THE SILENT WAR II-
Enemy in the swamps and
jungles
INSIDE
Saigon.
a "war zone," the objective of Viet namese armed forces operating against Com- munist guerrillas is spelled out in one word: pacification.
It is a word used form-
By
erly by the French army Arthur J. Dommen
in its struggle against the Vietminh in this same region, and it is a word being used today by French generals in Algeria.
-United Press International-
Vietnam, a land of rice
sur-
But there are no túrgets in this sort of war where the ad- vantage in with the surprise at- tack.
plus, finds it more profitable to deny the rice of these fields to the enemy, and thereby to itself,
And the size and Flow nd- For the U Minh Ha war zone, than to allow it to be harvested.
The inhabitants of the originni vence of an army column make pacifcation means the destruc- tion
Viet settlements had long since been it diffleult for it to surprise any- ol the Communist Cong and their food supply. The moved away to new villages the onc.,
constructed for A senfry posted on the edge efective strength of the Viet government
encampment reporicti the fringes or the of ab Cong in the zone is placed by them on
sighting a string of ive sampatis ofileers randeling operations swamp.
navigating along canal half- there ut 250,
mile away during a brief lift
CLANDESTINE
It could be mure, or it could be less, breatise. It is pointed
In that way, the government could be sure no one was left in the swamp but the Viet in the drizzle. Cong.
01 the
The company commander But the task of putting up n ordered several rounds of house there is as simple as inillimetre morlar üre out, the small cadres receive ringing a cover of leaves from canal. clandestine reinforcements from the otanin tree on fishing boats that put in to shore wooden framework.
the According Ch under cover of night.
stout
DULL THUD
The dull thu' of the explod- tol- ing rounds echoed in the dis-
drowning briefly
military, What Impresses the observer many of the huts have been re- post is the deserted.ospect of buili, months after month, the countryside through which lowing repented, expeditions of tance. Vietnamese marines moved with government troops through the sound of the rnin, their rifles and grenade throwers are. at the ready:
The enemy rarely seen, and only occasionally heard.
As the pale grey smoke of burning huts FOSC into the overcast sky, a short burst of small arms fire sounded from a
the
forward
By means of an apparently efficient intelligence network thicket of trees on the horizon, le through the knee-deep rice operating through villages
that
border the swamp. the Viet Cong are able to advance
1
OPEN FIGHTS
sald the
ascertain
shots," "Warning of the mavements government forces through the trattalion commander.
"The Viet Cont avoid us swamp and rice deitis.
Yet evidence of recent human whenever they can." Capt. Tran Van Nhat weld. "It's difficult for pelivity was clear in the aron,
The column with which this us to engage them in an open reporter moved by sumpan un- fight." covered! more than one enche of rice in metal.cans and bunches menace, of freshly cul bananas.
Booby traps are a constant
"THE CHINA MAIL. THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1960
SNES
Described in the Wilitam Hickey column the ather day, a new toilet range for men: "heathery, fresh-airy anil museuline, with a slight smell of good quality mush- the sort of aura
rooms
you find in woodland». . . .
管理し
"So that's what the boy Tom's been' using all these years."
London Express Service
Berlin on the bubble:
The column moved
DESPITE Mr Khrushchev's and small orms fre echoed manifest desire to keep sporadically Over the
until watery Berlin out of the news waste.
The column stuck to single next spring, when he hopes to do a deal with the new admini- shools to avoid stepping oh ndnes and booby traps.
stration in Washington, the Flut under such editions Germans themselves seem de it's hard to catch up to quer termined to keep it there.. rillas and rugage them in an voru fight.
The guerrillas use a strange usortment of arms.
Captured Viet Cong weapons in the last few months included French MAS-30 rifles, British Sten guns, American
Time to cool
it off now!
