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THE CHINA MAIL, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1949.
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An Interesting Experiment:
THIS SCHOOL SEEKS TO CURE
COMMUNISM'S DOCTRINE
I have just visited the world's strangest school. In it is taking place one of the most important
experiments of our time.
In the ruined ex-Italian sea-, plate base on the Greek island of Loros-only a few miles of the
New Planes Cutting Air Losses
By RICHARD NORTON
years.
ed.
By KEITH BUTLER
He told me how the training is organised. This 1200 boys are divided up into sections and teams. Each team is nained Mich
ind
of all
Ering
Crooner Trouble. Probably.
"He is admitted to hospital, suffering from a'painful melody."
state
"Former secretary of James Byrnes said today that he may be a candidate for governor of South Carolina ncx year."
Some of these politicians will. insist on sticking their nex out.
COTTO
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*
Turkish coast-1,200 young Greeks, boys, were the channels by which one of the titles of the Holy Vir- are being transformed from wild they were introduced to organisa-gin (religious re-education makes and murderous guerillas into use- tion, routine and discipline. its fret peep into their lips) and ful citizens of the Greek State. After a couple of months many oath team is taught a different Aged from 11 up to 20 years, of them were ripe for the real trade, using the tools and mate- these boys have known the rough work of the school. Each chose fial of that trade: Some 22 life of
rade by trades, from shoe-repairing and guerilla in the mountains. | and began to Jearn They have been taught to hate, which he would be able to live agriculture to electrical engineer- and kill without merty, on his return to his native village! and boat-building, are being
According fo oct report. They have been indoctrinated with, or town after a year or so at taught in this strangest -
***Fight persons were bitten by the technical schools. daily doses of Communist pro-Leres paganda: for months and event. This is the basis of the Leros There are no armed guards over dog, which was believed to be
plan. Coming straight from the these boys. On Sundays they are suffering from bables" At the age of 14, many of them mountains and the Army prison free to visit the town of Leros have known what it is to mow cages, these
to 7/6d of anis are still too and
and spend cown mice with a machine rank or que Habulis and Cold may they bore meet-ad-theast They have fructe 20
with them or and for-munist teachings to fit into the have some bora in the sire of the lady dining as the Mr. R. M. De Souza and family
are inflicted on helpies captive life of the Greck community from sent by relatives);
once came. Some may even have participat- which they
They The most-feared punishment is table of Sir Mark Young whch express heartfelt thanks and
their heads shaved, as he was governor of Hong Kong. would be a danger to society. Nor to have 3ution to the Rev. Frs.
She felt she had been slightest and Fung, Doctors,
There are thousands more like Sisters and
them in the Greck Army's prison would they be easily acceptable happens for sanitary reasons on Nurses of the
so much at the hands of the to join a class is just left to drift of her host instead of on the Kowloon Hospital relatives The first event to dent the halo cages. The boys of Leros are the to the Greeks who have suffered first arrival. A boy who refuses when she was seated on the left Preat guerillas for the last three years. about the camp aimlessly until he fight. Not wanting to make a for their kind se rakishly by British avid fore-runners of Greece's and friends
humanitarian experiment. it Half-terate, knowing no trade gets so bored he is eager to learn direct complaint she could not. condolences, at the funeral.
tion since the jubilant successes succeeds, the World will have except fighting, looting and kill something.
resist saring: "F suppose it is real- floral tributes, prayers and of the Farnborough air exhibition taken one more lesson from
ing, these boys would be dangur There is no attempt to pump difcul for you always to put donations fer Masses for the and the Brabazon flight.
trials Greece.
in their proper pus social misfits to launch straight anti-Communist propaganda inte
your guests repose of the soul of the late will be the publishing of BOAC's
I was the first-foreign news- back into the national life.
them. When they arrive, they places?" Mrs. Maria Luitzz De Soum,
accounts.
paper correspondent to visit the King Paul provided the answe are told they leave their past bei "Not at all" said Sir Mark More losses? Yes. In millions? guerilla boys school at eros. It to the problem, Leres was bis hind and are starting their lives Again, yes.
was opened on March 2′′this year idea. The whole conception. has) afresh at Leros. Then the life and with a smile. "I find that those who matter don't mind, and those Outlook gloomy? NO!
