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THE CHINA MAIL SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1030.

NEXT WAR MAY START

IN THE HANOI DELTA

(By Hugh Laming)

Hanoi, May 19.

The first battle of the next war may well be fought among the fertile rico

fields of the Hanoi Delta.. Already, its overtures are heard nightly at the outlying posts. Already, arms are beginning to pour over the Chinese frontier along which 700,000 Chinese regular troops watch-and wait.

to

The crash of mortars and the sumciently. They Jack tactical stammer of machine-guns is no new sound to the inhabitants of this region, whose green monotony is braken only oc- casionally by moss-grown pagodas and shrines.

A region traditionally envied by China, always a military prizo

skill and executive ability

a ble scale launch attacks on aginst French troops.

"The Vietminh have many ex- {ow cellent propagandists, but capable officers"

Invasion routes

Asked why the French moln-

and still a political problem, it tain garrisons in uncasy isolation Northern frontiers are guarded by

a line of forts and stockaded out in remote frontier outposts, such

PEKING EXPLAINS CHUSAN

San Francisco, May 18. The significance of the

posts manned by troops of the as Lao Kay and Kao Bang, sup- Communist occupation of the French Foreign Legion. and Al-plied, relieved and reinforced Chusan group of islands was i

explain- only by air, the General ed that they

guard the classic outlined by Peking Radlo to-

om the North. Invasion routes from

night. that "The me

mere fact

we hold them in some force prevents the Vietminh from deploying and rebuilt serves as a deterrent, we hope, to

Rerlans, Moroccans and Senc galese under French command.

In the

villages, countryside, burned by the Vietranh (Com munist-led nationalist resistanco forces) as part of their "scorched earth" policy, are being under the protection of French forts of the "Beau Geste" model. commanding rond junctions and river crossings.

In their retreat from this so-

called "Pacification Zone' to the mountains along the Chinese border, the Vietminh, for political reasons, left untouched Cristion churches and Buddhist pagados.

Today, lite i ereeping back into villages. Hit! (AT) ali-pervacting sense of insecurity remains.

Nightmare set

It said that the "liberation" of.j the Chusans meant

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Plot to kill youthful King

Alexandria, 'May 18. Alexandria police, have been Instructed to watch for foreigners arriving from abroad in connection with a reported plot to kill the 13. year-old King Simeon of Bul- parin

They denied, - however, report.published by the Galra afternoon nowspaper "AI Zaman" that, two Bulgarian revolutionists were arrested on May

it on board the alta777. ~

ship Khedive. The two per* sona referred to were morely passangers whose passporta Inaked necessary visas, Thay. were not allowed ashore nailed when the ship left Alexandria, the pollon cald.

Authorities hero declined to give details about the plot reported by

by "Al

Zamen A spokesman at Victoria College,

where King Simeon is a pupli

A

said that King Simeon went to school as usual today with na viciblo #igns of any pro. tective measures-Associated ́i Prein.

a sca

(1) Breaking of the Nailonalist American Imperialism, and, after Chineso armics cressing the

blockade of Shanghai shipping taking over the islands from the frontier," "he concluded

Japanese, turned them over to the lanes. Commandant Berthelet, a hand-

Kuomintang Navy (which later commented:

(2) Reduction of the Nation-used them sume Spahi,

to maintain · Fow foreigners and Frenchmen alists' last but one stronghold, thus blockade againal Shunghal and at home realise that we hold the isolating its forces on the island of other Enst China ports). delta with

troops Taiwan.

The broadenst claimed that the very few handful of battalions defend a

The broadcast described the is-Islands had suffered serious food province and at the same time lands as strategic and said that shortages following the sudden, in- hold the Chinese frontier.

since early in the sixteenth ren- flux of Kuomintang troops and "The Vietminh occasionally al- tury they had been used "us a the Kuomintang blockade of sur- tock our smaller outposts, But, jumping off board by various Im-rounding waters.

are on the

now,perialists to invade the mainland awaiting, I think, international of China." decisions."

defensive

Despondency in Hanoi

At an outpost at Trung-Hai some 60 miles from Hanol, where

Giving historical data the Radio continued;

"Although the Kuomintang gar- risons threw up many strong forti- Acations on the main Island of Chusan, the situation became un-

"Tha, Japanese occupied and tenable in the face of mounting plundered Kintang and Chusan, People's Liberation Army pres-

two of the largest islando, in 1522sure, and they finally fled from it

CHINESE REDS BACK CURIE

a Senegalese garrison and hand-during the Ming dyasty. British and from other nearby islands," ful of French non-commissioned Imperialist forces twice atlacked the broadcast concluded. Reuter. officers guard a Red River cross and occupied Tinghal county seal

Captain Touzzlot, of Paris,

on Chusan Ing.

laland during the laughed when I asked him if he Oplum War in the nineteenth cen- thought he could halt an invasion tury. In 1880 combined forces of British and French Imperialists with the small force at his com- mand,

agrin occupied the Tinghal county Imperialists seized Chusan Island that the China

San Franelsen, May 18.

