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OVER-ZEALOUS POLICE
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By Sydney Redwood
Commander of the first of the southern half of the their way to .P.O.W. enges. In Western Desert Army of World}[ country. His opposite number view of the lightning Buccess,
Palestino War II, inspiring leader of In Northern
was Wavell and" O'Connor decided XIII Corps in its historie ad-1| Field-Marshal Montgomery, to exploit to the utmost the vance from Sidi Barrant to El -- The Original Desert · situation, and in the next soyen Agheila ngainst fantastic odda
weeks, one of the most brilliant Rats In the winter of 1940-41, Gen-
British military eral Nugent O'Connor has just General O'Connor was sent to history was written.
As soon as way was declared, chapters in retired from the British Army the Desert with a collection of
No Respite at the age of 68, after a Ser-regular troops who were later The Italians were given no covering nearly to become part of the 6th Divi-respite. The Duce had ordered slon, and there he remained for them to stand firm in the na- A brilliant tactician, this the next seventeen months, ex-tural fortress of Bardia, rein- little Irishman with the force- cept for a brief return to forced by a wide ditch, missen ful manner and ronalderable
Palestine to concentrate and of anti-tank guns and barbed charm. who Was revered throughout the
organise U.K. reinforcements | wire. But it took the Austrn- Desert forces, which never materialised owing lians, thus far held in reserve neemed set for the higheat to the disastrous turn of but who took over the spear- honours in the field when he events in Norway and Belgium. head from the Indians, with- had the great misfortune to When it was obvious that drawn for East African opera- fall into enemy hands during Mussolini had made up his tions, just over 24 hours to the Spring 1941 retreat.
Af-mind to ensh in on the Ger- storm it and make some 40,000
er of war camps, he managed
O'Connor
Was 4
General brevet-major in the Scottish Rifles in World War I in which he served with great disting tion. He was mentioned in
area,
fin
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CARNIVAL
By Dick Turner
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COPR. 1947 87 MEA MERZICY, IND, 3. 14 REG. MỤN, PAY, C
They're looking for footprints now, Quigley! Hadn't you oughta show them where the burglar_kicked you! In the pants?"
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
PICTURES WITH she spade A think he was blank
CARDS
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Police real in the effort to can- trol soliciting in the Colony's treets, and particularly in the Central District, is deserv- fing of warm commendation and public support. The difficulties in the way of an effective cam-
ter two years in Italian prison- | mans" Buccesses and stab prisoners. Once again, at the paign are well understood, and to escape and reached Britain back. the bulk of troops remain torized infantry patrols were Italy's former Allies in the same time armour and mo- in general, approval is likely to In time to lend a Corps through ing in Palestine he given to such 'shart-cut' tactics the thilek of the fighting from to the Desert, and
were rushed already probing the outer de- O'Connor fences of Tobruk, 75 miles as can safely be exploited. The Normandy to the Rhine, and
was appointed to command the awny. principal operative word; how became the first post-war Ad- whole of the Western Desert
Tobruk, which had relied on ever, is safely and Sunday Jutant-General to the Forces.
His was a modest com- strong artillery, also fell after (night's incidents in the region of
He vacated this appointment mund then: his force consisted a day, providing another 26,000 the Hong Kong Hotel, as the at his own request on 20th Sep of the 6th Division, very short men for agricultural work in result has well demonstrated, scene aber. Normally, his term as of artillery; the 7th Armoured Britain. The remaining enemy dearly to have exceeded the safety A. G. would only have expired Division, very short of armour; decided to run for it and try
next June, but he had long and two margin, sp much so as to justify wished to retire as soon as he troops.
brigades of Indian to find the anfety of Tripo With the Australians litania; Derna Was evacuated no small perturbation in the pub could be apared. He has been under General Mackay, this without a fight; Benghazi de- lie mind, and the indignation of succeeded by Lieut-Gen, Sir) made a total of some 30,000 clared an "open city"; and they the victims. On the facts As James Steele. war-time Direc troops.
raced away along the road. known, it would seem that of ten tor of Staff Duties at the War
Across the wire in Libyn was O'Connor realized that they persons detained as the result Office, who has been British Marshal Graziant with a force could not be overtaken that the police raid, six of them were Gin-C and High Commissioner five times as strong, two hun-way, and that his only hope ordinary citizens, able to give in Austria for the last aixteen red tanks, a thousand guns, lay in outflanking them by
diamonds, with the other defender | satisfactory account of themselves: months.
and a complete Air Army.
cutting right across the desert,
perhaps holding the balance of that the who happened to be to the vicinity.
