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COMMENT OF THE DAY
Badly Timed
is hard to imagine why the British Labour Party chose last week to make its announcement of the forth- coming visit by a number of
senjor Party nfleinls to Com
munist China. It was made 指名 a crucial stage in tho
Geneva talks, and, for! propriety's anke if nothing else, Labaur comid have referred a reply to the Chinese invitation to the Foreign Ofer before! making the announcement thus avoiding the surprise) and bewilderment it enused
to the British Government.
It must be emphasised that i
CHINA
No. 35830
Established 1845
MONDAY, MAY 31, 1954.
HEAVY FIGHTING IN INDO-CHINA
6,000 French
Launch
Troops
Big Attack
Hanoi, May 30.
The French High Command announced today that 6,000 The proposed visit itself is French troops supported by artillery and tanks have captured
not the subject of dispute? and coming on top of Me" Eden's welcome nelivity at Geneva Zanc him Parmest negotiations with Mr the En-in ** Mr. Molotov,' the Labour Party's visit may be regarded as another i genuine British attempt to break down the barriers of hostility between the Com- munist world and the West, 1 is doubtful whether the
Labour Party expects to
Lo for
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a Communist ammunition dump 40 miles south of Hanoi.
The French counter-attack in the Phu Ly-Yen Phu arca, 40 miles south of Hanoi and commanding the southern gateway to the delta, push- ed forward against rebel troops holed up in limestone cliffs near the Day River.
battled Mobile French columns supported by artillery and tanks with Communist units in an operation called the biggest since Dien Bien Phu,
The aim of the French is to knock out Red concentrations threaten- ing to slash into the heart of the delta by the southern route. The 6,000 French troops thrown into the operation were evidence that Gen. Henri Navarre, French Commander-in-Chief, had regrouped his forces to a cer- tain extent already, according to military sources."
Control Of Armistice
At
Is Main Subject Today's Geneva Talks
The number of French forces in the operation was originally given as 5,000 men, but a Com- amand pokesman Today used the higher figure of 8,000 men.
Some French unit hurriedly sent to the Day River region have joined
Franco-Vietnamese 63lenders et Phu Ly
and art feverishly Inuilding
de- up fences of the key fortress which has been under heavy fire from Communist morters,
achieve any direct results from the visit although the contact with the Chinese leaders will be useful-far more useful than the sterile hostility and the chronie diplomatic paralysis which has exacerbated tension between East and West in recent yeRTS, The visit important the Labour Party
the Opposition Party it has few! opportunities to gain first hand knowledge and under- standing of current events, certainly for fewer than Government members. And, Anally, it will be a positive
The Indo-China peace conference meets in step towards the improve, secret session again today to open negotiations on ment
Sino-British how an armistice should be controlled... relations which æ Ì the moment stand in tind need The nine-nation conference temporarily dis-ing the point of repair after the severe posed of two of the major military problems- buffeting they have received ceasefire arrangements and regrouping of forces in recent years.
-on Saturday when it summoned officers from THE Labour
Party's the opposing commands to negotiate direct here nomicement of the visit later this week.
Geneva, May 31.
nd-
A military spokesman matted Fh; t French bombtra did some dunage
On Saturday
The
spokesman sald
that
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BRITISH SOLDIER |MURDERED
Cairo, May 30.
A British soldier WRA slain in the disputed Suer
Canal Zone today in
the
second outburs: of disorder in two days.
A
military British spokesman. sald the soldier was murdered by a mod of Egyptians in the Canal Zone port of Ismailia, one of the centres of British Installations guarding the vital east-west waterway.
The incident followed by day the firing of a British supply installation at near- by Port Bald. British authorities said a gang of 20 armed raldera destroyed more than a million dollars worth of supplies carly yesterday.
11
It coincided with Egypt's announcement that Pre- mlor Galal Abdal Nasor had assumed one more of The Jobs held by President Mohammed
Unlied Press.
Naruib.
Jacquet's Resignation
May Lead To
Govt Crisis
Woman Excused From
Sitting On Jury
ADMISSIBILITY OF
EVIDENCE
ARGUMENTS
The trial on a charge of manslaughter, of Geoffrey Duncan Sloss, 30, residing at 375-A_The Peak opened before the Puisne Judge, Mr Justice J. R. Gregg and an all-male jury in the Criminal Sessions this morning.
Sloss who is alleged to have unlawfully killed Ng Chow, a rickshaw coolie on February 27, 1954, pleaded not guilty
to the charge read to him by the Clerk of the Court.
