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CHINA MAIL
No. 35798
Established 1845
FRIDAY, APRIL 23, 1954.
Grim Dien Bien Phu
Defenders Await
Final Battle
NO CHANCE OF ESCAPE
Paris, Apr. 22.
At t very moment, about 12,000 to 15,000 of some of the finest troops that the French army has ever had, including picked units of all the crack regiments now in Indo-China, are about to wage in the beleaguered förtress of Dien Bien Phu a final desperate and savage battle against overwhelming odds.
Paratroopers of the French colonial infantry, tough Foreign Legionnaires, North African riflemen, and Vietnamese paratroopers are the actors in this dramatic finale of seven years of war in Indo-China, which is going to be fought with every variety of weapon, including knives and bayonets, on a few square miles of bomb searred ground.
the Persian Government can take place and pronuce any tangible results, The Post- panies which comprise the oil consortium required anverni weeks of discuMMILI bafore they could agreement antong them selven. The details of thus agreement have not Jen revealed, but it is known that it falls into two main For the time being, the men for we offer parts. One part deals with] of General Christian de Castries, look at the proposals which are to to whom a pilot recently pura- be put before the Persian chuted
Facing the handful of these grim diehards are some four Vietminh divi- sions, fully equipped with modern weapons, ranging from 105 millimetre guns, and possibly 155 millimetre guns, to mortars of all calibres, and radar guided anti-aircraft artillery. Morever, the ideological fanaticism of these troops, who have now cut off all ways of escape of the French garrison, has probably never been equalled in any other army of the world.
the other
precacfotss
***
whee aud
Jant
fort was still in doubt at night- fall.
VYSHINSKY GOING ON LEAVE
New York, Apr. 22. Mr Andrei Vyshinsky, the Soviet delegate to the Unlied Nations, Gold Reuter going today if he was home to the Soviet Union on May 5 on leave", and hoped to return to his post in New York in about six wecks.
เง
if he
be
Mr Vyshinsky was naked
might possibly joining the
น Sovies ariega.
tion at the Geneva confer- ence opeing next Monday, “No, not at all," he said. Mr Vyslinsky, now in his 7181 year
has been suffer- ing for the past few weeks from laryngitis,
Be
and tired seemed drawn and his replies 10 questions pul through an Interpreter were husky......... Reuter
Chinese To
Make Big Trade Offer Report
I am exhausted. I 17 Aving
mako If I don't get some
latiss
London, Apr. 22. Communist China will trade a sensational offer to Britain within the next few days, it was learn- ed from reliable sources here in close touch Chinese ligh
The Agliling started when rebel forces tried to neutralise Dien Bien Phu efforts by the
Christian commander, General de Custries, to link up the for- the ward post more trmly tu musin defence complex. General de Castries borrowed the Com- monists own tacties, the Command said.
with trade organisa-
(have newly Kainerd hran's botlay Brigadier's stars are sull being sleep now. I am sture to erasa Government when the suppiled in arms and ammnant-
A fron shoer exhaustion. few rent talks between the con- tion, thanks to the
months aga, an un force the sortium and
Angle droppings carried out in abruost hat came from Paris, and tol
NOTICE ms it wa impossible to 1runinn Oil Company are hopeless conditions. Hundreds, of | mil
perhaps thousands, concluded;
ing crews and places to Ind:-
thre are suffering ( China. So we are doing concerned with the financial wounded soldiers
la makeshift frst aid posts, and br four, and even 10 extra shifts other and
Arrangements
!•ત hospitals, burted
He ordered his men to burrow Do not forget that there in the
This may be as important as which the companies have marshy ground of the dust bowl
trenches and tunnels toward the are several salter Dien
the one of £409 million sterung made among
themselves
Phus elsewhere in Indo-China,endly cut-off post ove looking made by the Soviet Union to
while shell explodes, Every time
Britain at Moscow mention, the wrecked airfield. They dug which are sekin and crumble,
conference Lui which must piso be kept along a httle salient still con- defence supplied",
trolled by the French.
