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Hanoi, Jan. 17.
French Union raiders lashed out suddenly in Central Laos today and attacked the Communist invaders' supply bases in the Indo-Chinese Kingdom.
Fast-hitting raiders sought to disorganise enemy preparations for a fresh attack against French defence positions around the Seno base and airfield blocking the route to Southern Laos.
A French High Command spokesman said the French columns drove deep into the rebel-controlled
middle section of Laos under cover of aircraft. Some "No More Parts
drove into the valley while others punched at rebel positions at Se Bang Fai, on the Savannakhet-Thakhek road, 25 miles north of Seno.
Views
Abbott's Of Sydney Finance Talks
Karachi, Jan. 17.
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Of Crashed
Mrs Eisenhower To Launch US Atomic Sub.
Washington, Jan. 17. Mrs Dwight D. Elsen- hower, wife of the Presi- dent, will. this week, Jaunch America's first atomle submarine the Nau tilas, at Groton, Connee-
tlen!.
The revolutionary under- water craft will have an underwater speed of 'from 30 to 40 khot and "will be able to travel several times round
the world without surfacing to renew the small amount of fissionable material which will pro- vide the fuel power.
Extensive texts of the Nautilus will follow tho traditional breaking of a champagne bottle on its bows by Mrs Elsenhower. -France-Presse.
McCarthy Joins Farm Bill
Rebels
Washington, Jan. 17. President Eisenhower's
contain the sxpected Communist Comet Found" bold plan to reduce Govern-
sald The spokesman ralders' next task would be to
southward drive
along
the Mekong River's stream, to that the Central Laos Front com- mander, General Andre Franchi, may have ample time to deliver a "death blow" to the Red in-
vaders,
Communist
ment subsidies to farmers has stirred rebellious mutterings among farm- belt Congressmen, includ
Mc- Ing Senator Joseph Carthy (Republican, Wis- consin).
With farmers already bitter over falling Incomes, many ex- perts believe the plan has less than an even chance of approval, The President's proposals out- lined lasi Monday would system of
London, Jan. 18. A spokesman of the De
Aircraft Havilland
Com- pany said last night that guerillas struck one of the company's en- back elsewhere, however, blasi-gineers had been working ing out a major bridge on the on the scene of the Comet off Elba The Canadian Finance Minis-Saigon-Vientiane highway and jet airliner crash
ninbushing French mobile ter. Mr Douglas Abbott, said column in Northern Laos.
since soon after the disaster here day the Sydney
and would presumably aid ence had been one of the most The French probes hit the the investigation of Mr substitute flexiblo satisfactory izz the past two Southern rim of rugged lime-
stone bills years.
behind which the Alan Lennox-Boyd, British farm price supports for the cur- forces of the Vietminh Com- Minister of Transport and rent rigid one.
The President wants Con- Mr Abbott, who arrived here
mander-in-Chief, General Vo Civil Aviation. for a two-day informal visit as Nguyen Glap, are
to adopt Kresa
system in which supports would be high Gay: The rebels the General, Mr Ghulam Mohum-
in time of shortage or med. said: "The position has
average production but low in Improved great deal."
time of surplus.
There
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F
conter-
He said sterling was stronger French spokesmen refused to And I was becoming possible comment on widespread reports
regrouping. Mr Lennox-Boyd left Lon Jost an estimated don for Home lust night to 1,700 carusitles in their Christ-obtain first-hand details of the mas attack against Seno.
problems in the search for the fost plane.
The spokesman had no com-
tlons. Everyone was much more China
decision to go to Rome, commander In chich,
"So far as we know no more con-General Henri Eugene Navarre, optimistic than at earlier
Comet ferences, he added.
was preparing his forces for pleces of the crashed
have been discovered since strike; at powerful
various
Those fronts
reported early last week," to catch the rebels of
he added. bulance while the bulk of their
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lo du away with many restric-in French circles that the Indo-ment to make on the Minister's Laws. But because of farm state | ADDED! "FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT" (ROXY; No, 4,
Canada was a country which lived by foreign trade and was always interested in developing new markets and he looked for
ward to further developing trade relations with Pakistan,
Asked about Canada's attitude to Imperial Preferences, he said I stood by existing profurencos, ; "though they are of no value in
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But Canada did not believe in further extending the system. He said he believed in freeing tra
As much as possible. Reuter.
(See Review of Talks on P.D)
Soviet Cultural Delegation
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armies were concentrated at two points-in Central Laos and in the That country region
main
around Dien Bien Phu.
French
off and
BLASTED TARGETS
warplanes took from Central Vietnamese Laotian bases, blasting logistical targets and Vietminh troops in Central Laos.
B
Annam
Strong ragiona! groups ambushed a mabile column in Laos
a few miles Khankeu.
fortified guarding the entry into from
through strategic Keo Neua pass.
The rebels fed into the jungle after French reinforce- ments joined the night. Both Bombay, Jan. 17. A cultural 28-iember
siden had suffered lasses, legation from the Soviet Union French spokesman said. arrived here today for a six Communist guarinas
To Tour India
The
the
de-
spokesman said last night that A Ministry of Civil Aviation Mr Lennox-Boyd was not going to Rome because of BOAC's theory that sabotage had been responsible for the crash of the Comet. We
know nothing about that or about a bomb having been planted in the plane," the spokesman added,
are provisions for this in the 1940 and 1949 farm
objections, Congress has ignored them,
Instead preferring
to order high supports
on major commodities.
