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ARCTIC AIR
It has been no secret that the United States Air Force has been giving intense attention to the Arctic. So it is not surprising to have it announce that American combat planes can fly anywhere) in the Arctic in any season. For Some who know the northern ASIADOS this may ใน hard tu Tulieve. One reconnais satice squadron has flown 1,8),- 200 miles there in the last year, however, so the U.S. Air Force experience behind its
lats aumle claim.
This track is anowbound impassable from late October un till early Mny. Thus Gilgit is India for five, if not six, months sealed eff from bath Kashmir and
New Delhi. 1 Gilgit is reached from Srinagar, tribesmen. This is a propagandá An ominous point aboul the Kashmir's capital, only by a 14-story invented by Indian news- break-down ef the Big Four day inarch along Conference is that, apart from múle-track.
a precipitous papers to hide the fact that the bartliloned Germany, the British
Gilgitte have risen solldly
and Commonwealth is the only one of
Pakistan, and spontaneously and declared for the Western Powers which has a common frontier with Russia.
You may well nak where this frontier Is. It is in Gilgit Agency. In year. which Iles on the southern slope of the Roof of the World at the point where three Empires, the Russian, the Chinese, British, meet.
and the
Valley Of Decision
There a
R
snow-free route
through Chitral and Swat Into Pakistan; there is als H 50W- free route Into Sinklang.
narrow strip
Major Brown, originally owing the Agency for Pakistan, with a allegiance to Kashmir, now rules Pakistan observer to help him. It is one of those strange case, where a man con expect elther a high decoration or court-martial for high treason!
Indian theory is that Gilgit can What is to happen now? The walt til the Kashmir dispute is
It is a for cry from Germany to Tartary, and many may doubt that a quarrel In cne could have repercussions in the other.
To the north-west "Gilgit is led, then the Agency can be Experience hus shown, how.ctually divided from Soviet Tur-reconquered. I have heard this overy that if Russia is brought to kestan by a
emphasised by both Indian sol- a full stop ch one of her frontiers Afghanistan,
diers and by statesmen. she wast's no time stabbing her toes, but switches pressure in totally different direction.
After the fasen over Germany, Scandinavia, Greece, Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, China might folle me up for notice,
Wide Open
Gilgit. 16,000 square miles of mountain country to the north of wild and Incredibly beautiful Kadmir, is a push-over, Theagh the Agey ram trule rutes from Turkestan to both India and Pakistan.
For this reason, Gilgit has been
called the back-dor to India, and by an astonishing piece of folly this summer here in Delhi, the ร้าง been left wide
can ber
Were this strip mountain To wait, or to start a military range, in a land of 20,000ft, high drive against Gligit would not ponke, afl might be well. But they be unrealistic, it would be
trip is nothing of the sort; it is a madness. similow valley which er ssed anywhere
In the first place the Gilgiti any time of the proverbial two men and a boy are a resolute fighting race, and year, in a day's march.
Things might be in
could hold the f1 pretty
Gilgit-Srinagar pass in Gilgit today were it not
intile-track at a dozen points. for the presence of two British Army leers, Major Willamcursion into Gilgit would un Br wn, Commander of the Gilgit Kohistan to the south, the Swatis doubtedly pull in the Pathans of mind, Capt. A. S. Mathieson. Sentits, and his second-in-com- and the Chitralls, probably the Afghan tribes, and possibly even volunteers from Slukiang.
the
On the day Kashinir joined the Indian Union the Gilgits, who are ninety-nine p.in nine per cent. Moslem, declared for Pakistan,
In GBgit Sub-Division Scouts mutinied and refused to obey the orders of the Indian Governor appointed by Kashmir's Maharajah. They joined the local inhabitants in inving towards the Politically, Gilgit Agency con bazaur with the Intention sists of ten tribal divisions. These massacring the 200 odd Hindu kinned, industrious, and proudly Tribesmen are handsoine falrand Sikh traders there. independent.
back-cour
pen.
onc
the
of
In the second, on Indian army
In the opinion of many sober people here, Mr. Attlee shoul shed his reluctance to Interfere in Indo-Pakistan affairs and Inform Pandit Nehru that for the security of all involved, and that include: the Commonwealth, Gilgit mukt he left to Pakistan,
She, unlike India, run at least sure uninterrupted, all-the-year- roum, contrally-guided adminis- tration.
