1954-07-02 — Page 9

FRANCE'S GENERAL RENE COGNY

THE MAN MOST FEARED BY THE VIETMINH PREPARES FOR

FOR BATTLE

Hanoi, July 1.

THE CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1954.

General Rana Cogny, the man the Vietminh Communists foar most, is preparing for the most crucial battle of the Indo-China War-the struggle for the rich and strategic Red River Dpita.

Thirty thousand Communist troops, flushed with victory at Dien Bien Phu, ore massing round the Delta's rim, Among the 6.487 Delta villages dotted about the flooded rice paddies, 100.000 Vietminh partisans are waiting for the moment to rise against the French and Vietnamese Covernment troops

Gen Cogny. to whom folls General De Lafire was then the back of defending this key) commanding Wei European terationy, is a gioul of a man, at Lomi Forces. 0 feet 4 inches blue-eyed Nor-| In December 1939 (

deseentied from warrlar1th was given the Id Chung Vikanes who conquered Nor- | Commanet He cher Cugny to mindy uver it thousand

years head his personal staff. Working

contact with in close

non,

ago.

"Probably the most brilliantly | ninckaldo mund aggressive of all Froner's young the

Cony

method i

tudded

1 Berat

school of generals, be believes | De Lathe to pain, nae his to its

in a healin

A hit, hit and hit again, so that his enemy has no me tu Dink.

His motto is "fant oser"- "Be Bold" The planner of the famous Ink Son Based Inst your, he flexes that it is tr planned attack bold, carefully

which wins Tueensa at the eut of fewest men's EveN

As the Viclimb have learnti

To the cost, there he bunker - hed Muginot-ingḥāality about General Ite

D

The Sukumatlar

Hny. in

Insekti-China u grave.

Fot thern

Bit troup

erviitans alike agree: "It anyone can kept The Vietminh here, it is Cogny.

Youngest General

France's youngest three-star General. at 50. Con has modelled himself on his former

De Lattre chief, General

Tassigny. Aghing

tie

By his redoubtable, sperit, General De

Latter before his sudden death

In 1951, come nearer tu vielpry

In Indo-Ching than anyone has eves core.

ut Mol

mud.

Cogny has examinatided north- ern indo-se from his head- in Hann for the past quarters

He knows year

every square bundred-mille kitometre of this wide expanse dykes, ditches and rivers. Much of it. he has stridden over in his khunki shorts, boots and knee- length white stockings. have

Gen. Roue Cogny

Following General De Lather suniden drath The In W.DR

Curly

his year.

Kiven was General's stars and his Bist big Command-the northern Zone of the Delta.

Immediately.

ן

1

forced hituself through, inch by inch The party ernwiest n

They rachel the far en bat til the bibed wire fence had to be pussel. Suddenly. The mert sounded: They mished into the shinda wa As the search parties went by

Was One of them caught. He was the one carry- wire- k the indispensable fuiters

De Bold"

Cogny never; hesitated. As soon us the search- parties moved on, he began to Hab over the fence in brilliant moonlight, A police-dog came bounding up and squfed at him, stock QB, and County Touch

the dog treated cft again with- but even banking:

TRADE 'and

COMMERCE SECTION

CARGOES IN

IN U.S.

Requirements Under Proposed Legislation

Legislation seeking to increase the total of U.S. cargoes to foreign countries carried in U.S.-flag vessels to well beyond the present 60 per cent requirement for foreign aid cargoes, has been introduced into both Houses of Congress, says the Journal of Commerce.

US TEXTILE MARKET

ba. of

of

Under the legislation foreign- owned vessels would BLA allowed to carry any part U.S. Government-financed car- goes until the Department Commerce had ascertained that sufficient nationai vessels were not available for its movement.

In line with the recent commendations of the Rondall Commission report. however. where the department would, il considered necessary, be able to divert Government cargoes to foreign-owned ships if this in- was thought to be in the Confidence is modified by a lingering degree

terests of the foreign trade of the United States,

New York, July 1. A number of signs of an Im-

demand

ration proving textiles, coupled with sustained price stability, has strengthened the feeling of

optimism which has been growing in the trade for the last month.

