French Do Not Expect Attack
On Indo-China
Paris, Nov. 2.---A high French official today said that France did not look for an attack on Indo-China when the Chinese Communist troops reached the border. However, he said the French expected to have to deal with smuggling attempts to send arms and supplies across the thinly-held jungle border to aid the Vletminh nationalists, led by Moscow-trained-Ho-Chi-miah, who have fought a bloody four-year war against the French.
The approach of the Chin-, tury by force of arms. By the ese Communists poses only 1920's, it had become the most valuable French possession with one more problem for the the exception of North Africa. shaky French prestige and Now it is a liability. position in the Far East. The French apparently are far from winning the Indo-Chinese war as over and, amid growing criticism at home,
playing the
ng are
and the
last trump card of a dis-la Dni. Emperor of Annam advantageous peace
with When the
1
French Influence dropped to zero In Indo-China during the Japanese extorted wer. The military bases when they took
border areas, over Foine
of the war gear the end Japanese set up Vietan constitutional monarchy under Japanese collapsed, Ho took over the government and Bao Dai left for China. Last March they concluded
SPORADIC TALKS An agreement with ex-Emperor
Fighing started a Septem- Dat Ba
I rival tom
when French troops furt Vietnam-theber 1945, government
Am went ashore with other Allied ul Fonk:ti,
going on Province
Bunity, and has been And Cochin,China--giving
negotiation Sporade Considerable stre Dal's
EUvernment nutonomy "but keeping French between Ho the French
1 control.
Ho.
g
Bao Dai wrtal to Judo-Chine last April to fouth him govern
m
Although
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 1949.
·Bidault Ends French Crisis
Leopold's Return
May Give Spark To Labour Troubles
Georges Bidault (left), 50-year-old leader of the French Popular Republi-
can
Movement, slands with other government oficials in Paris after his confirmation as Premier- which ended France's longest political Left crisis in 50 years.
row):
ก
move
to right (front
broke down
December 1947. affer Bao Da several months and the French And
Baker Dal Fenchicker
Bidault, President Vincent
had begun to
With
London, Nov. 2.-King Leopold of Belgium should But if the Belgian be back in Brussels carly in January. Socialists, his major opponents, carry out their original throat, Belgium may face a period of labour disturbances or even a general strike.
Auriol, former Premier
Henri
row}: Yvon
can
enlled say it is to early to Judge, ne hock as part of the Ho govern- but Anally for n time, lus not picked upjment apparently
Negotiations {broke with 1. much supp
resulted in the agreement of
Well-informed circies be- Cambodia and Laos, the others March, and the French say
last provinces,
be put intolleve the King will get at 1Wu indo-Chinese
least 65 percent of the votes are kingde wilhin the French they hope
cast by the Belgians in However, French troops will Union and co-operatively quiet effect by the end of the year
up the although there is some guerilla)
still be needed to back
plebiscite on the question of Activity there ton
new government For Vietnam
Many feel he the agreement calls for indepen his return. dence within the French Union,
Annam unity of Tonkin. Cochin China: the right to ment
representatives diplomalle China Stam and the complete administrative, juduril and Ananesal autonomy; had the right to have an army, though, with French instructors
RAMADIER FOR INDIA
Bidaull's Premier
Georges new Cabinet mhers the Ins Chinese problem and, although 11 is composed of the same par- ties and almost the she men, may provide the new Cabinet an excuse for a new the part of the French
move on
The independent newspajat
1300d
to
Vallenn,
For France strategie buzes In
MANSTEIN'S ORDERS
IN CRIMEA
may get, nearer to 68 per- cent.
Despite the danger of over- simplifying a complex problem. that Delgium ba can be said divided, roughly about 60 per- vent in favour of a retum of the King and the balance against. The percentages coincide ap proximately with The religious the and political division
ountry
of
The King 15 known in love both supporteru ani detractor
Among
the
predominantly
Qucuille; (back Maurice
Petsch, Delbos, Robert Sekaman, Pierre Jacquinot Robert LaCoste. and
(AP Picture).
