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OWEVER laudable may
be Communist China's call for improved diplomatic relations with Great Bri tain, however desirable it is, such plous platitudes as the
CHINA
No. 35809
Established 1845
THURSDAY, MAY 6, 1954.
Indo-China Parleys
Tomorrow
Many Trade Enquiries
Chinese spokesman offered At HK Stand
in Geneva on Tuesday are nothing more than empty words signifying nothing. How much farther can Bri- tain Improve diplomatic relations with China with- out a corresponding move on the part of Peking? In the four yearS since Britain necorded recognition to the Communists, it has received In reply nothing but insulin, humiliations,
provocations
to
and abuse. If Peking con- siders this is the way encourage friendly relationa with another nation which has given great service to China In the last 100 years and more, and which, with other Western Powers, was responsible for changing from
1л archale oriental empire to Sk modern industrial and trading state, It is sadly deluding itself. Since Britain Arst recog- nised the Mao Tse-tuttg regime in January, 1960 it hag
been studiously and contemptuously ignored by the Communists. There was never any Muggestion of reciprocal recognition. Bri- 1ish nationals in China and merchant seamen struggling to keep the pultry Anglo- Chinuac trade alive have been buffeted and misused as if they
enemies were instead of friends of the Chinese people. They have been suspected and reviled in th manner which has no precedence In the long Associations of the two countries. The smallest diplomatic courtesien have been denied our Charge d'Affaires in Peking. Only last September a Chinese
made gunbout
Our Own Correspondent
London, May 5.
Over 250 serious trade enquiries had been recorded on the Hongkong BIF stand by this evening. This compares very favour- ably with the number handled during the first of the Jost
three dayı fair.
Two programunes wero recorded on the stand to-
day by the BBC ore A English and the other In Cantonese.
Col J. D. Clague, leader
of the officia! BIF delega- tion, and a United Klog-
dom buyer took part in tho firwi programme with BBC
Misa Audrey Husul), who has just re- turned from covering the royal tour.
pro-
CantonesC kramme featured Mr Tang Wo of Hip Shing & Co.,
member of the eiiclak delegation,
and Mr K. Y.
Chan who is working for the Hongkong and Shang- hai Banking Corporation in London.
The recordings are being Down to Hongkong on the first available plane,
Tomorrow visitors from Hongkong. bolb oficial and unofficial, will attend sherry party to be riven by HM Government at the Dorchester Hotel.
Juin To Keep His
NATO Post
provoked attack on a Naval motor launch sailing off the Pearl River estuary, not in Chinese territorial waters, will keep
Paris, May 5.
Alphonse Juin
Marshal
Or Sat.
VIETNAMESE INDICATE
THEIR
PROPOSALS
Oppose Coalition
Or Partition
Geneva, May 5.
The West and Soviet Russia agreed tonight to begin talks here on Friday or Saturday to end the Indo-China conflict.
a
The agreement was reached at meeting between M. Jean Chauvel, French Ambassador to Switzerland, and Mr Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister.
Informed sources said a possible fight over the chairmanship probably would be headed off by rotating it between the Foreign Ministers of Great Britain and the Soviet Union.
The date for opening the Indo-China talks was fixed BA informed diplomats reported that Great Britain had agreed to begin preliminary talks for a Southeast Asia pact against aggression even before conclusion of the Geneva conference.
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Grosvenor Hotel Fire
Fifty firemen with eight appliances recently fought a fire at London's well-known Grosvenor Hotel. Damage was limited to the roof and 14 rooms, none of them occupied. No one in the hotel was hurt, but a fireman was treated for an eye injury. Picture shows the fire not yet completely out and hoses still in action as two firemen inspect damage to the roof.--London Express
Photo.
PATO Discussions Slated For S'pore
An advance apolesinar of the, between the Vietminh delega Vietnamese delegation såld i tion here and some "neutralist" would propose nationwide Vlotnamese. Furthermore, genersi ulections wider United was announced that the Nallons supervision but would Vietminh
would flatly reject any Communist offer
open of a coalition.
Hotel He described Whe coalition d'Angleterre where Its mem- his posi of proposal as similar to that probers have been staying.
posed in Germany by the Soviets The chief of the Vietminh resulting in the deaths of Commander-in-Chief of the and rejected by the West.
