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"OW badly does Chim want
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Agree to I' Armistice in Indo-China at the present Genova talka? 1 It can only be a speculative question at best
but ac
cording to recent reports from Peking it would seem
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DISCLOSURES
Eden's
that the Communist Party i Private
is intensifying its drive at home to expand primary production for the export market. Party cadres have Apparently "convinced” farmers of the need 1 to Increase production, (2) to surrender a large portion of their crops to the Govern-
Warning
To Reds
Washington, May 23.
Eden, Bri-
ment as laxation and (3) to] Mr Anthony lend the Government what-ish Foreign Secretary, has ever extra crops they can privately warned the Soviet for exports to enable the
Chinese and
Communist State to earn more foreign
Foreign the
at the exphange for
indus- trialisation drive. It is Geneva conference
their That overplay therefore
obvious despite
the
new
Ministers
ફ્રા
not to
hands or
Military
And Political Conditions
Paris, May 24.
America's plan for giving aid to the French
in Indo-China provides for an American Com- mander-in-Chief
usually there, according to reliable sources here last night.
Cambodian Town Evacuated
Balgon, May 23. Franco-Cambadian forces bave cvacuated Blem Pang, about 200 mller northesti oi Thnompenh
The French High Command announced here tonight
Command spokcaman
A aald
Klak Norodom
to
to re-
Sihanouk of Cambodia yesterday decided evacuate Blem Pang which was not under Vietminh threat or pressure, group elsewhere.
Slem
Patr Is only miles from the Laotian border. The Vic minh cap- tured Vorun Bal, 25 miles East, Carly last month and have exerted pressure in Northeast Cambodia
20
over
The United States plan is all cut and dried
since.--Reater. spimently underrate the United States and is now in the hands of M. Joseph Laniel, the generous loans from Russia capacity to react with mill- French Prime Minister. Including skilled technicians tary force to the Indo-China to cstablish
and situation. It was learned expand existing industries, i here today. and despite the spute of A favourable impression has official figures flowing from been tre'rtxt
Eisenhower Peking indicating promising Administration circles by reports frank private talks in increases in production in
Geneva lust week between Mr various secondary industries
Faen and the Soviet Forel China that the plans for in.
Minister, Mr Molotov, and the dustrialisation. in China Chinese Communist Foreign demand either capital or Minister, Mr Chou En-lul, the Indo-China phase of for buthi goods
and during over
Far Eastern con- above those emanating from the Geneva existing sources. And China Is not the only Communist
intervention of American naval and air forces and Failure Of
of two
ferencs.
The sources said the plan provides for the
the military participation of Thailand (Siam) and the Philippines.
Political conditions include the absolute in- dependence of the three Associated States of Indo- Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia - and their ign right to stay out of the French Union.
The present situation in Indo-, recommendation WILS ati!! not Chino no longer seeins to leave } clear. Some military authori¬ ! the French much choice. Direct ties here maintatued "that Honk j
cannot be defended If the dolla tegellations with Bo Chi-minh,
is given up. Vietminh rebel leader, are no longer possible since his power- ful Kremlin and Peking protec- wors have got him under their thumb in Geneva and deprived to act in- him of any power was dependently as The position seen by observers here,
On the other hand, the simple of. French troops Pulling out from Indo-China'is -not: a pruc- Beal possibility even if it were desired.
In response to the warning. Mr Chou told Mr Eden that he state pressing Russia for was relying on Britain to pre- from United
armed forces
סנן
Stater
İLA invent the more assistance in dustrialisation plan, China's intervening with case however is different in in Indo-Civina,
Mr Eden replied firmly that this respect that whereas the
Fuch Basumption satellites, and even Russia, have access to some Western industrial equipment -- by virtue of the fact that the embargo is less stringent on the
cane to a
warranted and that when things Britain showdown would "unely be found ending up on the side of the United
Sutes.
EXAGGERATED
is
This seems to leave no other way open except to fall in with the American
plan ail
is Geneva fails to produce Η settlement of the seven-yeur -old
Engines Caused Air Disaster
Wellington, May 24. For the moment, mili uy
Passengers' accounts of intelligence reaching the local
the airliner crash which French
Commander-in-Chief, General Navarre, Indicates that cost the lives of three General Glap, the Vietminh children on Saturday (May Commander, does not seem
1922), indicate the engines of be making an allout elfort lo
the National Airways Cor- attack lanei botore the rainy season gets in.
foration Douglas aircraft falled as it came in low to land.