Captured Island
As a Millet or Rembrandt paiots it. Of contrac, if that were, is not surprising that an Ita- and issued the briefest of all
* and pictures with brush, at the time.30 pan. a rea
diplomant before leaving orders of the day: "Get to
creates case, he would require two entries Shakespeare or Longfellow Cairo had left his elegant the const," It was a
to the dummy to bring in any dia-a sonable enough hour-but who
Isotta Fraschini car in a local thirty continuous hours dur-at the bridge table produce them with give exactly that impression,,
day of them with words, so can. an artist mand tricks. Then he saw a way 10 protestations were of no avail to
gurage,
and blithely remarking ing which every armoured car cards. In many a situations he can tried it. prevent the indignity of a visit to
that he'd be back, In three and tank which was still ser- make an opponent see the missing te tank the club lead to the. Q. Central Police Station. It does
weeks to drive it out.
viceable made an amazing two- cards as being entirely different iram with the A and immediately returned mut follow, by any means, that despatches nine times, and his The Marshal, most cautious hundred mile dash across the what they actually are. And the the spade Q. When East anw that, the police are always entirely gallantry and daring earned of warriors, took even longer arld wastes in a sinustorm of mirage he fabricates causes the op he decided South was trying to force
There are times when | him the Military Crosa
ponent to act in such a way in to venture across the frontier gale force.
thar out the A in order to make the K results are achieved which woulJ direct action is the only choice. France in February, 1915, the and advanced prudently to Sidi
They reached the sea at Beda
dummy entry. Evst studied before Service of this kind.
Distinguished la circonstances
Order Barrani,
that trick, while South's some eighty miles Foam--just ahead of the dee- have been Impossible except for ble playing in however, having regard to
two years later, and a bar to west of Meran Metruh,
heart palpitated. The East reckoned There ing Italians, who outnumbered the
the D.S.O. for his leadership In he halted, and built what he them five to one in tanks, three
that the club & lead from West wor real nature of the offence-nothItaly three weeks before the imagined to be impregnable to one in guns, and many of
probably the "op of nothing,” per ing whatever to do with obstruc Armistice,
haps the 1-7, with South originally The latter decora perimeter #defences Etiam or loitering it is all the tion was awarded for his dur- of forts and camps each about
composed whom were fresh from garri-
holding the A-K-1-9-6, and thar West son duties in Benghazi. This
held more necessary that the greatest ing capture of the island of two miles in circumference, time the Italians wore care and caution should be oh Papadopoll together with some with ditches, walls, barbed wire cornered and had to stand and HK 10 42
185 served before placing a person in 600 prisoners. Another great and anti-tank guns.
fight. The battle raged for a CK1986 danger of being unjustifiably Desert soldier to receive a bar Meanwhile, O'Connor had re-day, and then, with only stigmatised. The least doubt should to the D.S.O, in the same Lon-gularly sent reconnoltring tanks left, Genoral "Electric be enough to prohibit the taking don Gazette list was New Zea forces first into Cyrenaica, and Beard Bergonzol! surrendered of the slightest risk. Law enforce-
land's General Freyburg.
then around Barrani to probe the last Italians remaining In Between the wars, O'Connor the enemy's strength. meat officers cannot themselves had the usual long spell of re-a personal recce, a young In more Generals.
During Cyrenaica: 12,000 men and five escape the necessity for remaining gimental soldiering and two telligence colonel on his staff inter campaigns, other able). within the law. An unpleasant years of staff duties at the War spotted an unexpected gap in entrants in the Benghazi Stakes North East incident of this kind, in isolation. Office before commanding the the positions on the western covered the distance in less than 3D would probably be dismissed as Peshawar Brigade in India, the side of the perimeter, between the eight weeks that 13 Corps) unfortunately
Following West's lead of the chib bound now and Wessex Division at home, and Point Ninety and the chief required; but they were betters, South saw that he could run six sgain to necur,
but there have tuking part in the Palestine south-westerly stronghold of equipped,,armed and supported tricks in diamonds, plus two side been several
occasions—not campaign against the Arabs. Bir Sofaft.
and fortified by the experience seen, but had no chance to get the a grand slam can be made my many, but too many-when the during which he was in charge
The Gap
of the gallant 30,000 who had ninth without losing the lead, where of three suits by one side or the police have tended to exceed their
Around-this-vitai onemy wiped out a whole Army and upon the opponents could wreck him other, and yet, by sane bidding, ge
Britain her first land with club-tricks.
imo small alam in the only spe oversight, the plan for the given
Then a great light dawned on him. which cannot produce the grand first campaign was woven. Ori- success of the war.
