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1931.
MOUNTBATTEN
LIGHT ON THE
Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten visiting the Malayan Victory Contingent in camp in Kensington Gardens in 1946.
THE LONDON · THEATRE :
T
THROWS
BURMA
*
By Peter Lovegrove
WEE a com-
FRESH WAR
on the
•paved
runways,
1,300
over the
Some of the feats the Sappers accomplished were: construc“ tion of the main base for the Eastern Fleet in Ceylon; 400 river craft and 540 assault bonts; some 2,400 miles of all-weather scrub typhur and be conducted just as vigorously roads, a distance as far as from HAT the liberation_of_malaria,
-during-the- -топкоп. "mantha Lisbon to Leningrad, overter-. Burma Was the dysentery.
The campaign presented ex- as in the dry weather and in rain varying from the Arakan greatest triumph of amples
most unhealthy areas of swamps, with an average of of almost every type the
moro than one bridge per mile endurance, heroism of battle which can take pla e Southeast Asia,
There
Prior to 1944, the monsoon of road excluding culverts, to and organisation of all the in war.
been
regarded command had
by both the Chin Hills, so steep that it plicated chain of World War Two campaigns which prevented the Supreme Allies and Japanese as a close was at times impossible to cut a
as it was considered
road red two-way can be better appreciated by Allied Commander from being senton
side in his own that the drain on resources slopes, and two one-way, roads public opinion now that the complete last official despatches have house." There were increasing could place the side which at had to be built instead; 407 air-
dimculties with Generalissimo tempted them at a grave dia felda with appeared, and the problems, Chiang Kai-shelt over the en- advantage. And the Jungles of parking aprons, hard standings
ATO infested with difficulties and achievements ployment of his Chinese troops, Burma
and taxi iracks; over com- malarial mosquitoes, were eventually
scrub milltary bridges, Including of the various theatres of which
typhus mites, and the bacteria
4,000 foot suspension bridge amoebac Of war can be seen in a clearer pletely withdrawn.
At the same time, the Com- and
dysentery, over the Shewall, and a 1.164 mand was perspective.
low in the scale of Between them, these presented
Bridge Balloy priorities in relation-to-other-as redoubtable_an_cacy as
themselves; The Invasion was undertaken theatres, and much-needed re- Japanese
over 3,700 miles of off equipment earlier "against the grain" of precipi inforcements and
of morale in breakdown
pipelines-not to campaign had tous mountain ranges 4,000 lo
10 particularly landing-craft, were
be and hospital by the fear of 12,000
intersected constantly being diverted else aggravated feet high.
all the base constructions. succumbing to these dis where.
diseases sumption deep by fast rivers running in
of engineer through valleys and generally covered
lastly, the
overcrowded And,
aver 60,000. tons per averaged with
Inadequate medi- the most dense Jungle of the troops had been severely and often
month, excluding local material through country which
and finally centres, had shaken by a serious defeat in cal previously only been crossed Arakan in 1943; lines of com- turning to the fighting areas such as stone and timber,
woak- A physically by the most intrepid explorers, munication, reinforcement camps in and in the face of the torrential and administrative services had ened state. The situation in WIE SU grave that for and the ravages of been largely discrganised; and 1943
ORD Mountbatten, recalling impression that Southeast every man wounded there were Asla да
the anomalles and difficulties the "Forgotten 120 Rick Front" was widespread,
The formation of.a. Medical of his Allied Command_set-up, Advisory Division, composed makes some strong recommenda
about of experts in tropical medicine tions.
the need of a and hygiene from each Service Supreme Command in war. And and
In close he considers that, since the the US. in medical Commander's duties are difficult JOW the troops recovered touch with the Ho
YOU
in the free and complex, their fighting spirit-until in research
continuity of March 1945 they were confcient world, and a Medienl Intel- knowledge and experience should of defeating the once-imagined ilgence Section, and careful in- be maintained in peace, if the and patient re system is to function efficiently. "Invincible Jap" even when vestigation
the produced outnumbered by three or
best on the outbreak of war, and an fter search,
monsoon
Cochran Young Lady
Puts On'a
London, Feb. 15.
