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[ISTORY is not short of

men who have sought, and won, notoriety through falsifying facts and com- promising truth in their publie utternuces, but few have employed this tech- nique in Auch JL blatani mauner as Senator Joseph McCarthy, The Fundamental trouble about Mr McCarthy, of course, in that he suffers from what appears to be an incurable complex-u dis like. mounting almost to hatred, of Britain and any- thing that is British. And because he cannot control his feelings, ja, to him, natural that he should prevariente and alandor whenever he talks about Bri- tain. Thus he has taken hold of " perfectly straight- forward House of Commons statement by Mr

Peter Thorneyeroft, President of the Board of Trade, which dealt with the question of trade between the Western alties and the Soviet bloc ini Europe, and twisted it nu fantastically that he has been able to advance the allegation that Britain "planning to self conven- tional war weapons to Com

munist Chinn." The effron- tery of the Senator from

Wisconsin is given its full

worth when it is recullest

that Mr Thorneycroft, in

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Opposition Leader May

Vietminhese The Craft That Caused The Panic Lose Seat

Saboteurs Active

FRENCH COMMANDERS

IN CONFERENCE

London, May 21.

Growing tension was reported last night from Hanoi, the Tonking capital, where French com- manders are conferring on measures to save the surrounding “rice bowl" of North Indo-China threatened by un advancing Vietminh army of 30,000 strong.

The Vietminh are daily blowing up trains and attacking road communications between Hanci and its supply port of Haiphong, Reuter despatches from Paris said.

Air and shipping companies are besieged by people wanting to get out, business is almost at a standstill and the chief firms are trying to move their machinery to Saigon or Haiphong.

his speech, made particular Requests for permission to transfer money abroad reference to the fact that have trebled, according

¦

Commander's Skill At Manoeuvres Caused Submarine Scare

London, May 20.

Commander B. C. G. Hutchings of the British submarine Scorcher was ordered today to practise evasive action in manoeuvres with other British Naval craft.

He did.

And so successfully did he play his game of hide and seek with the Navy that for a tense 20 minutes Britain

feared it had suffered a submarine disaster.

RIOTING

to reports reaching Paris. BY NATIVE

of an imminent

any easing of trade restrie-There has been a run on tinned foods. Vietminh agents tions between WEAL zunish are believed to be spreading rumours East did not include Com drive to cut off Hanoi from Haiphong.

Wherefore,

Vietminh M

pressure

has in-

munist Chitta. McCarthy once again guilty of n gross distortion | crvused in the Southwest of the Tuets, and his tirade Red River deŝa, leading to tear of before the Senate cannot

of an attempted beek thugh even rank us an interpretar Phuly, only 30 miles from

litwal Lion of the Thorneycroft) Ptatement.

To the British people Senator

School Ceiling Collapses

Bourges, France.

May. 20. The Roar of

a second- stores schoolroom broke and dumped

nearly * hundred screaming chlidren onto the floor below today.

The police sald youngsters were severely Injured and 83

others suffered cuts and bruises. As the celling gave way with

sudden roar, children. deaks, chairs,

seven

plaster and spilutered wood work were calapulted Lato

a gymnasium below which fortunately was 13-

time. occupied United Proc.

the

Sent To

Surface craft in the man. Oeuvres lost track 'of the Scorcher.

They hunted pains- faklagis

the ter

submerged craft. Then they dropped ex- plosive signols, ordering the Scorcher to disclose its poal- tion. These were unanswered.

Other explosive charges were ordering the sub- marine 10 surface. These brought no response.

Surface vessels flashed the grave

sub-smash "Operation

to the Admiralty, one" signal onouncing that the Scorcher down, unreported

And

machinery, of the. Royal Navy's

dropped WOMEN

I confined to Vietnam-the major battleground - The purely Lusaka, Northern Rhodesia. military clauses of the two rival

May 20. pence plans would have much in

Screaming native women common. Both provide for re-

forces groupment of opposing with mixed armistice commis-

2,000 strong, battled police

French military quarters sald sions under control. hurling tear gas today, in a

In very serious situation would

develop it even one of the four

McCarthy is so obviously malign that there 15 110 danger of his posturings and travesties being taken Heriously. In the United States it in different. He is capable of deluding a lot of people and of successfully Besmirching the good name of the British Government. To that extent he is R menace. He is also a growing mes source of embarrassment to

MAJOR OBSTACLE

But one agreement

tu

ceded by agreement on The

Non-Communist

delegations

are increasingly disturbed

ہوتا

The main threat to the delt reports from Indo-China that ing back to the jungle.

truin Vietminh troops from. Dien Bien Phu, passing his own Administration. The down the Red and Black river Thorneycroft statement valleys,

which McCarthy has twisted Evacuation of wounded from

continued yes

the despite

official "suspension" of the French planes on

out of all recognition was Dien Bien Phu the product of a series of terday official meetings between French

agreemen!

the Communist Vietninh Binh soon launch an aliout attack on the

French-held Red Hiver Park

Dien Bien Phu fortress in north

British, American and Wednesday dropped delayed The capture of the deks, the

hit the

wife

wns

weared in trouble. The massive

Finally, another submarine,

was a game.

was

The familles of the 44 men aboard the Scorcher gave thanks. After a radioed explanation, the Admiralty ordered the manoeuvring vessels to "carry on."--United Press.

