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"THE CHINA MÀIL, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1950.

|INDO-CHINA RUMOURS

FRENCH MAY ABANDON LANGSON ARMY BASE

Hanoi, October 12, (Delayed)

Most recurrent of rumours filtering through Hanoi is a report that the hard- prossed French are preparing to evacuato Langson, North Vietnam's largest military base outside Hanoi.

There is no official confirmation of this or other reports from the battle area, 100 miles to the North. The Army for two weeks has refused to release information in Hanoi and issued all communiques in Saigon 700 miles to the South.

The

forth.

Well over 2,000 men are dead or missing, Including some of France's toughest warriors the the Foreign Legion veterans of the last

and the North African Arab Goums, turbaned professional soldiers whose cour- age is almost fanatical,

wor

Lack of official news has, tlon was that men and supplies made Hanol a hotbed of wild were free to shuttle back and stories and speculation. Vietnam Government censors have not allowed local newa papers to mention the serious trouble the French have run into in the North and that has added to the mystery and feat. French military planes roaring Northward over the city from the nearby airfield were the only real indiention here in the last three days of French-Vi

Vietminh fighting along

the China borde

This week, two senior French Colonial officials fly in from Paris on as information mission ordered by the French Cabinet,

to

map urgent new General Alphonse Jun, Friday General in Morocco and France's Italian campaign commander, and

The ukannounced cenforchir blocked correspondents from cable communication outside Indo- # Cabinet

China. Telegraph authorities noti-Letourneau, Minister M. Jean |

Bed the Associated Press 10 days uter une cable was filed that

was never sent, No explanation. was given Correspondent Likes.

A path of broken bodies and broken fortresses today marked what were once the strongest links in the French defences along the

border of Indo-Chins and Communist China.

How many French corpses. le on the sun-scorched rucks of Yudo-Chinn's Northern frontier no one yet knows, but it is believed liere France may have suffered her most serious single milltary defeat sinee World War II.

of

in charge relations with the Associated States of Indo-China, Icave Paris on Sunday and arrive here

on

Tuesday. The French- supported Emperor Bao Dal will rush this week from his vacation villa on the French Riviera. Here is the situation they must face:

The situation

American arms arrive for Indo-China

Salgon, October 15, An American freighter carrying arms for the hard. pressed French and Viet. Bamoso forces arrived today off the Southern Indo-China coast. The captain signalled he would le off-shore until morning.

A second freighter is 4x4 pected within a week, bear. Ing more equipment under the accelerated American ald programme to strengthen the forces battling the Commun. Ist Vietminh.-United Press.

bushes and the five-day slaugh- terhouse battle. The fate of the others is still unknown.

Then the Fronch announced that Thulkhe also was abandoned and the bulk of its garrison had reached the fortrees at Nacham,

Big Communist 105 mm cannon walls of the battered the clay strategie fortress of Dongkho to bits after a 80-hour artillery duel September starting at dawn on

on the 18th 16. Dongkhe fell with bodies of the bod

nearly 200 Leonnaires sprawled over the 30 miles to the South East, but guns of the flaming that rear elements of the columns The oncoming

citadel. Only a handful escaped were under sporadic attack. black-uniformed Vietminh rebels, butchery in the savage hand-to- military spokesman

announced newly-trained and freshly equip-hand last-stand fight at the tersely tonight: "No further

Southern end of the fort.

news...

Attack expected

battalions

of

ped in the South of Red China, in the past month have pounded the French back from the defence wall

The French

authing China.

А

were well aware that Vietminh guerillas Some 30,000 were being armed an Into modern infantry and and units inside China warned

that summer repeatedly last

rehiel

could be offensive cted in October or November.: expected

However,

Moscow.ra. the cognised Vietminh leader, Ho Chi-minh, struck earlier than expected and with unprecedent-

new

ed

lert

With the loss of Dongkha and "tena of thousande" of robels

BUS

STOP

"Sorry we can't stop; the lights are with on!"

Soviet searching for a face-saving device

· London, October 15.

Britain's diplomats are more or less convinced now that the “Russians are

. looking for a face-saving way out of their predicament in Korea. However, that is a long way from Russia being willing to sit down and make a "just and lasting" peace, or even agreeing to a truce in the cold war,

NEHRU REVERSES DECISION

4. Most Westerners have al ways agreed that Russia does not. Sho want to risk general war. still wants the fruits of war with out It.