REST CAMP
The Vietminh
tho troops in
The three dead are Murray delta have not been increased Sharpiln, aged three of South- since Dien Bien Phu, according land, New Zealand, Keith Spati to French reports.
hake, aged five and Lin Francis And General Glap is buliding Spanhake, one and a half
European Commanist
M Eden is reported to have states-China ht present gets nothing worthwhile alsted in the conversation that the widely publicised divergen- from the West so complete is | eles between Britain and the the United Nations' embargo United States over matters of on trade with that country. organising the peace and the
fundamentals of
Anglo-American unity an exaggerated,
Meanwhile, General Paul Ely, There is ፡፡ ኖ yet no indication
French Chief of the General here that Mr Eden has given Staff. is due here today from his efforts to bring about
acceptable to both Indo-China with his top-secret mand in Hanoi to think that paraparaumu airport, seltiement
INCE America has made no
SINC
2
Wat
to
on of the 27 passengers
and crew
Back Home Of Dien Bien
Phu Wounded
Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh drive in a State landau, escorted by a Sovereign's escort of the House- hold Cavalry, from Buckingham Palace to the Mansion House to attend a welcome home luncheon given by the Lord Mayor of London, Sir Noel Bowater. Ploture shows the Niate Jandau passing through Fleet Street on route to the luncheon -
Associated Press Photo:
McCarthy's "Legion Of
False Statements'
Washington, May 23.
NEW SYSTEM TO BE TESTED
Hanol, May 24. The Fronch command announced it hoped to bo able to evacuate a total of about 130 wounded from Dien Bien Phu today.
ba
A test relay system will bo set up at Muong Bai, about 80 miles from Dien Bien Phu, from which point the wounded will transported to Luang Prabang, or directly to Handl by Dakota aircraft. The total number of wounded evacuated so far has now climbed to 29). of which 189 were evacuated on May 20, 17 on May 21, and `114 on May 22.
A military spokesman said
authorisation
that
asked from
had boen
the authorities in Pariz to pormit Nurso Genevieve de Galard, who will still be under military disciplina on her return from Dien Bien Phu, to unsiver the questions of Journalists when the arriveS here. She is expected to como to Hanoi very shorify. !!
It was believed that a pres conference would be organised when she arrives
The spokesmLAJİ aid it W&3 do Ilkely that. Mademoiselle
Galard would remain in Irido- China until her auxillary nurso contract expires-France-Presse,
Leading Huk Woman
Arrested
Manila, May 24.
E
A top Huk Amazon with The foreign aid chief, Mr Harold Stassen, price of $5,000 on her head was a big rest camp at Yen Bay. 90 of Plenty, New Zealand. Save said today that adoption of Senator Joseph captured by army troops in miles northwest of Hanst
surprise raid on Sunday. In the the main road
Yunnan aboard the plane are still in hop McCarthy's East-West trade policies would leave village of Bulacan in Bulacan (China).
pital the others were discharged the United States standing alone and make World province on central Luzon.
War III "more inevitable". after treatment.
The aircraft was approaching
Conmander 33 milos report on action necessary In the General Glap's offensive against' from Wellington the engine ap- Red China, the Soviet Union and Communist bloc nations. other Huk Amazon while visit-
and
Tonkin
Drita
10
prevent
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bigger defeat than that of Dlen Bien Phu,
General Ely and his advisers were rushed out by the French Government a week ago to sun up the situation.
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a perimeter nearer
roast-and
This leads the French Com-
Hanoi will
September.
not
before come
It was
in rain
who
He said America's allies had co-operated fully in a strict ban on the shipment of strategic war materials to
He said they needed trade in peaceful goods to bolster their economies.
vional
arms to
known
08
Pretty Gloria Canlas, allos Luninging, also "pistol-packing mama", was captured with (an- ing the house of a relative.
Turuc.