The Thin Edge
| CARNIVAL
By Dick Turnar
"When I call you that, smile!”
~Disk harner
BARCLAY ON BRIDGE
By SHEPARD BARCLAY
"THE AUTHORITY ON AUTHORITIES"
AVOID THEIR LONG
SUIT
But one must wonder why the claim is put forward just now. is il tu influence "a certain | comntry" that lies on
Mojor Brown not only stopped the other
the Scouts but persuaded them to side of the Arctic? Or is it to In the past there has been fre- escort the Indians to a place of reassure anyone-such as waver quent internecine warfare, but in safety. He then sent a party of Mr. Attlee could balance mat- ing nations
niy in Europe-win
part of the Agency Scouts up the hill to guard the ters by strongly advising Mr. known as Glight Sub-Division Governor. might be uncertain aboot Ameri- tenth of the whole,
Jinnah that British political of- has
The Governor panicked, barri.cers be restationed in the Agency. can power? Or is it only to win sucir ever been acknowledgest, and opened wild fire on the party. sent state of Insecurity and in- suzerainty of the Maharajah of caded himself into his Residency,
In a sizeable
number of cases. public support for
If things are left in their pre- further Air
where South was the declarer, West Force experiments in the region? to hand over the whole of the clerk who had been sent to reason edge of the Soviet wedge to be chosen for the opening lead against because he did not want to give the
The fully of this summer was He killed two Scouts and a Hindu stabilly we can expect the thin
disliked feading away Of all the suits which might be homes in spades, hearts and cluse
Iron! The U.S. Air Force has two Agency to Kashmir. Possibly a
hin with him. good reasons for its interest in mistake was made and Gilgit Again Major Brown stepped in,
driven into the Empire.
a high contract of No Trumps, the derinrer the North.
The ten Gligit tribes have been ane to be avoided usually is
era gratuitions face. When Military planners Agency confused with Gilgit Sub- brought the Governor
thea diamond wess chosen for that rea- to his knocked off their balance by the longest shown by the declarer always draw their charts in rela-
Division.
senses, and had him conducted to events of this year.
*།" so it should never have be the protected camp. He is now would be easier for
hison, South of course romped home, Nothing partner. That is especially su tion to potential dangers. Since curred, for a number of British safe and well.
ifgring 12 tricks in asme The Governor's versive agents than to
clever sub that it had been bid by the haul 13 in others.
.
cases and no other country is in any posi-politicul officers with great ex victims provided the only blood tribe against another again.
sch one which clearly is the weaker of the One declager was tion to attack the United States, given carnest and repeated warn that Gilgit has been overrun and waters in which Russians delight away from an honour in some other first of all that a diamond trad would
perlence of Gilgit had previously spilled in Gilgit.
set two tricks, military plans are naturally con- ings. These were ignored,
wo. A lead of that suit is nearly where M. G. Murray, a csuny com It is absolutely untrue to say thus be created
In no time at all there would always the one which the declarer petitor, wat in the East with cerned with defence against, and
the troubled would prefer. Fear about leading partner opposite him who decided occupied by Swati and Chitral to fish, counterattack upon, Russia. More-
sutt should almost never strer you in be the must terrible he could contrive. over, the air over the Arctic;
so starting that which the decinrer le rd the heart would be the most direct line of
2. Mr. Murray's operations in any conceivable con-
Qwinning the 10. Refusing to aid the declarer, he returned his heart flict with Russin.
