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[ISTORY is not short of
men who have sought, and won, notoriety through falsifying facts and com- promising truth in their publie utternuces, but few have employed this tech- nique in Auch JL blatani mauner as Senator Joseph McCarthy, The Fundamental trouble about Mr McCarthy, of course, in that he suffers from what appears to be an incurable complex-u dis like. mounting almost to hatred, of Britain and any- thing that is British. And because he cannot control his feelings, ja, to him, natural that he should prevariente and alandor whenever he talks about Bri- tain. Thus he has taken hold of " perfectly straight- forward House of Commons statement by Mr
Peter Thorneyeroft, President of the Board of Trade, which dealt with the question of trade between the Western alties and the Soviet bloc ini Europe, and twisted it nu fantastically that he has been able to advance the allegation that Britain "planning to self conven- tional war weapons to Com
munist Chinn." The effron- tery of the Senator from
Wisconsin is given its full
worth when it is recullest
that Mr Thorneycroft, in
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Vietminhese The Craft That Caused The Panic Lose Seat
Saboteurs Active
FRENCH COMMANDERS
IN CONFERENCE
London, May 21.
Growing tension was reported last night from Hanoi, the Tonking capital, where French com- manders are conferring on measures to save the surrounding “rice bowl" of North Indo-China threatened by un advancing Vietminh army of 30,000 strong.
The Vietminh are daily blowing up trains and attacking road communications between Hanci and its supply port of Haiphong, Reuter despatches from Paris said.
Air and shipping companies are besieged by people wanting to get out, business is almost at a standstill and the chief firms are trying to move their machinery to Saigon or Haiphong.
his speech, made particular Requests for permission to transfer money abroad reference to the fact that have trebled, according
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Commander's Skill At Manoeuvres Caused Submarine Scare
London, May 20.
Commander B. C. G. Hutchings of the British submarine Scorcher was ordered today to practise evasive action in manoeuvres with other British Naval craft.
He did.
And so successfully did he play his game of hide and seek with the Navy that for a tense 20 minutes Britain
feared it had suffered a submarine disaster.
RIOTING
to reports reaching Paris. BY NATIVE
of an imminent
any easing of trade restrie-There has been a run on tinned foods. Vietminh agents tions between WEAL zunish are believed to be spreading rumours East did not include Com drive to cut off Hanoi from Haiphong.
Wherefore,
Vietminh M
pressure
has in-
munist Chitta. McCarthy once again guilty of n gross distortion | crvused in the Southwest of the Tuets, and his tirade Red River deŝa, leading to tear of before the Senate cannot
of an attempted beek thugh even rank us an interpretar Phuly, only 30 miles from
litwal Lion of the Thorneycroft) Ptatement.
To the British people Senator
School Ceiling Collapses
Bourges, France.
May. 20. The Roar of
a second- stores schoolroom broke and dumped
nearly * hundred screaming chlidren onto the floor below today.
The police sald youngsters were severely Injured and 83
others suffered cuts and bruises. As the celling gave way with
sudden roar, children. deaks, chairs,
seven
plaster and spilutered wood work were calapulted Lato
a gymnasium below which fortunately was 13-
time. occupied United Proc.
the
Sent To
Surface craft in the man. Oeuvres lost track 'of the Scorcher.
They hunted pains- faklagis
the ter
submerged craft. Then they dropped ex- plosive signols, ordering the Scorcher to disclose its poal- tion. These were unanswered.
Other explosive charges were ordering the sub- marine 10 surface. These brought no response.
Surface vessels flashed the grave
sub-smash "Operation
to the Admiralty, one" signal onouncing that the Scorcher down, unreported
And
machinery, of the. Royal Navy's
dropped WOMEN
I confined to Vietnam-the major battleground - The purely Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. military clauses of the two rival
May 20. pence plans would have much in
Screaming native women common. Both provide for re-
forces groupment of opposing with mixed armistice commis-
2,000 strong, battled police
French military quarters sald sions under control. hurling tear gas today, in a
In very serious situation would
develop it even one of the four
McCarthy is so obviously malign that there 15 110 danger of his posturings and travesties being taken Heriously. In the United States it in different. He is capable of deluding a lot of people and of successfully Besmirching the good name of the British Government. To that extent he is R menace. He is also a growing mes source of embarrassment to
MAJOR OBSTACLE
But one agreement
tu
ceded by agreement on The
Non-Communist
delegations
are increasingly disturbed
ہوتا
The main threat to the delt reports from Indo-China that ing back to the jungle.
truin Vietminh troops from. Dien Bien Phu, passing his own Administration. The down the Red and Black river Thorneycroft statement valleys,
which McCarthy has twisted Evacuation of wounded from
continued yes
the despite
official "suspension" of the French planes on
out of all recognition was Dien Bien Phu the product of a series of terday official meetings between French
agreemen!
the Communist Vietninh Binh soon launch an aliout attack on the
French-held Red Hiver Park
Dien Bien Phu fortress in north
British, American and Wednesday dropped delayed The capture of the deks, the
hit the
wife
wns
weared in trouble. The massive
Finally, another submarine,
was a game.
was
The familles of the 44 men aboard the Scorcher gave thanks. After a radioed explanation, the Admiralty ordered the manoeuvring vessels to "carry on."--United Press.
