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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1949.
THE SEVENTY-SECOND INSTALMENT
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The Germans had now suffered feats. Beginning with the bioply repulse in the enemy's abortive Ardennos
the Dasnult,
Aliled avalanche had continued
to niy Inflict upon him a series of loses and defeats of staggering proportions. There was no atom of reason ur logic in prolonging the struggle.
Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower's Own Story Of The War In Europe
to reduce the packet and to beat off other German troops who at- tompted to relieve the garrison was of a bitter character, Still farther to the North Simpson's Ninth Arany kept equal pace with the advance in the centre and the South. By April 6 the Ninth and established a bridgehead over the
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11.K.$30.00 | ing Industries, dispersed over the rapidly Eastward in a typical Pat-midwife friend to their homes, Armoured Division of the Ninth lodged in his heart, is likely to
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armics of suffelent size to do more a deep anit mine. A group of us who in turn sought out some of | However, the 83rd Division, was
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In both the East and the West scenes I saw and news I heard) which was all ́as described by the formidable Weser River and there- strong turcos were now operating etched the data in my memory. German woman. The soldiers, still after dashed for the Elbe, which it in the homeland of Germany. The In the morning we visited some helpful, remained long enough to reached Just South of Magdeburg and April 11. The next day the 2nd woman
An American who has a bullet scattered corps and return the German IL.K.$18.00 Ruhr, the Saar, and Silesia were of Patton's
were pushing her all lost to the enemy, Illa romain- divisions, which
a small bridgehead die if he laughs. He is thinking As they were going along the Army achieved central area of the country, could ton thrust, here and there wur-street they passed the mouth of over the Elbe, ten miles below. or going to Morcow
Establishment of another mail H.K.$72.00 not possibly support his armies rounding and capturing isolated one of the salt mines of that re-bridgehead by the 8th Armoured
A new cinema hes just opened still attempting to fight. Com detachments of the disintegrating glon and one of the women - munications were badly broken and enemy. There was no general lina marked, "That's the mine in which
of Magdeburg was thwarted when in Kowloon- is the gold is buried." o Nazi senior commander could of resistance, or indeed even any
the enemy blew the bridge. In Liberty. The management wish to attempt st delay. This remark exclied ever be sure that his orders would co-ordinated
be willing to abandon, the country mean it is free. BIRTH
reach the troops for whom they However, come of the local onemy suriosity of the soldiers and they this sector the enemy appeared to make it clear that this does not
defended e-intented While in many clactinents stubbornly
questioned the women suficiently of the Elbe but savagels
e but savagely op- ZUYLEN-At St. Theresa's Hos-areas there were troops capable themselves and we saw sporm
great loads of material had beoltawah the best
The Germans Immediataly pital, on February 1, 1848, to of putting up fierce and stubborn fighting throughout the day.
General Patton's army had over- brought from the East to be put vor. Georgette, wife of J. Van local resistanco, only on the North- Zuylen, a son, Jacob Cornelis, ern and Southern flanks of the run and discovered Nazl treasure, into the mins. The soldiers report counterattacked the bridgehead of she is fed up with her sutorg
abandoned on April 14. great Western front were there hidden away in the lower levels of ed the story to their superiors, the 2nd Armoured Division, which her fans think this is
another crossing farther than delay Allied advances. descended the shaft, almost a half the German officials of the mining
She sped badly. "I'm going to South by Burfaco of the corporation and the whole treasure On March 31, T issued a pro-mile under the
danthing theool," she said, heaving maintained. tell earth.
Into our hands. clamation to the German troops earth.