5. South frantically tried to sils own hand wtih
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Over The Border
its and it is a known and un- The Gilgitis despises the Kash- surprising fact that in Gilgit Sub- Division, as in all other of the Maharajah's outlying districts, past Kashmiri administration, has
The U.S. Air Force does not accept the view of some of the diplomats that war between Rus-bien bath indolent and corrupt.
kia and the United States would
be like war between a tiger and
a shark. It believes each coun
-
where things can be allowed to Gilgit is not the sort of place slide.
PERCIVAL
FILL IN
General This fact was reallɛed by
Province
London, Jan. 29.
DESPATCHES THE GAPS
to the outbreak of war, was fully Percival's Malaya di cognisant of Japan's ultimate inten-
like.
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the British when, in 1945, we patches, which will be published in tinn to declare war on both Britain leased Gilgit Sub-Division from mid-February, will fill in the blanks and the United States. War was de try can get at the other very the Maharajah for a period of 60 left in Sir Robert Brunke-Popham's tually expected to commence la 1939 sharply through the air-the years.
and Geo, Malthy reports Arctic air.
and but was towarted by Germany's num- The pressing urgency for this
a final crashing amwer to aggression pact provide a It has been jokingly remarked' move Visit that НЕГОБУ the the harsh critics
with Kuvia of both the long-August of that year, that the U.S. Air Force is con- begun steadily to
northern border Russians had kong and Singapore defenders,
infiltrate into cerned because Russia has 12 bis Sinklang
An appraisal of the official dis Meanwhile, Britain's Far Eastern of Chinese patches Thus bombers and the United States Turkestan.
far confirmed Ciel defences were denuded; 1. by Mur Archibaut Wavel's declaration has only 1,200.
un solini's Mediterranean threat in 1915 With Gilgit's northern tribe, the March This may be un-Hunzas, related to southern tribes were not prepared in any aspect for With the outbreak of war with Kier-
1942 in New Delhi, "We when Italy invaded Abyssinia, fair. It does not accurately meas- of Sinklang, there
was every war in the Far East." sure comparable forces. And, of reason fear, that infiltration The ufficial reports tend to blame.
many la 1939. course, the U.S. Air Force must might continue over the frontle the ineffective British intelligence
The British intelligence reportedly to the south. keep up 1 plane-building pro- With a British political officer to Japan's real intentions,
and officialdem's turning a blind eyefully all Japanese perparations, en- programine, But in view of the controlling Gilgit Sub-Division
phasizing that the Japanese that American and exercising parampuntey over
China was largely combat planes can operate in the the Agency as a whole. things I was
มิย claborate camouflage to disguise the those which used the Blackarood con Aretic at any
speedily fell into shape,
able to reveal, however, real Japanese strength. British intel.enti season Americans
A force of 000 ne will want much more
fighting the British Government, long prior of Japanese war preparations,
the highest authority, thasgence reports covered every aspect South held and of the aces. evidence men, the Gilgit Scouts, was rais
new assurance
to
on the strength of Russian aired and led by British officers. An airfield was Ironcd out among
power before they crawl into Gilgit's rocks and boulders,
their cave.
100 Years Ago
(From the files of the "Chisa Mail")
The Agency thrived under an ero of irrigation schemes and agri- cultural planning. If suspected infiltrators arrived, as many did, there were
efficient ways and means of dealing with them.
The decision of August 15, which meant the recall of British
political officers and the handing
muster.
reason for
Exur
They Knew agains
Helping Hand From America
view of
of
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This deal gos bil many different C. K 3 ways in the inaugural Championships in Miami, with practically all large shares of the pairs got intim &- Florida's top-liners participating. A No Trumps, including some war North curbid his hearts as well aecable).
in-
cluding detailed reports from Yay, Truk, Farma and Hainan bland. The British War Office decision was to embark on a campaign of decep tion aimed at advertising fictitious
British strength in the Far East
"Operation D"
to
tic.
where
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What odds would West be giving
to learn that North, and that he would set South, a trick if he
doubled 6-Ilearts?
