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FIFTEEN-YEAR-OLD WARD BANHAM DREW OUT A REVOLVER AND SHOT HIMSELF DEAD IN A PLY. MOUTH POLICE STATION Replies aro awaiting at our offices WHILE BEING QUESTION" for Bax No. 23, 32, 38,
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THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1945,
CHANNEL ISLANDER'S LEAP Part Of Story Of Secret Operations In Malaya
Three-Pointed Sabotage
CARLOS ROMULO
Force A APPLAUD D
A YOUNG CHANNEL ISLANDER'S DAYLIGHT PARA- CHUTE LEAP INTO THE HEART OF MALAYA WHILE THE SKY WAS PACKED WITH JAPANESE FIGHTERS WAS A HIGHLIGHT OF SECRET OPERATIONS IN JAPANESE-HELD MALAYA, SOME PART OF WHICH MAY NOW BE TOLD.
THE SECRET ORGANISATION-ITS NAME IS STILL A SECRET STARTED ITS JOB RIGHT BACK IN 1941, WHEN EUROPEAN OFFICERS WHO LIVED IN MA LAYA WERE BANDED TOGETHER INTO A DARING FORCE, WHOSE JOB IT WAS TO GET INTO THE JUNGLE BEHIND THE ENEMY LINES AND WRECK COMMUNICATIONS, MAKE SUDDEN RAIDS ON ENEMY HEADQUARTERS, OR CARRY OUT AM- BUSHES.
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First man to lend one of these! By that time Chapman's forco Lieutenant-Colonel | had already destroyed seven Japa- parties was Freddie Chapman, famous for nese trains, blown up railways lo exploits In the Arctic and more than 100 places, destruyed 37 lorries and killed nearly 1,000 Himalayas. He and his party
Јаралева in lightning ambushes. lost all contudt with the out-
Guerilla parties were built up side world when Singapore fell.
everywhere. Arms, demolition made to locate them.
Washington, Dec. 15.
A Scurrilous Myth Attacked
BRIDGE NOTES
Both crime and criminal are easy to spot to-day:
West, Dealer.
Neither sklo, vulnerable.
Philippines Resident Commis- Claiming to have the support alonor Carlos Romulo recolved of every man of every rank in S.-543 further plaudits in the House of the Guards Division, the News H-10-74 Representatives yesterday when
a concurrent resolution of the Guardian, D British
Service D-IQ Philippines congress, expressing paper published in Bad Goden- appreciation for his services in Washington, was incorporated into berg, says: the records of the houne.
Rep. George Gillie told the Houze, regarding Romulo, that "because we know him and admire him in the United States for what hola, I ain happy to inform the House how highly ho also thought of in his native country." -Associated Press.
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"A scurrilous myth is being fostered in Britain. In-blunt- termia the wives and widows and eisters and sweethearts of the mon who form the British Army of Occupation are being asked to believe that these men -the great majority of them-Pass
Pass are spending most of their time Pass
Pass flirting with German girls.
West opened the diamond King, "No one wishes to present that Bouth winning with the Ace. De- fraternisation 16 not taking clarer returned his low diamond. place But we dony the foul and returning & spade: East took West taking the diamond Queen Good mill demand for Spot hints that 90 per cont.. 75 per
ten of diamonds. South discarded spects for increased exports of men of the B.LLA. devote such the low club, and Wert, of cours United States cotton advanced inlaure hour as they have to the ruffed. Later on South had to the cotton futures prices in veg-systematic seduction of every at-los a club, thus going down one terday's market. There was a tractive German girl they can trick, continuation of
Friday's trade put their arm around. buying and commission house
"As soldiers we ask that we be credited with some sense of discipling some ability to control our emotions. We demand an end to this filthy campaigh, Shut the mouths of the gossips.'
written by the boys saying they later, a desperate attempt was equipment and food were packed cotton, in the South and pro- [cent., even 10 por cent. of the the spade Aco and, shot back the
The parents
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Their description was culated, and a roninble Plymouth street recognised them.
