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No. 35860
Established 1845
MONDAY, JULY 5, 1954.
New Hopes Of
Tighting in the Red River In Indo-China
delta would scem
to
Huggest that the "regroup- ment" of Vietminh forcen In Vietnam
not 13 subject that will be decided at the Geneva con- ference. It Is
very likely Cambodia To
the
that the Vletminh will win their demands on the fold of battle. In fact,
uk Com- present pattern munist intration, French withdrawals and rebel military advances continue, the Geneva conferença may) find there will be no need to debate the problem uf
the
Begin Cease-Fire
Talks
Six
Geneva, July 5. Cambodian Army
officers are flying here to day to begin cease-fire talks with representatives of the Vietminh High Command.
composition uf the Armistic E Commission team; this problem, too, muy be completely solved by the rebel conquest of the whole of Vietnam. It is difficult, almost Impossible to criticise the present French withdrawals in the Red River delta. Faced by over- whelming odds, the com- manders of
smal the
a vain stand in the outlying areas of the deita; better to withdraw
Its
The talks, ordered by the
FRENCH-CHINESE MEETING
VERY CORDIAL'
Geneva, July 4.
New contacts between the French and Com- munists at Geneva and the meeting of ceasefire teams near Hanoi spurred new optimism today for a settlement in Indo-China.
A French spokesman at the Geneva Far Eastern conference said a meeting last night be- nine-nation Indo-China peace tween the acting delegation chiefs, M. Jean On June are Chauvel for France and Li Ke-nung for Communist
Lusk of the China, last night was "very cordial."
19,
conference expected to start tomorrow.
principal
The
French force see no use it withdrawal from Cambodia of earlier reports of no progress. When the Viet- Is to arrange for the The prevailing mood was in sharp contrast to Invading Vietinin forces from Vietnam, the largest of the three minh levelled a week-end charge that the French Indo-China stales.
in the military committee on Vietnam were wreck- The Cambodian
ing the chances of ceasefire by excessive demands, the atmosphere became even cooler.
reconstitute
defences
for
military
the bigger battle to come- delegates are led by General this is the French military| Nhlek-Tioulong and Colonel
In the cuse Dap-Chhuon.
attitude.
FORMER LEADERS
of 140
group com- und
are
described
of the
Then M. Chauvel saw a member of the Chinese of Vietnam, this 15
delegation to discuss the deadlock in the Vietnamese Ho war against a foreign
This indicated how serious the Two
Military Committee, aggressor but an internal
situation had become. Puth-Chhay revolution which demanda mandants.
ChantaraingELY, to be put down by a strong
Communist
session The closed sources said military force and which, former leaders of the Com- bodian resistance movement"
in Trung Cia conference, originally WAA agreement if successful,
principle that the French
fixed for Monday morning, was postponed until the after- should have a regroupment noon, said the agency
queting area in the Red River delta French official sources. and the Vietminh in Cochin. China.
from
State
the after Jer Independence
there
a French enclave in the
will also who come over to the Govert demand the maintenance of meni slche this strong force in Vlet-achloved nam in perpatulty, France within the French Union. would be quite incapable ofj Similar military negotin lons this. It is very doubtful, too, for a cease-fire in Loos began at
The Communists maintain that whether the Vietnamese Geneva between officers of the
Franco-Laotian
Vietminh - the and themselves would want it,
armistice llae: should be High Commands on June 24. desiring as they do
Parallel even below" "the 18th COM- Officers
of tho Franco- with plote independence
High Commands have Vi, minh French colonial administru- been meeting here Intermittent- ly since June 2 to try to draw TURNING from Indo-China armistice lines and regroup-
for Vietnam, Ing zones Ania battleground of the seven-year
realised
All three sets of poraliel Burma
face not foreign milltary talks must submit Anat military aggression so muchlar interim reports to the con- as internal revolution led ference by next Saturday
tion.
