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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1950.

King Lays His Wreath

His Majesty the King photographed during the annual Service of Remembrance held at the Cenotaph on November 12. (Central Press Photo)

Ex-convicts Suspected Of Savage Beating

Fairfield, Conn. Nov. 22.

Ex-convicts Joseph Jarasko, 31, and Stanley Sull, 32, were sought on Wednesday as suspects in the savage beating of Mrs Idonah Slade Perkins, 65. ...

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The socially prominent es- tranged wife of a Manila attor- ney identified pictures of the two men from her hospital bed. She

told the police, according to Lieutenant Christian Schick, they "took her for a ride" and' left her for dead beside the highway.

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Sull, described by the police

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France Will Be Forced To Seek Active Allied Help If The War In Indo-China Continues

Paris, Nov. 22.

The French Minister for Indo-China, M. Jean Letourneau, said here today that if the war in Indo-China continued, France would be forced to call for “the active co-operation of the Allied Powers who share with us the defence of the world."

He told the National Assembly in a debate on Indo-China: "There has been talk of a recourse to the international authority. Under the pre- sent conditions, I do not think this recourse either possible or desirable.

“But I cannot prejudge what may happen if the conflict were to take on a clearly international character. France might reserve the right to seek a solution by international instances."

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"The

ground was soaked with blood and littered with. fragments of bodies, Indicat- ing the rebels suffered heavily, In wounded, although ótils four whole bodies were found," : he said.

He said of the Rachbap gar- rison of 60, only one man, was killed and nine were wounded in the attack. Elsewhere in Indo-China, he said, at least 77 Vietminh rebels, were killed and 57 captured.

M. Letourneau, just back and captured 44 yesterday, a from a three-week visit to Indo-spokesman said.-Reuter. China, said that the Vietminh forces were now "solidly or-

Saigon, Nov. 22. The Vietminh Communists ganised and powerfully armed."

launched a large-scale He said: "The enemy relied have

against the French more and more on outside aid, offensive

defences surrounding the which

him to has permitted

Н of Hanoi,

BIGGEST CLASH train his troops and reform northern capital

French milltary spokesman In the biggest clash of the them." But France would never

sald on Wednesday night. give up in Indo-China, he said,

day in the rice paddies below

he The spokesman said several | Saduong, adding, "It we did, it would

continued, the were under Reds lost 45 killed and 14 offer the Cominform a chance French fortresses

attack and the French were captured. He listed 12 killed of expansion in the Pacific.”

winning "In most cases."

and 43 captured in Central He said there has been "errors and even faults" carrying out the evacuation of -the-frontier-post-of-Caobang, in

which the French forces lost The spokesman said rebel heavily in killed, wounded and action flared up Dear the prisoners.

Dinhlap and Tienyen on on Colonial Route No. 4 after a lull of several days.

The spokesman said that the

post before the

in

Langson, another frontier post, had been evacuated under "excessively hasty conditions." The destruction of material at the garrison had not withdrew

been the sufficiently complete, and French Air Force was now trying to "repair this fault" Reuter.

INVASION ROUTE Lucnam, North Tonking,

Nov. 22. Vietminh forces from

the China border were reported to- day to be massing in the moun- tains around Luenam where

The Communists' immediate Indo-China. objective appeared to be the French patrols fought rice basin in the Red River "serious" skirmishes with pre- delta, north of Hanoi.

bels near Dinhlap and Tienyën: -two of the last remaining French-held fortresses which guard the approaches to Indo- China from Communist China -with "as yet unknown re- sults."

were..

In other fighting, the spokes-; garrison at the Western end of the delta defences, although man said, French warplanes ·· outnumbered more than 10 to successfully bombed and strafeds one, withstood a violent all-rebel concentrations in the nonth- out

than 800 and in siege by more

Central Indo-China. equipped with mortars Twenty Vietminh rebels Reds and some heavy machineguns, killed in a swampland skirmish He said the rebels also struck northern French outposts, of.... at the stone fort of. Rachbap, | Haiphong, French patrolein-i north of Saigon, and were flicted "same losses" on rebels: "brilliantly" repulsed by the in minor actions in the Hadong garrison and mobile reinforce-sector, only a few miles, from: ments in a bloody battle.

Hanoi. United Press.

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Récords showed, according to Schick, that Jarasko, whom Mrs Perkins said she knew as "Gins- berg," last lived in Bridgeport and had been donvicted on various charges, including re- sisting arrest and stealing

automobile.

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Schick said doctors advised against questioning Mrs Perk- ins until her condition im- proved.-United Press.

"The Nine Dragons"

Services Club

Jumble Sole

Monday Dec. 4 at 2 P.M.

Melbourne, Nov. 22. Ordering a man to re- move his trousers is the best sobriety test, accord- ing to a Melbourne polies .doctor.

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He told the court during drunken driving case hearing that It took co- ordination

to for a man stand on one leg and take his trousers off the other.

The police got a convic- tion-Renter.

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Kennedy Road

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The Women's Guild invite you to a?

sale of work in aid of Church and building.

eight strategic French fortresses funds to be held on Saturday 25th

cluster on the North Tonking front.

Luenam commands a possible Invasion route by which Viet- minh forces might sweep, into the Tonking Delta.

This is through a mountain. Dong Trieu, on pass toward the French delta periphery, 12 miles north of the vital high- way linking the Tonking capi- tal, Hanol, and the main port of Haiphong

was also reported farther west

in the delta itself.

November, 1950.

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The Bazaar will be opened by J. Finnie at 2 p.m.

Mrs.

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The usual stalls of woollen goods,

Increased Vietminh activity cakes, novelties, Dutch goods, toys, white elephant, teas, hoopla, competitions, the lady with the hundred pockets and a special corner for the kiddies.

Naval guns helped French

by 800 Vietminh guerillas

Proceeds to be used for Christmas Gift Parcels for patients of a Service troops beat off a heavy attack Hospital. Contributions of any kind grate against a post near Bencat, 28 fully received, and may be left at the Nine mes north of Salgon on the Dragons Club on Nathan Road, 31 Kadoorie Avenue, or on telephoning 57027 they will be collected by car as soon as possible,

night of November 20-21.

At Tanuyen, 20 miles north-

Cast of Saigon, the Vietnam

capital, French planes bombed

and machine-gunned Vietminh installations yesterday.

In-Cochin-China French forces killed 12 Vietminh troops

All members and interested friends are cordially invited.