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Storing Up Atom Weapons

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Washington, Apr. 18, The United States is stockpiling atomic weapons of all sorts at the fastest speed in history and a keep- ing these weapons, includ- ing most up to date kinds

in п state of constant readiness for

if wor usr comes.

It is also engaged in an than the original $2,200,000,000

exprnalen programme Kreater

atomic project of World War II. At the same time, It is operating a going projeci considerably greater than the wartime pro- gramme.

This and more is reported in testimony by Atomic Energy Commission officials before the House Appropriations sub- Committee, Testimony showed that the Commission through the

Ascal year next

will have received $5,287,000,000,

·THE CHINA MAIL, TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1951.

Chinese Border Alleged To Have Been Violated

London, Apr. 16.

A New China news agency despatch received; in London today said that French and Vietnamese troops in Indo-China had "repeatedly intruded": into China's frontier territory since last October.

Colonel Coste, the French commander of a militia force in Lai Chau, was said to have led a small party into the Chinese county of Kinping on March 2 and "aided bandits" there.

The agency despatch said: French outpost of Donnxa, 24 "When the People's Liberation| milos south-west 'of Kanal, Army were mopping up the ban- | French Army headquarters re- opposita bank of a river fired to

the ported today. dita, French troops from aid the bandits."

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A French force stationed at Man Niem, in Vietnam, made a "sneak attack"

Chinese troops in Kinping County March 4, the report added. (It was north of Lai Chau that

Chinese Irregulars had crossed the frontier into QT

nam)-Reuter.

The garrison of West African, Senegalese and Vietnamese partisans repulsed the attackers.

Meanwhile, French Union forces had engaged another

outside Pattalion

the Tonkin

about 150 delta bridgehead,

In the new fiscal year it wil French sources recently alleged miles south-west of Hanol. The i

spend a record $1,277,000,000, A big plece of that will go to operate recently-completed

soon-to-be-completed atomic ex- plosives plants, including two new Uranium-235 works Oakridge, Tennessee.

at

that

battalion was believed to be Viet-attempting to move north- to- wards the French outpost of Sonia in north-west Tonkin's Thai country.

TOWN RECAPTURED

Saigon, Apr, 10.

Sonia is about 108 miles west

Was

Statuary For Festival

Sculptor Barbara Hepwort, of St. Ives, Cornwall,

four-ton Irish limestone figures, "Contrapuntal Forms,” outside the Dome of Discovery at the Festival of Bri- tain-Central Press Photo.

French forces have reoccupied of Hanoi and 72 miles south-watching the erection of one of her two 12-ft high, For the first time, the Com- the key position of Uongbi, 20 cast of the Thal provincial mission la baking money tomlics

Tonkin's capital of Lalchaw, and operate two new "furnices"--a "breeder"

a material-testing reactor. breeder

will

fuel

northwest

of

threa- to be atomie main supply part of Haiphong earlier reported

force of and the French Army Headquarters tened by a combined

Chiese and Victininh forces. The here announced today. produce atomic

Observers believed

rebel force moving north towards Sonla, hoping to surround Lai- claw.

controls the

North

out of "Iner!" raw materials, Unagul If it works-and tests starting Vietnam coastal sector's water possible that the late this Spring or in early supply. summer are expected to prove

It will the country's potential atomic reserves will be multi plied by a factor of more than 100Unked Presa,

KRA

CANAL

It was

ISTHMUS

AGAIN

Bangkok, Apr. 10.

reported that

the

Vietminh rebel

4

was

forces took! gb when they launched their offensive in the Dong tricu mountain group. 45 miles east of the Tonkin capital of continuing.

Hanoi, a fortnight ago.

was

Vietminh guerilla activity In and around the Tonkin delta bridgehead was reported to be.

