado with the rival firm over of five 30 had only boon. past six days.
ference at Margate on October rights to the disputed vessel.-.- former with the exception T seems rather strange to
Over a
million food parcels Ayatullah Kashani,
again Austria's
7-Reuter,
Reuter. have been distributed so far, Indo-China
Speaker of the Majils, sup people, will be charged. Pre- "underlining negotiate
on wishes for a State treaty," by The East German Railway ported another religious liminary hearings begin with the Chinese, as would
Herr Helmer said Austria had the against happen at a political con- Ministry announced last night leader. Bebahani, today restated August 31.
that no tickets to Berlin would his opposition to the holding of ference, instead of with the
be sold in East Germany be the referendum by the Prime men include bigamy, open and no objections to a withdrawal Vietminh. The only mon who
"the United States and Minister.
notorious cohabitation, statutory of the Weston-sponsored "ab- breviated treaty" he demandert do to the Intended can end the war are Ho Chi
German warmongers"
He declared the referendum rape, contributing in Minh and his colleagues. to “organise
directed
Provocations
against the followers to boycott it.
unconstitutional and urged his linquency of a minor, conspiracy by the. Soviet Union.
to commit adultery and income However, if this draft were This view is now widely Berlin
withdrawn Austria evasion.
would of the workers and One person was killed and tax eva hold in France, and M. power
The Ave who will not be be interested to get a treaty to farmem in the German Demo more than 60 injured last night. Bidault does not seem
to have which guaranteed her nailonal sald pro at the home of Ayatullah charged
the unorthodox freedom and sovereignty, have much support for his crutle Republic."
Kashani when pro-Mossadegh shunned
their "It we are allowed a volce In ox practices iden. An eminent colonial
with Kashan's marital supporters clashed
two the negotiations on our future They neighbours, expert, M. Albert Sarraut,
followers.
went our and one lone treaty, at least wo "Kashand's" who is President of the
had married couples supporters
opinion to be considered," Assembly of the French
assembled at his home to listen bachelor.
emphasised. Reuter. against Dr Massadegh Union, one of the constitu- tional advisory bodies, has argued strongly for the advantages of negotiation Mayor
causo
"
Ambassador James B. Conant, United States High Commissioner in Germany, arrived here from West Germany to inspect the food distribution centres.
MORE FOOD
to speccion. Deputies.
by
Dr Conant today informed A number were prrested.
Ernst Reuter that
the German gramme
for
.
Eleven charges
Ora
-FORCED TO MABNY The Governor of Arizona, Mr
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he
·· DEPORTED
The
Singapore, Aug. 3. Malayan government. today deported ten Indians who chartered a plane in Madras and flow hero Last Friday, day
one before the new laws restricting Immigration came into forces
The authorities sent them back because they said the
men a chartered by travelling in plane, had "clearly shown they were trying to beat the ་ ..
ban
The Indians went back In the plane that had brought them.-- France-Presse
17 DEATHS IN
HEATWAVE W
Baghdad, Aug. 3.
was the second clash Howard Pyle, told the Press no BEST MAN AT with Ho Chi Minh. There America will send 6,600 tons of within four days at Kashant's girl ever reached the age of 15
in 'Short Creek'
without being SON'S WEDDING appears to be no love lost food weekly for nine more weeks home.
Persian Opposition. Deputies forced into marriage. 'He ̧call- under President. Eisenhower's between the Chinese and the relief
2- Now Oricans, Aug. situation there
General. Mark Clark in New In the Malls building Indo-Chinese, aven.
tuary: out last. Wednesday to He sold the Community was Orleans for his son's wedding, rebols, and ho suggests that He said a tentative plan was an attempt to negotiate with worked out by American and Kashant's home and there de dedicated to the production of said today he hopel to "take off
Bovenipon people have dies Try them today German the Chinese would only
Government oficiais cided to fight Dr Mossadegh's white slaves, who are without his shoes and rest for a while", make matters worse. The under which 8,000 tons of staple decision to hold a referendum hope of excaping this degrading before returning to his United from a Heatwave in Kuwait, the approval that Partid slavery from the moment of Nations command in Tokyo. Persian Gulf of town. The teme would foods French Union as a whole is
The Supremo Allied Comperature rose to 125 degrees their birth". ment should be dissolved.
But some pro-Government Last Sunday's police raft was manier in the Far East is to be Fahrenbelt yesterday: going through a troublethren ships ive each week in on his
Mayor Routen tald Dr Conant
Ten more people are believed some period, but a solution in view of these plans, he supporters got in and. a fight the climax or a carefully plan- the best man tomorrow, when In Indo-China would give
prepared to continue the broke out in which ten people ed operation, which, began two his son Major William D. Clari: to have doch its parts of Erog from
beyond wore Infufed and two arrested years ago with the infiltration marries Audrey Claire Collin of the effects of the heatwaye
Reuter, thes a fillip to the whole present relict scheme
Reuter.
by police agents into the town, new OrleansReuter [structure.
August 15.
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