BY PAUL JOHNSON
'Indeed, unless the four oc- cupying powers quickly desert their rights, they may find themselves faced with a first- Carbines class crisis which none of them The Viet Cong leave, a variety
ind BAR's, and arms of Czech These finds brought cries of of devices Behind to try to in-
In addition, the Wants. delight fron the rain-soaked Alet casualties in any way with- manufacture.
Viet Cong uses many types of The root of the present dispute troops, and they were bundled out exposing themselves.
is next year's election In 'West in the samipans for some future In recent operations govern-home-made weapons.
The Viet Cong also are known Germany. For the first time ment troops have encountered
dummy rifles Thatched hunts, rebuilt with trip wires in the rice paddies, to make use of
All these changes ure design- Impress since the Bonn regime was the post-war miracle of German and a wooden carved out of wood to
there is rent capitalism and abandoned their ed to win the floating voter-l0 new materials after the end of mined buts
Icent population win, created
public convince him that the Socialists the last pacifleution" operation, blocits armed with rusty ulls
a Socialist last lingering beliefs, in
not on "anti-German” were burned to the grind. The practically invisible under water the strength of their armament, chance that
They use every trick in the Chancellor will be elected—– theory is that without shelter, in the rice paddles.
The troops have been in book," the company commander and the Christian, Demo. This spring, too, they the Viet Cong and their
project
To judge from local election will be less likely porters
to structed to hold their fire until said.
unit crats, who had grown com- scrapped their He added that his own cultivate the new flee crop, they actually see a target.
bad engaged In operations placent in their monopoly neutral "disengaged" zone in results, they are already begin
endorsed ning to have some efteci. ngainst the Viet Cong in other of power, are beginning to Central Europe and
Dr Adenauer's foreign polley get frightened.
mea).
nip-
Flying carpet for the troops
It will lift them over forests
THE
New York,
HE Flying Carpet, a flat platform for carrying troops across roadless country, is now in the advanced design stage, said Lt.-General Arthur Trudeau in Washington.
General Trudeau, chief of the
U.S.
Some
people send money.
army's department of others food. Ono man has sent Research and Development, said him nine turkeys in the inst the Flying Carpet-regarded as six weeks.
- the world's most, revolutlusary........ Investments
form of military transport
-es just above ground level. "Everything goes back, of sold, "I write soldiers its coterse." he
as explaining that I appreciate the obstacles mud, swamps, ravines, rivers lovely thoughts behind the gills
overcome
permits such
and forests," he said,
It has the take-off and land- ing characteristics of a helicopter "coupled with the advantages of
but that I'm not in need of them. "All the same, so:ne people keep on sending-they think I'm putting on a brave front."
Axed-wing alrcraft forward The truth about Laurel? He flight."
19 in tip-top health and he and
and
General Trudrai added his wife live comfortably on an that American military re income from investments scorch was at least on an equal property.
footing with that of any other believed to have arisen because The Kiorles of his "plight" are
of the fact that "Laurel and films are leading TV Hardy!!
EHIWET,
But Russia was able to get a
now weapon in quantity produc attractions in the United States tion in aboul, live years com- pared to America's seven years. today although under the agree- ment by which they were bought companies hc om the film doesn't get a penny.
"As a romult," he said. "a pro- anising new weapon may be com- pletely obsoleto by the time It can be produced in quantity."
THE CITY DANGER
STAN ISN'T POOR PEOPLE who live in or near
■ bir elites are more likely to
COMEDIAN Stan Laurel is hir- dio of heart attacks then are ing a Press agent to explain rural dwellers, ways a group of
that he is not poor.
Laurel, the 30-year-old__sup vivor of the Laurel and Hardy
U.8. specialista.
In the case of men, fatal heart silocks in largo cities are 87 per
And
team--he was "the thin one" cent more frequent than in small
is irritated at recent reports of towns and rural areas,
hike "illness," "poverty" and "Bitterness,"
among women they are 40 por
cent more frequent,
And he is both touched and The reason is not known, sayd exasperated at the results of the Dr Philip Enterline, who con- stories--a constant stroom of duclod the three-year study for his home in Banio the United States Publla Health gitta to
over, the world.