Strong robel attacks

Madao, repulsed at about 18 miles

The French Army communi- que also said that Vietminh Kuerillas remained very active 'Hanol-Reuter. in the Tonkin Delta, particularly in the western part. The querillas launched a strong mor- tar and bazooka attack against

were

a villege north-east of

in French, post on the Day HL WARSHIP

French garrison dispersed them. It miles west of Hanoi, but the

Guerillas also. harassed a forti. ESCORTS

House of Representatives pro- posed in a letter to Premier Phibun Songgram that the Gov- ernment consider cutting fed village about 20 canal across the Kra Isthmus and open negotiations for

2

northwest of Hanoi.

miles

loan from the World Bank for smashed Vietminh cantonments SUGGESTED

the proposed Canal,

explained day's French

Ridgway's Views On Korea War

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Washington, Apr. 16. Lieutenant-General Matthew B. Ridgway, successor to General MacArthur, advised visiting Congressmen that it would be impossible to win the war if Manchurian bases were not bombed, one of these Congressmen said today.

Republican Representative Armstrong, who returned from Tokyo today, said that he and a Democrat Representative discussed the military situation with Lieut.-General Ridgway about 10 London, Apr. 16. days ago before President Truman dismissed Mr Gerald Williams, Conser-General MacArthur. vative, suggested in the House of Commons today that as the restrictions imposed by Egypt on the Suez Canal traffle through Viotminh

were illegal, British tankers going to Halfa should be escorted by destroyers "or even a couple' of gunboals."

ARMS FOR

French Army aircraft today

near Quangai, 125 miles south- east of Saigon, according to re- A Representative from the ports reaching her province of Isubot in northeast

Army com- Thailand reportedly

reported that French that the Canal would improve foreca laid several ambushes in Thailand's economic conditions Central Vietnam and killed two and strategie position, therefore and he believed Thailand, now de Anitely in the democratic camo,

Other would be supported

Fanes-Vietnamese reconnais United States and other demo- see patrol probed rebel posi- eratic countries._ Maj-General | toms in the_rugged_mountain. Karb Kunjara, the Premier's

group about 45 miles southeast of State, said that he could not

Washington, Apr. 10, secretary-general, told

of the historie Annam capital comment on questions like that! the

New American arms are of Hue-Reuter,

without notice. Nor could he already on their way across the say without notice what was the Pacific to bolster the defences of attitude of the British and the Philippines, a Government French directors of the Suez omelat disclosed today. Canal Company.

captured! 15

troops.

reports sald

the

The

United Press, however, that the Prime Minister's office had not yet received the request but it might have been handed

ATTACK REPULSED

that

to

Hanol, Apr. 16. A Vietminh rchel battalion, last night violently attacked the

the Premier personally.United Press.

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London, Apr, 10.

Sulian of Kedah State, In Malaya, serived In England today to try to persuade his niece, 10- year-old Princess Zabarlah, not to marry a 21-year- old London apprentice printer and to return with him.

The girl is working in London AS A shorthand typist, under the namo of Joyoo Hamid, Her sweetheart, Arthur Collins, lives in a working class quarter

The Sultan, · Bir Abdul Hamid, Halfmi Shah,, has refused his permission for the marriage. The girl's father, a Malayan prince, whe died suddenly од Baturday, had threatened to disown her.-Reuter.

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Washington, Apr. 16. The United States gave Yugoslavia a new $29,000,- 000 grant today to help Marshal Tito's Communist regime stand up against Soviet bloc pressure.

President Truman notified Congress that he has authorised the diversion of this amount

from arms aid funds to enable the Yugoslavs to import critical- ly needed raw materials for-their armed forces.

(It was announced in Belgrade today that France has granted | Yugoslavia a three-year credit of five billion franes to build up

Yugoslav defence industries.

for Foreign Affairs, in a report phoned from Paris, sald this loan

(The Parliamentary Committec

was part of trade agreement signed in Paris and already

in announced broad cirtline there.

Most of the eredit will be made available within the next tavo years).

Offelals in Washington zald hides for shoes, and cotton and wool for uniforms are the most

urgent Yugoslav needs.

Some machine tools also may be provided by the United

States, but no military equip-

ment is included...

Most of the supplies, officials

Mr Armstrong sald that they said, will be obtained in the asked Lieut.-General Ridgway if United States. Associated it was possible to win the war Press.

without carrying it to the enemy

end bombing the Manchurian bases from which the Chinese Communists mount their offen-

sives against the United Nations ORCHIDS FOR Mr Armstrong said that Lie-A-GANGSTER-

forces in Korea.

