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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1954.
French Commander Says:
DIEN BIEN PHU POSITION
"SERIOUS"?
"Vietminh Potential
Four Times Greater Than Ours"
Washington, Mar. 23.
The Chief-of-Staff of the French Armed Forces, General Paul Ely, today reviewed the military situation in Indo-China, and particularly the present battle for Dien Bien Phu, during a 35-minute talk with the American Secretary of State, Mr John Foster Dulles, at the State Depart- ment, it was announced tonight.
The Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs-of-Staff, Admiral Arthur Radford, was On the French side there present at the talk.
were also the French representative on the NATO
Music To Scare Objection To
roost
Starlings
London Mar. 23. Britain may follow tho example of some American. ckles by using gramophone recorda to reduce
the nuisance of starlings which
on pubile buildings, Apparently the startings do not like The notne.
Sir Jocelyn Lucas,
MP Conservativo told the House of Commons the ex- partment had been succes- ful In the United States. Ho suggested similar ex- periments hero.
A
Bir David Eceles, Minis- ter of Works, replied that ho was considering whether British towns could take similar steps-China Mait Special
UK Troops Will
Standing Group, General Jean Valluy, and the Go Anywhere
French Minister in Washington, M. Jean Daridan.
A State Department spokesman said after the To Fight Reds
meeting that according to General Ely, Vietminh divi- sions threatening Dien Bien Phu had a potential four to five times
those of the greater than forces defending the besieged camp.
munists did not appear con- cerned with their own losses in manpower.
French Union
www.
Says New Envoy
German
Airline Plan"
сол-
Bonn, Mar. 28. France would not sent to the setting up of a West German airline be« fore the ratification of the Bonn Conventions which would give West Germany near sovereignty, High Commission sources sald today.
At present West Germany Is allowed neither military not civil aircraft.
The
West German Govern- ment, faced by further delays in the entry into force of the Conventions, was understood here to be planning special request to the three Western Ailles to allow an airline operate.
to
The granting of such a re- quest would need the approval of Britain, France and the United States.
Another course envisaged by the German Transport Minister, Dr Hans Christoph Seebohn, was the chartering of American aircraft and their operation by part German part British crews. But France would reject even this compromise solution, High Commission sources said.
General Ely had
Bangkok, Mar. 24. em-group of B-26 bombers, Mr
The armed forces of the phasised that the Com-Dullea, said ho preferred to wall
for a conference with General United Kingdom
will go Ely and Admiral Radford be-
CONVAIRS ORDERED fore discussing the subject.
anywhere
Com- to fight
British European and Over- the Questioned on
AC- Navarre munist aggression in
acas Airways have already con- Plan, he said this called for the cordance with United Na- cluded an ogreement for mutuai formation
and equipment of tions resolutions, new Brico-operation and assistance with Vietnamese national forces. it
Luftag. the government- the
sponsored company preparing
br establishment of a
West German elvil airline.
"General Ely snid
the situation was serious and it was not known how many waves of
the infantrymen would throw Into the buttle," the
tpokesman sald,
Following General Ely's re- view. Mr Dulles paid a tribute to the gallant Dien Bien Phu garrison and said: "the cycs of the whole tree world are watch- ing their efforts".
Was
HI NA
expected
Was
Mr
Franco tish Ambassador, Mr E. F. Vietmin Vietnamese forces would take Gage told his first news
lead in their theatre of conference last night. erations at the end of the nexl
British Gage, formerly
Four American Convair 340's dry season in Indo-China.
Consul-General in Chicago, said were ordered long ago by Luflag nu mitary setback that American power In the but it has not been possible to had
occurred
ex-world today was an asset for all deliver them due to the delay pected to occur which could up-freedom-loving peoples.
in ratifying the Conventions, "I am proud and happy that set the Navarre plan.
Four former Lufthansa pliots Mr Dulles said if the Chinese trade solidarity exists between are now being trained in Britain.
British to the
and American Another 18 are expected to go Communists would
"Let no one
there after Easter, cut off their military ald to the peoples," he said.
Germah officials do not con- Vietminh they would then have be deceived by the differences
to problems sider any German aircraft bulid- 4 chance to show that they were in approaches
be practicable before in spirit and which they occasionally display. Ing to not aggressors
"For whon danger threatens 1960-Reuter." would thus help to re-establish peace and tranquillity in Indo- you'll find them in the future... the China.