Washington's Lot Is
Not A Happy
Happy One
it
theberen
of fective measures so that rising in Socialists are
Nation does not undermine the
munism.
Cheaper
has
Com-
Under "Operation D (for Decepton must have appeared chaotic to vast scale, but with new concep Recent developments in Washing are dealing not only with stems on Washington, Jan. 31. tiva)", Hongkong was evolved into any new visitor, bat at the end of tions and ideas as startling and new over of the entire Agency to A special House Foreign the Gibraltar of the For East. it form and substance have begun and as large as the sums involved. Kashm coincided with a fresh Affairs sub-committee reported! The impregnability of wave of Soviet infiltrators into in a survey today that United stressed and the arrival of any
Singapore to emerge, The Administration's lot The United States of Europe Sinklang.
States individuals and chari.
has been that of Gilbert's police always had an emotional appeal for The Orat
reinforcements wave had receded table
was publisited and man, it has been engaged on three Americans, and these sen see About the time of Stalingrad,
agencies were
magnified throughout the world. send-
from, two of them unhappily domes E.R.P. the beginnings of a co-opera- when Russla was forced to press ing more than $800,000,000, Intelligence personnel into service every man she could werth of relief supplies abroad police Special Branch were reported front in the "cold" war, while at
RIKL thr Abroad
live Entope and has touched fiel has maintained, its imaginations. annually outside the official to have been detailed on fifth column home it has been fighting for The present resurgence is almed Government programmes.
Ansilier
conception gaining ad- The three Chinese condemned at regaining the points helds in
strength long prior to 1941 when an European Recovery Programme on a
and capurring imaginations, The to death for piracy at the last 1942. It la in such strength that recommended that in
bi-partisam committee estimated more than 300,000 pro substantial scale and endeavouring of those testifying, is the idea of an Legislators asks scores of questions Criminal Sessions were hanged it has become advisable to move the large valume of private re-
Japanese Chinese were organized into persuade Congress to take ef- creating a third force in interna at West Point yesterday morn-back as far Hrumchi, in northern lief, all agencies in the field the British Consulate In Kashgar
aide Kowloon and Hongkong,
tional affairs ing.
to act both a buffer Sinklang.
Similar reports were dealt with in
From FRANK OLIVER should register
balance They seemed perfectly cool
with a
between Communist Not that we have bowed before Department committee so that was powerless to counteract and mili- State Malaya bug the British War Cabinet
Russia and capitalistir America. and resigned until placed upon political pressure; the
(Sunday Times and Kemeley Russians distribution could be supervised. tary reinforcements were made im-
It took the present hearings to get the scaffold when, in conse new threaten to cut the trade
Newspapers Special
formal In China,
emal statement from the routes which gave the Kashgar "American relief
Stalm quence of some gress careless- Consulate its main
the survey sold, possible by the British reversals in
Correspondent)
Department that European Socialism ness, the bolt was found to be existence.
has been the Mid-East plus commitments
is a bulwark against the suppression elther rusty or twisted, so that
handicapped
not only by the Russia
Individual liberties, and The danger in giving Gilgit to vastness of the problem but by
that it would not draw, and the poor Kashmir Hes not only in the in- the inability to move goods in praved that Operation D had
among the strongest wretches were kept standing for competent
The Intelligence workers, however, economy on which rests not only the bulwarks of Europe against administration more than 20 minutes with the can be expected, put in geogra-ly, into ports of entry.
that to the interior and, even recent-fectively
ef hope and future of Americans, but diverted the Japanese also of most people this side of the ropes around their necks, dur
trength. For example, the Japanese Iron curtain. ing which two of them fainted)
"Relief, therefore, has been used five divisions to attack Malaya ER.P. prospects have been fluctuat and had to be supported on the that it would be dragged
provided largely through the when two could have been ample. to transfer of funds for purchases.
