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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19,
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VIETNAM GETS NEW ARMY LEADER
But Dispute With Premier E. Waves Farewell At Shek Kip Mei Cheering
Still Not Settled
TENSION IN SOUTH
ANNAM
Saigon, Dec. 8.
General Le Van Ty today agreed to become the new Chief of Staff
of the Vietnamese National Army under direct orders from Emperor,Bao Dai, but the three-month-old dispute between the Army and the Govern- ment is far from over.
General Le Van Ty was appointed to fill the post left vacant by marul isguyen Van Hinh, arch enemy of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem.
Reliable sources said the 'r. mier did not dare risk General Le's asal and persuaded Bao Dai who is in France to command the thneral to accept the post, •
In the same manner, the interim Chief of Staff, General Nguyen Van Vy was appointed the Army's Inspector-General.
A group of politicama whe EX-SOVIET SPY CHIEF
hast
1
Current movement which
favours settling grievances. with the Communist coun tries. That in fact may be desirable for Japan searching for new markets for her products but if it implies weakening her tien with America and the West the new leaders of the coun. try will be courling grave
Observers risks. that even if Mr Hatoyama is elected this will be just
suggest
A
THANKS BRITISH
For Being So Slow In Issuing
A Hongkong Transit Visa
New York, Dec. 8.
Yuri Rastvorov, former chief of the Soviet spy system in Japan, revealed today that except for British elowness in authorising a Hongkong transit visa and a
escape lo severe Tokyo blizzard, his
the West last January might have falled.
with the Liberala; there ca by
be
Lo
storm
winter.
happens not more
han
a passing phuse in the political scene. Following Mr Yoshida's resignation three courses appear likely: the now Democratic party
In an article the last 17 of which Hatoyama is lender can form a coalitioneries of three-entitle: "Good- once during
byn to Rad terror,” published Life magazine, Rastvorov somewhat tenuous gave the deluils of his rensa- coalition between thetical cac: pc Democrats and the authorities in 1)yo Socialists thalf moderate. | capital a year ago. half extreme) or else there
said following can be a dissolution of the Becia's downfall after Stalin's Diet and new elections. The death he began thinking of his Escape trum the Russian Mission H{ course Appears the in Tokyo ond seeking asylum most popular step in Japan with the Americans. but whichever method the But his colleagues
end the suspicious of him politicians use to present crisis they should ordered to return to Moscow.
a whole Tokyo
His next. move was to tele- phone a Mrs Browning to ask American for help She taught at the US. Japanese Army Education Centre and he came to know her from regular Sunday Russian-English change lessons.
Jose
in
re-
un-
Rastvorev
He returned to The mission headquarters,
Ox-
Soviet burned i all his personal papers except Counell passport, Allied Identity card and a photo of his daughter who, with his wife. was in Moscow.
hls became and he wILS
ICE-SKATER BODYGUARD
RS make my departure seem casual vis possible, I stopped irst at Nosenko's office, then ot
accepted their despite the refusal
The Generals new posts,
of Premier Ngo Dinh Diem 10 meet conditions previously
by the Army, including a pro- mise not to interfere in army affairs.
Time alone will tell whother the Premier can bend the 80- Sear-old General Le to his will, bu: in Southern Annam a situa- then hat developed which bodes |
for immediate harmony and co-operation between the Army and the Premier.
CIVIL WAR POSSIBLE
In the sector of Phan Thiet, 100 miles north-east of the China the sector commander, Sca
Quang Hoang Colonel Nguyen refused to obey the orders of the Caneral Staff and the Premier refused to order him to do 50.
If this situation contignage, civil war mit eestly
break out The Army today announced that forces, loyal to it hest re- occupied the past of Nana, 136 miles north-east of Saigon, which a group of 308 mutmeers, under Colonel Hoang's protection, had seized several days before.
The Army reoccupied the post without casuallies. But the rebels
of kidnapped 40
the original garrison when they fled into the jungle.
ARMY'S INITIATIVE
The action was taken on the Army's own initiative,
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time 110
"With these items and over a The leader of the mutineers, reinblishing stable govern.
hundred dollars In Japanese Major Thai Quang Hoang, also A few days later a team of ment for, in the interim, a
wallet, saldrefused to submit to the General further weakening of the skaters, accompanied by mana-
Sovie: championship speed ico currency in my
Ftastvorov, "I walked out of the Staff. The Premier's refusal to country's economy In
Torder the subinisalon of these mission forever. ank Soviot in Tokyo arrived KITS, avotcable.
two officers was regarded as an Rastvorov
told he must Was
Army attempt undermine return home with them.
authority, We were to take
a BOAC (Fyodor) Rumov's (Soviet de
Staff The General
further Hongkong and be
Premier the that of this we all needed put political chief in Tokyo) considered asked
to ought not to tolerate or "hide for each of them British transit visas.
Since the dinner.
