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FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1952

A court this week ordered the release of Jacques Duclos, acting
leader of the French Communist party.

Jaeques Duclos freed
by French court when

‘plot’ charge fizzles

PARIS

He was jailed more than a

month ago on a charge of plotting against the internal security
of the state, after mass demonstrations against U.S. General Matthew
B. Ridgway, new NATO supreme commander, on his arrival in Paris.

The Pinay government, how-
ever, was expected to set the
stage for further prosecution of
Duclos by asking parliament to
lift his immunity.

Earlier, Duclos had written a
letter from prison to French
President Vincent Auriol warn-
ing him: “The people of France
are watching you.”

The letter reminded Auriol. a
Socialist, that he was the guard-
ian of the Constitution, which
was violated by Paris police
when they arrested Duclos a
month ago.

“No doubt it is not customary
to question the position of the
first magistrate of the Republic
(the president).’’ stated. Duclos.

“But nor is it customary to
imprison one of the leaders of
the largest party in France —
one of the leaders of the parlia-
mentary Opposition.”

He then reminded Auriol that
he was being watched by the
French people. who would ob-
serve whether or not he continu-
ed to cover the illegal proceed-
ings against himself by main-
taining silence. .

Recently the Communist can-
didate, Gaston August. topped
the poll in a parliamentary by
election in the Paris second elec-
toral district.

August received 53.648 votes

against, the nearest of his 17
rivals ho polled 53,-
203.

A second poll to decide the
election was necessary, since the
small majority was not enough

JACQUES DUCLOS
“The people of France are

watching.”

to win the seat under the com-
plex electoral law.

The law is designed to enable
all anti-Communist forces to
unite and defeat the Communist
qandidate.

August’s heavy vote was re-
garded -in political circles in
Paris as a striking public de-
monstration of hostility to the
government’s drive against the
Communist party.

The Communist party reveal-
ed that 800 new members had
joined its ranks in the Paris
region since Duclos was arrested
at the end of May.

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aed its story:

The whole picture of the meth-
od of attack—its strategic ob-
jectives and its mode of opera-
tion—is now clear to the Chin-
ese authorities.

Bit by bit it has been pieced
together, from the evidence of
captured members of American
germ warfare units, as well as
from the thorough statistical
sifting of details by scientists
and experts.

Many more members of Am-
erican germ war units, caught
red-handed, besides those whose
names have so far been revealed,
are now in the hands of the Chin-
ese and Korean authorities.

The Chinese and Koreans are
acting with strict scruple, ac-
cording to the letter and spirit
of proper prisoner--of-war treat-
ment.

Many of the American germ

war soldiers captured have been
willing to tell all they know in ‘

the hope of undoing a part of
the harm they caused.

It may now be made known
that one of the first things that
drew the Chinese authorities’ at-
tention to the fact that germ
warfare was in progress was the
conduct of certain American air-

men who, finding themselves in.

a POW camp after capture, pan-
icked and demanded that all the
prisoners be inoculated against
a whole host of outlandish dis-
eases,

When the authorities asked
them for an explanation, in their
fears at the prospect of suffering
the consequences of the infec-
tions they had been willing to
inflict on others, they blurted
out the truth.

The grand design and pattérn
of the attack has now emerged,
as well as the object and mean-
ing of many of the peculiar fea-
tures, which. in the _ earlier
stages, puzzled the experts.

It has three phases. |

In the first place, it was di-
rected particularly against trans-
port and communications, roads,
railways, etce., along which dis-
eases might spread.

Secondly. against
tions of human beings.

Third, against food supplies,
water sources, reservoirs, rivers,
etc.

The methods of dispersion of
disease carriers include the fol-
lowing:

@® The familiar four-compart-
ment leaflet-type bomb;

@ Shell-fire;

® Porcelain bombs;

@ “Colloid” bombs that dis-
solve after reaching the ground;

@ Containers which appear to
move horizontally for some dis-
tance and burst at a height of
about 1,200 feety — scattering
leaves and insects. In connec-
tion with these a smell is report-
ed described as “like burning
rubber.”’ (

There can be little doubt that
aerosols (infected droplets in
the air) have also been used.
and are being so increasingly,
particularly against water sup-
plies, though this method is, as
all experts on the subject have
noted, particularly difficult to
detect and prove.