Almost coincidentally with our a thigh." OF ISRAEL
The same and people,
former to
day I saw my first At the bottom were huge plien the urging
was near the arrival on the Elbe the Red Army surrender and the latter to begin of German paper currency, ap- horror
launched a powerful Westward Britain's recognition
A goalkeeper deliberately leaves planting
the parently heaped up there in a last town of Gotha. I have never felt drive from its positions on the егоря I described
emotional
Oder. The attack was on front an open goal for a penalty kick Israel will be generally wel- hopelessness of their situation and frantic effort to evacuate some of able to rescribe my comed, for while the under- told them that further resistance it before the arrival of the Ameri-reactions when I first come face to of more than two hundred miles, and the opposing captain dell- berately shoots wide. Perhaps to their future cans. In one of the tunnels was face with indisputable evident The Red drive made speedy pro-the best solution to the lying explanations of the would only add
an enormous number of paintings Nazi brutality and ruthless din
areas overywhere. Its Northern Bevin policy may be under- mineries.
My purpose was to bring the and other pieces of art. Some of regard of every shred of decency: Baak pushed in the direction of the local soccer problem would be to stood and appreciated, there
whole bloody business to an end. these were wrapped in paper and Up to that time I had known about Danish peninsula,
the centre to order the referees off the Bleid. only generally or through
the Southern could be no further excuse Bat the hold of Hitler on bisa burlap, others were merely atack-It
ward Barlin, and secondary sources. I am certain, flank toward the Dreslen Arco Police officers are to seek legal for refusal to accept the new soclates was still no strong and ed together like cordwood,
In another tunnel
however, that we kйw n
I have never at any On April 25 patrols of the 80th aid to protect them against arbi- State as a reality. In Palcs- was so effectively applied else-
equal Division of the V Corps mot trary dismissni. Paging the Re- tine, the removal of the Bri-where, through the medium of the hoard of gold, tentatively estimat other time experienced an
Gestapo and SS,
be and SS, that the nationed by our experts to worth sense of shock,
elements of the Red Army's 68th form Club? tish administration produced continued to fight.
about $280,000,000, most of it in
I visited every nook and cranny Guards Division on the Elbe. The These were in sacks of the camp because I felt it my meeting runchod not the expected chaos, but
the gold bars. When Bradley
book place at Torgau duty
to be in position from then quickly Berlin The
Home seventy-five miles South of order. Mr. R. H. Crossman, double-ended one, He Arat had to There was also a great amount of these things in case there over vr, had participated in the Initiat Apparently they don't like the iden perhaps, but not to be accus- small enough pocket no thut they countries of Europe and even a grow up at home the belief or 08: Inasauit on the beaches of Nor. of paying out ney money for Old
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mandy and it seemed eminently few few millions of geld coins from Rumption that "the stories of Nnzi be contained
bratallly were just propaganda." ed of gross deception, claims divisions and effectively prevent the United States.
fitting that troops of one of these Some members of Crammed into suitcases and
the visiting
A Reuter correspondent reports that although fighting is noted from interfering with his own
containers WAN tions. Ha accond job other
a great party were unable to go through comps should be first to make con less than thirty miles away, cammuntentions. His
returned to. Palton's head-complish the final severance or the incomprehensible than ever. He's even in Arab and Druse vil-was to organise his three armies amount of gold and silver plate the ordeal. I not only did so but act with the Red Army and ac- that he nnds the Chinn war more
the and ornament obviously looters I
Germen nation. The pr
problem of new joined ranks with a lot of with the Russians lages in Western Galilee, for main tulvance
central plateau of Germany in the from private dwellings throughout quarters that evening I sent com-
to both inunications Europe, All the articles had be and London, urging the two gov-advanced across central Germany. occupied only a few weeks direction of Lelpzig,
blaws, ois- ago by Jews, schools
His three front-line armies were, flattened by hummer
ernments to send instantly to Ger-The
According to a news item, laxi- questions pressing
owners and strikers met at open and the olives are be- from North to South, Simpson's viously to save storage space, derme
Hodges' First, and Patton's then merely thrown into the re- many a random group of newn no longer thone of major strategy cab