Both declined in sumne political reasons" the insubor- orders for my THEN Senator McCarthy orde
departure had confusion. Bi epparently they dination of a local commander, resorts to criticising Pre-been issued at the last minute, swallowed the bait."-United sources said.--United Press and sident Elsenhower in such the application for my visa was Press.
basis.
McCarthy Again plane fur
WHEN
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a thoroughly contemptible Perhaps the very urgency of manner, his supply of the reques put the British on slander is running low, he ple
They took their time In fact, he seems to be about granting t
alert
110%
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plumbing the depths of "On the morning of January
23 I learned irresponsibility and reck-
with rellet that the Hongkong lessness in a desperate bid
vin had come through. Putting on to keep his name before the
casual front, I drove to the air- public eye. It was rather
port alone to see the skaters İlke
drowning A
leave, man
As the big plane took clutching at a straw, for off in the direction of Hong- McCarthy is on the way out. kong, I prayed that my turn to His erstwhile Republican y there should never come. allies spurn him. Now, none but a minority support him -A minority of fanatics
"When 1 Hot back to the who pledged, their support mission, an official told me I
be leaving Ha surely would nacendancy and who nowday, the 24 h.
10 hin
cause
in
THEN THE SNOWSTORM
nex One member of the skating team, a tough-lo' king fellow named Anatoli Rozanov.
eling to the hope that a rosurgent McCarthy will had been kept behind to creort once again enhance their mc. The morning of the 24th political reputations and I looked out of the window to restore their chances of and a blizzard swirling down fame and power, His sup- on the city. planes would Such a snow- porters will argue that he move that day.
has experienced advoralties before now, that on each occasion he has exhibited remarkable resilience. Perhaps again, they hope. But McCarthy is now virtually an Independent estranged from
his fellow Senators, openly
No
Smoking Cured
By Hypnotism
Capetown, Dec. 0.
France-Presse,
Crowds cheer His Excellency the Governor as he leaves one of the new six-storey buildings at Shek Kip Mel this morning. (Staff Photographer)
New Rocket 11 U.S. Airmen Case To
Plane
For Russia
London, Doc. 9. Detalia wero disclosed tu- day of a faster than sounÄ Russian rocket plane in which the pilet lies on a couch
the and operates controls from a reclining
Strefaff, "the_JakS=8....... 340 Is a "German design which the Russians com- picted and fetted as far back as 1949. but many of its secrets have been pro- served hitherto behind the Iron Curtain
It is described as a single Beat rocket propelled research (reconnaissance) monoplane and in dying trials the first prototypo WILS Jaunched from
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parent bomber as a height of 10,000 metres.
a small
"It is probable number. though farther
བསལ་ examples have been built staic the new edition of Jane's "All the world's aircraft published today.
1954-55",
The Soviet `owes taks now project largely to the knowledge gained when
after the war she took over many of Miller's planes,
aircraft factories, test centres and technicians,
Reuler.
Hongkong's Population Falls
As The Tiernans (All 9 Of Them) Say Goodbye
Mrs Tiernan and the children.
And Charles
Go On U.N. Agenda
New York, Dec. 8.
Children Rush The Governor
By A Staff Reporter
thousand Two
cheering children welcomed the Governor of Hongkong, Sir Alexander Grantham their six-storey resettle. ment buildings in Shek Kip Mel this morning,
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Many of them had been victims of the squatter fire in the area last Christmas and had seom the new buildings in which they now live rise from the ashes and rubble.
The
WAVED BACK
Governor's visit to re- settlement areas started of pretty quietly until a small boy at Shek Kip Mei strapped to his mother's, Back raised a podgy hand and waved,
Sir Alexander waved back. The
simple action worked Ho a sigh, A swarm of round face laughing and cheering at the tope of their voices emerged from a crowd of elders who were watching the vilt, and raced towania the balcony where Sie Alexander, was Inspecting "living spaces".
Policemen
the grabbed at children as if they were chickens.
The United Nations General Assembly voted by 48 And like chickens, the children swarmed found their hands, to five with four abstentions tonight to place on the under their arms, and through agenda the case of American airmen imprisoned by the their jega... Chinese Communists.
The Soviet group were alone In opposing
Hiteaf on the fusion of the (cas.
The four abstentions on the vote to place the matter on the agenda were cast by India, Burma, Yemen and Syria.
A DETAILED CASE The Assembly niso decided by 44 to 6 with 8 abstentions to walve the normal rules so that debate on the issue could begin Immediately without being m ferred to a committee,
the vote
Immediately
been taken, Mr Henry
A co paint the tumult of checrifig, was reinforced by: crian of terror. In a rush the leading - hiliren; prosset on by the crush from behind, trEged over their
clogs.
"The pristners always con, The verdict is always gulity. No doubt this is more efficient. No doubt it is pasice id invent the facts than to as certain them. No doubt it is less embarrassing, to have the prisoner confess his guill than plead and prove his innocence."on
Router.
.