It is now understood that the
use of dead animals, ete., by
the Americans was not as at
first thought. for direct poison-

congrega-

,ing of livestock, so much as to

KUO MO-JO

Chinese representative and vice-
president of the World Peace
Council.

provide ready food and, breeding
habitats, that might not other-
wise have been available, for
some of the insect disease-car-
riers dropped at the same tima.

It-is now clear also that the
strange objects dropped by Am-
erican aircraft, such as toys,
fountain pens, stockings, chew-
ing gum, played no direct role.

Certainly some shave been
dropped. and of these some prov-
ed infected.

But their main object. as that
of certain species of insects, was
to spread panic among the vil-
lagers and general population—
confusing them in regard to
what were the main dangerous
agents and the main precautions
to take.

The leaves are extremely im-
portant, and designed principal-
ly for crop infection.

The Chinese now have work-
ing, four fully equipped anti-
bacteriological warfare head-
quarters, staffed by scientists.
many of whom have world fame.

Current attacks are in some
ways more difficult to combat.
For example, in summer it is
much more difficult to recognize
the abnormal occurrence: of in-
sects. so many being about nor-
mally in nature.

On the other hand, there are
now fewer unknown elements
about the attacks, The work can
concentrate on  counter-meas-
ures. ;

At the same time, the collec-
tion of evidence for future use
against those responsible is in
active progress.

Complete and vast dossiers
have now been
proper form,

No fewer than 340 cases of
witnessed delivery of germ car-
riers from American aircraft in
Korea alone have been complet-
ed.

Each case includes a verbatim
record of examination of wit-
nesses. judicial reports on the
witnesses in relation to credit.

The names and whereabouts
of every witness are on record
so that they may be available
when eventually humanity, as at
Nuremberg, establishes g tribu-
nal before which those guilty are
obliged to answer for their
crimes,

Microfilm, photostats, juridic-
ally attested documents and ori-

prepared in,

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ginal specimens are already in
Europe. They have been brought
by M. Yves Farge, former French
cabinet minister, member of the
Bureau of thé World Peace
Council and president of the
French Peace Committee, wh?
has been making an investiga
tion in China and Korea, j

Scientists from Europe ant
America are now in Peking, em

‘ ployed in further study on the

spot.

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Strikers

tives, sitting in with union rep
resentatives at a meeting call
by: the LRB, tentatively accept-
ed a proposal offering carpentet®
a 10-cent hourly increase plus
out-of-town board ($2.50 a day):
But the crack was  <lumsily
patched up when _ contracto?s:
under strong pressure from uD"
ber bosses and other employe!
later reneged and rejected the
settlement plan. Nevertheless
carpenters will discuss it 2!
take a vote on the proposal this
week. : :

How long the lumber. barons
will manage to hold. contractors
in line is open to question. A!
major construction jobs on the
Lower Mainland are tied up, and
this situation cannot continue
for any length of time without
the contractors absorbing ?
heavy financial loss.

Merchants in many small B. an
towns are feeling the strike
pinch and pressure is growiDs
for government action to compel
employers to sit down with the
unions and reopen bargainins:
Centres hardest hit are Courte
nay, Chemainus, Nanaimo, Dull
can, Terrace and Powell Rive!

A unique situation in the a
nals of strikes developed this
week when carpenters went 02
a seven-day vacation, paid f0F
by the bosses under terms of 22
agreement reached last April be~’
tween the General Contractors
Association and the AFL Build*
ing Trades Council. While th®
men are on Jholiday all district®
will be patrolled by a group ®
carpenters in autos watching fo!
any attempts on the part of col
tractors to resume work on any
jobs.

_. Striking painters in Vane
ver were joined by 200 painter
in Victoria on Monday this W'
who took strike action in sul
port’ of a conciliation board's '
coinmendations for a 80-cent
hourly hike, which members of
the Builders’ Exchange refused
to pay.

United Steelworkers at Arme?
Drainage and Metal have vote
92 percent in favor of a walkout
in their wage dispute. The yot
was 22 to 2,

The break in the wage jine:
begun last week when 600 retail
clerks won pay hikes up to ?
a week, continued as 50 employ.
ees of Shell Oil’s Vancouver mat
keting plant obtained a was?
boost of $19.29 per month across
the board, plus other conce™
sions,

A conciliation board is CU
rently hearing disputes betwee?
UFAWU Shoreworkers and thé’
Fishing Association of B.C:, 4?
between salmon tendermen 4?
the Fisheries Association.

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