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GILMANS GLOUCESTER ARCADE
COMMENT OF
THE DAY
After
Geneva
7ITH the Geneva talks on Indo-China all but over
WITH
it might be the impression of many that M. Mendes- France, having achieved his
aim of peace in 30 days, so now to be rewarded with a well-earned rest, that his troubles, in short are over, This in no far from the truth that it is tempting to exaggerate the magnitude
of work still to be done to emphaalse the task abend. Outside of all the work Associated with bringing the seven-years war in Indo-
China to an end, and the preparation of Vietnam for elections, M. Mendes-France Ins to guide his Assembly Into
the rati voting 011 fention of the contentious E.D.C. treaty, And the European situation
Le
altered appreciably since M. Luniol faced the same
prospect fi month
ngo.
and
uf
Justifiably Britain
have tired America French procrastination and determined that the have Issue should be brought to n head immediately, The ulti- matum they have mado is that unless France decides by treaty to ratify the August 15, Britain and America
will declare the Bonn Conventions in furce, thun ending the occupation of Germany without walling for the E.D.C. to be ratifled. Previously it had been de. cided that the Boun Con- ventions were to come into force only after the rati- fication of E.D.C. by all six signatory-nations.
-THE WEATHER: Modersie 8. W. winds, boooping light. Fair and very warm,
CHINA MAIL
No. 35874
Established 1845
WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1954.
The seven-year Indo-China war has
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AGREEMENTS
SIGNED
But Last-Minute Hitch HK Children In A B.B.C. Broadcast Beaverbrook
Threw Geneva
Officials Into Confusion
Under
Geneva, July 21.
glaring arc lamps, flashing camera bulbs and whirring newsreel cameras, representatives of France and the Vietminh signed the cease-fire agreements ending the seven- at the Palace of year war in Indo-China in a small room Nations early this morning. In the ceremony which began at 0245 GMT and ended ton minutes later, General Henri Deltheil signed for the Franco Vietnam and Franco-Laotian commands and Ta Quang Buu signed for the Vietminh High Command.
A last-minute hitch delayed the signing of the cease- fire agreement shortly before midnight last night when the Cambodian Foreign Minister, Tep Phan, refused to sign the agreement worded in its existing form.
Geneva was immediately thrown into confusion after earlier official announcements had been made that the cease-fire agreement would be signed by midnight. Then the announcements said the agreement would Later still an official announcement be signed in "a few minutes time." said the signing would take place "shortly".
nam should have the right to
Fly Home
For Holidays
London, July 20.
Overseas
British
ways Corporation
ita
Air- started
"children's airlift" to- day when it flew 50 ex- clied youngsters from hers spend holidays with parents and relatives over-
to
This was the beginning of an intensive two-week programine under which 14,000 children will travelling all over the world.
the
Weal
Those who left today flew to Singapore, Cairo and East Africa, Calcutta, Rangoon and Hongkong. and Lagos and Africa
Biggest single group will bo 30 children who fly to Hongkong on July 17.---- Reuter.
Mo'
'Little
Badly Injured
Leg Cut In Riding Accident
CHOU CALLS FOR ALL-ASIAN PEACE PACT
London, July 20.
The Chinese, Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mr Chou En-lai called for the establish ment of an all-Asian collective peace pact in a BBC broadcast tonight.
Gives Up Control Of Express
London, July 20. Lord Beaverbrook, Canadian-born
newspaper magnate who built up the Daily Express from a small newspaper to one of Bri- tain's most popular dailies, has relinquished control of it and its associated papers. An announcement from the Daily Express office said to- night: "Lord Beaverbrook hurst Referring to the Geneva con- given a block of shares in the ference on Indo-China, Mr Chou (express to the Beaverbrook sold the three states of Vict- foundation which hos been nom, Laos and Cambodia should established as a British Empire become "free, democratic, united educational trust.
He spoke in an interview with the Secretary of the British Labour Party at Geneva, Mr Morgan Phillips.
the Answering
question: "What are your views about the maintenance of peace in Asia?" Mr Chou En-lai said: "I am of the opinion that the countries of Asia should consuli among them- selves to safeguard the collective pence of Asin by assuming obligations mutually and respec- tively."