partners
in the
new con- :
sortium. What has happened; the wall sharkus
la
cach
day,
Dieri
the
..day
Bien
seven of and
dwindles perimeter
a sittle boon
further,
Vielmarua
The currespondent asked him Anglo-ubble" their way through the whether he thought that
mass the Bien Phu hus intervention by
air force defences no doubt fully playeti its part, as rould save the situation at Dien even 20.000 Hen Phu, and he said that 100 5,000, perlup Vietminh soldiers have perished | fresh planes might turn on those ailes of barbed WITC tables. He added regretfully, wave after wave of Vietming iwever, that this was out of soldiers were Herally nowod the quesiton " we have
continue as we are".
effect is that the companies have
with bargaining Iranian about the amount of money to be paid by them for a specified share in the new International organisa- tion which will manage the disposal of Persian oll in world markets. In addition there is the question of the consortium
the securing legal title to the Anglo- Iranian asset#, which must remain with AIOC until the company has received com- pensation from the Persian Government for the property which it has nationalised.
THIS
the
The
French Regain Outpost
ffanot, Apr. 23.
defenders French Union
of Dien Bien Phu smushed through Communist trenches today And established contact with an isolated WORL
<rf
outport north-
the besieged fortress,
the French High Command announced,
The strategic outpost had been cut off from the main fortress for two days, ac- cording to the agnounce- Communist and ment.
the on
outpost pressure had been "Increasing hour- ly".
sald Reporis rexterday the French bad sown the alouda
Indo-China over with dry ice to try to pro- duce torrential ralts and a hailstorm in an effort to flood Communist supply
line-United Press.
is not likely to prove the most dieult of the issues when the time comes for the consortium to begin
with negotiations Persian Government. Persian nationalisation bew Itself maken explicit pro- vision for the payment of compensation to the owners of the expropriated proper- ties, and it is reasonable to 188ume that the Persian Government fully appre- eintes that there is no point in opening talks with the international consortium or the the rehabilitation of
ail industry country'a unloss it is ready to dis- charge its obligations to pay for the value of the assets which were sum- marily Laken over three It is to every- years ago. body's advantage that an between the agreement
paratroop consortium and the Persian
to whom the Agenco Government be reached na
France-Presse correspondent rapidly na possible, and that was speaking, recently begged this might materialise is the correspondent to try to ex- auggested by the knowledge plain the situation in Paris, that that the Persian Govern- there was practically no chance ment has indicated it is of Pulling out the garrison from Impatient for a quick settle the situation it had been placed ment, which will bring its in. oll back into the
world
of
world
down in the course of furious day and night attacks, which started inore than five week. ago, but the cost will be heavy the U nothing is done to anve French Union garrison fron
their doom.
The colonel of unit,
The
to colonel said
the
the
Ro
Later, the correspondem asken Kuneral what could E dealer the Dien Bien Phu garrison. He produced a map which show od that the whole ureG of the ited River delta was practically er upud by the Vietminh, "My he said butterly, "are INILA nearly all encerled watrice in Annam, Laos, or Dien Bien Phu, and those I have left are far too busy keeping open the Hanol- be used Hatphong highway tu chewhere"--France-Presse.
VIOLENT FIGHTING
HEAVY LOSSES When the Vietminh saw their machinegun and mortar fire wus having
alte effect. several battalions swept into the attack. Hard to
hand fighting w/U bayonets, grenades and trench- Head- knives inged all day
Wett quarters here sakl losses substantial on both side
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In the delta, officials disclosed the Vietminh had mounted their biggest ambush of the war along the road
linking Hanoi
for Haiphong, point of entry United States ald.. Three regu-
locked in bitter er battalions close-quarter lighting for two hours with a
a Franco-Vietnamese unt yesterday. They inflicted heavy losses.
Both physicians
the and wounded themselves said the rebels used bullets with the tips cut criss-cross so they open up
Olher and spread in the body. bullets they su,
been Hanoi, Apr 22.
cartridges Communist battaliona surged reversed forward today in a violent all to hit and push out flat end first. day battle to gnaw land United Presa
swallow another French Hook- tion guarding the shrinking defences of Dien Bien Phu,
The fresh flare-up possibly foreshadowed the long-awat ed Vietminh "Geneva offensive".