The Prosecution is conducted | from the nature of that evidence | refer_the Court to A passage by Mr A. W. Blair-Kerr, Sentor that It showed any reckless from 31 Hailsham, which at first Crown Counsel and Mr. J. W. D. negligence on the part of the glance would seem to be dead Hobley, Crown Counsel, asstated accused. He stressed the term against the submission ho W 18
which by Chief Inspector W. Eggleston. "reckless" because as the Court making, but
from ал as be Sloss is defended by the Hon. knew, and
would show examination of the cases and a Leo d'Almada, QC, and Mr from two authorities, that was careful study of the passage it- | Patrick Yu, both on the instruc- the word which the House of self, clearly limited what might
had Bald ions of Messrs Johnson, Stokes Lurds and Master.
descriptive of a very
of woman juror who was call- gree
which negligence ed to serve on the Jury inform- necessary before
the Court that
od
d
Almade
sco
Jury
her from
which
was
of
WAN best or might not be
given high de-evidence, and in his submission
(Contd. on back page, Col 6) charge
OFF TO SEEK HİLLARY
Calcutta, May 30,
well as a number of photo- re the fullest
asuin
NOT ADMISSIBLE
he
to the
The report
ᎦᏥ
she knows manslaughter could be brought an accused, j.c. the accused's wife, His Lord- home against ship sald that there appeared to before he could be found guilty be no alternative but to excuse of what was a felony.
That then was the substantial the juror.
objected, Making a formal objection to evidence to which he tho Court's
Counse) said. decision, Mr Co
There would of other said that he could not course be an exclusion of
A sturdy Gurkha today not off small pieces of evidence, one of how the mere fact of a
was that of Inspector foot from the mountain king- acquainted either which juror being with accused or his wife, or for Moor who testified regarding the dom of Nepal to make contact tion presence of certain traffic signs with Sir Edmund Hillary with Paris, May 30. that matter any other relation Pre
should render on the road, which would have penumonia and a broken rib in M. Marc Jacquet, Minia-or the
accused,
vice, no bearing upon the point, as the ice-encrusted Barun valley, her excusable from Jury service. to Phu Ly Fortifications when ter
said here today. for the Associated Mr Blair-Kerr said he sup
had no He will they were attacking entrenched States of Indo-China, reported strongly the decision of stapha which
Information the bearing upon
charge of
of Sir Edmund Communist positions surround-signed tonight-two days the Court; there was no alter criminal negligence.
Hillary's condition to the nearest French Bearcat fighters also before the French National native but to excuse
large Nepalese town, Biratnagar, service, He added that there strafed large merry concentra- Assembly was due to debate might be prejudice one way or All this evidence which
12 days' march from the New Zealand mountaineering <X- fons elsewhere along the Day the situation in the French the other if she served on the had quoted, Counsel suumile pedition's base camp. River, the High Creninand sold.
Far East.
was not admissible, because 11 His Lordship sald
tend not directly that the dia
added that the meanwhile, Gen Navarre In- M. Jacquet, a Gaullist, saldi
brought this proof of the matter in lasue, Nepal Government wants tho fended to defend the deita in his resignation was because of juror herself had
to the attention of the and that being so it was im-information to send medical aid on articles which had appeared in fret and slave entirely"
Edmund to bear in
mind, he for French weekly political Court and he thought that she portant attacks at all points in the coming armisticu veux <l
but Express
sold, a passage from the judg-Reuter. ob might properly be excused. what the key area that is the richest newspaper
the meat of Justice Mr d'Almada informed largely political, powers the commission should briz: in all Indo-China.
servers
believed it was due to
Court that before the Crown case the King against Bonch. subjects that have have
However, the spokesman
with the policies disagreement in the West who will allows to be decided are:
From whom the curds-added that * reorganisation of M. Georges Bidault, the opened its case against the ac- ported in 1900 King's
cused, he
he would take objection Counsel said he invoked that emotion to override comnion:
How pepection of the op- sien should scrrive its mandsie, of bases might be effected In Foreign Minister.
of certain pårsage have already the East and West
his conten- Support near future," which M. sense in this matter, when he is to be carried out.
Jacquet denied that he to the admissibility
If evidence
which was my whom,
in principle that the
suggested that some outlying was the source for an article evidence and if he was success-ton.
could to lead
not spection teams be made up of French posts night
proposed published by Express on Thurs-ful in his objection It might be abon-
the matter In oficer of the two sides work dones
Paris, May 30. doned.
day giving the exact terms of necessary for the Crown to re- plafaly prove
issue, that evidence must be The Vietminh have invited the ing under International super-
opening wishes to the
Indo-China range its
Mr Blair-Kerr said it was his held inadmissible
because French High Command to send virien They now have to de-int
Oght in the delta, they will brought to Paris by General
submission that there could be otherwise it would tend to a helicopter to Dien Bien Phu have to launch un offensive Paul Ely.
no objection to the evidence in create in the minds of the Jury to evacuate doctors and other Iwo weeks," he said. His resignation makes the the deposition. He submitted
pre-medical a strong prejudice, which
personnel
captured debate "The battle would be of short coming
even more that. the evidence was judice the Jury, being untrain-when the fortress fell on May duration-a month at the most critical from the point of view relevant and admissible.
ed in the law, might well out-7, the French_news agency re- for proposals
because the rains will inni
M. of
Crown Counsel weigh their better judgment of ported from Hanoi today. supervisory commission un the
Joseph Laniel's Govern The Senior the rice-paddles and ment which has been trying to lince of that in Korea. The two date
sald that ho thought the the case.
