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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1040,
BRITAIN'S DEFENDERS
GO TO SCHOOL
In the vast pinewood court-
around Cumberley try highest ranking officers
the from
By J. D'ARCY DAWSON
The officers taking part in the
Is the short answer to the aloin bomb, but in the defence of Great Britain the problem in much more complex.
the three fighting services, to Air force, together with high ofl. lle East, and Far East, will be
representatives cils of the Civil Ministries.
uresent 24354gether with
The last war showed that civil Reportare & General Office 82312 from 13 Civil Ministries, have
(four lines)
launched "Excreise Britannia" exercise represent the Auest tects | defence is a vital factor in war explosive energy of the n tactical exercise to probe intonical brains in Great Britain, and and this year the problems will the best methods of dealing they will need all their skill to be examined in the light of new with the problems of civil de- work out a plan which whi stated discoveries in warfare, not least of which is the best way to tackle fonce in the event of another up to the totally new constitions
the atom bomb. which may he expectel In other war.
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not
wor.
by The pinn was anounced Field-Marshat Viscount Montgo- mery at the conclusion of Jost Year's tactical exercise.
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The atom bomb has transform-
Two Soviet
schronera
left
Hong Kong in the mining. Red sails in the sunrise?
個
bomb The Nationalists are still fleng- their the skin of
We may expect heavy bombing not all of it atom bombing-- which with the, increased size and load could very easly disrupt yang on by civil life, moke it dimeuit tooth. pus interferenco with defence operate factories, and cause seri- plans involving the movement of troops.
The exercise now under discus Senior officers from overseas ed the problems of defence, esion will be designed to deal with ensure problem ani War prenity in the Beld where it in all those are ais attending, for the Offee believes that the value of how recognised that there must that, however violent the attack, In the chhir Today is Field-this-great-conference cannot be be a breaking down of large un the country will be able to carry on and the defence fores meet small the Marshal Sir William Silm, Chiel under-estimated. In addition to Wility concentrations of stores
-without-unite emergency Dispersal into uf the Imperial General Stall, the chlefs of the three Services, and men.
commanders TEUTTI who will have with him the Army
the mpact units self-supporting and dislocation. chiefs of the Navy, Army, and seven Homb Commands, the Min-1 drawing on widely spaced hasen
"Dinkum Aussies" In 18 Months
for
From H.M. WATT
Australia's urgent need Immigrant labour has become more and more apparent with
the
cities
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moment
the could
Tremendous Tosk Envisage for u type of problem which casily develop if the fighting ser- vices did not work in close co- operation with the evil depart- ments. Take the atom bomb first.
The enormous damnue clone by the bomb and its radiations foi- lowing the explosion would make The first the area untenabl natural effect would be streams of survivors along the ronds Boluted stations to malu centres blocking transport and hindering anl abattoirs. The first phuserellef work.
necessary
a
If the attack were followed by big parachute dron, the danger would be intensified and would make the task of the frbons very dimeult.
of the cum- The advent brously-titled "Civilian. En- For tertainment Committee the Welfare of the Forces" (why not "Forces' Welfare Committee?") came and went without any fanfare, despite the potential importance of its activities. The first meet-
already drafted is for 507 roads ing was held privately; and
1 akig Wyndham, Victoria River the report of its decisions general acceptance of the 40-
Crack, Mistake 3:1 the big Depot, Hall's today does
Check, and Wave Hill. published
hour week demanded by her all-and departments
incat market A Melbourne make exciting reading, hav-powerful trade unions.
Australia's bid for a "Tennes
The conference must, therefore, While Each Immigrant ship as it are Valley project on the Showy dealer affirmed to me that rail-
and devise a schrine which, ing been naturally concern-
New South ways were Hot Victoria, U.K.. the Cun- River,
foud transport would better meet getting reef to the victims ed with preliminary organi.rives from
has been but a which
the attack. will is keem sation, formation of specialis-nent, Italy or Yugoslavia makes Wales.
areas the exigencies, hoadilnes, One, the Cyrenin, | dream for water-starved
mads clear for military operu and et groups,
the like. which come from Gence, verently of the South, run only be achiey. The labour of migrants is the
solution, totlons. Trought 800 immigrants from no ed by more abundant labour,
Ke development" this
The Civil Ministries, particular- Much, however, may be ex-
fewer than 20 diffevent European Similarly can be considered the
"Itafeed it is the keynote to the ARP service couder the great met pected from this body, it
conntries. The popolar Georgie opening up of the
future, and the
Home Offes will have a tremen- the for Au-tratia's of territories has brought 2,000 from Britale. proctuwing
xt five years must bring suc
dous task requiring an organisa- present hopes are realised.