General Ridgway replied "No", but added that they could still kill a lot of Chinese Communists whenever the latter attacked.

The Congressmen then asked Lleut.-General Ridgway if it was

this matter in the Canal Zone," ed that enough arms to equipon

New York, Apr. 16. Gangland buried one of its chieftains here today-Charles Fischetti, right-hand man of Chicago's late Al Capone, to whom he once was chauffeur and bodyguard

He told the United Press this possible to win the war if it was He did not reply when Mr was just the first instalment of confined to Korea.

Mr one said he again. Julian Amery, another Conserva- an accelerated military aid pro- Live, urged, the Government to gramme designed to help the replied, "Noong said it was his casket, topped with a five-metre They buried him in & $900 bear in mind that the recent Republic wipe out the Hunks and

high spiral of purple and white disturbances in Perslo made carry its webxht in the Pacific! impression that Licul.-General orchids, and with about $30,000 | "all the more urgent to clear up defence line. The official

Ridgway agreed substantially reveal-

worth of other flowers stacked in with General MacArthur's views worth about 10 combat teams Mr Robert

the strategy to be adopted in seven cars. were the Korean war, Ryder, Conser being sent as fast as vative, asked how many

present Bri-"emergency conditions would tish ships had been affected by the restrictions put on traille allow. Some of the arms had through the Suez Canal and probably arrived, others were un

and the way

more shipments what port, facilities had bees would follow throughout the refused them.......

year.

requirements

in

But none of gangland's king- On the basis of his talks with pins turned up to bid farewell to military leaders in Korea and the reputed heir of the Capone Japan and with Chiang Kai-shek crime syndicate, who died Formosa, Mr Armstrong naturally at his Miami Beach said that he (Armstrong) - mansion on Wednesday at the age of 50. They sent their richly robed wives instead to join the procession of 1,500 which follow- od Fischetti to the cemetery.- Reuter.

voured:

. Mr Younger replied that

HAINAN CAPTURE The speeded programme is to every ship under whatever flag continue into 1952, he added. which had passed through the Despite the rearmament pro- Sintes military mission to For- (1) Sending a strong United Canal since May, 1948, had gramme and ald to Europe and mosa to train the Chinese Na- been affected to some degree Latin America, Defence Depart- tionalist soldiers there for an by the restrictions imposed by ment officials sald, most of the the Egyptian 'Government since Philippine

had attempt on the Chinese Com- bren mot. The arms are mostly unist-controlled mainland.

Infantry

type-rides, The only vessels at the

(2) Working pre- sent

machine-guns, mortars,

bazoo Nationalists whose passage moment through tho-Canal-was

cc. There will also be -for- bidden by the

|"coast) and Invade Egyptian artillery and other equipment Hainan Koff the normally assigned to infantry and from there. authorities were those enrrying units. The Philippines did not

that date.

contraband list.

out with tho

to plans

seize South China the main-

to Israel goods on the Egyptian request and the US. did not (3) Blockading the whole

consider either air or naval aid. | Chinese Communist coastline. -Urilted Press,

Tho List since September

| 1949, has been confined to of

and miliary equipment.

As for the refusal.... of port! facilities, the only case that

Converted By

Sep-A

A Sergeant

had come to his notice was that of a chip' which in tember was refused permission by the Egyptian authorities to lower ita cargo at Port Säld- Router.

Manila, Apr. 18. A 70-year-old warrior of the abandoned Manobo tribe has the jungle law for the Christian

Truman Hopeful faith, thanks to the efforts of

Of Victory

Washington, Apr. 10.

ha Army sergeant, turned

evangelist.

was

⚫Dahinog Daly Mandahinog, husband of Ave wives and father of 24 children, tonight baptised by a priest of the voiced thú hope that, the First Philippine-Independent Church

President Truman

(4) Use of American air power to destroy the bases in Manchuria and to cut the rail- ronds and highwnys surround- Ing Mulden in Manchamin,

(5) American aid to tho guerilina fighting the Com munists within Chine.

(0) Despatch of a tokom Chinese Nationalists

force of

to Korea-ReLURT.

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