with 100 of the toughest young-been worked out and guided to spirit of the school, the example who mind don't matte A talk with Sir Miles Thomas, sters from the prison
cases success by the National Institute of the carefully selected instruc farmer
Nufeld boss and now Thirty-year old Technical Ad-or which he is president: The tors, the atmosphere of disciplin According to reports, Mr. BOAC chairman, has strength-viser, Pandias Solomon-grandson money for the upkeep of the ed freedom and constructive com Nehru has made a profound ened my belief that British Over- of Greece's national poet-admit school comes from Queen Fre-munal living and working all The seas Airways, in addition to be-ted to me he was terrified at firs derica's Find and other volum- these are left to teach the demo- impression in America.
the by these savage youngsters from tary societies-all given freely by cratle way of life by example the biggest airline in Indian prime minister could ing
the mountains, in spite of his voluntary contribution of the The Leros boys learn the false-
Chief Instructor hardly fail to do so. His out-world is also the best
Losses were £8,000,000 in 1940, perience as
of Greek people. By the State no ress of the Communist teachings standing character and sincere £7,000,000 in
in 1941.
the Greek Boy Scouts. Is there any
money is given; only materials and in the best way by practical services for the upkeep of the experience playing, living to desire for peace. his position sign of
improvement?
Working school where available. Sir Miles could not as spokesman for 300,000,000
Although
they have a full and dir gether, Even though most of them had
Their Own: Choice ing day ring enough to keep newly independent people, discuss details of the 1948 ac-
counts until they have been sub- become guerillas against their
to the them healthy and out of mischief. and his increasing status as a
visa and exit permit business, leader of Far Eastern thought itted to Parliament, he disclosed will forcibly recruited during
terrible guerilla raids on towns school from the prison cages at On Sundays they again learn in time leader had gone that a substantial reduction of and villages, boyhood spent in their очеті choice. Brigadier Chr eh, under a Greck priest who generally, assure him a res-losses has been achieved. And pectful audience in any part this has been done with a make the mountains had turned them Neris of the National Institute visited London and Edinburgh
into little
Brought to tours the prison camps and tells last year, the fallacies in the savages. shift fect of cezverted military the Leros school from the Greek the youths in them what Leros Communist vilication of religion.affam, and was unattended by of the free world.
aircraft.
Army prison cages after surven has to offer, how it gives them the Mr. Nehru has talked at
der or
capture they abandoned opening to a new life where t the
Sure Of Success Just a bit too quiet, though, length about the infernational
Eight Passengers their guerilla habits slowly. stigma of the old guerilla one is situation, and expressed some
Many preferred to sleep on the forgotten; how they
can learn
Colonel Tsonas and Pardias That is the key to Britain's laudable hopes for the future. airline losses. While competitors rather than in the beds pro there a trade, and become useful, Solomos have their fingers on the But aralysis of his speeches joperated the latest civil airlines/vided, drawing their blankets over productive members of society in pulse of the school. They killed, many villages and towns
their beads guerilla-wise. At the villages to which they will both sure it is succeeding as received in Hong Kong recarrying 40 or 50 passer-gers, meals they tore at the food like return. After thinking it over, seven
devastated, hundreds of some boys are were veals nothing which offers a BOÁC strugged along carrying animals, heedless of knives and those who want to come are sert ready even now to be returned to peanuts made homeless." solution of the world's grave
ight
in planes designed to carry forks. They did not know how to to Leros.
their homes. After a year, the Now, look, around here there bombs not bodies.
A football meant nothing to Colonel Demetrios Tsonas, an instructors believe, only a very is only one Peanut. difficulties. Not, that is, un-
As fares are fixed by istema- them.
ex-gendarmerie officer with 18 small fraction will not have been less one believes that the national agreement, BOAG, cu the Schooling or any sort of in-years brilliant service, is Direc-transformet imo good, patriotic tions are likely to adopt his basis of a £100 ticket, could gross struction was out of the question tor of the school. As I walked useful members of the Greek] Meat Ungentlemanly. suggestion of following the a maximum of only £800 a trip at first. Solomos and his help-round with him, I was impressed State
"Father of six children places With the guerillas driven from blame on wife," late Mahatma Gandhi's doc against £4,000 or £5,000 withers left the boys to find their own by the confident way in which trines.
a modern machine.
way to normal civilised. He for boys brought their individual Greek soil the Greek Government
first few wecks. Farnborough revealed the strength games, into which the instructors for a practical psychologist, and misation" of those captured" and
Now the position is changing, the
Team problems to him. This is a job is plarining wholesale "decommu- of Britain's future challenge. gradually managed to entice the Colonel Tsonas is one.