He took them to a sub-station
aking them and Wax
they had been when Banham produced a gun.
There was a shot, and the lay Tell on the flour of the station.
demand.
Only the Japanene surrender prevented the work of these secret24.76, jungle fores men from reaping cents rich reward.
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In parachute containers in Ceylon. of June, 1945, the Captain R. M. Broome, of the By the end informed the Malayan Civil Service, and Cap- operation was in full swing.
By August 15, the date of the WE BUY OR SWAP watch, police. and Th withe hunt wastain 3. L. Davis, of the Mala-
yan Police, made a preret landing Japanese surrender, 300 officers fountainpes, curio camera, telescope, started.
A Chinese Ashing vessel and mon and 47 radio sation nilverware. lighter and ja de. Apply
Fir. from Ah - Mong Stäre, Stanley Streci.
deep behind the enemy lines. They had been put into Malaya, mostly Failed to find Chapman, but escap-by parachute, but come by sub- ed to Sumatra only to find that marine.
March vtures was quoted at the last evgguntion ship had left.
May 24.74, July A small native sailing vensel
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the where they made
per thousand-mile crossing of the Indian Ocean to Ceylus. Despite their narrow 08- caper and many hardships they pleaded to be allowed to go back again to continue their lone hand in the Jungle battle.
From India Captain Davis wus
A small Janded with
Party of Chinese Malayons from a Dutch submarine on the west coast of San Francisco. Dec. 18.
They
tho had to raw Malaya. Infantry Regument The 124th
lagt lx miles through fierce tides which fought one of the major battles breakingr the by-passed but they landed unsern and carried their bontz and store: into the Japanese 18th Army at Altape.
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Davis sent back more and more Chinese encouraging reports of guerrilla banda and in August, 1943, Captain Broome joined him. Together they planned a daring Crossing of the heavily-populated and patrolled coastal belt in a bid to reach the safety of the jungle which covers the main mountain range of Malayo,
NEWS AT LAST Deciding that with out-and-out nudacity they would get away with it, Davis and Broome and their party galled straight through the little harbour, of Pangkor while It was crowded with Japanese patrol craft.
Passed from house to house by members of the Malayan people'a anti-Japanese army
they learned that Chapman after all these years of silence was still alive.
messages back to the submarine
IMAGINATIVE
AND PROPHETIC. AS A FIELD GENERAL DACIOUS. IMPERTURBABLE AND UNCONQUERABLE.
Marshal Georgi Zhukov,
Russia's Brilliant Leader
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Obviously, South is the criminal. but was his crime? Decido for yourself before going on.
Probably South's chief crime was in choosing a bud line of play to begin with. He could have made his contract by banging down the Ace and Queen of clubs at once. West woul
would take the club King, but South could
the low
Ace and
club with dummy's trump draw tramps before cashing the club Jack and forcing out the spade Ace. Another method was
to cash the King and Queen of hearts at the second and third tricks; then lead the diamond. If East got in with the spade Ace to return a diamond, South would ruff with the Jack, lead a trump te dummy's Ace and discard the low club on the Jack of diamonds. But even South's netual line of play, although inferior, was feasi Whatever happens in the future, Stalingrad went on for 21 weeks breasting the stream like a deet of
ble until he let West ruff the third Marshal Georgi Zhukov (pro and exceeded in violence any pra- old aide-wheelera. In recent #ght- round of diamonds. South should pounced Jzeo-kuf) will go down rious battle of the wor. Under ing, the Red Army has attacked
have put in history as one of the greatest Zhukov's direction what had seem from unexpected directions all up cashed the Queen, Jacks, and Act the King of trumps, generals of World War II. Stalin'sed to be a Russian disaster was and down the front. Retreating of trumpe, and takon a discord in cholco as conqueror of Berlin and dramatically turned into a victory Gormans have found Russians of safely an dummy's Jack of dia- perhapa uu the chief Russian in that probably will go down among ready dug in behind them. Bymonds. the future Allied government of the decisive ones in history. passing strong points and leaving Germany, Zhukov has a record of
them for rear echelons to mop up Maier partner and, with neither
Yesterday you were Stalin then hustled Zhukov, to Zhukov hurled military achievement without
hie spearheads parallel in modern war.
