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CHINA
No. 35812
Established 1845
MONDAY, MAY 10, 1954.
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NEW INDO-CHINA DANGER
Ceasefire Proposal From Reds
Expected
Geneva, May 10.
The Communists are ex- temporarily been slayed in pected to counter France's ati plan for an internationally Indo China exista in Indo-China. Com-supervised munist China is powerfully armistice here today with a armed today and there is no|
call for
immediate suggestion vet that her "ceasefire."
Threat To Red
River Delta
OUTPOSTS NEAR
HANOI LOST
Hanoi, May 9. Communist-led Vietminh rebels have captured two outposts in the rich rice-bowl area near Hanol, Russia, China and the Indo- it was announced tonight.
urmies have ended their so- called "liberation" of Asin. Moreover, American scapa tion of Japan was breontignution
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Chinese Vietminh regime have not indicated what their Une will be at today's resumed nine-
peace talks. too costly and therefore the Western delegates believe they
have further bloodshed.
The
The Western Powers oppose a censetre without guarantee because they say it would leave the Vietminh with large
penetrate the
areas
logical measure was to allow | me muklous 10 Wrest
France from the Japanese some sort of cutrativs
by national defence system that is truce now would its QWH. 1 in probably explious to recall now that Japan's postwar constitution specifically states: "the
from which to Japanese people forever
rest of Indo-China by wster. nounce war and war poten-leur
ground means, That will
be main- Mr Anthony Exten And Mr tained." No amendment to Vyacheslav Mojolov, the Britsh the constitution was needed art Soviet Foreign Ministers, to rearm Jupion however, for are die
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A military spokesman said that a detachment from an estimated 100,000 Red troops in the vital delta swarmed over a post held by Vietnamese National Guard troops only 16 miles southeast of Hanoi. A second Vietnamese post near Phuly, 30 miles south of here, fell to the Red night attackers.
Vietminh night raidors also shot up a French stronghold west of Phuly, which guards an important cross-roads on the strategic Haiphong-Hanoi rail line, The railway has been a prime sabotage target of Com- munist guerillas for months.
The Red River delta is the key to a victory for all northern Indo-China.
of dogged flighÁTR.
to
communication between north Vietnam and Luang Prabang." Gen, Navarre said.
manoeuvrability by theagan hol up the conference,parachute
generation
of
militarista
ference.
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HỌ CHI MINH
Demonstration
In Paris:
11 Policemen
Injured
the
HỌ CHI-MINH
Desires To Negotiate With France
States Attitude
Ho
In Interview
London, May 9, Chỉ mình Vietminh leader, was quoted by the New China News Agency today as saying "It is our firm stand to negotinte with France on the basis of independence, unity and democratic freedom for a
armistice ceasefire,
and restoration of peace in Indo- China,"
Now China Nows Agency issued an interview given by Ho Chi-mini: to the Anlats. News Agency of Indonesia on April 22 and released
cod by the Vietnam News Agency.
The interview has also been broadcast by several Communist racho stations today.
Ho Ch-minh sald: “The m of the herole struggle carried on by the Vietnamese people is to bring
forth a peaceful, undled, independent, democratic and free nation.
in
1946 the
peaceful settlement Vietnamese question."
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new flood threat today Assam State, where rapidly rising rivers have mark
prased the safety and spilled over into sar- roodding countryside.
Reports reaching here today said fearful villagers of
threatened areas
hurriedly packed household goods anticipating evacua- tion if the rivers continuo to rise.
According
to reports,
the
Lwo main rivers, tho Brahmaputra and Lohit were swollen and turbulent
the causing
great danger. Floodwaters from Brahmaputra were already covering the rallway and main bighway connecting Assam with India to A three-foot depth.
All train and ferry wer- vlees have been suspended In the area, reports sald-- Reuter,
Smugglers In Running
Tel. 21433.
Border Clashes: 2 Killed
Two
were
Tel-Aviv, May 9.
Israeli policemen killed this morning during border clashes be- tween Torieli border police patrol a Jordanian force which penetrated into Israel territory west of Bethlehem, an laraeli military apokes- man said tonight.
