COMMUNIST MOVE IN INDO-CHINA
“Masters Of Saigon In Six Months”
®ec. 8 p.m.) LONDON, August 10. A message from Saigon which ••caped censorship a week ago and published in the Parts newspaper T-e Monde,” yesterday said that everywhere in southern Vietnam the supporters of the Communist Vietminh making rapid headway. They were using the slogan: “We be masters of Saigon within six months”
Vietminh agents are freely organising meetings in villages for a referendum to choose between Ho Chi Minh Bao Dai, who is completely discredited among the Vietnam National- «« themselves. Agents are preparing for demonstrates of women and children who will ®®mnd the unification of the south the north without waiting for •lections in 1955 as was agreed on in Geneva. The Government of Ngo Dinh Diem •as lost practically all vestige of ytthority in southern Vietnam, the correspondent of the “Daily Tele-»>-Ph" reported today. rne Government continued to main- ® rigorous censorship which kept 133 facts from the outside world. Most of the influential Nationalist in Saigon now openly declared ?®mselves hostile to the Diem Govand it was Miso being abandoned by the Roman Catholics from X. n ° m rormerly it had derived its latest support.
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Press, Volume XC, Issue 27425, 11 August 1954, Page 11
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