fom Hanoi to Haiphong Biihon’ hight in late October. Finder ng and environs had been WM terior setess American bom- A trate Ent since late August. The 1 bere ee aims of the Americans gf to Haj ere quite clear: the roads di ed Phong Were to be destroy- i tion Perimeter. of devasta- freated around the docks

if We NEGOTIATED the road i

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this later that night in the city myself, yet our journey to Hai- phong was for the most part un- eventful.

There were many hair-raising moments as either the driving skill or marksmanship of our driver allowed us to evade or almost evade.the bomb craters on the road, the twisted wreck- age of destroyed trucks and the

iy Ro fl “ey uae Stews are constantly working on road and bridge repairs

rican bombing raids.

yh “hich ‘ eat afd make the move- este: plies impossible. ! Rticatig Ss against the com- wi Sportation net-

nitered ts Supplemented by Ave cl 4 bombing around j aig and mabned to sap the ff 1 Of the ° of the popul- yf Was to eA

See direct evidence of

oncoming traffic. The Vietnam- ese drivers who ply the Hanoi- Haiphong mined not to let either American bombers or approaching trucks deter them from their appointed rounds.

The distance from Hanoi to Haiphong is less than 100 miles. It took us six hours to make the

Anti-draft |

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anti-draft we Lu ek ac- . Weeie the “Stop the gute Ny mumittee.” In- 4 os Bron: DuBois Clubs, 10n, ing Student Mo- yttegs goendent Vietnam Bye lence © Workshop in f Ney and “a ar_ Resistors York seit other. Action I center on the

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/ Week called —

Whitehall Street induction center.

Five days of mass demonstra- tions are planned. Monday, De- cember 4, young men will turn in draft cards. Tuesday, the 5th, acts of civil disobedience will take place. For the next three days, Wed., Dec. 6, Thur., Dec. 7, and Fri., Dec 8, protestors will seek to block the function- ing of thé induction center, through mass action. It is al- ready estimated by organizers of the New York demonstra- tions that more than 10,000 will participate,

Nationally anti-draft week actively is being coordin- ated by the Student Mobiliza- tion Committee. Local actions are being organized by SDS chapters, Du Bois clubs, resist- ance groups and independent

anti-draft organizations.

route seem deter- -

trip and it was the most inter- esting and instructive six hours I spent in Vietnam. The road

- was clogged with all manner of

trucks carrying all types . of goods in both directions. Moving south-westward towards Hanoi the trucks were loaded with war material; towards Haiphong the trucks carried Vietnamese ex- port items, mainly hemp. Along- side us marched, or strolled, units of the army, full-pack weight less than 15 pounds. Dur- ing one of the waits for a barge we talked and joked with some of the soldiers, and my inter- preter said that he heard that the Americans tote about that much weight in chocolate bars. Aside from the soldiers we saw many groups of youth volu- unteers moving along the road side. These are young boys and girls who are responsible for the maintaince and elementary re- pairs to the roads. Their duty is to keep the roads open and the traffic moving. They could be taken for any group of teen- agers enjoying themselves at an out-door party. In the moonlight of the warm night we could see them encamped in the fields and we could hear the sourid of laughter and singing about us. Beside the road, at times only separated by two or three yards, are the manhole bomb-shelters, and beside these are crated goods, oil and gasoline drums. These are scattered all over the countryside as a concentration of fuel makes tod’ready a target

‘from .the ‘air. The crates usual-

ly bear Russian markings, and one can only guess what they are. Then there are the SAM rockets awaiting their destina- tions, only thinly covered by tar-

, paulins. In Vietnam one is con-

stantly aware of the enormous amounts of military and econo- mic aid received in Vietnam from the Socialist countries. Making the trip from Hanoi to Haiphong, one is overwhelmed by it. ; ; The journey to Haiphong in- cludes many detours and alter- nate roads. As soon as one sec- tion of the road is attacked, a detour is built and repair work yegins on the : with the railway it is not s0 easy but the task is coped with by scattering extra ties and track along the route and repairs are almost instantaneous. The trains were running between Haiphong and the South in late October although they-have been under constant attack .for se- months. : see traffic to Haiphong 3s also forced to cover endless varieties of makeshift bridges as well as several barge trips. “Tt is a beautiful part of the country here, with all these

AFTER THOUSANDS PROTESTED

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destroyed section. —

rivers’, my guide told me as we sat on the hood of a jeep smok- ing while our barge cut across the river. “But very difficult to defend.”” Haiphong was in front of us. To our left stood the hol- low skeleton of the cement fac- tory and to our right the well lighted port was humming. For a moment I was reminded of crossing the Vancouver harbor on the old ferry. Although con- siderably upstream from the ocean, in Haiphong there is that same salt-water tang in the air and in the warm evening it was hard to believe there was a war and that if there was an Ameri- can raid now we would be in one hell of a fix midstream on a slow moving barge.

There was not much to see in Haiphong that night, except to notice the downtown streets, cluttered cargo and the move- ments of mobile cranes now loading one ttuck and now un- loading another.

After a short supper we agreed that we would go to the

destroyed areas of the city just before dawn aid then spend the rest of the day visiting hospitals, the docks and factories.

Then I experienced my first direct air-raid.

I stood by the entrance to the shelter trying in vain to see what was happening while my hosts were continuing their dis- cussion as if they were waiting for a subway train. Suddenly the

sky lit up with star shells and ©

there was a rapid and continu- ous pounding. My interpreter must have caught the look on my face. “That’s ground fire’, he said, “When the crash and vibra- tions seems to come from under- neath you and around you, that’s bombs. When the noise is like any overhead, that’s our ground re.”

“Oh.” I said.

That night and continuously thereafter in Hanoi, I had many opportunities to listen to the sounds, but I don’t think I ever

really learned to tell the dif-

ference.

side.

North Vietnamese to them.

tical solution to the conflict.

MURPHY STARTS WESTERN TOUR, ASKS TO APPEAR BEFORE HOUSE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

After successful meetings in Toronto, Hamilton and Montreal, Rae Murphy, Canadian Tribune editor, has start- ed his tour of western Canada. He will be in British Colum- bia until Dec. 7 and then in Alberta until Dec. 17.

At the Toronto meeting the audience donated over $1,000 in the collection, the net proceeds of which are to go to medical aid for Vietnam. In Hamilton, also, the net proceeds will go for the same purpose.

On the eve of his departure for the west, Murphy wrote to the House of Commons External Affairs Committee ~

. proposing that he come to testify on the escalation of the bombing in Haiphong, Hanoi and the surrounding country-

“I feel,” he said, “I have been able to judge, at least in part, the results of the raids and the reactions of the

“During my visit to Vietnam | also had many occa- sions to discuss the course of the war with some Vietna- mese officials and their attitude towards an eventual poli-

“As | understand your.Committee is holding hearings | on these questions, | feel that it would be quite appropriate for me to appear before you.’

Dow may quit making napalm, president says

LOS ANGELES (AP)—The chairman of Dow <hemical° Co. said yesterday ‘his com- pany may get out of the na-

a MA mn v land, Micn.; production is by ‘be. partment contract.

Asked whether there was a possibility Dow might not bid for the work again, stacker replied after a long pause: “There is certainly a possibility of our not bidding, or bidding high.”

f THY Rs

Mr. Ger-

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