The spokesman said that the Israel patrol encountered "an med Jordanian forge that crossed lines into Israeli near Khirbo! In the west of Bethlehem.
He said the Jordanians opened fire and that during the exchange of fire, two uell policemen fell wounded.
The Jordanian force superior in numbers and directing heavy automatic fre against tho faraclis, torcid the antall patrol to withdraw in order to ceil re- inforcement
tro
The two wounded policenon, who were
left lying on the Rcene, disappeared when the re inforced Ismell unit returned, spokesman said, adding that a Jordanian broadcast reported today that the bodies of the two I raclis were hands. Fano, Italy, May 9. Italian Customs men
Gun Fight
seized over a ton of Ameri- can cigarettes after a run- ning gun fight near here to
of Ancona.
of
Adriatic
to knock
the
the
in Jordanian
Any sources here said the number of Incidents among the Israeli-Jordanian border had in- creased in the past few - days after a lull.
NEW SECURITY DEPARTMENT
Washington, May 9. The White House tonight con- big portfirmed press reports that a new Internal security division wili ba contraband set up within the Justice De- costs 240 partment to speed up the pro- nad secution of spies and other sub- the verstve elements.
befor The ༨,4༤༥»བེེཌཱུat] ression opens in The The French Commander-in- On the other hand, they said, rearmament was instigated Palace of Nations to resolve a Chief
that the 111 Ino-China, Gen. Gen. Cogny predicted na a defensive measure, procedural (fficulty which arose Henri Navarre, Issued a state- 7! Tru Communists
"The Vietnamese people have
desired
Tension was now noticeable weapon of future at the very first session
assuming !h intent
responsibility strike again into Laas In
to achieve the day. always Independence and liberation of gression.
A motorcycle Customs patrol even in the sectors which were The Japanese Saturday. This stemmed from for stationing
port of Red demands in tieneva the garrison al
Paris, May 10. Government bent over back-a Vietminh
that the Dien Bien Phu, which fell
Vietnam In a peaceful way and saw a heavily-laden lorry drive fairly quiet in past years. that the puppet regimes of Letos
Eleven policemen
This afternoon, Jordan, mar- were that was why with France the
a lonely away from erbet
"Khmer" movements of
the Communists after
and Cambodia be given seals nl 60 days wards
tars shelled an Israeil infantry to preserve this
tho Ars Cambodia and "Pathet Lao"
Indo-China peace con-injured, none seriously, in Democralle Republic of Vietnam beach shortly before dawn. The unit dug in on the slopes of two Jusion. To have an armyn 1er should take part in the
the frame- "I was within
French-amugglers tried clashes yesterday with sup-signed
hills near Khirbotilin, wost of Bays Mr Yoshida, does not enference.
work of operational necessitles
pursuing Customs men off their Bethlehem, an
Israeli army constitute having
A WRANGLE
"It was only after the French motorcycles by bombarding spoltesman said. that I took the responsibility of The data, however, is the Maporters of General Charles Vietnamese agreement,
prize in the whole de Gaulle, who tried to form colonialists violated the agree them with cartons which burst potential. He makes the The Western Powers and all choosing Dien Bien Phu, this
He said it was the first time the pursuers with Associated
nation's rice a procession to march downment and imposed war on the showering apecious plen that in Japan's three
Dthat Jordan had used such arms States of choice also has been approved war for it is the
Government." Indo-China Vietnam,
bow?. Cam by the French
the Champs Elysees, accord-
hall of cigarettes. PRODIE CRM the army is merely a
in border incidenta, (a the While three Vietminh infantrying to an announcement to-
The leader of the people were com- bodia and Laos
patrol drew
The shelling followed several rejected the Gen. Navare srid. peace-preserving force, that Dod
pelled to take
and The French Commander said divisions reformed with
level
fired demand. But the
at the lorry hours after a small-scale battle conterence
in upbring the war-renouncing C'un-wa
resistance. The the decision to plant a garrison Chinese-equipped artillery divi day.
