WARNING BY U.S.

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28963, 3 August 1959, Page 11

WARNING BY U.S.

“Stay Out Of Laos”

(Rec. 9 p.m.) WASHINGTON, Aug. 1. The United States today warned Asian Communists, in effect, to stay out of Laos and let the South-east Asian nation live in peace. The State Department accused “Communist imperialists in the Far East of trying to provoke a serious crisis.” Fighting in the former IndoChina region broke out again recently. The Government of Laos has charged that rebel forces have been supported and commanded by Communists from neighbouring Communist China and North Vietnam. A State Department statement laid: “The United States respects the will of Laos to remain independent and to live in peace It, therefore, views with concern what may be a deliberate effort

ot insurgent elements, apparently backed by Communists from outside, to provoke a crisis in Laos, a sovereign nation and member of the United Nations." Department officials said it is too early to decide whether the Laotian situation should be taken to the United Nations. They said the initiative was up to Laos. Director Dead.— Mr Edward William Macalpme, a director and former editor-in-chief of Australian Consolidated Press, Ltd., publishers of the Sydney “Daily Telegraph” and “Women’s Weekly," died in Sydney yesterday.—Sydney, August 2.