Presse.
secret of its intention to enforce the embargo until such time as the Chinese
uddles. People's
Kives Republic
For that reason, Britain has
low cloud when positive evidence
ita! of
to remain
peared cut out, said 20-year-old desire to live in "peaceful to date continued
At the same time, Hanoi les Michael John Shardlow of co-existence with the West"; aloof from United States efforts already under way in Washing-
under a very serious threat and Christchurch. "Just before we
When grilled by army in the most tangible approach ton to organise collectiva
the French are by no means hit the ground, the port engine
Mr Stassen was asked on the President Eisenhower and the vestigators, Luninging reportedly the Chinese could make security arrangement for South-
excluding an attack despite the pleked up again, causing the
CBS television programme "Men Scarotary of State, Mr John said that top Communist Huk towards this end would be
cast Asia.
rains by General Glap next plane to tilt sharply. We flew of the Week about Senator Foster Dulles, are trying to lender Jesus Lava had ordered If Britain decidos in the next
month. lo agree to an armistice in
around and hit the ground."
to liquidate the McCarthy's charge last week strengthen the free world with-lus followers that few weeks
the settle
Geneva Indo-China and
A withdrawal to the coastal
FULL OF SMOKE
that it was "criminal folly" for out risking World War III, Mr surrendered Huk lender Lais Hints from official quarters
William George Jordan, also the Eisenhower Administration Slassen declared. ment of the Korean problem negotiations can only have
that to grant ald to friendly foreign negative outcome, she will be today, where the highlights of region in Tonkin and the con-
Mr Stassen centration of the main French from Christchurch, said
flatly denled at the present Geneva con-
It was this order that prob- the Ely report have already bee Union forces in able to join in these efforts
Cochin China immediately after the Impact, nations which trade with the Senator McCarthy's charge that ably led Turue to There is at the i ference.
surrender, Brital will then find that the received by cable, indicate that
plane was full of black Communists. (Saigon), where the Vietminh the
Britain planned to ship conven- Luninging was moment a very imminent preliminary spadewark now in he recommends broadly:
further quoted. He repeated his accusation Honal the passengers had are reportedly weak, would fit smoke and
the Chinese as saying. threat of the United States progress amongst United States, 1. Withdrawing frum
the in with
Pass that the Wisconsin Republican Communists. He said there had the two possiblities to get out or smother. implementing Mr Dulles's Astan and
"legion of Western Pacifle cattered outposts of the Red now facing France in Indo-engers could not
Taruc's trial is scheduled for opened from the door. Senator uttered a
been "no lack of co-operation” in his Senato delta and concentrating China.
the out-false statements" diplomats has cleared the way River plan for a Southeast Asian
moming.--France~ from the British regarding the tomorrow of an defence
for speedier construction
arrived speech. Mr Stassen said a ban ita alliance and
The 80 French Union battalions If the delta were in fact aban-side by heipers
arms embargo-United Press, alliance with British participa inside
on US ald to foreign countries determination to proceed
the doned and consequently left to quickly on the scene. tion.
Another
said he would be "unrealistic" and leave passenger with this plan is apparently
General Giap, the Vietminh in and when that comes, it is
believed the children who lost this country to face the Com- 2. Consolidating control et Geneva, it is argued in Summe Krunter than its desire to
United in
States Cochin China (southern Indo-Government
were here, their
not strap-munist menoce alone, quarters
Asked if the Administration have Great Britain a an diplomatic cicles that the
China) with Saigon by sending might prove less obdurale in ped in and were stunned or kill-
were ready for a showdown active partner, Mr Molotov's painstaking efforts of Mr Eden another 30,000 regular troops negotiations since they would be ed by the crash.
with Senator McCarthy, Mr intense hatred of the North will prove to have been of great there now stationed in Germany getting some substantial part of Senior Captain WB. Pettet, Atlantic Treaty Organisa. value.
or North Africa.
AFC, Commander of the plane, Stassen sald his aim in answer- If the Indo-China talks fail,
has flown tion and the EDC in Europe
more than million ing the Senator was to keep the some Asian countries who have is well-known. He has been
miles since he joined the Cor-record straight and prevent dis- been reluctant to come into a
He served tortions. no less stubborn in his Southeast Asian security arraDE;-
poration in 1947.
ABIDED BY BAN resistance to the formationment until the
six and a half years with the
Mr Stassen replied sharply to RNZAF during and after World
after Senator McCarthy War II.
Minister in charge of Civil Senate speech, on Thursday. Ho today and staled Aviation, Mr MacDonald, an- elaborated
this country's nouncing on the night of May 23 flatly that all there would be a Court of In-allies had abided by the ban on the Com- Following Foreign Minister quiry into the crash, paid tri-strategic trade with
munists. bute to Captain Pettet saying units. Georges Bidault's weekend visit ever
Mr Stassen sald Britain, Japan here Bod Foreign
Secretaryveryone I have spoken to con
nested with the neeldent has and other free nations traded Anthony Eden's talk with
because way in which he with the Reds stressed the
they Premier Laniel after the Entente noted. He did really a good needed the trade and the peace- ful-goods involved. He said the Cordiale lunch yesterday the job."
