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No. 37865
Comment Laos
Established 1845. TUESDAY, JANUARY 3, 1961.
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of the UK PRESSURE EXERTED ON U.S.
day
ACTION NEEDED
IN LAOS
VIE military and political
Themary
reached a dangerous stage. A few weeks ago the situa-
tion was delicate to say the
least, but the Great Powers
with the exception of the
Home discusses SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY Castro to POLICE
POLICE CLASH
situation
with
envoy
From DOUGLAS CLARK
London, Jan. 3.
Soviet Union and China Chances are growing this morning that
appeared to content them-
немен
with "observing"
and trusting that the coun- try would settle its own attoira without inter- ference.
Now the position has changed and it is probable that the United States decision to call a meeting of the Seato nations will lead to a de- mand for positive uction lo safeguard the area,
exists
Unfortunately there
differences of opinion be- tween the United States un one hand and Britain on the other. Inability of bulh nations to follow a common policy in the Far East since the war is
the part of It must be trouble and clearly remembered that
while Britain
recognises
the Peking regime as the lawful
Kovernment of Chino, the United States does not.
HOWEVER,
differences
basic the
of Laos centre around the revival of the International Super- visory Commission and the broadening of the pro- visional Boun Qum ad- ministration with other elements,
There appears to be a convic-
tion that the United States does not desire to see the commission reconvened and that while Britain
con- siders that a composite government would be the best answer to the present division of the country the Americans are, because of their better hatred of Com- raunism, bent upon bolster- ing the extreme right-wing Boun Cum and his military chief, General
Phoumi Nosavan. There โร
no question that the Western Powers are not in full accord
on the basic
objective of preserving the freedom and independence
the
Peace three
Control power Commission will soon be functioning in Loos where Communist attacks are mounting in intensity.
Russia refuses note
The
London, Jau. 2. Hoviet Embassy
here refused today to re- ceive a Laotian Govern- ment protesi nole against Boviet deliveries of arms and supplies to the Laviian rebels, an offelal source Bald tonight,
The Soviet Embassy Indicated that the USSR did
BUL recognise the Laolian Government hend- ed by pro-American Pre- mier Boun Oum.-AFF.
Pro-Reds
launch
attack
in Laos
Vientiane, Jan. 2. Laotion pro-Communist and noutrolist rebel troops launched a general attack against the outskirts of Luang Prabang the coun- try's royal capital this
morning.
Forces of the Pathet Lao and of neutralist
of Laos, but unless there is parachute troops
n compromise the possibili- Captain Khong Le made
a
for
While Amerien yesterday alerted her armed forces possible intervention against the Reds, Britain trade further moves to steady the situation.
Foreign Secretary Lord Home Invited American Ambassador a 43 John Hay Whitney to minute jalk At The Foreign Omec.
Lord Home is believed to have emphasised these points to Mr Whitney:
no
a
Firally, Britain still secs Arin evidence that regular troops of North Vietnam have crossed into Laos; secondly, peaceful solution can be found. Prince Boun Oum, Premier of Laos, should widen his govern ment to include neutralist members.
Pressing
Behind the
sočnes, Britain has been pressi
for the Peace Control Commission--- Canada, Poland and India..... which was disbanded in 1058 to return to work in Laos.
The United States has been lukewarm and under Washing- ion's influence the Premier haa refused to commit himself,
Now signs are that Britain has swung Washington over to her way of thinking and a message from Premier Boun Oum saying he willing to have the com mission reconvene is expected in London within 24 hours.
Eartier
today the United States announced it was taking normal precautionary actions" to Increase the readiness of its Pacific
forces because of the Laus crisis.
In a brief statement,
Defence Department added that the this included measures to in- crease the airlift capability of the Pacific Command"
BUS CRASH
Douglas McMillan, "football mad" reserve.for Sheffield Wednesday, was trapped in this twisted wreckage on Boxing Day on the way home from playing Arsenal.
He had to have his right leg amputated on the spot before he could be removed from the wreckage. Six other players were injured in the same ac- cident. McMillan was sitting in the front of the coach when it struck a telephone pole and ran into a ditch. -Express Photo.