driver who then entered into
who, with the others on in which the two hills inside Vietnamese a wrangle stitution even allows the over who were the
French pilots in the far-off Thai country had slon regrouped. host aa-
No figures were given of de- people today still stand for a board, leapt from the lorry and Israeli territory changed hands. defence build-up. Yet it is tions - the
the in-foot It is believed that the Israeli been taken fast autumn when reported long lines of prisoners
the disappeared into "Big Four", the
monstrators' injuries.
high reeds of the Meature River unit suffered a undeniable
number of Five" including
the Vietminh was on the point captured at Dien Bien Phu were the safe. “B!g
Com~
Several people being marched north to Com-
were detained
marshlands.
casualties in wounded-Reuter. guards provided in the two munist C, or the nine states [of invading Laos.
one had been
GENEVA "HOPE"
of Examination
the torry bill passed by the Japanese who began
"In the face of the Red threat, munisi prison camps near the briefly and only meeting 00
Asked whether, in his view, revealed a new tobacco arrested, the report sald. Saturday.
it was a question of linding in Chinese frontier. lower house last week do not
smuggler A paratroop lieutenant, wear- the Geneva Every French radio monitor-
conference would route across Europe. The cases lo the
the high region an anchor-point major by
guarantee Powers to settic
a peaceful settlement of had any means
the question
for our forces, une placed nearing station was turned to Coming the Croix de Guerre he won reach
been shipped from the that the su-called "hell t
outside the conference room
the principal lines of Vietminh munist propaganda channels for in Indo-China, led the march in the conficts in Indo-China and United States to Hamburg, then defence forces" will never and Mr Eden and Mr Molotov
word on the fate of Dien Bien favour of General de Gaulle in Korea, he replied: "I sincerely to the Yugoslav
port of Rijeka Phas commander Brig-Gen. front of the Are do Triomphe wish the Geneva conference (the former by used for war,
are expected to find an answer
Fiume) and were Christian De Castries and the yesterday.
can bring about or contribute anally run across before the delegates reassemble
the Adriatic lone nurse
Shouting the Marseillaise and to a peaceful settlement of the to near Fano, which is 30 miles The Dien Bien Phu site was Galard Terraube who tended the chanting De Gaulle to Power" Indo-Chinese and Korean quts-northwest chosen because it afforded ler- garrison's wounded and dying the marchers procedural questions do not
A swelled from rain for a landing Beld to which until the end.
small knot to a largo parade as Replying to a question about reinforcements could Pham Mr
vari Dong, Vietminh
Communist broadcasts, which the crowds ning the Chumps the United States, Ho Chi-minh
A packet of 20 Deputy Prins who still survive in Japan.continue the
be dropped. Minister,
sald the commander of Dlert Elysees will
American cigarettes broke DENIES DIFFERENCES
said through
"The ruling circles therO Bien Phu had been captured but speech
Lire (about two shillings he began If military on Saturday.
Gen. Navarre derzied
there did not refer to De Castries by Darriers to form up behind the arc endeavouring to frustrate a tenpence) In Italy agains!
peaceful settlement of the Indo-Government pre
of 300 Lire The announcement came one The Communists have already
difference of views be- name, indicated that the gallant paratrooper's tricolour banner.
Chinese question, actively inter- they will implied
that they
him and Gen. Rene little Frenchman whose fina!
BRIEF SCUFFLE
(four shillings and twopence.)— month after the inauguration of wül reject Comy, French Commander in "au revoir" electrified
vening in the war and
and attempt- Reuter. France ready made France's plan for an armistice the Tonkin area, either in the was alive, French officials be-
order to
new
Army, Navy and Air Instrument for controlling that would mean the complete selection of the Dien Bien Phu lieved,
Force Security programme de There was a brief scuffle with ing to spread it in
turn Indo-China into a colony the nation and shaping withdrawal
Bigned to keep the arined forces of the
police as they moved forward, Vietminh
site or subsequent battlo tactles. dictatorship.
free af "security risks" There is no forces from Laos and Cambodia
French stuff offers said, too, but police did not draw their of the United States to enslave "Such an allegation is totally they had high hopes
the peoples in Indo-China and
London, May 9. Mr William Tompkins, 41, within inexact.
that the batons or guns, likelihood of this happening and their regroupment
chose Dien Bien Phu
to undermine peace in the Far Most of Britain had warm Federal Red
New In prosecutor nurse survived the specified
Meanwhile, another crowd had East and the world." regions in Vietnam, Additional
11 conplate eccord
with Gett. avalanche that poured over Dien regrouped at the arch itselt,
sunny weather again today with Jersey, will be named by Pre- mupport for
"The Vietnamese 2 | Curry, he said.