Mr Chou referred to the five principles of mutual Interference cited in the com- muniques issued after his recent visits to Delhi and Rangoon,
and Independent" and should not be allowed to join sy mill- tory alliance or to permit foreign beses on their soll.
should
"The newspapers have, there- fore, passed out of his control"
Lord Beaverbrook is 75,
Mr Chou said: "All particl pating states of the Geneva
The newspaper he controlled conference non-
Ipinly include the Daily Express which assume obligations to provide sells more than 4,000,000 coples collective guarantees for the each day; the Sunday Express, a peace of the three Indo-China | national Sunday newspaper states so as to free these states founded by him; the Evening from from any threat
of force or Standard, a London evening outside Intervention."
paper; and the Glasgow Evening "It is my hope that the Clitzen-Router, coming into effect of all the steps mentioned above would con- tribute towards area of placé."
First listed in the Sino-Indian pact on the status of Tibet they are: mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, not- aggression, non-interference in Internal affairs, equality and mutual benefit and peaceful co- existence.
creating an
Better Relations With UK
matic mission in London.
He said: "The
be-
Rush To Help Ship On Fire
Great Yarmouth, July 21.
And by that time M. Pierre Mendes-France had technically failed to fulfil his pledge by midnight because of the last-minute hitch.
Here
in snap cables as they arrived in the China Mail office this morning is a picture of the development of the sudden drama. THE Western "ultimatum" (if it can be described as
Early cables said that six, pleted and signed "very short said that the Cambodian agree-
ment would be signed at 10.304 such) to France la not only
hours before M. Mendes- Then came nimed
anotirur hitch, OMT or half an hour before the that' at jolting
of the conference country out of its diiatori- France deadline for peace or foreshadowed in earlier cables. fral session
San Diego, July 20, took place.
Mr Chou said that relations, and expand industrial and Miss Maureen Connolly, between Britain and China had commercial ness; it is a recognition by resignation, the French de The Vietnamese delegation to
co-opération MOUNTING TENSION announced East- the conference informed the Britain and the West that legation
This was
well after mid-American tennis champion, recently boen improved by the tween the two countries. on all eight other delegations that it
tho minules were was severely injured while agreement that a Chinese Charge He said that tho Chinese tho present occupation of Weat agreement
it simul could not accept the projected night and Germany cangat be con- major points of
amid by dine leaving North Ucking demarcation
mounting riding her horse here today d'Affaires was to head a diplo Charge d'Affaires due to come
All to London would "do his best
ships in the vicinity Binued much longer without taneous ecase-fire in all 1 Vietnam in
of the tension and confusion. the hands
X-rays were being 10
that was reported
the and
In this respect.” Government Vietminh and asked that Viet-
were rushing last night to the compromising the political three Indo-China states
of the Danish steamer Big Three ministers had broken taken at a hospital to deter and people of China are sincere-
Mr Chou En-lai concluded ald position of Dr Adenauer. Vietnam, Laos and Cam-
Are Import
DIY
for refresh mine if her leg was broken, ty desirous of further improving his interview by conveying his urma. Coupled with the question
ments. And then i wes an- Miss Connolly, who will This was followed by another me
wishes to the British of
the Hovereignty
in which an official announced their meeting had 20 on September 17, returned existing basis."
people-Reuter. question of West German
nouncement sald "there were ended,
home only yesterday after de- rearmament. Dr Adenauer,
"I firmly believe that further- several relatively
her minor points
European cable fending another
relations unce of Sino-British realising that sovereignty
BVCT outstanding after agreement had
the Cambodian English titles. will entail the evacuation of
been reach on the major prob- Foreign Minister had modified
Colonel Arst surprise tema.
Merryboy, man Interests of our two coun- final form of the the Allied occupation
his position by offering
horte
became tries but will contribute toward the not sot-
when Cambodian Anal declaration was forces, fully understands
compromise arrangement.
frightened by a lorry.
the maintenance and consolida- the need to fill this vacuum, delegate had taken "a stiffening" tled."
One Western official offered
The horse MOSCOW ENTER
Was reported to tion of world peace."
Mr Chou. En-loi said that de- Six people died today În cen- But under what conditions attitude to his objections to the
Enter Moscow Radio at this the excure that the real reason
reared, pinning her against is Germany
then either spite the difference between the tral Syria from the arverest to rearm? 11
She was It beat the gun badly for the delay was that the agree This was followed by another stage.
