Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1950-08-13
By the Asseciaisd Press

ATIIlGu oIl I1C bLAoU was AoA SSAS
promoted by Communists Is sim
mering in a half dozen areas OF
the Far East while world atten-
ton is centered on the battle
lines in South Korea.
Burma, China, Indo-China, In
donesia, Malaga and the Philip
pines remain torn by revoltS or
outright civil wars that are esti-
mated to have cost $4,000 lives
since the Japanese surrender
ended World War II August IA,
1945.
| What is the status of these
other Asian wars?
/ Associated Press correspondents
on the spot report:
The United States is helping
France and Bao Dai's government
grid for the showdown phase IN
| Indo- China, a gateway to South
east Asia from Communist China.
/ Amboinese Nationalist are still
making it hot for the fledgling
United States of Indonesia in the
single conflict Of the group where
a Communist influence Is not ap-
parent.
British-led forces are turning
the tide against Communicated
Malayan terrorists in the jungles
of Johore state.
There is lull in China, whose
mainland is under Communist
sway; in Burma, where the mon
soon season has slowed operations;
and in the Philippines. where the
Communist led Hukbalahaps have
concentrated on propaganda since
the outbreak of fighting in Korea.
More than 600 million persons
and about million square miles
of territory are involved in these
struggles.
Chief of Bureau Tom Masterson
writes: Events in Korea undoubt-
edly will determine the start Of
a push into Southeast Asia. The
logical target is Indo-China,
though Burma cannot be entirely
ruled out"
Here are the summaries:
BURMA.
The Burmese government has
been fighting a war with assorted
antagonists for 90 Of the go
months since VI Day. Commu-
nists, Karen tribesmen and the
white band peoples volunteer or
SANITATION are the main groups.
The government now claims the
rebels are a beaten force whose
total humiliation is but ques-
ton of time. officials estimate
the fighting has cost Burma 3d.
900 lives beside even heavier eco
nomic damage.
But reports from the hinter-
land and from high diplomatic
source shoot holes in official opti-
miSm.
The diplomatic source said his
government has definite proof"
the white flag Communist Party
the Stalinist faction, is now re-
ceiving secret aid from Red China.
The aid, he said, is the form Of
gold and a program Peiping would
like the Burmese Communists to
adopt.
CHINA.
The future of the civil war in
China is tied up with the interna-
tional situation.
If a new world war breaks out,
resulting in victory for the West,
the Chinese Communists doubtless
will go down.
1t is believed, generally, that it
/ is beyond the Nationalist ability
to reconquer China'S mainland un-
less large-scale uprisings occur.
The civil war front now is the
quieteSt in months. The Nation
alists' action is inhibited by Presi-
dent Humans ban on sea and air
operations against the mainland.
In any case, the Nationalist
could not attempt any sort of in
vasion of the mainland until, pos
sibly, the second half Of 1851.
/ The war currently is confined to
a Nationalist defense of the is
lands off the mainland, with oc-
casionai air attacks on Red air.
craft off the coast.
INDO-CHINA.
The United States began de-
livering war material to the French
and Vietnamese government forces
this week for the showdown Of
their four-year- old war against
the Communicated Vietminh
forces of Ho Chi Mimi.
The Vietminh forces, too. ap-
pear to be getting help. Com
munist China is reported to have
opened camps in the frontier
region to train and equip Vietminh
troops. Unconfirmed dispatches
printed in Taipei. declared 10000
Chinese Communist troops have
Joined the Vietminh army.
The war is not going well for