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FIGHTING
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WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1955.
BREAKS
Themselves? Premier's Palace Shelled
WE hope the Board of
Trade will agree to the proposal which two Mem- bers of Parliament have been asked to put forward, and send representatives to Hongkong to investigate our
By Rebel Warlord
2.
glove-making factcries, POLICE IN MORTAR BATTLE
would be
It
pleasure to
receive auch distinguished guests, and doubtly satis- factory in that we should. without any question, be able to convince them (if
that were needed)" that, no parts of our gloves are made in Communist China
WITH BINH XUYEN TROOPS
Saigon, Mar. 29.
Tension between the Vietnam Government and rebellious warlords flared into fighting in Saigon tonight. Mortar and machinegun fire broke out between the Police and members of Trade will reject the MPs the Binh Xuyen, one of three private armies demanding the proposal for
the simple resignation of Ngo Dinh Dient, the Roman Catholic Premier.
But of course the Board of
Mr Peter Thorney- reason croft and his colleagues are
already perfectly satisfied about the bona fides of Hongkong manufactured gloves (and for that matter all other types of textiles, not to mention umbrellas.)
Mortar shells fell on the headquarters of the Binh Xuyen, on the out- skirts of Saigon, and on Police headquarters. The residence of the Premier was also fired on for twenty minutes.
Reports reaching Paris tonight said six people were killed or wounded in the Premier's residence.
Reports filtering through the rebel cordon said Premier Diem had transform- ed his palace into a fortress and that his troops were hitting back at dissident units. It is because of this one
discerns veiled impudence Premier Diem himself was not shelter in the European section, French Union troops had not
sald behind the move being made in the palace when the bom- which was least affected. Many intervened, this source -by the Worcester Glove; bardment took place.
wounded were brought back though they are patrolling Sal- Early on Wednesday morning, from
and the fighting Manufacturers Association. vietnamese Army troops.
Cholen by milltary "gon in force
has been localised near Cholon. were The inference is that the Armly holding the Police head-
Several houses on the Boule. Board of Trade is allowing quarters between Saigon and vard Galieni which Links itself to be bamboozled as Cholon, the reports said. Several Saigon with Cholen, were re- to the rightful qualifications battalions of Vietnamese reported damaged. There was no
rew
ambulances.
CIVILIANS KILLED
were
Hongkong
Students On Strike’
Price 20 Cents
INDAKS
RELAXIN
THE BAMBOS KOMERCNT . IN ACTION TROUSERE
Whiteaways
HONGKONG
K3WLODN
OUT IN SAIGON
Tokyo, Mar. 30. Ninety-five Hongkong students attending the Japan Economie Junior College at Musashino went on strike yesterday and threatened to boyɛait graduation eeremonies scheduled for today.
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The students, most of them children of Chinese businessmen in Hongkong, protested that they were charged US$650 for trance fees," tuliion, food and siher expenses › al- though leaflets advertising the school said costs would be lowe
10wer..
They also demand an assurance from the school President that all students would be accepted by Universities. Of the 95, 55 have already been accepted. four will return home and are undecided about
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their future.—United Press.
A-TESTS ALMOST
FINISHED
Two In One Day
United Press added: One un- confirmed report said 100 people of Hongkong-manufactured gular troops supported by tanks accurate estimate of casualties. wire killed" or "wounded in to gloves in relation to im- were combing the Avenue The fighting broke put a few night's fighting. Many perial preference. This is leading to Chelon.
bours after the warlands began | civilians. not only absurd, but because The Binh Xayen were re-to blockade Saigon, where 12,000 Members of the Binh Xuyen Las Vegas, Mar, 29.
face 9.000 sect, waring green berets, stamm» of the several times repeat ported to have massed 600 men Government troops
Two Atomic devices were ed statement by the Board in the Petrusky district between men of the three private armies ed the polies station and simy
batore midnight exploded at the Nevada test- headquarters Saigon and Cholon They were equipped for combat. of Trade that it is satisfied expected to counter-attack
reported The rebels began Jobbkg 80-ing grounds today. It was Fighting alsó was Hongkong products import-gular troops moving forward from Tay Ninh, which is the millimetre mortar shells into the the first time there had been ed into Britain pass all with Armoured support command post for General Bay heavily-fortified palace
arta.
more than one explosion on imperial preference tests, Cholon and outlying districts of Vien, Commander-in-Chief of The shelling lasted for 20 the Worcester Glove Manu- Salgon.
the sect forces. It was not yet minutes before loyal forces a single day. facturers Association
Most of the fighting tonight known if it was the dissident launched a counter-attack, "driv2 The Brst was the most power- was around The Binh Xuyen forces or the Diem forces which ing the rebels off.
fut of the wesent serier of1testa nuendo is gratuitous.
haadquarters in the Chinese dis. started the fighting..
