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THE CHINA MAIL. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY, 18, 1949, .'
THE SIXTY-FIRST INSTALMENT
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Editor--Chief: W. J. Keates.
to two important points the Asat. Editor: Ian Mackenzie.chemy had gained definite sur- Business Manager-W. H. Nolloth prize. The list of these war in Uming. In view of the terrible dereats we had indicled
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ane extrd-fought
the situation yes silli far from clear. It pushed forward, with the purpose / AŽ...
supporting the raft hr the VIIL Corps and finally Undahía, Santi-isolated In. St. Vith,
Aftcon
Wachau, St South of
Bortant point on
the road het
"of
that aren And necessary to the
German spearheads
attempting
to push to the West, Foined there
the Brillant by remnants of the 100th and
to undertake, in raising new HK$10.00 forces, we had believed that he H.K.$30.00 could not be ready for a mater
assault, as early as he wds. The bach took advantage of other point fit which he surprised ordinary strength in a defensive divirional, actions of the war th 20th Divisions, the 7th Armoured un wis the strength of the attack, parrlar to concentrate fortes for Europe. The attack caught the bedfed attacks. Its battle at St. The Sixth Panzer Army was the blow. af Allied communications division while it was advancing Vith not only divided in. Gese mobile reserve we had lost
and in the hope of inducing the toward the Roer dáma. Genórál
3 ✪
months
mantha
One year
CHINA' PEACE
PRESSURES
of
truck
the North, but pro encirclement of the
ofciter, trish and strong von Palled high command to, give up. Hodges, First
Army commander. 148
Mão Tse-tung's elglit con- front from Germany, but we had trprised as we were by the American attacks
ditions for the termination Lat the civil war in China and the organisation of a new government are satisfactory in just one sense-they in-
to
pressure
to
Germms
In gaining this degree at sur. Its location, or in the convictión Por soon begitu S CHALLEYSTIEDEKVATÚI TE NDEGENL"MOŢERWYN
the 7th capture of Llogo, We reasoned.
on December, pliiqus objective of Antwerp he
dicate that the Communists by the weather. For some days Moreover, so far as the general line in which his division 20drove. It the Win the would have to depend partially...
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IDDON'S
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New York's Lost Week-End
Conturely, arrangement
where there, were werd vast quantities of every kind of Utile the 11th vital supplies, including fuel and Arioufed Division, just arrived; tood.. However, we were deter- hod
to begin the transfer tal mined that the enemy would bo France of
the 17th Airborne stopped short of that point, and Division
In the outcome he never got close General, Lee, commanding tha to Liego. Subsequently we learn- Erent Services of Supply dred, that Brussels and Antwerp gonisution, was directed, with were desigriated by the Germans, avallable chglcers and other as the principal objectives 'for
KACHER
LEGE
NAUJA
MONSCH
STAVELOT
only recently arrived on Our overall plans for relentless of at first did not sunde the extent Monschau
be the threat and directed the Be the badly innúled tho
continue. already Seventh Army and the Fifth timing and the strength of the But Generat
on the "PATZETI
WO WHIL HOT W
and acted decisively, favoured that it would eventually occur. Robertson had Arst to select a prise the enemy was
Culy it was effective defence, aerial reconnaissance had been nature of our reaction was con- conduct on
t Impossible, and without aerial cerned, General, Bradley and 1
and rendy themselves to receive building up on the North the barticularly the
line, while under to discuss the possibility of recorinaissance we could not de-had long since agreed on plans. troops, then had to occupy draw, the next day to Join the Suston -because from the begin-.
pressure, Allled lines which were low hing we had counted, upon the ..
fink German deficiency In supplies, peace by negotiation. The termine the locations and move-
scheme successfully. It was
tally
assaults. All this the of the German salient. But the
difficultius Ito course of events will dietatements of major reserves in the hecessary that the shoulders of division succeeded in doing in great stand of the division had vas certain. 10 encounter in
Fear of his ilnes. The strong future moves, but it is fair-
artificial defences of the Siegfried our defences bordering upon the the meantime gaining some add- not only badly upset the timetable ransporting them to the front that the
penetration be helded strength from portions ly safe to assume
of of the German spearheads, its Consequently we bolievad .that to German osalated
which gallant: action had been end
continued -advance would cxisting regime is doomed, wome
schleve strength in the attack securely. In the North the crition retiring 99th Division,
near Mchschiu, an was partially assimilated within helpful to the 2nd Division at the that the moderate leaders in The
dadi region was
almost regardless of obstacles, pillboxes,
important
Monschau counter measures of our own, Nanking will take command Aixed Runs of that line so greatly area over which Gerow's Ameri- the ranks of the 2ad. and seek a compromise on
the of the garrison, that the German was attacking, toward the der Germah, threw heavy at-lihoulder until the 1st Divisions upon the capture of one of our
multiplied the defensive power can Corps of the First Army
against the division but the under Brigadier General Clitt grent, supply, depots, the best terms which
the 9th under began. In Gerow's corps | give way. It is doubifal, How- MAPS Aral Louis A. Crus could afford
Even if the German had pos weaken long lams at the moment the German Americans stubbornity refused to 10
offensive Communists are prepared to
стекем efficient supply stretches of his front in order to
came up to its support. There
ho did held out alone through arter. With these three
-az-we-which concede. From this conclu- gather forces for a counterblow, the veteran 2nd Division under ever, that the 2nd Division
General Robertson and tho new have
Store he would still have found- sion, there is little escape.