The Soviet Foreign Minister, obvious intention to arm itself to has the lecth for defence against fur- Mr. Andrei Vyshinsky,

ther aggression, Russia sppears to given the tip-off on what Rus-be ready to substitute u zig for a sip seems to be looking for zag in its foreign policy, hoping now. He has been showing off that it will dilute the Western the "new look" at the United determination to rearm, which is Nations for a month and last now at a post war high. week he came right out and said it-let's go back to the wartime system of big power collaboration, and then, he added, things will change.

Communist China None of the men who repre- 5. Russia is not too certain of Rented Russia abroad since the war is more able at invective or the extent of Communist China's more violent in abuse than Mr. loyalty. There is a great deal of Vyshinsky-when the Kremlin's evidence tha! Communist China

is not prepared to become policy calls for it. He has never. Soviet satellite such as Bulgaria, in the past, hesitated to heap in

Rumania, Hungary, Czechoslova sult upon insult on the Western kin and Poland. delegates at

conference. the

Despite all these factors, how- However, Mr. Vyshinsky is also

there has been no shred of can smile and joke and officials, that Russian long-range the Congress Presidency in Sen- very able at playing his present evidence, according to Westein

Executive

New Delhi, October 15.. The A

Premier, Jawaharlal Nehru, has agreed to join the of the Congress Party, P. D. Tandon, Congress President, told newsmen herv tonight.

In between, the French also

bighted advancing across the disclosed at their military head- Jagged hills and gorges of the quarters here that the frontier North, the French commanders posts of Pakha and Haongsuphte In Salgon ordered evacuation of had fallen to the Communists and isolated Caobang, Northernmost two others, unidentified, between

•ted.·

Bnd

had been Langson, stronghold about 18 miica above

The

rough terrain Dongkhe,

has aided the rebel attackers. The commander of Cacbang. The jungle and swamp provide Lieutenant-Colonel Antoine Char-

ΟΙ the Foreign ideat ambush cover, and make veteran on, Legion, led some 1,200 troops and cross-country marches and com-

munications extremely difficult on unknown number of civilians Associated Press and

United

Assurances

fury

out of Caobang after dest Press. The French withdrawals have the citadel on the night of

some 225 miles of border ber 2. Tough, graying Colonel

Marcel le Page und ometals

headed North unguarded

here from Thatche

2,000 with over new. Vietminh acknowledge that blows

may be expected. In one men to protect Colonel Charton's month, the

overland Communists have perilous

withdrawal. wreaked such havoc that a French Both columns were shot to pieces military spokesman was forced to by rebel artillery, mortare and admit that the legal boundary machine guns. Of the 3,500 between Indo-China and China trapped only about 700 escaped matic source said today that the no longer existed. The implica-l safely through the Victminh am- French Defence Minister, Al

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Washington, October 15. A highly authoritative diple-

Jules Moch, was well satisfled with the assurances he had received from United States defence officials that shipments of arms to Indo-China woule -receive-high-priority..

at j

a

still

"so I may serve the Congress or conciliation reded to prove to the make the West easy prey for

Mr.

Since Mr. Tandon's election to

Не game: tember, Mr. Nehru has been an-

appear conciliatory. The West is

objectives have changed.

Sho nouncing his intention to keep in no mood to sit down away from the Party Executive, with Russia now to attempt

anticipates economic collapse of More

than Russian the capitalistic West which will words are genisation better."

Even as late as Friday Mr. West that the Kremlin is sincere. Communism. Ultimately, she ex- of Communism pects extension Mr. Tandon a Russia must take some poslilen Nehru wrote to

throughout the world. final letter

in and friendly action

first. regretting his

In the meantime, the Kremlin Increasingly Vyshinsky's

seeks "cheap" victories those: ability to accept an invitation to Join the Executive.

open bids for "another chance to short of general war and is al The reversal of Mr. Nehru's sit down with the West and ways prepared to reverse lis pali resolve has been due mostly to through the process of negotiation cies, as it did in the Berlin block- the efforts of the Deputy Prime not only appear as evidence to ade and is trying to do now in Minister, Surdar Patel, Presi- the Westerners that the Russians Korea, if it is to the advantage of In contrast to short- long-acctives. dent Rajendra Prasad, the former do want a way out on Korea, but on

All Soviet short- and present as an admission that the Kremlin Governor-General

ronge Minister

Portfolio C. is now aware it might have gone range objectives are expendable minute they interfere with Rajagopalachari. Mr. Tandon's too far in Korea.