IC-

He made the rest of the journey

of caution ent alone as bus comrades had des

quarters, but a greater make for Switzerianul. fed to

Executives may be Trains, he

In such un event, the legisin- : used his newly number of

fami who believe that after

tion stipulates that the foreign | paired German, but aroused

the mill vacation periud is over Finally, he г6- suspiclos.

vessel must be registered under In mid-July, the whole picture the flag of the country to which bed his family in the Un-

southern will emerge in a much brighter ombpted Zara "If

unless light. Pratic

insumfelent These are the reasons for this ships, vr has no vessels of suffl- conclusion:

Ascent of the clent tonnage capachy to (1) slock market to a new 25-year the cargo. peak; (2). Greater curtailment producers and

Commanded Unit

At first, he intended to join

1 General de Gaulle in England,

Bie gedrug that he could do

گوارہ

better job in France, he took command stend of a regiment (US Battalion)

mountain arilliery

Grenoble, with the uk of Major.

1er

Then the Nazi od Fuscists necupied the whole of France, Cory fotated himself in the Jahan refur.

|

by

textile yarn

wenvers; (3). closer balance

SHIPS

U.S. Steel Corporation Increases Price

Pittsburgh, July 1. The United States Bleet Corporation, which pro- duces more than one-third of the

America, Mteel in today announced an in- arcand in prices averaging $3 per ton.

The present price of basic carbon steel is $120 a ton.

The price increase came two days after the United States Steel Corporation had signed a contract with the United Steel Workers giving 190,000 employees a Avc per cent an hour ware Increase,

unproved

pension rights.

and

and Іприколес

Other basto steel pro- ducers were expected to follow

the United States Steel Corporation's example In pereasing prices, since they also reached

the union ment with similar contraela--Reuter.

on

the cargo is consigned, HONGKONG

that country

has

CARGO MOVEMENTS

carry

A resultant The legislation would also between supply cover the movement of By | and demand; 4. Lowering In cargoes purchased by ponies ventories in the consumer pipe allotted by the US. Govern- line; 5. International political ment to foreign nations. uncertainties.

for 05

STOCK EXCHANGE

(From Our Correspondent)

01

for an-

in U.S.

BANKS

JK Bank East Asia

INSURANCES

Unfor Underwriters Lombard

1000 1700

176

13 1600

....

pro-

flag ships Cotton sales yaro spinners A warning against the "sacri- reported a rise of

10.000.000 Being"

of a large segment of pounds in unülled orders during the U.S. Merchant Marine in Muy. Spinners also

reported order to full the US. substantial bookings for the gramme of building up the SHIPPING next two months, but quite dollar-credits of foreign nations few were refusing engagements has been given by Mr Walter 30 days present Maloney, the president of the

American Merchant Marine In

..

GERMAN SHIPYARD

BUILDING

TROUBLING BRITAIN

In

says

the Financial

recent years, Times, the German shipbuilding industry has been reconstructed, So successful has the reconstruction been that despite the im- mense physical destruction of the war Germany is now Britain's chief rival for export orders.

Although in total volume Britain is still substantially in the lead, the figures show that German competition is extremely effective.

At the end of Inst March, Germany was building ships for 19 other countries; The Unlled Kingdom was building for only 13.

The total tonnage then under construction for export in Ger- man yards was about 381,000 Lens gross, or 59 per cent of ali work then in hand.

NEW YORK

STOCK

MARKET

New York, July 1.

The British export construc- tlon was high at about 600,000 ton, but that represented only The 21.6 per cent of the total, figures for tankers inken alone

Stocks moyed Irregularly Fare

more striking. even

At that time Germany had 314,000 and narrowly in most in- lons Kross of export orders stances in a quiet session under construction, not very today.

much less than the British figuro

and utility stocks

of 348,000 tons. Whereas Bri- Industrial tish total tanker buildlog was averaged a few cents higher, less than a third for export, rails a low cents lower. Of Germany's export percentage 1,140 issues traded, 425 were

higher, 407 lower.

was over 90.

RE-ESTABLISHED

A few issues featured with

losses of a point or

more.

