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No. 35782
Established 1845
SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1954.
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Dien Bien Phu Outpost Voting In
Evacuated
[F there is one weapon of war which, by interna- tional agreement, must be outlawed and scrapped, it in the hydrogen bomb. There can be no two views about this. The 13-Bomb is too grave a threat to the whole of clvllised mankind to be permitted any longer: to remain a military device ut a political levur. The people of Amerlen are unwi learning the truth about the annihilating force of thermonuclene wenpun through the ima and pictures of the 1952 hydrogen bomb text, and It is a pity the entire rest of the world cannot have the same knowledge impressed upon them in the summe
French troops fighting There has been a |
a bitter battle for way. understandable tolerance Dien Bien Phu, have evacuated a northeastern of experiments in atomic outpost of the fortress after recapturing it from and thermonuclear energy the Vietminh early today, the French High designed Lo perform Command announced tonight.
BITTER BATTLE
FOR FORTRESS
military service because
the weapons were accepted sa deterrents to aggression. But as Church of England
It
Times
he observed penetrating
in
comment,
Decisive Factor Will Be Weather
Hanoi, Apr. 2.
The Vietminh also gained a foothold in the northeast corner of the defence perimeter in a renewed onslaught after midnight,
Unconfirmed reports put the Vietminh less everything is "irrelevant than a mile from the heart of the northern fortress as French troops bitterly contested every inch of their shrinking defences.
Lo the Ballent moral fact that this new weapon affront
in
unholy to the canscience
of mankind."
nuclear bombs
different to any previous
Death Of General Vandenberg
Former Air Force Chief Of Staff
Washington, Apr. 2. General Hoyt S. Vanden- berg, Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1948 until his retire- ment last June, died today aged 65.
"General Van,"
known to airmen
las
SU
was
every where, been (1 patient in the Army's Walter Reed Hospital here since last October when he was admitted for "observation and checkup."
He was in virtual seclusion last months of his illness, too sick to receive many
during the visitors.
to The Air Force declined
of his iness
state the nature but private doctors who attend-
ed at an operation in 1952 said
was found then he
Wos ruffering from cancer of the
and prostate gland
that sub- scquently the malignancy spread and other
bones.
Later, the hospital announced
was cancer.
Observers here consider that the outcome of
spine Furthermore the buttle, biggest of the seven-year-old war, will the hips,
are utterly depend on the weather allowing the French High weapons in the history of Command to parachute the hard-pressed defend-oficially that the cause of death the world and "their effecters all the supplies they require.
only be to kill
The High Command also announced clashes bo- millions but to poison the tween French troops and more than 1,000 Vietminh springs of human health rebels driving into the state of Cambodia from southern for uncounted generatious." Laos. French troops are holding the Vietminh ad- This is เย flamboyant measure of speech; on the Vance, the High Command said.
will not
contrary it is a statement
Reports
General Vandenberg is aur- vived by his widow, a daugh- ter, Gloria Rose, a son, Leu- berg, and three grandchildren. tenant Hoyt Sanford Vanden-
Lieutenant Vandenberg, ser-
French and Vietminh forces The Vietminh struck along ving with the Air Force in Ger- of sober and sombre fact, battled around the town of the western side of the 11-mile)many, returned to Washington And it applies with equal Voguasai, 30 miles Inside the long valley of Dien Bien Phu this week to his father's bed- force to the peoples of the frontier.
Kuid the for the Brst time on Thursday side,
At the same time, other East as it does to those of Cambodian High Command has night. the West. It is just this conceded the loss of the town. which clearly influenced
has
This is the first Ume a regular Mr Atlee in the composi-Vietminh formation tion of his Party's motion penetrated the Jungle territory which is to be presented to of northern Cambodia, home of the House of Commons next the primitive Mel tribes, Monday advocating a top-new attack follows three weeks battle at Dien Bien level meeting of the three of bloody nations most actively
tion of weapons which
it
Phu.
had been
Vietminh units continued mass The hospital said Mrs Vanden- assaults against the easternberg, the son and daughter were bastions of the fortress.
of the bedside when the General died,
division
Vittminh prisoners sald today that two Vietminh divisions were attacking on the eastern side of
"LOST A GRAND MAN" The the
General valley. Another
Vandenberg's SUC- to be. massed pp- is believed
cessor is Air Force Chick-of- posite in the west.
