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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1950.

POWER

VIETMINH

OF ATOM BOMB Prince "A MYTH??

A

Has Look

66

AKE NEW Institute's Warning

DRIVE

Saigon, Nov. 9. Front-line reports said to- ht that a strong force of tminh Communist regu- had invaded the Thai

eration in north-west o-China and was ad-

cing toward the capital

London, Nov. 9.

A study group of the Royal Institute of International Affairs has sounded a stern warning to the Western powers against the "myth" of an all-powerful atom bomb in cold and hot war.

The group, headed by Major-General Sir Ian Jacob, Military Assistant Secretary to the British War Cabinet throughout the war years,

dis- couraged excessive reliance on the atom bomb as swept out of the the principal means of defending the free world.

Lai Chau.

rebel force of at least 3,000

rans

ch frontier. bastion of kay on November 1 follow- the retreating French garri-

these reports said.

In a publication issued by attack, believed to be a restrain- the Institute, the group. saiding though not decisive factor. the value of the atom bomb in Soviet policy. lies in its uncertainties, and SOME MISGIVINGS he Thais are an ethnic group cautioned the Western Powers g in the mountainous region against any advance commit- in the indo-Chinese Statement en the circumstances in Fongkin. The capital of Lai which the bomb would be used.

t is about 60 airline miles

The experts appealed for h west of Laokay.

immediate measures for exten- sive precautions against atom altack

from the enemy

Thai Federation is not of Thailand.

The

report expressed mis- givings about any reliance on the bomb itself for the tactical support of forces in the field. In Central Europe, even Eastern Europe, large numbers of people are friendly to the free world who would regard

in

mmunist control of the throughout the Atlantic Pact a European war as their chance area would jeopardise the area, on a 24-hour emergency of liberation. Unless the atom hbouring south-west area, basis.

bomb wore used in such areas

reports placed the rebels he mountain wilderness be- in Lai Chau and Chapa, h is 30 miles south-west of

The study group, which also | with most careful political

Sir includes

Orme Sargent, direction it would cause great Permanent former

Under- damage to friends among the Secretary of State for Foreign enemy. Affairs, and Brigadier A. H. French spokesman said, Head, former Assistant Secre- hwhile, that French war-tary to the Committee of Im-

tay.

Unless defensive weapons will become available before the Soviet can accumulate a

es riddled a rebel mountain perial Defence, listed its views stock of atom bombs, the West: oy near the Chinese Com-

on

the atom bomb as fol-

ist border, destroying one lows:- ele resembling an armoured

car' and eight trucks. It the first official indication the Vietminh rebels might mobile armoured equip

e spokesman said planes destroyed 18 junks along Songma River, 100 miles Hanoi, and blasted rebel tions plants north and of Hanoi-United Press.

NOT A DETERRENT.

not an effective deterrent to

further Soviet aggression by

bilisation

that

should start on elaborate measures of civil defence, with a warning system and fighter 1. The atomic bomb is of protection throughout the At- no use in the cold war; it is lantic Pact area on a 24-hour emergency basis-with more aircraft and far greater mo-

of manpower proxy where in-the-Soviet forces are not directly involved; hitherto planned.

The report 2. Use and effect of the atom

concluded: "All bomb in military operations are that atomic bombing could play assumptions about the 'part unknown quantities. 3. Its strategic

if the cold war became 1 first stages of a war against the general war should be ruthless- heart of a power's political and ly re-examined before a myth the industrial system

is built up that frightens might have decisive effects; it could cause

world as much as it frightens potential and

aggressors."--United disor-

Press. ganisation but not necessarily break the will of enemy

ding Of War great destruction fith

Germany

Paris, Nov. 9.

leaders.

use in the

to

"It was used in Japan break the morale of a wavering Western Allied powers] probably end the state of 5overnment in the final stages with Germany early next of a war that the Japanese were

lazing" diplomatic circles here

today.

Elizabeth's

VALUE OF THE BOMB Greek Trip

by recalled that the For- 4. Prospects for getting a Ministers of France, Bri- bomb on its target are at

of

at

London, Nov.

9.

Prince Charles, son of Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh, watching the Royal Pro- cession pass from the Palace to Westminster for the State Opening of Parliament. Central Press.

FRENCH DEFEAT IN INDO-CHINA "CATASTROPHIC”

Paris, Nov. 9.

General George Revers, former French Army Chief of Staff, today warned that loss of Indo- China to the Communists following the recent set- back for United Nations forces in Korea would be catastrophic for the West.

General Revers was Army Chief of Staff from August 1946 until he was dismissed last December in the so-called "scandal of the Generals."

and the United States present good because of the Princess Elizabeth, heir to d on September 19 in New existence heavily armed the Throne, will sail from Mal- He said in an interview that | Indo-China, it would be catas-

on action and sent out long-range bombers flying in ta in the 1,600-ton naval France must sacrifice every trophic for the West. tions to the smaller Wes- tormation

great height frigate, Surprise, when she thing else if necessary in Indo- "A big new development in powers to join them in a prospects diminish with the visits Greece next month.

China to hold the northern the Far East, an advance of defensive weapons-

extremely 1 declaration.

The 9.100-ton cruiser Liver centre of Hanoi, its supply port grave one, is the emergence Belgian Foreign Minis-it may be that the days of the pool will be standing by to

of China from waiting to make M. Paul van, Zeeland, an-heavy bomber are numbered:" take her most of the way of Haiphong and the surround-

of libera- Government's 5. The

ing Red River delta, or the en- itself the champion value of the atom the seas are rough. Her hus-

tion. of Asia. ment today. United bomb lies in these uncertainties band, the Duke of Edinburgh, tire country would be lost. and in the doubt they can cause will escort the Princess in his in the aggressor's mind about ship, the trigate Magple. The whether and how they will be couple will be going on a pri- used. This uncertainty must vate visit to King Paul

ed

his

if

and

"Outside ald, whether from France or the

United States, takes two months to put into

"Mao Tse-tung rejects even. Pandit Nehru as too Western and, in my opinion, does not

trouble himself about Moscow.

Crash Victims be maintained, and any state- Queen Frederika of Greece.

action," he said.

"This is to such point that I ment defining the circumstances An announcement today said "Thus we must keep control wonder if Russia's new de- London, Nov. 9. in which it will be used would that the naval flotilla would of the situation until then, by marche (the proposal for a nty-seven people aboard

remove much of its deterrent leave Malta on December ir

3, regrouping of our forces on the Big Four meeting on Germany) India Constellation value;

passing through the Corinth spot. crashed just below the

6. The atom bomb is no Canal on December 4 and it of Mont Blanc last

substitute for conventional reaching Phalchon Bay, east_of "Later, it will be necessary y were Pakistani nationals, kesman of the

weapons. The study group ad- Athens port, on December 6. to build up cadres necessary for Pakistan

Princess Elizabeth and the the formation of mitted the possibility that the Commission

Vietnamesea London

highly centralised system of Duke of Edinburgh will leave units, which will be very valu- added that they were political and

economic control Greece on December 11 to re-able. n who had signed on in directed by the Politburo is turn to Malta, the announce- "If, along with the setback in

specially vulnerable to atomic ment said.-Reuter.

nced today.

ay. Reuter,

in

Korea, another were suffered in

is not simply a sign of fear inspired by Chinese initiative.

"It could be simply asking to temporise in the West, to have

freer hand in Asia.

"Yes, the big new develop- ment is Mao Tse-tung's rejec- tion of the 'Nehru philosophy'."

United Press.

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I WANT YOU TO POINT TO THE SECTION OF

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POPULATION IS MOST

DENSE

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