FINNS WANT
RUSSIAN
Manpower Crisis At Coal Mines
London, Nov. 2.-Threat- ened with a new manpower crisis in the mining indus- try, the British Government 18 considering the removal of the "ring fence" round the industry, which pro- venta any man leaving the pits until he is 50.
to
Mining experts have suggested the Government that this restriction
deterrent to young men who might otherwise become coal miners.
A
The question is al present being examined by the Binistry of-Fuel and Power
With only two months to the end of the year, for which a target nguro of 730,000 miners has been Axed, the total man-
10 power today is lower than at any time
spring of since the 1947.
The prewar manpower force In the mines was 770,000, of whom ground workers,
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The serious aspect drain in that the
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ex-
of them
perienced men, many key men at the coal-face, form the biggest part of those leaving the Industry,
They do so either because of -health or because they have reached the age limit.
The present regulations per- mit a recruit to withdraw from the industry at any time during his initial three months' train- that he is tied ing. but after
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The men fa the mines are producing more cool each shift han ever before--104 percent Britain 1937 Average. of the
is the only country in Europe to exceed prewar productivity. -Reuter,
FRIENDSHIP OFFICER WHO
London, Nov. 2.-Helsinki Catholie Flemish-born populaRadio reported today tion an! h French-speaking: Kari Fagerholm, Social De-
Waloons, The former ure in The Fallo of The man jurtly,
In about
that
GC
mocrat Prime Minister of Finland, told a congress of
his party in Helsinki: "The
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Combat, umally well-informed | Vietnam, right of tree possage French Union troops, co- on Internal affairs, said a few for
French and Hamburg. Nov. 2.--The Flemings to Waloons days ago that the former Pre-ordination
a nison watches
of executed Jews to 40 percent resp;vively Vietnam
Nov. 2-A aust important object in arms under
would be misirading Paul Ronadier, mier, Sorialist
which in wartime
assume that the entire Flemish our foreign policy is friend-former Army captain who probably would be sent to India committee.
of the Germanica holle population will vole to usk Premier Nehru to would be a general start with a Were distributed to officers!
return but it ship with our great neigh-strangled or suffocated his negotiate a true. This report French chief money linked to and men
and safeguards for Army serving in Russin, the for the King's
wife, poured petrol over her,COLBERT ☆ AMECHE the frame, haa not been confirmed,
military court trying former windd be equally unreliable inbour, the Soviet Union." cultural and economic rights. (United Press.
Field Marshni Erich Von depend upon the entire Waloon voting ngainst the war crimes King charges was told today.
An official who holds hoch position in the Overness Minin
the try sald
present French the border string o lines at fort had been set up on the assumption that there would be Chinese Communist troops 06 the other side.
The
with
official
frontier, but mak
INDIAN MEMORANDUM
Indian En- London, Nov 2
sy teinis in London today fered that the Government at Iha had made any represenin- Elions to the Briti Foreign Carr, he knew offer an Indo-China.
watches,
ד 11
STRIKE THREAT
Flemish,
th"
ngainst
tiat "The fact
Social De-then set fire to her, was 13|,་་ furght เคร Communism in our country doe found guilty of murder but not muninilse our contribution insane at the Assizes here
Rund re- Towards establishing
today. lations with the Soviet Union,"
ile he was quoted as sayimt.
M Fagerholas denied that Wynter Peel, aged 40, of Chei- Finland was negotiating with tenham, England.
Von Manstem told the chief
Among the Arthur Comyos! free UF, Sir
that he not remeSE- majority of voters
nre ilkely her asking the SD (Special to be Catholics and many of
The Western Powera. agricul ure, staged 201 Squads for Action
there
A few ના quite arden Catholic-Socialists, not- Dacks ely in the An werp
the Watcons. Aspo
nothing of press reports that I was 'muschievous." they hat it was possible he had done French officials had negotiated old to say that India was try the Chinese Nationalising to urge the British Govern
at thement to any particular viewpoint defener for a common
if a meting
about the conflict between Dir they
to be executed In Vietminh pirty and the French-dows were had taken place belwren
probably the Crimean eily of Simferopol, † French and Que Chinese Nation sporrect alists It was probably cuss what would happen to the retreating Nationalist troups at
lo dis
regime
of the ex
emperor
int
Bao Dai officials
repost by
12
deny
the Indian Indo-Chin
ched London
the frontier and, more rspec-Cansul-Ceneral in ally, to their arms The 120,000 French tro
Groures wus
Stephen
The police said that Peel told The Government has not re- velved any propusnis whatever them: "My wife will be alive I cannot tell from the I can go to her. of a political unture
have the police. Western Powers and we
1 can only explain thal tha started in the Garden nothing to hide." he said.
