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Ngo Brothers Deaths Said Mark Of Shame Le) vehicles and jeeps arrived at the by|church, Diem and Nhu met the Censorship and faulty communicatitns have kept locked in Saigon many de" . tails of the revolt which . 'overthrew. South Vietnam- ese President Ngo Dinh Diem. In the following dis* patch, Associated Press Cor- respondat Malcolm W. Browne tells of Diem's last hours. _ By MALCOLM W. BROWNE SAIGON (AP)--A pre-dawn fght through subterranean tun. nels, a speeding car ride, a visit to a suburban church, a trip in- side an armored personnel car- rier and sudden death Such were the final hours of Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother, Ngo Dinh Nhu. Such was the death of a regime and a nine- year era of Vietnamese. history. The cycle of violence, revenge and more revenge that has characterized Viet Nam through most of its history was fe peated. No two accounts of what hap- pened to Diem and Nhu last Saturday morning are exactly alike. The handful of soldiers who attended the death of the two former leaders inside an American-made M-113 personnel carrier are the only sure wit- nesses, Their accounts certainly cause it was poorly organized. tanks, walls and machine-guns. Manning the fortifications Fri- somtimes called Diem's An- eral hundred more of them in- side the palace if the rebel forces. had not taken the precau- tion Friday aftrnoon of laying siege to the palace guard garri- son five blocks away : Shelling and small-arms fire flickered throughout Saigon Fri- day afternoon. One Dim strong- hold after another caved in. The palace. guard garrison fell. Fri- day night. } But the stage was not yet set for the final act--the assault on the palace. Soon after midnight, Saigon) became stili and dead, Down-) town streets were deserted, gun| were silent, GUNFIRE RESUMES will 'be tailored to put them- selves in the best light. . Friends of the Diem regime call the deaths murder and a mark of shame igainst the new revolutionary government. CENSORSHIP IMPOSED The government itself has as- serted that Diem and Nhu com- mitted suicide and has censored all cabled dispatches to the con- trary All that is certain is that Diem and Nhu died of massive wounds, were spirited to a 'guarded hospital and swiftly prepared for burial. "After all those two men did to the Vietnamese people, they deserve whatever they got," an 'enemy of the old regime said. "Diem and Nhu did the only Soon after 3 a.m., the cannon! jeame to life again, dropping heavy shells into a building just| behind Saigon's telecommunica- tions centre. | Tanks took up positiong out- side the palace walls. At 4 a.m., the attack began. Buildings near the palace} burned brightly, and answering fire from the palace set two ar- mored vhicles afire. It is believed Diem and Nhu slipped away from their bastion] about the time the final battle| began, before marines hacked their way inside the defence per- imeter. The two men, accompanied by| a bodyguard named Chung, are supposed to have made their! way through a tunnel into a! honorable thing done aij that day," said a friend of the re- gime. | According to various eyewit- nesses along the line, military » mansion that became the tem- porary home and headquarters of Diem's family Feb. 27, 1062. On that date, two rebel Vietna-| » mese Air Force fighter pilots bombed the Presidential Palace F.P.S. 0.D.H. SEE PAGE 17 =~ THE OSHAWA TIMES, Wednesday, November 6, 1963 21 | A powerful attempt to oustibeauty parlor on nearby Diem was launched by four bat-/Thanh Ton Street, | talions of paratroopers Nov, 11,|Mrs, Nguyen Thi Minh, wife of! rebels outside and talked for 1960, and collapsed only be-|Gen. Nguyen Van La. Some sources said two other| The parley ended about 9:45. Thus Gia Long Palace was|aides--both believed to have|The brothers stepped into the ringed with anti-aircra't guns,|been killed--were with Diem| hatch of a tracked armored per- and Nhu. They oe Bag a sonnel carrier. There were extensive. bunkers|Vy, deputy comm: r u's It thks leet time elther was and an elaborate tunnel system,|Republican Youth Corps, and a [cyte te | One tunnel nearly saved Diem's|colonel named Ky Quan Lien. | Wis Tobey euhae baek ss ie: GUARDS CAPITULATE Exhausted palace guards|time {& reached general staff day night were about 150 mem:|after heavy casualties hoisted a/he' ; bers of the elite palace guard,lwhite flag at 6:37 a.m. ihe Marines, paratroopers and sol. gels. diers swarmed into the building, | DIE IN CARRIER There would have been sev-|But the prizes of battle, Diem and Nhu, were goné. A black Peugeot sedan had long 4 ieee: Hod Cromi heedguatter:. | never be known how the car| A certain captain is sai. . evaded rebel checkpoints and|have shot both men, and two guards throughout the city. Bystanders saw the sedan ar- have stabbed Nhu several times rive about 8 a.m. at St, Francis|with bayonets. Xavier Roman Caholic Church} Some 'said Diem end Nhu Diem, and Nhu enter the church in the company of a young man. Diem talked to church offi- cials. Informed sources said Diem and Nhu asked that rebel authorities be notified of their willingness to surrender, The message is said to have reached Gen. Mai Hu Xuan. About 9 a.m. several armored some minutes with the officers. jward downtown Saigon. By the Diem and Nhu were dead, Death is believed to have come somewhere along Hong Thap Tu Street near the Vietna-/ soldiers with him are said to) in the Chinese section, and saw! were shot in the back. | MOREY. for home remodeling or repairs--any good reason! 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