Admittedly the German ships or buliding industry has been nes

ол the basis of astahlkhed

favourable tax

new

shipbuliders

last the

Trading lightened to 1,860,000 shares, compared with 1,950,000. yesterday, as traders began their evening-up operations in ad Vanco of the long July Fourth weekend, and in the absence of any definite idea of what can bo expected in the way of reller on double taxation of dividenda,

Extraordinarily Business Un the Hongkong treatment. The legislation also secks to Stack Exchange this

Although German morning Cloth brokers sald a number have cargoes obtained by the amounted to $812,431. Neon joy considerable advant of important boyers this week US. Government in foreign quotation's and the morning's agen, and are anxious to obtain placed substantial orders, parti- countries, either destined teld als guns,

Budget, ones, for dealings:— to the Tocal cularly for print cloth yarn the United States the mules

which reduced the general level also of taxation vory sharply, fabrics, running into the fourth ather foreign country, carried, SHARES BUYERS SELLERS BALES country (oik. then, alone. march-

reduced their benefits. ed down to Grenoble to mock quarter and into the early part as

possible, of 1955.

For Britain the German ship- azul bluff the Italian garrison.

After the elpap, the. Senate yards seem likely, therefore, to voted to eliminate all of the Hay Htrovie boldly into the

be even increasingly important he hel about courtyard of the headquarters making his forces mobile, ready bullding where the Futian drag to get mal of their bunkers and had replaceci the old French 1: not in hospital that stläck. He began new experi- | telzolour. Then, posing us

os the It is ments in de-conmanising tersi Commander be with my men.

of # regiment on the battlefeld," he tells his lory Won back from the prepared to al'ack at the raising Vietminh. He put whole sectors of his finger, Cogny ordered a leg-weary escort, as they try to

under the now Vietnamese so keep up with him. Frequently,

non-commissioned officer to Cogny plunges into ditches and National Army.

chop the flagpole down before ronals and swims across to get

The

Fascict eyes of the scared officers. rearer to operations.

He returned to the mountains Failed his old gunners operation was

the whole form the Brst military mu t

zuerksdni u

un Lang of the region. war-the famous ruld Son, a large Victininh aims de- The Chinese frontier. But Beur He dared Jd h lossus were small.

tu

His men a teknamed him "General High- Sice" bycause he seemed to be

Anywhere at once when week in Beljan.

Disciplinarian

They

Their perfonal Uking for him for freni familiar, however.

reputation

ū

among

troop: here of being the sternen sizefoliasta tan who ever emme to the Della

EL would be difficult to find a Frenchman tore fitted to work

with United States and British generals and diplomoje,

After 27 months in the coun- try, he won his third feral's star and command of northern Indo-China.

His first

After that came mopping-up operation

The aud

1+2

Maquis

Left For Paris

In

Paris us

militan

being France,

plak

1943, when the ing underground il

Wilk

AB

the organised in northern Defta and in October his success-dogny, left for ful Operation Segall Learn Monsieur

Cakny, Secretary.

conifjelda,

ing that the Vietminh were pre- General of French paring to invade the Delts, he The underground knew him as smashed his way out of the Chambarran Delta's stethern tip on the eve

of the expected Communist at-

From his desk went оце

Cogny has magni@cent re-tack and broke up the Vietminhonders for building up secre! corn of lighting the Nazis, first division which wus

wide

to

4

10

have battalions of patriots throughout pearheaded the invasion. Gimp, the north. Cogny also crnatud Conunander furets, scrapped his plan.

Did

the Vietnam

Not Approve

On

contacts with

beyond

prices.

at

stitute.

BANDALL COMMISSION

In the heavy industrial cotton fabrics, one of the biggest pro- ducks with. ducers of collon drew from the market com- In a letter to The Randall LAND, ETC. pletely because of dissatisfac- Commission on foreign economic tion with present profit margins. policy. Mr Maloney said that any reductions from presunt at home levels would

"the accentuate while

shortcomings of our

utd

severe

as a competitor: the Bnal deter- Administration's plan for such 1000 67% mining fuctor for the shipyards relief, but the proposal will of both countries is, however, must go through a House-Senate conference The House approved the total level of demend.

More important even than the such a messure. competition between them is the Activity centred in low-priced fnet that in neither country are RICO Pictures, up 1⁄2 point to new orders equal to completions. $816 and Celanese, up % to

$21.

