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Troops And Planes

Mrs Roosevelt For Moscow

New York, June 20. Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt, widow of The late Pre sident Franklin Roosevelt, will leave New York on Thursday for Moscow on

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observation writing tour to the Soviet Union.

iler trip has been com- missioned by Look muga- zine. The magazine's Paris

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Editor, Mr Willam A1- wood, and Mrs Roosevelt's secretary, will accompany her.

They will fly Helsinki from where will continue to Moscow in a Soviti airline plane.

Mr Atwood accompanied Mr Ada Stevenson,

1952 Demerral Presidential can- the latter's Jidale, DEL world tour Kleuter.

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year.

Four-Engined

British Plane!

Handed To

Japanese

Hurled Against Rebel Bases

OVER 100 SORTIES

FLOWN IN DELTA

Hanoi, June 29.

The French High Command today threw Troops and planes against rebel bases along the Manoj-Mainbong lifeline to save France's hold on afs Red River delta while far to the south French power in Central Annam crumbled away.

Three French mobile columns raced out 25 miles east of Hanoi along the threatened road and railroad to stamp out village "anthills" of Com- munist men and munitions.

The villages had just been plastered by 1,000-lb. bombs from B-26's.

One of the columns ran into a hornet's nest 18 miles out and Tenighet a violent battle with Reda ghestrig nit of are innocent- looking cluster of bamboo huts, The authorities Krich Vietminh were killed.

Twelve

That

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B-20's Mote

swept oth to the southernmost corner of the delta to bomb rebel con- centrations near Ninh Binh and Pat Diem, In the last 24 hours Reading, June 29.

French aircraft flew 101 Norties The first four-engined most of them in the delu area. British airliner to be

ex. Veredled

their funther are being ported to Japan was hand- jiul

Vietnamese officials

wamekatendi fron tas area Lo ruinours

ed over today to Admiral|Hanoi by plane, and Todomu Nakamura, Avia that the French would pull out tion Manager of Itoh and Company, at Woodley

aerodrome near here.

The Japanese fly are 14.0 prend a Jajaan for Hamley Page Limiteri, Bali

harraf manufacturers.

of

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The Admiral was Kiven the ceridente key

and

of se Marathon -by

worthiness

scuter

planen 22 Sir Pre-

derick Hundley-Page, Chairman and Manager of the British firm.

Vietnam Truce Talks Delayed

Objections Over French 'Puppets' Salgon, June 20.

Sir Frederick Handley-Page A disagreement over the said the Marathon, the ra of status of Vietnamese, dele. Two going into service for Far East Airlines, would bely Japan "ume her place in the field of interna lonal aviation"

"GREAT EFFORT"

gates held up the start of on-the-spot military talks between the Vietminh and French high commands on arranging ceasefire in

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The Admiral spoke of Vietnam, it was learned to Handley-Page's "great effort" today. complete the plane two weeks He said of schedule abead "this marks a great s'ep in the progress

aviation of elvil Japan

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The Marathon, eusting £44,000 will be flown to Japan later this week after take-off and landing tests in England.

The two airliners, which have

a 1,330 mile range, are intended to link the principal cities in the and extend Japanese islands eventually no far as Okinawa,

Marathons are already in ser- vice with the Union of Burma Airways. The Royal Air Force here uses them as in navigationul trainer-Reuter,

thire

of Hanol itself circulated among the demoralised citizens,

The Communiste increased their pressure against. Tuy Hoa, Be miles south-east on the An SKUT roast, where the French established a beachhead in a big amphibious attack, "Opera- |ton Alicate," early this year,

"MAGNIFICENT" ACTION

Mortar shells ne machine- Hull bullets rained steadily against Tay Hoa's defences, held | by all-Vietnamese unile. These units repulsed in big anbel at- inck two weeks BRO in what the French Bigh Command described UN 'magnificent” Delion

But with the French with- druwala from the inland plateaux criss-crossed with the

main north-south routes in Vietnam, observers sald that Communist battalions might descend from the mountains to the narrow Littoral strip around a large- Tuy Hon and launch scale attack French

Union positions there

THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 30, 1954.

From left to right: June Peters '(England), Shella Lee (Ire- land) and Claudine Chaperion (Switserland) taking a sirofl near the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. They are to compete tu the election of Miss Europe at Vichy. — Express Photo.

No Rea! Progress

During Latest

Geneva Discussions

Geneva, June 29.

The Vietminh today gave a conciliatory re- on remaining ception to new French proposals on the key issue of Indo-China armistice control, conference sources said.

at any time.

The French still hold the port of Nha Trang further down

from Pleiku WCTO evacuated

EVACUATION\\

OF PROVINCE

NEAR HANOI

Re-Grouping Of French Forces

Hanoi, June 20. The French High Com. mand announced tonight it has ordered the evacuation of Nam Dinh province, just south of Hanoi and one of the Red River delta's richest and most populous areas.

A High Command spokesman said the withdrawal was part of the current sweeping re- organisation of French Unican defence in the shrinking Tonkin rice bowl.

The evacuation of the rice- producing province will allow the Communist-led Vietminh forces to seize the industrial town of Nam Dinh, third biggest della city, without firing a shot Nam Dinh 43 miles south of here.

The withdrawal coincided with new French Union efforts to knock out the increased Vietminh threat to the Ilanoi-Haiphong feline, and with the announce- ment by the French High Com- mand that the Annam const base of Ankhe was abandoned by the French Uolon garrison several days ago.

NO TIME KNOWN

It was not inmediately known when the withdrawal would be completed. Staff officers sald troups guarding Nam Dinh probably will regroup around Phuly, 13 mites lọ the north- west, Phuly itself has been threatened by Vietminh forces for many weeks.

