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Village

PIANO RECITAL The Missing Village

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ANTHONY ADVERSE” Starring - Fredric March Olivia DeHavilland

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In Indo-China –

Saigon, November-6.-

East from Saigon, in Cochin-China, stretches the notorious plaine des Jones, a huge swampy tract of rébel-held territory into which French forces rarely venture.

East of Hanoi, in Northern Tonkin, is the forlorn site of once-thriving Sontoy, centre of France's pre-war "Aldershot of Indo-China," which French troops have recaptured from the rebels.

The

But Sontay and the air and military base are missing. 10,000 houses and buildings have been pulled down and carried into the mountains.

of

These are just two facets the incredible three-year-old war now waging in Indo-China be- the French and the Com- munist-controlled Vietminh reŝs- tance forces.

The "Plain of the Reeds" has

been a Vietminh stronghold since

THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY; NOVEMBER 7, 1949.

S. AFRICA OPPOSES "COUNCIL OF TEN" FOR LIBYAN PLAN

Lake Success, November 5.

South Africa today opposed the setting up of a "Council of Ten" to help Libya attain in- dependence.

Mr. D. P. Jogste, the South African delegate, told

the United Nations Political Committee he be lieved that such a committee, which would in- clude representatives of Britain, the United States, France, Egypt, Italy and. Pakistan, as well as representatives of the local population, would be political in character.-

against

It would complicate matters, Sir Benegal spoke

the British

the amendments he said.

Establishment of the Council Libyan plan, 'the effect: of which, was to leave it to the is one of the proposals submitted he said,

аде

changes

between Italy and Tripolitania will help to create an active and fruitful collaboră- tion on an equal footing-be- tween the Italian people and the entire Arab world."

The Committee adjourned until Monday.

Report Wanted

Meanwhile, the United Nations Trusteeship Committee today asked the General Assembly to call on all members responsible

· for -

ter- *--- nen-salf-governing territories to report each y on the status of human rights In their territories.

pite

*

bars and salvaged every atom of building material. The doors, the door knobs, the sheets of Iron

tiles. roofing, the

the brick, the concrete sizbe, the lavatories, the baths, the wood. "work"and"the-window-frames were all taken away in carts and wicker baskets and hidden is the nearby Eavi Hills, held

The 59-nation Commities, des- by the Vietminh,

the

from objections strong The removal of a town is the by the United Nations Sub-Com- people themselves to decide what Vietminh version of the scorebed-mittee set up to advise on the form of union the three provinces Britain and other administering

Cyrenaica, future of former Italian colonies. of

Tripolitania and the

resolution powers, the end of World War II. The earth policy.

The Sub-Committee's main Fezzant should have:

information on the asking that French clashed with "pirates" Tong Cathedral, left untouched

are as follows.

Sir Benegal said that even if there soon after they regained for political reasons, stands gaunt proposals are

(1) Libya become a unified Libya started off as a unitarygraphy, history and people

the DO-Sovereign areas cease to power in 1945.

and lonely as a ship at sea. Bam- and independent State by Jan-State there was nothing to stop be classland as optional,

and bar- Mostly water, it is a maze of boo-spiked barricades

1, 1952, and that a United the three territories from separa- All such information has thinly-populated island

villages bed-wire have turned the Cathe Nations Commission and a counting later if the proposed Nation- hitherto -been submitted on a

voluntary basis. and coconut groves covering an dral into a sanctuary now. The el of 10 be appointed to help inal Assembly so decided..

The

which was area of more than 3,000 square French use it as a quartermaster's

resolution, this task. miles. There are no roads and store.

(2) That Italian Somaliland initial unity

adopted by 25 votes in favour, only a few canals, The inhabitants A massive reinforced-concrete become an independent State" at prefer the first alternative,"

cight against and seven abstem- move about in sampans,

bankar at the Sontay Airport set the end of 10 years, in the mean added.

urged tions, also

governments Indian Proposal

information submitting

in these The French are at present plan- poser for the wreckers. They time being under Italian trustee-

Sir Benegal ning a tedious amphibious opera-could not cart it away but they ship.

Belas to tell the United Nations tion in an attempt to "mop up

had proposed that under the more abo

about the development of institutions in the area.

trusteeship agreement for self-government

their Somaliland the only function of

The the administering authority

ad- with should be to appoint an ministator.