1725 1

Walerboot

19

DOCKS, ETC.

K. Whart 015 Dock

..14.30 Provident

12.30 15 Old) S'ha Cock, 1.00

7 7.40 1000 7.80 Wheelock

200 10.30

HK Land S'hat Lond. Humphroys Really

FIK Hotel 0.85 8.00 1000 1000 57 5014 1200

0,03

DU

8

18.00 2.03 210 3.000 2.07

Train

Star Ferry

10

274 27.70 2000 3730

to

C. Light (0)

of

C. Light (N)

.... 201

50

500 50% Macno Bec. 10.70

2012 37 64 * ABIL Telephone Youmati.... 10 13 603 01 140

200

Raw wool markels ruled quiet and steady foreign prices

firm present were Woollen

worsted fabrics

emergency conditions.** business developed slowly as clothing manufacturers looked He urged the commission over lines for spring of 1055,- recognise

importance United Press,

the present policy, continuing which ensure that at least per cent of ali cargoes paid for by various US, aid programmes must be carried in U.S. ships.

feet to meet nationalį UTILITIES

LONDON WOOL

TOPS

London, July 1.

market Woo! tops futures closed steady after another fair- ly substantial decline; turnover was 42 1015, Prices:

Sept.

Oct.

Des.

The

Jan.

Mar.

May

July

Interrogated in the prison of Fresnes, he was kicked, beaten,

Sept.

Oci.

Jan.

a soldier, then as organiser of milltary forces in the unkter.

network of ground. He speaks excellent

Algiers and London. Engilsit, is easily approachable,

As the activities of the and gives himself no airs.

Resistance Movement increased, His frunk Krin and 13

ils members beenme willingners to talk with shrewd

underlie br Dien Bien Phu came

On October dangerous. about his CommonsEISE

juh Cogny's command, though he more never fail to draw British and never approved the decision to 23, 1943, Cogny fell into American officers like magnets. leave a large isolated force there hands of the Gestapo.

But Cogny

ธ not Just to fight a lonely battle. soldier's man, He has used his Throughout lust winter Cogny background of education was itching to strike out of the

Dec. end systematically tortured, Bul develop

keen

political Delta and relieve pressure

But he was

uns the Germans falied to get a hc

realises sense. And

of him So many single word out much of his energy

be powerless to move. must devoted to

the political

war of his troops were taken away the military organisaton which against Communism here the from him for operations cise-he had been building up.

underground where that he could do nothing

Locked in a cell at Fresnes a who rule the

villages by except hold on.

during the bitter winter and

When war broke out in 1930, 1943-44 with nothing bul

was appointed book on whale-fishing to read, Cogny offeer to 1920's, liaison Polytechnique in

Third He snon won his Cogny set to work to persuade Cogny tosit degrees in law and French Army, political science and wrote

aCroix Guerre by going alone to his German warder to help him escape. Just whon ho thesis on political economics reconnoltre a little wood thought to

succeeding, be to be occupied by the enemy. It seemed to be before he specialised

had held up the advance in that was taken off in a cattle-truck soldier.

to Germany. acolor for several days.

battle of

the

terror.

Dien Bien Phu,

aglant student at the Ecole Captain

the

Sportsman

As

the

Taken prisoner, Cogny was sent to a camp near Nuremberg. whore he immediately set about

lia boxes, swims, fences, making plans for escape. He rides and even claims to be an got his guards to teach him Gor- | wald

Buchenwald

about

1176-148 145-1454

1921

14014-14019

13122-13012

137

13795-437

13322-1001

1346-13423

1324%-1533S

the

en-

Cur-TIONS

. 1.40

1035 1000 ur 15.68

.

New York Cottonus Steel closed up to

Market

New York, July 1. Cotton tradors today marked

for time while they walted Congress to act on the farm bill. to whether Uncertainty as

$491.