The warning by Mr. Nehru that Russia and the United States are heading straight for war by splitting the world into two hostile camps is only a repetition of what has been said so often by many lesser men. The world is acutely conscious of the danger, and would welcome a way out of
"I think I can now say that the turning point has been reached the Corporation's affairs,” said Sir Miles.
in
Hermes, Argonauts
"A few weeks ago we
were
able, for the first time to put a
Reet of passenger aircraft--40-
"But
you may ask, "have the
the dilemma. The Indian seat Argonautinto service an statesman has not explained the Empire routes. The Argo- how the bitter conflict of ideo- nauts will be followed in: the logies can be eliminated, or next few months by the 40-seat what can be done to stop the Handley Page Hermes" Kremlin's fanatical plans for engineers, operations chiefs and world domination. The repots the know-how to operate sults achieved by Gandhi in- jä
fteet competitively and side India are not likely to be duplicated by broadcast ap-
Sir Miles sited the results on peals of his doctrines in the the North Atlantic route to New York the only run on which Western world.
BOAC have been using the same
play.
Little Savages
come Guerilla boys
London Comments:
A Bad Press For
The Government
By “WINDRUSH”.
months
After
Judging by the latest designs of American cars, it looks as if motor car and aircraft manufac hirers are planning a mersar.
*
Mr. Beauchamp," agad 22. said ago after obiding he came to the U.S. three weeks Mr. Chur- chill's consent"
I didn't know the great war- into the
•
"The marriage was a very quiet
bridesmaids or bridegrooms."
don't you think?
*
"More than 150 were believer
.
"For four years he was to live surrendered guerillas who have on that barren, san-parched rock. not committed actual atrocities His warders were sharks, Twice Leros and the Greek Army's re weekly they brought him vic-. fabilitation camp on Makronisos tuals from the mainland" are the successful experiments Could I have that again, please? from which a huge plan is being Slowly this there! developed to win back for Greece
these lost citizens.
Leros is being extended within Did you
C
thos see
amazing
a fex weeks to held some 3-4,000 newsreel pictures of Britain's boys. New Makronisoses are be new fer airliner? I understandi
ing opened for the retraining in
Ito
•
civic life of the adult guerillas, that, the United States is insisting On Crete, Queen Frederica, plans on being given the blueprints, announce the open a special school for the and will shortly most tragte of all the victims of invention of the world's first jel the Communist guerillas the airliner. As they keep telling us,
it's all a question of know-how. by their King and Queer, the Government gets a
With every week that passes, ing such a bad time at the hands the Greek people are Lunching a
Myrtle at the moment is so worse of the press many of the daily campaign to eradicate the gueril- press. Two weeks ago it was the papers are much more scathing la-planted seeds of Russian Com Hungry for love that she doesn't "Spectator" which had the hardest that the weeklies this may be munism campaign that will know where her next male is
The longe de inte guice to what will happen have important lessons for the coming from things. to say valuation and its possible con- at the general elections. Remem-rest of the world. Their five-year
The considered the be the Truman-Dewey fight. sequences
struggle for freedom from the more doubtful about its effects Lauper Government has still not Communist, scourge has taught Tough By must every honest student of the lost a
seat at the bye-elec- them that the disease must be From a short story: The skip
the mind and the per spal disconsolately down the
"-p" "ped the engines.”
эго
situation become... /. The first tions ic
crisis is so absorbe spirit. And the Greeks are win-lengine-toom" Ventilator' sind-stop-
do
Nor did Mr. Nehru make it machines as most of their com clear just what India's petitors. Constellations. attitude will be in the case of Comparative statisties prove optimistic estimates lacked all a third war. He reiterated his that the British line has confoundation
ing that the papers have little to best out sistently got the
"Let It not be forgotten that be- say about the Far East or Asia. desire to keep out of inter these planes, flying more hours fore we earn a single dollar extra "The Spectator, however, has a national entanglements, but did not directly state that the year with each aircraft, and we must tall at the lowest estimate leading article on "the new rulers
carrying more passengers per 30 per cent more goods than we of China." flight, than any other airline.
assume It writes. "To
that Another charge levelled against will have to pay sub- so today. Lancashire, front which
expected 25 a. dollar China itself will henceforth be al
puppet of the Kremlin Is "to" mic" EOAC is that there are too many
character of the men behind-the machines. Since stantially more for much of its interpret the Sir Miles joined the Corporation raw material, Hearty exhortations Chinese people. Within the frame- 18 months ago, the total has been to businessmen by Ministers with work of the alien ideology she reduced from more than 24,000 not a day's experience of business has borrowed, China will work to 18,000, and the streamlining tend to be more irritating than ef her own destinies. She bas scant affection or respect for any of the "The Government's difficulties white races and least of all for
dominion would remain néu tral There was in fact,...a. promise that India would not permit aggression, or a threat to freedom or justice, but also a careful avoidance of stating the means which would be used to combat these.