"Leningrad, where he organized a new offensive which lifted its long swampland and woodland in the
across more than 300 miles of aide vulnerable, you held." blockade. A few weeks later ho fret 18 days of his campaign-the
S-A J was named Marshal of the Soviet fastest advance of the war, far Union, the first field commander exceeding the record of the Ger
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The bidding:
Merwin
Jacoby You Burnstone Pass (7) ANSWER: Bid threo diamonds,
No single counterpart for him can be found in either the Allied or Axia armies. His roig can best be comprehended if one imaginer of the war to ao recognized. mans against the Russians in 1941.
an individual officer simultaneous y holding the responsibility of Zhakov planned the 1943 summer kov is a military man from his With Stalin and Voroshilov.
In appearance and manner Zbu- General Marshall, General Bison- howar and General Bradley. For offensives which went the Ger- apperceptive eyes to his pollahed Maier a period of four years he shuttled me out of Kursk, Orel, Belgorod, boots. He speaks directly, sharply 1 H. Davis was still managing to get between the Kremlin and every Kharkov, Smolensk, and sent them and precisely in a calm, low voice. off-shora by sending a runner with battlefield of the Russian front. back across the Dnciper. Early in He dislikes vacillation. His strong The hand is, if anything, a trilio alternately planning grand strate- killed at the height of operations that few men dispute his views. "light" for this very strang bid 1944, General Nikolai Vatutin was face is so expressive of willfulness tubes. But at last the Japanese and commanding armies in the in the Ukraine. Rather than en-in upholding his judgments be can but the high-eard strength and
front lines.
trual the sector to a less experion- be extremely stubborn, but profusion of Jacks and tens war- red commander, Stalin put Zhukov occasions when he is qutvoted by rant energetic action. in active command.
other members of the supreme Score 100 per cent for three command he executes their plans diamonds,
80 per cent for two EVERYTHING AGAINST HIM as solicitously as he would his own. diamonds, 40 per cont for two no-trump, 30 per cent for three SON OF PEASANT
no-trump.
bits of paper hidden in toothpaste
broke the link and he was cut off in the Jungle.
A party of British officers under Major Paddy Martin, peace-time Johore planter, went through the Japanese minefields on the cast coast and with a portable radio
established contact once again.
FLUID STRATEGY
071
QUESTION
It is Zhukov's philosophy that offensive strategy must be fluid and flexible and cannot be definito-
Everything was against Zhukov'a ly onvlanged at a tablo in the Kromiin. That is why be habitually success. One of the earliest spring takes great personal risks in order thawa in memory set in. His troops
Son of simple peasant folk, Zhu- to observe his troops in action and sank to their knees in greasy mud, koy was born in Strelkova, a small to with front-line tactics. As a stuff March 4 Zhukov's artillery opened He left school at an early age and neither side vulnerable and a .00
compare backroom strategy But time was all-important. On village in central Russia, in 1895. by a British officer, Llcut,-Cplonol: officer he has proved himself cufl-ward through the mud on a 160-the outbreak of World War I hovint part-score for the opponents,
up. Then the tanks slipped for-bécame apprentice to a furrier At
Then in December last year came the final daring opisode in this jungle Maquia story."