11
the
had
AGREEMENT REACHED
tions.
the
was
power going on in Berlin.
The Chinese offer may well coincide with the opening of the conference on Asian affairs in Geneva at the beginning of next It will be made to u week. group of 40 British businessmen East specially invited by the
of Berlin agency
the Chinese Foreign Trade Corporation, Some of the businessmen left today for East Berlin; the remainder will soon follow.
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McCARTHY -ARMY WRANGLE Allegations
Made Before Investigators
Washington, Apr. 22.
Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican, Wis- consin) undertook to develop what he termed the "motivation" for the testimony of Major-General Miles Reber when the Senate Investigations Sub- committee opened its afternoon hearings into the dispute between Senator McCarthy and the Army Department today.
As the first witness in the morning, General Reber had told the Subcommittee that Senator McCarthy and Mr Roy Cohn, his chief counsel, had
repeatedly pressed him for an officer's commission
for Mr G. David Schine. General Reber was then the Army's liaison officer with Congress. He is
now Commanding General of United States Army
forces in Western Europe.
Senator McCarthy suggested that Mr Sam Rober, a career diplomat and brother of the General, had left the State Department under a cloud,
lo
Senator McCarthy
" direct asked, the way to a bid for
from reliet whether the General was aware cominission
duties and police of the fact that Mr Reber was kitchen
drafted allowed to resign when charges special privileges as a were made against him that he private
Stevens said that from Mr was u bad security risk.
After a wrangle over whether last November 10 to January 18 15 passes the question should be allowed, Mr Schine received General Reber said his brother from his post when the averago
now conscripta retired us he was entitled to by for
he reached the age three passes. law, when
Senator McCarthy renewed of 80.
*1 know nothing about any his objection that Mr Stevens
case involving him," should speak only
an indivi Recurity
dual when the witness spoke he added,
of his "responsibility to speak for the Army,"
General Reber said there wha no bias whatsoever in his pust actions to Schino or in his pre- sent testimony.
was only
was
Mr Stevens said that on lasi
with September 16 he talked Senator McCarthy at the The next witness was Mr R.
New T.
Stevens,
grey-haired. Waldorf Astoria Hotel in bespectacled Secretary of the York, where the Senator
statement visiting in the Schine family's Army. He read caying he
subjected to dai. was
"It was on this occasion, as by Lireless effort" "persistent Senator McCarthy and is [
that collect,
the Senator assistant to get special military asked me for a commission for
Mr Stevens sald. treatment for Schine.
Senator
schinesed
my
down"
been
Ship's Mooring Rope Cut
Melbourne, Apr. 23. The master "f tho Osaka ship, Заранске Maru, Capt. II. Kacsuko, said he saw two men and Woman yanish in tbo darkness
the BOOK after ship's mooring rops Was cut a1 Cuninghan plet, the inst night. Geelong. Melbourne Sun reported
today. Foday.
The
The 0,600-ton Osaka Maru left later for Robe with bagged barley.
When the ropo mooring the ship to the ptor was started out, sho
to drift
water close to the shallow and rocks below the shore wall, the paper sald,
A quartermaster favo the alarm and some of her 50 orew members leaped to the pier and made s now rope fast to a bollard, stopping the vessel's drift. --China Mail Special,
Alleged "Pirating"
Of Designs
Manchester, Apr. 22.
The Manchester Chamber
of Commerce today asked more than 1,000 textile firms in this area to supply ·
information of detailed Japanese "piracy" of Lan= cashire designs.
of
Their evidence, including nei tuai
Lancashire cutting designs und alleged Japaneso to the coples, will be sent Government.
In a letter asking firms for ovidence, the Chamber said it with the Colton had agreeri Board and the British Rayon and Synthetic Fibres Federation on concerted action for dealing with alleged commercial mal- practices by Japanese traders.
The bodles had met at tho of Mr Peter suggestion
the Thorneycroft, President of Board of Trade,
ments
turned
น
for
McCarthy "I may say that during tenure as Secretary of the Army that, as he knew, Schine's op-
had there is no record that matches plication this persistent tireless effort to obtain special consideration and for this man privileges (Schine)," Mr Stevens sald.