Mr Dulles later told a Press conference he did not expect a Communist military victory in Indo-China in spite of the pos- sibility of local setbacks. He shid
that any hypothesis of a Communist victory was acceptable.
Mr Dulles
referred lo
un-
Club
consent
was
Mr Dulics emphastrex the Thieves Rob London Britain in Dien Bien Phu garrison repre- rented a limited percentage of the forces of the French Unics while on the other hand a con- siderable percentag of Vietminh was engaged in battle.
Besnard Murder Trial Continues
ag in the past-standing He hoped this result could be resolutely, together in defence fighting nt Dien Blea Phu obtained, he said, but he saw of freedom of the world," which, he said, was a herolc no indications of a change in On a reported Peking sugges- battle. From this advance
the Chinese Com- post,
Franco-Vietnamese forces the attitude on the part of Com- tion that
munist China-France-Presse.
munists were
to open willing had already inflicted very heavy
full, diplomatie relations with losses on the enemy
exchange for un-
Bordeaux, Mar. 23. restricted trade, Mr Gage said, The Defence Counsel for the **It the usual Red tactle of 54-year-old widow, Maric attempting to divide
the U.K. Besnard, standing her second London, Mar. 23. from the United States."
trial here on charges of poison- Two reen beat up the manager
When
Britain asked whether
six people, asserted at to- the of the Burma Club, Park Lons, would fight if the Communists day's the ling the doctor and the in the London West End early attacked a
South Asian
Asian country not conducted a proper post- and rabbed the cash or if the U.N. troops were shift-mortem on Marie's alleged
Victims. isler of £40. They attacked ed from the troops, Mir Dulles said the the manager, Mr Douglas Hunt, Mr Gage the United Nations, since 1848, stood her first trial
om Korea to Indo-China,
"We'll go any said, U.S. military authorities were while he was sleeping upstairs, where with the trying ta zive such aid the dragged him down to the bar, Mr Gage sald Britain "emerg. In 1952, charged with murder- maximum of flexibility
forced ed triumphantly from 14 years Ing eleven people. She is now rapidly.
him to open the till.
of austerity
accepted by accused of murdering her The Club is for ex-service the British
mother, husband and father-in- the veterans of the Bunncse fighting He said the British Empire law among others.
was "being transformed into a A medical expert, Dr L. L. a Special,
Commonwealth of free indepen-Seta, said that three allegedly
nitions,"
adding that al- polsoned bodles he examined in though the process was not yet
were all in an abnormal complete, it will be achieved as state quickly possible." United muscular Press.
the
Asked-about Amerkan aid to
BOMBER AID? Regarding reports that United States would shortly send to Indo-China
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Cipio, usech u plece of wood|
lying nearby to, take a San Francisco, Mar. 23.
brain matter sample. He as- Since last Friday, Federal In- serted that it was sufficient for spectors with Geiger counters an instrument to touch the have carefully inspected each earth to Introduce the natural case of tuna from Japan for any
in the call into tho analysed, and that hydrogen explosion, this could lead to incorrect re-
· PAT KAY & BETTY ANKERS but results have been negative sults in an analysis, so far.
M. Gautrat then claimed the "We'll
signs of radio-activity from the arsenic
organs being
March 1
Keep on this work alleged victims had been TC- until we are satisfied there is moved from rotted. coffins, and Jack Geller no danger," Chler Inspector placed boxes made from Russell C. White of the Sun second-hand, wood which might At The
TO.NIGHT
Francisco Office of the Food criginally have formed con Hammond Organ and Drug Administration said tainers for arsenical products, today.-Reuter.
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Trapped In Mine Fall
3,000 Years Ago?
A small fish, carved in white ivory has been unearthed by members of Worthing (Sussex) Archäop- logical Society in a flint mine near Cissbury Ring an the Downs above Worthing. Experts believe that it has no parallel in neolithic or early Bronze Age finds.
CHINESE:
It lay tear the skeleton of a neolithic worḥhns - siged about 20, and may have been used by hor na a charm V
Gradually the story; of the woman's adventure
down, the mine about 8,000 years ago Ģin boing, decot, logether.
„Evidence suggests that thi went there out of curiosity and was crushed by a fall of | challe atti Bint.. After pabilo Worthing
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