Southeast
to the area as a whole it must be war.
and that Siam
by the Communists, Follow-
ing the awakening of thei
free world to the Communist
JOHNSON DUE
main
Mr U. Alexis Johnson, ag! ing
menace, it is unlikely that head of the United States dele-
the revolutionaries
gation
the
eight-week-old
can falks, is also due in Geneva to-
depend on much direct day military help from the Mr Johnson. Ambassador to leading Red stateя to Czechoslovakia, is returning from achieve their aims, Much, Prague after a flying week-end he nt- If not the whole pattern of visit to Prague where
fended his Embassy's celebra- Communist conquest will
tions of American Independence therefore depend on the Day yesterday. internal revolutionary or- The 21st secret session of the ganisations of these coun.conference will be held tomorrow tries. Would a Southeast the Palace of Notions. The Asia defence pact help to delegates are expected to con- of the reduce the Red threat? Un-inue their discussion
crucial armistice supervision doubtedly, Yes-88 NATO problem which has also been the saved Italy from falling to subject of behind-the-scenes
the domination of Italian East-West contacts during the Communiata. But in Italy's weekend.-Router.
Lull In Fighting
Paris. July 4. There was lull in the northern Indo-China fight- following the ing today, French evacuation yester- miles day of Phuly, 30 south of Hanoi in the Red River delta, according to reports reaching Parts.
Phuly
south- the west corner bastion of the new French defence net- work in the delta.
A
SVIN
French High
Com- today
mand communique mentioned only yesterday's
Phuly fighting at
and clash between the Vielminh and French mobile forces south-west of Mhat Tuu yesterday, when the Viet- and 53 minb lost 53 dead captured.
The fighting -கச not hinder the evacuation of Phuly which went accord-
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Settlement THE ROYAL NAVY
After The Operation
Persian Oil Settlement
Likely Today
►
"This afternoon the two delegations agreed the tasks, attributions, agenda, principles and methods of work of the conference," Union-Vielminh Issued after Sunday's session.
Beginning with the next session it will be possible to tackle concrete questions.
"said a faint French On Major Points-
communique
DURATION NOT KNOWN
- Teheran, July 5. An agreement on major points of a Persian oil settlement is expected to be reached today at negotia- tions between Government officials and a delegation minh experts met for a second representing eight world oil lime on Sunday at Trung Cla- companies. behind closed dours.
The military
of
ccase-fre group
of the delegates
Viet-
Franco-Vietnamese and
WAY
མ་
It was not known whether the western Journalists would be neutralised admitted to the zone al Trung Gis la the sams
the Communist press porters
accredited to command,
who have softlea peared to permanently in the area.
The chiefs of the
dication as to how long they thought the conference
2
Inst.
the
ap-
down
two
no
ho
said.
would
atmo-
A charming picture of Folky and Chisky---seven months old twins of Mr and Mrs Blyke de Vries who were born joined 10- gether at the stomach. A recent operation separated the Siamese twins. Chisky sucks her thumb and holds a toy rabbit with her other hand, as the twins pose for the photo grapher. London
press.
Parole
Unlikely
BEG TO DIFFER But They Captured A German U-Boat Too
Former officers of the Royal Navy now in Hongkong "beg to differ" with a claim that the United States Navy “had captured the only Ger man submarine on the high seas" during the last
war.
A London Daily Express photograph publish- ed by the China Mail on June 30 showed a picture of the submarine, the former U-505, and the cap- tion claimed that Rear Admiral D. V. Gallery, USN, had made "the only capture" during the Battle of the Atlantic.
RE-NAMED GRAPHI
Former Royal Navy offi- | Admiral Commanding Iceland cers now living in Hong- Command, they steamed to the kong, recalled that Britain tow the submarine to Hvalfjlod. south omet to refloat and to had also captured a German U-boat and this capture Was made In September, 1941, three months before the United States declared war on Germany in Decem- ber the same year.
In a letter to the Editor, last
"This operation was success- fully completed and the U-570, in the capable hands of British submarine experts was de- livered to the United Kingdom where she was re-named H.M.S. Graph and used as training submarine.
"I have in my possession week, an anonymous correspon- copy of the signal from
the Iral congratulating our ship
dent, Mr A. W. W, disputed Admiral the claim and described the statement by the London Daily and the Salvage Officer on our successful operation, a, traced Express ds "not strictly ac-
curate." in Hongkong Mall over the
Another ex-RN officer copy of the chart where the
submarine Was beached, told the Chine photograph of the U-boat under weekend he was
tow before refloating, and a surprised the such a statement metal cap badge, complete with Swastika as souvenirs of this
had
весть mode.