Press service will be Ngo Tlen. six and the wounding of Central European sector of He said, however, the Com--France-Presse. another five
crew. SHAPE, a North Atlantic munist Vietminh almost cer-
ADOPT NEW LINE Despite repeated protests Treaty Organisation spokes-tainly would reject the idea of and demands for compensa-
supervision.
1.--United
Geneva, May 6. Press man announced here today. tion by Mr Humphrey
experts today The Marshal was dismissed Trevelyan in
Geneva, May 5. ported a major change in Com- Peking all from his national French posts
Sources close to the advance munist propaganda on Indo- have been curtly ignored last month for making an unparty of the Vietnamese delegn- China. and the protests peremptori- authorised anti-European Army
tion here sald tonight that the The Soviet, Chinese and ly dismissed by the speech,
Vie:num Government was ready satellite Communists are now Chinese authorities.
to examine any political settle pushing the national coalition to start here in the next few days.
of the
A statement issued today by The NATO Inforination Service
THIS, then, is the background said:
present-day
"The North Atlantic Treaty
in which Anglo-Chinese relations must Council passed a resolution con- be viewed. Not many years demning the public utterances ago this deliberate provoca of Marshal Juin on the European tion and contemptuous treat-Defence Community, which ment of British nationals were contrary to the views often would have met with expressed by the NATO Council, retaliation. Britain'a "This rsolution was conveyed decision to
Marshal Juin stick to 10
and later published. the letter of diplomacy in
"Having received its dealings with Communist
the Coun- China is
ella resolution the Marshal has
al his
post. This
Book in many remained
he will hereafter
Western eyes as a regret-means table weakness. Nevertheless nothing which
do
NO PARTITION
They
mcan
thni
is contrary to coalition
its motives in offoring the NATO policy or wills." hand of friendship to China
Western
rather than the partition
re
Idea
Geneva, May 5.
The "Big Three" Western powers with Aus- tralia and New Zealand will probably start mili- tary talks soon at Singapore on Southeast Asian defence, diplomatic sources here said today.
IN PARAGUAY President Reported
To Be A Prisoner
Clorinda, Argentina, May 5.
عراق
Paraguayan Army forces revolted today against the government of President Federico Chaves and were reported tonight to be in control of several districts of Asuncion, the Paraguayan capital.
President Chaves and members of his Cabinet were said to have taken refuge in the military college.
(Brazilian government sources in Rio de Janeiro said that, according to private reliable reports from Asuncion, President Chaves was a prisoner of the rebels).
Among the important instalia- | Peron's second official visit to ttons said to have been seized the country within a short time.
10 According base on the was the seaplane
between differences Paraguay River.
Arrivals
which
axiles
President
Asuncion, Chavis and the from
sharper
the
armed
following the
forecs
of President
is across the Paraguay became River from Clorinda, said they announcement
understood the Army was split, Press.
Person's second visit.United
with one faction still supporting
President Chaves, and the Navy
had joined the rebels. They Arid
further fighting appeared
likely
Argentine
passengers
air arriving in Buenos Áires from
Asuncion anid there was 71 outburst of fire when their Ny- ing boat_left the port.
Normal communications with Paraguay wore practically cut oft. Telephone and radio sei- vice between there and Asun- eton were nu!. Terry service across the river was suspended. appeared
Plight Of Dien Bien Phu
Wounded
Geneva, May 5. France is making a new attempt through the Inter- Asuncion streels
national Red Cross to obtain deported from here.
Vietminh agreement to the First news of the revolt was evacuation of 1,000 French given by travellers arriving in Union wounded from be- Formosa, Argentine, on the
opposite bank of the Paraguas sieged Dien Bien Phu, au- thoritative sources here said
River.
They said a cavalry regiment today. sought to seize the headquarters In Asuncion, that loyal troops repelled the rebels and the Robert Petit the Police Chief, was killed and one of his lieu-
wounded. lenauts
Last week, M. Georges Bidault,.
the French Foreign Minister, Soviet
asked Mr Molotov, Foreign Minister, to intervene in obtaining a limited truco at the North Indo-China fortress
so that the wounded could be Bown out.
He sold the Fretich had granted a similar request by the Vietminh on March 15.
Mr Molotov suggested that of agreement on the evacuation of the Dien Bien Phu wounded
be reached
between Vietminh repre- But M.