Most steel stocks moved narrowly in the face of price in- creams of $9 a ton announced by to offect the wago US Steel

granted. stoelworkers pppets.

stocks oil

continued Carlier this week,

to

The New York Stock Exchange

1000 or 15,40 Bexible or rigid supports will soften. Chemicals steadier. 134 1000 * 12.40 { operate next year kept the

bond

31 13 Di

147

24.89

volume was $3.703,000. The American Stock Exchange volume was 420,000 shares,

Dow Jones closing averages

and prices Trade fidgety

all orders. responsive

At the close the list ruled 5 points lower to 8 points higher. Opening prices also were pit & were! to up 5 points. New Orleans closed off 15 to points.

65

Comm. future price index

More than half of the 74 de- unive liveries issued against July to bonde gay were promptly stopped.

and open Trading volumes 3.00 Interests in the Exchange today

INDUSTRIALS In a reference to convertibilį- Cement 19.40 19.00 500 g 19.4 ty, he recommended that overy STORES, ETC.

24.70 24.00 1000 Dairy effort should be made to

1. Crawford 22.40 courage "ready and legitimate"

Textiles convertibility of foreign

dollars.

At present, MISCELLANEOUS rencies to

Yanstste... พร U.S. shipping was he Gold, virtually barred from traffic bc- with several foreign ports

7.55

ay

Afied

31000

were:

cause of the soft currencies pre- vailing throughout most of the world.

New York Rubber th

Volume

Open interest

July

Oct.

11,000 32,100

77.200 2D,300

Market

Dec.

32,600

442.500

Mar

22.700

3224.00

May

202,000

New York, July 1. Rubber futures today closed

July

12,300

127,500

Oct.

1.000

Dec.

200

Total

and

New York Sugar 12 to 94 points higher with sales

Market

United Press.

NEW YORK wool TOPS New York, July 1.

New York, July'1. World No. 4 sugar futures to- Wool tops today closed un- changed to 6 points higher. day closed 1 point higher p Prices closed in cents per ib. as 1 point lower with sales of four follows:-

of

A

July

Ort,

Dee.

Jan.

May

Mar.

July

Oct.

Dec.

Spot

After a spell in the Buchen- Concentration Comy,

expert on whalcishing. When man and every morning would Cogny was sent to Dora Camp, the Gestapo imprisoned him trot round the camp in heavy jan

In 1943, he spent a whole winter boots to keep himself at

with nothing to do except read a textbook on this unusual

subject.

Planned Escape

108.5h 199.4a 201.6b 202.0 201.db 202.20

noni. 201.1 200.00 200.20 198.5 tradbu 108.81 1072m 104.8 104.5 201805 104.59 198.2 nom. -United Press.

LONDON METAL PRICES

Buyers Sellers

783

136 749 2301 240

underground sweatshop whero V.2' were being manu- He was given back- factured.

London, July 1. breaking work digging all day

The tin market was steady long, with only just enough fodd while the rest of the markets This broad outlook led Meanwhile, he was making to keep him alive.

But

thisi to win what no other suit of plus-fours. He dyed skeleton-thin convict, with histeriing per long ton closed as were nicndy but quiet. Prices in Совну French General has achieved out and tailored the sult himself. in Indo-Ching the confidence The result was hardly Savile haven hend and striped uniform follows:

he had lost 72 lba-kept auch and respect of the foreign press Row, but it was good enough to dignity that even the German

Alopo wear under a raincoat when he correspondents

here.

guards called him "The Major,** among French Commanders, he made his planned escape. realised that

He also needed 'faked docu- the press had be

When the Allies crossed tho come a weapon

and menta A frlond could write went to the trouble of learn-German In Gothic characters, and Rhine, the prisoners of pora wore marched to the rear. of a corice carved potato made an ex During their. 8-day trek, they got the outlines pondent's job. His handling of cellent rubber stamp.

Ho had already relations

planned an nothing to eat except what they press masterly.

escape route diffough a narrow could pick up at the aldo” of the Rene Cogny set off on

drainpipe. The question which road, For three days, they had haunted him whs would the nothing to drisk. to his present job when

drainpipe tako bla glani frame? he first met General De Lalire Came the day, when all was

ing

of war

been

the

at the end of the war. General ready. Lending three other pri- Kaputenant-Colonel Copy was

De Latire was wo impressed by soners and pushing his bundle of

thle,

Just

Liberated in April 1945, repatriated because, he was ex- before him, pected to die. Cagny crawled down the ner

Then:MANSALDIonal elvillan clothes

prison camp, that he made him row płos. His skin tore of

But his wonderful

his periodul alon omo with no wrighted mong As one bond pulled him, through. Flota Material | Montanmvery. Ir pa body studies. Ha cousins, sa misting of spo London,

Tin spot

3-month Copper Dol d-month Lead July

contracts.

