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Vancouver, Feb. 9.

In a copyrighted story, the Vancouver Sun reporter, Pierre Burton, said today that ⚫perimental crews of the Royal

Navy fleet air arm and Can-) adian Navy.fiiers are testing rocket and jet planes and weapons in 70 degrees below Fort temperatures at Nelson, British Columbia,

Burton reported that 30 officers and ratings of the Bri- tish Fleet Air Arm with an an specified number of men from the Canadian aircraft carrier "Warrior" are testing British vaayids sagraj zanyag fof

and Fireflies.

Sun article said the The texts also included firing rucket guns, Canious and machine-guns. The article added that it was so cold that the motors f the jet fighters froze.-United Press.

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Singapore, Feb. 9.

The existence of what he describes as an “iron cur- tain of censorship" imposed by the French au- thorities in Saigon has forced Doon Campbell, Reuters Special Correspondent to send an ac count of an important pronouncement by the Viet Nam Premier Ho Chi minh by special courier to Reuters Burean here,

In a letter to Campbell from somewhere near Hanoi" the Premier of the Viet Nam, whose whereabouts are unknown to the French au- thorities, disclosed that the Viet Nam would appeal to the United Nations for arbitration if France cannot settle the present struggle by peaceful means.

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Campbell, who was a war the economy of his country, correspondent in

Germany, French nationals in Viet Nam Italy, Africa and Burma and hands were much betten treated has been in Palestine, Iran, than Viet Nam nationals in India and China, states that French hands, he declared never has a correspondent come Router up against such a brick wall of ceusarship as in Indo-China. **Sending news messages, from Saigon

In or anywhere else. French

Indo-China is almost like casting

a battle into the ocean and hoping and praying that the right person will pick it up," he writes.

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"It is one of the most as- tenishing news blackouts I have ever come across and une in which a correspondent

is obliged to pay in advance prohibitive price of one shil- ling, and ninepencts a Word without being able to get any assurance that it will ever be sent to London for New York.

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Berlin, Feb. 9, The British Control Commis- sion staff in Germany will be cut from 26,000 to 20,000 by April 1 and more cuts will take place before the end of the year, the Control Commission's

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Churchill's Line: "Do Nothing"

Moscow, Feb. 9.

A vigorous attack on Mr. Winston Churchill's war strategy in Burma was made in the New Times review of the book "Wrath in Burina," written by Fred Eldridge, who was on the staff of the late General Joseph Stillwell.

Britain's role in the Burma campaign was based

strictly on long-range political considerations, and the British feared the Americans and the Chinese more than they did the Japanese, the reviewer (David Baslavsky) declared

Eldridge writes that he,

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high official in Saigon fold me that messages 'must wander away' if they are of the type disapproved. by the French authorities. The fate of these; messages completely nullifies the facilities offered by the French Federal and Provincial authorities in providing foreign Correspondents with the

op. portunity of visiting the opera- tional areas, talking with "of- Beers and inspecting prisons.

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B/4" "RESOLUTE": well as many other American why the opening of the second "The French have imposed officers, had for the first time front was delayed in Europe." military censorship on all in the Far East "become at The British opposed the con- news dispatches leaving the quainted with British foreign struction of the Burma Road country and this may be a rea-policy and military strategy" "firitly. because they feared sonable precaution. But the

"All of them," the reviewer the Chinese, and secondly, be censorship takes such a form said, "were extremely disillu- cause such а road "could that no correspondent dare assigned. The British Command threaten the interests of the

has message ever left the country-although it has been paid for.

Correspondents have to cop with an invisible censor who is

A Scarecrow never prepared to say what

striving only not to permit the "To the British, Stillwell has been done with a dispatch Japa into India proper.

whether

been has

scarecrow, and the All Stillwell's proposals got officers transmitted in whole or in part stuck in the marsh of resistance his outer simplicity behind his from Delhi mockèd or even at all"

back. In Chungking. the energetic general was hated.

sume

or

that his

it

Strong Protest

looked on Chinese soldiers and American ling all communications between the presence of big shipping companies control- engineers in Burma with clear India and Burman," the review limited its task to defence, ly expressed displeasure, and said.

to every brave step forward," Baslavsky added, "Stillwell was subordinate to the BTTTish Com- cen-mand, which in turn was direct

ly subordinate to Churchill.";

A strong protest on the sorship reported by CompEYO from Indo-China was lodged by Reuters with the French Gay- ernment tonight.

Chi-minh said that the Viet Nam would must probably appeal to the Big Five Foreign Ministers who were "most suit- ed for the task."

"Do Nothing" Churchill's line was one of delay and do nothing, the res viewer, said, adding that United Sinter officers, saw this British tactic was not a pecularity of the Far East theatre.

"Something similar," he said, He was replying to a set of "was taking place in a greafer questions Campbell presented degree in the Western theatre. him on the politico-military We know, for example, from situation in Indo-China and 'it

was written in English and

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The Kuomintang's task, the review said, was to utilise Lend-Lease in order to acquire means for the struggle against the Communists.

The reviewer disclosed that Eldridge's book is now in pre- parntion for publication in Russian by the State military publishing house. Reuter,

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