co - (nnciccenemmmammmcsen|il UL | e nb ieriph a} 3 ROS \ QaTo ej Q ali TOURANE > FaiFo NNT SS . ow . ° \ \caMBODIA) HL Gulf f Siam & . *— INDOCHINA eS * Quinhon® Tuyhoa" u Eighty years of foreign occu North Viet Nam on October 10 Hanoi to the People’s governme (TOP), Red River delta port which, under t they may hold until May 19 ne lines. pation ended for the people of as French troops handed over nt and withdrew to Haipheng he terms of the truce; xt vear. Map shows the demarcation Joyful Hanoi citizens _ QUT) MALLU CSU OT AOA ATT TA i ee COMPARED TO ZINOVIEV LETTER conspiring to perpetrate the great- est political fraud in Australian history. Dr. Herbert Evatt, leader of the Labor Opposition, who has been parred from making further ap- pearances before the commission, has charged, that when the full scandal is unravelled the “Menzies- Petrov” letters will come to rank with notorious Zinoviev letters and the Reichstag Fire frame-up as a deliberate pre-election provocation. The facts are that the Petrov affair was organized on the eve of the last Australian federal elec- tion in May. It was generally con- ceded that the Menzies govern- ment, with its unpopular policy of support for U.S. war policy and spending of $600 million on war to the neglect of public needs, faced defeat at the polls. ° (The Labor party actually won more votes than the government Liberal and Country parties com- bined but failed to carry a ma- jority of seats.) ( That was when the Menzies gov- ernment sprung the Petrov affair. Vladimir Petrov, third secretary ai the Soviet embassy in Canberra, it was suddenly revealed, had turned traitor to the Soviet Union; had been bribed with $15,000 and prom- ised a “comfortable life” at the expense of Australian taxpayers. This election stunt gave Menzies his narrow victory on a minority vote. Since the elections and the com- mencement of the Royal Commis- sion the sordid truth of the exist- ence of a long term frame-up has emerged. A certain Dr. Bialoguski of Syd- ney cynically informed the com- mission that he has been employ- ing all types of shady practices to assist Petrov’s desertion for about three years. _ Bialoguski, described by counsel at the commission as a “liar, hypo- crite and a disgrace to humanity” frankly testified that he knew Pet- rov was likely to turn traitor to his country from the first time he contacted him in 1951. The medical profession and the public generally has been shocked as Bialoguski boasted to the court how he misused his position as a doctor’ to search Petrov’s' pockets Petrov affair bared as election fraud | SYDNEY As the Petrov Royal Commission draws to the close of its first stage here all the signs are present that the Menzies government is desperately seeking to suppress the truth on its part in the full, sordid scandal that lies behind the now internation- ally notorious ‘‘Petrov Affair.” The Tribune, progressive Sydney weekly, has directly charged Menzies with mission as a deliberately staged act.’ In five months since the commis- sion opened, not one single fact of “espionage” has emerged from the proceedings. Despite this, the commissioners, Justices Owen, Philp and Ligert- wood, all personally selected by Menzies himself, have shocked the legal profession here with their open bias. (Normal practice is for the chief justice to make judges available. In this case, Menzies rejected “unsuitable” nominees and nominated his own personal choices.) The three Menzies - selected judges barred Dr. Evatt from the commission after he had made a public protest at the disgraceful treatment of Madame Ollier, a member of the French -diplomatic staff. Evatt charged that Mme. Ollier had been spirited out of the country without a chance to con- front her accusers. These latest exposures of the Pet- rov frame-up have placed Menzies and his three hand-picked com- HERBERT EVATT missioners in an even deeper dil- emma, for every new revelation endangers the life of a government which prolonged its existence only by the Petrov affair. Funeral of H-bomb victim The ashes of the first H-bomb victim, Aikichi Kukoyama, are borne by his widow after Buddhist funeral rites in Tokyo. With Mrs. Suzu Kukoyama is her 8-year-old daughter, Miyake, who carries a portrait of her father. Death of Aikichi Kukoyama, who was eames greet People’s army i ssed the 2,000-yard Paul Dou- The 200,000 people of Hanol, cB ents 2 Preset city in npaahern eee ee pula nee ‘evinces ae ee pea Bt ot Nam closed the door on 80 years come as they marched into the of occupation. city last weekend. Soacned Chinese win 100-day Under the agreements nol at the Geneva Conference, * by the fight to save Wuhan PEKING was. to be handed over ; French civil and military authori- The city of Wuhan is now com- pletely out of danger from the while he was asleep and to plant tape-recorders to record discus- sions he had with Petrov and his wife. 5 Prime Minister Robert Menzies who is the ministerial head of the Security Police, has made the seri- ous blunder of claiming he knew nothing about the Petrov affair until April 10 this year. This has since been exploded by the evi- dence of his own Security heads, Spry and Richards, who have told the commission that they reported the matter earlier than Menzies radio operator on the ill-named Fortunate Dragon when it was showered with ashes from the U.S. H-bomb test in the Pacific last March, aroused tremendous popular feeling against the U.S. throughout Japan. Western Germany a making atomic guns | By PHYLLIS ROSNER BERLIN guns, dynamite, land mines, tanks and aircraft parts. ties to the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam by October 10. For two days before the French authorities officially city over, officials and Democratic government began as” suming their new functions, outside the city troops of the ple’s Army were waiting to march in, All over Hanoi flags of welcome had already appeared as police and troops withdrew across the Red River toward the port of Haiphong, which is to remain 10 French hands until May 19 year. . handed the ice of the ee pletely removed. while Peo- Factories have not French next rising waters. Yangtse floods, and most of the emergency dykes have been com- The crops are flourishing on the city’s outskirts, where the water- logged land has been pumped dry. stopped work for a moment during the siege. The whole nation followed the battle waged by workers, clerks, soldiers and peasants against the flood, as for 100 days they drove the dykes inch by inch above the admits. The evidence has also revealed that the Petrovs discussed the ques- tion of their staying in Australia during a conversation with Bialo- guski as long ago as January 30 this year. This explodes the much publiciz- ed “last minute” decision of Mrs. Petrov to stay in Australia during her flight from Sydney to Darwin last April, an episode that has been described by counsel at the com- The Krupps factories in the Ruhr, which built the Big Bertha guns in 1918, have already produc- ed their first prototype of an atomic gun of the American type. Statistics which leaked from a West German government depart- ment at the end of last year show- ed that more than 400 companies were then turning out war mater- jal. That was ten months ago. These companies are producing napalm, nerve gas, rifles, machine- PACIFIC TRIBUNE — OCTOBER 15, 1954 — PAGE 3 Recently a correspondent of the independent French paper La Tribune des Nations gave details of some of these companies. Mannheim and Ludwigshafen plants of the former I.G. Farben combine are making nerve gas. Germ war research is going on at the Bayer factory in Hoechst— huge former I.G. Farben establish- - ment. Napalm is being turned out in hundreds of tons in the Rhein- preussen factories.