Bitter Pil For Jamuna
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1950.
Major Effort To Take Hanoi
Expected In The New Year
Hanoi, Dec. 12.
French intelligence officials claimed today that the Vietminh Communist leader, Ho Chi- minh, is training a 300,000-man army in Central Indo-China for an intensified campaign to capture Hanoi and North Vietnam.
The French said the drive was under way throughout Vietminh-controlled areas and numer- ous camps were established around Vinh, the old revolutionary hotbed, where rebels are given basic training.
The main reason for the High Command's evacuation of civi- lians has been the fear that Hanoi will be the first target of
The best French estimates River delta which the Commun- say the new army will be fielded ists need to feed their armies. early next year if the needed arms and equipment are forth- coming from China, The French believe new Vietminh strategy will be an attempt to squeeze out the French and Vietnamese forces from the delta by simul- taneous pressure from mountains all around, the vital Red River delta.
the
"The French expect, rebel guerilla warfare to be con- tinued with increasing inten- sity but doubt if the rebels will pit their forces against
Spain Increases Army Strength
Madrid, Dec. 12.-
The Spanish Government today published plans to increase the number of reserve officers and non- ̈ commissioned officers.
Retired Army 'official's still within age limits may now join the reserve for training periods. The num- ber of university students trained as temporary offi- cers or non-commissioned officers in summer camps will also be increased. Reuter.
Senator
Can't See
any bombings and the Tenth Difference
do not want to be encumbered with a refugee problem. if and when the rebels begin to close in around the
American north Vietnamese capital. United Press.
Compromise
French Union troops in open Plan For
battle. tempted
When the rebels at- to challenge the
It's a big and bitter pill for Jamuna, thé elephant, to swallow, but if pills as big as baseballs are to be French last March, they were swallowed, there's nobody better equipped for the job. Jamuna, who lives in the zoo at Auckland, N.Z. has stomach trouble and all that pill-pushing is done in the hope that an operation may be averted.
Champagne Party In Concentration Camp Described
Augsburg, Dec. 12.
New Guinea
badly beaten and have now fallen back to highly effective ambushes and hit and run
'The Hague, Dec. 12. attacks which are slowly
Dutch and Indonesian dele. weakening the French to a
gates joined today in confiden- point where it is now only. tial discussions on the future of matter of time befor they
Western New Guinea, officially will be forced to abandon
stated to be held in a friendly Tonkin.
atmosphere.
Reds
Documents released by both delegations tonight gave details. of the latest seven-point Indo- nesian compromise plan for the future of Western New Guinea, Dutch ad- at present under ministration.
This plan is now under dis- cussion.
Canberra, Dec, 12.
Theedor Sénator Francis Green (Democrat, Pro- vidence, Rhode Island), told Commonwealth representatives- here today that it was for the President of the United States to decide if the atom bomb should be used:
A guest speaker at the final session of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association Con-. férence here, the Senator said: "Personally, I cannot see any difference in principle between the use of the atomic bomb and of military of any other form power."
An Indian delegate, Mr D. K. Borgoah, described his coun- try's policy as "not pacifist- we are à peaceful nation but are not opposed to fighting for freedom."
Mr M. H. Gadkar, of Pakistan, declared that his country was in the forefront in the defence of the United Nations and the democratic way of life.-Reuter.
State For
Funeral Fraser
Latest reports from Vietminh areas say the morale of Ho Chi- min's troops is very high but there is an acute shortage of supplies. New supplies of arms, including the latest French auto matic weapons obtained from French troops or smuggled in, have done much to improve the combat effectiveness of the re-
Sources close to the Indo- bels. Most of theft arms, the French said, are being supplied esian delegation said that the from China and are of American plan was absolutely conditional on Holland being prepared to by the origin captured
give up control of the territory from the Nationalists,
and formally cede it to the Re- HAUL AT LANGSON
New Zealand will accord the public of Indonesia by Dec. 27- The French admit rebel
the first anniversary of the fullest State honours in the to or equipment is now equal
transfer to Indonesia of the rest burial on Friday of Mr Peter Scottish shoe- better than the French in many
of the former Dutch East Indies. Fraser, the
maker's son who became her cases. Large amounts were ob-
The documents released to- tained from Langson, where
night, showed that the Indo-Prime Minister for nine years. uncon-officials admit there
Mr Sidney Holland, the pre- was' suffi-
nesian Foreign Minister, Dr
sent Prime Minister, announced cient equipment taken by the Mohammed Roém, made this
at least two rebels to supply
hours after- this today a few demand on Thursday but the divisions. The French aban-Dutch had rejected it.
the 66-year-old Labour Oppa- sition leader had died of a doned Langson in mid-October
heart attack in hospital.