Dag reprimands
for
Belgium aiding Mobutu
United Nations, Jan. 2. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold' disclosed today he had delivered a sharp rebuke to Bel- gium for allegedly aiding troops of Congo's strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu in Sunday's incursion into Kivu Province.
Tho Secretary-
General/troops to place themselves under tian Herter, Secretary of State, published the text of a note in Mobutu's command in Leopold and other top ofcials for a which he told Belgian Ambas- viile. one-hour situation.
The Defence Department statement come ns President
tion of another Korca are pincer attack against the city Eisenhower called in Mr Chris- patently obvious.
from the north and the south.
I to the United States to Premier
F the Seato Council agrees
quent for a meeting the main consideration will be whether Boun Oum's government will invoke its right to
to appeal for military protection
thc which organisation is pledged to
if the give
Country attacked
nska And
Jatil
Five battalions of troops loyal to the rightist government of Boun Out were defending the city but their morala was reportedly shaken by recent successes of the pro- Communist force in the plain of Jars and other sectors of the country.
Close touch
Blizzard ends
Lolk оп the Laos endor Walter Loridan thut Mr Dayal reported that the Belglum had violated the incursion was repelled by the "hands-off
resolutions of the local garrison and that most of been men bad United Nations by permitting the Mobutu Mabutu's troops to pass through arrested--AP.
trust Mr James Hagerty, Presiden- the Belgian-administered tial Press Secretary, said when territory of Ruandia-Urandi, questioned
He cald he found it difficult about the "precau- tionary measures" referred to to believe the troops could have The Communist forces were in the Defence
Department bean landed by plane and then automatic statement:
of is well equipped with
"I would way that transported to the border this was done with the know- Kivu Province
the "without for wenpos
ledge of the President and 1 jawlodge of the responsible The pro-government military the light of Seato obligations."
authorities of Belgium in the commander of the city, General,
trust territory," Boun Lesh who is also com- Speaking after Mr Elsen- maxder for the entire north hower's meeting with Mr Her- Ruanda Urundi is part of the Laos sector telegraphed immeter, he said that the US Gov- UN trusteeship diately to Vientiane to request ernment's position remained as administered by New
troops included coversat reinforcements. The General's on Saturday, when the State the United Nationa
parts Department sald that the United vinite units,
States would take a serious view of any outside interfer- Mr Hammarskjold called on Belgium to "tako immediate and effective mensures to ensure
Essistance.
recently, Seato's mom- bers have been divided in their views and tactles over dealing with Laos. Britain, France, Australia, Zealand and Paldatan have tended to resist the tough attitudo taken by the United States but now may favour a call for help.
THE
EVACUATION
Vienland
ence in the Laos fighting.
tion.
system and lu
Belgium for
Imporative
די
cut U.S. Embassy staff
Havana, Jan. 2. Premier Fidel Castro said to- night that within 48-hours the United States Embassy hore will be permitted to have only 11 parsons, the iamo number Cuba hat in Washington.
WITH PICKETS
IN NAMUR
Brussels, Jan. 2.
Socialist "shock troops" from the strikebound "red belt" of south Belgium piled into Brussels- bound trains today ready to demonstrate to- morrow against the austerity bill, while police and pickets clashed in new violence at Namur.
Both in Brussels and in the provinces, moss demonstrations are planned tomorrow in an all- out bid to stop the voling On Government's bill for ed 250,000 persons during the economies to pay for the Con- observance of his revolution an- go. niversary, in which tanks and King Baudouin conferred to- guns supplied by the Soviet night with Mr Gaston Eyckens, Unlon and Czechoslovakia were the Catholic Prime Minister, and displayed in a 74-hour parade Mr Rene Lefebvre, Liberal In- crowds, Premier Castro said the officially sold to have reparted! move was being made to stop to hun on security measures to U.S. espionage,
prevent bloodshed tomorrow.
In a speech before an estimal-the
ELECTRIC TRAINS OFF
TO GOOD
before comparatively small terior Minister, who are un START
Climaxing second anniversary observances of his revolution, Castro said the U.S. Embassy In Havana hos about 300 per- sons and "more than 80 por cent are sples."