The premier's
process will go on.
A Forecast
fective.
made
it quite clear that he has no fresh ideas,"
The "Economist is afraid that Sir Stafford's way of checking in-
No alternative exists in the country either to its present rulers or to their political doctrines, and the people know it w
"But," says the chairman, "the remarks present figure does not compare must be recognised and are. And the Russians. about the progressive obtain-favourably with other lines, the situation being what it is, the The Chinese have got rid of af ing of independence by form- and there will be no wholesale most efforts are demanded from Government which was bad; op- er colonial peoples in the East dismissals. I will not have em- the Government has no lead to coherent
every section of the nation. But pressive, corrupt and based on no
faith
They' political will find an echo in the hearts ployees who have given of their give in any but purely administra have acquired a Government of most freedom-loving peo- best to the Corporation looking tive economies it has no
which is oppressing, which seems ple, but Mr. Nehru has avoid-ve
over their shoulders in fear for expect much from the
(so far) less bad and much less >their jobs."
The Economist" takes much corupt than its predecessor 200 ed discussion about the inevit-
Despite satisfaction
around the same line. "Sir Stafford Cripps which is based on a well defined able power vacuum left when Airways House, the vital ques- has made it a little clearer that political faith,
most of whose the foreign administrations tions are still; "How much he is not complacent about the tenets conflict with the markedly leave. As Western Europe is ⠀⠀longer? When do we break results of devaluation unsupported individual outlook of the Chinese. abandoning its imperialistic even? When do we start to show by further measures. He has
a profit?" aims, Russia is expanding hers. -
Not always does she acquire territory by direct military You cannot expect the chair-Ration which roust be one of the Sino-British Relations The article sums up, the future invasion. In fact, the Kremman of BOAC, or any other off-results of devaluation will be
dal to stick out his neck by increase taxes. It implores him of Sino-British relations as fol- lin prefers to work through making such an on-the-record to think again about this. "To in-lows: "A united, peaceful' and fifth columnists, portraying forecast, but I will risk a little crease taxes still further would prosperous Ching is as much her aggression as indigenous crystal-gazing
be as ruinous economically as it British interest as the security of national movements. What The 1949 figures, with part of would be foolish politically" Heng Kong; and the fact that it has happened in China will the new fleet in action, might Bulk Sales" Scheme happers to have been united un- der a Communist dictatorship, have a considerable effect on
drop to £4,000,000.-
The "Tribune" (the paper as which is a form of government In 1950 the full compliment of sociated with Mr. Aneurin Bevan) we much dislike, need not pre- the surrounding countries,
Argonauts and Hérines may contributes to the crisis discus-vent us from wishing it peace which are so enthusiastic bring the losses towards £2,- sion a proposal, to organise exports and prosperity." about their actual or hoped--| 500,00.
to America on the basis of a The Tribune" bas an article for independence. They will
les" scheme, analogous off the coming general election in and a new medium-range plane to the not have much freedom of as being built at Bristol will be chaze system.
tralla for eight years and the "Tri- pirations under a Communist available
It suggests that by this means bude" hopes that it will continue regime, if that should be their
British airlines will be flying exports could be switched rapidly to do so, but adnuts that there has all-British planes, and the break from the soft currency markets been an anti-labour swing in
The Mr. Nehru is a brilliant even much should be in sight. to the dollar markets: also that counter. I thinks that Commun Statesman who wants the best | F
the private lader would be pre- ism will be the main issue at the vented from making large proff election. Since the disastrous coal The "Near Salesmand! Ens com escalia Austalia, which the paratively little to my about the Communists provoked, there has crisis but after rather tortuous been a very strong anti-Commún arguments, concludes that it can ist feeling and though the Labour hardly be solved, until, there is a party is poles apart from Com- munists it may suffer badly from Thout the Government is her the owing to the right,
fate.
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