Young Lady - authoress and playwright Diana Mor- gan should have devised and written "Merely Players," the show which Equity put at Drury Lane in aid of half-a-dozen theatrical charities..
on
on
Show
cart. Some it is
By
RONALD ROPER
the
confidence passing
Advance on wings
centres
for the indwin--built-in-28-working-
feins were rafted, and the cam- Japs surprised
Enally
the
re-
mention living
Can..
stores
Anomalies
is to be speedily rebuilt. That this suggestion has not fallen on barren ground can no doubt be seen by the recent appointment beaten by of General Eisenhower.
The Quebec and Cairo Con-.
to the
to the
(b)
of the
generous as of players who performed. campaign a feasible proposition. important operational repercus. shek. This meant that General
an
On
offensives
oir
their
to one-how the supply, nd-medical treatment that could adequate Supreme Headquarters
inistrative and political prob. he devised. JOCESAN and dramatic 'elr-paign was brought to a brilliant to the D by 'no means confined
cles in York are getting conclusion, is told vividly in Vis- It was appropriate, when Beds.
The action, or lack of 11, is ready to present a contribution count Mountbatten's official re- MALARIA Was
port to the Combined Chiefs of mepacrine; the sulpha drugs the Stage was mourning the well interpreted by a compara- to the Festival of Britain With Staff (His Majesty's Stationery arrested a dysentery epidemic; ferences imposed on the Supreme
unknown Cochran, Lively Charles late Sir
expected, will rank Cochran critics think that Mr Gielgud Oberammergau in the memory Ofice, price 17/6), which has insecticides such as DDT and re- Commander of South-east Asla
Inst appeared,
the pellents
almost impossible organisa- to an former
were employed that #
would have strengthened the cf Britain's overseas visitors this at
General "Vinegar Joe" yoar.
In fact, as Dr J. S.. Purvtest readable of all similarly destroy mosquito, fly and other tion. His denuty was the US. authoritative accounts, well sup- Insect breeding grounds, while
who also held the diocesan archivist, points out, plied by maps, it deserves to be brilliant work in England pro- wh
public duced a vaccine
ray of (a) Commanding-General of while Oberammergau gives the read by n for larger
against scrab Forces in the Chi
to the typhus from the lungs of cution world a Passion play, York, by than that of the three services.
Much of what
in rats. By 1945, the happened
ratio of sick Burma-India Theatre (for reviving a series of its famous
well set may
the 14th century mystory plays, is Burma'
to wounded had been reduced 12 he was answerable
of U.S. Joint Chiefs for aiming to bring to life again a pattern
future military times, and 90 percent of the whole panorama of Bible stories. operations. Undoubtedly the malaria patients reported at for Lease-Lend
China; ned duty after three weeks' treat- The ancient guilds of York, most crucial lesson to be learned duty
Chinese Forces in SEAC; and (d) at one time numbering 00, origi and perfected was that of air ment.
Chief of Staff to Chiang Kal- But for their rule not to
produced 57
made the appeal by being less
57 plays by supply, which alone mad
dramatic resuite These
had attend the theatre in any with facetious humour and pur-
Stilwell owed allegiance
to circumstances Sunday, ple patches of dialogue: Perhaps
wheeled platforms
largely It was
through air sions. The Japanese had not
Trasters,
and us to fight Their Majesties would have a mare important complaint Pageant Groen, near the present transport on an unprecedented
through several
policies and requirements fre- am- railway station. that although the London
1: was the and uninterrupted scale
that expected
the monsoon and were taken by quently conflicted, four Church's way of presenting her Japanese put this one-night event on bassadors or ministers of
with the film and central European countries ac message, to
were surprise; they lacked
medical the people a level
in the blunted and broken up, and then precautions or elementary Other snags to see the Command perfor- cepted invitations
days when services wore variety
and they could be hygiene discipline, operations our own play, the theatre manager
was
pushed forward with increasing died in their many hundreds as Latin. The guilds co-operated only
Wüs this mances.
the NOW
only called upon to welcome
The fish-
they were forced to fight in the anomaly.. momentum. Included in the program their junior representatives. One in a practical way.
for
The American Kabaw Among the great feats of low-lying and swampy which the shipwrights built the me was a Cochran Revue guest blithely described himself mongers portrayed the Flood,
as the "Valley Air Force Command in Wash- ington retained control of (it could also have been as a very good friend of the Ark: the butchers enacted the supply were the maintenance of Valley, known one of the most
the
U.S. 20th Bomber spelt Review)
in the Command and American Air nostalgic Bulgarian Minister."
