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Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe
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basis in arrange- All
I recommended to General Mar- shal that Fredendall be given communal of un army in the United States, where he became a lieutenant general,
General Patton's buoyant len- dership und strict insistence upon discipline rapidly. rejuvenated the If Corps and brought it up to Alghting pitch. Moreover, the
troops were now forthed by hulle experience and had a much higher
were
The
atlen felilties had not yet acing hours of intensive work to in Tripoll, only recently our quired this later efficiency, they arrange this emergency shipment, tel. We now had definite assur- H.K.$18.00had been separated from ther
that the advance of the #ppreciation of the value of train- if unce plaintive final sentence
Ing, discipline, and speed in ne- orgate equipment for long
to Eighth Army would not be stoption. Our Jusser in tanks, pere sak, "If you should happen H.K.$30.00 periods. Trabiing, during a major
want the Pentagon shipped over ped, as it had been so often stop-nonnel, and equipment wars part of 1942, was for them a II.K.$72.00
Impossibility.
there, please try to give us about ped before, by luck of supplies. practical
pictly made good and all th A anal advantage that accrue eastern airfields Com
#week's notice." manders and troops showed the
again In effects of this, and
The tremendous value of this to us during this period although
our possession and occupied by in our In- opportunity for establishing our: there was no inck of gallantry shipment appeared
our fighter craft, and fortitude, their Initial cf-
creased ability to supply the whole system of command on a
Winter conditions of weather fectiveness નાત not
permanent needs of the compare
battle front and sound und
and terrain In 'the desert were vision available for participation with the with that of the American divis- even more in our ability to trans- accordance
much better than those in the was" one that hel hind only lons later brought into action fer troops rapidly from one pur-ments tarte nt Casablanca,
sketchy training and had been THOMPSON-AI Queen Mary after
full year's
tion of the front te mother. The air forces were huterater under north, and the Eighth Array, un-
was involved for many weeks in pro- Hospital, on December +1
later move of the entire U. S. Air Chief Marshal Tedder, with General Montgomery.
General
able to continue its advance to tection of our line of communica- 1948.
his deputy; lessons to Caroline, wife of
were dearly
Spandr Corps from the Tebessa region
the westward, with the purpose tions, thus missing the opportunity Sub-Inspector E. S. Thomps | bought, but they were valuable
ground
On command to northern Tunisin would have the
et making junction with the right to work together as a wait. a daughter Caroline Eventually the cost was reduced, been completely impossible with-
front was placed under Tunisian
The latter of our forces in Tunisia. It was tusie nasigned the American unit Lyndw). Both well.
sture most of our personnel los-
out the presence of these addi- General Alexanter.
that General Montgo-was a difficult nne ant the attacks ses were in prisoners, whom we
tional trucks. At the same time freed from the accessky of cor- foreseen
achlove falled. A break-through wus largely recovered at the end of
tendership of Belgadier General handicap under our railway engineers, under the manding also a single army, the mery's principal battle to
which General this result would take place on finally accomplished by British 11 defensive formations, but it was not parti- Carl Gray, were working miracles Anderson laboured, was able to the Mareth Line,
nttention
to position that had previously been cularly effective because the Ger- in improving the decrepit French devete his entire
constructed by the French along many bil made good their retreat When daily tactical co-ordination.
to the northward. General Sir line tending to the front.
Just after the Arst of March, 1 the Tunisiau border and in which we went into North Africa the
the Axis to John Crocker, the British corpa now expreted deliver raihway could daily
replaced Fredendall with Pallon We
nke _determined det
defence. To commander, severely criticised to Corps. I maximum of 900 tons of supplies, as consmander of the I
assist General Montgomery In press representatives the failure energy hurt no intention of recommend this battle, General Alexander of the American division, and By introducing Yankee
Fredendall for modern American methods ing mich of operation Gray increased the of placing the blame for the inlti-ordered the American II Corps for almost the only time during the bulk of its the African operations definite in the Kasserine battle to concentrate nt defents
recrimination dafly tonnage to 3000, and th
area of British - American the general before he received a single extre in his shoulders, and su inform-strength in
Gofan and to push eastward from resulted. It was disturbing, the engine or boxcar from the United ei him. Several others, incluir that location so as to draw off is more so because it was so un-
ing myself, shared responsibility
the help But much of Rommel's forces as pos- necessary. Another particularly pleasing for our week of reverses.
quickly sible from the Eighth Army front. Alexander, steps were development WAS the
it Corps steadily morale in the growing strength and efficiency shaken and the troops hut to be This manoeuvre had the desired taken to stop it. Nothing ercates effect, since Rummet could not trouble between allies so often or For such of our air forces, and. the con- picked up quickly.
afford
unnecessary talk to expose his line of com- so easily superior in | **** struction of suitable operating Job Patton had no
believed munications and was forend to particularly when it belittles one. Sull
whereas Another the Army, fields and bases.
usp a consulerable portion 111 A family squabble is always cx- which the that Fredendall was better suited strength to protect himself against aggerated beyond its true
portance, British forces in the desert open- for a training job in the States et up and began using the port than he was for battle leadership, this threat.
the war. We suffered casualties in personnel and equipment, but by the time the enemy had suc evered in retiring to his former positions his losses in both cate
to equal
ours. gories were American bosses from February 14 to 2 were 102 killed. 2024 wounded, 2459 prisoners
and missing.