Extension Of
New Place Of Exile
Д
French sources said.
Announcement of the change
in Bourgulba's place of deten- ilon
to-
Seoul, May 20. Early returns here night showed that the Speaker of the National Assembly and leader of the Opposition, Mr P. Shinicky, is likely to lose his seat in the National Assembly Liberal Party candidato Choi In Kyu.
First
to
reports from Mr Shinicky's electorate of Kwangu gave Mr Choi a big lead,
Mr Shinicky has repeatedly protested of police interferencs In his electorate.
In a Scout electoraic, the Chairman of the Liberal Party and President Rhee's right hand man, Mr Leo Ki Poong, la leading the Opposition candidate, Mr Kim Son,
Mr Lee is regarded as one of the most Influential men in the Liberal Party.
No national trend is expected to show In the returns before to-
morrow,
Officials estimated that 90 per cent of eligible nine million electors had voted.-Reuter,
Britain Must Be Included
New
Washington, May 20. Zealand's Minister for External Affairs, Mr T. Clifton Webb, said today that he "could Ballsfactory nat conceive of a Southeast Asten alliance which did not include Britain.
You
And
will arise," he said.-Router.
was made by M. Pierre Buried With Volzard, French Resident Gen- eral in Tunisia, during a press Military Honours
conference.
Bourgulba was arrested.
by
the French at dawn on January 18,
1952,
after
of a wave terrorism spread across French North African
Goslar, Germany, May 20, Heinz Guderian, German General
to
MPs Seeking A Tax-Free Allowance
London, May 20. Conservative and Labour buck-benchors put forward a motion tonight propOWIAK .that
thousand their one sterling salaries should be fax- supplemented by
five hundred sterling expenses allowance.
free
The proposal will be de- bated fo the House of Commons on Monday, and members wil
'will probably be allowed a free vote with- out reference to party allegiance. If the motion is carried, the allowance may come into effect auto- matically without further discussion.
Brillah members of Par- llament receive leed than lexislators in the United States and some Common- wealth and European coun- tries, and a number have been feeling since the
the pinch Second World
is accepted that some, after paying secretarial, Postage, travelling and other expenses, have only about 2 weekly left of their salaries towards lv- Ing coats. China Mail Special
School Youths Run Riot In
NY Subway
New York, May 20. More than 500 screaming high school youths risted in a Bronx subway today, ter- rifying passengers brutally beating a portez,
The police held 110 students for questioning.
The others, however, jumped over the turnstiles, ripped down a gato and entered a train. They then unscrewed light bulbs from the sockets and threw them out
Passengers cringed in terror as the youths began breakding windows. The train Anally started, but the rioters stopped it repentedly by pulling the emergency brake cord.
was sent
to ho
former who created The poster this the crack armoured Panzer hospital. The polico said pro-divisions, was buried here to was beaten in the face and body tectorate, causing the death of day with military honours. He when he tried to prevent the scores of persons.
last Friday aged 65 youths from ripping up irdin seats-United Press..
died Reuter.
the
Mr Webb made the statement when questioned by reporters after conferring with the Unitori States Secretary of State. My John Foster Dulles, on indo China Tunis, May 20,
developments in Habib Bourguiba, Tunis- Southeast Asia. rlot protesting against rescue apparatus was set tian nationalist leader held
Earlier today Mr Webb pald rule that bans unmarried | motion.
in custody by the French what he called "a purely social The authorities said the lot cine visions which took Dien
SIGNAL NOT HEARD mothers from this Colonial major obstacle
began when about 3,000 students Bien Phu opened assault on
The Scorcher, meanwhile, had since January 18, 1952, was call" on President Elsenhower at is the Communist capital's African quarters. the delta positions.
