first session has been so intensified that our condemnation has been outdated. Having said that, we cannot withdraw the condemnation, because it is complete, but we shall devote this afternoon to the development of the bombings since the condemnation we made in May.
Consequently, and to give you an example of the change, I am bringing to your attention a telegram sent from Hanoi on the nineteenth of November, which speaks of the bombing of Hanoi on the seventeenth of November:
"On the seventeenth of November the American imperialists once again committed extremely grave crimes against the Vietnamese people.
"They launched violent attacks against several residential districts in the center and in the suburbs of the capital, Hanoi, and in other provinces of North Vietnam. In attacking the capital Hanoi three times, at 7:15, 9:00 and at 10:55, they mobilised planes of the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force, which made 76 attacks, dropped 56 explosive bombs, more than 30 of them being delayed-action bombs, 12 containers containing 200 ballbombs, including delayed-action ball-bombs, fired 50 fragmentation missiles, thereby killing 33 civilians and wounding 158 more, and destroying numerous dwellings and property belonging to the people. Each of the four urban districts of the capital, Hai Ba Drung, Hoan Kiem, Ba Dinh, Dong Da, as well as the several villages attached to the suburban districts of Gia Lam, Thanh Tri, and Tu Liem were attacked. Just in the Hai Ba Drung district, from the market of Hoah Binh to the market of Mo, on an area of about one square kilometer, U.S. planes dropped six containers containing some 3,600 ball-bombs, thereby killing more than 100 civilians, and setting fire to and damaging hundreds of dwellings. They dropped a great number of ball-bombs and two explosive bombs of 750 pounds each on the Bach Mai hospital, the biggest hospital in Hanoi, killing a patient and wounding a doctor, a nurse and an assistant nurse while they were at work. The ward for infectious diseases, the neuropsychiatric ward, and lodgings reserved for the personnel of the hospital, were seriously damaged.
"The Hai Duong hospital was also attacked. They also dropped ball-bombs on the Polytechnical School, the Economy- Plan High School, the Music School, and on the grounds. Just on the Polytechnical School and on the Economy-Plan High School they dropped more than 1,000 ball-bombs, killing and wounding more than 25 people. They fired lacerating cube-missiles on
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the residential district where the diplomatic corps are located, in Ba Huyen street, Than Quan street, and at the office of the International Commission at 12 rue Phan Chu Trinh. Assistant Officer Mangal Chand, 25 years old, of the Indian delegation, was killed by a missile fragment, and another member of the Indian delegation was wounded. On the same day, American planes also attacked several residential districts in the city of Haiphong, in the provinces of Hung Jen, Thai Binh, Nam Ha, Hai Duong, Ninh Binh, Hoa Binh, Ba Thai, Ha Bac, and numerous places in Thanh Hoa, a region bordering on the demilitarized zone. Before Vietnamese and foreign opinion, the commission of enquiry on the war crimes of the American imperialists in Vietnam denounces the new grave crimes of the American imperialists.'
You see our second session is tied to the first. At bottom, they are but one. Therefore it requires few words to begin -- it suffices to say: the session continues.
U.S. AGGRESSION IN VIETNAM A "PURE CRIME OF CONQUEST"
(The following message from Bertrand Russell was read at the first meeting of the second session of the International War Crimes Tribunal, which opened November 20 in Copenhagen.
{At the first session, which concluded May 10 in Stockholm, the United States government was found