Pre-
Ilse Koch was carried into Court here this afternoon by four policemen after the State Pro- secutor had said that she had recovered perfectly. from what doctors had called a self-induced nervous breakdown.
It was not clear whether she was scious or merely pretending to be, but coming through the doorway she stood up supported by a wardress, walked forward dazed manner.
Her
She room.
when and,
in a
hair was disordered. [ When the Court opened this looked round the Court morning, she was, absent for the second day running. The last witness to be heard in her absence this morning, Hans Koch Kania, described how Koch and
The Judge said later this afternoon that he saw being carried into Court. He
asked her what was the matter.
She rubbed her eyes, stood up;
said: "I have been dreaming,"
and walked in.
She did not stand up when the court filed in to take their seats, but sat shivering in her
chair.
her husband, Karl, the Bluchen- wald_concentration camp.com mandant, gave a party in 1941 which cost 68,000 marks..
HEAVY DRINKING
and filed in such panic that tons of they failed to destroy war materials stored in this key fortress. Most valuable to the rebels
would be underground stores of petrol and huge stock of arms and ammunition. -
French Greatly worrying military chiefs in Tonkin are
reports that the Chinese Reds
are constructing large airfields in Yunnan province, although
Dr Roem said that his coun-
conscious of try, "deeply
the dangers to world peace," was the New prepared to settle Guinea dispute by consultation.
---Reuter..
Wellington, Dec. 12.
Mr Fraser, who was mier from 1940 until his Go--
in' last vernment's defeat year's elections, had been cri tically ill for some weeks with bronchitis and heart trouble.
before three just o'clock local time today.Reu- ter.
Cairo's Attitude He died Towards Peking
Cairo, Dec. 12.
no planes have yet been report- Egypt will not alter her at ed in South China. The French titude towards Communist China are fearful that the Reds plan for the present,
the
Acting
Abrahim
· Kania, aged 37, who was a
Minister, in the Nazi Blackshirt to use bombers when the fight Foreign cook officers' mess in the camp, said begins for the rice-rich Red Farraq Bey, stated today. that the mess building was com- pletely rebuilt and redecorated Koch, who is being tried by a from top to bottom for the party, and used her personal charm German court here, charged and a lot of looted furniture with Kania and other cooks to with 36 murders, complicity in
from France and Belgium was get tithits. 145 more and with one at-
BATHING COSTUME tempted murder, had been input im
senior SS Three hundred
"She had no charms for me," hospital since Sunday.
officers and their wives from Kania stated, but admitted that
came in the neighbourhood, including she often
during Prince Josias of Waldeck, the SS summer dressed in a two-piece Police Chief of the Kassel area, bathing costume, put a leg on a
by consulting
CHINESE OPTICAL CO.
67 Queen's Hood. C Fal: 23368
Tibet Delegate In India
Egypt's participation in the Kalimpong, Bengal, Dec. 12... unofficial mediation of the 13 Ngawang Gyaltsen, a member
de-: Asian and Arab countries in the of the three-man Tibetan Korean war did not imply re-legation to the United Nations, cognition of the Peking Govern- arrived here today from Gantok
(Sikkim State). ment, he added.
Dzasa Surkhang Surpo, and Tibet's Foreign Minister leader of the delegation, -is ex- peoted here later this week. Tibet protested to the Security
Egypt's future policy would depend en international cir- cumstances."Reuter..
who was recently released from chair to display her curves, and Publisher Found Council on November 9 against
Landsberg Prison, Bavaria, at- then asked him for a good cut tended the party,
They drank of meat.
Not Guilty
several hundred bottles of Kania said that. the Koch
London, Dec. 12. champagne and other wine, couple spied a prisoner with a
Kania did not agree
The 71-year-old publisher of with very complicated three-coloured
anti-Jewish news Koch's repeated contention that tattoo during a camp
football an
sheet, she lived a quiet life in her match, called him out and made"Gothic Ripples," was
was today villa and spent most of her time him turn round in front of them found not guilty of maliciously bringing up her family.
A few minutes later, Kania publishing a defamatory libel said, this man, whose name he concerning London's police chief, had known but could not now Sir Harold Scott, remember, was taken to hos pital where, Kania later learn- ed, he was injected with a lethal dose and skinned-Reuter.
come He said she used to daily to collect rations from the SS mess, which were paid for not out of her pocket but out of the camp's "black fund" money stolen from prisoners
|
He was discharged.
The man was Arnold Spencer Leese, of Fewley Hill, Guildford, Surrey Reuter,
the invasion by Chinese Com- munist forces and asked for United Nations intervention,- Reuter,
Australian Jubilee
Canberra, Déc. 12, Officials in charge of Aus tralia's Jubilee celebrations
next year are trying to induce the Americar bass-baritone and Red Indian chief, Oshe Ke Non Ton, to sing the lead in ana tional production of Hiawatha.
-Reuter.