Anti-Ky Rebellion Ends in Da Nang
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After two hours 1.000 Vietnamese marines and paratroops Sporadic firing had continued until late last night in Da uncontested control of the nation's second largest dry. Twenty civilian military leaders in Hue issued a proclama- scattered the mob, hurling tear gas and firing automatic Nang, 380 miles northeast of Saigon, but the shooting ended weapons into the air. Some 400 rebel troops streamed out of Da Nang's Tinh tion charging the junta with using "terrorism, bombing and with a heavy tropical downpour. ,t Hoi pagoda and gave up their weapons to an overwhelming slaughter" to repress the people of the northern provinces and There were conflicting versions on the origin of the shot Gen. Dong said the rebel troops yielded without any ne- ring of loyal marines and 13 armored cars which slowly had establishing dictatorial rule over them. They also said they would that killed the Vietnamese soldier, a bicycle messenger. Bud- gotiations. He said he told them: "If you surrender to us, we tightened the stranglehold on the Buddhist stronghold. boycott a national congress in Saigon tomorrow called by the dhist monks said a GI had killed the Vietnamese. Some U. S. will/save your lives." He said there was no other guarantee. government to discuss the country's deep political divisions. sources said the shot was fired by a Vietnamese guard with Dong said he doubted whether they would be punished but Another 400 anti-government soldiers and armed insurgents the convoy, but other American accounts of the incident did S^ve up yesterday. Ky gavetno indication whether he woujd move against Hue, added that would be up to Saigon. He said some of the rebel where the Buddhist-controlled radio has been predicting a gov- not say whether an American or a Vietnamese fired the shot military leaders may have escaped tha cordon of troops, ar- MAYOR CAPTURED ernment invasion since the premier sent 2,500 loyal marines or whether it came from another source. mored cars and tanks. He also said there might still be some Among those captured was Da Nang's mayor, Dr. Nguyen and paratroops to Da Nang eight days ago. , The riot was the first big display of anti-Americanism snipers in the city but that Da Nang was 90 per cent secure. Van Man, who was pictured as a prime mover in the revolt. Two hours of anti-American rioting erupted In Safficft out- since Buddhist monks led their youthful supporters on nightly Twenty officers, most of them lieutenants and captains, Ky threatened to execute Dr. Man last month as a Communist side the main Buddhist Institute after a mysterious snot killed rampages through Saigon for a week last month in support of were among the 400 rebels, he said. plotter but later backed away from the threat. a Vietnamese private as a U. S. military convoy passed by. Buddhist demands for a civilian government. ., The commander of Ky's Da Nang task force, Brig. Gen. Du Egged on by shouts that the Americans had killed the soldier, It was the fourth straight day of disorders around the in- Dong said 20 government troops were killed and more than Quoc Dong, said the physician-mayor had been taken when he the mob of youths burned a U. S. military truck and a jeep. stitute, a large compound with a pagoda and barracks housing 100 wounded in the week's fighting. He gave no estimate of tried to flee the pagoda. He was flown to Saigon. "Burn American cars! Kill Americans!" the youths Buddhist officers and quarters for the monks. rebel casualties. The Buddhists claimed 200 killed and 700 screamed. A toothless old woman spat on an American cor- In Saigon's adjacent Chinese city of Cholon,.an explosion woynded — a figure that foreign newsmen at the scene con- By crushing the Da Nang revolt in a week-long campaign sidered highly inflated. of attrition and force, Ky took a major step toward reassert- respondent. wrecked a tenement building, burying up to 20 persons in the ing the U. S.-backed government's authority in the northern The youths roughed up the jeep's driver, Capt. Earl R. ruins. Officials said the blast could have been caused by gas •Newsmen counted 26 bodies in the pagoda after the troop* provinces. But Ky still faced major opposition in Hue, the other Keeler, but he took refuge in a nearby command post tor South or the accidental explosion of a Viet Cong arms cache. surrendered. They were draped with Buddhist flags. U. $• Air Cavalry Rips Cong Unit SAIGON (AP) - U.S. air last week, when monsoon rains rifle while patroling the Dinh Ba Cong army headquarters 85 trymen also destroyed 32 struc- cavalrymen reported today they curtailed operations in the north River. It ran aground and sank miles south of Da Nang. tures and 13 tunnels and said have wiped out two thirds of a sharply. during salvage operations, a The U. S. 25th Infantry Divi- their own casualties continued Viet Cong battalion during a The U. S. Command an- spokesman reported. He said sion continued on its Operation light. week of fighting in rugged moun- nounced that a Navy "Swift there were moderate casualties Wahiawa sweep through the Boi In Operation Craiy Horse tains and high elephant grass of Boat" was hit by Viet Cong fire among the six-man crew. Loi woods and rubber planta- ranging across an area 13 to 20 central Viet Nam. and sank 20 miles southeast of For the third successive day, tions 35 miles northwest of Sai- miles northeast of an An Khe, a The 1st Air Cavalry Division Saigon yesterday. It was the B52 bombers hammered at Viet gon. The division reported kill- reported another 47 Viet Cong first of the speedy 50-foot river Cong positions in Quang Ngai ing 11 Viet Cong yesterday to military spokesman reported killed yesterday, raising the to- patrol boats to be lost. The boat province. The giant Stratofor- raise the toll since the operation heavy monsoon rains made fight- tal to 207 since Operation Crazy was hit by a 57mm reccilless tresses hit at a suspected Viet started May IS to 95. The infan- Ing "very, very difficult." Horse started May 16 about 250 miles northeast of Saigon. Ground fighting elsewhere was Long Branch School Construction Dispute light, but American planes took advantage of slightly improved weather to increase their attacks against North Viet Nam. Independent Probe Is Sought Air Force and Navy planes flew 49 missions north of the 17th parallel yesterday. This was LONG BRANCH - Dissatisfied umns are set out of line, weaken' sanitary sewers run under the,two other persons toured the she 10 more than on Saturday and with assertions by the Board of ing the building's support. 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