Bien Phu on Friday. The main where another ex-paratrooper firmly opposed to such activities degrees.
people are temperatures rising above 60sident Eisenhower tomorrow expected rejection саме jast
Gen. Navarre said that after hospital where she worked where General will call us when the part of the United States and west Wales. -China Mall, the new division, the announce
as were clouds (Monday)
asalstant been night in New China
urged them to go home, saying and designs of aggression News the
on only over. southwest England | Attorney-General in charge of shaken recently Agency
e outside the main battle zone and quoted by the bribery scandals and Mr Ho Chi-minh, the Vietminh considered plans to relieve the shell could pierce it, they said.
he and Gen. Cogny had 50 for underground no heavy ho needs us.”
ruling circles," he added.
moni said,Reuter. Special. by its fallure to grapple leader,
There were other Isolated in- would embattled garrison by attacking
The next question was: with the country's economic stand firm for a ceasefire armis-supply routes of Gen. Vo Nguyen French
Informed reports said thu
thu cidents in nearby parts of the "What in your opinion are the problems. Mr Yoshida, it is tice and
High settlement in
Command has city but no serious injuries.
essential Glap's forces. that order.
ali 118 available
.out in almost вній, ін
The police, ឌ immediate
Meanwhile, in no
achieving lasting wor forces armarked
troops for the defenco of the unprecedented strength with World peace," said Ho, "can danger of losing the
POSSIBLE TACTICS throughout the Delta area were delta, South Asia's richest single lorry londs of reserver called be secured if the nations of the It
belleved Was "Premiership because there
In come ordered to tighten defences in
Cogny said in an from the provinces, жете on quarters here today that the preparation
world, Is по
for a Communist area. Gen.
especially likely successor
the major Communists might try to avoid thrust by the cute forces that that its capture was the Num- because of the non-Communist sp
order of the day to his troops generally good natured posibly Powers, are willing to settle the entire political scene,
coming to grips with the basic smothered Dion Blen Phu in
disputie through negotiation Far from producing com issues for a week or so in the support of
ber One target of his opponent, nature of the demonstrations. and K the Red guerillas
the now
peoples of Vietminh fort this thought arouses hope of applying more military rampant in the rier-rich region.
Commander-in-Chief! They swung their white batons world refuse to be bindfolded Gen. Vo.
only when a band of youths tried by the warmongers Reliable the gravest doubts about pressure on the French in Indo-
SLICES disclosed
and take to break into the Elysee Palace the future trend of China.
themselves the responsi that Gen.
RESERVES DEPLETED Cogny elroarty has Japanese politica. We need
The fall of The collapse of Dien Bien Phu warned the highest French and
Dien Bien Phu not suppose that in the has already exposed France's Vietnam offet is that the Com- after 56 days of heroic defence future Japan will neces-and the dimeulties the French room on Hanoi and complete the reserves in the Tonkin province.
military weakness in Vietnam munista might begin matching badly depleted French aarily or oven consciously Union force would face in re- 180-mile advance from Dien A French Command spokesman embark on a war directed srting a major offensive against Bien Phu within two weeks, said the garrison included at the control of Asia as in Hanol, capital of the rich Delta riding in Soviet-built Molotov about paratroops, North African, Vicinamese and 1942. There is ample scope area of Tonkin.--Router.