Senator McCarthy broke into Mr Stevens reading of his pre- pored text and, making a point of order,
that Fir protested
"speak Stevens was trying to for the Army."
Sorne of these businessmen
A spokesman of the Chamber were to go on to East Berlin
said that since the signing of the Jast month. The journey
recent Anglo-Japanese, pay- suddenly cancelled by a coble while
agreement provided from the Chinese agency
Japan with wider opportunities several of them were already at
Mr Stevens also
textiles to sterling told of
exporting the London airpori.
DIFIED LIST MODIFIED
meeting on October 2 with Cohn areas, there had been a retur- and Mr Francis Carr of Senator genes of complaints by Lanca- It was then a question of con-
McCarthy's staff, when he said shire Arms alleging piracy of cluding some deals within the
Con asked him to assign their designs. framework of the two-way 30
Schine to the New York City million trade arrangements made It was
area so he would be avaliable in Peking last Summer. learned that since that time, the
to complete committee work.
"I said it would be imposable Chinese wanted to present a
BEDELL SMITH
to excuse Schine truin basic modified list of the goods they wanted to buy from Britain, It
While Mr Stevens was testi- ruining, Mr Stevens said,
Dí
Mr Stevens
that Mr can now be stated on good au- thority
that this list will be ring, the acting Secretary
Adams, John
lawyer of his De considerably extended to include State, Mr Walter Bedell Smith,
wide range of manufactures from rolling stock to electrical equipment,
The amount of the goods
is not wanted by Chino
yet re- known. Many arms not
Paris, Apr. 22. Agrement
Jn wus reached committee of the the political Franco-Vietnamese negotiations here today on both the recugni- tion of Vietnam's Incepondence presented at the Peking Meanwhile, French troops in and the definition of the asso-
fast
take year will now the Red River delta calmed the cation between
Vietnam Reds were using nesh-ripping France. dum-clum bullets in violution
various
Lions.
conven-
The agreement
Bld
a former Ambassador in Mos-partment, advised him in mid-
The three organisatioris also intended to inquire into other forms of commercial malprac-
ces
by Japanese Including pricing methods and the dum- ping of goods, he said-Reuter.
How, was sworn in as a witnes. bad come inita McCarthy Big War Claims
ww
the
Mr Smith was called to stand before Anished reading his Mr Ray Jenkins, lawyer for
explained that talks Sub-committee,
part it was desired to call Mr Smith and in the East Berlin negotiations, now because he might be called to a foreign country," perhups con- Apart from any political
observers said that
19 to be sub now desires to increase
Brid
Britain,
1251-
of the rules of war embodied inmitted to the plenary session for
international
from imports approval of the wording of the her
is that this will be sub- iwo texts. They
to the dif- The outcome of the new Requently issued in the form of other testimony
in getting skirmishes in the rain-soaked a joint statement.
ficulties she meets mud and muck around the It was the eleventh Bession
from position French-held
the U11
the political committec.---- Northwest edge of the isolated France-PresSE,
ur
Soviet Diplomat Was Also
Offered Political Asylum
Darwin, Apr. 22. Mr Reginald Leydin, the man who offered sanctuary markets again. But there is Agence France-Presse corres- in Australia to Mrs Evokiya Petrov, reveiled tonight that difference pendent "Friends and foes alike he had offered political asylum to Mr. K. V. Kislintin, between eagerness for an ace all in the dust bowl now, a second secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Canberra, who agreement in principle and few yards from each other, and Actual readiness to accept in any case, the nearest French is now on his way back to Russia.
post ช about six or eight days'
the practical implications forced march away from Dien of doing business in such a Blen Pliu, with
the Vietminh
the Soviet
Union
the
goods she needs for her capital Inchistrialisation,
to
with
con-
ron-
Award
irritated Stevens Schino because of Mr
statement. tinuous efforts to have his ple-
ture the taken along with the Sena-
Washington, Apr. 22. for and others at the hearings
The War Claims Commission in New York"
"Senator McCarthy
stated has awarded El Colegio De San to the Jose, a Philippines Jesult Insti- that Schire was useless Committee, was interested in tution nearly $9,307,000 B Mr Smith said under question coming a pushy is to be compensation for property darn
Mr Stevens ing that Mr Cohn had come to
ges suffered during World War Vens ages him on behalf of Mr Schine.
