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New Talks

[ME projected meeting in

President Eisenhower. Sir Winston Churchill, Mr Dulles, Mr Eden and their advisers must be regardvil aa a natural development

the failure) consequent 421

of the tireva delegates tal teach agreement on any of, The TR afects of the Karen

Indo-China problems.

muve

The SE also be appraised the with in conjunction new international situni festi created by the failure Of

The Geneva discussions. In

Con-

CHINA

No. 35845

Established 1845

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1954.

AT

NEW HOPE AT

Vietnam Conciliatory

Govt Resigns

Successor To Buu Loc Named

Paris, June 16.

effect a new phase of the Ex-emperor Bao Dai, as cold war is about to openhead of state, accepted to and the Washington

to meet ference is timed the

situation, changed Clearly the invitation which President Eisenhower

ex-

day the resignation of the Vietnam Prime Minister, Prince Bun Loc, and asked the Catholic nationalist leader, Ngo Dinh Diem nicknamed "Vietnam's Syng- mRN

form government.

Proposals By

Chou En-Lai

4 VITAL POINTS

Geneva, June 16. The three Communist delegations injected new life into the flagging Indo- China peace conference here today with proposals that brought the two sides nearer than they have been since the meeting Ngo, an extreme right-wing opened five weeks ago.

Rhee"-to

member of

Mandarin the old class, left Indo-China in

1940

only

teaded to Sir Whaton, and which

the Prime Minister nuti husay accepted, cipated the entrent situa tion at Geneva, but it was regarded 514 It provision and is for a contingency, being implemented

of the because

Geneva breakdown. It is

fairly apparent that the Westerů.

certainly powers United States and Britain) are now satisfied that the chances of getting Soyle agreemeni to a settlemen! anywhere are remote, and The signs are that they have now decided to adjust their strategy accordingly. That гайник a number of prob.

the

The conference had been on the brink -to mark his disapproval of collapse. Many delegates believe the the Pat Dat regime, according Communist move resulted directly from of his the warning by Britain and the United United States on Monday that they would seek close links there, It is ex to close down the talks if no progress pected here that he will be al-

to Virinamiese quarters.

Spending a year voluntary exile in the States,

established! many he

tacked by the Communists on were made today.

American Government nominee,"

Resignation of the Govern-

the ground that he is "the Western delegates are still far from convinced that agreement is possible but they are more optimistic than they have been for a long time.

ment headed by Prince Bu Loc, who is Bau Dai's cousin, lema. One is the scope and

was unanimously agreed upon membership of a new de at a Cilinit meeling fasting 20

for South-hours. fensive system

east Asia-system which

J had been in becomes imperative If the

office six mooths. The largest of the Indo-China talka are aban-three Indo-China States is now doned, or even if France without a government at the under a new Government same time as France itself. reaches 21:1 independent

Ngo's appointment agreement

here as an attempt to win the

refused to co-

with the Viet

The majority view is that the Laos-Cambodia issue is the more important part of the Indo-China problem because it could lead to a major source of friction between East and West.

The four major points which have created most hope are broad hints rather than concrete was seen concessions by the Communists. minhene. The prospects support of Vietnamese nation- are that the new alliance alists who have wilt be

the lines of operate so far with the Bao Dal NATO, and if this is agreed | regime. upon al the Washington talks, the pact will involve

nut

unly Britain

in

and

new

America, but the Common wealth countries military commitments.

AGREEMENT

in

GOVT OF TECHNICIANS

men!

was obliged a "govern- after

Prince Buu Loc to form last March

of technicians" failing to win the support of the main Vietnamese parties,

These are:

estabilshed on their territory, 1. Acceptance that the three This might have the effect of Associated Stales do present "neutralising" them between different problems.

East and West,

2. Agreement that the foreign forces to be withdrawn from

and Cambodia ure Laos

not necessarily only French.

