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16 THE DAILY TIMES-GAZETTE, Wednesday, April 21, 1054 WHO ARE THE VIETMINH 2000 Villages Terrorized By Indo-Chinese Communists Depending upon the turn of evens at Geneva next week, Indo-China may be barely out- side the grasp of international Gen. Rene Cogny, French com- mander in north Indo-China, an outstanding and colorful officer, 532 | the ietminh in this area has of regular troops, 15 communism. That was orted am L. Ryan Monday in first of a series of articles. Today Ryan discusses the stren; of the Vietminh mili- tary forces which spearhead the Communist campaign. Ryan toured Indo-China this month, then returned to Singapore to write his findings free of cen- sorship. By WILLIAM L. RYAN SINGAPORE (AP)--A cluster of Tonkinese peasants watched stol- idly as our jeep ve . Their faces were inscrutable under their big, round, pointed straw hats. "These people," said a French officer, gesturing, 'maybe they are Vietminh. Maybe they are not. One never knows." "Who are the Vietminh? Where are they? Who knows? They are eve ere." HEAVILY GUARDED ; That is why, in the Tonkin delta area of north judo Chins, every. thing 'that might possibly am- vo] by pr 40 is heavily guarded by barbed wire and watched by armed guards. The French admit that inside Hanoi capital of Tonkin, there are at least two armed battalions of Vietminh in hiding, ready to rise when and if the signal is given. The French nominally control all the delta area, an expanse of swampy ricefields and dense for- ests surrounding 5,400 villages and harboring 7,000,000 persons. But "regional" battalions, 100 trict'"" companies and about 50,000 {uetrilles, ILLAGERS TERRORIZED They hold more than 2,000 vil- lages in the delta and terrorize at least another 2,000. The Vietminh has forces scat- tered all through Viet Nam, thouge: almost none in the neighboring as- sociated states of Laos and Cam- bodia. Saigon, a comfortable mod- ern city which you'd hardly guess from a glance is the nerve centre of a nation at war, often exper- iences stab "attente" attacks on its outskirts, particularly in the heavily Chinese area of Cholon. "'attente' attack is simply a for. to show the Vietminh are still around. *"The Viet is a damn good sol- dier," a tough French parachute troop noncom said. "He can march harder and longer than any sol- dier tn the world and on less food." Total mobilization has been en- forced in the areas controlled by the Vietminh. The army is organ- ized in a sort of ladder. At the top are the regulars, the main striking arm. These are the best trained and best equipped. There are seven divisions of regulars in | all, or about 110,000 men. Local defence is the next rung of the ladder, the provincial or regional troops used both in Com- munist-held and non - Communist areas. These also are regulars, but they are not so well trained and of defence. They are stationed in is- {of defence. They provide help in of defence. They provide help in companies consist largely of irreg- equipped. They are stationed in their respective areas as a corps their respective areas as a corps their respective areas as a corps offensive actions when the regulars reach their areas and are invalu- able because they know their counfry well. The regional troops also form a pool from which the Vietminh make up losses among the regulars. FORCED TO WORK Next down the ladder, district ulars. They have charge of the corps of boys, women and old men impressed into labor battalions. s group forms a pool for re- gional troops. . A never-ending process of con- scription, training and shifting keeps the Vietminh ranks from be- ing depleted by heavy losses in- flicted in battle. Some French authorities say the Vietminh has reached the maxi- mum number it can recruit in this way. - e Vietminh are having other troubles. They have a problem of supply. Heavy weapons and sup- plies for the Dien Bien Phu assault have been coming by trucks, Mol-] otov trucks shipped down from Russia through China. But soon the rains will be coming, the steady pelting monsoon rains of Southeast Asia. Already it has been raining in the northwest. In a few weeks the rains will become tor- rents and will cut roads much bet- ter than air attack