First night of "The Consul" Crucifixion; the mercers under the Chindits (often under close of Death" and
some 150 miles inside enemy world,
Transport Command, missions although with familiar songs and was notable for the success with took the most costly scene of range fire, and at a distance of highly malarial places all the Last Judgment.
territory)
for approximately No less striking was the use both had to fly their -brought right up to date which the technique of opera
be
the three
supply months;
p of air transport for the evacua- In with "This Is My Lovely can
divisions unusual demands of colloquial DEALISM was the result," of ave
the lion of casualties, Whereas i frem about two "Bless
battle casualty was Imphal from Day"
"The the dialogue, and for throwing up, says Dr Purvis.
two 1942, mon- sometimes months
involved (partly during Bride," which Lizbeth Webb almost overnight, a new star in
scourging and eruclixion scence mon
weather);
flying
changes of the person of Patricia Noway.
transport arrived from Sheffield just
occasion are too realistic for us today. 60on was also a in time to sing.
to base for the young Italian-American But this summer, for the first out of 30,000 wounded-during-journey-of-five in six days
front-line - Cala Menouil, time in modern days, the role the seige of Imphal; and the composer, Gian. who, bowing from the stage of Jesus Christ will be filled in major proportion of the supply thanks to the air factor THER Cochran stars to ap towards the Oliviers' box,
the Fourteenth Army during its
advance from reach pear were Jessie Matthews, clared: "I am hysterically proud an annoymous actor.
a base hospital soven Supreme Commander of orders Laye and Evelyn
such a Roy of being presented by
the realism of the past has spectacular
hours after becoming a casualty to forces operating within his Eric Portman great Royston,
artist." The ovation to be toned down, some very Imphal to Rangoon.
and having had attention from theatre. Lastly, even the opera by enhanced was stupen- human touches.
station and medical tonal boundaries partnered Margaret Rawlings in Menotti received
dressing
of the three "The Barretts of
He is said to have written Yorkshire dialect, remain Wimpole dous.
centre on his way,
Services and their Allies did not Street: Stan Holloway recalled
way recalled the opera after seeing an Italian one scene Christ orders the de-
entirely coincide. Barrie's woman turned back on the mons to "Oppen oop!" And the Co-optimists; even
writes Lord all this," "T "Admiral Crichton" was revived boat at New York because she Pilate, on the judgment seat, is N
Mountbatten, "It is barely brought water by a serving-man for Judy Campbell to sing about had no immigration papers.
Berkeley the nightingales of
who
you wash while possible to overstress the im says: "Will
Portance of the air superiority THE Engineers task
campaign - Uterally Square; a scene from "George
T the end of the show Vivien the water is hot?it was acted by and Margaret"
Nothing that could be called which was established early in
and the maintenance opening up of a completely un- French, 800- ter, Leigh, sitting beside her hus Ronald Ward and Jane Baxter,
which alone ma de developed country, devoid of all Americans the latter mainly within of
um technical and air force statis. At Tents modern been performed
great possible 1951 0 the original players; and Anna band, had to dab her eyes with a revival of the York play cycle 1944,
those
experi- no time did the US, land forces the Neagle appeared as Queen Vic-a handieorchief-woeping tribute has
air transport-so Large a paralleled in previous toria from Happy and Glorious" to the dramatic height attained peries will make history.
sting proportion of which were carried once, and would in peace con- actually fighting in Burma ex by Laurence Housman.
rejected as coed the equivalent of two Bri- by Miss Neway as the desper-
tish brigadea To the surprise of the huge ate young wife driven to suleide the fact that the four existing out by the Americans. One can tions have been
local gulids are providing the audience Bill Johnson, at the by fallure to obtain exit visis playtus forges a link, between in fact trace a direct sequence being too difficult..
from the victories of the Spit- close, stood up in his box to from a consul who, significantly,
sees. The past and present.
through the subsequent lead the whole company of 200 the audience never
0
I:
+
made
to serve
the
area for
the
in
and
16
1
days from
and
through
the Com- ferritory and the Ad-
retained the
right to
issue separate and independent orders to the Naval Commander-
in-Chief on questions or trade. tal protection and action against the and enemy feet landing strips, It was In neither cane was there any
de person on an English stage-by of the advanced formations me for a wounded man to obligation even to inform the
living
memory,
In
Disease conquered
Dr Purvis, who is responsible olts of the American long-
con-
ས་་ In his "Annie Got Your second net reached high pathos Gun" song, "There's No Business in her crazed arfa, To this we've for the Festival text of the
plays, is working on a theory range fighters, down to the cap- come. Like Show Business."