The Senator hoped that II, it was learned today,
.and
The Commission uphold an
tomorrow.
said.
A
He assumed Mr Cohn ap- Bchine would be drafted proached him both on behalf of that nothing would occur to stop appeal of its carilor rejection of the Committee and as a "friend the draft procedure. He asked the San Jose claim. The pre- was particularly that Cohn not bevious ruling was that San Jose made aware of his attitude to had not properly documented ward Schine."--Reuter,
of the young man who
a commission. accking
Mr Jenkins asked Mr Smith If At the same time, these ob-
he got the impression Cohn was servers sald, any Chinese offer trying to high pracsure anyone.
Britain might be at the
"Not me, Str," Mr. Smith re- present moment of only
piled academic nature,
China is
Smith testified that Mr excluded from the relaxation
Cohn
had asked about obtaining measures on East-West trade
commission for Mr Schine now being negotiated in Paris through the Central Intelligence by countries Including the Agency (CIA). He replied that members as well as Mr Cohn might telephone Mir Western Germany and Japan. Allen Dulles, head of the Agency,
ΝΑΤΟ
-France-Presse,
11.9
Soviet Police Official Recalled
about this.
Mr "Cohn's reply, Mr' Smith saidh, was that the Agency was "too juley a subject" for future investigations that it "would not be "right" to place Mr Vienna, Apr. 22.
in the CIA and then The Police Commissioner at Schino
investigate it. the Soviet sector in Viama,
Under questioning - Mr. Sanitis "There Mr Kislintin turned the offer
are my mother, my Vinzenz Beiser, was recalled to
sald ho did not regard Mr brothers
officia father, my
and my down.
Moscow, an
со
Cohn's having been in touch In an interview here, Mralstors still in Russia," Mrs munique stated today. way that the big inter- troops all around, and every Loydin, acting Governor of the Petrov had told him. She add- Selser, the police commission with him about Bohine as im-
quarter proper", national oil companies are where".
Northern Territory, described ed: Where is my husband? Is er for the "favourite"
Mr Smith was in the witness alive? Can I has been compromised by so "What about the air forces his dramatic meeting with Mrs ho here? Is he prepared to handle one's
only. 22 minuter. Mc correspondent asked the
Petrov as sho was about to speak to him?"
recent Iddnappings or attempted chair product. It is rolovant to tho
leave Australia under escort for After she had spoken to Mr kidnappings by the Soviet, un Stevene then resumed reading note that it has taken the colonel."
The best proof that we have Russia on Tuesday,
all Petrov by telephone,
claimed his statement. she official
63 PHONE CALLS oil companies themselves
Me Kislintin was travelling could say was: "My hushand. Franco-Proms,
Mr Stevens said efforts by nearly three months to work aircraft", he replied, "is that the
some on the same plane. Mr Leydin my husband."
Senator
and his McCarthy Bald to Loydin
Casablanca, Apr. 23, out an agreement on the Vietminh are shooting
down every day. I understand raid Mrs. Petrov was under
inctuding niatania to obtain S Seven Europeans,
privileges practical implications of the Americans are sending us groot emotional stress and could "Goodbye, good luck. I can do
two children, were wounded by for Mr Schine included more Persian ell settlement, in so far as they affect their own me more right now, but then, not make up her mind' whether no more",
In the to go, or to accept asylum He walked away but turned a Morroccan who fired shots than 65 telephone calls and ID
Austrálla
her diplomat back and asked if he could talk into a Casablanca: cafe tonight meetings. Mr. Stevens said that company affairs.. They, too, crews".
on a bicycle he was informed that requestu This was later confirmed to husband, Me Vladimir Petrov, with her again. Then she said and poda away wore agreed in principle
on Mr Schina's behalf rain : KIL Rautor aho wished to stay--Reuter, the correspondent by an air had done. before they started.
there
is the problem of
Mr
her:
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