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WESTERN
Over the glass of aperitif they tell you in France? "The Russians? They could be in Brest in three days."
As they cut into the tender lunch-time chop and call for some more pommes frites they say,
DEFENCE
By Stephen Coulter
constant
Good Wi
"Keelung becomes'd
s dance pa
Many Nationalists, woni
"And the Communists behind the armoured and three are infantry. sages for wives and children to Muraudes Martins and Mitchells. how the cat is going tɔ Jump,
U.S. Glenn be about as effective become Jilters bugs.
more men.
:
are 28
with Bight,
repair. Frightens (apart from the Van- pires and Ouragans) are old pro-} France has about_310,000 sol- bonuses for men staying on be Thunderbolts, Mustangs and Mark peller machines like King Cobras, Austria., There are roughly five Married quarters for French diers at home, in Germany and yond their legal engagement. divisions in France and three in soldiers (Regulars or otherwise)
Spitores, all well worn. Germany;
two divisions are are unheard of. State-pald pas- are British Halifaxes, Wellingtons, of Taiwan."
France's only bombing aircraft lines
everywhere."
In Indo-China there are 148,500 garrisons abroad do not exist. Then, if you can keep the talk
Mosqulies and a tow 24364 from the more consoling joys of more soldiers, including the best
holidays or fishing, they look at French Army.
ancers, NCOs and men in the months only
French conscripts serve for 12 These
which with leave, in combat against jets as good you with
with dreadful anxiety,
enrolment and And
discharge time will they ask: "Is it going to
against a charging rhino- be
means 11 months with the forces. ectos, No French airfield, as at Liberation aga
In other French overseas ter- Eleven months gives no time to present equipped, could adequate- again?" To raise the ritories are some only cheers heard
43 thousand train conscripts properly.
New York potice subject of defence, Ministers have world-wide total is in the region creuse their 12 months' service.
heard here on the
So that the grand
ly service a Superfortress. The French say they cannot in-
scores of known hoodlums. to keep on
So We'll re- of
for all members of 602,000 And, sist. Invasioning "No.
Only a small number of France's Soviet delegation en, including,
One major difficulty is lack of 60,000 that, the course, conscripts,
alrmen cheers
NCOs and quavering
and -ufflecTS. Another
efficiently mysteriously escaped the roun All news contributions to be
The
But, outside
trained in raday. tragedy of the French in tion, there are for the iminedinte ment.
general mobilisa- lack of modern military equip addressed to Editor-in-Chief. the tremendous world situation defence of France and Western Army NCOs have declined to re- 59,000) is hardly the mighty tower
Hundreds of Advertisements
Regular The French Navy (total men and
Dualness of the moment is that of a nation Europe's frontlers only communications should be ad-spiritually and physically exhaus-soldiers plus 52,000 gendarmes potential officers are choosing the The only serviceable aircraft car- knew
310,000 new their engagements. dressed to the Company CHINA ted by ruinous wars and occupa- who are equipped with rifles and army as a career.
Someone is advertising t Fewer of strength that it was in 1930. Chrysler for sale at HK$1,34 MAIL LTD.
tion. So far are they in vigour
rier (the Arromanches) was lent couldn't lust for ever.
these Inflationary pr from the French
bicycles. That is some 30,000 of 1014 that! RY
Some French Air Force recruits by Britain. comparison is academic.
men less than the present British are still training on machines Army.
which were out of date during the There is not a
territorial
The battleship Jean Bart (be- sol- inst dier in France.
last war machines like the gun before 1039) (Unlike Britain, Stampe (ex-Italian Arado), the completed: the
is now being and our old-battleship, the Richelleu, is a fine of part-time soldiers.) There is friend the
other last-war not an air raid warden. There is The French Air Force is still using fleet.
nitt 108. ship. But France has no reserve not a special constable. There is some houry old-Dewoitine 520s not an auxiliary fireman. There and former German Junkers 628.
ECONOMIC
POLICY
ure a little
at
"Hideous gaps"
men,
of
France does not possess battallons Morane ersteren mitt
of
is not a woman territorial. There Tically army reservists is
No chief of staff
General de Gaulle has also pointed out that there is no Chief of the French General Stall who would be responsible for general mobilisation.
calls
Every your France officially
worn.
