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· MEMORY OF FRENCH PARATROOPERSK
**THE” CHINA MAIL, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1950.-
THE MAN WHO CREATEDBILLT BUNTER
THE UMBRELLA BOYS CREATES A NEW CHARACTER AT 75
FIGHT OFF 1,200
From JOHN SHAW: With the French Foreign Legion in Indo-China
THE Umbrella Army came proudly back from the war today--60 men who fought 1,200 and lived. From the slit loopholes of a whitewashed Beau Geste fort they fired to the last bullet. They killed 300 Red rebels. Then, after six days of battle, they slipped away through the jungle night to safety.
The fort is on the border between Red China and French Indo-Chins.
And the Umbrella Army of Indo-Chinese troops in help ing the French against the Com- munist insurgents,
AREA CONTROLLED
MILES
100
COMMUNIST CHINA
FOREIGN LEGION IN BATTLE FOR FORT
Linchow
BY REBELS
д
VIỆT NAM
TONKING
HANOI
Gulf of
Tonking?
FR. IND. CHINA
Umbrellas? The name comes from- the parasols the troops uned to keep their ammunition dry when they fought o underground unit against the Japanese.
But now their commander, Nung Trid Eeman, interprets it as a symbol of protection which his men try to give against the
new enemy.
ardared to hold the
was
French Foreign Legion troops relleved them.
LOVE REBEL
LAOS
Reds
rebel
Charles Hamilton, alias Frank Richards, with his cot Sammy.
the
Malaya agente day 'to buy back
THE RUBBER.
WAR FLARES UP
New York, Agents for Borno of Malaya's biggest rubber- dealers are making des perate efforts to buy rubber -in New York.
They are offering attractive - premiums to get control of contracts on rubber which has inol yol loft Singapore, but. which some months ago they themselves contracted to deliver here next month.
Bocause the would-be buyers are belloved here to be acting for merchants in Singapore who are sympathelle to Chinese Communists, they are not bay-- ing much suOCESS.
NO SECRET
American merchants aro re- tusing to sell and make secret of their opinion that any rubber so obtained will and `lis way either to China or h Russia
Behind the curious paradox
The Umbrella Army
Sixty Legionnaires, with 300 garions-le confident that it can fort-ut
of Malaya bidding for rubber Thanpoun, s river port-until fresh Umbrella men, set out to hold out against strong
retake the fort.
At 75, Charles Hamilton has Hamilton writes
Billy here in the sensational zoom is. forces massing in the mountains created a new character called Bunter a host of black around this north-eastern corners of All Trades, Who is name Frank Richards. He also break of the Korean war, and
stories under The rebels,
pen-prices which followed the out- clad figures, lined a ride, and of Indo-China.
Hamilton7 He is the creator used the names Martin Clifford the
ing of America's JO- opened up with beavier machine
mortars guns and
thian
But the the
armament programme. grow more of those perennial schoolboys and Owen Conquest. French had.
daring every day, A dynamite Billy Bunter, Tom Merry and
reaching Now the Far East that The French commander, blue squad blew a hole in the police Harry Wharton.
yearly output of Moscow trade missions or un- eyed, golden-haired Captain post on the French side of the
than Bunter," kept up a "Better stuff Charles Gaffsen, who stands international bridge to Chinp. says, Hamilton of Jack of All 1,500,000 words for 30 years.der-cover agents there are of
Another force shelters in China Trades.
He earned £2,500 a year. The fering gold roubles for all the 5ft 1in,, in bis jaunty side cap
war, and paper Tationing, rubber they can get. of Robin Hood green, ignored by day and at night crosses the Jack be a rolling stone gather
stop. the bullets
WILD BIDDING and machine-ing little moss. Hamilton plans brought this to and planned his river to mortor
gun the outskirts of Moncay. to make him attack.
with The Reds attacked mortars. Then they crawled up with firebrands and tried to set alight the fort's spiked bamboo ¡palisade.
them rebel
The garrison blasted with grenaden. A lone scaled the six-foot spikes.
Ile and dropped inside WBS shot, with his American tommygun--
by the one of many captured Communista in the war with Nationalist China.
Food and bullets in the fort ran low. The garrison Bashed a signal to the harbourmaster, and he set off by sampan to warn the French at Moncay, 10 miles
the Caflong River.
down
The Foreign Legion hurried aut. I went with them. We found the Umbrella Army sleeping in the shade of road-side bushes where they dropped with fatigue after bursting through the Red lines.