Fanatical soldiers of the war
device, detonated from s trict of Cholon though, clushes
lord, some of them armed caly 500-ft tower. It was said to be occurred in other districts.
with hand grenades and daggers, about as devastating as the police prefecture, atom bomb dropped on Hiro-- Loyal forces seized the pre-shima.
The second test was of a de- fecture, which previously had been held by the Binh Xuyen vice dropped from a high flying scet, in a bloodless manoeuvre plane. The explosion at above two days ago. Reuter and 15,000 feet appeared as a yellow United Press,
in-
is easy to understand, and to some extent feel sym-i pathy, when British manu-
MANY WOUNDED Hundreds
of residents of facturers bewail the in- Cholon fled through a night creasingly stiff competition made bright by the fare Hongkong products are rockets, tracer ballets and ex- offering
Home ploding bombs, They sought the frequent market, but veiled accusations that pur
in the
industrialists are indulging Call
in sharp practice, thereby falsely obtaining imperial preference privileges, be come intolerable.
It is not Board of Trade
For Big Four Talks
Washington, Mar: 30 Italy today proposed to the
officials who require to be United
armament.
States
a conference of
including dis-
Triumph For M. Faure
Paris, Mar. 29. Premier Edgar Faure, who pushed the German rearmament agreement, through the French Senate, won another important Parliamentary victory early today
the National when Assembly granted an extension of his special economic powers through April.
The Assembly
voted 329 to 265 in extending the economic powers which M. Faure says are required for a revitalisatier. of the French economy.
appeared
convinced about the legi- the seven nations of the West Limacy of
our products European Union and the US which qualify for imperial and Canada to discuss means of
Late yesterday it preference concessions, but approaching the Soviet Union on
that M. Faure might have to ask as the vital problems, organisations such Worcester Glove Manufac-
that the que be made a ques turers Association. And the The Italian Foreign Minister. tion of confidence in his gam
today early best way of setting their Gazetano Martino, said he ad-ent,
at rest is for them vanced the proposal at a meet The action was expected to en- Assembly granted the extension. to send to Hongkong "their ing with the Secretary of State.
Jahn Foster Dulles,
able M. Faure to undercut the own investigators.
anti-tax crusaders bed by Pierre
minds
bot
the
. Later Mr Dulles said West Poulade and his organisation of We promise no wool will be Germany would probably have small shopkeepers-United Press.
pulled over their eyes. They, to
take
be included in any Big- in fact, would be just as Power talks which may welcome as Board of Trade place representatives engaged on
a similar mission, and would
be free to investigate their hearts' content.
Today's' Elections
to
months.
within the
next few
attacked the
Snow Falls In London
-Then Sunshine
London, Mar. 29 Snow fell in parts of London this morning after
very good night, but it. was followed by a bright fresh Spring day.
2
After
Conditions were steadily, improving in western · and central England serious week-end flooding, but several villages were still isolated and thousands of acres of farm land re- mained under water... Renter,
McCormick Worse MP Expelled
The
From Party
Melbourne, Mar. 29.
to
the one
flash,
It was similar which launched the series of tests last February 18, (though it seemed to be brighter ·
than that explosion.
An Atomic cloud appeared to rise. rapidly from the blast point. Observers watching from mouṛ- tains overlooking the test arca said the cloud was tinted pink. A black ring inside later turned pink to conform with the rest of the cloud.
A double ice cap formed on top as the cloud climbed, the observers said,
Top Level Denials Of Imminent Danger Deadlock In ANTI-WAR SCARE
MOVE
BY EISENHOWER
Washington, Mar. 29. The Eisenhower administration today tried
stamp out the flames of a major war scare America.
to
in
This developed over the week- end after Press and radio Je... ports predicted imminent war in the Formosa area. These predictions were based on an "off the record" dinner Picas copiltrance given by a high naval officer, The reports said the Chinese Communists were ready to begin their attack on the Nationalist off-shore islands
Maist in mid-April and on Quemoy in or Juze. President sethways rubary advisers were urging him to intervene with Atom pre- cision bombs if necessary and also to bomb China's indus trial potential in Manchuria, the report added.
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WEEK-END DENIALS Over the week-end officials at a comparatively low level threw cold water on the reports without dampening
their sensstional effect. Fanned by comment 00 the radio by Senators favouring a showdown. with Communist China, the scare reached huge proportions yesterday. Only
high level, ad- en did he ministration sources intervene
to
By the flares, They
that a completely mistaken impression had been. created
by, the reports and that it was the beer of the President that war was not imunihent.