GET OUT
"If they all want to get out, let them," he said. The crowd chanted "Let them go, let them
Premier Castro also tnnounc-
Shake-up
Dover, Jan. 2. The electrification of 45 miles of railway along the Kent coast between Dover and Ramsgate got off today to a “trouble- free start." "All is well. There are no of any dificulties in the reports
working whatever", calda spokesman after three trains had completed their runs.
The servico la 18 months of a £45 million regional elec- ahead of schedule, and is part
trification, scheme.
TROUBLE
In Numur, centre of the militant south, Socialist trade unlod leaders today exiled for a shake-up of national institutions to old "the de- velopment of regions." Reports circulated in Licge that the Secialists would LI
commandeeT necessary town's taxls to get to Brussels. The groups arriving in Brus- ed that the Cabinet will meet sels tonight were described by en January 4 to sanction.
the police as "the toughest." death penally for terrorists and Mr Andre Renard, 43-year-old those found with terrorist for metal worker, Assistant material, an obvious move 10 Secretary
General of the counter the recent stato
of Sucialist - dominated bombings.
Belgian General Federation of Labour, Some trains were withdrown' bomb exploded called off
in last month on part of the new- a masa meeting this morning, injuring five per- Liege tomorrow. Instead he aum-y-cicctrified castern region line song.-UPI.
The latest
Child locked in with dead mother
New York, Jan. 3. The Christmas troo was still fresh and golfy decorated. Boside it on the living room floor were a bright ly dressed doll and other gifts for a child.
20 policeman saw thene things first after breading into the locked apartment.
Then, wodking into the ad- joining' bedroom, ho saw two Pyjama-clad figures.
Lying on the floor, huddled close to the cold and qulat body a three- of her mother, was year-old girl.
Her hair was blonde, atal her blue eyes stared upward at the
ciling.
EMACIATED Emaciated and thin, the child WW1 to weak that she could inake no sound,
A
Bald
daya
moned his metal workers to meet from Liverpool Street Station, on a plain near the tiny village London, after about 100 train af Ivoz on the Liege-Paris road. failures in less than three
party
this weeks.
Ninc change of tactics may have been introduced electric trains from later, newly- prevent Communists from
were with- snatching the initiative, out of Glasgow, Scotland, Socialist hands,
drawn from service and re- placed by steam trains after a series of electrical faults, In- explosion-China
to
Complicated
BN
The wave of nation-wide cluding strikes is complicated by the Mall Special. deep political, religious and onltural divisions between the overwhelmingly Catholle, Flemish-speaking north and predominantly Bocialist and anti-Clerical, French- speaking south—Wallonia, The strikers, including Flemish
the
Socialists, represent just under half of the Belgian working class. The other half consists of Catholle trade unionists, mostly
Flemings, who last week de elded to stay out of the strike
and combat It-Reuter.
Netherlands Cabinet not to resign
218
of
Eastern U.S.
snowed
under
castern
Chicago, Jan. 2. New snows kept the New Year while in much of the United States today.
One storm front spread arow Volley
. «CTUES the Mississippi
Into the. Ohio River basin, Pennsylvania and New England. Another sprinkled mow across the northern plains.
United Press International counlod at least 10 d'eaths blamed on snow, leo or over- exertion zince the start of the Now Your
Bitter cold backed up the nows in the northern Midwest
Plattsburgh,
New
York, measured 17 inches of snow and Albany a foot-UPI,
and Rockles,
„Amsterdam, Jan, 2. Outgoing Premier Dr Jan de Quay went to the Royal palace A glance told the omeer that tonight to ask Queen Juliana to Tokyo, Jan. 3.
for cancel his Cabinet's resignation, Japan's severest blizzard in the mother had been deud
a Government spokesman said. abaled today after dayn, 15 years
Honshu's The child, not comprehending After on 11-day crisis the paralysing northern railways and morconing about such things as death, apparent Dutch Cabinet is expected to 150,000 travellers in snowbound ly had lain there all the while, stay on, composed exactly trains and remote villages. frightened, alone and hungry.[ before, the spokesman said.
