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FRENCH GENERAL STAFF
CALLS ON AMERICA URGENTLY FOR AID
Intensified Activity By
Vietminh Forces
Saigon, Apr. 7. Faced with intensified activity by the Vietminh Communist forces, the French General Staff in war-torn Indo-China has sent an urgent demand to Britain and the United States for military equipment, a usually reliable diplomatic source said here tonight.
The General Staff indicated, according to this source, that unless aid arrived swiftly France would be compelled to revise her military disposi- tions in Indo-China.
Leading the forces against France is Moscow-trained
RIO TRAIN Ho Chi-minh.
DISASTER
FORTY KILLED IN PLUNGE
OVER BRIDGE
Washington was said to be giving the demand "favourable | consideration” but no confirm
tion was immediately available } at the French Army Headquar
here.
In a communique tonight the French
Army Headquarters alleged that Vietminh forces
cluse lu
the Chinese frontier near Cao Bang had for a month been receiving many convoys of ammunition from so far Communist-controlled China. been killed
communique also
Ilio de Janeiro, Apr., 7 arms and
Forty-one people
known to have
re
The
when a train from Rio to Vie-nounced that ปรต Vietminh torin plunged over # river forces had built a new motor, bridge 50 miles north of here road over the front
frontier. For the yesterday, a spokesman of the Arst time it also reported Viet- Bri.ish-owned Leopoldina Rell-minh activity in the Moung Ric way nald today,
region, near the Burma-China frontier with Laos, one of the independent Indo-Chinese States in the French Union.
10 denled
earlier repórla that 120 people had lost their lives but said that some bodles had not yet been recovered from the wreckage.
Salvage work was continuing uday and all traffic from the capital to Rio de Janeiro State was silil suspended.
The police at Tanguara, where the accident occurred, last night said that 120 people were killed and 100 others in jured.
Neutral diplomatte sources here were tonight inclined to believe persistent reports that Chibere regular officers with a Russian adviser had arrived at Yon Minh,
Viouninh rem
regional headquarters 20 miles inside the mountainous Vietnam border.
GROWING PERIL
SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1950.
Princess Margaret
In Manchester
平附
Princess Margaret in perfia the Guard of Honour of the Manches ler Regi- The Princess laid the ment (TA) at the beginning of her Lancashire tour.
foundation stone of Manchester's nov. Free Trade Hall.
Nehru And Ali Khan
Expected
To Clinch Agreement
New Delhi, Apr. 7. — The six-day old talks between the India and Pakistan Prime Ministers, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru and Liaquat Ali Khan, to find a solution to the problem created by recent disorders in the two Bengals were, according to informed quarters, near completion today when the draft agreement was further examined.
of
N.Z. Closing Moscow Legation
Wellington,
Apr. 1- New Zealand announced on Friday that it is closing Its legation In Moscow.
Russia's recent abolition of the speelat diplomalle exebange rate for the rubic had made it too difficult for small countries such as New Zealand to maintain diplomatic missions in Moscow.United Press.
Cold War Heating
The Prime Ministers will meal | day, one shortly after lunch. ng in tomorrow norma
Iusting one hour, and another in A growing concentration of The joint talks would appear | the evening, lasling half an Chinese troops on the Burma to have
hour. jeng hened beyond frontier in Yunnan was also re-carlier anticipations because, in According to Informed quar-
San Francisco, Apr. 7.— iers every effort will be made at General Ira Eaker, one parted.
considering what may be called
tomorrow's
of Survivors reaching Rio Enid
of the meeting he operative portion of the that the train was crowded It was because of the appar-
Prime Ministers to "clinch" the the top airmen of the last and Беоре Freemen like the with about 1,000 holiday makers ently growing threat to the functions
draft agreement. minorities. the
war, said today that in a in its 12 coaches. Many of security of the Chinese frontier Commissions to be set up in the
Liaquat Ali Khan is believed sense Russia "has declared then wore sleeping when the as well as the intensifed Viet- affected
anct provinces
to have indlented his desire to train, travelling at high speed, i minh activity in Indo-China it- directives to be issued
leave for Karachi tomorrow if war." possible on account of pressing added.self that the French Wis wrecked, they
General respective Governments for the Reuter,
cfficial engagements.—Reuter. Staff recently submitted an implementation of the ngree- urgent demand for shipment of ment, cer ain adjustments have
transport been found to be necessary.
reliable
The Prime Ministers are also understood to have reviewed the
Armed Robbery
A gang of four, robbers armed with daegers broke into an un numbered hut at Caurewo, Bay at 7 am, yesterday and robbed the inmates of gold jewellery and cash to the value of $200,
EDITORIAL
THE
i
American
that
the
to the
military material,
Usually diplomatle source said." The source sald General Staff had asked for this countries as a whole plthough the posùion of minoritica in two material to be sent direct to the the general situa ion has been Indo-Chinese ports of Salgon, the immediate "target" of the in the South, and Haiphong, at the mouth of the Red River, In
conversations. the north, by the end of this 1 June.—Reuter.