The German submarine, the operation." U-570, w wis actually captured by
Mr Colmans added that the Hudson aircraft belonging to rescue tug in the operation was the Coastal Command of the HMS. Salvonia under the R.A.F. The plane discovered command
Suit-
the vessel, dropped several RN.R.
forcing depth charges,
It to face, The U-570 then caine up- and surrendered, will its crew
deck Ex-assembling on the
For Trotsky Slayer
Mexico City, July 4.
Mornard, Jacques
The Third Year of The War
in Pictures" a pictorial record published
Odham's by the Press, described the surrender In brief detalls.
of Lt. J Cowley,
Mr-TrumanTM Out Of Danger ·
New York, July 4. Former President Harry" Tru- man was pronounced out of danger today for the first time since his gangrenous gall blad- der and appendix were removed two weeks ago.
7-HOUR VIGIL The book said that after having wirelessed for naval and bir relief, the Hudson guarded
Mr Truman was able to give har prey for three and helf the first "serious" attention to bours until a Catalina flying his memoirs since he became boat arrived to take over. heill, a close associate at the hos Catolina circled above the plial gold. U-870 for another seven hours Mr Truman strolled about his before Royal Navy vessels camo air-conditioned room atthe and took the U-boat All members of the U-boat crow were taken prisoner.
in tow.
OW;
hospital, changed his pyjamas
Warships Dressed
War-
All visiting Americas ships as well as Her Majesty's ships in part were dressd over- all in celebration of the Ameri
H.
July 4 fell Iceland, this year, Americans are baving from the an extra holiday.
on.
The Persian Finance Minister Dr All Amini said after the seventh session of the talks on Saturday night that "all Import- ant points are settled or will be
and read a magazine. His ap- settled at the next meeting on
pelite was good and heats Monday.".
Mr L. Colmans said the Bri-heartily. Hospital officials sald If the Anal
on: agreement
tish vesicls that arrived to take this afternoon, further regular marketing Persian oil is signed
im- the U-boat in tow were HM.S. bulletins would not be issued. within a month, the oil group's prisoned assassin of the Burwell (an ex-American four-United Prese
End de-tankers could be expected
pos- at Bolshevik leader Leon Trot- funnelled destroyer)
sibly H.MS. Windermere. White Jegations would give In-Abadan refinery by September, sky, will have his request
it was en route to Hvalfjock, Persin expected annual gross for parole turned down, a thought that the submarine was profits in the region of £00 high Mexican official said sinking and she was beached off
the Minister today. millon by 1957,
the south coast of Iceland. The semi-permanent installa-added.
Mr Colmans said that at that Heraclio Rodriguez, chief of tions of the French include an
Meanwhile, Britain and Persia the electric
Interior Ministry's Soche Lieutenant on one of 1. Mindependence Day Bunday generator, while the held talks last night on compen- Welfare Department, said the Lieutenant on Vietminh are constructing light, sation for the nationalisation of
would
rescue tugs based on straw-roofed huts. Police and the Anglo-Iranian Oll
Com-overnment soldiers are malataining order pany's holdings
Mornard's bid for freedom for and on instructions in 1951.
A "good reasons but he declined in the neutralised territory and British
the apokesman sold
to elaborate on those reasons. case, foreign economic aid
standing guard before the door talks, due to be resumed today, has done as much, if not
When Mornard's attorney filed of the building in which the
were held in a cordial conference is taking place.
a petition for the assassin's re- more, to keep the Christian'
sphere,
Lense last Thurday, it was Democrata in power by
20-YEAR FACT
believed Mornard would be bolstering up the country's
Vietminh delegation, including ment will permit Persia to ex-
Dr Amini said the oil settle granted liberty as a matter of weak economy. The West
delta and a Vietminh enclave in General Van Tien Dung, appear por 15 million tons in the first course. must therefore help to int
Cochin-China. They hold further very young. Their
Mornard, who drove a pick- faces were year, compared with 32 million prove the economies of the
that there should be no armis expressionless, except for a
nel tons annually before the Anglo- axe into the brain of the late BILA!!
Southeast
Josef Asian
Stalin's there is a political
arch-rival slight tico unless
Colonel when Emile nations by making bigger
settlement.
