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T h e nan in tl str e t in J ? n i a t i d n i m t e cann t Pl i e v h sno t no he i s f 3 t d n h A i r al s i d om o m o cri t · n u 1 b i Un ar o h . t mic o b u i n e on . , I vy I i 1 ~ t • in as ot nt an ry . v r b o· . CHIMA Last Thursday I remark d that our · Ambassador to China, Pat Hurley, probably had played an important role in brinaing together the two great parties in China, Mao Tze Tung and his Communists of the North and Chiang Iai-Shek and his people of the Iuomintang. Well, today Chiang himself publicly thanked Aabasaador Burley for the part he played in settling the internal strife in China. "The present state of negotiations,• declared Chiang •was brought about by HurleY's exertions•. And he added that if Pat Hurley were in China now, the whole thing ■ ight be brought to a conclusion ■ uch sooner than expected. Chiang Kai Shek also announced that his troops will soon relieve our ■arines in North China, whereupon the leathernecks will be withdrawn. rurther- aore, he said he felt certain that all Soviet Forces in Manchuria will be withdrawn likewise, according to treaty stipulations. The Generalissimo~ said this a t the first press conference he h1s held since the war en - ed. Be added, as he told ■ e in Chungking in July, that ha CHINA - 2 --- hopes to visit the United Staten soon. Be also will visit the Soviet Unio, Britain and France. I , V ~l ~ l l hP :) r ' I f t, l r nd ·t I. E ' t. t i on i t, t, p r P B ~ u t I I' - t4 e d r l l f i 0 ~ r O U e ,_ r , '- n o • .,I~ p ... 0 _ i 1 n 1ta lie. i f o 1 e r n th u 1 im h h 1 d f r B "V i n f . 0 r t. Th ~ i ~ n a i f t i l a n d ~ ~ - . ; b _ "' 0/ ~ , , t>-o-c:, ' &eeeme ■ W'X e. Eleeia~e'1 In onesian G ~ c l i ne1 t ith V rm nt even ,- t e u ch ~ . Ho e v r , s is C ~~ il i .! t i C h s o~~ ~ ;:) ith the ll i s ~ tl T o v e rnor n r l f' th ~ P. n nd s t ie n re J C - u (" e n t r · i t h ~ (}WY\ JAVA ---- ', ' Lr at 1 .. V m o v r no r l m 6 1 h n r P C P. _ n s e t fr .ro a J n . r ... rn i n hu i ~ T F ct V r n me nt Jav th C 1 overn I t t i u lli e d ilitary ont ro . Th Du ch i te an t 1 5.. ~ o v rno r r lta:a. announc • h t e ale• I\ 1, r e fus e to . e ti t it he -f 8 Q 6 n e 9-i-9 Q a t io a l iats-. ~ Lieut n nt overnort=:rh~ ft«m& w Van oo , acc u th ti nali s t L rs of i Pro-Ja ane e r e c 1 a the p ch of ueen i lh i a i n t n Fort - o , in ic he omi s d th I nd one ians that a t r the ar she ~o c 11 a con e rence of th t r ll s t • r k out a ich t y u d ve e t s it th art of . er i e an ome ru , or t r .:, lves. The In d n 1 n s , 1 ow ver, a re s e ical , n d termin d t r - i t ny r turn to t e ir form r "O nial t tu • T tr oub e i J a v i b f t i n , ny JAVA -- an Ame i a . e C V i l ~ re or t, n mil o n n 0 6 1 r n t V R P ar e OU Lhe ~ e , · r1 r . u ~ s ar in F . t rn 1 0 t i ~ 1 n t h ·c t, i t ontro . I is e i V on i • C t 0 di-tri u l t t, i 0 in te e· ortin it for r ic n dollar • French cruiser has ar ived at Saigon with part of the Second French armored Division. Fier fighting is reported in Indo Chin ~s the French troops disembarked, th leaders of the Revolutionary Forces were in the act of notifying the B ~ ltish that they would withdra into the interior and cease fighting if the British would guarantee that no more French troops would be brought into their country. The leaders of another section of. the Rationalist popylar front announced that trained Anamite regiments from Sia• are on the way to join the Indo Chinese Army. There is a report that Chiang Iai Shek has sent Chinese troops into Northern Cambodia, presumably to help his allies, not to lend a hand to the Anamites. But that remains to be seen. Cambodia, by the way, is the land once ruled over by a little known race called the Kh•ers. Their capitol was the now fabulous deserted city or Angkor Vat which had a population of a million or more. A thousand years ago INTO Cjil NA - 2 it was the mighti ~ t city in Asia - now totally deserted, and alaoat swallowed by the jungle. ... A R __ G ___ E JIT I NA The ne g overnm ent of Argentin appears to be serious in its attempt to restor some measure of liberal government to b a t coun ry. The Ministry of the Interior today zas repealed o n e im ortant decree of the Colone l s' Government, the decree that had restricted political parties. The Uinis'er of the