THẾ HONGLONG TELEGRAPH, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1950.
CENTURION tanks now in action for the first time in Korea. Production of the Centurions has increased 50 percent since the British Government announced its new defence programme. The 50-ton fighting vehicle is powered by a Meteor, engine, an adaptation of the Rolls Royce Merlin.
PRO-RUSSIAN
BLOC IN
CONTROL OF VIETMINH
Drastic Purge Of
Of Nationalists
Hanoi, Dec. 11.
> The pro-Soviet bloc has seized control of the rebel Vietminh party and is carrying out a drastic purge of nationalists who oppose the grow- ing infiltration of Chinese Communists in military operations, rebel dis- sidents said today.
So far the purge has been bloodless, informants said, but the real trouble may come as more and more Chinese Red military authorities enter the country to take posts of authority.
Two
followers of the rebel | Democratic Party members who leader, Ho Chi minh, said in had merged with the Indo- an interview that the pro- Chinese Communists to form Soviet bloc had put avid Com- the Vietminh movement in 1941 munists in nearly all posts of had been expelled from posts power which Nationalist-minded of importance. rebels had held.
As a result of the purge, the informants said, practically
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The sources said these and other Nationalist elements had. objected to infiltration of Chi- nese Reds on the ground that if they continued coming into the country they would com- pletely dominate Tonkin, the northern province bordering China.
REPORT TO POLITBURO FORMED
CABINET
INCIDENT
AT LONDON
AIRPORT
Mr
London, Dec. 11.
Vithal S. Banarse, an Indian businessman in London who was detained" for four hours by Customs officials at Communists in Vietminh lave
the airport on. Saturday now set up a Politburo called
following the finding of nine Bo Tong, which runs the en- gold bars in the sari worn by tire movement, and the Com- his 14-year-old niece, said to- if munist Party is operating open-day that he did not know London, Dec. 11.
were being taken The Prime Minister, Mrly in all Vietminh-held Indo- proceedings
China, the informants said.
against either or both of Clement Attlee, is likely to
them. call the Cabinet and report Formerly, the Party had stay- to it on his Washington ed in the background. talks almost immediately after he arrives here by air
AA Experts Anglo-Egyptian tomorrow, morning.
To Confer
London, Dec. 11. Anti-aircraft commanders of seven Atlantic Pact nations and representatives of the American forces in Burope will meet here tomorrow for a three-day con-
Treaty Talks
today.
London, Dec. 11.
:
Mr Attlee may decide to give the House of Commons a full statement on his talks to- morrow afternoon. But if he is A further meeting between very tired after his trip the the Egyptian Foreign Minister, statement
may be postponed Salah El Din Bey, and Mr Ernest till Wednesday. Bevin, the Foreign Secretary will be held next Friday, the The Cabinet met today and Foreign Office spokesman said discussed
final arrangements for the important House of Commons debate in the Wash- Anglo-ington.
arranged . talks
for The War Office, making the
Thursday, announcement; said that the European countries of the North According to one usually well- Mr Winston Churchill, Con- Atlantic Treaty Organisation informed source, the Egyptian servative leader, and
Mr Minister have been building up their anti- Foreign
has again
Anthony, his deputy, will be the aircraft defences based on raised the possibility of experience gained by Britain replacing
principal speakers in. the debate, the bilateral de-
Attlee may.
make a during the last war.
fence arrangement with and Mr
second speech on the talks to wind up the discussion.
ference to discuss air defence problems, it was officially nounced tonight.
an-
The talks concern the Egyptian treaty of 1936.
a form
by Also present, in addition to the Britain
of Americans, will be representa-association with the 12 signa tives of the Western Union tories of the North Atlantic Pact Headquarters at Fontainebleau. similar to that entered into by
Greece and Turkey. Reuter.
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The House of Lords will also debate the Washington talks on Thursday.
Members of Parliament are waiting anxiously to hear from Mr Attlee the steps to be taken .to speed up the défence pre-
gramme,
They also want to know the full story of the action taken to seek a settlement on Korea, and what can be expected from the reported negotiations with the Chinese Communists at Lake Success-Reuter,
My Bafarse told Reuter that the value of the gold was something like £2,000. It came from women's orna-
The rebels said that, whereas Ho Chi-minh's picture used to be the only one Vietminh show-ments which had been melted ed, his portrait was now flank down. "I know nothing about ed by pictures of Josef Stalinit," he added. "Why and of Mao Tse-tung.
Chinese Reds are now being called "brother", the infor- mants continued and an intense propaganda campaign had been started to wipe out the cen- turies-old hatred and distrust of Chinese by the Indo-Chinese.
•
NOT TITOISM
The rebels warned against any wishful thinking that the purge of nationalists had weakened the Vietminh or created a split which might create a big dissident "Titoist" movement.
Such a possibility might be foreseen if the Vietminh drove the French from the country, but hatred of the French was so great that the Indo-Chinese would prefer even Communist domination to rule by the French or by the Vientnam Em- peror Bao Dai, whom the French sponsor.-United Press.
being connected with it?".
am I
When detained Mr Banarse and his niece were about to board an Air Ceylon airliner for Bombay. His niece was searched by a woman official.
"I saw her being taken away by Customs officials," he said. "She was questioned for four hours. So was I." The plane left without them.
Mr Banarse..or his niece or their agent have a month under English law in which to claim the return of the gold bars, failing which they become the property of the Crown without formality
If the return of the seized property is claimed, the Customs authorities take what ed ""condemnation proceedings," are call-
in which they ask the Court to declare that the goods were legally seized and must be for- feited.-Reuter,
Indonesia Premier Pessimistic Over
Jordan Offends New Guinea Issue
British MP
London, Dec. 11.
Mr. Ian Mikardo, Labour tested in the House of Commons today against Jordan's recent
Member of Parliament, pro-
refusal to grant him an entry visa.
Djakarta, Dec. 11.
The Indonesian Prime Minister, Dr Mohamed Natsir, said today he was pessimistic about the. future of Dutch-Indonesian relations if the dis- pute over Western New Guinea were not settled by 1951.
Describing the meeting, as a plenary informal session, the communique said that the chair- man of the Indonesian delega→ tion clarified in a written note the Indonesian viewpoint already. expressed in an oral note com- municated to the conference last. week.
He urged the Government to He said this after the suppress payments to Jordan, Indonesian Cabinet had held a but the Under-Secretary of special closed session to discuss State for Foreign Affairs, Mr the question." Ernest Davies, refused. Mr He declined to reply when Mikardo asked him if he thought | asked if he thought a com- it proper for a country, "which promise were still possible at the could be bankrupt in three Indonesian-Dutch talks at The months without the money Hague on the future status of voted by this House," to ex- the area, now administered by clude a British Member of Holland and claimed
by his Parliament, whoever he right country. be.
His Government, he said, had instructed its delegation there Mr Davies said that the to continue the discussions. Government very much re- The Dutch and Indonesian gretted that Members of Parlia delegations were striving The communique added that ment were not free to travel strenuously ." to find some both delegations had decided to anywhere they chose, but if measure of agreement on the hold further informal discussions. visas were refused to some future status of Western New to find out whether it was they might be comforted to Guinea, according to a com- possible to bridge the gulf be- think that their speeches in munique issued at the end of a tween the viewpoints of the de Parliament had been noted.joint conference. at the Hague legations. Discussions will smart Reuter.
today.
tomorrow afternoon. Reuters
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The chairman of the Dutch delegation said he would reserve the right to answer this Indonesian explanation later in writing.