Although with regard to the 99th Division under
Major the thirty-six hours before rein- and blue-tested
tested units holding tremendous difficulty in supplying wert forcements reached The morale of the National-strength of forces engaged on General Walter E. Lauer
its vicinity
over the miserable. ist armies has been destroy-breasted the press eng stair initially struck by the German except for the courageous petion Northe
position, the safety 01 Ouri hle spese, which were at a certainty, el ever
completely
attack. The 89th
<time, of was a mere skirmish in pro-
course, crowde was rapidly of the 7th Armoured Division at orthern ghould was phictical-roads,
The St. Vith,
As cafly na December 17 the ed
hip reinforcements that that. of the Kuomintang portion to the Ardennes battle, forced back in confusion.
706 the
Armoured 82nd and 101st Airborne Divistos pushing to the front. there yet
Were
of 2nd Division met the issue with points die-hards, and there is nо-
*etermination and Division came down from the vere released from SHAEF RE- LOWO thing to stop the Red armies similarity between the two. Each great skill or
was un altack of desperation; during the ensuing three from sweeping through to The futility of further attempts at resist- ance needs no emphasis. In the quest for peace, the first essential, of course, is the President retirement of Chiang Kai-shek. Whatever views may be held regard- ing his administration, no- one in Nanking, or elsewhere in China, is under any illu- sion that the Communists will be prepared to order the
Americans think the state of Women have taken, over, and nothing to buy in Glasgow worth cease-fire while Chiang re- tains even nominal leader their own country is pretty good even auch elegant establishments taking home with your fill of of Fifth-nvenine, and rubber-necking, and constant fcol- ship of the Kuomintang Gov-prosperous, powerful, progres. as Saka,
Bergdorf Goodman resenible bat-ing of hunger, you turn to planą ernment. To point the ob-.
for the return trip to What they are worrying about tlefields. vious, the Generalissimo is the limping, listless inter! Women's clothes here, according thank God you're an American, rated by the Communists as national organisation. The New to vialling British experts, are The trouble is millions of Ame
ricans believe
alive this rubbish. "War Criminal No. 1" for World's faith in the new order is cheaper than British. whom punishment is de-seeping away.
There is an idén here that the manded as the first pre-huge hole being gouged by work requisite of a political settlemen on the Bank of New York's ment. Obviously, too, it is East River may turn out to be a hothing but blind abstinacy tomb, instead of the foundation for
Almost all columnists and com- rachtatora forecast closer relation. people have king as long as this. Ameri-
poured a lot of money
ships with Britain for 1949, paint ca's rebuffs to Madame
ing out that if the United States Chiang Kai-shek's mission to of hope into that hole, and so far have got nothing but words,
and Britain cannot get along no They expected something more
Visiting Britons, particularly miracles, but certainly enough Eccure Four-Power media wars breaking out all over the
fusied over. tion between the National globe.
Our emphasis should be in In fashions the magazine: The
Our Woman pays tribute to British detachments, to prepare to de- the assaulting troops: Novarthe- They are particularly incensed Testy at should become for women: Government and the Com-
The cheerfulness and tend the crossings of the Meuse, less, our reasoning was correct munists, have revealed Д by the UN reaction to the be- the worlit's women what our tai- lack of strain apparent in the including the blowing op of because lack of supply did be realistic estimate of the gen-havlour of the Dutch In
Jors have been-and are for men, faces or British women, In spite bridges if this should. antes come one of Von Rundstedt's nesia, eral situation which the Gen-
great demand for of continuing deprivations, are sary. The reason for this order major dimculties in the präse British goods, a proud trumpeting impressive. They are surprising was that the task was
A largely p eralissimo has apparently.
by shopiteepers of the
And been unable to imitate. In
Mado
in England." fact, it is probably safe to go `Amorīcäñg aäätmed that their
for as far as this: that but for Government and the world Govern
such intense
Dine here"I'm
Latest Government ad
SOS topone
responded promptly with Bastogne original des American," and "God nouncement shows that American and within the American area tination. General Middleton, then his personal presence in the ment would slap the Dutch down.
