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SOUTH EAST ASIA AND ADVANCE OF THE REDS

Bangkok, May 1

The rich lands of South East Asia, lolling in the eternal summer of the tropics, already are beginning to shiver in the first gusts of the cold winds of Communism blowing from the North.

The Chinese Communists are driving down to Canton and there's hardly a for- eign observer, a Chinese merchant or a persistent taxi driver who doesn't ask: What of tomorrow for already turbulent French Indo-China, Burma, Siam and Malaya? Today's turmoil in those picturesque, faraway lands is considered by virtually averyone as but the forerunner of the "hotting up” days when all China falls.

There are 65,000,000 residents in the 800,000 or square miles of South East Asia and very few of them, indeed, want Communism, Yet, all are caught

In

revolts take varied shapės, rang • tag from terrorist guerilla ends

d depredations, to civil war with huge armies in the Held,

it is doubted by most that Siam would need much more than its revolution to full-scale | customary palace

hring about n government Invour- able to the Communist sophy.

the fever of the history- How does this apply and what making changes occuring indoes it portend for the countries! Asia and all seem to feel it of South East Asia? the future

new

will bring pattern af existence.

Not Chak

expert Thanse countries to go Communisį ayer - night.

The view often expirostal circles where the events of to- morrow must be given conaždej - able thought today is that the Third World War has long been underway in Ast, but is being fought with entirely new method

Instead of open attacks by on.

antion on another, the attacked nation struck from within by foreign-inspired revolution. These

No Peace Till Agreement Takes Effect

General President vistonal

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philo-

As for Burma, litle can he said. That tortured land is spilt Ive or more ways with varied armies Bighting in anarchie abun- don

Fench -Chara has been rent by mivil war the present on the seng-querilla stage for several

The

But, reveally there have been forers of Comum 4-Igained Bo Chi Minh reports the along tribal Karens

are considering Jointing must of the territory o

forces cola est the three Vietnamese

provinces with the White Flag Communists Tankin

Whether (the Moscow brond). the North, Anunm lo

They'll be strong enough to handle the centre and Cochin China in The South

the otßer fighing soups that holl their

lines in own battle something else ngala.

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mulstaly The French

at its Central Provisional pered

Control (Government of Vietnam

the citie

military point of From the view both sides adints a tale

But what will happen mate when the Chinese Communista are on the Northern Indo-China border?

are

Is

Malaya is now the scene of gunster turfles by Chinese Com-

The uunists

military British seem to be

uppe getting the hand these days in the Jungle for The opportunity ighting.

action can Stronger Communist „only come about, is believed, It Communist irregulars can reach Chinese Irregulars

Malaya over the Siamese bortler.

Today, Scann Already, the French change that

co-operatiɔ;i

Chumne tra estudar

Altering with the British an fighting the Saigon April 30,

its Southern Caetes. The border to join Tu Car Communists along

believe Nguyen

British baples, Van

The Kiran,į selfiers is nightmut the French.

Stumese Premis of the Vietnam

Phibu Song- The Bench hope the return of Central

sincerel gran's government Government, the former enger of Annam.

Western sald today that he did not think! Bao Timi,

keep on the Tally cape tr to Vietnam may

Democracy's see. But Marshal Vietnam would have prare vejentnch of Ho Chi Minh's Nation, fore the Franco-Vietnamese cun-fader palibot

Sanggran had some rocky mo to the provisional stitutional agreement beeignes on Gloves hument da offray

the Vier-ments the last week in Februar: effectiv reality.

aminly

ftstar When the navy fought the army bment # trength In the eye, of most ob –

and had the support of a former Premier. CAPPS Dai:

but a hope.

Singapore. itself, although 85 But, theE. nood veletab un- 10 Rep

tr. th Indo-Chinese! per cent Chinese in population, is

There point to the fart

[: ti terrorlam theo: fish (*h, luuh a Vietini

There is he timetable for forth- coming events. Most Western ob- Pamer Tan Communist.

action can servers believe Arm That observation, of course, is the the one

hold back Communism here as it most often expressed by French Parliament of the statute China babel.

has Europo, They say the

But, they seem For the union of Vietnam to pre- Chumme Comptemnists

weather and certain that rough pare a provisional Constitution." Chine

protracted struggle is just around than Communist

the emer.Associated Press, eren Tiugh they acknowlevine Moscow influence on Mau

General Xun was speaking of Dalut, a holiday resort 128 tales North West of Saigon the tem porary residence of Han Diy, the tragedy alwrg- ex-Emperor, and the present

ان

The Provisional Government.

"Empero, Bas Dos and my Griot and say he is more Viet-

verument will prod by the nelay before the antification

he said,

In the provisional Constitution

DOW

arc

TROPO

even

Tse-

being studiest, he foresaw tong Coramomist government.

Provisional Assemblies for Annam

Should indo-China go the way and Tonkin and an enlargement of China, the next question mark of the present South Vietnam As- Stam sembly by

elections based By now

on councils of local notables, bi- siness men nur intellectuals.

General Xunn, who batt

seproudy This the ComumamosES have aby Kreat abength

Stam The

Bow

cutie Si. mese people generally have no sultedt Bao Dai several times, said

interest in

They have in politice.

and few starve,

he woulr combine the

an- ja vieti egunizz The the personall-

Palm

There.

ties of his Government with the even though the living standarhy Inembers of the

to

The China MAIL, MONDAY, MAY 2, 1949.