Son Tay is typical. I visited during a tour of part of this re- glon, which was recently cleared of Vietminh. Approaching from the East, it resembles u night- mare Alm set in which 0 desert drama, n Chinese Beere and 117 English rural documentary have become inextricably mixed.

Bebind tall trees rise the twin towers of the Church of the we could make it unpleasant-sent for four months. Japanese Peking Radio reported tonight Sacred Heart. Nearby

Persants is the ly expensive for a while, he de-

and dignified facade of country cared. "The Vietminh are In 1939, occupied it and built mili-Workers' Democratle Party “had

tary, air and naval bases, high-sent a telegram of support ways and other military Installa- Professor Joliot-Curie, recently tons on it. From that time, the dismissed French alomfe chief. Chusan group of islands became The telegram, alleged that the

Important military base in dismissal was made by East Cheklang. After the Japan "renctionary French Government ese surrender in 1945, American | in order to please their American forces ushered in a new era of mosters."-Ileuter.

house,

by gutted fire. In sharp contrast, a few yards away, are the white walls of a fort flying the French Tricolour. At its bullet-scarred gates, com- plete with battlements, Algerian Arab troops stand guard.

The French crew of a Sherman tank, in binck berets, guzing, alongside slit-eyed Ton- kinese, at a cinema poster ad- vertising with equal Incongruity. -the Hollywood film. "Wive

Graves to Caira."

were

Down the road, bullock carts rumbled on wooden rims,

nuisance but rarely a real threat to my posts."

Captain Touzziot's command

in Includes platoon posts the

foothills was well as the outpost at Trung-Ha,

an

of

It is In Hanol, capital North Vietnam, rather in the outposts that there is deepon- dency and confusion. Hanoi i a French garrison town as well as the Vietnamese administra- tive contra.

Its wide streets are strangely empty at might, although, in the centre, queues gather outside cinemas showing "Tarzan and the Lost City," and "Joe Palooks, Champion."

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Inside the fort, French officers who had fought under Field Mar- shal Montgomery's command in Libya and Normandy, talked to plain that their Vietnamese coun- me frankly of the military posi-terparts are political schizoph- tion.

Long frontier

"France is holding the ex treme East sector of the Com. munlit frontier running from

renics, sincerely saying one thing today, the reverse tomorrow-** and usually doing nothing about elther.

"

Dislike of realities Several European residents the Baltic to the China Goa," confirmed the assertions of General Marcel Alessandri, the French officials that the Vict- Commander of North Vietnam. fnamese civil servants appear to who was wounded three times be more concerned about chang- In the Somme battles-in-1040, ing street names from French- told. mo,

into Vietnamese than with the reconstruction "We could push a column Into urgent work of Vietminh territory at any time, and day-to-day administration. but there

is to gain from

little

This was evident, too, In that unless we can hold it peace-terviews I had with Vietnamese fully. Indo-China is an interna-omelats, Charming and courteous, tional 1 political as well as a mill- they clearly preferred to discuss tary problem," he added.

education and culture rather than Claiming that the French had political realities, liberated

Strongly nationalistic, some of 3,000,000 people from Vietminh terrorism in the Delta them appeared, while deploring

to-

in the past two years, the General Vietminh terrorism, inwardly to phasised that he considered regard the Vietminh as the mill- of the nationalist the Vietminh Incapable of laun-tary part

movement. ching the general offensive men-

One senior official said to me: lioned constantly by the Vietminh "We are not fighting the Viet- and Peking Radios.

We leave that to mình.

"but

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the

"They have the men," he said, French, We are not Communists, cannot concentrato ther and we hope that if the French withdraw, Vietnam would not go Communist."

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But asked what he thought.

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.His attitude was typical Prof other Vietnamese officials whom I met

Hate and fear Yet Vietnamese troops, hayo fought well under French com* mand againInk. the Vistriinh. But in official Vietnamese pro- -paganda and", ministerial state- ments, the existence of Viet. nam battalions is nevar ", men tioned.

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