European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 27, 1969, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Monday january 2?v the stars and stripes Page 3 Jungle captured Viet Cong film shows communist workers turning out weapons in Jungle factories. Uniformed guerrilla workers left watch a Young girl of Erate a lathe to finish grenade casings while fright Barefoot steelworkers lift pots of molten Metal from crude Oil barrel furnaces As they cast weapons. The film was seized when government troops overran an enemy information Center in the u Munh Forest a orld Mao reported in Good health Tokyo a communist China reported sunday that Motse Tung attended a Large gathering saturday and As though to rebut reports that the chinese Leader was dead or ill said he a Peare tin excellent health and High  3? appearance a the a first reported for the 75-year-old Mao since nov. 28, when he received australian communist party Leader e. Of Hill. The absence of reports on Mao since then touched off series of reports that he was critically ill or dead. Peking s new China news Agency Nina said Mao his heir designate defense minister Lin Piao and other members of China s Hierarchy received More than 40,000 maoists from throughout  broadcast Nina dispatch monitored in Tokyo indicated the meeting was held in peking As some of the maoists were identified As revolutionary cadres attending Mao thought classes in the Chi Nese capital. Off beat red festival san remo Italy up the italian communist party announced sunday u will rival the san remo song festival Italy s biggest pop music event with a counter festival of protest  party leaders expressed guarded Hope that some Well known singers will desert the established and Tele Vised festival in favor of theirs. The move one of the communists most off beat actions in years came just As san remo student leaders announced they would not try to disrupt the official festival As organizers feared. The Stu dents said the official festival which starts thursday and will be televised nightly through out Italy is wrong but they will refrain from violence inthe interests of san remo s tourist  counter festival is a political and cultural event communist spokesman said. Viet Cong pictured in captured film Frankfurt Spanish Bank bombed Frankfurt a two Molotov cocktails were thrown at the Spanish Banco Espanol in Alemagna in downtown Frankfurt sat urday night breaking several windows and causing an undetermined amount of damage police reported  of the homemade bombs was thrown at the Bank s Entrance and exploded sending flaming Gas running under the door. Execs Sive heat broke several windows and a bulletproof Glass pane police said. Another bomb was thrown against a window but fell Back onto the sidewalk where it exploded without causing  suspects have been arrested police said. Turkey to sign nuclear pact Ankara a the turkish government announced sunday it has decided to sign the nuclear non proliferation treaty. A foreign ministry spokesman said the treaty which will soon designed in Washington London and Moscow was seen by the Ankara government As one of the measures which must be taken against the great dangers of the nuclear armaments  ,."the turkish government acted with the desire of contributing to the cause of general detente the spokesman said. Bonn seeks ties with arabs Goeppinger Germany up West Germany wants to resume diplomatic contacts with the Arab states while guaranteeing the future of Israel Chancellor Kurt Georg Kiesinger said Here. Kiesinger speaking before a Congress of exhibitors and displayed saturday said West Germany wants to take up its traditional Good ties1 with Arab states he stressed at the same time West Germany s concern for a secure future for the israeli  by Peter Arnett Ca Mau Vietnam a bullets thudded into the Back of the South vietnamese Soldier As he sprawled face Down on the ground. His blood flecked shirt Rode Aphis Back with the Impact. He twitched spasmodically an died. It was death Viet Cong style in the Mekong Delta. The executioner was a Viet Cong soldiering floppy hat and baggy tunic with an ak47 automatic Rifle pressed hard to his shoulder. Straight from camera the scene came from a Roll of raw 16mm Black and White movie film straight from the Cam Era and uncut captured recently in the u Minh Forest on the Gulf of Siam Southwest of Sai gon. The film Laden camera was among enemy material seized when government troops Over ran the Viet Cong information Center for Delta operations last  brutal few seconds depict ing the death of the vietnamese Soldier who had apparently fled from his truck during a Vietcong ambush would obviously never have been included in an of the propaganda movies the enemy distributes around the  sequence was part of about 300 feet of film showing the ambush of a government truck Convoy in a Village some where in the Delta probably last summer. Talian general lets nato Post shape Belgium is -brig.Gen. Alberto i gobby of the italian army has been named to succeed the Canadian army s maj. Gen. G. A. Turcot As Ogof Ace Mobile forces land in Early March Gen. Lyman , supreme Allied com Mander Europe announced , who has his Headquarters at Hammond Barracks Inse Erenheim Germany is leaving the nato Post to return to duties in Canada Lemnitzer s announcement  Gobbi is now serving As commander of a paratroop Bri Gade in the command the announcement added. Scenes leading up to it showed Viet Cong riflemen running across an open Field to a Village Highway where government Mil itary trucks were billowing inflames. The shaggy haired guerrillas mostly hatless and Al seemingly Young closed in on burning trucks. No civilians were visible Buta Man dressed Only in shorts was flushed from a Roadside swamp by the Viet Cong his hands held High. He probably was a government Driver who had discarded his uniform As Heran. One dead Viet Cong was Pic tured in the Roadside grass. Earlier sequences apparently unrelated to the ambush por prayed a Field commander in Lack pyjamas on his haunches under a tree poring Over a map of the canals South of the Delta Metropolis can Tho. Other footage depicted Vietcong male and female carrying an assortment of weapons rang ing from grenades to Cumber some 75mm recoilless rifles through Jungles and across Paddy Fields. All were camouflaged usually with banana leaves. Several sequences . Army cobra gunship Heli copters making Low rocket strikes against tree line Posi  frames depicted bombs from american Jet planes exploding 20 to 30 feet from the  to Viet Cong came Raman Pham Khac who attended the first International Cam Bodian film festival at pin Oppenh last november experienced guerrillas Are picked to be combat photographers. They Are known to use High Quality Swiss and american equipment. The 35-year-old Khac told a photographer Horst Faas who was visiting Cambodia at the time he had fought seven years As a guerrilla Leader in the Plain of Reeds West of Saigon and then had a platoon in a Border prov Ince before being promoted to cameraman four years ago. His film of the Viet Cong Side of operation Junction City Early in 1966 won an award at the cambodian festival. Anglo Saxon visits to France dip sharply Paris a last year Wasa bad one for French hotels and tourism in general and no on contributed More to making it so j than the americans and the British. But figures of the French tourist commission show that still by far the most numerous foreign customers of the hotels of Paris Are americans. The French hotels sold 4.18 Pel cent fewer room nights in 1968 than 1967 but rentals by the French were Down Only 1.4 per cent. Trade by foreigners was off 17per cent with the Anglo saxons leading the absentees with27 per cent fewer room nights than in 1967. Then came the austrians 28 per cent fewer italians 22 per cent fewer and scandinavians 20 per cent fewer. It was t Only the May Jun revolution that scared them away. The commission said the dip started with the evacuation of the nato bases and devaluation of the Pound  hotels suffered less than those in the rest of the  still had 314,000 rentals to americans followed by the Ger mans with 240,000, British with 200,000, belgians with 145,000.and italians with 140,000. But new customer groups Are growing South americans and japanese. The commission said rentals in Paris to argentinians were up 18 per cent to 17,500, to brazilians up 15 per cent to 21, 500, and to japanese up 4 percent to nearly 28,000. Of France s competitors i drawing tourists Italy has the most favourable balance of tourist spending $1.1 billion followed by Spain at $1 billion Austria $400million Switzerland $350 Mil lion Portugal $200 million an Yugoslavia which quintuple its tourist business Between 1958and 1967 $100 million. France is about even on bal Ance but the United states loses $1.5 billion on balance and gei1 Many $700 million