The Communist suggestion that the military representatives meet here to negotiate armistice urangements for Laos and Cambxxila could mean that they wl allow the Vietminh Com- mand openly to represent the anil-government forces.

by Mr Chou

3. An offer to consider per- milting the import of arms into Lan

and Cambodia for "self defence" after

a ceasefire; and general

Though known as a Brm anti- principle on Southeast Communist. Ngo has not clearly tary

4. A proposaj that the mill- commandia should meet Asia defence pact raises a

The suggestion stated his views about the Indo- here and on the spot in Indo-En-ial, the Chinese Prime number of other important China war and some diplomatic China to consider the dispesi- Minister, that the military ex- questions. President Eisen-quarters here believe that he tions of the opposing troops in perts could deal with the "dis hower and Sir Winston favours negotiations with the the two States.

position" of forces rather than Church will, for example, Vietadah to bring about con- The Communists have always their "regroupment" could also have to consider where a trolled general elections.

said they would agree to treat be significant. the line against further Com-

three States separately but main-have not thi today appeared to munist aggression

non-draw so clear a distinction be

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D-Day Plus 10 Years

People all over Europe remembered June 6. They remembered how ten years before, the Allies landed on the Normandy beaches and began the push against the enemy which proved to be the turning point of the war. Field Marshal Montgomery was one of the thousands who remembered and is seen in this picture about to place a wreath on the memorial at Ranville, Normandy-London Express photo.

Poles Allegedly Admit Murdering Sir Jack Drummond

Paris, June 16.

Communist Police Alerted For Trouble

Anniversary Of Uprisings

The

were

Tel. 21433.

French Political

Crisis

Vital Vote May Be Postponed

evening.

Parla, June 16.

before

M. Pierre Mendes-France, French premier-designatė who is to go before the National Assembly for in- vestiture tomorrow after- noon, might ask that the vote be postponed until the next day if the debate lasts too long, it was believed here Berlin, June 16.. Communist

today. In this case the result police

of the vote, which remains alerted reported

uncertain, would throughout East Germany known

not be Friday today for new uprisings as West Germans launched a two-day anniversary celebra- Socialists and particularly the Many dopulios, including the tion of last year's June 17 Socfallst group supporting the Soviet Zone rebellion by European Defence Community

to be waiting lighting freedom fires along seem

M. the Iron Curtain border.

Mendes-France's statement ot policy before deciding whether to support him. M. Mendes- France is reported to be mock-

compromise on Lag

tho thorny EDC question.

Partisans of the treaty, most- ly Christian Democrats, object that this procedure might result in the samo Aktuation

as with investiture Memorial fires burned tonight

Premier Joseph Lantel last along the 600-mile border divid-

year. M. Laniel got the Gouillst ing East and West Germany votes, but The fires, lit by local West Ger-

this compelled him man authorities,

to give up raising the ratifica- will be kept tion debalc

in the alight throughout

Assembly the two-day

under anniversary.

a threat of seeing his cabinet fall apart. The attitude

The anti-Communist "Fight- ing Group Against Inhumanity" reported that ita Soviet

Zone sources had learned that Maj- General Karl Maron, head of the Eest Zone "People's Police", had ordered all police units to alert stations from June 10 to 18.

the

for

of former

Hundreds of railles will be of the Communists remains un- held in West Germany and West known-France-Presse, Berlin and wreaths will be laid

city

in this four-power memory of the East Gerinans who lost their lives fighting Communism exactly one year

ago.

glant

In West Berlin Socialist rally was scheduled to- night near the Soviet sector border. Speakers included the Socialist leader Erich Ollenhauer.

Forest Fires Out Of

Control

Toronto, June 16. Additional men were

flown tinder-dry NorthwesternA

West Into

CEMETERY CEREMONY

Tomorrow prominent Germane, Including Jakob

Ontario today to me aid of 1.500 Kaiser, Minister for All-German Ave forest fires which were out fire fighters battling to control of control over 15,000 acres, of timberland.