Staff, General Nathan F. Twin- It was the western formation ing, said the "nation has lost a
their "human
Сат- the
Moscow
The Patriarch of Moscow records his vote in Moscow during the recent Supreme Soviet elections when 120,000,000 voters polled to elect 1,331 Deputies to the Supreme Soviet.---London Express.
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NITROGEN BOMB!
But Scientists Sceptical
London, Apr. 2. ·
Two Labour members of Parliament-one of them Mr Herbert Morrison, a former Foreign Secretary claimed in speeches tonight that the Russians are developing nitrogen bombs................
But leading atomic scientists in Britain were sceptical as to whether any nation could produce such a bomb.
Mr Morrison, who was speaking at Wellington in Northwest England, said:"
"We have witnessed the coming of the motor- car, the radio, the aeroplane, poison gas, high explosive bombs, incendiary bomba, bacteriological bombs, atom bombs, hydrogen bombs and now it is said the Russians are developing nitrogen bombs."
The other Labour member of a physicist at the London Parliament, left-winger Fenner University, aald he had never Brockway speaking at Exeter in heard of such a bomb. southwest England, the H-bomb seemed not the last word in destruction.
waid that
"IS
such a bomb were possible, it would be rather unpleasant, Nitrogen is one of the major of the earth's
"Russia has already mastered constituents the making of the nitrogen atmosphere and the results of an bomb," he added, "and not only explosion would be unforsee- civiliuation
mankind itself able."-Reuter. Han but
is threatened."
Among the scientists asked to
comment on the statements by PROFESSOR IS was Profesor Joseph Rotblat, FOUND GUILTY
Mr Morrison and Mr Brockway,
Vice-President of the British
Lausanne, Apr. 2. Atomic Scientists Association.
Professor Andre Bonnard of Ho did not think anyone Lausime University was today could have used nitrogen in a bomb.
found guilty of organising a **Tha thermal reaction that
political information service in be necessary to set of favour of a foreign organisation
and was nitrogen would have to be much
given a suspended greater than that used for the sentence of 16 days.
At the three-day trial which B-bomb and I do not belleve
began here last Monday has discovered how myonc
08-year-old Professor Bonnard the produce
extremely high-
and two associates were charged needed" he said. temperature
"It is possible that a H-bomb With having organised a political Information Service in favour could be surrounded by nitrogen
of a foreign organisation the and then set off but I cannot World Peace Council,"
•Imarine
how it could be safely done without endangering those who did it.
Of the two associates, Charles Affolter received a suspended
Reuter
"Unless something completely sentence of eight days and Mme new has been discovered, I do Fanny Grother was acquitted- not think a nitrogen bomb 1s
Dr P. E, Hodgson, editor of
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London, Apr. 2. crew of the British destroyer Cossack are to share the £1,472 salvage money for helping the freighter Incharran, London, Apr. 2. A Canberra tet bomber when she went aground about of Hongkong crashed as it was taking off at 400 miles north the
the Binbrock (Lincolnshire) two years ago. airfield and struck a truck and
2,237-ton Incharran, trailer, killing the plane's 'pliot owned by the Incharan
Hongkong, and a crew member. One other pany crew member was seriously in- aground off the mouth of the jured and a fourth escaped with Min River at Foochow in June bruises.
