WASHINGTON--Secretary of State Dulles said yesterday the United States is "not going to attack or tolerate attacks against the Chinese Communists" in the Formosa Strait.

Dulles' statement was made public in Washington while the secretary was flying home from talks at Taipei, Formosa, with Chiang Kai-shek.

A communique issued at Taipei on the Dulles-Chiang conference contained a public renunciation of the use of force by Nationalist China to return to the mainland. It said the Nationalists would rely upon peaceful means to carry out their "sacred mission" of freeing China's 600 million people from Communist rule.

In their joint statement, Dulles and Chiang expressed belief that, in the face of U.S.-Nationalist determination to stand firm, the Reds "will not put their policy to the test of general war."

The formal communique did not go into the question of Chiang's cutting his forces on the offshore islands. But new dispatches from Taipei said it was learned Chiang had agreed to consider this step if the Communists silence their guns.

De Gaulle Asks for Negotiations

PARIS--Premier Charles de Gaulle, in a bid to end the exhausting Algerian war, yesterday appealed to the rebels to come to France for cease-fire negotiations.

He gave his personal guarantee of safe conduct to the representatives of the Algerian National Liberation Front--leaders of the four-year-old rebellion.

At the same time, the 67-year-old general announced that France could not agree with Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union to a ban on testing nuclear weapons.

Army Reports Balloon Satellite Lost

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Disappointed missile scientists were at a loss yesterday to explain what happened to the Army's latest space venture--an attempt to blast a Beacon balloon satellite into orbit.

Dr. Jack Froehlich, one of the chief scientists in the project, said no conclusions could be made until data available on the flight had been analyzed.

Hope was abandoned that the 12-foot diameter plastic and aluminum foil balloon ever would be spotted.