United States "banned all trada Impression prevailed in diploma- Captain Petbet Is still La
with the Chinese Communins because this
did not country need any of the goods.
of
pecepted
As
outcome
what they are presumed to be aiming at in Geneva,
French reports from Hanot Buy that it is difficult to supply On the other hand, if the wor many of these outposts, some of goes on and American military
manned of which are
only by forces intervene, the previous Vietnam
troops of second class concentration of existing French quality. They are faced, say forces would form a favourable these same reports, with 100,000 basis for counter-attacks againas
the Victminh army. Vietminh soldiers, including one first-class division.
much Asian support sa possible is necessary to remove any tinge of "colonialism" from the proposed Southeast Asian alllance in which the non-Asian intvitably great powerp must play a prominent role-Rester.
What the fate of Hanol, the Tonkin capital, would be if withdrawal from the delta is decided upon on General Ely's
Riot Squads Clash With Demonstrating Youths
DIPLOMATIO VIEW
ite quarter's that the French
lives
hospital with, burns and shock expect the 10% Government now
condition is reported as situation to
fairly mir-Reuter CVolvo rapkily Lowards so-called internationalisation of the wor in Indo-China.
42 TERRORISTS SLAIN
the
Four Criminals Escape
of a Far Eastern defence Geneva is clearer may decide to alliance but his motives for come in. disliking it are completely different from those of Mr Eden. However it cannot be denied that with British antipathy to the alliance (at lenst until the outcome of the Geneva talks is known)
Communist any
move towards the cosing tension in the Far East even at this late stage could easily upact Mr Dulles's plans since it would tend to Consolidate British opposition to the alliance and might leave many
Some Cabinet Ministers, in- Americans in two minds
cluding Paul Raynaud,
the
Vico. กล to the wladom
Premier, are strongly opposed to auch
move involving
extending hostilities, but those
Nairobi, May 23. Little Rock, Arkansas, May 23. it does the possible
French politicians who feel that
Forty-two terrorists were A nationwide alert was broad- movement of
is worth a bigger price more
Communist youth than the Americans would like killed in engagements with cast today for four tangerptis troops to the Far East.
security forces in the last 24 criminals, including a murderer En a In smashing the demonstrations rally in East Berlin, on June to toe paid for it are
hours, China cannot escape the
East Africa headquarters and a narcotics addict, "who and arrested. 140 high school 5-7,
diffeult position.
emcaped from an Arkansas' State announced today, 1 conclusion that If the
end college students.
Approximately 760,000 youths The left-wing Radical M.
Twenty-six of them fell in a linetllution after overpowering alliance is formed it wil The East German authorities are expected to gather in East
Pierro Mendea France, running battle between a large (three guards.: be directed mot no much recruited the youths, many only Berlin in a Red-sponsored rally months ago made a nearly suc gang and police and troops a against Commúnist aggres- teenagers in
The four men used handmade Soviet Zone for German unity under Comceful bid for the Premiership w miles south of Nyeri, one weapons to subdue
the guards alon in the Far East as schools for the rehearsal,^ tlio | munist terms."
on a Programme Involving of the most active centres of and then ran down à fire escape At today's demonstrations the direct peace negotiations with the Mau Mau country, north of last night. Chinese-backed aggrosalon police, said. Many of the youths
leader Ho Chi-minh. Nairobi, had been recruited by the Reds youths tried to hand out anti-Vietmine and the trade embargo will from towns in East Germany | Western・・ leaflets. They mang; But today" (after the rapid probably then
Two other terrorists in the Three of the men jumped into a grey pick-up truck) which Communist 30 miles butside Berlin,.
songs and, haran- deterioration of the milliary operation were captured or later was tunik abandoned in permanent as the ComThe police. sold the students gued Wort Berlin families out altus fony M. Mendes France wounded and a further 20ittle Rock. The fourth fed on munist, regime in China, Maged today's demonstration na for Sunday strolls. -- United Lasdeantiely, not in the running suspected Mau Mau: Résociates foot ulan alarm, was mounted. itself.
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Berlin, May 23. Police riot equads today battled hundreds of hand- picked Communist youth shock troops" in a "dress rehearsal" of a planned invasion of the three Western Rectors of the city next month. "
Tito police, used
fists and planned to clubs on the Communist youths during the
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