11 contained typing errors not as a member of E.D.C., cable saying
off, first economic systems of China and heat wave that has swept the Mr Eden, by thai
saying that
#ment following
or thrown
Britain Be which mount
considered it "pos-country in years with tempera- Then as 巍 member of Mr Molotov, M. Mendes-France Geneva agreement "Peace" bad|
reports said. retyped.
Attendants at the hospitalsible and necessary to promote tures of more than 104 degrees N.A.T.0.7 Some form of and the Vietminh and Cambodian Won a new Victory,
Fahrenheit In tho shade. Geneva At Just after midnight,
this stage, awitchboard said the right calf was severely
Reuter. reurnament is essential and delegates had gone into urgent
French operators of Palace of Nations injured, including deep lacera-
the
only alternative to
bodia.
M. Mendea-Franco was re- ported to be relaxed, calin and
and tension.
smiling" after a day of anxiey
Then came the
that cable
the
cease-fire agreement.
The
their
talks
Then saying
came that
.a
had 12
to be
оп be Sino-British relations
and
the best
6. A wot riding her thorough- not only accords with the com-
Expectant
consultations The Vietminh time, came another E.D.C. and N.A.T.O. is to brought up again the
to have official announcement from the were becoming infuriated with His Connolly, holder of most minister was reported
question Palace of Nallons saying that people phoning up to ask "Any- permit the formation of a of the zonal regrouping of the
The most per- of the world's women's title2, the Vietnam and Laotian cease- thing doing?". national army. The very "Khmer Issaraks".
This point suggestion
andi signed.
The talks between Mr Zurich map manufacturer who her second favourite sport-and earlier this month by Dr the agreement did not provide Molotov, Mr Eden, M. Mendes- kept telephoning long distance rest before leaving to defend Adenauer-threw Parks Into for the maintenance
Cam-
France were still going on. for an exact description of the her United States championship bodian territory of Irregular
M. Mendes- Indo-China cease-fire lines. at Forest Hills, Now York, late Technically
cease-fire bid had want to put them on" my new
next month.
Doctors later said she would maps which are going on sale in
be unable to defend her Ameri- next Reuter cable from the morning," he explained.
can women's title at Forest Hills said "an oir of great
because of her injuries-Reuter. drama has fallen on the Palace
of this made had carlier been abandoned and fire agreements had not been stent caller apparently was a had planned to enjoy riding other Stahsi
on
Kon-
a mild hysteria. Supervised resistance troops. rearmament of Western Mr Molotov left the Germany under the E.D.C. ference but returned half an would
the sultable hour inter and new compromise. But although tlons got under way.
Reem
M. Mendes-France has a better chance of securing its
must
conversa-
SIGNED "LATER"
BREAKING POINT
Now tension was almost, at
of Nations as junior delegates carrying brief cases draw up in breaking point. At 10.07 Hong- 75 Hurt In Clash saying that the cease-fire agreo-Watting ash into the buliding-kong time came a "dash" saying.
night.
cama
a "flash"
cable
cars
1
In India
Husband
Caught Him With Another Woman
;
found
ratification following his Then
and
Indianapolis, Indiana, Genova success there is no
and photo- that "full agreement was reached reporters
July 20. indication that the French ment for Vietnam and Laos graphers are standing behind a here early this morning on
Ал expectant mother have finally accepted this would be signed before mid-police cordon around the door completo
sattlemem. pence
Indore, India, July 20. alternativo.
The Cambodian agree through which the delegates Agreement had been reached on Seventy-five people, including stabbed her husband to
enlawed."! | enlared."
the disputed part of the Cam- students, police and fire brigade death today when she found FOR another reason Westernment was to be signed later.
few minutes later another The next cable quoted a bodion cease-fire agreement. The stuff, were hurt in a clash, be-him in a bedroom with an- have "Bagh Germany
cable arrived saying Fresch spokesman as saying whole agreement would be re- tween demonstrators and arosed other woman, the Police Bovereignty and its that the cease-fire agreements that the agreements for Vietnam drafted and signed later in the police near the Secretariat in attendant benefits. There for Vietnam and Laos would be and Las would definitely be morning.