"an amicable party." They fail ing picked. He claims that
He had a total of forty- ceptacle, apparently pending an paper editors and representative but had become tactleat in char with the removal of the eight divisions, the largest ex-ppportunity to melt them down groups from the national
acter, One of the principal dir. to state who the geniul fellow intures. fell that the evidence ficulties was that of mutual Identi. Was. "Police State," into which clusively American force In pur into rald or silver bark,
placed fleation. immediately
differences In Because of the Mandate had degenerat- | histo Marshal Model command-drawn to the particular tunnel in before the American and British
The Rev. M. Stevenson would that led-in consequence first of cil the German forces in the Ruhr which all this gold was stored by publics in a fashion
language front-line radies were only the coming of a "new spirit" relatence of a newly built brick leave no room for cynical doubt. useless as a means of communica- can save the UN. Apparently ho Arab terrorism and then of
pocket. He. Brst attempted
The day of April 12 ended on tion the activities of the Irgun benk out of the encirclement by wall in the centre of which was a
forces. The only solution to the present alluation from the wrong Zval Leumi and the Sternen attack toward the North, and steel safe door of the most modern note of dramatic climax. Bradley, for been the two converging thinks we've been viewing the
nation of he was defented. A similar at type. The safe door was 50 10r-/ Patton, and I nat up late talking problem seemed to lia, in timely end of the bottle. Gang-the new
midable tempt toward the South was
that
explosive of fature plans, particularly of the problem heavy Israel has emerged equipped with military and civil ad- equally abortive, and the German Sharges would certainly have been selection of officers and units for reements upon markings and How early redeployment to the Pacific.rocedure. As early as the begin-
ning of
A man who drove away in a of April the air forces of the garrison had nothing to look for necessary for its ministration; sea, road and ward to except eventual surrender. ever, to all the surrounding brick) o'clock. Bradley and I in a small had come into contact, with some meal in a luxury hotel, was inter-
soldier
We went to bed just before twelve Western Allies and the Russians luxury car, after eating a luxury who rail transport and all the Bradley kept hammering back the wall did
Inspected it
house at Patton's headquarters,unfortunate results. Shots had viewed yesterday in his luxury particularly equipment of a
Western enemy lines and on April 14 strong, and he tested out his theory/ And he in his traller, His watchxchanged between Red air-Bat. But here Americans launched a focal attack with a mere half stick of TNT | radio to get the the time signals of major clashes continued to in- "The car's worn out, Socialist State.
had stopped, and med on the craft and our own, and the danger
he turned that split the pocket in two cup With this he blew an enormous from lies the truth of the attacks days later the Eastern half col-bale completely through tile Corporation. While doing so he crease. The task of organising this flat's both a shambles and a
from the British Broadcasting upon the Bevin policy: May lapsed. On the eighteenth the bale 15, 1948, faced the Jewish whol
Bur-struction and the hoord was ex- whole remaining garrison
heard the news of President laborious and was not fully accom swindle. In fact, I'd like to clear people in Palestine with renderede would capture about to why the Germans had not back into the house, woke up both sides Originally we had es- posed to view. We speculated as
late Roosevelt's death. He stepped plished until April 20. However,
In a luxury liner?" he three tasks, each of which,150,000 of the German Army in tempted
had already agre to provide
agreed separately, seemed, even to the Ruhr. In the final count the hiding place for the treasure in Bradley, and then the two of them upon restraining lines for the une asked.
their air forces,
"No." he said tersely. 'In of them,
tackle. total reached too big to
and by the on the labyrinth of tunnels instead of came to my room to tell me the including 30 325,000,
damned ship." We destroyed choosing to attempt its protection shocking news. First, to win the war as a general officers.
We pondered over the effect the for- oxarelse of care, accompanied by nation of 800,000 against six twenty-one divisions and captured by-a-wall- that could easily have President's death might have upok taconerable, degree of food took Do you care for gorgonzola"?
of supplies. been demolished by a pickaxe.
# nervous enormous quantities nations with forty million. must have hoped that the elaborate steel door made no one that there would be no interference
asked the author, of the future
ure peace. We were certain place.