The High Command replied", avoid it eve generally hamper the Vietminh's
ever since the Far East non-Communist
members
That was the basis upon which by radio that its heliopters 1 proper time for Mr d'Almada to since they must this commission Switzerland movements
conference started in Geneva.
his objections were based, and would be at Dien Bien Phu to- and Sweden-have bren
down from the moun- Pressure to call ministers to object to any evidence was pre-
the time when auch evidence as to the principles applicable vented from Inspecting behind tains. where their divisional account for the uusatisfactory
was tendered.
with regard to evidence of this bases are."-United Press.
situation £31
has Ind-China grown to a point where a debate
could well have been pont-
question
poned until the conclusion The of the Geneva talks for twn control reasons: there will be many, Ainong the
will believe that the an
27 More
2 Which neutral nations nouncement will give aid should be asked to join a super- and comfort to the communi enemy as they see it; and¦ secundly. it IN bound to cause a new strain on Anglo- American relations at a time when world developmentį demand the
wimest operation between the two nations.
is It
not that Britain is subservient
Co
to
Washington opinion. Britain
acts and thinks independent-
ly in every action and is
no
Terrorists
Killed
Nairobi, May 30. Security forces have killed 27
in way bound by the terrorists in Kenya during the views of the American past 24 hours, 21 of them in a Government. Our alliance battle in the Mount Kenya area north of Nairobi, East African
of Meru,
here.
six
comunission
Ꭵ Ꭶ
If the Vietminh
elde the levels at which the combined teams and the super-i within yhory body will operate,
The West oppose any
is determinad
of
the Communist es, the West soys.
Many
ciclegutes
come
the say obvious melu choice as a neutral by which would be respected both sides is India, which has offered its services provided it approves the armistice ment,
USTEC-
bc
Big Spy Trial
Opens Today
atomle scientists
has
report
at
to
Bray in the
re-
Hillary.-.-
Evacuation Of Doctors
morrow to pick the men up.
The number to be evacuated
Hig Lordship said that if kind, Counsel said he would was not specified-Beuter.
be
is no longer avoidable but it there was any objection to seems unlikely that the Govern- taken on the evidence, the Court ment's life will be seriously might as well have it now.
JURY RETTRES "endangered before next week.
NOT CONSULTED
unan-
tho
with America however owes Headquarters announced today.
After the Jury had retired at its strength to the fact that!
M. Jacquet is known to have the direction of his Lordship, It is believed that the terror-
occasions Mr d'Almada sald that disagreed on several
the in
respects the Ists were killed AD
the battle many
In
with Government policy in views of the two countries which occurred when a patrol
African home HAS REQUMED TROOPS
Indo-China itself and at Geneva charge with which accused was are perfectly attuned. This of troops and
Oslo, May 30.
and faced was mans Jury in a Indin.
tion for the. too could probably
the question is sometimes forgotten in guards clashed with a large Mau
A Norwegian who was arrest- where he is said to have com-face
was whe- provide many of the troops ed with notes
On Norwegian plained that M. Bidault rurolyharge of this nature the heat of disputes over Mau gang about 25 miles west
needed for the supervision petty differences which do
Two of the tang were cap-work. Some delegates believe while he was on
in his pocket consulted him.
More Indirect criticlan of M.her or not accused was reck- the way to
at Geneva lessly, criminally negilgent in arise from time to time and tured.
that as many as 30,000 men
the death of this un- Weapons recovered
meet a Russian diplomat goes on Bidault's attitude which are frequently dia.
included would be needed for this task.
therefore frame- question torted into fantastic shapes three precision rifles and
since World Party Congress, which biggest spy case The commission would have to trial here tomorrow in Norway' came today from the Socialist rtunate rickshaw.coolle, and home-made rifles.
motion Imously approved a receive its authority to operate War II.