Interior also released a Communist leader who had been arrested, relaxed censorship over press dispatches to other countries, abolished the propaganda department set up by Colonel Peron, and promised co plete freedom d the press with the understanding that it should no be abused. Be also pro ■ ises that the elections, to take place next April, ill be co pletely free. But the liberal groups in Argen ina are f■ z far fr o satisf"ed. I ■ They ant govern ent 1 the ailitary to end at once. e physicians o! Argen · na ar t rea en g a generals . rike as a rote t a inst the ttiixi i 11 i o g of a ro · en t · c or las r ay. be - 2 Doc ors t i h bu iness nd fin nci 1 leaders of tbe stoc exchan e tod y to consider th · s move. T ___ ,_ __ .... ___ _ 0 t' t i . I :) n 0 e r i . ,1 1 ., t ., V um n • .. 0 C r I i h fu r r i 0~ 0 r e V i C. b ., 0 r .:- 1 i d t () r t, r t · La o I mi t i y h u , t . p · le r in r r i t, i i i g round ry of inf r The courtyard of French prison today as the scene of the moa memorable ex cution of our time, in France, perhaps in all Europe - the most i portant from the standpoint of history since the da hen the head of Robespierre fell under "the knife of Loui ette, as the French used to cal the guillotine. A squad of a dozen French soldiers fired a volley into ~he body of Pierre ~aval, the man of Vichy. And to ak sure the job was really done, the Colonel in charge o * the squad walked over and fired one shot from his revolver." The rifle of one man of the firing squad was loaded with a blank cartridge - none of them knowin1 whether his was the blank or not. The historic day began with a last inute attempt by Laval to outwit the firing squad. At half-past eight this morning, the Chief Prosecutor went to his cell, accompanied by Laval's principal counsel. Laval was in bed. The Prosecuto~ said to hi : Your time has come, prepare to die bravely". Then Laval's lawyer leaned ov r him nd said: "Pierre av 1, be brave, for your layers' and for hi tory. " · by for his lawyers . I don't no. Both noticed that av l was al oat unconscious and in his hand they saw a vial.Te prison doctor ho was then called found that Laval h~ tried to poison himself. ore doctors and n rses came. They administered antidotes, and brought bi back to life, in tiae to be put to death. The word 1a that had he taken the poison at night, be would have succeeded in his attempt. All this took several hours. But by noon the physicians bad brought hi around so that be could be led to the place of execution. hen the P 1 ce co issioner asked him bow he obta·ned the poison he replied that he had it before he left France for Germany, that none of his guards knew about it, and therefore should no~ be blaaed. The two lawyers held Laval as•• they led him to the prison van in the courtyard. Said Laval LAVAL - 3 to the Pros cutor: "I pity yoa for having to carry out such a tas ". And to the soldiers: •1 puty you for being obliged to carry out this crime." Then he turned to his ia ■ owy lawyers and LS ed the not to go too £ar fro hi • as he anted to see the died. efore he Right ·p to the last mo ent he wrote letters, to his lawyers, to his wife, and to his daughter, Jose. He also left behind a political docu ■ ent which aay one day be published. In One ~f the letters he explained hi• atte ■ pted suicide, saying that he did not want to tall under F rencb bullets, did not ant to ake French soldiers accomplices in a judieial cri e. Also, he insisted upon being executed in his usual bite necktie. That was permitted. And, he asked to be buried in the tri-colored scr f which he had once worn of right when he was Fr nch Premier. L VAL - 4 He · nted to have e privi eg of giving the soldiers the order to fire. A Premi r, he said, should die with i o·ty. But he co anding off ' cer refused, said it was c o ntr ry to th rules. aval declined to have his eyes bandaged. As he faced the firing aq~ad he shou ed: then: •Long Live France!• i at y heart. And t that, the Colonel lowered sai his i• drawn s ord and twelve zif■ i rifle shots rang out. Six of the were ai ed at hi• he d, six at his heart. Twenty inutes later, a hearse with a plain black coffin rolled out of the prison yard. And so *nded the strange career of Pierre aval, once a butcher boy in a little French ountain illage, then a illionaire, three tiNs Pri e inis er of his country, today, the firings uad.