The week of the hostile offen- sive was a wearing and anxi
Whenever the Initintive is one. lost to the enemy there is bound to be tension and worry, because it is always possible for anything to happen. No one escapes: in spite of confidence In the over- all situation and eventual out- come, there is always the pos. sibility of oral disasters.
battle marked
The Kasserine
fensive netion was added, but he did, within short time, begin a series of sovare Tocal attacks against the British First Army in the North. All through March
Stai
The military Services and Police in Hong Kong are de- voting this week to "Exercise Pultum,"—the handling of a nock state of emergency, pretence riots and fires on the island and the mainland. civil disturbances, strikes, sabotage, ronds and bridges demolished, uttneks by wn- disciplined mobs-all have been realistically planned, with a view to combatting the actuality should it occur.
The exercise is
was the speed with timely, the end of a phase of the enm- paign With the defeat of the According to question and
German atinck it was cbvious answer in the House of Com-that his last chance of major of- mons, the authorities in Malaya might have been far better able to cope with the Communist uprisings if more forethought had been given to their possible occurrence. This is not to say that we be- lieve-or the military author- ities either-that chaos and bloodshed are likely to rend
the Hong Kong in future, but on the other hand, the old proverb about the slitches was never more ap-he First Army, However, the propriate. The best inform- ed sources are uncertain of the potential role of the local Communists, and their atti- tude if and when the Red the process of sorting and reor- armies sweep into Kwang-norministration. 14. (k'ui) kul
and tung Province is highly de- other vise preparing for major batable.
near
This bitle battling continued, the German attempting to deepen and strengthen his def{ts zone covering Tunis and Bizerte. the British trying to hold and regain positions favouring A
offensive. fl smashing
The Incessant fighting and the length of the front to be covered by denteted formations finally com
Alexander to use a part Dellort of the US. 1st Division to help Garmun
attacks were largely danger of frontal and held no the enemy's achieving any mo mentous advarùngė. This cer- tainty permitted us to resume
offensive
DS FOODI
close of the Kns-
a
reduction or
CANTONESE BY RADIO
Vocabulary:-
12. (ngoh)
ngaw
13, (nei) nay
weather 15. (tel) day In this Colony the feeling conditions should be favourable.
From the of the Chinese population serine inttic our position steari 16. (lai), laï generally is almost certainly ly Improved a number of favourable towards British First, as a restitul 17. (m) n rule, but the ability of the the the entire American 1 Corps
of four division was finally con
in
BY S.K. LEE
LESSON 2
Tone Practice
I. me.
You.
Sign
He, she, it, him, her.
of plural pronouns.
for
To come.
Not. The negative.
To.10.
Lai
1
,m, lai?
.
Comlag or
not?
Yes.
No.
2. Lai.
3.
Mlai.
Marxists to stir up-disaffec-centrated in the Tebessa region. 18. (hui) huf tion, hatred and riot is too There it could form a solid link well known to need under- lining. Experienced observ- ers of the China scene-while admitting that anything is possible seem to agree that a victorious Communist China will still to have to trade with the outside world and obtain supplies, particularly of food and machinery. Soviet Russia, still binding up the ghastly wounds of in all later operations. wartime havoc, has enough on its hands to supply its police-ridden, home popula- tion with the minima of live- lihood, and to keep from open insurrection the boiling pot of the Balkan satellite states. Not to mention Ger- many.
Naylai, m, lai? Ngaw lai.
between the Allied forces In Northern Tunisia and the ad- Sentences: - vancing Eighth Army, coming A.1. from the desert. Troops, com- manders, and staffs gained
wisdunt vast measure of battle that remained with them niways.
Moreover, as a result of splen- | did action in Washington, an extra shipment of 5400 trucks Bad been
This B.1. brought into the theatre. shipment immensurably improved ntar transport and supply silus- tion and had a profound effect It was accomplished under circum- stances that should give pause to those people who pleture the War and Navy Departments as C.1. a mass of entangling red tape. The shipment demanded a a special convov nt
both time when
escort premium.
2.
3.
Ngaw
1m, lai,
Kui hum hui1?
ક
2
Kui hui..
2
3.
Kui m hui..
I
¿Ngaw,lai, „kui hui?.
merchant shipping and Vessels were nt
ก General Somervell happened to be visiting my headquarters and I explained to him our
urgent D.1. He said need for this equipment. he could be loniling it out of American ports within three days, providing the Navy Departmeni
I sent ! could furnish the escorts.
query to Admiral King, then in Casablanca, and within a mat-
soc ter of H
of hours had from him a simple "Yes."
The trucks began: arriving in Afrien in less than three weeks after I made my initial request.