said... Indore City today." few slated or initialled early this
Clarence Another "Bagh” which arrived the next
White was are reports that the Soviet algnet "within
Polke charged with lathis morning. Foreign
Mr minutes",
in Hongkong at 10,40,am, said Minister,
(bamboo staves) and fired tear dead in the backyard at the William, In another fow minutes, an- And the next ono said "agree- the agreement would be signed shells to disperse the crowd, home of his brother, Molotov, is hoping to call à
thirty
-after saying that ment to be signed in one hour's in
minutes. -- Reuter, Fa The new four-power conference other cable
A French spokesman | France-Presse and United Press. ionstrators wero de❘ where ho ran for help the agreements would be com- time,"
the reinstatement of the stabbing. Germany lator this
the local college principal.
"wild, "Norma, 25, year with East and West
Other News About Geneva and Iñdo-China
A 10-hour, curfew, from eight mother of two young children
Jon White's advisors
found time was imposed and present. Obviously his aim is to dia- Western Germany tract from any military commit- ments with tho West. It is Impossible otherwise to seo what boneft there is to be
on
zone
camo
FIGHTING MAY END TODAY
Geneva, July 20. forces, and the
representative, the
"
Communist-led fellow Franch Colonial
SIX DIE IN HEATWAVE
Damascus, July 20.
IND
Kronprincesse Ingrid on
off the Norfolk coast.
She had earlier left Harwich for Copenhagen.
Last night ships in the area picked up un 808 from the Danish ship asking for, im- mediate help.
Five trawlers signalled that they were in the orra and that other ships were also dashing
to help. Coast Guard turadio
stations
were using radio to direct TESCUO craft to tho scene.Reuter,
N!
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in
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST
foty of Indore City after November;;:. was held on a
Op
the
disturbance.
expecting a third murder charge Unt
lato tonight, sicel
The Police said she admitted helmeted police were rounding plunging a paring knife into up demonstrators, who launched her husband's chest when he fullade of stones at the police ignored her pleas for him to
Reuter.
The fighting in Indo-China of the commander-in-chief of countrymen. conference on the Gorman morrow "even though officially Vo Nguyen Clap-France- had 30,000 dead. question, so noon after, theha cease-firo may not go into Presse. fallure of the January talka offect for several days.”
gained in calling another will probably bo over to the Vietminh forces, General troops and the Foreign Legion that the Secretariat, come home."
CASUALTIES:
WOUNDED About 37,000 Trenchmen were London, July 20. also believed to have been
in Berlin for the position A delay is foreseen between Nourly 100,000 Frosch Union wounded though hopmelal has not materially altered, the signing of the Lease-fire The West has long believed agreement and its applications troops lost their lives in
the figures of wounded havo bez
Traffic Paralysed In Calcutta
Calcutta, July 20. work paralysed siin
T7E1BC
Mrs While
Bald
she followed her husband and 1 the other woman ton vacant apartment in a rooming, house at 2:30 pm, rum
that Western Germany will | in view of the time necessary :) soyen-year Indo-China wani) giSaananelal cost iftad zihlso: Central Calouīta and 1,000-olice of two, children, syne› sérted
Tho
other woman, kimnuned by the Polloo as Mr Elloon. Toss, 21, mi English war bride and mother.
Omelali wa nguro show cranes (es3863 million viering), GAY WING
been heavy -3,883 300 million work had to walk home to bed when its white, antar
team wervice was the room, she said.
“Mrs. Whilfe is weak; taken d lily suspended by that 93.000 of these men have in seven years, for this the almost
1000 members of the Communian hospital In a serious condition Canda ke war broica French." taxpayer le contributed been killed
689,600 millod franes.
Workers Union whom should buk in abopanbesipid but only
B{\The demanding o and the United States
she saw 1,049,000 million francez 21049
bent attain a strong to give the two commands the und Viotrainh low are belleved
to be much borVİNC bargaining position with time to Inform all their battle
units some. Russia and its eastern sister in the jurgie in places ainult when · it. is militarily to reach economically and politically
of
whòm are isolated
(outlawirig' of the
strong. The ending of the is the result of occupation should there vreemonta
före help, her to gain this agnod.
position
quickly.
of
fe, strength Paul,
which
cama.from