Today they gave the following
information in
support of -this belief and -added- that this assessment of the Pre
London Paper Strike
London, Mar. 29. London newspaper pro- prietors, forced to suspend publication since last Friday by a strike of 700 mainten- ance engineers and electric ians, tonight prepared for a
long slege by issuing dis missal notices to several thousand employees. sident's was backed up by The notices apply to non. the National Security Coun journalistic
who
This assement was:
cil, the Secretary of State, Mr entitled to a fortnight's notice John Foster Dulics, and the or less Compositors, printers latest
evaluated military in, and packers are affected. telligence reports.
Tonight's dismissal Boticea become effective on April 15. The announcement came after a day of pleading by Ministry of Labour officials with newspaper chiefs and trade union leaders
to
That the Chinese Com munists were not sufficiently prepared to launch an all-out attack урсп
Quemoy or Matsu by mid-April
any such to break the deadlock. early date.
Both sides turned down sug- That the Chinese Com-gestions that they should meet murists have not yet assem together to try to solve the dis bled the
the aircraft, troops and pute which has silenced the landing craft or completed the city's national newspapers for large and numerous, bases rave days. established the communica- Tonight, a Labour Ministry
sustained
spokesman said: "the situation is unchanged.
The end is not yet -in sight."
necessary for a major continuing, attack 0
Quemay dr Matsu
•
ports
That the week-end re- "represented only the parcchial" viewpoints of one individual representing one service, presumebly, the navy.
CABINET TALKS Tomorrow the sirize of 700... technicians will be discussed by. Sir Winston Churchill's cabinet Sir Walter Monckton, Minister That politically the of Labour, will report on the Chinese Communists were un latest position and may make Hikely to launch picody at statement to the House of Com- tack on the eve of their at-mons in the afternoon.
Today' the strike
ive leaders who tendance in the role of a great
· midnimum · · wage
and peacetil power at the want their
· Afro-Asian conference at Ban-raised by £2.188: were 5 án
dung, Indonesia, opening en session discussing their plans to Their carry on the stoppage. April 18.
attitude was voiced by one These sources did not minimise oficial who said: we will not
the 'seriousness: or dangers of | Mu
Field" the Formosan situation, how. Their unite the Amalga ever, but they appeared to be convinced that such an attack the Communist-led
mated
Engineering Unica and Electrical could not succeed and that Trades Union-have rejected therefore, it would not be at-
suggestion
the
News tempied Reuter,
Transport, Jetplane In Airport Crash
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~New York, Mar. 29. -
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paper Proprietors Association
to put their claim before an Arbitration Tribunal.
The proprietors offered the electricians and mechanics a weedy time of 14 shillings. They argue that in the last week be- fore the strike the actual earn- ings for adult skilled men averaged £15.2.
MORE RADIO NEWS
tonight announced The BBC
MOLTOW.
A runaway €46 transport plane crashed into a jet that because of the newspaper It would immediately trainer today, killing a flight instructor at Greenville, strike
daily radio Mississippi. Then it hurtled into a snack bar occupied extend its seven
news bulletins from 15 to 20 by several Air Force men.
minutes. In addition it, will broadcast
extra-news SUM- None of the men in the build-¡ escape unscathed from the maries twice 2
day starting ing was hurt seriously.
Blaming wreckage of the sack Colonel John Chick, Com-shop.
Television will also increase manding Officer of Greenville
Five news coverage. Air Force base, said
Colonel Chick said the C-46 that the instructor of the T-33 jet trainer crew. chlet, apparently let the journalists will take part in an extra "Commentary Pro- was killed as he stood beside engizes run away" causing the
similar grammo" tonight and his plane and four other men transport to break loose...
"Background To the News" were hurt,
Colchal Chick, said all the in-series will be televised on Colonel Chick said the big
evenings, the BBC jured were in satisfactory condi- | voeding transport plane, a transient air--United Press
stated-Reuter. The tower tes, spcond of its craft from Floyd Bennett kind in the series had been Force Base in New York, was postponed since March 14 be- being warmed up by. Its crew cause of unsuitable weather, chier.
A MILD JOLT Only a mild jolt was felt in Las Vegas from the tower test; but in Cedar City, Utah, it was described as the strongest ever falt from an Atomic explosion,
Air
About 112 sircraft few in the
SMASHED TO HITS Suddenly the C-48 tore" loose area afterwards, including the Martin B-57 two-jet Intruder trom Its moorings and bore bomber making its first appear. [down, cas, a small two-seater air- anec here. Experts on board craft which had just completed
bok cloud samples,
a training fight,
He said preliminary "parley-
Chicago, Mar. 29. ing on the parleying" which
The condition of alling_74- might lead to a Big-Four con- ference was underway, but that year-old publisher Colonel Ro-
A mushroom cloud rose 30,000 The big plane smashed the such preliminaries took a great bert McCormick, who owns the
feet in about five minutes and trainer to bits, then skidded into {"Chicago Tribune", has taken a deal of time and the actual con-
sudden turn for the worse, his The Victorian Labour Party on ice cap, formed on top. Then the snack shop. Gasoline spillel ference itself probably could
executive announced tonight, the cloud broke into three see over the area but did not ignite, not, under the most favourable doctor said today.