A small party of Malayatus led
Peter Dobree, of Guernsey, dropp-|
On tho twenty-second day Dobree got a radio
message through. Ho had dodged the Japanese and trekked into the tungle. A three-pointed force in Malaya was now ready to take its part in the impending recapture of the country.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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ed by parachute in North Malaya. ning, imaginative and prophetic.
you hold: was drafted into the army and They took with them a radio As a floid general he has been mile front. Inspired by Zhukós'a
imperturbable Audacious,
presence, the First Ukrainian saw two years of active service, and
Army outdid itself. After two days then was invalided home. By the emergency rations and carried out this amazing feat in broad an
unconquerable.
of bitter fighting 12 German divi- time he had recovered. Russla was daylight deep in enemy territory. Zhukov's most dramatic persons were across the Soviet fron-out of the war and Lenin was in For three weeks there was formances have been in his recur-tier and onto Polish soil. For his power. Army life appealed to Zhu ailence for those waiting anxiously rent role as Russia's Horatius at dehtevement the Supreme Soviet kov, sa he abandoned the fur trade in Ceylon.
the-Bridge. Muscovites call him awarded Zhukov the Order of and joined the Red cavalry. He
The bidding: Spasitel, or saviour. In the bitter Victory, a magnificent bauble of piso joined the Communist Party Schenken You Jacoby Burnstone autumn of 1941 when German diamonds, rubies and platinum
1 S. His ability attracted the notice armies almost uncircled Moscow, worth $100,000.
(7) of Red Army commanders and he Stalin relieved. Zhukov of his desk The climactic offensive which was picked to attend Frunze What do you bid? (Answer duties as chief of staff and on- began January 12 this year is the Academy the Soviet's combina To-morrow.) trusted him with the defence of fruit of Zhukov's planning.. the capital. Zhukov landed an im-invest Berlin, destroy Hitler's Staff School. In the years that fol- Totion of West Point and General passioned hold-or-dle order: "Notarmies and end the war, Zhukov lowed, Zhukov obscurely but effec a step back!" he commanded. "Halt deployed an estimated 200 divi- tively prepared himself for his N. Y. STOCK MARKET the fascists! Every man must fight sions twice the reported total later responsibilities. He had few strength of the Anglo-American intimate friends and spent his off- retreat slowed and drnties in the West-along 400-
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When German shambles at Moscow. of the Red Army's Buld supply
the Japanese attacked the "They were used to ensy victories, system, which Zhukov helped Mongolian Republic in May 1939 he said. "For them, wer was more-evolve, but also to his ben tretical the Soviet Union, rushed: several ly manoeuvres. They have helther alcill:: Zhukov is a wlly field soldier, tank divisions under Zhukov's cavalry nor skiers, thole tanks a student of Clausewitz and ether command to thole assistance. cannot pass over the snow. litary FIRST REAL TEST VA he talked he sparkled with sarcasm ty on, the campaigns of Hinnibol.
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and occafional wit-bo was relax. 116 repeatedly outubeple and It was here in the Red Army formed stouts that the Japs were Ing for the first time in months. outmanoeuvred the Germani”.
The stubborn resistance the Ger shrewdest commanders, Two win underwent its Best real teat by fire in no position to deliver an often.". mans offer in towns and villages fors ago, for example, he took that Soviet newspaperinon arst alva blow." "Ilia words changed the has a simple explanation. They are Rsher by ordering his ongineers glimpsed Zhukova quperitive self- atmosphere Instantaneously. A few afraid to
up,
Zor to throw an Invisible" bridge assurance, a group of war corren days later the forces under his warm henges the tiver was built on pondente word Interviewing Zha- command wiped out the Japanese frozen fel
With the Germans
mans stabiilsed on drify by night, with th Tundway for in a blockhouse on the Afan. Sixth Army cab challen. Gol 111 the central front, Zhukov was submerged, 18 ched below the churlan frontier one day when twu daring, and julia ettablished him transferred to Stalingrad, monaco surface of the water. On Rahov's Hod Army scouts rushed in to x5-id Stalin's eyes son military by the drijos of von Paulus and D. DAY the Nazi garrison a port that the Japanese wero maen- genius. He that upward through Iron Mannstein. The epic battle_of_// Zhukey's tanka miraculously ing largo units in properation for Red Army ranks."
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