It was also agreed between our young woman sitting next to him Second, while winning the
at dinner. war, to create a State out of fisk of the Ruhr would be an to us at all, but an American nol with the tempo of the war because solves and the Russians that when
stubbornly contested as was that dier who accompanied mero-
"W-Well I don't know" stam- the two converging
mered the girl, "I think I prefer chaos created by the evacun-of Brest, but within eighteen days marked, "It's just like the Ger- we already knew something of the troops of tion of the existing author- of the moment the Ruhr was sur-mans to lock the stable door but to eat measures afoot in the Pacific forces met local commanders would the work of his brother Emile."
Patton's Japanese.
of the smashing rounded
tear out all its sides." it had surrendered with
accomplish t
We were
arrange satisfactory junction lines between the two, based upon local Third, while winning
and building the fan even greater number of prison-¡ story of the incident that led to morant of any speeist or specific EW!
Are you troubled with improper. and the war
operational considerations. than wo
had bagged in the the exploration of the mine was in
arrangements that
*9**] thoughts? asks a psychiatrist. the State, to bring in and settle final Tunisian collapse almost two| itself intriguing.
dent For
general function line be It is probable, of course, that
Roosevelt had made affecting the tween the two forces we were Personally we rather enjoy them, 130,000 new immigrants in years earlier.
later peace. But we were doubt- the mine would
Winston is one of the greatest anxious to have an easily identi- | one year, thus increasing the In the meantime Bradley had 500ner or later
ful that there was any other in- population by 15 per cent, rapidly organised his forces for have been carefully searched by dividual in America as experienced fed geographical feature. For this living masters of the devastating the agreed-upon line, in retort. A well-known playwright the Eastward drive,
the captors. But according to Pals he in the business of dealing By the
time Israel has done all three.
the Ruhr garrison surrendered, ton, except for the instincts of with the other Alled political lead the centre of the front, followed recently sent him itickets for the
the Elbe and Mulde rivers. some of his spearheads had al- human docency on the part of two
I first performance of his latest ers. None us had known the was understood that the with- play, together with the following
of A Friend Sees Us ready reached the Elbe a hun-
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President very well; I 1981 covered it until much of it had through various conferences, seen
had, drawal of our forces to their oc- note, "Please do come. The There is a long-standing Bradley's advance was conducted dred and fifty miles from Kassel,
taboen
sere securely hidden away more of him than the others, but curation zone would take place at second ticket is for a friend-if
It seemed to us, from the inter- whatever future data might be you have one," In the little ing "British imperialism," Third Army struck in the direc
ernments. and many of those who know tion of the Czechoslovakian border the advancing Americans had es- critical time to be forced to change a curfew law. Any national leaders, We went to bed the least damn the loudest. and toward the city of Chemaltz tablished
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reached that place April 18-14, was instantly picked up for ques With some of Mr. Roosevelt's|
But one finds some welcome on Patton's left the First Army tloning. One evening a roving political acts I could never pos- breaches with it. An in-attack bogan April 11 and made patrol in a jeep saw a German sibly agree. But I knew him solely creasing number of Ameri- rapid progress against scattered woman hurrying along the street in his capacity as leader of a war and in that cons are studying the facts resistance. On the fourteenth the after curfew and stopped to speak nation at
3rd Armoured Division of
Col- to bor. She protested that she was capacity he seemed to me to fulßi) of the British Common- Ins. VII Corps reached Dessau, rushing off to get a midwife for all that could possibly be expected wealth; they may still be practically on the Elbe. Thle corps, her neighbour, who was about to of him.
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Cherbourg, had fought should prove to be correct They Mountains. The defenders fought more "Sun" provides a good all the way across North West took the German woman into their stubbornly and held out until April GREAT BRITAIN. USA · CANADA Instance. Some months ago Barope from the coast of France foep, picked up the midwife, and 21. The country was exceedingly returned to the accouchement, difficult. The wook-long fighting
MIDDLE EAST WEST AFRICA
the "Sun" assigned six ex- to the river Elbo. perienced members of its April 13 I spont with George staff to make a "world-wide Patton. Before the day ended, the
EAST AFRICA study of the British Com
relations monwealth and Empire as it problems, racial changes in 1 changing and the position of the Union DO YOU world." It has now reprint in the Commonwealth. He
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