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The hostilities in Korea caused great anxiety to the Karen Minister in London, Mr. Ten! Chang Yun. He is сесп hera with his wife in their London home “at Bryantton Square, studying the latest news from hin home country.
Hiroshima Mayor says bomb toll was 200,000
Paris, July 16,
The Mayor of Hiroshima, Shinzo Hamai, said in an interview published in Paris today that more than 200,000 persons were killed by the atom bombing of Hiroshima,
This is about double the number of deaths com- monly reported following the atom bombing of the Japanese city by an American war- plane on August 6, 1945.
The United States Army Oc- { cupation Headquarters in Tokyo reported on August 7, 1947, that the official death roll was 78,150. Subsequent deaths from the effects atomic radiation rulsed the total to around 100,000.
of
Mr. Hamal told the Conserva. tive newspaper "Le Monde" that the official figures were far 100 low. He said that while the exact number of deaths can never be known, it certainly exceeds 200,- 300.
The wartime population of {firoshima was 343,000. Mr. Hamal's estimate of the deatha would mean that nearly two out of three of the city's lubabitants were killed by the blast.
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Mr. Hamal. who escaped jury in the bombing, said that Bundreds of families disappeared. added that thousands of
He
refugees from other Japanete eltles were in Hiroshima at the time and were never accurate-
for ly accounted among the victims and survivors. Á holdle, garrison, he said, also was not counted.
Should never be used Mr. Hamal and, 17 other Japanese political, fndustrial and civic leaders are on a round-the- world trip after altending the recent World Assembly for Moml| Rearmament at Caux, Switzer-
land.
The group left today for London United and will go inler to the -States.-
Asked whether the U.S. should use atom bombs against the Nor- thern Koreans, Mr. plied that the bomb should never used anywhere in the world.
Hamal re-
fle sold the citizens of Hiro. shilma appeal for peace, warning that another world war would mean the end of civilisation.
Mr. Hamal said that Hiro- shima's population now numbers about 370,000 and that the city's hospitals are no longer treating victims of the bombing.
Babies are being born normally despite widespread rumours to the contrary, he said.-Associateti Press.
BRITISH POLICY IN MIDDLE EAST
London, July 17. Britain is reviewing her at- titude toward the problem of a peace settlement in the Middle East and the advisability of bila- teral negotiations with Israel.
Official quarters Intimated to- day that Britain was not at pre- sent opposed to bilateral peace negotiations between Israel Transjordan in the absence of immediate prospects for an over- all settlement in the Middle East.
and
Britain would not herself undertake any direct moves to bring about such negotiations but such moves would not be dis- couraged and would in fact be welcomed, the
said, United..Press.............
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Farouk said to have wed secretly
London, July 10.
A British newspaper sald today that King Farouk of Egypt had, incretly married Narriman Sadek in May and hinted that, the pretty tom moner might be expecting baby...
There was no confirmation of the report published in the "Sunday Pictorial" that the 33-year-old
had married tha 17-year-old beauty who once was engaged Egyptian diplomat,
to
monarch
Zaki Hachim, aged 27.
The plotorial Bald the coremony WED parformed under the Biktashi ritual, a sect unrecognlead by officiat Molenia but under the pro- tection of the Egyptian Royal
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The report said: "Farouk could easily get this
dissolved without the
waddity - providing
com.
cecret ceremony pacies un. noticed by the Prear of the world. If Narriman, a moner's daughter, producca a this first wife, Queen Farida,
to do falled
20) Farouk la prepared to
RO nounce 11s 'secret' wedding and make her hip queen."-- United Press.
U.S. COAL OUTPUT LAGGING
New York, July 10, The National Coal Association of America called attention today to a lag in coal output and gave warning of possible complications later this year.
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"Certain developments that loom today in the coal industry
are causing much concern“, Association said in bulletin.
Stockpiles on June 1 were 44.- 795,000 tons, 27,951,000 tons less thon at the same date last year. -Router.
Major-General J. F. C. Fuller, expert on tank warfare and mili-
tary strategy, in a powerful article on the war outlook, de clares that
WE SHOULD RAISE 20 ARMOURED DIVISIONS--NOW
Thus far, much of the news] received from Korea is re- miniscent of the summer of 1940, when in France, again and again, the cry was raised: "The tanks are coming! What can we do?"
Even then it was an old cry, for on November 20, 1917, at the battle of Cambral, and again on August 8, 1010, at the Buttle of Amiens ("The Black Day, or the German Army "), the Geriuknj could do nothing against aŭvan» cing tanka.
Now it is the Southern Koreans ,who utter the cry which WAR shouted fra Sedan to Dunkirk, Unsupported by tanks and unpro- vided with anti-tank wenpors, they repeat it.
They can only
run away
Armour not only protects its forlor to those prodused later on, woarer, but it disarms his oppon-they overran Poland in 18 days en and, when coupled with the Holland in four; the greater part petrol engine, it multiplies human of Bedglum In 10; France in 35; crobiilty many times..
