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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 1954.

She Danced

DIEN BIEN PHU WAITS FOR At Cannes

Win Came

Too Late

Bt. Ileler, Lancashire,

Apr. 14.

Mr John Coffer, half- blind crippled ex-soldier ot 04, decided to build Bimself a "dream bunga- Iow Last year when he won 273,000 on a national

football pool,

Coffey,

who

n

badly wounded and gassed nt Armentieren, France. in World War I, provided his married children witti A house noon before he set about building his own.

It was ankhed the day before yesterday. But Mr Coffey Luver lived in i He dropped dead the day before yesterday leaving Als shabby

cottage. old

Chino Mall Special.

New Indian Protest To France

Alleged Shooting

By Police

NEW ATTACK

Rebels Closing In

On Fortress, Batter Airstrip

Hanoi, Apr. 14.

Vietminh Forces have begun to close in on the North-West defences of the long besieged fortress of Dien Bien Phu, and the garrison is expecting an all-out assault hourly, it was announced tonight.

The Vietminh are digging assault trenches much nearer than at any time before and have stretched explosive mantraps between two French positions in the West, a French spokesman said.

As they began moving in last night the rebels tore up the Northern end of the airstrip with bangalore torpedoes and laid down an artillery barrage on the fortress.

forres

MAL

Military observers In Hanol up seven petrof and ammunition are asking whether the Vietminh| dumps.

third The communique said that during the second half of March the Vietminh tightened the siege of Dien Bien Phu and drove ult several attacks Reuter and France-PreSIC.

mnke will onslaught on Dien Bien Phu, or simply try to smother slowly the defenders who have beaten off repeated attacks for a month.

Vietminh pressure seemed concentrated yesterday on the North-West face of the camp. protecting the airstrip

New Delhi, Apr. 14. A new Indian protest was handed over to the French Embassy here today, it was officially announced today.

Ofetal circles said the note

attention alled the

the ut

Ugat Vietminh Lo

Relatively Government

the French

violation

Ilian artillery attacks today led to the no masive attack territory by the police who brind that

would be launched tonight. ned Bre

Indian in- habitants an ille Chevadi last Zundity."

on ve

as

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JOINT COMMAND

Saigon, Apr. 14. Tutal mobilisation of all Vict which,namese men between the ages of though unusable since March 20 and 25 today added weight to 25, could be swiftly put back local appeals for the creation of into service if pressure is re-a Franco-Vietnamese High Com-

mand. laxed.

The emergency War Cabinet decreed mobilisation yesterday arid

clamour in mounting favour of a mixed Command to replace the current French Huch Command directing operations against the Communist-led rebels,

However, a French Command The Indian Goverment de- spokesmai reported increased matched an immediate punish-Vietminh pressure on the North- ment of the responsible police-Eastern sector of Dien Bien Phu had dug the where the attackers for Jhen, a compensation damage caused to the Indians' Trenches almost up to the barbed wire entanglernents protecting property and the injuries which they received

Franco-Vietnam positions. "well as on that such incidents

It was reported that just be- would not happen again.

the fore dawn today, the Vietminh The same

sald

in approaching Indian Government also stressed hat succeeded the "uhunan

the north end of the Dica Bien way" in "peaceful demonstrators and Phu airfield and managed to do "one destruction" with the aid of explosives and anti-personnel

Kures

volunteers were treated."

which

the

mined.

SUPPLIES DROPPED

the day,

French

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The Vietnamese Government also removed all exemptions to military service and barred men between the ages of 18 and 45

the country from leaving escape any draft caily.

Vietnam's political revolution,

of

Lulks the subject now Paris, was linked in many re- sponsible creies in Saigon with the swift setting up of a war command in which

operational responsibilities would be shared

eso.

The note concluded by saying that the only result of the local Freuch authorities violener would be "to cause ranvur and leave behind feelings of bitter-

During when thu

will French Inevitably have to leave their planes, fnded by good weather,

dropped large quantiles of sup possessions in India."

plies to the beleaguered camp understood that It was

Vict- and successfully blasted Indian consul in Pondicherry

minh batteries about approxi- also

received Instructions to

mately three miles to the South- hand a

to the French protest

Cust with

thousand-pound Commissioner there against the

bombs. viointion of Indian territory by the French arme police. -

The Vietminh have launched France-Presse.

two major attacks on the for-W tress in the past month.

Vietnamese

in

Miyoe Fusikare, Japanese film star, demonstrates some attitudes of Japanese traditional dances, on the Ite Saint- The Japanese film “Bell's Gate" Honorat, off Cannes, France. shown at the Festival created a big sensation and is reported to be one of the best. Express Photo,

US Official's Warning

Of "Serious Risks"

In South-East Asia

Washington, Apr. 14.

The West

And Russia Get Ready For Geneva

Moscow, Apr. 14.

to

The Western powers in identical memoranda to the Russian Foreign Ministry

understood today are have expressed hope that the Soviet Government will Rend

to representatives Geneva as soon as possible

to discuss technical or- rangements for the coming big power conference.

Usually reliable sources say the West agreed to a Soviet- suggestion that English, French, Russian, Chinese and Korean should be the languages

used for discussion on Koren, white Indo-China languages for the discussion should be decided on the spot.

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The memorandu, handed over by Charles Bohlen, the Ameri- can Ambassador,

Vassily Kuznetsov, Soviet Deputy For eign Minister, were replies, to a Soviet aide memoire of April 6, (It is understood that Russia Arst suggested four official languages for the conference: and English, French, Russian Chinese.

BROADWAY: West suggested that only the first three should with

be

The

official

Inngunges Chinese and Korean as additional "working"" longuages).

