Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1954-07-25
Hanoi Finally Gets
News Of Peace, and
Takes IfApathefieaII,
By the Associated Press

lakes HApdfheflcdlly
BY the Associated Press
HANOI, Indo- China, July "a
+ Three days after the signing Of
a cease-fire pact at Geneva, the
news that the 8-year-old Indo.
China war is ending finally fl
tered down today to HanoP'
cramped native quarters, it,
bazaars and black markets.
There were no celebrations, nc
smiles, and frowns, not even the
mutters of discomfort feared by
the French. Peasants in the rice
fields outside Hanoi seemed
equally uninterested in the peace
settlement turning over North
Wet Nam to the Communicated
Wet Mini.
\ Appeal Unnecessary.
North Wet Mans three-man
governing committee appealed to
the people to keep calm, but il
appeared unnecessary.
Guns on the fighting fronts
subsidized as the Tuesday cease
fire neared.
1.-THE Wet Namese can't have
much less under the Wet Mimi
/ than they have had and have
Npow under u.s." a veteran French
resident here said.
Ho Chi Minis Wet Mimi
agents were working to persuade
as many Wet Namese as possible
to stay when the French pull
out.
The Wet Mini radio repeat
edly assures residents of North
Wet Nam they will not be
harmed and their property will
not be confiscated if they stay
These appeals are directed partly
to Hanoi's 10000 Chinese, many
of whom are merchants. shop
keepers and moneylenders..
Deaf to Red Pleas.
So far some 5000 Chinese
have turned deaf ears to the
Communist appeals and have
registered for evacuation to Hal
phong and Saigon aboard trans
port planes chartered by the Ma
tiona1ist Chinese regime at For
mosa. More are registering ev-
cry day, but as many as 5000
may elect to stay.
The Chinese NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
sored. evacuation is as yet the
only such mass program under
way. French civilian authori-
ties plan to move to Saigon Sat-
urday or Monday a group OF
Catholic nuns and sisters now
working in Hanoi. but the main
movement of Hanoi's French
citizens will not begin until the
last of next week at the earliest
Five Offices spotted throughout
the city next week will begin
registering Wet Namese civilians
who want to leave. The French
Delegate General to North Wet
Nam, Jacques Complain, pledged
that mo matter how many there
are, we will move out every Wet
Namese who wants to leave"
Mutiny Reported.
A French army spokesman re-
ported that a Wet Namese mill
tia post northeast of Hanoi fell
ito treachery" yesterday. There
was no official confirmation that
Viet Namese battalion had mu-
tined at another post between
Hanoi and Haiphong.
With the cease-fire scheduled
to 90 into effect throughout
North Wet Nam at Z am. Tues
day Is pm. EDIT Monday. July
26), the fighting sputtered to a
halt in the Delta area and only
minor patrol clashes were re-
ported.
French and Wet Mimi dele
gates agreed at .Trung Gia last
night that both sides would
make no major attacks. The
pact called for limiting action to
regimental strength in North
Wet Nam and battalion strength
elsewhere until the cease-f1re
goes into effect. The French Air
Force agreed not to bomb Wet
Mimi territory or bases.
Informed French sources in
Saigon said the cease-fire would
go into effect in central Wet
Nam and the Plateau region at
z am. August g pm. EDT
July 3D; in Laos at z am. Au-
gust 6 g pm. EDIT August 50 ;
in Cambodia at z am. August z
g pm. EDIT August g., and in
Southern Wet Nam at z am.
August II e pm. EDIT August
100.
The differences in times were
attributed to communication
problems.
French sources indicated the
last Franco-Viet Namese troops
would leave North Indo- China
May 10. 1865. On that date
they will have quit Haiphong
port. All Franco-viet Namese
troops will have been Withdrawn
from the Hanoi perimeter by
October IL.
McClint0ck Nomination.
American sources in Saigon
said today President Eisenhower
will soon name career diplomat
Robert McClintock as United
States Ambassador to Cambodia.
Mr.. McClintock. As, of Altadena,
Califa is being promoted from
his present post of embassy
counselor at Saigon.
In New Delhi, the Indian gov