proud. They were sure the nonsensos
spond more on clothes than national capital, progress would be stopped, that Marstall car windows, for instance-does women-between 24 and 28 gan the work of providing in Hastogne, saw the great im-
Bless America" nostera. on motor magb
Strong
defences for the Meuse portance of the spot and urged Plan ald to Holland
would be edstead, there has been a good crockery.
not embrace clothes, liquor,, wine, year more, due to higher prices of life. General Montgomery, In the preparation to hold it. He con- allyer, feather, cutlery, ori inen's clothes
by British
Bradley by telo- deal, of hen-clucking disapproval Imported" is still a magic word anthele
As they pay their wives' as, well tip arco, algo took this early ferred. with
phone, and although he stated and unctuous sighing.
own clothes bills, the The Gerh
vance that the place could soon be to the exported to the people who statistics are irrelevant,
that it lire at Monschau durrounded, recommended t have fled from Európe. The U.S., and the UN
was very rapid, through the
de cen
Be. Held. It become, necessary to murmured: “A bad business
risë dhe diver) the 82nd Airborne Division dy
radually to the North, toward Stavelot, so detachments of Business hit bottom on Broad began swinging to the North, and the 101st, with way during the past two weeks in North West, and it was evident the VIII Corps, became the de a seasonal slump that was ruinous that the enemy's objective lay in fenders of Bastogne. to some showrien, A, LE that direction. We believed that lea
The New Year has started more his arst purpose would be the
sive,
which has kept him in Nan-peace.
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There are few exclusive models. дре overy Mass-nelling, shops gown and coat as soon as it is edged into a show window.
It In obvious we cannot compete
Otherwise we are not receiving
auch ń bad Press, Nowarodľ crowds are applauding shots of
Charles, and newspapers. Prince and magazines have given film double-page spreads.
one can.
his personal attempt to competence to prevent or halt little against this sort of mass produc- the titled, have never been more
Slap the Dutch
Indo-
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and
There is a
DINANT
LAROCHE HOUFFALIZE
STRUBERTO
BASTOGNE
LIBRAMONT
BEDAN
ARION
THE ARDENNES • DEC. 19, 1944
INITIAL GERMAN DRIVE
LUXEMBOURG
VİER GERMAN ATTACK, GRBAMERICAN LINE
words ly presentable in view of eight preceka Want 40%
Nationalism, which he with? We werk data shop -
years of doing wlinout new Idio
towards peace would have already beef far advanced, Those of Nanking's control lers who belong to the peace making faction would have been long ago in the saddle and would have had a much better idea by this, time of but after all one of our own the extent to which the. Com can't let the side down
lot. member of the team.
. got munist "terms are fixed and firm, or to what extent they may be regarded as the open- ing gambit in a battle, of wits. At present, clearly,
douced inconvenient and all that Flight South
·
...
to stick together best over look it this time Atraighton itself out if left alone.... Waltert another Martini
British
brlikly, but aftendance figures are
At the moment a good many people. certainly the wealthy, are fleeing from Now York,, either South for sunshine or North for the winter sports. This blather has not gone down Thousands plah trips to Britala well here,
in the spring and are booking their still holding, their own at half a there is a wide gap between Americans had high hope for ticket
tickets now.
But articles by dozon theatres at least, but "Don't the Red demands and the the New Year. They had retur travel editors are rather depress. Listen, Ladies," views of even the
not sensational, The British are
more rected the Four... · Freedoms and ing. One, In the New York, Post Buchanan, took a shu
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weak old,
Now with the yaar, not over dully of powdered ads, th
gences can be overcome will depend, very largel
upan dd
beating liberal elements in the Gov. polished them up brightly for says: Travel to Great Britain from the critics.
if you must—if you are willing to The Rex Harrison hit, "Anne of ernment How these diver
the
Thousand Days"
is the most find them tarnish-daily diet of powdered eggs, fish, sought-after show in town.
brussels sprouts, and a variety of Harold Wilson's decision to can- col fils, Amerledž trip, puzzles #ersman,. 8žili ziding? potatoos".
"Don't ask for fresh milk or showmen here. Some are saying popularity crest is not being
personally for the appar orange juice, it embarrasses the that the President of the Board of Trade, la... dodging, tho Anglo- Pppeasement,bo-State. Dewalter." ment, and UN are
And as for Scotland: There's American film Ersue,
the degree of self-confidence, in the Red hierarchy about la
the ability to consolidate their tremendous polit gains. The best güçss Imagine, is that they
at least at the outset accept the principle, of compromise and coalition).
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