North Vietnam Makes Protest

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30764, 31 May 1965, Page 1

North Vietnam Makes Protest

(N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) TOKYO, May 29. North Vietnam today lodged a “strong” protest with the International Control Commission on Vietnam against New Zealand’s decision to send troops to South Vietnam, the New China News Agency reported, according to the Associated Press.

. The agency said the message sent by Colonel Haivan Lau, liaison chief of the Vietnam People’s Army high command, said: “This new act of the New Zealand Government ran counter to the interests and aspirations of its own people.

“But it could never save the United States imperialists from their inevitable defeat in South Vietnam.

“All this showed that the New Zealand Government was serving the United States aggressors to stamp out the national liberation movement of the Vietnamese people.” Hanoi Radio said the Communists also sent a message to the commission today protesting at the shelling of coastal areas in South Vietnam by the United States Seventh Fleet.

The North Vietnam protest said the New-Zealand move was a gross encroachment on the independence and sovereignty of the Vietnamese people and an extremely serious violation of the 1954 Geneva Agreements on IndoChina, Reuter reported.

It rendered the situation in the area more complicated, the protest message to the commission said.

New Zealand youths were being sent as "cannon-fodder for the U.S. aggressors.’