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Too Little And Too Late
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT) London, April 7.-The accusation that| the Government has been insufficiently appreciative of the seriousness of the situa- tion in Malaya was the tenor of the two- hour debate in the House of Commons.
Though there were never more than about fifty members present, the debate conveyed a sense of urgency and while there were no fireworks in the speeches there was an obvious gravity in tone. Among those who listen- irritarded in isolation front cd to the debate from the worldwide attempts on the part of Communist Russin to do- Government Front Bench
minate the world. It had be- was the Secretary of State come a hot war and we were for War, Mr John Strachey, no, winning that
Thaps
the
the
forthright
war,
The Kremlin was getting good
ess:nce of the j opposition was summed up in value for the financing of three declaration of thousand bandits because these Mr D. Commas, who open-were immobilising a division of the debate said that the British troops which should be in ing
of Sir
Harold Northern Europe. appointment Briggs as the "co-ordinator" of the military and police in the campaign to put down the Com- munist bandit menace, wasn't enough.
the
He told the House that bombs had been thrown in Kuala Lum pur no farther from the centre of the city than Hampstend Heath was frem that House. He
hoped
and
What Is needed, he said, is a when the Colonial Secretary Supreme Commander and six visited Malaya, he would no months of military law.
Singapore spend his time in Mr Jumes Griffiths, the Kuala Lumpur surrounded by Colonial Sccretary, speaking for. armed guards but would go and Government, cald that no see for himself the condition better man could be found for under which rubber planters the job than Sir Harold Briggs and tin miners were living. who would be directly respon-
Mr Gammons had three main ible to the High Cominissioner, criticisms of the Government's
Malcolm
MacDonald, handling of the situation. They and be able to give instructions had not sufficiently to the police
situation; forces nike in the planning of white they generally did the
campaign. the
right thing they always did it too late; and the right hand of the Foreign Office did not always know what the left hand of the Colonial. Office was doing.
and military seriousness of fealised the
He would have all the prae- tical powers that strategic commander required in such a situation.............
Mr Gammans carlier caid: "A situation of real calamity
In developing
Mainya. Events there "should never be
Je naked whether the Colonial Offico was really consulted over the recognition (Contd. on Pazo 14 Col. 1)
Unlied INVITATION TO AID IN MALAYA that the
Ile urged States adopt universal military training to "convince the fussi- ans that we mean to fight."
Eaker, addressing 11 Commonwealth Club luncheon, diplo- said, "The cold war" is matic pence" of hostilities and
"is
now in full swing."
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CALCUTTA BOMB
Calcutta, Apr. 7.-Threa
Melbourne, Apr. 7-The Prime Minister, Mr Robert Menzies, refused to comment today on people were killed and 17 were suggestions in the British House of Commons that injured in a bomb explosion in Australian help should be sought in the battle the Jute mill area in the Calcut- ta suburb of Howrah tonight, against the Communist guèrillas in Malaya. according to a police report.
While workers at the juto
The former deputy Comman- der of the wartime Army Air London, Apr. 7-A 34-year- Forces sald Russia could follow Pandit Nehru had two meet-old woman leaped naked to her these three courses: A. She can westward country by ings with Liaquat Ali Khan to-death from a third floor window move
us fire raged through a small | country as
as Germany did. hotel in Bloomsbury, London | She can take over Asia, C. She student quarter near the British can launch an attack on the Museum, early today.
United States. Afles The
He said victim
Urzula
could that Russia Strode, was a receptionist at the mount an attack against the Mr Menzies, who is on new and more vigorous approach mill were coming out, a bomb to the Malayan problem Is was thrown at them. The Tivoli Cinema In London's United States by organising a holiday in Tasmania, sald needed," the Herald sald-palice made several arrests.--- West End and was a permanent successful fifth column, by mili that he had not heard of the Reuter resident at the hotel. Her body lary assault, probably bombard
missiles and Commons' debate, nor was was found by the police in a ment by guided the back of the atom bombers
he interested in the details. followed by garden
at
airborne Invasion, or by draw- He said that all he wanted building.