Light showers helped fire Aghters stall the biggest of the

Affairs, attend a commemora- tive

RIT

men

ceremony at the West Berlin cemetery when nino Germans who died in the revolt tre buried. The three deputy Allied Commanders of West fires after it had burned out The Surete National disclosed today that it Berlin are also expected to lay White River district. A second 20,000 acres of timber in the had been notified by American military authorities wreaths on the graves,

uncontrolled fire in the White Tumorrow night a final rally River district had charred 3,500 that three Poles arrested in West Germany claim wil be held outside West Berlin nures in the town of Odlum. to have been responsible for the 1952 triple murder City Hall, netended by the West

Four more of the British food expert, Sir Jack Drummond, Bluecher,

uncontrolled fres German Vice-Chancellor, Franz wore

burning

the

Gogama and Dr Walther and Cochrane districts. Officinis and his family a crime for which a Frenchman, Schreiber, Lord Mayor of West recruited

300

off the Deriln Gaston Dominici, is being held.

streets of Timmins and out of In the West German province Northern beverage rooms in anx French police sources were inclined to doubt at first of Lower Saxony, nearly 1,000 attempt to stop. tho huge blazes. been used by both sides in whether the Poles were involved since the French farmer rallies will be held including 20 A total of 19 ares were burning be drawn-and how it Communist elements In the tween Lacs and Cambodia en referring to the areas into which Dominici is now awaiting trial for the killing in the south in each of the districts border- across the northland, including Ahould be defended, This reaks of the Vietminh un' the one hand, and Veturn on

opposing troops would move

at means that every trouble recently.

pending a full

White River and he other.

political settle of France. But in any case verification will be made, they in the Soviet Zone. Torchlight Ave each

processions! and speeches by Cochrane, three each spot will have to be

In the "Disposition," Was noted

on the said. today that ment

West German political leaders Kapuskasing and viewed, and It

with

Gogama *als- the

of Mr other hand, impiled exception

will mark the day in nearly tricts, two near Port Arthur and Molotov, the Communist dele- would be no suggestion of parti-

every major West German clly, one at Geraldton, Uni.ed gates referred to the two States tion, even temporarily-Reuter,

-United Press.

Press. for the first time as Laos and Cambodia and

He is known) to have should tained contact with

can

re-

be

At one time, Ngo is known to have favoured Bao Dai's signation.

re-

assumed this will be done

on the assumption that the West must prepare for an indefinite

In 1948 he refused Bao Dai's

It

not

"Pathet

period of cold offer to head a new government Lao" and "Khmer," the usual; war as well as for defence becouse of France's failure

grant Vielnam real Independ- Communist names for them.

ente.

to

to

against sudden aggression,

NEAR ADMISSION Mr Foster Dulles will prob-

In accepting that there were In 1943 Ngo resigned from his foreign forces other than French, ably put his emphasis on

for Southeast post of Minister of Interior the Communists safeguards

came ficar to Asia: Mr Eden, on the Protest ahainst alleged French admitting that there were Viet- violation of treatles with Annam. minh forces from Vietnam in the other hand, is likely · to He was Premier under the two States. Hitherto they have emphasise Britain's long-Japanese but in March 1940 he vigorously denied that there time conviction that the declined

a Japanese offer to were any Vietminh invaders in worst threat to world peace | become Governor of Cochin Laos and Cambodia. still resides in Europe, China.

Is expected

The term "regroupment" has

that there

4 PUERTO

RICANS

L

The alleged confession was given in a letter either to Ger- inan or American military police in the occupation zone, a Surete spokesmani said. "The letter or Its contents were transmitted,

the according to the Surete, to American Communications Zone Headquarters for France in Orleans.

There the American investiga- tors turned it over to the local judiciary police who alerted

CONVICTED Parts Surote headquarters,

The three Poles were reported to have been detained in another affair and sent in their "cap fession" after having been held for some time.

9 Killed At

Coal Mine

Tho

Fukuoka, Japan, June 18. Nine persons were killed today when a slag pile at a coal mine near here loosened and burled their homes under tons of dirt. at the mishap occurred Kameyama pit of the

Japanese Coal Mining Company. The The Communists have so far

slag heap, more than 400

feet instated that the ban on rein-

high, loosened with forcements of men and materials

berating roar in the pre-dawn ofter an armistico should be

American authorities total.

hours. A 180-foot-long mase of Laos and Cambodia rejected

Orleans had no immediate com- slag on the pile's western slope this demand as an attempt to shooting Incident in the that the Poles probably were houses located at Its foot and

ment. They muggested, however, slid down and burled limit their sovereignty.