possible yet One
Migrant is the name how popu- North, from Wyndhain, Western two or
concrete
We are an uptunistic coun- tion as netfect as to North Territory
korat urungoment indeed arised in Australia for those ar- Australia,
try heemse we have a big share capable of achievements were
riving
either by ship or
and Queensland,
world's rent wealth-uccheting to circumstances, announced. The Hong Kong plane to seek a new life and to
the
While then must be an over. wheat, meat and wool."
all plan, there must ako be great and Yaumati Ferry Company remedy the
flexibility. On the ARP servlees have offered a launch every
will depend the provision of emun- Saturday to take 200 troops
ter-measures to atomir ratliation 10 bathing
and the wient'ße experts must pienies
work out the best means of mini- beaches, An excellent idea.
mising this danger.
doily
A wide network of roars is vatile from sparsi population required to bring here. For to every Australion, either rabid Communist or suber-
hut capable of much expantal to the country's future. sion. More boats might be made availab'e by other firms and individuals, and the military authorities should set aside special buses and lorries to take as many for B men as possible out day's swimming-not forget. and tasty ting cool drinks snacks.
S
tankural thieves
of
1
unly
mined Conservative and Liberat, this stream of new arrivals com- prising home-British and assister
Ps from Europe is regarded as Sincerely the Australios "Wish" to receive ns high a proportion of British as possible.
"They settle down very quick ly" oxpressed an Irish-Scot, for ~rezdizny "~mT} yours "Within 18 months they're 'din
Aussies' kum
and there's no language diffeulty."
By not! by four-engined alreoft some 25,000 migrants
Recently, the Stalinist-leaders will have found Australla in the
of the oppressed countries of pust months, many of them pro fessional men unit women, tech-Eastern Europe have made two who could lay
clerks mand! unskilled new victims. One of them is ofalcians.
workers. But though they a
Archbishop Josef Beran. hospitably received the housing shortage is becoming cute.
The Federal Government's cheme to spent £11,000,000 on improvised housing during the next 15 months
Patriots Stalin's First Victims
Although it may not be an Imediate preoccupation
it is to be the committee, expected too that the Army will provide adequate trans- port facilities for the many troops stationed in the New Territories who will want to at least at see city lights week-ends.
of
new 1:103sures.
What Jamaica This?
Two million gallons of Cuban molasses have been sold to Eng- land for hard currency at three cents a gallon.
Sounds a bit rummy...
these due "Who are asks a contemporary.
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Ponts7"
Don't know for sure, but the U.S. Attorney General seems to think they are due for a change.
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"Oh Berets from over the ocean, from the Berets come back
FOR...
have cannot
You
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motion
A
Ilow warm here your welcome
will be!
Whatever occurs o'er the border Means little to folk such as
we
As long as wo've law here, and
erder. Art Berets from over the Seal.
of
the
Plane hostesses seldom are.
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Because of the enormous dam ng which would follow humb-at- tacks clearance squads must be in readiness to open caminunien- tions. The last war, both in the field and in the ellies, showed Durbose because that havy bombing attacks often. detented their owing to roads being blocked by the troops could not get through huge masses of debris.
Months Of Work
Premier Attler kun described bishop was popular even among on a classic example of the Czech-Communists who had been Here. Frank Mac. in Dachau with him. The Czech police state.
describe millian spotlights the tyranny with papers were careful to which Russia extende un Empire the Archbishop as a "good demo
trat" in those days. of fear-The Editor.)
But if the Communsts thought
frightened, they were dealing with a prelate they
Our attack on Chen was held were made to filch the religious up by this cause, and Instead of liberties of the people, the Arch- the infantry and armoured vehi Prague, the Catholic Prinate of bishop declared his hostility to the cles passing swiftly through to fallow up the initial disorgan- Demonstrations were organised Isation of enemy troops they were Czechoslovakia, now a prisoner
of rubble which In his police-guarded residence, against the Archbishop in his faced with walls The other is Laszlo Rujk, Cathedral and now he is guard-took days to clene.