Extension Of

New Place Of Exile

Д

French sources said.

Announcement of the change

in Bourgulba's place of deten- ilon

to-

Seoul, May 20. Early returns here night showed that the Speaker of the National Assembly and leader of the Opposition, Mr P. Shinicky, is likely to lose his seat in the National Assembly Liberal Party candidato Choi In Kyu.

First

to

reports from Mr Shinicky's electorate of Kwangu gave Mr Choi a big lead,

Mr Shinicky has repeatedly protested of police interferencs In his electorate.

In a Scout electoraic, the Chairman of the Liberal Party and President Rhee's right hand man, Mr Leo Ki Poong, la leading the Opposition candidate, Mr Kim Son,

Mr Lee is regarded as one of the most Influential men in the Liberal Party.

No national trend is expected to show In the returns before to-

morrow,

Officials estimated that 90 per cent of eligible nine million electors had voted.-Reuter,

Britain Must Be Included

New

Washington, May 20. Zealand's Minister for External Affairs, Mr T. Clifton Webb, said today that he "could Ballsfactory nat conceive of a Southeast Asten alliance which did not include Britain.

You

And

will arise," he said.-Router.

was made by M. Pierre Buried With Volzard, French Resident Gen- eral in Tunisia, during a press Military Honours

conference.

Bourgulba was arrested.

by

the French at dawn on January 18,

1952,

after

of a wave terrorism spread across French North African

Goslar, Germany, May 20, Heinz Guderian, German General

to

MPs Seeking A Tax-Free Allowance

London, May 20. Conservative and Labour buck-benchors put forward a motion tonight propOWIAK .that

thousand their one sterling salaries should be fax- supplemented by

five hundred sterling expenses allowance.

free

The proposal will be de- bated fo the House of Commons on Monday, and members wil

'will probably be allowed a free vote with- out reference to party allegiance. If the motion is carried, the allowance may come into effect auto- matically without further discussion.

Brillah members of Par- llament receive leed than lexislators in the United States and some Common- wealth and European coun- tries, and a number have been feeling since the

the pinch Second World

is accepted that some, after paying secretarial, Postage, travelling and other expenses, have only about 2 weekly left of their salaries towards lv- Ing coats. China Mail Special

School Youths Run Riot In

NY Subway

New York, May 20. More than 500 screaming high school youths risted in a Bronx subway today, ter- rifying passengers brutally beating a portez,

The police held 110 students for questioning.

The others, however, jumped over the turnstiles, ripped down a gato and entered a train. They then unscrewed light bulbs from the sockets and threw them out

Passengers cringed in terror as the youths began breakding windows. The train Anally started, but the rioters stopped it repentedly by pulling the emergency brake cord.

was sent

to ho

former who created The poster this the crack armoured Panzer hospital. The polico said pro-divisions, was buried here to was beaten in the face and body tectorate, causing the death of day with military honours. He when he tried to prevent the scores of persons.

last Friday aged 65 youths from ripping up irdin seats-United Press..

died Reuter.

the

Mr Webb made the statement when questioned by reporters after conferring with the Unitori States Secretary of State. My John Foster Dulles, on indo China Tunis, May 20,

developments in Habib Bourguiba, Tunis- Southeast Asia. rlot protesting against rescue apparatus was set tian nationalist leader held

Earlier today Mr Webb pald rule that bans unmarried | motion.

in custody by the French what he called "a purely social The authorities said the lot cine visions which took Dien

SIGNAL NOT HEARD mothers from this Colonial major obstacle

began when about 3,000 students Bien Phu opened assault on

The Scorcher, meanwhile, had since January 18, 1952, was call" on President Elsenhower at is the Communist capital's African quarters. the delta positions.