They wore brown-and-grey tunics and blua trousers, with berets and sun-helmets or just towels on their heads. Some were barefoot. They had brought wounded on Iltters out four made from green leaves lashed to poles.
THEN SLEEP The gallant garrison woke up showed its trophies the and tommygun belonging to the Red
scaled the pallisode. who galaxy of pistols and stick-type grenades. Then the men ate, and went to sleep again.
д
1
OF
mary
Reports ALKO Until the war Hamilton had York from
Now, for is busy again.
ncar
his house at
Hamilton's
{London Express Service)
follow His men squatted around in
I counted 40 mortar bursts intrades in many lands. "He wil Broadstairs, floppy wide-brimmed
always come up smiling hour. They caused few another round." Canvas hats steel helmets are not worn casualties. But 1,000 women and in this campaign. Then the children-families of people Legionnaires and Umbrella men working for the Foreign Legion tried to move forward. They were driven back.
MORE DARING
Fresh rebel forces poled across the river from Ching on bamboo rafts and attacked our right flank,
more
hills-
A few minutes. Inter Reds swarmed over the on the left. We faced encircle- ment.
The Umbrella men came back down a valley to avoid the trap. The Legionnaires stood firm.
years
have been evacuated by the French Navy.
And many others are fleeing in sailing junks and motor- boats to more strongly defended ports.
-(London Express Service)
There are stories of wild bid- pending between American and Russian buyers in Asia in a virtual outbreak of warfare. Last
'Brolly' Once Led Guards To Battle
Keen historians have just observed that this year marks the bi-centenary in Britain of the
economic
April American middle- men wishing to buy for the Do- cember delivery could get all the rubber they wanted for 18 cents 4 Ib. Now December futures have been quoted
more than 77 cents.
ot
In spot rubber the Glory i the same. On June 1 the Now York price was 32 cents.
cently it touched 86.
'HIGHLY SUSPICIOUS'
Rc-
Of the 78,000 tons of crude
rubber exported from Malaya.
Toys On The modern umbrella-the sort carried by men and last June only 4,148 tons went
Secret
List
used primarily to keep off the rain.
Women, however, had ing it as a sunshade descended the Romans to the used feather parasols long through before, and
to Russia and 498 to Poland, Czechoslovakia and China com-
bined.
In July Russia's purchases almost trebled to 12,175 tons. Shipments to her satellites rose- to 1,055 tons. Hongkong in August took 6,642 sons against 3.522 in June.
Captain But Anally young Geffaen-nicknamed Boy Napo- leon by his men because at 3z he looks
at least ten
White Britain's little boya and
even a crude, Italians and the French younger-gave orders to retreat. We go away before the pincers girls are wondering what toys clumsy type of umbrella, but“ this Christmas will bring them, men in Britain had always closed.
"We'll try again tomorrow," British manufacturers are disdained the use of the sntd the little captain.
thinking of toys for Christmas The Foreign Legion--a tough | next year. These will be on brolly until the eighteenth
composed mostly bunch
Hun-fair, which will open at Harro-way, the famous eastern aged five to 13 are competing in
of show at the world's biggest toy century, when John Han-
Thousands of British children]vice. Germons, Czectis, and
cate on January 0.
traveller, first unfurled one an international drawing com-
A British Crossword Puzzle
22
25
127
ACROSS
8 Building 8 Devastation 0 Recommend 11 Bring about 13 Bondman 15 Retallation
18 Unmarried
19 Cattle thed
21. Go-between
25 Examined thoroughly
26 Branch
27 Weakening
1 Press
2. Circle
26
DOWN
Discourteous
5 Tie up
6 Bland
7 Bundlo
9 Caper
10 That may be bought
12 Necessitous
14 Proportion
16 Cut apart
17 Black and blue
10.Mix
20 Drive back
21 Ditch
22 Clerie
23 Thy
24 Gem
F4
15
THURSDAY'S CROSSWORD—Acrops; 1 Rubber, 4 Roast,
Umpirea, 13 Matinee, 7 Gigantle, 8 Oboes, 9 Legen, 11 Lanted, 18 Ruler, 10 Singular, 20 Fugia, 21 Exposo, Down: 1 Regal, 2 Brus, 3 Ratinue, & Recoup, 9 Autocrat, & Thesiz, 10 Settling, 12 Melange, 13 Murder, 14 Nursed, 16 Stamp, 17 Dirge.