evaded Its
surface trackers so removed from the island of the White House, Wave after wave
Mr Webb refused to give any were turned away, from a high of the well that their explosive signals Galite, 80 miles northeast General Ely, Froh Chief-of-demand that a ceasefire be pre-
women, hundreds carrying Stuff, had talks in Hanoi with political future of Indo-China. their
were unheard. bables on thetr backs,
of Tunis, to the island of details of his discussions with school track meet which, wo Mr Dulles today. He replied called off because of rain. Most General Rene Cogany. Nurth The French plan makes a ceam. rushed to hurl bricks and uso Indo-China
the Upstart, established sonic Groix, a few miles off the sharply when he was reminded of the youths passed quietly Commander, and
na; fire the priority question,
to through the subway turnstiles. the North Vietnam leaving the politeal settlement tng the main road of Lusaka.
their Osts against police guard-contact with the missing sub coast of Brittany in France, that Britain was reluctant
Asian also saw
a Southeast negotiate Governor,
after an Nguyen Huu
devious it was announced tonight. anxious and Dove
Tin Vietnam to follow.
The police used lear ga: chase between an alarmed seeker General Ely is to assess Ho
The Tunisian nationalist lea-pact before the outcome of the
Geneva Aslan peace i en
conference bomber to repel the mob
and situation and report back to the
and m unwillingly coy hider der was scheduled to board retreated scream- the women
was known and when, asked if which thought the whole thing special plane tonight and reach New Zealand French Government.
would sign off his new place of exile Hundreds of women
march-
treaty without Britain. When Cmdr. Hutchings
France's northwest coast some-
jo are asking ed ints
the municipal car informed all Britain was
time tomorrow afternoon, speculate on а hpyothetical of windows and flung seats onto at dawn to begin aalarmed, he brought his craft to
Bituation which I do not think the tracks. demonstration against a regula the surface. delto. The storming of the
ilon requiring native WOIRET With embarrassed relief, the Vietnam. was
to have marriage licences be- Admiralty called off the elabor- regarded as л deliborate military tactic to put locations.
fore they
in can live
town ate search and Tescue pro- Lusoka's nativo cedures, pressure on the negotiators at
quarters hold 50,000 African the peace table here.
workers.
When the mob ignored an French government repre- action bombs on the strategic richest
Vietnam prize in the
order to disperse mid- Those meetings road from
throw sentatives
would the fortress to the campaign
the afternoon, the pollee moved in were held for the express rim of the delta, uming them Western delegations into the The women fought officers with ||
Vietminh night greatest confusion here, it was bare hands and tossed bricks purpose of exploring the to of possibility
revising conveys.
thought in conference quarters, and atones. Then tear gas was The French Government has Though it would weaken the used and the women fled, Western trade policies vis-
Troops equipped with Sten recalled the
of General immediate position of the West a-vis Russia and the Com-Christian de Castries to Paris in
the
peace talks, it would guns stood by but did not fire, munist countries inf
lead to a general Hundreds of European To- Europe.
they into Moreover
the fall of the fortress
anti-Com-sidents stood outside the car park the
the reaulted £71
her munist attitude. amicable Shc
lu touch with
tussle-United Was
The United States, in particu-Press. agreement. Senator husband, the commander of the
by McCarthy ignores all this in gorrison.
radio-telephone lar, might urge an immediate from Hunot almost up to the break in the negotiations, it is his determination
last morden(Reuter,
believed-Reuter. roiterato his anti-British feelings, but in so doing he
GENEVA LATEST
WOUNDED DECORATED also, by implication, blasts hie
Republican
Gengva, May 21,
Hanol, May 20. The wine nations trying to end General Paul Ely, the French Administration. London can
the seven-year Indo-China war
arrued forces chief of staff, lo-
The French also afford to
the
accused shrug off
Paris, May 20. hope today to start discussing day decorated 27 wounded Senator's hostility, but not the military terms for an armis veterans evacuated from Dien
The French National Assem-three years with provision for Bourguiba of Issuing to
in then Promier of Tunisia (fator Perija- on
a gradual 10 per cent cut Ho Washington. McCarthy's tice, conference sources said.
Blen Phu with the Militarmentory
himself arrested and exited), Immunity today tariffs, implication is that the US Russia paved the way for
Medal-France's highest military examined the French Govern- In lettor to Mr Charles Mohammed Chenik, a 48-hour Administration has discussion of ceasefire condition award for non-commissioned men's
ultimatum for the lodging of request to
of Chicago, who with 28 ltimat prosecute Percy
the United Nations connived in a treacherous at the third Indo-China secret soldiers,
Edmond Goubert, Deputy of other businessmen called on Mr an appeal Wednesday. Mir
in stat to to help the
country British plan
gaining French settlements in India, on | Elsenhower on April 20 war Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet other
29 wounded with the the charge that he undertook to obtain his
from France, weapona to
Foreign Minister, suggested that Croix de Guerre during a visit "remove from French authority trade policy, the President sald Communist
The Chinn. Well might Mr they shelve the Cambodia and to Lanessan Hospital.