Lemuyoux made a reference to Iranian Oil Company was no-40, has completed more than
totionalised. "What the French have lost combats "which never end. in granta, of economic aid na
two-thirds of his sentence, His "We Melbourne, July 4.
want an agreement for prison behaviour has been good and one means of depriving the
except partial on the battlefield, they cannot anything Communist sympathisers now win by diplomacy,"
sald local results no matter how ex- aortium is fighting for a longer/and he had no previous crimina}
years only, although the con- internal Communists of
The pensive they are." today jostled and punched one Communist.
Vict their greatest allies
minh did not even look at the period." Dr Amini Bald. "We two men who heckled a poverty, want, hunger and,journalist named before the
HAS APARTMENT" honour oli contracts with TALKS TODAY
Vietnamese members of
shall the and
other countries, such as Japan French
For year it was 'speculated Vielmiah generally, the prevailing low Royal Commission on delegations at Trung Gla
delegation opposite them,
that Mornard' would choose a 25
and Italy, now in force." standard of living.
The eight The conference is taking place
oll companies te-time in prison rather than week espionage last
by miles north of Hanoi, will start DROBNY'S WIN Vladimir Petrov, Soviet discussing concrete detalls of a in a rice plain where peasants negotiating a settlement include face possible assassination by
possible ceasefire in diplomat granted political China this afternoon (Menday) in the area
Indo still work. The only flag visible the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company, Trotsky's friends. He has spent is the red flag of five American oil groups and a his time in comparative luxury CONGRATULATIONS to asylum In Australia, the the Agence France Presserethe Vietminh.---United Press, French and a Dutch company under Mexico's system of pay
Reuter,
ing for prisön privileges. He | Reuter end. France Presse.
Ives
in a separate prison "apartment" and has received frequent visits from his girl friend.
Communist Brawl In Melbourne
П
The
Climbers
All of the members of the
Find More
20
Tracks
Of The Abominable Snowman
Katmandu, July. 4.
Jaroslav Drobny for his newspaper Argus reported. perted from Hahol. great Wimbledon win over Police fought their way Kon Rosewall of Australia. through a yeiling mob at After nine consecutive Melbourne rally to rescue the attempts; this self-oxlled two men.
Ruper Lock- Czech has been crowned he journalist,
to wood, first Australien be with a well-deserved victory. W
named before the Commission, which bas eluded him on a and Ernest Thornton, head of a number of occasions in the Communist, trade union, were past, often, after heroic, addressing the rally. When
Four members of Sir Edmund Hillary's New Zealand expedition, who ar marathon struggles. There the two men heckled Lockwood, the crowd shouted "Shut their Jubilation in the fact that mouths, kill them, the news-rived here today, said the expedition had found fresh tracks of a Yeti or "Abominable Snowman" ---- 17,000 feet up in the Chawang Valley of North- paper said. this match... was, to be.
Lockwood has been ordered to "eastern Nepal. Drobny's last serious appear before the Royal Com attempt at winning the mission tomorrow. Ho how been Tho tracks fod for some a team-mate, Mr James Mac-tains, but are expected here
of distance over the show, but the Farians, from, a crevampe Adin singles championship. It named as the is to the credit of the Centre Document J", alleged to have party found no other trace of The party which arrived here today included Mr George Lowe, Court spectatore that their been written at the Russian the creatare.
who was a member of the vie support was for the fighting bay and to let the names
"many Australians,
torious Ever Coxpedition Bla your," and
author
The party was met by Bir veteran--he was almost the⠀⠀ Mrs Evdokiya. Patrov, la ex« nomad Hillary, who bad flown under-dog-for he was pected to give evidence before her man call on June 25. seeded 11th and the experts the Commission on Tuesday, the Head hormong the maromation gava, him. Hittle chance of Burs News Pictorial repor ndr winning.
Reuter
about July 17.
The climbers said they had reached the mummills of several peaks of about 20,000 feet in the Barun Valley and around the Chaweng Valleyzole)
Two mard members of the New Zealand Kezpetition, a Charis Evans and Mr Norman Hardley, are still in -- the moun--
choresched129,500 set
record.
Jose Farah, secretary
of the Federal District tentiary, where
Blommard
int
Pral-
bar
that the
a for 14
been a model years Government
The
raject hir
for early release on the He entéred ¦, the gally with the in- tention of committing murder. will considered unsolved since Mornard has seat him never revealed, who [to] Maxios'ta end-
Trotsky's For volution bees believed,
Kit Aus always
ever, that the Intera, Jonat
himself ordered Mornard
SOUTH