French sources sald only 40 French civilians remained to be airlifted from Nam Dish. The garrison was expectul to follow Immediately afterwards.

The city's big cotton factory closed down several days ago,

laying off its 2,000 employees. At night Nam Dinh is a dead diy because of a strict dusit-to-

dawn

Union

curfew. The French garrison which patrols the streets at daylight with-

Dinh Doanh.

Debate at today's 19th secret session of the draws at night fall to the Nam the coast, and today civilians nine-nation peace talks was "moderate and con- there by plane. Central Annam was considered that "no real progress had been made."

This area of ciliatory," these sources said. But they stressed

by former Supreme Command- er General Henri Navarre to be even

more vital than the Red River delta,

"RE-GROUPMENT"

French forces

have been in Vietminh Radio reported the Anke siner 1946. The decision V.eun.n? High Command ob-

the French proposal 19 antidot it was termed "re to include

"puppet" groupmunt" officially, but sea- saju observers (Vietnamese)

the one military OITILUTA In French delegadis in

that the French had been forced out of one of their mot im- The talks were to have open-portant positions in the whole

at the village of ed yesterday

region. 25 nulus north of Trung Go,

No new

date has been Hand. set for the teaks.

In another air strike today, Vietminh Radio sold the French bombers attacked supply

reading south-we clusion of three Vietnamese of- routes eers was contenry to the de- toward the delta from Langson the eastern Communist isions of the Geneva conference gear

for con-

Chinese border. The mid which provided only tact between the two high commarked a change of target for war planes which have so far concentrated their attacks on upply router for west and north-west of the semi-circle around the delta,

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MINIMISING LOSS

French Command circles tried to midmise the loss of the area, The conference wil meet mixed comunitas of the beill-claiming that it no longer had a

gererria who would agam on Friday.

inspect "strategic value since the High ccarefre Nnes should have Command concentrated on the Many observers thought that separate functions.

defence of the Hanoi-Haiphong the talks, now in their eighth

lifeline." week, were still marking time pending results of the weekend Churchill-Eisenhower and Chou- Nehru meetings.

The French proposals, how- ever, may eventually help to smooth the way to ending the seven-year-vid thought.

wor,

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CONCILIATORY SPEECH

a

heavy

said

2. The international comunis-

act

Informed sources

the by majority ion should vote. But on vial matters evacuation order was likely to strain on which had to be referred to the impose

power, tho guarantor

com- Franco-Vietnamese relations. The alssion should try 10 obtain Vietnamese oppose abandonment unanimity. If this was not of large portions of their terri-

submit ma- possible it should

tory to the rebels. jority and minority reports the guarantor powers.

to

to

allow

RECESS TILL FRIDAY

The conference decided Mr Pham Van Dong. Vietminh

until Friday to Deputy Premier, mude his most recess concllatory speech of the even-time for further informal con- week-old- tulks at this 19th facts on the armistice control secret session, the sources said. Issue in the light of the French proposals, and also for the acting He said that the new french heads of delegations to consult proposals on armistice control their Foreign Ministers. outlined to the Inst session on

There was a lull the Friday, were near the proposals parallel military talks here 10- put by Mr Molotov, Soviet For-day, though representatives of eign Minister, on May 14.

the Franco-Vietnamese and Hanoi Itself seemed half-

End deserted despite the influx of

The main points of the French Vietminh High Commands

.ne 100,000 refugees frem

villages proposals are understood to in- been expected to resume | and towns seized by the Viet- clude.

gotiations on ceasefire lines and in Vietnamn minh. Hanks and shops were 1. The proposed international regrouping zones empty, houses, once hard supervisory commitsion and the which began here on June 2.

Earlier today an authorita- find, were selling for a year's

tive Laotian source said that rent. Five thousand Frenchmen

the Franco-Laotian and

Vict- were still here, but their wives,

minh talks on a ceasefire for children and

Laos which opened last Thurs- day were making progress, But meeting on Laos

movable posses-

sions went long ago,

The Vietnamese went abou! their daily tasks patiently, the

NOT 'SCORCHED'

Karlsruhe, West Germany,

Juno 29. Workers boring into a wreck

ones that still have jobs, but ed bridge to blow it up dis

covered four hundredweight of

many

responsible

Frenchmen Kelt

outbreak of anti- dynamite already there. European incidents and manifca- tations was imminent, particu- German troops had placed it larly it cease-fire talks take in the bridge in 1948 during place between French and their "corched earth" retreat, Vietminh offecTS-United Press, China Mall Special.

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TROOPS ATTEMPT TO

SAVE CATTLE DURING STRIKE

Ferrar, North Italy, June 29. Troops poured into the fields and farms of Ferrara Province today to save 50,000 cattle, starving because of a two-month strike by Com- (7), munist farm workers.

YESTERDAY'S CROSSWORD –Kron: 1 Pullot, 4 Scrup,

They rolled up their sleeves and set to work, helping the police to feed and milk the cows and clean the stables.

there was no today,

CEASEFIRE TALKS Ceaseßre. talks 'for Cambodia. between Cambodan and Vict-1 mina officers are expected to begin here in a few days.

Tho Indo-China conference has

ordered reports from all three sets of talks by July 10. Some unconfirmed reports here suld that Mr Molotoy might re- turn to Geneva on or about July 8. Mr Chou En-lal, Chinese Prime Minister, binted before leaving for home that he might soon return-Router,

About 100 cattle have already

and Christian Democrat died of starvation und 2,500 are Social, Democrat, leaders who in immediate

danger of death. ordered their few followers.not Thousande i marw - men gravely to join the strike, said the Comme undernourished. The nummers muslits were explokling the grou first bay, crop has been liek old (local / problem of bret

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