Foreign Legion battalions plus "valuable material" most of
fnet extrumista. Government And
IL
re-enter the
in the immediate future even though Mr Yoshida's Government severely
has
and many protexts already for "assistance" to be given to many of its unfortunate
neighbours threatened by the advance of Communism. What nobler aim could the aggressore have than that! they were helping to defeat Communiam in Asia? In the light of these considera-
are
message. This
saying ho
peace
was u tween
'rongpoint had been
trucks,
French
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Union
upon
conditione for world peace?"
President Coty-Reuter. bully, to defend world peace!
Ho Chí Minh described
"criminal" the activities United States "warmongers”
ATTÁCK MADE whom he accused of spreading
ON TRAIN
2 war of aggression in Asia, undermining peace In Asia, enslaving the Asian peoples and bringing about military alliances in Southeast Asia. which tho defenders had of a passenger and freight train "These activities undoubtedly
Tunis, May 8.
personnel
The engineer and
Rode Under Train From destroyed before the redoubt's were injured today, when the will meet with determined op
Yugoslavia To Paris.
Pari, May 9.
Fall.
What is your
train was fired upon about 10 position by the peoples of the French Supreme Commander alles from Mellaoui in Southern whole of 20 k
Navarre warned bluntly Tunis two injured men wero
WELCOMES IDEA yesterday that the Indo-China
Question: war will have to be inter taken to hospital in Mellaout. opinion on the suggestion made pationalised if the current, peace They were fired at by several by the Indonesian Prime Minis- talks in Geneva tall to produce men from behind the rockster that a conference of Arian France offered the Hospitality of a police station peace, because France
African cannot bordering the track. Eight hits and
'states bo tions it is impossible to tonight to three refugees who said they rode carry on the war alone.
were found on the locomotive. organised?? claim that the many fears under a crack international express train all the way
He warned that the Dien Bien The train managed to con- Answer: "We welcome 011 held about the recent trend!
Phu siego ushered in a new eleiinue to within about five miles international conferences which of events in Japan
from Yugoslavia to Paris seeking political asylum.
contribute to peace in the Far ment: The Vietminh army horibe Melisoul-France-Presse. 'groundless
East and the world.". and if the Ono claimed American birth.junder a coach of the luxury
been transformed into a formid able striking force, thanks to a Western world was realis». The three men, two Yugoslavs train yesterday after its pas
of Communis tie enough to. understand and a Bulgarion, were found sengers unloaded at the Care de grow ng Dow
Chinose ald. that Japan must bo yesterday aboard the famous Lyon,
French spokesman flatly No other details' of their digit allowed to rearm, it is Simplon-Orient Express. One of
rebels would right to insist that proper the Yugoslavs said he was born were reported by the police. The stated that the
in Virginia.
three, though not under arrest, not have conquered Dien Bien safeguarda bo taken to
Phu
without counsels of were provided accommodation Chiness prategists, provent the dreaded Police procedure shredded the at a Police alation pending en
A bus which mounted the ones in the Far Fort and the resurgence of militarism fatory of their strange |escapes | official decision, ots their status The threat of a general Viet-pavement after being in collision peaceful settlement, of, the Indo-
minh offensive against Hanoi with pending official interrogation by as refugiose, in that country and to pre the Sureto, Nationale special, Railway workers who found which some French staff officers crashed into a
a car here last night | Chinese question.
telophone kiosk
my opinion, so long as vent the destruction of its political Division tomorrow. But the duo gave them
shower belleve might come this month killing a woman, and critically Indoners family opposes the democratic constitution police at puburban Bercy mid and after the pollos arrived they or early June touched off a" injuring a mate kompanion who United Biales a scheme to which oven now in being the trio crawled out, dand-kirei wee bed and beaded down near panla among the 3,000 was in the kiosk with ber;-establish military sillances in interpreted far soo-liberally, and covered with moot, · „tron / United Pro.
(Contd en besk page Col 13 China: Mall SpeciaL;
(Centé, en bok púgy, Ost, 4)
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BUS RUNS INTO PHONE KIOSK
Coventry, May 9.
Question: What". In
your opinion can Indonesia contri bute for an early cessation of the Indo-Ching war? ASSE
Answer: "Every effort made Lor by the Indonesian, people
world is a contribution for the
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