NEBELS BROADCAST Responsible sources in Buenos Aires said the rebels, in a broud- cast from the Campo Grande military establishment outside Asuncion early this morning, had expressed their certainty victory.
This
the
with coupled
could severance of all communications French and with the outside, was taken by sentatives at Geneva. some as an indication that the Bidault said that such negotia- tions should take place on the Main object of the talks with which some
struggle might be continuing. of the
Leading Paraguayan political spot. nations in the area may also be associated will be to plan exiles here said the "trouble The French request was sup- effective guarantees to any Indo-China peace settlement might have been caused by the ported by Mr Anthony Eden, reached at the nine-nation conference which is expected the Paraguayan armed forces to [he lunched with Mr Molotov and of some sections of British Foreign Secretary, when opposition President Chaves
to Mr Chou En-lai, Chinese Com- moves
Primo Minister and militarise the police and by the munist growing Argentine influence on Foreign Minister, last week. On
April 28 when the Korean con the Chaves government,
opened, M. Bidault pointed out that ference
"Solemn appeal" to the militarisation of the police was issued
the Red observe Vietminh to being carried out under
The All- guidance of Argentine experts Cross rules of war, and that President Juan Peron Swiss International Committee of the Argentine was scheduled of the Red Cross later renewed to visit
both sides beginning its appeals to Paraguay May 9.
be President respect these rules-Reuter.
for ending the struggle between | The Singapore talks on South- Vietminh and Vietnam.
on all occasions are prompted considers the incident is closed." ousted from the government in for
The NATO Council issued a near future,
by a genuine desire to live
strong rebuke to Marshal Juin
the
the
new
newsmen
any
да
gatherings
for
con-
cast Asian defence are regarded Tremor Wipes
on
propose
Out Village
25 persons in the area last Fri- severely damaged In the village Communications
with
ment of the Indo-China situa- tion providing it was not based on the principle of partition of Vietnam or of A coalition Four weeks ngo, the Com-in British quarters here os 0 government.
munists began talking up
logical
оп development
the formula The positive features of such "Korea-style" a plan would
statement promise made by Sir have to provide Indo-China. They spread the
Bri- for free elections under the partition plan at lunches, din- Winston Churchill in the control of the United Nations, ners and other
to Wish House of Commons on April these sources said,
Communist They added which
diplomats 27 that Britain would play her and
Invite that partition of Vietnam was
their full part In guaranteeing
Athens, May 5. Fresh
tremor in absolute contradiction with Western
earthquake counterparts just be-
Indo-China peace. the policy of independence and fore
International
yesterday wiped out the villago national unliy waged by the Lerence. Vietnam
Conference circles believe that of Paschalitsa, in the Almyrom Government sluce
In the last few days, the line when the Indo-China talks open central Greece, it was reported Arta of devastated Thessaly, 1045
was abruptly changed. Now the the Communists may further said that a word coming from the Com- an immediate ceasefire followed here today. No casualties were
government would munist front-mea is that by the establishment of coalition reported.
elections" non-Comanunist "utional
and a governments in the three Asso-
The tremors which followed are best clated States before the holding in the wake of those which killed "The NATO Council therefore Nationalist elements would be coalition
government the
tortured Southeast of elections. Aslan
nation. Only United Nations con- This switch was widely inter- Senior Western officials who day also in peace and harmony with
for making anti-EDC speeches trolled elections would enable proted hare meaning that met today were however under- buildings Government. last month shortly after he had the Vietnam
Commmunism people freely to world
has now stood to oppose a ceasefire it. it Soups, Improved diplomatic been relieved of his posts as choose their government, these decided to play for all of Indo-; were not accompanied by a the village were temporarily cut, relations now depend on Vice Chairman of the High sources added.