condition of Colonel had expelled a Federal Member tions as most of the dust. from At least 18 air-men managed to REVIOUS Urban Council circumstances, take place before elections do not encourage a "matter of months." United McCormick, who had been of Parlament and 25 other party the stem fel out on the best site.
since he
and About 650 soldiers took up was operated on last members for a "deliberate the expectation that there i
scene blast. A will be a heavy poll today,
to be very serious, the doctor Live."
The expelled Member i Mr detachment :01 marines said-France-Presse.
who yet it does behove those who
Mullens and there are were also to take part were Federal Parliament
withdrawn at the last minute.
Loffered.
PRE
Press.
are qualified to vote, to do Israel Censured
80.
A
The Urban Council may be a subordinate legislative and administrative body; never- theless its functions
and
For Gaza Attack
January 13, is now considered defiant challenge to this exque from the other of the bla MP's Question On
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HK Umbrellas
Buys Mussolini's Car bers, and four state Cabinet No explanation for this was
Ministers in the suspended list. Two other major "tests are! State at the Board
Executive said that in a
London, Mar 29," Mr Austin Low, Minister of
of Trade
Rome, Mar. 30. An unknown Englishman telegram Mr Muller wrote: "I scheduled but AEC spokesmen said today he had no evidence New York, Mar, 29. bought the car of late war-time cantat recognise Eyzit or your have said that no test in this that sales in Britain of British- The United Nations Security dictator of Italy Benito Musso-bogus executive.
series will be more powerful made umbrellas had been ide Council tonight
ar unanimously lini, át
other Auction in Rome Observers said the mispensions than
conducted
versely affected by, imports, the responsibilities affecting the approved a resolution condere verterday
would almost certainly lead to previous years,
main source of which Most of this year's explosions Hongkong.m community's welfare Are ng Israel for an attack on The price of the car which the formation of a breakaway being perceptibly broadened, Egyptian forces in the Gaza was not revealed was believed party, reducing the. Victorian have been of devices described to be far above its commercial Labour Government's support to as of the "baby A-bomb class. and the work devolving on strip last February 28,
value-France-Presse.
the councillors is becoming
increasingly heavy. Thus, a
and
Thirty-eight Egyptians person willing to offer him- Israelis were killed in "he
incident,
A
and
self for election to the Council, ipso factolis pre- The resolution moved by Bri- pared to labour hard and lain, the United States earnestly on behalf of the France noted the decision of the
Egyption-Israeli Mixed Armis general public.
Lice Commission that a "pre arranged and planned attack Therefore, in fairness to the ordered by Israeil authorities three candidates who are was committed by Israell regular contesting today's election. My
The resoluton said, line:
the voters should turn out in Comcil condemns this good numbers. The candide
as a violation of the cense-fre
ates deserve a vote of el-provisions of the Security Council couragement as well and of the armistice agreement
26 in a House of 05.-Reuter, Reuter
Trains Make Record 200 mph Run
Bordeaux. Mar. 29. Tivo Freach locomotives which raced along a stretch of French railway track at more than 200 miles an hour were credited with a world speed record today and will share the band of the iron road.
Ons of the tering made the ran esterday under the other et.
came within a kilometre an hour of it, M. Jacques Per mentier, of the French Rail ways, sald
Was
had asked in the House of Com
Mr H. W. Sorenson, Labour,
mòns how far": these sales and the export of British umbrellas. had been, affected by imports and by overseas competition: in. weeld markets, He alzo - asked what were the main sourcess of these imports and competition"
Mr Low added “exports have fallen from 31,100 doden in 1952 to 22,298 dozen in 1954, but 1 have no information how far Parmentier
We has decline is due to competi could without doubt at tien from other - countries and Lemot even greater spends how far të na inarcase, in home
but we consider that within demand,
heavier one of the CC 7107, was a prototype of one in use by French Railways. Both locomotives are Electric. In each case two veteran drivers
were at the controls,
Both speed runs were made on a 66-kilometre stretch of track nce Bondoux from Lamonthe to Norcen, on the way to them
Each loco Spanish
"pplied three-stream-
·locomotive Aures a new
dawn today, but French Rail- the Schneider B. 9804
way officials would not say
which was the fastercar The French National Hafway
vote of confidence from the between the two eccles. One of them wounded-231 kilohove andered 1 lice electorate,
metres an hour and the other "Yesterday's
idcomotive,
said:
the present possibilities of "Tareign competition overn
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