Three days later, broadcasting Maybe he could make the holder of alam? ginally, it was only intended to attack Sidi Barrand and ad- to the nation Mr. Winston Chur- vance twenty miles along to the chill said:
"General O'Connor, command- fusion of the retreat. It is im- wella of Bug Bug, to dispel
ing 13 Corps, with General possible to overestimate its dig- the immediate threat to Egypt. Mackay commanding the splendid astrous effect on the progress
forces
Australians and
General of the war in Libyn: O'Connor To Reds Wuvell's disposal, it seemed Creagh, who trained and com- had shown himself a master of impossible to accomplish moremanded the various armoured desert warfare; the troops had
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Opposition
Prague, Nov, 16
M. Bohumil Laurman, Minister of Industry, was today elected Chair man of the Social Democrat Party by the Party Congress at Brnog kle succeeds Dr. Fierlinger, the Deputy Prime
Minister, and the appointment
port.
the Communista,
I doubt of mild misdemeanours whatever may be the nuisancò value, comes instantly to mind.] What renders this much worse i that those who suffer thereby are
Preparations were made in units which were employed; the utracist confidence in him; more often than not inarticulate
(From the flex of the "China grcat secrecy and haste, while these three men executed. the he was n close personal friend Similar treatment of individuals Mail")
Graziani's staffs made leisurely complicated and satoundingly of Wavell's. at a higher stage of civilisation.
the Many reports have been in plans for the conquest of rapid movements which (FARE) and acquainted with their legal circulation during the week of Nile Valley. On 7th December, made and fought the actions rights, would have, swift rener the murder of some of our coun- 1940, the troops began to move which occurred. I have just seen HK$180.cussions. In the main, the police trymen near the Bogue-as firat from the Matruh area by night a telegram from General Wavell. The Irish Cameronlan, who involves M. Lauman's resignation
Inter laying-up by day to avoid in which he says that the success had been have done an excellent Job in stated; but according to
awarded the Italian from hls We are detection, while decoy aircraft in Cyrenaica was due to the out- Sliver Medal for Valour in 1919, cleaning-un the principal streets rumours, at Canton,
Last
Friday, M. Lousman" to the were used to distract Italian standing leadership of O'Con- did not take kindly to captivity Social Democrat Conference that 300-of the Colony, and keeping them happy to state that the latest in-
telligence brings no confirma observation.
nor and Creagh, ably backed by firnt at Sulmona, in the Czech Socialists "would fight any ............ 250.fairly clear of prostitutes, and the tion of the news, which appears The Blow Falls
Generál Wilson".
Abruzzi, and then in the Castello foreign influence.".. officer who first conceived the to be altogether without founda- The first blow was struck ati Thers was no question of the Vinelllate near Florence.
Dr. Fierlinger, whoke place he 400-idea of adapting the loitering and tien, unless the robbery of n dawn on December 9th on smallert Force pushing on In the next two years, the tates in the party's organisation, in 200.- elstruction laws to the need, s Chinese boot be considered such, Nibeiwa, one of the protective inty Tapolitania. The men were general escaped twice, but was former Ambassador to Moscow 2 350.-
much more obvious twelve months
forta on the outer perimeter. tired; machines were in need of recaptured and acrved a month's leads the section of the panty | ago_than_today, for drastic action
Infantry tanke, overhaul; and meross the sens, solitary confinement in a fortress vocating the closes cooperation with The H. Co's alcamer "Pluto" while new 120inst them deserves the fullest lef Whampoa on Friday morn avoiding the immediate targets in gallant Greece, a new Nazi on each occasion. But a third In London, the election of M. -300-credit. But the fact that it is a ing last, in company with the swept through the gap and threat loomed. The Army settled attempt was auccessful: two Lausman, as the new chairman of
device, and no more than that, steamer "Corsair," the latter ar-1
dashed to Buq Buq.
down between Benghazi and El days after the Italian, armistice, the Czech Social Democrat Pariyla, The Italians at Nibeiwa wero Agheila, O'Connor handed over he broke clear from the Castello, considered by political quarters as a for dealing with a spezifis prob-rived here at 4 to 7 o'clock pm- pencefully cooking breakfast, his command to General Philip and for three and a half months move underlying the Czech Socialista" lem, demands special care in the and the "Pluto" at 5 minutes and were taken completely by Neame, and came back to Cairo he wandered about German-independence. from the Communists.- use of it.