evaded Its

surface trackers so removed from the island of the White House, Wave after wave

Mr Webb refused to give any were turned away, from a high of the well that their explosive signals Galite, 80 miles northeast General Ely, Froh Chief-of-demand that a ceasefire be pre-

women, hundreds carrying Stuff, had talks in Hanoi with political future of Indo-China. their

were unheard. bables on thetr backs,

of Tunis, to the island of details of his discussions with school track meet which, wo Mr Dulles today. He replied called off because of rain. Most General Rene Cogany. Nurth The French plan makes a ceam. rushed to hurl bricks and uso Indo-China

the Upstart, established sonic Groix, a few miles off the sharply when he was reminded of the youths passed quietly Commander, and

na; fire the priority question,

to through the subway turnstiles. the North Vietnam leaving the politeal settlement tng the main road of Lusaka.

their Osts against police guard-contact with the missing sub coast of Brittany in France, that Britain was reluctant

Asian also saw

a Southeast negotiate Governor,

after an Nguyen Huu

devious it was announced tonight. anxious and Dove

Tin Vietnam to follow.

The police used lear ga: chase between an alarmed seeker General Ely is to assess Ho

The Tunisian nationalist lea-pact before the outcome of the

Geneva Aslan peace i en

conference bomber to repel the mob

and situation and report back to the

and m unwillingly coy hider der was scheduled to board retreated scream- the women

was known and when, asked if which thought the whole thing special plane tonight and reach New Zealand French Government.

would sign off his new place of exile Hundreds of women

march-

treaty without Britain. When Cmdr. Hutchings

France's northwest coast some-

jo are asking ed ints

the municipal car informed all Britain was

time tomorrow afternoon, speculate on а hpyothetical of windows and flung seats onto at dawn to begin aalarmed, he brought his craft to

Bituation which I do not think the tracks. demonstration against a regula the surface. delto. The storming of the

ilon requiring native WOIRET With embarrassed relief, the Vietnam. was

to have marriage licences be- Admiralty called off the elabor- regarded as л deliborate military tactic to put locations.

fore they

in can live

town ate search and Tescue pro- Lusoka's nativo cedures, pressure on the negotiators at

quarters hold 50,000 African the peace table here.

workers.

When the mob ignored an French government repre- action bombs on the strategic richest

Vietnam prize in the

order to disperse mid- Those meetings road from

throw sentatives

would the fortress to the campaign

the afternoon, the pollee moved in were held for the express rim of the delta, uming them Western delegations into the The women fought officers with ||

Vietminh night greatest confusion here, it was bare hands and tossed bricks purpose of exploring the to of possibility

revising conveys.

thought in conference quarters, and atones. Then tear gas was The French Government has Though it would weaken the used and the women fled, Western trade policies vis-

Troops equipped with Sten recalled the

of General immediate position of the West a-vis Russia and the Com-Christian de Castries to Paris in

the

peace talks, it would guns stood by but did not fire, munist countries inf

lead to a general Hundreds of European To- Europe.

they into Moreover

the fall of the fortress

anti-Com-sidents stood outside the car park the

the reaulted £71

her munist attitude. amicable Shc

lu touch with

tussle-United Was

The United States, in particu-Press. agreement. Senator husband, the commander of the

by McCarthy ignores all this in gorrison.

radio-telephone lar, might urge an immediate from Hunot almost up to the break in the negotiations, it is his determination

last morden(Reuter,

believed-Reuter. roiterato his anti-British feelings, but in so doing he

GENEVA LATEST

WOUNDED DECORATED also, by implication, blasts hie

Republican

Gengva, May 21,

Hanol, May 20. The wine nations trying to end General Paul Ely, the French Administration. London can

the seven-year Indo-China war

arrued forces chief of staff, lo-

The French also afford to

the

accused shrug off

Paris, May 20. hope today to start discussing day decorated 27 wounded Senator's hostility, but not the military terms for an armis veterans evacuated from Dien

The French National Assem-three years with provision for Bourguiba of Issuing to

in then Promier of Tunisia (fator Perija- on

a gradual 10 per cent cut Ho Washington. McCarthy's tice, conference sources said.

Blen Phu with the Militarmentory

himself arrested and exited), Immunity today tariffs, implication is that the US Russia paved the way for

Medal-France's highest military examined the French Govern- In lettor to Mr Charles Mohammed Chenik, a 48-hour Administration has discussion of ceasefire condition award for non-commissioned men's

ultimatum for the lodging of request to

of Chicago, who with 28 ltimat prosecute Percy

the United Nations connived in a treacherous at the third Indo-China secret soldiers,

Edmond Goubert, Deputy of other businessmen called on Mr an appeal Wednesday. Mir

in stat to to help the

country British plan

gaining French settlements in India, on | Elsenhower on April 20 war Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet other

29 wounded with the the charge that he undertook to obtain his

from France, weapona to

Foreign Minister, suggested that Croix de Guerre during a visit "remove from French authority trade policy, the President sald Communist