There has been no Indication so far of the composition of the Soviet

delegation for the Geneva conference. But it is believed Mr Molotov, as Foreign Minis- ter, will be accompanied by his Deputy Foreign Minister, Mr Andrei Gromyko, and a strong supporting group.-Reuter.

The

AGREEMENT

Washington, Apr. 14. United States

and the Soviet Union have now reached an almost complete agreement On matters affecting organisation

Conference,

of

the

the Geneva according to

State Department

here today.

spokesman

He added that points

under discussion него minot.

The spokesman

tho that

also confirmed in Ambassador The Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, Mr

Mr Charles Bohlen, discussed techateal questions Everett F. Drumright, told the House of Repre- Moscow, scntatives Foreign Affairs Committee today that to do with the conferun the United States must be prepared to run "the an interview today with Deputy most serious risks" to protect South-East Asian Kuznetsov-France-Pressa nations from falling to the Communists.

United

Foreign

Minister

Vassil

States disastrous shift in military and Woman Smuggler

of economic strength from the tree.

by the French and Vietnamese.

One important factor in this growing campaign was the fact that the Vietnamese Army out- numbers the French

He said the force. The estimate peditionary

policy for would continue its of

forces January 1054 was 217,000 men strengthening the independence to the Communist world.

"The uneasy military truce in compared with the French of the countries in the area. Union force of 185,000 men. He quoted Mr Dulles's agree-Korea and the bitter fighting One Vietnamese colonel put ment with Britain as one of the now going on in Indo-China

clearly disclose all too

the the case for a mixed High Com-big steps. mand by discussing, yet another Mr Drumright said the United Communist intentions in that

part of the world. States would continue to strikeContinued assistance to

the

deficiencies and

ля

of the situation.

aspect

"When the French High Com- 10 overcome the technological

in peoples of this area is essential mand announces a success gain-

military

10 the security of the United rd by Vietnamese trnous, it says: Japan, Korea, Nationalist China

Stats Philippines, The Hague, Apr. 14.

the

the 'we.' For example, We have on Formoss,

sold General Stewart Holland told Russia in a note

Indonesia, The Victininh high command | W

Buna,

and ammunition Incy

and saults in which the enemy left Malaya

the Associated equipment that the coming of an in a communique quoted by the repulsed a number of rebel as- Thailand,

necessary to continue the fight American war force unlt to be Communist New China News

in Indo-China had been sup stationed In Holland was a Agety today claimed to have 16 dead on the field. But when States of Indo-China,

are engaged Vietnamese troops

The Committee heard Major-piled by the United those in a

Pact Organisation,

two

assaults

and said

The note was in reply to a re- amounted to two-fifths of the rent Soviet protest which sald garrison. the stationing of foreign forces

g suffered losses."

of

with 1

Sentenced

New York, Apr. 14. Federal Judgo Matthew sentenced Ruth Abruzzo today Hakohen, 20, of Ramat-Gat, Israel, to a year and a day in gaol for smuggling $104,055 in diamonds into the United States three months ago.

The Judge then sald he would reducing the sentence consider if her attorneys would appear in Court within 60 days and show him a bona fide passport and a The Israeli woman, seized at Federal Idlewild Airport by agents who found four packages of diamonds in her possession, previously had pleaded guilty to the snuggling charges.United Press.

States normal move within the Atlantienfileted 5,000 casualties in their Brult action, the French General D. C. Stewart, Director through its military assistance/ ticket for her retum to Israel,

igh Command says, A light of the Defence Department pro

added: "With- programme. He battalion, caught in an ambush, Office of Military Assistorice, put this assistance Indo-China testify that if the people of would probably be under Com- This war is else, they may say, 'An South-East Asia HOT

were to come munist control on Dutch soli "can by no means The Vieirninh also claimed to

under control of the Com completely dependent upon contribute towards the improve have shot down or damaged 50 outpost's garrison, composed

five 18-ton Vietnam auxiliaries, had to fall

munists "we would bo faced continuation of the assistance ment uf the International aircraft, destroyed

major and perhaps now being given."-Reuter. situation."--Reuter,

American bullt tonks and blown back."

NO OBJECTION There would certainly be no objection to a French General Mixed proposed heading the Command according to political and military circles in Saigon. Such a Command would be the Indispensable prelude to the eventual transfer of all military authority into the hands of the Vietnamese.

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20 Bedouin? (5).

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23 Scorch (I).

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20 Degrade. 21 Anon, 13. Uttered, 21 Venem,20 swe

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Currently,

the Vlctnamesd Army, which is three years old, has only 8,000 officers. Very few hold high rank.

Only about half of its men have seen more than one year of service.

The Vietnamese Army was practically non-existent in January 1949, with only 23,000 men. By January 1, 1991, it had 65,000 men and its strength was then sharply increased from 147,300 men in January 1953 to 217,000 in January United Press.

1964.

Sovereignty For Vietnam Near

Paris, Apr. 14. The French Prime Minister. MJoseph Laniel, announced today that negotiations with Vietnam are "on the point of ending on a bagis recognining Vietnam's total Independence, her entire sovereignty withi the French Union.”

in

The announcement was made. & communique after Ma alel had received Mir John Laniel Foster Dulles, United States Secretary of State

The

Announcement

previously held

uld by

power

"within the shortest time"

France would be transferred

Vietnam.

This would carry out the in- dependence promise made last July to the Acetod States of Indo-China, M. Taniel aid.

He added that the promis had already been kept with re- ganda told her, it would to Cambodia, ma soon, sur-the king.

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Ballade Op. 3 in G minor

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Scherzo-Valse

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. Andante

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Tr. Chopin

No. 1 C major

No.

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No.mador No. 6 minor

No. 7 Amafor

No.

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No. 13

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No. 14

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No. 15

Get major

No. 2

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