diately arose: What kind of by commentators in both A patrol of the 5th Kings
to oral body. international
any attempt condemning from some countries. It is possible African Rifles wiped out a small
this would
Asboern Sunde, who In the normal way this
to Indo-China evidence, if any, of previous send conscripts that Mr Attlee realised that gang in the notorious Aguthi probably be the United Nations denied alf spy chargez, faces
or to follow a polley leading to driving was admissible in order
to support the charge? with
Erling Sergeant But
an extension of the war. American hostility to the location in south Nyar), north of
of evidence to The first Communists here have trial the
piece Nordby, who has confessed to
Bidault is assumed in M. the United
which
he objected was that of Labour Party's plan Was
Loyal Kikuyu guards ambush refused to recognise
Socialist circles to be trying
the public Inevitable. It is possible, ed a purty of terrorists in an Nations as it is now constituted giving Sunde military secrets.
body be- The contact, in the gÖVETTI- to bring the United State: Into Leung Ping-kwong.
vehicle driver whose evidence, too, that Labour leaders con-, other location in the same aren,
orcament's case against the two the war in some form or of Counsel said was found on sidered it far preferable to killing some of the party's food cause of its
week's Government, They would probably therefore
and last
pages 23-24 of the depositions. make an announcement carriera.
reject any suggestion of United former Russian cultural attache and
After reading an extract of casualties were In-Nations authority
eft Norway while there was still hopo Slight
shortly after decision to advance the call-up long us Sunde was arrested in January, of young Frenchmum by three Leung's evidence Me d'Almada settlement
hus alarmed of Far Ucted of n
four months Communit China romains out-
that it was quite clear Sunde has admitted he knew or
dald from the evidence that. Laung's Eastern problems at Genova hideout of bambos huls in thide the organization.
and associated with Meslevit publie opinion.
taxi was only struck a glancing than to wait until after the Aberdare forest about 20 milci
A possible alternative, is now, but insisted he did nothing During Tuesday's debate conference when the British southwest of Nyeri,
Police found another hideout felt, night be the Geneva conillegal. However, Sunde's wife Government will certainly be blow, because he told the Government might be dia- for about 150 terrorists Inference nations themselves who told, the police her husband sakod what its future military ed Magistrate that the other cussing the formation of a Mount Kenya forest ten miles would be involved in any inter- received money from the. Rus policy in Indo-China is likely car did not stop.
national guarantees against signs. Several other persons to be. Pacific defence alllanes Cast of Nyeri.-Router.
armistico violations.
arrested in the round-up of the In this atmosphere despite M.
gard to what he had just said of the against Communism. Never
with regard to the nature of of guarantees is Bunde spy ring have confessed Jacquef's explanation This question of one of the next to be discussed to espionage. Their cases will reason for his resignation
accident the word, "emah" by the conference here. If the be heard #
later date debate is likely to prove
boshning of the end for a pairing in the evidence rine nations thomseivos unders | United Press.
was
an
statement might take the guarantees they would
have been a filme
on a
gang found in
theless the Labour Party Man Slain After
should have sought more Stabbing Policeman
opinion on this expert
matter than could have been
Casablanca, May 30.
as a truly on in Korea Norwegians-B.5, Mesjavitinov,
A Moroccan was shot dead at up a permanent group given either by Mr Attlee by police today after stabbing which probably the Bupervisory
a
to
policemen In the back al Commicalon
modiately responsible.
bo would
Im-
at
the
the the
the
Counsel said that having re-
Laniel in the opinion of many what sation' but]
| oberver Antly this end should he would have RATION BOOKS word and very
10 days.
· thought "Damp” or Mr Morrison. As it la, the announcement, suggests Oujda, Morocco.
of what ! BONFIRE
accurately descriptive French Parliamentary. desperation and impulalve The Moroccan was haranguing But delegates stressed today ness which does little to the market day crowd in an that the conclusion of
Hoathfield, Bumex, May 80- RETOG
which, suggested somg- ́delling for adjourn. ("craat 7%, aben:i of the word]
and' Square
The end of rationing in Bel-ment during the annual con- thing very much enhance confidence in Labour Oujda
urging monta on armistico principles
Probe, gare, în the contain will be celebrated hare by ¦ Krémes; DË the chief, purtles (inse was of impréh leaders. Common courtosy Moroccans to rise against the alone did not mean
Purust reading ? from could have saved the Party French when the police interference would necessarily agree bonfire of ration books on means the debate will probably
a constfire in Indo-Chino July, 30the first day of con- adjourn on Wednesday for a Leung's evidence Me d'Almada the unnecessary criticism
The stabbed pollosman is in Many serious obstacles had still, plets, freedom from all ration-week because of the Communist mabeltand that it was not ad» which has surrounded such hospital but considered out of to be overcome before the ing since the early days of the Party's banninihi congreen: on missible in evidence becsume
danger.---Reuter, a worthy proposal.
stage was ronchecker Rauter. war.-China Meli Speciak, 1956 Thursday and Friday miteliler, there cosal be no - must alion
vened.
how clean
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