Yugosiavin in 12; and Greece In 15.
Though we learnt this lesson in World War I, we forget it dur- In all these super-rapid con- in the armatice which followed. quents, it was tanks and miscraft And though we relearnt It in and not infantry asses bich Nevertheless, World War II, no sooner had it made the pier. ended than, instead of building arter the war we went back to the our peace-time ariny around the infantry maar Idun-the quantity inache, we introduced conscrip.Iden versus the quality idea, tion, and bulli it around the Idea of marching masses of men.
Nevertheless, this is the age of mobility, and on the battlefields of today the two most mobile arma are the neroplane and the tank.
Therefore, if war is to keep pree with elvil progress, and in the end it has to, It was round these two master weapons that our army should have been bulit,
Slow moving
Doubly was this necessary In face of Russin, our only possible major enemy, for in spite of her What con thy do? Nothing? nerous armoured divisions, her Except bolt is ns if a tigerey is still predominantly a were let loose in a crowded street.
ian-power instrument, and a Next, comes a question of far
up too mobile one at that. the Importance than greater Korean rout. If, for some reason or other the Russians were to nd- vance Into Western Germany, what could we do to halt them? Whether we, like it or not, the truth is --- virtually nothing, be- cause the superiority in tanks the Russians would bring against us Is so enormous that the few we and our allies can put into the field would rapidly be swamped And lost in the general rout.
Lastly, comes another question: When are we going to learn that a soldier in a woollen jacket is no match for a man behind bullet- proof armour ?
Its infantry divisions are, in the main, still dependent on horse transport for enrriage and supply.
In the last war, the Russlan anny proved itself to be For exceedingly slow moving. instance, during its advance from Stalingrad to Warsaw, its daily advances averaged from one and a half to three milles,
And we did this in spite of the fact that in no conceivable clr- cumstances · could! we compele with Russin in fighling manpower. Also, In spite of the fuct ilmi us an industrial country we could live excelled Russia. In pinchine power.
General Sir Giffard Martel, who during the last war was for a turne Forces, head of our Armoured
year was and who for about Chief of our Military Mission In Russia, and therefore is able to Judge the true
of the Russian army, 1244 recently
written:
valite
the
"It is my bellef after many discussions with the tiesians the Western ...that European Forces (which in clude ourselves)
and American ...soptingent had altogether a total of twenty highly-trained, an
full-strength divisions making Juli 10 of "nobility", _and arinour, the Russian forces would never dare to advance against us." To imaging, some du, even in Parliament, that the atomic bomb
cut to provides us with a short
Even then long pauses were frequently necessary. to prevent the advancing columns outrunning | victory is fantastic.. their supply.
Dy
comparison, though the German (anks of 1939-41 were in-
COLD FRONT ONLY 55
MILES FROM RUSSIA
Alaska,
icy
-mountain- strewn North-West tip of this continent, has been vividly.
-By-
his endurance feat man has in- vented nothing better than Mike's dogsled covering Afteen miles a day. And the wolf packs which
lit up by the searchlight of Patrick Nicholson owl round Mito's camp-fire
public fear over the issue of peace and war which engulfs the Northern Pacific Ocean today.
For this is the American terri
to Russia, Yet tory nearest General Eisenhower calls it the weakest link in the whole chain of US, defence.
The first blow of an undeclared world war is expected by Lop military strategists to be waves of Russian troop-carrying plunca attacking airfelds and key points in Alasica and in Canada's vast North-West.
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These may be sabotage raids almed at uranium mines and oil wells. They may be, attacks
arfields Lgainst
Isolated towns. Perhaps they would be
raids "suicide" small
easily wiped out.
The 1,500-mile
highway
most successful diversionary attack in history. It tied up more than 100,000 troops in counter- attacks to winkle out the Jops.
Russian paratroop attacks on towns and bases in Alasica and Canada's North. West would probably be preceded by Fifth Column sabotage in the late Gfternoon. The first wave of paratroops would drop at dusk . . They would be "lighted-in by burning wooden buildings and forest free.
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cach night are still deadlier en- emies than any Rusilan.
In summers hotter than Eng- land's even tracked vehicles 'gel bogged in the thick soup of musker topsoil thawed by
the raldright sun,
mosquitoes
The swarms of
and the even more savage blacktiles ero calculated to sting footslogging scidlers at the rate of sixty per These make soldier per minute, the Arclic summer even more un-' bearable than the scaring cold of ninety degrees of frost in wintor.
So the soldier, laden with thirty pounds of protective clothing and thirty-five pounds of special anti- frost equipment, how to devote ninety per cent. of his energies to fighting the climate.
any Aretle micò ho can dalch, He has just one consolation. Almost certainly his enemy's riño, will have jammed in the cold.
