Chinese View Of U.S. Intentions

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30793, 3 July 1965, Page 15

Chinese View Of U.S. Intentions

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HONG KONG, July 2. China’s leading newspaper, the Peking “People’s Daily,” today called for greater vigilance against United States actions to escalate the war in Vietnam.

The Chinese people “are ever on the alert” against every United States step to widen this war, tht newspaper said in an article by “Commentator” —the penname of a top Government official. The writer said that the more reverses the United States sustained “the farther it will go along the path of escalation and the heavier the stakes it will throw into the battlefield.” “While resorting to inten sifted war action and military manoeuvres against Vietnam, the Johnson Administra-

tion is chanting hollow words of ‘peace’ and trotting out peace hoaxes to induce the Vietnamese people into seek ing for peace,” he said. “It is playing the trick through various channels. But both President Johnson and the British Prime Minister have miserably failed in their peace intrigues.” North Vietnam last night orotested to the International Control Commission against the participation of Ameri can and Australian troops in combat operations in South Vietnam’s War Zone D this week.