The faten In D closely bulk-up area such formerly Communist Ministered within his house. well as to utilise Army camps will not cover of the Interior in Hungary, now of Masaryk and Benes are sinister as Great Britain, this type of dis-
awaiting trial for espionage for 100,000 displaced
a foreign power. expected by hune
The widely differing cases of f next year. Many migrants wal
these to but for then- De required ⚫elves. But they need have no
want. financial fear of jobs are there for them-wages £ s. and upwards-and British. Czechs, Austrians, Italians, Baits und Poles many
the needs.
of A total persons are
as
The
many
nisation could have serious omens of what may happen to the
und it will be essential to new victim.
Just across the frontier in deal with obstacles very speedily. The necessity for keeping for. two men show that Stalin is Hungary-another prisoner awaits The position of these men
Rajk. Astory production running at full should be appreciated.
fighting a ruthless struggle en two trial. He in Laszlo fronts to maintain his hegemony Minister of the Interior, he was speed after attack is another There is no war on, and they
responsible
for liquidating all problem requiring much thought. are near a bustling, modern
of terror.
It is worth while examining the opposition to the Communist re- for even under the limited bomb-
Ing of the last war-and by com city with many diversions
personalitics and records of these gime,
the Kremlin, Rajk spent some time in Spain parison with our attacks on Ger- Intext victims of arrustomed to for those with the necessary
was very limited-dia- inding the Civil War and came a 50-hour week, will be able to There are significant lessons money, yet they will be res-
their income by their storlea which the Western back to Hungary with the Rus- location of effort was serious.
I have only touched upon a few tricted most of their time to supplement
of the problems, but in the renim nations must learn if freedom in rian Armies in 1945. He was in week-end jobs.
charge of the purge of the Hun-
of the defence forces there are empty spaces, military dis-
Thousands in rural and semi-
already urban parts are
to save archbishop Baran is garian Communist Party last year the dimcult questions of supply doing
The of cipline and their own com-
developing along the well-tried after the Cominform had declared bases. amelioration that, this being haled us learn One pany.
Australia. quicker about Ing
lines with which the free world isicological war on Tito in Yugo- could be the project sponsor Trade unionism, vehement in its
by now sickeningly familiar. Hav-alavia.
threatened in re- ed by St. John Ambulance demands for 40 hours from em- Brigade to collect books and ployers, is turning periodicals from civilians, this Advertisements will shortly
How bad is the labour short appear in the Press giving detalls of this scheme, and age? Every publle work, foundry,
unct factory, office Jaundry in we would earnestly request Sydney appears to display boards our readers to come forward asking for workers. A prominent Sydney daily carries 51 full- etc. the magazines with
length columns ut "Positions
advertisements already vacant" which they have
senting 6,000 known jobs going read. We can assure them
a-begging. that each copy will be perus-
Laundries, Sor instance, con ed and passed from hand to hand for a long time after wards.
THORESEN & CO., LTD. welfare
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"Workers In Demand
tonus.
repre
he
and was
cento months by such
cut of
his
for
Heresy
purga.
Ga
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So now the World Empire is all MAP-ped out for US!
om when
Not tike ManoeuvrCE
Oh, twas D-Day
we set sail Aurt we'd hardly got to ses, When down came the Yoks With A-bombs in their racks
for And
radiosetivated”, us free..
Then up spake the Captain of
our gallant ship
(A very pretty penny cost she!) "The Taxpayers for years They will pay with sweet and
tears
But they really cannot put the
blame on me!"
Then up spake the boy of our
gallant ship,
Lungon
Ay
a laddie from were hel
"I've been around the Gelgers An' they're all
tigers
n-roar like
So we all know what our end
must bel"
So on into the West salled the
atom-frizzled ships With their shrivelled crews a-
salting o'er the sea.
- For the Gammas got the fleet
Which had long been obsolete static - Navat --Except in Theoreet
Bubbling Over?
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There seems to be an uneon- scionable lot of rice cooking go- Some- body may be getting his conge it ing on in these parts.
it keeps up...
Sald
to Mr. a neighbour Stewart of the Braes in the street of the village. "Did ye notice the new teacher ist go by?"
"Wiz that her in a yella hat, green dress, no stockings an' her tecs and lips B painted reid?" "Ay wiz it" replied, the friend.
"No," said Mrs. Stewart, didno notice her pertickler.".