The coalition government The majority of about 80 But near her mother. stalled trains started
a middle-of-the-road Catholle - inoving Mrs Jennio McKiernan, again last night but national widow at 33 and suffering from berels, and wight-wing parties
it a heart rallway headquarters said
condition, apparently resigned atler belg defeated on
and a housing fatue.
New York, Jan. 3. would take two more days in had suffered an attack
the worst fallen from her bed to the floor. Today the Cabinet submitted The International Association completely unsari
Firo A later, who lives on Long a draft to the critical right-wing | of- tie-up in more than half a cen-
fra Chiefs report Island, had been unable to parties för an amended houring Icases in the US. for 1980 were Teach Ms McKiernan by tele-, programme. A compromise, bus | the highest on record. phone.
apparently now been reached The associatiori esleutated the she between these partics and the losses at between $1,126,009,000
Government.AP.
and $1,175,000,000~~AP.
At news of the Communist offensive pante
Mr Elsenhower, he added, that there will be no possibillly tury of railroading-AP. seized the
keep the would continue to
in of Belgian authorities in the THE nations aligned with population of
trust territory of Ruanda- Britain have taken the country's administrative capital. lose touch" with the altua-
Urundi or elsewhere lending A large part of the civilian Hine that neither Russia
Meanwhile in Paris, authority support directly or indirectly, to nor China wish to become population began to evacuate
the city.
tive French sources sald today military action by Congolese embroiled in 3 WAT that could not only involve the Roads leading from Vientiano that they believed it urgent for troops"
Indo-China ferritory, but also themselves. Any rash action
Landing gear buckles
Anxious and concerned, called police-AP.
Fire loss record
NO ENTREE TO WHITE HOUSE
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the Western Powers to act It is imperative, he added, that Belgiau authorities. In the so Nong Khay and Thalland jointly to help restore internal were crowded with cars and unity in Laos and ensure non-futurs disarm any Congolese
Paris, Jan 3. An Air France Boeing Jet taken by other vehicles.
Intervention by foreign powers troos, entering the territory
New York, Jan. 2. "Go In!" yelled one golfer.|' cup asked the other why. and, if necetenry, guard them to airliner with 02 passenger Iodal lendera in and around In the city itself foreigners
They cold the condlet; be see that they do not engage in aboard buckled a landing gear Two old friends from ser "No, not" shouted the man he had shouted "No, no, Lad could anmesh the and Laotians Iined up in front
wherra gust of wind struck it vico days were playing who had'sent the ball on "If I had' made a hole-in- Grant Powers in a military of the verious embassies seek-tween forces of righilst Geteral anitary action.
Phoumi Nosavan, and. Premier Mr. Hammarskjold's special as it was landing at Orly air-
its way, b golf at Monterey, Call
one," sald Senator John ing visas for foreign countries.
lio last night and capacity. This, of course,
The population feared a re-rince Down Oum on one side, representative, Indian diplomal port here
Kennedy, it would mako must be avoided.
turn of Khong Le's troops to and the pro-Communist Pather Rajeshwar Dayal, mid Inasitidded several hundred yardsfornia laat Memorial Day. After the ball stopped a
few inches short of the the front page, and people The necessity for mediation Vientiane from which the trougeo on the other, threatened to report that about 100 Congolese down the runway into a rain On the 15th, "hole, one of
the golfers drove to the cup, according to the cur, would say, “Oh, Just is obvious and the recon-withdrew last north after a become an all-out civil war troops had eros into Kivu soaked field. No one was hurt.
the dangerous im- Province from Runnda-Urundi The huge aircraft was, part vening of the International | battle with
green with a No 7 Ironront Look magazine, the another; golfer trying to Doun Own forces with E
ni, dawn on Sunday.
buried in the deep mud with and the ball headed un golfer who... had wanted get into the -*Whitej Supervisory Commission is and dreaded resumption, or pligations this would have on
Ther mision appareatly was two of: Its nostines covered. --- essential if this internal street Bghting in the capital, the tintemational sceneReuter
Merringly toward ... the pin. The ball to plop into the
Houns! UPI and ATP
to a persunda ( local · Congolese Tauter. confiat is to be controlled. AFF.