The Chinn. Well might Mr they shelve the Cambodia and to Lanessan Hospital.

ho UN a territory coming under his he considered enactment of his made to tho

Security Harold Stassen describe the Laos issue for the time being

The Commander-in-Chief In nuthority."

trade programme, which cil by the Chenik government, Foreigh Senator'a criticism as and start at inday's secret meet- Indo-China, General Henri The request for ling he outlined to Congreg on This infuriated the French and,

fantastic, unbelievable and In, to reconcile the military

the Navarre,

former the Communist and

Com- Coubert's immunity was trans-March 30, as "Indispensable to with unrest continuing despite General, Kaput mitted by the French Minister the woric that this Administra dismissed Chenik from his poet untrue," but it in unlikely parts of

Bourguiba's arrest, they later French peace plans, reaction fully But the Western Powers will Salan, and the commander of of Overseas Territories.

tion must do in the national in and sent him into exile with the forces in North Vicinom, The Committee decided to ask terest" represents the Adminiatra-put a big "ir" in their acceptance General

Goubert, who has left the terri- Rene Cogny; accom tion's feelings about the of the Soviet proposal. They are | Mimi

d'ho favoured Con United Press.

his Cabinet-- Ho sald General Ely on history of French settlements in McCarthy tirade. The expected to agree only if it in panied

gressional committee hearing |India, to appear before the Com-

on the programme early next mittee balore June 8.

Three deputies were appointed year and "since the present act examine the government's expires on June 12, 1964, a the simple one-year extension will request, representing Radical-Socialist Party, the ex-

of course be required for the Gaullist (URAS). Party and the interim parlod."--Router. i Christian Democrats (MRP), France-Pressa.

6-Year-Old Shaves

even

OWNL

thin

2171

to sell

to

to give evidence at an Inquiling of

session

on

The General decorated

mander-in-Chlor

voluble and truth-deriding clear from the outset that there hospital four.

can be negotiations on Lans All four have been engaged

watching

Official May Be Prosecuted

bly's Committee

Senator may discover before and Cambodia-except for the in the present talks regarding long that he has been dig- complete withdrawal of the in- the

situation In North Viot-to ging his own political grave. vading Vietminh troops.

nam.—France-Presse.

Eden-Chou En-Lai Meeting Conciliatory

BABY BOY FOR PRINCESS

.

Trade Act

reason for arrests

The arrest of Bourguiba and 11 other Neo-Destour (New Independence) Party members Washington, May 20.

was explained by the French President Elsenhower aug-Residency General as a measure

1% "put an to

candi gested today that he would be

the system- satisfied for the time being with atic agitation, which has been a simple one-year extension of aimed at defeating the mission the Reciprocal Trade Act of conciliation with which the Resident General was entrusted boyand June 12.

He had previously asked Con- by the French government”,

Kreas to

extend the law for

vlews

the

on foreign Independent was actually i

members

of

Coun

Communist Comment On Talks

London, May 20. The Communist New China

News Agner said today that Lisbon, May 20. the Far East conference Lut

*

A six-year-old boy, Alding Geneva had so far produced në Geneva, May 20. views of Sovies Foreign Minis- it is understood that they are

Torres, in the North Portugal positive results despite "sincess The interview between Britishter, Mr Vyacheslav, Molotov, vonaldering the tactics to be

Los Angeles, May, 20. village of Bandiaes, is reported efforts for peace? by: thể Foreign Secretary, Mr Anthony who proposed yesterday that the followed when the restricted Mrs Rhiad Ghall, Princes to be sb, physically developed Russian and Chinese delegations: Eden, and Chinest Foreign conference should take up the session on Todo-China is re- Fathia of Egypt, today" gave that he already has to shaved While -- Americen Minister, Mr Chou En-lal this question of a cossedre in Indiozumed tomorrow.

birth to a seven-pound baby boy Aldino" who je mill too young keep up a high-

handed t morning was conciliatory, it was China.

Tonight, Mr. Eden will dine at Hit Vincent's Hospital here, as to affand the local school, is said compromising dati

attitude The mother and bar son were to be sa developed as in normal Glacieva

American Kero,

Ministers, who had met at Mr pected that the two Ministers reported to be doing well

youth of 11 od 20.30 He is 20 and Eden's residence, this morning, will try to reach an dgréemout The Challa live in nearby strong he puts: in full day's manoeuvring tà The source said that Mr Chou are holding another meeting on the procedure to be followed Beverly Hills. They, hare enöther on his father a fixa--- Southeast seemned to want to follow the this evening,

-France-Promat

Bon, Fasc...Undard Pressing him, Matt Epecial

learned from a rollable sOUTCO The three Western Foreign with Mr Molotov

lotov and it is 0-

tomo

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