Answer To Nannie's Prayer

Insurgents Take Over Railway

Rangoon, April 3 Insurgents of the "White Band" People's Valunteer Organisation have taken control. of the Cen- tral Burma Fallway town

of

This enormous parambulator, wheeled by Miss Van Geuna, Directress of a Rotterdam Balvation Army Children's Home, would answer the prayers of many nursemalds as they strug. gle through thele local parks with two infants in the pram and- half a dozen more acamparing round them. It can comfortably Auto- carry 12" Ittio mites. Miss Gruns invented the pram, slated Pross Photo.

Radio Karen Denies

Burmese Accusations

Rangoon, May 1.

Yamethin, 180 miles North of the Radio Karen, newly created voice of the Karen peo- Karen stronghold of Toungoo, a Burmese Government communi- que stated tonight.

The Curmyunique said & Gov- ernment column

from Meiktila. In the North Burma Army, head- quarters, was driving southwards towards Yamethin, where the situation was reported to be ron- fused,

The

communique added that, according to retluble reports however, the White Band PVOS: were ready to hand over the town

to the Government forces.

Firty Kurens were killed and te armoured car was captured in a battle in the Pegu sector. In the Tenasserin

strip of South Eastern Burma, Government troops fought a there-hour battle with White Band PVOS, killing 20 of them Government rein- forcements had been sent to the scene of this battle, the com-

Radio lodine For Cancer unique added.

Treatment

the

station at Harwell, Berkshire, has ex-Emperor's | isn't high by Western standards. Cubinct, to form a "hram tuar” Yet. Siam is noted in recent been used therapeutically for the

carry on the Goverment

history as a malleable land and first time, in response to a hospi-in and its governments are con

tal SOS.

Previous radio fodine has been to bend with the aldered quick to bend

obtained from the wind.

In the last war is

United States. last war it quick-

Vietnam provisionally. He would hond to Boo Dai the collective resignation of bis Government after the French decision on the Franco-Vietnamese

agreciment

General Xunn said that he had contacted the Indo-Chinese tonomy movement (Vietminh) several Umes with Batz Dur's agreement. "Places will bo re- served in the fature Vietnam Gov-| ernment for members of the Re- sistance Movement who join us," he added,

radio

fee

ple, has denied accusations that the Karons are linked with the Communists in revolt against the Burmese government,

its first "world broadcast" from inside the Karen stronghold at bomb-shattered Insein, 10 miles to the North of Rangoon, it described charges of a Karen-Communist alliance as a political stunt by the Burmese government to gain world sympathy.

Radio Karen said a "common the Burmese presk, began

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"Newspaper stories daily ham- mered Into the Burmese reading public that the Karens were in- surgents, bandits and rapists, he stated.

of Burma was the one link be-create communal tension between tween the Karens and the Com- the Burmese and the Karens. munists, "It added: "Otherwise our objectives are different."

A Karen commentator speaking In English said neither the Karens nor the Communists seek help from one another. He asserted

Meanwhile, said the Commen- that on no front were the two

the

government formed 21 fighting alongside each other.

battalions of 1-disciplined levies The Commentator said: "There the Auxiliary Union Military is no communal quarrel involved | Police-who in our war, We are fighting ng

tator

were armed with guns and builets bought in Lon- gression In defence of our people. dos by the former Foreign Min- We are fighting for the preserva-Ister Kyaw Nyein, a high-ranking tion of the Karen race."

Socialist executive. Radio

Burma Army 25-pounders and six-pounders dispersed Karen motorised columns heading to- wards the Government positions London. April 30.

Karen goes on the alr The broadcast was reproduced British radio iodine, supplied at Daiku, 78 miles North of Ran-daily at 10 a.m. (Burma Time!

in pamphlet form and distributed Burma Army Government's

of the 40-metre and. Broadcasts among newspaper atomic Roon, the

reporters on claimed.

ure in the English languages and, the Inseln front.

cording

the commentator, Reviewing the two-day battle directed mainly at Foreign Em-Burmese-owned English-langu-

It was published in full by one Nyaunglebin-Datku sector, bassies so that they may have a age dally, "The Burman." where the Karen forces are

Next day a true perspective of the affair bo

a warrant was pre- astride the vital Rangon-Men- tween the Karens and the Gov-pared against the paper's editor, daisy railway, the radio said ernment of Burma. ty capitulated to the Japanese! The Royal Cancer Hospital

U Maung Maung Pye. there was hand-to-hand lighting And collaborated. It declared here telephoned the centre on when more than 1,000 Karens t- war on the United States but Thursday, asking for 50 mi-tacked two

declined to licurios of radio iodine for the points.

Government strong- Henvy Casualties were recognize a state of war exleted. treatment on Friday of air inflicted on the attackers, the Ra- Sb, when the Japanese were suffering from

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Reuter, i snappy parades,

In its first broadeast, the radio Maung Maung Pye escoped ar- denied the Karens possess power-rest and imprisonment through ful weapons or unlimited arms. the personal intervention of the It said: "We go out to meet the Information Minister, Tun .Pe. Socialist government David The two had worked together In went out to meet Gollath 2.500 the Ministry of Information of Dr. Ba Maw during the Japanese years ago."

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It added: "We are fighting for regime.

righteous cause."

It added that fighting had broken out betwƐan Karens and

By a directive of the Burmese Communists in the arek with

The Karen commentator charg-government, newspapers are for- the Karens attacking Communen the Burmese government with biddea to publish any material lat villages. A second Com munist thrust towards the be-

mformulating sinister plans to likely lo encourage insurgents

crush the Karen race.

and "bring despondency to the

of a separate

He declared the original Issue

Burmest." Karen State had receded Into the background.

But, he asserted, while the

leaguered Karen stronghold of Insein wat smashed by Govern ment artillery 40 miles North West of Rangoon, the Radio claimed. Reuter.

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