China rather than a part of it. political settlement safeguarding
Panic-stricken people rushod Council of the French Armed Meanwhile, It was reported The foeling diplomusic circles those areas not already held by from their houses as the tremors Chinese reciprocity. Britain worces and permanent adviser that the head of the Vietminh is that the Vietminh leader Ho the Vietminh. cannot reasonably be
rocked the provinces of Thessaly to the French Government on delugation arrived here yester-Chi-minh, has won his military expected to do more. It la
national defence.
day and that be,
Deputy For-Aght for a major part of Viet- France's position at the talks and Ethfotis. quite uscleas for the Chinese A NATO spokesman told eign Minister Pham Van Dong, namese territory and tie can is shadowed by the threat to M. People at Volos, Domokos, to "wish" and "hopa" in the Reuter tonight: "The NATO was considering a proposal to now gamble politically for the Joseph Laniel's Government Lamas and Pharmala slept out. most sanctimonious terms Council now has reason to be organise clections after the remainder,
ursing from the confidence doors. Tremors alaD shook for this improvement. There Heve that the Marshal will be formation of a
change in Communist vote on Its Indo-China policy Missolonghi and Agrinion
followed have himself. He will stay onį ernment.
the deduc must be
take place in the western Greece. positive
and, we hope, walch his There wero Indications that | claration last week of Sir National Assembly tomorrow, Seismologists said the earth- ovidence of this in its
tongue."-Reuter.
contacts had been established Winston Churchill and Proxi- actions towards Great
The leaders dent Eisenhower.
The Vietminh delegation quakes were powerful enough
to destroy all that was left Britain, for example, the
of the Anglo-American alliance arrived yesterday and delegates the region after Friday's disas creation of a diplomatic
ruled out any immediate inter- from Loos
1er which destroyed 2,040 ference with armed forces in reported to have reached houses and left another 6,551 representation in London o.
Indo-China. Previously, Western Saigon оп their Way here. uninhabitable>>Reuter. at least equal status with
diplomats had underlined that Vietnamese leaders leave Paris that of the British Embassy in Peking. Mr Eden has shown ́commendable Initia- tive and, in the light of American resentment,' oven
Bomo
coalition
The gov-
Doctors Fear For Hunger
Fasting Pacifist
".
emphasis
in
10
the uncertainty about US tonight.
the
and Cambodia are
tobe Comet Will Be
Geneva, May 6.
remove a A doctor persuaded Swiss police not to courage in his meetings and hunger fasting Indo-Chinese pacifist to hospital here last French Foreign Minister, M. the full composition of his Back, Forecast dealings with Mr Chou En night because he feared he might use lal in Genova. It is a reason- polsons. ablo
non
in
intentions in Southeast Asia The Vietnam head of State,
possibility of intervention
the biggest bargaining Bao Dal, is reported
delaying 10003 arinouncement of weapon in the hands of the hidden suicide Georges Bidault.
delegation until the M. Bidault is hopeful that the governmental politkai leaders
London, May, B Secretary
of State, Bir John to take part havo been chosen
Air- The British European. 11 Assumption that
probably before the weekend on The pacifat,. 34-year-old Voagrooment This war-torn Foster" Dulles, now back In Reater. China does take this step] Song Thiet, has lived on a few country,
ways Director, Mr Peter Maso- Washington, may take steps
feld, stated hos
hore
today he has towards putting relations glasses of water in the past Doctors fear he may soon fall soon to restore his, negátiating
that, the "every confidence. between the two countries on four days to back his appeal to seriously But, they are
position... However, members
Comet airliner will be back in a better footing it will bring both the Communist and non-afraid to move him to hospital, the French delegation here have
quick nearer the day when there corting is blocs to "etoy, sup because they think he may have be
secreted : drugs on him-which
He thought it would be found the Indo-China war." !
change in the Communist line, he would use to take his life, s
Manila, May 1. will be à vast improvement
{that there was some simpla ex- Mr Nevlla Charles Gardiner, i pianalion to, if thesis "terrible, In trade which both coun- He lles on a camp bed-in-svo said soon after he started they are circulating a pescise
for Indo-Chinese pesce First Secretary (Commercial) tragedy of the Comet tries soek. This is more the tiny tent pitched only tone's fasting that he "thought"
he plan
Culminate of the British Legation - here, Ko"was speaking at elime for the beaceful collant United Monica he did not say whether the national elections and a coalition did ourly this morning after a ing of the incorporated
throw from the Nations Fouki last for eight days. But which would existence between East and Ministers of many nation are was time limit for he fast derqvernment including Ho's sort has diagnose, BEADS Zacks: Ansociation- West
to meet abon to try to reach (kil" moititzance limit,|--Reuter," Communiata.com United kn
opphalitia,--Rauta
of
to seize upon the
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