Show 7 - 4 - '"''''''' s 1 - I ' - 10 A ASIA'S FORGOTTEN BATTLE '— I - ' ' I ' Sunday' April 25 TBE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE s CAN TjlEy ACMEVE ACCORD AT GENE'V' A? -- Behr Reuters Staff Writer 1- - PARIS April 24—The savage battle raging around the Indochinese dust bowl of Dienblenphu haa focuaed arid attention on what for seven years was 1 East Wést meet Monday i n Peace 1940 Achon Started By Edward - 0 I liidó TOv4:i'd'T0--7''- 1 1954 'continued from Page One from Laos and Cambodia be fore a truce can be called Much depends on the attitude Communist China - will take towaid a settlement- of the war Without the support of the Pei- ping regime Ho CM Minh's forces in Indochina would rap- - ' or' - - learnt to an understanding with the Chinese Nationalists The French government was in a difficult position It did not want to surrender Indo china to the Vietminh partisans nor could It fight alone against them as it had only 3000 French troops in the territory The American government not fully awakened to the Communist threat Implicit in would not have support ed such a conflict British troops were committed elsewhere and moved out of Indo china as soon as the Japanese were disarmed 4 I i 14 ' - 1 1 1 Try will and China's Chou' En-lhave their -own villas Molotov will live lo- a palatial lakeside villa outside Geneva The Bus sians rented it from Aymon de Senarclens wealthy member of the Geneva parliament for an undisclosed sum EVEN 49-i- t will be a tight In addition to the army of squeeze—some of the 220 Rus- - officials an estimated 1000 sians will have to sleep three to newsmen will cover the talks a room Dulles and the United States delegation will be in the Hotel Picks cotton Royalty Du Rhone Two complete floors MEMPHIS TENN April 24 have been reserved but reports tift---B Iona e Julia say the Americans could have Turner Donelson and Willis used more space bad it been Howard Willey Jr wealthy available were Saturday businessman British Foreign Secretary named queen and king of cotAnthony Eden and his team will ton to reign over the 1954 Memstay at the Hotel Beau Rivage phis Cotton Carnival the Chinese karKórean ‘ languages They aim had to find accommodations for the various delegations The only delegation to have a hotel to itself is the Russian which will stay in the Hotel Metropole STO Idly collapse ''' : i i i Asia's forgotten war COMMUNIST leader Mao I ' i i ' Tse-tun- g t I I may be willing to I ' ' Long before Korea flared up 1 P ' ' t i as a test of strength between trade peace in Indochina for 1 1 ' 't East and West Frenchmen the three things be badly needs 1 : l were fighting and dying against Communist China—world for 4 t i i $ f 1 i t communism in Indochina's i15 t wide recognition a seat in the '' t t ' ! t United Nations and western steamy green battlefields The t i i '''''''e'r ifr ' I ' t '41 I Korean cease-fir- e while bring trade to build up his home ik'''" ' 1 na' relief to other war-tire- d ' ' Industry r i tions of the West spelled only The status of Communist THUS THZ French goyero an upsurge In the flow of weapChina is likely to be an early their traditional headquarters 1 ' ' " 1 ons and materials put at the ment was forced to comprUmise Russia in- since the days of the League of I point or argument ":: 441140000110' : that Chou En-la- i I take his Nations after World War disposal of France's enemy by with Ho Chi Minh the Viet 114 sists t minh's Moscow-traine- d leader Communist China as a full participating place The Millman Chinese dole In a convention signed with member SAIL ON MUNI ROM has been scattered UP UNTIL World War II the him in March 1946 France reo gallon The United States ritain among six hotels LOS ANGELES HARBOR MAY 24 country at continental Asia's ognized the "Vietnamese ReWeis Pm Comp lows Doak C'iII and France insisted In a ote to southeast extremity was one of public" as an autonomous state ViDA FOX CLAWSON Unlike Dulles and Eden Rua 14 Corn- dated Russia April 9414 South L most ovehowl France's prosperous within the French Union and munist China is ng as slan Foreign Minister Molotov rseas territories Frenchmen the Indochina Federation In the invited one of powers—not could move over its length and return Ho agreed that French Oki as an equal to the four inviting "to &4 ft4 I) breadth as peacefully as they troops should remain in Indo powers traveled about their own coun- china and replace Chiang KaiI ' There are 1 try shek's units in