House of Representatives of held by German rather than dislodgod two other homes. March 1 in which five American authorities. Congressmen were wounded,

Both problems require Subsequently he was arrested careful consideration and by the Vietminh and refused wise decisions. But one participate in the first govern- point which is bound to ment formed by the rebel

leader, Dr Ho Chi-minh." come up for discussion is Prince Buu Loc that of finding new ways of bringing West Germany into the allied defence system. Many competent observera aro now con- vinced there is little ke- hood of getting a general agreement on the plan for A European Army with German contingents, and

to return to his former, post of The two States are prepared Vietnam. High Commissioner in to accedo to the Communist in- Paris.Reuter,

sistence that no foreign bases be

Terrorist HQ Seized

Tunis, June 16,

French troops today uncovered a resistance head- quarters in this strategic African protectorate as cabinet crisis developed within the Tunisian govern-

ment..

Washington, June 18. Four Puerto Ricans were convicted inte today on charges arising from the

saults.

The

and

were cut

a rever-

WO

Rescue teams' immediately SENSATIONAL CASE

rushed to the scene to dig out the victims and after five hours They are Lolita Lebron, 34:

The Drummond murder case of a desperate battle with time Rafaci Miranda 20:

Andres

was one of the most sensational | recovered the cless bodies of Cordero 20:

Irving in postwar France,

nine persons. They included a Rodriques 28.

Bir Jack, 11, British war hero, mother and three bables.

Four others miraculously Each faced 10 counts of as- and his wife Lady Anne, 48,

death but down with

were in ari escaped carbine as they serious condition, American-mado

Twenty-two guilty of five charges of assault near Lurs in Soutienst France degroes,

jury found them all camped by a country roadside others were injured in varying An investigation, was with a dangerous weapon the night of August 4, 1952. started to find the cause of the carrying a maximum penally of Their 11-year-old duughter landslide-United Press.. 50 years' imprisonment.

Elizabeth, was chased and had her skull fatally smashed in Their decision on five more with the carbine butt

a 10w charges alleging assault with moments later.

NORMALISING intent to kili-has still to be ans

The tripls crime occurred nounced, Maximum penalty: Is close to the farmhoto of RELATIONS 75 years' imprisonment. · mountain-familly, the Dominicis. French polke questioned them

Geneva, June 18. Judge Alexander Holtzoff for monthe, before learning that Brilain and Communist Ching bad instructed the jury to bring the son of the family, Gustave have agreed here to normalisa on either side. Nevertheless of Folksghs have bem terroris The men in question. in separate verdicts, on each of Dominici,

are

34, had found the their diplomatic relations' short- it must be assumed that ing isolated form ecmmunities Minister of Busulman Institu- the 10 counts.

lllte girl stili niliye next morn-ly, informed diplomatic sources in the last month, the head-tions, Mohammed Saadallah, The four said they did not in hut, had, done nothing to confirmed today? the conferees will seek a quarters were discovered. In sinister of Public Health, Den intend to harm the Congress, ense her pals or alert the police. Red Ching will

measure of agree- cluding Feilagha beamers

vilt appoint and Salem, Minister Zsouch of man. They had only wanted to Last year police arrested the Chirps affaires : to bead mont which can be later stores of' munditions: My Public Housing and Justice draw attention to Puerto Rice's father and accused him of coms mail diplomatiese mission Ở DE translated into co-operative fiere, in Tunis, memnwhile, it adinister Tahar Takdir United phone · for Independenes2nd Thitting the crime, -- United| the. Piking/regime, in London, Retion.

was reported by reliable souicosa | Prata.

„the moutone sedimiUnited Preun

the alternative appears to be to bring West Germany Into the wider sphere of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation. The Wash- Ington conforenco is de-

French mobile guards and that four members of Premier acribed na

have

beenMohammed Mzali's government "an informal paratroopers who

the past had offered their resignation on here within meeting without 17 two weeks today uncovered the political grounds. agenda," which can be headquarters of the chief of All four man, members of the interpreted to mean that the so-called "Army of Libera-Nationalist section of the cabinet, the talks will be exploration"Laser Chraibl.

were believed to have taken the under pressure of the

rushed

tory and that no irrevocable In a routine roid In the step

commitments will be made Debba Ksour area where bands influential Neo-Destour Party.

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