had followed with
uf Eden. the discussions interest
Scandineylan iefence ulterantive to
Finland
Sir document
Ar hur
Want Nayag
Ger
Juth
5
11
11,000 voters are apt to be engaged in
industry. Their
mos!
ranks include mort the
Kreat fur
het as
Mutalial
where Troops were quartered
Munstein's
"She W30 inducing me to the awallow sleeping tablets, and
power- ful supporters of the Sogutsts
I leaders Socialist Prominen
Atlantic Port for the northern in 1 was determined to resist,
"Do you mean to tell us that, assured a United Press corres. in the you did not know of the exeen-pondent pat they would order inetabers of taken
in Indo-Chin course of sovisual exchanges et loom of there dew: Sir Arthur; general strike to start from
Inck any of the modern arms they need to fight approximately 80.000 erillas under Ho.
antemtuation
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for fear that the forces of evil "THE SNAKE PIT" convinced should finally
prevall
la the
The
Finns that I would have been best if world. Scandinavia and refrained from
"In a flash 1 saw that cour- ouing the Atlantic Pact," he 10
action And desperate declared, "but Denmark and ageous Norway decided to participate must be taken at vure, and onu In it and it is not our business nust be sacrificed in order
that many may survive." o Express criticism.
•lowever,
The judge directed that Perl greatly
Brandmoor in dolained pleased that Sweden decided to be stay neutral".
Lunatic Asylum-Reuter.
We are
said he had the moment the King ever set
Belgian frist 12 heard of it at that time,
to was wunless the Commmwealth
Hel they
xorused surprise
He denied issuing orders for Brussels for the express pur-
pose of abilleating. st reports purporting to give the the execution of Jews and ex NOW A LIABILITY
If the plebiscite close, "eret memoran presad regret that such inags contents of
Inbour disturbances at least enh it the en | happenrgi. After four years of war, the dam from the Indino Govern-
be expected They said that I was
out contaning meat
carry French hold towns
not "However I do not regret any Soelaists do most of the 20,000,000 populu- common practice for Common-
earlier threats. to exchange of my orders given at that time," lion,
control only wealth countries
M. Fagerholm announced that but they
On the other hand, a Belgian
The Government would hand in here contends 15 percent of the land information on various matters he added. abou!
Catholic source of common interest.
will riosed that not only The prosecution
the Kings realgnation on March 1, when arca
Pross-sxanitnation of Von Manobirin a strong majority in the the new Finnishi President takes ia In accordance 1elu kolay, his 10th day in the plebiscite, but that even if it is office. This
The defence will only
he This was a two-way matter.
60 percent" sweeping the whole of South-The Indian Government passed witness box.
on any Riformation night commence direct examination of still universally acclaimed in east Asin.
through diplomalle Ver Manstein tomorrow.-Asso Ho himself is evasive on the receive
he is a channels to the British Govern- clated Press. of whether subject
thought such Is D ment if it Communist now. There
element in firmalen was of cummon
The French say that if lado- China goes,
be
the Red tle will
its well on
wity
Lo
strong Commntmist
TWO-WAY MATTER
his movement, but the majority terest.
of the Vietminh
probably are not.
in. In-
Similarly the British nationalists Foreign Ofice would pass on to the fadian Foreign Office notes
France took over Indo-China on variousaki that in the
bit by bit during the 19th Cen
SOVEREIGNS FAKED
The officials
The Kremlin Gets A Cleaning
will be with tradition.-Reuter.
the streets
reets wherever he goes, One of the main reasons why!
t
Socialists object to his return WAR BILL WAS
Is seldom publicly discussed or admitted.