:
TEARS STOP ·
The shouting melse, presing from behind, piled up on top of them.
INDIA'S MOVE
Policemen managed to unbury the tots at; the bottom · by re- Calcutta, Dec. §.
moving. Ast-fulls of children in A Calcutta had
newspaper today each hand from the human pile. Cabot reported that the govemment of Tears stopped miraculously as India had informally told Com- one after another found himself States de- the United
feet agains Jegate,
detalled munist China how strongly the standing on his presented case of the alleged violation of United States felt about the im- unhurt, the Korean
cprisonment of U.S, airmen armistice agree
But the polica proved too tall
ment
Lodge.
J
for more than two years after Calcutta Armita they had been captured during said the Indian hostilities in Korea,
by
to
back
by the Chinese Com-the Peking regime.
chain organise an effective to hold
the miniature munists in detaining the airmen
The Delhi correspondent of the crowd. They managed to check Bazar Patrika it in the end, only by standing Ambassador in closed-up, and each PC holding Peking had been instructed to half a dozen or so squirming tell the Peking authorities that cheering boys by the scruff of their action was making it dif-
their necks, to cult for President Eisenhower resist American forces who have action been demanding strong against the Communist Chinese, At the same time, the news- paper said, the Indian Am- bansador was requesting full-de- tails of the imprisoned almen's cases.-United Press.
"In addition to these 15 Bald Mr airmen," American Lodge, "there are substantial of United numbers
Nations Command military Personnel from
States and the United other countries who have not repatriated or otherwise
the accounted for by
Com- munista ia accordance with their International obligations."
ASSEMBLY THE JUDGE
been
He said the Assembly should now be the judge of the com pliance on the part of the Communists with their under- teking under the armistice agreement,
Kin.
Before the general debata be- Mr Eelco van Kleffing, the XXXX% Assembly President, called delegates to
obscrve the maximum restraint.
The 10 Allied Powers which fought in Korea have
faintly sportored resolution: before the Assembly asieing the Scere- tary-General, Me Dag Ham- to seck the air- marskjoeld,
men's release.
K dis resciution'wird` carried, Mr Van Kleffens said, the dele gatts owed it to the captives to do nothing to make it: moro difficult to carry out the posed action.
'GREAT INJUSTICE'
pro-
In a debate before the voting Mr Anthony Nutting, British Minister of State, urged the Assembly to right the "great grievous Injustice" done to the airmen
and
·By A China Mali Reporter. Tomorrow morning you may read the following announcement. in a contem- crilical of the President and Mr J. L. Coram, of Fish
porary paper: "Mr. and Mrs Charles Tiernan and family left for the United King-United Nations case, Hoek, near Capetown, who had
dom yesterday."
These
Urging inclusion of the case on the Assembly's agenda, Mr. Nutting declared: "This is a
the party's attitude to fighting been told by a hypnailst recent
airmen are not just members of the American Air Force, they Communism, publicly cen:uredly that he would lose his faste
The colour is for identification are, the soldiers of the world by the Senate for his desple for smoking, said that he did Charlop is going to sell (3), Jennifer (2) and Ann-1
purposes and the jeans for quick organisation went to fight by the able methods, and rebuked by not feel he would ever want to Hongkong products in Great Marlo (seven months).
Last time the Tornans won't
sction.
will of the United Nations. the party leaders for his out amoke again.
Britain, Europe and Africa' so en leave when there were only
"OH, NO!"
The
lives, their freedom. apoken-comments. Prouident Jud
He told the hypnotist that he he decided to base himself in six to deal with, Charice decided The heat of the tropics? Easy, their future, their safely, is our
between 20 and
tho "and they should wear alren sults says Charles. Underneath their responsibility. They went forth cigarettes day and would like England-bence
But a siren sult is cumbersome winter outfiearer shirts to uphold our cau
our cause teristically moderate reply to stop.
We must family."
to manipulate in a hurry, parti. Įsid shorts,
uphold through his Press Officer The hypnotist, who had pro- MAJOR PROBLEM
cularly if there are six children: Bo you see Charles solved.)
ALWAYS CONFESS, simple yet effective answer to viously tealed him, found that You might think that moving screaming for the same thing problems
and als morning Mr. Nutting said that the the man. It is to be hoped the towns subject to hypnotic in the Tiernan family would, be a
the sime Uine.
equipped with children's over Boviet delegate, Mr Jacob Mallk administration ignores his fluende offered him a cigarette. major problem, just
Mr Coram took one puit and
You
there's
All night bag woven liitta "stope and maintained that the airmen had Holen hollow maniings entirely in the found 1 o distasteful that he Christina (64), John Robert Pronting or by experience whiteboarded their aircraft as confemmes kieThai-ing the^,re
ardirmured. márkable and, inister feature of fatur, for that is the only way would not smoke any more. (64) Philomena (4), and the Charles has selected pin" (ver #lairach i hostass
Communiat: trials," he added; to treat a crank.
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