and eighting the United States into re-to do was to rest during the
The Belgian Crisis
decision of M. Van Zeeland to attempt to form a Government which is ready to back the
of King retura Leopold to the Belgian throne promises. little to solve the crisis. The earlier position was this: the seventeen-member Cabinet contained nino Social Christians (Catholic party), headed by the Premier M. Eyskens, and eight Liberals. The Liberals held this many poste--far out of propor→ tion to their numerical strength-because their support was necessary in the tower house of Parliament, where the Catholics lack two voles of a majority. On the crucial question of King Leopold, the Catholic party has favoured his restora- tion; the Socialists, led by M. Paul-Henri Spaak, have been opposed to it; and the Liberals stated they would approve his return if it was endorsed by a ma- jority of the people-not in Belgium as a whole, but in each of the three general arena of the country. As it turned out, Leopold received a majority only in Flemish-speaking Flanders (which was heavy enough to give him a country-wido majority of 57.68 percent) but not in Brussels or in French-speaking Wallonia. After much hesitation, the Liberals apparently decided to stick to their position. The result is that the Eyskens Government, unable to control the lower house without Liberal support, resigned. Leopold cannot return" until he is sum moned by both houses of Parliament in:
joint session (in which the Catholics have a scanty majority); but Parliament cannot be convened without a responsible Cabinet. Needless to say, the crisis would disappear if Leopold would re- nounce his ambition to return. The King is nothing if not stubborn; and his determination to regain his throne has an almost medieval ring to it. The argument over the merits of his actions from 1940 to the present day has be como hopelessly enmeshed in the com- plexities of Belgian politics. The nation has been divided since its very beginning, 120 years ago; but it has managed to survive with considerable success. This bitter dlaputo only serves to pour salt on old and open wounds a particularly unfortunate development in a country that has been one of Western Europe's economic bright spots ever since the It is strange that so practical a people as the Belglans would be torn asunder by question that Beems to belong to another age.
But they are; and if Leopold returns, he will certainly not be able to pose si impartial monarch above party conflicts. His enemies have already derisively dubbed him "King of Flanders." He will, unfor- tunately, be a symbol not of unity but of disunity. Who is to blame is no longer the question. In the best interests of the country he might show himself, a wise man and a good citizen by giving up, his claim to a shaky throne,
war.
most
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Two others died, were taken to hospital, Neighbours watched other woman reached safety by edging her way along a narrow ledge three storeys up, to an adjoining hotel
As the flames swept through the building, firemen used ladders to bring guests to safe-
-Reuter.
Fire
Destroys
Motorboat
eting to her moves in Europe Asia as Hitler led England declare war against Ger-
many,
Gen. Eaker States must
holidays.
Mr Josiah Francis, the Army
also and Navy Minister,
re- said the United fused to comment. Any com- oppose Russian ment was entirely a matter expansion through the Marshall for the Prime Minister, 10
tiae
and concentrate on selen-
said.
research to get the best The Sydney Morning Henald weapons, the Arat @ockpile of said in a leading article today om bombs and facilities to that oficial admission in the 'ellver thea
of Commons that House campaign
said
a
Ho said that as an essential
in Malaya was not part of the defence plan we should "oolve our labour prob- concern in Australia.
ob- Eoing well must cause serious lems and
elimina e strikes."
Ever
tho
Ho
the United States
A fire which broke out in the it should
Iran on the ground." engine room of the large-sized dua ry
motor boat Stevco resulted the loss of the boat at Cause- Way Bay Typhoon Shelter at
8 o'clock yesterday morning.
At about 7.30 a.m., the crew of the boat were going to cross harbour and when they started explosion
Fun suddenly occurred in the room
that the crew had to leave, the boat and swim ashore.
together
since the end of the should fight the war in Russia war Britain had been carrying with bombs, not in Turkey or alone a heavy burden in Malaya Ho sald and as the guerillas' casualles destroy Russia's in- were less then they had in- fieled, a British request would without occupation. United Prosa.
be reasonable, the paper added. the Commonwealth Government might well con- sider whether it should wait to asked or whether a spon→ taneous offer of
Shanghai Still Delays
be
Indoed
be wise and time might not
the Herald
sald.
The Herald further stated was the sole re- that Malays
and later the kerosine caught fire. The fire was so furious Preparations made In the table barrier between Australia past few days to evacuate and militant Communism which Shanghal foreigners by sea are bad swept over the greater part No Creboat was called for still held up because the Chinese of Aala. If it was lost to Des.
with several fire en Communist authorities have still
mocracy,
Austenile's strategie Free but their efforts could not signified definite agreement. position would be seriously not lessen the ferocity of the | The 8,000-ion Anking; which was koues. fire and the boat firally, sank was to have miled north yester || "Whether half hour haterowieskaze day to help in that evanuation, in give
ING. Casualty Amma reported. was till in port this; morniädr
o not selatance
Reuter.
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