1952. The Cossack towed her The plane was on a regular back to Hongkong, training night. The truck and The Admiralty announced to- trailer, both empty, were com- night that
A British Army signalman accused two deten-yet possible." tion camp guards here today of forcing him to the Atomic Scientist Journal and engaged in the development Colonel Christian de Castries, which took heavy punishment grand man." of nuclear weapons-the French Commander at Dien when the French garrison made A descendant of early Dutch shave while marking time at the double
causing Canberra Jet United States, Britain and Bien Phu, decided to evacuate a highly successful anlly last
three
Vietminh settlers, Hoyt Sanford Vanden-him to inflict four deep cuts on his face. Soviet Russia. Such a meet the outpost in the northwest Sunday. All
borg was born at Milwaukce,
The "The cuts were an inch and a half long," Signalman Bomber Crashes ing would not bring about because it
too badly divisions are believed to be well Wisconsin, on January 24, 1899. Alexander McGarry told a court martial at Wahherhelde the immediate total aboli.battered by the Vietminh troops 10.000 10 12.000 men owing to Vandenberg and his wife Peuri near here.
below their
full strength of the Son of William Collins who held 12 until late this
the high cost of morning. has now been proved could
Kune. Vietminh now have captured sea" assaults.--Reuter,
The guards, Royal Air Force virtually destroy the world, four positions in three days of
Questioned by Wing Com- He was a nephew of the late police Corporals Joseph F. Agar mander At Pnom Pena
Wilmot about Senator Arthur asd John S. Kinver, are charged alleged adhesive paper incident, but it could, and probably heavy fighting. The battle was bodian Cabinet sut late into the Republican would, hasten concerted less intense today, but is ex-night. No detalls of the meeting Vanderborg, the one-time lola- with forcing McGarry to shave Signalman Mod that
tionist, whose change of heart while marking action towards outlawing pected to flare up again late were
the Corporal Kinver cut four strips which he confessed was partly double, thermonuclear weapons. | tonight.
due to
from a roll and put them across his nephew's influence- Every possible
after made the North Atlantic Treaty
Corporal Kinver is also charg-his (McGarry's) mouth Some observers here estimate decreed. this end must be explored viotminh casualties so
Organisation and the Marshalled with forcing Signalman Mic. licking them himself. The Cambodian Government Plan a reality. far If our so-called civilisation nearly 20,000-half the number
Garry to eat his food with a "Why did he do this?" he was carlier this year took steps to
He played an important part
"Because I had my obliterating of troops they had in the area mobilise additional troops in case
soup ladle, with a sticking asked. avold
the Invasion in planning
of adhesive paper over his mouth mouth open and he told me to itaolf.
at the outset of the battlo. of emergency.---Reuter.
Normany in August, 1944, and and with making him read the close it," Signalman McGarry LAST RESERVES
assumed
command of the famous Bible aloud in front of other said. 9th Air Force.
prisonere.
Corporal Kinver removed the Hanoi, Apr. 2. Ho strove tirelessly to make The French forces threw their his country supremo in the air. was told to carry on shaving he added. China Mall Special.
Signalman McGarry said he paper after about half an hour, last reserves into the crumbling After
a visit to the Korean after he had cut himself. defence of Dien Bien Phu to front, he caused a stir by declar- *1 cannot remember which of
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Tokyo, Apr. 2. commander of the gallant but the Secretary for the Air Force During breakfast, Corporal outnumbered French garrison, said that under his leadership, Kinver made
Tokyo police today arrested Toshio Issued his stand-and-die order the United States Strategic Air standing on a form with a large shipbuilding magnate
Doko on a charge connected after a fresh Cornmunist divi- Command had become "the soup Indie from the cook house.
stormed into sion had
the most powerful and effective "I did not complain because I with bribery scandals:
assembled had complained and plunged military foree ever
on numerous Mr Doko is the Vice-Chairman Western defences 1,300 yards of the heart of the in the interesis of peace"-Reu- occasions and it was no use," of the Japan Shipbuilding In- fortress. United Press.
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