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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, MARCH · 16, 1955.

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VIETNAM

Diem Winning Against Religious Sects

UNITED FRONT CRACKING

Saigon, Mar. 15.

The American-backed Prime Minister, Mr Ngo Dinh Diem, appeared today to have half-won his struggle against Vietnam's three powerful politico- religious sects struggling to unseat him and to have preserved once more his precarious power in South Vietnam.

Reliable sources said that the united front of the Cao Dai, the Hoa Hao and the Binh Xuyen, who together command private armies of almost 40,000 men, was cracking and that the biggest and strongest of the sects, the Cao Dai, may shortly

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Where Was

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This news, together with the absent Emperer Bao Dul's re ported refusal to arbitr in favour of the seets against the Premier, mean that Mr Diem's position wis once again. re- Inforced and that there was less

likelihood than

Gov- ever his ernment would bo brought down by the Berce factional struggles within the country,

OPEN HOSTILITY

The seats declared open bostility 10 The Premier when he recently announced & programing of reforms which would strip these semi-feudal groups of much of their power and influence.

But today high Cuo Duls! sources declared that that sect's

disagreement with Mr Diem was only a question of detail," and that the sect leadership would agree, at least to a certain ex- tent, to a piun drawn up by the special American envoy, Gen- MI Googl Malekhov,

Lawton Collins, which Vie-Minister for Electro Power eral J. Statems. did not take part in

calls for The integration of talks with a Swedish delegation sectarian troops In the National of electricity experts, who or now touring the Soviet

Union.

Stockholos, Mar. 15.

ROW

Vietnamese Army,

The hand of the delegation. The Collins plan foresees the Mr Rake Rusek rund on his re-incorporation of 6,000 Cao Dalsts, turn to Stockholm today that the 5,000 Hoa Hac and 2.000 Binh

were presided over by the two

Xuyen in the national Command.

Mr Ermakov Reuber.

IVO

Students of the Chinese Nationalisi Officer Candidate School, based in Formona are put through their paces by members of the United States Assistance Advisory Group I in part of the American plan to maintain close co-operation with the Nationalist Forces. The Department of Defence provides skilled ruilitary instructors for training the Chinese...as well na plants,

weapons and other equipment. — Express Photo,

No Confiscation

Of Foreign

Capital In India

New Delhi, Mar. 15.

Mr Nehru, the Indian Prime Minister, said today his Government will not tolerate any plea for the confiscation of foreign capital in India.

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110 told the House of thepensation to be paid for property People. This kind of thing is taken over by the Stute under Just not done. It is a matter lond reform and other legisla- REMEMBRANCE Deputy Ministers, The Cao Dalsts moderule of common decency that when tion.

ad Mr Jatkasuttitude would seriously weaken

21 state acquires foreign pro- Parliament agreed to the

44 SHIPS

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Calcutta, Mar, 15.

the position of the other two party it should pay compensu-motion by 32 votes

tion for it.

groups who are against any in- tegration whatsoever.

RUSSIANS PAID

"Even the Soviet Government after the bloody revolution dreldest to pay

compensation

Salgon was calm today after yesterday's unsuccessful assassi- Daljon attempt against *Trial Van Lam, Governer ut South for all foreign properly inken Vilnam.

over by them."

his (1

The Prime Minister wag re- The first South Vietnamese plying to posts mused in a two- | Provisional National Assembly duy dt batc

motion will be elected early in May,

to reler to a select commilier officials announced today, The

the Government Constitution Forty-four ships lay unattend-decree will be promulgated this Amendment Bill. ધર્મ and waterfront activities week. were suspended in the harbour here terday after a strike by The stevedores,

the

Assembly will include elected and

a few

appointed

Hundreds of cranes stood dla delegates.

walkoff by s'rikers lrg:d "widespread

who

Among the appointed dele- violence and mob rule around gres will be some North Viet- the clock area."

Dr B. C.

of

nanese now refugees in South Chief Minister Vietnam. West Bengal, today urged given to the political,

Sixty seats will be religious [shipowners' represente lives

and professional groups and to sume work on the stranded the racial minorities. ships to avoid port congestion.

to

en

He said the Government were

The Assembly will prepare determined to maintain law and for the establishment of order.

elected Constitulent Assembly. Forty-three more ships are due | and will have certain financial in pert next week-Reuter. powers.-United Press.

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PILGRIM

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London, Mar. 15. The old foot-hollowed timber and stone stairs on the Thames' | south bank, down which the Pilgrim Fathers are believed to have stepped to their ship, May- Bower, are to stay.

A speelal London jury decided that the stairs, lapped by the muddy Thames current, were still useful.

Reuler.

to nine.

Radioactivity Increases

In Canada

Odawa, Mar. 18. There has been "light In errase"*

radioactivity In Canada since the start of the latest portes of Atomic tests in Nevada, United S'ates, tho Canadian Defence Minister, Mr Ralph Campney, today told the

House of Commons,

He added that this increase did not

to constitute any hazard human, animal or plant life in Canada.

A Socialist Member, Mr Colin Cameron, asked whether Canada was prepared to propose in the United Nations a study of the cffect of rødlation from nuclear weapon tests.

The External Affairs Minister, | Mr Lester Pearson, sald, he could edd nothing to his statement on March 7 to the Commons on this point. He said then he believed The United Nations would give

consideration

to

A local borough council had sympathetic wanted the stairs closed under such a proposal but he Indicated a development plan for river- Canada would not initiate it

Reuter. side wharves,

But the weather-beaten Thamea watemian Jimmy Taylor, who has used the stairs for years, and whose grandfather and great-grandfather before him used them, appealed court against the council's plan, And won, London Express Service.

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