the north plenty of other whole of the Indochina technical points causing se— Today Three months later HS aris a 'battleground with the rived in France to negotiate derious headaches for the haC' 47 'It French firmly entrenched in tails of the convention and was rassed officials setting the A 4 —AP Aonly two key strategic areas received in Paris with military stage for the meeting at north and south—Tonkin and honors usually reserved for a Geneva's Palais des Nations seen at night Creneva's Palais des Nations long sessions of the Geneva Confereice on ') Cochin-ChinMillions of In- visiting head of state Korea and Indochina which begins Monday be lighted into the night during N staff members here may again It — dochinese are homeless Tens were in the dark up to a few of thousands have been killed - But Ho's demands for total b Gen Henri Navarre as In the near future although sev- days ago on technical details I In this bitter struggle against Independence were rejected changed abruptly at the end of gence of 1949—the date the Chinese commander in chief to and he One of Indochina returned eral Chinese their hundred military of the meeting a fanatically brave and I I VI ' I J- ' The Navarre plan which he advisers are known to have been biggest worries was finding suf' 1 '' Communist army the In August after signing an Communist armies reached the border and after formulated on Indochinese began based to sent shortly translators uneasy taking compromise ficient especially Vietminh Gin) Indochina has maintenance of the status supplying Giap with arms and over was destined to break Old Politically : Vietminh of equipment military strength been transformed into a group quo of the Chinese aid once and for all by forcing Giap The effect of three associated states— The character of Vietminh immediate: Before the to join in battle instead of InVietnam Cambodia and Laos— rule in the Tonkin area had re was 1949-5campaign was ended dulging in his customary which are independent within vealed itself unmistakeably: the French had lost their hold tactics the French Union 1" Single list elections were held on their frontier fortresses on and Communist the model ORDER But if the French were to IN to this fulfill outplan the vital They gave up withdraw their army the Ho claimed 98 per cent of the posts of Langson and Cao Bang Navarre asked for and obtained votes A Vietminh army was structure present political which controlled the supply nine additional French battawould crumble and Indochina being recruited and trained route from China Chinese Com- lions and increased American under Gen Vo Nyguyen Clap 1: would be in danger of becom11 munist aid was stepped up de- military aid a bitterly history Cornthe second soon But ing after the beginning largest gue- spite China's imminent entry znunist power In the Far East teacher and into the Korean War The huge of the campaigning season last rilla leader u 41 1° The origins of- - the war are Chinese supply depots were es-- October Clap largely foreIn December 1946 two 1 D D this stalled Hanby 1940 infiltrating at back plan to go tablished gt-acomplex They Pigtsian Ang made a war iitevi 0--i111' Laos Cambodia which into and InI'HI Eu20 France in miles of the when defeated table Adm Thierry d'Argen ning within hitherto had been almost enrope was forced to conclude a lieu summoned from retire- dochina border tirely free of Vietminh activity humiliating agreement with ment in a Carmelite monastery Commu- Navarre was forced to draw on THIDELLI XE Japan This allowed the Jap- to become France'a resident HERE THE Chinese ril a nists to a check permanent his striking force provided anese to use Northern Indo- general in Indochina set up a 1: where the Vietminh Vietminh advance in these 11 Here's a brand new s' revolutionary triple-purpos- e china (Tonkin) as a base in their separate gov- "sanctuary" ''r to 1 risk withdraw could without In Vietwar against the Chinese areas the Cochin-Chin' a a February ernment in 1: 'f ( 14 t'f' The Japanese gradually ex- move promptly attacked by Ho recover from their campaigns minh called off their second o' l''' '' 41 ' was so serious siege of Luang Prabang the The position f tended control over all Indo- as a violation of the earlier I fil) -at the end of 1950 that the Laos capital and marched north I I china during World War II An March agreement 1 French government sent its again through impenetrable resistance movea most brilliant soldier THEN FRENCH --- ® Gen