The
love proposals
plz ranks ឆន Republican
most members of the House Agricul tural Committee are known to
favour the existing fixed sup ports. But in the Senate Com- mittee the chairman and several members are backing the sliding scale idea.
STEPPED OUT
Even Senator McCarthy, who represents the farm state of Wisconsin,
has
temporarily stepped out of his role of Com- munist hunter to enter the controversy.
He is not only opposing the Elsenhower plan but is demanding that supports be raised,
farm
INSURANCE gorerika Insurance experts sald here French toy that the suggestion by Bri- Northernish Overseas Airways Corpora- north of tion that
sabotage may have town been responsible for the crash
Democrats, anxious to Laos of their Comet jet airliner off
make political capital out of the the the island of Elba last Sunday farm diluation, are expected to
was unlikely to affect insurance
woo the "green belt" "vote by payments for the loss.
demanding ,rejection of the So long as there was proof Eisenhower plan and the con- that any article was insured tinuation of the high price for its proper value, that it has guarantees. been lust and that the insured
the outbreak of the Korean struck person did not cause or contri-war the Govemment guaranteed British the farmers the high price sup- up, reports to simulate food produc
of the tlon. This brought them
com-
aircraft
that
weeks lour at the Invitation in Southern Laos, blowing up abute to the loss, the of the Indian government,
bridge spanning the insurance market pays Strategic
the River
cause gardless of of north group consists of error!- | Mekong clans, Instrumentalists, painters Paksee, 103 miles south of Seno. loss. and folk dancers who will give French Army engineers rushed This particular disaster would 20 exhibitions in Bombay, to repair the bridge, over which cost the British insurance mar Delhi, Calcutta, Madras and passes the Salgon to Vietlane ket £500,000 for the Bangalore.
highway.
alone.
Insured for The leader of
General Rene Cogny,
It was the group Soviet Deputy Minister for mander of the North Vietnam amount by Lloyds and the Bri Culture N. Bespalov, who ex- front, sold today that Dien tish insurance companies. plained on arrival
In addition, insurance on the that the Bien Phu, the isolated French four was both to acquaint In- base 150 miles west of Hanol, passengers, crew and cargo will dians with Soviet culture and was besleged by 30,000 regular cost the to enable the Soviet group to Communist troops, not including £100,000. get to know the "wonderful tens of thousands of coolies art of the Indian people." drafted to build Vietminh bases France-ProsSE,
around the fort.-United Press.
Britain's Jet-Fish
Fossilised remains of jet-propelled fish, which lived at least 120 million years ago, have been discovered in the grounds of the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, Berkshire.
The fossils have been! The fish, called belemnites,
market more than The lost. Comet was insured for more than twice as much as the average BOAC airliner.
PAL CRASH
At the
un-
precedented prosperity but it also created surpluses through over-production.
WAREHOUSES CRAMMED
Today Government warehouses and storage facilities are crammed with about $5,000 million worth of surplus produc tion
lon purchased from the farmers, Before any flexible support programine can operate success- fully, these surpluses have to be reduced to keep them from de pressing market prices.
President
Elsenhower has proposed that
million $2,500 Rome, Jan. 17,
worth
be storozo now la Three experts of the Philip-insulated from normal market pines Civil Aviation Admin chunnels by placing them in don, Perfecto Buendio, B. Oppus special emergency reterve. This and Pacifco,
Agcholl and Philippine
Air Lines
of his programme would official be welcomed by the agricultural
part Santiago Soloni dew in here to interests. China Mail Special. day from Manila to take part in the enquiry now being held into the crash last week here a Philippine Air Lines air- craft.
Explosives Found
examined by the Natural propelled themselves by taking A test fight over the same In Home History department of the in water through a slit in their cOUTSO as that taken by the
British Museumi.
bodies
Mr Leonard Hulls, secretary and squirting it out crashed plane was made today Of Moslem Leader of the college's Archaeological through a tubular siphon under by Philippine Air Lines using and Natural History, societies, their heads. They were an regular service, The crew re-
a cluster of about 100 ancestor of the cuttlefish,
found
in the dregings of a siren.
London Express Servico.
afour-engined aircraft of their
fused all comment on the flight. |--France-Presse.
Memory
ASTLE MISSMREKAN
For parts wer
Pahroid Sun shade, spalvai manačica.
Cairo, Jan. 17.
the Egyptian Minister of
Zakargyn Mohlodidine Interior told the press today "a con- alderable quantity of explosives -dynamite and nitroglycerine
discovered had been house belonging to one of the Tendors of the Modem Brother.
·hood, Hassori el Achmaoul in Hihia in the province of Char- kleya,, north of Caleo.
In
The explosivos were housed in n. room with reinforced concrete *wolle,
*The ́· altuation in "perfectly Under control": according to: authoritativa, elreios, "Now
that we have opened their eyes, Ahe man of Moslem BrothÍZE will desolidariaethamme from their bad" itsopherds and "prevent
the prono (doin harm th
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