Apart from propaganda and a caucus of skilled agitators and whippers-up, the USSR is unlikely to take over the appalling task of rehabilitat ing and consolidating the vast land mass devastated by three decades of ruinous war. The goods that the China of the future will need are just those which Russia lacks and is herself trying to import. So the fiction that the Chin- ese Communists are kindly patriots who do not toe the had been shipped. The telegram Moscow line is likely to be, from Somervell's assistant, Major
General Somervell was still at my headquarters when the mess- age came from the War Depart- ment that the last of the trucks
General Wilhelm D. Styer, elo-
Are you coming?
come?
personal
or Will you
I am coming, or I will come.
I am not coming, or I will not
come.
Is he (or she) going? or
Will he (or she) go?
He (or she) is going, or
He (or she) will go.
He (or she) is not going, or
He (or she) will not go.
I am coming and he (or she) is
Koing.
Ngawm, lai, kuim I am not coming and he (or she) hui.
is not going.
2.
2
3. Ngaw-day lal,
kui-day hub.
We are coming and they are going.
kut-day,m
hui",
1
4. Ngaw-day,mlai,
We are not coming and
they are not going
(Tislu, lzusón will be given over Radio Hong Kong this avening at 0.30).
trumpeted further. Hongquently told the story of unend- DO YOU
Kong may well-after an initial slump boom more flourish any longer than suits than ever before, provided their purpose as Moscow the new Government can by temporarily revived private barter or loans provide the enterprise in- the early necessary bargaining power. 'twenties-but they believe Although no official pro-that the breathing space will nouncement 'has been made enable them to finish their by Whitehall or the U.K. lifetime of work in' China Embassy in Nanking; it looks and retire in good order. as if British businessmen in Nevertheless, vast social the arcas monaced by the changes following the after- present fighting are gambling math of war are not unac-
on that possibility, and re-companied by unrest, and the fusing to evacuate as the decision-of Hong Kong's mill- Americans in some centres tary authorities to stage the have been instructed to do. current: exerclics is encour- Probably few of them are aging to those of us who won- under any illusion that the der what the future will Reds will allow capitalism to bring.
KNOW
YOUR
HONG
KONG?-
Can you po cognise wherd this ploture was taken? The all- ewer le In Pago Bayan.
In
10
With
of
m-
Although the outcome of this particular attack was disappoint- ing, the rapid retreat of the Ger- mans had the effect of shrinking the circumference of the enemy line, thus pinching out the Ame- rican II Corps for employment elsewhere on the battle line.
By the night of March 20 General Montgomery was rendy in attack the Marelh Line, The fighting whs severe but by 11 brilliant and rapid switch of forces in the midst of the battle he succeeded in outflanking and surprising the enemy and trave him precipitately to the north- Some discussion arose as to the ward. The left flunk uf time sullability of the corps for part- the Annt Eighth Army soon Joined up with cipating effectively in Palton's 11 Corps, which hd battle. Alexander's staff felt that pushed aggressively to the east large partion should be sent At last all our cans back in the Constantine area for ward.
troops were connected up in one single some of the troops were still re- Admittedly bnttle line.
visited
after
Montgomery
LOCAL
additional training.
Jutively
green. However, both the Mareth battle. His Patton and I were conflent that Eighth Army was very colourful the corps was now ready to act al probably the must cosmopo-aggressively and to take an im- litan army to fight in North Ar- portant sector in the battle line. rlea since Hannibal. It included, For one thing the troops were at Baldition to
to English units.
tast angry-not only because of Highlanders, New Zealanders, In the rough handling they haul re- dians
ceived, but more so because of (including Gurkhas with thele kukris-long, carved knives insulting and sighting comments with which they beheaded their concerning the fighting qualities enemies), Poles, Czechs, French, of Americans, originated by Ger-
and given som Australians, and South Africans. man prisoners Not all of these came as far as circulation within the theatre. Tunisin,
I had a personal Interview with With the Eighty Army were American air squadrons, Alexander to insist upon the em- our first to see action in Africa ployment of the entire II Corps,
л Ds
unit. against the Germans. They hail
For this I had several In reasons. participated in the campaign ail
the Arst place, the thewayfrom_El.
bulk of the ground forces requir- Alamein. fortunately had a chance to talked by the Allies to defeat Ger
come from with the pilots and crows during muny would have to my visit to Montgomery; later I the United States. The need for was able to send to them some battic training on a large scale Secondly, in all its of the soldier luxuries that they was evident, had been denied during lite long prior battles the corps had been
In fight
small trip across the desert.
In
an effort
to cut off the packets; never had it had
ita Germans retreating from Mont- chance to exert power as gomery's front, General Alexan-unit. Thirdly, the morale of the der organised attack to break corps had improved markedly. through the pass at Fondouk and since March 1 and it had a right to prove its own effectiveness us push eastward toward the sea. The left of the American II Corps well as the quality of American was involved in this attack, but entire operation was com- manded by a British corps com- mander,
The
only
American dl-
compelled
arms.
to
To Be Continued
Star Bright
a
to the End
Amontillado Fino
SHERRY
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