Domestic No. 0 sugar futures, closed 1 point lower to 1 point higher with sales of 32 contracts. Trading in both contracts was glow and without particular feature. Future closings were:

Contract No. 4 (W9;34)

July

September

October

Jeesusry March

4370 contracts-citement

Speculative

was

stirred up by the overnight boost of one cent a pound in the Government's selling price for Butyl

100.00

United PreRK,

CHICAGO GRAIN MARKET

Chicago, July 1.

Most grap futures, excepi Lapybeans, sodepwed fractionally Cup and down the Board of Trade 144,100 1,568,960 balts today and finished with a weaker

Amsterdam trend.

The Singapore rubber prices were not received-

Oct/Nav Dec Jan Mar/Apr. May/June

LIVERPOOL MARKET

Liverpool, July 1. Closing prices, American grid tyl synthetic and retread. but

per lb., were as follows:- peale selling by Indonesia. unconfirmed rummura of large-dling cotton, 15/16 inch, in pinco

Dealers reported a good-sized

done business

in the spot other to factories markot consumers. Reported sales In cluded sheets for August at 233 and 24 conts; one sheet for October at 24% to 24 cents; four ambers for October at 2236 pents a pound, all landed basis. Spot No. 1 Tee were quoted

31.00

Official prices for spot cotton, as anncussed today, were a unchanged United Press.

SAO PAULO PRICES

Bao Paulo, July 1 Colton futures closing prices

at 23% cents a pound. Prices were unavailable because of the

July

Beptembar

December

May July

Spot-cents per ib. fob

Cuba)

March

May

September

Nowamber March

Nay

July

September

November

Contract No. #

Spot-fonts per ib. clf NY

@x-duty}

6.76

United PraME.

London Foreign

Exchange

New York Basterdam Beked Mark

United prees. NEW YORK FUTURES

Now York, July 1, Prices of metal futures today: Boekholm gload in cents per lb, as followsi

Lend: July

London. July

4.10 holiday.

-24.99 24.25

In the United States, the 2 average prices of 15/16 middling 2610 cotton at 10 designated apoi

markets were also unavailable. -United PreM.

Sales at these centres Rotolled LONDON RUBBER MARKET

4,140 bales-United Press.

25.20

London, July. 1.

The rubber market was fully steady with No, Ras spot quoted at 20% pence per ib. Prices:

No.1 Haw spot ... 20-303%

Bettlement hovae termi,

August

September

Out/Dee. Jan/Mar. Apri/fune

Generel Aは母 Beptember

28/53/16-2011) Balate cyppp. July

>NEW YORK. EXCHANGE

Shout covering' and 'a' better- than-expected soybean crushing repont for May influenced buying in the ben pit and kept the prices strong throughout

session.

tho

Early gains in wheat reflected and renowed short covering additional flour mill buying, but the advances attracted profit- king which, depressed the prices.

Wheat closed off 1 to 2 cents; soybeans up 1% to 8% cents,

The Winnipeg grain roarkets. were closed today in observance, of the Dominion Day holiday United Press,

:: CHICAGO. 'PRICES:

Chicago, July 1: Prices per bushel in centr

Closing Prices

Wheat, No. 2 red Spot

July 1956(H). 194

Sept.

TANEW YORK FRICKA ::

New York, July 1. Prices of cotton futurey today Dea

25.000

closed,99, fglows: Spot July

Qctober

December

May.

October

ESTAD Corn, No. 2, yellow

1191 @pot

24.07 July

Deo, 2

1191 Mar.

LIL Rya

.13.20 July

કચ્છના રણમાં મન પછે? An

led Press NEW ORLEANS FAICES

Exchange Rates Prices of soltant

JULY

Now Orleans, July 177 Hept,

'elated na folle

Epot "was" done "in the Jodsi | July

December