ho UN a territory coming under his he considered enactment of his made to tho
Security Harold Stassen describe the Laos issue for the time being
The Commander-in-Chief In nuthority."
trade programme, which cil by the Chenik government, Foreigh Senator'a criticism as and start at inday's secret meet- Indo-China, General Henri The request for ling he outlined to Congreg on This infuriated the French and,
fantastic, unbelievable and In, to reconcile the military
the Navarre,
former the Communist and
Com- Coubert's immunity was trans-March 30, as "Indispensable to with unrest continuing despite General, Kaput mitted by the French Minister the woric that this Administra dismissed Chenik from his poet untrue," but it in unlikely parts of
Bourguiba's arrest, they later French peace plans, reaction fully But the Western Powers will Salan, and the commander of of Overseas Territories.
tion must do in the national in and sent him into exile with the forces in North Vicinom, The Committee decided to ask terest" represents the Adminiatra-put a big "ir" in their acceptance General
Goubert, who has left the terri- Rene Cogny; accom tion's feelings about the of the Soviet proposal. They are | Mimi
d'ho favoured Con United Press.
his Cabinet-- Ho sald General Ely on history of French settlements in McCarthy tirade. The expected to agree only if it in panied
gressional committee hearing |India, to appear before the Com-
on the programme early next mittee balore June 8.
Three deputies were appointed year and "since the present act examine the government's expires on June 12, 1964, a the simple one-year extension will request, representing Radical-Socialist Party, the ex-
of course be required for the Gaullist (URAS). Party and the interim parlod."--Router. i Christian Democrats (MRP), France-Pressa.
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even
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thin
2171
to sell
to
to give evidence at an Inquiling of
session
on
The General decorated
mander-in-Chlor
voluble and truth-deriding clear from the outset that there hospital four.
can be negotiations on Lans All four have been engaged
watching
Official May Be Prosecuted
bly's Committee
Senator may discover before and Cambodia-except for the in the present talks regarding long that he has been dig- complete withdrawal of the in- the
situation In North Viot-to ging his own political grave. vading Vietminh troops.
nam.—France-Presse.
Eden-Chou En-Lai Meeting Conciliatory
BABY BOY FOR PRINCESS
.
Trade Act
reason for arrests
The arrest of Bourguiba and 11 other Neo-Destour (New Independence) Party members Washington, May 20.
was explained by the French President Elsenhower aug-Residency General as a measure
1% "put an to
candi gested today that he would be
the system- satisfied for the time being with atic agitation, which has been a simple one-year extension of aimed at defeating the mission the Reciprocal Trade Act of conciliation with which the Resident General was entrusted boyand June 12.
He had previously asked Con- by the French government”,
Kreas to
extend the law for
vlews
the
on foreign Independent was actually i
members
of
Coun
Communist Comment On Talks
London, May 20. The Communist New China
News Agner said today that Lisbon, May 20. the Far East conference Lut
*
A six-year-old boy, Alding Geneva had so far produced në Geneva, May 20. views of Sovies Foreign Minis- it is understood that they are
Torres, in the North Portugal positive results despite "sincess The interview between Britishter, Mr Vyacheslav, Molotov, vonaldering the tactics to be
Los Angeles, May, 20. village of Bandiaes, is reported efforts for peace? by: thể Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony who proposed yesterday that the followed when the restricted Mrs Rhiad Ghall, Princes to be sb, physically developed Russian and Chinese delegations: Eden, and Chinest Foreign conference should take up the session on Todo-China is re- Fathia of Egypt, today" gave that he already has to shaved While -- Americen Minister, Mr Chou En-lal this question of a cossedre in Indiozumed tomorrow.
birth to a seven-pound baby boy Aldino" who je mill too young keep up a high-
handed t morning was conciliatory, it was China.
Tonight, Mr. Eden will dine at Hit Vincent's Hospital here, as to affand the local school, is said compromising dati
attitude The mother and bar son were to be sa developed as in normal Glacieva
American Kero,
Ministers, who had met at Mr pected that the two Ministers reported to be doing well
youth of 11 od 20.30 He is 20 and Eden's residence, this morning, will try to reach an dgréemout The Challa live in nearby strong he puts: in full day's manoeuvring tà The source said that Mr Chou are holding another meeting on the procedure to be followed Beverly Hills. They, hare enöther on his father a fixa--- Southeast seemned to want to follow the this evening,
-France-Promat
Bon, Fasc...Undard Pressing him, Matt Epecial
learned from a rollable sOUTCO The three Western Foreign with Mr Molotov
lotov and it is 0-
tomo
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