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Leader of Huks Surrenders In Philippines
Manila—(U.P.)—Luis Taruc, the Philippines' public enemy No. 1 and leader of the Communist Hukbalahaps, came out of the hills today and surrendered to the government.
Head of the Red guerrilla group that specialized in wholesale slaughter by ambush until they were reduced two years ago to disorganized gangs by President Ramon Magsaysay, then defense secretary, claimed he gave himself up "to join the government."
Tarue passed through the front lines with Benigno Aquino, a correspondent for the Manila Times who had interviewed him twice recently.
Taruc's surrender climaxed Mag-saysay's long campaign against the Huks, but the President refused to see him.
Negotiations for Taruc's surren-
Monday, May 17, 1954
Weather
The weather forecast for Kansas today predicted partly cloudy skies
in the extreme East; elsewhere consider able cloudiness th i s afternoon and tonight with scattered thunderstorms extreme West late this afternoon or evening spreading to West and Central portions tonight. Tuesday will see considerable cloudiness with scattered showers in the Central portion in the morning and scattered thunderstorms developing over most of the state Tuesday afternoon or tonight. Slightly cooler temperatures are expected in the Northeast and extreme East tonight. Low tonight will be 45 to 50 in the extreme Northeast and elsewhere in the 50s.
der had been carried on for three months through his son Romeo, captured by the Army last year, and Manuel Manahan.
In-Kansas City, Mo., Gen. Carlos Romulo said that the surrender of Taruc was "good news for the Philippines and the free world."
French to End 'Mercy Truce' Tonight
By LOUIS GILBERT
Hanoi, Indochina —(U.P.)— France accused the Indochina Communists of a cold-blooded double-cross today and announced that French bombers would signal at midnight the end of the "mercy truce" for evacuation of wounded from Dien Bien Phu.
France charged the Reds with using the truce—which had been the one solid achievement of the Geneva conference—to rush troops and military supplies to the Red river delta for an attack on Hanoi.
The Reds ignored the French ultimatum, which in effect told them to live up to their agreement by midnight "or else," and instead blamed France for collapse of the mercy evacuation of French union wounded.
The delta, itself, already is under heavy Communist pressure with attacks in battalion force carrying to outposts within six miles of the capital.
In the latest action, an outnumbered unit of French and native troops were standing off an encircling ring of Reds at Anxa, a stronghold 52 miles southeast of Hanoi.
In Geneva, Communist Viet Minh's acting foreign minister Pham Van Dong told Britain's foreign secretary Anthony Eden that so far as the Reds are concerned, the evacuation agreement is proceeding "satisfactorily." If the French don't like it, he said, they should solve the problem on the spot, in Indochina, and not trouble the Geneva conference with details.
France prepared to handle the problem locally.
All available French fighters and bombers were ordered to loose a massive air attack on highway 41 at midnight in an effort to smash the Red columns moving toward the Hanoi area.
Collapse of the "mercy evacuation" plans came amid these other developments.
1. In Geneva the nine-nations Indochina conference opened its first secret bargaining session with only the chief delegate and three advisers from each nation attending.
2. In Washington, Sen. William F. Knowland said that a Red Chinese invasion of Indochina might force the United States to intervene with air and sea power, even at the risk of war with Russia.
3. Plans were reported to study between the United States and France, for dispatch of a special United Nations commission to Indochina to investigate how the Indochina war might be internationalized. The talks were planned to develop a new military and diplomatic strategy for Indochina.
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