could. General Motors Marking Its 46th Anniversary By DAVID J. WILKIE DETROIT (AP)-- Forty - six years ago William C. Durant merged Buick Motor Car Co. and Oldsmobile to create General Mot- ors Co. The company, dealing ex- clusively in automobiles, earmed $10,000,000 in its first year. Last year General Motors Corp., its original two divisions grown to nearly two score, did a gross bus- iness of more than $10,000,000.000 and earned more than $585,000,000. To most persons General Motors means autotobiles. Fd yen : built approximately per cen all the motor vehicles produced the Upited States. It turned out 3,279,440 Buick, Cadillac, Chevro- let, Oldsmobile tiac cars and Chevrolet and C trucks. But from its numerous other d@i- visions came such things as ice trays, automatic home heating , clothes bicycle equipment, ¢ dryers, in | pany ants last persons. Employment in GM pl year averaged 551,095 048 in wages. Houlry-rated work- ers averaged $02.27 in weekly pay. The corporation paid $1,250,0007000 in taxes. CANADIAN GM FORMED When Darant brought Buick and Oldsmobile' together in 1908 he was generally credited with an ambi- tion to control all motorcar produc- tion. In 1909 Oakland (now Pontiac Motors) and Cadillac joined GM. Shortly afterward General Motors Export Co. and GM's truck com- were organized. ¢ In 1912 General Motors of Can- i as joined. Body was absorbed the corpor- ation organized Frigidaire Con: Today the corporation has 131 plants in 57 communities in 19 states. It has five plants in Can- ada and manufacturing operations in 17 other countries. t {OTTAWA (CP) -- Disarmament talks are a of the "gies est urgency,' said Tuesday. -For that reason, the government is pleased that a sub-committee of the United Nations disarmament commission will start private talks Friday, even though Russim has The sub - committee comprises representatives of Canada, Britain, the United States, France and Rus- Cheese Prices Down Slightly STRATFORD (CP) -- Cheese prices on the western Oniurie cheese Tuesday ran pound, do igh | : y st sion's 20% cents. uy a" we Boardings 3,811 fals, 906 White and 1,600 colored. yy) were sold except 100 colored. COSTLY SCHOOLS LONDON (CP)--County eouncil officials announced more than £2, 600,000 will be spent on new sec- gadary and primary schools. in 1955-56. sia. T!@ Canadian repr ative will be David Johnson, Canada's permanent delegate to the UN. External Affairs Minister Pear- son said recently that private dis- | cussion within a sub-committee should present a better chance for progress. Canada is mlso a mem- ber of the 12-nation disarmament commission. Canadian officials regard disar- | mament discussion as particularly urgent now in light of the recent hvdrogen bomb explosions and President Eisenhower's call for @n international pool of atomic energy materials for peaceful purposes. Ancient Device Still Efficient TOKYO (Reuters)--In Japan's business world, 92 per cent of all czlculation is done on an adding machine developed more than 500 y-ars ago. Tor all its age, the Chinese aba- crs, or soroban as it is called here, is in many respects as efficient as tha most modern calculating ma- «ne in the West. Almost every commercial estab- | ti-hment in Japan, from street stall to department store, uses h-~ded wooden frame. It is just as usual to find the s»iguitous soroban resting on the desk of an accountant as on the crossed legs of a pot-and-pan dealer. In the hands of a skilled operator, it can perform monumen- tal calculations just as easily and ~~aedily as simple sums. ; .In a compgtition involving addi- '~n and subtraction a first-class abacus ' operator can invariably sclve the problems twice as fast as a proficient operator of a mo- dern electric machine, no matter | the Retire on $200 A Month for Life! | A popular Halifax .grocer and his | wiferecentlyretired on $200amonth for life. Their dreams of security and comfort have come true, thanks to adecision the grocer made in 1923, It was then he took out a Con- federation Life Insurance Pension Plan which included $20,000 insurance protection. He had just opened his store . . . and with the baby and the payments on his home, | he had only so much left for retire. ment plans. 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