Japs Still There

They ave Intelligence ré- perts that a number of Japanese to the ground.

uary

"closed the hanger doors" by (3). That's decision on Eritrea. destroying the thick pillars with be postponed until a United Na picks and fires that melted the tions Commission has been able steel, bringing the root crashing to study the wishes of the popu- lation and report back to the Before the war. 30,000 people United Nations next year. and some French Foreign Le-lived in the Sontry district. When

Mr. Rate-Wold Alilou, Ethio- have glonnaires who

joined the French occupied

the town, plan Foreign Minister, said that forces with the Vietminh are

of a solution living there. The Vietminh's there only 150 people left and the postponement

on Eritrea and the simultaneous

claims Executive and Resistance Com-they were ill or old.

granting of Italian Today, new houses are being Somaliland presented an intoler- mittees for the South, operate there in complete safe-built with new bricks. The mar-

able threat to Ethiopia's security and a

The

Sub-Committee's plan ty, have excellent falson with ket place is busy again

rice crop is ripening in the fields would leave Ethiopia in a pincers which were abandoned six months between the two territories from age.-Reuter.

Who

agents in nearby Saigon. Vietminh agents are active in Saigon, inviting likely foreigners to go to the Plains des Jones to Lalk

to high officials of their movement. A French woman journalist is said to have goze

into the Vietminh stronghold a few months ago and stayed 2 week.

CARIBBEAN FEDERATION

London, November 5. Britain plans to set up a new, near-independent state between

But although General de the two Americasa West Indian Latour, the Commander of the Federation

Caribbean French forces ia Cochin-China, colonies and nearly three million

of six

has succeeded in isolating it to a people. large extent, the Plains de Jones The blueprint for this long remains unconquered.

the North and South,

Best It Could Do

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Sir Benegal Narsing Rau, of India, said that though no one would pretend that the Sub. Committee's proposals were 100 per cent satisfactory they were the best it could

do te solve a difficult and complex problem.

"They are all compromises or co-ordinations", he said.

voting on them in the Sub- dreamt pf state is seen to be pub-Committee many of us felt that them we After two years of intensive lished by the Colonial Secretary, if we voted against operations, one-third of the land Mr. Arthur Creech Jones. It will might, in effect, be voting for mo area of Indo-China is now con- then be debated by each of the solution at all voting, in fact, trolled by his forces and more colonies concerned.-Associated for a continuation of the present than 1250 miles of roads have Press.

deadlock. been made safe for unescorted traffic.

One-third of Cochin-China's

| 5,000.000........... population are still under Vietminh control, although | 600,000 have been on back -0. the French zone in the last two years.

Pacifying Methods

General de Latour maintains is not war, that pacification. arguing that it is not possible unless the people want it. His method of pacifying an area It to saturate with troops and' build a string of defence posts a kilometre apart on the main reads with a fort every 10 kilo- metres, equipped with armour- ed cars.

When the local population is confident that it is safe from ter- rorism, the sector is handed over to partisan troops.

Roads South West of Saigon are opened everyday now; but roads to the North are open to traffic on only two days a week. The trip from Saigon to Hanoi has to be covered by air because most of the country in between is held by the Vietminh.

Thirty miles from

Hanoi is

what is left of Sontay. The re- mains of a town which has been wiped out, not by bombs or fre or earthquake but by

buman hands is an uncanny sight-even seen after Hiroshima in 1945.

The roads are there, some overgrown gardens and the holes where the foundations of the buildings were laid. There are a few crumbling ruins, but no buildings.

Odd steel telegraph poles which have defed extraction slump,1 badly mangled, a reminder that Sontay once had a post office. Here and there a gaping gateway leads to a house which J vanished.

Four-months Job

Local people told Reuter's correspondent that it took four months to take the town apart.

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"It is better for us to encourage and, therefore, to be

said that India

Once that were done the work)

areas.

ommittee also approved, only Britain opposing, a re- administering inviting

s to give

equal treat-

and opportunity on educa of the administering authority would be largely finished and its tion to all inhabitants of the non- work comparatively unimportant self-governing

It would become not so much African, Asian a trustee as an agent of the trus-Reuter. tee, the real trustee

being the United Nations itself.

Signor Alberto Tarchiani, of Italy, teld the Committee that Italy would take account of the Indian

in drafting a declaration

proposal

the guaranteeing declar

areas whether

ΟΣ European.

CLOSED ON TUESDAY

New York, November 5. rights of the people of Somaliland. The New York Stock and Carb "In the case of Libya," he said, Exchanges will be closed.o

and in Election Day. Tuesday, November the principle of unity bas been

recom-8. The New York and New Or dependence

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