Bir WELS is the John Barber aptly describes that a monk wrote the whole of ture of Rangoon." could not con- Drury Lane
veries.
25
of percent veniently
"York's are absorb this host of the opera as "today's basic pa- the original
the most com-quered and players. Many of them used rable: the plight of the indi-
in the the troops' requirements were "down the chimney" dressing rooms in other theatres vidual garrotted by red tape. plete mystery plays nestby. A Sadlers Wells ballet Your name is a number. Your world," says the archivist, so brought
mastered to such company arrived by bus. B.B.C. story's a case. Your need a re- far as I know, Make no mistake in the closing stages, so was
extent that operations port. Your hopes will be field this Festival performance is a disease announcers also assisted.
really big thing." The
took box-office
over Come back next week. £4,000. Only the orchestra was paid, the Musicians' Union do- clining to walve their fee even for a charity show.
SOM
B
*
tic grim, real-life HOME of
situations as they are ex- porienced by displaced persons;
H
....
INSIDE INFORMATION
THE issue of rearming The
West .Germans,
By MERCURY
end other victims of central which threatens to split the European regimes are being ex- Socialist Party, is causing in Eastern Europe in discussing
rearmament at
ploited on the stage, not only high concern to Mr Attlee German
Counell of Foreign. Ministers.
in "Iron Curtain," at the Em- bassy Theatre, but in the opera, and Mr Morrison.
the.
The
which Sir
to the
with 11
Consul,"
Premier Adenauer is being in- of all proposals that Laurence Olivier has brought A meeting of the Conservative formed
Cambridge
"shadow Cabinet" has discussed Britain may make to Russia at
"Iron Curtain" is the
original New York compor of parliamentary tactics for the the Council of Foreign Minis Val Gielgud, of "Party Manners' near future. fame. Despite the modest note
Estimates sent to Mr Galtskell,
ters.
China intends to withdraw in struck in a curtain speech at
of his new the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Tibet and invite the Dalai Lama the performance
rolum to Lhasa on agreed play, Mr Gielgud has not made by non-Service departments for to
turned!
a greater mistake this time by the Budget arò causing him con- terms. trying to be serious. On the cer contrary, he has ably from the frivolities of domestic pollues to the frustrations of in ternational law,
an
could
more equipment and discuss the Far Eastern war.
Chinese troups will be pro-
withdrawn
from Korea and North Korean troops gressively training in Manchuria sent in to replace them.
Political and military leaders from satellite states will go to Moscow for a conference carly in March on the East-West ten- sion in Europa.
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British Communists have TO- ceived instructions to prevent the Festival of Britain opening to time on May 3.
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*
first Pravda has been the This move is to placate India
in full Communist The Chancellor has called for and free Chinese troops for ser- newspaper to publish
the now British party programune. a special meeting of the Cabinet vice elsewhere.
to discuss theso-estimates, which
The play presents a trainlond do not meet the cuts directives.
of tragedy in the shape of 1,500 outoasis, who are thrown on the
..
stender resources of an already
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The Western; Powers and overcrowded' UNRRA camp. just Russia ara likely to hold a
when the border town becomes
Malaya is marked as part of the "Southeast China peniturula" in now Chinese atinscs..
•
Chinese Communists have
Premier. Floven has succeeded in an arms supply. deal for the Indo-China front during his Washington visit in return for re- closer Wrench mupport of Ameri-
for European defenen.
snowed up. For at least an hour Proliminary conference March paired the Burmin road at several eaa |
the play, like the DPs to discuss agenda for the Coune points where it has bean blocked
gulobacon will at«
ataya. snowbound in aldima while tho suthor, dramatically
cil of Foreign Ministers.
by landalidos,
bad Jaint, spring manoeuvron; by General Mao Two-tung may the Bpanish and Portuguero cut through red sapo, which is the question of satellite armados visit ploscow soon to: Auic. for: armiest
folda humanitarian, efforts to The Western Powers will retse
Sappers' task
resources-WDS
in the
British Commonwealth forces the Command Aprli totalled 954,985. There the were also 1212tch and 272,016.
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