Building
ore
•
They told Clarence he was on his goloshes. wet, so he went home and
"Cincinnati admits two negroes." Thero was no bar.
bar
Motley fleet France has about 500 medium schnorkel" submarines. does not of long distance and light tanks,
American, i all at least six years old and well progress and the anti-submarine,
patrol and minesweeping fleet is Hm. New tanks are slowly ar- riving from America, but then agglomeration of what France "The vicar admitted he French have not yet begun big-has been able to beg or borrow from Britain and America, or to scole production of their tanks, although one 50-ton model capture from Italy or Germany.
designed.
So far there is no sign of any contrast the French have industrial mobilisation in France
is
arc
→
own
French widows put in his s like to have a couple of
•
in
Embittered types in W and the Valley claim that electricity company is a public futility.
"Government departments fought too prone to dwell on the pe little Particularly the Inland Reve
Department.
IN CHINA
The awful urgency to close A recent lengthy review by what Mr. Churchill has called Vice-Premier Chen Yun of stirs hardly a
the "hideous gap" in our defences of ardour China's economic situation among most of the population..
ripple naturally stressed the con-
It may
arouse apprehension. is not an air cadet. Air raid shci- quest of inflation and the
But it is doubtful if at this mo- ters are non-existent. ment the French stabilisation of currency and could raise adequate numbers of Government volunteers prices. The Draconian mea-
to man a first-class
let alone system, sures to which the authori- civil defence
part-time ties resorted in bringing this time territorial army. And make no mistake, the French about were not authorised in Government is not appealing for the economic clauses of the such volunteers.
Yet the dramatle fact is that Common Programme. This
most Frenchmen know that in provided that the
up about 100,000 men for developed some fine anti-aircraft as understood, for example, State terms of modern war France is should co-ordinate and regu- practically defenceless. Widely compulsory -military service. weapons and light guns and are Britain. late five different kinds of
it is judged preferable not to Two-thirds of this number ac- working on a bazooka which, It is For all this do not blame the mention it.
tually serve with economy. It did not provide
the armed promised, will be the best in the French. Rather try to understand I know of one of the greatest forces; the rest are exempted for world.
the for the drastic centralisation newspapers in the country which one reason or another. Volun-
In five years it is hoped to have moral and physical, of the two pillage, ruin, devastation, of finance and economy refrained from publishing a re- teers for the Army amount to 2,000 modern war planes if the
credits
greatest wars in history voted. At present over their land. Given view of the state of the Air Force about 20,000 a year. which came about in March
No volunteer is accepted for France's total strength in really time--and a galvanising national after a national conference,
and the Navy because the figures) were "too depressing.'
nore than five years at a time, up-to-date planes is 80 British-leader-they will change this whose resolutions varied. Not long uga there were many are colonial troops, and a made Vampire jets and 15 Oura-combre present picture, for they and were superimposed up-rumours of talks among high off-great part sign on only for 18 gan (all-French) jets.
are a great people.
Meray business altogether. on, the Common Programme
And more and more those who "With The pay
an effort the wo Aircraft
watch them are beginning to pulled herself together. But having established what fully I tried to confirm this, off-France is six francs a day. It is
think that, with all his faults, stopped crying and dried is not far short of an everywhere covered up furch teers get a little more than this French Air Force, about 1500 dynamic spirit of the French is
not likely to be raised. Volun- Of the 3,200 aircraft of the perhaps the man to rekindle the cars.".. omic miracle, the Govern-
Such things
sum hush-hush. Mustn't frighten, niggardly ment did set out to revive
are planes are capable of continuous General Charles de Gaulle. people. And think what a row the stricken industry and en- the Communists would make terprise on the new basis, along the lines laid down in the Common Programme.
This was emphasised by Mr. Chen Yun, in a striking peroration.
The possibility of accomplishing great crea- tive work, he contended, had been revealed. On the other hand it had to be realised that China's social economy is complicated.
an
about civil defence. When Joy- cials on Some possible action months.
ously.
100
had interviewed pilots engaged in Recently a French reporter who
the Western Union air defence exercise "Cupola" rang me up. "It has shown up fearful gaps yet tomorrow I must write say Ing the whole thing's been a great' success."
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Acquitted
of a
conscript In,
and there
This
youth beat the iron curtain
last
"I am o rebel," Sotirion- you are swered, puzzled at the police-
man's behaviour,
The uranium finds in Austr seem very promising.
This should bring an atom comfort to their defence chief
•
Another chap has been revij
after his heart stopped.
Can you beat it?