Many of his detrac tors claim that through his mar- riage to a woman whose father has been accused "collaboration"
NOT
SENT
he
Policeman's
Hero Habit
2-Patrol- New York, Nov. man Roberi Stewart, 27, stood on a slx-inch wall today and children whom three maught Vincent Sorcogato dropped from window in a London, Nov. 2.--Lord Ren-
a second-storey of alleged net (Liberal) indicated to the blazing Bronx apartment house. with the Ger-
House if Lords today that 2.- Moscowmans, London, Nov.
the King himself *vir-
believed Rugela and Egypt Stewart cannot get out of the normal course the Indian Go-
for aid habit of being a hero. A Navy Radio reported tonight that the vernment might have sent to
of the Kremlin, tually sided with, many Belgians
gave those countries during the veteran with several decorations who, during the war, were al should pay Britain
for wartime bravery, he rescued the British Foreign Office what-cleaning
citadel, Moscow's 450-year-old
legedly helpful to the Germans.
"War.
the building, 14 persons from they
might be ever reports
Speaking during a debate on getting of the situation in Iudo as part of its biggest restoration .11 was bulit, is nearly
DEADLOCK REMAINS
the Government's new economic including three members of his China as part of the Common-c wealth understanding,
complete. but it
Those who feel this way about policy, Lord Rennell sugges.edown family.
the a moratorium on old debis and Its towers, stripped of dust the problem claim that
The young policeman was totally wrong to describe Louch d communication as a land grime, "look as if they had King's turn must of necessity added: "Have we ever sent is
result the our bill for the war? We went home from the movies at 1a.m. "representa-been built yesterday," the Radio automatically
Gald-Reuter. Athens, Nov. 2. The mentorandum
"whitewashing of a number of into the war in a whole-heur.ed and smelt smoke in the apart saved the world ment house. Ile traced it to the an- tions."-Reuter. Piraeus police chief
alleged "collaborators" some of manner. We whom are still awaiting trial and the world owes us a debt apartment of John Lotstedt in the rear of the building and Ho icd and others who are now serving which it can never repay."
He then made it clear lie was broke down the door. sentences in various Belgian
talking about Egypt and Russia, Mr and Mrs Lofstede and their
to children the street, then participated in the rescue of Supporters of the King baseUnited Press,
tenanto as the other spread.-United Press,
made
nounced the arrest today of a 13-man ring counterfeit. ing British gold sovereigns.
The counterfeiters prouts totalling £25,000 out of the deals, the police chief sold. He declared that they mant factured 20,800 fake sovereigns, 10,000 of which have been ex- ported from Greece.
Their sovereigns were only 10 carat pieces, compared with the
carats
32 Sovereign
of
the genuine
The ring, which was reported
to have been operating sinco 1940, was reported to have been
broken a month ago.
The
and British
Grock Treasuries have been informed of the counterfelling, and Bri tish Ambassador Sir: Clifford Norton and the head of the British Police Mission to Groeça, Sir Charles Wickham, are ro ported to be conducting their own investigationg Tho sovereigns were so well duped that even experts were foolod.-- Asociated FrOMES
FESTORS PRESS RETVICE, IEGĦEVEYA YORK
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iT
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their main case, for his return
on the claim that any attempt
to prevent him from returning
18 anti-constitutional. Leopold, Monkey Wrench
they say, is King of the Belgians,
and no law can be passed under
a Regency which could effect his return.
could
Was Wanted
Sydney, Nov. 2-Sydney- Thus, the King alone
from Hong Kong, the until bound alter his own status, and and unless he chose to do so. Australian Uner Taiping slowed the deadlock in the so-called down when her captain saw "Royal Question" would remain, distress signul flying from tho
The joint announcement issued mast of a pearling lugger.
A dinghy put off from the by the King and Premier Gaston
which lugger, and the Talping care kens, nacording to
will abdicate If the fully closed in. The dinghy's plebiscite does not give at least grew explained that the lugger for three of the votes, there had been ground
an engine
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