Ing like quotations in the active
Thus with scaffold, until, every other plan pieces by the hangman, in his of goods in China, but the ax-
the "bargain rate" stock market, but the position now is argument that it cheaper to revive having been tried in vain, the desperate though unsuccessful change situation has
more hopeful than for some time. Burapean economy than to jaller went off to the Naval efforts to draw the bolt,
While it is essential to emphasise Americs appealing to some, and there Stores and returned with two)
restricted the effectiveness of The fictitious "chain of British ais- anything does now include the pos- groups of legislators, the hope
that anything can still happen, that other conceptions appealing to other this une of action - Current fields stretching through Burma, aibility of ERP, much as the Ad-growing that E.R.P, on the scale en hostilities between the Central Malaya and Borneo" which was ministration wants it until very revisaged by the White House and
1940 resulted in wide dispersion of night.
In State Department may go through. With whom the blams rests, precisely,
Tacaday next, at 11 o'clock am tary agencies to carry
portunity of American volun
The Marshall Pina will
definitely The most important factor in this go through, but the size of Its, ap our authorities are best able to Queen's Road-
Godowns, broad programme on a atable feet's strength similarly caused the fence, and the
on a Advertisements
welcome cliange was the testimony propriation cannot yet be used judge,
Eastern of Mt. Forrestal, Secretary of Deat. It is on that point that the com but certainly such neglect ought not to be over-
Secretary of War, Ing legislative fight will be concen looked, more capecially as ́A
Mr. Royall. Both are respected on trated. similar heldent occured at the
Gen, Percival's dispatches
Capitol Hill.
Bimultaneously with"_the_fight_for Morsellies, Jan. 31. execution of the six men in June
The task of Senator Vandenberg ERP, the Aduffabstention is seeking reveal, some aspects of this operation Over 2,000 Indochines workers "D", but the total British effort in on the Republican side, and Senator from Congress means of fighting in- last,
against the arrest of Tran Ngumu übless forelligence who yesterday struck in protest the Facile mat remain targely ing the majority in the Senate with the vasi quanilty of official docu
Barkley ou
en the Democratie, of swing:dation, Though it was rather lost in Danh, head of the permanent sonnel are permitted to revest the them, has been made esiler by Mr.ments and siatements issued during Vietnam (Indochinese National-ed the Japanese military aspirationis
full facts which" undeubtedly. 'retard- it in still uphill,
Forrestal's effective talking, though the week, the Prealdent lats dólagution the Fratory for nad probably shred - Australia frous
ast Scale aviadetrinimial to the inherits being overrun by the Japanser Rood
thie State of the Union", message. of-th8=7/tch = Ragublico, saded Infoediately after Bingapore-Walted of his shinking Genstur Vandesberg whether probleme i confreating the Tale makes rubrensela! contribu- Thehe" far cornmand in the range: tiene towarka guyhäkids, understanding amande out Among them rosé that they, United Scams (Monday-blown)
hammers by means of which,
after a deal of labour, the bolt
phical 'factora.
greatly
Fictitious
was forced from its socket, and will scil by public auction an orces seriously restrict the op the Japanese air, strength.
Mcasrs. Smith & Brimelow Government and the Communist headlined in the world press early in cently that possibility was bot
the platform fell.
at thoir
4 casks 12 dozen of Rum, 10 casks of Gin,.
2 crates 8 dozen of Rum Shrub,
1 caso 4 dose of Rum Shrub, 9 aides of Blood, 26 large Kegs of Butter -
We have heard it attributed to the old and rickety state of the gallows, and it is very prol-80 cases of Sherry, able that such may be the case,
10 pieces of Chinta...
as fears really were entertain. Alade v
A low canke of Butter...
ed" by "the", spectators yesterday.
baals."--United Press.
of the
Japanese Navy to healiate,
per-
Te-arm