骝
•
Eighteen thousand Greek] sumption of our action. The he found it was a police outpost,
No, Myrtle, Socrates did Communist guerillas who fled People are starving and there are with all its guards asleep.
die from an overdose of wedlo Recently, too, a Lyons military
strikes every day. You are to He woke up one of the guards. court gave its verdict on 18 Com-to Cominform countries after go to Greece and prepare this
# "I want to surrender," ho Others will follow you. gasped inquired the police hostesses seldom are.. munist agitators who had tried to their defeat by the British action.
Have you noticed? Pl lead a mob to sabotage a trainload { trained
I must warn you not to Greek Army
speak Why "We are rising in an era of
There man, yawning. of arms going to the French Army year are still a constant threat Greek here in Warsaw. Agater the
Communist rebels into their home country.
are foreign Embassies here who the joint dictatorship of the
Indochina. The verdict was
must not know that fuur democratic classes un-complete acquittalis background not abandoned or even delayed
Proof that the Cominform has Greeks." der the leadership of the working-class,
gainst
Supplied with 500 gold so- an era in
its plans for a which five kinds of economy France. The French Army is less aggression against Greece
examine the defensive strength of
renewed armed vereigns, food for their journey, "You foolish fellow"
was new army watches, Polish uni- exist simultaneously. All numerous then the Spanish Army. given a few weeks ago in the forms and Russian
"Oh, go away, you foolish automatic measures taken in the dnan- It is less efficient, less well-equip form of 20 Greek Communist rilles and
wireless sets,
the fellow," said the other. Then he cinl and economic fields must ped, less well-trained than the agents, despatched from Poland
saw Sotiri's automatic rifle. Ho be car
carried out under the army of the Swiss.
with orders to set up an under-
sprang to his feet and said: leadership of the State-
All right." network ground
to prepare for owned Socialist sector of the
the
invasion. to facilitate enemy to
tra-Those who know the abject centra-
Although watch on the borders lised
planning, taking into fulility of so many of China's has not relaxed for a moment, account both public
and so-called Governments since had it not been for 19-year-old private interests, and Png out division and co-ordin- the downfall of the Dynasty this band through deep mountain Sotiri Zannis the Infiltration or ation of labour. The leader acknowledge the exceptional gorges across the Greeks-Albanian group -set-off-to-Gdynia, the ship of the State-owned capacity for action so far frontier would not have been Polish port. economy must be recognised. This is an unshakable prin. shown, not only in this basic
Botir Zannis, a shy-looking Vassilaras and Moreover, the four issue but also in the hand- clple. other kinds
from a frouller village in charge, Lefteris. of economy, ling of the flood and famine Northern Greece, was a member namely, national capitalist crises.
of the band. When, a few years
Trip on cargo ship economy Jointly operated by
new
known,
the
boy
the
By Michael Manning
command
Next morning they went out and found Lefteris' body, which had been pilfered by the band of Communist agents. There was no watch; no rille; and no gold i sovercigns.
A priest was called, and Lef They were under been found arrived in Athens was burled where he had When
of "Brigadier " his second
in
terls
there was good news waiting for him. He was to be pardoned be cause he had killed his chief and the State and private per- The extreme Marxists will, ago, he was approached by Com- They boarded a Polish cargo given valuable information to the Better news for Sotiri sons, co-operative economy of course, strive by devious munist fellow villagers and was ship on her maiden voyage to the Army.
told that the people should go to Adriatic with a load of timber for was that Lefteris had 2500 on. of a semi-Socialist nature, ways to break down this five-
fight against the Egypt. mountains to
Eleven days later they private capitalist
his head, and he, Sotirl, was to economy, and the individual economy
class system as soon as they economic oligarchy of Athens" reached Durazzo in Albania. get the price.
the for a of the peasants and small have recovered from
They changed their Russian better future, Sotiri be-
But he is still very worried. lleved
He was then no automatics for old Italian and
int Sotiri's 55-year-old father Was handlcraftsmen, must be en-shock of the summer's
more than
than 16 years old.
German machine-guns and two abducted by the guerillas last abled to play their respec- | economic paralysis. There Zannis joined the rebel army British Bren guns. "You will year and is now in Czecho- tive parts.
Crude or one-is, however, a chance that and, when they were routed en flad ammunition for them quite slovakia. sided methods of wark in
Greece," Sotiri Was violation of these principles the Chinese instinct for com- the mountains of Grammos and will not work.