Stories, California, from fabe bil Service,
ALondon Express Xerolan),
the
provinces of the Mekong River delta, and WAR composed of veterans, many of whom had their first taste of war in the Oghting in the Indo-China war.
Tomorrow:
Guerrillas Tie Down Large Forces
a
De-Socialised
ownership.
virtually in its entirety.
are
party.
have for *
rearms-
Impeccable
WILLY BRANDT
A powerful challenger
tical skill, Brandt is a powerful Another Minister is demand- challenger. Indeed, I would rate ing-shades of 10381-the "re-
from for turn of the Sudeten land him as one of the most midable politicians I have ever Czechoslovakia. met,
The further meetings in West Moreover, as Mayor, his re- Berlin recently was part of the cord in "standing up to the Rus- same programine. Not surpris slaus is, in West German eyes, ingly the East German govern- Impeccable. By no perversion of mon decided to shut down the the propaganda can he be present- Berlin frontier: during
these ed usa man who would-betray meeting for the prime aim of“
retugees is to upset the Berlin to the East,
As things stand, many Ger- territorial settlement on which
of the tranquility
Central mans believe be can beat any
Democrat candidate Europe resis. Christian
And except Adenauer himself. the old man, though still hale, can scarcely stand again,
They have dropped their apposition to German -ulim (except over nuclear wea- The most important, Socialist
pons).
move of all, however, is They have silently abandoned adoption of Willy Brandt, the their criticism of Nazis in high Mayor of West Berlin, as their Chancellor- even candidate for the. office. Indeed, they
are
During the last year, the Cer- man Socialists have done exact- ly what Mr Galtakell wants to de with the Labour Party-they purging from their ranks those ship. have de-socialised their pro- Socialias who still want to keep gramme. They have accepted this a live issue.
With his good looks, arresting personality and Immense polí
VERTICAL TAKE-OFF-BY JAK
Offhand I'd say he thought it
entions
Vast meeting
But it is the Allied
the-
Occupy..
the
ing powers who should have taken action. Under
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15
cupation Statute, Berlin specifcally excluded from the normal political re of West Germany.
This statute shoud be fully such explosive banned in the
In their fear, therefore, the Christian Democrats are snat- enforced, nnd ching at any weapon to whip gatherings.
The West Germans gan
up German nationalist hysteria. interests of all rides. They are ransacking wartima records to produce evidence scarcely object If the Allies act against Brandt's anti-German For the Statute is the solo legal for the maintenance activities on behalf of the Alles. bests
of Allied occupying troops is Worse, they are determined to the city: stampede Germany's immense It is the "scrap of paper” refugee population into voting which stands between them and Right. And they can best do is the engulfing of West Berlin by promising them the return of into the East German state. In Itho "lost territories.".
short, they cannot have
Hence, last month Adenauer both ways. himself addressed a vast meat- If they wont Allied troops to ing of East Prussian refugees at...continue to defend Berlin for Düsseldorf.
them, they must accept that Recently, Dr Erhard-who is Berlin is run in a manner which normally
in cautious Buch sulis Allied policy_and_not matters promised another become a battleground for West gathering of refugees that Germany's Internal political Silesia would be wrenched back squabbles. from Poland.
-London Express Servico},"
Just Foney
R JAMES MURPHY, who is 65, of Corner Brook,
M Newfoundland, has had his will tattooed on his
back. It says he is leaving three houses and his savings to his son.
COASTGUARDS" at the Needles, Isle of Wight, recently focused-binoculars on a strange. bird swinging from the halyards of their flagpole. It was a partat and it was swinging UPSIDE DOWN.ed Janne-
LION broke through a glass partition and clawed film star. Cornel Wilde during a scone In. “Constan- ind the Great," being shot in Rome now,GENERA SUKAWildawa only scratched in the elbow' and' khee and Was willing to go on. But the Hon wasn't. 1 was vul by glans upilntors.
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