Aug. 6, 1964 - Following is part of the text of a North Vietnamese Government statement today on yesterday’s attacks by U.S. planes, as made available by Hsinhua, the Chinese Communist press agency:
“On Aug. 5, 1964, many jet planes taking off from the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Pacific came to strafe and bomb a number of places in the Vinh-Benthuy area, in the Gianh River mouth, and close to Hongay town, causing losses to the people there.
“What is extremely serious is that it was U.S. President Lyndon Johnson who had directly ordered the U.S. Air Force to launch that attack.
“As everybody knows, the U.S. imperialists are being defeated and bogged down in their aggressive war in South Vietnam.
“To get out of that predicament, they have on the one hand tried to step up the aggressive war in South Vietnam, and on the other, feverishly carried out provocations and sabotage against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, threatening to expand war to North Vietnam, and simultaneously intensified their intervention in Laos and threatened the independence and neutrality of Cambodia…
“The strafing and bombing on Aug. 5, 1964, are obviously premeditated warlike acts which are part of the U.S. Government’s plan to increase provocations and sabotage against the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
“To cover up its sinister designs, the U.S. had fabricated the story of two American destroyers being attacked for the second time off the Gulf of North Vietnam. But this insidious trick can deceive nobody…
“The more truculent and reckless the U.S. imperialists, the more united and determined the people throughout Vietnam to defeat them. The people in Laos, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia as a whole have seen more clearly the cruel face of the U.S. imperialists, hate them ever more deeply, and are struggling resolutely against them.”
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