The back door is "open"
Russia training airborne army When these shock troops had colds canino him to his nylon Frostbite cripples him. Savere' their positions a consolidated
tent. But even so he is more second wave of planes would bring rellable than the weasel tractors reinforcements and equipment bringing up his supplies, so he Russia is training airborne probably has to eat his candle and brigades of 2,500 men carried in 100 bombers for just such raids. But they would create a wrive
"One small parachute division of panic in the United States and
and certainly two would have Canada which would stir up a little difficulty in occupying strate clamour to keep the boys at
gically-Important Alaska," Bays home to defend America and
Governor Ernest Gruening. might make American reinforce-
American and Canadian armies ments for hard-pressed European and alr forces held their first
Alaska could have become a armles too little and too late." large-scale Arctic manoevres | North-Western shield for this con- Alaska is larger than free last winter. These caught Uncle | tinent. Government economy has Europe, lying astride the Arctic Sam and Johnny Canuck with left it a wide-open back door. Cirale and bounded by the their pants. down. They unex- While pounds have poured out to Bering Stralt on the West and by pectedry proved that war in the fortify Newfoundland — already Canada's Yukon on the East. Arctle by air forces and by small protected by three thousand miles From it the long tall of the rocky ground units is prz
practicable..
Atlantic Ocean pence have storm swept Aleutian Islands Timy showed that surprise dir- been denied to Alaska. lying only stretches out across the Northern borne attacke could, overwhelm fifty-five miles from Russia. edge of the Pacific Ocean.
small garrisons like those which Now Alaska's central city, now guard the big American air- Fairbanks, can be reached from
felds, while counter-attacks the outside world only by the against prepared positions are less Alaskan Military, Highway, snake succossial. irig freeh hundred
miles
This led General Eisenhower to through virgin forest and round
demand ar top priority that one towering snow-capped peaks Infantry battalion, plus antiair- from Dawson Creek in Canada craft artillery, should be stationed, or by the Alaska Raliway from, permanently on at least Alnsita'a Port Seward.
Alaska. three biggest airfields near Fair- Alaska, soon to became the banks and Anchorage. forty-ninth State of the nerican
Canada's" scored ice" policy of increased by Pravda's prediction Uulon, was bought from Russia | Azetic defence was "finally de- that raldsson the Northland for £2,000,000. It has a popula- | Eunked by these manoeuvres-but would delay any overseas fion of 18,000 Red Indians and the still plans to defend the Arctic expeditionary forces, nomadic Eskimos and native by counter-attack, relying on her Meanwhile, Russia' has built a Leuts, while 50,000 whites huddle one airborne, brighde * of 1,000 | railing and roads leading up to In its few overcrowded settle troops topraop up any small raids the Boring Strait and the has inents of wooden homes.
and on her big powerful southern Į beon quisily, stockpiling patrol Its coast-ling
unfertifled..neighbour to deal with larger and suppiles at her air büises on and its many airfelds arqattacks.
the Tchukotski Peninsula, just 58 defended by only 3,000 troops. How to counter-attack in the miles from Alaska,›
In a war against any other Arctic is what the Americans coll cuemy, Alaska would-be strate=| the sixty-four dollar question. pically unimportant-but against The one military highway could
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Risala it would become a ust carry powerful military bitterly fought for prize, Ita columns. The single-track tafi- airfields, Including three of the largest in the world, would be would crack up, under heavy key bases for long-range bander nitacks on Russia -- though, lass teeful than Acids in England, Japan or the Middle East. But If they fell into Rimalen hands they would be doggers pointed at -the heart of this continent,
Ameriqa bases on the coast line and along the Aleutian could, neutralise Russia's tre
An airlift would be the baly rellable supply Uno.: But para- troopers must be dropped some distance from their target so that they can multor for the attack. And, as Conada learned in, her manoeuvres fo that densely wooded country, paratroopers are apt to be left fi
hanging in the
modern naval bass at". Pétropave. Alaska and the Yukon are lands lovak on the Kamchatka Pénin- mula. Whoever holds this coast: line commands "the sea lane sions the US, would reinforce
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In World War 11 Japan rocogne ised their importance and rolled i
to dy over rather than to walk or drivo over." In winter mechanised collumos get bogged in the frea- Chérum much lep on waterways Even skips gola fufe halted by the wallt-doen powder snow, and
1 MIG, FORTYll”, a SK-Klondik judge's corpse on his dogsted, was the first man to mush behind him huckier over Alaska's unmapped
PRODS OF TEN ZUigutian Létants in the heartland. In the 60 yours alnos
Canadians are sensitive about. the risk of Russian raids ncross the Arctic. This was vididly shown to-day when a privately- owned Flying Fortress landed here to refuel Immediately, the rumour spread like wildaro that squadrons, of American heavy bombers from Berlin · WEN passing through to reinforce
This nervousness has been
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