We just pro-mon-sense and compromise
year, he was one of told. those who escaped into neigh At night they were driven ceed with our
Communist countries, down to the Greek-Albanian bor-
them of
them.
easily in Vitsi last
work step rather than for the absolute bouring seven thousand guer, der, then went by foot up Mount
by step, according to Chair-letter of the law may pre- mun Mao Tse-tung's directive
course.
velopment.
wounded and unit for wat, were ke, which is astrido the|
now.
on
кауз
Their guide, an Al- officer, told them
that they could easily cross the border nd escape the attention of Greek through the gorges. A few hours army outposts if they went after midnight they were on Greek soll.
Orders from Warsaw were to avold contact with the " enemy," but if one of the band were
kill him so that their mission should not be betrayed.
They
of pregressing steadily.” vail. Certainly the economic illas, nearly 10,000 People are now saying, moderates are on top at present to almost all the Iron Cur- bur claimed Mr. Chen Yun, that sent. The Peking Premier, tain countries. Sotiri went to the People's Government is Mr. Chou En-lai, was quite Albania and then to Poland.
efficient, Government. pointed in his warnings to countries to see for myself what I had not visited those They wondered how such a the chastened extremists they meant by Communism, I measure as centralised con- when he made his recent re- would still believe the Comunist trol over currency could be view of developments.、 Parly fairy tales," Sotiri put into effect merely by Since the national bourge- issuing an order." There was oisie plays an important part Red system "Norma" heavily wounded, the rest were to more to it than that, of in China at the present stage, And if it be true; he said, it is also in the in-
In Poland, tho Party sont "I was always thinking of a that the people are murmur- terest of the working-class to Sotiri to work on the land. way to escape from them and ing with approval now, they unite the national bourge Tiere were many fommer guer-surrender to the Army," satiri were muttering almost inoisie so as to enable them to rillas with him and they worked said. After a few hours of mar-
and de black despair during the play, an active part in econ- co-operative basis. Accord- ching they sat on a
ing to a Communist system) elded on their period after the centralisationomic rehabilitation and de- called Norma," the more
worked the more food
agreed to you
to march one behind the order, when the red-hot
you were
yards apart Communists and small men
Henceforth the adjusting of given. But the food was nece other, 30 or 40
Brigadier" Vasallaras vent in the relationships between the enough to live on. To have a
front.
ent. Lefteris, the second in simply "on the make," tried various democratic classes will square meal meat was a rarity command, was the rearguard. to oust even the small retailer remain an Important task for seven or eight carts had to be Sotirl was the last but one.
loaded. and every vestige-of private the people's
Sotiri could never load "It was very dark and I deci enterprise. The
front report
the directivo more than four.
ded to escape after killing Lefter- unity and Disgusted with these conditions is," he explains. "While the speaks, with typical Com-
with non-Party of life, Sotiri set to work on a others were in freni I slowed up, munist condonation, of "mis- mombers - Issued by
Wis
the plan of escape.
But Poland until Lefteris and I were more Central takes and shortcomings"
Committee the was so far away from any civi- than 80 yards from the others.
he complains, sat on Chinese Communist Party, and lised country,"
rock and U among the officials. What
stooped as after the movement for im- Then one day he had the big though I wore tylag my boot- the words mean are rapacity proving the style of work is chance of his life the Party laces. Lefteris joined me, and and terrorisation.
developed, such co-operation asked for volunteers for under gave me a kick.
be further improved. But ground work in Greece. Sotiri
Are you
You med?
he deman- on this occasion, a closed door Joined up immediately and was ded. Go on 12: attitude remains the chief rent to Warsaw to
"But I said to him; Move 10 report to deviation of
„number of Party offices.
along will join you in a Communist Party
There he was led to General minute. members, which must be headed, and Vlandas,commander of the
As soon as he had walked overcome, in order to consoll-Greek Democratie Army." On four or five yards I raised
the various the third floor of a building with gun and ared. He dropped deach unity between the democratic, parties and groups closed. windows, Vlandas nd- Bottel ran for his life. and non-party democrats. At dressed Sotiri and 15 other for- heard shots fired at him, accom- the same time we must guard mer guerillas.
panied by curses. But he ran for against the tendency of yielding Ho aald: "Conditions in nearly half an hour, Thon he on matters of principlej
Greece sro :,new ripe for a res i saw a light. When be reached it.
But let it be said to the credit of the People's Gov- crnment that they back- tracked in time to prevent a complete collapse, and soon got things going again. The two
moves together have created hope out of despair, and constitute by any stand- ard an astonishing feat.
so-oneraltatie, united
for
dato
of
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