de Jungle ment came into being composecrlargely of Vietminh Com- alarmed at their antagonist's Lattre de Tassigny to Indochina Navarre in a hold move to 1 munists with some Free French growing military strength de- as commander in chief :i leaders and a handful of Brit- cided to blockade the port of Although De Lattre was un- forced Vietminh to attack in open country had built up the t i ish and American liaison offi- Talphong the Vietminh's prin- able to reconquer the lost outIsolated fortress of Dienbien- !ii:: i cers cipal supply port French and posts on the Chinese border and filled it with 10000 Vietminh troops clashed in Hai- his achievements his phu until 11 THIS MOTLEY force was phong and the French navy of his best troops ) :: '' death from cancer in early 1952 if:i supplied with American equip- shelled the town Dienbien- - t battle for The considerable were epic - rnent Chen-vault's by Gen Claire A few days later French ciHe beat the Vietminh in phu which began on Mardi 13 t ) t e- '' Doloo PoOgooli China-base' U S Air vilians were massacred by Viet :' --- battles at Vinhyen still Is raging and heavy cas- - iE pitched AFFI" F ' Force planes mirth terrorists in a surprise have been inflicted on '41‘9co When the war ended in Ja- raid and French troops replied Dongtrieu and Latchau in the ualties 4' ::' i "' ' But Communists the Tonkin area and inspired the the '' pan's defeat Vietminh gueril- with a massive counter-attac- k t'l ! na- Ho Chi Minh took to the hills troops under his command with strength and determination of t las and other 4 : s'' """ f ' ' He 1 ' fact and the a offensive that army fresh I Glap's N spirit k full-scale tionalists emerged from hiding with his army and the has vital the first for rice time threathe Tonkin the ringed and demanded independence war was under way a chain of concrete ened French air supremacy by In Tonkin the for Indochina In the fighting of the next bowl with Vietminh seized control and set three years—limited primarily piU boxes to prevent rice accurate and massive anti- - g:f:": : A $:1 - : : - :r to the months between October supplies and potential recruits aircraft fire are causing serious f: up their own government r ' Q:: '" '" 4' '7 '' ' ": Under the Potsdam agree- and April by the heavy rains from falling into Vietminh concern :" ' :" 'ZN'10140 Whatever the outcome at t ''' ::'''4446ZI '''''''''''''V l:'' ' '' :!''' t C rnent British troops landed in that fall during the rest of the hands :' ' '''"""WW4(t l' ' ':tkgYK4t " ) ) A ' ' l' ::"'''''' ''''' military experts V:::' k44 Southern Indochina and the year—the French scored a si ': r41V: He laid the foundations of Dienbienphu kr': t: -- '-': k41 Chinese forces of Gen Chiang eries of unspectactaar suc- a national Vietnamese army do not expect any spectacular ril i:i::::: 1' war in the 1t Kai-shemarched into the cesses to help French troops in the development of the ‘ immediate future They point 11 northern part of the country to Vietminh fight against cleared Tonthe monsoon season that out disarm the Japanese and re- kinTheyandvirtually Cochin-Chin- a of p He also won military aid from makes large scale fighting im- I:1 and lease French 19" 'f '': S'' ' 0 out United States leaders '':::':" ''''' ::': Vietminh carried N: troops con) by Mao Uo- - Chot Co possible'after April k'' troops who had been interned i' patrols in the rest vincing them that this was no I 1 ' ' The Nationalists immedi::: of the country and set up a old fashioned colonial war BUT A Communist victory at 4 044::i 7?:: ::: 1" Britclashed with the the on chain of frontier on ately posts the ti::::: I ' ' De Lattre's death the Dienbienphut coming After Ish in °the smith Chinese border 0 P THE course of the war remained eve of the Geneva 'conference 1 The arrival of French troops But Indochina's vast north- static until last fall when the undoubtedly would represent q -It i in Saigon added to the tension ern neighbor fell to the Commu French government sent out its a great psychological victory GLAMOUR t IOUNOt I OFFER ssi SPECIAL Communists the for Tonkin but in the Vietminh nists The course of the war former head of military intelli v S: 0 GIVES YOU Itubberiseci bait Another cause for French convalue this Uri great spocial purchase s An you cern is the increasing quantity lioublo which horciircoori ore cortstructlon small 'filling row fut spring and quality of Chinese war Ma- - 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