FERDINAND
Switching His Tune
show
Vie For Trip To Sphinx
petition.
The
This is highly suspicious," summed up one top New York buyer. "I just fan't whole- some."-London
Express Ser-
Big Three To
glimpse at some of the toys mincing Frenchman," Hackney Egypt is the first prize, End "War"
new fashion, as wat weather country in the world With Germany
its
its Characteristic inhabitants, Ita
The latest novelties will re-in London streets. main rigidly on the secret list It nearly caused a riot.
An air trip to the Sphinx, the until the
opens, but mob jeered that he was "a Pyramids and other sights of
Entries are invited by the or being made shows that they coachmen and chairmen refused aro becoming
Hanway ganisers, Cairo's Society of the more lifelice at any time to carry than ever.
and his few followers of this Friends of Art. from every
The new dolls, with soft, fesh- favoured their trade.
Suggested subject is Your like plastic skins that can be Hanway was impervious to country, bathed and powdered, can walk, ridicule
the features, and soon talk, sing, sleep, cry real tears, macaronis,”
fashionable landscape. take liquid from "bottles and playboys of the day, copied him, blow bubbles.
though their umbrellas WITH 08 absurdly Pedal motor cars have head-still regarded lamps and tail-lights that light effeminate by the average man. up, and radios", which are Gradually, however, the um-eyed stamp collectors to bom- morebard the US. Post Office with really built-in musical boxes, in brella, by now a little the dashboards.
appearance, queries, Next year's masculine Easter eggs will include some gradually caught on until tottay that talk-you turn a handile it is part of the equipment of and the egg recites "Humpty the well-dressed mon.
and other
nursery
Dumpty" rhymes.
Overseas buyers are coming
FIRST TO USE
Left-Handed?
Washington, Dec. 7.
State Department officials said today that legislation to end the stote of war between Germany und the United States would be introduced in Congress shortly This stamp is causing keen-after the new desalon convenes
January
It reached Scotland through the medical profession. First to use one in Edinburgh was Dr to the fair from all parts of Spens In Glasgow,
Surgeon the world.
John JamesTI first carried a clumsy affair mado of heavy waxcloth with cane ribs.
Towards the end of the 18th century gamps were so popular with men that many officers in
Further, he is not giving the Wellington's army actually led regulation three fingered their troops into battle flourish- salute.
WALKING-OUT
DRESS
Why, they ask, is the Boy Scout saluting with his left hand?
In
Officials said present planer
were for Britain, France and
other ·KOVOITU possibly mime
ments to annames an end to the state of war simultaneously with presentation of this pro posed legislation to here.
This was because British and French governments having different constitutional processeu from the United States, weze 'not required to submit the proposal for legiala- tive approval in advance.
It was regarded as more mult- able for these governments to announce their action at the time the United States presents the question to Congress than
ing them instead of swords. The US Post Office's reply for them to wait until American A picturesque feature of the History recorda that General walking-out dress approved for Picton led the Grenadier Guards simple: "He is not saluting action was completed United
jat all. Just shading his eyes."Press. the Royal Air Force Regiment into action against Napoleon's (Malaya) in a sarong of light army in full formal costume of blue interwoven cloth, with afrock coat, silk hat and um.
vertical panel, worn to the rear, brella. The Guards won, but SIDE GLANCES
in the Royal Air Force colours of Wellington banished the
light blue and dark brella as a military
maroon,
blue,
soon afterwards.
um-
"weapon"
he was an un-
The sarong, 30 inches deep, When the Iron Duke later is worn from the waist to a entered political fo little below the knees over white always seen carrying poplin long trousers rande in the brella. It was not until after Malay style. The walking-out his death that his brolly was dress is completed by a white found to be a swordstick, poplin shirt in Malay style and
The umbrella in some form or n blue-black velvet Malay cap, another
several dates back known as a songkok, on the thousand years. It was used by front of which is worn the RAF the women of ancient Greeço as airman's badge,
an article of adornment and in Ultimately it is intended that Perala, China and Indin as an the shirt and trousers shall be emblem of power and authority. made of allk, but the present In Italy men of fashion carried cost of the material makes this a brolly on horseback, resting Impracticable
tho for
time the handle against the thigh as they rode. The custom of us.
being.
By Mik
By Galbraith