I is a great pity to post 10 o'clock. p.m., the steamer!
occupied territory about the Ap--Reuter, risk the spoiling of good work by "Corsair thus beating the II. surprise; they put up a short, as G.O. C.-in-C. Egypt.
Capture
ponines and the silly mistakes.
Co's steamer by 3 hours and 10 sharp fight but surrendered when they found themselves
adven Two months Inter, however, seaboard. After many minutes from Whampoall
Bome powerful armoured thrusts enveloped from cast and west ho was back in the. desert tures, he reached Termoll in a cast of the Orme, southwards Before nightfall, the Infantry Rommera Afrika Korps had shing vessel, contacted HQ from Caumont, and accupied.:. our had annexed three forts, while Inthched its first attack, and 8th Army on 22nd December Le Beny Bocage. It played no "Dear, Mr... Editor-In
the armoured column, complet Wavell asked him to act last issue you made some “
1948, and arrived home by als further part in the Battle of "Ieft hook" movement adviser to Neamo in view of his on Christmas morning. marks regarding the neglect of ing &
France and the dash the rogulation for Chinese which was to set the patterngrent experience of the country.
Bolgulm; It had suffered heavy. carrying
He had only just reached the a lantern at night for Desert, warfare, captured
casualties, and all its second lina? why is it, Mr. Editor, that so that astonished garrison of Bay Desert HQ With Withdrawal
transport and balf of the IME- 'Shanghai,⋅ Nov, 17, Hulle attention is paid to light- Bug, 14,000 strong. and now from Benghazi to Gazala
Iing was switched to the main- Representatives ef 270 dance ing the town?
lay astride the path of the ordered. Neame, O'Connor-he After a month's leave, the tenance of 12 and '80' Corps. teachers here, who had suffered
enemy's retreat.
was Sir Richard by now and General was back in harness, But it was back in the line at In rebuff last week In their appeal
"I could', mention --several Two days later, Sidi Barrand | General Gambler-Parry gent this time as one of Montgomery's the Battle for the Schbldt and Tagainst the
'on dancing schools, will continue their cam. places where the regulation is itself fell, the Italians pulling their staffa and baggage by the Corps Commanders in the Nor-Arnhem, assuming responsibility palgn today by approaching väri- grogsly heglected, but one will out na their last :: forts were main road and set out to follow mandy Invasion. He landed his for the right flank of 2nd Army. suffice. Take, for. instance, stormed, and a disorderly rab- a short cut through the debct Eighth Corps at Arromanches' General O'Connor loft. 8. Corps At a meeting Inat night, speak- Gough Street, which contains ble went, helter-skelter back country. They soon found them on D Plus 0, and before the in January, 1945 when the Rhine ers claimed that it was unrea. 16 houses, and every house has along the coast road and Hal- selves blocked by a long convoy end of June, 1944, his units had had been reached, for India, Modern science can protect sonable to ban their institutions, a tenant, but of these only sevenfaya Pass, where they came and were evertaken by a Ger- forced erossings over the River where he became G.O.Cein-C your eyes, can improve your being given a period of 12 months have a door light. In this street under heavy strafing from the man motor cycle, reconnaissance Oden after fierce fighting Eastern Command. On the con
1o change their profession. during the last fortnight ong Ale and punishing atention group, operating fur in advance ambut very strongery was appointed to command seding, can correct the eye The dance teachers last Satur. house has been robbed, and three from the armour. Five more of the main German Army; armour,
day Invited Mayor KC. Wu to attempts have been minds on days, and the Desert Forces There was no possibility of make The Corps then played a load the North Western Army with clianges of age.
visit dance thathens and see for others, ve
worn over the frontier and had ing a fight of it, and the three ing, part" to "pinning down the headquarters at Rawalpind!, but hímacit.”“”Wörther, i thelis methods "It is a well known fact that salked the Beatz Geste battle- Generals were compelled to sure maximum enemy. Panzer forma. In hihy last year he was brought were against publie morality, but one light may show thief but ments of Fort Capuzzo, * render at the point of tommy-tions on the 2nd Army front, in back to Britain to become the Mavor turned down the ro
more week, the threat gunay tags he w
capturing Chen and forcing the Adjutant General to the Forces, queat on the grounds that he had ten thousand policemen, cannot In a seen social dances too frequent see one in the dark to Egypt had been disposed of It was a cruel blow which crossing of the Orne. During lung climax to a
in foreign countries/maleuter, "WILL O'THE WISP".ind: 30,000. Italians were on added to the prevailing con July and early August, it, deniti care
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