Loss of face

long-range ones. Western diplo announcement, tonight was made

think that is what has hap. Authoritative quarters

In the Kremlin now-rea-- summarise situation which lles behind Mr. Vyshinsky's "new look" as follows:

without

at Mr. Patel's house where lead- ing Congressmen had met to in- duce Mr. Nehru to Join the Executive.

the

here that the Korean experi-

ment has touched off just what

1. There is increasing evid-Russia did not want from the view: creation of once that the Kremlin was com long-range plately surprised by the deter-strong Western defences capable mined reaction of the West of coping with future provoca- especially the United States to tions-United Press. the Korean Invasion. What it

Tondon. October 18. obviously expected to be a

-Marlborough, quick, cheap victory has turned

Street Court that she tossed a into an expensive loss-of-faco

brick through

window of rout.

Florence 2. There is also increasing Broadcasting

The Congress Executive witi consist of 22 persons of whom, under the Party's Constitution." not more than six can be Minis- ters-of-the-Government Mr. Tandon said that besides Mr. The source said that in most

Mr. Patel and Mr. Nehru, cases this meant that Indo-China

Rajagopalachari, the other three would receive No. 1 priority as

Maulana Abul Kalam are Mr. many of the types of arms re-

Minister; Jag- quired there were not needed Azad, Education urgently in Korea and some were Jivan Nam, Labour Minister, and

G. B. Pant, Prime Minister of evidence that the Kremlin is now not needed at all. In a few caso, however, Korea apparently still Ettar Pradesh State (the former prepared to write off her former satellites of North Korea and is takes precedence over Indo-United Provinces).

The other 10 members of the looking for a way out that will not leave too much damage to Executive have not yet been an- The source reported that one no

nounced, Mr. Tandon told news-Soviet and Communist prestige In United States cabinet officer per- men, This is not the time to the Orient. sonally assured M. Moch that think or speak of differences of everything possible would be outlook done to rush arms to Indo-China and this made M. Moch feel that any written reply to his note ask- ing for increased arms would bo superduous.

China.

umong

and approach Congressmen.

"The country needs undivided attention, first in view of the

3. To counter the West's now

up candidates and make common cause against Congress as hap- pened in some recent byelections." situation, international

Mr. Nehru is to explain his tense

ori- reversing his secondly to fight anti-social ele reasons for ments inside, he meant black ginal decision at a Press confer marketeers and hoarders), and once on Monday. thirdly to win the general elec-

.He is also expected to clarify towards the Regarding the deficit In the tions by a thumping majority India's attitude

situation. - Associated the Socialists Korean new French budget, the source next year against said Mr. Maurice Petsche, the and Communists, who all will set Press. French Finance Minister, had

M. Moch has communicated his satisfaction to the French Cabinet.

been

of the

and other

with the friendly

the S. Secretary

American

gave to him, M. Petsche em- phasised that he had done every-

thing possible to reduce civil ex- penses so as to keep the rearma- ment programme within the limits of Franco's, conomic and fan- cial capacityUnited Press.

FRANCE UNABLE TO WIN ALONE

:M.

Marpollies, October 15. Guy Mollet, Secretary-

General of the French Socialist

Moluccan appeal

foreign aid

for

Jakarta, October 15.

erations are entirely in the hands territorial commander, of the Colonel Kawilarang. Even officials in Jakarta privately admit they are igorant of the day to day developments.

Troops restive

The self-proclaimed South Moluccan Republic, beset by earthquakes, tidal waves and military conflict, appealed to Australia today for support In its struggle for freedom.

The South Moluccan Secte- Radio, Armbolna disclosedon Saturday night that last Sunday's tarlat in Jakarta, in a message to Party, said here today that it earthquake and subsequent tidal the Australian Parliament on be- seemed improbable, that France wave in Amboina also hit the half of the "Moluccan people on would be able to beat the Vict- small istands of Suporta Haruku Java appealed to the Austra

South and Nusa Laut to

and especially those peopwill: H

tis on Ambaina minh guerillas in Indo-China

Damage on Saparua was ro alone.

ported as totalling 600,000 guild- against the Japanese to aid the "Mao Tse-tung's China would ers and 60-houses were washed Ambolnese in their not have the same fears regarding away: No casualty figures have freedom,

students Indo-China (that restrained her boen. by Itádio Ambolna,

American case den has imposed

on develop-students to declared in an address to the So- news black-out

Moluccan Socre- cialist Federation, of the Bouches

Informed the United Na quaku. In. de Rhone: Department.

Just large occurred in 1808, when tions Commission here of the ax "Moreover," Rumia, after the scores puristed in foods, but plosive situation in Ambulner Korean betback, may need n com last Sunday's disaster appeared army camps on Java. It sold members of the pensatory success. "Thieno pomalhili- || "oven" World

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Jean Hardy, aged 28, sald she wanted livening up a bit! She did it because I felt the BBC was remanded for seven days for medical observation.-United Press

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