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phe National Front of Libera-
Nin South Vietnam is busy
Only fighting a war; it is
engaged in tremendous
K to rally together all the
€s for victory, strengthen-
ee the material-technical and
"omic foundations of the
ple’s power. This is pointed
». ‘0 a report by Pravda’s spe-
tal Correspondent I. Shchedrov

tthe liberated areas of South
‘etham, /

Significant successes have al-
ved been achieved as a result
it Which the economic situation
Rte areas controlled by the
/ aa is normal. Furthermore,

National economy meets the
“ds of the people’s war.
defense industry, compris-
5 Scores of big and hundreds
‘mall enterprises—not count-
: Minor semi-handicraft work-
ime 3s been set up in the
thee’ and in the villages of
ta liberated areas during the
St five years.

Already much of the ammuni-
h, grenades, mines and some
the S of arms are supplied to

Combat units, with the trade

mark “Made in South Viet-
im.”

se
rd

are Pravda correspondent vis-
Dog One of the plants for the
hit Uction of arms and ammu-
ie It took him two days to
nee only a part of the enter-
tt €, Scattered over a vast area.
4s, he reports, a shop with
tthe” milling machines and
thorn machine tools, a forging
- and even a casting depart-
ii Besides the captured
ter ment and the machinery
my purchased in Saigon, the
Pe makes use of instruments
.€Vven machine tools, design-
Sat the jungles by the workers
Mselves,

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fn, Pecially impressive are the
jy wed products departments.
oe of them the correspon-
the Saw big sea mines (like
ne that sank an American
ane carrier), infantry and
tag ak mines with a directed
t, grenade-throwers, etc.

tage Front has solved success-

--Y in a comparatively short
ti Pp y

j a the food problem. This year
Tegular units of the Libera-

rogress in liberated
reas of S. Vietnam

tion Army are’ supplied fully,
according to regulation, with
rice, salt, meat and uniforms.

The administrative bodies and
plants are partly supplied from
their own subsidiary husband-
ries, and partly from central
stores.

Where do these supplies come
from?

Taxes imposed by the puppet
authorities have been abolished
in the liberated areas, inhabited
by about 10 million people,
Shchedrov writes, and most of
the land has been transferred to
the peasantry. This explains bet-
ter than anything else why the
peasants actively assist the
Front. :

Large cash contributions are
made to the Liberation Front
by representatives of the nation-
al bourgeoisie in the occupied
territory.

Furthermore, there is yet one
more source of “unforeseen, ex-
traordinary” revenues. These are
trophies, mostly bearing the
trade mark “Made in USA”. The
guerrillas often say jokingly that
these are “contributions” of the
Americans or “American aid.”

In a situation where there is
no stable frontline, when Saigon
“dongs” circulate all over South
Vietnam, a considerable part of
the American goods fall into the
hands of the patriots,

The Front, the correspondent
reports, has established a com-
plex network of traffic routes,
operating round-the-clock, and
stretching for thousands of
miles.

Flowing along these routes
day and night in the Mekong
delta and in the jungles, along
rivers and the sea, are endless

supplies of rice, ammunition, _

medicines and cargoes needed
by the Front.

The Brown Book on nazi and
war criminals who live in the
German Federal Republic will
be’ issued in English next month.
Interested readers should re-
quest copies from the German
Democratic Republic Peace
Council, 108 Berlin, Tauben-
strasse 1-2, GDR.

Just 40-years ago the Soviet government established
the Artek camp in the Crimea for young Pioneers.
Today more than 4,000 children spend holidays at the
camp simultaneously. Total number of children who
have stayed there since its inception is well over
200,000. The camp has many houses, schools, stadiums
and swimming pools. It stretches along the sea at the
foothills of picturesque mountains, and children take
delight in long hikes. Photos show groups of children
lining the stairways of one of the new buildings, and
a general view of the “Pribrezhny.”

Soviet gov t expresses gratitude
for Jerseymen's heroic wartime aid

In the years of World War II
the Hitlerite invaders temporari-
ly occupied the British island
of Jersey, lying off the west
coast of France, and set up con-
centration camps there for So-
viet citizens and prisoners-of-
war, A group of British inhabi-
tants, risking their lives over a
number of years, helped Soviet
people escape and saved many
of them from death. It was only
recently that details became
known of these heroic deeds.
The USSR Supreme Soviet and
the Soviet government has sent
its sincere gratitude to the Brit-
ish citizens for their “courage
and valor’ in the period of the
joint struggle against German
fascism. The following story was
written by O. Orestov, Pravda
correspondent.

LONDON

A day before the occupation
of Jersey ended, Mikhail Kro-
khin, a Russian lad, hoisted a
red flag on the house where he
had remained in hiding. He now
lives in Chimkent and works as
an engineer. Krokhin wrote to
me that the flag which he raised
was sewn by Augusta Metcalfe,
a Jerseywoman, and her daugh-
ter Bella. They also know now

that Mikhail is alive and well,
and they are corresponding with
each other.

H. Ford, a British veteran and
pensioner, remembers those days
20 years past. He sent me a
letter after the Pravda article
was reprinted in Britain.

“I remember how I saw the
Russian prisoners-of-war in the
concentration camp whom we
freed,” he wrote. “I was happy
to hear after so many years that
many of them are alive and
well. I am 70, but I would go
to Russia only to see some of
those Russian boys.”

There were many who hid
Soviet POW’s in their homes
for a year and even two and
three years. On the day of liber-
ation the Russian lads, known
up till now by their assumed
names of Charlie, Michael,
George and Tom, also emerged
in the streets.

The Jerseymen and Jerseywo-
men risked their lives in saving
our fugitives. More than one of
them perished or spent years in
concentration camps in Germany
for helping Soviet POWs to hide
from fascist pursuit.

One of the sufferers was Har-

old Le Druilenec, a Jersey teach-
er. He was invited by the Soviet
War Veterans’ Committee to the
USSR last May to take part in
celebrations of the 20th anniver-
sary of the defeat of fascist
Germany. In Moscow he and
another Jerseyman, Norman Le
Brocq, met two men whom they
had saved, Mikhail Krokhin and
Fyodor Bury.

I recently received a snapshot
from Jersey showing a young
smiling man in a British uniform,
wearing a beret with a cloth
Soviet star sewn on it. This was
the way “Charlie” looked in St.
Helier when the last Hitlerites
were led under escort down to
the docks.

The snapshot was mailed to
me by R. Garrett, whose family
hid “Charlie” in their home.

I was happy to inform Garrett

about “Charlie’s” fate. He is
Gavriil Denisov, now the assis-
tant director of a state farm in
Novosibirsk Region.

In the present days those who
20-odd years ago met on the
island of Jersey recall the past
in order to strengthen the ties

of friendship which sprang up.

in battle against the common
enemy.

Photo (left) shows workers of the “March 8” textile mill in Hanol taking
military training to master the technique of shooting down U.S. planes. (Right)
Vietnamese children murdered by American planes during an air raid.

* November 5, 1965—PACIFIC TRIBUNE—Page 7