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The general lines of co-ordinat e defence may be established, but to work out decisions in do- billid eyeing been public the Communist
tail will require many months of But suddenly the rulers of Rus- hard work and constant revision. Admirals. Air The Generals, Ministers for his denunciation of sin, bogan, to suspect that even
monsures as the teaching of
best-proved puppets had Chiets and Civa Departments in will Communism in the schools and the their
First of all, Dimitrov was re- need all their skill and know. από establishment of bogus Cathulie leanings towards the Tite heresy, this post-graduate course
Holidays with Pay. organisations
newspapers,
at ledge to hammer out our security
"Some of the girls in the office Archbishop Beran in now confined moved from power. He died
with their to his residence, his archives have the weekend in a Moscow sena-probleme, and their task is one
The in which the whole
away population have gone
Anances." been searched, his communications turlum still in disgrace,"
Anna Pauker is also have a real and vital interest. notorious with his people
Communist leaders in subordinates and many other suspect.
Albania have been liquidated. prieste arr
arrested. Achbishop Beran
Now 'Rajg of Hungary is due is riposted
trial. There is little doubt declaring
that no further com- that details which have been for only keeps going with the sun promises with the Communists are thers till now--such as the Nazi
women. Em-
Like
Cardinal Mindszenty work of married ployers Insert displayet adver- possible.
offering all sorts of ilsements
Rome months ago, Beran has warn- records of his two brothers will ed Czech Catholics that they may fert
be brought out with damning el- The committee stressed
Amenities and stressing no Satur-
shortly hear he has "confessed" to
For some time it was thought the desirability of all mem-day work to recruit typists.
A Melbourne tlenier was con- vurious charges or han disavowed
ern that the Cominform was merely fident that he would get a good his condemnation of the his pen clearing the decks in the countries hers of the community, clubs and other organisations, manager for his now shop: ment-and he has warned his ve surrounding Yugoslavia for a de-
house for him the had working together for
cisive showdown with Tits, But other similaivo The A
Archbishop has
the arrest; disgrace and liga of the Services, prepared to give a in per cent ple not to believe such statement. This is an obvious necessity, English-speaking migrants will arities to the Cardinal. The son of the
3 country school-teacher, Mgr. tion of the puppet lenders and the committee must see have the initial advantage in
Beran was born in 1885,, He was that the Cominform is actually
Rajk was, in hat it is made the coritrol-securing posts in business offices
noted for his progressive ideas in the defensivo. matters of social reform and for change of the anti-to ling point for all such acti- vities. It has been empha-worse than useless to go that reason was regarded with arrest indicates that the Kremlin
placed
host of men Czech Catholics.
positions sised more than once by the ahead with plans which were some suspicion by Right-Wing is worried In case Rajk may have who are infected with "Tilolam." or undesirable. themselves that the unsuitable
During the war, Beran, who was
The lesson of
son of these develop- troops do not want charity, We would strongly recom: still an ordinary priest, was ar
which or patronising Lady Bount-mend, also, that Service re-reated by the Nazla and sent to monts for the Western nations la ful invitations en bloc to the presentatives be not restrict- Dacha concentration camp from that Stalk is still fighting savage- stands against his tyranny. Men local equivalent of
lon in 1945. the ed to commissioned officers September, 1942 till the Libera-y against any power
with great patriotle records are manor house.
With the best will in the On the other hand, they world, these may not fully
In November, 1948, he was rais- Bit even the puppet Communist to the dignity of Archbishop of rulers planted in power by the would appreciate being ask appreciate the wishes of the
that this Red Army are now being dimin ed to one of the sports clubs, ranks. and we therefore sug Prague, It was thought
appears that some indicate theated as it ippointment would instance, putting up gest that, from time to time. teams against the civilians, private soldiers, junior ah villingness of the Church to work sparks of patriotiam and indepen
policies. having some drinks and pos- senior NCO's be called upor peaceably with the postwar dovedence begin to reappear in their Stalln is experiencing. the name the Communists took over sibly dance giving as to give their views to the opent in Czechoslovakia. much pleasure to their hosts committee...
the direct Germany Army had overrun 1948,-under as they themselves receive
the Soviet Europe. In the oppressed coun of Zerin, Many such possibilities will essential purpose, and those Deputy Foreign Minister-Arch- trica the seeds of resistance
to appear come to mind as keen and who have come forward to shop Beran was careful not to beginning willing mindr get together give their services are de- play any political role. In fact he ground.
Stalin's serving of much praise. We was criticised for complying with
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